im pretty sure that i could learn more through a wikiwalk than i could through this course and it's really starting to get to me
i miss learning shit and feeling engaged, but to be honest
i'm just not super interested in college and i don't feel justified in pursuing a college education further without a clear plan that i actually wanna follow through on
right now i just want to learn how to sew and design patterns and get a day job, maybe at Pier1 or something
;_; same
well except that last thing
and i like roughly half my classes but that's not enough
See? It's not just voice actors speaking in a foreign language! It's also voice actors in my own language! And it applies to both genders! I told you so!
^^^ After I posted that, I started to lean toward that one, because his voice seemed a little deeper. But yeah, it's not something automatic for me like it apparently is for a lot of other people. I dunno why.
In other news, why is it so amusing and cheaply satisfying to defy someone else's telling you to do something? Even if it is simply posting fun facts about the word "media" in the "Fun facts about media" thread.
...come to think of it, i wonder if that demonstrates two different ideas for what this site means to us.
for me, it's about goofing off, being completely silly and irreverent. like a sort of forum poop, a la youtube poop; all those things that i wouldn't do in polite conversation are things i can do here (with some limits). (well, it _is_ "shit"posting...)
but for others, such as yourselves, it's about being able to talk freely about and even obsess over the things that you and others are interested in, without the need to rein in oneself or face criticism over them.
what do you think of this idea? / how valid does this hypothesis sound? / does this make sense? / etc.?
For me it's both, but... i'm not sure how to explain this? There are times when a joke doesn't work. Like if the thread is asking you to be funny and you instead do something boring that appears to be missing the point altogether (deliberately or otherwise).
But anyway, yeah, to me this is both a site for posting whatever nonsense i feel like posting and a place for talking about stuff that interests me, and also (perhaps predominantly) a place for talking to friends and hanging out with them.
This is Lenore. I first saw her in a little cage at the Petco I frequent (I used to take my parents’ dog in for puppy play time), and she looked like the grouchiest, old, crotchety cat in the world, and I fell instantly in love. She was cranky, she was anti-social, hanging out at the back of her cage. Her fur was matted because she wouldn’t let the groomers near her.
She was perfect.
But I didn’t have a place for her. I wasn’t living in my own space yet, and where I was, I wasn’t allowed cats. So I pressed my face to the bars of her cage and I promised that if no one had adopted her by the time I’d bought a house, I would come back for her.
I visited her every week for over six months while I looked for a house. At one point, they had to just shave her entire rear-end because the mats or fur were so bad. They told me she clawed the heck outta the groomer that did it, screamed the entire time, and spent the next two days growling at anyone that came near the cage.
A couple of weeks later, I closed on my house. I went back and I got an employee, and I said: “That one. I need that cat.”
They got the paperwork and the lady who ran the rescue that was bringing the cats in told me that Lenore (at the time, Lila) was 8 years old, had been owned by an elderly lady who had died, and brought in to a different rescue, who’d had her for six months on top of the time I’d been seeing her at Petco.
This kitty had been living in a 3x3’ cube for over a YEAR because she was older and “less adoptable.”
I signed the paperwork, put her in a cat carrier, and drove her to my new home. I had pretty much nothing; a bed, an old couch, a couple of bookcases, and a tank of mice I called “Cat TV”. I let her out of the carrier and onto my bed, and I told her “I told you I would come back for you when I had a place. It’s not much, but it’s yours too now.”
Lenore spent the next three days straight purring non-stop. She followed me around the house purring. Sat next to me purring. Slept next to me purring. Leaning into every touch, purring, purring, always purring. She still purrs if you so much as think about petting her. She’s amazing, and I love her.
So, you know, if you’re thinking about adopting, and you see a beast that others consider “less adoptable,” think about Lenore.
Someone help me out here: how can a seemingly-reasonable individual hold beliefs like 'Climate change is bullshit' and 'It's not creepy for an adult to lust after 14-year-olds because 14 is the age of consent in some countries' and 'The Western media is a pack of lies but Russia does not produce propaganda' and 'Gay people chose to be gay, and all claims to the contrary are highly controversial amongst the scientific community and their spread is the product of cultural imperialism'?
i want to say the guy in question is an idiot, but he isn't. He's a seemingly intelligent fellow who's wrong about absolutely everything.
i mean i'd chalk it up to cultural differences but to me that seems kind of patronizing.
Someone help me out here: how can a seemingly-reasonable individual hold beliefs like 'Climate change is bullshit' and 'It's not creepy for an adult to lust after 14-year-olds because 14 is the age of consent in some countries' and 'The Western media is a pack of lies but Russia does not produce propaganda' and 'Gay people chose to be gay, and all claims to the contrary are highly controversial amongst the scientific community and their spread is the product of cultural imperialism'?
i want to say the guy in question is an idiot, but he isn't. He's a seemingly intelligent fellow who's wrong about absolutely everything.
i mean i'd chalk it up to cultural differences but to me that seems kind of patronizing.
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well except that last thing
and i like roughly half my classes but that's not enough
I honestly can't tell.
Are you telling us to kill Angel babies?
In other news, why is it so amusing and cheaply satisfying to defy someone else's telling you to do something? Even if it is simply posting fun facts about the word "media" in the "Fun facts about media" thread.
that's taking a good joke thread and crapping in it
But that is how i feel about that kind of thing.
......sorry about that.
for me, it's about goofing off, being completely silly and irreverent. like a sort of forum poop, a la youtube poop; all those things that i wouldn't do in polite conversation are things i can do here (with some limits). (well, it _is_ "shit"posting...)
but for others, such as yourselves, it's about being able to talk freely about and even obsess over the things that you and others are interested in, without the need to rein in oneself or face criticism over them.
what do you think of this idea? / how valid does this hypothesis sound? / does this make sense? / etc.?
You're that guy, only you're doing it on purpose because you find it amusing.
and that cat wasn't there earlier
No cat should be forced to live in a box for that length of time... it really isn't humane.
i suppose they can't afford better facilities for animals nobody's willing to adopt.
i want to say the guy in question is an idiot, but he isn't. He's a seemingly intelligent fellow who's wrong about absolutely everything.
i mean i'd chalk it up to cultural differences but to me that seems kind of patronizing.
But seriously, how? i know how naive this probably sounds but i don't even understand how this can come about.
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