id stringlengths 2 7 | user stringlengths 3 20 | timestamp int64 1,186B 1,541B | text stringlengths 1 39.9k | subreddit stringclasses 12 values | demographic stringclasses 1 value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
13jnn4 | Theditor | 1,353,466,354,000 | I'm not exactly sure what question exactly I'm asking, so let me try to explain it.
There are a lot of people here who are younger than, what in my opinion is, the typical Redditor age, being 20-30 somethings who were raised in a certain area of TV, video games, and etc.
For example, when I think of how the first Lord of the Rings came out over 10 years ago, I'll admit I was young, but looking back on it, comparing it to films today, especially with The Hobbit coming out, I don't see as big a difference as say, comparing a film from 1991 to 2001.
Same with videogames. Most of us remember playing videogames in times of great improvements from generation to generation. battling bit numbers and dropping our jaws when seeing the first "3D" games like starfox, and getting our jaws dropped lower when seeing the improvements up to the current gen, but for those of you who were just starting to really play games in the midst of the last gen or beginning of this gen, what games seem as archaic to you as the Atari 2600 was to a number of us? Like Old PS1 games or N64 games. It blew my mind when someone called Ocarina of time old, but to young people its understandable.
Don't get me started on the internet. Those of you who either were to young to remember or never had the hassle of dial up, or had Youtube/facebook since elementary school. Heck even not using tapes/CDs/etc. I remember thinking a Palm pilot was damn impressive, and here we are with our 3DS's, Vitas, and iPo/ads, catching up to console quality.
So I don't know if you can explain it, but I mean I think most of Reddit was growing up in a time where they could appreciate the biggest changes in technology, and for people born remembering only the most recent things, how do some of the things we still think are pretty cool and new techish seem to you?
TL;DR
Begrudgingly letting kids on our lawns to tell us about the times. | AskReddit | jewish |
13jniv | vwgeist | 1,353,466,240,000 | How much should I be paid? Should I be happy if its scripted? Contracts? Anyone who has ever been on one themselves and has some advice that would be really cool. | AskReddit | jewish |
13jn2e | whentimerunsout | 1,353,465,795,000 | It was turkey meatloaf, and was covered in BBQ sauce. The sign clearly said, Turkey Meatloaf. To add another example, someone once asked me if the hard boiled eggs were cooked? I swear I could write a book with all the dumb questions. Another one my coworker had the other day from a customer. They said, do we use raw cheese for our pizzas? Wow, that's a good one. | AskReddit | jewish |
13jk37 | armchairdictator | 1,353,462,740,000 | I believe this guy is a great no bullshit and **original** reddit contributor, [take a look](http://www.reddit.com/user/Shitty_Pixel_Art) what do you guys think ? | AskReddit | jewish |
13jdav | Doctor_of_Recreation | 1,353,456,135,000 | I've been reading so much about Gaza lately that it struck me today how thankful I am to have been lucky enough to be born in a country that doesn't have fighting within its borders. I know that there are many who take it for granted (myself included, most times), but it is chilling and sobering to remember that there are others who know much greater pain than I probably ever will.
**In the spirit of the upcoming holiday: reddit, what are you thankful for?** | AskReddit | jewish |
13n263 | Thesuitisblacknot | 1,353,624,310,000 | /r/wheredidthesodago
/r/trueatheism
/r/earthporn
GIMME MORE! | AskReddit | jewish |
13mz3z | BenNCM | 1,353,620,548,000 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Botha | AskReddit | jewish |
13mrc7 | kailibur | 1,353,611,679,000 | If anyone is wondering, it was blueberry. And delicious. Very delicious. I will post a recipe if anyone is interested. | AskReddit | jewish |
13mqan | gypsyharlot | 1,353,610,545,000 | London? New York? Tokyo? Vienna? Berlin? Zürich? Stockholm? Why? | AskReddit | jewish |
13mf5s | joeybaby106 | 1,353,597,777,000 | I would hate it if an amputee had to pay full price for a pair of gloves, just to throw away the other hand. What a similarly sized person with the other hand/arm lost could work together and split the purchase... | AskReddit | jewish |
13mc8i | thezim | 1,353,593,245,000 | Ok so I am religious, I was raised Catholic and I consider myself Catholic (even when some Catholics refuse to consider me one). I accept science and find it to be as important as religion for my life. In fact there are many things that religion alone cannot answer in a realistic objective way.
I believe that everyone can go to heaven, no matter what your beliefs are or lack of beliefs as long as you are a good person.
I believe in tolerance, being humble, respectful, treating people the same way you would like them to treat you,etc.
I believe in evolution and the big bang theories.
Iam in favor of abortion in cases of risk of death of the mother or rape.
I am in favor of smoking pot in the privacy of your home.
I am in favor of condoms and non abortive birth control methods.
I could keep going on and on. Basically I am a religious person that isn´t scared of thinking since it is my belief that what makes us similar to God is being able to THINK for ourselves.
I believe that as long as you live a life without regrets, trying to do the best thing you can , not only for you but for everyone around you, in every situation that you go through in life you will got to heaven and no one will be able to judge you, even if later in life you realize that at a certain moment you might have not done your best (in which case you should learn from that or try to fix the harms u might have caused).
I believe God doesn´t judge and that he is LOVE.
The problem is that many times when i tell Atheist people I am religious they tend to immediately think I am crazy and that my beliefs have no ground in reality or reason. I want to know if this is as i perceive it, do all Atheist consider religious people no matter what they believe in to be practically crazy/delirious?
I am not here to discuss my beliefs, i just tried to present them in a summarized way so you could understand where my question comes from. However if you have any questions regarding my beliefs feel free to message me.
Also for those who might say im not Catholic let me remind you that my religion as every other religion has changed very much through time and if being more liberal or progressive is not being Catholic then by those standards not even the Pope should be considered Catholic.
