Oct 20, 2021, 11:55 PM
"If so, you can act entitled for money."
Never has a more succinct summary of Americans and our legal system been made.
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@arkandel What a weird argument for someone to make.
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@greenflashlight Oh, that is just the tip is the iceberg of stupidity that is people.
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@too-old-for-this said in Random funny:
@greenflashlight Oh, that is just the tip is the iceberg of stupidity that is people.
I mean, I guess I shouldn't judge. This very morning, I almost poured myself a big old glass of salt for breakfast because the salt container was where my morning shake mix usually is, so I obviously can be thoughtless too. I just don't quite get what this guy was going for, is all.
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@greenflashlight said in Random funny:
@too-old-for-this said in Random funny:
@greenflashlight Oh, that is just the tip is the iceberg of stupidity that is people.
I mean, I guess I shouldn't judge. This very morning, I almost poured myself a big old glass of salt for breakfast because the salt container was where my morning shake mix usually is, so I obviously can be thoughtless too. I just don't quite get what this guy was going for, is all.
If I had to take a guess, given the tags, I would say he did not know that Neil was the show's writer.
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Possibly that the original Good Omens was written by Sir Terry Pratchett as well as Neil Gaiman, and now that wonderful partnership is no longer possible, to produce the sequal in any form?
IDK, that was my first assumption when I read it.
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@vixanic My understanding is while Pratchett was still alive they had been working on it. But who knows.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@arkandel Neil Gaiman has blogged about this recently - he says that he and Terry planned out the entire sequel many years ago, they'd just not had the time to write it.
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2021/06/really-bloody-excellent-omens.html
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@arkandel I kinda liked Castlevania's answer: vampire vision is different from humans so all those right angles mess with the vampire brain.
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They're being too clever for their own good. Humans love right angles. We surround ourselves with them even though they're unnatural.
Behold the bane of Dracula!
I rather like the idea that it's because crosses present a philosophy so diametrically opposed to their way of being: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2009/09/10/vampires-crosses/
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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"Feed me."
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@ominous said in Random funny:
@greenflashlight
They're being too clever for their own good. Humans love right angles. We surround ourselves with them even though they're unnatural.
Behold the bane of Dracula!Response to an older post, but:
This is the vampire conceit behind Peter Watts' Blindsight and Echopraxia. His vampires are a subspicies of humans that evolved a protein deficiency that required predation on other human beings. They developed significant strength, sociopathy, hypersavantism, and the ability to hibernate when prey was scarce to make themselves able to survive as predators of human beings. They also developed, do to a quirk of their optical processing, a glitch where filling the majority of their visual field with intersecting lines triggers a fatal grand mal seizure.
Yes, this makes it impossible for vampires to survive around human settlements, which is why they went extinct.
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@insomniac7809 said in Random funny:
@ominous said in Random funny:
@greenflashlight
They're being too clever for their own good. Humans love right angles. We surround ourselves with them even though they're unnatural.
Behold the bane of Dracula!Response to an older post, but:
This is the vampire conceit behind Peter Watts' Blindsight and Echopraxia. His vampires are a subspicies of humans that evolved a protein deficiency that required predation on other human beings. They developed significant strength, sociopathy, hypersavantism, and the ability to hibernate when prey was scarce to make themselves able to survive as predators of human beings. They also developed, do to a quirk of their optical processing, a glitch where filling the majority of their visual field with intersecting lines triggers a fatal grand mal seizure.
Yes, this makes it impossible for vampires to survive around human settlements, which is why they went extinct.
I was going to comment this. XD
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https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello -
"If so, you can act entitled for money."
Never has a more succinct summary of Americans and our legal system been made.
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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I used to be quite impressed with your resume, but now I am reconsidering whether you should have the privilege of touching lemons. Are you dating the Bill of Rights? How many judge's gavels have you stolen? Has any of your clients gone to jail town?
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Also, double post to present the best version of Commander Shepard ever: https://youtu.be/2_rY6gn7GNM