Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:52 pm

Why physiologically require it when it can just be a simple answer to their environment? Just say alcohol is a high calorie easily stored consumable that cave vermin don't bother. Have some fungus or cave plant produce something that can be easily fermented and you have your underground yum juice.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:31 pm

sabs wrote:and developing breasts

And that's where female dwarves come from!

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:08 am

sabs wrote:and developing breasts

Why do I somehow sense that someone is fapping to that idea?

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:02 am

Ted the Flayer wrote:
sabs wrote:and developing breasts
Why do I somehow sense that someone is fapping to that idea?

Well, if that sense is your super-hero power then I think you got the shaft.

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:12 am

erik wrote:
Ted the Flayer wrote:
sabs wrote:and developing breasts
Why do I somehow sense that someone is fapping to that idea?
Well, if that sense is your super-hero power then I think you got the shaft.

I see what you did there...

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:30 am

Statistically speaking, anything is someone's fetish *shrug*

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:14 am

Thus:
Rule 34

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:39 pm

Stahlseele wrote:Thus:
Rule 34

"Everything is someone's fetish" is rule 36.

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:43 pm

I thought Rule 34 was Hitler.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:45 pm

sabs wrote:I thought Rule 34 was Hitler.

No, 34 is the whole "there's porn for everything" rule.

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:40 pm

sabs wrote:I thought Rule 34 was Hitler.

I'm tempted to rule 35 it. I did it once for Godzilla/Sailor Moon on another forum. That post got deleted in less than 60 seconds. =-(
(I edited it back into the thread days later after mod attention had moved on... hehehehehe)

Also, to clear up any confusion.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:01 pm

Only rule 34 is canonical, because fuck people trying to hijack rules of the internet when they didn't invent it.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:34 pm

Ohhh....people hijacking rules of the internet.....ohhhhhh....

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 1:31 am

RadiantPhoenix wrote:
Stahlseele wrote:Thus:
Rule 34
"Everything is someone's fetish" is rule 36.

which, i would think, would lead to porn of it being made . .

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:32 am

Kaelik wrote:Only rule 34 is canonical, because fuck people trying to hijack rules of the internet when they didn't invent it.

Internet: serious business

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:25 am

Do we have a thread on phone/mobile device apps?

Fuchs · Post by **Fuchs** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:25 am

I once started one asking about gaming apps, it did not go far.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:34 pm

Oh, well... fuck it, then.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:37 am

Why don't people use side-tear checks?

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:08 am

Maj wrote:Why don't people use side-tear checks?

I don't know. That does sound more efficient.

Fuchs · Post by **Fuchs** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:39 am

Why do people use checks at all anymore? When we don't use cash (usually for minor purchases) in Switzerland we use credit cards, which are usually what you call debit cards in the US, meaning we pay them off each month, or use EC cards that directly deduct from our bank accounts when we use them at the cash register in the store, and/or we pay bills by telling (online, or at the bank, or through a mailed order) our bank to move X money to the bank account of whoever we need to pay.

But checks? No one I know uses checks anymore. Or has used them in the last 20 years.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:08 am

Most of the utilities and government agencies around here don't accept credit or debit cards and writing a check is like having a receipt on the customer end.

I don't write many - I just ran out of the checks I ordered in 2001 - but I needed to order more and there are very few options for side tear. Everything's torn off the top.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:57 am

Fuchs wrote:Why do people use checks at all anymore? When we don't use cash (usually for minor purchases) in Switzerland we use credit cards, which are usually what you call debit cards in the US, meaning we pay them off each month, or use EC cards that directly deduct from our bank accounts when we use them at the cash register in the store, and/or we pay bills by telling (online, or at the bank, or through a mailed order) our bank to move X money to the bank account of whoever we need to pay.

But checks? No one I know uses checks anymore. Or has used them in the last 20 years.

How do you send money to distant relatives? You have a relative who is a thousand kilometers away, and you want to send them some money for their birthday. How do you do that?

Do you:

Mail them a package with a pile of Euros in it, violating rules on sending cash through the mail?
Ask your family member for their banking information so you can do a transfer, ruining the surprise and depriving them of the ability to open anything at all?
Hope that your family member can process a credit card number on his laptop somehow?
Buy them an Amazon gift card and just accept that you can't send real money?

Seriously, what the fuck do you do when you want to send money to someone whose name and address you know but who is outside of physical reach and who isn't a corporation set up to accept VISA or Mastercard? I know everything in Europe is fucking minuscule and the idea that regular human beings you care about might be "far away" is fucking crazy talk to you insular liliputians, but to the rest of the fucking planet the difficulty with using Checks in Europe is a fucking giant pain in the ass.

-Username17

Fuchs · Post by **Fuchs** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:04 am

If I want to send money to someone, I don't care about "ruining their surprise". If it's someone close I can either buy them a gift they like, or buy them a gift certificate.

If I send money I generally wire it through a bank. Safe and fast. I don't know anyone I'd send money to who has no bank account. If you have no bank accunt it's your own damn fault. I could also be using money transfer services, such as Western Union, or paypal.

And as far as the rest of the planet is concerned - Africa is way ahead of us in using cell phones to transfer money. Sooner or later even the most ludddite check user will use their cell phone for transfers, if they can't be bothered to get bank accounts.

What is fucking crazy is that the IRS has no fucking way to receive money through a bank, other than mailing a damn check. A co-worker of mine had to mail a checks, instead of using her bank, to pay those assholes there, since no one there could be bothered to join the 21st century.

Edit: It's also not optimal to send checks through the mail, since you have no good way to prove you sent it. With a money transfer through a bank I got a receipt, I can prove when the transfer was done. With "check in the mail" I have to hope the mail arrives, and I can only prove I sent something, not that it was the check.

If I get a check I have to cash it in, meaning I have to go to the bank, and hope the check doesn't bounce. With wired money I get it, without me having to do anything.

Post by **fbmf** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:55 am

Maj wrote:Most of the utilities and government agencies around here don't accept credit or debit cards and writing a check is like having a receipt on the customer end.

I don't write many - I just ran out of the checks I ordered in 2001 - but I needed to order more and there are very few options for side tear. Everything's torn off the top.

This is my experience as well. I'm about to reorder checks from an account I opened in 1999.

Game On,
fbmf