Saturday, January 2, 2021

Engineer Gets Ditched In Revenge Of The Week


It's time for the revenge story of the week, and man, is this one a treat. This entitled sound engineer got what was coming his way. It sounds like he was just the kind of presumptuous brat that needed a wakeup call. Fortunately, the crew he worked with and generally drove insane was more than ready to give it to him. And boy oh boy, did that wakeup call come in a brutal fashion. We're talking the guy getting ditched hundreds of miles from home, and eventually having to get picked up by his dad!

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/GhostOfSorabji • 1d + JOIN Apprentice engineer pisses off the crew... gets left behind 250 miles from home Lordy! I was reminded of this story after a recent phone call from an old friend. Rather a long one, so sincere apologies in advance. It's part O r/ProRevenge, part Or/EntitledPeople.

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Text - Some years age, I got a gig working a weekend music festival. Fairly simple too: ten bands per day and all pretty standard rock 'n' roll fare. Bossman puts four of us out on the gig: me, Dreadful Boris, Big Chris and Hammer. He also said we'd be taking out an apprentice, a young lad who was the son of a local promoter. Well, always nice to have an extra pair of hands, and it's good to help train the next generation-after all, that's how we learnt in the past.

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Text - As it turned out this lad was about as much use as an aqualung to a trout, and had an entitled attitude the size of a mid-ranged African country. On the journey down in the truck, he was boasting as to how he was "a really good sound engineer" already and that "he could probably show us a few tricks." Oh, really?

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Text - We get to the venue and get busy unloading the truck: we've got a 16-tonner stuffed to the gills with two sounds desks and about 16KW of sound gear for front-of-house and about 6KW of monitors. As you might imagine, this is pretty heavy stuff and it takes all of us to safely unload it and get it stacked up in place-except that, after unloading the first amp rack (all on wheels but still around 80 kilos), the Entitled Brat snottily announces that “I'm a sound engineer, not a humper...", an

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Text - Well, we don't really need him gumming up the works-we're all well used to slinging boxes around, so about an hour later we've got the rig stacked up and strapped down, run out the multicore to the FOH desk, and are ready to start cabling up and tying power into the on-site generator. Out of nowhere, the Spotty Oik emerges from whatever hole he had buried himself in and asks what he can do. I say, "I'm going to plug up front- of-house, perhaps you could help Hammer cable up the speakers.

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Text - "I don't take orders from girlies!" (Quick side note here: Hammer was 5' 9", drop- dead gorgeous and as hard as nails–hence her nickname. She was also a damn fine FOH engineer and a bloody good mate.) Boris, Chris and I collectively groaned inwardly and winced in anticipation of a full 16" broadside from Hammer (seriously, folks-you do NOT fuck with her unless you want the family jewels dangling from the nearest tree!)

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Text - Instead she smiles sweetly (NEVER a good sign) and says, "well l'm sure you'll learn something useful." | then go off to play with cables FOH, while Boris and Chris busy themselves with the monitors. A while later I'm back on stage: Spotty Oik has wandered off again. Hammer has this resigned look on her face: "what happened?", I ask. Turns out that, despite cables and connector ports being well labelled, The Oik had managed to make a complete pig's ear of plugging up the amp racks. Trust

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Text - I found The Oik some moments later and told him that it was not the proper way of doing things, and that if he wasn't sure what to do that he should always ask one of us beforehand. What then came out of his mouth absolutely floored me: “I don't need to know all that shit. I'm a sound engineer!" <blink>

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Text - Hammer, who was standing a few feet away, snorted derisively and rolled her eyes heavenwards. It took me a few seconds to process this particular nugget of stupid: “Well, you HAVE to know how all this works; it's part and parcel of the job and as you're here to learn, I suggest you pay attention." "Well, you're just a bunch of roadies; what do you know?"

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Text - Upon delivering this charming bon mot, he ambles off (again) leaving me to retrieve my jaw from off the deck and Hammer barely able to restrain a fit of laughter that would have incapacitated a rhino. At a guess, this idiot thought he was going to be white-gloving front- of-house for the whole gig. An hour or so later, we're all set up, and we now have a fair idea of the acts that are going to be performing. In situations like this, you rarely get the opportunity of a full-blown soundchec

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Text - A bit of exposition: it's convenient to reuse channels across acts, so I generally keep the first twenty or so channels for drums, bass and guitars, and the last half dozen or so channels for vocals. If a band comes in with anything else- percussion, brass, Tibetan nose flutes etc., we whack them on channels in the middle. Keeps things nice, simple and consistent across the board, and becomes important in a moment.

