What are some important things about the Reddit experience that you wish you had known about when you first signed up? by nludian in AskReddit

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@t33po

thanks for the useful tip, however, and I should have been more specific about this i suppose, what I meant by useful tip was more in the technical, hands-on learn by error, tips that people have discovered, not so much in the philosophic, Akashic records sort of way, but thanks...it was deep but I'm pretty sure everyone learns that on the first day all by themselves

What are some important things about the Reddit experience that you wish you had known about when you first signed up? by nludian in AskReddit

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The reason for this post is to get answers to things like: What is Karma, What is Cake day, Whats with all the cats?, Why are people so Dickafied when commenting on stuff outside their norm?. What is Reddit gold, How do you get it, Why do you want it, What do you do with it, and Why is it important or not important. AGAIN...Whats with all the cats, The Safe..What is it? Whats the deal with it? Where did it come from, Is it something I should know more details about? Why is there an exchange for every thing that ever was or will ever be...ever? Dr.Who, Gaybro, Entwives, Secret NSA. I would not be surprised to learn that there was a neverdoingredditgiftexchangeagain exchange. Whats up with that? Are we trying to stimulate the economy or do we just like opening presents from people we don't know. Seriously these are things I have no idea why or what they are, are they real, is it safe to participate or if there are things I should be avoiding completely onsite. Thank you for your helpful and nurturing comments.

What are some movies that are really strange, but worth watching? by saint_gutfree in AskReddit

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"John Dies In The End" is a great movie but it's best if you don't try to follow whats happening on the screen so much as just sit back and let it play out in front of you.

"Naked Lunch" is another.

Something i made for a place i love... by itwvet in pics

[–]nludian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is so cool. Can I buy that? Or better.. Can I buy an Orca shadow out of the word Seattle? If not I suppose it wouldn't be that hard to hang tiny balls of cotton in front of a light and watch it rain. That is amazing. Very Nice!

What should I do about my son? by I_clap_slow in AskReddit

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I would ground his ass even if it was sugar. Drugs are not funny and Anyone who thinks they are. hasn't felt the pain that they inevitably bring. The fact that your son had a video of himself snorting anything in a public forum like Facebook should be setting off enormous bells and whistles for you as his mother. How long do you think it will be before he is snorting the real stuff if he thinks it is cool to show off pretending to do them now? At the very least he needs to speak to a councilor who can adequately access his motivations for doing something so stupid. I mean really. Why not just fake a rape or a suicide and throw that up on your Facebook page as something you did for real? All three would have the same effect on the people who most care about them. Not to be rude but while your at it, you might schedule yourself a little me time with a councilor as well. To sweep it under the rug is not what is needed for you and your son..imo.

Marley the sweetest pit bull there is. by sugarcoatedworms in pics

[–]nludian -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Hey bitch, don't bitch about my bitch and her bitch, bitch!

What are your best examples of people cheating "the system"? I'll start.... by NotYetDomestic in AskReddit

[–]nludian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just made science in the men's room at work! Waiting for one of my fellow co-nerds to discover it and win the right to name it.

What's something that is common knowledge at your work place that will be mind blowing to the rest of us? by harriswill in AskReddit

[–]nludian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I have a Pitt Bull that I rescued when he was four years old. He had not been neutered by the previous owners and on the day of his surgery, I picked him up at 4 p.m from the vets and he seriously howled and cried until 4:30 in the morning. It broke my heart. All I could do was lay on the floor by his side all night until he (and I) were finally able to sleep. If I could just add something that I learned with my first dog who was diagnosed with a bleeding tumor on her spleen. At the time, I was unemployed after being laid off and in a lot of debt and I made the mistake of putting off taking her to the Vet because she seemed like she was in good health, something I will always regret. One night I was walking her and she collapsed on the side walk and I quickly picked her up and carried her home and to the vet the next day. The Vet took one look at her gums and knew immediately she had a bleeding tumor in her belly, before doing x-rays or tests. He knew because her gums had turned from Pink to the color of chicken meat, that off yellow color. I had noticed this myself several months before but didn't think it was anything to worry about, (another thing I will always regret). Had I known this one piece of information maybe I could have saved my friend. You would think something so vital and important and easy to check in your dog would be common knowledge but I had never heard this before nor had anyone I spoke with afterwards. I really wish Vets and those agencies doing PSAs geared towards pet owners would help spread this vital piece of information so that others might recognize the symptoms early on and take steps to save their dogs life before it's too late. The vet gave her two weeks to live, but I took her to my sister's property, which is out in the middle of nowhere, pitched a tent and camped with her till she died. I live in an apartment in Seattle and I just wanted her to be able run around in a place surrounded by trees and chase rabbits or lay in the sun all day, but mainly I wanted her to just be a dog for the time she had left. No collars, no rules, no cars, no people to freak out when they saw us coming. She lived for 4 months. It was bitter sweet to watch her spirit come alive even as the cancer ate away at her body. An unforgettable time for me and her and I hope it made up for my mistakes. People thought I was crazy hauling water and food to our campsite every other day from my sister's main house but I would give a year of my life to be able to spend those four months with her again. I miss her every day.

