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"It looks like a bedroom with skylight. I would love to live in a place designed like this! ",
"I would live in that apartment.",
"It’s a house for a mouse! Time to add the tiny furniture.",
"How are the acoustics?",
"This is where all my picks go whey they decide they dont like me anymore ",
"Oh man I just picture myself lying down on the floor of this sweet room whilst listening to Dark Side of the Moon on a sweet hi-fi in the corner",
"That's the first image I've seen (to my knowledge) with the European Colour Initiative profile. I think the reddit preview strips that and treats it as sRGB.\n\nGreat shot.",
"r/RoomPorn ",
"damn how much rent?",
"Very pleasing "
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/r/pics/comments/7oo9ax/for_anyone_who_wonders_what_happened_to_the/ | [
"r/lilgrabbies",
"Are you saying it's a dinosaur, or are you saying it got bigger and *ate* the dinosaurs? Because either seems pretty plausible. ",
"Birds are theropod dinosaurs. It's like if all mammals went extinct, except for bats.",
"Clever girl.. I mean, bird. ",
"Pretty sure that that’s a terror bird",
"It’s pretty clear that OP is saying this species of bird is single handily responsible for the systematic mass murder and genocide of all dinosaurs.",
"That’s the baby blue heron that killed the dinosaurs?\n\nYou son of a bitch. Why’d you have to do that? Everyone loves the dinosaurs. ",
"I’m so glad he made it through the asteroid.",
"It’s a dinosaur. \n\nI’m saying it.",
"Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.",
"Perfect! I was just thinking to myself, \"Hey, whatever happened to those dinosaurs?\"",
"[Is that the only thing you know how to type?](https://reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7oo96p/_/dsb28nx/?context=1) All evidence from the last three minutes seems to indicate that's the case. ",
"[For anyone who wonders what happened to my popcorn, here's a stopwatch](https://i.imgur.com/iXT6VaS.png)",
"Ah I see, like how human embryos look like older life forms as they go through the development stages? (Ugh! Don't google image search that, kinda nasty.)\n",
"A creature so giant we'd find it absurd \nThrough mountains and forests its roar would be heard \nNobody would think \nThe great beast would shrink \nAnd now that poor dino's a bird... ",
"Birds are dinosaurs in the same way humans are mammals. ",
"\"very tiny Jurassic Park theme music\" ",
"I was about to say I've tamed a few of those, only bigger, in Ark.",
"We had herons take over our back yard (Central valley Calif.) last summer, within 2 weeks our yard was white from bird shit. We found fish and frogs on our patio that dropped from many nests in our huge tree. The birds don’ t all sleep at night, so if we opened our patio door we could not hear the TV. After the baby’s left the nest they all left. We spent $2500 dollars to remove the tree, no more of these assholes. ",
"It's a known scientific fact that the Blue Heron summoned Meteor to bring about the destruction of dinosaurkind.",
"any pictures/videos?",
"Long ago the dinosaurs lived in peace, but then everything changed when the heron attacked. ",
"I alway thought so too! I live in Mission Bay, San Diego and I watch them everyday. The are loud too. Beautiful animal. ",
"Evolution is a lie of the devil Hillary Clinton and the anti christ barrack obama! /s",
"https://youtu.be/GI_P3UtZXAA",
"Nice title, OP! *Is this your own photo!?!?*\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/372a1j/wonder_what_happened_to_the_dinosaurs_this_is_a/\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/43knjm/ever_wondered_what_happened_to_dinosaurs_this_is/\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4jbdvo/wonder_what_happened_to_the_dinosaurs_this_is_a/",
"Thats like that one bird from the beginning of The Force Awakens..",
"Anyone call for a Quetzal? /r/ark",
"That sounds very illegal. Did you have to get a special permit to do that?",
"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.",
"#Got Em! Ohhh Shit Got Em! Damn! Savage!\n\n",
"It is. Kind of. Biologically and geologically they're very similar. Closest we got. ",
"Roses are red \nViolets are blue \nThis bird's as big \nAs a dinosaur poo",
