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[pmcd9]

There are few different strains of this going around. X no. of things happy people, depressed people, etc. I haven't read any of them until now. I've gotten better and not clicking on dumb shit like this. At least I'm ahead of the game right now. Ha ha. What will they come up with next to trick me into clicking on some bullshit?

[pmcd9]

This goes in the Shit my _____ says, but it's also a candidate for the Upworthy thread because the headline was "These Strangers Became Friends in just Minutes. You Won't Believe What Made Them Do It." It's a video of people sitting in a ball pit. It's actually been around for awhile, I saw it for the first time at least a year ago, but it's currently making the rounds among my Facebook friends.

So, I can't find any snopes like verification of my suspicions, but this is totally fake, right? There are a few things that have alerted my bullshit detector, but I'd like to hear from you before I enumerate them.

[jaydub]

My memories of ball pits always include a hint of urine scent.

[KeithHernandez]

I've had a half assed ball pit in my apartment- people like it a lot.

[JorgeFabregas]

Yeah, lagging behind growth is a problem too. But I am damn near a moron and I spend this time every year forecasting my groups facility, hardware and headcount needs one to three years out for budget planning and consistently come within 10%.

I'd figure someone with actual education, training and more functioning grey matter could handle charting demographics and population growth and matching them to travel patterns and then apply that to project planning and completion timelines.

fuck*ng A, Inev, get that goddam degree and come out here, I think I've ID'd a need for you to fill.

At some point don't you just run out of places to put wide swaths of pavement? I would think that anywhere as decentralized and heavily populated as Southern California would have this issue.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Ball pit related memory: We were at chuckee cheese and the birthday boy started bleeding from his ears.
ACap: Lance, you are bleeding out of your head. Where your brain is.
Lance: So what am I supposed to do about it?
ACap: Stop playing in the ball pit. Kenny's mom is giving out quarters by the arcade. Go play games.

I've had a half assed ball pit in my apartment- people like it a lot.

That pit there in the picture was outside my room. The day after we blew it up the dean of students was walking his dog and passed the dorm and found too many explosives. He told us to clean up the mess in the pit so we came up with idea of laying a giant tarp in the pit, covering that drain there. Then we turned on all the sinks in the upstairs room and funneled all the water into the pit. We then had a pool instead of a pit. The campus cops got hip to this and told us we weren't allowed to re-engineer campus property. The wording there is intentionally vague. When they came by to stop our pit pool they also found out we had built lofts in our rooms (making them a sort of duplex). They also found out we had vacated one of the rooms and turned it into a bar. These were the halcyon days of the think tank for deadly sins.

[theinevitable]

it is fitting that the guy who is me and a-cap's mutual acquaintance moved to NYC to pretend to be Mad Men full time. But without the women or clothes or class, he just writes about cigars and smokes them in his office.

[Arachno-capitalist]

He wanted to be part of our group so bad. He was always forcing himself on us and would end up doing humiliating things. We tolerated him, but then he tried to convince my girlfriend that he was some kind of pornographer/model agent and invited her over for a photo shoot. She declined and told me to get him to stop making disgusting advances.

[AugustWest]

the dean of students...l found too many explosives.

This implies that there was an acceptable amount of explosives that would have been tolerated, but you unfortunately exceeded that amount.

[theinevitable]

We have had very similar experiences with that man.

[theinevitable]

Girl whose parents are not-well-off but her aunt and uncle pay for her to go to college at one of the most expensive schools in the nation posting on FB about the struggle of going to a fancy college as a "poor person."

her aunt and uncle also mail her gift cards for clothes whenever they see photos online of her in thrift store stuff. she exchanges the gift cards for cash.

she has a brand-new kitchenaid mixer because the used one her roommate's mom offered them didn't match the other kitchen appliances. so she insisted that they buy a new one.

[jaydub]

her aunt and uncle also mail her gift cards for clothes whenever they see photos online of her in thrift store stuff. she exchanges the gift cards for cash.

This is like the upper middle class variation of food stamp fraud.  Presumably the exchange is for less than the face value of the gift card. 

[Arachno-capitalist]

Girl whose parents are not-well-off but her aunt and uncle pay for her to go to college at one of the most expensive schools in the nation posting on FB about the struggle of going to a fancy college as a "poor person."

Please refer her to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobst_Boy

[pmcd9]

"Best advice I've used lately from my Daddy, _______... "Let your fingers do the walkin'" I called all over this morning, and found RC the dirt bike he wants... YAY!"

This is not really all that dumb, but I does make me shake my head that an advertising slogan from the 1960s for the Yellow Pages now passes for sage advice from an elder. I'm guessing that the daughter has never heard that slogan and thought that her father was both helpful and witty.

What could some other examples of this be?

[Arachno-capitalist]

We're writing our own short stories. Don't think of this as a novel where the protagonist has a single arc. Think of this as a collection. Stephen King brings back cameos, but they aren't plot movers. - ACAP