This needs to die in a fire.
This needs to die in ALL the fires.
We should go Scorched Earth on this bullshit.
This needs to die in ALL the fires.
We should go Scorched Earth on this bullshit.
Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again
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Ugh, I hate when people use Romeo and Juliet as a metaphor for a "wonderful, powerful romance." It just shows they've never actually read or understood the play. Those kids weren't in love, they were dumb teenagers acting on impulse and killing themselves for it. It even starts with Romeo being 'totally in love' with another girl, before meeting Juliet and having that feeling jump to her instead.
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Ha. I make this same argument a lot. I even had to explain this to our sensei, who was using R&J's love affair as an example of how something you have to work for is better. Nope, it's a play about teenagers being teenagers taken to the extreme of killing themselves over a hormonal infatuation.[DOUBLEPOST=1434120020,1434119855][/DOUBLEPOST]Same with Catcher in the Rye. People want to assign some deepness to Holden himself. Nope. He's a kid learning what it's like to watch childhood slip away, and he's honestly being kind of a dick about it. It is well written, and Salinger captures the feeling of that threshold well, but Holden himself is a whiny little punk.
I think part of the appeal lies in the fact that they're pretty much clueless teenagers being teenagers. It makes it feel more real. A lot of people have had an infatuation of the worst kind with someone around their teenage years; plenty were convinced it was True Love despite whatever mom and dad might've thought! This was real! Whah! R&J shows us that we're not alone in that thought - and also, that it's a good thing most people get over it and can manage to look back on it, eventually, and realize the stupidity. It's not an ideal relationship or a perfect relationship, it's a realistic-if-stylized teen drama relationship. It's definitely NOT some romantic ideal, and it was never intended as such.
That is like Blue Oyster Cult did not know they wrote a song about Suicide when they wrote Don't Fear the Reaper.
I want to agree with you.
But I liked The Boomer Bible.
So I can't agree without being somewhat of a hypocrite.
--Patrick
I found his dog.
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This appeared on my Facebook timeline. Not as a joke, or an image, just as a post a friend liked:
Wha...
Also, I thought the kids were overachievers, but he's a straight B+ student? That is... not overachieving. I find this run-on sentence's lack of continuity to be very disappointing.
It isn't by my or your standards, but based on a strict reading of average, it probably is.
Considering the author grabbed the picture from here, accuracy or authenticity isn't really his goal:
http://ozarknaturopathic.com/watermelon-and-fruit-pizza/
http://ozarknaturopathic.com/watermelon-and-fruit-pizza/
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Somebody's been to my neighborhood...
figmentPez
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I think @CynicismKills may have beaten you to this in the Anime thread by 13 minutes.AUSTRALIA.
I browse reddit faster than he does.[DOUBLEPOST=1434392064,1434392006][/DOUBLEPOST]It's also funny because Azumanga has basically none of those things, save for a weird, perverted teacher.
He's repeatedly stated that he has no use for reddit, he gets everything from imgur's site directly.
(I'm not criticizing you, I'm just beating @GasBandit to the explanation)
--Patrick
I was going to mention that. Wouldn't be a PG-13 (or whatever's Australia's equivalent) at most?
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GasBandit
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I think how Australians rating system works for video games, is that if it isn't G, it's R (or banned).
Honestly the sites are practically the same thing now.
Because they straddle content? Or because they've both recently taken a stance against overt naughtiness?
--Patrick
Or because both userbases went full retard in their response?
Seems about right.AUSTRALIA.
They've both turned into similar communities based on fake internet points and circlejerk opinions.
Well yeah, an image-focused site is going to have more images to replace text-posts. Imgur was basically founded as an alternative to other image hosts for reddit, and turned into a community of its own from there. reddit/imgur/9gag/digg/etc tend to have user migrate around between the sites pretty consistently.