"Have you heard a nest of herons? No jury would convict you for getting rid of them",
"It isn't known, however, how long it had to grind to gain that ability.",
"Fuck you, you ain't gettin' me. We all know you at jurassic park homie.",
"I think that someone should attest\n\nBefore you too greatly invest\n\nIt's three feet of rhyme\n\n(For the middle two's fine) \n\nAnd the meter should be anapaest",
"https://i.imgur.com/6BoQLFx.gifv",
"Roses are red,\n\nViolets are blue,\n\nMilk, eggs, butter.",
"Ok, it's cute and all, but what happened to the dinosaurs?\n\nEdit: thank you for the responses. My question was rhetorical. ",
"Only the Avasaur, master of all the Eraments, could stop them but when the world needed it most, it vanished.",
"I love you.",
"Loot boxes hadn't been invented yet, after all.",
"Also how foetuses all look the same up to a point - elephant, human, cat. ",
"Birds have always been dinosaur leftovers to me. Just look at em. They're totally dinosaurs, and they both have feathers and make noise. Plus their beaks and talons. Plus their gait and plumage. \n\nPrehistoric shit, birds are. ",
"I thought everybody walked the dinosaurs? ",
"Only once they've opened the door.",
"Yes.",
"Geologically?\n\nBirds *are* dinosaurs. They are just the only branch of the family tree that survived to this day.",
"Yeah birds are rocks bro didn't you know? ",
"alligators & crocodiles would like to have a word with you ",
"It isn’t even his final form.",
"And got on the floor.",
"god dammit Marie",
"Can't wait till mages guild 10",
"So you are saying \"beware of the Blue Heron when they start their mighty dance again\"?",
"That heron is more gray than baby blue.",
"[YEAH!](https://i.imgur.com/oPCcgZq.gif)",
"> Birds and dinosaurs coexisted for many millions of years. \n\nThere is a time in the fossil record where we stop finding birds, but still have dinosaurs. They didn't always coexist because dinosaurs predate birds.",
"Heron lacks the fingers and teeth archeopteryx had.",
"We used to have blue herons here in California, but I have only seen one or two in the last five years. \n\nWe have a few egrets left, but not many. \n",
"Looks like granny velociraptor lost her dentures again",
"I still can't fathom a T-Rex with feathers",
"They died. ",
"Cut him some slack, man. He's just some /u/dickfromaccounting",
"Yet it's nature's solution,\n\nBy means of evolution,\n\n\nTo sometimes let creatures shrink.\n\nCuz' the meteor changed,\n\nthe name of the game\n\nAnd there was less food than you might think.\n",
"Where is u/poemforyoursprog when you need him",
"I was fishing on a river a few years back, and drifting downriver we passed a small island where a ton of blue herons nest. It legitimately sounded like there was a Jurassic Park raptor cage amongst the trees. Crazy shit. ",
"Actually it W-Summoned Knights Of The Round.",
"No they don't, Crocs and alligators were never dinosaurs",
"Yes and the closer related the closer the embryos look. The most amazing is the cetaceans; the whales and dolphins. They start out looking like every other land mammal and then through development their nasal passages basically move to the top of their heads. They even develop whisker pores which don’t fully develop. ",
"Calculated.",
"Spoilers! ",
"I'm confused. How does a baby blue heron explain what happened to the dinosaurs?",
"Too soon? ",
"So not even a new title? Cold blooded fake-OP. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/duplicates/372a1j/wonder_what_happened_to_the_dinosaurs_this_is_a/",
"Oh, yeah?\n\n\n\nEdit: I get it now.\nYour secret is safe with me!",
"He looks like he's non-stop bragging about how he's descended from some badass dinosaur several thousand generations removed and he has royal blood and blah blah blah, but then he himself has been living out of his mom's basement for years.",
"When either a meteor hit or a series of volcanoes went off in present day India, or a one two punch of both reduced plant life on the planet and caused larger animals to go extinct. One of the groups of dinosaurs was called Theropods, this group likely had feathering, bird-like hips, and a wishbone structure in their chest. These became the birds. Birds are dinosaurs taxonomically speaking. ",
"It killed them all",
"He never claimed it to be",
