It’s hard being loved by jerks.

So...where's the laughs? 🤷 Where's the ironic, comedic observation usually present in comic strips? 🤔 Am I being obtuse?

E. Elias Merhige's Begotten.

And no, after countless attempts, I never did finish it.

• The Ides of March, Clooney, 2011
• The Manchurian Candidate, Frankenheimer, 1962

…otherwise known as The Reddit Exodus of '23.

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!
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"I won't go schizo, will I?"

"It's a distinct possibility."

Anger or hatred is like the fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it. -- Gautama Buddha
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Just to suck the life out of this (yet another) hilarious vignette, did you know, according to the data gathered by defenders.org, in the United States more people are killed by cows than wolves?! The UK-based theconversation.com has a webpage advising how to stay safe around a killer herd!

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Workers of The World...Relax!
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Oh, well then…everything's cool.

What We Want Now
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I'm back. Didja miss me?

Have to politely disagree with Mr Ager's analysis/conjecture. While I may concede that some abuse may have happened in Alex's childhood, there's no solid or even implied link to either parent being the abuser. Unfortunately, people hang for such circumstantial or presumed evidence. I'll generously grant Ager that there may have been sexual abuse on the part of the law (Deltoid, police) and if any case may be made regarding the parents' culpability, it possibly would be their turning a blind eye to the presumed sexual abuse (there's a legal term for this but it escapes me at the moment).

-- r², ex MovieSnob

Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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Really? You need to see a (max.) 64px sq image of something to engage?

Here. Use an Invidious link instead of Piped. Best of both worlds: it doesn't link directly to privacy-ignoring YouTube and (usually) will show a post thumbnail image when linked to from Lemmy.

If you all will excuse me, I'm gonna engage in the linked analysis of A Clockwork Orange.

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When was the last time you had USD$10B? Next you're gonna defend Mackenzie Scott's hard-earned USB$34B, I suppose.

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Indeed. Now she has only ca. USD$11B left over to survive with. She can buy only five, possibly six Sentinel ICBMs.

What We Want Now
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What's everybody getting so perturbed about? Geez. Isn't this just like when an ethnic group uses an ethnic slur within their own circle? 🤣

admitting homosexual men into seminaries

Ooh, like that's never happened before in the entire history of the Holy See. 🙄

Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
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I should know better than to ask but...

What kind of image are you uploading to a lemmy instance that's eight meg?

Famously (depending on your definition of "fame") the only Roger Corman film that lost money.

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"What do you know about brains?" Hilarious! 🤣

Why? Is there more than one kind?

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Nocturnal Animals.

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Schadenfreude much? 🤔

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Does anyone speak hairdresser?

No. Not even hairdressers speak hairdresserese. Like drummers, hairdressers/stylists/barbers will all appear as if all their attention is 100% on your description but they are thinking about something within their social circle (hence the real concern on their face). Like drummers, if there isn't some kind of natural affinity between you and who cuts your hair, you will never get what you're looking for.

That said, many clients haven't the proverbial "faintest idea" of what actually works for their face shape and stylists, if they're not suffering too strong of a hangover 🤣, do try to work within those confines.

You can only go in with your remarkably clear and detailed description —still open to interpretation as your hairstyle is not an airplane fuselage, with precise measurements and tolerances—in hand and still hope for the best. Apologies for the length of this reply.

DISCLAIMER: my ex-wife was and still is a fine hair stylist.

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