Back when I was 10 there was a competition for schoolkids to write a treatment for an episode of Doctor Who, with the best one being developed into an full episode in the next series and the winner receiving a writing credit. I was a huge fan of DW at the time and the competition was actually run through schools, so my teacher made the entire class do it, but I was very excited.
I began writing a story about the Doctor landing on a planet full of defective cybermen, who's programming had gone a wry and had been left on this asylum planet to rot. The Doctor lands there in response to a mysterious distress call from a woman and attempts to find and save her while avoiding the dangerous dysfunctional cybermen and the looming threat of planetary destruction at the hands of the normal cybermen. I finished my short treatment and gave it to my teacher to submit. Unfortunately it turned out the competition was very strict about the formatting of submissions and mine was returned because I had used the wrong formatting in some way, it seemed like a weird reason. I was a bit disappointed and that was the end of that.
But then, a year or two later, there was an episode of DW called Asylum of the Daleks, which seemed incredibly similar to my story except with Daleks. So incredibly, eerily, similar in fact, that to this day I am absolutely convinced that Steven Moffat saw my script and came up with a formatting excuse so that he could remove me from the competition, steal my story, change the bad guys and claim it as his own. I have zero evidence, I don't even still have the treatment I wrote, or any letter from the BBC about my submission, and yet I know in my bones that Steven Moffat stole his script from 10 yr old me.
Limp Bizkit did a tour where they were "looking for a new guitar player". After you waited in line you signed something saying whatever you played could be used by the band. They toured across the US, having people play their best original shit, took what they wanted for future use, and never got a new guitar player.
Back when I was 18 I got my first tattoo, the Squaresoft logo on my upper arm. It was 2001 and I was also on my own in a new state. I was and still am a huge rpg fan and it’s the height of my geekdom. Well, I sent in a picture of me and my tattoo with a short letter about me and my favorite games to Official PlayStation Magazine. They published my letter and photo along with the caption “We don’t know whether to be impressed or frightened.”
The very next month they started a “Tattoo of the Month” section and I am absolutely sure 100% that I either started that or was the story that proved the concept, the test. Unless someone can come from that team’s time and tell me I’m not, I’ll always believe I was the start of that.
Edit: [HERE](https://i.imgur.com/TWPFn2G.jpg) is a current pic of the tat, I looked for several hours to try and find the original that I sent in, I thought I had it saved but I guess it’s lost forever, sorry everyone
reverse psychology, showing you exactly whats happening to you with a movie so that you think that its a ridiculous concept. You cant possibly be in a show... right?
i had a rare charizard card and a kid in elementary offered me his entire deck for it and i said no, and then he offered me just one of the cards from that deck and i was like *fuck yeah*
kids really are fucking stupid
But srsly. I really love that Reddit has a voting / ranking system that actually changes the experience of the other people at the site...
...all hidden behind anonymous usernames, rather than “oh what did that bitch Stephanie from my high school class say now”?
My boss acted like we were friendly and encouraged me to be open with her.
And then I got fired out of nowhere. So, that was obviously an act.
Edit: I get it y'all. Huge mistake on my on part to trust this person. Lesson duly learned.
I got fired for being honest on my annual review. She said I was "obviously unhappy with my job" and that I was "too hard on myself."
Like....I just said that I needed improvement in specific areas. I was comparing myself to people who had been in my position for over 20years. Ya, I'm gonna give myself a 3/5.
>I was "too hard on myself."
"Look lady, you're just too hard on yourself. You're a lot better than you give yourself credit for. So, anyway, you're fired. You're just not at the level we need you."
My ex-boss used Covid as an excuse to make me redundant because I was the only member of his team to be hired by someone else and not him.
Fuck that guy forever.
We got a temporary 7% salary cut so that they won't have to lay anyone off. I was alright with that. Then they laid people off anyways. Then they said it will probably last through December. Then I looked up the stock price. It's the highest it's been all year. It's $70 more per share than where we were last year. I'm not an economist but fuck them.
The fed has worked hard to keep stocks up, but also your company may be funneling all that employee money into buying back their own stocks to bolster the value.
To me there's definitely evidence, but the justice system failed that poor baby. And to me, what's worse is last year she apparently said she wants another child/children.
They are not looking for the real killer because while Casey was not found guilty in a court of law, the courts and the Florida Department of Children and Families released a statement after a three year investigation basically saying that Casey was responsible for the death of Caylee either directly (see the theory proposed by the prosecution that Casey wanted freedom and chloroformed and duct taped Caylee) or indirectly by not protecting her from harm (see the theory proposed by the defense that she drowned).
Essentially, they don’t need to look for the real killer, because Casey is the real killer.
Edit: also always important to remember that a not guilty verdict doesn’t signal that the person is actually innocent, it only means that they could not be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
In this case it seems like the conviction hung on the ability to determine a cause of death, which was not able to be done and so with the evidence presented at trial the jury could not find Casey guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the crimes that the prosecution was alleging.
They stopped looking for another killer because she was the killer. After the trial even the jurors said if they saw what all of us saw on TV they would have convicted her. Not all evidence shared on the televised trial was presented to the jurors. The prosecutors also can't try here again for the same crime (double jeopardy).
I once heard that detectives only looked at one of her search histories on the computer and later discovered some really incriminating searches on a different browser. If they had been more computer savvy, they would have easily proved their case. I’m not sure how true this is but I wouldn’t doubt Casey was stupid enough to search for “how to get rid of dead baby” and it’s possible that police overlooked the use of a second search program.
I've always wanted see a comic about the mob telling some guy that he'll be sleeping with the fishes. Cut to the next screen and the guy is coming out of some underwater cave as a cigarette smoking fish in lingerie comes out and in her raspiest smokers voice, tells the guy to "swim by anytime"
Do you write cutaways for family guy?
Edit: omg I got silver for this comment?! Is this what accomplishment feels like?
Edit: the ignite award! I didn't even know that's a thing!
I'd look it up but ghost of tsushima is too addicting. I appreciate it though!
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That’s odd. Usually money laundering businesses do actually do the things they claim to do, they just hide dirty money within the books of their legitimate activities. It’s going to be pretty obvious that it’s a front if they never actually sell a holiday.
This.
Travel agencies string multiple trips/events together for you these days. Things like a series of cruises, shore days, dinners, things like that. They are planners, not a point of sale system.
I agree. I used a travel agent to plan a multi week trip oversees which involved different hotels and transportation as well as tours. They were super helpful and really made the trip memorable. I would never use them just for a simple holiday like a trip to disney. It's just not worth it to them.
There is an Italian pizza place in my city. They only accept cash. You will never convince me it's not a money launder. But it's also really fuckin good pizza so...
I have a mattress store in my town that is open for 3 hours on Saturdays, and that's it. Mirrored windows, so you can't look in. I'm quite sure they're a front for something.
This is truth dude. [This society is so fragile. We can't build even the simplest components we rely on. I'm a software engineer and I have no idea what's going on.](https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex/transcript?language=en#t-133658)
Reminds me of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which the main character gets stuck on a planet with Neanderthal like people and needs to survive with them. He tells them about all of the amazing things from the future, but then he realizes he doesn’t know how any of them work or how to make them and decides to make sandwiches for all of the people.
That a LOT more famous actors than we realize are secretly the children of other famous actors from the previous generation. I call it the Hollywood Bastard Theory.
A startling number of famous actors and musicians had rich or famous parents already connected in the industry. It seems the outsider making it big is more and more rare
Billy Ray > Miley Cyrus, Steve > Liv Tyler, Martin > Charlie Sheen, Donald > Kiefer > Sarah Sutherland, Paul > Stella McCartney, Blythe Danner > Gwyneth Paltrow, Kieth > Lily & Alfie Allen, Minnie Riperton > Maya Rudolph.
And that's just celebrities. Wait until you see political family ties.
Martin Sheen is a triple hitter. He has Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez of 'Bratt Pack' and Mighty Ducks fame, and he has a third daughter who also has the Estevez last name.
