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The Real World

punkfloyd — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:59:38 -0800

If chat rooms were real. [You Tube video, via Digg]

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:10:31 -0800

An oldie, but a goodie. That short, The Parlor, was part of Chrysler's Million Dollar Film Festival.

By: punkfloyd

punkfloyd — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:11:13 -0800

OOPS Sorry NSFW!!!

By: intermod

intermod — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:14:37 -0800

Hey, that wasn't bad.

By: champthom

champthom — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:25:04 -0800

It's ancient, but it's so old, it was from when I still had dial-up and I couldn't watch the video because there was only a DSL steam and I could only catch the audio. I remember this because of the "Shut up, Bambi!" But thanks for reminding me about this. Now I can, you know, actually watch it.

By: furtive

furtive — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:28:20 -0800

I'm a little dissapointed they went straight to the predator.

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:32:35 -0800

That's poor old Tom Smykowski from Office Space playing Beth.

By: RokkitNite

RokkitNite — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:38:47 -0800

Okay... it starts out a little slow but picks up momentum pretty quickly once the characters are established. Cynical ol' me was surprised to find myself entertained.

By: grouse

grouse — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:47:33 -0800

I've seen this before but it's pretty funny. Surprised it's never been posted here before.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:51:42 -0800

I liked it more than I expected, actually, and this is the first time I've seen it. Now, tell me, punkfloyd, you wouldn't happen to be Floyd, a software engineer from....

By: kdar

kdar — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:58:48 -0800

I think I found this snooping around our college network freshman year. Still funny.

By: rsanheim

rsanheim — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:10:02 -0800

First time I've seen it, thanks for posting. It was very well done.

By: Evstar

Evstar — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:58:09 -0800

You probably shouldn't have spoiled the punchline with your post.

By: chudmonkey

chudmonkey — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:15:39 -0800

I saw this on late-night TV a few years ago, sandwiched between two movies on some cable channel, and always wanted to see it again. Thanks for dropping it in my lap like this.

By: econous

econous — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:30:42 -0800

^10:54 of mild amusement. Is it wrong that I fancy randibare^{14 y.o.a}?

By: hal9k

hal9k — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:31:37 -0800

Ah, the old days of IRC. And nights... and weekends...

By: hellphish

hellphish — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:38:50 -0800

First time seeing it also. I loved it.

By: deborah

deborah — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:13:04 -0800

Thanks, punkfloyd.

By: anthill

anthill — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:25:25 -0800

This is why I don't go to MeFi meetups.

By: dogwalker

dogwalker — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:36:36 -0800

Surprised it's never been posted here before. So old the link is dead. Now I regret my one and only FPP even more. Do I win for oldest repeat call ever or something?

By: ninjew

ninjew — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:39:33 -0800

I was first linked to this in the personal-universe-consuming IRC channel I was part of for years. I could never find it again, so thanks. Wow. I still don't quite believe how much time I spent on IRC.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:43:46 -0800

You managed to escape IRC? What'd you use, a briefcase nuke? Orbital railgun? Thermite lance?

By: ninjew

ninjew — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:52:47 -0800

I uninstalled every IRC program from all of my computers. And then I discovered the ability to use my mouth to speak to other real humans. And that weather patterns change according to these things called seasons.

By: matildaben

matildaben — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:03:45 -0800

I wonder if the short's executive producer, Alan Ball, is he of Six Feet Under fame?

By: blacklite

blacklite — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:05:05 -0800

Okay, this was hilarious, and I hadn't seen it before. The middle exchange between the girl and the boy really made the entire movie.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:24:20 -0800

Wonderful. I'm another former IRC addict. As such, of course I hissed when the cops came in to remove the guy for profanity. I hadn't expected an AOL experience. (Get a real ISP!) Escape IRC? No problem. I found my partner and hardly bother with IRC anymore. I do miss it sometimes. It worked very well for me. I think it was that having so many conversations going at once was able to hold my interest and focus, so I got more social contact than ever in my life.

By: UseyurBrain

UseyurBrain — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:17:24 -0800

IRC consumed 2 years of my single life. Oddly, mudding also seemed like being on IRC at times what with all the chatting and cybersexing. Maybe I belonged to a particularly randy mud!

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:11:26 -0800

I too escaped IRC after it consumed almost 3 years of my life. What helped was that my ex-girlfriend was in it, and after realising that continuing to talk to her was not helping me move past her, I simply went cold turkey. That and the room started dying. And then almost four years later I went in there about 2 months ago to ask them to remove my profile from their webpage. There was all of about 3 people in there (one of whom was still there after all of this time, presumably because in the interim she'd been made an op) and no-one was talking. An hour later the one person I knew responded and told me she'd remove my profile. And once she did, my break from IRC was complete. Good riddance. Thanks for posting this link. I enjoyed it very much.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:22:51 -0800

Err... all muds were that randy. Anything made popular by furries is going to be insanely randy on average.

By: pruner

pruner — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:18:21 -0800

matildaben - I wonder if the short's executive producer, Alan Ball, is he of Six Feet Under fame? I'm guessing it is, since a "Special Thanks" go to "Everyone at 'Six Feet Under'" in the credits.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 08:31:28 -0800

Pretty awesome. I spent most of high school in some chat room or another. Little did I know that all of the other 15y/o girls were really 45 year old men. *sigh*