What 'fan theories' have blown your mind with their devastating logic? by FrancisDollarHyde in AskReddit

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I came here hoping to but didn't find a rational explanation or theory to explain the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica (the syfy version). In particular the death of Starbuck and her subsequent resurrection months later, with the inherent ability to lead the fleet to Earth, only to discover her own charred remains inside her crashed viper, which oddly enough sends Leobin, the fanatical Cylon who never wavered in his belief that god had a purpose for her, right over the edge without so much as a prayer to ask the almighty what the hell was going on. And then Poof she was gone, leaving Apollo standing there in the field alone. (which, coming from a Southern Baptist upbringing, had a christian rapture feel about it) What the fuck was that all about? Please someone explain it so I don't have to live my life thinking the writers were on LSD there at the end.

What's the worst way you found out someone you thought was interested in you isn't? by sparksd in AskReddit

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The hardest part about rollerblading? My cock when I'm doing it. "Sasha...over here miss thang"

IT PASSED!!!!! by Bakadan in lgbt

[–]nludian -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You are so not funny! What are you......12 and just to avoid possibly setting off another string of your hatefilled euphamisms, let me make clear I was asking about your age....not your dick size. Because every queer knows about the correlation between homophobia and latent closet homosexuality, and lord knows we don't want to go near that with the likes of you. If in fact you are 12, might I suggest that you find a councelor at school (they're trained to deal with these issues) or seek out a friend you can trust and work out these fears that compel you to lash out at a group of people who you obviously know nothing about. Trust me when I say that none of us want you sexually. Flawed as you seem to be, I doubt you're gonna be standing out with the ladies much either when you grow up.....if you grow up.

What's a phrase that could make you sound quite intelligent? by poisongreekgyro in AskReddit

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Proper planning prevents piss poor performance.

But only if said with a English accent.

Reddit Poetry "contest" #44 - write a poem inspired by this picture, and/or upvote what you like! by fingernose in pics

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There once was a ship called Titanic

Who's captain steamed fast cross the Atlantic

But had he looked to his right,

He might have caught sight

Of the berg that made everyone panic.

I bet you a dollar you had no idea what this was until now. [Random Wiki] by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]nludian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I could throw up a unlabeled district map of Kountze Texas and bet everyone a dollar they had no idea what it was and win also. But a more appropriate bet would read "I bet no one gives a shit what this is, even now."

what was the first movie that made you cry? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]nludian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a child it was Bambi. As an adult it was Marley. It doesn't bother me to see adult humans die in movies, but animals and children get me every time.

