Grotesque at it's Best

[KMMCurly]

Gah! I'm horrable under pressure!
Um... Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Green lantern!
Did I get my points back?

[blas]

I hate to say it, but people like that don't only haunt comic book stores and game shops. They go everywhere.......and I've had to deal with them as well. To make matters worse, I had to train a couple of people that dirty and nasty, and couldn't do anything about it (except Chef Ramsey did steal me a bottle of air freshener out of the men's room and I hid it by my machine and spritzed every time the smelly ones walked away).

The legendary Dipshit was just like that. Rarely, if ever, bathed, smelled rank to high heaven, farted constantly, and invaded EVERYONE'S space. He was unbelievably overweight and never wore proper fitting clean clothes. The first time he snuck up behind me and I felt his nasty enormous gut touching my tailbone, I nearly screamed and was tempted to give him a good punch to the face.

So gross...so nasty.......I do remember having this huge urge once I got home to scrub myself until my skin started flaking off.

[Rattslinger]

Why do people even think it's okay to invade another person's life like that? I mean, would they enjoy me constantly screaming obscenities or religious verses into their ears for the entire time I'm around them?

[blas]

In all seriousness, Rattslinger, I believe it's either mental illness, being socially inept, or mental disability.

[Rattslinger]

I am seriously tempted to start carrying around deodorant with me and hand it out to these kinds of peoples.

[Amoryl]

These are the type of people you wonder (or try not to) what their house is like.

I think I had one of those guys as a customer today. he outreeked me! and let me tell you, when you outreek a guy who unclogs sewerlines for a living, and you're his last job of the day, thats saying something.

it was more then just sweat, it was that kinda bitter in the back of your throat kinda stank that you can taste. ugh. and his house was the same, garbage everywhere, things just scattered about, dust and grime, basement was gross...I always want a shower after those jobs. with a steel wool pad.

[EmiOfBrie]

Gah! I'm horrable under pressure!
Um... Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Green lantern!
Did I get my points back?

They all existed in the Golden Age, so yeah *heh*
Bonus points if you know the Golden Age Green Lantern's civilian identity. (he's my fave of all the GLs actually)

[RedRoseSpiral]

They all existed in the Golden Age, so yeah *heh*
Bonus points if you know the Golden Age Green Lantern's civilian identity. (he's my fave of all the GLs actually)

Hehe. I think I'll pass on the bonus points and let KMMCurly have them. I will say tho he ain't got nothing on Kyle.

[Rattslinger]

They all existed in the Golden Age, so yeah *heh*
Bonus points if you know the Golden Age Green Lantern's civilian identity. (he's my fave of all the GLs actually)

Alan Scott for the win

[zzapp the witch]

And that, my friends, is why this gamer chick has NEVER gone to a Con....

And now I've moved from EQ2 to Age of Conan....pray for me my geeky sisters.

[Rattslinger]

I went to a Con once, and only once, and let me tell you, it wasn't a pretty site.

[Rattslinger]

We had a woman in the office, who must have been allergic to water and hygiene. She would wear the same clothes two or three days in a row, didn't bathe, didn't use deodorant, or any of that fancy, high falutin city folk ways.

She sat three cubes down from me, and she's been gone for a year now, and I can still smell the funk of where she used to sit. No one has been placed in that cube since she left, after they opened up her drawer and found about five sandwichs in various stages of decay, and random other bits of past lunches growing their own civilizations.

[BlackIronCrown]

With apologies to those who might have found that offensive, I actually had someone tell me this, over the comic book called The Authority.

Me thinks said person was really really unfamiliar with the satire as presented within The Authority.

And that, my friends, is why this gamer chick has NEVER gone to a Con....

Cons are not so bad. It really is all about what you're going to them for and which Con it is.
For instance, DragonCon is hugely popular but it's gotten huge enough to where it isn't exactly fun.
Chattacon is much smaller and more of a party con.
The H P Lovecraft Film Festival is really for those with a severe HP-on-the-screen fetish and hooking up with reasonably sober, pretty mature Lovecraft fans.
I just tend to avoid the cons mostly associated with fetish and sexual themes.

[Andara Bledin]

Just a note about gaming conventions: Most of them aren't any nastier than your average collection of comic shop geeks.

Sure, you'll get a nasty one here or there, but for the most part, convention gamers are clean and have manners. Hell, most of the people hitting the cons these days are the kids of the ones that were running amok at them 20 years ago!

Although, I will say that I have never seen a nastier, more ill-mannered, unhygienic group than when my local convention hosted a regional final for Magic: The Gathering. All of the worst gamer/geek stereotypes about overweight, pale-skinned (from lack of sunlight), badly clothed, grimy basement-dwellers applied to nearly every single one of those people. I (and a lot of the other regular congoers) am so glad they only showed up for the tournament and didn't stick around for anything else at all.

^-.-^

[Delphae]

Jennie Breedan, the woman who does the Customers Suck strip, did a strip on handing out soap and sandwiches to the fat guys and to skinny girls at Cons in her normal strip. I myself am a second generation geek and have too wonder why the unwashed jerks seem to flock around geeky things. It is not like they are the only people in fandom either, yet that is the stereo type.