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DesertFox- wrote:

I usually tip quite well not because I expect good service or as a reward for it, but because someone's serving me at all. It's a very odd concept to me that this person is being paid to improve my well-being in a rather insignificant but essential way via serving me food. I'm mildly uncomfortable with inconveniencing others in any way, which is why I've refused rides in the middle of winter so I could walk home instead of making a friend drive a little bit out of their way.

There was a comment on a Cracked article about awkwardness yesterday that totally applies to me: "Awkward also means eating a ham sandwich even though you asked for pastrami because you'd rather eat the wrong sandwich than tell the person behind the counter they got your order wrong." I'd still give a good tip in that situation, too.

That article made me cringe when I read it yesterday. Had me thinking of J#'s the whole time.

They have 4 or maybe 5 articles a day that are comprised of thoroughly-researched interesting subject matter in addition to more opinion/story types of content from columnists. In just looking back at the flashback today of old articles, you have things like 7 Terrifying Things They Don't Tell You About Pregnancy and 6 'Facts' About Historic Figures Their Enemies Made Up.

Perfectly acceptable if you feel that way. I, however, don't know what I don't know, so when I find out about something new and interesting to me, I am encouraged to learn more about it. I know the titles sound like every other one you see in banner ads on web sites, but they've stuck with it since the web site launched and use it out of irony, occasionally poking fun at it themselves how often they use adjectives like "mind-blowing" or "baffling" in so many of their titles.

I agree with you, too, that a lot of Internet "facts" seem like they're written for the most ADD generation in history. A guy I know always posts shit from a site called FactsandChicks, which consists of a single sentence (that are oftentimes false) without a source and a picture of a girl likely in some state of undress. There's a reason I go to Cracked and not to those Facebook pages or other web sites claiming to have all the secrets.

Last edited by DesertFox- (2013-07-13 08:52:45)

DesertFox- wrote:

Perfectly acceptable if you feel that way. I, however, don't know what I don't know, so when I find out about something new and interesting to me, I am encouraged to learn more about it. I know the titles sound like every other one you see in banner ads on web sites, but they've stuck with it since the web site launched and use it out of irony, occasionally poking fun at it themselves how often they use adjectives like "mind-blowing" or "baffling" in so many of their titles.

i read things like the london/newyork/paris/la review of books if i want to be exposed to wider learning outside of my usual interests.

also occasionally pick up a science magazine, or the economist, or something. professional publications.

these 'list aggregation' sites are just ways to make loads of advert money out of collecting trivia and miscellanea. the internet's recycle bin.

more importantly i dont have to pay for it

Cybargs wrote:

more importantly i dont have to pay for it

if you're at a university there's no way you should have to pay for quality (online) publications, either. institutional log-in, derp.

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

Cybargs wrote:

more importantly i dont have to pay for it

if you're at a university there's no way you should have to pay for quality (online) publications, either. institutional log-in, derp.

not for the economist magazine specifically no.

aussieland likes to milk its students. unless its uploaded research journal articles then theyre free (jstor and what not).

http://magazines4students.com.au/

we get discounts though

DesertFox- wrote:

It's a very odd concept to me that this person is being paid to improve my well-being in a rather insignificant but essential way via serving me food.

What cutthroat jungle did you grow up in.

DesertFox- wrote:

They have 4 or maybe 5 articles a day that are comprised of thoroughly-researched interesting subject matter in addition to more opinion/story types of content from columnists. In just looking back at the flashback today of old articles, you have things like 7 Terrifying Things They Don't Tell You About Pregnancy and 6 'Facts' About Historic Figures Their Enemies Made Up.

It wasn't written by some faggot with a PhD so the article is obviously only meant for people with IQ's of 37.

At least according to Uzi.

Extra Medium wrote:

DesertFox- wrote:

They have 4 or maybe 5 articles a day that are comprised of thoroughly-researched interesting subject matter in addition to more opinion/story types of content from columnists. In just looking back at the flashback today of old articles, you have things like 7 Terrifying Things They Don't Tell You About Pregnancy and 6 'Facts' About Historic Figures Their Enemies Made Up.

It wasn't written by some faggot with a PhD so the article is obviously only meant for people with IQ's of 37.

At least according to Uzi.

yes because the only level up in engagement from a 6-point list is a PhD.

you only insult yourself when you come out with such dumb shit.

Warman is a hermaphrodite.