I feel like they really believe it. Like you can go to Wiccan websites and people are talking about magic spells and how they really worked for them and people make their own spells and stuff.
(04-12-2015, 02:13 PM)Grungie Wrote: [ -> ]When'd you get that new banner?
Are you asking me?
(04-12-2015, 08:27 PM)Grungie Wrote: [ -> ]One minor thing I didn't expect to be different is using a button to flush a toilet. It feels weird, especially when mine has 2 buttons and they both flush...
Th-they don't have buttons in the US?
Anyway, in my experience, the smaller button is usually the 'full flush' and uses more water, whereas you usually wanna go with the big button which is the 'half flush.' However some toilet models switch them (LOLBIGFLUSHWITHBIGBUTTONRIIIAGHTT) which is pretty annoying and inconsistent. Sometimes they have pictures of full/half full glasses to communicate it but if they don't you just have to press them and see which one is which.
(04-12-2015, 08:57 PM)Mr Maps Wrote: [ -> ]The buttons are an EU thing, I believe, in an attempt to stop water waste.
They're Australian actually XD
(04-15-2015, 09:18 PM)Grungie Wrote: [ -> ]So there's a group of people we dub "bird watchers" because all they do is stand at certain fences taking pictures of all the planes that take off from our airfield, nobody understands them and why they have so much free time. Apparently they're there all friggen day.
My sister likes to go to the hill near the airport and watch the planes take off for some reason. Apparently it's really fun?? Taking photos is a bit strange, though it seems stranger to illegalise them, especially when iirc the plane takeoff times are available to the public anyway.
(04-18-2015, 12:15 PM)fantanoice Wrote: [ -> ]My sister likes to go to the hill near the airport and watch the planes take off for some reason. Apparently it's really fun?? Taking photos is a bit strange, though it seems stranger to illegalise them, especially when iirc the plane takeoff times are available to the public anyway.
Well you have to take note that it's an airfield on a military installation, so takeoff times aren't public and they're not passenger planes, and the cargo isn't just any kind of cargo.
And no, we use flusher handles in the US, and public toilets also have auto flushers which flush based on movement.
Good Lord.
(04-18-2015, 10:06 AM)Grungie Wrote: [ -> ]Hell same with people who think they're a fictitious creature. These fucking creatures don't exist, how the hell do you know that you are one, especially when they acknowledge the fact that they're identifying with a fictional creature.
Otherkin make me curious if these people are doing this for fun and shouldn't be taken seriously, or are just fucking insane because they believe it. It's really hard to tell with cases like this.
I hope I'm not an insensitive jackass for saying this, but I wonder if it's the same as when people come out as transgender.
Maybe it's the same, like body dysmorphia but I wouldn't know
And yea, the knee jerk thing would be to think it's insensitive, but like curiosity is fine
(04-18-2015, 02:16 PM)JCizzle Wrote: [ -> ]I hope I'm not an insensitive jackass for saying this, but I wonder if it's the same as when people come out as transgender.
That's kind of a loaded question, I wouldn't call myself an expert on transgender, but I feel that's more complex and different. Otherkin seems more like attention seeking, as most of the stuff I found were a bunch of anti-social people thinking that base their personality on being otherkin.
Ah, that makes sense.
...but like, what if?
Idk, I don't wanna go down that route. Though I wouldn't doubt that there's a small percentage that do fit the bill. Most obviously the ones who have a list of what makes them "different" and write intro blogs listing this shit.
"I'm a pansexual anarcho-communist wiccan atheist gay-transgender gothic androgynous otherkin"
Every time I see people like that, I automatically think "oh, you're an attention whore" as there's a breaking point to where you become a try-hard.