Dad's by SOOSH - love your dad if he's still there 28 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
That's some weird, Colin Cowherd type theory you got there.
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Dad's by SOOSH - love your dad if he's still there 28 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
If your dad left you as a kid (like mine did) it's probably best he wasn't around. As Veronica Mars says "the hero is the one who stays. The villain is the one who splits."
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Welcome to post-truth politics 12 comments
I didn't know I needed this 9 comments
Name one movie that according to you is overrated af 37 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
Ledger's performance is very, very good, but it doesn't push the movie into good or great status for me (as smithpa says). The problem with Nolan, for me, is that he's a technical wizard, but he's also very cold and calculating. My favorite of his movies, Momento and The Prestige, focus more on character rather than big, sweeping stories.
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Name one movie that according to you is overrated af 37 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
The Dark Knight. Overwrought and the only reason (in my opinion) it gets all the love it does is because of Ledger's performance.
Humanity 19 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
Yeah? Are you sure it wasn't that whole Holocaust thing? The historical revisionism when it comes to Hitler, and Nazis as a whole, is startling. They cut a bloody swath across Europe, Africa, and Middle East, but sure, it's just because he lost and a had a different "moral system" that he's widely seen as an evil person.
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Humanity 19 comments
What happens after marriage 29 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
I always find it weird when a parent calls spending time with their kids "looking after" them. They're your children, not your neighbors cat.
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Facts that could save your life 39 comments
Humanity 19 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
I think a good rule of thumb is not to use Hitler as a moral barometer. Even though he loved dogs and implemented an anti-smoking campaign, you shouldn't base your love of dogs or hatred of smoking on what Hitler thought.
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This is what Tour the France rider legs look like after 16 stages 7 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
Apparently something like 40x as much blood is going to the legs than a person at rest. His feet are purple because his legs can't pump out all the blood, so it's pooling. Pretty gross.
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Just wow 23 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
Thank you, that is a very good point. It looks quaint and wholesome by today's standards, but some of these woman were rebelling against an unfair system any way they could.
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Just wow 23 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
So, there's this idea called "respectability politics" that more and more social groups are moving away from. They believe that playing the respectful, modest person quietly working toward change plays into the hands of the oppressor, ie. if you look the right way and act the right way, people will listen to you. But the right way is often the way those you're fighting against want you to act and look. So, they rebel in whatever way they can.
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Carter 8 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
Carter gets a ton of shit, but he was also the sitting president during the Iran hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the energy crisis. A lot of really bad things happened while he as president, and I think that leads to the perception that he was bad at his job. Also, Reagan made him out to be this pessimistic old stuffed shirt that didn't believe in America during his run from president.
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Great way to to maintain order 18 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
From a crowd of potentially thousands? Do you remember when they fingered the wrong guy for the Boston Maraton bombing? Imagine that happening on a much larger scale.
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Great way to to maintain order 18 comments
Dabbing back in my day 13 comments
Newscaster "gives up" after huge error in a live broadcast 6 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
About as awesome as any local newscaster. This was pretty surprising actually.
Phoenix is super powerful 15 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
I read that first part as "shit gravity" and realized I don't know anything about Jean Grey at all.
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Dogs are the best kind of people 5 comments
pripyatplatypus
· 7 years ago
When I broke up with my high school girlfriend I was inconsolable, mopey, angy, all the normal teenager stuff. I laid in my bed all day and only really left to get food and use the bathroom. My Ridgeback Lady would bring me things like toys and random shirts and just nudge them over to me. After about a week she was sick of my shit and finally just put her snout under my back and tried to roll me off the bed. It took a few hours, but when I was finally on the floor she jumped on me and licked my face until I was ready to play. She was a great dog.
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