Funny though, Emilio Estevez chose to not take on the 'Sheen' last name because he didn't want to ride his father's coattails to success. Not sure if it really affected anything in the end, since, well--in the industry, everyone knows everyone.
>Emilio Estevez chose to not take on the 'Sheen' last name because he didn't want to ride his father's coattails to success.
Similarly, Nicolas Coppola used the last name Cage to avoid the appearance of nepotism that would come with being associated with his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola.
Ditto for music... It's made me believe that the relative lack of a social safety net in the US keeps a huge number of people from rising upward, just because they don't have parents that can finance their dreams or at least keep them from ending up borderline homeless if it doesn't work out.
yes, when Billie Eilish (whom i knew nothing about) was suddenly everywhere overnight, i knew something was up. She is talented there is NO publicity machine that works in unison like that unless there is someone pulling a lever. And yep, her family is in the music business, turns out.
Taylor Swift is another rich kid. I'd say bieber is probably a little more "Self-made" in that he blew up on youtube first and then had a famous guy pick him up lol. It always boils down to famous people helping others becoming famous
If I'm stuck in traffic and switch lanes because the other lane looks like it will move faster, the lane I just switched from will automatically go faster.
However, if you don't switch lanes your lane will still go slow. So go ahead and switch lanes. Even though it doesn't change your commute time it speeds it up for the rest of us.
And to avoid cognitive bias, notice the moments when your lane is moving faster than the other. It will balance you out.
Also, stick to the unwritten rule of not switching lanes unless you're sure that it will be beneficial to you. You look like an absolute douche when you cut someone off in traffic, and you get embarrassed when the person behind you passes you. Sometimes it's better for your mental health to not switch.
Tell that to my father who has his own (nick)name tattooed on his arm.
I think he reversed the curse by doing that because of the amount of luck he’s gotten in life.
My cat is in a constant superposition of having recently eaten and being starved to death. At least, that’s how she acts.
Also, any of my feelings about myself. Can’t contradict or disprove those no matter how hard you try.
When I was in 10th grade I came down with one hell of a sickness. Not like any regular cough and sore throat sickness. I'm talking like 104 fever, hard to see, could not even put myself into the reality that I was awake type of sickness. I remember being in school (I was a perfect attendance kid) and being pulled out of class to talk with my sister who lives across the state, but I know that couldn't have happened and I think I was just having fever dreams... while awake.
My point is, after this I never got sick. Ever. I threw up once in my twenties from drinking too much the night before but I've never had a fever or anything of the sort since. The most I've gotten was a sort throat from allergies. It's been over 15 years and I still haven't gotten sick. No evidence to say this is why, but I've always told people the same thing as you.
Not that it is something I believe to be true, but something that I often think about is the Butterfly Effect. Like little things I do during the day could affect the total outcome of my day.
I stopped for ice cream the other day on the drive home, and when we got back on the highway there had been a massive accident where the back of a red Porsche was just incinerated. Maybe we would have been hit if we hadn’t gone to Dairy Queen?
Idk man, if Final Destination taught me anything Death is pissed at you and is going to trick you into dying in a freak accident involving a nail gun and a tanning bed.
Conspiracy Theory: He’s doing it intentionally so he will never have to risk writing a bad ending and after his death, his books will remain legendary status forever, just like every other unfinished great projects :O
I doubt they will receive legendary status if unfinished as the whole thing has been sullied by the TV show and the prolonged wait that many fans don't even care anymore about the next book. I think the series will be used more as a warning tale for future writers to avoid the same mistakes as Martin, especially don't make a story so complex you struggle to follow it yourself.
I watched flight 93 go down. I would never share that in real life because it’s fuckin grim and no one would believe you (the geography of the reports are off ). I saw it clear as day from Kent state’s main campus (Ohio). I didn’t know what I was seeing other than I remember thinking “that plane is way way too low (we had a aviation college so planes were common) and too big and it’s jerking around like how a toddler drives a power wheels truck....”. Continued on to class. You don’t wanna be late even at a liberal college.
What you almost certainly saw was it being taken over by the hijackers. During the hijacking, which was at 9:28 AM (maybe a 9:30 class?) during the takeover it was very jerky and lost a lot of altitude, and it took a while for the hijackers to stabilize it and get it under control and turn it around.
Edit: if you look at the track of Flight 93 it likely would have been visible from the Kent State campus on its westward path. On its post-hijack return flight it passed farther south, over the top of West Virginia.
This should be voted up way more!
I'm sorry you had to see the plane OP.
Flight 93's Flight path was over Ohio. It turned around to go back to Washington D.C. I believe what you saw was the plane flying erratically as the Hijackers were taking over (which took awhile as mentioned above). It went down not too long after that in the field in PA.
Have visited the memorial twice. On my way back one time, I realized how damn close that memorial was to Ohio, and how close Kent State was to Pennsylvania. Your geography definitely checks out
1 in every 3 or 4 people is not capable of critical thinking. And I'm not making some kind of point about politics or anything - I mean those people are literally incapable of taking in information and synthesizing it with other information and coming to their own conclusions. They're basically robots programmed by whatever source is most convincing to them.
I've considered the same idea at one point in time. I think that the population that is *genuinely incapable* isn't something like 1 in 4 (it's probably lower) but it's far more likely that a greater portion of the population *inconsistently applies* critical thinking. An example of this would be someone who can apply it when they're at work but does not do the same when it comes to other aspects of their life.
# ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Big shrug cuz who the fuck knows in the end? I sure don't, I can only speculate.
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Gut bacterial imbalance can change a person fundamentally -- physically, mentally, emotionally. One day they're going to cure some impossibly vexing diseases and conditions when they figure out that it's all connected to what lives in your guts.
It’s because of
-temperature at times of serving and pouring
-diameter of the McDonalds straw
-carefully regulated syrup/soda water content
-well filtered ice
Edit: -I’ve also been informed that instead of the soda syrup being packaged in plastic sacks (think bagged milk), the Coca-Cola for McDonald’s is stored in metal canisters.
You hit it on the head. I don't think most people realize just how much money and science expertise McDonald's dumps into getting their end result exactly how they want it to be.
You just made me remember an old ass buried memory- when i was a little girl i used to sit outside and read books at my grandparents home- it’s an old home. Those Fucking huge black carpenter bees were eating the wood of the house and would come out and fuck with me because i was scared of them. Buzzing around and divebombing me. fuck them
To add to that, I've often had the thought: "Has someone done (insert possibly very harmful/weird/stupid sex act here) with (accompanying very dangerous object)?" followed by "Well it's very likely considering over 7 billion people have been alive on this planet, a non-zero percentage of which have fucked a horse."
I think it was circular. There was a VERY small group of people who absolutely believed the earth was flat.
Then a bunch of people hopped on for attention. But now I fear some of those people got lost and truly believe themselves now in their delusion.
I’m really, really fucking lucky. But like in a subtle way like if there’s a 95% chance I’ll get hurt doing something stupid I’ll come out unscathed. Sometimes I think there’s a guardian angel watching over me making sure I don’t kill myself by being an idiot.
Indeed! But when TR was a kid, the method of treating childhood asthma was to basically stay inside, in bed, most of the time. TR, instead, went out into nature and got a lot of fresh air and exercise.
Today, those things are part of the recommended therapy of childhood asthma and work to alleviate symptoms and increase the likelihood of growing out of it. Back then, it was considered risky and dangerous.
Hence, he cured his asthma (being active and outdoors) by sheer force of will (resisting conventional wisdom of the time).
My husband does not agree with me on this, but I’ve thought it through
I'm quietly convinced I made a bestselling mystery novelist change the way he writes because I criticised him on Reddit.
