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fucked thing abt having kids will be having to keep up dad rock kayfabe around the kids. if you're twelve you don't want to have been introduced to vnv nation, skrillex etc by your parents. you're supposed to find that on your own. your parents listen to emerson lake & palmer, or like brahms. i got a lot of brahms. a lot of mahler and handel and such. my teenage rebellion was being the only person under 60 to go into DC to see the clarinetists toot steve reich. which was as it should be. but there's so much kayfabe, isn't there

You've got the causality backwards. You listen to whatever you want to listen do. It becomes "dad rock" by virtue of you, a dad, listening to it. It seems troubling that skrillex can be dad rock but unfortunately that's how it works.

something about needless tragedy when its effectively written and how it works SO well. boromir taking like seven arrows to the chest and continuing to fight and it doesnt save merry and pippin. the fact that merry and pippin were needlessly taken bc the uruks thought they had the ring, which they didnt. there are people in this war willingly sacrificing themselves to distract sauron from frodo and then there are people given no time to think through a plan, doing the best with the few seconds they have and dying with the hope that their actions will protect the people they love. and sometimes it doesnt. boromirs epic final stand did not actually matter, did not give the hobbits a chance to escape. but his final breaths were given with love nonetheless.

You can tell apart the right wingers who want to better this country from the "right-wingers" who are just vengeful haters by how they react when they hear about residents of Seattle or Portland or LA trying to improve anything.

Some of you are Jonah sitting under a fragile leaf raging about how you would rather watch the city be burned with fire from heaven than that people should wake up and go wow this place sucks, we need to change what we are doing

I *just* posted about marmots. Why are you stalking me?

FFS THAT IS NOT HOW YOU USE THE -ETH SUFFIX LEARN TO USE THE -ETH SUFFIX YOU HIDEOUS ANGEL.

It's worse when the art is about someone who is supposedly founding a religion. I eye-rolled my way all the way through Parable of the Sower because of this: we are supposed to believe that these maximally banal little sayings harvested from Hallmark cards are actually believable as divine insight. The book does not exactly ask you to believe in the protag's personal religion, but it does ask you to believe that other people would be impressed by it. I guess if they're all really really stupid it might make sense.

brown ass orthodox inquiring cousin is a wannabe nazi..... when does it end¿¿¿

We have one of these in my church, too. Cool guy. His brother makes homemade cider and shares it after liturgy.

My natural inclination would be to say that this is horrible - but of course, as someone really intelligent has explained, when appalling failures by the police give gangs a free hand to carry out ethnically targeted violence against innocent people, the thing to do is to make a sniffy little joke about it that's completely dismissive of the victims. Here, let me try: they're just assimilating into Northern Irish culture (by falling foul of the paras).

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Somebody tell me what style of sofa that's called in the upper right hand corner because it's the most comfortable and I need one

Blessing my heart doesn't do anything so you're a useless slave destined for eternity in hell.

I don't think that's what the sofa's called.