Ok im done, just lets try to be respectful to each other, Thanks. | AskReddit | jewish |
13ma9q | scarecrow569_ | 1,353,589,218,000 | Calm down and let me justify. I understand that their quotas are dropping the population of whales. But doesn't every other fishery? My father is a fisherman and In his field people wouldn't believe how easy it was to catch fish. The fish stokes are dying rapidly. But no-one is throwing stick bombs and shooting at him.
I guess you have the mammal thing after that. Is their an official list/rank of our favourite type of animal somewhere? Why can you kill a giant squid to the brink of extinction but not whales? I would say both are reasonably intelligent.
All this was brought on by seeing an episode of that show where the 'bob barker' tries to wrap lines around the whaling ships props. I'm Australian and I found that what these people were doing to the fisherman was terrible. I fail to see how their actions are proportional to the fishing. And why don't the Japanese defend themselves to the degree of the level of attack? They just sit there taking and spraying out a bit of water and the odd bamboo spear. | AskReddit | jewish |
13ma1m | Papash | 1,353,588,750,000 | It was an important meeting about raising money for a start-up I was involved with. My partner and I were at this rich man's house and the guy was sitting with his back to his dog. After a few minutes the dog starts to drag its butt on the carpet from left to right, over and over again. during that time, the guy just kept talking, telling us how rich he is and bla bla bla. I have never seen such behavior before and did my best not to laugh, while nodding politely to everything the guy said. | AskReddit | jewish |
13m9iz | deshe | 1,353,587,584,000 | Inspired by [this post](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13lr3p/my_dad_has_mild_ocd_and_it_messes_with_his_life_a/) | AskReddit | jewish |
13m4x4 | KVillage1 | 1,353,577,254,000 | In December of 2010,I went on tour of the Ukraine with 18 of my friends from school.We were going to pray at old graves of the righteous Jews.Many of them are buried in the Ukraine in towns like Uman,Medzibuz,Berditchev,etc.Two of them are buried in Chernobyl.We put in a request with the Gov't to get in there.I dont know the exact details on how we did get permission since i wasnt in charge of that.
Eitherway,we landed at about 7 pm in Kiev and had a driver waiting for us,Stopped at the next gas station and got good Vodka.It was -20 outside.It took us about 5-6 hours to get to Chernobyl.At the gate/checkpoint the biggest army dude ever came on with us and checked everybody's passports to make sure we were real and match the paper he had from the gov't i guess.We drove in.Since it was really dark and obviously there were no lights we couldnt really so much.I could make out a couple of animals and houses but thats about it until we got to the grave and got out.It was -30 at this point and the grave was in shack that had to be broken into by our driver with a crowbar.I remember it was next to an abandoned school.We were only there for like an hour because it was to cold to be there for longer.We looked around but couldnt see much.On the way out,they made us go thru these metal detector type machines but they were nuclear detector machines..they wanted to check if we took anything out from Chernobyl - rocks,plants,etc or had enough radiation on us.Thank God we all passed thru and continued on our journey.
SO where were you? | AskReddit | jewish |
13m2ov | fuckyerdownvote | 1,353,572,573,000 | He just stands at the door looking worried when I call him. The other dog and cat are fine.
Edit: it occurs to that while every other room has wood, concrete, or carpet, this one has laminate and is on the second floor so it probably creaks and echoes? Maybe I'll try putting a blanket down at the doorway. At the least it might confuse the transition from hall to room.
Also...after reading your comments I'm afraid to look at the tv turned off for fear it will reflect something terrifying hovering behind me. Thanks Reddit! I thought you were all science geeks! *shakes fist* | AskReddit | jewish |
13lzk1 | adanoopdixith | 1,353,567,148,000 | Doesn't it seem simpler to call it 'Thanking Day'??
Thanks Giving?? You give thanks?
And when's the Thanks Accepting Day then? ;) | AskReddit | jewish |
13lvlx | WalkonWalrus | 1,353,561,767,000 | By serious, I mean for example: My mom can be a bipolar mess; my brother is totally self absorbed; and my Dad acts like a robot who only talks to me about when dinner will be ready, like it's the only reason I visit.
What are some of yours reddit? | AskReddit | jewish |
13lti1 | Paraglad | 1,353,559,236,000 | Are you the kid who never does homework or sleeps through every class? Why do you do it? Why not try? What can professors do to help you?
I'm a prof who teaches Intro Psych at a small college. There are a few students who, among other things, haven't turned in an assignment all semester, fail their tests, and sleep through class if they bother to come in at all. I've tried donuts, inspirational speeches, personal emails, early warnings, and threats. I throw in random pop culture quotes and I'm not afraid to look like a total dork.
I can't seem to reach these kids and I don't know WTF to do. | AskReddit | jewish |
13lre0 | TuriGuiliano | 1,353,556,676,000 | Another one. When someone goes through a tragedy and a person says "I'll say a prayer for you". No, you just want to feel like you did something nice for me while being a lazy shit. | AskReddit | jewish |
13lopf | Software_Engineer | 1,353,553,656,000 | I like the one about the Rugrats.
Ever wondered just how Angelica could talk to the babies? Angelica is the only one who can talk to the babies because they are a figment of her imagination. She is spoilt, sad and lonely, because her Mother is constantly working and has no time for her. Her relationship with her Dad is superficial and unsubstantial, no real love is ever shown to her.
So how did it come about that Angelica would have to imagine these babies? Tommy died soon after child birth, a fact reflected by Stu never leaving the basement, inventing toys that his son will never play with. Chuckie died in the car crash along with his Mum, also reflected in the actions of his father; the crash has made him a pathetic nervous wreck most of the time.
Most interesting is Phil and Lil. There never where any twins, there was just one baby. However this baby was a still born, and Angelica never knew the sex of the still born, so she invented twins of different genders.
