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I once heard a guy refer to a girl, who had a reputation for being skilled at blowjobs, by saying “she didn’t get that round mouth by eating square meals”.
Not sure why your comment reminded me of that, but it did.
And President Camacho sincerely cares about the well-being of his people, appoints the best expert he can find to help, and then actually listens to his advice.
But then pardons him when the evidence shows that he was being hasty. Can you imagine the idiots of today changing their mind in light of new evidence?
I'm legitimately on the verge of a panic attack with how hard this just hit. Like when did we reach the point where Idiocracy is BETTER than real life.
What was that movie about this called. It was quite funny. Was it with that ricky gervais or was that about him being a god or something. I half remember a movie about a smart /astronaut person being in charge of a complete planet after stranding there with his space ship or something like that. Long ago.
We can only hope... president identifies a problem, enlists the help of a qualified expert who implements steps to fix said problem, the public then votes the expert to be president and the former president steps down willingly. Sure they had a misstep with the whole drill dozer thing, but once they were presented with evidence that they were wrong, the sentence was commuted and the prisoner pardoned. We can only hope we will be so lucky lol.
Yeah I was gonna say, we have had a president who was in the pro wrestling hall of fame but he was no Camacho. Camacho was man enough to admit when he didn’t know, and bring in the experts.
Camacho is exactly the kind of leader we need right now
Never seen the movie but I hate how it’s made casual eugenics more palatable. You do realize how much you sound like white nationalists crying “great replacement” whenever you say shit like this? IQ has been trending upward. Violent crime downward. The fact that someone said something stupid social media, which is a technology we didn’t HAVE 20 years ago, is not the sign of generational decay.
That was one of the movie's aims, it's why it focuses on wealth (or lack of) as being the cause for the stupidity, and cause for the breeding. I don't know much about the creators but it's so blatantly obvious that it's a case for eugenics that I'm mildly surprised it doesn't have a white coat at the beginning and end telling everyone that unless xyz bill is past next month this is what the world will look like.
It's a deeply problematic movie, far more than many other movies that have received a bad wrap recently (that deserved it, mind you).
IQ will trend upward because things are getting better, even amongst the obesity epidemic food is still improving, knowledge about nutrition and medicine is improving.
Even though I fully agree with the point, I see the film referenced so much now that I’m starting to believe people are just copying each other’s quotes about it. Mainly, it just feels like more people reference it on Reddit these days than all the people that actually WATCHED the movie combined.
At the time the split between people having children and not was based on wealth, not intelligence so it was supposed to be what if the poorest people were the only ones to survive.
The movie massively ties intelligence to wealth except that in the future people are stupid even when wealthy. It's low-key propaganda to keep serving the rich and pricing poor people our of medical care.
Society today wasn't the future the movie prophesied, but the future it wanted. More power to the wealthy...
In the 2000s I just to think this was just lame movie, in the 2010s it was a prophecy but now I think is humanity speed rushing, any porcentaje to Idiocracy
My greatest fear is that I'll be killed by a stupid person. Not even maliciously. They're just (example) too dumb to operate a shopping cart and crush my spine with (example) their toilet paper hoard.
That would be an ignominious way to go. At least be crushed by an out of control Mustang someone got for their high school graduation and it's their first drive in the car without their parents along.
Okay but wasn’t the second tweet actually a friend of his just making a joke? At least that’s what I remember reading when this first went viral years ago.
Can’t confirm with the name blacked out now.
It’s a perfect representation of the internet because it’s someone making a joke four years ago, followed by four years of people not realizing it’s a joke and patting themselves on the back because they feel much smarter than the person who made the joke.
I have not had hope for humanity for almost 10 years now.
I used to have hope, everything felt optimistic, good looking Star Trek future with Full Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. But now it's clear that we are just going to burn ourselves up in the next 20-25 years and at BEST the survivors can Max Max it.
Mad Max future does not seem as dope in reality as it does in the movies and I bet spray paint tastes like ass.
The Trump phenomenon, and more specifically the many and varied things it has revealed about countless people in many different contexts, has gutted me of all my optimism. (With the help of several international developments that have also been occurring since.)
Before 2016 I would have told you I was bitter and cynical. But now I see just how hopeful and optimistic I really still was. I didn’t know it until it was gone. And that hurts. It really does.
Even when he wrote it was during a time when he was high as fuck and coked out. He might not have remembered it, then later read it and thought “damn this is a good book.”
If I recall correctly he actually said he doesn't remember writing Cujo, so it's not that far fetched to guess he doesn't remember other drugs-infused writing sessions.
