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  1. Shbooblie

    Shbooblie Senior Member

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    TMW you lose your glasses and look for them so you can put them on so you can find them. TMW you then proceed to lose them on your own face about 5 minutes later *facepalm*
     
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    Wreybies Thrice Retired Supporter Contributor

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    That moment when you get a document back and are asked to "correct" your correctly executed subjunctive and replace your correct "were" with an utterly incorrect "was".

    Speechless, I tell you. Speechless. :bigmeh:
     
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    Shbooblie Senior Member

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    That happens to me on this forum all the time. I'm from the UK and whenever I type words like colour or humour it wants to "correct" them to the US spelling, but it feels so wrong to me.
     
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    That moment when you realize that writing historical fiction is every bit as hard as you thought it was.
     
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    That moment when your big, clumsy fingers accidentally hit the CD play button in a borrowed car and you spend the next hour enjoying Johnny Cash' The Man Comes Around.
     
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  6. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    TMW...

    Your posts in the forgiveness thread makes you worry that you're showing a side that's cold and unsympathetic towards wrongdoers.

    EDIT
    Also TMW you think you've killed this thread. *sighs* I'll go gather the Dragonballs, 'K?
     
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    Not at all, and I don't know why anyone would want to be warm and sympathetic toward wrongdoers.
     
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    TMW you think you finally wrote the very first page in your book!

    Also, I have a loose outline! I've never ever ever!
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    TMW...

    you realize that you kind of like reading 'save the world'/'exploration' plots, which explains why your fantasy and sci-fi are geared toward that desire.

    I'm not sure if I should feel ashamed about that. :superthink::nosleep:
     
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    KaTrian A foolish little beast. Contributor

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    TMW you get another star in Super Mario Galaxy...:cheerleader:

    I'm never letting go of my inner child -- and neither should you!
     
    KaTrian, May 26, 2015
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    TMW you watch a YouTube video and there's an ad stating that James Patterson is running a course called Masterclass where he teaches people how to write.
     
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    TMW you are debating the Oxford Comma with two other biology students... o_O
     
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    TMW you realize that a couple of days without internet service makes you feel like pretty much any of the central characters of the film Requiem for a Dream. o_O
     
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    Ouch. That movie made me shudder in places.
     
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    You're not alone. It pulled no punches and the acting on the part of Ellen Burstyn was shockingly, discomfortingly real.
     
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    TMW you hear about a black guy flying a Confederate war flag.
     
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    That really made me laugh.
     
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    minstrel Leader of the Insquirrelgency Supporter Contributor

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    Uhh... whut? Why? Did he lose a bet? Is he blind and nobody ever told him he's black?

    This does not compute!
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    *cringes*

    Sheesh, it's like hearing about a Jewish person flying the Nazi flag...

    The dude is aware of what that flag symbolized, yes? It wasn't a flag of "puppies and chocolate and flowers". It was...um...

    Wow...

    @minstrel - I believe this is what TV Tropes call 'Boomerang Bigot'. There can be people of the minority flying the colors of those who seek to oppress them and find absolutely nothing wrong with that.
     
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    The moment you notice 800 of your first 2000 words are highlighted in green because they are destined for the delete key.

    Maybe I should have took James Patternson's masterclass.
     
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    That moment when you walk into a Bed Bath & Beyond to buy your mother a
    Christmas present, I don't know a Keurig or something, and you're at the register about
    to pay for it when the pretty cashier asks "Can I have your phone number? and
    you hesitate for a moment before you lean a little closer and ask "Why?"
    with a flirtatious grin taking shape before she responds"Because I need to put it
    in the computer." and you pay for the gift in pure embarrassment and walk out
    deflated.
     
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  22. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    TMW...

    You are curious about the lessons Patterson teaches in his class.
     
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    The Civil War wasn't actually about freeing the slaves. Even after the war was over, African Americans still had it terrible. They were still basically slaves.
     
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  24. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    It was caused by slavery, but the war itself was about the Union getting the rebel states back in line. Lincoln never recognized it as anything other than a rebellion/uprising because to do otherwise would be giving the Confederates a strong morale boost.

    TMW @Link the Writer and @123456789 hijacks the thread for a brief history into the American Civil War.
     
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  25. The Mad Regent

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    The moment you realised you just spent almost an hour revising two sentences.

    Time for bed I think.
     
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