Sadly, Angelica never uses her imaginary friends to comfort or entertain her, instead she is mean and nasty to them. She has invented this relationship with these babies so she can vent her frustrations of being a spoilt, lonely brat who has seen much hardship from these unfortunate parents; frustrations that can't be satisfied by a typical childhood relationship with a doll, albeit a Cynthia one. | AskReddit | jewish |
13lniv | Mr-Mojo-rising | 1,353,552,364,000 | I need ideas for gifts under 50 bucks for various friends and family members!!
Would appreciate links to anything particularly cool or neat you have found.
Edit: i cut out family members because you guys are dicks
| AskReddit | jewish |
13llo9 | zach84 | 1,353,550,183,000 | I have a DVD colelction for near 300, but only a few DVDs. I have always (baselessly) tended to believe that DVD had more staying power and Blu-Ray couldn't outlast DVDs. Now I'm curious because there are several versions of films that I want, but can *only* get on Blu-Ray. I'd love to have them, but if in X amount of years I can't even watch them anymore, what's the point?
For those that are curious, the specific things I am talking about is the Lawrence of Arabia 50th anniversary edition and also the Ben-Hur 50th Anniversary edition. For Ben-Hur,. only the Blu-Ray version has the film in its *original* aspect ratio. | AskReddit | jewish |
13ligb | dumbchuck | 1,353,546,626,000 | Here are some examples from the Re-Design Project!
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Dollar-Redesign-Project/5448671 | AskReddit | jewish |
13lgj0 | corey561 | 1,353,544,525,000 | Example: My knee had a slight itch. I reached out my hand and scratched the knee in question. The itch was relieved and I was able to continue with my activities. | AskReddit | jewish |
13lg9k | rumessingwitme | 1,353,544,259,000 | I left for College early today (Night Classes) to skip the Thanksgiving traffic. So i ended up getting to College 30 minutes early. I was sitting in my car listening to music and a woman bangs on my window yelling at me that its against the law to sit/idle your car for more then 3 minutes in NYC. I told he that I doubt there is a law for that, but I didnt want to get into a fight or anything so I shut off my car and left for classes.
Later when I got onto a computer I ran a Google search and found that NYC did in fact pass a law for having your cars idling for more then 3 minutes. And you can get ticketed for doing so. | AskReddit | jewish |
13lf7u | zipzap21 | 1,353,543,087,000 | Let's say they were only about two feet tall fully grown and domesticated. Imagine raising a miniature elephant. | AskReddit | jewish |
13ogin | moosic | 1,353,699,074,000 | I figure my in-laws peaked at about 5. They hit the peak about two hours before dinner. Constant back-handed comments. I learned my niece is in therapy, my sister-in-law admitted to taking speed to lose weight (she said everyone does it). There was more, I'll save them for the comments. | AskReddit | jewish |
13og0i | Lokabf3 | 1,353,698,546,000 | As an aside, since this is /r/askreddit and not /r/askscience, anyone have any good/funny stories related to my question? | AskReddit | jewish |
13oe1g | jolteony | 1,353,696,496,000 | Start the bragging *now.* | AskReddit | jewish |
13ob2r | snakers | 1,353,693,214,000 | My Vote: [Dragon Attack By Queen](http://youtu.be/OnELrvezQiA) | AskReddit | jewish |
13oasf | Notmyrealname | 1,353,692,891,000 | You often hear that the end of year holiday sales account for a huge share of retail sales. Christmas shopping advertising and promotions now start before the end of October, and extend past Christmas with after-event sales. It seems likely that a large share of these purchases are gifts for other people, that may not actually be wanted (and are usually not needed).
So, what would the US economy look like if Christmas was a non-gift giving holiday like Thanksgiving? | AskReddit | jewish |
13o8cz | Uchimaru_ | 1,353,690,138,000 | I'm a big fan of woodworking, I have a huge array of machines and tools in the basement, and enjoy crafting furniture. So, after watching some Six Feet Under, It suddenly struck me; why not make your own coffin? I have all the materials and equipment needed, and I should have plenty of time to finish building it, as I'm not planning on dying anytime soon.
Ill probably go mostly for mahogany, with inlays of golden rain that has grown on my yard for ever. Somehow it feels right to take a part of that old tree with me to my grave. Ill be going for brass handles and hinges, making it feel a bit marine as I'm a boating man.
So, to the question. Would this creep you out? or would it make sense that a pragmatic man who loves woodworking crafts his final masterpiece and gets to be buried in it? I have not told my SO about this project yet, and I actually consider doing it in secrecy if I decide to do it. In a way I also want to outdo my father who I got to bury myself out at sea together with a bottle of single malt and his pipe. I guess dramatic funerals run in the family :) | AskReddit | jewish |
13o7nf | MissFegg | 1,353,689,286,000 | Hey I'm learning cinema 4d by myself and I've been doing some modeling but I appreciate your help with any good info or books I can find to learn more.
Also other general info or experiences about 3D modeling/animation are welcome. | AskReddit | jewish |
13o24x | P12oof | 1,353,681,671,000 | Wouldn't this approach guaranteeing your item and you can skip the mayhem of Black ass Friday?
I worked at Circuit City a while back on black Friday. I posed this question and i believe, from what i can remember, my manager said it wasn't aloud. How can it not be aloud legally? Circuit City always advertised price matching. i think he just told me that so i wouldn't go buying all this crap.
Tell me what you guys think about my work around. also do you have any ideas for a work around? LETS TRY AND STOP THIS MADNESS!!! if we can't stop it we can at least figure out ways around it. | AskReddit | jewish |
13o22n | pansymarks | 1,353,681,573,000 | Psych major here. Have you ever had that negative relationship? If you didn't comply or do a certain thing, you'd lose love or affection? For an example, if you didn't get an A on a test, your parents wouldn't love you anymore.
According to Rogers and I believe we can all agree with this, you need unconditional positive regard. You don't have to agree with something and you can be disappointed, but you can also stop loving someone for something. I.e: a girlfriend gaining weight, a boyfriend can not like it, but in some situations, they can stop loving the girlfriend.
