Ugly In The Morning posted:

They’re probably the most likely to die young out of all of them, but that’s because the dispatcher lifestyle is to a heart attack as a hammer is to a nail.

FFT posted:

weirdly enough frog-related

quote:

In popular culture
Main article: Pepe the Frog
In relation to the 2016 United States presidential election, individuals associated with online message boards, such as 4chan, noted a similarity between Kek and the character Pepe the Frog. This, combined with the frequent use of the term "kek" as a stand-in for the internet slang "lol" (owing to the encryption of the word "lol" to the cipher "kek" in World of Warcraft when said by a Horde player and read by an Alliance player to simulate foreign language between the two factions), which was often paired with images of Pepe, resulted in a resurgence of interest in the ancient deity.[8]

Hihohe posted:

https://twitter.com/nickschadegg/status/1245236928418439168?s=20


op not idiot

Picnic Princess posted:

Didn't know you could catch lice from coffee, I've never deloused a coffee in my life. Now I gotta start! How do I do it?

Fatty Crabcakes posted:

Not sure what a Rusty Dutch Oven is but I bet it's expensive

T-man posted:

I will be so happy when the idea of individualized meal production dies and only the community chefs will have to argue about cast iron.

T-man posted:

I will deatomize you one way or another motherfucker

You WILL imagine the end of capitalism before the end of the world or else

Biplane posted:

Are you serious right now or what are you doing here.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I think it's grotesque to parade around a brain damaged man for a self-help grift even if said brain damaged man is as horrible a person as Jordan Peterson. That said, this is an entirely logical outcome of everything Jordan Peterson has ever done, so I have no sympathy for him.

Sympathy and empathy are not the same things.

Fatal Error posted:

tell us more about how sad you feel about the lobster man

Inceltown posted:

I deliberately avoided the replies to that thread. No good would come of it.

Sloth Life posted:

That just fuckin impressive

Nuebot posted:

"You absolute [mundane object]!" has become one of the internet's favorite forms of insulting someone and it's basically just a replacement for the once popular "[random swear] [random food]" format of being quirky and snarky now that everyone is tired of seeing nerds think they're clever and witty calling things shitcakes or fucknuggets. Reddit, in particular, will circle jerk for hours about how clever it is to call someone an egg or a muppet instead of an rear end in a top hat.

Splash Attack posted:

if u think about it we’re technically meat gundams for our brain

Pththya-lyi posted:

There's this idea of the medical model of disability vs. the social model. In the medical model, the only way to deal with a disability is by trying to cure it ASAP. If a cure isn't possible, you have to consign yourself to a miserable half-life as a broken person or "rise above" your disability by working extra-hard to fit in in a non-disabled world. In the social model, disabilities exist because of environmental and social barriers. Society should focus on breaking down these barriers so disabled people can participate more fully in communal life.

In this view, having bad vision isn't really a disability because it's well-accommodated by our society. People get screened for it at a young age, glasses and contacts are pretty easy to get unless you're desperately poor, glasses-wearers rarely face discrimination, etc. We don't write inspo-porn articles about people "overcoming" their bad vision, or make movies where characters wallow in misery - or even kill themselves - because they have to wear glasses.

This isn't to say that there aren't physical and mental impairments that can cause a lot of suffering, or that wanting to be cured of these impairments is somehow a betrayal of the disabled community. It's that maybe the best thing for disabled people is not to view them as objects of pity and scorn that have to be "fixed."

Josef bugman posted:

I have seen some of that in terms of popular culture. But one of the things I will note is that a game I have a load of fondness for hasn't seen it yet. Disco Elysium. People were saying "this is really good" and it's been 6 months or so since it came out and I've yet to see any real "worm is turning" on it.

Part of me does like the "bad thing = good now" argument, because at least it creates new avenues for folks to express how they feel about it.

Josef bugman posted:

I mean we are posting on something awful.