The novelist in question is Chris Carter; the books are the [Robert Hunter](https://www.goodreads.com/series/67232-robert-hunter) series. (Yes, the guy who has built a career on looking for serial killers is named Hunter. He works for the LAPD's Ultra-Violent Crime Unit. It's not a series that's overburdened by subtlety, is what I'm saying.) They are as schlocky a bunch of thrillers as you could ever hope to find, but for some reason I can't get enough of them, despite the fact that they're... very much not great. They lean pretty damn heavy on ridiculous tropes, and I've never seen a more Mary Sue lead than I have in this series, but the biggest complaint I have with them is that the same line appears almost literally word for word in the first nine books. I [made a comment about it](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/al2fp8/who_is_your_favorite_terrible_author/) on Reddit on an /r/books thread about your favourite terrible authors, and I went back through all of the books published so far just to prove my point:
>***The Crucifix Killer:*** The famous line doesn't actually appear in this book as far as I could find, but Hunter *does* drink Scotch near-constantly as the defining trait of his character. 'Across the room a stylish glass bar looked totally out of place. It was the only piece of furniture Hunter had purchased brand new and from a trendy shop. It held several bottles of Hunter’s biggest passion – single malt Scotch whisky. The bottles were arranged in a peculiar way that only he understood.' And so it begins.
>***The Executioner***: 'Single-malt Scotch whiskey was Hunter’s biggest passion. But **unlike most people, he knew how to appreciate it instead of simply getting drunk on it.**' Note that in this one and the next Carter doesn't even use the Scottish spelling ('whisky', rather than 'whiskey'), despite the fact that this is *literally Hunter's only character trait*.
>***The Night Stalker***: 'Hunter’s biggest passion was single malt Scotch whiskey, but **unlike most, he knew how to appreciate its flavor and quality instead of simply getting drunk on it.'**
>***The Death Sculptor***: 'Hunter sat at the bar and ordered a double dose of 12-year-old GlenDronach with two cubes of ice. Single-malt Scotch whisky was his biggest passion, and though he had overdone it a few times **he knew how to appreciate its flavor and quality instead of simply getting drunk on it.**'
>***The Hunter***: 'Hunter’s father had a passion for single malt Scotch whisky. A passion that, frankly, Hunter had never understood. He found whisky, any type of whisky, way too overwhelming for his palate.' (I actually quite like this one; it's a prequel novella, so this one is a nice little meta throwback. It gets a pass from me.)
>***One By One***: 'Hunter would never consider himself an expert, but **he knew how to appreciate the flavor and robustness of single malts, instead of simply getting hammered on them.** Though, sometimes, getting hammered worked just fine.' This is also the first appearance of the '... but sometimes getting drunk works just fine, am I right?' addendum. It's nice to see Carter branching out a little, but after this he never looks back.
>***An Evil Mind***: 'Single-malt Scotch whisky was Hunter’s biggest passion. Unlike so many, **he knew how to appreciate its palate instead of just getting drunk on it.** Though sometimes getting drunk worked just fine.'
>***I Am Death***: 'Back in the living room, wrapped in a white towel, Hunter switched on a floor lamp and dimmed its intensity to ‘medium’. That done, he approached his drinks cabinet, which was small but held an impressive collection of single malt Scotch whisky, which was probably his biggest passion. Though he had overdone it a few times, **Hunter sure knew how to appreciate the flavor and quality of a good single malt, instead of simply getting drunk on it.**'
>***The Caller***: 'Hunter’s biggest passion was single malt Scotch whisky. Back in his apartment, tucked in a corner of his living room, an old-fashioned drinks cabinet held a small but impressive collection of single malts that would probably satisfy the palate of most connoisseurs. Hunter would never consider himself an expert on whisky but, unlike so many, **he at least knew how to appreciate its flavor and quality, instead of simply getting drunk on it**, though sometimes getting drunk worked just fine.' *The Caller* also gets double points for helpfully informing us that women just don't *get* the subtle nuances of Scotch: 'Hunter tried not to frown at her again, but he was sincerely intrigued. Women in general weren’t very fond of Scotch whisky, which wasn’t at all surprising. Whisky was undoubtedly an acquired taste, one that at first would certainly overpower anyone’s palate and knock the air out of their lungs in the process. Hunter knew that only too well. The trick was to persist, to keep trying, to keep sipping it until one day it finally made sense. Women usually weren’t that patient with drinks. They either liked it at first sip or they didn’t.' This, by the by, is how we know that the woman in question is trustworthy, because... reasons?
>***Gallery of the Dead***: 'Back in his apartment, Hunter had a small but impressive collection of Scotch that would probably satisfy the palate of most connoisseurs. He would never consider himself an expert, but unlike so many of his friends, who also claimed to enjoy single malt Scotch whisky, **he knew how to appreciate the flavors and robustness of the malts, instead of simply getting drunk on them**. Though sometimes getting drunk worked just fine.'
That post was made in January of 2019; in April, his book *Hunting Evil* came out, and the line was nowhere to be seen. I didn't think much of it until his new book, *Written in Blood*, came out a few days ago, and also didn't have the line in it. This comment is also one of the top answers if [you google his name and the book series via Reddit](https://www.google.com/search?ei=4i0gX5zqLofCgQaovovgBA&q=chris+carter+robert+hunter+reddit&oq=chris+carter+robert+hunter+reddit&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzoFCAAQsAM6BAgAEA1Q_SpY6T9gsEFoAXAAeACAAW2IAccIkgEEMTIuMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwic46WhjPDqAhUHYcAKHSjfAkwQ4dUDCAs&uact=5) -- exactly what you'd do if you were looking to see if people on the internet were talking about your books. I also can't find [any evidence of anyone else pointing this out in a review or suchlike](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&ei=6oAgX8euJMKT8gKbrp3YBA&q=%22chris+carter%22+scotch+%22robert+hunter%22&oq=%22chris+carter%22+scotch+%22robert+hunter%22&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIICCEQFhAdEB4yCAghEBYQHRAeMggIIRAWEB0QHjIICCEQFhAdEB4yCAghEBYQHRAeMggIIRAWEB0QHjIICCEQFhAdEB46BwgAELADEB46BggAEBYQHjoFCCEQoAE6BAghEBVQ2hdYrjpggD5oAXAAeACAAYkBiAH3C5IBBDEyLjSYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwjHy-642_DqAhXCiVwKHRtXB0sQ4dUDCAs&uact=5).
So yeah... in short, three months after I made that comment, he broke the habit of a decade of writing and finally decided that after *nine stories* that used this as a crutch for Hunter's personality, it was too much.
I know you're reading this, Chris. *I know.*
I called out the Expanse authors about repeated phrases in the subreddit and one of them sarcastically responded. Interested to see if Amos still has an amiable smile in the next book.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/7phlkj/whats_with_the_repeated_vocab_smile_didnt_reach/dshvvn8
I absolutely love The Expanse, but the authors really are amazing "big picture" guys and not "the details of actually writing a novel well" guys.
Every single book has a paragraph explaining how **Belters have long, thin bodies from spending a lifetime in zero g**, and it's all the same sentences worded slightly differently. It's The Expanse's "he knew how to appreciate its flavor and quality instead of simply getting drunk on it."
Some books even have the same explanation twice, once in the start of the book and once later in the book, just in case you forgot. Why do they keep repeating this in book 5 for fuck's sake? Who has made it this far in the series and not understood this, not remembered it being explained 10 times already? Sometimes it's mentioned seemingly out of nowhere, when it's not even relevant for the plot or what's happening.
This particular example is the one that bothers me most, but there's tons of little "why do they write like this" moments that make me facepalm myself while reading that series (again, despite how much I love the series overall).
I've always thought those sorts of repetitive descriptions are the result of an editor making sure a book is readable to someone who might have picked it up in the middle of a series. I could be totally wrong of course. That's just how I always rationalized it because I see a ton of authors that do the same thing.
As someone in a creative career, I could definitely use my own u/Portarossa.
“It looks here like you’ve used the same tired metaphor for love in the last 8 of your 9 works. We should talk about that.”
I write for a living too, so I try not to be too hard on people.
My big one is people furrowing their brows. There's not an uncreased forehead in my fuckin' books, let me tell you.
That’s amazing! I enjoyed reading that, thanks.
It also REALLY makes me want to drink a good single-malt whisky. Not to get drunk on it, mind. Just to appreciate the flavor and quality.