Lets hear your stories. | AskReddit | jewish |
13nxr6 | numandina | 1,353,672,740,000 | Hello,
Just like a brainwashed person wouldn't know they're brainwashed until they snap out of it, people living in an illusion only see it clearly as thus AFTER leaving it, after leaving the bubble. Now I grew up a Muslim and slowly discovered I had been indoctrinated as a child, same with some info on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What else?
The thing is, in hindsight some things are obvious but the thought of having extremely biased views without even knowing it frightens me. I know one could not be completely devoid of biases and mind tricks, but what are some of the 'major' things I need to question and be more studious about?
Thanks :-) | AskReddit | jewish |
13nv5s | mrlanious | 1,353,665,997,000 | We hear a lot of stories from traumatised frontline ground soldiers, but what about the ones that really enjoy their jobs, *perhaps even including the killing (of bad guys)* which can reasonably be considered a 'part of the job'? Are there guys or gals out there that really enjoyed the hardships, the adrenaline, perhaps even the pain and drama? If you do, what did you enjoy about it?
**I'm genuinely interested in this question, so please let's not turn this into an endless discussion about war and politics. I'm just interested in the perspective of a soldier that loves his or her job.**
tl;dr hey ground soldiers, if you like(d) your job, why? | AskReddit | jewish |
13qh6g | wadester007 | 1,353,800,432,000 | I thought this was a somewhat good question. | AskReddit | jewish |
13qdx8 | killarufus | 1,353,796,692,000 | I am 28 and have been giving women massages since middle school when my buddy's sister and friend hijacked the remote until we gave them massages (buddy played like he fell asleep and I got to touch both the girls. Watershed moment for me). Since that fateful night I give a massage anytime I can. I'm pretty adhd and it helps to always be doing something with my hands; so much the better if it's a beautiful woman. All my girlfriends have said I give the best massage.
Last night my best friend (zoned) spent the night, which is what usually happens when we are home for holidays. She requested a massage and I obliged, gladly.
My question is am I really that good, or is any massage an awesome massage? | AskReddit | jewish |
13qafu | NI3 | 1,353,792,984,000 | I think the layout is pretty simple, you have a limitless supply of vertical links arranged by what is the most popular or newest. Maybe I have had RES for too long? | AskReddit | jewish |
13q6kr | Iforgotmyother_name | 1,353,788,864,000 | This really spawns from the front page post about the old folks home. Of course, the obvious target customers are old women.
If so, what would be your conditions.
| AskReddit | jewish |
13q5fk | emr1028 | 1,353,787,594,000 | Well, Reddit has become a pretty popular site since in the last few years, and I don't think it's uncommon to know the accounts of a few people around you. Let's say you started dating someone and they told you their Reddit account? What would be the most off putting thing that could be there?
For me, it would definitely be either frequent posts to SRS or r/mensrights | AskReddit | jewish |
13q2cq | feather_moon | 1,353,784,095,000 | Don't like orange juice either, or any fruit that's similar to oranges, including clementines, tangerines, and mandarin oranges. Orange juice mixed with other juice is fine, though, and I like orange-flavored things. Creamsicles. Yum.
Oh, I also hate root beer. I had a boyfriend back in high school who enjoyed switching our sodas when we were at a restaurant and I wasn't looking. He always got a big kick out of my immediate disgusted reaction upon sipping it.
So, are there any foods that you don't like and everyone just gawks in disbelief at you for it when they find out? | AskReddit | jewish |
13pz1t | cyaspy | 1,353,780,296,000 | My personal arch-nemesis is the acoustic guitar. I hate how any schmuck can pick it up, learn 3-4 chords and how to play Wonderwall, then instantly have girls melting from his "musical talent". Fuck that.
Playing the piano makes it difficult for me to play anywhere that's not at home, so I have to sit around the bonfire all bummed out.
Which instrument do you hate, and why? | AskReddit | jewish |
13pxwh | watersign | 1,353,778,893,000 | This girl is absolutely stunning and it almost seems to good to be true. Is there anyway to tell besides seeing if she uses lube before I potentially smash her guts? | AskReddit | jewish |
13pxvv | MJive | 1,353,778,869,000 | Leonardo DiCaprio? Justin Bieber? What's up with this? | AskReddit | jewish |
13pwso | VanSensei | 1,353,777,539,000 | I'm American, and ours is basically "There were bombs, but our flag wasn't get fucked up."
I always thought Let the River Run by Carly Simon would be a better choice. Represents prosperity and hope and 'MURICA and stuff. And reddit? | AskReddit | jewish |
13pvza | FarsideSC | 1,353,776,562,000 | My friends have a daughter, age 4. She's adorable, talkative, and energetic. While we were having Thanksgiving, she was yammering on like always. She was explaining to me that there is an evil bunny in her bedroom. I asked her if she saw the bunny in her dreams. She quickly responded, "Yes!"
Puzzled, I asked, "Do you see the bunny when you're not sleeping?"
"Yes I do. He's mean."
"Well, what does he look like?"
"He's big, black and stands in the corner."
That for me was a little much. I, too have experienced things as a child and can swear to it that it wasn't just a dream. I asked her parents about it and if she had made any other claims - Most of which are in her dreams. The evil bunny is the only one she says that is actually in her room.
What I experienced as a child was a man that would come up to me and point out the window. I'd look out the window - most of the time nothing there - and this one time saw skeletons. I'd tell him to go away and leave me be. He was very nice in that regard. But it was about twice a week until we moved out I'd see this man who would point out the window. | AskReddit | jewish |
13pr8y | whozurdaddy | 1,353,769,528,000 | Seems simple enough. | AskReddit | jewish |
13pq5c | ntheg111 | 1,353,767,482,000 | The Internet seems to be full of great examples of people who should have never been allowed to have children | AskReddit | jewish |
13pl5o | GodLike1001 | 1,353,754,366,000 | Kinda specific, but could make for an interesting discussion...
