This thread is a place where people can reflect on the oddness of the world, particularly its geography and popular perceptions.
For example:
The great European shouting match
And keep it civil if a discussion does come up. I don't want this thread to get locked. So no flames about politics, religion, preferred game system, etc. Let's all just enjoy the weird, wonderful, wacky world we inhabit.
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Probably a hoax, but since it's Louisiana....
Creepy human-like creature thing caught on camera in Lousiana
Accidental cartography
I tried to make >this thread< a weird world thread, but it never got traction.
Gulping down DNA
Not what I expected.
Gulping down DNANot what I expected.
Haha Me either.
Links? We don't need no stinkin' links...
Here's a bit of pop culture I don't understand. Why do people text so much? Yes, I know it has its uses, but why drag a conversation out by texting back and forth for a half an hour when you could get the whole thing done with one five minute phone call? It's like a technological devolution. What's next, a telegraph app for the iPhone?
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Links? We don't need no stinkin' links...
Here's a bit of pop culture I don't understand. Why do people text so much? Yes, I know it has its uses, but why drag a conversation out by texting back and forth for a half an hour when you could get the whole thing done with one five minute phone call? It's like a technological devolution. What's next, a telegraph app for the iPhone?
I wonder this every day.
I'm of the "millennium generation" or some such h@+@&+$#%, so when I tell people that I never learned how to send text messages, they look at me like I'm a spy from Planet X.
Links? We don't need no stinkin' links...
Here's a bit of pop culture I don't understand. Why do people text so much? Yes, I know it has its uses, but why drag a conversation out by texting back and forth for a half an hour when you could get the whole thing done with one five minute phone call? It's like a technological devolution. What's next, a telegraph app for the iPhone?
The reason I heard from a younger friend...is that people text because they don't want to actualy talk to the person.
Yeah...I know it makes no sense to me either but that was the answear.
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Maybe it's just my old-fashioned thinking, but if I don't want to talk to someone, I usually try to keep any conversation as short as possible...or I just don't talk to them.
The reason I heard from a younger friend...is that people text because they don't want to actually talk to the person....
Wait, what?
I can sorta see it...as if I just want to confirm plans...or just say 'I am on my way' etc...I will send a text.
But they(the younger generation that is) get into a text conversation just to aviod a actual conversation...that just makes no sense to me.