"His name checks out",
"They died due to a changing climate most likely brought about by a meteor strike. However, not all lineages died off. Birds we have today are the last remaining lineage of dinosaurs. As another poster put it, it would be like if all mammals went extinct due to a catastrophic event with only bats surviving. Bats are still mammals, they share lots of traits with other mammals, they are just not completely representative of the prior diversity of the lineage. Also, remember, the dinosaurs were around for a really fucking long time. The dinosaurs around in the late cretaceous are closer in time to now (~65 mya) than they were to the earlier dinosaurs (starting at ~ 248 mya). Lots of time for evolutionary change and diversification.",
"They didnt go extinct they just got smaller. ",
"They died due to a changing climate most likely brought about by a meteor strike. However, not all lineages died off. Birds we have today are the last remaining lineage of dinosaurs. As another poster put it, it would be like if all mammals went extinct due to a catastrophic event with only bats surviving. Bats are still mammals, they share lots of traits with other mammals, they are just not completely representative of the prior diversity of the lineage. Also, remember, the dinosaurs were around for a really fucking long time. The dinosaurs around in the late cretaceous are closer in time to now (~65 mya) than they were to the earlier dinosaurs (starting at ~ 248 mya). Lots of time for evolutionary change and diversification.\n\n",
"Baby Quetzalcoatlus",
"Wow!",
"This South American bird's chicks are born with claws at the ends of their wings that they can climb trees with before their wings are strong enough to fly. There's a pic if you click \"Taxonomy\"and scroll down.\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoatzin",
"Skaarl is that you? ",
"But where did it find 4 Mars Djinni?",
"You mean baby quetzal",
"I've seen OP repost all kinds of shit, basically another gallowboob",
"I laughed too hard. I’m starting to question my age. ",
"There once was a man from Nantucket...",
"Big fucking deal.",
"What's your age again?",
"Yes",
"I wonder what it was about birds that made them able to surivive is such harsh conditions and seemingly little food. Like sure the dinosaurs could be enough food for a little bit but what do they do after? Eat eachother?",
"no one likes you when youre me. ",
"I wanna know?",
"it is known khaleesi",
"Something something bucket",
"I'm laughing so hard my family is starting to suspect i'm not studying.",
"Most birds still have hands with claws, it‘s just obscured because of the wing-feathers. ",
"Who, while strolling on deck with his mates...",
"No, really, do not listen to this with earphones in and turned up. It hurts",
"Idk, looks more grey than baby blue",
"That is one ugly chick. The full grown ones are pretty neat, though.",
"... I weep for this series",
"It's head looks like it's straight out of The Dark Crystal.\n",
"~65 million years",
"Is this how you make yourself feel superior to others?",
"Can you imagine your dinosaur, not a little fru-fru one, running around and scratching the door to flinders at three in the morning, because walkies to piddle? If a swimming pool full of dinosaur piss could be called piddle...",
"Who's your Asian friend?",
"> They even develop whisker pores which don’t fully develop. \n\nAlso hindlimbs. ",
"CHRIS HANSEN HERE HAVE A SEAT",
"He looks grey to me. He sure as fuck isn't baby blue. ",
"*her",
"ITT: nobody is really respecting what OP was trying to do here, and saying that blue herons killed the dinosaurs. In fairness, OP’s title left him wide open for that.",
"Correct. They are, however, archosaurs, which dinosaurs also fall under. ",
"I was more thinking along the lines of the blink 182 song what's my age again. ",
"I am afraid im out of the loop. I don't have an asian friend.",
"Do we have Holy ready to prevent this from happening again? It'd probably take a sword to the heart for me to use it though\n",
"looks like a heron on heroin",
"Yeah, that’s what rang the bell. Couldn’t quite finger it. ",
"Kinda looks like a baby version of an Ichthyornis, mainly basing this off my mass amounts of Ark: Survival Evolved \"knowledge\"",