For me its my belief in that 50 years time, the Iraq and Afghanistan war will seen as a positive thing (or at least not as deeply criticised as it is today).
My reasoning is that if you make generalisations, the US kicked out a dictator in Iraq and a terrorist organisation in Afghanistan...Yes the loss of life was horrible, but the end product was better than before (even though the post-war reconstruction of Iraq was pretty horrendous). Moreover, I think a lot of the contemporary hostility to these events stem from the anti-war mentality that manifested from Vietnam (which was itself a horrible, pointless war)...In contrast Iraq and Afghanistan, although horrible, wasnt pointless.
Anyone else have a claim that is greatly disputed by others? | AskReddit | jewish |
13pkwe | jokester4079 | 1,353,753,619,000 | Further question would be whether quality of the actual restaurant matters. I can go to Beijing and get some famous dish at a restaurant although there might be no Chinese who actually eat there.
Is this more or less authentic than eating rice and noodles with a Chinese family in Guangzhou? | AskReddit | jewish |
13pjvf | cappy1223 | 1,353,750,865,000 | Are you a shoes on, or shoes off household (carpet or wood)?
When someone enters the home, is it customary to remove ones shoes?
I know there is a cultural aspect, but what about economical or geological, possibly nationality it ethnicity..? Give a little about where and what and shoes on or off. | AskReddit | jewish |
13pj2c | Z_Designer | 1,353,748,626,000 | Hey, so I hire people constantly to work with me on creating TV shows (and sometimes movies and commercials) and I just thought I'd offer a bit of advice to those of you looking for jobs. #1 thing I care about in an interview: enthusiasm. Here's the deal, if I'm gonna be working with you (I work closely with everyone I hire) and we're gonna deal with sometimes grueling hours and conditions, I want to know that you're just as down for doing what needs to be done as I am. I want to know that when I ask you to do something, you won't make it awkward for all of us by getting an attitude and shrugging it off, etc. I want to trust that you are on top of it and actually WANT to do it.
This is a cliche one but in interviews ALWAYS ASK QUESTIONS! Here's why: I schedule a half hour of my time for you to come in and interview. You get there, I explain a bit about the show and job to you and ask you a few questions about yourself (this takes all of 5-10 minutes) and then we suddenly run out of things to talk about. It seems to me that unless you ask questions, you have no real interest in the job and maybe you're a boring person who I don't really want to see everyday when I could have an interesting person in your spot. Be charming! Pretend it's a date! Say that you love the show (or company or whatever) and that you are really eager to learn all about it and how to be good at it and how to get to where I am one day! Show me you have some drive. Pretend it's a date and feign interest in me and the job! Even if I know you're faking, it still shows me that you take initiative and care.
If anyone tries to tell you to play it cool in an interview and not to act desperate or like you care DON'T LISTEN TO THEM! I want desperate! I want to hire people that are desperate for this job because I know that they will put their everything in it. Also don't try to intimidate me with big name shows (or companies) you worked for, be humble... Act like you give a shit. | AskReddit | jewish |
13pi50 | tuckertucker | 1,353,746,312,000 | **TL;DR: Please stop using Fag/Faggot. Please.**
Reddit, there is something that I think we need to discuss here, in an open and positive manner. As a community, we sometimes get into trouble with our hive-mind actions. We believe posts that end up being lies, we call out liars that are actually telling the truth, and we downvote for disagreeing instead of merely not contributing to the discussion, which leads to often well-reasoned arguments and opinions disappearing into the abyss.
We also, however, do a lot of good because of how conscious we are as a community of our actions and power of the hive-mind. I truly believe we’re mostly forward-thinking, intelligent users. I refrain from using liberal because I don’t believe being conservative is bad. I think we are, in general, a smart group of thinkers that try and be different from many other social-network and news-aggregating websites. Partly because of the sheer number of users and various communities, and partly because we just like to be superior. Nothing wrong with that.
Though in that attempt to be superior, we put each other down for being silly, and in that putdown, it has become commonplace to use the word ‘fag’ and ‘faggot’ to describe each other – usually directed at OP. So much so that the posts that use those terms are often the top voted comments, and various pictures (Stalin writing in his diary, Vin Diesel driving the car) are used as well, to make the statement even more humorous. I’m not going to lie, when they’re funny, they’re EXTRAORDINARILY funny.
This isn’t about me, however.
My personal opinions do not come into play. I am perfectly at ease with the use of the words, and have used them myself in the past. But, I try my best to get away from that polarizing jargon, for the most important reason there is: protecting those I care about from real hurt. I care about every person who is bullied, and I care about every member of the queer community. And believe you me, faggot has a FAR different ring to it when you’ve been on the receiving end. Being called a nigger – jokingly or not – has no real hurt to me, as a white man. It means something completely different to someone who is black.
Many of us have seen the Louis CK clip, discussing the use of the word. Sorry folks – Mr. CK ain’t the be all/end all of the use of ‘faggot’ as a joke. Unfortunately, no matter how many gay friends and how supportive he is as a straight ally, Louis CK does NOT know the feeling of being part of the targeted minority. The same goes for the use of the word ‘tranny’ when describing anyone that does not fit the gender mould.
To someone just coming out of the closet, faggot can be alienating. To someone still IN the closet, faggot is far worse. It’s another padlock to the closet door. To them, it can be hard to tell the difference of who will accept them and who won’t when everyone uses that pejorative language.
I ask Reddit that we stop upvoting the use of the word ‘faggot’, or ‘fag’, when getting irritated with someone. I posit that first, many of you who use the word would never dare use the word in everyday language, and are instead hiding behind the guise of the computer screen. Secondly, I think it’s said solely to gain that delicious karma. I care less about the use of ‘gay’, and that godawful ‘gaaaay’ seal, because of its lesser degree of severity. But while we’re at it, using ‘gay’ can stop too.
