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Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends 2014

Benjamin Grimm Jan 01 2014 05:25 AM

Happy New Years to my Facebook friends!!

metsmarathon Jan 07 2014 02:45 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

"What happens if you pee in outerspace?" i think the answer is "it depends" if you're wearing depends, or some other absorbent undergarment under your space suit, then it will likely be absorbed to the best capability of those undergarments. if you are naked in your space suit, then, well, you'll be soon awash in your own pee. though it's surface tension in a zero-g environtment will pretty much keep it contained in little pee globules floating all about in there. depending on the design of your space suit, soon, you may breathe it in. or it may foul up your breathing apparatus and you will die. whichev's. if you are in a space station or in some other sort of pressurized environment, peeing all willy-nilly, then the pee will, thanks to surface tension, tend to coalesce into a large pee globule floating around your space station. a warm, yellow pee globule. unless you're peeing on something in which case it will splatter, getting pee globules everywhere. your fellow astronauts will not be amused. but mission control will be. until you short out precious life support systems. and then you will die. if you somehow find yourself in free space, outside your space station / pressurized environment, and you unzip your space suit and take a whiz... well... you might need to kiss your winkie good bye.... especially if the sun isn't shining on it. it gets cold in space. but what would happen to the pee? well, i think that it would probably boil just as soon as it left your body. possibly sooner, but i'm not sure. you might think it would freez, since its like stupid cold out in the vacuum of space, but its a liquid going into a zero-pressure environment, and when liquids find themselves in vacuums, they tend to boil. what would the boiling pee feel like? i don't know. i really don't think you'd be feeling your winkie anymore. if it doesn't go numb from the cold, it'll probably get frostbite, i would think. if you like your winkie, and would like to keep it, i wouldn't recommend doing this anytime soon. what i would recommend, is asking hte question to randall munroe, as this would be an excellent topic for an xkcd what if. i'd be very curious as to how close to reality my conjecture comes.

seawolf17 Jan 07 2014 02:52 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Weird. This must have been somewhere in the media or something, because a friend of mine asked the same question this morning. Or, more accurately, posted that her kid asked that same question this morning.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 07 2014 02:54 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

The book Packing for Mars, by Mary Roach, has all kinds of information about how bodily functions work in outer space.

metsmarathon Jan 07 2014 09:24 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

seawolf17 wrote: Weird. This must have been somewhere in the media or something, because a friend of mine asked the same question this morning. Or, more accurately, posted that her kid asked that same question this morning. well, the fact that you commented on it showed up on my facebook feed. and instead of commenting on some third party's status, which would seem creepy, i decided to indirectly offer my (unqualified) opinion on the same topic.

Ceetar Jan 10 2014 09:44 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

one of those random acquaintances from high school married someone with the same last name as me and it weirds me out every time I see it. No relation or anything, Donato's not exactly a rare name, but still.

d'Kong76 Jan 11 2014 08:12 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Is anyone else getting month old posts popping up out of nowhere on your fb home page for no apparent reason?

themetfairy Jan 11 2014 09:03 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Kong76 wrote: Is anyone else getting month old posts popping up out of nowhere on your fb home page for no apparent reason? I got a couple, but they have since vanished.

Edgy MD Jan 16 2014 04:25 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Lifelong Student of Philosophy wrote: RIP to the actor who brought alive a man who taught us that coconuts make excellent conductors and there are hundreds of uses for sand, palm leaves, and bamboo.

Edgy MD Jan 27 2014 08:37 AM Facebook Stati in 2014h

It seems like those "I got Hashbrowns! Which Wendy's breakfast menu item are you?" quiz thingies are making an unexpected comeback.

Ceetar Jan 27 2014 08:38 AM Re: Facebook Stati in 2014h

Edgy MD wrote: It seems like those "I got Hashbrowns! Which Wendy's breakfast menu item are you?" quiz thingies are making an unexpected comeback. Thanks to buzzfeed. I tried one and made it halfway through before I realized how stupid they all are and closed it.

d'Kong76 Feb 06 2014 06:23 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

One of my New England friends:

themetfairy Feb 11 2014 04:50 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Will Twerk For Cupcakes

d'Kong76 Feb 16 2014 11:50 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Edgy MD Feb 25 2014 09:50 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Gene Frey wrote: I'm never good at this sort of thing, so I'll let the brilliant Patton Oswalt say it for me: If a Twinkie represents the amount of grief I feel when someone dies, Harold Ramis' death would be a Twinkie 35 feet long weighing 600 pounds.

