Things That You Don't Understand!

[Hux]

44 minutes ago, Socketosis said:

If only.

Ur maturing, my furriend.

You will age like a fine wine.

[Saxon]

16 hours ago, Hux said:

Ur maturing, my furriend.

You will age like a fine wine.

...Locked in a cellar in France!? O_O

[Hux]

4 hours ago, Saxon said:

...Locked in a cellar in France!? O_O

Shh!

[DrGravitas]

How people can communicate their emotional states through mere text with such precision :V

[Saxon]

I don't understand why so many people who don't like scientists' consensus opinion insist that they are shills who pursue grant money.

I am applying for research jobs now and if I am successful I would only get £14,000/y which is standard for most PhD level science jobs apart from engineering.

You practically have to take a vow of poverty, and deliberately choose a job where you have to be immensely qualified and very underpaid, to become a scientist. If people wanted to become rich, they would not go into the profession.

[Chaosmasterdelta]

Why Dr.Gravitas is the one who likes all my posts when no one else does.

Maybe he wants me to notice him

[DrGravitas]

3 minutes ago, Chaosmasterdelta said:

Why Dr.Gravitas is the one who likes all my posts when no one else does.

Maybe he wants me to notice him

Heh, in all fairness I hand out likes like an old man hands out money when his grandchildren come to visit.

(Surprisingly difficult to find a .gif of an old man handing out money to grandkids, so this will have to do.)

[Saxon]

@FenrirDarkWolf We both just got followed on twitter by a man who claims to be a neuroscientist.

I looked at his other recent follows and they are hundreds of people most of whom have used the word 'gay' in their twitter bio.

Do you think he is making a list?

[Fossa]

58 minutes ago, Saxon said:

@FenrirDarkWolf We both just got followed on twitter by a man who claims to be a neuroscientist.

I looked at his other recent follows and they are hundreds of people most of whom have used the word 'gay' in their twitter bio.

Do you think he is making a list?

Yep. It's clear that he is about to follow ALL gays on Twitter, ALL the time. And then, study their brains.

[FenrirDarkWolf]

6 hours ago, Saxon said:

@FenrirDarkWolf We both just got followed on twitter by a man who claims to be a neuroscientist.

I looked at his other recent follows and they are hundreds of people most of whom have used the word 'gay' in their twitter bio.

Do you think he is making a list?

Maybe he's just thirsty

[Victor-933]

...256 gigabyte microSD cards. Two hundred and fifty six gigabytes in something the size of my fingernail...

...at this point I don't think they're using regular flash memory anymore. I think that thing is carved out of obsidian and virgin blood, and imbued with black magic.

[Mikazuki Marazhu]

4 hours ago, Victor-933 said:

...256 gigabyte microSD cards. Two hundred and fifty six gigabytes in something the size of my fingernail...

...at this point I don't think they're using regular flash memory anymore. I think that thing is carved out of obsidian and virgin blood, and imbued with black magic.

....And here I am still using 8gig microSD.

[Lopaw]

5 hours ago, Victor-933 said:

...256 gigabyte microSD cards. Two hundred and fifty six gigabytes in something the size of my fingernail...

...at this point I don't think they're using regular flash memory anymore. I think that thing is carved out of obsidian and virgin blood, and imbued with black magic.

Only problem with them being so big capacity wise is they will cost a arm and a leg.

Rather than being made with those arcane things the memory part is made of specialised MOSFETs with floating gates. A die shrink is what's allowed more of these to fit in the same area so allowing more data to fit in the card.

The flash part is tiny pluses of electricity on each gate, which is what makes the card wear out over time.

[Gator]

why all of my days off have to suck

like literally just all of them

y

 

[Saxon]

13 hours ago, FenrirDarkWolf said:

Maybe he's just thirsty

Ha ha, maybe, but I don't want to tweet at him to ask what he's doing, because I think he is immediately going to look at my bio, realise he has followed a degenerate furry pervert and block me forever lol.

Perhaps I should make a non furry account. I keep coming across my lecturers at university on twitter, and thinking about the pure cringe that would occur if they logged in to see they just got followed by a 6 foot yiffy fox.

[FenrirDarkWolf]

10 hours ago, Saxon said:

Ha ha, maybe, but I don't want to tweet at him to ask what he's doing, because I think he is immediately going to look at my bio, realise he has followed a degenerate furry pervert and block me forever lol.

