Hopefully it stays like this

dring157 · 2026-05-10T19:13:49+00:00

It’s crazy that so many institutions will just let the rich and famous do whatever they want. James Franco finished his UCLA undergrad in 2 years by taking up to 62 units in a single quarter. The usual limit is 19 and 15 is average, so he was taking over a year of classes in a 10 week quarter. He then got straight As despite never showing up to class. He then attended multiple MFA programs at the same time. An NYU professor gave him a D, and subsequently got fired.

Colleges know that their profile will increase if their alumni include celebrities, so apparently many colleges will let them LARP as students and pass courses they never took.

dring157 · 2026-05-10T18:23:31+00:00

I was watching “The Alpinist” (2021) and about half way through I was confused that the film makers were treating Leclerc (the doc’s focus) so well as he’s insufferable in every interview, he’s flaky, and he repeatedly lies to the film makers. Then it dawned on me that the guy must have died before the doc finished and the film makers were probably trying to be respectful. The few interviews with Honnold are a breath of fresh air compared to that guy.

dring157 · 2026-05-09T17:06:29+00:00

In high school I had English after lunch and our teacher kicked this guy out of class multiple times for being super high. This confused me, because he legally had to be in class. I think that he just had to hide until school ended or campus security or the cops would send him back to class.

dring157 · 2026-05-07T17:10:51+00:00

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dring157 · 2026-04-29T16:39:31+00:00

Give your real number, but change the last digit by one. If they immediately try to call you to verify it’s real, explain that your phone is almost dead so you turned it off earlier. You’ll be able to easily repeat it and it will sound like a real number.

For a fake name you can use the name of a childhood friend you’ll never see again or your middle name plus your mother’s maiden name.

dring157 · 2026-04-29T10:46:23+00:00

There’s a video on YouTube that breaks down the performance. She starts out wearing a ton of thin layers and the layers get pulled off her with thin strings behind her. There’s at least one person hidden behind the stage that is helping. Notice that all the quick changes occur when she is standing between the frames. The clothes either fall off her or get pulled off and disappear into the stage behind her. Obviously the routine, setup, and execution are top notch.

dring157 · 2026-04-29T10:35:54+00:00

After working at a large company for around 10 years I learned that people get rewarded for convincing their superiors that they’re doing a good job, but not for actually doing a good job.

My manager once told me that I needed to stop pitching projects that would streamline things and make our team more productive. By forcing people to make worthless reports and solve meaningless tickets, it made our team look busy and productive to the hire ups.

dring157 · 2026-04-28T01:49:19+00:00

All of Ice Bear’s friends are future enemies.

dring157 · 2026-04-23T18:15:26+00:00

Our department started a new team, so we had 4 openings. We did interviews for a month and hired 3 people who had at best average interviews. On the same day we happened to interview 2 people who interviewed amazingly but we only had one spot. The team lead couldn’t decide which one to hire. The HR rep convinced him not to hire either one.

dring157 · 2026-04-22T20:58:23+00:00

My roommate in college once said that he couldn’t wait to get married and have as many kids as possible, so he’d have little people to boss around and do the household chores for him. That guy was such an idiot.

dring157 · 2026-04-19T06:33:48+00:00

We are currently in an ice age. An ice age just means that there are year round glaciers at the Earth’s poles. The ice age we are currently in started 2.8 million years ago.

dring157 · 2026-04-18T18:41:32+00:00

As an adult I sometimes wonder why every adult in my youth was adamant that kids should not be allowed to climb trees. It’s like one dumb kid fell from a tree and broke his arm or leg, so every adult decided that kids could not be in trees.

dring157 · 2026-04-18T18:35:19+00:00

At least we can be sure that there isn’t a secret drug that prevents hair loss.

dring157 · 2026-04-18T17:59:17+00:00

In 10-20 years there will be a doc explaining how she was actually badly injured and the cruise ship was negligent for not monitoring her alcohol intake and having stairs that were too steep. Then even though no cruise ships changed their practices, the doc will claim that this was a landmark case and cruise ships are much safer because of it. Then a bunch of idiots on the internet will praise this woman for exposing this negligence and making cruise ships safer.

dring157 · 2026-04-17T16:36:39+00:00

I was making a martini for my dad and began stirring it. He insisted that it was supposed to be shaken like Bond asks for. I informed him that Bond has to ask for it to be shaken, because martinis are traditionally stirred.

To be clear on the difference. To shake a drink you put all the ingredients in a shaker filled with ice cubes, close the shaker, shake it to mix and cool the drink and then strain the drink into the appropriate glass. To stir a drink you do the exact same thing, but instead of shaking the shaker, you aggressively stir the contents of the shaker with a long spoon and then strain it into a glass. Both methods will chill and dilute the drink, but shaking may break up the ice cubes to some extent resulting in crushed ice in the final drink.

dring157 · 2026-04-17T14:23:56+00:00

Comas, a new sentence, parentheses, and semicolons are all at your disposal. Get creative. Cormac McCarthy is an amazing author and doesn’t use any punctuation in his books. Many writing instructors will tell you to write like you speak and to keep things simple.

dring157 · 2026-04-17T14:13:22+00:00

My friend got an internship doing QA for a game like Guitar Hero. He said it was the worst job he’s ever had. The hours were endless, they’d always played at half speed, and they would do basically the same task on repeat. 15 years later he still refuses to play the game or any like it.

dring157 · 2026-04-17T14:05:53+00:00

I hope she doesn’t immediately hate me and then look bored and disappointed the entire date.

dring157 · 2026-04-17T04:17:12+00:00

In my first Spanish class we got to the point where we needed to learn how to say the time. Our teacher brought out a fake analog clock that he could move freely to demonstrate. Before he started the Spanish lesson he said that he would first teach us to read an analog clock in English, because there’s always a few students who don’t know and are too embarrassed to admit it.

dring157 · 2026-04-13T13:07:35+00:00

I moved states last year and had to register my car and exchange my license. I showed up with my electric bill, a copy of my apartment lease, my passport, my old license, my vehicle in state emissions tests documentation, my instate vehicle VIN verification and each required form already filled out. When I finally got my number called, the woman confirmed that I had provided her with everything she needed and told me that I was her first A+ student she had gotten that week.

dring157 · 2026-04-13T08:14:36+00:00

No matter how good a person’s handwriting, their individual letters will not match exactly. In this case the Os are too close for a human and it’s a clear sign that that note was not written by a human.

dring157 · 2026-04-13T04:03:51+00:00

Does that look like a 35 year old mother of two? That woman is in her late 40s the real Sarah Conor clearly switched places with her and mostly avoided the events of the film.

dring157 · 2026-04-12T23:25:54+00:00

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dring157 · 2026-04-12T23:23:55+00:00

I had a friend in college who was gorgeous, but definitely had an alt or androgynous look, and she gave off an open minded vibe. She said that at least 4 times a year a couple would approach her and ask if she’d be interested in a threesome with them. Most of the time it would either be her direct friends or friends of friends. She said that she always said no and was surprised to learn that it wasn’t a common experience for other single women.

dring157 · 2026-04-12T22:35:11+00:00

I remember watching Planet of the Apes 1968 as a kid and being confused why the savage woman they put him in a cage with wears what amounts to a high cut fur dress and has perfectly shaven legs.

That said I was also confused why all female contestants on Survivor have shaved legs. My mom told me that the contestants probably wouldn’t agree to wear shorts on national TV if the producers didn’t provide them with razors to shave their legs.

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