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McCracAttack posted:https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1536377296486993920 https://twitter.com/128kbps4/status/1536443701932834817?s=20&t=k0tSdEAMJyWAdxu3FCX4aQ lmao it's a photo from a decade after McDonald's stopped using beef tallow. It's also Australians.
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Pookah posted:I had to speed-read Tristram Shandy in about a day because I was a terrible procrastinator in college, I got through most of it in about 14 hours* and when I stopped, I literally could not speak normally, I kept phrasing things in the way the book's characters did. It was both weird and hilarious. To this day when I see someone smoking a pipe I want to say "your head resembles a smoak-jack that turns this way and that  "
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Mega Comrade posted:There are quite a few books we make children read just because "they are classics" but I don't think 1984 is one of them, it's themes are still relevant today and it's quality in that genre haven't been surpassed. In my experience, the good parts were plagued with things that felt like a writer's weird hangups. The state wants nobody to gently caress! But I really want to gently caress! Look at this fat guy pooping in jail, isn't it gross??
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Midnight Voyager posted:In my experience, the good parts were plagued with things that felt like a writer's weird hangups. The state wants nobody to gently caress! But I really want to gently caress! Look at this fat guy pooping in jail, isn't it gross?? Orwell was writing in a time when eugenics was still considered serious science. Authoritarians restricting reproduction would have been a much more pertinent point than it looks nowadays.
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Tenebrais posted:Orwell was writing in a time when eugenics was still considered serious science. Authoritarians restricting reproduction would have been a much more pertinent point than it looks nowadays. Maybe, but the result is the quote "I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards."
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hawowanlawow posted:pfft you're not a meth addict, you're just a wanker If only I'd read The Great Gatsby instead of Things Fall Apart!
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It's funny how "look at all the different kinds of potato chips we have" is such a high profile fallback in praise of Capitalism. This is the crowning achievement, this is the threat of what you'll lose out on if you change to Communism or Socialism: 140 kinds of marginally different flavors across 16 brands all owned by the same 1 conglomerate company. Hmmm yes, I could have universal healthcare, reasonable income, and human rights, but then I'm pretty sure I would only have one or two kinds of potato chips. I think we know that's not worth it!
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Vib Rib posted:It's funny how "look at all the different kinds of potato chips we have" is such a high profile fallback in praise of Capitalism. This is the crowning achievement, this is the threat of what you'll lose out on if you change to Communism or Socialism: 140 kinds of marginally different flavors across 16 brands all owned by the same 1 conglomerate company. Historically the self-proclaimed "Communists" didn't provide those things either, especially human rights. EDIT: This statement is in no way a defense of capitalism.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Historically the self-proclaimed "Communists" didn't provide those things either, especially human rights. Human rights turn out to mean a whole lot less when every complex lifeform is now dead because the dominant ideology murdered the biosphere. But hey, good human rights record. Sort of. If you ignore what happened to the people that fell through the cracks. Which was a lot of people.
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Mate, this is a Macca's in the year 2000.
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Human rights are very, very rarely actually respected by any state so it’s more an argument of what level you will accept. Shocking we’re you already live is where you draw the line
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Not to continue the books we read in high school derail, but I had to read Der Vorleser for my last year of high school German. Except I was the only one taking that class so I just had to read it all to the teacher, out loud, in German, and as bad as that was for me, I cannot imagine how grim that was for her.
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goldenninjawarrior posted:Not to continue the books we read in high school derail, but I had to read Der Vorleser for my last year of high school German. Except I was the only one taking that class so I just had to read it all to the teacher, out loud, in German, and as bad as that was for me, I cannot imagine how grim that was for her.
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goldenninjawarrior posted:Not to continue the books we read in high school derail, but I had to read Der Vorleser for my last year of high school German. Except I was the only one taking that class so I just had to read it all to the teacher, out loud, in German, and as bad as that was for me, I cannot imagine how grim that was for her. She had the power to stop you and give you a different assignment
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Like half way through and I was like wow this is A LOT of introspective whining about not getting closure on his first relationship in his teens and then it almost turned to outright comedy when he just offhandedly mentions that he's now been married and divorced and has a kid and he's still not quite over how she just left him like that.
