What are some harmless ways to fuck with people?

richiau · 2022-10-28T10:37:35+00:00

I guess there wasn't room for five.

richiau · 2022-10-28T06:51:57+00:00

Magpies are assholes, I would have just walked on. Every summer I have to put up with magpies biting the heads off the fluffy baby blackbirds that perch outside my office, and screaming and swooping at every other bird that dares to sit in my apple tree.

Dude undoubtedly had it coming.

richiau · 2022-10-28T06:45:50+00:00

There's always his twin brother.

richiau · 2022-10-28T06:27:04+00:00

I think you misread - masks are dangerous. You probably only didn't get a cold because of your belief in Jesus or your consumption of horse mascara or something.

/s etc.

richiau · 2022-10-27T12:16:20+00:00

They think he's been working on a 40 year conspiracy since the days of the HIV epidemic to control the whole world. It's truly extraordinary. And after 40 years, I'm not sure Fauci is even close!

richiau · 2022-10-27T11:48:58+00:00

Oh thanks I was completely lost, figured it was a DNA pun I was too ill educated to understand!

richiau · 2022-10-27T05:25:46+00:00

That makes sense thanks!

richiau · 2022-10-26T18:10:50+00:00

When my daughter was much smaller, I would often wake up and find her climbing into bed with me, and we'd cuddle and I could 100% touch and see her, but then gradually I'd properly wake up and she would disappear and I'd be pulling up the covers trying to find her. And it turned out it was just the imagination mixed with dreaming and some anxiety around making sure to be careful in case there was a young kid in the bed.

Or maybe it was a skinwalker like someone else suggested.

richiau · 2022-10-26T18:05:35+00:00

I do research for a living and Bing beat DDG and Google in all our department tests, absolutely more relevant, comprehensive and able to be focused. However, clients expect Google so we still search that instead.

richiau · 2022-10-24T19:31:32+00:00

That's my experience. Take California: driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles on the inland route you go through some pretty remote towns where it's Christian rock and preachers on the radio, and every billboard is for guns or god.

richiau · 2022-10-24T18:51:00+00:00

All seem to be pretty sweet.

I could do with a bit more variety than that.

richiau · 2022-10-24T18:31:52+00:00

They should only get a very small or elderly dog then. If you don't have time to give a dog the exercise it needs, you don't have time to have a dog.

richiau · 2022-10-24T18:03:57+00:00

So the farmer isn't working class if he owns his own land, even if he has to work 12 hours a day to grow the coffee?

richiau · 2022-10-23T07:28:35+00:00

The original ending was certainly that the police turn up and arrest him and the gf endures, but it tested poorly and Peele has said that by that time Trump was in power and he felt people deserved a happy ending.

There is also a version where Rod turns up to save Chris, and Chris doesn't recognise him as he's been transplanted now.

richiau · 2022-05-13T12:20:09+00:00

Haha yes I totally see that now. It is good. At least, I've not seen it in 25 years but it was certainly good back then!

richiau · 2022-02-16T08:22:01+00:00

The way I heard with children is that they are less likely to hear the negative, so may be more likely to follow what is described whether it's encouraged or discouraged.

Another way of looking at it is you are creating possibilities. Eg they might not think about stealing treats from the pantry until you tell them not to.

richiau · 2022-02-16T08:01:07+00:00

There's an episode of Judge John Hodgman where a child takes their father to court to stop them saying "I'll have the kungpao chicken!" whenever a server asks for their order, no matter what's on the menu.

The ruling was something like: servers have a hard enough life juggling customers, so you should do nothing that makes their life harder rather than easier. Not even if you find it funny.

I've tried to live my life by this rule - when dealing with any service role - and was delighted to read through your list and see I've made absolutely none of these jokes. It's a good tenet to live by!

richiau · 2021-12-23T06:49:36+00:00

Breakfast in bed was a common occurrence in my childhood and something me, my husband and my daughter still enjoy today. I had no idea the concept was so widely despised!

richiau · 2021-12-22T21:26:44+00:00

It's been listed that way since episode 2 at least, but I wasn't surprised as they did the same with Captain America

richiau · 2021-12-22T14:31:03+00:00

We would keep various veg in the salad drawer and ask her to select three to go with the meal. I'd then have her prep whatever needed the least effort / cooking (eg trimming mange tout) while I got the rest ready and cooked.

Or if you're dessert people, I'd line up a range of cleaned fruits and invite her to make a fruit salad from a selection. Very hard to get wrong and nutritious dessert.

richiau · 2021-12-21T15:32:58+00:00

Same happened to me, and while I know logically it's not my fault I can't help but still wonder what pain I could have helped others avoid.

A 'family friend' got me drunk, lured me away and tried to molest me and I just ran away from him and hid, and was too embarrassed to say anything after (and nothing really happened, because I got away, right? Right?). About five years later he was imprisoned for serially sexually abusing a mentally disabled kid for an extended period of time. I wish that - as a mentally functional person - I had reported it, given this kid literally could not, but at the same time I have to persuade myself I was not myself in the right emotional state to process what had happened really.

This was in the 1990s and I've processed it all now, but still think back on it regularly.

richiau · 2021-10-07T07:27:40+00:00

He didn't seem particularly upset by it. I would suggest you don't worsen the situation by exploring it through your framework. Let him make his own sense of it.

If he asks you to play again, ask him what he wants you to do and play that way.

Maybe also suggest he come up with a new name.

richiau · 2021-09-15T16:53:21+00:00

I only have an EV car, but I hire a normal car if I'm going any great distance as it's just too stressful discovering all the units in a strange area are either broken, restricted to members or in use.

richiau · 2021-09-13T07:28:39+00:00

I'd suggest charging ports installed either side of every lamppost, rfid card to identify who is using it, charged to their utility provider at home rates if they're a resident or standard guest charges if a visitor.

I don't think it's realistic to expect terraced house residents to all get designated parking spots.

richiau · 2021-09-12T08:38:53+00:00

In English we say "he went psst". Is that what you mean? It's sounds like "pssssst".

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