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NebulousToucan
#39 the first few are rough, but once he understood where the series was headed, amazing.
olafthrig
I've tried before any suggestions on easier starting points? As I've gotten older the slogging through has gotten much harder.
NebulousToucan
It depends on your preferences. If you like DEATH, start with Mort. I prefer the city books, so try jumping to Guards, Guards, and then stick to the ones set in the city, you can always jump back to the others once you get into the swing of things
Neednoggle
#32 I've found a brief lie like "fine!", "great, thanks!", or "livin the dream!" to be usually pretty effective.
gracefalls
Those are good for English responses. In Spanish I'm a little more honest. I say, "Sobreviviendo la lucha, amigo(a)" which translates to "Surviving the fight, my friend".
Neednoggle
Ooh nice, I'm learning Spanish so I'll add that to my collection of phrases.
psycho3d
3KnucklesDeep
That's only a glass. Her boyfriend does that with jugs.
ih8clickb8
And that’s when I knew YOUR mother was the one for me!
Shoumpue
My front teeth hurt just watching this
gobblinal
How big of a gap does she HAVE between her teeth?
GroovyLiberator
I'm in love
Zerosixk
#14 My dude... That's heartbreaking :(
LordKitchenersValet
#32 "It's a beautiful day!" <- This is a perfect answer to almost anything. In the unlikely event that it's storming? You can then smirk and then say "...somewhere." It works EVERY time and you never have to lie and it makes everyone positive. I strongly endorse it, my friends.
BeckyLookAtHerButt
#19 Admiring the Arc'd'McD.
amp99
#9
Shoumpue
#25 Nug shot
graehall
HAH
AyatollahBahloni
#21 Idiocracy was not supposed to be a documentary.
cardinal29
#30 Who has been licking their house keys?
gobblinal
Are you just weird or what???
gobblinal
Wait, the \s didn't show up.
vystral
#44 I love waking up right before my alarm. Means I’m between sleep cycles and ready to get up. Beats the heck out of my alarm hitting right in the middle of REM and then I’m useless all day.
LordKitchenersValet
#6 I'm annoyed. The headline should be "Explosion at bovine sperm bank. Rescue workers overcome."
dirtybarnacles
StoneTalon
Most of those treated at the scene got release. I mean, were released.
dirtybarnacles
AtaSeaParks
Missed your calling, my dude.
"Bull spunk factory explodes. Rescue workers come. It's nuts!"
dirtybarnacles
Dimestream
Well they did need them to come over and put out. I mean put it out.
dirtybarnacles
Tomigami
#11 Maybe they just wanted to see other people
meowingintensifies
AmachiHitsugi
#46 I dunno why but this made me tear up a little. I don't think anybody's asked if I'm ok in this way in many years now.
RockKickass
Anne…is that you?
blairdavies350
Slaps arm
This bad boy is not ok inside.
Clayman8
I dont think anyone ever asked me that simply put... like theres that tiny grey area when a person says it thats just generic filler vs genuine concern.
Vertron
Is because you mask that shit. I do the same thing and people are like "well it's so great that you're amazing this morning!" I would rather not have ever existed.
AmachiHitsugi
I think in my case it's really more of being alone. I live alone in a small apartment, with no family in the same country, and my work is remote so I don't really get to hang out with people who might ask me anything like this.
Sakera
TheNextHafthorBjornsson
This makes me angry for some reason
Sakera
Well that is definitely not the intent behind it.
GoldenBrownApples
That's how you know it's a qu-owl-ity pun.
InfocalypseRising
Also I totally forgot RDJ was in Zodiac
CaptainHyperbole
Everyone knows I’m not ok, so they don’t bother asking.
SmergBlaerghl
My friends and family still ask sometimes but they all know my situation, so it's just understood that it's a "given how fucked your life is, within that vortex of shit, how're you doing?" kinda thing.
rivershoulder
I hope it gets better
CaptainHyperbole
Thank you
Jaggededges113
Are you okay?
TurdBurglar3000
You okay? You okay, Annie?
jammer909
No. But don't worry about it.
Jaggededges113
You couldn't stop me if ya tried.
jammer909
The worrying about it? You have your own worries, don't heap others worries onto your pile. You are not Atlas.
Jaggededges113
I worry about everyone. It's how I can empathize.
