In all honesty I’m struggling to come up with something that won’t trigger half the forum and make people fly into such a rage that they dox me all over the internet and start swatting me.
@SEGAStaRBiTS64 Furries definitely have their share of internal discourse, but I’m still surprised by the sheer amount of drama surrounding air-filled plastic animals.
@Kyeh
Vagrant pitbulls and homeless on bikes with big sticks sticking out of their backpacks are the only things here that fit your categories. Oh and kids and teens speeding down residential streets using gulf carts or 4 wheelers. That one really ticks off people. Then the other half go off on those who don’t want kids driving those things with reckless abandon.
Read the one here - gunshots… I was in our parking lot (after dark) when someone fired 4 shots, 2 of which hit the building maybe 15’ from me if that and then I came back to someone breaking into the car 3 cars from where I park - but of course for the lifers living here in this area those of us who hate the crime have a problem (huh?), car jackings, house break-ins, homeless in abandoned houses or breaking into apartment buildings (like mine), kids at 3 am roaming neighborhoods taking things from porches, giant pot holes in the roads, the panhandlers 3 blocks from me (and at the exit for the 2 hospitals that are both right there so duh panhandle there as lots of traffic) road racing on one of the few that has been recently paved, lost animals vs keep your pet inside and then you won’t have a problem… and it gets worse. I mostly read it just to see what crime I need to watch out for around me as most isn’t reported and much of the time no police show up - and that is if you can get 911 to even answer the phone.
@Kidsandliz Ugh. Yeah, the homeless “people experiencing homelessness,” living in tents in all the public spaces, stealing bicycles and cars and porch pirating are all major topics on N.D. here too, but I just picked three things that seem to get heated all out of proportion to what they are. Not that I don’t have strong opinions about all of them myself, but I don’t see that I’m going to change anyone’s mind on a site that I mainly read for “free and for sale” stuff, lost pets, and videos of wildlife (those can be pretty neat!)
@Kyeh I don’t feel like being PC about the chronically homeless. A couple I helped them get SNAP and haven’t seen them since. The rest I offered to do that for have declined. (They hang out at the outside cement tables at the closed fast food place at the end of the parking lot so sometimes I talk to them). At the corners around where I live if they do it 8ish hours a day for 5 or 6 days a week they make about $1000-1500/week (for real I have helped one of them count it and several others have told me that; one drives a very nice full sized pickup he illegally parks here and then he pulls out a wheelchair, American Flag, and then walks pushing it from here to close to the intersection where he panhandles, He dresses in fatigues and told me if he pretends to be both a vet and disabled he gets a couple hundred more a day). I am tired to being groped in my parking lot (I then kicked or punched 3 of them in the crotch and hit one with my backpack there, the last one all I had to do was threaten).
@Kidsandliz How awful. Yeah, the reason I used the strike-out was that I feel pretty much the same way; there’s a huge number of young guys who showed up in CO when pot became legal, and a lot of them steal bikes. There are chop shops in plain sight around the city. I’m sure it’s worse where you are, though.
@Oldelvis So: Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Ewok Adventure, Ewoks Battle for Endor, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars The Clone Wars. Sounds perfect to me.
@Oldelvis I tried so hard to have my kid watch them in the brilliant order of 4, 5, 2, 3, 6—so you skip Phantom Menace, the prequels are a flashback after the reveal at the end of Empire, and then you get Jedi as a happy ending. But he got ahead of me and watched Jedi with a friend before I could do it. At least we have the first three on VHS so he knows the special edition is wrong.
@Oldelvis my memory of star wars was dad taking us to see the at the dollar theater when they had them probably early 90s. Pretty sure he has the special edition on VHS.
I don’t really love the prequels. there’s some cringe worthy acting in general but. If I was showing it to a kid I’d just go in order 1-9 .
If they don’t really like it/read the books. It’s just not for them which is fine
Saying you have an interest in true crime. Some people will say “cool! Which cases are most interesting for you?” And others scream at you for being into “consumable trauma”.
I’m studying to get into both forensics and psychology… so…. I kinda have to have an interest in this stuff.
@Grimscribbles Saaaaame. “Why would you want to read about murderers?” I’m NOT. I’m reading about forensic science and profiling and how these people save lives by solving important puzzles. I’m sure there are true crime fans who really are fans of the killers, but that’s certainly not the majority.
@kostia it’s absolutely wild. I do not idolize violent people. I do, however, review these cases to try to understand what went wrong. What services were lacking? What missteps were made? How can I help?