"Nope. Not telling...",
"Chris Hansen here, why don't you have a seat, Chris Hansen?",
"But Mike Pence said evolution is wrong and creationism is right.",
"THIS! Why do people always forget the terror birds?",
"Or as I calls ya, Chris Handsom.",
"Does it know what happened?",
"Anyone else instantly start hearing the theme from jurassic park as soon as they saw this? ",
"WoW!! Where did you took this photo? Next time please record the sound of this beautiful dinosaur :)",
"And we would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids",
"so we're saying the dinsaurs had a heron problem? ",
"Will the real Chris Hansen, please stand up?",
"Well, he is a dick after all ",
"and which birds also fall under. u/jumpinjezz get the fuck out of here with that dinosnob shit",
"Essentially, A 10km diameter asteroid impacted the Yucatan Peninsula to form the [Chicxulub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater) crater, as the asteroid hit, it vaporised a large amount of rock beneath it which contained sulfur, this then went into the atmosphere and plunged the world into a global winter for a decade.",
"That's ok i was thinking about replying with a comment to you about seeing a young girl in reference to Tobias from arrested development but thought that might look even worse.",
"I may have gotten that one since I do happen to be an *Arrested Development* fan. ",
"CHRIS HANSEN HERE YOU MISUNDERSTAND ME I JUST WANT SOMEONE TO TALK TO HERE PLEASE HAVE A SEAT ILL GET US SOME TEA. ",
"Thank you",
" Everyone else? Why don't you have a seat? ",
"Excuse, are you using this chair?",
"That’s because god works off of a template. Have you never visited a design studio?",
"[F](http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/858/776/f2e.jpg_large)",
"E",
"Crocs and alligators aren't dinosaurs. How about you go and actually take some goddamn biology courses and stop trying to be an Internet expert?",
"I pictured a little boy with glasses in his Sunday best at a podium delivering this performance at a recital during his solo. ",
"No, Friendbird used antimatter to destroy her civilisation and the mass extinction that followed was collateral damage.\n\n/r/churchoffriendbird",
"Thank you. Because I genuinely thought that this bird grew to such considerable size as to consume all of the dinosaurs. ",
"Shrink Ray",
"Redditor for 4 years. First I've ever seen it. Last posted a year ago? Yeah, I think this one can slide.",
"It didn't necessarily have anything that we would recognize as feathers. Look at kiwis, cassowaries and penguins. Terrestrial life makes traditional feathers mostly pointless.",
"This explains everything https://m.imgur.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/kRUfJfr",
"[The better, original version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk)",
"[We need to go even further beyond.](https://youtu.be/itzaF8ctR2M)",
"Clever girl.\n",
"LMFAO",
"Sweet Dee!",
"How did their faces develop beaks? ",
"https://i.imgur.com/8AC7twn.jpg\n\nHmmm...",
"Hipster great blue heron pulling a \"white people\" before people existed.",
"I mean we only recently discovered dino feathers but we've always called bird raptors.",
"Clever girl...",
"Nature, uh, finds a way ",
"I think I'm missing your reference",
"That doesn’t look very scary. More like a twenty-foot turkey. ",
"Aside from being an awesome picture, I have to admit, that looks actually more threatening than a naked T-Rex, especially if it could do the thing birds do when they're trying to look intimidating and make the feathers fluff up a bit. \n\nImagine, it looks you in the eye, you see its pupils zero in on you, the feathers fluff out to stand on end, it roars, and finally takes its first step in a chase that will be your last.",
"[Going beyond beyond.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6T3THpqnXo)",
"#noegrets",
"Holy fucking shit, it's a dinosaur!",
"... said \"Hey these limericks are great!\"",
"Something something, fuck it. ",
"Its Cute",
"Looking very Angry ",
"Why questioning your age ",
"Right. ",
"That's a long debunked theory going back to the time of Darwin. Any resemblance to older life forms is more of a coincidence than a biological fact. Still, they look similar enough for it to have been highly debated at one point. ",
