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Well shit, TIL.

Thanks!

… some stay dry, others feel the pain.

Out of curiosity:

Are there, or have there ever been, either gun fired or rocket/missile fired artillery systems that fire airbursting rounds that litter the area with AP mines, or cluster bomblets?

I know this is and has been done with aircraft, but I can’t say I’ve heard of a cannon or rocket/missile artillery system that does that.

Did it have a flared end?

If yes:

It’s in the toilet, he sleep walked and took a shit and doesn’t remember.

or

He pooped it out while sleeping and his dog ate it.

If no:

Butt plug goblins.

They can be warded away with a metamucil potion.

Honestly, I agree.

Complete, near instant obliteration of the brain.

Not even a gunshot to the brain is guaranteed to completely kill you instantly…

… That or something like a depressurization accident, where you get sucked through a centimeter diameter hole in a tenth of a second.

People are downvoting you, seemingly not getting that you’re saying the deaths should be visceral not for the sake of spectacle, but so that people see and must confront how violent it really is and are thus hopefully repulsed by the practice… but you are also correct from the standpoint of minimizing the pain experienced by the person condemned to death.

This guy was dead 3 minutes after being shot.

A proper hanging that breaks the neck and does not kill you via strangulation kills you in under a minute, and its a far more simple procedure to calculate a proper drop height for a person than it is to administer lethal injection or electric shock in a way that actually minimizes suffering.

A guillotine is another very rapid and relatively painless way to die.

… Lethal injections are often poorly administered by unqualified idiots, and the cocktails they use often don’t render you unconscious… meaning you can be strapped in, physically paralyzed from one part of the cocktail, in excruciating pain for hours, but unable to express the pain.

The electric chair is also a horrifically painful way to die, it still to this day often requires multiple shocks to fully kill someone, over a long duration of time.

Not 100% sure, but the margins on coffee are probably nowhere near as high as on fountain drinks.

My guess would be around an order of magnitide less.

Still considerable, but the margin on soft drinks is absurd.

I think bottled water is the next step down from the absurd margins of fountain soda.

Yep.

Could feed a lot of homeless or low income people if you take all of that kind of food waste across a whole town or city.

But when non profits pop up to try to do the logistics of that, well now this garbage actually costs more than they can afford.

Petty Tyrants.

People who get off on power; the ability to control and harm and be superior to others is vital to their idea of well-being.

Good luck finding a used one that isn’t barely on its last legs from being poorly OC’d/cooled, or is just an outright brick that burned out in a crypto mining farm and is now being resold by a shell entity of a shell entity of a shell entity on Amazon or Ebay.

Wait until anon figures out that there’s a waaaaay higher markup on soda/pop than on condiments sold for a distinct and seperate cost, and that’s how a lot of franchise restaurants make a large chunk of their profits.

As in, 1,125% percent markup.

As in, if you pay $2 for a soda, it actually cost the fast food place about 0.18 cents.

Not 18 cents, 0.18 cents.

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Also, why would an employee care about ringing up a 50 cent condiment?

… Anon has clearly never worked fast food.

Absolutely chalk full of petty vindictive tyrant bosses that will prevent a promotion, chew you out, take that 50 cents out of your pay, and if you regularly do that, fire you, and possibly even report you to the police for some kind of petty crime that boils down to ‘stealing from the company’.

Wagies are often pathetic because their bosses are often evil and cruel, and they can’t afford to lose the job.

You are missing the point.

I made a point, you argued around it, thinking you were arguing against it, then repeated that cycle.

It’s crazy that you do not comprehend this.

You are an ass and I will not be communicating with you further.

Yeah, the dying soldier trope is a traditonally male stereotype because men have traditionally been the only soldiers in front line combat in … almost all industrialized societies for hundreds of years, almost all civilized societies capable of fielding an army for all of recorded history… to the point that a depiction of a female soldier was seen as either taboo, exceptional, or intentionally provocative untill very, very recently.

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Patton Oswalts ‘pants-fitting’ joke doesn’t play off of the gender dynamics because the baseline social presumption (and literally stated premise) is that both he and the soldier are male, so there is no gender dichotomy to frame the joke as a woman contrasting themself against a man or visa versa…

… It does play off the trope of the dying soldier … because Patton is mocking himself, making himself the butt of the joke for treating himself being too fat to fit into the pants he fancies as gravely as a man facing imminent death.

Please, please note that the comparison to the dying soldier is a way of hyperbolizing comparative suffering in a way that mocks the person that is not the dying soldier.

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Why, he’s a man! He shouldn’t complain when he’s suffering at all! What a pussy!

Oh wait. She didn’t say that last part. She didn’t imply it. Cause that’s not what the joke is about. Cause the joke isn’t reliant on notions of gender roles.

The joke literally is the implied mockery via comparison to man ‘worthy’ of expressing pain, and the context of the joke is a dichotomy between the genders of the subject telling, and object of the joke.

