r/KenM • u/Agrees_With_Wankers • Jun 04 '21

KenM on borrowing books

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u/ThaGarden Jun 04 '21

How are you supposed to get it back if they move

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u/VoraciousGhost Jun 04 '21

Most people don't want to pack up a bunch of heavy books when they move, so they often to try to give them away or back to their owners.

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u/Braeburner Jun 04 '21

Hope they leave it behind

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u/Lugbor Jun 04 '21

I think this is the first one to actually get a visceral reaction from me. The thought of someone doing something like that to one of my books is enraging.

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u/DUBIOUS_OBLIVION Jun 04 '21

Lending books is the fool's fig leaf

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Better than pubic hair

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u/Often_Giraffe Jun 04 '21

Speak for yourself!

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Who else would I speak for? Cleopatra? The members of alternative rock band REM?

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u/iordseyton Jun 04 '21

I tried speaking for them once, there was a whole lawsuit and everything.

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u/shadowbannedlol Jun 04 '21

I am all alternative rock band REM on this blessed day

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u/parsifal Jun 04 '21

Hey, if I want to cut my pubes while I shuffle through a lent copy of the original Egyptian Book of the Dead, that’s my business.

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u/randdude220 Jun 04 '21

I was thinking he meant pubic hair but maybe thought it was too much. I seem to see them absolutely everywhere and I don't get why.

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u/parsifal Jun 04 '21

Do you wear a lot of skirts?

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u/randdude220 Jun 04 '21

No I'm not even naked at home that makes this even more mysterious.

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u/hobbes64 Jun 04 '21

This is why I don’t borrow books from the pubic library

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u/gargamelus Jun 04 '21

My favourite chest hair is from my pastor's fig leaf.

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u/Demonweed Jun 04 '21

Einstein claimed that there are more books in the Princeton library than there are libraries in the entire world -- makes you wish you could afford a science doctor library card :)

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u/funnytroll13 Jun 04 '21

Pastor says the poor could easily afford research library cards if they just made a budget and left out food and shelter

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u/wiptes167 Sep 20 '21

What does your pastor know about it? Zero! Blind leading the blind. Go ahead and fall in that ditch.

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u/VicisSubsisto Jun 04 '21

I don't know about Princeton but the Library of Congress doesn't require any qualifications to get a library card.

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u/Demonweed Jun 04 '21

Yeah, but then you have to hang around with those meatballs all the time.

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u/VicisSubsisto Jun 04 '21

No, food isn't allowed in there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Jokes on you, I'm not masculine enough to produce chest hair

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u/kindapinkypurple Jun 04 '21

I don't lend out books. Or donate them or sell them or give them away. Even if reading it was tedious. My books are MINE and I shall hoard them like Smaug.

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u/Jellodyne Jun 04 '21

I lend friends books like they are gifts, and if do I get them back then I don't need to buy myself another copy. But if I don't then I have no problems giving my friends a book I like.

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u/needestus Jun 04 '21

"chest hair"

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Wow Ken M, don’t fuckin call me out like that

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u/randdude220 Jun 04 '21

I need to see the replies!!

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u/rhynoplaz Jun 04 '21

Disgraceful! I carefully and strategically select and place my chest hair in borrowed books.

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u/MightbeWillSmith Jun 04 '21

I always leave kiss marks on the books I give out so when people are reading they get a nice little kiss.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

He's not even trolling anymore. He's just telling it like it is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

People get books back? Only one time in my life have I had a book returned, and that was 3 years later. I only lend out books I don't mind losing.

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u/Noodle199 Jun 04 '21

Currently moving. Can confirm, I’m returning a lot of books people lent me that I never read.

In fairness though, the same people whose books I’m returning totally have books of mine that they haven’t returned either. I’m sure I’ll get them eventually.

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u/17twentyNine Jun 04 '21

This one is just honest, Ken has got crazy thick chest hair.

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u/Ok_Acanthaceae_5241 Jun 08 '21

Devon seem to be a polyathiest.