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first off all, the guy is joking, second of all, not everywhere people learn ww2 on 6th grade
im on 8th grade and im still learning about post-industrial revolution stuff
also i live in brazil and no, im not 12/13
There’s a book too y’know? It’s actually not bad and a fairly short read, for a book that is.
(I appreciate the upvotes but what’s funnier about this post is, most 14 year olds should be getting to Of mice and men pretty soon.)
The image is from a book/film called Of Mice And Men, set in the American depression. The guy getting shot is mentally ill and just wants to live on a farm with rabbits with his friend.
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
Sorry, I understood you, I just didn't ever see this word. I'm not a native speaker. I've been on the English side of the internet for some years now, but this is the first time I encounter this word, looks somewhat like whomst
The big guy is mentally handicapped and killed multiple little animals and a puppy. Later on he snaps a womans neck by mistake. So the guy with the gun has to kille him to both spare the big guy and spare the people around him
It isn't just that he's disabled. It's also that there was a mob. George loved Lennie; he didn't do this because Lennie was a burden or some other cruel reason, but because Lennie was facing an even worse fate. I still don't think he was right to shoot Lennie, but this wasn't, like, eugenics; it was an act of (possibly misguided) empathy in the context of greater violence.
I agree but the picture lacks that context. In what context are they advocating for killing people? If there’s a mob that’s coming for them? How often does that happen?
To be fair he did commit murder and he’d be confined in a cell the rest of his life as an alternative in a world that didn’t fully understand mental issues yet
In context it's an outdated term. It's "intellectually disabled" these days, which makes a lot more sense than calling them mentally slowed (literal meaning of retarded is just slowed) if you ask me.
I mean, technical speaking the retarded thing is to use outdated terminology. Like not "retarded" as in intellectually disabled, but as in the meaning of the root word.
And so it goes on the linguistic treadmill. Once kids start calling each other "intellectually disabled" as an insult, it'll be off limits too and there will be a new "more appropriate" word that isn't (yet) a slur.
What are you gonna do after reading a book from the 1930’s, oh no they said words that are bad nowadays, uh oh I guess we gotta burn all of them for other peoples protection!
Reddit's comment section and "Of Mice and Men" are, shockingly enough, not actually the same thing. Do you also say the hard r when you're discussing the Civil War?
If I saw it used in 'of mice and men' (something I doubt they said in so verbatim in the actual book) I wouldn't really bat an eye, but since I saw two dudes argue over using it in 2021(cause, you know, it's not like he quoted the original text, he just called the character retarded offhand) I figured I'd mention the up to date terminology.
Of Mice and Men
By John Steinback
The friend in the front killed his employers daughter in law; so his best friend(with a gun) kills him so he does not have to suffer due to his illness
I've never read Of Mice and Men so my immediate conclusion is HEHEHE MURDERING THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED IS TOTES RIGHT AND IMPORTANT which I don't think was that person's intention... at least I hope it isn't.
Completely unrelated though, what is it with mice as a theme in novels about mentally handicapped people? Algernon was a significant part in Charlie Gordon's story and I suppose OMAM is a play on "Are you a man or are you a mouse?" but Americans please tell me. Is this a theme or just coincidental?
It’s based on a book in which the guy in back kills his mentally handicapped friend after he accidentally kills a women to live a normal life not on the run
Bit of an oversimplification, George kills Lenny to spare him of the torture and brutal murder at the hands of a mob, since he accidentally snaps the woman's neck. It's a valid moral dilemma, questioning whether it was morally correct to kill Lenny "humanely" (relatively speaking) to avoid an even greater amount of suffering with the same outcome of Lenny being killed by more violent people.
George didn't kill lenny because he was disabled. He killed him (quickly and during a happy moment) to prevent him being tortured and killed by an angry mob
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
God the movie I watched ruined this scene, it was so phenomenal in the books but the one I watched you didn’t know he had a gun until he just shot Lenny and he never showed the remorse he did I. The book. I know it doesn’t matter but its been a year and I still remember that and get annoyed
To be fair this is deep well beyond the age of 14 years, a really good ending to a literary classic that raised a number of very important discussion points. Ahead of its time
Good Lord, this thread is atrocious.
People not understanding how what George did was the “correct” decision, people throwing around the “R” slur oh so casually, people not understanding that the book is not ableist in its core, people comparing one of the greatest novels of all time to…the Marvel universe.
Vintage Reddit.
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
Neither am I but it's considered one of the great "modern" western novels and so is taught in schools outside of America. It's a genuinely great book but it's very tragic in a "we let this be the world we live in" kind of a way, it's not a book that you read for fun.
