In the wake of the API shit I would use the report function for basically everything via browser. It was the easiest way to block a user and waste effort for the mods who stuck around all in one go. Never really posted or commented so I didn’t catch a ban that way.

And by everything I mean I had a short fuse. Bad grammar, saw the post twice, the post or reply is just too “reddit”, the post didn’t bitch about the API thing enough, accidentally clicked on it, saw the post twice, user beat me to the punch with a joke worse than mine, sometimes I wouldn’t even read posts and just start smashing that report button.

My understanding is that moderation tools were also fucked over like the apps we loved. So to me it was a good way to kick em while they were down and make them get familiar with the shitty interface to do their volunteer moderation for free.

Without fail I would report admin and mod comments. That’s probably what got the bans for the first few accounts. Eventually I got browser fingerprint banned and found my way here.

I joined after finding a good username/avatar combo

I don’t have voicemail set up. I haven’t called myself in a long time to check but I don’t get voicemail notifications on my phone. I hope its that way because I’ll never check it anyway. I don’t even know how.

I guess if I did do voicemail I’d make it sound like I answered the phone and can’t hear well for as long as it would allow. I don’t fully understand the telemarketing industry but an open call line is an open call line and I’ll be happy to waste something of theirs if they want to waste my time.

I added a little context because in hindsight not everyone will recognize that quote.

Let me ask you this: a guy breaks into your house, but you don’t have a gun. How are you going to shoot him?

Why bring a laptop onto a filthy factory floor when the phone in your pocket does the same thing?

“Hey boss we got a problem. Yeah, let me just try to fit your laptop with two cameras I am calling you with in this tight and filthy space in a broken machine to show you. Just one seconzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzZzzzzzZZZZZZZ”

… 2 minutes later a phone call:

“Yeah boss I fried another one of your expensive laptops with two cameras. Yeah coolant and chips dripped on the keyboard again. No I didnt smash it between the spindle and turret this time. It didn’t fall into the chip conveyor brimming with coolant, lube oil, chips, and swarf either. Anyway, your machine’s still fucked up and now your laptop is too. I will hang up my telephone you do not pay for and text you pictures or video now.”

Short of smashing it with the turret I’ve done all this to my phone that has 6 cameras. Shook and wiped the shit right off with a rag. A working machine most of the time looks exactly like a broken machine. If the boss can’t figure out what the problem is without it being a zoom call you’ve got a bigger tool problem outside the machine.

Bodybuilding forums led to a notorious debate on the number of days in a week. I feel like a reddit format would water down the debate by not presenting replies as they are posted in real time.

Cat wanted to go outside. It was raining. After seeing the rain out the back door and turning around she led me to the front door expecting better weather.

One time I was at a bonfire and a friend of a friend, looking like he was up all night, said he was up all night watching tornado siren videos on youtube

I think they could just get another donkey

israel wants an iron dome. We should build a huge iron dome to go over israel and it should be thick enough to keep god out.

Street racing i have no opinion about but street crashing i am against

Niggard/niggardly sounds like a really, really, awful choice for a word to describe someone cheap like Scrooge. It’s not a slur it just sounds way too much like one. The use of the word is controversial despite the only connection the two words share is how they sound.

I wouldn’t use the word around people though. Explaining how a word that sounds racist isn’t racist makes you appear to be more racist. It isn’t a slur but gets treated as if it was one.

✓ quite offensive

✓ not a slur

X you probably still shouldn’t use it

It was a U.N. escalator and not one of those Chinese escalators that eat people. The stars didnt fully align.

Kids know computers and just like guns it is a point and click interface

The balloons were a metaphor for the mushroom clouds from the nukes going off

The sun moving the other way through the sky

My parents had the Killer Klowns from Outer Space VHS and I was too scared to watch it as a kid. It wasn’t until my mid 20s I actually got to watch it and realize its very much a comedy and not scary at all.

I watched about 5 minutes of it in an electronics store before getting bored. If I’m not mistaken it is Dances with Wolves in space. There’s also a big blue guy who hangs dong.