GrouchyGrouse [he/him]

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Cake day: August 2nd, 2020

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  • At least medieval peasants were willing to play with the cards dealt them, these people are issued a modern deck of cards and willfully throw them in the trash.

    If everyone tells you your fever is caused by ghosts living in your blood you're not being unreasonable to accept it. If everyone is telling you the sickness is caused by microbes you aren't being reasonable when you say "no, it's the 5G towers."



  • Okay so 3 thoughts just jumped into my head.

    Why the fuck did the rest of the world just go along with those confounding Dutch getting to call themselves "Afrikaner" and their language "Afrikaans." Deeply upsetting.

    Nobody who pronounces the word "blecks" gets to call black people "blacks." Deeply upsetting number two.

    Number three: we all look at the homoerotic apartheid beach bums but seriously did you see their shorts during the Bush War? Going to war in hotpants. Basically the character Shore Leave from the Venture Bros but Dutch and racist.

    This post brought to you by not sleeping.

    Oh and does his avatar have a Halo mask? Goddamnit. Unlimited gamer-gulag


  • I'm always surprised that this type of shit isn't accompanied by the language of the old timey prejudices that it perpetuates.

    Like it would at least be amusing if the map said something like "Musselmen" or "Mohammadans" and a drawing of a headless guy with a face on his torso near the borders.











  • I lost my humanity by gazing into the abyss of late capitalism and seeing a new Babel built to challenge Milton's paradise and the host of demons snaking up her staircases with axes made of bone in hand.

    You lost your humanity because your treat didn't have an extra packet of ranch sauce.

    We are not the same.




  • There's a great pair of scenes in Django Unchained that summarize those types of redditors. In the first scene the slaver Calvin Candie bullies and ridicules one of his slaves for not knowing the word "reimburse." Because he's a cruel dickhead.

    Later on when Dr. Schultz (who admits English is not his first language!) drops the word "panache" in conversation Candie can't define it, making Candie look like a bozo.

    Smug reddit types are the bad guys in a Tarantino movie.