The Good News Thread: I'm So Excited! And I Just Can't Hide It!

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1 minute ago, Cognizantastic said:

Are you making a joke?

He's adapting the Joker's "You're just a freak, like me" speech from The Dark Knight.

[Oversleep]

32 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

He's adapting the Joker's "You're just a freak, like me" speech from The Dark Knight.

I bow down to your superior nerd-fu.

[Silverblade5 he/him]

1 hour ago, Cognizantastic said:

Are you making a joke?

Yes. I apologize if it didn't come across that way.  

[Orlion Blight he/him]

On 8/27/2016 at 7:35 AM, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Something rather or another

@Silverblade5 

To quote a mad man: "You've forgotten what I told you a long time ago. One of the painful truths of comedy: YOU ALWAYS TAKE SHOTS FROM FOLKS WHO JUST DON'T GET THE JOKE!"

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

On 27/08/2016 at 2:02 PM, Orlion Determined said:

If I've ever gotten on a soapbox here about how people are too obsessed with  avoiding spoilers

I have these two friends. One's name is Dimitri, and the other's is Al-Beka (last name, meaning "the sad" many jokes were made)

So we are sitting in English and Dimitri and Al-Beka begin to talk about Game of Thrones.

So I decide to join in during an opening when they were discussing Jon Snow.

So I ask "Did any of you have an idea whether Jon Snow was going to die or not"

Turns out Al-Beka had never watched Game of Thrones and was going to start watching it (that's what they were originally talking about)

He considered what I had said as a spoiler and literally lost his crem.

He went on about what a d*ckhead I was, and asked why I made spoiling things a profession (I had accidentally spoiled a Flash scene for him when I was discussing it with another friend). He then discribed how he was going to brutally murder me and then we spent the rest of the lesson with Al-Beka shooting me dark glances, and me laughing at the incongruity of it all whilst Dimitri sat between us looking half-amused half awkward.

13 hours ago, Silverblade5 said:

They might need you for their homework, but when they don't, they'll cast you out. 

SO TRUUUU

With al-beka it's "Hey Taim" (Shortened form of my name), proceeds to describe how he was going to brutally murder me to "Oi, can you help me out with this"

Or with another friend, Sunny (the one who didn't know that Crash Bandicoot was a Bandicoot)

"oi f*ckwit, how did you get to celadon city??" he also frequently tells everyone to kill themselves

If they weren't my friends and if I hadn't known that they were joking (most of the time), then I would have had to change my name to Al-Beka XD

(These are the same group of friends who made the Harambe (RIP) jokes)

[+Slowswift]

I have quite the week ahead of me!

First, tonight, I get to see Coldplay!   Then there's SLCC. Not the best lineup this year, but you can't really argue with Luke Skywalker, the Green Arrow, and Pippin.  

[Sunbird she/her]

@Slowswift Ahaha! I'm going to SLCC all three days too! Maybe we'll see each other  (BTW I ran into lyssie at BYU today!)

[Delightful]

17 minutes ago, Sunbird said:

@Slowswift Ahaha! I'm going to SLCC all three days too! Maybe we'll see each other  (BTW I ran into lyssie at BYU today!)

Lessie's alive?  

 

 

 

[Oversleep]

10 minutes ago, Delightful said:

Lessie's alive?  

Too soon. You can't just joke about it yet!

But feels aside, good joke.

[Delightful]

Just now, Oversleep said:

Too soon. You can't just joke about it yet!

But feels aside, good joke.

Sorry

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[Sunbird she/her]

Lol @Delightful no I bumped into the Sharder @lyssie95 (a self-professed lurker).

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

On the sunnier side of things, my employer's health insurance provider is doing one of those employee health incentives—you know, where they bribe you into health give rewards for reducing stress or losing weight? I've already earned a $50 gift card for completing a few of their "missions" (do something healthy for four weeks in a row) which will allow my wallet to breathe a small sigh of relief.  

[Oversleep]

14 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

On the sunnier side of things, my employer's health insurance provider is doing one of those employee health incentives—you know, where they bribe you into health give rewards for reducing stress or losing weight? I've already earned a $50 gift card for completing a few of their "missions" (do something healthy for four weeks in a row) which will allow my wallet to breathe a small sigh of relief.  