HahnSolo Mar 03 2014 06:51 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Back to back statuses from last night: What in God's name has happened to Bette Midler's voice? Thank you, Bette Midler, for bringing me back to age ten. [heart] The second one had a little heart at the end of it, but I couldn't copy that.

d'Kong76 Mar 09 2014 08:59 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

What's the deal with the fb ad with the big-breasted women that say if you don't know French and are over 50 you will be shocked by this. I don't click on stuff, but I'm sure it's funny.

RealityChuck Mar 09 2014 04:27 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

A comment by a friend is on its way to becoming a meme: Here's the full quote: Noted in a thread: the difference between Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin is instructive. Ann Coulter frames an argument. The argument is hateful and based on false information and innuendo and name-calling and reductivist fear-mongering, but with all of that put aside, she ultimately gives you a point a, and then a point b, and then a point c, and even when she requires hand-waving and insane logic to get from one point to the other, you can at least recognize what you're seeing as a form of linear thought. She's idiotic, but not an idiot. Sarah Palin is substantially devolved by comparison. Off the cuff, she just has word salad, haiku of applause lines linked by conjunctions and apostrophes. She sounds like a parrot who has learned to read off refrigerator magnets at the break room at the John Birch Society. She doesn't know or care whether it makes sense, even illusory sense.

d'Kong76 Mar 16 2014 08:22 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

metirish Mar 20 2014 06:06 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Jesus, how annoying are those by now obligatory "IF YOU REMEMBER THIS(insert random 80s game, brown paper for covering school books ,activity etc.) THEN YOU HAD AN AWESOME CHILDHOOD"

Ceetar Mar 21 2014 07:16 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

metirish wrote: Jesus, how annoying are those by now obligatory "IF YOU REMEMBER THIS(insert random 80s game, brown paper for covering school books ,activity etc.) THEN YOU HAD AN AWESOME CHILDHOOD" my annoyance? goes to 11. Almost without fail I don't click on any of those types of memes, buzzfeed-type content generators, and I've stopped reading text posted on Willy Wonka's face.

Ceetar Apr 08 2014 07:45 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

The wi-fi username at my gym is "fittness20." Sigh.

SteveJRogers Apr 08 2014 08:34 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

metirish wrote: Jesus, how annoying are those by now obligatory "IF YOU REMEMBER THIS(insert random 80s game, brown paper for covering school books ,activity etc.) THEN YOU HAD AN AWESOME CHILDHOOD" Its a passively aggressive way of being "In my day blahblahblah was better" without appearing to be insulting to later generation's stuff.

d'Kong76 Apr 19 2014 05:18 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

I can't post this on fb, for obvious reasons, so I'm posting it here instead lol: I have a neighbor who is obsessed with cleaning his driveway, backyard, etc. seemingly every freakin' night with one of those commercial-gas-backpack-blower-type things. I may have to shoot him. I don't even think it's his house. Ooooh, there's two leaves in the driveway ... GO PICK THEM UP if they're buggin' ya.

HahnSolo Apr 25 2014 09:18 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

I have a neighbor who is obsessed with cleaning his driveway, backyard, etc. seemingly every freakin' night with one of those commercial-gas-backpack-blower-type things. I may have to shoot him. I don't even think it's his house. Ooooh, there's two leaves in the driveway ... GO PICK THEM UP if they're buggin' ya. Um, it's Spring? What the hell is this guy gonna be like in October?

Ceetar Apr 25 2014 09:26 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

d'Kong76 wrote: I can't post this on fb, for obvious reasons, so I'm posting it here instead lol: I have a neighbor who is obsessed with cleaning his driveway, backyard, etc. seemingly every freakin' night with one of those commercial-gas-backpack-blower-type things. I may have to shoot him. I don't even think it's his house. Ooooh, there's two leaves in the driveway ... GO PICK THEM UP if they're buggin' ya. you want to send him over to my house? I've got at least a full trees worth of leaves still that I don't know what to do with.

d'Kong76 Apr 27 2014 01:16 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

He's on overtime today, been out there blowing for 45 minutes. There's something wrong with him, I don't want to know what.

