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‘Murdered By Words’: 50 Epic Comebacks That Immediately Put Jerks In Their Place (New Pics)
Welcome to the internet, a place to find like-minded people no matter what your background is. Sounds fun, right? Sadly, it can become quite toxic. And we're the ones to blame for it. Racism, misogyny, classism; all of society's wounds fester online just as much as they do in real life.
However, being insulting and mean often comes right back to bite you. Amongst the most impressive ways to fight internet trolls is by using the epic art of the comeback. Fierce, well-constructed, and piercingly accurate arguments end up in the subreddit called Murdered By Words. This community with over 2.6M members is the place where verbal assassins cut right through the BS and share some of the best burns.
When you’re done scrolling through this list, you’ll find some more inspiration for savage comebacks by checking out Bored Panda’s previous posts on the subreddit here, here, and here.
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#1
F***ing Dumb Is An Understatement
StormWolf 4 years ago
Little tip: if you're unsure which side of an argument you're on, pay attention to which side is making broad, combative statements (usually including calling their opponents 'stupid' or 'retard') and which is calmly stating facts backed up by reliable sources.
Erika 4 years ago
Confession: after a certain number of passes where I calmly state facts and offer reliable sources, and get called stupid or gullible in return, I've been known to make combative statements.
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Ari Trionfo 4 years ago
My coworker literally said "well heart disease kills thousands of people per year but you don't see us shutting the whole country down for that" yeah.... Because heart disease isn't contagious
Don't Look 4 years ago
One of my favorite things to say to people who compare two unlike things (the flu and cancer, for example) is "you just compared a fork to Jupiter".
SBW71 4 years ago
you just compared a fork to Jupiter". and that makes sense?????
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Kyle Brown 4 years ago
I would make 10 new accounts to also upvote this, but I think that is breaking the rules
SBW71 4 years ago
Exactly. Thank you! Too bad the rest of the morons thinking otherwise don't get it.
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Same amount of people who die from the flu every year about died from covid... of course a few more than normally but about the same. This is nothing but a stronger strain of the flu. Because they actually gave it a name it's supposed to be more scary than the "flu". A lot more people died from the norm of cancer, heart attacks and lately shootings but no word from the media on that of course.
BlahBlahBlackSheepah 4 years ago
U chump where do you think these facts came from that you've twisted into a nightmare? Media never said nothing about cancer and heart disease and gun violence?! Judy because you don't read news doesn't mean it's not there. But hey why don't you do some more Facebook research and really own the international scientific and medical community
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A while back, Bored Panda talked to the mods of r/MurderedByWords who said that "a murder should (but doesn't always have to) be more than a quick response or retort. The best murders are well-constructed, thought-out responses that leave the opening argument completely without any ability to reply.“
And there's more than one way to crush your opponent verbally. A burn or “a quick rapier thrust or stab to the heart (a short, swift reply) can be just as deadly as a drawn-out murder, and you'll frequently see both types in this sub," the moderator explained. And as you can guess, put-downs shared in this group might be some of the most enjoyable one-liners in human history.
But when you end up in the middle of a heated argument, emotions can take over. Especially if the person you're disagreeing with is sticking to an opinion that's just nonsense. So having in mind the rise in the number of flat earthers and anti-vaxxers, staying civil on the internet these past years can seem like an impossible task.
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#2
Satanists Just Don't Acknowledge Religions
Henry Russell 3 years ago
what do you mean by accurate sorry im just curious about all the people who hat eorganized religon for some reason were not all that bad. the reason we dont like abortion is because its goes agaisnt our religon and thats fine i just dont get the people who get mad at people who get a abortion wehnt ehir not christians
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Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
Anyone curious about The Church of Satan and modern day Satanism in America, I'd highly recommend you watch the documentary, "Hail Satan?!" Very interesting and quite hilarious. Satanists love trolling Christians.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I mean, they're not wrong. We do believe that Satan is real.
abby smink 4 years ago
Right, there's a difference in believing in the existence of, and worshiping
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Tina B 4 years ago
Maybe you don't. But most Christian's do so much evil in the name of their God. If that's not worshipping Satan... Never mind, it is.
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And while ruthless put-downs seem entertaining in the online world, other principles apply when you're arguing with someone in real life. To find out more about how to deal with those who mock you, Bored Panda reached out to Neel Burton, M.D., a psychiatrist, philosopher and author of Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions.
Burton is doubtful that throwing put-downs to the mockers actually make us feel better. "Someone who's insulting you is already in a weak position—or why would they be insulting you—so it would be unkind to shatter them completely. If you respond with compassionate silence, the message will be both stronger and kinder,“ he advised.
#3
Murdered And Exposed And Torn Asunder...
Meeple13 4 years ago
I wish that green was wrong... this inequality is something that needs to be changed in the world.
Llama_flower93 4 years ago
He's not wrong. America wouldn't be what it is today if those things hadn't happened. But I think America would be so much better if those things hadn't happened. Those atrocities, aside from just being horribly evil, created negative mentalities, misguided values, discrimination and racism that America is still dealing with today. So hurray, thanks for all the baggage, people of the past! You screwed everyone over because of your greed.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Manitoba had a newly sworn in councillor get called out and drilled by on camera saying s**t like that.
DennyS (denzoren) 4 years ago
It's similar to the Caribbean region, so much of our indigenous people were slaughtered when the Europeans arrived. There are very small numbers remaining.
Ivana Bogdan 4 years ago
Oh my gosh, I didn't know that some Americans are actually aware that their military is terrorizing the rest of world and that some of their soliders aren't actually heroes as it is presented but rather more like terrorists.
Thomas Sweda 4 years ago
Actually, Blue does get the point. This country would not be what it is today if we had treated Native Americans like human beings.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago (edited)
Or not decided to take everything that was not ours in the first place. Wow!! Look at all this land. We sure could use this. So, we'll just start moving in and taking all of it. No ask, just taking. All of it. Shove everyone into places with no resources and no ability to live in the same way as ancestors. Break treaties when it's convenient for the settlers. And even more shame (🇨🇦) let's just take them from their families and destroy the language and culture and abuse them while we're at it. All in the name of God. Nope these nations (🇨🇦& 🇺🇸) wouldn't be what they are today. And the First Nations wouldn't be who they are today. Proud Nations still having to demand to be able to, rather than be free and respected enough to live as proud Nations with all the rights and opportunities as everyone else.
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Trevor Nicholson 3 years ago
My ancestors, the Potawatomi, were forcefully displaced by what is known as the "Potawatomi Trail of Death" and some fled to Canada, which is where my family is from. I'm not only descended from Native Americans, but refugee Native Americans. Sure things are ok, but I'd probably be a lot better with all this generational trauma.
#4
Deserved It
River Webb 4 years ago
what did she expect in a gender neutral bathroom? men lining up and waiting for her until she finishes using the bathroom?
StormWolf 4 years ago
Ikr? She starts off with "I used a gender-neutral bathroom". Not "I had a gun to my head and was forced to use a gender-neutral bathroom".
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Susie Elle 4 years ago
Also I presume man #1 just went into a stall to do his business, not drop his pants when he walked in.
Tobias Rieper 4 years ago
i think she missed the point entirely of the purpose gender neutral bathrooms how can she feel violated if she didn't want this to happen or was worried then why not use the women's bathroom
G R 4 years ago
To be fair a lot of places (at least where I live) no longer have women's bathrooms at all, it's either just Gender Neutral, or Men plus Gender Neutral. I'm completely in favour of gender neutral loos to accommodate trans and non-binary people but it is crap that so often companies will just decide to turn the women's bathroom gender neutral. (Or worse, the disabled accessible toilet is turned into the gender neutral one.) I've never seen a situation where the men's bathroom is the one being sacrificed.
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H Edwards 4 years ago
Gender-neutral bathrooms have been a thing in the UK for yonks. Mostly places that are too small to have separate bathrooms.
Wondering Alice 4 years ago
Worked in UK school with gender neutral bathroom. It had little to do with trans (nice bonus though) more about school bullying taking place in girl and boy toilets. It worked!
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ZAPanda 4 years ago
hmm I wonder what she does at home with that non-segregated bathroom. Scary stuff.
G R 4 years ago
Presumably she doesn't have strange men walking freely into her home and getting their penises out...
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We had coed bathrooms at Caltech back in the 1970s-1980s. Everyone successfully went to the bathroom.
Clinical psychotherapist Eva Jajonie agrees with this line of thinking, and offers this explanation as to why the desire to offend someone is a sign of vulnerability: "When suppressed concerns and feelings, such as lack of self-esteem; self-defeating thoughts and behaviors; guilt; and anger, for example, are not treated or dealt with, the person uses insults to unleash anger, to escape dealing with the pain or trauma experienced.”
#5
See Ya, Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya
Madison Feehan 4 years ago
Hey America! Can you feel the burn of the Australian Sun hitting you?
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Take it from an Aussie - we're not watching your goings-on with jealous admiration: we're watching with appalled horror.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
So glad our kids don't have to worry about being killed when they go to school. None of this active shooter drills, metal detectors, security guards etc. And parents don't have to worry if our kids will make it home alive.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
Credit to Foxxy for pointing this one out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrRAO_vG_K4
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Dodo 4 years ago
I was in primary school in the UK when Dunblane happened. Government immediately banned guns and I never had to worry about getting shot at school. Idk how it's a controversial decision to protect children.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I was a kid when inner cities started to see shootings at/near schools. I'm still waiting for someone to realize that not arming everyone from birth is a *good* idea, not a violation of rights. (Other than the right of others to not fear for their lives, of course.)
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Vicki Cooper 4 years ago
That’s right, we don’t want to be you. We’re happy just the way we are. For the record, we had a gun amnesty and Aussies gave up their guns willingly because we knew that there are some things in this world that you just don’t need.
Beans 4 years ago
It's not like no one has guns in Australia though. My friends family has a firearm license and they keep their guns in a safe as per law, and they gave up their banned guns willingly.
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J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
The amount of people that died by firearms in the USA throughout the last 20 years is higher than the number of fallen soldiers in every war the country had since 1776. So statistically it's safer in a warzone than being home for US citiziens
CP 4 years ago
I agree with the point you are trying to make but that is not how statistics work. It is statistically safer at home in the US when you account for time (years of war vs years of US) and population (the amount of people who participated in a warzone vs the total amount of people in the US over that time).