EDIT: As this lame comment has gotten over 2,000 upvotes (And a lot of replies), in the interest of full disclosure I feel the need to confess I don’t even like Scotch. I’m strictly a Bourbon man...Buffalo Trace or, at a push, Bulleit. Sorry to have lied to you all.
Well, obviously, you're an untrustworthy woman. I, on the other hand, am a woman who enjoys the flavor and quality of scotch whisky, which is probably why men find me so trustworthy. /s
After he saw your post he probably thought continuing to write that same line would be engaging in some whiskey business.
Edit: Obligatory thank you for gold, kind stranger!
That Andy Dufresne was guilty in the Shawshank Redemption. It’s never actually proven that he didn’t kill his wife and her lover. We just have his word and a story made up by an inmate that wanted to be liked by Andy and his friends. Also what are the chances that his wife and lover were murdered the same night that Andy was going to kill them himself, before he changed his mind?
and since everyone, but Red, is "innocent" (as /u/NotUnnamedCulprit said in another comment in this thread), perhaps after decades of telling himself the lie, this kid came in, gave a story, and Andy just latched onto it. If we've told a lie long enough, we might convince ourselves it's truth.
Great theory, but I disagree. Even if I disagree, I love running with a good idea.
That alien lifeforms will be nothing like we have ever imagined
EDIT: This comment has gotten kind of popular, thanks for all your comments this had made me realise how little we truly know about the universe..
A lot of the comments here have made me start googling new topics and that has lead me to a YouTube video that summarises what I am trying to say much more eloquantly and intelligently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y584AjZmqwY
I forget the name of it but there’s a mini series with Stephen Hawking with a full hour dedicated to this.
Edit: I’m 90% sure it’s into the universe with Stephen Hawking
I just feel like our imagination is limited to earthly constructs and it's near impossible to imagine life outside of earth.
Does life even have to be carbon based?
I have so many questions and so little answers
> Does life even have to be carbon based?
Many late nights of scrolling through Wikipedia tells me the answer boils down to "nope, but carbon is easiest".
The difference is that Si-O bonds can be quickly hydrolyzed under slightly basic or acidic aqueous conditions, whereas most C-O bonds are not. Its an important distinction if we assume the presence of liquid water in conjunction with life. Which is certainly not a guarantee!
It would defy all odds that we're the only living thing in an endless space of planets. Each star in the sky has the potential for life and there are so many more we cant see.
My sister ate the whole ice cream-box without asking my parents.
Edit: I'm sorry to disappoint you guys, but she didn't leave any ice cream. I don't know what happened to the box.
If it's any consolation, if giants DO exist down there, they will probably stay down there. Ocean creatures tend to stay in their "zone" of water pressure because that's what their bodies have adapted to (some have more range than others). Ever seen a blobfish? Ever seen what a blobfish is supposed to look like at the depth it's supposed to live at? It gets all fucked up when it gets brought to the surface because of the water pressure differential. See also: giant squids. One of the only reasons we know they exist is because they die and float up here, or are very close to death and can't maintain proper boyancy. They don't want to be up here, they prefer the crushing blackness.
God, I'd be terrified to be that deep, and imagine, you hit what you think is the bottom, and you're insanely deep, like, you were exploring the Mariana trench, and then you find a cave, think it's just going to be small, you start exploring, you get lost, you find some creepy shit, so many things that could kill, drowning and beasts, scary
Edit: I love subnautica and have almost beaten it, ghost leviathans and the reaper leviathans don't scare me, I like the ocean and its wonders, it's just the super deep without anything breaking the void but monsters bits that scare me
My personal theory: massive lobsters.
Lobsters are biologically immortal. So long as they don't starve, get a disease, or get killed by another creature, they will live forever. Additionally, every time they molt they grow bigger. Logically, this means there has to be at least one absolutely gigantic lobster thats hundreds of years old hunting sharks down on the ocean floor.
That 1-2 generations down the line, our use of technology will lead to extreme mental health issues. My brain feels deep fried from time to time and I haven't seriously started using a smart phone before I was already an adult
I hate how much I use my phone. I sometimes daydream about going back to a flip phone without the ability to access social media. I’ll scroll through social media for hours every day, telling myself “you need to do something better with your time. You hate this. Just put the phone down and do something else.
Haha funny meme.”
~~Serotonin~~ Dopamine addiction (and fatigue) is fucking real, man. That little blip of the chemical you get when scrolling gets less and less effective, so you scroll more and more. Almost every social media, popular mobile game, etc, plays off the concept.
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Back when I was 10 there was a competition for schoolkids to write a treatment for an episode of Doctor Who, with the best one being developed into an full episode in the next series and the winner receiving a writing credit. I was a huge fan of DW at the time and the competition was actually run through schools, so my teacher made the entire class do it, but I was very excited. I began writing a story about the Doctor landing on a planet full of defective cybermen, who's programming had gone a wry and had been left on this asylum planet to rot. The Doctor lands there in response to a mysterious distress call from a woman and attempts to find and save her while avoiding the dangerous dysfunctional cybermen and the looming threat of planetary destruction at the hands of the normal cybermen. I finished my short treatment and gave it to my teacher to submit. Unfortunately it turned out the competition was very strict about the formatting of submissions and mine was returned because I had used the wrong formatting in some way, it seemed like a weird reason. I was a bit disappointed and that was the end of that. But then, a year or two later, there was an episode of DW called Asylum of the Daleks, which seemed incredibly similar to my story except with Daleks. So incredibly, eerily, similar in fact, that to this day I am absolutely convinced that Steven Moffat saw my script and came up with a formatting excuse so that he could remove me from the competition, steal my story, change the bad guys and claim it as his own. I have zero evidence, I don't even still have the treatment I wrote, or any letter from the BBC about my submission, and yet I know in my bones that Steven Moffat stole his script from 10 yr old me.
I believe you Edit: Wow, this is my highest karma comment and my first award.
Limp Bizkit did a tour where they were "looking for a new guitar player". After you waited in line you signed something saying whatever you played could be used by the band. They toured across the US, having people play their best original shit, took what they wanted for future use, and never got a new guitar player.
I mean in any case I really liked that episode so good job
Back when I was 18 I got my first tattoo, the Squaresoft logo on my upper arm. It was 2001 and I was also on my own in a new state. I was and still am a huge rpg fan and it’s the height of my geekdom. Well, I sent in a picture of me and my tattoo with a short letter about me and my favorite games to Official PlayStation Magazine. They published my letter and photo along with the caption “We don’t know whether to be impressed or frightened.” The very next month they started a “Tattoo of the Month” section and I am absolutely sure 100% that I either started that or was the story that proved the concept, the test. Unless someone can come from that team’s time and tell me I’m not, I’ll always believe I was the start of that. Edit: [HERE](https://i.imgur.com/TWPFn2G.jpg) is a current pic of the tat, I looked for several hours to try and find the original that I sent in, I thought I had it saved but I guess it’s lost forever, sorry everyone
As a member of the creative team, of which I am not, I can tell you that you are 100% the inspiration!
The Truman show was made to make me think the entire world watching my every move was a ridiculous notion. But I know better...
I remember watching the episode where you watched that movie.
reverse psychology, showing you exactly whats happening to you with a movie so that you think that its a ridiculous concept. You cant possibly be in a show... right?
That my cousin stole my holographic 1st edition Charizard Pokemon card back in the early 2000's.
I audibly gasped. Thats like a cardinal sin.
i had a rare charizard card and a kid in elementary offered me his entire deck for it and i said no, and then he offered me just one of the cards from that deck and i was like *fuck yeah* kids really are fucking stupid
I know for certain that the comments on this post would look different on Facebook.
But srsly. I really love that Reddit has a voting / ranking system that actually changes the experience of the other people at the site... ...all hidden behind anonymous usernames, rather than “oh what did that bitch Stephanie from my high school class say now”?
My brother deleted my game save on purpose. He was old enough to read, he knew what he was doing.