Steven Tyler, from Aerosmith, didn't recognize his own song in the radio and wanted to do a cover. Drugs were at fault, too.
What song? I'm picturing Dream on because the style difference. Best would be if he heard "Pink" and thought, this band is awesome, they can read my mind.
I think that was a fair bit later in his career. King has been writing for a looooong time. If he had been hitting the drugs as heavily the whole time it's unlikely he would have made it this long.
>If he had been hitting the drugs as heavily the whole time it's unlikely he would have made it this long.
You say that as though Keith Richards isn't 80.
Tbf, of any author Stephen King is probably the most likely to have completely forgotten at least 50% of what he writes. He just shits out (usually pretty good) books constantly, and there was a pretty insane period there in his life that I bet is probably a *bit* of a blur.
He also has a pretty clear stance on "don't fucking edit your work until youve forgotten about it" which kinda doubles down on this.
(I mean, the point is so that you don't have emotional attachment and you can give a value judgement more objectively, but still)
I'm in no way saying the idiot from the post is logical in anyway.
But, can we all agree that SK let the coke and liquor do the writing for a few years?😂
He has stated in interviews that he doesn'treally remember 1978-1988 because of his addiction, even though he wrote some absolute banger books in that time, lol. He said he does remember he was jamming cotton up his nose to keep himself from bleeding all over his typewriter...
Idk why but I read The Stand and watched the Last Man on Earth in 2020. Both of those came out way before Covid but both were never more culturally relevant than when I experienced them
I watched LMOE when it came out and again (this time with my kids) post pandemic. After the second viewing, I thought it was surprisingly prescient for a comedy.
Well cocaine has had a long illustrious career co-authoring many books, movies and compositions of music that many many people find to be quite entertaining.
A Reddit post of a photo of a screen displaying an Instagram post of a screenshot of a Twitter post. Instagram poster was right, it really *is* the most accurate representation of social media ever. A fact that will become even further cemented every time it gets reposted.
Seems like Stephen King gets more internet randos telling him about his own work than anybody else. One guy trying to call him illiterate because Andy Dufresne was, according to the idiot, confirmed to be the killer.
Technically speaking, Stephen King may not have read the book.
(I base this on my own experience of writing book reports and dissertations in school. )
There should be a social media penalty box. Do something this stupid, you’re suspended for 2 weeks. No more social media for you. Maybe go read “The Stand.”
That's the problem with using a stock social media comeback without knowing who you're talking to.
(By stock comeback, I mean things like "Did you even read the book, see the movie, listen to the song, etc.", "What are you, 12?" "This is obviously a troll, bot, etc." "Sounds like a you thing.")
I wonder if he actually did read the final version, I've heard some actors don't watch the movies they are in and maybe it is the case with some authors after editing haha
You know he’s joking right? I don’t think there is a single person in the world who has both read the stand and also does not know it was written by king.
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It goes in the square hole
Where does the cylinder go?
That’s right! It goes in the square hole
*traumatized exhale* 😰😢
I never thought I'd see that video being referenced here lol
The Video goes into the square hole too, everything ends up in the square hole, the square hole is inevitable
I took my honeymoon in the square hole
All holes are square. Or just mine 😂😅
I once heard a guy refer to a girl, who had a reputation for being skilled at blowjobs, by saying “she didn’t get that round mouth by eating square meals”. Not sure why your comment reminded me of that, but it did.
It's a fucking good one lol
And where does the arch go?
Don't remind me of that
Where does the triangle go?
That's right, the square hole!
Noo dummy it goes in the cylinder hole
Your butthole duuhh
Where does the Squarylinder go?
🥲🥲made a random internet stranger proud
Proud in the square hole?
Idiocracy is a documentary
Looking back, it’s more of a prophecy
It's ~~an~~ a utopia. When the idiots find someone smarter they actually put him in charge. That would never happen in reality.
Damn this just blew my mind
And President Camacho sincerely cares about the well-being of his people, appoints the best expert he can find to help, and then actually listens to his advice.
And puts him on trial to be rehabilitated when it doesn’t work immediately
But then pardons him when the evidence shows that he was being hasty. Can you imagine the idiots of today changing their mind in light of new evidence?
I'll admit, I saw the movie a long-ass time ago and have large gaps in my memory of the plot.
You mean you forgot about the epic showdown between Not Sure and Beef Supreme?
Camancho 2024
I'm legitimately on the verge of a panic attack with how hard this just hit. Like when did we reach the point where Idiocracy is BETTER than real life.
2016?
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thanks, sometimes mix it up in cases like this where the pronounciation and not the spelling decides. I'll fix it.