AmachiHitsugi
No. Thank you for asking. *Slaps your arm.* But seriously, I'm mostly ok. Most of my problems are financial, and it's not too bad. Just the usual paycheck-to-paycheck thing. I'm at a point where pizza and other fancy food is a treat, and I otherwise need to eat "budget" foods.
dirtybarnacles
I am in a similar boat, but for me I’m the only adult contact I have (does that even count?) so asking if I’m ok is usually a sign of bigger problems. Plus, I’m always ok…have to be. I hope you can find joy in some part of your everyday, treat food or responsible food be damned. You are loved and change can be right around the corner. Keep going<3
Jaggededges113
I understand that. Don't touch me. I know the pizza angels do great work on this site. And local food banks can help. Asking for help is by far the hardest part.
dirtybarnacles
+1 for “Don’t touch me”
rufisium
What sucks is when I was in dire straits, the food banks and such felt like something that wasn't for me. Like if I went there, I'd be taking food from someone that actually needed it. Even though it was meant for people down on their luck ya know?
It feels like a fallacy; where someone always has it worse so you can't ask for help because you'd be taking a spot from someone else in a worse place. I'm just rambling
dirtybarnacles
You’re not just rambling, that’s actually a thing. Think about it this way though. You’re at the check out counter at the grocery store and they ask if you want to donate a dollar to the needy…like “betch, I AM the needy” idk, I seem to have a little more conviction in that scenario. Food banks are meant for exactly that, you’re behind and otherwise in a tough spot without it. Walk tall my friend, it’s not forever, just for now.
Heisanevilgenius
Nah, I feel that
Jaggededges113
I understand that. I do. But it is there for all. If you need it, or want it, it is there for you. For all.
LDRcycles
#21 "carrots have waay too much sugar" is just brutally depressing
RolandLovecraft
UWAGAGABLAGABLAGABA
#16 i am in need of consoling
DarkSock
#39 "...ook?"
Pirsquar
bhinkle5308
Gideon the Ninth, great book. Loved all of the Locked Tomb books.
Crillol
#30 and there's no place like home.
GatorConspiracy
#32
ireplywithtwinpeaks
#33
originalcharacterdonotsteal
Guess I'll have to work on my lung capacity
mikecaa
#1 She's a keeper
igooutsidesometimes
Bruv was evaluating his opportunities, and was not thinking with his brain.
ManOfEvil93
#1
Argusdubbs
Canigetbannedagain2
(Botanist enters room) broccoli is technically a flower...
Zega000
Broccoli is one of the vegetables that is most likely to cause kidney stones
AllDayPermaBanned
It's a vile weed.
Ferrous
There is no such thing as a vegetable either. They're leaves, stems, tubers, bulbs, flowers, buds, etc.
trickflo
My understanding was that a fruit was the seed bearing part of a plant example avacado and a vegtable was any other part of a plant example rhubarb but im not a botanist
Canigetbannedagain2
Exactly, vegetable is mainly a culinary term, not a scientific term... Although it's "close enough" so we accept them as veggies.... sort of like saying the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second (it's not) but unless you are doing exact math calculations... it's close enough.
TwoCheese
What sort of crazy person is doing calculations using imperial units?
Canigetbannedagain2
Ha... right, good one.
HiddenSanity
There is such a thing as a vegtable, just not a botanical classification. It's a culinary classification and is based on flavour profiles, nutritional profiles, and vibes.
hereforthememes420
Vibes? Yea I'd like a side of steamed vibes. Thaaanks.
WhatTheFrog
Yes, therefore, broccoli is a vegetable. Doesn't matter whether it's botanically a flower
xypotion
Fruits, even!
gobblinal
A vegetable is any part of the plant, that we eat, that isn't a fruit.
xypotion
Ferrous was listing botanical terms, and that's how i meant the word "fruit". There are lots of fruits (in the botanical sense) that people consider vegetables (in the culinary sense). Peas, cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes, for example.
In strictly culinary terms, I agree with you, but only partially. Herbs, grains, and extracts (flavorings, gluten, etc) are a few exceptions to your rule. Mushrooms are also commonly considered vegetables yet are not plants.
gobblinal
As a kid, I thought mushrooms were meat because the texture was "kinda" similar. But they are grown like plants, not raised like meat. And, mushrooms are technically the "fruiting bodies" of mycelliums so at this point, I'mma gonna give up.
