You know what they say… if it sounds too good to be true, then it’s probably cursed.
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“He took the opportunity of being blasted with radiation to have a power nap.”
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“How was your day? Fully clothed? Masturbator free?”
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“Now I’m hungry for warning waffles.”
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Necroing slightly, when I moved to work at a Chinese university I was baffled to discover that everything was done by WeChat (which very roughly approximates to WhatsApp). Most people didn’t have email address or know what they were, so even if you’d found one it wouldn’t help.
Every time I taught a new class I’d have to create a WeChat group and then get every student to scan my phone to join it.
Learning about anything that was happening depended on whether you had been added to whichever chat group was circulating that news. Getting anything done depended on you knowing somebody who knew somebody who could give you the personal phone information of the person responsible.
Most people didn’t distinguish the concepts of email vs. message. They struggled to understand why it was difficult to do outreach to foreign universities or attract foreign students or overseas staff by sending messages from classic Chinese personal emails like 023928852743092720@meiniao/.cn and writing a polite chat message. Not everyone, but a large majority of the people I interacted with. Email just didn’t exist for them. Apparently that’s standard for business. I suppose they’d jumped straight from phones & letters to synchronous messaging tech, without most people going through the stage of asynchronous email that we had.
About a year after I’d left, remaining in touch, my entreaties finally resulted in them creating official email addresses with the university’s domain and something resembling a name or a title, and actually sending news to them for the foreign staff at least. Dunno if they’re widely used though. But at least it’s possible to contact someone official without instantly looking like a scammer.
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A: ‘Nothing a pair of secateurs can’t put right.’
B: ‘That holds true in so many walks of life.’
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“It’s like a cult, but you can’t join while you’re alive.”
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“This isn’t ‘A problem shared is a problem halved’. This is just a problem I didn’t have before.”
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Yes, but the West Wing could never actually change anything or fix anything because that would move the genre over into science fiction.
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“I think that in Minecraft the Endermen would be the best at selling pizza”
Announced completely out of nowhere by my 7yo at breakfast. We hadn’t been talking about Minecraft.
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That’s a hurtful stereotype perpetuated by Iron Golems and Llamas. Endermen may sell pizza from their kebab stands and they might not, but it’s individuals who vary in talent, not entire races, ethnic or cultural groups.
Besides, it’s obvious that Trader Llamas are the best at selling anything.
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I don’t disagree with you, but she pointed out that the ability to teleport meant the pizza would get to you quicker, and their long arms meant that they could reach into the pizza oven to get it out quicker.
Which is completely and utterly logical and I absolutely love when I get a wee glimpse into the sheer joyful insanity that is my daughter’s thought processes. 
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“Oh, it’s the Clacton by-election today, isn’t it? Do we know how it’s going?”
“We’re waiting for the Count.”
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“I hate to devolve into a 1950s sitcom stereotype, but my wife’s put so many shoes in the basement that I can’t find my WD40.”
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“Apparently my mobile provider cares more than yours about whether we die in a fire.”
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“We have tried explaining it all to him but explaining stuff to sheep seldom has the desired effect.”
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Bums. Bums in the deep.
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“He has the expression of a person who is being slowly surrounded by armed people who look scary.”
“‘Yes’, he says, agreeing with the terrifying people with blades.”
(RPG session. They were very suspicious of this innocent NPC. People tend to overlook how fucking terrifying a group of adventurers should be to just about everyone most of the time.)
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