Trying not to hurt a noob's feelings

[Romana]

Which makes my head explode, I knew about profiles within the first few days.

I'm reminded of my AOL days when I'd firmly state in my profile that I was not
interested in cybersex. It didn't help. Some people have selective reading comprehension.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I guess people not reading profiles isn't just a SL thing. ^^

 

[Free]

Noobs are good eatin'

That's because they haven't been wasted away by at least a few years of Linden antics.

 

[EmpressOfCommunism]

What's *really* unnerving is when they tell you how sexy your avatar is and you're literally a realistic four footed cat.
Or a two inch tall fairy.
Or a pile of leaves.

 

[Benjamin Opel]

a/s/l we make fuck????

 

[Jack Abraham]

a/s/l we make fuck????

Has anyone in the history of time ever said yes to that?

 

[Casey Pelous]

Has anyone in the history of time ever said yes to that?

It's possible I might have maybe heard it once too often and responded -- in the middle of a crowded dance floor -- by playing a bend over animation and saying "Fine. Have at it," quickly followed by shouting, "Jesus Christ, [noob's name] did you come already? AGAIN?"

Noob's computer must have chosen that moment to fail or something ...

 

[Clara D.]

I used to keep a body-hump anim handy

 

[Jack Abraham]

So you're saying I have a chance.

 

[Free]

So you're saying I have a chance.

As good as winning the lottery.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Even a snowball has a chance in hell.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Even a snowball has a chance in hell.

Indeed. Some redditor was curious about the odds. Someone responded the snowball had a much better chance if hell had frozen over. Another gave a more detailed response.

This is a difficult question, and requires careful elaboration. First of all snowballs are typically inanimate soulless objects, that don't end up in hell to begin with. Hell is not a garbage dump of old toasters and TVs. It's not that you have heaps of used plastic bags there either. Hell is for animate beings with a soul -- beings who have sinned.
Now, how would a snow ball end up in this situation? It needs to have a soul for starters. To get one, it needs to have the potential to be something greater than a snow ball. Luckily for us we don't need to look far. Snowmen do have souls! And snowmen are made of snowballs. You know how a human embryo has a soul, so does snowman's. Snowball in this case is a snowman embryo, or if it's a big one, we call it a fetus.
Now, how can a fetus or an embryo commit sin? That's easy: original sin. By just being born they inherit the sins of their mothers and fathers. In the snowball's case, the parent is the kid who rolled the ball -- a sinner for certain. And here we go!
Spring comes before the snowball has grown from its embryonic stage into a full sized snowman, and it finds itself in hell.
How does it survive, you ask. Now, to the probabilities. As you already implied, hell is a hostile place for a lump of frozen water. The snowball needs to act fast. Luckily Satan loves to drink beer, and to keep the bottles cool he has multiple fridges with a freezer unit. The freezers are for his pizza rolls. The snowball needs to find one of those (p=0.5). If he wakes up on top of a hill (p=0.25), he can easily scout for a fridge-freezer combination, and roll downhill. If he's in a bottom of a fiery pit, game over man.
When he eventually finds the freezer, he needs to hide in it without raising too much suspicion. If Satan is around (p=0.01), game over. If not, problem solved until Satan needs ice in his drink.
So if you now add up the probabilities: 0.5 + 0.25 + (1 - 0.01) = 1.74. That's like 174%! It means the snowball will survive with absolute certainty, until Satan needs to mix a Mohito!