Descheduling is a natural part of life, buddy. All us scripts are written into existence and our hearts set beating to the cadence of great Cron's ever-ticking quartz clock. Until Cron takes us off his schedule and our memory is freed once again.

Back to the silicon.

Joe Abercrombie

The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful OS goes on, and you may contribute a process.
That the powerful OS goes on, and you may contribute a process.

Walt Whitman

196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

Unbecredible @lemm.ee

1y ago

my messy person struggle rule

1y ago

I unironically would go to this

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Unbecredible @lemm.ee 1y ago

Seems like the kind of thing where enthusiasm/attendance might fall off sharply with the novelty of the thing. Of course you could just transition it back into a regular cinema if that happened.

1y ago

(whispers) Closer, come closer.

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Unbecredible @lemm.ee 1y ago

That was an absolute trip to read. It's crazy how we both think the other is really fundamentally missing the point. Just wow.

1y ago

(whispers) Closer, come closer.

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Unbecredible @lemm.ee 1y ago

My brother in christ... Let me explain the joke so you can understand the way it doesn't rely on any notions of gender to work. For an external example, listen to Patton Oswalt tell a similar joke that also compares something trivial (his pants not fitting) to a dying soldier.

"talking like a man dying in battle": This refers to a tropy type of scene in various works of fiction where a soldier has taken what is obviously a mortal wound. But the soldier is in denial so they speak about how they'll heal from the wound and about what they'll do when they get back home...as if they won't be dying momentarily.

Okay, so then this twitter woman's husband gets sick right? And he says "I'm gonna heal up and smoke us some ribs...Just like we used to do...I'm gonna get better". The content, structure, and tone of those few sentences (if you allow your mind to get into a little bit of a relaxed and humor oriented state) is reminiscent of the way the dying soldiers in fiction often speak.

So here's where the humor comes in. The husband just has a cold! Why is he saying those things? Of course he's going to "get better". But that silly billy was talking like a dying soldier when it was just a cold!!! Isn't that a knee slapper. His problem was so small compared to the soldier's but he spoke about it in the same way! ~~Why, he's a man! He shouldn't complain when he's suffering at all! What a pussy!~~

Oh wait. She didn't say that last part. She didn't imply it. Cause that's not what the joke is about. Cause the joke isn't reliant on notions of gender roles. At best ideas about gender roles adds some salt to the flavor of the joke.

Edit: I toned it down, but I hope my sarcasm and disdain for you still comes through.

1y ago

(whispers) Closer, come closer.

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Unbecredible @lemm.ee 1y ago

This website makes me feel like a maga conservative cause I spend all my time here thinking jesus fuck CHILL. Not every joke needs to be painstakingly combed through for all the ways it might be socially harmful so you can passive aggressively scold somebody for it.

God damn, she's not calling him a pussy for complaining about his cold as a man. It's just amusing that he's using language similar to a mortally wounded soldier in a movie, when he merely has a cold.