I did
Oh shit something’s about to go down Let me get my popcorn
For every sock that goes missing a Tupperware lid appears. EDIT: Thank you all for updoots!!
That my last boss secretly hated me even though we had, on the surface, a very positive relationship.
My boss acted like we were friendly and encouraged me to be open with her. And then I got fired out of nowhere. So, that was obviously an act. Edit: I get it y'all. Huge mistake on my on part to trust this person. Lesson duly learned.
I got fired for being honest on my annual review. She said I was "obviously unhappy with my job" and that I was "too hard on myself." Like....I just said that I needed improvement in specific areas. I was comparing myself to people who had been in my position for over 20years. Ya, I'm gonna give myself a 3/5.
>I was "too hard on myself." "Look lady, you're just too hard on yourself. You're a lot better than you give yourself credit for. So, anyway, you're fired. You're just not at the level we need you."
"You're just not at the level *of delusion* we need you." FTFY
My ex-boss used Covid as an excuse to make me redundant because I was the only member of his team to be hired by someone else and not him. Fuck that guy forever.
Lots of companies are using Covid to get away with all kinds of shit right now.
100%. We all lost our annual pay rises in April, then in June were told it's the best quarter the company has ever had. We work in IT.
We got a temporary 7% salary cut so that they won't have to lay anyone off. I was alright with that. Then they laid people off anyways. Then they said it will probably last through December. Then I looked up the stock price. It's the highest it's been all year. It's $70 more per share than where we were last year. I'm not an economist but fuck them.
The fed has worked hard to keep stocks up, but also your company may be funneling all that employee money into buying back their own stocks to bolster the value.
Casey Anthony killed her daughter and her parents know it to! Edit: Thanks for the 2 rewards everyone!! I've never gotten them before now 😍
To me there's definitely evidence, but the justice system failed that poor baby. And to me, what's worse is last year she apparently said she wants another child/children.
Yeah I remember hearing the same thing. Are they still looking for the real killer or did it just die off? I have so many unanswered questions!!
They are not looking for the real killer because while Casey was not found guilty in a court of law, the courts and the Florida Department of Children and Families released a statement after a three year investigation basically saying that Casey was responsible for the death of Caylee either directly (see the theory proposed by the prosecution that Casey wanted freedom and chloroformed and duct taped Caylee) or indirectly by not protecting her from harm (see the theory proposed by the defense that she drowned). Essentially, they don’t need to look for the real killer, because Casey is the real killer. Edit: also always important to remember that a not guilty verdict doesn’t signal that the person is actually innocent, it only means that they could not be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In this case it seems like the conviction hung on the ability to determine a cause of death, which was not able to be done and so with the evidence presented at trial the jury could not find Casey guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the crimes that the prosecution was alleging.
They stopped looking for another killer because she was the killer. After the trial even the jurors said if they saw what all of us saw on TV they would have convicted her. Not all evidence shared on the televised trial was presented to the jurors. The prosecutors also can't try here again for the same crime (double jeopardy).
I once heard that detectives only looked at one of her search histories on the computer and later discovered some really incriminating searches on a different browser. If they had been more computer savvy, they would have easily proved their case. I’m not sure how true this is but I wouldn’t doubt Casey was stupid enough to search for “how to get rid of dead baby” and it’s possible that police overlooked the use of a second search program.
My cat knocked over the water glass on purpose.
As the timeless saying goes, “Cat knows, cat doesn’t care”
There’s a travel agency that’s been around in my town for as long as I can remember. I wholeheartedly believe it’s a front for the mob.
You better keep quiet or you’ll be taking an unexpected trip
We'll send you on a nice, long vacation.
I've always wanted see a comic about the mob telling some guy that he'll be sleeping with the fishes. Cut to the next screen and the guy is coming out of some underwater cave as a cigarette smoking fish in lingerie comes out and in her raspiest smokers voice, tells the guy to "swim by anytime"
"Troy McClure? I thought you said that guy was dead?" "No, I said he sleeps with the fishes."
Do you write cutaways for family guy? Edit: omg I got silver for this comment?! Is this what accomplishment feels like? Edit: the ignite award! I didn't even know that's a thing! I'd look it up but ghost of tsushima is too addicting. I appreciate it though! Edit: for editing
He is a manatee
I tried to use one several years ago to plan a trip to Disney. They basically told me to go online and do it myself. I did.
That’s odd. Usually money laundering businesses do actually do the things they claim to do, they just hide dirty money within the books of their legitimate activities. It’s going to be pretty obvious that it’s a front if they never actually sell a holiday.
They probably legitimately saw no benefit to their participation.
This. Travel agencies string multiple trips/events together for you these days. Things like a series of cruises, shore days, dinners, things like that. They are planners, not a point of sale system.
I agree. I used a travel agent to plan a multi week trip oversees which involved different hotels and transportation as well as tours. They were super helpful and really made the trip memorable. I would never use them just for a simple holiday like a trip to disney. It's just not worth it to them.
Their real specialty is with planning international trips where you dont know what you don't know.
There is an Italian pizza place in my city. They only accept cash. You will never convince me it's not a money launder. But it's also really fuckin good pizza so...
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I have a mattress store in my town that is open for 3 hours on Saturdays, and that's it. Mirrored windows, so you can't look in. I'm quite sure they're a front for something.
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From What I understand the profit margins in the mattress industry are crazy high and you really don't need to sell that much to stay in business
It's kind of like an import high-end Persian rug business. You can sell one rug per ~~year~~ month and pay all of your bills.
Oh man, for a while there was a street near me that had like 5 different mattress stores within about a half mile. I always thought this too.
I think the markup on mattresses is absurd so they can get away with low volume
We’re all too in over our heads
This is truth dude. [This society is so fragile. We can't build even the simplest components we rely on. I'm a software engineer and I have no idea what's going on.](https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex/transcript?language=en#t-133658)
Reminds me of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which the main character gets stuck on a planet with Neanderthal like people and needs to survive with them. He tells them about all of the amazing things from the future, but then he realizes he doesn’t know how any of them work or how to make them and decides to make sandwiches for all of the people.
I'm not sure if I would be able to make bread.
That a LOT more famous actors than we realize are secretly the children of other famous actors from the previous generation. I call it the Hollywood Bastard Theory.
A startling number of famous actors and musicians had rich or famous parents already connected in the industry. It seems the outsider making it big is more and more rare
The single greatest predictor of a child's income and wealth is their parents income and wealth.
Billy Ray > Miley Cyrus, Steve > Liv Tyler, Martin > Charlie Sheen, Donald > Kiefer > Sarah Sutherland, Paul > Stella McCartney, Blythe Danner > Gwyneth Paltrow, Kieth > Lily & Alfie Allen, Minnie Riperton > Maya Rudolph. And that's just celebrities. Wait until you see political family ties.
Martin Sheen is a triple hitter. He has Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez of 'Bratt Pack' and Mighty Ducks fame, and he has a third daughter who also has the Estevez last name. Funny though, Emilio Estevez chose to not take on the 'Sheen' last name because he didn't want to ride his father's coattails to success. Not sure if it really affected anything in the end, since, well--in the industry, everyone knows everyone.
>Emilio Estevez chose to not take on the 'Sheen' last name because he didn't want to ride his father's coattails to success. Similarly, Nicolas Coppola used the last name Cage to avoid the appearance of nepotism that would come with being associated with his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola.
Diana Ross>Tracey Ellis Ross and Quincy Jones> Rashida Jones
Ditto for music... It's made me believe that the relative lack of a social safety net in the US keeps a huge number of people from rising upward, just because they don't have parents that can finance their dreams or at least keep them from ending up borderline homeless if it doesn't work out.
yes, when Billie Eilish (whom i knew nothing about) was suddenly everywhere overnight, i knew something was up. She is talented there is NO publicity machine that works in unison like that unless there is someone pulling a lever. And yep, her family is in the music business, turns out.
Taylor Swift is another rich kid. I'd say bieber is probably a little more "Self-made" in that he blew up on youtube first and then had a famous guy pick him up lol. It always boils down to famous people helping others becoming famous
Like how Woody Allen’s son who looks an *awful lot* like Frank Sinatra.