Perhaps I should make a non furry account. I keep coming across my lecturers at university on twitter, and thinking about the pure cringe that would occur if they logged in to see they just got followed by a 6 foot yiffy fox.

If it makes you feel any better...

my sister follows me on twitter.

[Shiro]

Why people still, don't know how to use their own damn credit/debit cards. The chip technology has been around for a very long while now, yet people still persist on sliding their cards instead of inserting it under the pin pad, even though it won't work that way. They then proceed to punch the self check out screen in a rage induced fit when it's no one's fault but their own. People sometimes....

[Lopaw]

18 minutes ago, Shiro said:

Why people still, don't know how to use their own damn credit/debit cards. The chip technology has been around for a very long while now, yet people still persist on sliding their cards instead of inserting it under the pin pad, even though it won't work that way. They then proceed to punch the self check out screen in a rage induced fit when it's no one's fault but their own. People sometimes....

Not seen people do this myself but most cards still have the magnetic strip on as a backup for in the rare event the chip buggers up or you come across legacy systems.

[Data]

i still dont get the refference of FAF every where, and it bugs me more because i never really asked about it. i know four acronyms for the letters, and cant cant tell which is which

boy am i glad there is not a "downvote" button on this site. i might be in oblivion.

[Sidewalk Surfboard]

5 minutes ago, Aeon said:

i still dont get the refference of FAF every where, and it bugs me more because i never really asked about it. i know four acronyms for the letters, and cant cant tell which is which

boy am i glad there is not a "downvote" button on this site. i might be in oblivion.

FAF stands for Fur Affinity Forums.

[Jtrekkie]

20 hours ago, Saxon said:

Ha ha, maybe, but I don't want to tweet at him to ask what he's doing, because I think he is immediately going to look at my bio, realise he has followed a degenerate furry pervert and block me forever lol.

Perhaps I should make a non furry account. I keep coming across my lecturers at university on twitter, and thinking about the pure cringe that would occur if they logged in to see they just got followed by a 6 foot yiffy fox.

 

These are professionals who have made a career out of administering education to an army of adolescents,  many of which live on site. I'm sure they've learned to cope.

[Saxon]

1 hour ago, Jtrekkie said:

 

These are professionals who have made a career out of administering education to an army of adolescents,  many of which live on site. I'm sure they've learned to cope.

'Hold him down while I administer his education! D:< '

[Silo]

2 hours ago, Saxon said:

'Hold him down while I administer his education! D:< '

 

[Lopaw]

How I sort of managed to figure what all the various gauges and switches where for in this 2 seat trainer aircraft I went in even though I was only in the cockpit for a minute.

[Saxon]

I don't really understand why University psychology (and other students of the human sciences) regularly decide they want to study furries on the internet.

If you want to study people by looking at the reams of data they dump online, you could find out the answers to questions such as 'Can you use keywords in tweets to predict the probability that somebody is suicidal?' , you could create a means of using social networks to identify potential criminals, or you could explain why an advertising campaign might be so successful compared to a failed campaign.

...Studying the furries just seems a bit esoteric to me, especially because I can imagine our self-reported responses to questions don't produce useful data in many instances, because they will be full of troll answers or people who want to present a 'good image' of their fandom.

 

...I actually suspect that the University students finding excuses to study furries *are* furries.

[MuttButt]

4 minutes ago, Saxon said:

...I actually suspect that the University students finding excuses to study furries *are* furries.

Whaaaaat? P-preposterous!

 

>.>

[FenrirDarkWolf]

38 minutes ago, Saxon said:

I don't really understand why University psychology (and other students of the human sciences) regularly decide they want to study furries on the internet.

If you want to study people by looking at the reams of data they dump online, you could find out the answers to questions such as 'Can you use keywords in tweets to predict the probability that somebody is suicidal?' , you could create a means of using social networks to identify potential criminals, or you could explain why an advertising campaign might be so successful compared to a failed campaign.

...Studying the furries just seems a bit esoteric to me, especially because I can imagine our self-reported responses to questions don't produce useful data in many instances, because they will be full of troll answers or people who want to present a 'good image' of their fandom.

 

...I actually suspect that the University students finding excuses to study furries *are* furries.

Well, my friend (whom I slightly ranted about in the Things that you hate thread) didn't really choose to study them. Her group leader did.

