GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world Posts 73Comments 1,182Joined 2 yr. ago
Don't forget mercury!
There's a quote from a Heinlein book where he talks about how Communists can only exist in places where there are real, not imagined, ills that are not being addressed, and I feel like something similar applies for Trumpists. Their lives have gone wrong somehow, likely driven by forces beyond their control, and they've been promised easy answers by a vile con game. I don't appreciate that they got hoodwinked, but I can understand how it happened.
I learned about ribbed condoms from Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, and by God, that's how everyone should learn about them!
[Discussion] Which movie trailers were the most deceptive regarding the actual content of the movie?
The trailer for Dragon Wars promised me scenes of dragons fighting attack helicopters. This scene did appear in the movie... for about thirty seconds. The rest was an incomprehensible mess of flashbacks within flashbacks and Korean folklore that amounted to very little.
Feel like this image would have hit differently back in ~1999 when it was first published.
comfortable, like... like old leather.
There are always copies of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. There are always copies of The Two Towers or Return of the King, but frequently no copies of The Fellowship of the Ring. There are always copies of the Chronicles of Narnia books, but never an entire set from the same printing. The staff will always have an author that they will defend their excellent writing while acknowledging that they were horrible human beings, e. g. H. P. Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, and recently we get to add Neil Gaiman. If you're very lucky, someone came in and sold a first autographed edition that's worth $100+ but the buyer screwed the pooch and priced it at $10.
Edit: Hang out long enough, and you'll get to hear a customer come in and ask "Can you recommend a book for me?" without providing any more helpful details, and you can hear the staffer's soul break just a tiny bit more.
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Sing, sing, that thing can sing!
No person ought, or of right can be compelled, to attend any religious worship, or erect, or support any place of worship, or maintain any minister, contrary to the dictates of his conscience.
--Vermont Constitution, Article 3
Wish we could have got that one in the national Constitution.
"______ Resigns Under Pressure From Trump"
Fuck you, make him work for it! Make him fire you, then sue for wrongful termination! Don't just politely get out of the way so you can be replaced by some goon who will happily do the horrible thing you're resigning in protest of!
More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette, September 2, 1946
These motivational messages on the computer screen in an emergency department hospital room
"Have a good time," United States Brewers Foundation, July 30, 1956
Where there's Life... there's Budweiser!, July 30, 1956
Perfect Time for A Holiday!, Oldsmobile, 1956