I really appreciate the way the Morbid podcast handles these cases, too. Getting Alaina’s perspective on cases is really helpful in my work because she’s an autopsy tech. If you don’t listen to Morbid, definitely check it out.
@blaineg And additives. And then there are the fabulously idiotic ones who insist that all detergent motor oil is dangerous crap, and want the non-detergent stuff. But I guess those are part of the reason for the flame wars you were talking about.
@werehatrack Oh yea, detergent, additives, synthetic, brands, boutique oils vs. big oil, etc., etc. Usually the most strongly held opinions are backed by nothing more than superstition and witchcraft.
But every now and then someone upsets the applecart with actual facts or science.
Diets. Fad diets. Necessary food restrictions that people think are fad diets. Voluntary food restrictions for social reasons. Or religious reasons. Or just because it tastes awful. Essentially, bring up any dietary restrictions and someone will go off the rails arguing about it.
@mythereal Ahem. The middle position is sometimes necessary when the last person who bought bog rolls brought home the ultra mega jumbo huge ones that are so fat that they won’t rotate in the bloody holder.
“Natural” and “alternative” “medicine/treatment” but especially for cancer because of course, big pharma will never let there be a cure for cancer due to profit and doctors are in cohoots with them to get rich themselves by giving chemo. Sigh. Science, like gravity, works all the time not just when you want it to.
And that argument got me kicked off a breast cancer forum (I am on the science side). Fortunately the non-hodkgin’s lymphoma forum I am on believes in science based treatments so no arguments over how a half a cup of aprocot seeds taken daily will kill cancer (um yup will do that and kill you too since it turns into cyanid).
@Kidsandliz If they want to aspire to very brief Smurfdom themselves, I will not stand in their way. But if they try to force or foist it on others, they get the clue-by-four upside the head.
@werehatrack meant cyanide. Spell check got me and not speech to text. And yes they forcibly argue this on those lists. And bunches of them chime in. It is a losing battle. Technically what got me tossed off that list was when the moderator responded to my science/gravity comment by saying the best treatment is whatever people feel is the best for them. I said, “Not if you want higher odds to live. The best treatments then are the ones with science behind them.”. We need to teach more practical science in K-12.
Poop.
At this point I expect people to get heated about literally anything or maybe even nothing.
@awk Where’s your trigger warning?
@awk @hchavers Login
The word “Moist”
@tinamarie1974 I think that usually comes after the heating.
@macromeh @tinamarie1974
So, how do you feel about the word “Damp”?
Unexpectedly heated? The merits of a cold shower, or the termination of a spider.
Disney vloggers
Snake oil, no matter how up-front you are.
In all honesty I’m struggling to come up with something that won’t trigger half the forum and make people fly into such a rage that they dox me all over the internet and start swatting me.
Speaking from way too much experience…inflatables. Yep.
@PooltoyWolf More like furries in general.
People blame them for everything.
@SEGAStaRBiTS64 Furries definitely have their share of internal discourse, but I’m still surprised by the sheer amount of drama surrounding air-filled plastic animals.
@PooltoyWolf If you find a source for Giant Inflatable Bop-Squeaka Hammers, let me know.
@PooltoyWolf @SEGAStaRBiTS64 I don’t know about inflatables but. Bruce Bostelman is clearly a certain type of special and I bet he has some copies.
Unexpectedly heated? You mean hot flashes?
/giphy hot flashes
Saying someone is an “influencer”
Pitbulls.
Gas-powered lawn equipment.
Bicyclists on city streets.
(You can tell I spend too much time on Nextdoor.)
@Kyeh
Vagrant pitbulls and homeless on bikes with big sticks sticking out of their backpacks are the only things here that fit your categories. Oh and kids and teens speeding down residential streets using gulf carts or 4 wheelers. That one really ticks off people. Then the other half go off on those who don’t want kids driving those things with reckless abandon.
Read the one here - gunshots… I was in our parking lot (after dark) when someone fired 4 shots, 2 of which hit the building maybe 15’ from me if that and then I came back to someone breaking into the car 3 cars from where I park - but of course for the lifers living here in this area those of us who hate the crime have a problem (huh?), car jackings, house break-ins, homeless in abandoned houses or breaking into apartment buildings (like mine), kids at 3 am roaming neighborhoods taking things from porches, giant pot holes in the roads, the panhandlers 3 blocks from me (and at the exit for the 2 hospitals that are both right there so duh panhandle there as lots of traffic) road racing on one of the few that has been recently paved, lost animals vs keep your pet inside and then you won’t have a problem… and it gets worse. I mostly read it just to see what crime I need to watch out for around me as most isn’t reported and much of the time no police show up - and that is if you can get 911 to even answer the phone.
