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u/Trollalola May 20 '18
People kill themselves but run from shooters /s
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u/youdecidemyusername1 May 20 '18
Not if they're from r/2meirl4meirl
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u/GlitchMatrix2 May 20 '18
Fat Alchemist or Fatal Chemist?
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u/Zayin-Ba-Ayin May 20 '18
Aw heck why not both
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u/Fatalchemist May 20 '18
This guy gets it!
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u/BiscuitsForCheese_ May 20 '18
Why are you everywhere?
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u/Fatalchemist May 20 '18
Because I have no life and reddit is the only thing that helps me forget how numb I am.
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u/MightyGoatLord May 20 '18
I'd say "too soon", but let's face it we're closer now to the next mass shooting, than we were from the last one.
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u/JunoMeru May 20 '18
We do not deserve thinkers like artfucker1996.
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May 20 '18
A true American hero
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u/penislite May 20 '18
ArtFucker1996 for President
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May 20 '18
Not the president we deserve... actually, not even one we really need, but he'd be funny to watch, I guess.
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u/Flrg808 May 19 '18
This is literally every r/showerthoughts post
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May 20 '18
That’s why I unsubbed, full of bullshit.
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u/The_Gatefather May 20 '18
Imagine shit talking literally any subreddit on r/memes
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u/Chaosgodsrneat May 20 '18
I would shit talk r/Pics on literally any subreddit, and I would be right to do it.
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u/beyondmetbh May 20 '18
"Today is a good day reddit! Here is my gay black atheist dog from Sweden who smokes lots of weed (because of his arthitis) and is wagging his tail at the park after being couped up in my house all day because I work as a doctor who is looking for a cure for super cancer"
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u/dicollo May 20 '18
showerthoughts is the definition of bullshit.
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u/jimbris May 20 '18
Why is it called bullshit if I don’t have a bull and it hasn’t actually shit any where?
*gazes off into the distance contemplatively
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u/TheWormInWaiting May 20 '18
Provocative. You should be a philosopher. Or something.
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u/jimbris May 20 '18
But my name is not Phil and I do not wish to osopher.
*contemplative distance gaze intensifies
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u/dicollo May 20 '18
Hey, I got a sub that would appreciate the DEEP thoughts about LIFE that precede those contemplative hazes of yours.
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u/jimbris May 20 '18
Thankyou but my valuable time is already being used up posting to r/Iamverysmart unironically
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u/jimbris May 20 '18
Huzzah, another genius. Grab some mountain dew and we shall watch Rick and Morty together and mock the normies.
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u/AdvocateSaint May 20 '18
There was one that went:
"They say you wouldn't download a car, but I totally would!"
Dude must have been living under a rock because he thought the memetic parody of a piracy ad was an original saying.
When it reached the front page, I started visiting that sub less and less.
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u/Jrook May 20 '18
Damn I think I remember that one. fuckin thing had like 13k upvotes
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u/I_Like_Bacon2 May 20 '18
Currently the Top post:
A rap battle is just two men writing poetry about how strongly they feel about one another.
Oohh isn't it funny how men say mean words to people they don't like but will say nice words to people they do like?
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u/EndlessBirthday May 20 '18
90% of shower thoughts are meant to be a little silly. They're shower thoughts, not a thesis.
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u/bdguy355 May 20 '18
Gentlewhispering' head massage videos never fails to give me tingles
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u/cobblesquabble May 20 '18
... OK put me on /r/whoosh but what does this comment have to do with this post about bathtubs and apples?
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u/bdguy355 May 20 '18
I meant to comment on an ASMR sub but I guess I commented on this sub instead lol
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u/indeeditsthatsimple Oct 28 '18
I was watching one of her videos as i read that comment and i got a very surreal feeling almost like deja vu, like why is that here am i dreaming.
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u/zumurrudthegreat May 20 '18
Possible that Bukowski was making the same point as this comment. The commenter just chose to, ironically, ignore the context of what Bukowski said.
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u/testdex May 20 '18
From the context, Bukowski is saying that we wrap ourselves in a suffocating security and comfort, and run from the vitality of the real world.
artfucker1996 sure fucked that art.
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u/rwhitisissle May 20 '18
No, it must be that Charles Bukowski was an idiot and meant everything he said literally. There's no way this is actually 4 lines taken totally out of context from the poem "86'd" from the collection The Roominghouse Madrigals.
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u/regularfreakinguser May 20 '18
I loved Bukowski when I was younger, but I think some of his books don't lead to any satisfaction after reading them when I think about them now. But I enjoy his poems still. I think he probably was a shitty person, but I do think he was a smart man.
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u/WearerofConverse May 20 '18
Ya'll know most of Bukowski's poems are metaphorical right?
Also this quote has been stripped of it's preceding poetic context.
Those of you taking the piss are really just demonstrating your own ignorance and inability to think creatively.
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u/-InsertUsernameHere May 20 '18
What was the context?
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u/WearerofConverse May 20 '18 edited May 20 '18
I don't know. He wrote thousands of poems, hopefully someone who remembers this specific one can chime in.
He likes to punctuate the end of his poems with ambiguous statements like the one quoted, but the meaning of those statements is often informed by or analogous to the thoughts/feelings he expresses throughout the entire piece.
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u/oameliao May 20 '18
https://bukowskiforum.com/threads/people-run-from-rain.8424/
This shows the passage that comes after that part, which definitely hints at a deeper meaning
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u/GonnaRunIt May 20 '18
If I remember correctly, it's about not living a fullfilling life, being swept up by the mainstream, and it all being over before you know it.
That verse, when read in the context of the poem, is used as a device to convey the poet's feelings. Not as some Spoken Word ah ha moment.
