Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.

Post by **fbmf** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:22 am

Kaelik wrote:I watched it with my siblings

Emphasis mine.

There's more of you?!

Game On,
fbmf

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 1:09 am

Now I'm picturing a Kaelik Clan, devoted to shitting on everything you like, with different members of the Kaelik clan being on different message boards, a Kaelik for every interest.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 1:25 am

fbmf wrote:
Kaelik wrote:I watched it with my siblings
Emphasis mine.

There's more of you?!

Game On,
fbmf

They are different. One is sports, drinking, anime and medicine Kaelik, one is science, non-sci-fi/fantasy books, and horses Kaelik, and I am anime, sci-fi/fantasy, D&D, videogames, and law Kaelik.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:09 am

I'm just going to observe that that list contains all of medicine, law, and horses. Now, I'm not saying that makes your family seem a little wealthy or pretentious, buuut... if you were an anime girl, how big would your hairdrills be? Would you be the princess of a fictional European country? Would you laugh kind of like Santa Claus after being kicked in the balls?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:10 am

This is Kaelik, the iconic anime evil laugh is the motto on his family crest.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:38 am

DSMatticus wrote:I'm just going to observe that that list contains all of medicine, law, and horses. Now, I'm not saying that makes your family seem a little wealthy or pretentious, buuut... if you were an anime girl, how big would your hairdrills be? Would you be the princess of a fictional European country? Would you laugh kind of like Santa Claus after being kicked in the balls?

Prak wrote:This is Kaelik, the iconic anime evil laugh is the motto on his family crest.

Hey hey hey, we earned (for a given value of earned that involves acquiring from non family members) our terribly large piles of money. But yes, my hair drills are bigger than your head, and my laugh is evil as fuck.

EDIT: I require an avatar that involves giant hair drills and evil laughter.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:47 am

I might have to draw a Kaelik Family Crest with hair drills and evil laughter...

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:50 am

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 3:09 am

Why do rich ladies in anime always got hair drills? Is it like being fat in the Victorian era, where having a crazy hair style indicates that you can afford that kind of expensive hair treatment, or is it more like a camel deal where they store fat and money in the drills?

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:16 pm

angelfromanotherpin wrote:

Where is the like button on this forum?

Pseudo Stupidity · Post by **Pseudo Stupidity** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:35 pm

I want to see two Kaeliks Kaeliking about anime or scifi/fantasy at each other, unless there's an unspoken agreement amongst the clan where vitriol can't be directed at each other. I find it more likely that there's some sort of world-ending prophesy about what happens when two Kaeliks argue.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:51 pm

Pseudo Stupidity wrote:I want to see two Kaeliks Kaeliking about anime or scifi/fantasy at each other, unless there's an unspoken agreement amongst the clan where vitriol can't be directed at each other. I find it more likely that there's some sort of world-ending prophesy about what happens when two Kaeliks argue.

If so, then that guy who predicts the end of the world every few weeks is correct, because my brother and I argue about football every Sunday.

violence in the media · Wed Jan 07, 2015 3:03 pm

DSMatticus wrote:I'm just going to observe that that list contains all of medicine, law, and horses. Now, I'm not saying that makes your family seem a little wealthy or pretentious, buuut... if you were an anime girl, how big would your hairdrills be? Would you be the princess of a fictional European country? Would you laugh kind of like Santa Claus after being kicked in the balls?

I'm kind of imagining the Kaelik clan as the Student Council from Utena.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 3:38 pm

Shrapnel wrote:Why do rich ladies in anime always got hair drills? Is it like being fat in the Victorian era, where having a crazy hair style indicates that you can afford that kind of expensive hair treatment, or is it more like a camel deal where they store fat and money in the drills?

Because they quickly and understandably show that character is fancy. Like how when character has blonde hair and blue eyes, you immediately know he's a foreigner, or at least half-foreigner. Fancy hairstyle for girls, and suits and frilly ties for boys instantly identify person as Lord/Lady Fancypants.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:21 pm

You know, Kaelik coming from an affluent background, but not quite affluent enough to not actually have to work explains a lot of stuff I didn't understand before. This isn't meant as a jab and I apologize in advance if this is taken as one, but I think I "get" a lot of things I didn't before. Also, finally sitting down and actually Reading Nietzsche helped too.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 11:07 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:You know, Kaelik coming from an affluent background, but not quite affluent enough to not actually have to work explains a lot of stuff I didn't understand before. This isn't meant as a jab and I apologize in advance if this is taken as one, but I think I "get" a lot of things I didn't before. Also, finally sitting down and actually Reading Nietzsche helped too.

Once again, my personal success in law and my brother's success in medicine, and my sister's success in science do not originate from affluence. Our parents were solidly middle-middle class while we were growing up (and I guess still are?). The existence of money now does not necessitate money in the past, even if there is usually a strong correlation.

Even when saying: "NoNoNo I'm totally not insulting you, just saying bad things about you" you still can't help but make false assumptions about me and how now you understand me. For fucks sake Count, just stop telling me how you understand how events in the past/my life make/made me who I am when you (still) don't know things.

