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Nouw

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Chris Moses said:
Nouw said:
Vegosiux said:
You know, ever since the "selfie" became a thing, I've been silently facepalming often on the interent. Not only does the word sound rather pretentious, that's also how the act looks. Dunno why, but I'm a bit averse to people doing stuff that just screams "Hey, look at me, look at me!"
Well I can't speak for adults who do that but as a teenager it feels good to look good. Nothing heinous about in my opinion.
Are you saying that adults cant feel good for looking good, or is it that you literally cant (or wont) speak for adults.

Just curious...
I literally can't speak for adults because I am not one. I'm just offering an opinion from the perspective of the generation that's been growing up with it that's all.
 

Queen Michael

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Phantom Kat said:
People describing themselves as "weird". It almost always seems to be boring people trying to use "weird" as a defining characteristic because their personality is so bland. If there's one thing that truly weird people have in common; it's that they don't spend a large proportion of their time telling people that they're weird.
Preach! Almost all the "weird" people I've met are yaoi fangirls who act like they're on a sugar high. Not weird, just predictable, really.
 

Phantom Kat

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Queen Michael said:
Phantom Kat said:
People describing themselves as "weird". It almost always seems to be boring people trying to use "weird" as a defining characteristic because their personality is so bland. If there's one thing that truly weird people have in common; it's that they don't spend a large proportion of their time telling people that they're weird.
Preach! Almost all the "weird" people I've met are yaoi fangirls who act like they're on a sugar high. Not weird, just predictable, really.
I run into them incredibly frequently as I had the misfortune to be born with somewhat bishonen facial features. I really wish yaoi fan girls weren't a thing, or at least they could stop trying to share their "interest" with me.
 

Queen Michael

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Phantom Kat said:
Queen Michael said:
Phantom Kat said:
People describing themselves as "weird". It almost always seems to be boring people trying to use "weird" as a defining characteristic because their personality is so bland. If there's one thing that truly weird people have in common; it's that they don't spend a large proportion of their time telling people that they're weird.
Preach! Almost all the "weird" people I've met are yaoi fangirls who act like they're on a sugar high. Not weird, just predictable, really.
I run into them incredibly frequently as I had the misfortune to be born with somewhat bishonen facial features. I really wish yaoi fan girls weren't a thing, or at least they could stop trying to share their "interest" with me.
I actually like yaoi (except for the stuff that glorifies rape), but the fangirls... well, they tend to pair up any character, call anybody who doesn't like yaoi a homophobe, ask gay couples who's the seme and who's the uke even though those things are only manga conventions and that question is as offensive as asking who's the "man" and who's the "woman," and generally not tend to realize that gay men are regular people like you and me. (No disrespect to the female yaoi fans who aren't like this, of course.)
 

Phantom Kat

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Queen Michael said:
Phantom Kat said:
Queen Michael said:
Phantom Kat said:
People describing themselves as "weird". It almost always seems to be boring people trying to use "weird" as a defining characteristic because their personality is so bland. If there's one thing that truly weird people have in common; it's that they don't spend a large proportion of their time telling people that they're weird.
Preach! Almost all the "weird" people I've met are yaoi fangirls who act like they're on a sugar high. Not weird, just predictable, really.
I run into them incredibly frequently as I had the misfortune to be born with somewhat bishonen facial features. I really wish yaoi fan girls weren't a thing, or at least they could stop trying to share their "interest" with me.
I actually like yaoi (except for the stuff that glorifies rape), but the fangirls... well, they tend to pair up any character, call anybody who doesn't like yaoi a homophobe, ask gay couples who's the seme and who's the uke even though those things are only manga conventions and that question is as offensive as asking who's the "man" and who's the "woman," and generally not tend to realize that gay men are regular people like you and me. (No disrespect to the female yaoi fans who aren't like this, of course.)
Yea my girlfriend is actually a fan of yaoi. Luckily she wasn't one of the ones who would talk about how I would make an excellent couple with *insert male friend here*. It feels incredibly dehumanising to be turned into the object of someone's fetish, but I guess some people are probably into that as well.

I feel this is going slightly off topic but it's still kind of about a thing I wish wasn't a thing so I guess not.
 

Poppy JR.

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Daniel Janhagen said:
Friendzone. The very concept is ridiculous, as is the word. Sadly, this is also one of the things on the list that are already things, but should stop.

From experience on this forum, I've learned that quite a lot of people here think it's a thing and will come to its defense.
You're all free to do so, but I will not debate it with you. Go ahead. You "win". If you want to think it's a thing I will not try to convince you otherwise.
Don't you mean "Palkatraz"?
 

Barbas

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Isn't it so much fun when people type like this:

>Logged onto Escapist today.
>Implying something or another.
>What are these knobbly things with fingers on the end?
>WHY HAVE THEY CHANGED THE PEPSI LOGO.

I don't know where it came from, but it needs to go back there. Along with 'Owling', 'Planking', 'Selfies' and 'Beliebing'.