... they pay you to get more healthy?! Complete with achievements?!

What is this paradise.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Just now, Oversleep said:

... they pay you to get more healthy?! Complete with achievements?!

What is this paradise.

It should be noted that this is the first employer I've worked for that does this sort of thing. My last job did something similar, except it only gave discounts for "big" achievements like losing weight or quitting smoking. 

But so long as I have this job, I will take advantage of the perks.  

[Silverblade5 he/him]

Couple weeks ago, my mom's fiance was sitting outside and noticed two dogs drinking out of the gutter. He called me over, and I approached them. After getting a hold of their collars, I called out the number on their collars so that he could call their owner. He did, he came, and picked them up.

Today, on my walk, I saw the same guy, chasing the same dogs. I called out, asking if he needed any help. He said no. I didn't take no for an answer. I tied my dog's leash around a mailbox and then gave chase. After catching up with the first, I game him a bellyrub until the owner could get his collar. Then, I got past the second, and herded him towards his owner. Today was a good day.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

6 hours ago, Silverblade5 said:

Couple weeks ago, my mom's fiance was sitting outside and noticed two dogs drinking out of the gutter. He called me over, and I approached them. After getting a hold of their collars, I called out the number on their collars so that he could call their owner. He did, he came, and picked them up.

Today, on my walk, I saw the same guy, chasing the same dogs. I called out, asking if he needed any help. He said no. I didn't take no for an answer. I tied my dog's leash around a mailbox and then gave chase. After catching up with the first, I game him a bellyrub until the owner could get his collar. Then, I got past the second, and herded him towards his owner. Today was a good day.

Your good with dogs aren't you  

[Assassin in Burgundy he/him]

Today's my birthday! An instead of having to post this from an outdated Mac computer, I can just use my new iPhone!

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

11 hours ago, Assassin in Burgundy said:

Today's my birthday! An instead of having to post this from an outdated Mac computer, I can just use my new iPhone!

Happy Birthday Burgundy! How old are u? 

[Assassin in Burgundy he/him]

13. 

[Dani she/her]

12 hours ago, Assassin in Burgundy said:

Today's my birthday! An instead of having to post this from an outdated Mac computer, I can just use my new iPhone!

Happy Birthday!  

Boy, I wish my 13 year old brother would read books. 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

2 hours ago, Assassin in Burgundy said:

13. 

......you got a phone.

I still don't have one, and I'm a few years older

[Stick. she/her]

I'm about a year older, I have one, but I never use it  I once tried to use the shard on it but everything exploded: somehow a random user's profile opened up, a few upvotes got given to random posts, and it logged off from my account just because it felt like it (?) Then I got scared and kept it back. Haven't used it since XD 

Edited September 4, 2016 by I_am_a_Stick

[Mistrunner]

I don't have a phone and don't want one. If I got a smartphone I feel like I'd spend too much time on it and if I got a dumb phone I wouldn't use it enough to justify having it.

It kind of disturbs me how quickly it became outlandish for anyone over 12 to not have a phone.

Edited February 6, 2024 by Mistrunner
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[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

37 minutes ago, Mistrunner said:

I'm 15, and I don't have a phone and don't want one. If I got a smartphone I feel like I'd spend too much time on it and if I got a dumb phone I wouldn't use it enough to justify having it.

It kind of disturbs me how quickly it became outlandish for anyone over 12 to not have a phone.

I mainly want the smartphone....to keep up....err acquaintances 

EDIT_ AND TO PLAY POKEMON GO OF COURSE

Edited September 4, 2016 by Darkness Ascendant

[Sunbird she/her]

I got my first cell phone (a dumbphone) my sophomore year of high school, so I guess that means I was 15. (For a year or two prior to that, I'd been sharing a Nokia tracphone with my younger brother.) I still have the same phone six years later, although I now also have a smartphone that has no SIM card and can therefore only do Internet, Google maps, etc., when I can connect to Wi-Fi.