"Was this taken at Presque Isle",
"Who's dick was so long he could suck it",
"Now just imagine it 30 feet long with a 50 foot wingspan ",
"Stop questioning his /her/it's age! \n \n \nEdit:I laughed pretty hard as well ",
"It was always weird that some dinosaurs slowly lost arms for wings(or just lost them to tiny stubby things) but then terror birds come along and it never becomes advantageous again. ",
"Raptor means \"grabber\" or \"robber\" in Latin. Both velociraptors and modern raptors are thus named because their hind claws (raptorial claws) are specialized for grabbing and holding on to prey. Funnily enough, today's raptors were named as such long before any dinosaurs were described that way.",
"How did it manage to collect the black materia though?",
"/joerogan",
"ALWAYS cracks me up. Pure, music genius.",
"What? When did you take dev bio? Primitive structures from our evolutionary history most certainly do appear in embryos. Human embryos develop pharyngeal slits, a long post anal tail, and have unfused sacral vertebrae, all of which are features primitive to early vertebrates.",
"A man walked with Jesus Raptor on a beach, and saw two sets of foot prints as they walked along the events of the man's life. But he noticed only raptor prints in the troublesome times. The Man knew Raptor Jesus loves him and carried him through it all. \n\nPraise!",
"No, the tree was a danger to the house, it was also pushing the fence over. ",
"They’re uh...they’re flocking this way!!!",
"I’m imagining it on like a crackerjack prize sized kazoo.",
"I bet it really got a sense of pride and accomplishment. ",
"Regular bread crumbs or panko? That's the question, because I'd would totally fry and eat that bird...also forgot to mention hotsauce. A dollop of Trappys...maybe a lemon slice. Iced Tea, Mac and Cheese a side of chocolate cake for dessert.",
"Life... finds a way...?",
"All birds literally are dinosaurs",
"https://youtu.be/H5QCbogbOuc",
"Whew.",
"See the something somethings turned backwards just like a dinosaur. Even the word raptor means bird of pray... what happened? \n\nHaha he touched the monitor. \n\n\nThat doesn’t look very scary too me, more like a big chicken! ",
"Yes they did - and birds almost certainly derived from dinosaurs but one is not the other. ",
"And then decided that was enough and let us do our own thing ",
"Looks more like a micro raptor from Ark",
"You know that they're literally dinosaurs, right? ",
"Beautiful phrase, but unfortunately very outdated.\nhttps://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/history_15",
"Congrats on your new pet, but what fishing level did you get it?",
"[Oh, really?](http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/06/30/clubs-spurs-spikes-and-claws/) \n\nTo quote the article:\n\n> Hand claws are normal for birds. Given that birds are amniotes, it follows that they have hand claws within their ancestry. While it’s well known that the fossil birds of the Mesozoic often had clawed hands, it doesn’t seem to be widely known that hand claws are widespread and in fact wholly normal in extant birds. They’re not an anachronism unique to the Hoatzin Opisthocomus hoazin [embryo (above) and adult Hoatzin hands shown below]. In fact, digit I claws are generally present in ratites, gamebirds, waterfowl, divers, storks and kin, finfoots, owls, New World vutures, the Secretary bird Sagittarius serpentarius, waders and many others (Jefferies 1881, Fisher 1940) – a distribution which strongly suggests that they’ve been retained throughout neornithine history but lost selectively here and there, especially among so-called ‘higher landbirds’ [ostrich hand shown below; note obvious claws]. \n\nApart from that, some birds have really obvious wing claws, like the Hoatzin, the [Southern Screamer](https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/7imqd9/claws_on_a_ducks_wings_remnants_from_their_dino/?st=JC52AS3S&sh=550fc3cf) or the [Emu](https://aaaamory.deviantart.com/art/Emu-Wing-Claw-135132877) \n\nEdit: Lol, he deleted his comment. For anyone wondering, he tried to tell me birds didn‘t have wing-claws and seemed quite sure about it. I‘ll take the deletion as an admission of defeat. ",
