why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

damn, that one is vomit-inducing

The fact that it involves an "arabic-looking" person on a plane with no reference to terrorism makes me think it might even be pre-2001

xp Yeah I thought the same - recruiting a 'gay man' to get a shot in on these awful Arabic women who all demand to be called princesses and hold up normal operating procedures. There's something to be said about the trend for racist cant to depict non-white people as obstructive and frustrating, feel like there's a long history to this depiction.

Conservatives also often like to hold up "gay rights" as an example of our superiority to muslim countries, only to discard them the moment they are no longer comparing us to muslim countries

Also:

having said that, I've been going on for a long time about what "belief" really means and it seems to me to be multifaceted: the performative, the social, the identitarian, the ideological, the spiritual and the unconscious all play into the concept but none of them define it or make up the totality of it. this is one of the reasons Dawkinites are idiots. memes feed into this too as they become this field of statements without depth, without sincerity, just endlessly playing at rhetoric when their real purpose is anything but the dissemination of knowledge, arcane or otherwise.

I like this a lot, can we start a thread on it

I feel like focusing on the flight attendant when you're seated on a plane near a woman who visually resembles a language is burying the lede

he could tell because she was sitting from right to left, instead of the normal way

wow that is noxious shit. guessing it's been around since the early 80s since both characters feel like they belong in Airplane!. or The Cannonball Run really.

seriously who are you staying friends with that posts that kind of thing? i mean normally this thread is just dummmmb naive/inspirational/hackneyed whatever where you might roll your eyes and go "oh, uncle fred," not instantly hate uncle fred and cut him out of your life.

It was a much, much older person, sort of friend from work, with a lot of chronic health problems who posted that.

It is totally noxious I agree. But let us roll the hate-train on to this fucking thing:

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listening to 6 straight hours of portishead will bring anyone down (i like portishead)

He should have gone to the happy coffee shop again for his second cup.

He should have spent 6 hours peacefully staring out the window at the sunshine until a creative thought emerged far enough for him to set pen to paper.

he should have played video games all day and then felt mildly guilty but not really that bothered because there's enough books by white dudes already

what did you expect from 6 hours sitting in a featureless room

wait its not featureless there is a window to the infinite majesty of god's creation right behind his head

The utter narrowness though. 'Coffee', 'free time', 'favourite song' as gold standard requirements for creating something.

Best part of the airplane story is (I swear)

Love how all those EPIC CLAPBACK viral stories spend so many words explaining just how funny and true they are. The professor didn’t miss a beat!! We all laughed until we choked and now we’re all dead!!

all those EPIC CLAPBACK viral stories

My favorite one is where he's in the crowd at a Grand Funk concert incognito and shows up Mark Farner with an improvised guitar solo.

there's a larger phenomenon of clickbait articles that beat you over the head with how funny the thing you're about to read/watch is, at which point, if it actually were funny (which it never is anyway) they have already sucked the life out of it

Number 7 will make you rupture your bowel with laughter

Are You Always the Last to Get Jokes? A Bit Slow On the Uptake? Humourless Dullard? We'll Tell You Which Parts Are Funny!

Here it comes! The funny! Brace yourself!

Is this a trick question?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DV1FTpQXcAAVQXt.jpg:large

it's a riddle

The "6 hours later" gag seems pretty harmless compared to most of this thread

I've really been prepared for imagining I'm a hungry hippo...

i've never seen a facebook post "shared" by a hungry sea turtle

nyt did a good piece on working class sea turtles who voted trump, interesting perspective

Yeah, it's refreshing to see things from their point of view.

Also, I'm pretty sure a jelly fish smells different than a plastic bag.

they should just make plastic bags out of jellyfish carcasses. if we can put a man on the moon...

http://theendearingdesigner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Fast-Food-Sizes-Ads-vs-Reality-1.jpg

Now imagine you're a hungry sea turtle.

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/994073_941702799198349_6577129238738459728_n.jpg?oh=9a2278e4ede15807b35d755c0d021137&oe=5B06EE89

Now imagine you're a hungry sea turtle.

As opposed to a song about fingernails.

Learned so much about the human spirit from Too Fighters

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wow

There's clearly at least one wall.

Ppl should stop meaning quite so well

Did you find that in a left-leaning FB group or a right-leaning FB group?

that was circulating around last year after the election. i had some variation of it hanging on my door.

(classroom door)

What about Preston and Cody?

"YOU are not going to shoot us. ... (are you?)"

Yeah, I don't think that's as shallow or empty as a lot of the stuff here.

female students: men are not able to grab you

if only they'd stop trying

I understand the cynicism but literal statements are good for, you know, children