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goldenninjawarrior posted:Not to continue the books we read in high school derail, but I had to read Der Vorleser for my last year of high school German. Except I was the only one taking that class so I just had to read it all to the teacher, out loud, in German, and as bad as that was for me, I cannot imagine how grim that was for her. I’m sorry, why did your high school German teacher have you read a novel about an older woman sexually exploiting a teen boy? Surely there are other short novels about recent German history written in fairly simple declarative sentences she could have chosen for this uncomfortable tête-à-tête 
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goldenninjawarrior posted:Not to continue the books we read in high school derail, but I had to read Der Vorleser for my last year of high school German. Except I was the only one taking that class so I just had to read it all to the teacher, out loud, in German, and as bad as that was for me, I cannot imagine how grim that was for her. This basically accords with my prejudices about Germans, thanks.
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kate winslet's ite tho.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Mate, this is a Macca's in the year 2000. oh no the sharkies lost *shits pants violently and goes on to become prime minister*
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I'm not fully sure what's going on here, but "It's the most feminine ape in the entire collection" seems like it fits this thread. https://twitter.com/KylieJenner/status/1536205103949959168 Whenever I see people discussing NFTs/crypto, all I can think about is Karl from Workaholics tripping on LSD and going "Ice....the currency of the future. I'ma be rich.  "
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goldenninjawarrior posted:Not to continue the books we read in high school derail, but I had to read Der Vorleser for my last year of high school German. Except I was the only one taking that class so I just had to read it all to the teacher, out loud, in German, and as bad as that was for me, I cannot imagine how grim that was for her. alabama of europe
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AlbieQuirky posted:I’m sorry, why did your high school German teacher have you read a novel about an older woman sexually exploiting a teen boy? Surely there are other short novels about recent German history written in fairly simple declarative sentences she could have chosen for this uncomfortable tête-à-tête  Well this information puts my post in another context
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goldenninjawarrior posted:Not to continue the books we read in high school derail, but I had to read Der Vorleser for my last year of high school German. Except I was the only one taking that class so I just had to read it all to the teacher, out loud, in German, and as bad as that was for me, I cannot imagine how grim that was for her. My German teacher had the bright idea to have us all read the entirety of Wilhelm Tell with roles, with the amount of text you got to read depending on how bad you were at reading. So all of us has to sit through the worst readers stumbling their way through page-long monologues, which I'm sure made those kids really interested in literature and reading.
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Cool, so just like English class in 6th-7th grade. Oh boy, time to spend the next 52 minutes listening to some dullard painfully sounding-out every word of three pages of The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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AlbieQuirky posted:I’m sorry, why did your high school German teacher have you read a novel about an older woman sexually exploiting a teen boy? Surely there are other short novels about recent German history written in fairly simple declarative sentences she could have chosen for this uncomfortable tête-à-tête It was required by the syllabus, had to do an exam on that and the Mauerfall.
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Midnight Voyager posted:Maybe, but the result is the quote "I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards." Pfft, next you're going to be saying maybe we shouldn't be teaching quite so many 'classics' about older men and the younger women who inexplicably fall in love with them!
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How long do you think it would take for that structure to cool down enough to re-enter after a fire that roasts everyone alive? Days? Weeks?
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Building below the sewers gets really expensive. Gravity does a lot of work in plumbing.
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Why shouldn't we kickstart a Morlock society
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But what happens if they don't clean the cameras?
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(brain firing on all cylinders) what if we put the homeless underground.
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“I don’t understand why I need to take all these humanities and social sciences classes to be an engineer.”
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(brain collapsing under its own immense weight) the problem with homelessness is available space
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Splicer posted:But what happens if they don't clean the cameras? Prepare for war
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Heath posted:(brain firing on all cylinders) what if we put the homeless underground. They technically won't be on the streets if they're under the streets. But yeah, it comes with such fun issues as: Everyone dies if there's a fire Good luck with your plumbing lol Radon More radon Having to dig out a hole rather than just moving air aside People like seeing the sky every so often Plus it's not like building underground conjures up free real estate. You can't just build your own Homeless Vault(tm) under other people's already-existing buildings.
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High school lit chat: junior year was pretty good, I had a great teacher and we got to read both The Things They Carried and Catch-22. Then again, we also had to read As I Lay Dying, which sucks a ton so land of contrasts etc.snergle posted:alabama of europe Heath posted:(brain firing on all cylinders) what if we put the homeless underground.
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Yea this country has been putting the homeless/marginalized under the ground since the beginning.
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