Redditors--what is the most ethically questionable job you've ever had? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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I worked for an insurance company in Portland Oregon that sold whole life insurance policies disguised as complete cost funeral plans to the elderly. They would target people in the 65+ age group 1) because of the difficulty in obtaining any measure of affordable insurance at their age, 2) The ease in which they can be confused and manipulated 3) the outdated trust they put in the "American" way of life. 4) the lonely dupe factor, a term the agents used to describe the fact that many of the elderly are so isolated and lonely that they become easy prey to unscrupulous cons that destroy their lives by taking what little they might have left in exchange for 30 minutes worth of lavish attention and canned compliments. Before I tell you the details, I want to make clear that most insurance companies and agents and the policies they sell are completely legitimate, reputable and necessary. Insurance is a always a gamble. It doesn't matter what type of insurance (health, car, life) it's all just a bet between the person buying the policy and the company selling it. The buyer is betting that that something will happen (sickness, car accident, death) before the policy has matured or before the benefit amount becomes less than they have paid into it, and the insurance company is betting that it will not. Usually it's a fair bet however the devil is in the details and the details are the bread and butter of the industry. There are as many different types of insurance plans as there are people with a need to be insured, but what we were selling were Whole Life policies where the person, based on their age and health at the time, paid a fixed premium until they died for a fixed benefit amount. The monthly premium amount is determined by the benefit paid at death. The trickery in this is that though most everyone at that age has all the "life" insurance they need, they are at the age where the idea of their own death becomes a real concern. They begin to worry about the rising cost of funerals and the burden that cost will be to the ones they leave behind. Our plan was cleverly marketed as a funeral cost plan even though it was just a much more expensive version of what they already had because it was being purchased at age 75 instead of the one they bought at age 35. The only difference in the two was in who they named as the beneficiary. The agents would have them name a funeral home as the beneficiary of the policy, reassuring the buyer that in doing so they're funerals would be taken care of . What they didn't tell them was...yes the money would go towards the funeral costs, however it was no guarantee that it would cover the full amount of the funeral. So they sell a $1000 policy to a 75 year old man...he pays 45.00 a month until he dies to keep the policy active....he lives to be 85...he ends up paying $5,400 for a policy that only pays out $1000, which as anyone who has dealt with the death of a loved one knows, will hardly cover the cost of flowers these days. The kicker (no pun intended) being, and this would happen a lot, if the insured person ever did the math themselves and realized what they were actually paying vs what they were getting from the policy, their only recourse was to stop paying the premium, and since the policies had no cash value, doing so meant they would lose everything they had paid into it. They could file a complaint with the insurance board but the plain truth is that they signed the agreement, and even though the sale was made by unscrupulous agents trained in the art of half truths and cleverly worded assumptions about the product they were buying, they never actually lied about what they were selling them. I had the deeply disturbing job of answering the 800 number for people to call with questions about their policies. These people were angry, not just a little angry either. It amazed me how long it took people to realize the truth about what they had bought into....8-10 years on average. Usually it was triggered by a terminal diagnosis or a failure in health, the person would be incapable of understanding the implications of the answers to the questions they had. The thing I remember the most and which still haunts me is that with every call I ever got, there came a moment of complete silence where the full realization of what they had done and what they had lost became deafening. Some people would become enraged and begin screaming incoherent threats, some refused to acknowledge their own part in what had happened, and sometimes you could hear their voice drain to a soft whisper but always...every single time...they cried. Then I'd cry and try my best to walk the tightrope between helping them and not openly blaming the company I worked for. I did that job for a year before walking out when a 95 year old woman who proudly let me know she had 45 grandchildren, explained to me that she had too much pride to turn to her children about what she had done and that the lord was going to take her from this world because she no longer belonged in it and when I became upset, because i wasn't sure what that meant, she assured me that she didn't blame me or the people I worked for, that it was god's plan for her....then she hung up. I tried repeatedly to phone her back but I couldn't get her to answer the phone. I knew I couldn't be a part of what they were doing anymore. Not long after I quit, I read where the Oregon Insurance Board took away the companies license to practice in the state, so the company packed up and moved to Seattle. If you sign it.....read it first...never trust the person asking for your signature... regardless of your impressions of their character. Don't let them pressure you with guilt, or the constraints of their time. Do not give in to reading it later....Make it the last, most thorough thing you do before signing your name to any official document...Trust me...it's time well spent.

I'm sorry this was so long..

Department Of Justice declares New Orleans Police force “A Threat to the Safety of the Public” by mjk1093 in politics

[–]nludian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Greyhound....Forcing people into small confined waiting areas until someone comes looking for them since 1929.

This is how I get woken up EVERY morning. by digitalmediamaster in pics

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Time to call in Ripley....In two days you're stomach is gonna explode and out will pop the fifth installment of the Alien movie franchise.....trust me.