"You'd be in trouble handeling one of those where I live, they are a protected species. Eagles LOVE raiding heron nests. There is(was) a rookery in a park across from a bunch of condos and the residents had to watch eagles snatching babies herons until there were none left. The parents haven't returned. Fun times.",
"Are you referring to the UP (porcupine mtns) or the city in Wisconsin?",
"Birds literally are dinosaurs, so that's what happened to some of them",
"As it should be.",
"Probably because herons literally are dinosaurs just like every other bird, so that makes no sense",
"No it's not, because humans evolved from certain Australopithecus species, but we belong to a different genus, so we're not Australopithecines. Birds literally are dinosaurs.",
"“You bred raptors?”",
"You want to see dinosaurs? Come to my house and watch my chickens in the backyard. Mini velociraptors everywhere",
"The just grew up...",
"[Adding a twist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5jWtz3rzco)",
"I believe the technically are. Taxonomically birds are the only surviving subset of the dinosaur evolutionary branch.",
"Blink 182, a band. Song called what's my age again but on the live cd he says where's me Asian friend",
"Ok. I got you. Live versions are usually fun in my opinion. I love the live version of lifes been good by Joe Walsh. He changes the lyrics up in it also.",
"> Closest we got \n\nLooks-wise this modern day creature looks a bit closer: \nhttp://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2894167.1480599156!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/snapping-turtle-rescued.jpg ",
"There was still plant life. But imagine a large dinosaur that needs large amounts of vegetation vs a small therapod who only needs to feed off insects. Those insect still manage to find small amounts of vegetation. But the larger dinosaurs can’t find enough, they have to move and expend more energy finding food than they are able to take in, they die and so too do the larger predators that feed off them. It’s just food chain economics. ",
"[feathered dinosaurs look just like this bird. ](http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Top-10-Feathered-Dinosaurs-3.jpg) ",
"No no no, you're supposed to link [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk)",
"I mean, birds are scientifically still considered dinosaurs ",
"Looks like a convoy from Ark: Survial ",
"That's not a harmonica",
"Actually, experts stopped believing that about 2 years ago. The heat of the earth at the time combined with the huge size of the T-Rex would have made feathers unbearably hot. So it wouldn't have had feathers. \n\nIt seems that it had a small amount of feathery down (the stuff that covers baby birds) on its back, but not much. Other than that, it was leathery skin in some places, and regular skin in others \n\n",
"that was made in a chinese bone factory.",
"I've read they're trying to isolate the \"junk gene\" that would allow a chicken to grow a dino's face. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12684/epdf?referrer_access_token=9E0Wuz5HnayxiBP9iy8JJYta6bR2k8jH0KrdpFOxC66SbFp-tjgWpSZVB3XxVFpoo-S20VtM61ynJyjWs2E0uVVQPtmoNAh1wbXpQQ0fmA8PxDqRe1RQT-gZZLrTRCxOks5gRsraR3jh0rOxwVXbzmrtxxDcD5_wTWD7bC9YYav5aSqq81uLWtvwjJBQQTOT-9oWCeuxjA83wEx45PBMAKRFYJeQpwZg09dZs1B7iX0%3D",
"Fully grown these things are a perfect mix of being majestic and clumsy. Seeing one take flight, going from wading in marshland to flying amongst the trees, is awesome yet hilarious. It's a beautiful struggle getting those huge wings going and their lanky legs kinda just dangle and flop around after takeoff ",
"If anything I reckon all the lineages of dinosaurs that went completely extinct were the leftovers.",
"t’s a dinosaur.\n\nI’m saying it.",
"Huh. I have chickens and turkeys. No doubt what happened to the dinosaurs.",
"Clearly while the largest dinosaurs did go extinct suddenly , a small number of smaller ones survived and provided the evolutionary basis for birds",
"\"Please be the recorder version, please be the recorder version... YESSS!\"\n\n-Me before clicking the link.",
"They got nerfed.",
"Mother fucker I had my headphones in, nearly blew my ears off. ",
"Knew it was gonna be this before the click. Laughed like an idiot anyway. Updoot 4 u ",
"For scale, that’s Hagrid’s hand",