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Text - The working procedure in-show is also simple: Dreadful Boris and Big Chris run the monitor desk, and Hammer and I run front-of house. We'll do two acts each before handing over to the other (saves wear and tear on the ears) and when we're not running the desk, we'll handle setting up the stage for each act and troubleshooting where necessary, as well as doing runs for food and coffee in between.

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Text - We also tasked the Spotty Oik with helping with the stage setups, which rapidly proved problematical. We finished the first act and aimed to do the turnover within fifteen minutes. Generally the incoming act will tell us their mic requirements and we'll write up a mic plot which then gets sent up to the front-of-house desk. Up comes Spotty Oik with the mic plot and he goes back to help with the stage setup. As I'm checking each mic, I notice that I cannot hear the vocal channels. No soone

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Text - Seconds later he's back on the cans: "Do you know what that fecking idiot has done? Only repatched ALL the vocal channels so that all the plugs on the stagebox are “lined up neatly one after the other!–his words!!" Ye Gods!

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Text - Boris rapidly repatches the mics and we're good to go again. A few hours later and l'm starting my second shift out front (I won't bore you with my experiences of riding herd on Spotty Oik on the stage shift which–shall we say, was interesting. Currently on stage is a rather nice jazz septet (I love doing jazz-give me a nice 20-piece big band and I'm a happy bunny). Up strolls He Who Shall Not Be Mentioned and asks, "When can I have a go at mixing. I'm really good, you know." Seeing as

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Text - he's here to learn I tell him he can take the next act under my supervision. This happened to be an acoustic duo–two guitars and two vocals. Even the most tyro engineer should be able to handle something so simple, right? Wrong!! I've already set what I regarded as a sensible baseline on the faders for him to work with. First thing he does, he reaches for the master faders and cranks in another 15dB–NOO000!!! Immediately the rig teeters on the edge of feedback and I rapidly pull the mains

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Text - He then starts making wildly inappropriate changes to the channels' EQ-again the rig starts to squeak. Ok, enough! I shove him out of the way and bring it back under control. I won't fatigue you further with the endless catalogue of foulups and attitude that he managed to effect over the rest of the weekend, suffice it to say that despite the best efforts of myself and Hammer to try and teach this guy, they all went to naught. Couple this with the constant drip-drip-drip of snide commenta

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Text - Come the end of the event and it's now the fun part of striking the rig and loading out (I'm being sarcastic about the fun part, by the way). Two solid days and we're all knackered and the last thing we want to be doing is the get-out but, of course, it has to be done. It's always an all-hands- on-deck situation... except the Spotty Oik has, once again, vanished into the woodwork.

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Text - Two back-breaking hours later and we're all done, and the truck loaded to go home. So where is the Spotty Oik? Nowhere!

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Text - We give it a good fifteen minutes-but no joy. We then decide to go look for him, so we spent another twenty minutes trolling around the site trying to find him. Again, he's done a disappearing act. We get back to the truck-it's now close to 3am-and almost simultaneously we say, “Fuck him!". We climb back aboard and drive the 250 miles back to the warehouse to unload. Next afternoon, Bossman calls me to find out why we'd left the Spotty Oik behind. I gave him the Cliff Notes and was then t

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Funny, Strange and Goofy Tumblr Gems


There is no limit to the observations tumblr users can make. Whether it's a poignant musing on humanity in general or a bone-chillingly dumb opinion on eggs , there's a time and place for it. Funny, random and shiny tumblr gems burst forth from the full pockets of the internet, not necessarily changing the world but also being time well spent.