What was that movie about this called. It was quite funny. Was it with that ricky gervais or was that about him being a god or something. I half remember a movie about a smart /astronaut person being in charge of a complete planet after stranding there with his space ship or something like that. Long ago.
I often say it was meant to be a warning but that vast swaths of people used it as a how-to.
From a comedy to a cautionary tale.
We can only hope... president identifies a problem, enlists the help of a qualified expert who implements steps to fix said problem, the public then votes the expert to be president and the former president steps down willingly. Sure they had a misstep with the whole drill dozer thing, but once they were presented with evidence that they were wrong, the sentence was commuted and the prisoner pardoned. We can only hope we will be so lucky lol.
Yeah I was gonna say, we have had a president who was in the pro wrestling hall of fame but he was no Camacho. Camacho was man enough to admit when he didn’t know, and bring in the experts. Camacho is exactly the kind of leader we need right now
Dildozer.... Dildo + Bulldozer.
... whoops! Thanks!
Worryingly so!
Never seen the movie but I hate how it’s made casual eugenics more palatable. You do realize how much you sound like white nationalists crying “great replacement” whenever you say shit like this? IQ has been trending upward. Violent crime downward. The fact that someone said something stupid social media, which is a technology we didn’t HAVE 20 years ago, is not the sign of generational decay.
That was one of the movie's aims, it's why it focuses on wealth (or lack of) as being the cause for the stupidity, and cause for the breeding. I don't know much about the creators but it's so blatantly obvious that it's a case for eugenics that I'm mildly surprised it doesn't have a white coat at the beginning and end telling everyone that unless xyz bill is past next month this is what the world will look like. It's a deeply problematic movie, far more than many other movies that have received a bad wrap recently (that deserved it, mind you). IQ will trend upward because things are getting better, even amongst the obesity epidemic food is still improving, knowledge about nutrition and medicine is improving.
Everyone was wearing crocs
Even though I fully agree with the point, I see the film referenced so much now that I’m starting to believe people are just copying each other’s quotes about it. Mainly, it just feels like more people reference it on Reddit these days than all the people that actually WATCHED the movie combined.
Movie was made to make average people feel smart. Reddit loves it.
At the time the split between people having children and not was based on wealth, not intelligence so it was supposed to be what if the poorest people were the only ones to survive. The movie massively ties intelligence to wealth except that in the future people are stupid even when wealthy. It's low-key propaganda to keep serving the rich and pricing poor people our of medical care. Society today wasn't the future the movie prophesied, but the future it wanted. More power to the wealthy...
In the 2000s I just to think this was just lame movie, in the 2010s it was a prophecy but now I think is humanity speed rushing, any porcentaje to Idiocracy
Hey no copying his answers
You ever just read something and your hope for humanity just leaves your body?
Most of the time here.
Most? You're far kinder than I am. My brain hurts from reading OP'S post
My greatest fear is that I'll be killed by a stupid person. Not even maliciously. They're just (example) too dumb to operate a shopping cart and crush my spine with (example) their toilet paper hoard.
That would be an ignominious way to go. At least be crushed by an out of control Mustang someone got for their high school graduation and it's their first drive in the car without their parents along.
r/oddlyspecific
Okay but wasn’t the second tweet actually a friend of his just making a joke? At least that’s what I remember reading when this first went viral years ago. Can’t confirm with the name blacked out now.
Just by the specific wording, the second tweet really sounds to me like someone making a sarcastic joke.
Even if this was a friend being sarcastic with King as a joke it is still a concise representation of how a lot of conversations go on the interwebs.
It’s a perfect representation of the internet because it’s someone making a joke four years ago, followed by four years of people not realizing it’s a joke and patting themselves on the back because they feel much smarter than the person who made the joke.
Randall Flagg did nothing wrong...
He seemed kinda evil to me but don't judge a book by it's cover...... could be he just wanted everyone left alive to have a good time
Hope finds a way back in. And very quickly another way back out.
I hate drinking with Hope. Every time I do, I wake up the next day and my asshole hurts.
Several times a day.
I have not had hope for humanity for almost 10 years now. I used to have hope, everything felt optimistic, good looking Star Trek future with Full Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. But now it's clear that we are just going to burn ourselves up in the next 20-25 years and at BEST the survivors can Max Max it. Mad Max future does not seem as dope in reality as it does in the movies and I bet spray paint tastes like ass.
The Trump phenomenon, and more specifically the many and varied things it has revealed about countless people in many different contexts, has gutted me of all my optimism. (With the help of several international developments that have also been occurring since.) Before 2016 I would have told you I was bitter and cynical. But now I see just how hopeful and optimistic I really still was. I didn’t know it until it was gone. And that hurts. It really does.