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Ian Reynolds 4 years ago
Sad that a child under 10 knows what active shooter means. Thank God I live in the UK
Barbara Vandewalle 4 years ago
Soi when a father tries to protect his daughter from a rapist he is the one to be jailed. make sense
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స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ 4 years ago
I'm not sure what is more messed up about the U.S.: the lack of universal healthcare or the complete lack of gin control. Or the systematic racism or the militarised police or... I could be here all night. The civilised world just looks on in horror and sympathises with those with an appetite for change but limited power to effect it.
#6
Say Her Name
Jon S. 4 years ago (edited)
In Chicago, their home city they probably are. It was in the Chicago Tribune. Still clumsy writing, but they were trying to make it relatable for their regular audience.
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
She was significant because of what she accomplished, not what her husband accomplished.
Christopher Walkies 4 years ago
This is a double shame because the video of her husband's wild excitement while watching her Olympic performance was really lovely.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Reminds me of the "Stephen King's Wife" malarkey. As they both kindly pointed out, a) She has a NAME, b) She is also an author in her own right, and c) The news item they were reporting on wasn't even something Mr King was at the centre of.
Now that we know someone who is taking a cheap shot at you isn't that much of a threat, another thing to consider is status. According to Burton, we should try to keep our integrity: "If you engage the insulter on their own level, you are bringing yourself down and giving their insult far too much legitimacy.“ Staying levelheaded during an argument is not easy, but can be learned with practice. Like, try to notice when the adrenaline starts kicking in stopping it. Or take some deep breaths to remain calm, whatever method works for you.
#7
What Did You Do?
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago
Yup half of Pakistan hates Malala. It's so embarrassing to see such comments.
Cecily Holland 4 years ago
She’s always being trolled, stalked and threatened by Indians and Pakistanis
third molar 4 years ago
His id indicates he is from the Indian version of GOP... explains a lot
Lillukka79 4 years ago
Gaurav did f**k all, cos he doesn't care. Only way to make him care, would be to do the same to him.
Droopsnoot 4 years ago
Standing up to injustice is already doing something, sacrificing yourself for justice is a heroes deed
#8
Science Is Hard
Meeple13 4 years ago
Just learned that IV drips contain a body-altering substance called 'vitamins'. All people who died had at some stage consumed vitamins. Never using IV drips again.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
Do you know that IV is roman numerals for 4? Well! If you add two to four, you get six. And what is 6 x 111? That's right! 666.
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Call Me Mars 4 years ago
Yes, that's right. I, an autistic person, have consumed water. Oh. No. /s
Loty 4 years ago
It had been scientifically proven that 100% of people who died had been inhaling gas containing significant amounts of O. I'm so done with that.
UKDeek 4 years ago
I agree - the Government need to do something about that. I pay my taxes dammit!
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Monday 4 years ago
But guys, think about it. Every single person who has died was at some point exposed to dihydrogen monoxide!
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)
We're living in a culture where a 16 year old boy who stole a car, got high on laughing gas and drove head on into an ambulance seriously wounding the medics, in the process killing himself and 2 of his friends (14 &15 years) in the car, is "A really good kid who made a silly mistake."
Panda Kicki 4 years ago (edited)
This sound more like satire, and that person 2 didnt get the joke.
. 4 years ago
the 1st person was definitely joking, however the antivaxxers are stupid enough to quote something like this, so i can't blame the 2nd person for not understanding it
Load More Replies... Lillukka79 4 years ago
The tragedy of modern age, is never being quite sure.
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Pot, Meet Kettle
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Americans move to Europe to get a better, cheaper education and get a job in companies that want them to be happy, productive employees who can enjoy their 20+ holidays because they don't worry about losing their job if they actually take time off.
Tobias Rieper 4 years ago
its funny that people that live in a country that was founded by immigrants has such prejudice against them
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
It's all part of the "I Got Mine, Fvck You" schema that permeates a huge swath of the American consciousness.
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Yort 4 years ago
Who is this roasting? The people trying to get educated? Or the racists who won’t ever read that tweet?
Tammy Judd 4 years ago
Are they doing it LEGALLY or sneaking across the border? Big difference folks.
Just.a.ravenclaw.witch 4 years ago
Most immigrants leave their country because of how bad the poverty,the economy, and the crimes are!
Load More Replies... Mazer 4 years ago
They are not lazy, they are opportunists. The foundation America is based on.
But when you hear ignorant slurs, it's often difficult to just stand by. Here's where using humor can be extremely effective. "A good comeback is one that the insulter can also laugh at. It should not be too devastating. Ideally, it should be tangential, maybe even absurd,“ Burton explained. If your reply is funny, well-timed and well delivered, it can diffuse the tension of the situation and undercut the mockery.
#10
The Call Is Coming From Inside The House
The Scout 4 years ago
As a Non-American, I am still struggling hard to understand why everything that even remotely resembles a working social system is condsidered communism... It works in nearly every other country, with such side effects as keeping criminality low, eliminating the need for guns, raising the statistical life expectancy.
Chich 4 years ago
It believe it is due to the brainwashing they get all through their education system. Taught what to fear but not enough on how to think objectively
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Speedgoat 4 years ago
Can someone briefly explain to me the reasoning behind the far right use to see socialism as communism?
Erika 4 years ago
Either the speaker doesn't know the difference and assumes both are evil, or the speaker is comfortable assuming this of their audience.
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Christopher Doke 4 years ago
Sure seems to be a lot of anti-American hate speech on this website lately. Lots of people wanting to tare down america for things that the average citizen can do nothing about. It saddens me but I am proud of my country its just sad that the vocal minority are the only ones being listened to these days.
Dill 4 years ago
The trouble is the vocal minority are very, very vocal - but that goes for most countries. We all have our loons unfortunately. I'm in the UK. We also get bashed. Not as often I know but a lot of it is true and fair enough 🤷. It saddens me that we have a total tw@t like Boris at the helm - I mean he's hardly a prime example of decency and honesty is he? The opposition is lead by a worthy type but he has the charisma of a puddle. Though both make great material for comedians! We have to look on the bright side where possible. Don't take it personally - we DO know that most US citizens are perfectly normal and reasonable people.
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Sarah Mccullough 4 years ago
Pro communist..wow...so blatant. I never thought I'd actually see the f*****g day but here it is EVERYWHERE. IT failed before and it will fail again as history proves. All the ones who made it happen will be first against the wall.
MorgothBauglir 4 years ago (edited)
Not capitalism, cronyism. I'm a capitalist, and this housing shortage is not caused by free-markets in any way. This was caused by government meddling, not capitalism.
Stefan 4 years ago
Exactly. Social housing leads to housing shortage and rising prices. Well explained by Thomas Sowell.
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It's So Obvious And They Still Miss It
LuckyL 4 years ago
What I love most as an answer for this kind of questions is - so why do you wear glasses/pants/shoes - that's not how good created you
Anna Banana 4 years ago (edited)
Pretty sure god didn't create the internet either. Reading things like this you gotta at least admire the Amish for sticking to their convictions.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
"An AUTOimmune" system?! Oh boy... Where to even start. It's an immune system. Autoimmune responses can cause severe disease. And I'm going back to bed now.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
God gave them autoimmune system to fight the autoimmune diseases from the inside😉
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Nicole Weymann 4 years ago
"God" sent you here naked, squealing and squinting, yet here you are with your jeans, talking (or blathering) and wearing contacts. Still short-sighted, though, and not making much sense. 🤷♀️
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Also, autoimmune describes a collection of medical conditions in which one's immune system attacks one's native, healthy tissues. I have three, currently, and they're not at all enjoyable.
Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
YES! That medical treatment you don't want because you're waiting for god to send you a miracle, is the miracle that god sent to you.
SentimentAndBadJokes 4 years ago
As a Catholic, I can honestly say I have been taught that they is not the right logic. Receiving a vaccine is someone's choice, but shouldn't be refused based on this reasoning. It's like the analogy about the glasses, for those with worse eye with.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
That makes no sense. Humans are meant to have an immune system. Your not special coz you have one, also doesn't mean that it wont have times when it glitches or not work at all. Hence the NEED for vaccines, medications and other treatments etc.
Colin Matthews 4 years ago
You on a losing wicket there buddy.People been pointing out versions of that to religious folk for 1000 years. Hasn't worked yet...
cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
If you throw anything at a wall enough times, it will start to stick. Even if it is no longer recognizable
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LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 4 years ago
Working in a hospital, and fully vaccinated… what I don’t understand is the variability of this logic. Don’t trust a vaccine made by a man but will still take a medicine to save your life, administered by a human. Surgery performed by a human. If you’re so religious, stop getting human-made treatments. When god tries to call you home, stop letting human-made medicine prevent the meeting. Don’t pick and choose which human-made treatments to take.
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
I will never understand why the "muh freedumb" anti-vax crowd skitters to the nearest ER when they can't breathe on their own anymore. You thought medicine was a bad thing, Cletus. Go drown on dry land somewhere else-- we're trying to heal people here.
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Got Sonned
To make the web a kinder and safer place, do an ethical 'gut test' before sharing, commenting, or posting. Just remember, the Murdered By Words community is always watching and no insults or cruel comments get past their sharp eyes.
#13
How’s That Racism?
James Tartaglione 4 years ago
to quote the it crowd "people. what a bunch of bastards"
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Helen Haley 4 years ago
Giant swastika and anti-feminist shirts. These two aren't winning any genius awards.
Lena Flising 4 years ago
Oh, and for hating women having equal rights. It's Children, Kitchen, Church for you; turn over your bank-accounts and your driver's licences to your fathers, brothers or husbands. No boyfriends for you, unless your fathers/brothers have approved of them.
Moxie Mallahan 3 years ago
Brainwashed most likely by growing up in that environment.
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LiamTheBot 4 years ago
No not because your white BECUASE THERES A ******* SHWASTICKA BEHIND YOU
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
Bullies have two settings: Being next-level pricks and whining piteously when they don't have the advantage. Nothing in between.
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Shoot Like A Girl
Madison Feehan 4 years ago
"Bean-bag shaped mayonnaise-filled men" let that sink in for a minute. 🤣
Kelli Lindsay 4 years ago
That was so incredibly rude and offensive I have it an immediate thumbs up!
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Marco Conti 4 years ago
Army doctrine was to shoot one handed until very recently. It's still a good idea to learn to shoot one handed in case the Gumbas are putting your other hand through a meat grinder. Plus, in Olympic shooting these are the rules, they cannot shoot two handed, and their caliber is puny, some are air guns. Also, I shot Desert Eagles one-handed. Not an experience I'd like to repeat, but also my bones were just fine. They are called "handguns" for a reason.
