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Posted by Banora on Mar-06-2012 21:00:

quote:
Originally posted by KilldaDJ

This is because Derpina has a 1500+ facebook addicted friends who type out stuff like 'lol omg sooo kewl bb!!' instead of a thoughtful, in depth response which takes 1. brains and 2. time to formulate.

Posted by Lira on Mar-06-2012 21:00:

Happens all the time (the waving thing)

quote:
Originally posted by KilldaDJ

I don't find it frustrating at all. It either means you failed to be insightful or witty, or maybe Facebook is not the right medium to say what you want to say without spending 5 minutes on Paint.

It's incredible how my most popular status ever (with 151 "likes" and 148 "shares") was posted soon after a quite similar status update. The difference? I couldn't be arsed to spend 5 minutes using Paintbrush the first time around.

Posted by LAdazeNYnights on Mar-06-2012 22:07:

that's cool that you linked your post and all, lira, but would you mind translating (for those of us that don't speak bastardized-spanish) ??

Posted by Lira on Mar-06-2012 23:43:

quote:
Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
that's cool that you linked your post and all, lira, but would you mind translating (for those of us that don't speak bastardized-spanish) ??

Oh, sure! You need some quick background information first, since it's a parody:

Brazilians suffer from an acute case of cultural cringe. Although it clashes with a deeply ingrained Anti-American sentiment, there's the tendency to portray other countries as superior to ours(with the exception of the USA, because we shouldn't let ourselves be "colonised"). If it doesn't make sense to you, that's because it's irrational;
We have become a nation of Nous since last years earthquake because the country supposedly survived the apocalypse rather gracefully (one reason is, of course, that it didn't go through anything as apocalyptic as our media portrayed).
There was a hoax on Facebook that claimed that "in Japan, the only citizen who doesn't have to bow down to the emperor is the teacher, because they say 'in a country where there are no teachers, there are no emperors'". That's bollocks, obviously, not least because it's easier to be an emperor under such circumstances. Still, it didn't stop my more impressionable Facebook friends from parroting this hoax.

Now that you know WHY I made this parody, here's what the caption above the picture said:

quote:

As a former professor of Japanese language at the University of Brasilia, a Japanese language major, and being someone who actually cared to do some research before posting this [picture], I've got to ask you: Where the hell did you guys come up with this idea that teachers don't bow before the emperor?

The picture said:

quote:

"In Japan, the only professional who doesn't need to bow before the emperor is the teacher...

... because, according to the Japanese, if something is written on a Facebook post, it's got to be true. Specially if there's a picture.

Why should teachers check their sources anyway?

So it's just me poking fun at the amount of disinformation posted on Facebook. There were others, such as the moon being the size of Mars on some given night, but my credentials as an "expert" helped me give this pisstake some more credibility, it seems.

Posted by FuzzQi on Mar-09-2012 02:48:

Socially awkward girl left me like 15 messages from 1-4 am last night.

Red flags lol

Posted by Lira on Mar-09-2012 04:10:

quote:
Originally posted by FuzzQi
Socially awkward girl left me like 15 messages from 1-4 am last night.

Red flags lol

Who can resist your sexy kiwi accent?!

Posted by kadomony on Mar-09-2012 04:28:

quote:
Originally posted by Banora
This is because Derpina has a 1500+ facebook addicted friends who type out stuff like 'lol omg sooo kewl bb!!' instead of a thoughtful, in depth response which takes 1. brains and 2. time to formulate.

u mad

Posted by BTG on Mar-09-2012 04:33:

Posted by FuzzQi on Mar-09-2012 04:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
Who can resist your sexy kiwi accent?!

Ohyou.jpg

Also urrrgghh

Posted by LAdazeNYnights on Mar-09-2012 04:41:

quote:
Originally posted by FuzzQi
Socially awkward girl left me like 15 messages from 1-4 am last night.

Red flags lol

red flags?
lol
more like 'All systems: go'

Posted by FuzzQi on Mar-09-2012 04:45:

quote:
Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
red flags?
lol
more like 'All systems: go'

I'm not getting out of bed at 3am on a work night to go pick someone up from the city for awkward sex. Though to be fair I left those details out.

Posted by Quazar on Mar-09-2012 06:24:

quote:
Originally posted by FuzzQi
I'm not getting out of bed at 3am on a work night to go pick someone up from the city for awkward sex. Though to be fair I left those details out.

Clearly you need to be more drunk.

Posted by Sushipunk on Mar-09-2012 06:31:

quote:
Originally posted by Quazar
Clearly you need to be more drunk.

To drive in to the city? Maybe not a great idea there

Posted by Fledz on Mar-09-2012 07:31:

quote:
Originally posted by srussell0018

Win

Posted by LAdazeNYnights on Mar-09-2012 07:38:

quote:
Originally posted by Sushipunk
To drive in to the city? Maybe not a great idea there

ever vigilant to protest against the possibility of driving drunk.

i feel like you're more likely to ban someone for that sort of talk than you are for posting pictures of pen0rs on fire. one of these days somebody is gonna post about having driven drunk and you're gonna be all "i think you need a timeout. 2 week suspension"

Posted by Sushipunk on Mar-09-2012 08:38:

quote:
Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
ever vigilant to protest against the possibility of driving drunk.

i feel like you're more likely to ban someone for that sort of talk than you are for posting pictures of pen0rs on fire. one of these days somebody is gonna post about having driven drunk and you're gonna be all "i think you need a timeout. 2 week suspension"

Lol, yeah, I'm such a kill-joy

I won't apologise for it though. I lost my two closest friends to drunk driving. Both accidents were their own fault, and they weren't the only ones to die :/

So I take it kinda seriously

Posted by LAdazeNYnights on Mar-09-2012 08:42:

quote:
Originally posted by Sushipunk
So I take it kinda seriously

it's good that you do
BUT
you managed to turn a moment into a one there.

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