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yeah I agree re: 280 it’s cool

Book of Mormon is just a toned down South Park riff turned into a musical so yes

280 "doesn't bother" me either, but that's because my eyes/brain just automatically skips tweets longer than 150/160 chars, I've noticed. It's a terrible change, taking the pace and USP out of twitter entirely. If I want long winded updates I'll check FB, which I'd rather avoid tbh.

oh i read that as the actual book of mormon being racist xpost

yea i was indifferent to 280, who gives a shit really. but i do notice that i don't read any tweets longer than ~150 or so

actual book of mormon is racist too iirc

comedians aren't important at all

That's controversial?

well i keep reading "comedians are important, especially in this day and age" as if its a truism.

seems like its a popular narrative in the media, they really "tell it like it is" and "push boundaries". is any evidence that any of this has helped anyone ever?

like if anything comedians probably make it easy to laugh about horrible shit and move onto ignoring it

a sense of humour is bad not good

^^^

a sense of irony, however, is a necessity.

garbage people use the phrase 'garbage person' oh wait

lol i agree with Adam, Norm MacDonald nailed it re: this new perception of comics: "Now people say comedians are like 'modern day philosophers'.... which I think is pretty insulting to... modern day philosophers."

all casual uses of "garbage person," "trash person," "dumpster fire" etc etc are fucking played-out and annoying

also seem vaguely offensive to waste collectors, who are fine public servants

otm!

"garbage person," "trash person," "dumpster fire" etc etc

RIYL "shut the front door"

Your diet has fuck-all to do with how long you'll live, or even how you feel and/or look while you live. I firmly believe this.

it's becoming accepted that genetics has a greater influence on our make-up than we thought, but i believe it's closer to being the absolute, predictive variable

Your diet has fuck-all to do with how long you'll live, or even how you feel and/or look while you live. I firmly believe this.

― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Friday, November 17, 2017 10:26 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can tell you the second part is not true. i have had many different diets in my time (while never dieting) and have fluctuated in weight massively, had worse or better acne, been more or less anxious/tired, slept worse or better.

Smoking 1-3 cigarettes a day is good for you

controversial is in the title guys

Yeah arguing itt is poor form one ought to outdo the post if anything

Food is poisonous fact

anything you eat is likely going to give you cancer eventually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmY-VYUeAuc

I didn't eat for like a month before and I literally am invincible now actually

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-intermittent-fasting-might-help-you-live-longer-healthier-life/

seriously just like don't even eat

I saw a documentary on that

Yerman had only green tea for five days and was able to stand on one leg for idk a minute longer than he had been previously

This was taken as a major success. I took two things from it:

- it must be highly individual in effect cos if I miss lunch by like ten minutes I can hardly stand on both legs

- who the fuck wants to be a hungry flamingo

if you consume only green tea and beets, you will literally become a flamingo

Jackie Chan pretended to be fasting in order to impress an Indian princess he had the hots for in 2017's excellent Kung Fu Yoga.

fussy eaters are aliens hiding among us and should be shot

anybody who considers themself clever is a big idiot

sport is the highest expression of human culture

seems like its a popular narrative in the media, (comedians) really "tell it like it is" and "push boundaries". is any evidence that any of this has helped anyone ever?

I think Richard Pryor did help people know they weren't crazy, even while he was beating all his wives and girlfriends.

all books should be around 6x9" and limited to 300 pages maximum. longer books should only be published as a collection of ~6x9" books.

(art, photography, etc. books excluded)

Life causes cancer

https://youtu.be/1oDAkmfoAgA

anybody who considers themself clever is a big idiot

― the intentional phallusy (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 November 2017 06:04 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dumb people have started talking about the dunning-kruger effect like it doesn't apply to them

children under the age of 5 shouldn't be allowed to attend churches that obsess over a literal eternal hell. eternal hell is a concept that is much more horrifying and difficult to deal with than many other things that children are not allowed to witness until they're older. people sometimes treat small children as if they don't understand the content of the adult-talk going on around them, but i can attest that i understood what hell was from a very young age and took it very seriously and it traumatized the living fuck out of me. i remember lightning striking just outside of our house during a terrible storm in the middle of the night. the room flashed so blindingly white, and it was so intensely loud, that i really did think i had died. and of course i thought i had gone to hell, because i was a little kid and i thought whatever minor kid mistake i had recently made could be enough to condemn me to eternal damnation. the lightning knocked the electricity out but i had to find my sister to see if we were in hell or not. i had to make this wrenching climb up the basement steps to check in lightning striking over and over and the rain pouring in sheets against the window. the lightning incident was particularly memorable, but the fear of it was always spiking out of nowhere. there's always a reason to fear hell. the idea of burning forever as punishment is all you can think about, if you really believe it's real.

it's a concept i've long since rejected, but something about that terror lives inside of me because the concept has been there since the very beginning of my memory. i may be somewhat unusual in the kind of church that i had to go to and how i emotionally responded to the idea of hell, but i'd guess there were lots of others in the same boat. it seems strange to be allowed to force young minds to hear all about this (actually deeply fucked up) idea on 1/7th of their mornings.

yep.

No one under 18 should be allowed to attend church.

The people who whine about the War on Christmas are kind of right to be worried because if they give an inch on ‘happy holidays’ we might as well just go ahead and try to prevent them from bringing their kids to church

Tbf maybe u did die and u are in hell think about it

You are still otm tho

Tho I would note that this shit is sheer magic for young imaginations

Closely following politics is more damaging to one’s long term mental health than drinking heavily seven nights a week.

I wouldn’t recommend either

choosing both is also bad tbh

Apple cider vinegar tastes OK.

i have a jar a quarter-full of it next to my sink and the gnats floating in agree!