Gibberint Dark 4 years ago
I object to your comment about "Bean-bag shaped mayonnaise filled men"... I for one can't stand mayonnaise...!
#15
I Will Leave This Kind Of Debate To You People
River Webb 4 years ago
no genuinely nice, good person will care. the negative comments will come from jerks
Monday 4 years ago
Most people probably wouldn't even realize if you wore the same clothes two days in a row...we're all focused on living our own lives.
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Susie Elle 4 years ago
I feel that at least half of the gender-related negativity is being kept alive by the gender it affects (e.g. women berating women for choosing to be a stay at home mom, or men berating other men for expressing emotion).
Tobias Rieper 4 years ago
well said i think you are right its usually the gender it affects that keeps it alive some from the opposite gender do it to but mostly from whichever gender the it affects
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Yeah, I don't think I've ever heard of men complaining about women wearing a dress more than once.
Casey McAlister 4 years ago
Did anybody actually say that women can't wear the same dress twice? I don't think anybody except for insanely rich celebrities ever followed that "rule".
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Well, it's still stupid that it's a rule for celebrities. The media will definitely comment on it if an actress wears the same outfit for a red carpet twice. Having said that, the guy commenting on OP's post is probably right.
Load More Replies... J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
We men would notice the same outfit, the difference is that we will still find it cute even seeing it for the 50th time without massive judgement
Ivana Watson 4 years ago
Wearing a dress only once is irresponsible, because it is not economical and not ecological. Snobbish
I I 4 years ago
i'd PREFER u buying fewer clothing , you dont need a different winter coat for every day of f*****g winter , one will do
Christopher Walkies 4 years ago
This really reads like you're addressing someone very specific.
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Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago (edited)
One million per cent... Also, we never look at your shoes. We don't care.
#16
"You Have Your Quiver On Backwards"
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Putting someone in their place: Good. Putting someone in their place and looking amazing doing it: Priceless!
Llama_flower93 4 years ago
What is it with people seeing a gorgeous woman and wanting to make her look stupid? Like it's unfair if you're both smart and attractive? Get over it. She's so cool!
Hotdogking 4 years ago
Let's be real here, if that was a man in the picture he wouldn't have said anything
#17
There Is Nothing Inherently Great About Any Country
River Webb 4 years ago
are you serious? its not like people go "huh I think I want to be born in a terrible country, try to escape, but end up locked up instead. yes that sounds like a perfect life"
Monday 4 years ago
"I feel like playing life on hard mode this time...let's get born in Syria"
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Ranax 4 years ago
Don't forget that one of the main reasons those countries are "shithole countries" is the very active US foreign policy in South and Central America.
Alphabet Soupy 4 years ago
Exactly!!! It’s the “you break it, you buy it” rule for me; fix your s**t and I’ll gladly go back home
Load More Replies... Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Reminder: Undocumented immigrants in the U.S. pay billions of dollars into social security each year and can't withdraw from it. They're one of the only reasons social security is still afloat. Studies also show that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit violent, drug, or property crimes than documented immigrants, and both documented and undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit those crimes than American citizens. The nonsense you hear about immigrants "ruining" the country is just xenophobic fear-mongering.
Kickin'Wing 4 years ago
Can you reference your source for your comment on undocumented immigrants paying into social security?
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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Also pretend that Canadian foreign policy had directly resulted in the collapse of the US economy in this scenario.
Tyler Six 4 years ago
Honestly that's the most crazy part here because of canada's policy of accepting refuge for immigrants if they're coming from an unsafe country. So if america did go to s**t that policy would be very helpful.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
What the hell. Most didn't CHOOSE to live in those countries, that's just where they were born.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
People like Red don't even know how easily it could happen. People can go from living a normal life to being refugees in a matter of weeks, and it could happen in any country, espcially with the current states of global politics and climate.
#18
Cognitive Dissonance (He Left Me On Seen Btw)
A B C 4 years ago
The problem about it is that Black probably doesn't (read: doesn't want to) understand the logic behind it. Blue should probably stop being around Black.
Load More Replies... cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
This goes back to my comments on older posts: There's America and then there's Not America
advice5cents 4 years ago (edited)
Maybe I'm accidentally defending a racist, but I think his logic is meant to be that because America is our own provenance, we can use local agents to address the issue from the ground whereas we can't send our police into a foreign restaurant. Granted, he's scary quick to bomb those 5 innocents and I apologize if I'm dead wrong. Truly not trying to troll anyone today!
Karin 4 years ago
White, American, straight, CIS, employed, neuronormative lives with housing and healthcare, and not pregnant.
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Some People Really Need To Stop Thinking About A Damn Rock
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
Some men have low self esteem and think they won't find anyone else.
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Casey McAlister 4 years ago
Diamonds are overrated. There are much more affordable rocks that look prettier anyway. And you can propose without a ring at all.
VesselTrenchBlurryface 4 years ago
I want to be proposed to with an amethyst or something
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Monic Krugell 4 years ago
I have the tiniest ring, but it belonged to my husband's grandmother who raised him. His grandfather and her lived in poverty and he went through great lengths just to be able to buy this tiny rings with a tiny diamond that has granny's pride and joy. I feel absolutely honored to wear her ring and would not exchange it for any larger shinier ring ever. Besides that - we saved enough to have a Honeymoon that we will remember for every.
Christopher Walkies 4 years ago
Okay. But "dear greedy c***ts"? If you're straight up addressing strangers like this, please 'reevaluate' your life and maybe lay off the social media.
Jon S. 4 years ago
I don't know if this is relevant, but it's quite a common phrase in the UK and Australia. It doesn't have the same kind of misogynist connotations as the USA.
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Tamra Stiffler 4 years ago
I never had an engagement ring. We were young, didn't have much money, and an expensive ring just wasn't a priority. Still married, 33 years later.
Wondering Alice 4 years ago
I got an engagement ring on about our 5th anniversary. It's priority level was so low, we both just forgot. He got me the biggest one he thought I'd ware (not very big) and I never had heart to tell him it was still a very low priority. Been together over 20 years.
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Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
I mean, yeah. I'd accept. Only person who would be proposing to me is logically someone I would love and want to marry. Doesn't matter if he gives me that or goes the Bill and Ted route.
Lucy Shupe 4 years ago
I get really sick of the ads at Mother’s Day and Christmas showing women oohing and aahing over diamonds. These ads make it look like that’s all we as women give a damn about. I love jewelry too, but I would love to see an ad of a man washing dishes or doing the laundry as a “gift”.
#20
Reading Is For Suckers
Sarcastic Cow 4 years ago (edited)
I applaud to what they did when Texas banned abortions.
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Dan Buczynski 4 years ago
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an evangelical christian in their private jet!
Beta 4 years ago
Wait a minute. Didnt the church of satan roast one of the other guys on a previous post?
Loty 4 years ago
Can I convert my donut shop into "Church of the Holly Donut" and stop paying taxes?
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Don't think so; holly donuts don't sound very tasty.
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Karis Ravenhill 4 years ago
I love these guys at the satanic church, every time they do or say something it's comedic gold with a beautiful slice of realistic truth for a topping.
Stephanie Esquivel 4 years ago
The Church of Satan has been killing it lately with the witty comebacks. Kinda makes me want to join.
#21
When You Come For Brazil But Forget You Live In The Us
Linda van der Pal 4 years ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they made the kids move classes just to get some energy out of their system...
Raccoon Queen 4 years ago
As a middle school student, it appears it’s so the teacher doesn’t have to move all their stuff all over and so the students don’t all have to take the same classes.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
I'm more focused on the top comment regarding teachers changing class instead of the students. That makes so much more sense unless it's for for something like woodwork, art, drama etc. Should be more common place, more time saving and would reduce wagging drastically.
UKDeek 4 years ago
Now, now... we can't be having common sense in the education system. That might rub off on the students, then where would the world be?
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Inclusion 2020 4 years ago
As an English teacher, I would be lost without my classroom walls. My walls are covered with anchor charts that myself and my kids refer to. My classroom is laid out to accommodate for social emotional learning and to promote student self accountability. Maybe it's just bc I teach kids with EBD, but I need my classroom to teach effectively. My classroom setup is 50% of why I'm currrntly rated as a highly effective teacher.
Incitatus 4 years ago
No, it's not just because you teach EBD, it's for all of us. You're right. We all need our classroom environment, and I'm proud of mine.
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Dasha Slepenkina 4 years ago
It was the same when I went to school in Russia - you keep the same cohort of students through your entire school experience, only switching schools from primary to high school. You also have one classroom and the teachers come to you. Oh, and in primary school you get a nap room and enforced nap time - our room even had beds assigned to each child. I really didn't appreciate this enough back then; I wish someone enforced nap time for me now... Plus you get breakfast, lunch, and if you choose to stay at the free afterschool program, dinner. I remember being so confused when I moved to the U.S.
Dasha Slepenkina 4 years ago
To be clear, you only get the nap room in primary school. And I don't know if this is typical of other schools - I lived in a small town just outside of Moscow and all of the schools in my town had the nap room.
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cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
In this case it would be 'Can't see the carnage for the bullets'
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Maybe what he meant was if you changed classroom, you would less chance of being killed in a school shooting, kinda like a Russian roulette. you're less likely to be shot as a moving target?
#22
What Weighs More, A Pound Of Feathers Or A Pound Of Iron?
Chris Munro 4 years ago
My response is generally, "What, are you afraid they aren't suffering enough?"
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Llama_flower93 4 years ago
I think this comes from the misconception that homeless people don't work and are just sitting on their asses all day asking for money and hardly get any. If you're making five dollars a day just to eat you can't afford a phone. But all of it's a misconception and inaccurate.
Ari Trionfo 4 years ago
When I was homeless people told me to sell my laptop. How am I gonna apply for jobs and search for apartments without my laptop???? Plus, I was working full time as a teenager to buy my laptop, I'm not about to let go of it so easily. Luckily, I still have it, and I also have a full time job and an apartment
Lena Flising 4 years ago
I have a home, a job, I can afford to travel. When I'm travelling, I'm extra careful to keep my cellphone charged at all times. Wouldn't you, Red Person? This is your connection to the world, nowadays; you'd clutch onto that as long as you can, wouldn't you?