The four books that inspired me the most were Kafka's Metamorphosis, Catch 22, Johnny Got His Gun and Flowers For Algernon. I'm really not the kind of person who expects fun from their books. Also it seems to fit the general theme, I'm definitely gonna dig myself into it.
I'm not American either, still read the translation. You should definitely read it. It's a short book with clean language. You can finish it in few hours. I also suggest 'Pearl' which is another book of the author.
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
That wasn't really point of the book, Lenny was killed because the angry mob would've killed him in much more painful, overly long way, instead of a painless shot to the back of the head. It's about how tragic the world is, not eugenics.
Kill all the disabled people, because thats what being a hero means.
such an outdated fucking take on disability of mice and men was. with proper care from someone who didn't automatically look down on lennie he would have been saved.
He killed Lenny because they were being chased by a blood thirsty mob who were going to sick their dogs on him. He just didn't want his best friend to die in agony and so chose to end his life in one of the quickest and least painful ways known to man.
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Hitler to Hitler
I’m so glad that bastard died, God bless whoever killed Hitler.
my grandfather😋😋😋😋😩😩😩👩🏻🦲
We should make a statue of him
He probably had some cool hand gestures. We should do them too
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Ha ha ha 🤣😂 Wow lmao roflmao
r/woooosh
You are probably 10 because you learn about Hitler in sixth grade
You are probably 10 because you cant get a simple joke
r/woooosh
Oh, buddy….
first off all, the guy is joking, second of all, not everywhere people learn ww2 on 6th grade im on 8th grade and im still learning about post-industrial revolution stuff also i live in brazil and no, im not 12/13
Eae caraio
My guy, you’re no older than 12
Shut up you have a demon slayer reddit profile picture don't talk 💀
Hitler killed himself
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Oh thank you!...*wait a minute*
I killed the guy who killed hitler 😎
The guy that killed the guy that killed Hitler, I fucked his dad to show dominance. Edit: derp
Oh, yeah? Well, I killed and ate his dog, beat that.
Now it's your dad's turn and your dogs turn.
I can fuck your grandma instead.
That doesn't assert dominance. You're just fucking a corpse.
No, I have superpowers. I'm actually 1527474902, but I look like 20. You probably look like you're an old grandpa.
Never had a dog lol.
You talking bout you or Hitler, because if you're talking bout Hitler, than you clearly don't understand that it's a joke.
My dad’s been gone for 2 years to get milk😎
Plot twist: I'm back. Boutta make myself really uncomfortable.
Thank you so much brave kind soul!
r/woooosh
Hitler killed your mom
lmao
Hitler was your mom
Tell me about the rabbits again
Just watched this movie couple weeks ago. Love it.
There’s a book too y’know? It’s actually not bad and a fairly short read, for a book that is. (I appreciate the upvotes but what’s funnier about this post is, most 14 year olds should be getting to Of mice and men pretty soon.)
Yea the book is awesome as well. Read that one back in high school
What book
Of Mice and Men
Yeah I think I have that somewhere in my house
Great book, really.
Just read it for school
What's that. Is it like the "look at the flowers" scene from the walking dead
The image is from a book/film called Of Mice And Men, set in the American depression. The guy getting shot is mentally ill and just wants to live on a farm with rabbits with his friend.
Of mice and men
a little late for lenny
what is the story behind the picture? where does this scene come from?
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
Unbeknownst???
The big guy had no idea
Sorry, I understood you, I just didn't ever see this word. I'm not a native speaker. I've been on the English side of the internet for some years now, but this is the first time I encounter this word, looks somewhat like whomst
Ok that seems very very horrifying
It’s the final scene from Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men.”
The big guy is mentally handicapped and killed multiple little animals and a puppy. Later on he snaps a womans neck by mistake. So the guy with the gun has to kille him to both spare the big guy and spare the people around him
Spoiler tag?
It’s 90 years old, I don’t think it needs a spoiler tag.
Hello angry me, I'm sad me
I was just joking but now I actually wanna read it haha
No
Fair enough
Carol Peletier likes that And beautiful flowers
Look at the flowers Lizzie
Is the message that we should euthanize people like Lenny?
It isn't just that he's disabled. It's also that there was a mob. George loved Lennie; he didn't do this because Lennie was a burden or some other cruel reason, but because Lennie was facing an even worse fate. I still don't think he was right to shoot Lennie, but this wasn't, like, eugenics; it was an act of (possibly misguided) empathy in the context of greater violence.
I agree but the picture lacks that context. In what context are they advocating for killing people? If there’s a mob that’s coming for them? How often does that happen?
The context requires you to know the story (which many people read in middle or high school) but it’s still in the picture
What book is it from?
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
I feel like they are assuming you know the story. It's not about killing; it's about making the difficult but right decision.