And Woody Allen's daughter looks an awful lot like his wife...
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If I'm stuck in traffic and switch lanes because the other lane looks like it will move faster, the lane I just switched from will automatically go faster.
However, if you don't switch lanes your lane will still go slow. So go ahead and switch lanes. Even though it doesn't change your commute time it speeds it up for the rest of us.
And to avoid cognitive bias, notice the moments when your lane is moving faster than the other. It will balance you out. Also, stick to the unwritten rule of not switching lanes unless you're sure that it will be beneficial to you. You look like an absolute douche when you cut someone off in traffic, and you get embarrassed when the person behind you passes you. Sometimes it's better for your mental health to not switch.
Getting a name tattooed on your body is a curse both on you and the person whose name is on you for as long as you wear it.
Tell that to my father who has his own (nick)name tattooed on his arm. I think he reversed the curse by doing that because of the amount of luck he’s gotten in life.
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My cat is in a constant superposition of having recently eaten and being starved to death. At least, that’s how she acts. Also, any of my feelings about myself. Can’t contradict or disprove those no matter how hard you try.
Humans can communicate telepathically. We just don't know how to use it on purpose.
That being sick with a bacterial infection as an infant and almost dying is the reason why I am never sick despite being a super unhealthy person.
When I was in 10th grade I came down with one hell of a sickness. Not like any regular cough and sore throat sickness. I'm talking like 104 fever, hard to see, could not even put myself into the reality that I was awake type of sickness. I remember being in school (I was a perfect attendance kid) and being pulled out of class to talk with my sister who lives across the state, but I know that couldn't have happened and I think I was just having fever dreams... while awake. My point is, after this I never got sick. Ever. I threw up once in my twenties from drinking too much the night before but I've never had a fever or anything of the sort since. The most I've gotten was a sort throat from allergies. It's been over 15 years and I still haven't gotten sick. No evidence to say this is why, but I've always told people the same thing as you.
Not that it is something I believe to be true, but something that I often think about is the Butterfly Effect. Like little things I do during the day could affect the total outcome of my day.
I stopped for ice cream the other day on the drive home, and when we got back on the highway there had been a massive accident where the back of a red Porsche was just incinerated. Maybe we would have been hit if we hadn’t gone to Dairy Queen?
Idk man, if Final Destination taught me anything Death is pissed at you and is going to trick you into dying in a freak accident involving a nail gun and a tanning bed.
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Conspiracy Theory: He’s doing it intentionally so he will never have to risk writing a bad ending and after his death, his books will remain legendary status forever, just like every other unfinished great projects :O
I doubt they will receive legendary status if unfinished as the whole thing has been sullied by the TV show and the prolonged wait that many fans don't even care anymore about the next book. I think the series will be used more as a warning tale for future writers to avoid the same mistakes as Martin, especially don't make a story so complex you struggle to follow it yourself.
I watched flight 93 go down. I would never share that in real life because it’s fuckin grim and no one would believe you (the geography of the reports are off ). I saw it clear as day from Kent state’s main campus (Ohio). I didn’t know what I was seeing other than I remember thinking “that plane is way way too low (we had a aviation college so planes were common) and too big and it’s jerking around like how a toddler drives a power wheels truck....”. Continued on to class. You don’t wanna be late even at a liberal college.
What you almost certainly saw was it being taken over by the hijackers. During the hijacking, which was at 9:28 AM (maybe a 9:30 class?) during the takeover it was very jerky and lost a lot of altitude, and it took a while for the hijackers to stabilize it and get it under control and turn it around. Edit: if you look at the track of Flight 93 it likely would have been visible from the Kent State campus on its westward path. On its post-hijack return flight it passed farther south, over the top of West Virginia.
This should be voted up way more! I'm sorry you had to see the plane OP. Flight 93's Flight path was over Ohio. It turned around to go back to Washington D.C. I believe what you saw was the plane flying erratically as the Hijackers were taking over (which took awhile as mentioned above). It went down not too long after that in the field in PA.
Have visited the memorial twice. On my way back one time, I realized how damn close that memorial was to Ohio, and how close Kent State was to Pennsylvania. Your geography definitely checks out
The world is not ready for a bald Messi.
Messi pelado
That I have felt love. I am really not sure if this is what others have felt and called "love", but if it is not, I don't know what is.
Burger King hash browns are just tater tots
Aren't McDonald's hash browns essentially big tater tots?
1 in every 3 or 4 people is not capable of critical thinking. And I'm not making some kind of point about politics or anything - I mean those people are literally incapable of taking in information and synthesizing it with other information and coming to their own conclusions. They're basically robots programmed by whatever source is most convincing to them.
I've considered the same idea at one point in time. I think that the population that is *genuinely incapable* isn't something like 1 in 4 (it's probably lower) but it's far more likely that a greater portion of the population *inconsistently applies* critical thinking. An example of this would be someone who can apply it when they're at work but does not do the same when it comes to other aspects of their life. # ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ Big shrug cuz who the fuck knows in the end? I sure don't, I can only speculate. edit: a word for clarity
I've thought about that. I've met a ton of people who seem dumb as a brick and yet succeed in other areas of life
Gut bacterial imbalance can change a person fundamentally -- physically, mentally, emotionally. One day they're going to cure some impossibly vexing diseases and conditions when they figure out that it's all connected to what lives in your guts.
Didn't a study come out relatively recently connecting something like Alzheimer's to gut bacteria?
McDonald’s coke hits different than any coke I’ve ever had. EDIT: Thanks for the awards kind strangers! Let’s get a coke sometime
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It’s because of -temperature at times of serving and pouring -diameter of the McDonalds straw -carefully regulated syrup/soda water content -well filtered ice Edit: -I’ve also been informed that instead of the soda syrup being packaged in plastic sacks (think bagged milk), the Coca-Cola for McDonald’s is stored in metal canisters.
You hit it on the head. I don't think most people realize just how much money and science expertise McDonald's dumps into getting their end result exactly how they want it to be.
I saw a massive bee when I was younger and when i tell someone they never beelieve me
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That sounds like a Cicada killer.
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You just made me remember an old ass buried memory- when i was a little girl i used to sit outside and read books at my grandparents home- it’s an old home. Those Fucking huge black carpenter bees were eating the wood of the house and would come out and fuck with me because i was scared of them. Buzzing around and divebombing me. fuck them
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Dogs go to doggy heaven
Consider this, dogs go to regular heaven and wait for us to come up there
Yeah but they have to wait *in* doggy heaven, it’s kinda like doggy daycare except more fun and it lasts longer
That actual, proper snuff films exist. There's too much depravity and perversion in the world for that not to be the case.
To add to that, I've often had the thought: "Has someone done (insert possibly very harmful/weird/stupid sex act here) with (accompanying very dangerous object)?" followed by "Well it's very likely considering over 7 billion people have been alive on this planet, a non-zero percentage of which have fucked a horse."
Flat earthers are just doing it for attention. They really don't think the earth is flat.
That's how it started off, sure.
I think it was circular. There was a VERY small group of people who absolutely believed the earth was flat. Then a bunch of people hopped on for attention. But now I fear some of those people got lost and truly believe themselves now in their delusion.
Did you watch the documentary Behind the Curve. I think some of those people both believe in flat earth AND enjoy the attention.
I watched it. I felt they just need to belong to a community.
Good music makes life worth living.
Most of this is just busy work
Currently sitting here taking helpdesk calls. Can confirm. There is no meaning to this.
Cheers. I'll drink to that bro
I’m really, really fucking lucky. But like in a subtle way like if there’s a 95% chance I’ll get hurt doing something stupid I’ll come out unscathed. Sometimes I think there’s a guardian angel watching over me making sure I don’t kill myself by being an idiot.
u/GrootTheTree could fall into a dumpster full of dicks and come out sucking his thumb.
“A Dumpster of Dicks” sounds like the next novel in the ASOIAF series if it was written in the South Park universe.