14NipplesAndSomeGin
#5 Could've saved at least $10 by skipping the Clif bar and the SlimJim.
igooutsidesometimes
RDJ is some sort of spirit of acting. All the best and worst parts too.
originalcharacterdonotsteal
Who is the other actor? I can't place them.
gobblinal
Jake Gyllenhall (Mysterio). Which is why I couldn't figure out which MCU movie this was from.
originalcharacterdonotsteal
Thank you!
sms001
#39 GNU Sir Terry.
SallyMcCrumbles
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
HiddenSanity
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
ismis2
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
gobblinal
GNU Sir pTerry
MandrewJackson
I read the Colour of Magic and really enjoyed most of it, but at some point the zaniness made it seem like nothing mattered, either in terms of plot or character development. Do the other novels have the same feel?
GiveMeAUsernameIDeserveaUsername
Yes and no. I read Pratchett as I read satire. Thinking he hated the genre and their writers and he's teaching a troll masterclass about making it right, good, fun and introspective for the reader. Try reading Mort, the Rincewind saga is a little heavy in the babbling, as the Death saga has fewer character development.
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
He stated multiple times that he loved fantasy and consistently stood up for it as a literary genre. I don't think he wrote 41 fantasy novels because he hated the genre and their writers any more than Douglas Adams hated science fiction. I don't think you need to hate something to have fun writing a story exploring the themes in different views, tangents, and of course, poking a bit of fun.
algebrabot
No. The Colour Of Magic was essentially a satire of other fantasy franchises (Conan, Pern, Lovecraft), and wasn't meant to be taken seriously. His books got much more weighty the more he wrote.
DarkSock
When Sir Terry wrote "the color of magic" his intent was to do a parody of Conan type stories… But the world he had just begun to sketch beckoned him back… Every subsequent one of the first three or four books gets richer and richer in detail And brings fourth unforgettable characters. There are newly recorded audiobooks with very good narrators, I would recommend them, or even old-school letters on the page, very much. My favorite stories involve the city watch and the witches. I am on book 21.
Eldibs
Try the City Watch series, starting with Guards! Guards! if you want some character development. Sam Vimes starts out as a broken-down drunkard who could barely be considered a cop, and by the end of the last book is a happily-married teetotaler who is the second-most important person in the city with more titles than he can count and is famous across the continent for his policing.
AngryNautilus
The first 2 books i think have that feel to them. After that they gradually become less of just a fantasy parody. Still funny, but with less just jumping between random fantasy locations.
defurious
Whats the GNU for
YassQweenofHearts
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sms001
In "Going Postal" (One of his Industrial Revolution series.) Pratchett mentions a code in the "clacks" (A semaphore system.) that has "G" - send on, "N" - don't log, and "U" - turn around at the end of the line, is appended to the name of those who have died because "a man is not dead while his name is still spoken."
ballinthegroin
In the novels, the clacks towers are introduced, a sort of fantasy telegraph system. Special letters are added to messages as a code to tell how the message should be transmitted. G means pass on to next tower, U means return the message when it reaches the end, N means don't log the message. In the novels after someone important died they sent his name with the GNU code, so that it would always exist in the system. “A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.”. A tribute to the author.
dirtybarnacles
You explained it eloquently, I’m still having trouble hanging onto the concept. ( I haz the dumb) GNU is a coding system specific to this book series?
ballinthegroin
GNU is a reference to real world computing history, a kind of precursor to Linux. The GNU code in the book is unique to the book. For more info : https://wiki.lspace.orgchett">https://wiki.lspace">/GNU_">chett">https://wiki.lspace.org/GNU_Terry_Pratchett
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU
http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
Richter12x2
#39 It is possible to enjoy two different things, and to enjoy the art and dislike the artist.
JustTryingToLiveLife
I really hate the people who are calling harry potter fans transphobes, for continuing to like harry potter, like come on can we stop politicizing everything…. Let people just like what they like without being villainized for no reason, go after j.k rowling, not the fans
richardstinks
#1 Anyone else freak out about the glass shattering?
BeaverOnFire
iamgohanAMA
Please tell me that gif is not referencing what I think it's referencing
Smashinbananas
BeaverOnFire
Smashinbananas
Poor little my pony
BeaverOnFire