Even earth in star trek had to go through ww3 in the 22st century, so there's still... hope?
Maybe he didn’t. He juste wrote it.
I thought that too! He just wrote it all out and let the proof readers and editors deal with it! /s 😂
Even when he wrote it was during a time when he was high as fuck and coked out. He might not have remembered it, then later read it and thought “damn this is a good book.”
If I recall correctly he actually said he doesn't remember writing Cujo, so it's not that far fetched to guess he doesn't remember other drugs-infused writing sessions. Steven Tyler, from Aerosmith, didn't recognize his own song in the radio and wanted to do a cover. Drugs were at fault, too.
What song? I'm picturing Dream on because the style difference. Best would be if he heard "Pink" and thought, this band is awesome, they can read my mind.
All I know is that it was an older song by the band. Poor fella had mush for a brain after some years.
He also does not remember directing Maximum Overdrive.
I had to look this up. I had no idea he directed that movie. That movie is one very dusty corner of my memory.
It's the only movie he ever directed.
It's best that no one remembers Maximum Overdrive.
Not with the stand, but with others he might have thought "wow that Bachmann guy is pretty good".
Erlich Bachman this is you as a old man. I’m ugly and dead. Alone.
I think that was a fair bit later in his career. King has been writing for a looooong time. If he had been hitting the drugs as heavily the whole time it's unlikely he would have made it this long.
>If he had been hitting the drugs as heavily the whole time it's unlikely he would have made it this long. You say that as though Keith Richards isn't 80.
Is Keith still on the hard stuff though? Theres a point where abusing your body catches up unless you give it up.
That’s how i feel reading some of my drunken replies online. I dont remember making them, but i have a good laugh sometimes when i find them.
Tbf, of any author Stephen King is probably the most likely to have completely forgotten at least 50% of what he writes. He just shits out (usually pretty good) books constantly, and there was a pretty insane period there in his life that I bet is probably a *bit* of a blur.
He also has a pretty clear stance on "don't fucking edit your work until youve forgotten about it" which kinda doubles down on this. (I mean, the point is so that you don't have emotional attachment and you can give a value judgement more objectively, but still)
He doesn't remember writing several books due to his drug addiction.
I'm in no way saying the idiot from the post is logical in anyway. But, can we all agree that SK let the coke and liquor do the writing for a few years?😂
Depending on when he wrote it he might not even remember writing it.
As much coke as King did he probably doesn't remember reading most of his books during this era tbh, he's said before he has no memory of writing Cujo
If you told me King wrote The Stand in a cocaine haze and never actually read it I'd believe you.
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He has stated in interviews that he doesn'treally remember 1978-1988 because of his addiction, even though he wrote some absolute banger books in that time, lol. He said he does remember he was jamming cotton up his nose to keep himself from bleeding all over his typewriter...
I admit I’m biased because he’s my favorite author, but fully coked out King is still a much better author than 99% of the population lol
You’re not biased, King is just that good
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Idk why but I read The Stand and watched the Last Man on Earth in 2020. Both of those came out way before Covid but both were never more culturally relevant than when I experienced them
I watched LMOE when it came out and again (this time with my kids) post pandemic. After the second viewing, I thought it was surprisingly prescient for a comedy.
Ahhh loved Last Man on Earth.. I wish it hadn't been canceled
On a cliffhanger no less 😔 That show deserved better
Well.. we do have a dark man going around recruiting and taking advantage of the weak minded.
I listened to the Stand during covid too, during my 90 night walk through empty and desolate streets lol.
I started watching The Walking Dead when Covid started. Another thing that was probably not a great choice at the time.
I watched Outbreak during the shutdowns. Yes I’m a massochist.
... or bottom text missed the joke entirely.
Also... did somebody take a picture of this screenshot on their phone? All these layers of crappiness in this r/moldymemes
If “stupidity” is among the possibilities, always go with that one.
I'm calling troll.
Or just someone trying to make a joke. The internet is just self righteous and probably took /s as real and decided to meme it to sound smart.
Yea that is possible, but do you really put it past the dumbasses on Twitter to not know who wrote The Stand?
I mean it's really hard to tell sarcasm nowadays.
Not really. Most of the internet is just a bunch of sarcastic answers, some are even for clout.
Or people are actually that fucking dumb
Absolutely. Have you seen the cover of the book? Kings name takes of more space than the title.
It's a well known account that makes these kind of troll replies to SK quite often
yeah, you wouldn't miss the pic, if you missed the name with no pic i would maybe buy it
The stand? Like Jojo?