@Kidsandliz Ugh. Yeah,
the homeless“people experiencing homelessness,” living in tents in all the public spaces, stealing bicycles and cars and porch pirating are all major topics on N.D. here too, but I just picked three things that seem to get heated all out of proportion to what they are. Not that I don’t have strong opinions about all of them myself, but I don’t see that I’m going to change anyone’s mind on a site that I mainly read for “free and for sale” stuff, lost pets, and videos of wildlife (those can be pretty neat!)@Kyeh I don’t feel like being PC about the chronically homeless. A couple I helped them get SNAP and haven’t seen them since. The rest I offered to do that for have declined. (They hang out at the outside cement tables at the closed fast food place at the end of the parking lot so sometimes I talk to them). At the corners around where I live if they do it 8ish hours a day for 5 or 6 days a week they make about $1000-1500/week (for real I have helped one of them count it and several others have told me that; one drives a very nice full sized pickup he illegally parks here and then he pulls out a wheelchair, American Flag, and then walks pushing it from here to close to the intersection where he panhandles, He dresses in fatigues and told me if he pretends to be both a vet and disabled he gets a couple hundred more a day). I am tired to being groped in my parking lot (I then kicked or punched 3 of them in the crotch and hit one with my backpack there, the last one all I had to do was threaten).
@Kidsandliz How awful. Yeah, the reason I used the strike-out was that I feel pretty much the same way; there’s a huge number of young guys who showed up in CO when pot became legal, and a lot of them steal bikes. There are chop shops in plain sight around the city. I’m sure it’s worse where you are, though.
Well, I expect all those things to get people heated.
The latest tiff I saw was about birria.
@Salanth The taco style or goat meat?
@Fuzzalini Where it comes from. Someone claimed Central America.
the order of viewing for the 9 first Star Wars movies. (BTW, it’s the order in which they were made)
@Oldelvis So: Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Ewok Adventure, Ewoks Battle for Endor, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars The Clone Wars. Sounds perfect to me.
@Oldelvis Or just say that SW is a Space Fantasy, not Science Fiction. (Which, for the record, it is.)
@Oldelvis I tried so hard to have my kid watch them in the brilliant order of 4, 5, 2, 3, 6—so you skip Phantom Menace, the prequels are a flashback after the reveal at the end of Empire, and then you get Jedi as a happy ending. But he got ahead of me and watched Jedi with a friend before I could do it. At least we have the first three on VHS so he knows the special edition is wrong.
(His favorite SW movie is Rogue One. By far.)
@Oldelvis my memory of star wars was dad taking us to see the at the dollar theater when they had them probably early 90s. Pretty sure he has the special edition on VHS.
I don’t really love the prequels. there’s some cringe worthy acting in general but. If I was showing it to a kid I’d just go in order 1-9 .
If they don’t really like it/read the books. It’s just not for them which is fine
Saying you’re a trusted news source
Saying you have an interest in true crime. Some people will say “cool! Which cases are most interesting for you?” And others scream at you for being into “consumable trauma”.
I’m studying to get into both forensics and psychology… so…. I kinda have to have an interest in this stuff.
@Grimscribbles Saaaaame. “Why would you want to read about murderers?” I’m NOT. I’m reading about forensic science and profiling and how these people save lives by solving important puzzles. I’m sure there are true crime fans who really are fans of the killers, but that’s certainly not the majority.
@Grimscribbles Being an avid watcher of shows like Forensic Files and Dateline, I’m surprised I haven’t gotten this yet.
@PooltoyWolf I hope you never do!
@kostia it’s absolutely wild. I do not idolize violent people. I do, however, review these cases to try to understand what went wrong. What services were lacking? What missteps were made? How can I help?
I really appreciate the way the Morbid podcast handles these cases, too. Getting Alaina’s perspective on cases is really helpful in my work because she’s an autopsy tech. If you don’t listen to Morbid, definitely check it out.
Well…in the new age of diversity and inclusion,anything you say is bound to piss off somebody.
whether cereal is a soup or not.
(spoiler alert: it is)
@carl669 .
F**k yeah… Or maybe not …
(Don’t wanna piss anybody off)
@carl669
Star Wars. Literally any of them. No one hates Star Wars as much as a Star Wars fan.
Its wierd to, me how some-people get sew up set about grammar when their is know reason to over; react.
@glibnip
@glibnip
(I love this!)
@glibnip @Kyeh Brilliant!
@glibnip @Rueki If you’re tired of grammar Nazis, how about:
In Lord of the Rings fandom, “Why didn’t they just send the eagles to Mordor?”
