I would think it would be Yao's preference as to how people refer to him. If he'd rather keep to the tradional Eastern naming scheme rather than Westernizing his name, people should respect his decision.

Sky, what's in the air above everyone's head. You want to crash it? How are you gonna do it? The'res just no way.

<Maybe if you pretend on an internet forum that you are a special and cool guy then the sky will crash down upon our heads. it will hurt and we will cry and you will probably laugh because you are a big and dumb jerk. too bad it has not happened yet, *PHEW*

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Big dumb jerk!!! Your brand of humor is so unique. Doesn't remind me of Kamukuk, or all the Fervor boys and girls using the little ))))) smilies and "." every 2 minutes!

MEANIE!!! Teehee! *GRIN*

Ok fuck-wheelie McGogglecunt go stick your malformed genitalia onto an anvil and let a burly, sweaty German blacksmith hammer it into the shape of a piece of shit so it will look like your face, fuckdonkey ass-for-shit.

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hmm, a period? probably like what your mom should have had so your dad didn't stick his throbbing prick in her gangrenous quim on the night you were concieved.

Yay... fucked up ethnocentrism for the win!

Call him what *he* prefers, and don't be a dumbshit.

i pretty much hate all anime (that i've ever seen (which is admittedly not much but for my taste was more than enough)) as well as the internet culture that goes with it

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u should open ur mind some more binky-san! ^___________^V

yeah that's not going to happen

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I'm with you bink - i have tried to like this shit but I just can't get into it. I enjoyed princess mononoke well enough but, well like this "Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann" that everybody in arts said was so fucking good.. i downloaded it and find it mildly entertaining at best.

Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann is a terrible waste of time. It's full of tired cliches and its only redeemable quality is how it foregoes the unnecessary flashbacks and exposition before battles that bogs down other shows in its genre. The main character is completely unlikable in the first half, then the only good character dies, and the entire second half of the series is a long and drawn out beatdown.

There's really not any reason to give anime a try. It's 99% terrible crap that isn't worth watching and the 1% that is decent still isn't overly remarkable.

Also, I don't think any kind of internet fandom culture is bearable.

It's ok if you don't like Gurren Lagann. I didn't make the show. Lol. (I still argue it's one of the best animes in years... and MANY, many people agree.)

Anime is mainly good if you like seeing tentacles in vaginas, but cannot convince any real life owners of vaginas to put tentacles in them.

i seen this Japanese chick inserting a squid into her vagina, im sure with a little digging on the internet you could find it too.

"I seen" is another stupid statement that pisses me off somehow.

"The Perfect Storm" and all it's derivations.

"it was the perfect storm of server crashes"

< kills speaker.

Hey man, anime can have f'd up stuff too, just like real porn. SomethingAwful has a subforum for anime called "ADTRW" -- "anime death tentacle rape whorehouse" or something. Haha. I'd say there were more fucked up porn fans than anime fans though. I think porn has a much higher "penetration" rate than anime. Pardon the pun! (That's probably an annoying phrase people use, too.)

Well, Miyazaki films seem to be to your liking Binkee. That tells me you like epic stories at least. I can't say there's too many anime with that feeling outside of Miyazaki stuff. A lot of series are tailored towards kids, and there's always a bit of cultural understanding you probably don't want to be familiar with anyway just to get references in comedies/drama.

Check out Darker Than Black, I don't know anyone who doesn't like it. Some find it confusing, but it's a good anime. Give it a shot!

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Especially when used as punctuation.

Did you see me hit that rogue lol

I'm afraid you have inoperable cancer lol

i'm 100% guaranteed not to check this out

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I'm so fucking tired of everything having the capability of being gay. "That's so gay" STFU!

This probably doesn't count as a statement or phrase, but whenever someone makes a "@soandso" post I want to reach through my screen. I mean, GEE, you've got the name there and everything... it's not like I could just assume that it's directed at me, or whoever. Yea, we definitely need that @ symbol to make sure you know who the message is for.

All its variations also, the worst of them being -The thing with me is-

Sentences that start with "the long and the short of it".

Because at any given time my boss will start 4-5 sentences with that in a row.

It is what it is.

People who state the obvious, and then look for acceptance from those who they are saying it to. It is cold. I know it, you know it. No need to state it.

I also hate people who type sentences and paragraphs in all lower case letters. O wait

However, I do have a new phrase I love. Not sure where I heard it from, but-

Do not expect competence from the incompetent. If you do, you will be disappointed many times over.

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To pick on myself a bit:

"It's all good"

This wormed into my speech about 3 years after I moved to Texas. I am attempting to eradicate it. It must die. I said "y'all" and "howdy" before I got here, so they can stay. Have to have something to amuse the brits.

"Yeah, no..."

A friend pointed out that I do this a lot. I've become hyper aware of it since the day he mentioned it. I do it when I am responding directly to statement X, but shifting gears back to an earlier statement to continue on. A sort of verbal queue that I am jumping tracks. Still irritates me every time it slips out of my mouth.

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"Where you at?"

I hate that. I hate it with a passion. I hate the phone company that runs it as their freaking tag line.

racist

On the topic of catching yourself saying things, I'd like to add "hai" as in yes in Japanese. Bad habit I got from FFXI since everyone said it. I'll say it every now and then and they're like "hello" or "wut?"