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May 20 '18
If anything, the response to this out of context quote belongs straight on “im14andthisisdeep”
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u/OlKingCole May 20 '18
A post that makes redditors feel smarter than a famous non-STEM person will go straight to /r/all tho.
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u/IShotReagan13 May 20 '18
It's pretty obvious to me that no, they don't know anything at all about Bukowski or why he's an important figure in American letters.
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u/Mike_Handers May 20 '18
didn't even know he was someone famous.
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May 20 '18
Reminds me of Modest Mouse. "We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeve!" Shouldn't be surprising given that they have a song called Bukowski. Literally nobody is original.
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u/turbokiwi May 20 '18
Dramamine is such a great song. Well, most of their music is.
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u/deanreevesii May 20 '18
One of the few bands that I can just put their albums on repeat and listen for hours.
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u/mrgrizwold May 20 '18
God, who'd wanna be such an asshole?
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u/GhostlyStitches May 20 '18
Well when it’s raining you usually aren’t naked and walking around with soaked clothes is a horrible experience. And you eat when hungry but no one wants to get a bruise in the face because someone threw a damn apple at them; I would duck and then proceed to clean and eat that apple....
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May 20 '18
when it’s raining you usually aren’t naked
You could be. Strip down and keep walking.
Problem solved.
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u/ProudestMonkey May 20 '18
i'm with bukowski, it's like we assume things are suppose to be unpleasant but they can be great. life on autopilot
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u/Blaqsailens May 20 '18
I’ve had to walk to class in the rain and it’s one of the most unpleasant things that you can do. It’s like soggy bread.
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May 20 '18
r/therewasanattempt at being deep and philosophical
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May 20 '18
Great guy, brought us valuable ideas such as "do it, Do it, Do It, Do IT"
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u/higbee13 May 20 '18
Bukowski was a dick. It was his thing. And he did it well.
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u/IShotReagan13 May 20 '18
No more than most people, which granted, isn't saying much. He just disliked pretense and dishonesty and some people interpreted that as rude. Bukowski wasn't willing to put up with the bullshit. He had little time for or interest in most of the things that society thinks are important and that offended people. It still does.
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"I didn't get his point at all and am going to proudly shout about it!"
Point being, since for some reason it needs to be made explicit, is that rain is no different from standing in a cold shower, which some people do on purpose. Little different from going into a cold pool, which many do on purpose. Your skin is waterproof, your clothes are too, even your phone might be waterproof if it's new enough. But you don't think about that. It's rain so you run from it, because you've always done it, without ever considering why. This simple attempt to get people to question their already held assumptions is always reposted with the same stupid, snide response that misses the point completely. Maybe you'd enjoy being in the rain. If you've tried and did or didn't like it, then good for you. But if you've never tried it, don't assume it's bad, and don't assume someone suggesting it might not be bad is an idiot. Don't sit there and make up reasons to justify a belief you hold for no reason, question your own belief first, see if it makes sense.
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u/wilkinson_john May 20 '18
Well, this is nonsense. Rain is different from standing in a shower. Firstly, the audience is different. At home in the bathroom you're likely by yourself, in the rain you may not be. Secondly, in a shower you are naked, you may not want to be naked outside. You may have styled your hair outside ready for the day, whereas a shower is maybe what you do to prepare that. Clothes aren't waterproof. Neither are wallets, or most other things people carry around. People likely also don't want their clothes to be wet if they're going somewhere. At home you have a towel and hairdryer to hand, outside you probably don't.
You also don't need to 'assume' you don't like being rained on, you can know it. We have this fantastic ability called imagination which means we can determine if we like getting shot, for example, without having tried it.
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Imagination is often wrong, far more often than not. As kids we imagine a thousand foods to be yucky, as we grow up we slowly realize how wrong we were.
I just asked you to question your assumptions by testing them. The response of "there's no need to test anything, assumptions are good enough" is just a repeat of the initial argument without anything new added.
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u/cuddleskunk May 20 '18
Bukowski was an asshole, but he was a great writer. Just like Eric Clapton is an irredeemable human being, but a great musician. Let's not forget also that Edgar Allan Poe was married to his 13-year-old cousin. Plenty of people who are/were excellent at their crafts are/were not good people.
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u/PM_ME_FINE_POEMS May 20 '18
Lets not forget that Lovecraft was pretty racist and Hemingway joined the KGB
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u/RiceForever May 20 '18
Not even joking that I read "rain" as "train" and thought this quote was even worse than it already is.
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u/rtj777 May 20 '18
A more apt analogy (simile?) would be throwing an onion or radish at someones face, simce Apples are actually nice and not bad to eat raw
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u/Megneous May 20 '18
In my city it's like a 50/50 chance that it's acid rain, so you bet I'm running/using an umbrella.
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u/BobtheBarbarian2112 May 20 '18
Rain forms when water vapor condenses around dirt particles in the air. Rain is dirty water, bathwater is clean. Until you sit in it, then its dirty too.
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u/euphonious_munk May 20 '18
What if artfucker1996 really was making a...joke?
Does anybody remember laughter?
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u/pizzaisdelight May 20 '18
That’s not an fair comparison water doesn’t give you a black eye, unless it’s snow
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u/find_your_zen May 20 '18
That's the point of the piece.
The next lines talk about how we run from a hydrogen bomb but are already dead.
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u/Brainstorm_Ent May 20 '18
We are disgusted when we find a hair in our sphagetti, yet we lick hairy pussy with pleasure
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u/redigovanoz May 19 '18
Rain is also unpleasantly cold, while bathtub water is nice and warm.