NsG 4 years ago (edited)
The only way this comment ever makes sense is that for mobile phone contracts (at least where I live) you need to provide a home address for the contract to start. I've wracked my brain and this is the only option I can think of where you would struggle to be homeless with a phone. Of course, given that there are PAYG options, and becoming homeless after the contract has been running for a while, this argument falls apart as soon as you give it more than two seconds unwracked thought. I have a headache.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
There are organizations that give basic cell phones out to the homeless to help make it easier to get a job, so they have a phone number for an employer to get a hold of them.
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#23
Nonni From The Top Rope
Kitty Jordan 4 years ago
There's nothing quite as satisfying as someone getting owned by their own grandmother, because they'll do it in the nicest, sweetest, most devastating way.
Caro Caro 4 years ago
Guillain Barree is terrible. My mum had it and was rushed to hospital and went directly to ICU. It took weeks of hospital care and months of therapy to learn how to chew, swallow, blink, sit, walk, you name it. Some random a$$hole using this for her own purpose needs a kick in the face..
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Oh I'm so sorry for that caro caro! I hope she is better now! I know how horrible this disease is and how difficult is the rehabilitation!
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White Wolf 4 years ago
I honestly never will understand why it would be a valid argument "yeah, he died/got a horrible disease from the shot, but others did not!"
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
I know people who died in car crashes even though they wore their seatbelts. So, I guess we should do away with seatbelts.
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#24
Response About A Record Number Of Concert Attendees
Anthony Mann 4 years ago (edited)
I rarely go to Walmart, but one of the last times I was in one, I saw a man with pistols in holsters on EACH hip, and a third pistol in a holster in the small of his back. This wasn't a small man, either. He was easily 6ft 5in, probably 225-250lbs. Imagine being so afraid, angry, and insecure, that you feel the need to have three handguns (and probably more) to go f***Ing shopping in a low crime small town in New England. For those of you wondering.. yes, he was wearing a Red MAGA hat.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Honestly i cannot even imagine that! That would be crazy to watch in my country and probably police would be informed! It's really crazy that they can walk around like this
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cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
*puts Desert Eagle in waist band, Uzi inside jacket and slings AK47 over his back* "So, milk. bread and eggs right? Want me to pick the kids up from school honey?"
Patricia Kasprowski 4 years ago
Excellent point. The gun toting ones in Walmart are the ones who scare me!
Amaranthim Talon 4 years ago
Ya know, that is actually a good question. Other than, it is not really "peacetime" when you can basically get murdered walking down the street, minding your own business. I give you a typical Chicago weekend as example - https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/11/21/chicago-weekend-shootings-2/
#25
Just Work Harder!
Helen Haley 4 years ago
Had an entire conversation with a coworker about this. He's very convinced if he lost everything tomorrow, he'd be back to fine within a year. I countered with, so you'd just go out and get another job huh? Where are you going to shower? Where are you going to sleep? What are you going to eat? How would you get to that job? What clothes do you think you'll be wearing to that job?
Mazer 4 years ago
You can’t get a job without a physical address, good luck paying your phone bill with the lint in your pockets. No contact info, no job
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Dodo 4 years ago
You're always three bad months away from homelessness, and never three good months away from being a billionaire.
Michael Se 4 years ago
Your "hard-earned taxes" also pays for billionaire politicians to have free healthcare, free pensions, and like half a year of vacation. But, yes, shelters and food stamps are the problems.
Craig Prins 4 years ago
Ja, deadbeat hey? I was very, very close to living in my car which was eventually taken so would've been on the streets, but luckily I didn't let that happen and I survived. Not all the homeless are a strain on society, some are there due to circumstances like what happened to me. And millions have ended up living in tents next to a tennis court or under a bridge because of COVID and some weren't lucky enough to even get a tent.
María Hermida 4 years ago
Perhaps he should fight for every worker's right to get a decent, livable salary, instead of telling people with two or three s**t jobs, with s**t salaries, to work harder.
Ivana 4 years ago
It actually does benefit everyone to provide the homeless with homes, healthcare, and food. It cost a lot less in tax payer money to provide housing, it helps businesses which often end up in hostile relationships with local homeless people who scare off customers or try to use the restroom as a shower, it is the humane thing to do, cuts down on jails and court expenses, and increases local property values as there are not homeless people living in the local parks. It cost drastically less in taxes to pay for someone to live with dignity than to actively argue to keep them in the street like a stray animal. The goal should be to house the homeless instead of building shelters they don't feel safe in.
SPQRBob 4 years ago
It's been shown over and over that the cost of providing universal health care would cost us less than we currently collectively spend on hospital emergency rooms being so many people's primary medical care provider - for which they are often unable to pay for at all. It is far cheaper to provide preventative care and earlier medical interventions than it is for a hospital be presented with extreme illnesses, etc. because the patient only comes in when it's so bad that they have no other reasonable choice if they wish to have a chance to continue to live.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Everyone is one bad day from being homeless. For some, it might require a bad week, or a bad year, but it *can* happen to anyone... You can hustle and work and all that, and still sleep under a shrub with a single jar of peanut butter for your whole diet for the foreseeable future.
Michael Fuhry 4 years ago
I can't remember when I first read it, perhaps a couple of decades, nor do I know who said it, but it went like this: "We all do better, when we all do better".
#26
Don't Forget To Recycle
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
They emit this pollution because they produce the stuff that individuals buy. Stop blaming others for your own decisions
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Do I consume electricity? Yes. Does it mean that I want my taxes to subsidize coal mines instead of renewable energy sources? No. Can I afford to be picky with what I buy/who I buy it from? Not always.
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Reminder: those 100 corporations are selling it to consumers to burn, and will be emitting a lot less if we quit buying their products directly or otherwise. I mean, what's the emissions footprint of Ghostbusters merch? This is an ESH problem.
Karin 4 years ago
I wonder, who is doing the most buying from those corporations? Perhaps people with the most money? Third, four, fifth home/car/yacht/international vacation...
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Three countries, China, India and Brazil are responsible for 80% of the worlds carbon emissions.
BorPand8 4 years ago
Unless you look at it per capita. Then the numbers would be: USA yearly carbon emissions per capita -15.24 metric tons, China 7.41 metric tons, Brazil 2.04 metric tons, India 1.8 metric tons. And China does most of the world's manufacturing.
Load More Replies... Adam Jeff 4 years ago
Well, it's possible to do both, reduce your own footprint and also push for policy change
Adam Jeff 4 years ago
Otherwise this becomes just another version of the old 'but what about China's emissions' excuse for not doing anything
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Lacey Heward 4 years ago
I loved this one. It's so true! Where is corporate accountability? Oh yeah, it's busy going to space!
Susie Elle 4 years ago
So clever! I can just take the train to visit countries located on different continents separated geographically by the ocean!
#27
Same Same, But Different
troufaki13 4 years ago
They don't like it when their logic is being used against them! They're always "yes, but..."
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I don't think anti vaxxers even understand what logic means.
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Hello drivers! Honest question here (And I fully support your decision to drive a car). How do you feel when showing a cop your Drivers Licence, knowing it excludes people who have been caught drink driving, running over old ladies on crossings, and using cars in armed robberies?
Susan Green 4 years ago
I feel good about knowing that if I go into a bar or restaurant, there won’t be unvaccinated idiots in there.
J Garza 4 years ago
Worst thing that can happen if you get vaccinated = small ouchy on your arm. Worst thing that can happen if you DON'T get vaccinated = death to you and your fellow human beings. So cut the s**t, grow up, and do something that is not just about you for once in your selfish life.
NsG 4 years ago
I'm going to get downvoted to oblivion, but the worst thing getting vaccinated isn't a small ouchie, it's some yukky side effects that wipe you out for up to 48 hours. I'm double vaccinated - I also lost two Sundays due to the side effects after each jab. Still a hell of a lot better than the alternative.
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Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
Honestly, I feel great and wish it would exclude them more successfully. As of now, it's not really excluding any of them from anything, which is problematic for people who can't get vaxxed for whatever actual legit reason.
Jeff Striks 4 years ago
Public health is more important to me than someone else's decision to remain unvaxxed. Sue me
Lena Flising 4 years ago
I'm over 50 and still haven't gone through driver's education. I don't feel that the people who have a driver's licence exclude me. I made that choice myself, even though it was a choice to NOT do something. (I have finally applied for a driver's permit, and will hopefully soon be included in the Driving People group. :) )
Karin 4 years ago
But until you get it, you are excluded from the group of people who can legally drive or rent a car.
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Embarrassing, Indeed
Something 4 years ago
Those Confederate flags are actually very important. How else would you conveniently be able to tell apart racists from the rest of the population at a distance?
thatmagicgaychick 4 years ago
Exactly, it's so nice when @ssholes make themselves obvious without having to talk to them
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Reynard 4 years ago
1) Get over your special piece of cloth 2) The confederates were traitors and anyone who displays one is, too
Reynard 4 years ago
And while I'm at it, stop whining about people not standing for your special song, as well. Patriotism is not virtuous.
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#29
Shame On You, Crayola!
Vorknkx 4 years ago
I fully understand how offensive the "n-word" is in the USA (for historical reasons and all), but Americans also need to understand that in other countries/cultures/languages it is not considered an offensive word (or it's just mildly offensive). It's unrealistic to expect everyone in the world to follow your cultural norms.
Bepina 4 years ago
This isn't even following a norm, negro is a regular word in Spanish for the word 'black', - what are they supposed to do, invent new word for a color?
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Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
It is not pronounced nay-gro. It's pronounced as it's written. Spanish is phonetic.
Beta 4 years ago
People think that everything is racist now days. I mean if it’s directly racist like someone calling you a “stupid white boy” or the n word then of course it is but I’ve heard people gasp because i said the word “black”
Marnie 4 years ago
I was told it was racist to mention to a black person that you sunburn easily. Makes zero sense. If I would mention it to a white person (which of course I've done many times), making sure to not say it to a black person means I'm treating the black person differently. How is it not racist or at least biased to treat black people differently purely because they are black?
Load More Replies... Andy Acceber 4 years ago
I worked in a food pantry in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Chicago. Many of our clients weren't very educated. We would get cans of black beans in from the federal government that were labeled "frijoles negros." Few families would take them because they were unaware of the language differences and thought they were some divisive government product aimed at Black folks. It took a lot of education on our part to teach families what black beans were and how to use them.
Dodo 4 years ago
CBS censored a UK headline which used the word 'niggling'. Which doesn't even have anything to do with colours or black but I guess they have an automatic censor response to anything starting with those four letters.
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Jess Thompson 4 years ago
This reminds me of a time some idiot said Koreans should change their “Niga” word (it means “you”) because they should be more sensitive to Americans and how it sounds too close to the slur.
