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Asterite34
May 19, 2009



Ben Franklin posted:


1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.

3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc’d may be attended with much Inconvenience.

4. Because thro’ more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin’d to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.

7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.

8[thly and Lastly] They are so grateful!!

I can't fault his logic, honestly.

Certainly better than going the Jefferson route :yikes:

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Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!
He also grossly over exaggerated his conquests. Letters written by the women he was supposedly sleeping with talked about him being a doddering but kindly grandfather figure.

Randalor
Sep 4, 2011



Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

He also grossly over exaggerated his conquests. Letters written by the women he was supposedly sleeping with talked about him being a doddering but kindly grandfather figure.

But was he a doddering and kindly grandfather figure who knew how to gently caress?

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Randalor posted:

But was he a doddering and kindly grandfather figure who knew how to gently caress?

Ask yourself why viagra made so much money. Do dirty old men who lie about loving ever know what they talk about? He did not.

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Oct 15, 2012

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With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
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Biscuit Hider
Franklin spreading falsehoods about loving his way through Europe to disguise the scandalous truth that he just liked telling stories to people and handing out Werther's Originals

Kwyndig
Sep 23, 2006

Heeeeeey


Did they have Werther's Originals back then?

Edit: no they did not, they were invented in 1909.

Kwyndig has a new favorite as of 23:28 on Nov 9, 2022

Zebulon
Aug 20, 2005

Oh god why does it burn?!

Kwyndig posted:

Did they have Werther's Originals back then?

They were just called Werther's back then.

Radia
Jul 14, 2021

And someday, together.. We'll shine.

Zebulon posted:

They were just called Werther's back then.

rydiafan
Mar 17, 2009


I've said it before and I'll say it again, the best thing to come out of Bioshock Infinite is the tie-in board game, which kicks rear end.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

He also grossly over exaggerated his conquests. Letters written by the women he was supposedly sleeping with talked about him being a doddering but kindly grandfather figure.

I always thought the joke was he spent tons of money in the Paris brothels, not that he was seducing the upper class women.

bewilderment
Nov 22, 2007
man what



There's actually an entire pretty decent video game, The Magic Circle that is basically about the experience of working with Ken Levine as an ambitious director constantly changing story details and even genres.

The game's gimmick is that you have to fix and recode the game from the inside because it's a broken mess of different parts.

Analytic Engine
May 18, 2009

not the analytical engine

bewilderment posted:

There's actually an entire pretty decent video game, The Magic Circle that is basically about the experience of working with Ken Levine as an ambitious director constantly changing story details and even genres.

The game's gimmick is that you have to fix and recode the game from the inside because it's a broken mess of different parts.

wow thanks, this looks great

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
I'm finally checking off Breaking Bad off my media bucket list. is weed being a gateway drug suppose to be a serious thing back then or what?

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

PhazonLink posted:

I'm finally checking off Breaking Bad off my media bucket list. is weed being a gateway drug suppose to be a serious thing back then or what?

You don't remember?

bunnyofdoom
Mar 29, 2008

I've been here the whole time, and you're not my real Dad! :emo:

Absurd Alhazred posted:

You don't remember?
They smoked so much weed they don't remember

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

PhazonLink posted:

I'm finally checking off Breaking Bad off my media bucket list. is weed being a gateway drug suppose to be a serious thing back then or what?

I assume this is about when Walt’s cover is that Jesse is his pot dealer? That seems perfectly in line with what people like Hank and Marie would earnestly believe.

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Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

PhazonLink posted:

I'm finally checking off Breaking Bad off my media bucket list. is weed being a gateway drug suppose to be a serious thing back then or what?

It was still illegal in all 50 states back then and I don’t think the DEA had been told to chill about it yet

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Oct 30, 2009

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In the book “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life” by Walter Isaacson, he reveals that the French referred to Ben as Bedwomen Fucklin

TGG
Aug 8, 2003

"I Dare."
I haven't read it in years but if I remember in his autobiography he mentions helping a dude out by giving him a place to live but taking the man's wife "for my own pleasure" if I remember the quote correctly.

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Dear Penthouse, I am Benjamin Franklin and I gently caress

ryonguy
Jun 27, 2013

TGG posted:

I haven't read it in years but if I remember in his autobiography he mentions helping a dude out by giving him a place to live but taking the man's wife "for my own pleasure" if I remember the quote correctly.

Benjamin Cucklin

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Ben-Jammin'

DreadUnknown
Nov 4, 2020

Bird is the word.

Analytic Engine posted:

wow thanks, this looks great

Its also got the va of Dr Venture as tge smug director.

Le Faye Morgaine
Feb 1, 2022
Ben Franklin: first founding fetishist, inventor of the first estim kits by tying key laden kites to his nipples and ballsack

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

DreadUnknown posted:

Its also got the va of Dr Venture as tge smug director.

Yeah, that's Rusty as a game dev alright.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
🍀👽🆚🪖🏋

PhazonLink posted:

I'm finally checking off Breaking Bad off my media bucket list. is weed being a gateway drug suppose to be a serious thing back then or what?

Very much so

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

bewilderment posted:

There's actually an entire pretty decent video game, The Magic Circle that is basically about the experience of working with Ken Levine as an ambitious director constantly changing story details and even genres.

The game's gimmick is that you have to fix and recode the game from the inside because it's a broken mess of different parts.

Was that inspired by Levine? I always thought it was more of a generic "game development and rear end in a top hat directors suck" thing.

Also, in that game the rear end in a top hat director is voiced by James Urbaniak, which is both awesome yet somewhat undermines it because I can't help but picture Rusty Venture running a game studio.

Desert Bus
May 9, 2004

Take 1 tablet by mouth daily.
Ever since I found out what James Urbaniak looks like IRL from the show "Difficult People" it's made Venture Brothers funnier.

Cool Kids Club Soda
Aug 20, 2010
😎❄️🌃🥤🧋🍹👌💯

DreadUnknown
Nov 4, 2020

Bird is the word.
His podcast was p rad, but stopped getting updated in 2016.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

he's Dr O in New Vegas, but turns out Mobius isn't actually Jackson Publick. pretty good impression though

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

I love how Dr. O mentions the Walking Eye if you have Wild Wasteland on.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

AceOfFlames posted:

I love how Dr. O mentions the Walking Eye if you have Wild Wasteland on.

He's literally just Dr Venture but as a brain in a jar. It's masterful.

WescottF1
Oct 21, 2000
Forums Veteran
Edit - Beaten.

Toshimo
Aug 23, 2012

He's outta line...

But he's right!
https://twitter.com/carolaverygrant/status/1597681381672628224

Mad Hamish
Jun 15, 2008

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.




Thanks, I hate it.

Nieuw Amsterdam
Dec 1, 2006

Dignité. Toujours, dignité.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Jimmy Saville and Gary Glitter.

Sixpence Nonce The Richer

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Desert Bus posted:

Ever since I found out what James Urbaniak looks like IRL from the show "Difficult People" it's made Venture Brothers funnier.

Billy and Pete are basically the two doing caricatures of each other.



The comments get into it and lol that there's still Whedon defenders in almost 2023.

Something to be said about a guy who literally seeks to be defined as a villain because it allows him to wallow in self-indulgence and domination of his perceived enemies.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

The thing about Whedon is that sometimes mediocrities are at least nice people and absolute monsters produce interesting art. He’s got nothing from either case.

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the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

Nieuw Amsterdam posted:

Sixpence Nonce The Richer

Wait, what did they do? I thought their only crime was that one-hit wonder of theirs.

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