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Vesayen is offline Vesayen
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Mar 2002
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People are sheep...... and sheep like ice-cream!!!! Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

I always knew people are sheep, but apparently sheep like ice-cream.

At my school, in the dining hall there is an enormous multi-tap ice-cream(frozen yogurt I guess) machine with another table for toppings on the side.

The ice-cream is free, its good, the machine is ENORMEOUS and very noisy-its impossible to miss it.


For the first few meals I thought it quite odd that no one ever went to the big noisy machine with the enormous "FREE ICE-CREAM" sign on it(with some rules under it about how you must eat it in the dining hall, so you don’t bring back a 20 gallon drum of it to your room).

Finally, on the third day I decided to be brave and eat the mystical ice-cream..... I went over with a cup, filled it up with ice-cream, sat down, and ate it-it was good.

LOW AND BEHOLD: Within minutes of me doing it, LOTS of people come up and begin to get ice-cream. I thought this was odd, but must of been a fluke........

I did the same thing the next day, same results. The same thing the day after.... same results.

One interesting thing to note is that all the "lost puppy female's"(by lost puppy I mean that they can NEVER be alone and must always be on a friends arm-you know the type) commented something along the lines of "oh well I didn’t even know we had ice-cream!" which is a lie-as its impossible to miss it-it's huge, and its right next to the end of the cash register.


It is OBVIOUS people want the ice-cream, as once I go get some, a big line always forms right after-though not ONE person goes before I do.

APPARENTLY everyone in my damn school is too afraid to be seen as "glutinous" or "fat" or some other non-existent rationale/social stigma like that, that they cant simply stand up and go get free ice-cream unless someone paves the way for them.


I found this quite funny and wanted to share it-maybe I should be a psych major instead of computer science lol!

Immortal Wombat is offline Immortal Wombat
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Dec 2000
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Put an end to popups!

Japher is offline Japher
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Jun 2002
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Try this: At a party, start a conversation about a really obscure topic (i.e. Bananas). Leave the conversation and don't say anything more and see how long it takes for someone else to start talking about Bananas... Ppl are sheep...

Vesayen is offline Vesayen
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Mar 2002
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LOL!

Shi Huangdi is offline Shi Huangdi
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Apr 1999
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Aren't people fat enough these days that we really don't need to be giving out free ice cream?

rah is offline rah
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Back in the old days, (when they had secreterial pools) I used to walk by and start to whistle "If I only had a brain" I'd do it again a few minutes later and then wait about 30 minutes. The next time I 'd walk by, a good majority would be doing it then. Something about hearing "if i only had a brain" coming out of the secretary pool always amused me.

Japher is offline Japher
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Or, if you use a word that people don't normally use you find others you have said it to start using it more often too...

live 'vis-a-vis'

MrFun is offline MrFun
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Originally posted by rah
Something about hearing "if i only had a brain" coming out of the secretary pool always amused me.


realpolitic is offline realpolitic
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Mar 2002
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The media use this to manipulate consumers all the time.
Take a look at www.adbusters.org

Az is offline Az
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you know, realpolitik, it was a real great site, until it started to diss president Bush.

Yes, Pres. Bush is to blame for ads and brands!

Ben Kenobi is offline Ben Kenobi
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Oct 2002
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everyone in my damn school is too afraid to be seen as "glutinous" or "fat" or some other non-existent rationale/social stigma


This has a rather sinister side in the Soviet Union, Stalin would keep people clapping until one person decided to sit down and stop. This way they could identify the independently minded people.

The Andy-Man is offline The Andy-Man
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Jul 2001
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Originally posted by obiwan18


This has a rather sinister side in the Soviet Union, Stalin would keep people clapping until one person decided to sit down and stop. This way they could identify the independently minded people.


or the ones with tired legs and sore hands....

Richard Bruns is offline Richard Bruns
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We have a free ice cream machine in our school cafeteria and people use it all the time without any prompting.

MrFun is offline MrFun
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from popularity of ice cream,

to President Bush,

then to Stalin.




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Vesayen is offline Vesayen
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LOL

mrmitchell is offline mrmitchell
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Sep 2002
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Look at it this way:

You don't ever have to wait in line!

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quote:
Originally posted by Vesayen
LOL


ANOTHER laugh?

this is weird

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