Came here to mention this one. I’ll be 36 soon and that story still haunts me 20 some odd years after reading it in class. Link for the curious.

For context, this book came out the previous year: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=dU8VPQsTqFU

this. milk is fucking disgusting.

it’s still a market, and “free” is still a price point

the joke is the guy bitching about illiteracy thinks 40 words is too much to read

native english speaker here, the joke comes across fine and I literally laughed out loud. people who try to police words/grammar/humor like the guy you’re replying to are pathetic losers and nobody likes them. keep making funnies in my language and i’ll keep laughing and upvoting them!

whine about literacy

proceed to call two sentences “a lot of words” and pretend it’s a lot to read

this guy desperately making an asshole of himself trying to troll people is funnier than the meme

i think you’re just salty that your inbox blew up with people telling you what an idiotic blowhard you sound like

linguistic prescriptivism is for weird losers bent on controlling others’ thoughts. the joke is fine, i think you’re upset about something else here.

more like

“have you seen Mindless Action 7: Ultimate CG 3: The Reckoning yet?”

no, I don’t keep up with Marvel movies, they just don’t appeal to me.

“well it’s insert 30 minute lore dump and it ties into the ending of Space Hero Movie 3 because insert 20 minute side rant about Space Mask Guy’s entire history while also being an indirect sequel to Weird Magic Dude 6 because of when Weird Magic Dude altered the timeline by extended synopsis of Weird Magic Dude 2, 5, and 6 which ties into the Unremarkables Netflix series, that’s why indicipherable gibberish, and then The Bulk eats a car with Alien Skin Chin inside and Shrinky Dinky has to get him back out again! It’s amazing, you gotta see it!”

idk man i watched Metal Noggin and Space Hero Movie and didn’t really care for either of them, the genre just doesn’t appeal to me. i’m glad you have a thing you like but it’s not really my bag.

goes to internet “why are people so vocal about not liking marvel movies, as if we care?”.

The fiddle itself is a handicap too, gold is an awful material for an instrument.

it’s kind of dramatic to frame “hey it’s not cool to use our platform to jokingly encourage would-be assassins” as “capitulation” to such-and-such political movement. by all means make assassination jokes in private but it’s different when it’s through a megaphone like that - we live in an age of stochastic terror man, that shit’s been weaponized for a decade now and it’s silly to pretend it isn’t as long as the “joke” reflects your own feelings. this is some maga-level mental gymnastics, maybe think more about it.

Dude Socrates was convinced that reading and writing would ruin everyone’s memory who grew up with it. Whining about <innovation> somehow handicapping the next generation by making them “too dependent on technology” or whatever and couching it in reasonable-sounding terms is as old as language, and time always makes fools of those who indulge in that sort of masturbatory delusion. You’re just jealous we had cooler toys, own it.

edit: replied to wrong user

I spent most of my 20s alone, and met the woman I married at age 33. It’s never too late.

and here i’d been blissfully unaware of it for days now. damn you all.

(wear earplugs to concerts kids, especially if you’re playing)

who the hell calls rugby “rugger”? that’s even worse than “soccer”.

1. This is foosball.

2. The sport with the egg is “gridiron football”, we call it “football” for short for the same reason other countries call association football “football” for short, it’s the most popular variant here.

3. We don’t call it “American football” because that’s not what it’s called, you lot say that because of point 2. Nobody is going to say “European football” because that’s not what it’s called either.

4. The word “soccer” was imported from the UK (seriously that word is british as hell, you really think we came up with that shit?), and we use it for reasons outlined in points 2 and 3, and also because “european football” is inaccurate, tiresome, and stupid sounding.

5. This is the first and only time I’ve ever heard of rugby union football being referred to as “ruggers”, I never thought I’d read a dumber-sounding word than soccer but you’re just full of surprises today. For some reason i was imagining one of the replies was the same person, this was in error.

hint for the identity police: it has to do with generations of historical discrimination and otherness. sorry our culture isn’t yours.