The reason I ask Reddit to stop upvoting it, and not asking you to stop saying it, is because realistically, we know someone will always use it. But it’s actually VERY easy gather the hivemind to agree that we downvote any use of the word ‘faggot’ as an insult – homophobic or not. This gets rid of the first objection that ‘it will be difficult’. NO. BULLSHIT. Every single mention of ‘arrow to the knee’ is downvoted to all holy hell, and so is others like ‘THIS’ or ‘SO BRAVE’. It’s really easy to get us to agree that certain things will not be tolerated.
The second objection I see is that people will say that it’s not MEANT that way; that it’s possible to discern between the two. Well, first, my reply is that this is untrue. There has been plenty of times I’ve seen ‘fag’ used against someone who made a comment about being gay, or in a gay subreddit, and there have been upvotes. Granted it’s usually evened out to equivalent up/down, but there are people that upvote that shit. I can link to an example in which I am called a fag by a user who has gone through my comment history to show that I’m gay and is calling me a fag for that reason. He had up and down votes, but was in the positives last time I checked. Homophobia is not always obvious.
My second reply to people who say it’s not meant that way, and they don’t want to stop: WHY? I am concerned when you fight so hard to be able to say a word without negative side effects. Of course we don’t want words to have meaning, but they do, and your fight to be able to say faggot is disconcerting at best.
There will be those who disagree, and I welcome civil discussion. I didn’t post this to have 2 million people grovel.
Addition: There are British redditors. Apparently 'queer' is to them as 'fag' is to us. Over here, we use Queer Community as a blanket term for all Sexual and Gender minorities. Over there, I don't know the answer. I don't think the answer, however, is to say 'well we don't know what's offensive so let's use ALL the words!' | AskReddit | jewish |
13pdeb | _henhenpal_ | 1,353,737,770,000 | For instance, I learned about ctrl+shift+n from a Good Guy Greg meme. What have you learned from the internet, about the internet? | AskReddit | jewish |
13pbk7 | dnlslm9 | 1,353,735,271,000 | I unlse a nook.and browse reddit via wifi would it be possible to download reddit posts to the computer for later viewing. | AskReddit | jewish |
13paf1 | uriman | 1,353,733,778,000 | hello world | AskReddit | jewish |
13p9xb | alsorobots | 1,353,733,145,000 | What are the news stories you're absolutely sure are going to be reality in the next 100 years?
If you have some sort of education about this topic, I can't thank you enough. | AskReddit | jewish |
13p9q2 | FourthLife | 1,353,732,934,000 | I understand that fifthworldproblems is mostly science, philosophy and pseudoscience jokes, but sixthworld just seems like chaos, and seventhworld is scary. | AskReddit | jewish |
13p7ta | PUMPKIN_IN_MY_POOPER | 1,353,730,516,000 | How about a rule that you can't share information or tell a story in your post, you may only ask a question? | AskReddit | jewish |
13p6xk | tygreen | 1,353,729,424,000 | Whenever I'm on other sites (YouTube, etc.) I find a majority of videos have 90% like versus dislike ratings but on Reddit, ratings are usually around the 50%-60% range. Any particular reason for this? | AskReddit | jewish |
13ozii | redelman431 | 1,353,720,443,000 | From watching James Bond movies, I have noticed that in real life he would be a terrible spy. Everyone knows who he is, everywhere he goes he makes his presence obvious with destruction and mayhem, and he trusts every woman he meets. What other TV characters would be horrible at their job in real life? | AskReddit | jewish |
13oxnr | Kanshan | 1,353,718,124,000 | Lets hear them! | AskReddit | jewish |
13ovsg | tenehemia | 1,353,715,825,000 | The thought came to me while I was watching Inception that it might be the perfect film for this purpose. The sci-fi technology in the movie is hardly given a second mention, it simply exists and that's all you need to know. Besides convincing people that we can enter dreams in the year 2012, the visual effects (and sound editing) would absolutely astound filmmakers of the early 20th century.
I suppose the next best answer would be a film about World War 1. "Hey guys, the next few years are going to be a bit rough". | AskReddit | jewish |
13s78k | Salmon_Linguist | 1,353,887,403,000 | I always thought that they were placebo buttons to dissuade people from thinking that they could fly planes. As soon as people see all of that they think, nope, I'll leave that to the pros. | AskReddit | jewish |
13s0vv | meekosmom | 1,353,881,172,000 | I do yoga, hiking, cooking, baking, skateboarding... Looking for something new and fun to try out. What are your favorite hobbies? | AskReddit | jewish |
13rw5b | AssumeTheFetal | 1,353,876,674,000 | I would like a major lifestyle makeover in the next year. Hit me with some awesome. | AskReddit | jewish |
13rr53 | I_am_salad | 1,353,871,704,000 | [The offending appendage](http://imgur.com/a/llGWg).
I wasn't there for his doctor's appointment, so all I can say is that it's something to do with metatarsals (fourth toe, and 5th toe will need to be operated on as well) and that he'll be off his feet for months and out of athletics for up to a year or longer.
He's 50 years old, we live in Ireland.
Has anyone here undergone a similar surgery? Does anyone here perform them? I'm on the hunt for resources as he's still unsure about what all of this implies and his Google-fu pales in comparison to my own.
So, reddit, any answers afoot? | AskReddit | jewish |
13rnxt | Iforgotmyother_name | 1,353,868,360,000 | What's the trend of American life? If another non-traditional race were to overtake the current majority population, what is the carry over? What is reason for gravitating toward America rather than Canada, UK, Australia...etc? Is it some status quo, some meaning in life, some mentality...? | AskReddit | jewish |
13rkmg | bobzelfer6595 | 1,353,864,686,000 | I'm not very computer-savvy (I get by knowing only the basics) but I want to know if there's any way I get my computer to be more awesome. And don't tell me to delete System32, I'm already expecting that answer to come. | AskReddit | jewish |
13rjbg | roper1 | 1,353,863,136,000 | Mine is asking a girl who had a twin sister while in the womb "What if you have been the one to die?" I think she hates me now. | AskReddit | jewish |
13ri6k | IthinktherforeIthink | 1,353,861,643,000 | I went to court for a traffic ticket and that was the ruling.
