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  1. Posted

    Why no, I'm not cringing and screaming internally about the time I met Jake at PAX West last year and we totally had a convo that awkwardly petered out when a different Campo/Thumbs fan showed up to talk to Jake while we were already talking. 

     

    Edit: eventually the other fan finished saying what he wanted to say to Jake and then we went back to talking, but you can't really recover from that so it just became an awkward and mumbly convo on my part until I left. 

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    3 hours ago, SecretAsianMan said:

     

    While listening to this episode, I did start to consider if making an Important if True wiki would be a good idea.  I've been listening to Thumbs related media since Idle Thumbs Episode 1 and I still get lost among the reference to a reference to a reference (to me to me to me).

     

    Whenever I get hung up on an Idle Thumbs reference, I usually just have to Google it.

     

    I'm still trying to figure out where "grenade rolling down a hill" originated. They seem to immediately start using it as a reference to something earlier, but I can't find what that original earlier thing is.

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    1 hour ago, Gormongous said:

     

    Honestly, as a native Texan, it's been really interesting over the last couple of decades to watch "y'all" transition from a humiliating signifier of my lower-class upbringing in a cultural backwater to the preferred second-person plural pronoun for a sizable minority of English speakers. Now if I can just live to see people appreciate the distinction between "y'all" and "y'aw," a matter of specific vs. general address like "nous" and "on" in French...

     

    I'll be dead in the ground before I recognize the Pittsburghian "yinz" for a 2nd person plural pronoun.

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    11 minutes ago, Jake said:

    It’s more specifically that you sometimes try to seed a bit and then troll us with it by revealing far later what you’re up to. It smelled strongly of that!

     

    Remember when he tried to get "Sly Boots" over on you? Oddly enough, I've seen it pop up a few times lately. Maybe it's coming back into vogue?

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    16 hours ago, Chris said:

     

    I think Jake has an almost violent instinctual reaction to other people trying to introduce phraseology that he perceives as being affected or foreign to the speaker. It's somewhat ironic because I think out of anyone I know, Jake is the most likely to adopt a new speech pattern or phrase that he will subconsciously spread to everyone around him.

     

    I would say that's hella silly, y'all.

     

    (But in all honesty, I've listened to enough hours of people from Northern California podcasting over the years for some NorCal slang to get into my vocab. Similarly, I dated a girl from Texas for several years so I heard "y'all" quite a bit, though I only started using it fairly recently as it's gotten popular as the preferred non-gendered term for a group of people.

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    Ah, from the comments it seems like they finally acknowledge the thing with Nick I've been asking about for weeks ever since Janel announced on Twitter that she was moving to Canada (I rightfully assumed Nick would be going with her)

     

    I feel like ending the podcast because Nick is moving away would have been the old, boring, safe thing to do. Important If True is anything but old, boring, and safe! I say forge onwards! What's Sean Vanaman up to anyway? Maybe we're in a time loop and you have to bring Steve Gaynor in for a while, then Nick, then Sean, then Danielle, then Nick again, etc. Chris has to move back and forth across the country a few times.

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    I was also familiar with said poop story, but could not remember where I had heard it.

     

    Also that wire Orthodox Jews use to signify a "house" is everywhere in NYC, and it's totally a loophole. Same as Orthodox Jews hiring someone not of the Jewish faith to turn their electrical appliances on/off, or having on elevator in their building that operates automatically on Friday nights so they aren't "operating machinery".

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    On 5/12/2017 at 5:56 PM, Chris said:

    I have never had allergies of any sort; that must contribute to my enjoyment of sneezing. It's a purely cathartic event for me. Sometimes I sneeze when I'm sick, but even then, it's a welcome relief, because generally speaking if I'm congested, the few seconds after I sneeze will be the only moments my sinuses are clear before they get all clogged up again. Sneezing for me is only ever good.

    I mean, it makes sense. I like sneezing too because it feels good, but I also hate when I have sneezing fits where I can't stop.

     

    It's sorta like those people who have mysterious fits of sexual arousal and orgasm constantly to the point where it's painful and debilitating.

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    Also regarding naming schemes in school, we had three kids named James in my elementary school. James Delaney, James Gasparino, and James Perry. We all just called them by their last names to differentiate, except for Perry, who refused to be referred to as such, and demanded to be called James.

     

    I mean, we ignored him and just called him Perry anyway, because he didn't get the rights to the name just because the other two weren't using it. Also he was a really big jerk and bully, so even though we were all shitty kids he deserved it.

     

    I think the first time I met someone who I referred to by a nickname that wasn't just a shortened version of their regular name was a college roommate who was from New Zealand, so he just went by Kiwi because he said people got his name wrong a lot. His real name wasn't hard to pronounce, and it was easily shortened to a nickname that would have been easy to say, but I didn't push it. Also I think he went to school with a lot of wealthy bullies who purposely made fun of his name, so I can see why he might take refuge in a nickname he chose.

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    6 hours ago, Jake said:

     

    How new is this "new" trend your observing? If it's literally this week which is about the things you describe then yes, nailed it. Otherwise, is this vaguely a dig?

     

    You know, I'm not even sure. This post was hastily tapped out and submitted on a subway train (much like the one where the saxaphone battle happened) for the short pocket of time where I had reception.

     

    It was just this kneejerk, gut reaction to post this once everyone started doing the "A Bug's Life doesn't actually exist" jokey gaslight thing to varying degrees. Like, 2016 was rough for all of us, and I've seen too many people do that for stuff in a serious way for things that actually matter, and I guess I got legit upset by Chris pretending that "A Bug's Life" wasn't a thing (cue people putting their virtual hand on my shoulder and saying "But CoolJammer00, A Bug's Life doesn't exist" like the world's most insipid version of The Game)

     

    It's silly that it bothered me, and sorry if I was being jerky. Please enjoy your wedding.

  25. Posted

    On 3/10/2017 at 1:46 PM, Vasari said:

    I forgot to post this last week, but the funniest part of the Alexa dollhouse incident was when a news station in San Diego reported the story and activated even more Alexas by repeating the phrase.

     

    The same thing happened a few years ago when a TV advert for the Xbox One featured a voice command that would turn on any Xbox Ones that heard it. If voice-activated technology is going to be everywhere in the future then there has to be some sort of safeguard that can't be bypassed by someone shouting the magic word.

     

    This is like that troll video back when everyone had Kinect hooked up to their XBones and someone made their XBL gamer tag "XboxShutdown" so people would freak out during games of COD