Dodo 4 years ago
The Japanese for "run away" is "nigeru". Hear it a lot in game streams and I often wonder how idiots would react to it.
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Tee Witt 4 years ago
Which they invented and the British stole from them.
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In Hungary we have a black hard candy called the chimney sweeper for your throat, meaning it helps if your throat hurts and the name of the candy is Negro, which means black. Totally normal, also slavery always existed in Hungary ( meaning freee work) as a punishment. And the slaves were white, if colour matters. In last century for political reason, as men were taken to the gulag, 400.000 never came back. The US thinks the only history is theirs, but other cultures have their own history too.
Tee Witt 4 years ago
America has very little history so it steals it from other countries/cultures.
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Parental Disparages
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Accurate. In the U.S., studies show that Black and white people use drugs at roughly the same rates, but Black people are 2-11 times more likely to be arrested for it, depending on the state. If you live in a state that has legalized marijuana but hasn't committed to reevaluating the sentences for people in prison for marijuana-related convictions, I hope you call your politicians and speak out.
Lila Allen 1 year ago
No one in a state that has legalized should have people in prison for marijuana convictions and its utterly disgusting that this hasn't been rectified
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Gelato Cat 4 years ago
Same in australia, aboriginals make up 3% of the general population and 30% of the people in jails, f*****g disgusting
bdunbar@kcls.org 4 years ago
I read an article about a young black man getting 20 years for the same amount of pot in Louisiana that a Seattle police officer would help same said person pick up and put back in their baggy. I'm not advocating pot, it's not great for motivation and such, and can make you act stupid, but it's not worth 20 years of a person's life while your trying to figure said life out.
Timothy Leung 4 years ago
They 'think' they are better moms in their drug-induced delusional state!
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
The worst part of this whole 'war on drugs' affecting POC more than whites is how few POC are able to get a dispensary. Most are owned by rich, white people.
RoseAnne Hutchence 4 years ago
Want change? Add education to the mix, and encouragement to stay in school.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
This scene from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air says it all for me. It's so really sad that behind the laughter that this scene evokes is the horrible reality that there is an awful truth behind his lines. It's so sad that people have to live with this kind of thing just because of the colour of their skin. It's just so unfair. And yes I'm white. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTbxVFTDdo0
#31
I Don’t Know If That Counts
Michael Se 4 years ago
Texas... where a baby has the right to life... and then die a suffocating death from a preventable disease spread by people who can't go grocery shopping without a gun.
Shane S 4 years ago
Texan here. I was required to get many vaccines including the meningitis vaccine to attend college when I was a legal adult. But all of the sudden, vaccine mandates are wrong. Tell me this isn’t a political issue.
John Montgomery 4 years ago
I hear you. It's so frustrating here that a big new story is how a hospital will lose one thousand employees due to the vaccine mandate. The head of the hospital's biggest concern is the mandate taking away people's choice. Also Texan btw, if it wasn't obvious.
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Mark Karol-Chik 4 years ago
Ah, Texas conservatives- And Governor Abbot- living/creating their own version of the Amerikkkan Taliban
Cecily Holland 4 years ago
The USA needs make a deal with Mexico to gift them Texas but Mexico probably doesn’t want it either.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
If some US states assigned a gender to COVID, we might see some progress, because these people hate women.
Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
I left 31 years ago, they destroyed my state.
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The Misspell Just Perfects It
Colin Matthews 4 years ago
Lovely Trisha (31) enjoys barbeques, monster truck rally, and incest...
#33
Arrivederci Amore Mio
Dodo 4 years ago
What the US calls liberal seems to be what the rest of the world calls... being a decent human being.
Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
You can always identify the Trump Trash, they're the ones that have no clue what a contraction is.
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
Let alone what being a decent human being is like
Load More Replies... RoseTheMad 4 years ago
And yet the person who calls the multi-lingual Italian stupid can't even speak English properly themselves? *You're
Missy Moo Moo 4 years ago
Beanbag shaped, mayonnaise filled man (previous submission) and ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!!
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Kyle Brown 4 years ago
There are perks to having no balls though, there is nothing for people to kick
#34
Don't Disrespect Tom Hanks
Bexxxxx 4 years ago
I can’t wait to tell someone to stick it up their Q-hole :D
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Tarcandor 4 years ago
Also: "Pedophilia" is in fact a mental affliction. (it falls under the category of "paraphilia" as described in the DSM-V) "Pedophilia" is not a legal term, and having a sexual attraction to children is not illegal. "Child sexual abuse" or "Child Molestation" is illegal (as it should be). The fact that most people mix up these two terms makes treatment/diagnosis of the disease more difficult then it should be. note: this is based on the situation in my, and several other European countries. Rules and language use may vary based on your location.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Because the post says about Greece specifically, you are right that the term is different! Pedophilia is not a crime! The crime is called pederastia which means molesting children in Greek
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Dodo 4 years ago
I'm glad Tom Hanks isn't on the logs. Honestly, since Rolf Harris, I question everyone I thought was a lovely person in my childhood. (Jimmy Saville was always creepy IMO, but I liked Harris)
Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
I'm sorry what did I just read? People think pedophilia (more accurately child molesting) is not a crime in Greece?? For real?? And that this is the reason hanks got the citizenship? That's ridiculous and of course it's a crime in Greece! In fact there is a Greek actor and director that faces such accusations in Greece right now and is facing many years in prison.
#35
Alabama Would Like To Have A Word
Helen Haley 4 years ago
Is this idiot trying to draw a comparison from forced child marriage to equal marriage rights between two consenting adults? I just can't deal with that level of stupid. Even if that was what was in the picture, the comparison is just so very absurd.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I saw that kind of comment on a picture of little girls in white... going to their First Holy Communion. Stupid can't be cured.
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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Wait till they hear about the number of child marriages that take place a year in the US. Oh Wait. They probably won't care as those tend to be fundamentalist Christians
The Scout 4 years ago
While child marriage is not legal in Israel (nor Palestine, but no need to go into that particular argument at the moment), it IS in a lot of U.S. states. And proudly supported mostly by evangelicals and republicans, as long as no muslims are involved (see https://www.unchainedatlast.org/ for more).
Ray Martin 4 years ago
Texas forces rape victims to have babies. That one's not the fault of the Democrats either.
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
If anyone is interested, here's a fascinating article about why so many extreme U.S. conservatives are obsessed with nonexistent pedophilia while ignoring real pedophiles. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/why-are-right-wing-conspiracies-so-obsessed-with-pedophilia/
deathrose 4 years ago
One of the reasons I left Facebook is because I saw numerous "SJWs" (the idiots, not the ones truly fighting for equality) unironicaly demanding defending pedophiles rights to rape minors. I decided I was done with Facebook and those people as a whole.
Load More Replies... Kitty Jordan 4 years ago
I would have loved if someone had pointed out that child marriage is alive and thriving in America, too. "More than 200,000 child marriages took place in the U.S. between 2000 and 2015, according to Frontline data. Of those child marriages, most minors involved were girls, and more than 80% of the marriages were between an adult and a minor." (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-09-01/north-carolina-joins-growing-number-of-states-to-limit-child-marriage)
River Webb 4 years ago
child marriage is an issue throughout the world, not just in muslim countries and not just in the US.
Lena Flising 4 years ago
It doesn't matter WHO you love, as long as you are both CONSENTING ADULTS. You forgot the second part, dearie.
Ivana 4 years ago
I have never heard a Democrat say they are okay with child marriage. You can support a culture and others without supporting everything they do. N***r has the highest rate of child marriages in the world but instead of vilifying them, you work with them to curb inhumane practices. Also, child marriage is an issue we have in America too, specifically in West Virginia and Texas which are known to be conservative states.
Ivana 4 years ago
Sucks that the name of a country is bleeped out. I used one g, singular, not two. Dang it.
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Dude Just Roasted The Entire Human Race
Marcellus II 4 years ago
Also, elephants never forget... That's why they drink.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 4 years ago
I don't see this as a burn, but more of an insightful comment. Humans are NOT the most intelligent creatures because no other animal would purposefully drive their species to extinction like humans seemed bent on doing.
Henry Russell 4 years ago
elephants are one of the most dangerous animals on earth from 100 to 500 deaths per year the worst part other than there tusks is tey remenber cfaces so you cant get awau from hurting a elephant it will hunt you down and find you
Marcellus II 4 years ago
Just in India about 500/year... rest of the world, few. Hm.
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#37
Anti-Birth Control And Probably Anti-Abortion Mbw
MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago
my birth control are pretty great for my health though :D good skin, easy periods and less stress is good for both mental and physical wellbeing
StormWolf 4 years ago
Yep, as a teen, my doctor prescribed bc due to my severe anemia, so it *was* done for my health. Check-friggin'-mate
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Kimi Tomminello 4 years ago
I'm on "birth control" for treatment of heavy menstruation, not for birth control. I kind of need it so idiots like this don't call me a lazy for needing to take a day off when the anemia cripples me. But, yea, they bend in you d*ck is certainly much more important and worthy of tax payers $
Hilary Mol 4 years ago
I've taken birth control but it's never been for actual birth control. It's part of how I keep my PCOS and endometriosis under control (or, if not control, then at least at bay for three months at a time). I'd say that's using birth control for my health.
Suz66 4 years ago
Great analogy! I'm glad men have Viagra, insurance pays for it--5 pills a month (fortunately he doesn't always need it.) but you're right, it's less necessary for men than Birth Control is for us. If men got pregnant, Birth Control would be free without a prescription! My menopause hormones aren't covered by my insurance. I guess hot flashes, migraines and anxiety aren't as important as men getting stiffies.
Load More Replies... Lena Flising 4 years ago
Most people, men AND women, want to have sex more often than they want to have babies. Imagine having sex only two, three, four times in your life...
Lena Flising 4 years ago
(Yes, I know from experience that you don't get pregnant every time you have sex. No birth control since 1997, and still no babies. Now it's too late.)
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My Name Is Mars 4 years ago
I have an IUD not for birth control but to stop my extremely heavy, painful periods that saw me hospitalized many times for severe anemia. Birth control is not always used for actual birth control. I'm just lucky I live in a place that the government isn't trying to control MY body.
Jovita A 4 years ago
Did it actually help? I'm fighting this for last 20+ years, but nothing seems to really take pain away, just to reduce so I can actually function...