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Blue - i-hate-chick-fil-a Folgen Javeigh Young-White Follow @javeigh Why do paintings of people centuries ago never show pimples? Ur telling me these people who drank shit water and took baths 2x a decade had clear skin? 4:50 PM - 12 Sep 2018 45,829 Retweets 271,272 Likes survivablyso Folgen they had this amazing filter, called I'm the one paying you' Quelle: i-hate-chick-fil-a

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Text - roswell-newton-vargas If you guys are ever worried people don't buy me enough Bath & Body Works lotion, I just want you to know you can rest easy because it's the only present I ever get and I don't know what to do anymore. roswell-newton-vargas WHITENATE I can't keep living like this. I don't have enough skin. roswell-newton-vargas The cops beat down the door trying to arrest me for operating an illegal Bath & Body Works reseller but I'm just so fucking silky smooth that they can't catch

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Text - hedgerowdevil Follow OFFICER: the victims were dismembered and sacrificed on an altar made of antlers DETECTIVE: dear god OFFICER: most likely yes fourpawrule Follow FINALLY, A QUALITY PUN. whatdoyoumeanitsnotawesome Follow Hannibal, NBC, 2013

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Text - every human being deserves shelter and a meal optimistic-pessimisms No. You dont pay people to exist for the same reason you dont feed the bears. teaboot Yeah man if I give the 50 year old lady at my bus stop some spare change for fare and a meal she'll lose interest in foraging for desiccated salmon carcasses and lose her natural fear of people. Next thing you know she's in the suburbs, running around on all fours trying to eat a corgi

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Text - Canadian Pride @Fox_Fusion "Why do millennials hate the rich?" "Why do millennials pirate everything?" "Why do millennials drift towards socialism?" "Why are millennial furries?" One answer: Disney's Robin Hood 10:50 PM 10 Jul 18 maneth985 well this didn't go the direction I expected

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Text - Food - Vonderifal COPENIIACEN Buter wor44 16. darkesthorizons: neptuneisforlovers: ITS NOT SEWING SUPPLIES! My question is how does every single person identify with this, is it like a secret rule to use those for sewing supplies?

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Text - verylostpenguin It's my grandpa's birthday next week and he said "I don't want to be 85" and my grandmother, his wife of 59 and a half years, said "well your only alternative is to die", I can't believe how affectionate they are verylostpenguin I was having lunch with them today and my grandpa started throwing napkins at my grandmother, and she balled it up and looked all set to throw it back but then she put it down and said "I will not throw it because I was brought up properly, you wer

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Text - O eggcup-deactivated20180129 hmm? what's that? oh, you don't like my seeds? *evolves into a fruit that bears no seeds but is now a monoculture that is especially susceptible to pests and disease* how about that idiot a gay-bananamancer Don't vague post about bananas you scum 209,131 notes

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Text - lesbianrey my internship boss was talking about how he had to work in a mail room to make ends meet during college where he "only made $6/ hr" and 6.00 in January v 1980 - has the same buying power as $18.73 in January • 2017 Calculate essefex This is why my generation is angry about the minimum wage. %24

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Organism - facts-i-just-made-up: cocktormedick facts-i-just-made-up Mated turtles share their shells! Not always but often when a pair of turtles mates, the male will leave his own shell and move in with the female. After doing so the couple will coordinate their am and leg movements to walk and even swim. I all this "Trying to get notes with false facts." I assure you, Facts-l-Just-Made-Up would never post false facts just to get notes. I also do it to confuse, misinform, and hurt people. Sourc

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Text - People - - cryptid-sighting Follow I just found out that the Korean baseball league's championship trophy is a giant sword YONHAP NEWS patrickdiomedes Follow Every other sports league on the planet needs to get their shit together.

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Forehead - im too much of a baby for tinder i wanna meet people the old fashioned way where we're both on either side of a fish tank and notice each other thru the water... literallytryingmybestbutok Nobody: OP trying to find love through a fish tank:

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Text - zagreus obsessed with this tweet Elijah Personette @Elderqueer No cake in a "cake looks like object" video is in fact cake. It is a pound of fondant wrapped around a miserable little piece of bread the consistency of florist's foam. Beautiful art to be sure, but each is a lie wrapped in another lie, as edible as the object it apes. but also deeply insulted by the implication that fondant isnt delicious fetus-cakes fondant is garbage and I'm willing to duel over that statement

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Text - banjobutch UNREAL: Cartoon Network Tells Children There Are Multiple Genders O subarktis Follow is he saying there's one gender bisexual-supreme Follow There's one gender and we all have to share 13,911 notes

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Screenshot - She wanted to go to the zoo in her new banana costume to see the monkeys. big-nose-seal Follow the monkeys like it retroactivebakeries Follow #pogchimp kkneesockks Follow