Edgy MD Apr 27 2014 03:59 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Do you know the guy in any other context than "leafblower guy"?

d'Kong76 Apr 27 2014 04:11 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Not at all, I have said hello to him over the six foot fence that separates us while grilling. Didn't get an overly friendly response. He's on the street adjacent to us. It's just funny, today he was sportin' a butt crack as he 'cleaned' the driveway. Which is cool, I mean who wears underwear on Sundays? lol

metirish Apr 27 2014 06:23 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

What is it with a lot of us on the board having shitty neighbors?

Ceetar Apr 27 2014 06:32 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

metirish wrote: What is it with a lot of us on the board having shitty neighbors? I met my neighbor on the southside for the first time (it's been eight months) the other day. I was planting hops and he came out to say hello, gave me a bottle of wine and an electric leaf blower (I don't think that was a passive aggressive observation of all the leaves I have still..) and we talked about all the wild animals in the backyards. On the other side we met the woman who was i think subletting from her sister, but she's apparently gone now. I expect that it'll go up for sale soon. Who wants to be my neighbor?

themetfairy Apr 27 2014 06:55 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

For many, many years we had a neighbor in the house that abuts our backyard that must have been an incredible packrat. She had a couple of dozen garbage cans in her backyard (I am not exaggerating) and would drive around in a car that was piled up with black trash bags. Apparently a couple of years ago she went to live with one of her kids in another state. Last fall the son spent some time clearing out the house - when he opened the windows (for perhaps the first time in many, many years) you could smell the mustiness in the street - it was just bizarre. Apparently the house was sold to a local builder who seems to have rebuilt the entire thing inside and out (it probably would have been easier to raze the place and start from scratch, but what do I know?) and it's now on the market. So if anyone wants a 30-year-old house that's like brand new, you could be my neighbor.

dgwphotography Apr 27 2014 07:06 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

metirish wrote: What is it with a lot of us on the board having shitty neighbors? I normally don't take our dog on his after dinner walk - tonight I did. He took a different route than we normally take, and I found out why: He went directly to one of the houses a few doors away from us, and just sat on the sidewalk. Within a minute, a woman came out, said, "Hi Max!" and gave him a treat. From there, he went directly across the street, and the lady in that house said, " Hi Max", and gave him a treat. He then went back across the street, and stopped at the house next to neighbor #1, and the woman in that house came over, petted Max, and gave him a treat...

Mets – Willets Point Apr 27 2014 07:33 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

All the neighbors I know are very friendly and generous. There are people who post to the local neighborhood listserv, though, who sound like complete nutbags. The two groups may overlap as the internet has a way of bringing out everyone's inner asshole.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 28 2014 05:32 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 28 2014 07:23 AM

Wifey heads our 30-home condo association, so we have lots of neighbors who kinda-sorta hate us when they get their (insanely affordable) monthly maintenance bills. It is hilarious what they will complain about though. Some of the crazies on the upper floors say they shouldn't have to pay for the water the ground-floor residents "waste" sprinkling the lawns. And everyone went nuts when they were informed their satellite dishes needed to come off the roof in order to get insurance on needed repairs there. They would rather have been flooded than miss TV. The only neighbor I hate though is not a condo member, but 4-car guy across the street.

Edgy MD Apr 28 2014 06:21 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Kase should invite his Mr. Blower over for a beer about fifteen minutes before his nightly blowing time, and see if he starts getting antsy to leave around the blowing hour. My theory: he was hired to be caretaker for the property in exchange for crashing there, but isn't as handy as perhaps he let on, and doesn't know anything else to do to fulfill his end of the commitment except to violently assault any leaf that dares to approach that third of an acre.

