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colleen the contrarian ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: ""lol!
I love that one. There are a few other good ones. This is the only one I can remember right now though.Let's eat kids.
Let's eat, kids.
Beth wrote: ""O_O
OMG, lol
o_O
I am not signing up for space travel.
Don't worry, Howard has developed a new "space toilet".
key phrase there "Howard has developed"
This is clearly a case of cherry picking a rather poor example....
:) not denying that
Remember Howard was there using the said toilet...even cleaning it.
10 Obnoxious Things People Say To Hard-Core Readers: http://bookriot.com/2014/06/06/10-obn...We hard-core readers have all been there. You’re trying to have a serious conversation with someone about a book you’re reading and then their eyes glaze over and they say something obnoxious. You know, like one of the following:
1. All that reading will destroy your eyes.
2. You’re going to spend all of your money on books and then you’ll starve and you can’t eat books, now can you.
3. You read books outside of class?
4. You read books for fun? What kind of masochist are you?
5. Oh, you read War and Peace? Weeeelllll, guess you’re too smart for me to talk to, huh?!
6. You know, those poor trees would still be on this planet supplying us with oxygen if it weren’t for you and your kind.
7. Why waste time reading books when you could be doing other things? Important things? Like following the latest celebrity gossip.
8. What are you, some kind of nerd?
9. You’ll have to buy a bigger house to fit all those books he heh heh heh heh heh *guffaw*.
10. You should stick to the real world.
But don’t worry- the same response is applicable to all of these obnoxious nuggets.
*DEAD-EYED STARE*
10 Obnoxious Things Hard-Core Readers Say to People: http://bookriot.com/2014/06/09/10-obn...
Ok, Rachel’s list is super-cute, but let’s be real for a second: non-readers don’t have a monopoly on being obnoxious. Here are 10 super-cringy things I’ve overhead book people saying to non-book people, and I wish to goodness they would stop.
1. Oh, you watch television. Oh. I read.
2. Uh huh. I didn’t see that movie because I already read the book and obviously it’s going to be better.
3. I only read 100 books last year. I hope to do better this year.
4. Your favourite writer is Jodi Picoult? Oh. Okay. Yeah, no, she’s fine.
5. I would love to buy something like that but I spend all my money on books.
6. Ebooks? Ew. There’s just something about a tangible book and the way it smells.
7. Oh, you’re just getting to that book now? I read an ARC months ago.
8. Tee hee! I just bought all these books and goodness, I feel so guilty!
9. Um, where are your bookshelves? (<--- TRUTH WHERE ARE YOUR BOOKSHELVES???)
10. I don’t understand how you fill your time if you don’t read!
....but I DO love the way paper books smell... I don't mean to annoy anyone.
*cough* I do... all of them but 6 & 7. O_o
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "....but I DO love the way paper books smell... I don't mean to annoy anyone."Agreed
Nicki wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "2. Uh huh. I didn’t see that movie because I already read the book and obviously it’s going to be better."I'm sooo guilty of this one. I try not to watch adaptations without rea..."
Its ok. I'll be there, too. We can talk books. :)
Becky wrote: "*cough* I do... all of them but 6 & 7. O_o"Sometimes I do 6, too...
Oh I like the way books smell, but I don't disparage ebooks.
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The only ones I do are 3 and 6 - and only partially 'cause I only do #3 on goodreads and I will read ebooks, I just prefer paper.I'm sort of half-and-half on the movie thing. It depends on how attached I am to the source material, and how badly they butchered it.
But I've been known to like a movie more than its book...
ETA: And there are some things for which I would rather watch the movie/show than read the book. ;)
I like ebooks but they get lost in the ether for me quite often. DTBs are always easier to remember. Plus...I stack them EVERYWHERE.
Yeah, I have the ether problem with ebooks, too. I was just clearing out stuff from my Nook this morning and came across a few books I'd forgotten I'd even downloaded.I try to only download stuff when I'm going to be reading it, but best laid plans and all that...
I have a Kindle, but I tend to use it for the books that are available as "E-book only".
colleen the contrarian ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "Yeah, I have the ether problem with ebooks, too. I was just clearing out stuff from my Nook this morning and came across a few books I'd forgotten I'd even downloaded.I try to only download stuf..."
I love discovering books I downloaded and don't remember. It's like finding treasure every time it happens. LOL.
Jackie wrote: "I love discovering books I downloaded and don't remember. It's like finding treasure every time it happens. LOL. "I'd probably get excited, too, if I were actually keen on the books. Most times, though, they're either old group reads or something I told someone I'd read that I'm not really that fussed about.
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I have a Kindle, but I tend to use it for the books that are available as "E-book only"."Yeah, I'm getting there, too.
My daughter bought me the Kindle for Father's Day last year because she said she was tired of hearing me complain that some books were available as Ebook only LOL.
Ala wrote: "100 books in a year...pffft. Noobs."lmao!
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Half human hybrids throughout the galaxy...
lol!
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Brenda ╰☆╮ wrote: "LOLI kinda liked the guy being [spoilers removed]
:D"
LOL!
HUbby and I were at an amusement park the other day, on a coaster. They guy in front of us was taking either a movie or a selfie...on the coaster as it's moving.
And we joked the shit out of him - to ourselves, of course. But I think he heard us. he was looking sour later.
I dunno, it's actually kinda impressive if he managed to take a decent selfie on a moving coaster. o_O
Hmmm...very true.
Maybe it DIDN'T turn out!That's why the sour face.
Has to do it all over again.
:/
I really hate the whole selfie thing. It's right up there along with taking pics of food.
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