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Ha, does anyone remember that tuomos used to post lots and lots of pics here and then rjg and someone else went to denmark? and totally saw him and was like "are you tuomos?"

Fine here's my controversial opinion:

Method acting classes are actually just a format for emotionally abusing aspirant actors into creepy pyramid schemes

― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:47 AM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'd agree with that too, and add that second city / upright citizen's brigade-style programmes for aspiring comics are pretty much the same deal

― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:53 AM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uh, excuse me, but speaking as a graduate of one of these programs, I just have to point out that the participants generally come saddled with ample preexisting emotional damage, thankuverymuch.

xp that sounds like a straight up nightmare, sorry for your friend :( i have been stalked and it's awful. just one of the many reasons i try to be as cautious as possible (to the point of hypervigilance) online

what are you talking about? xp

Have you looked in the 'ilxors in their forties' thread lately?

Yeah, almost every woman I know has had some degree of stalking. I get really annoyed that you have to go to each of those websites (peoplefinder, whitepages, etc) that aggregates your information (age, places you have lived, relatives) to have them remove it.

ilx conversations about rights and morality are some of the least enlightening conversations on the site we're much better when we stick to whatever pop album cosmo loves this month

― Mordy, 6. december 2018 17:16 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fixed it

Also, I tried to phrase my own controversial opinion about Star Wars and it's weird: I can say 'the new films are worse than the prequels' and it feels sorta right, but if I say 'the prequels are better than the new films' it feels completely wrong.

Also also Tuomas is Finnish

xp yeah my closest friends in high school were stalked too -- like aggressively. one found a guy she kissed once hiding in the bushes with a baseball bat, another was sent a barrage of notes through the mcdonald's drive-thru and then her own mailbox, and then there was me. here's my controversial opinion: being a secret admirer and surveilling your love object from afar is pathological if you are an adult (teens get a temp pass)

also wtf who gets their music information from cosmo?!

think that a new hope and empire strikes back are fair offerings also tbf

xp Yes Finland!

I want to visit Finland

estonia has cheaper drink

ireland has better posters

Didn’t that Tuomas sighting happen in Spain? Making it even more improbable

Any Estonians among us?

You guys need to remove yourself from the paradigm that there are billions of people in the world. I run into people all the time. There is like 100k people max. This is my controversial opinion.

yeah, i can only remember that they saw him. I was over ten years ago?

The small world conspiracy. I want it to be the new flat earth.

Nothing short circuits my brain quite like randomly running into someone I know somewhere I would never have expected them to be. It seems statistically impossible that it happens as often as it does.

It completely is

I mean, yes, 'somewhere I would never have expected them to be' usually = Chicago in my case so maybe not that strange but also I can go years without running into people I know who live in the city so it's still pretty damn strange.

Glad you’re on board with the truth

I walked up to a train stop in Chicago once and there was exactly one other person waiting for that particular train -- and it was someone I knew from Iowa

Dude my randomly assigned roommate in copenhagen—a city in finland—was, back at UVA, college roommates with my friend from high school in new jersey.

The day before thanksgiving i was taking a train home—packed train, stops at newark airport not just my hometown—and the person in front of me was someone I used to lifeguard with.

On and on

I had a layover in an airport in some state I don't even remember but that I'd never been to before and haven't been to since and, oh hey, what's up daughter of my mom's good friend who is also hundreds of miles away from home.

(I hope everyone is appreciating these top-notch controversial opinions.)

if someone posted an obviously embarrassing photo, of course i would always think that was out of line/mean

What if every photograph of you is embarrassing?

Nothing short circuits my brain quite like randomly running into someone I know somewhere I would never have expected them to be. It seems statistically impossible that it happens as often as it does

This actually happen to me in Copenhagen, bizarrely enough.

small world conspiracy

You can't take a train from Copenhagen to New Jersey...

Unless...

i was in whole foods in vancouver a year or two back, i walked past a couple, the man looked like a high school friend of some of my childhood friends, who had lived in the suburb of glasgow i lived in during my teenage years, about half a mile from where id lived. i'd last seen him when i was 17 or 18 and he was 20 or 21 respectively. so it had been over a decade. i didn't think much of it til i was walking home and came to think it was almost definitely him, this was confirmed by a whatsapp exchange with a friend who had last heard from him when he was moving to vancouver to work at UBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZvChurdd_w

the thanksgiving anecdote was this year. i was going from new york city to new jersey for thanksgiving.

I usually discount most transportation coincidences if you share an origin or destination. I've been on planes to and from my city that happened to have people I know on them (and got nachos with a friend-of-friends at the Denver airport once) because there are only so many planes to and from here tbh

i was on a megabus from boston to new york city and my cousin was on the bus! forgot about this one

i've got more of these. but seriously, there are not that many people per megabus.

At O'Hare, I once ran into 3 people, separately, that I knew.

yeah, seriously. and do you really think that would happen if, as they say, 215,000 people pass through that airport every day? *source: wikipedia

You guys need to remove yourself from the paradigm that there are billions of people in the world. I run into people all the time. There is like 100k people max. This is my controversial opinion.

― Trϵϵship, Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:01 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm adopting this worldview

I’m finally spreading confusion and magical thinking around the world, exactly as I intended when I first got my teacher certification

wouldn't it be more likely to run into someone you know if there were *more* people passing through?

o'hare's one of the largest transport hubs in the world. it'd be weird if I ran into someone I knew at, like, the burlington, vermont airport and we were there for completely different reasons

large population hoax for sure. we're all at the mercy of all that large pop $$$ out there.

Trϵϵ word username

you're more likely to both be at the same airport if it's a super busy one but I would think you'd be less likely to ~encounter~ the person(s) when they're one among thousands.

but probability and stats can be very counterintuitive so wtf do I know

it just never seems like there is as many people around as they say

My ~controversial~ extrapolation from the small world conspiracy: they want us to think that it's currently 2018 CE and so the world has 7.7 billion people. It's really 30,000 BCE.

i think it's about making people feel that they are insignificant, causing them to undervalue their own labor power and accept low wages

So I know that there's probably like +/- a dozen people who basically share my exact same schedule and commute and who I probably only notice maybe a couple of times a week because, y'know, multiple trains, multiple cars, lots of variables that keep the same people from running into one another all the time even under those circumstances. And yet I've still somehow randomly run into at least four different out-of-town friends on the train.

There seriously can't be more than like 400 people in the world, I'm now convinced.