HAVING FUN

HAVING FUN
ISN'T HARD
WHEN YOU'VE GOT A LIBRARY CARD

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YOU SHOULD POST THIS EVERY DAY I FEEL PEOPLE SHOULD GO TO LIBRARIES MORE OFTEN

IT'S GOOD EVEN IF YOU LIKE TO BUY BOOKS, YOU KNOW? FOR INSTANCE, SINCE 2666 BY BOLANO IS A BIG CHUNK OF LITERATURE, I CHECKED OUT THE FIRST PART IN THE LIBRARY AND WHEN I SAW I LIKED IT I BOUGHT THE BOOK

IT'S BASICALLY LIKE FREE EDUCATION, IT IS AMAZING IF YOU ARE POOR AND I HAVE MET SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS IN THERE, YOU MUST BE STUPID NOT TO USE IT

>tfw no library friends unless you mean homeless niggers who piss on everything

Can't the bums at least be cordoned off to one area of the library? They can still use the computers and shit, I just don't want them shuffling around me with their shit-filled pants.

>reading fiction is education
I fucking hate this meme.

based
libraries will even by books if you request them

WELL ISN'T IT MORE EDUCATIONAL TO READ A STORY AND THINK ABOUT IT'S POSSIBLE PHILOSOPHICAL, CULTURAL AND EXISTENTIAL MEANING BY YOURSELF RATHER THAN BEING SPOONFED INFORMATION IN TREATISE FORM? DOESN'T IT DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING OF SOME SORT TO REFLECT ABOUT THE WAY AN AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE OF ANY SORT, BE IT MUSICAL, LITERARY OR OF ANY OTHER KIND MAY HAVE SOME ULTERIOR MEANING AND DOESN'T IT HELP DEVELOP THE ABILITIES YOU USE TO PROCESS, INTERPRET AND REARRANGE DATAS IN A MEANINGFUL WAY? WHY DO YOU THINK PLATO WROTE DIALOGUES AND NOT TREATISES user?

*buy

why yes, i love to coom in the pages of YA novels and return them, how did you know?

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Do you really need fiction for all that, or would it be fine to just sit down on a bench and look at stuff happening around you?
Would a person know what to look for or think of if they'd never read a philosophical work, scientific treatise, opinion paper, or even been informed about some kind of opinion or judgement on such matter? Maybe they might notice something, but it wouldn't necessarily be the same or anywhere similar to what somebody else might've thought about that.

WELL OF COURSE LOOKING TO THINGS FOR A LONG TIME WOULD HELP BUT FICTION GIVES YOU MORE THAN THAT IN REPRODUCING EXPERIENCES AND LIVES YOU HAVE NOT OR COULD NOT HAVE LIVED, WHICH IS THE POINT OF SHARING STORIES IN THE FIRST PLACE, user - AN ACTIVITY IN WHICH YOU SURELY ENGAGE ON A DAILY BASIS - NAMELY, TO EXCHANGE SHARES OF EXPERIENCE YOU HAVE NOT LIVED SO THAT YOU CAN INTERPRET, CATALOGUE, PROCESS INFORMATION ON DIFFERENT LEVELS OF DEPTH, SO THAT THE STORY YOU READ IN A BOOK, MUCH LIKE A STORY A FRIEND TELLS YOU, CAN GO FROM BEING A FUNNY TO A LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE, AND THAT IS WHY IS BELIEVE THAT BEING EXPOSED TO AS MUCH HIGH-QUALITY MATERIAL IN TERMS OF STORIES IS INSTRUCTING, EDIFYING AND WILL MAKE YOUR INNER EXPERIENCE, WHICH IS YOUR ONLY EXPERIENCE, SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER

Do American homeless really do this? WTF

reading fiction is the only education that matters fyi

Once I saw a homeless man jerking off to porn in the library.

libraries have always been a refuge of the homeless. where are you from?

did you finish him off? its your duty as someone who utilizes the resources of the library, you know.

my local library is usually empty except for a few homeless people who don't bother anyone afaik. but the selection is fucking garbage for anything outside of classics and young adult shit.

my library has a pretty good comics section. saved me a bunch of money

I figured the homeless thing was just me because I'm in Cali, lol. Is it really that bad everywhere?

i'm in california too. it might not be that bad in other places.

