beetledrink:

beetledrink:

i hate… i haaate when you’re talking to someone who you know won’t recognize just “dnd” so you have to say out loud “dungeons and dragons” and wait for a horde of jocks to start kicking the shit out of you

i had to tell my 71 year old grandpa i was tired today because last night was game night which meant playing Dungeons and Dragons with my friends. he asked me if i won and i had to say no i did not win Dungeons and Dragons

chinolajuice:

On the Federal Building in San Francisco 10/31/18

sonypraystation:

relishboi:

relishboi:

relishboi:

i wanna make another smash ultimate tier list… anyone got any ideas

i LOVE it. gonna do that

and here it is!

mautlin:

mautlin:

are people who believe the word “straight” was created to “slur heterosexuals” somehow not aware of the extremely prevalent meaning of “straight” in the past to mean clean, proper, not on drugs, not involved in crime, not “bent” (used to mean gay), just a normal, respectable dude on a correct life path… like that’s what people meant when they said “he’s straight” before it became almost exclusively a sexual orientation term. they just meant he’s normal 

however, I do think we as a community should come up with some terms to slur heterosexuals

javert-delacour:

ridley-did-9-11:

donpatch18:

centali:

rude-buster:

versus-verses:

rafi-dangelo:

1) We don’t want to talk to you.

2) We don’t want to pause our music to talk to you.

3) We don’t even talk to each other on the phone — why would we want to talk to you?

But the biggest reason is A TRAIL. If I e-mail you back, you can see what was said in the future. You can’t tell me I forgot to tell you something because it’s right there. You can’t tell me I “never reached out” because we can both SEE it. I don’t have to trust your recollection.

And, in a group inbox, you can see who has been responded to. I got forwarded a voicemail from my supervisor (through e-mail! imagine that!) asking me to call some lady back for clarification. So I did, against my will of course…and she said somebody had called her yesterday.

Who? When? What did y’all talk about? Is follow-up necessary?

Phone calls back and forth only work in a workflow where the standard procedure is to *log* phone calls in a shared system with a brief summary of what was discussed. Otherwise, y’all need to let us e-mail. It’s not just about a generation gap. It’s also about efficiency.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Any feedback can be proffered via e-mail.

EDIT

Also: let’s keep it real – we multi-task better than you do. If I’m on the phone with you, I’m FORCED to do that ONE thing and put whatever you want above all the other things I could’ve been doing. If you e-mail me, I can research what you want (while doing other things), find the solution (while doing other things), and offer it to you in a nice concise package (while doing other things) without sitting on the phone with you in awkward silence looking for the answer to whatever you think is urgent. (It’s not urgent. You’re not dying. I know it’s not urgent.)

Follow a CYA policy. Cover your ass. If your company has an email retention policy that involves automatic deletion after a year for space reasons? PDF that shit if it’s important or in any way something you could be held liable for.

I’ve been on my current job for 2 years and this has already saved me from being blamed for a 7 figure screw up.

plus, idk about y’all, but i’m WAY more coherent in an e-mail than in a phone call. an e-mail gets rid of fillers like “um” or “like” and it gives people a chance to think about what they want to say before they have to say it (which for my ADHD brain means thinking out the sentence instead of just blurting it out).

i also find phone calls really hard to understand hearing-wise. i’m a better reader.

i hate both pls just text me