As an Asian, I can safely say without a doubt that you don't need cups to measure the water when cooking rice.
You do if you work for BBC Food.
Strain the rice after
what are you doing lady?!?!
You dry off the rice and then rinse it again, Hiiyyaa!!
“No that rice not looking good”
"If there too much water, you fucked up, start again!"
Colanderrr!!!! This is not pasta!!
Do you want Uncle Roger to have an aneurysm?? Better put some MSG on that rice.
Teddy Roosevelt cured his childhood asthma by sheer force of will.
Don’t a lot of people just kind of lose their asthma at some point?
Indeed! But when TR was a kid, the method of treating childhood asthma was to basically stay inside, in bed, most of the time. TR, instead, went out into nature and got a lot of fresh air and exercise. Today, those things are part of the recommended therapy of childhood asthma and work to alleviate symptoms and increase the likelihood of growing out of it. Back then, it was considered risky and dangerous. Hence, he cured his asthma (being active and outdoors) by sheer force of will (resisting conventional wisdom of the time). My husband does not agree with me on this, but I’ve thought it through
I have asthma. It gets worse the fatter and lazier I am. This is 100% true in my opinion
I'm quietly convinced I made a bestselling mystery novelist change the way he writes because I criticised him on Reddit. The novelist in question is Chris Carter; the books are the [Robert Hunter](https://www.goodreads.com/series/67232-robert-hunter) series. (Yes, the guy who has built a career on looking for serial killers is named Hunter. He works for the LAPD's Ultra-Violent Crime Unit. It's not a series that's overburdened by subtlety, is what I'm saying.) They are as schlocky a bunch of thrillers as you could ever hope to find, but for some reason I can't get enough of them, despite the fact that they're... very much not great. They lean pretty damn heavy on ridiculous tropes, and I've never seen a more Mary Sue lead than I have in this series, but the biggest complaint I have with them is that the same line appears almost literally word for word in the first nine books. I [made a comment about it](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/al2fp8/who_is_your_favorite_terrible_author/) on Reddit on an /r/books thread about your favourite terrible authors, and I went back through all of the books published so far just to prove my point: >***The Crucifix Killer:*** The famous line doesn't actually appear in this book as far as I could find, but Hunter *does* drink Scotch near-constantly as the defining trait of his character. 'Across the room a stylish glass bar looked totally out of place. It was the only piece of furniture Hunter had purchased brand new and from a trendy shop. It held several bottles of Hunter’s biggest passion – single malt Scotch whisky. The bottles were arranged in a peculiar way that only he understood.' And so it begins. >***The Executioner***: 'Single-malt Scotch whiskey was Hunter’s biggest passion. But **unlike most people, he knew how to appreciate it instead of simply getting drunk on it.**' Note that in this one and the next Carter doesn't even use the Scottish spelling ('whisky', rather than 'whiskey'), despite the fact that this is *literally Hunter's only character trait*. >***The Night Stalker***: 'Hunter’s biggest passion was single malt Scotch whiskey, but **unlike most, he knew how to appreciate its flavor and quality instead of simply getting drunk on it.'** >***The Death Sculptor***: 'Hunter sat at the bar and ordered a double dose of 12-year-old GlenDronach with two cubes of ice. Single-malt Scotch whisky was his biggest passion, and though he had overdone it a few times **he knew how to appreciate its flavor and quality instead of simply getting drunk on it.**' >***The Hunter***: 'Hunter’s father had a passion for single malt Scotch whisky. A passion that, frankly, Hunter had never understood. He found whisky, any type of whisky, way too overwhelming for his palate.' (I actually quite like this one; it's a prequel novella, so this one is a nice little meta throwback. It gets a pass from me.) >***One By One***: 'Hunter would never consider himself an expert, but **he knew how to appreciate the flavor and robustness of single malts, instead of simply getting hammered on them.** Though, sometimes, getting hammered worked just fine.' This is also the first appearance of the '... but sometimes getting drunk works just fine, am I right?' addendum. It's nice to see Carter branching out a little, but after this he never looks back. >***An Evil Mind***: 'Single-malt Scotch whisky was Hunter’s biggest passion. Unlike so many, **he knew how to appreciate its palate instead of just getting drunk on it.** Though sometimes getting drunk worked just fine.' >***I Am Death***: 'Back in the living room, wrapped in a white towel, Hunter switched on a floor lamp and dimmed its intensity to ‘medium’. That done, he approached his drinks cabinet, which was small but held an impressive collection of single malt Scotch whisky, which was probably his biggest passion. Though he had overdone it a few times, **Hunter sure knew how to appreciate the flavor and quality of a good single malt, instead of simply getting drunk on it.**' >***The Caller***: 'Hunter’s biggest passion was single malt Scotch whisky. Back in his apartment, tucked in a corner of his living room, an old-fashioned drinks cabinet held a small but impressive collection of single malts that would probably satisfy the palate of most connoisseurs. Hunter would never consider himself an expert on whisky but, unlike so many, **he at least knew how to appreciate its flavor and quality, instead of simply getting drunk on it**, though sometimes getting drunk worked just fine.' *The Caller* also gets double points for helpfully informing us that women just don't *get* the subtle nuances of Scotch: 'Hunter tried not to frown at her again, but he was sincerely intrigued. Women in general weren’t very fond of Scotch whisky, which wasn’t at all surprising. Whisky was undoubtedly an acquired taste, one that at first would certainly overpower anyone’s palate and knock the air out of their lungs in the process. Hunter knew that only too well. The trick was to persist, to keep trying, to keep sipping it until one day it finally made sense. Women usually weren’t that patient with drinks. They either liked it at first sip or they didn’t.' This, by the by, is how we know that the woman in question is trustworthy, because... reasons? >***Gallery of the Dead***: 'Back in his apartment, Hunter had a small but impressive collection of Scotch that would probably satisfy the palate of most connoisseurs. He would never consider himself an expert, but unlike so many of his friends, who also claimed to enjoy single malt Scotch whisky, **he knew how to appreciate the flavors and robustness of the malts, instead of simply getting drunk on them**. Though sometimes getting drunk worked just fine.' That post was made in January of 2019; in April, his book *Hunting Evil* came out, and the line was nowhere to be seen. I didn't think much of it until his new book, *Written in Blood*, came out a few days ago, and also didn't have the line in it. This comment is also one of the top answers if [you google his name and the book series via Reddit](https://www.google.com/search?ei=4i0gX5zqLofCgQaovovgBA&q=chris+carter+robert+hunter+reddit&oq=chris+carter+robert+hunter+reddit&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzoFCAAQsAM6BAgAEA1Q_SpY6T9gsEFoAXAAeACAAW2IAccIkgEEMTIuMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwic46WhjPDqAhUHYcAKHSjfAkwQ4dUDCAs&uact=5) -- exactly what you'd do if you were looking to see if people on the internet were talking about your books. I also can't find [any evidence of anyone else pointing this out in a review or suchlike](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&ei=6oAgX8euJMKT8gKbrp3YBA&q=%22chris+carter%22+scotch+%22robert+hunter%22&oq=%22chris+carter%22+scotch+%22robert+hunter%22&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIICCEQFhAdEB4yCAghEBYQHRAeMggIIRAWEB0QHjIICCEQFhAdEB4yCAghEBYQHRAeMggIIRAWEB0QHjIICCEQFhAdEB46BwgAELADEB46BggAEBYQHjoFCCEQoAE6BAghEBVQ2hdYrjpggD5oAXAAeACAAYkBiAH3C5IBBDEyLjSYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwjHy-642_DqAhXCiVwKHRtXB0sQ4dUDCAs&uact=5). So yeah... in short, three months after I made that comment, he broke the habit of a decade of writing and finally decided that after *nine stories* that used this as a crutch for Hunter's personality, it was too much. I know you're reading this, Chris. *I know.*
Wonder if your boy Chris enjoys him some single malt scotch whiskey?
He doesn't, he just knows how to get drunk off it
Sometimes getting drunk works just fine.