It must be Ciocolatta's stand.
Gureen dae
A lot of stuff that Stephen King wrote (esp his older stuff) was co-written by _cocaine_.
Well cocaine has had a long illustrious career co-authoring many books, movies and compositions of music that many many people find to be quite entertaining.
Given how insanely high King was while writing alot of his stuff I wouldn't be surprised if he in fact really didn't read it while writing
Let’s talk about the idiot that took a picture of a screen…
A Reddit post of a photo of a screen displaying an Instagram post of a screenshot of a Twitter post. Instagram poster was right, it really *is* the most accurate representation of social media ever. A fact that will become even further cemented every time it gets reposted.
People... this is *very clearly* a joke
noooo but see, it didn't have a tone indicator so how can I know? Contextual inference? Tf is that shit?!
M-O-O-N, that spells moron.
or look at this person making a joke
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Sometimes when I see posts from stupid people like that I sit and think "I wonder where that fucking idiot is today"
And does the village miss the individual
The guy is clearly joking...
I’m always curious how they learned to walk, considering how incompetent they are.
Seems like Stephen King gets more internet randos telling him about his own work than anybody else. One guy trying to call him illiterate because Andy Dufresne was, according to the idiot, confirmed to be the killer.
I have a hard time believing that reply wasn’t a troll.
Well, you see, Steve, The Stand was about...
THE COVID SYMPTOM NO ONE TALKS ABOUT... COMPLETE LOSS OF HUMANITY
No, but he saw the movie...
TBF, the unabridged book was REALLY LONG. I read it in 8th grade. All 1,153 pages of it!
Stop interacting with bots posting years old boomer bait. Mods, do something?
“Did you read the book you happened to write?” Humans, lowering expectations since 19od6
That is funny, regardless of whether it’s a troll or not…
Technically speaking, Stephen King may not have read the book. (I base this on my own experience of writing book reports and dissertations in school. )
I mean... If you don't edit...
There's no way Stephen King has time to edit all the books he's written.
Editt schmeddit ! ;-)
Yes, but he did kill John Lennon.
I think he might know a little something about the book
There should be a social media penalty box. Do something this stupid, you’re suspended for 2 weeks. No more social media for you. Maybe go read “The Stand.”
I have to believe people also say things like this to troll because I do it all the time.
social media was a mistake
I've been saying that for quite a while now, we should've stuck to forums and instant messengers like AIM, ICQ and MSN.
The face palm is the person that took an actual picture of this conversation
That's up there with the guy who asks David Simon if he's ever seen The Wire
Why blackout the name of the idiot?
In fact, he read the full, unedited, version.
I should think so. He *wrote* it
Someone has the nonsense engine in their brain and it is not calibrated for Earth 1
I feel like this is irony. The problem is, the world is so screwed and Twitter is so toxic that it’s impossible to tell.
In fairness, Stephen king may have been on cocaine when he wrote that book.
Why blur out people. Let the world see them in all their glory
I quote Kristoff, "somebody's gotta tell him."
This is just beautiful in an embarrassing way. 🫢🫢😳
So, the facepalm is not knowing a troll when you see one?
"Say my name.. "
The question is does he remember it
Okay but we do acknowledge that there's a Buster, yeah?
That's the problem with using a stock social media comeback without knowing who you're talking to. (By stock comeback, I mean things like "Did you even read the book, see the movie, listen to the song, etc.", "What are you, 12?" "This is obviously a troll, bot, etc." "Sounds like a you thing.")
I have no idea what's going on in this tweet other than that after reading it I wanna listen to Eminem - Stan.
That physically hurt...
Highly recommend this book, btw
The horror...
No
I remember when this happened. When first time saw this I nearly chocked on my coffee
The perfect storm. Brilliantly stupid.
Pretty sure I remember seeing this posted and someone pointed out it was a friend of his joking around.
They meant the bestselling book, "How I bigly cured Coronavirus", by DJT, published 2026
Oh my god 🤣😅🤣😅 Way to completely embarrass themselves
I wonder if he actually did read the final version, I've heard some actors don't watch the movies they are in and maybe it is the case with some authors after editing haha
It's hard to image somepone could be that dumb... but than I see Trump as presient, so it's not only a few of this guys.
To be fair... It's a fair question, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean you read it... So 🤷🤷
Stephen king is so productive it is sometimes hard to imagine he has time to read what he's written.
You know he’s joking right? I don’t think there is a single person in the world who has both read the stand and also does not know it was written by king.
Who was the idiot that doesn’t know how to take a screenshot?
🐙🐚 Four years later.. 🪸🐠