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I love the implication that if you like to knit, clearly you would enjoy spending the rest of your life as a small business owner. You know, stressed and in debt as you attempt to keep from going bankrupt. Never seeing your family because you have to work 90 hours a week to stay afloat. Having to manage a staff. Those are all things I think when I think knitting.
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Lemony posted:I love the implication that if you like to knit, clearly you would enjoy spending the rest of your life as a small business owner. You know, stressed and in debt as you attempt to keep from going bankrupt. Never seeing your family because you have to work 90 hours a week to stay afloat. Having to manage a staff. Those are all things I think when I think knitting. Just knit some moneys geez do I have to spell it out for everyone
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Apr 9, 2020 03:13
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Silly Burrito posted:Just knit some moneys geez do I have to spell it out for everyone 
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Apr 9, 2020 03:16
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It's nice to see people still carding their own wool
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Apr 9, 2020 03:38
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Moon Slayer posted:Wait, is this a store where you get supplies to get stoned in your bathrobe and eat Cheetos, or a store where you get stoned guys in their bathrobes eating Cheetos? Yes
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Apr 9, 2020 03:50
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Flint_Paper posted:It's nice to see people still carding their own wool Ye', wool makes me cardigan
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Apr 9, 2020 03:56
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Lemony posted:I love the implication that if you like to knit, clearly you would enjoy spending the rest of your life as a small business owner. You know, stressed and in debt as you attempt to keep from going bankrupt. Never seeing your family because you have to work 90 hours a week to stay afloat. Having to manage a staff. Those are all things I think when I think knitting. Not just that, but the owner of a yarn store. Not only are you not knitting, you're spending those 90 hours a week being reminded that someone else is knitting and you're not. I like writing code, that's why I took a job at Best Buy selling computers.
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Apr 9, 2020 04:32
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There's also something to be said for just doing a job for money then using that money to do what makes you happy
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Apr 9, 2020 04:43
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Skwirl posted:There's also something to be said for just doing a job for money then using that money to do what makes you happy Yeah, and that something is selling out, maaaaan.
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Apr 9, 2020 04:45
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Paladinus posted:Took some very creative googling, but I've found it! Ugh, loving comics written by rich failchildren who will never experience consequences for failure because mummy and daddy will always bail them out. For some reason it brings to mind the article written by some rich idiot who believed there was effectively a global conspiracy of people pretending to be unable to afford to fix an unexpected car problem of more than $500, because who doesn't just have a few thousand lying about. Webcomics and online opinion articles are the new home of the spoiled child looking down their nose at the rest of the world for not having the foresight of being born into privilege.
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Apr 9, 2020 05:04
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Moon Slayer posted:Wait, is this a store where you get supplies to get stoned in your bathrobe and eat Cheetos, or a store where you get stoned guys in their bathrobes eating Cheetos? if the latter y'all owe me, like, a hundred dollars
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Apr 9, 2020 05:35
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Grendels Dad posted:Yeah, I thought there was something about people telling Odysseus how much the afterlife blows, but I can't remember why Achilles is stuck low key-suffering with the hoi polloi. Achillies was the first not-supposed-to-be-good-guy protagonist, but just like with modern media a lot of people missed the point.
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Apr 9, 2020 05:58
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Paladinus posted:Took some very creative googling, but I've found it! I think the person who wrote this married my brother and is now living with my family while she follows her dream of doing community theater in the middle of Indiana & my folks pay and do labor to fix the pasteboard death trap straight out of a Johnny Dowd song that she acquired... somehow. She seems extremely happy, so maybe this comic is on to something.
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Apr 9, 2020 06:03
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Ugh, loving comics written by rich failchildren who will never experience consequences for failure because mummy and daddy will always bail them out.
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Apr 9, 2020 07:22
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As we all know, stores that exclusively sell yarn are extremely succesful and the owners famously get to knit all day while the employees get paid, the shelves stay stocked and the books get balanced. To drat her with faint praise, it's just slightly less psychotic than Zen Pencils' usual life advice. https://zenpencils.com/comic/122-charles-bukowski-roll-the-dice/
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Apr 9, 2020 08:51
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Knormal posted:He desecrated the poo poo out of Hector's corpse, along with various other minor war crimes along the way. Probably went a good way to cancelling out his low-key divine half. Right, that was it. I half-remembered something about dying and passing over without proper burial rituals but that's nonsense, Achilles' burial (burning?) was a big thing.
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Apr 9, 2020 08:59
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The ancient Greeks didn't have a concept of "sin" and destroying your enemies in brutal ways was definitely not considered wrong. The important thing is to not piss off any gods at least in the myths. Odysseus also meets his mother in the underworld, she didn't do anything wrong. In the Aenid you have Elysium which is a nice place where heroes get to go. I'm sure in folk beliefs there were nicer things that could happen to you after death too because having only the kind of afterlife you see in the Odyssey to look forward to would be unbearable. Grevling has a new favorite as of 10:00 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Apr 9, 2020 09:57
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Grevling posted:The ancient Greeks didn't have a concept of "sin" and destroying your enemies in brutal ways was definitely not considered wrong. The important thing is to not piss off any gods at least in the myths. Odysseus also meets his mother in the underworld, she didn't do anything wrong. They'd also start poo poo with mortals and lesser beings which were too closely matched at any skill, cheat like mofo in the competition, and punish the mortal horrifically anyway, if they managed to still win. Or lose. Because gently caress you I am a god. They also could not undo each other's curses, so if you pissed off one there was no point trying to plea to the higher gods for any help.