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Ana Ferreira 4 years ago
I take birth control to keep both my ovarian cysts and my tendency for anemia in check, the birth control part is more of a bonus. What the idiotist actually meant is: men like me don't need birth control to be healthy, so clearly neither can anyone else.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Uhm.. Birth control is currently the only way to keep endometriosis at bay without having to schedule surgery. So yes..it does keep us healthy.
#38
Quitting 101
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
You go Green! If I were Green I would send a screenshot of the conversation to the boss's boss.... That jerk absolutely deserves it. Not that much will change, probably. High chance of the boss's boss is a jerk as well.
Load More Replies... NsG 4 years ago
Bad bosses are what make a job bad. Your job could be literally cleaning the sh1t out of a blocked sewer and be less bad than a job with this tw*t as a boss.
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Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
This was posted at least once before here on BP but I've upvoted it anyway because it's SO satisfying to read every time.
John Dilligaf 4 years ago
In any civilized country the conversation would have gone more like this: WORKER "I cleared it with lead, I have 2 broken bones in my left foot" BOSS "Holy sh*t, sorry , didn't know. Why the hell were you at work with 2 broken bones in your foot? Stay home and get healed up. And the fact that you achieved 240+ packing rate will be reflected on your quarterly performance eval. "
Caro Caro 4 years ago (edited)
A$$holes like this boss go all superior on someone without thinking first is what happens a lot. And then when this "boss" is called out and causes a problem (the person quits) they act surprised which just means that they know they went too far and now look like a fool.
Shawn Barry 4 years ago
one of the greater causes of the Great Resignation. S**t managers/bosses
#39
Nyt Reporter Has A Basic Question For Minnesota's Rollout Of "Not-Reaching Pouches," A Bold New Innovation In Hoping Cops Don't Shoot You!
ZAPanda 4 years ago
You wouldn't have cops that are jumpy and shooting first on the assumption that random traffic stops are cases where someone would pull a gun on them, IF GUNS WERE NOT GIVEN TO CITIZENS, you know, like normal countries?
H Smith 4 years ago
I think that if you really want to, you should be able to go through the process, but I agree it should be a lot more strict
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Seriously, what do they think British police do in the same situation? They aren't all dying on traffic stops, they're managing fine without guns at all.
Drakaina Dreadnought 4 years ago
It's amazing to me the lengths Americans will go to to treat the symptoms but not the cause. How much money are they putting into protecting their citizens with technology while still ignoring the actual reason for their problems. Like putting a bunch of bandaids on someone with cancer. Here's let's do this to help you all! (But God forbid they should regulate guns.) FFS.
Tobias Rieper 4 years ago
amazing that this is the solution they come up with rather than just not shoot people
Llama_flower93 4 years ago
Once again, it's all the fault of the victims.
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Llama_flower93 4 years ago
Reduce deadly force during traffic stops. I'm reading multiple times. Why the heck are you using deadly force for traffic stops!?
Slime11IsSus 4 years ago
hmm yes hanging your drivers license on the window of your car for all to see is a greaaaat idea
Marco Conti 4 years ago
Great, now when I park my car anyone can read my DL number. Plus, if I leave it in the car, I won't have with with me while I am not driving. How about you don't shoot me if I reach for the documents you just ask me for?
#40
Killed A Guy And One Country In A Single Sentence
Sum Guy 4 years ago
I've never seen a phrase so perfectly formulated to cause maximum damage and also compliment
Chandelure F-5 4 years ago
Ikr? That guy had to have had a wither farm to be able to craft that phrase.
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Julie C Rose 4 years ago
Piggy Muldoon! Ironically, the original quote was “New Zealanders who move to Australia raise the average IQ of both countries.”
MikeWheelerFan 4 years ago
I wan5 to escape the intellectual constraint that is America. It feels like half the population here have IQs of like -70.
Richard Henderson 4 years ago
You can thank David Lange (former Prime Minister of NZ) for this sharp quip. He applied it to New Zealander leaving for Australia long before this Aussie moved to the states.
#41
Dude Wants “Young Woman To Help Rule His Kingdom”
Susan Green 4 years ago
Why would any young woman want to help you run your imaginary ‘kingdom’?
StrawberryParfait 4 years ago (edited)
Any man who uses the word "kindgom" will never have one anyway, so.
Kitty Jordan 4 years ago
The same guys who think they have a "kingdom" and are worried about women stealing their money are usually the ones who are broke, have no car, and no job, in my experience.
Blayne 4 years ago
He is an untalented “musician” who thinks Trump is godly 🙄
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Jackie Nettleton 4 years ago
He sounds like such a great guy /s but I don’t think there’s any woman in existence that would lower themselves to this idiot
#42
Let's Get The Ignorant Ones To Write Policies
Helen Haley 4 years ago
Myabe if he'd been around when his kids were babies he would know what is involved with having one.
Dodo 4 years ago
As someone childless: bonding with a newborn is seriously important. There's also the fact that you'll probably have disrupted sleep patterns, need to learn how to be a parent (change the baby, wash the baby, feed the baby). I feel seriously sorry for Matt Walsh's wife and four children.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
That's why in the Netherlands parents with a newborn have a qualified maternity nurse for one week, to teach both parents the ins and outs of taking care for a baby. They also do the cooking and cleaning so the parents can focus on being parents.
Lady Lava 4 years ago
Yes, we were so thankful for it in those first hectic days!
Load More Replies... SCamp 4 years ago
‘There isn’t much to do when the baby is a newborn.’ ??? Has this idiot actually been a father, a partner?
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
I had twins. My husband changed more diapers his first week of paternity leave then he had ever before (we have an older child). We rotated 4 hour shifts the week he had off, and when he went back to work he got a 8pm-midnight baby shift so I could get some uninterrupted sleep. He ended up having a mental breakdown from the strain at 3 months. Babies are no joke.
Kitty Jordan 4 years ago
Because... men can't change diapers, apparently? Also, if there isn't anyone breastfeeding, then both partners can feed the baby a bottle!
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
My brother was the one to do most with his son, for one because his partner had a c-section and couldn't really lift the kid and certainly not carry him but also because he likes it. He changed most of the diapers (Still does, I think? - kiddo is only 10 mth) and walked him around when he cried and went to the physical therapy with him (ostheopathy because kiddo was a bit crooked) and did all kinds of stuff with kiddo. He's a great dad so far, and he definitely needs the paternity-leave
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
Not much to do. How about everything. Mom is exhausted from sleep deprivation, especially if baby wants to feed every 2 hours. Some do. Even if it's every 3.5 to 4 hours, breastfeeding takes a long time especially at the beginning. Trouble latching on, keeps falling asleep so you have to keep waking the baby up. And so on. Just regular breastfeeding with no issues takes time. And in between that and changing diapers the question is "Where's the sleep?!" And maybe have a nice shower to feel clean. Yes dad. Everything else. The Buttigiegs had twins. Obviously no breastfeeding involved, but hey, bottle feeding is no fun either when they're both hungry at the same time. Also, the need for dad to bond with the newborn is not appreciated enough. It shouldn't be maternity leave/paternity leave. It should be parental leave. They are the twins PARENTS. Regardless of being two dads.
#43
Is That More Of An Oops Or A Whoops?
Lacey Heward 4 years ago
Nailed it! We are breaking down America and what it was built on... the backs of slaves!
BorPand8 4 years ago
And let's not forget genocide of the native peoples. People say it was accidental, not their fault, Native Americans were just vulnerable to European diseases. But if that's true, why are there so many people of Native heritage in Central and South America, compared to North America?
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Crowley The Snake 4 years ago
America was founded on raceist values, yes. We are fight to change how the system opperates.
Steven Cook 4 years ago
Racism is so ingrained in the US when you are anti-racism, people think you hate the US
Droopsnoot 4 years ago
A lot of countries are like that though. Just like so many clothes are made by poor people in asia or somewhere else by really poor people, and we don't care enough
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Your 100% correct in your summation, PragerU. We are indeed trying to overturn the values of genocide and racism that this country was founded on.
bdunbar@kcls.org 4 years ago
Thinking this was quoted by Native American Elders as they were passing on wisdom right before the next massacre?
#44
Dolphins Are Intelligent Animals
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Gender is how you feel in your soul. Heck, if in your soul, you feel you are a dolphin and every day you want to commit to being a dolphin, be seen as a dolphin, and be treated as a dolphin, go for it buddy. I expect you'll quickly realize gender isn't a game and it's more complicated than you thought.
Marco Conti 4 years ago
Especially when he has to hold his breath underwater for 10 minutes. Repeatedly.
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Adam Jeff 4 years ago
I'm sure you're welcome to identify as such when you fill out your tax return, but you might not like the consequences...
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Kimu but she’s inactive 4 years ago
Its sad some people actually think they can call themselves “gamergender” or “animegender”. I got yelled at for saying those are fake genders because, well… they are? And also transphobic so like… :/
DetongLhamo 4 years ago
Can I identify as a male for work purposes? Then I’d get paid 18% more than I am now.
Zach Heimann 2 years ago
Honestly, I couldn’t care less if you’re trans, as long as it’s not an excuse to do whatever you want
#45
You Tell Him!
Axlemunshine 001 4 years ago
People like that will never admit to be in the wrong. They are always the victim, even when they exert violence on someone else (Says "See what you made me do!?" while beating up someone)
Anna Banana 4 years ago
I bet he even calls himself a nice guy and laments that he never gets a chance.
Load More Replies... Karis Ravenhill 4 years ago
About 70% of guys i've ever met fall into this. Our societies must be toxic in how we raise them for so many to turn out this way.
Patricia Kasprowski 4 years ago
True -- even when they wake you from a sound sleep with a fist to your face. "I just remembered something you said last week that really hit me wrong!" Left that sucker and never looked back.
#46
Can't Find Anyone To Hire
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Sorry but just because you have a business doesn't mean the world owes you employees.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
And if your business would fail if you paid people fairly, then it should fail. You're not entitled to own a business at the expense of others.
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Sherbaan Naab 4 years ago (edited)
I can understand both sides of that argument. It's the same in UK now. People voted for Brexit. Because of that (and Corona), there's a shortage of workers, as a lot of migrants returned to their countries. Yet, Brits prefer to stay on benefits, just getting by, instead of trying to fill those positions (that they asked for). I think maybe they were expecting to be offered management positions, or something?
ZAPanda 4 years ago
Yes, they come to take the jobs that the citizens don't want anyway. Strange that.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
If people don't want the job you offer, offer a better job. That's called capitalism.