@curtw4 I’ve seen that online. Short answer: Because there was a barrier that kept them out until the ring was destroyed.
Really? Game of Thrones ending? Unexpectedly heated? The only one who might have not expected people getting heated was maybe the author.
I have read more than one comment about grammar.
Hitler.
@kostia
Godwin’s law
@2many2no yeah, that was my point
Why should we care anymore? Let’s keep saying whatever we want, do what we want, even if it pisses people off. It’s called freedom of speech, people.
@SEGAStaRBiTS64 And people who don’t care who they piss off can simply become self-labeling assholes, and well known for it.
@werehatrack My comment was satirical, I guess it wasn’t clear.
@SEGAStaRBiTS64 @werehatrack
and therein lies a HUGE problem with the 'net. Body language, inflection etc are lost when you don’t actually converse.
@chienfou @werehatrack Yup.
So … could the uproar over microfiber be called “Poly-tics”?
@Kyeh
maybe… but this is Poly-ticks.
@chienfou EUUWWWWWW! YUCK!
(What’s the “poly” part, though?)
Ticks creep me out way more than other things like bugs or spiders.
@chienfou @Kyeh That could be pile-of-ticks.
@Kyeh
poly- A prefix meaning “many,” as in polygon, a figure having many sides.
@chienfou OHHH, right!
I’m trying to forget I ever saw that image, though.
@chienfou @Kyeh Poor snek!
@Kyeh @werehatrack
here’s a link to (as Paul Harvey would say) the rest of the story…
@chienfou @werehatrack
I’m glad the snake got some help! Incredible.
Motor oil. I’ve seen religious wars fought over motor oil.
@blaineg And additives. And then there are the fabulously idiotic ones who insist that all detergent motor oil is dangerous crap, and want the non-detergent stuff. But I guess those are part of the reason for the flame wars you were talking about.
@werehatrack Oh yea, detergent, additives, synthetic, brands, boutique oils vs. big oil, etc., etc. Usually the most strongly held opinions are backed by nothing more than superstition and witchcraft.
But every now and then someone upsets the applecart with actual facts or science.
Diets. Fad diets. Necessary food restrictions that people think are fad diets. Voluntary food restrictions for social reasons. Or religious reasons. Or just because it tastes awful. Essentially, bring up any dietary restrictions and someone will go off the rails arguing about it.
@mythereal Ahem. The middle position is sometimes necessary when the last person who bought bog rolls brought home the ultra mega jumbo huge ones that are so fat that they won’t rotate in the bloody holder.
@mythereal @werehatrack The monster setup is for cat owners.
/giphy cat toilet paper
@mythereal @narfcake
Pro tip: It doesn’t work.
This does.
@mythereal @narfcake @werehatrack And then also anti cat is putting it in a grocery bag that I hang from a hook.
Cilantro.
Who gets an IRK and who doesn’t.
@mike808 But, but, I’m ENTITLED!
/giphy entitled
“Natural” and “alternative” “medicine/treatment” but especially for cancer because of course, big pharma will never let there be a cure for cancer due to profit and doctors are in cohoots with them to get rich themselves by giving chemo. Sigh. Science, like gravity, works all the time not just when you want it to.
And that argument got me kicked off a breast cancer forum (I am on the science side). Fortunately the non-hodkgin’s lymphoma forum I am on believes in science based treatments so no arguments over how a half a cup of aprocot seeds taken daily will kill cancer (um yup will do that and kill you too since it turns into cyanid).
@Kidsandliz If they want to aspire to very brief Smurfdom themselves, I will not stand in their way. But if they try to force or foist it on others, they get the clue-by-four upside the head.
@werehatrack meant cyanide. Spell check got me and not speech to text. And yes they forcibly argue this on those lists. And bunches of them chime in. It is a losing battle. Technically what got me tossed off that list was when the moderator responded to my science/gravity comment by saying the best treatment is whatever people feel is the best for them. I said, “Not if you want higher odds to live. The best treatments then are the ones with science behind them.”. We need to teach more practical science in K-12.
People getting heated about what others think is trivial crap, online.
@werehatrack And you can parse that statement any way you want to, and it’s still works.
@werehatrack Damn you Google speech to text! That was “it”, not “it’s”…
@werehatrack
so, no hidden moonshine reference?
(with a grammar error to boot…)
@chienfou I joyously dangle participles as bait for unwary pedants whenever the murder shed needs a workout or the price of cat food gets too high.
@werehatrack
excellent plan
https://meh.com/forum/topics/yo-who-stole-my-v#62993b01c2402c8e06e76067