Edit: I promise you, I am not a dumbass who can't use google. I don't see any circumstances where this ruling is applied to traffic tickets. Some people say it means not guilty (even though it says "found guilty), some say it means guilty but with no license points. Usually people who answer what this is are talking about probation. It is confusing and not simple to sort out. | AskReddit | jewish |
13rfzt | BlackRockKitty | 1,353,858,409,000 | Dream: I was lifting weights at some weird gym and the barbell I picked up was clearly not 45 lbs--more like seven. No one knew how much it weighed and I couldn't find a scale or anything. It was so frustrating!
The next day: I went to a gym I don't usually go to and the bar on the smith machine was clearly not 45 lbs. No one knew and since it was part of the machine I couldn't weigh it. With some Googling we guessed it was about 20 lbs. Weird!
Edit: I didn't think I'd have to use an unfamiliar gym, mine had weird hours due to the holiday weekend. So it's not like it was a subconscious thing! | AskReddit | jewish |
13rcm0 | masterbates | 1,353,852,250,000 | I don't drink and I just gave up smoking after 20 years as I could not be bothered with all the the snide comments any more but alcohol does as much physical damage, causes domestic and social violence can be a killer on the roads yet it is okay to drink.
I never missed a day of work, beat my family, ran anybody over etc. when smoking so why is it so evil and drinking is not?
TIL: There is no logic to smoker bashing. | AskReddit | jewish |
13rchm | RayWeil | 1,353,852,008,000 | As I approach 30, I unfortunately already have some college buddies who have died. Their profiles, youtube accounts ect. live on and are often filled with posts from friends/family. | AskReddit | jewish |
13rc9d | demms41 | 1,353,851,512,000 | Mine is just listening music during my morning shower | AskReddit | jewish |
13rbbd | zach84 | 1,353,849,297,000 | I am a generally distrustful person so I am naturally skeptical of self help books. Problem is I'm also shy and insecure and I desperately want to fix that and become a well rounded person.
I've heard that books such as 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, How to Win Friends and Influence People, and Rich Dad, Poor Dad are great books.
I know that just reading a book, no matter how good, won't change your life - you need to apply what you learn.
Has anyone done that and got the results they wanted? | AskReddit | jewish |
13r8if | BitterBubblegum | 1,353,841,176,000 | I'm new here & according to the rumor, the reddit site is an international phenomenon but most ppl I've seen here R living in the United States. so I wanna know - where do you ppl live? | AskReddit | jewish |
13r6wn | frankie_and_a_j | 1,353,836,546,000 | We're both in college, both working, but we don't have a lot of money. She's over 21, but I'm not. We spend lots of time together, but we often do a lot of the same things like surfing Reddit or watching Netflix or Hulu. We want ideas for things we can do together that don't cost a lot of money. Open to all suggestions, Activities for at home are great, too!
Edit: We already know about sex, and we like to have it with each other, not trannys. Thanks for those though! | AskReddit | jewish |
13qw2c | MJive | 1,353,818,228,000 | And do you think it's possible that America COULD have a dictatorship at some point in the future? | AskReddit | jewish |
13qn64 | Satelite_of_Love | 1,353,807,522,000 | I would always think to myself: "Seriously what kind of dumbass would toss his shoes over the wires? Now they get to walk home all barefoot, and for what?? Just so you can say ooo look my shoes?!? That hardly seems worth a pair of shoes"
As I say this out loud to myself the other person in the car looks at me dumb founded... Uh... Derp... They throw someone else's shoes up there... As in a prank, or to bully someone.
30 some odd years of my life... I can't believe I didn't get that. I probably shouldn't breed. | AskReddit | jewish |
13u7ss | iNKu | 1,353,971,527,000 | Here is a link to the Scene from Seinfeld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRppqaanECA | AskReddit | jewish |
13u50c | Samizdat_Press | 1,353,969,259,000 | So my SO and I split up and after being married for 4 years. Long story short, I have no friends, moved away from them to marry her, have been too busy working and doing family stuff to make new friends since then.
Now I have all the time in the world but don't know how to make new friends where I live at. I've done the whole delete the facebook, hit the gym thing that is always recommended, but I am drawing a blank on where I could go to meet people and maybe get some male friends. I am not sure if a place like that exists. How do I find out about "clubs" or other groups who are interested in doing x,y,z?
It just dawned on me that after all these years being married, I don't have a single person I could call if I needed help moving or if I needed someone to talk to. Even at work it's all older women so I havn't had any actual male interaction for like 3 years. Help me out guys. | AskReddit | jewish |
13u113 | bashobt | 1,353,966,030,000 | For example I walked out with those Groucho Marx glasses on, the maitre d takes them off, chastises me, and I walk on.
Other times includes taking a picture of both of us with my cell phone, tucking my apron in my shirt, and pulling my vest up halfway.
My goal is to make him break character and bust out laughing.
Suggestions are VERY WELCOME! | AskReddit | jewish |
13tuxc | NoeticIntelligence | 1,353,960,662,000 | <Mandatory>
No, I dont wish this to happen and I am grateful it didnt an I do have many jewish friends.
</Mandatory>
What do you think the consequnces would be in a world void of the jewish people.
Do you think there would be more peace in the middle east?
What would have happend to the land that is now Israel?
Would American politics be different and if so how?
Would oil politics be changed?
Without the input of a lot of important jewish authors would the
our view of live, or discoure be altered.
Would there be an awful shame upon the world for what happened.
| AskReddit | jewish |
13to1q | non-troll_account | 1,353,954,659,000 | I personally spend a bunch of my time on controversial, just upvoting everything regardless of whether I like it.