Lynn Morello 4 years ago
Hahahaha. $14 per hour doesn't even hit the lowest Income here in Australia. We have 16 y/o's earning more than that.
Jennifer Crompton 4 years ago
I'm not saying that $14/hr is enough to live on but $14 American is roughly $20 Australian.
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#47
Anti-Vax Takedown On Nextdoor
Vic 4 years ago
Hey! Pregnancy is contagious!! My wife got it from me! Or atleast I hope :-D
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Julie C Rose 4 years ago
If I had to see anti vaxxers in the US hiding behind the term “unvaccinated” while I had no choice but to wait for my vaccine, they can deal with people using a term that expresses the fact that they got access to vaccines ahead of other people but refused them.
Betsy Cordrey 4 years ago
they would not allow a 16 year old to adopt, but if she's pregnant, she's on her own.
James Pasquini 4 years ago
I wish I could give you 100+ likes for that! That really shows how hypocritical they are.
Load More Replies... Karis Ravenhill 4 years ago
At high school amongst idiot girls who idolize "16 And Pregnant" on TV, you can bet your butt that pregnancy is contagious.
Lena Flising 4 years ago
You get vaccinated to protect yourself and other breathing, feeling human beings from potentially deadly diseases. A woman dies every other minute from complications due to pregnancy and childbirth. Access to safe and affordable abortions can save many women's lives. No irony here, just logic and common sense.
Marnie 4 years ago
"They want the option to choose what they do with their body". Okay, well, I can't speak about other countries, but in the US (where this probably was from), not one single person has been forced to get a vaccine. Not one. There are no rules, no laws, that allow for forcing someone to get a vaccine. You have a choice, so there is no need to fight for it. You might have suffer the consequences of choosing not to, though. For example, kids are not allowed to attend public school without a certain set of vaccines. But if they don't get the vaccine, nobody comes to the kid's house and forces them to take it. The parents have to react to the consequences and find a school that will take them or home-school them.
#48
Fact Checking Has Become A Bloodsport...
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
The company i work for has 240,000 employees and said "you don't get vaccinated by Nov 18th, you're fired" and i think that is wonderful.
Moo Moo Futch 4 years ago
Anyone got any lotion? Calamine lotion? Even just some Aloe. Someone has a burn over here....
NoneYa41 4 years ago
And you all still trust these fact checkers? They put the COVID fact check widget on my recipe blog post last week for Dutch apple pie.
Kelli Lindsay 4 years ago
Did you read the long-winded story before the recipe? If one doesn't want their apple pie fact checked, maybe they should leave Covid out of it?
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#49
And As His Second And Third Too
H Edwards 4 years ago
Sounds like a Sea World thing, maybe they were discussing the Blackfish documentary.
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Henry Russell 3 years ago
i have a question why was this a comment on in the first place im so confused and very interested
#50
Opposite Gender
AngelWingsYT 4 years ago
Thats was uncalled for (funny and quick for sure) but uncalled for xD
ILOVEBAMBOO 3 years ago
Saying "opposite" gender implies there are only 2 gender, when in reality there are over 200.
#51
At A Loss For Words On This One
TamsinElizebethMcCall 1 year ago
Even though empaths are called empaths they fr have no empathy
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RedstonewolfX 4 years ago
Considering how most people are, hopefully they don't think this is the ONLY symptom of intellectual decline
#52
Homeless Doesn't Mean Without A Home, Apparently!
RedstonewolfX 4 years ago
Actually, this is inaccurate as it suggests the top user has possessed a brain at any point in time
Load More Replies... LOttawa 4 years ago (edited)
Where I live we had a curfew because of covid. Shelters were full which means some homeless people got a ticket for being outside during curfew (stupid... soooo stupid i know....) it took a judge to declare that exact fact... That by definition, a homeless person was without a home, so they were to be exempt from this "law".
Candia Lee 4 years ago
The correct new term is "unhoused". It is currently being used by news announcers. So 😎 is the idiot.
AngelWingsYT 4 years ago
Yes homeless ppl have less home than other ppl....most ppl have one home homeless ppl have less then that👍
AngelWingsYT 4 years ago
Also to he un-homed means you had a home but no longer do. Thus. Being un-homed would make you homeless
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Marika Miettinen 4 years ago
I saw some social media post where it was suggested that we shouldn't call people homeless, because that's somehow demeaning. We should call them people without a home instead, or something along those lines. Changing the wording doesn't fix anything ffs. I've been homeless for a short period of time, I'm not gonna start saying that I was a person without a home for a short period of time. That just sounds stupid.
#53
From What I've Heard, Target Is Not A Good Place To Work
#54
It's Literally In The Name
I I 4 years ago
imagine the good that 750billion could do , if we spent less trying to kill each other and more trying to help each other the world would be so much better
A B C 4 years ago
Trying to HELP instead of shooting each other? That's communist! /s
Load More Replies... Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Also, USPS has to do uniquely ridiculous accounting in its budgets. A law passed in 2006 requires USPS to maintain a fund to pay for all of its current and future employees' post-retirement healthcare costs now AND for 75 years into the future. Afaik, literally no other public or private business has to do this. It's $72 billion. Including this info, USPS is more solvent than a lot of other businesses -- even though it's a service and not a business.
BorPand8 4 years ago (edited)
Thanks, I was just about to say this! They want to privatize it, so they're trying to make it look like it's losing money.
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Hans YAN 4 years ago
if the entire world stopped spending money on military for a year, the money saved could end poverty and world hunger.
Atero 4 years ago
Potentially - yes. In reality - no, it would not. BUT it would definitely made few people filthy rich.
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Some things are not supposed to be profitable, just to be useful for people.
#55
Reddit Itself Doing Its Part
Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
I have actually used that phrase twice and both times it triggered the hell out of people.
#56
Tearing People Down Instead Of Building Them Up
Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
I am willing to wager they are 100% conservative.
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Toujin C'Thlu 4 years ago
Long nails are a sign of drug use? Where in the nine hells did that assumption come from?
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
I think its racist stereotyping. If you are Black and have "ghetto talons" you must also be a junkie
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Random Anon 4 years ago
These people have too much time and too privileged. As my old mentor used to say, go do something useful with yourself before God decides you have no use for your limbs and mind.
#57
Uno Reverse Card
Candia Lee 4 years ago
My sister tried to do this with washing the dishes, but mom was smart and just made her wash them again.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
She lives a a fantasy world and has never needed a job thanks to being a parasite on her fathers back.
#58
Work Is More Important Than Family
#59
No Sign Of Intelligent Life Anywhere
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
Is hating Amy Schumer the new bandwagon like hating Nickleback was ten years ago?
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
I can't stand her and don't think she's funny at all. Each to their own.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Still wonder how she got a "comedy show". The closest she ever gets to fun is funeral.
#60
Some Things You Just Can’t Recover From
More Thinking Needed 4 years ago
I love how the NFL holds itself up as some beacon for social justice, yet you can barely get through a week without hearing about one of its players getting arrested.
#61
Tolkien Says Stfu
Dodo 4 years ago
This might be a good analogy for mental illness. Frodo carried the thing all the way to Mordor, he had to deal with it every single second. In order to get rid of it, he needed Sam's help, but that doesn't mean he was weak or a loser.
BorPand8 4 years ago
I've always thought that too. Especially when Frodo says, "I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. Instead I'm... naked in the dark." That sounds like severe depression. Like, "I don't even remember what it's like to want things or feel pleasure..."
Load More Replies... Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
For me, it's never been about Frodo being a failure - moral or heroic. Not at all. I just found his plight to be so much more boring than all the other strands of the books, so I just always cross-read the to pick up the gist. My bros are Merry and Pippin, though, who are also true heroes in their own right (anyone knowing the books and not just seeing the movies will understand my defensiveness of Pip!), but I hold a very special place in my heart for Eowyn (once more: read the books!). Those three carried the books for me, but I never once thought Frodo was any kind of failure. Just that Tolkien's writing didn't make me feel as connected to him as to the others.
MikeWheelerFan 4 years ago
The book came out like 70 years ago so I don’t think it needs a spoiler warning any more…
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My Favorite Antivax Poem
Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago
Why are so many people comparing it to nazis??? in the history I learned they murdered people not vaccinated them against disease 😳
Gerard Neaux 4 years ago
Victim signaling is a sign of machiavellianism and sociopathy https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/after-service/202008/dark-personalities-are-more-likely-signal-victimhood
Load More Replies... Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
In what way is this "exactly how Nazi Germany started"? That literally makes no sense to anyone who knows anything.
Joe Reaves 4 years ago
Because they've decided vaccine passports are exactly the same as Jewish people having their ID's stamped with JUDE and being made to wear yellow stars.
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Red rockin lobster 4 years ago
The step where the brain can't arrive, the absurd theories start
#63
Attention Is A Hell Of A Drug
Axlemunshine 001 4 years ago
Plus you would only have succeeded to make life more difficult to a minimum wage worker, not teaching a life lesson to Sainsbury's CEO, that frankly, couldn't give a rat'ss ass about your opinion.
Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Struggling to work out what free speech they think Sainsbury's is suppressing?
#64
In A Video About Killing Pigs Mercifully At A Family Farm
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
That's the kind of life I would love to live one day. Being self sufficient, growing and raising my own food. I personally couldn't do the killing myself though. I would hire someone to do it or hubby can.
Ripley 4 years ago
In some places (and I'm pretty sure Australia has laws on this) you are not allowed to do the killing or butchering yourself. It *must* be done by someone qualified, to ensure that the animal is killed humanely (as an amateur it would be too easy to misjudge and wound rather than kill) and that the butchering is done in line with food safety standards - if you nick a bowel the food would be contaminated and couldn't be eaten.
Load More Replies... Tobias Rieper 4 years ago (edited)
i find it amazing how groups like peta protest things like this for example when assassins creed 4 came out they protested it because it has whaling in it and killing and skinning animals but they had not problem with the hundreds of humans you can murder in the game
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
I wonder if Tanishq is vegan? If not, he's likely buying meat from a factory farm which is a thousand times worse than a homesteader who raises animals for food.
Mike Morton 4 years ago
Does anyone know what channel this is? I'd love to watch their videos to learn
Random Anon 4 years ago
If there ever was a snowflake that has to be it. Just because you buy pretty neat packaged meat from the mall, no animals were harmed?
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
God was never mentioned in any of these posts, yet you made it about your religion.
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Use Of Casual English = Illiterate
స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ 4 years ago
It doesn't make sense. Language is for communication so clarity is key.