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Text - jasontoddiefor Follow Modern Sherlock Holmes but he's a 27 year old, drinks energy drinks only, is astonishing polite and has no idea how the solar system works because it was never relevant to a case but can name every every person involved in making Super Mario Bros because he did need that for a case once. Watson is continuously appalled about his eating habits and makes vague posts on Twitter that ends in threads like Watson: “My roommate noticed only today he can label his email inbo

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Text - an-animal-imagined-by-poe My favorite ever pronoun story has to be one of my German professor's. He fondly remembers being mugged by a gang of teenagers in Dresden, who used Sie (formal you) the entire time. ask-sparkling-awesomeness HAND OVER THE WALLET MY GOOD SIR

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Dog breed - goth-mabel Fanfic written by 14-year-olds is so wild because they all think "smirk" is just a fancy word for smile so every serious romantic scene comes out looking like

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Text - literallyaflame "wait so are u gen z or a millennial" dude idk i was born in 1997, everyone has an opinion about what generation i should be in except me. i don't really remember the 90s cause i was too busy being born and shitting myself, but i remember dialup internet and shit. idk dude i'm so tired, like, i'm only legally old enough to drink as of a few months ago but im somehow already thousands of dollars in debt dingdongyouarewrong the struggles of the zillennials

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Text - xueyangapologist Follow honestly when aliens arrive we should start having sex with them as soon as possible. so when they decide to take over a lot of them already have emotional connections/physical offspring and will form a sizeable resistance. not me, i don't want to, but i know a lot of you would be into that, and i'm telling you it's okay, you're actually the last hope for our species. liesmyth Follow thank you op this means a lot 182,630 notes

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Text - tilthat TIL that in 1946, a trapped moth caused a malfunction in the early computer which resulted in the term 'bug’ to be coined for all software errors. via reddit.com 1dietcokeinacan Follow What an icon pbrim Follow And we know about it because Admiral Grace Hopper, one of the early programmers, wrote about it in her diary and even taped the fried corpse of the moth to the page. 9,098 notes

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Human - silvasaliva: kramergate: ive seen a lot of unintentionally VERY funny interpretations of Cain & Abel but portraying them as a couple of mid-1950s schoolyard boys having a "WHY I OUGHTA" fight is realy just splendid cain: WHY I OUGHTA- narrators voice: And he did, moments later.

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Text - yroxis Personality: I DON'T GIVE A FUCK Anxiety: I do whospilledthebongwater No post has ever described my life as accurately as this one

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Text - Blue - Mattr Graphics Tougher Fdgier Nintendo owldude: bryko: AN ACTUAL SLIDE FROM NINTENDO'S 2003 E3 PRESS CONFERENCE early 2000s is a treasure

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Text - teaberryblue Dogs and Women I was walking to the train station after work today and I heard a guy's voice shouting: "Hey! Hey pretty, you're so pretty, come here! Come here, aren't you going to give me a kiss? Yeah, you, come on and give me a smooch, you pretty thing!" Disgusted, I turned around, ready to knock some heads together, and saw he was talking to a tiny French bulldog being walked by another man. And it hit me, with sharp clarity, just how much a man catcalling a woman sounds l

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Self-Titled Geniuses Who Sprayed the Internet with Cringeworthy Bragging


Whether it's born out of insecurity, compensation or the misguided belief that they are truly the best and brightest, cringeworthy braggarts have covered the internet with their supposed genius. It's amazing to witness someone who thinks so highly of themselves with no proof other than that they just believe they're geniuses.

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Text - So I wanna tweet something but I think most of my followers aren't intellectuals so it's gonna be taken a different way than I want it to. Sigh 10:22 · 23 Jan 20 · Twitter for iPhone

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Water - NowThis Future ... NOW FUTURE 8 hrs • O The science behind stacking 6 different liquids via Seeker SCI See cer + 1500 29 Comments • 67 Shares 188K Views 149 לן Litke Comment Share Ok so you mixed 6 liquids of different specific gravities... to what end... for decoration to impress your less intelligent friends and show off your superior knowledge of elementary physics... cuz it sure doesn't make a novel party drink... hope you have a lot of satisfaction with your small level of superiori

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Text - Finger - Diamond rings are just fine. In this case It does not match the hand so the esthetic is not really there, but this is not an engagement ring and it doesn't really have any meaning. Why wearing a random ring gives such a morale boosts is also very interesting to analyze but many would hate to read the truth, so I will have that conversation with my friends. Reply