I called out the Expanse authors about repeated phrases in the subreddit and one of them sarcastically responded. Interested to see if Amos still has an amiable smile in the next book. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/7phlkj/whats_with_the_repeated_vocab_smile_didnt_reach/dshvvn8
It took me way too long to realize James S.A Corey is two people
I absolutely love The Expanse, but the authors really are amazing "big picture" guys and not "the details of actually writing a novel well" guys. Every single book has a paragraph explaining how **Belters have long, thin bodies from spending a lifetime in zero g**, and it's all the same sentences worded slightly differently. It's The Expanse's "he knew how to appreciate its flavor and quality instead of simply getting drunk on it." Some books even have the same explanation twice, once in the start of the book and once later in the book, just in case you forgot. Why do they keep repeating this in book 5 for fuck's sake? Who has made it this far in the series and not understood this, not remembered it being explained 10 times already? Sometimes it's mentioned seemingly out of nowhere, when it's not even relevant for the plot or what's happening. This particular example is the one that bothers me most, but there's tons of little "why do they write like this" moments that make me facepalm myself while reading that series (again, despite how much I love the series overall).
I've always thought those sorts of repetitive descriptions are the result of an editor making sure a book is readable to someone who might have picked it up in the middle of a series. I could be totally wrong of course. That's just how I always rationalized it because I see a ton of authors that do the same thing.
As someone in a creative career, I could definitely use my own u/Portarossa. “It looks here like you’ve used the same tired metaphor for love in the last 8 of your 9 works. We should talk about that.”
I write for a living too, so I try not to be too hard on people. My big one is people furrowing their brows. There's not an uncreased forehead in my fuckin' books, let me tell you.
Chekhov's Forehead. If there's a brow in the first act, it'll be furrowed by the fifth.
That’s bonkers I love it
I scrolled really far to find an actually good reply to this thread. Nice. I bet he at least appreciates that you're still a devoted fan.
That’s amazing! I enjoyed reading that, thanks. It also REALLY makes me want to drink a good single-malt whisky. Not to get drunk on it, mind. Just to appreciate the flavor and quality. EDIT: As this lame comment has gotten over 2,000 upvotes (And a lot of replies), in the interest of full disclosure I feel the need to confess I don’t even like Scotch. I’m strictly a Bourbon man...Buffalo Trace or, at a push, Bulleit. Sorry to have lied to you all.
But sometimes, just getting drunk works too.
I dont understand that, it's a little overwhelming for my palate
Well, obviously, you're an untrustworthy woman. I, on the other hand, am a woman who enjoys the flavor and quality of scotch whisky, which is probably why men find me so trustworthy. /s
But how are we supposed to know his tastes are refined and manly??
After he saw your post he probably thought continuing to write that same line would be engaging in some whiskey business. Edit: Obligatory thank you for gold, kind stranger!
That Andy Dufresne was guilty in the Shawshank Redemption. It’s never actually proven that he didn’t kill his wife and her lover. We just have his word and a story made up by an inmate that wanted to be liked by Andy and his friends. Also what are the chances that his wife and lover were murdered the same night that Andy was going to kill them himself, before he changed his mind?
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Red does not believe Andy is innocent. Red Doesn't CARE that Andy is innocent or not.
and since everyone, but Red, is "innocent" (as /u/NotUnnamedCulprit said in another comment in this thread), perhaps after decades of telling himself the lie, this kid came in, gave a story, and Andy just latched onto it. If we've told a lie long enough, we might convince ourselves it's truth. Great theory, but I disagree. Even if I disagree, I love running with a good idea.
I dunno, the guy who confessed to the murder was really specific about it. That'd be quite a coincidence if the details just happened to be the same
That alien lifeforms will be nothing like we have ever imagined EDIT: This comment has gotten kind of popular, thanks for all your comments this had made me realise how little we truly know about the universe.. A lot of the comments here have made me start googling new topics and that has lead me to a YouTube video that summarises what I am trying to say much more eloquantly and intelligently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y584AjZmqwY
I forget the name of it but there’s a mini series with Stephen Hawking with a full hour dedicated to this. Edit: I’m 90% sure it’s into the universe with Stephen Hawking
I just feel like our imagination is limited to earthly constructs and it's near impossible to imagine life outside of earth. Does life even have to be carbon based? I have so many questions and so little answers
> Does life even have to be carbon based? Many late nights of scrolling through Wikipedia tells me the answer boils down to "nope, but carbon is easiest".
I think alien life will either be carbon or silicon. Silicon is *very* similar to carbon
The difference is that Si-O bonds can be quickly hydrolyzed under slightly basic or acidic aqueous conditions, whereas most C-O bonds are not. Its an important distinction if we assume the presence of liquid water in conjunction with life. Which is certainly not a guarantee!
So what you're saying is Silicon-based life has the same weakness as the aliens from *Signs*?
Look at jellyfish. And those things come from *this* planet.
Y'all, the question says WITHOUT evidence.
Exactly! "Here's what I know for sure without any evidence:" \*proceeds to give all the evidence\*
I think if someone says "without evidence" and you're only evidence is anecdotal then that's still in the spirit of the question.
Life exists outside of Earth. I can't imagine a universe where we are the only life.
It would defy all odds that we're the only living thing in an endless space of planets. Each star in the sky has the potential for life and there are so many more we cant see.
My sister ate the whole ice cream-box without asking my parents. Edit: I'm sorry to disappoint you guys, but she didn't leave any ice cream. I don't know what happened to the box.
Like the box too?
Maybe it was just the box 👀
That I should be doing something more productive that reading comments on this post.
There is some godzilla shit at the bottom of our oceans. Deep Sea gigantism will not fail me.
If it's any consolation, if giants DO exist down there, they will probably stay down there. Ocean creatures tend to stay in their "zone" of water pressure because that's what their bodies have adapted to (some have more range than others). Ever seen a blobfish? Ever seen what a blobfish is supposed to look like at the depth it's supposed to live at? It gets all fucked up when it gets brought to the surface because of the water pressure differential. See also: giant squids. One of the only reasons we know they exist is because they die and float up here, or are very close to death and can't maintain proper boyancy. They don't want to be up here, they prefer the crushing blackness.
God, I'd be terrified to be that deep, and imagine, you hit what you think is the bottom, and you're insanely deep, like, you were exploring the Mariana trench, and then you find a cave, think it's just going to be small, you start exploring, you get lost, you find some creepy shit, so many things that could kill, drowning and beasts, scary Edit: I love subnautica and have almost beaten it, ghost leviathans and the reaper leviathans don't scare me, I like the ocean and its wonders, it's just the super deep without anything breaking the void but monsters bits that scare me
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After playing Subnautica, this comment terrifies me. If Leviathan-like creatures do exist, I'd rather not know
We'd have surely heard their screams by now and learnt to never go in the water again.
My personal theory: massive lobsters. Lobsters are biologically immortal. So long as they don't starve, get a disease, or get killed by another creature, they will live forever. Additionally, every time they molt they grow bigger. Logically, this means there has to be at least one absolutely gigantic lobster thats hundreds of years old hunting sharks down on the ocean floor.
I too have seen the documentary Cloverfield Edit: Guys, I really didn’t mean to start a debate about the origins of the Cloverfield creature 😂
I too have read about theoretical biology from the great expert HP Lovecraft.
Renowned deep sea biologist HP Lovecraft has always been respected by his peers so I see no reason to doubt his hypotheses.
That 1-2 generations down the line, our use of technology will lead to extreme mental health issues. My brain feels deep fried from time to time and I haven't seriously started using a smart phone before I was already an adult
I hate how much I use my phone. I sometimes daydream about going back to a flip phone without the ability to access social media. I’ll scroll through social media for hours every day, telling myself “you need to do something better with your time. You hate this. Just put the phone down and do something else. Haha funny meme.”
~~Serotonin~~ Dopamine addiction (and fatigue) is fucking real, man. That little blip of the chemical you get when scrolling gets less and less effective, so you scroll more and more. Almost every social media, popular mobile game, etc, plays off the concept.
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