Vic Sage Apr 28 2014 08:41 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

A trailer park must've caught fire somewhere near me, because the house behind us is populated by a family of white trash refugees from THE HILLS HAVE EYES. It's either a mother and daughter or 2 sisters, both adorned in filthy house coats and the victims of bad dentistry. And they either have a younger brother, or one of them has a son (though the thought that either of those crones had actually bred a living offspring was enough to make me throw up a little bit in my mouth just now). Normally, i wouldn't care who the are or how they behave (they are on the block behind us, not on our street; our backyards share a common border), but they make life uncomfortable with the noises they make. Now, i'm not a prude about language, i have a postively Carlin-ean attitude toward "bad words" and i've done my best to de-stigmatize language with my kids, explaining that word aren't good or bad, except as they express hurtful ideas. Saying "Fuck" when you stub your toe is different than calling your teacher a "fuck", or even discussing amongst your teenage friends what celebrities are on your top 5 list of those you'd want to "fuck", and its their job to figure out the context for the appropriateness of each and to accept the consequences when they... fuck up. And i've been satisfied with the results of that bit of parenting. your mileage may vary. but i only mention this because the language that spews forth from that red-brick double-wide at all hours of the day or night, as they vent the most hateful vulgarity at each other, is so disturbing that even I find it offensive. I, who let my son watch SOUTH PARK since he's 8, am embarrassed that my kids have to be subjected to it. Its particularly bad in the summer, when windows are open and we spend my time our yard, BBQing or whatever. We've had guests over for a bbq and then THAT starts up, and we have to look around and laugh "ha ha, isn't that charming... ". I won't even mention the son's motorcycle, which roars at odd hours, and on which he often works out back, sometimes revving it. That's pretty much a relief, actually, because it drowns out the malignant mutant she-bitches from hell with whom he lives. The family was there when we bought the house. I remember the prior owners didn't spend too much time with us in their yard, and when we asked them about the neighbors they only talked about the nice ones next door and across the street. When i asked specifically about the house behind us, they sort of smiled and said, "oh, they're kind of an odd bunch" and that was it. We moved in the late summer, and we had to do alot of landscaping to make the backyard habitable, so we didnt' really get full exposure to them to the Mansons til the following spring. We tried to befriend them, and they were nice enough, but it never stopped them; it didn't even slow them down. Some people just reside in a parallel universe in which they are the only residents and fuck you for intruding into it and telling them what to do. like parents who take small kids to a late show of an R movie. they just don't give a shit about you. you don't exist. I've often fantasized about firebombing their hovel and dream of watching the rescue team pulling their smoldering corpses from the wreckage. But alas, i always wake up.

themetfairy Apr 28 2014 11:21 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

You win - your backyard neighbors are way creepier than the weirdo hoarder who used to live behind me.

d'Kong76 Apr 28 2014 11:37 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Mr. Blower is beginning to not sound so bad!

d'Kong76 Apr 28 2014 12:49 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Malignant mutant she-bitches from hell with whom he lives has made me laugh like five times now.

SteveJRogers May 01 2014 10:22 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

metirish wrote: Jesus, how annoying are those by now obligatory "IF YOU REMEMBER THIS(insert random 80s game, brown paper for covering school books ,activity etc.) THEN YOU HAD AN AWESOME CHILDHOOD" Just saw one for a combo pencil/crayon. Seriously? School supplies now count towards reminding you how "awesome" your childhood should have been or was?

Fman99 May 01 2014 10:29 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Vic Sage wrote: A trailer park must've caught fire somewhere near me, because the house behind us is populated by a family of white trash refugees from THE HILLS HAVE EYES. It's either a mother and daughter or 2 sisters, both adorned in filthy house coats and the victims of bad dentistry. And they either have a younger brother, or one of them has a son (though the thought that either of those crones had actually bred a living offspring was enough to make me throw up a little bit in my mouth just now). Normally, i wouldn't care who the are or how they behave (they are on the block behind us, not on our street; our backyards share a common border), but they make life uncomfortable with the noises they make. Now, i'm not a prude about language, i have a postively Carlin-ean attitude toward "bad words" and i've done my best to de-stigmatize language with my kids, explaining that word aren't good or bad, except as they express hurtful ideas. Saying "Fuck" when you stub your toe is different than calling your teacher a "fuck", or even discussing amongst your teenage friends what celebrities are on your top 5 list of those you'd want to "fuck", and its their job to figure out the context for the appropriateness of each and to accept the consequences when they... fuck up. And i've been satisfied with the results of that bit of parenting. your mileage may vary. but i only mention this because the language that spews forth from that red-brick double-wide at all hours of the day or night, as they vent the most hateful vulgarity at each other, is so disturbing that even I find it offensive. I, who let my son watch SOUTH PARK since he's 8, am embarrassed that my kids have to be subjected to it. Its particularly bad in the summer, when windows are open and we spend my time our yard, BBQing or whatever. We've had guests over for a bbq and then THAT starts up, and we have to look around and laugh "ha ha, isn't that charming... ". I won't even mention the son's motorcycle, which roars at odd hours, and on which he often works out back, sometimes revving it. That's pretty much a relief, actually, because it drowns out the malignant mutant she-bitches from hell with whom he lives. The family was there when we bought the house. I remember the prior owners didn't spend too much time with us in their yard, and when we asked them about the neighbors they only talked about the nice ones next door and across the street. When i asked specifically about the house behind us, they sort of smiled and said, "oh, they're kind of an odd bunch" and that was it. We moved in the late summer, and we had to do alot of landscaping to make the backyard habitable, so we didnt' really get full exposure to them to the Mansons til the following spring. We tried to befriend them, and they were nice enough, but it never stopped them; it didn't even slow them down. Some people just reside in a parallel universe in which they are the only residents and fuck you for intruding into it and telling them what to do. like parents who take small kids to a late show of an R movie. they just don't give a shit about you. you don't exist. I've often fantasized about firebombing their hovel and dream of watching the rescue team pulling their smoldering corpses from the wreckage. But alas, i always wake up. We had a similar scenario in our last house -- our backyard was adjacent to the backyard of a house on the next block over and we regularly had to listen to the cursing, the motorcycle revving, etc. Luckily for us they were foreclosed upon within a year or so of moving in, so it was a short term inconvenience.

