Read After Burning posted:

My favorite is the opposite, when the animal mascot is like "Hell, I'm killing my own species, we're delicious".

See:

dialhforhero posted:

In my own personal experience I believe this is an AI image as I refuse to believe there were any other figures than the styrofoam chicken nugget container and the fries.

OwlFancier posted:

I've seen chickens kill and eat their own young, nature is super hosed up.

BioEnchanted posted:

Rocko's Modern Life's opening joke had a great take on it - a Chicken (that we find out the name of during the scene, let's go with Gladys for now) goes to a job interview, is interviewed by another Chicken and is given a uniform. The next day, a machine spits out a ready made fast food chicken dinner, that happens to contain a nametag that says "Hello, My name is Gladys!" It's the perfect way to show that O-Town is a literal dog-eat-dog world where capitalism has gone so far out of control that the citizens see nothing wrong with eating friends and neighbours. They know EXACTLY where their meat comes from, they may have even spoken to them the day before, and they just don't care. Virginia Woolfe, Heffer's mother, is a very sweet woman who'll happily take you up on giving her a driving lesson, but if her family is hungry and you are any kind of ruminant, you may be on her table a few hours later. It's an almost perfect satire of just how cruel that system is. The Woolfe family even Adopted Heffer with the goal of fattening him up and eating him one day, but they just grew attached and changed their minds.

ben shapino posted:

how are there this many pathetic loving losers on the planet lol can we really not do any better as a species

Powered Descent posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL4b0Pc1xIs

BioEnchanted posted:

Rocko's Modern Life's opening joke had a great take on it - a Chicken (that we find out the name of during the scene, let's go with Gladys for now) goes to a job interview, is interviewed by another Chicken and is given a uniform. The next day, a machine spits out a ready made fast food chicken dinner, that happens to contain a nametag that says "Hello, My name is Gladys!" It's the perfect way to show that O-Town is a literal dog-eat-dog world where capitalism has gone so far out of control that the citizens see nothing wrong with eating friends and neighbours. They know EXACTLY where their meat comes from, they may have even spoken to them the day before, and they just don't care. Virginia Woolfe, Heffer's mother, is a very sweet woman who'll happily take you up on giving her a driving lesson, but if her family is hungry and you are any kind of ruminant, you may be on her table a few hours later. It's an almost perfect satire of just how cruel that system is. The Woolfe family even Adopted Heffer with the goal of fattening him up and eating him one day, but they just grew attached and changed their minds.

Heath posted:

Oh bay-bee, oh bay-bee, oh bay-bee.

Modal Auxiliary posted:

I seriously can't believe the poo poo they got away with back in the day. Even as a grade schooler I remember being surprised that some of the gags (Rocko working as a phone sex operator, Heifer getting "milked", the infamous bear teste pinch, etc.) were allowed on TV, especially a "children's" show.

poo poo was wild.

Dewgy posted:

Cower before your great and terrible lord.

Powered Descent posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL4b0Pc1xIs

dialhforhero posted:

Yeah and they are the chicken nuggets and fries, yes?

I NEVER saw the others:

Dewgy posted:

Cower before your great and terrible lord.

Inceltown posted:

Why would you think it gets any better? There is nothing about this guy that will ever get better.

quote:

Why Me? by Catturd.

I'm exhausted - mentally and physically. This Catturd thing has been a 5 year rollercoaster ride. I basically work 7 days a week; no days off, no vacations. I don't even know how I got here. I often ask, why me?

I have no idea how I've gained such a large following - sometimes I think it's mostly luck. Most the larger accounts on the conservative side have lived a very different life than me. In short, they did most everything right in life, and I did almost everything wrong - lol.

You couldn't get a more flawed and imperfect person than me. Although I've never been in trouble with the law, arrested, and only had one traffic ticket in my life - I was aimlessly adrift for many of my early years.

I joined the Army at 17-years-old, once my service was over - I basically started immediately screwing up. I was so lost. I had several failed marriages when I was way too young and had no idea what love was. Then I spent over a decade as a hippie musician, growing my hair, carefree, smoking weed, drinking too much, and even using some hard drugs. (I even had a VW hippie van - lol ) I was homeless at one point, living in a tent beside a lake for months. I fought alcoholism pretty hard during these times and still have to watch myself today.

Don't get me wrong, I don't regret a moment of my life, because I strongly believe it takes lots of failures to become successful at anything.

I finally seemed to get my poo poo together around the age of 40. It took me long enough - lol.

At the age of 54, I decided to join social media for the first time because I suddenly got arthritis in my fingers where I lost the ability to play guitar. I was lost again and needed some kind of artistic outlet. Sometimes I think Catturd saved me in a way.

With this reach and when you truly speak your mind, The Left will viscously try to destroy you. YOU MUST BE SILENCED and it never ends.

For just giving my honest opinions, I've been doxxed, harassed, 100 hit pieces written about me, people come by house and scream obscenities, tons of death threats, and on and on. Everyone I've known for 40 years and many of my family members have been bullied and relentlessly harassed for years.

