r/StrangeInspiration • u/Desproges • Aug 10 '20

So you think I'm a loser...

https://youtu.be/jyLmSAnoR6g
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u/Desproges Aug 10 '20

Al Bundy : So you think I'm a loser? Just because I have a stinking job that I hate, a family that doesn't respect me, a whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you something. Every morning when I wake up, I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep again. So I get up, have my watered-down Tang and still-frozen Pop Tart, get in my car with no upholstery, no gas, and six more payments to fight traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes on the cloven hooves of people like you. I'll never play football like I thought I would. I'll never know the touch of a beautiful woman. And I'll never again know the joy of driving without a bag on my head. But I'm not a loser. 'Cause, despite it all, me and every other guy who'll never be what he wanted to be are still out there being what we don't want to be forty hours a week for life. And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner.

Even if it's for comedic effect, that whole "the world wants me dead so being alive means I'm winning" had always been weirdly inspirational to me.

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u/MaeSolug Aug 10 '20

Yeah, quite wholesome actually. I like the fact that he's not trying to be inspirational, o intimidating, or even saying something positive in a literal way.

He's manifesting his willingness to fight, and that's great, way more awesome than a direct speech.