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4w ago

Good enough for me

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If it's any consolation, you're much more likely to get killed by the police officer than the logging truck
- If the avatar is real, she’ll be relatively safe unless she marries one.
  
  I didn't think it's true, but the avatar did have his lessons. 10/10 everyone should watch it. And not that James Cameron bullshit.
- It's funny because it's statistically true.

Elf?
- Finding Nemo?
  
  Ice cold reference! I never heard anyone else reference that one in regards to You Will Die In Remarkable Ways II.
- Christmas Vacation?
  
  That was 1989.
  
  How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- I don’t remember a logging truck in kill bill

logs that fall off of trucks don't behave that way in real life so that's still a ticket
- Sounds exactly what death would say
  
  what nooo
- Yeah, you have to run into the log, it doesn't suddenly jump backwards,
  
  But you’re traveling at high speeds and they’d be hard to avoid if they all fell off at once
  
  Even if you're tailgating and the log bumps off? I'm not good at physics btw.

Two hours later, both of you are still trying to guess which movie you're talking about
- Look, in the spirit of community, in case somebody isn't getting it, this is a reference to the movie Speed! with Nicholas Cage.
  
  Weird, I thought it's Final Destination 2 with Keanu Reeves.

It's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
- It's better than bad. It's good.

Speed limit: 65 Trucks: 55 I pass a truck at 76... That's a ticket, 11mph over puts you in the "real fines" zone. Never mind that the truck was going 21mph over his speed limit.
Oh, and then the officer says... Since its a first offense, you can waive the fine if you take our online class, and it won't be reported to your insurance.
The online class has a fee of exactly the fine +$10. Payable to some private company of course.
I wanted to turn around, drive back to Nebraska and [fedpost].
- GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works has not one, but TWO warning labels next to their name, telling us that this person is not to be fucking trusted.
  What's up with dat.
  Edit: O shit I just glanced at your comment history and now I know what's up with dat.
  
  I didn't know, but I'm proud.
- Does it still benefit you if it isn't reported to your insurance company and you get I guess to pay less
  
  Yes, but it's extortion. It benefits me in the same way that if I pay the mob $100, it's cheaper than if they broke the windows in my shop.

Logs (2003)
- Is that the one about the sentient log that rolls around killing people?
  
  The very same!
  
  You can't imagine my surprise and disappointment that this isn't a real movie.

Honest question. What is the origin/reason of this fashion to prevent the use of capitals?
- I'm pretty sure it started with artists using lowercase in their titles and album names. I have 0 evidence for this
  
  I'm going to use you as a source on Grokpedia
- Lack of public funding for schools.
  Edit: THE ONE RIGHT, TRUE, type of schools. The ones ~~that~~ ~~who~~ which teach the Oxford comma.
- I think it's primarily younger people who learned to type by having a computer or tablet in the house without the need for formal typing lessons. And then at the other end of the spectrum we have people old enough that they didn't really use computers in their youth and are learning the technology the same way the kids are. I think typing with capitalisation is most common in people who attended computer classes as part of their grade school education. I think the farther we go past the advent of the home computer, the more people will be typing lowercase in casual chats. I don't have any hard data to back this up, just a collection of anecdotal observations.
  
  this didn't happen because of computers, this style just got popularised faster through them - like pretty much everything else. breaking the rules to create a specific style is just a thing prople do
- some people point to e.e. cummings but tbf, even without him we'd start typing like that eventually. it's normal to want to fuck with the rules and make it a style

I literally did this twice yesterday

The Matrix Reloaded?

You didn't even need to see the movie, that scene was in the trailer which was was everywhere at the time

OMG, did she have a premonition?

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