*Edit: Can I just say i have a real Redditboner for People who're addicted to New? | AskReddit | jewish |
13tjxg | Whiskeybent341 | 1,353,950,983,000 | I wish bidets were in each bathroom. It has long been my dream to have a clean asshole all day, every day. Toilet paper doesn't ever seem to be enough. | AskReddit | jewish |
13tj0s | MichaelNewmann | 1,353,950,158,000 | Android user here. I'm out of good ideas and I need a bit help to discover some new gems!
Here are a few ones I use.
- Flightradar24 (follow live flight traffic from interactive map)
- Pulse (must have for a newsjunkie)
- MarineTraffic (follow live marine traffic)
- BBC News app
- TuneIn Radio Pro (best radio app around)
- Advanced task killer (kill those dirty background apps)
| AskReddit | jewish |
13tfkk | adanoopdixith | 1,353,946,847,000 | An experiment to bolster creativity, supposedly!
Let me come straight to the point. This weekend, I did a bizarre experiment that primarily aimed at strengthening the right hemisphere of my brain, the concierge of creativity and the processor of spatial, perceptual and intuitive information. The tryout was unassuming and so much fun!
The experiment demands you to pick a movie of your choice which you haven't watched, whose plot you aren’t aware of, whose cast you don't know either and best if you have no clue on what kind movie it is.
I chose 'The Green Mile'. (Yes, please go ahead and call me a retard for not having watched it till then)
All I knew about the movie was that it was critically well received upon release and Tom Hanks played a major role in it. The healthier part was its name is so convoluted that it doesn't give out anything about the movie genre.
Then, I started playing the movie and began watching it without the video. Turned the monitor off, lied down on my cot and listened to only the dialogues and the background score, imagining my own stuff that would correlate and make some sense with the ongoing audio-scene! I tried to reconstruct the sets through the background score, imagined my own characters based on their voice and intonation, and knitted an own story based on what I heard all along.
And then watched the movie to see how close I was!
Damn, nowhere in the vicinity of the actual plot was mine!!! :D
Nevertheless, it was fun and a gratifying brain exercise which I’ll indeed repeat with a different movie.
Permalink: http://sheketimes.blogspot.in/2012/11/the-green-mile-experiment.html | AskReddit | jewish |
13tbad | minque | 1,353,941,887,000 | I'm qualified in Conservation of Historic objects but there are veryfew jobs at the moment, my job in my beloved castle is only seasonal for the summers. My last pay cheque had run out weeks ago and the unemployment office had paid my benefit into someone else's account. I was ready to go and sell some possessions (I don't have much valuable except very emotionally important things) when I got a call from a Christmas Temp job I applied for a week or so ago, I got the job!!! :D I will be able to get my secret santa match some things and can pay bills!
when has a job/person/genie/object shown up just before you gave up? | AskReddit | jewish |
13t6cy | wadester007 | 1,353,934,290,000 | Derp | AskReddit | jewish |
13t56p | RakoGumi | 1,353,932,052,000 | I just came back from a short stay in New York, where I enjoyed thanksgiving and some shopping. During a quick visit to the apple store I decide to buy an iPad for my little sister. While packing my suitcase I follow an advice to pack the iPad as well since it is a hard shell suitcase.
Fast forward today when I check in for my flight to go back home. Being European I knew that the TSA experience in the US airports is not the best thing to experiment, however it is necessary.
Besides being greeted by one of the most unfriendly/obnoxious agent the world has to offer and feeling like a suspect during the entire process, the experience was long but OK. 8 hours later I am at the airport to collect my bag I see the TSA sticker on my suitcase so I knew they opened and checked my bag nothing out of the ordinary so I head back home. I open my suitcase to discover that everything is upside down, the plastic wrap of the iPad box is ripped open and of course the iPad is gone. Not only the device is gone but they as well removed all the product reference/serial number present on the back of the box.
http://i.imgur.com/yac8H.jpg
So what is your fuck you TSA or equivalent story?
**TL; DR;** Flew back home, TSA opened to check my suitcase and stole my iPad
| AskReddit | jewish |
13t4xe | parislovestory | 1,353,931,468,000 | I also jumped though a mirror into his dimension where he lived because I'd been made 60% light. My sister won award for the best window sills. | AskReddit | jewish |
13t0em | ItsObviousYouMoron | 1,353,921,036,000 | I mean, when I first made my account this happened to me, but now every post I make the nine minutes seems to reset and I have no idea why. | AskReddit | jewish |
13sz3l | bigmapblog | 1,353,918,374,000 | Just watched the *"When Louis Met..."* episode on Keith Harris -- who I gathered contextually is a bit of a washed-up children's television star -- and his preparations for a "Panto". The implications that I read into it was that this was sort of a low-brow or desperate thing for someone to do, and he was on the back foot about it the entire show.
I read the wikipedia article on it, and couldn't understand the nuances of what it was or why it might be thought to be unseemly or pathetic. Moreover, I don't even know what it is. Is it like a variety show? A revue? Might you help me understand? Many thanks. | AskReddit | jewish |
13sqhz | stuntaneous | 1,353,906,256,000 | I live in Australia and apart from saving a few dollars, I'd like to have the experience of just drifting between places. I've never hitchhiked before. The closest I've got would be eyeing off strangers as the rain buckets down while waiting for a deserter of a cabbie.
As the title reads, can you really hitchhike these days? Especially in a first world country? If so and looking as I do, do I stand a chance of going any real distance, e.g. interstate? Over here that means 500-1000s of km.
[This is how I imagine many see me on first glance](http://i.imgur.com/s07H3.jpg), haha.
If it's viable, I'm all ears for any advice making it happen and getting the most out of the adventure. | AskReddit | jewish |
13soq2 | ejpoke | 1,353,904,410,000 | And it was on the toilet. | AskReddit | jewish |
13sm60 | StuckInTheClouds | 1,353,901,854,000 | Was asking myself the same question today and after about a dozen fake scenario in my head, I found I have no freaking clue. | AskReddit | jewish |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.