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radcen

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Is it just me, or have fortunes in fortune cookies gotten boring in recent years? I've noticed a distinct trend in this direction, to the point that I no longer even care if I get a fortune cookie or not. (It's certainly not the cookie itself that attracts me.)

Recently I heard this: Companies have routinely eliminated certain fortunes whenever somebody would complain. Now, they purposely attempt to "not offend", and as a result we get incredibly boring fortunes. I thought, "Ya know, given our propensity for non-offensive political correctness, I can buy this."

I mean, seriously, if you can't add "...in bed" at the end and laugh out loud, what's the point?
 
radcen said:
Is it just me, or have fortunes in fortune cookies gotten boring in recent years? I've noticed a distinct trend in this direction, to the point that I no longer even care if I get a fortune cookie or not. (It's certainly not the cookie itself that attracts me.)

Recently I heard this: Companies have routinely eliminated certain fortunes whenever somebody would complain. Now, they purposely attempt to "not offend", and as a result we get incredibly boring fortunes. I thought, "Ya know, given our propensity for non-offensive political correctness, I can buy this."

I mean, seriously, if you can't add "...in bed" at the end and laugh out loud, what's the point?
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Right there with you -- http://www.debatepolitics.com/lighter-side/144006-fortune-cookie-fortunes-id-like-see.html.
 
It's probably a conspiracy.
 
radcen said:
Is it just me, or have fortunes in fortune cookies gotten boring in recent years? I've noticed a distinct trend in this direction, to the point that I no longer even care if I get a fortune cookie or not. (It's certainly not the cookie itself that attracts me.)

Recently I heard this: Companies have routinely eliminated certain fortunes whenever somebody would complain. Now, they purposely attempt to "not offend", and as a result we get incredibly boring fortunes. I thought, "Ya know, given our propensity for non-offensive political correctness, I can buy this."

I mean, seriously, if you can't add "...in bed" at the end and laugh out loud, what's the point?
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In early 1994, I began corresponding over an online network (not the Internet, this was before that become widely available to the public) with a young woman. On 08 April 1994, she came down to Santa Barbara, where I lived at the time' from Reedsport, Oregon, where she lived at the time, to meet me in person.

Four days after that, we were eating at a small Chinese restaurant across the street from the Mormon Temple in Los Angeles, and I got this out of my fortune cookie.

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And a year and a day, later, here we were, at that Temple:

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We've been married, now, for almost eighteen years.
 
Someone should develop a fortune cookie that actually tastes good. Those are the saddest excuse for a cookie I've ever had.
 
Someone should develop a fortune cookie that works. One that's accurate - for better or worse.


kerussll said:
Someone should develop a fortune cookie that actually tastes good. Those are the saddest excuse for a cookie I've ever had.
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Is can never get that stupid fortune out of the cookie. I shake it until my harm hurts but nothing!
 
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