Edgy MD May 01 2014 10:35 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

There really should be an "I like what you said in the 8th sentence of your ranty thousand-word comment but the rest of it is locotastic fruitcakes" button.

d'Kong76 May 01 2014 01:24 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

"CAUSE OF DEATH: Patient laid down the boogie and played that funky music 'til he died."

d'Kong76 May 08 2014 09:58 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

"Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes that reason is that you're stupid and make bad decisions."

Mets Guy in Michigan May 08 2014 07:09 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Who had the douche bag neighbor who built the ice-skating rink? That still takes the cake. I'm blessed with very cool neighbors. Maybe that means I'm the bad neighbor?

d'Kong76 May 08 2014 07:12 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

That was soup, and yes that was classic.

Edgy MD May 08 2014 10:52 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Who had the douche bag neighbor who built the ice-skating rink? That still takes the cake. I'm blessed with very cool neighbors. Maybe that means I'm the bad neighbor? Wait a minute.... didn't you have the bad church neighbors? Or was that zvon?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 09 2014 10:06 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

On one side are a multigenerational South Asian family who rent from their nephews and are generally kinda nasty (on the few occasions I've tried to say "hi," the grandmother ignores me... or hisses). On the other side are my de facto super and his wife; he's a genial doofus, almost always in the bag and collects/hoards/casually dings used cars... and she's nice to us face-to-face but screams at him like she's paid to do so and talks smack about our neighbors* like she's paid handsomely to do so. We tread lightly. *Best of: While speaking about a former neighbor who was brutally murdered(!) by an ex-boyfriend, "Yeah, some people just get what's coming." [Smirks; suppresses giggle]

Edgy MD May 09 2014 10:18 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

On one side are a multigenerational South Asian family who rent from their nephews and are generally kinda nasty (on the few occasions I've tried to say "hi," the grandmother ignores me... or hisses). Take "South" out of there and I'd think you were Walt Kowalski. Before we moved in, there was a house next door to us that had been the local drugdealing flophouse disaster. The bank repoed it and the residents apparently moved back in after being evicted. But it has been sold twice and is being renovated. It doesn't stop some local racist crackpot around the corner to stop by to confer with me whenever I mow my lawn: "I sure hope they don't come back. I sure hope white people move in." The other neighbors report that (1) the drug dealers were, in fact, a racially mixed bunch, and (2) since they've been gone, HE's graduated to number one on the neighborhood list of bad-elements-we'd-sure-like-to-get-rid-of. Part of me thinks that it's important to always answer casual racist crap like that. Part of me says that I'm talking to a semi-elderly madman without much purpose in life, who'd only respond by plotting to murder my dogs while I'm at work.

Ceetar May 09 2014 10:21 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

I should get to know the neighbors across the street. Especially whoever buys this place: [url]http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/776-Woodfield-Ct-Ridgewood-NJ-07450/38009103_zpid/ Last Sold:Sep 1977 for $150,000 For Sale: $1,155,000

themetfairy May 09 2014 10:28 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

*Best of: While speaking about a former neighbor who was brutally murdered(!) by an ex-boyfriend, "Yeah, some people just get what's coming." [Smirks; suppresses giggle] Sheesh that's creepy!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 09 2014 10:29 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Like I told my wife when we went to the Queens County Farm Museum last week, and a (likely manic?) woman accused her of taking pictures of the woman's child, then proceeded to swoop her child in front of us a few times to "tempt" the "pervert" (words that were actually vocalized to us)... you don't argue with crazy, and you DEFINITELY don't argue with tenacious-crazy.