Sometimes I don't know why a screw-up like me was give this much reach. I pray every night I'll use this opportunity the right way to help as many people as possible - and pets. I'm always struggling in which direction to go.

I can honestly say, however, the love I get from my followers pushes me through the hard times, when I'm exhausted or down. Whether it's on social media or on our podcast, I try to make people laugh every day to ease the pain of what this country is going through.

In closing on this novel, I feel so blessed to have the support and love from so many of you. I don't claim to be perfect, but I'll always give you my raw and unfiltered opinions, right or wrong. I'm not afraid and I'm fighting for this country as hard as I can.

All of you saved me - I love you all.

Bugsy posted:

Did you read the whole thing flynn replied to? It's very sad.

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

My point was, being judged for not caring about the bush in front of my rental house that's surrounded by rocks in the city seems pretty loving weird, but also:



loving holier than thou "you're not living your life correctly" rear end attitude

Improbable Lobster posted:

lol you don't have to take it personally

Heath posted:

You could just say you're uninterested in the world and uninteresting

teen witch posted:

Elysiume posted:

Hmm yeah can't imagine why someone who was directly told

would take things personally. Turns out people don't appreciate being called vapid and boring; what a shocker.

Improbable Lobster posted:

i didn't do that

Improbable Lobster posted:

I am of the opinion that anyone that isn't at least a little interested in learning about the plants and animals that are around them every day is incurious to a startling degree and should be studied by scientists to they can be prevented from infecting the rest of the population with their condition.

Improbable Lobster posted:

i didn't do that

Improbable Lobster posted:

A lot of people put there are incredibly understimulated in their daily lives and interacting with nature is a healthy way to stimulate your brain. I am of the opinion that anyone that isn't at least a little interested in learning about the plants and animals that are around them every day is incurious to a startling degree and should be studied by scientists to they can be prevented from infecting the rest of the population with their condition.

Elysiume posted:

I was addressing why it wasn't unexpected that she'd take the discussion personally rather than saying that was you, but being called "incurious to a startling degree" and saying you should be studied by scientists isn't all that different from what I quoted.

Bugsy posted:

Did you read the whole thing flynn replied to? It's very sad.

Heath posted:

IL didn't address that sentiment to Riot Carol Danvers, she just jumped in front of it to make sure we all knew she was represented by that remark of being incurious and took it personally, hence my remark to her

The original plant blindness post is written in such a way to draw that kind of insecurity out of people, which is why it's an excellent troll, since it does have that line of truth to it that taking a keener interest in the natural world that surrounds you is on a level above mere hobbyist interest because it forms such a large part of our shared surroundings in a way that is more primal than unnatural things like models of cars and such. The plants keep us and everything else alive on a visceral, moment to moment basis and have intricate networks of being all their own, and for the vast majority of people they form a simple green element of the static backdrop of life, which is a very normal thing but probably shouldn't be, given they've been with us longer than we've been human and will outlast us far beyond anything we create, but for the most part we just walk on them or ignore them. So when someone leaps out of the proverbial bushes to declare how judged they feel for not being interested, or completely misses the point by distilling the sentiment down something completely masturbatory and punctuates that thought by posting the jack off emoticon 3 times in a row just to drive it home, well, they've taken the bait and run with it

Heath posted:

IL didn't address that sentiment to Riot Carol Danvers, she just jumped in front of it to make sure we all knew she was represented by that remark of being incurious and took it personally, hence my remark to her

The original plant blindness post is written in such a way to draw that kind of insecurity out of people, which is why it's an excellent troll, since it does have that line of truth to it that taking a keener interest in the natural world that surrounds you is on a level above mere hobbyist interest because it forms such a large part of our shared surroundings in a way that is more primal than unnatural things like models of cars and such. The plants keep us and everything else alive on a visceral, moment to moment basis and have intricate networks of being all their own, and for the vast majority of people they form a simple green element of the static backdrop of life, which is a very normal thing but probably shouldn't be, given they've been with us longer than we've been human and will outlast us far beyond anything we create, but for the most part we just walk on them or ignore them. So when someone leaps out of the proverbial bushes to declare how judged they feel for not being interested, or completely misses the point by distilling the sentiment down something completely masturbatory and punctuates that thought by posting the jack off emoticon 3 times in a row just to drive it home, well, they've taken the bait and run with it

Cleretic posted:

I don't want my enjoyment of nature in my daily walks in the park gatekept by what Latin names some white dudes I've never met slapped on 'em.

Vib Rib posted:

You can't understand the circle of life and the consequences of climate change unless you can tell me the name of that tree over there. Something being "primal" makes it inherently important and good. The natural is more worth your time than the artificial, no matter how irrelevant it may be in your day to day life. Knowing about how society, industry, transport, communication, and technology work? "Mere hobbyism". Memorizing how many leaves a Hooker's Lily has on each stalk? Sublime. And remember, if you're not interested in the things I have decided are important, you must be a dull and incurious person.
What? You think my point is stupid and belittling? Wow, must've struck a nerve! Every thing you're insulted by has a grain of truth to it. A hit dog will holler, after all.

Weatherman posted:

tl;dr

Bugsy posted:

Did you read the whole thing flynn replied to? It's very sad.