HE'S probably a furry. I mean, hell, if I was in that psych class and I had the chance to go to a con while still doing school work, I would.

[FenrirDarkWolf]

Why I like some Christian songs

Granted most of them aren't overly preachy and talking about God every five seconds directly. A lot of the ones I like are more subtle.

[Gator]

why i constantly have dreams about neglecting pets

i've never neglected a pet

[LazerMaster5]

7 hours ago, FenrirDarkWolf said:

Why I like some Christian songs

Granted most of them aren't overly preachy and talking about God every five seconds directly. A lot of the ones I like are more subtle.

Ew

Sounds like you need Satan

[FenrirDarkWolf]

16 minutes ago, LazerMaster5 said:

Ew

Sounds like you need Satan

??????

[LazerMaster5]

7 hours ago, FenrirDarkWolf said:

??????

\m/

[Snagged]

12 hours ago, Gator said:

why i constantly have dreams about neglecting pets

i've never neglected a pet

Maybe it is your fear of neglecting a pet (or someone) that causes these dreams (or are they nightmares?) 

[Vallium]

On 2/22/2017 at 6:19 PM, Shiro said:

Why people still, don't know how to use their own damn credit/debit cards. The chip technology has been around for a very long while now, yet people still persist on sliding their cards instead of inserting it under the pin pad, even though it won't work that way. They then proceed to punch the self check out screen in a rage induced fit when it's no one's fault but their own. People sometimes....

You underestimate how much the chip technology really is around, every other store doesnt take chip and it leaves people guessing which one to use. Not their fault, companies should just get on the same page already

[Lopaw]

26 minutes ago, WolfNightV4X1 said:

You underestimate how much the chip technology really is around, every other store doesnt take chip and it leaves people guessing which one to use. Not their fault, companies should just get on the same page already

I think contactless is going to be this all over again.

[Socketosis]

On 3/3/2017 at 5:00 PM, FenrirDarkWolf said:

Why I like some Christian songs

Granted most of them aren't overly preachy and talking about God every five seconds directly. A lot of the ones I like are more subtle.

Give Jars of Clay a listen. They're a decent Christian band.

 

[Gator]

10 hours ago, Snagged Cub said:

Maybe it is your fear of neglecting a pet (or someone) that causes these dreams (or are they nightmares?) 

i don't even have a pet.  or anyone to neglect tbqfh  :'I

i dont have good dreams or nightmares really, they're just kind of "a lot of stupid shit with unpleasant things thrown in" and usually the unpleasant things are the SAME unpleasant things, over and over in every dream

[Saxon]

I don't understand atheists who defend the Catholic church as a moral institution.

One has to begin this exercise by ignoring centuries of human rights abuses, and even then, contemporary problems like the management of the HIV epidemic show that the Catholic church's main concerns are scriptural adherence rather than human well being.

This is a slam-dunk example of the moral corruption that magical beliefs can cause, so why would anybody feel compelled to defend it, especially if they are already savvy enough to figure out that those magical claims are wrong?

[FlynnCoyote]

16 minutes ago, Saxon said:

This is a slam-dunk example of the moral corruption that magical beliefs can cause, so why would anybody feel compelled to defend it, especially if they are already savvy enough to figure out that those magical claims are wrong?

Atheist =/= Educated.

[Saxon]

16 minutes ago, FlynnCoyote said:

Atheist =/= Educated.

Yeah, definitely. I'm actually getting the vibe that some are only defending the Catholic church because they want to make western culture look better than Islam.

A while ago I was under the impression that christian fundamentalism was on-the-way-out, and that more effort should be spent criticising other religions that retained an active influence in the world.
I'm aware now that this impression was wrong, because christian bodies still exert huge influence and do a lot of damage, and that many of the people who were claiming they wanted to criticise other religions weren't doing so because they were actually interested in challenging those attitudes or doing anything, but because they wanted to moan about how dangerous they think brown people are. :\

They're the sorts of people who talk at length about how awful child marriage is in Yemen (and yeah, it's pretty friggin' awful) but then champion the Vatican in spite of its decades of covering up child abuse.

[Vallium]

1 hour ago, Saxon said:

Yeah, definitely. I'm actually getting the vibe that some are only defending the Catholic church because they want to make western culture look better than Islam.