Like I don't say "Oh you have these traits because [insert event or current circumstance]" to people who I know really well, because people are complex, and I am not an idiot, but you have been godawfully committed to saying that to me over and over about different things for years now. Please stop.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 12:12 am

I don't actually know what part of Kaelik stereotypes about affluence would explain to begin with. He's not snobby, he just argues on the internet. I hear he's even a little mean about it sometimes.

Now, my grandparents actually did stumble into being new money a few decades before I came along (my dad had me late), and I'm like 90% sure that on that side of the family not a single one of my father, two grandparents, three uncles, or one aunt have worked a day since I was born. My family gatherings are a motley assortment of... good ol' rural folk, rocket scientists, and spoiled underachievers, and the only part of that that is an exaggeration is the s on the end of rocket scientist; I can only boast one family member who has ever worked for NASA. But we don't get to wear hairdrills because we have no class. If anyone in my family has anything to do with horses, it's a hopelessly self-destructive addiction to gambling.

EDIT: I feel the need to clarify that I personally am not loaded. My arm of the family is the smallest and poorest, and other than the fact that my father retired early for an absolutely insane definition of early it was a fairly ordinary middle-class upbringing.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 1:33 am

Frankly there is nothing quite like being a lawyer for having a crash course in pretending to be an upper crust elite with class and anime hair drills. You basically have to make country clubbing and golf jokes and "HAHA, isn't this super expensive private school that we send our kids to and pay for out of pocket and still have enough money for multiple houses CrAZy ExPeNsIvE" comments with a bunch of old white men on a relatively daily basis to get anything done. Despite that it makes absolutely no fucking sense for a late 20s young adult with no kids and not all that much money yet to be making those jokes/comments.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:55 am

Yeah, my cousin's a very well compensated CPA and he's got some decent war stories on that topic. His get especially weird because while people are greatly confused as to what it is many lawyers actually do at least television has trained us to assume that it's either important or sketchy. Whereas high end accountants go from dealing with hair drills at work to having people at the bar assuming they could be easily replaced by TurboTax software.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 5:21 am

My sister's working on her Ph.D in Polymer Science at University of Massachusetts.

On her way to being the first Ph.D in the family.

Count Arioch the 28th · Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:10 am

Kaelik wrote: Like I don't say "Oh you have these traits because [insert event or current circumstance]" to people who I know really well, because people are complex, and I am not an idiot, but you have been godawfully committed to saying that to me over and over about different things for years now. Please stop.

That is a reasonable request, and I will do my best to accommodate that.

EDIT: Honestly, I was hoping that we could put our previous fights behind us at this point. Yeah, maybe how I did it was the wrong way to go about it (I acknowledge I have serious mental issues and I am taking aggressive steps to treat it at this point now that I have good insurance and a decent job), but I honestly don't remember why we're supposed to be pissed at each other anymore. Yeah, you're kind of a dick, but so am I (and let's face it, I would bet a majority of the people on this board are here because no one else would put up with our bullshit).

I do apologize if I said the wrong thing socially because I don't have a fucking clue how these things work. But I'm tired of being pissed at people when whatever it was they supposedly did happened so long ago I don't actually remember it.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 3:00 pm

Cartoon Network removed Pokemon from their On-Demand channel! Fuckers. Now where am I supposed to watch the newest episodes?

Pseudo Stupidity · Post by **Pseudo Stupidity** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 3:53 pm

Having to pretend to be rich is the worst. I had to eat a super expensive snow crab claw and I have never eaten crab claws before. Then people started talking about, I shit you not, the opera. I could say maybe two sentences on the subject because I had taken a music appreciation class that covered the opera and they were talking about Don Giovanni. It was uncomfortable and it turns out you use the tiny forks to scrape the meat out of the claws.

Rich people are fucking strange.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 5:05 pm

Pseudo Stupidity wrote:Having to pretend to be rich is the worst. I had to eat a super expensive snow crab claw and I have never eaten crab claws before. Then people started talking about, I shit you not, the opera. I could say maybe two sentences on the subject because I had taken a music appreciation class that covered the opera and they were talking about Don Giovanni. It was uncomfortable and it turns out you use the tiny forks to scrape the meat out of the claws.

Rich people are fucking strange.

Why did you have to prentend you are rich?
Non-rich people don't watch and/or discuss opera from time to time?

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:29 pm

There are lots of jobs where you either interact with wealthy clients, and thus have to at least hobnob while doing your job. Or, you have to pretend to be wealthy so people think you are good at doing your job (or both).

My sister, for example, is an executive assistant and event planner for a modeling agency. She is also a beauty pageant coach. Wearing expensive and designer clothes is an indicator that she's successful at her job because models and beauty queens wear designer stuff. Fortunately for her, she has a mom who can make the most fabulous things, so whipping up a dupioni silk suit takes time, but can be done at a fraction of the cost. And she has a sister who designs and makes jewelry, so some dangling pearl earrings and that alexandrite ring didn't cost nearly as much as they could have.

Edit: I am also a non-rich person who likes Opera, but it's an expensive thing to experience, so not many non-rich people have.