Its probably climate dependent. I live in the southeast and its pretty noticeable. I'm not complaining cus I feel no pressure to take a shower and change my clothes whenever I wanna go pick up a book.

based arthur

Depends on where you live.

My local library is shit and the workers there are literally sociopathic.

>>why are you sitting in the smoking section but you're not smoking during broad daylight THIS IS NOT A HANG OUT etc etc

If there's not enough population the selection sucks but if too much it will suck harder.

It's the only place they don't call on you for loitering.

>tfw library has a no loitering sign

In the USA homelessnes is illegal and wifi is not free as much as it used to be either.

>climate dependent.
No it's not I live in Texas and homeless are lynched here. Saw a mob of meth heads surround a homeless guy and literally eat him to death, they just started tearing chunks out of his flesh with their mouths and ate his entire body.

>>drugs r bad mkay
Of course someone as silly as you to believe that happened due to meth is from that right winger hellhole.

How would you even know they were on meth? You psychic? Or believe your right winger news and it's shitflingings?

also from texas and have seen this too.

canada here...its not

everything is shit in the great satan

why can't they go to a church or something

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if you cant access a library that isn't filled with hobos and other undesirable you are a turd worlder

my library has nothing worth reading

>Arthur goes to the library
>He tries to use the computers
>But an aggressive homeless man who stinks of liquor demands to be shown how to find his email
>Arthur decides to go look at the books instead
>But he can't go into the aisle he wants because another homeless man without shoes is shuffling about
>Arthur needs to go to the bathroom anyway
>inside, the water is running from all of the clogged sinks, spilling out over the counter and onto the floor
>the floor, now flooded, has another homeless man sprawled out on the floor with a syringe still in his arm
>Arthur can finally go into the aisle
>All of the books are terrible and in poor condition
>The stench of urine fills the air
>Another homeless man walks up demanding money
>Arthur decides to go home
and that's the story of why I don't go to the library anymore

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God damn that shit slapped when I was six years old

Most of those homeless guys were me, Arthur.

Can somebody post the library hate pasta that was posted in response to a post of a twitter image of a call to save libraries?

>go to university library
>bunch of ching chong chinamen loudly chinking up the place

Yeah I’ll take the homeless guys over that.

i'm sure you could find it if you searched the archive or your browsing history

>go to library
>librarian recognizes me and says hi
>have to choke out a pathetic attempt at replying while avoiding the spaghetti on the floor
>never go there again

One time in San Francisco I walked into a library and there wasn't a homeless man jacking of to porn. Crazy.

maybe you should try moving away from the ghetto

kek

That's heavy

I’m in Germany and we don’t have homeless people

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>tfw failed the test to get my library card again

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Where from user?

it is for kids which is the target group of the song.

it helps them learn to read and write, gets them familiar with different things in the world and understand different people's perspectives.

as an adult though the returns diminish. obviously ya fiction loving 35 year olds are still NPCs.

>Once I saw a homeless man jerking off to porn in the library.
sounds like an ubermensch

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Bait.

Muslims are worse baka.

press your caps lock again you retard

>going to library to be with white people instead of reading

get well soon

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Cretin user ftw. Thanks user.

Yes I go to the library to read and study and the average person is one of four options: grown-up with down-syndrome, homeless and filthy, stupid and old, or a black or hispanic who needs to use the computer. Then all the librarians are white and liberal.

I break into my university library at night and read or borrow random books to read. Last week I read about coal strikes in Ohio and this week I found a book about architecture of the Great Pyramids.