Inceltown posted:

I don't care about what you post if that is what you mean

Goa Tse-tung posted:

imo DE has one big fault: the horrible thing that happens when you fail the dancing/singing check in the church/club

you are not given any chance to prevent it, and the game reacts as if you the player made a bad choice morally (like it does the rest of in the game when you would actually do)

PetraCore posted:

You know there's been some horrific murderers who started out as perpetrators of woman-on-man domestic violence. Katherine Knight comes to mind.

Haha she's crazy violent but good at sex and just a woman, it's a laugh- oh, wow, she just butchered his body to feed to his children, huh.

EDIT: Yeah it happens at different rates but to be fair most male domestic abusers don't go on to become spree killers or terrorists, either.

there wolf posted:

A very clickbait title, but the article is pretty on point. There is a movement to create a false equivalency between male and female victims of domestic violence in an effort to muddle the waters about systemic male violence as a threat to women as a class. Those numbers aren't remotely close, and the underlying issue of patriarchy encouraging violence as a solution to all problems impacts men as well as women. These anti-feminist efforts to talk-up domestic violence by women have no interest in dealing with that at all.

PetraCore posted:

I just think it's possible to discuss male victimization in a feminist manner - for example, the idea that men can't be hurt by women because women are small and weak is very patriarchal, as is the fact that both men and women struggle to report because of how being abused is seen as a moral and physical failing. It doesn't have to be a conversation about who 'deserves' limited resources because we can all be on the same side of survivors deserving protection from abusers.

The narrative of it simply as a gender dynanic also ignores intersectionality, tbh.

PetraCore posted:

No I'm saying by framing women as exclusively victims those feminist groups were ironically still being really misogynistic. I'd like to read up about the issue sometimes since i know DA is dramatically under-reported anyway, so I can't imagine it's easy to figure out what the ratio actually is, esp with the base idea (abusers are male) being so pervasive.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

PetraCore posted:

Uh, well, I'm a woman, so.

StillFullyTerrible posted:

even though i know what she's saying i always find it annoying when people say humans aren't animals
we're not plants or bacteria damnit

OwlFancier posted:

Kinda wild how humanity ever made it out of the hunter gatherer phase given how incredibly specific our dietary requirements apparently are. But then I guess back then nutritional supplements roamed wild in the forests and you could just punch one out and eat it right there.

Midnight Voyager posted:

MY AUNT JUST STRAIGHT UP REFERENCED THE RODNEY KING RIOTS IN A WAY THAT MAKES ME THINK SHE'S ON THE POLICE'S SIDE IN THOSE TOO, I AM LOSING MY MIND

TinTower posted:

According to Spitting Image, Rowan Atkinson paying for his share of lunch and not being late is as rare as being served in Woolies after less than four weeks wait, a public swimming bath where they don’t piss in the pool, a guy who got a job straight after leaving school, and meeting a normal merman and a fairly modest German.

But you’ll never meet a nice South African.

(And that’s not very surprising, mun.)

mind the walrus posted:

I think it's more that once you step back from the economic hierarchy you can see that the world is still fundamentally the way it was 5,000 years+ ago-- if you're born naturally bigger/stronger and are into exerting that will by forming a coalition with other muscular aggressors, you are the highest natural class and will be protected by those most like you, and the economically insulated are more like tumors.

RoboRodent posted:

People get really superstitious about dice in D&D. No judgment intended, it's a human nature thing.

Inceltown posted:

The people who did this



will totally accept the Japanese are white now.

Kevin DuBrow posted:

Moon Slayer posted:

Then they'd better not do it with quotes that are extremely racist.

Moon Slayer posted:

I'd have every single one of you on ignore if it wouldn't destroy the forums, ngl.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

https://twitter.com/Bankslvrd/status/1280625241815908352


Lots of even worse takes in the replies.

Skwirl posted:

There was a time when Celibacy was a sacred vow between you and God or some type of higher calling, not about getting pissed at other people for getting some when you can't.

Owling Howl posted:

Nikola Motors