Things I do not understand

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Bookmarks: What a waste. ANYthing can be a bookmark - a receipt, a subscription card from a magazine, a playing card...you can even fold down the page fer crissakes! Why buy a bookmark?

Paperweights: What an unimaginative and stupid thing. Even more so than a bookmark, there are millions of things that can be used as a paperweight. A coffee cup, a stapler...Jesus Christ, a ROCK could do the job if you're going to be anal about it. Man, I HATE people that use paperweights.

Starws: Now, why in the world would you want to drink through an insulator? It makes cold drinks less cold, and they're impossible to drink through without looking like a total sissy. Plus, tehre's something just gross about them, I just can't put my finger on what.

― I Hate You, Too (roger adultery), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

SMS messaging is the daddy of pointless technologies.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Star Wars: Loads of bad guys dressed in black attack loads of good guys dressed in white, and the good guys always win. BFW.

― The Ghost at Number Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Star Wars > Bookmarks

― Gilles Meloche (Gilles Meloche), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Bookmarks > straws > Star Wars > SMS > paperweights

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

SMS > straws > Star Wars > bookmarks >>> paperweights

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

>>Starws: Now, why in the world would you want to drink through an insulator? It makes cold drinks less cold!!!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

oops and i was gonna write WTF??????!!!!! after that

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Starbucks: why on earth would you want to drink somewhere named after a Battlestar Galactica character?

Skiing: you go up a hill slowly and come down v quickly. So you're back where you started! You might as well have stayed where you were!

out of office assistant: your friends know that if you don't answer your email it's coz you're not there. And as for your enemies and ppl whom you are indifferent to, why do you care?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

out of office assistant: your friends know that if you don't answer your email it's coz you're not there. And as for your enemies and ppl whom you are indifferent to, why do you care?

er.. to boast about you being on holiday????????????????

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Skiing: you go up a hill slowly

Four-man chair != slow. Also there are nice views and it is a chance to put on lip balm and eat polos

and come down v quickly.

Duh, the point of it!

So you're back where you started! You might as well have stayed where you were!

You're over the back of the mountain with a whole new valley to explore! Tsch, Mark, honestly.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this "Spot the stand-up's nicked act"?

My guess = "Dave Allen".

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Search 'ornaments' as a thread title.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

> Skiing: you go up a hill slowly and come down v quickly. So you're back where you started! You might as well have stayed where you were!

see also: golf - put ball in hole (using a very inefficient method). remove ball from hole. repeat.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

out of office assistant: your friends know that if you don't answer your email it's coz you're not there.

sadly, this one has to apply for work tards. I swear, I can have that on, plus a voicemail that says I wont be back for a week, and I still come back to 10 panicked voicemails and a bunch of job requests about things I didnt do that I WASNT MEANT TO COS I WAS ON HOLS. Die, sales reps.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

SMS messaging is the daddy of pointless technologies.

er....

― OCP (OCP), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Andy Rooney: All he does is waste the last five minutes of "60 Minutes" with his incessant whining about how small batteries are.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Roger, I was with you up until straws. Straws are fun.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

text messaging rules okay!!!!!!!!!

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Bookmarks

OTM except for the bit about folding down the page. If I'm gonna fuck up a book I paid good money for, it's gonna be by writing in the margins rather than dog-earing.

Paperweights: ...Jesus Christ, a ROCK could do the job ...

Again OTM. Even more sad are the people who buy paperweights that ARE JUST ROCKS WITH A LITTLE FACE OR SOMETHING PAINTED ON THEM.

Straws

I disagree with this one. Straws are good, especially when they are bendy straws or crazy straws. Thing is, you tend to drink more quickly with a straw than when you drink the normal way out of a glass. Thus, putting a straw in anything with alcohol in it can have hidden benefits if you're trying to get loaded.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

PAPERWEIGHT-BUYING PEOPLE ARE JUST ROCKS??? I've noticed they have faces, but! That explains things.

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I stand by the placement of my modifying phrase.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I checked this the other day - I tried to find the pages on my book where I'd folded down the corner. Couldn't. Also, I like my books to have that "read" look.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like Jerry Seinfeld has come out of lurkerdom.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Men who work at cellphone kiosks at the mall. It's like they are their own separate species.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm tempted to mate with one of them to see the results.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

another shout out to straws:
if you're drinking something sugary, my dentist says that drinking through a straw gets less sugar on your teeth. thus, saving your precious enamel.

― kelstarry, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Men who work at cellphone kiosks at the mall. It's like they are their own separate species.

jesus god yes. what gives?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)