Test?

Its more of a rite of passage but yeah

I’m going to read you moron, I’m saying the ignorant fucks won’t shut it. Libraries are no longer silent.

You forgot homeschooling parents who think their noisy little shits running around the library are going to learn by osmosis and want to talk to their friends. My whole library is filled with these assholes daily.

>old people talking loud
>library staff screaming at each other all day long
>people blasting music
fuck off!

imagine a 14 year old reading jude the obscure

enjoy your Hepatitis C and AIDS

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he or she might like it
sure is a primer for how life works sometimes

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>old people playing mmo and talking loud
>try to listen to ear plugged music
>>THAT'S TOO LOUD user
>hadn't even had it on
>was guy next to me with ear muffs

Librarians are overbearing retards.

>loitering okay
>sleeping not
>homeless hanging around okay
>librarian leaves threatening futile note that they'll catch anyone leaving hair in the sink

It's convoluted bullshit.

Having fun is even easier when you have a computer and internet access to free pdfs

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Indeed libraries are beyond outdated.

Looks like Malcolm Tucker crossed with Art Garfunkel.

if you think public libraries are for the poor, go to the local university library
you don’t have to be a student to sit there, just to check things out

It's true, though.

>tfw havent been to the library since they implemented the no singles policy

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What type of dystopian library forces its patrons to take a photo so they can rent out books?

Shut up user.
You don't know how many homeless and stinky NEETs are here in this thread right now. Don't say trade secrets.
Libraries are obsolete in terms of actual local librares, OP. See .
But college libraries are truly necessary though; you don't want to just sit there in the sun waiting 1 hour for the next class since there isn't any other place to go to be alone, unless no one goes to the cafeteria.
Some college libraries give you access to many sites that host theses and interesting articles.
One of those is the community college that I am currently taking classes on.
I'm not sure why Yea Forums doesn't love them more since there is only non-fiction on these websites.

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lets say, hypothetically, you were an old trucker type. can you really just walk onto a college campus and go to their library?

They let you in if you take your crow with you. Still have to pass the penis inspection though.

I've only seen homeless in libraries if it's a downtown area. Suburban areas not so much.

I think so, you probably couldn't check anything out and jump through hoops just to use a computer. The biggest hurdle would be paying for parking and walking there.

>being around nonwhites
>anywhere
>ever

>large town
>library smells like mold and homeless stank
>filthy bathrooms
>florescent lights
>move to small town
>big windows let in natural light
>no obvious homeless
>clean bathrooms
>classroom spaces for community writing groups, elderly tai chi classes, girl/boy scout events, book clubs
The only trade off is a much smaller selection, but they'll order anything here if you ask.
I hate this, no other group does this on campus except them. It's the most grating language too.

What the everloving fuck were 90% of the animals in this piece of shit show?

At my large public university you could do this. At the small private college that my sister attended, a college ID was required to get into the library

Check the library website. Some are gonna be private like Yale or Harvard's rare book collections, some will let anyone in. One uni near me is open to the public but if you aren't a student you need to be buzzed in.

Neet here. I've read colleges have cards to allow you to enter places so I doubt you can just walk into the library in modern USA.

>some college libraries give you access to many sites
Who gives a shit? If the surface Internet cannot supply you with everything you need society needs to unironically end.

la creaturas

During regular hours you don't need to swipe a card to access the library, but for my large college you have to swipe it to get in after midnight and before 7am.
They give you free access to paid online journal databases which are necessary for any in depth research, especially scientific, as well as big archives of old newspapers and documents that aren't uploaded online publicly.
My school is a large state school so it has to be at least somewhat open access. Non students or faculty can get a university library card but I don't think you can use the printers or check out equipment. As long as you're not creeping around on the college girls or shitting yourself no one cares. If you want to use a university library go with a state one, though you may have to be a resident of the state you're in to get the library card.