"Honestly, that they are legit dinosaurs makes me feel better about being afraid of birds.",
"Have you ever heard a heron?! \n",
"Back where I'm from that's called a baby shitaquart.",
"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presque_Isle_State_Park",
"Ahh. Didn't realize the name is so prevalent",
"I want someone to photoshop pictures of birds by replacing their feathers with scales. ",
"After being thwacked with an asteroid in the tertiary cretatious extinction, apparently, on Earth, being slow was not a good thing if you weren't built for combat or small. This seems to have led to the rise of avians and the proliferation of mammals that were adaptive enough to thrive. With less of a need to rip into tough prey, arms were deemphasized in large predators in favor of optimizing for speed. This is at least my observation as a non-paleobioligist.",
"Holy shit that was nightmare fuel. ",
"Dinosaurs are so fucking tight.",
"{citation required} pls.\n",
"Thanks Obama...",
"Played on one of those kiddie xylophones would do it. ",
"I know it's coming but I can't help but crack up at this.",
"[better](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkNLAUwSFGw)",
"How can you be this fucking stupid ",
"Kill it with fire before it lays eggs. Hate those things ",
"There’s where I parked my quetzal.",
"If you don't know what dinosaurs look like. Sure.\n\n",
"https://youtu.be/428IyxSfsls",
"Not talking about primitive structures we're talking about looking like evolutionary ancestors. The idea that you mature through your evolutionary ancestors originates back to Darwin. Seeing primitive \"structures\" is a different topic. You are confusing the two. ",
"Explain yourself, otherwise you come across as a pompous idiot. ",
"Ask and you shall receive\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory",
"Ah. Never heard of that old theory so I wasn't aware that's what you meant. ",
"Thanks.",
"Birds and reptiles, no?"
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"sold/comp account /u/shaboden ",
"Show off.",
"/u/shaboden, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must convey accurate information. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/shaboden&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7oob4f/my_microwave_can_be_opened_from_both_sides/?context=10\\))"
] | 3 | pics | My microwave can be opened from both sides |
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"Dumb asses not holding on to their crap.",
"This shit is scary. Looks all innocent. Just a simple mud puddle. Nope. Certain death when that layer cracks like thin ice and your body vaporizes.",
"This is why we can't have nice things.",
"It wasn't a windy day either.",
"Used to."
] | 5 | pics | Pink Cowboy Hat on Boiling Water [Yellowstone, WY, 07/06/2014] |
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"That's like $2000 worth of packing tape. (Based on what I pay for a tiny roll at Walmart)",
"In the packaging world it's a $300 roll of 3M \ncarton sealing tape, ",
"Funny thing is - it's transparent!"
] | 3 | pics | Now this is a roll of packing tape! |
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/r/pics/comments/7oobgc/got_this_picture_of_my_girlfriend_on_cannon_beach/ | [
"To be honest, it looks like it could be a promo shot for The Last Jedi. Not a bad thing, that movie was gorgeous. ",
"This looks really good.",
"Looks like the opening shot for a video game villain. ",
"Your gf is Darth Vader? ",
"If the created a female Assassin's Creed game, this would definitely be what the cover looks like",
"Well, which one was it?",
"Only on my birthday ",
"I spent a week there in the summer of 1987, it was awesome for a teen kid and his best friend. Thanks for the memory.",
"But did the ice break?",
"Any time! I’m glad it brought back a good one!",
"I went and looked at it on Google Maps and my god how it's changed. The house we stayed in is apparently long gone and a strip mall is in it's place now, lol.",
"Skyrim?",
"The Goonies!",
"Is your girlfriend Darth Vader?",
"Was hoping this would be the top comment. I am pleased.",
"Wow! I used to take family vacations to Cannon Beach when I was a baby. This is a great picture",
"I’m ashamed to say I just got this hahaha",
"Goonies never say die!"