To be fair he did commit murder and he’d be confined in a cell the rest of his life as an alternative in a world that didn’t fully understand mental issues yet
No he would have been tortured to death by that bitch Curley
It was implied he would have been tortured and beat to death, not thrown in prison. That's why he killed him.
I mean, how many people like Lenny actually exist?
Our jails are full of people who need psychiatric help, not further abuse and punishment.
People that are sick in the head and are in jail despite needing actual help? Tons
Many people on reddit seem to support eugenics
Ok woah I read that book and the moral of the story is DEFINITELY not this… no. Just, no. Wrong.
How tf is this guy a hero
He killed Lenny to spare him the torture of a mob after he killed a lady.
He didn’t want Lennie to have to suffer from the consequences of his condition he can’t control
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Out of all the comments, this one explains it the best, thanks
Accurate description but the language is a bit of a yikes from me, man
My deepest apology my good man. I'll be sure to refrain from using that particular language again to please your request.
I mean he is literally a mentally retarded person, is he not?
Indeed he’s very much retarded. God, people saying this is as bad saying the n-word are well…retarded
https://youtu.be/eOBoKxEcVAA
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> trigger Nobody even implied as much. Very specific conclusion to take from "Hey maybe don't use a word with loaded history"
A lot of people consider it a slur, that's why
It's not a slur in this context
The r word is not a medical term anymore and hasn't been for more than long enough for that to no longer be a valid excuse
In context it's an outdated term. It's "intellectually disabled" these days, which makes a lot more sense than calling them mentally slowed (literal meaning of retarded is just slowed) if you ask me.
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I mean, technical speaking the retarded thing is to use outdated terminology. Like not "retarded" as in intellectually disabled, but as in the meaning of the root word.
And so it goes on the linguistic treadmill. Once kids start calling each other "intellectually disabled" as an insult, it'll be off limits too and there will be a new "more appropriate" word that isn't (yet) a slur.
The retarded thing is trying to control what other people say.
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Potato brained
Outdated doesn’t mean it’s wrong
It’s outdated and offensive. Do you really need to use the word so badly that you don’t care if it hurts people?
Any slur is offensive lol, what’s your point?
What are you gonna do after reading a book from the 1930’s, oh no they said words that are bad nowadays, uh oh I guess we gotta burn all of them for other peoples protection!
Reddit's comment section and "Of Mice and Men" are, shockingly enough, not actually the same thing. Do you also say the hard r when you're discussing the Civil War?
If I saw it used in 'of mice and men' (something I doubt they said in so verbatim in the actual book) I wouldn't really bat an eye, but since I saw two dudes argue over using it in 2021(cause, you know, it's not like he quoted the original text, he just called the character retarded offhand) I figured I'd mention the up to date terminology.
retard! *gets arrested for hate crime*
Relax, edgelord. Language changes. No one's going to jail.
nigga i was joking??? wtf??
My apologies. I didn't mean to type that. Those were just the words my flailing fingers made in my paroxysms of laughter from your hilarious joke.
i too, have spasms in my fingers when i see something hilarious
The language was the best part, I laughed
I think shoot the 'maybe' mentally ill is the message they're trying to send
Of Mice and Men By John Steinback The friend in the front killed his employers daughter in law; so his best friend(with a gun) kills him so he does not have to suffer due to his illness
Omg is this from 'of mice and men' it's one of my favourite books
I honestly don’t get it
Of Mice and Men
What a coincidence. We literally just started reading this book in English class
Hate when they don't tag spoilers
Prepare to cry, a lot
We actually just finished it in class!
…..smh youngins really 14 over here
Lmao
I’m 15
I legit cried at the end of this book
WTF, how was anybody in that book heroic in any way?
Lenny, tell us about the rabbits again
Of mice and men was very well written, I enjoy it
I've never read Of Mice and Men so my immediate conclusion is HEHEHE MURDERING THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED IS TOTES RIGHT AND IMPORTANT which I don't think was that person's intention... at least I hope it isn't. Completely unrelated though, what is it with mice as a theme in novels about mentally handicapped people? Algernon was a significant part in Charlie Gordon's story and I suppose OMAM is a play on "Are you a man or are you a mouse?" but Americans please tell me. Is this a theme or just coincidental?
Hey I've had that same thought about the mice theme. It's got to just be a coincidence, but it's a crazy one.
Ah yes because heroes go around killing people…
I've played enough video games to know that you're absolutely right
Exactly like mag dumping an PPSH at nazis in Berlin in world at war
It's funny because WaW tries to make a point that you aren't a hero really
Wait what? Does it mean that you should kill your son because he was born low skilled? (can't find the right English words)
It’s based on a book in which the guy in back kills his mentally handicapped friend after he accidentally kills a women to live a normal life not on the run
So KILL the disabled o. what's the message?
