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Maybe normal is not the right word, stop being creepy and off putting to 99.9% of the human population is how I would phrase it
 

Mr. X

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Saving for later thx dog
 

I Don't Like

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Says OP who wants to print a giant Pikachu poster using his work's plotter, has an anime avatar and describes Pokemon as a "fantasy cock-fighting adventure game."

I agree though we all have our quirks.
 

Dyle

One Winged Slayer
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Oct 25, 2017
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I thought normal people weren't allowed to make accounts here. If it isn't a bannable offense to be normal, it probably should be
 

PaJeppy

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It boggles my mind some of the stuff people take issue with around here.

Just ignore the post and move on?
 

Playco Armboy

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Oct 28, 2017
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"Normal" in America is straight, white and Christian. Put any of those words in the place of normal in the sentence and it becomes pretty clear where I'm coming from.

This is complete nonsense. Two out of those three do not apply to me and I'm considered 'normal' everywhere. It's very evident what people are referring to when they say 'normal' around these parts and it's not the loaded term boogeyman you've erected.

Counterpoint - if you worked with said person to understand why their behavior isn't "normal" in the rest of the world, you might actually help them instead of just making them feel shitty for their social ineptitude.

Yes, there are some really WEIRD fucking things on this board at times - but if someone is just socially inept, the way to help them is NOT to make fun of them. Show them what "normal" really looks like and help them out instead of putting them down. It just makes you look like a bully when you do that.

You can make fun of them and help them out. Do both, which is what ERA actually tends to do. Usually the first page is incredulity over the OP's foolishness, and the following are actual tips on how not to act like a fucking creep.

Okay. Why do you have to say "be normal" instead of "shower and wipe your ass"?

Because not showering and not wiping your ass is not normal.
 

excelsiorlef

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Oct 25, 2017
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Why can't you fuckers embody a general comportment resembling that which might situate itself somewhere on the scale known as the norm.
 

excelsiorlef

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The real problem with the phrase is that it infers that normal is something people should aspire to be, with the subtext that anything abnormal is undesirable behavior.

It's the same basic psychological seed that can lead to a whole lot of shitty, toxic behavior. People should really stop using it.

Knowing how to wipe properly without having to ask an internet message board is something most should aspire to be able to do yes.
 

Sai

Prophet of Truth
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Oct 25, 2017
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Sure, there is a huge lack of common sense coming from a lot of users around here.

However, the phrase "why can't you be normal," is still problematic for a lot of reasons.

I'm not saying we shouldn't make offhanded comments about some of the dumb shit people do, but that specific phrase has a lot of really bad implications that I'd like to think this place is better than using.

"Normal" in America is straight, white and Christian. Put any of those words in the place of normal in the sentence and it becomes pretty clear where I'm coming from.

lol this phrase became a thing because i said it to someone on neogaf who was afraid of a woman doctor seeing his dick. don't hurt yourself with that reach.
 
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lol this phrase became a thing because i said it to someone on neogaf who was afraid of a woman doctor seeing his dick. don't hurt yourself with that reach.
I never thought of this much in my teens going to the doctor . As an adult who realizes he's a grower not a shower who might show in her presence, I'd be nervous about that .
 

AnansiThePersona

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I agree completely. You could have a thread saying anything a little bit strange and you'll have posters falling over their dick to be the first to post that, or David Hayter saying it. It's not funny anymore, try different jokes.
 

DBT85

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Nope. I reserve its use for utter whackjob threads.

...there was a thread about that?
You're new here?

There was another one about a guy who couldn't shit at work if there was someone in the next cubicle. There's another thread about washing your dick.
 
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Aphexian

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I always thought of it being said sarcastically and not an actually attack against anyone or anything, but that's just me
 

FUME5

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You all owe Sai royalties.

Sure, there is a huge lack of common sense coming from a lot of users around here.

However, the phrase "why can't you be normal," is still problematic for a lot of reasons.

I'm not saying we shouldn't make offhanded comments about some of the dumb shit people do, but that specific phrase has a lot of really bad implications that I'd like to think this place is better than using.

"Normal" in America is straight, white and Christian. Put any of those words in the place of normal in the sentence and it becomes pretty clear where I'm coming from.

When keeping it woke goes wrong.
 
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Opto

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Cranky cause you have a secret fetish that's been lambasted in a thread, aren't cha?
 

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.


Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
 

ZackieChan

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Sure, there is a huge lack of common sense coming from a lot of users around here.

However, the phrase "why can't you be normal," is still problematic for a lot of reasons.

I'm not saying we shouldn't make offhanded comments about some of the dumb shit people do, but that specific phrase has a lot of really bad implications that I'd like to think this place is better than using.

"Normal" in America is straight, white and Christian. Put any of those words in the place of normal in the sentence and it becomes pretty clear where I'm coming from.
Can you point to one usage of the "why can't you people be normal?" meme where it was because of someone deviating from being straight, white, and Christian? I'll wait.
 

Samemind

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Oct 25, 2017
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This is complete nonsense. Two out of those three do not apply to me and I'm considered 'normal' everywhere. It's very evident what people are referring to when they say 'normal' around these parts and it's not the loaded term boogeyman you've erected.



You can make fun of them and help them out. Do both, which is what ERA actually tends to do. Usually the first page is incredulity over the OP's foolishness, and the following are actual tips on how not to act like a fucking creep.



Because not showering and not wiping your ass is not normal.
It's bad because it's not normal, then. Would you say I'm bad because I'm not normal? Last I checked autism was not considered normal.
 

PSqueak

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's overused and has outstayed its welcome. There is no normal and everyone has some kind of weird hangup.

It's less of a "you are weirdos" and more of a "This shouldn't be a big deal for you to be this worked about" in usage, the fact that this is a videogame forum of all things and thus none of us is normal is what makes it funny.
 

Gunny T Highway

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There are some threads made here that lack any common sense on a variety of topics in particular basic hygiene. However this occurs on all internet forums.