FlakesBongler

joined 4 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Imagine a world where parents knew what foods their kids were particular about and instead of forcing them to eat things they didn't like, worked with them and found out new and interesting things to try!

But alas, children are property and cannot be given any agency whatsoever

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

I want to meet the mind that looked at mayonnaise and went "What if this was half sugar?"

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Interesting my-hero

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Petition to rename Covid-19 to The Devil's Gripe

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It's legal in Oregon

Very legal

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

Cholera, Typhus, Whooping Cough, Tuberculosis, Strident Rubella, Poor Man's Gout, Shanty Fever, Housemaid's Knee, Jungle Rot, The Staggers, Climactic Bouba, Dum-Dum Fever, and The Lurch just to name a few

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Real ladies look like this

Perfection

[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And it wrecks the efficacy of 311, which remains and is the most important accountability tool, short of voting, that people have.โ€

data-laughing

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The first such incident occurred in 1956

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

this

Thank you, I'm not good at remembering titles and was in the midst of using Frinkiac to help me find them

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Patty and Selma are some of my favorite characters

It's just kind of sad that only a few writers decided to use them as anything more than a few crass jokes

 

I hear its amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hari Kiri Rock

I NEED SCISSORS

61!

 
 

Thank goodness we live in a time where we know how to treat our owls

 

Actually, no i didn't, I lied...

I'm so, so sorry kitty-birthday-sad

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lol (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The guy with the Cybertruck in the rich town next to mine is selling it

A month to the day when I saw him driving it and pointed and laughed at him

Coincidence?

I think not

 
 

My partner was watching a show and this popped up, made me cackle

First person to guess gets a single non-monetary favor from me

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It me (hexbear.net)
 
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It's Over (hexbear.net)
 

Why didn't anyone warn me having my gallbladder removed would make me a white man? ooooooooooooooh

I can never call anyone a anti-cracker-aktion again

 

This guy! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

 

He'll yeha, blaze it 5/11 4/24/7

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm gonna spoil the movie, so if you care, it's probably best if you stop reading here because I'm not putting the entire thing in spoiler tags

So, long story short, Civil War is a beautifully made film that's also cowardly and disappointing

The cinematography is great, the sound is excellent, but the movie lacks something very important, an actual message

If the movie is supposed to be about truth and journalism and its importance, that never comes through, instead it feels very much like "The Troops are Brave: Camera Edition"

Because at no point in the film does the actual work journalists do comes up, instead you're treated to scene after scene of our protagonists taking pictures of war and atrocities, but never actually saying anything about it, which seems to be the tack the film itself is taking

That war is bad, but never bothering to explore the how's and why's of the conflict

The most hints we get as to why the president is bad is a mention that he has a third term (gasp) and ordered air strikes on civilians

Which, uh, I suppose is enough for some people, but the vociferousness with which the forces of the aptly named Western Forces pursue and execute the president suggest something far more interesting, which the movie could not even be bothered to even try and explore

To make a film about the United States becoming balkanized without bothering to even offer a smidgen of backstory as to its causes or even into the politics of the sides only serves to make the film a hollow shell

We're left with nothing to the film, and it seems like they're not even bothered by that, which is an absolute shame because they could have at least tried to say something

Instead, they chose very hard to say absolutely nothing, which only makes the apathy all the worse

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