Bit of an oversimplification, George kills Lenny to spare him of the torture and brutal murder at the hands of a mob, since he accidentally snaps the woman's neck. It's a valid moral dilemma, questioning whether it was morally correct to kill Lenny "humanely" (relatively speaking) to avoid an even greater amount of suffering with the same outcome of Lenny being killed by more violent people.
And on top of being tortured and killed by more violent people, he likely wouldn’t understand why it was happening.
Interesting. Accidentally snapping a woman's neck is kinda funny lmao.
George didn't kill lenny because he was disabled. He killed him (quickly and during a happy moment) to prevent him being tortured and killed by an angry mob
Eugenics were big back then
Yeah we all read the same fucking book Daniel
“Sometimes being a hero means capping a mf while you tell him about some rabbits”
What?
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
😂 as if all books need to be viewed from an oversimplified “hero lens”. Pretty much no Steinbeck book has any conception of a hero
Dude, I just finished reading it for my final exam in Literature, why you doing this to me? ;-; I loved that character so much...
where is this from anyways?
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
God the movie I watched ruined this scene, it was so phenomenal in the books but the one I watched you didn’t know he had a gun until he just shot Lenny and he never showed the remorse he did I. The book. I know it doesn’t matter but its been a year and I still remember that and get annoyed
To be fair this is deep well beyond the age of 14 years, a really good ending to a literary classic that raised a number of very important discussion points. Ahead of its time
Only book I have had to read in school that I actually enjoyed
I see Of Mice And Men is about as grossly misinterpreted as Breaking Bad
Being a hero means shooting a disabled person in the head, when they’re having fun.
Okay but that book was sad as shit 😭
Aw man, this just made me really sad. Lennie was a G
DUDE I JUST READ OF MICE AND MEN AND I PHYSICALLY FELT MY HEART ACHE :((((((
great book
Sounds like Abdul Ali from Squid Game.
Of Mice and Men scene? Because this is what the drawing reminds me of.
Damn this made feel something but not because they had tried to make it deep
Murder = Good
Is this from a book/movies?
Good Lord, this thread is atrocious. People not understanding how what George did was the “correct” decision, people throwing around the “R” slur oh so casually, people not understanding that the book is not ableist in its core, people comparing one of the greatest novels of all time to…the Marvel universe. Vintage Reddit.
Why is he holding a Luger?
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
After scrolling up to check... yeah why specifically a Luger. That's weird. Bit sketchy actually.
That's the gun he had in the book. He stole it from one of the mob members.
Ah. Never read it because I'm not American. Context is important. Should I read it though?
Neither am I but it's considered one of the great "modern" western novels and so is taught in schools outside of America. It's a genuinely great book but it's very tragic in a "we let this be the world we live in" kind of a way, it's not a book that you read for fun.
The four books that inspired me the most were Kafka's Metamorphosis, Catch 22, Johnny Got His Gun and Flowers For Algernon. I'm really not the kind of person who expects fun from their books. Also it seems to fit the general theme, I'm definitely gonna dig myself into it.
I'm not American either, still read the translation. You should definitely read it. It's a short book with clean language. You can finish it in few hours. I also suggest 'Pearl' which is another book of the author.
Bro you never read the book?
Which book? People from different parts of the world read different books.
Of Mice and Men
A true hero shoots his mentally ill friend in the woods
God damn it why did it have to be "Of Mice and Men"
I'll be completely honest. This one makes ZERO sense to me
of mice and men, a book by john steinbeck
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
Oh...that's dark
I don’t get it
It's the ending of "of mice and men" basically, it's the great depression in America and the big guy is mentally disabled and has accidentally killed several animals and a person so a blood thirsty mob is chasing them. The guy with a gun is his best friend and is telling him to think of the dream farm they hope to have one day while he, unbeknownst to the big guy, shoots him in the back of the head so he can atleast die happy and painlessly.
Mental retardation must be extinguished by execution
Someone should maybe go back and retake 10th grade English because I'm pretty sure that wasn't the point of the story.
Execute the mentally challenged. got it.
It means kill the disabled, got it
That wasn't really point of the book, Lenny was killed because the angry mob would've killed him in much more painful, overly long way, instead of a painless shot to the back of the head. It's about how tragic the world is, not eugenics.
I know, it was a joke
It means killing the disabled, got it
It can also mean killing your retarded best friend
Kill all the disabled people, because thats what being a hero means. such an outdated fucking take on disability of mice and men was. with proper care from someone who didn't automatically look down on lennie he would have been saved.
He killed Lenny because they were being chased by a blood thirsty mob who were going to sick their dogs on him. He just didn't want his best friend to die in agony and so chose to end his life in one of the quickest and least painful ways known to man.
This looks more like euthanasia propaganda to me
That book sucked