"We don't talk about dust..."

"How goes it?"

Don't know why but it's like nails on a chalkboard to me...

Cops also do not appreciate it when you tell them your vodka-faded registration is a secret message that you have to shine a flashlight through to read. Did make the guy laugh though it shot my chances of getting a warning.

Sarissa Candyangel

What happens in _____ stays in _____ .

When the blank is Vegas its annoying and overused enough, using it for other stuff is just wrong.

What it do.

What up joe.

Let me axe you a question.

people in their 50s telling marine corps stories when they were only in for 4 years, especially vietnam vets.

same for navy stories, army stories. strangely i don't hear any air force stories.

Seems to me 4 years in the service ain't nothin to sneeze at, especially during Vietnam.

people tell military stories because it was such a unique and memorable experience - 4 years of military life = 10 years of normal life, if not more.

Military seems like voluntary prison, except you get paid after you do your time.

it is... but your cell is a lot bigger

I don't know I did 28 years in the military including two plus tours in Nam I rarely tell stories about the time I spent in the service except to guys that shared the same experiences as I did namely other Nam vets. Besides nobody put a gun to my head and made me enlist I volunteered for the Army and I volunteered to go to Nam. Guess some guys had a bad time with their service I am sorry for that guess not everyone is cut out to be a soldier.

Been in the Air Force for 16 yrs now....Damn cannot believe it has been that long. Most of our stories involve golf carts and what resort we went too. Ask anyone we don't do shit except play golf and shoot shit down from the sky. Everyone in the Air Force is a pilot or some form of Aircraft Engineer.........YEA RIGHT!!!

I would have to say mine are:

Started a sentence with "BASICALLY"
Fuckin Tards online who invite you into a group without asking.
Random whispers from "Joebagofdonuts" I need you to run me thru XXXX zone.
Random whisper Join my GUILD or Sign my GUILD Charter.
And the assholes who stand inside the cities and like to spam their Guild Recruitment. I do not mind that you are recruiting for your guild. But when I see your long ass Macro every time someone else puts something up then it is way too much.
Huntard!?!?!?!

~You Don't Know Me~

~It's Not Like That~

Usually I see this is print...

that can be seen from space

Space is only 60 miles away and right now I can look on google and see the roof of my house, taken from space. Yeah, I know they really mean with a naked eye, it still sounds stupid.

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"Hey... can I ask you a question?"

... you just fuckin' did.

Not exactly a statement, but a line from some oldies song "One is the loneliest number" ...Well yeah. Check the definition of "lone" sometime. It's like saying blue is the bluest color.

After I voice my opinion on a matter people saying "well that's your opinion!" .. Duh, I just gave it to you fucktard.

excessive use of the "Z" key. OMGZ ZOMG LOLZ . . I have wanted to rip the damn "Z" button off of keyboards for years now.

Anime emotes annoy me for some reason... ^_^ v.v T_T ^^;; the colon-right parenthesis combo works for me.

And people who do this kind of thing:

<mod hat><tech>

</mod hat></tech>

or variations thereof. You're a moderator/tech guy/whatever, I get it, do you have to remind me midpost?

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"It's our fault", no it's not bitch it's my fucking fault cause you aren't in the room when it happens. Don't try to soften the blame by trying to share it.

"Are we there yet Mommy?" (usually about 30 seconds after we leave the driveway)

No, now shut up, play your damn vsmile, and shut up!

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Some people are like slinkies. They're not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

"nucular." Seriously, knock it off. I will sterilize you.

Q: How many Vietnam vets does it take to change a light bulb?
A: You don't know, man, you weren't there!
My dad was there, twice. I have every respect for military service, particularly in unpopular wars. But they do say this all the time. The fact that they're right doesn't make it less annoying to hear, but does explain why they only tell their stories to other Vietnam vets.
In fact, I'm generally annoyed by anyone who served in the military who thinks it licenses them to look, or talk, down to the rest of us. If military veterans really want to spend all the gratitude they have coming to them just making us tolerate elitism from them, that's fine, but you can't get that and our admiration. You have to pick one.

"Less gay, more play." Or any variation thereof. Now that I really look at it, this is an intersection of two annoyances that sort of Voltron up into a single tolerance-piercing offense and make me wish my guildmates all shared one neck for a few seconds after I read or hear it. The components are "Less <whatever>, more <rhyming whatever>" and any use of the word "gay" as a negative descriptor -- whether it relates to actual homosexuality or not. (Hint: Karazhan is a castle. It cannot be gay.)

It's probably not healthy to type out too many of these at once.

Speaking of which, I'll throw "Less QQ, More Pewpew" into the bag here. Although this also extends to anyone who puts a "witty" quote by Tseric in their signatures.

Not statements, but words:

1) "veep"
2) "swiftboating"

"Really?"

Why ask someone a question if you will then question the answer?

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Yeah, see I say "really?" in place of "you're a fucking moron" or "I think you severely overestimate your abilities" some times. It's nicer.

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Knowledge without reason is useless.

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"I could care less."

Really? How much less could you care? Dumbass.

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