Edgy MD May 09 2014 10:36 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Thanks. Don't argue with crazy. That's pretty much the way my dad would have played. Me? I would end up arguing with slugs given half a chance.

SteveJRogers May 09 2014 03:48 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

I love finding out that I've been removed from someone's friends list via either "People You May Know" or if I go to their profile and it tells me to add them as a friend. Most likely its due to them culling their list, I'd assume that if something happened that they'd feel no longer the need to remain cyber friends they'd go a step further and block someone due to them having a bunch of mutual friends. Doesn't really matter much when its just cyber friends, though I'd love a brief note of explanation so I'm not wondering if its something I've said (or everything I've said in some cases), but I've never thought the idea of a mass culling is ever a good idea. Case in point, several years ago my account went haywire on me and I lost my entire friends list and had to resend requests. I sent one person a request with the explanation, and he took it as if I really didn't want anything to do with him anymore and promised to block me if I sent any more friend requests (the person in question, a podcaster and a mutual friend of a lot of my comic book fan related cyber friends, is bi-polar and has had bouts with suicidal depression), and even kicked me out of a FB group that he is an admin of. In other words, be careful when you decide to prune your friends list, you never know who you might tick off because you accidentally removed them.

d'Kong76 May 09 2014 06:00 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Steve, you're a good dude, I doubt you said or did anything to piss anyone off to remove you as a fb friend. It's happened to everyone and me too. Most times it's people either getting sick of fb and realizing they don't need 2,500 fb friends (who does) or for other reasons they need to start over maybe. Social media, how did we ever live without it?

d'Kong76 May 09 2014 08:17 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Took image from actual facebook status, made me laugh:

Frayed Knot May 09 2014 08:19 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

d'Kong76 wrote: Social media, how did we ever live without it? Quite nicely as I recall

Edgy MD May 19 2014 10:43 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Enormous farmboy friend who moved back to Idaho five years ago and I've scarcely heard from since wrote: one year of ideal protein I have lost 223 lbs He then posted shocking shirtless before-and-after photos that you'd probably think were fake. He's basically lost the equivalent of Matt Harvey.

d'Kong76 Jun 05 2014 08:48 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

I made the mistake of friending 4-5 high school friends in the last two weeks. Navigating the home page now and sifting through everything is worse than ever ... and it sucked before that.

Edgy MD Jun 05 2014 08:52 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Amblood is certainly more radical than I remembered. I mean, he always was back in his posting days, but it seemed back then he'd wait for a provocation.

Ceetar Jun 06 2014 07:19 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

d'Kong76 wrote: I made the mistake of friending 4-5 high school friends in the last two weeks. Navigating the home page now and sifting through everything is worse than ever ... and it sucked before that. I don't mind the random HS friends, even though I've realized I'm not, and probably never was, friendly enough with some of them to even comment on anything they post. But things like this make my facebook experience better: "You will no longer see posts from Thought Catalog in News Feed"

Mets – Willets Point Jun 06 2014 07:56 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Edgy MD wrote: Amblood is certainly more radical than I remembered. I mean, he always was back in his posting days, but it seemed back then he'd wait for a provocation. Wow, blast from the past. The Rey Ordonez Deathwatch was pretty radical.

Edgy MD Jun 06 2014 08:28 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Funny thing is that he friended me after we ended up in the same thread of some mutual Mets friend, but now doesn't seem to know who I am or where he knows me from (or never knew), and thinks I'm a high school chum. I'm so flattered that he thinks I went to Exeter that I haven't corrected him yet.

Mets – Willets Point Jun 06 2014 08:36 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Ask him to "show us the plan!"

d'Kong76 Jun 21 2014 10:37 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

"I'm so old, I remember when a hashtag was called a pound sign... and we played tic-tac-toe on that shit!"

Edgy MD Jul 03 2014 09:41 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Never fail to be surpised by that small-world stuff with mutual friends. Some graphic designer who is always FB flirting with my brother is also a friend of Vic Sage. Who knew!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 03 2014 10:40 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

My most amazin Facebook coincidence was encountering a neighbor I knew as a kid among the fb friends of a guy I knew in college -- because they'd both become "bears" in the gay community.

metirish Jul 03 2014 11:01 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: My most amazin Facebook coincidence was encountering a neighbor I knew as a kid among the fb friends of a guy I knew in college -- because they'd both become "bears" in the gay community. lol....