A while ago I was under the impression that christian fundamentalism was on-the-way-out, and that more effort should be spent criticising other religions that retained an active influence in the world.
I'm aware now that this impression was wrong, because christian bodies still exert huge influence and do a lot of damage, and that many of the people who were claiming they wanted to criticise other religions weren't doing so because they were actually interested in challenging those attitudes or doing anything, but because they wanted to moan about how dangerous they think brown people are. :\

They're the sorts of people who talk at length about how awful child marriage is in Yemen (and yeah, it's pretty friggin' awful) but then champion the Vatican in spite of its decades of covering up child abuse.

I think anyone who defends the entirety of the history of the catholic church is a little bit deluded themselves, but that in itself doesnt necessarily mean the core values of the religion aside from the corruption in past centuries is immoral. Modern catholicism, in a lot of places, tends to be more about charity and good service to mankind. It's about as moral as the people themselves are. Its no more wrong or corrupt than people in the Islamic religion, where there are radical sects like ISIS, but despite that there are others that are fighting in a hard time for their rights and to live peacefully in their religion. 

There might be some assholes that put catholicism on a pedestal and bring down the faith of muslims, but that doesnt mean they all are trying to promote their religion as superior rather than live a moral life in a faith that guides their walk in life.

[Saxon]

16 minutes ago, WolfNightV4X1 said:

I think anyone who defends the entirety of the history of the catholic church is a little bit deluded themselves, but that in itself doesnt necessarily mean the core values of the religion aside from the corruption in past centuries is immoral. Modern catholicism, in a lot of places, tends to be more about charity and good service to mankind. It's about as moral as the people themselves are. Its no more wrong or corrupt than people in the Islamic religion, where there are radical sects like ISIS, but despite that there are others that are fighting in a hard time for their rights and to live peacefully in their religion. 

There might be some assholes that put catholicism on a pedestal and bring down the faith of muslims, but that doesnt mean they all are trying to promote their religion as superior rather than live a moral life in a faith that guides their walk in life.

Many people responsible for past injustice facilitated by the Catholic church are still alive, as are their victims. In the future I'm sure that we will look back at the 21st century and regard it as 'just another century of moral corruption', given that the Catholic church had decided to invest its efforts this century preventing the take up of barrier contraception in Africa, even spreading myths such as 'condoms cause HIV'.

Given that the Catholic church is a centralised institution, I think it's fair enough to levy blame at them for doing these things, and to take issue with supporters who provide the church with the money it needs to continue doing them.

It's more difficult to criticise Islam as a whole, because it's not centralised in the same way, but I guess individual components are comparable. For example people who fund the Salafi movement probably think they're doing a service to mankind by spreading a pristine interpretation of the Qur'an, and they may be good people in their day to day lives...but they're still openly supporting a movement that everybody knows is doing nasty things, like demolishing preislamic cultural sites.
...this last example is actually super-tricky, because technically all Muslims are required to make a pilgrimage to Mecca if they can, but doing so gives money to the Salafis, because they are in control of Mecca. Bit of a catch-22 for them.

 

 

[Gator]

why all of europe's animals are either black, red, or black and red

[Saxon]

5 hours ago, Gator said:

why all of europe's animals are either black, red, or black and red

What about these birds? They're all European.

 

 

[Gator]

36 minutes ago, Saxon said:

What about these birds? They're all European.

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh those aren't a thing

[Socketosis]

39 minutes ago, Saxon said:

What about these birds? They're all European.

What a fat tit!

[Endless/Nameless]

4 hours ago, Socketosis said:

What a fat tit!

that tit is lit

[Gator]

why i can only be productive when i should be sleeping

[Vallium]

Why some people are so bitchy about the rules

Had one lady that was pissed off that I wanted to check her ID with the credit card she was using to buy a hundred and something gift card. Well gee, its not like Ive had someone use a stolen card to put a lot of money on a gift card...oh wait....

 

Then today this guy comes in wanting send money on a register for Western Union. I tell him we can only do it at the one register on the other end, he's arguing with me that he can do it on the one there and I tell him we have literally always done it on that register only. I call my manager and she tells him the same exact thing. He couldve saved so much time by just taking less than twenty steps to move to the damn register we wanted him to do his WU at.

Like...he has even less excuse then the old lady with a heart condition who couldnt walk to the other end of the register, and even she was apologetic about it.

 

Some people are just so damn lazy and selfish... *smh*

[Recel]

Why am I reading this forum again?