where his civilizations, including our own

After getting out of work, I have approximately two hours to interact with my girlfriend before she goes to bed. And my work hours are about to be extended. This utterly fails. /counting down days

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At the supermarket, the guy behind me was loudly complaining to his friend that they should open another checkout and wasn't it horrible that they had to wait, and he would probably never come back. The line was like three people long. The checkout guy was obviously annoyed, but caved to the passive-aggressive douchebaggery and called for another checker.

I looked back at him and hissed "Asshole", and was immediately awash with fear that I was about to have my ass kicked (oh the perils of bein' a dude!), but Passive-Agressive Douchebag merely gave a vapid smirk.

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So if a fandom develops around the show Kings, will the special hilarity of using the word "canon" in its usual fandom sense be recognized?

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Upon further investigation, I have discovered that Twitter is kind of like those RPGs that used to exist (maybe still do?) where people portray all kinds of different celebrities, so you get like Jon Stewart randomly interacting with Patrick Stewart and John Kerry and Daniel Radcliffe and whoever else you can imagine, and it's all very amusing. Except Twitter is real.

My refrigerator broke, which triggered a huge unnecessary debacle with my dad wherein he told me not to get it fixed on the day I had planned, because instead he could get a new one for cheaper. I warned him that I had wanted to get it fixed on this particular day because it was the only weekday I would have off for a while, so if he pursued this plan, he should be willing to come to my house to accept the delivery of the supposed new fridge. He said no, he would just have it delivered at a time when my brother was home. My brother is a full time student, so... no.

My dad called saying he was having it delivered this Monday and that my brother would accept it. I said fine. Then today he called again like "Um so your brother is going to be at school, so can you be home between 2 and 4 instead?" me: "...... no, I'm going to be AT WORK. You know that."

So now my dad is coming over to my house, by himself, with nothing to do for likely several hours while he waits for a refrigerator. Did I mention he's nosy? I just had tons of fun locking away all my personal stuff and passwording my computer (which I don't need to do for just my brother, because he doesn't do dumb shit like that).

Yes, I should have just gone ahead with repairing it on the day I planned. Now we've gone without for a week instead of a weekend, and my dad nosing around here, and ugh.

The antibiotics are doing wonders for my throat, but now I'm back in full blown cold symptoms again, really severe congestion and all that. I think I would have been okay if I'd been able to take time off work, but well... I can't.

At work I was being very quiet and substituting nods and gestures for when I might otherwise say something. Nobody noticed except one freakazoid customer who gave me this move after I rang her up:

her: "Can I say something to you?" <---- NEVER GOOD
me: "Yeah?"
her: "When you rang me up you didn't say thank you, as a person working in a store you should always do that." [instead I had nodded to her pleasantly]
me: [suppressing rage] "I have a bad sore throat and it hurts to talk, so I'm not talking when not needed. I'm sorry if that offended you."
her: "Oh, I didn't know you were sick."

So she somehow missed the incessant coughing and the fact that when I did speak, I sounded like I was being strangled with sandpaper. Very nice.

And you know really, even if I weren't sick? She's still the jerk in the situation for saying something clearly intended to belittle the poor schmuck at the cash register. Didn't say "thank you"? You need to mention this? Why? In what world would it *improve* the outlook of the person you say it to?

People who say things that can only conceivably cause negative responses... they epically fail.

It amazes me that people answer their cell phones in the "quiet study area" of the library and have loud conversations that are clearly not about urgent situations that can't wait.

Maybe the fact that this still amazes me means I haven't given up on the human race after all.

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One of my friends has also joined my old guild (er, my new guild... it's like Grover Cleveland, nonconsecutive terms), and we're finding out how hard it is not to butt in with your own opinion about how to do things. Neither of us had ever taken a step back in progression before (ie, joined a guild that was stuck on bosses we've already done), so this is the first time we've ever had the opportunity to be that guy who says "well in MY old guild we did it THIS way" every couple of minutes when no one asked his opinion. We're trying really hard not to be that guy, and I think succeeding so far.

Of course it would be well intentioned. They probably would be better off knowing what we know. But if you don't wait until someone asks your opinion to share it, you just come off like you think you're god's gift to wow and everyone resents it. Funny how that works. Had the occasion to comment:

People are happier dying than being told how not to die.

Omg please make my dad leave my house immediately.

While I am working on that, chew upon this.

Little background, the WoW server I play on is one where a large number of GLBT players have congregated, basically because it was where the first gay-friendly guild was created, and then groups branched off of that, and so on. There are six or seven well-known GLBT-friendly guilds on the server. So on the server forums when a guild advertises that they are recruiting and that they are gay-friendly, it doesn't really cause a stir.

The latest had this reply:

Why do you even need GLBT guilds? Movie stars, actors, professional sports players play this game and they don't go flaunting who they are so why would anyone? j/w

I play with a few gay and %@%@**# people and they play just like normal people only really ignore one of them after he repeatedly called me "babe" which was just uncomfortable and distrurbing. But other than that they are just people and the only thing i really care about is if they suck at the game or they don't :).

The censored word is presumably "lesbian". Leaving aside why the WoW forums censor "lesbian" but not "gay", let's take a moment to reflect upon this post.

- Apparently, teh gheyz play just like NORMAL PEOPLE. OMIGOSH. It's almost like you can't tell the normal people from the freaks these days!

- It's okay to play with gay people as long as they don't say anything that might conceivably remind you of their sexuality, like calling you a cutesy name. Cutesy names are profoundly disturbing and force you to contemplate buttsex.

- Why oh why must people flaunt who they are? Why can't they just assimilate so completely into the dominant group that their identity becomes thoroughly whitewashed and neutralized, and thus nonthreatening to me? GOD WHY.

- Gay people are just like movie stars and professional sports players somehow.

The more you know!