Edgy MD Jul 03 2014 11:30 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

College friend Claire had a Leprechaun of a cousin --- small, physical, Irish, and crazy. I keep my distance from crazy when I can, but he was always a good guy in a tight spot. He friend-ed me these decades later, and what the hell, I accepted. It's all electronic, right? But a month or two later, I visit Claire in Cleveland. I reported this and she gave a worried look that kinda said, "I hope you didn't give him any money? You didn't, right?" Turns out that he didn't find me through her at all. She had blocked him. He had ended up meeting metirish on a "FuckyeahI'mfromTipperary" page, scans irish's friends list, presumably looking for fellow Tipperarians that he might know, and spotted me instead. So now I got two FB buds from Tip --- and metirish is the sane one.

metirish Jul 03 2014 11:35 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

wow, that's crazy.....I'll keep a beady eye out for him.

d'Kong76 Jul 03 2014 03:10 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

"When I come home, I can't wait to fire up the gas blower and make sure the driveway is clean. Sometimes I do it before leaving in the morning too!"

d'Kong76 Jul 11 2014 07:35 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Edgy MD Jul 11 2014 07:48 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Godzilla in the Sky! What does it mean?!

d'Kong76 Jul 13 2014 06:32 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Yankee-fan-fb friend went to Citifield for the first time today. Him and his Yankee-fan friends going on and on about how nice a stadium it is. Hmmm.

Ceetar Jul 13 2014 07:24 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

d'Kong76 wrote: Yankee-fan-fb friend went to Citifield for the first time today. Him and his Yankee-fan friends going on and on about how nice a stadium it is. Hmmm. I've heard so many Yankee fans say that. And I have yet to hear a Mets fan say Yankee stadium is nicer.

metirish Jul 13 2014 07:35 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Same here , I know it is easy and Lord knows i have complained about "all the other stuff" goin on before the game etc. but dammit Lorcan loves those bouncy castles and if that is one reason he loves going to the game then I'll take it, spent a good time playing there before we went in ....then loves the promenade club and the wings....I have been to yankee stadium several times and there is nothing endearing about it.

Edgy MD Jul 13 2014 07:42 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

"Well, if you like the stadium, you'll love the team." Try it. We could use a few prodigal fans.

themetfairy Jul 13 2014 08:27 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

They must be tired of the neo concrete of their home park.

d'Kong76 Jul 23 2014 06:54 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Possibly offensive to some but funny ... [youtube:13m28ybi]l7YvYVJsMeg[/youtube:13m28ybi]

d'Kong76 Jul 31 2014 11:19 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

d'Kong76 Jul 31 2014 12:07 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

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d'Kong76 Aug 11 2014 02:26 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Old friend of mine has a landmark birthday coming up. They made this cool banner for the party... [fimg=800:1ih1doxj]http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/danny.jpg[/fimg:1ih1doxj]

Edgy MD Aug 11 2014 06:04 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Nice. I've seen that photo before. I think they cut something from it.

Ceetar Sep 15 2014 03:01 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Danielle feeling pained 31 mins · Lake Success, NY · I hate being a woman today....... Ug......... LikeLike · · Share Marissa likes this.

d'Kong76 Oct 17 2014 10:53 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Interesting: The Clinton joke is on us … but it is not funny, even if you are a "lefty". Clinton's 20 Acre - $11 million mansion Read how the joke's on us! Hillary Rodham Clinon, as a New York State Senator now comes under this fancy "congressional retirement staffing plan" which means that if she never gets re-elected, she STILL receives her Congressional salary until she dies. If Bill out-lives her, he then inherits HER salary until he dies. He is already getting his Presidential salary until he dies. If Hillary out-lives Bill, she also gets HIS salary until she dies, Guess who pays for that? WE DO! It is common knowledge that in order for her to establish NY residency, they purchased a million dollar-plus house in upscale Chappaqua, New York...makes sense. They are entitled to Secret Service protection for life. Still makes sense. Here is where it becomes interesting. Their mortgage payments hove around $10,000/month. But an extra residence had to be built by the government on the acreage to house the Secret Service Agents. Any improvement to the property is owned by the property owners...the Clinton's. So...the Clinton's charge the federal government $10,000 monthly rent for the use of the extra residence to house the Secret Service staff which is just about equal to their mortgage payment. He is the ONLY ex-president to use this loophole. This means that we, the taxpayers, pay the Clinton's, salary, mortgage, transportation, safety and security as well as the salaries for their 12 man staff and it is all perfectly legal.