Alex Stahl 4 years ago
But the meaning is perfectly clear. Just because it's a different dialect or accent doesn't mean it's better or worse English. Furthermore, many people who speak a variety of English are perfectly able to code switch, as OP demonstrated. If you can't understand them then maybe the message wasn't for you.
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Phil Vaive 4 years ago
I have a B.A. in English, and I use slang and speak imperfectly sometimes. It depends on the context and the audience. Nobody needs to speak perfectly all the time.
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 4 years ago
well tbh if you signify your education levels with english usage associated with low levels of literacy, it's basically going to get that kind of comment from strangers. maybe post the erudite comment in the first instance. Unless you're trying to prove something, i don't know, like that people assume that slang usage entails assumptions of illiteracy.
Emily Ducat 4 years ago
This my dear ZAPanda is what we call classism - generally not seen as a good thing, also a slippery slope in to eugenics - definitely not seen as a good thing
Load More Replies... Andy Acceber 4 years ago
"Proper English" thou sayeth? Aye, ramscallions who maketh utterances in naught but the Queen's English surely be daft charlatans. ("Proper English" is such classist nonsense. Mondern English is a language piecemealed from countless cultures, and it's constantly evolving. To insist one modern version is better than another for informal social media posts, dating, or colloquialisms is just cultural bias.)
AngelWingsYT 4 years ago
Pisses me off when ppl go "you didnt spell that out fully stop being illustrate" its called aberrations or "txt speech" for a reason. And when some sites like Twitter or fb limit how much you can put in a message. Txt speech comes in handy
Emily Ducat 4 years ago
Okay I would like to point out a few things 1. This woman is not writing a dissertation or a thesis, she is posting on social media account - she is using language typical of and appropriate to the context in which the post is being made. 2. At no point does she suggest what she wishes discuss is literature, only books. As there are plenty of books that would not be considered literature, I think it is therefor uncalled for to hold her to the high standards of grammatical pedantry that you all seem to feel the discussion of literature requires. 3. She appears to be using African American English NOT standard American English in the first post, I am not an expert in this dialect/language, just as I am not a expert in French, so I will not judge her grammar in a dialect/language I am not familiar with. 4. Some of you must surely see how holding a young black woman to standards set by (mostly) old white colonial men is a problematic. 5. We need to be more accepting of linguistic diversity
Emily Ducat 4 years ago
Also the hubris of people expecting a post I'm going to go out on a limb and assume was posted within the black twitter silo to be written in standard English is just like, I'm sorry are you expecting all the German people to just start posting in English... No. And yes I tone down my Aussie lingo, a lot, when posting on BP, because I understand that not everyone is Australian, but I'm not going to do it on my socials because for the most part I'm talking to my own social group, who, get this tend, to be Aussie. Also ESL people, dyslexics, neuro-divergent and even tired people happen to exist you know, so I don't know, try a little compassion people.
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Hugo Raible 4 years ago
Also I'm not sure why she uses, apparently on purpose, slang when talking about literature...
Emily Ducat 4 years ago
Exactly why is a black woman expected to sound like a white man in order to be taken seriously - besides what's wrong with slang??? I'm fairly certain heaps of "literature" uses it, plus don't forget Shakespeare just plain made up a whole bunch of words and we just like accepted that.
Load More Replies... Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Seriously. Instead of them making the effort to make their writing easily comprehensible they expect other people to make the effort to interpret what they've said. I find it rude.
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So Much Wrong Here, Where To Begin?
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Where I live, it's illegal to discriminate your hiring based on gender. On top of fixing all the red flags in this post, don't be a sexist d**k.
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Marika Miettinen 4 years ago
10-15 hours per week to do all of that? 2-3 hours per day, on weekdays and in that time the "assistant" is supposed to tidy up, do laundry, run errands, drive the kids around, organize the house, clean up the house.. as somebody who worked as an Au pair, I call bullshit on the hours. Not gonna comment on the shitty salary or the sexism.
RedstonewolfX 4 years ago
They don't even want an assistant; they want a stand-in parent to tend to their house and family and assume that a woman would be best for housekeeping since 'they would be doing that all the time already'
#67
Nabisco Wants You To Know They Care More About Your Cookie Dipping Habits Than Their Workers…
Spikey boi 4 years ago
Personally, I worry the most about their ads. Those have single handedly convinced me to bake an entire batch of cookies. And never buy chips ahoy again.
#68
Own The Libs By Staying At Home
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
I mean, if you want to commit to extreme social distancing and zero human connection until COVID is eliminated, I suppose that is a choice. I'm not sure it's possible. But if you have absolutely no human interaction, I think I'm okay with you, alone in your cabin, not being vaccinated. You have no chance of catching the virus or passing it on.
Sue User 4 years ago
The sad fact is I am vaccinated and still being a hermit. I am literally living in a log cabin in rural America. I am immunocompromised. The vaccine may not have been as effective for me, and even though I take every precautionn, I am very worried that I might still catch it. I went out this weekend for food and I only saw one other person with a mask and they had it only on their mouth, not their nose.
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You Can Be Whatever You Want On The Internet
The Scout 4 years ago
Unfortunately this argument is much more complex, as both sides do have a point there. Slavery did exist, but slave trade became a thing in egyptian history mainly because of greco-roman influence. While there are records of enslaved prisoners of war (which partly have made it into biblical records, see e.g. Exodus), this seems not to have been that common before. Especially the rumor of the pyramids being built by slaves proved to be rooted in legend, not fact. The user quotes a "price" from 896, which was far after the "classical" period. For most of the dynastic times (about 2700 to 1070 BC), Egypt did not even have such a thing as a money system - more like a standardised barter economy with partially fixed rates. They adopted the principle of currency from the greeks during ptolemaic times. So most of the detailed information of the answer is correct for the ptolemaic period and after, but does not pertain to the dynastic times of the Old, Middle and New Kingdom.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Even the Bible comments about slaves in Egypt. People being captured and sold into slavery. And the Mamluks were Turkish slaves in Egypt until they figured out they outnumbered their oppressors and took over.
Emily Ducat 4 years ago
err generally speaking I don't think the bible is considered a scholarly source at least outside of religious studies. As a historical document recording historical events it certainly has it's place but it's a bit parabolic to be used in making definitive statements, there are also some geopolitical biases as well as issues with translators missing specific context and nuance as each consecutive translation moves further and further from the original text.
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#71
Society If It Was Run By Girls And Gays
Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Wait, so heterosexual men are suppose to not like . . . trees? Or water?
Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
Even if @vwestwoodmuse was exactly correct, I'm still not sure I grasp the problem.
TamsinElizebethMcCall 1 year ago
I have had a dream that took place in somewhere just like this...
Mike Morton 4 years ago
It's illegal to be lgbt in Singapore but that doesn't mean we don't exist 😂
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
How are women are homosexuals intrinsically better political leaders?
M O'Connell 4 years ago
They are demographic groups historically shafted by established political institutions.
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Redirection At Its Finest
Random Anon 4 years ago
LOL.... how many mofos will need to be smoking blunts the size of building pylons to do that? Is that a troll site?
#73
Ea Asks Users To Tell Them What Makes Them A Simmer, Gets A Brutally Honest Answer
I' Gomez & Morticia's kid 4 years ago
Electronic Arts, such as video games (The sims)
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Thats Is A Great Goal
Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Yeah, Carl Willis sexualised the question and did women's sport a huge disservice
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bakkysak09 4 years ago
this one really doesn't work there was nothing malicious about the question asked
#75
Never Will Forget This One
H Edwards 4 years ago
Yeah, dude was just trying to give him some encouragement.
Load More Replies... Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
I kinda agree with CK. Someone who just wants "a girlfriend" is quite possibly going to end up in an unhealthy relationship just to fulfil this. If he gets on with having a great life, meeting lots of people, and being happy, one day he is very likely to meet someone he thinks is great, and who thinks he is great, and is worth interrupting his great life for.
#76
Doc Got No Chill
Triv 4 years ago
It's unspeakably sad that I knew this was from the Michigan Department of Corrections just by the mug shot without having seen the web site first. They no longer give out shirts with the orange stripes as it's cheaper to make the shirts without them, although you can still get them from old hands.
memyselfandI 4 years ago
They keep spelling tattoo wrong! And they spelled it right all the places it’s capitalized, so it must have been on the form already to look at.
AngelWingsYT 4 years ago
They called her double chinned (essentially another way to call someone fat)
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
The one with Crayola made me remember of a Buzzfeed video where Americans, I think, were comparing American and Canadian food or things. When they learned our whole milk is called homo milk they immediately thought it was a reference to homosexuals and being offensive. Homo is short for homogenized. Meanwhile, Canada legalized guy marriage before the US. But that's long old news now.
Dodo 4 years ago
Why would anyone make offensive milk? 🤣 Wait 'til they hear about homo sapiens
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Kelly Brown 4 years ago
Curious as to why the word “raping” was redacted. It’s a crime not a vulgar slur. Would you redact the word “murder”?
Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago
Because apparently it's a "taboo subject" that shouldn't be talked about... Which is stupid as hell, as that discourages victims from ever speaking up!
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Rock Allan 4 years ago
US is bad because of Trump. Who would be Hitler if we let him. And almost did.
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lazy panda 4 years ago
I mean, the USA does royally suck right now and it's about time we step up and realize how badly we need to change.
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Sakura 4 years ago
that's because America is doing a lot of bad/stupid things right now...
Load More Replies... MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
The one with Crayola made me remember of a Buzzfeed video where Americans, I think, were comparing American and Canadian food or things. When they learned our whole milk is called homo milk they immediately thought it was a reference to homosexuals and being offensive. Homo is short for homogenized. Meanwhile, Canada legalized guy marriage before the US. But that's long old news now.
Dodo 4 years ago
Why would anyone make offensive milk? 🤣 Wait 'til they hear about homo sapiens
Load More Replies... Kelly Brown 4 years ago
Curious as to why the word “raping” was redacted. It’s a crime not a vulgar slur. Would you redact the word “murder”?
Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago
Because apparently it's a "taboo subject" that shouldn't be talked about... Which is stupid as hell, as that discourages victims from ever speaking up!
Load More Replies... Rock Allan 4 years ago
US is bad because of Trump. Who would be Hitler if we let him. And almost did.
Load More Replies... lazy panda 4 years ago
I mean, the USA does royally suck right now and it's about time we step up and realize how badly we need to change.
Load More Replies... Sakura 4 years ago
that's because America is doing a lot of bad/stupid things right now...
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