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Text - Text - 8m Was shocked and amazea to see Faust trending! Maybe there is hope! Wait... No. It's a Video Game Character! Goethe wrote in Faust my favorite quote. "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Stop playing games and go read a damn book 5m w... Faust is trending because it's a video game character. Not because it's one of the best plays ever written. Stop playing games and go to the library. At least try to pretend you're well educated. Goeth

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Text - 6d Ahh you poor miaguided delusional fool. I have plenty of people to borrow money from and give thanks to. I'm happily married and I can see through all the mindless facade that you and your dim ilk are so politely scarfing down your enlarged brainholes. If I am to suicide itll be because i cant take the idiocy of this world any longer. Yes it is depressing being so smart and aware of the downhill ride the world is heading down.. Enjoy your blissful ignorance puny pleb -4 6d Is that like

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Text - So bored i redisgned an atlas with better H. Indatres ONEWORID Apel engines 16cker So d detch Cngine Mocafim C (meled eap Ronds dansh tif 456 AVSRRALIA

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Text - Drugs and alcohol are a bad idea for normal people, but if you're as smart as I am then you have to do things like that just to lower your IQ to a functional level

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Text - 49 mins · I remember being in 6th grade with everyone else in my class thinking "Ice Ice Baby" was the greatest song ever... Picking up on the bass line, i correctly knew that song was a pure rip off of "Under Pressure"... At age 11. JIM CARREY IÇE ICE BABY IN LIVING COLOR, 1991

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Text - Joday at 12:23 PM imagine having an iq lower than 130 dude shut up youre bad with words Today at 12:23 PM you're**

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Text - il 2degrees ? 12:14 AM Tweet Kind reminder. The X chromosome contains 1098 genes. The Y chromosome has only 78 genes. The X chromosome is over 5 times larger than the Y. Its science. Female are superior. By far. Hence hundreds of years of chauvinism to try suppress her. Goodnight. 19/02/18, 10:34 PM 19 Retweets 75 Likes Mh Replying to Onions have more DNA than humans Tweet your reply

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Text - Text - Fiow was your day? It was good. Just watching some Netflix Nice, what are you watching? The Office!! My favorite show. My dad is the epitome of Michael Scott Ugh. What? That show is so..stupid. You don't learn anything from television like that Clearly you are not engaged with proper television that I watch. The Office has nothin but unintelligent humor. I don't have an IQ of 136 for nothing. Try watching something mentally stimulating like The National Geographic or something on t

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Text - Text - Replying to ers Kid, I was born on the internet. I was programming at the age of 8. I used to run websites. I used to sell server space and game servers. In grade 10. All you idiots were born after the iPad. You're all manipulated zombies. YOU don't know what the internet is. 7:25 AM · 15 Jan 20 · Twitter Web App

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Text - Oh really? If we get rid of Samsung Apple will plummet hard, Apple is using all Samsung's software and still can't compete in any real level, so basically you may as well go get a delorean and live in the past as that's exactly what you are promoting! And for you generic people who can't research and are very simple minded (hence being an iPhone lover) a delorean is the car that Doc and Marty McFly use to travel through time 6 05 Like Reply 2d

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Text - Yep. I cringe everytime I see a sports jersey on the streets. I automatically deduct 60 IQ points off that person unless proven otherwise. Reply That's a great way to go about living your life. Why do you say that? I dont like meddling with neanderthals. I look down on the homers of what could be a great progressive society. Im actually cursed cuz ignorance is bliss. + -2

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Text - I can't continue seeing content that is beneath my intellectual level. 3:06 PM · 20 Jan 20 · Twitter for iPhone 2 Likes

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Text - Text - Through out my school life. There isn't a single semester where I got all A's and I'm probably the most intelligent person I know. Which is why I don't like to judge my intelligence based on school grades. I'm far more intelligent than my school grades show. 3:40 PM · 13.01.2020 · Twitter for Android 86 Retweets 422 Likes

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Text - Text - 6:19 ... Every masterpiece has á cheap copy f TOP COMMENTS Both damn good characters Reply 127 Shitty fucking characters portraying intelligent people wrong, us smart people look the same as everyone else but the only difference is that we exceed in everything -111 What? You're smart? 58 Add a comment 1 Share Award 21.1k 57

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