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hamishwatson

yes hello 911 i’m being forced into adulthood and i don’t like it send help

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i learned that Spongebob’s parents

are not cookies but dried out sponges

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My sister and my dog are the only valid members of my family. The roomba is valid too, I guess, but its on thin fucking ice.

alphabark

What did the roomba do?

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Tried to eat my fucking sock

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electricindigomama

This is extremely important

eruditionanimaladoration

Millennials are ruining corrupt corporate capitalism by caring about animals

keuppy

Because we do research on branding and see which don’t poison or kill our pets 🙄🙄🙄🙄 but I guess the only killing that matters is another industry

memelzebub

Oh noo you poor name brands maybe you shouldnt have been selling us garbage to feed our fuzzy family members in tHE FIRST PLACE

dexer-von-dexer

This is the first time I’m seeing that millennials are ruining an industry by spending more on something. I’m glad

chandra-nalaar

getting bullied at art school is the worst bc not only are you getting picked on by people who post voltron discourse but every mean thing they say to you is verbatim lifted from a text post you’ve already seen and that has damaged my self respect in a way that nothing else ever could

chandra-nalaar

knowing i am lower on the college food chain than 20 year olds who say “weird flex but okay” and “sure jan” in real life has done irreparable psychological damage

tearsformadoka

I can’t wrap my head around art school bullies

chandra-nalaar

i said i hate anime and now they want me dead

tearsformadoka

Oh I thought they were just being mean you didn’t tell me you provoked them

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d-mondaze

A Christmas Carol is so wild to me because it takes not one, not two, but like four fucking ghosts to convince this dude not to be the biggest douche in the universe. Like, four fucking ghosts came back from the dead, rose from the Goddamn grave to be like, “I came back from the dead because you need to quit your shit.” Fuck. How big of an asshole do you have to be to have four fucking ghosts tell you to stop?

moon-crater

Have you ever met a rich capitalist

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Also, one of those ghosts was a rich capitalist douche. He needed to reform Scrooge to work off his own sentence, didn’t he?

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Marley’s ghost basically told Scrooge that if he kept being a greedy douchebag he would go to hell and Scrooge still needed convincing and that honestly is 100% believable to me

That an old rich white guy being told “Your going to hell unless you help the poor” would respond by going “I still kind of want to NOT help the poor tho?”

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Charlie Dickens knew what was up.

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Dickens had to work in a factory hos entire childhood. His father was thrown in a debtor’s prison. Thats why all his stories are about rich fucks getting owned.

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The thing I love about A Christmas Carol is that at the time he wrote it, Christmas, as a holiday, was on par with our Arbor Day. And Scrooge held the Majority Opinion.

Dickens originally set out to write a Very Serious Pamphlet About the Plight of the Poor in Modern Times, with numbers, and statistics, and gruesome details about the state of debtors prisons. And he realized that it would probably not change a single thing, in the end.

So he changed it to fiction, and made it emotional, and focused on the lives in one specific family. And he also self-published it, because he realized that a for-profit publishing house wouldn’t want to touch it. And gave it to friends.

Not only did it help change people’s attitudes toward charity organizations and help reform labor laws, it also (pretty much) revived the whole custom of celebrating Christmas at all.

That, my friends, is the power of a well written ghost story.

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I just looked up this to see if this was true and it is!

The pamphlet was going to be called ‘An Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the Poor Man’s Child’

He decided to write the story because he realised that soap-boxing factory workers and their employers on the importance of educational reform wasn’t going to work on a society-wide scale.

A Christmas Carol is literally a leftist/socialist story about not being a dickwad to your employees because they’re human too, your ‘fellow man’