It only works as a joke because of this unspoken implication, and the joke is that her husband’s suffering is invalid.

Without that implication, all the joke is, is:

But that silly billy was talking like a dying soldier when it was just a cold!!! Isn’t that a knee slapper.

If all the joke was, was ‘he act like one thing when he not that thing’ then no, it isn’t a good joke at all, which you yourself seem to affirm with your sarcasm.

‘He ate a red delicious apple, but he said to me, it didn’t taste like a green granny smith apple!’

This is a similarly structured ‘joke’, and you will likely note it is not funny, because it lacks any context, and is not very interesting on its own.

But if I now follow that up with:

‘…and that was how he discovered that he is colorblind.’

Now we have some additional context and implied mockery or maybe pity, and maybe this approaches being an actually funny joke.

Do you see now how jokes often rely context?

Additional information, either stated or generally assumed?

How the only part of the joke you seem to think is funny… isn’t? When it doesn’t coincide with the implication of mockery?

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The husband just has a cold! Why is he saying those things? Of course he’s going to “get better”.

You continue to just entirely disregard the validity of what I pointed out in my original post.

You… seem to think the joke hinges on this, that man is acting wildly unlike what he would be expected to act like in this situation.

So… that’s the entire problem, this comparison to expected behavior can only be made … if there is an expectation that men and women experience flus the same, and that men should generally act tougher than women.

My entire post was pointing out that men don’t have as strong immune responses to common flus, and … this apparently just is not computing in your head, so you’re disregarding it and acting like men and women experience flus the same.

You haven’t challenged this in any meaningful way, at all. You are just continuing forward with a total rejection of the core point I was making, and provided evidence for, without actually presenting an argument or counter evidence as to why or how it is invalid.

You are simply asserting ‘nuh-uh!’ and barreling forward.

You’ve encountered inconvenient information and are just knee jerk rejecting it without consideration, whilst being extremely rude in the process.

This is exactly what a braindead MAGA would do.

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Further, the kind of ‘speaking as if you are going to make it, and do your favorite thing one more time, even though the situation seems very dire’… you seem to just think this is entirely a fiction of media, and it isn’t.

There are numerous recorded historical instances of this happening on battlefields, in people’s memoirs, and with people in a hospital knowing there’s not a great liklihood they’ll survive.

You’ve obviously never served in combat or as a medic or doctor or nurse of any kind, or comforted a dying loved one in hospital.

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In conclusion:

Holy shit you are a condescending asshole.

… Painstakingly combed through?

Its… not like the joke was some kind of complex, voluminous written work that I searched through to find a few scant possibly problematic terms and blow them out of proportion.

Passive aggressive?

I wasn’t passive at all. I was quite direct. I very clearly said that this kind of a joke is sexist and harmful, and explained the reasons why.

Passive aggressive would be… being indirect, implying a thing without explicitly saying it.

… Like what this joke does.

The joke doesn’t work if there are not preconceived notions of when it is and is not acceptable for a man to express themself in a way that would imply they are in extreme pain.

I showed medical documentation pointing toward the likelihood that he may actually be in extreme pain, and your response is ‘its just a cold’.

You seem to be quite triggered, throwing around total mischaracterizations of what I said, e-shouting CHILL in all caps, frequently cursing…

You’re certainly coming off as having an irrational and emotional response to this, your stance is literally ‘its just a joke bro’, much like a MAGA.

Its like they went to the same school!

While the science isn’t in a general consensus about the actual severity of experienced symptoms, there does seem to be good evidence that men generally do not have as strong of an immune system response to common flus, and that common flu vaccines are not as effective in men as they are in women.

https://www.livescience.com/61164-man-flu-real.html

Men are more likely to be hospitalized, as well as die from the common flu than women.

Current research seems to be exploring the idea that testosterone hampers immune response (antibody production) whereas estrogen promotes it.

Being dismissive of men’s less effective immune responses to common flus is about as sexist as a man similarly bellittling a woman having menstrual cramps.

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/man-flu-cold-real-or-not/

The pop-cultural portrayal of men as overly weak and hysterical patients when facing a simple flu may hinder men from seeking for appropriate medical treatment because of a fear to be ridiculed. To avoid a culture of toxic masculinity, stereotypical portrayals of gender roles should be avoided."

The way you dismantle toxic masculinity is by listening to men when they describe their lived experiences, allowing them to feel comfortable and not judged when they describe their medical symptoms.

The way you reinforce toxic masculinity is by making it taboo for them to express when they are in pain, and mocking them when they aren’t acting like a big strong tough, toxically masculine guy.

EDIT: a quick overview of @chionogirl via nitter, she appears to be some kind of conservative tradwife/stay at home mom from the American South.

Their Valentines Day tweet is:

Happy Valentine’s Day to heterosexual monogamous couples only (heart emoji)

What a gem of a person.