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Apr 9, 2020 10:04
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Der Kyhe posted:They'd also start poo poo with mortals and lesser beings which were too closely matched at any skill, cheat like mofo in the competition, and punish the mortal horrifically anyway, if they managed to still win. Or lose. Because gently caress you I am a god. You might get turned into a constellation.
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Apr 9, 2020 10:06
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Skwirl posted:You might get turned into a constellation. Yeah maybe you weren't the victor in the battle with the gods but you should enjoy your constellation prize.
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Apr 9, 2020 10:32
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Push El Burrito posted:Yeah maybe you weren't the victor in the battle with the gods but you should enjoy your constellation prize. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHoNWwhzh3M
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Apr 9, 2020 10:33
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Traditionally if you want to spend all day wearing a bathrobe getting drunk and open your store whenever you feel like it you open a used bookshop.
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Apr 9, 2020 10:40
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Traditionally if you want to spend all day wearing a bathrobe getting drunk and open your store whenever you feel like it you open a used bookshop. I think you're contractually obligated to wear tweed if you own a used bookshop.
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Apr 9, 2020 10:42
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Skwirl posted:I think you're contractually obligated to wear tweed if you own a used bookshop. The documentary series I saw on this (Black Books) disagrees.
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Apr 9, 2020 10:49
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grittyreboot posted:As we all know, stores that exclusively sell yarn are extremely succesful and the owners famously get to knit all day while the employees get paid, the shelves stay stocked and the books get balanced. What’s the moral here? Isolate yourself from others and run into the woods? What the gently caress?
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Apr 9, 2020 10:54
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N. Senada posted:What’s the moral here? Isolate yourself from others and run into the woods? It's quoting Bukowski, so it's about becoming a
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Apr 9, 2020 11:01
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Paladinus posted:Took some very creative googling, but I've found it! Reads like a pamphlet for college-bound teens in 2005.
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Apr 9, 2020 12:29
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The Moon Monster posted:Reads like a pamphlet for college-bound teens in 2005. "Oh boy after 3 years of hardship my yarn shop is starting to become profitable! It was a lot of hard work, and im still in some debt, but im turning a positive! 2008 is going to be a great year"
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Apr 9, 2020 12:47
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mysterious frankie posted:I think the person who wrote this married my brother and is now living with my family while she follows her dream of doing community theater in the middle of Indiana & my folks pay and do labor to fix the pasteboard death trap straight out of a Johnny Dowd song that she acquired... somehow. the secrets to happiness are 1: do what you love, not what makes you money and 2: drain your friends and family dry like a cash vampire so that you don't have to get a job
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Apr 9, 2020 12:51
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Moon Slayer posted:Yeah, and that something is selling out, maaaaan. No day but todayyyyyyyy!
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Apr 9, 2020 13:17
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The problem with Zen Pencils is that it takes itself so loving seriously and tries so loving hard to be deep and transcendent, when the basic point each comic is trying to make could be summed up in a dril tweet.
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Apr 9, 2020 13:55
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cock hero flux posted:the secrets to happiness are 1: do what you love, not what makes you money and 2: drain your friends and family dry like a cash vampire so that you don't have to get a job Being anhedonic is defined as having an involuntary shame flinch every time people society assumes you love ask why you’re doing this to them.
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Apr 9, 2020 15:23
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Grevling posted:In the Aenid you have Elysium which is a nice place where heroes get to go. I'm sure in folk beliefs there were nicer things that could happen to you after death too because having only the kind of afterlife you see in the Odyssey to look forward to would be unbearable. My recollection (I'm phone-posting so it's hard to do actual research) is that this is a substantial part of how Christianity got a foothold. "No, no, our afterlife is actually nice!"
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Apr 9, 2020 15:55
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:My recollection (I'm phone-posting so it's hard to do actual research) is that this is a substantial part of how Christianity got a foothold. "No, no, our afterlife is actually nice!" Or in a lot of cases, "It's nice for non-rich people!"
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Apr 9, 2020 15:59
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How bout a comic!
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Apr 9, 2020 16:16
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i wanna open a leather shop in arizona
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Apr 9, 2020 18:29
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Or in a lot of cases, "It's nice for non-rich people!" This was a huge part in the uptake of early Christianity. The poor and women were allowed to take part in it to a far greater extent. You could go to heaven and be favoured by God by being a good person not because of your position in society.
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Apr 9, 2020 19:01
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Krankenstyle posted:i wanna open a leather shop in arizona You'd be out of business in a week's time
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Apr 9, 2020 19:10
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There are far too many leather shops in Arizona as it is!
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Der Kyhe posted:They also could not undo each other's curses, so if you pissed off one there was no point trying to plea to the higher gods for any help. (yes I count "understanding birdsong" as a curse, Tiresias totally had to hear all the birds screaming LET'S gently caress nonstop)
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