Edgy MD Oct 17 2014 11:09 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

That's a lot of apostrophe-s errors.

cooby Oct 17 2014 11:16 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

You should say "the Clinton's what?" Any improvement to the property is owned by the property owners...the Clinton's. So...the Clinton's charge the federal government $10,000 monthly rent for the use of the extra residence to house the Secret Service staff which is just about equal to their mortgage payment.

d'Kong76 Oct 17 2014 11:23 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Sweet Secret Service gig! Get paid to live on a 20 acre estate in one of the nicest towns in the northeast.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 17 2014 01:17 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

IS THAT SECRET SERVICC SHED WHERE SHE KEEPS THE PILES OF SHREDDDDED BENGHAZI DOCUMINTS

d'Kong76 Oct 17 2014 01:36 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

I've said to much already. There is a black sedan with very dark windows parked crossed the street.

cooby Oct 17 2014 01:56 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

They are probably probing your association with Edgy, since he is the one offering Top Secret Ebola info

d'Kong76 Oct 17 2014 02:03 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

I thought of that! I never bought the change from DC to MD, just sayin'.

cooby Oct 17 2014 02:07 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

LOL, yeah it makes you wonder how he's "Ebola Central" doesn't it? :)

d'Kong76 Oct 22 2014 07:38 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

What's this new pop-up box that tells you to click OK about a site you're affiliated with. I hate clicking on crap, don't trust fb at all.

d'Kong76 Nov 22 2014 03:36 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

More fb grumpiness... not a fan of all these new I made a video for you thingies popping up all over.

themetfairy Nov 22 2014 09:51 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Agreed - they're lazy and they're lame.

d'Kong76 Nov 26 2014 05:01 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

LOOTING! Because nothing says you care about a fallen brother and your community like stealing fifty boxes of Air Jordans and then burning the store to the ground.

Ceetar Dec 06 2014 07:50 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Last resort, figured I'd post here in case. My son hasn't been able to find his Under Armour sweatshirt for about two months. Highland School was the last place we know he had it. It's a gray one with gray Under Armour symbol on front. I think it was a Youth Medium. Thought I'd post in case anyone has seen it or he may have left it somewhere. Thanks in advance! From a Facebook Parents thread for my town. I thought it might be useful to join, but Sophie's 4 months old and I'm already thinking I'll quit it.

Mets – Willets Point Dec 06 2014 08:30 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Not a status update, but a guy I know from high school who rarely posts anything has been friending lots of woman all of whom have "model" or "Playboy" in their job description. I'm wondering if his account was hacked by someone in the porn business or if just happens to have a lot of erotic models for friends.

Edgy MD Dec 09 2014 05:55 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

I got 17 friend requests since late last night. I'm afraid to click. Good chance they're all porn models, right?

seawolf17 Dec 09 2014 07:09 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Edgy MD wrote: I got 17 friend requests since late last night. I'm afraid to click. Good chance they're all porn models, right? If you're lucky.

metsmarathon Dec 09 2014 08:14 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Edgy MD wrote: I got 17 friend requests since late last night. I'm afraid to click. Good chance they're all porn models, right? yes, but they're all dudes.

d'Kong76 Dec 19 2014 05:55 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

fb friend not sure if the cat or the tree must go...

Mets – Willets Point Dec 19 2014 08:50 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

A lovely ornament.

Zvon Dec 19 2014 09:45 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

awwwww

cooby Dec 21 2014 10:43 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Sweet :) My one friend has a picture of her daughter drinking the pickle juice right out of the jar! Ugh!

d'Kong76 Dec 23 2014 05:52 AM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

themetfairy Dec 27 2014 05:53 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Screw Forrest. Selling a box if chocolate without a menu/list sucks. I don't like chocolate Russian roulette.

Fman99 Dec 27 2014 07:21 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

Sweet :) My one friend has a picture of her daughter drinking the pickle juice right out of the jar! Ugh! I can top that. This is Fdad, two Passovers ago. He swears by this. Gefilte fish gelatin.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 27 2014 07:41 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

I have to admit, that would probably make me swear, too.

Edgy MD Apr 15 2015 02:54 PM Re: Actual Facebook Statuses of Your Actual Virtual Friends

If you are FaBo friends with Seawolf, click over there as quickly as humanly possible to see his triumphant dance performance.