] | 18 | pics | Got this picture of my Girlfriend on Cannon Beach, OR near Haystack Rock and thought y’all might appreciate it! |
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"Nice album.",
"Haha, I told him to pick one of his favourites. I'm trying to add a more personal touch when I photograph people",
"Looks great! Although I must admit it initially peaked my interest because I thought that was a poster of short round on the wall",
"/u/the-one-I-post-with, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/the-one-I-post-with&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7oobm4/practicing_my_portrait_work_on_my_roomie_what_do/?context=10\\))"
] | 4 | pics | Practicing my portrait work on my roomie, what do you think? |
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/r/pics/comments/7oodow/a_stable_genius_correctly_locates_a_solar_eclipse/ | [
"Why is Heisenberg on his chin?",
"Isn't a stable genius someone who shovels animal shit?",
"President Trump lets get you prepared \nTo view a sight so awfully rare \n\"I don't need your help!\" \nHe cried and he yelped \n\"I can see the eclipse is right there!\" ",
"Its reconstructive surgery in preparation for a remake to a popular TV show, coming out in 2019: Breaking Vlad, where Holster White (John Barron/ Donald Trump) makes math errors to make more money for himself so he can leave ~~it to~~ his family, but instead finds himself indebted to a bald crazy guy who talks funny. Hilarious hijnks ensue, with a catastrophic end to a republic and in the nuclear winter that follows, the audience realizes all along that he was actually a genius with stock in a nuclear clean up startup, Grey Sky Matter, Bitch, LLC.",
"Efficiently.",
"that doesn't really make him unstable though. it makes him rebellious and not care about his vision. if this was a scientist, you would all say he's doing an experiment",
"Can't tell if you're trolling or a Trump supporter.",
"Oh boy! Trump is done for now",
"If were a scientist you'd say they were making at experiment, comrad... er fellow capitalist! ",
"it's more that I would rather hear why you dislike the man for his policies or specifically what he's done to screw you over. Not some made up b.s. to pick on the guy",
"I guess the question is, would a genius look directly at a solar eclipse?",
"that wouldn't be a test of a genius though. There a plenty of geniuses that have done stupid things. \n\nBen Franklin electrocuted himself. Einstein forgot his address. Steve Jobs let snakes loose in a 3rd grade classroom. Obama reached his entire arm over the the glass that protects the food at Chipotle to point at the topping he wanted.\n\nI could go on and on but its obvious you dont like this guy for other reasons than looking at the sun",
"He’s trolling everyone and it’s hilarious. 🤣",
"He's part of r/conspiracy so yes, a Trump supporter.",
"Obama makes hygiene error. Trump threatens to nuke a country. Totally the same. ",
"You forgot your sarcasm tag.",
"Ewww",
"There's a subtle difference between *\"trolling\"* and just being a member of the troll species...",
"So edgy, an anti-Trump post in r/pics. You guys sure help to keep his saturation levels up. ",
"Year one snowflakes still triggered.",
"Democrats are such sore losers! ",
"You know that one pose that link can do in botw ",
"That's true, but those guys also did things *that made us believe they were geniuses*. (Well, except for Obama, that was a weird one to include. Also Jobs is questionable).\n\nTrump has *only* done things to make us think he's an idiot who inherited a lot of money from his dad.",
"edgy \n\nEDIT: lol ",
"Sore winners are so much worse. ",
"That's uncertain.",
"does bullshit count?",
"I suppose this post's condescending tone wants me to think Trump's lack of expertise on the biology of the human eye and particle wave physics reflect negatively on his politics? Bit of a stretch, chaps.",
"He's only doing it defend another country that wont stop threatening that. He's sticking up for his country. That's actually his job",
"Was that supposed to be a logical reply? ",
"Try harder",
"Why is that wrong to include? He made mistakes all the time and the media never said one thing about it. Looks as though the scales are tipped in one partys favor politically. \n\nI believe what Trump is referring to when he calls himself a genius is the way that he continues to stay on top financially when he has that amount of opposition and competition that nobody else has. Yes he received money from his Father but that also doesn't make him a bad person either. It makes sense when you're able to see it in the correct context. Unfortunately, I think you're too narrow minded to be able to",
"So the answer is no. Killfiled.",
"No I said try HARDER",
"Weird to include, because I don't know why you think of Obama as a *genius*.\n\nAnd Trump hasn't really done anything to warrant being called smart, let alone a genius. He inherited wealth and managed to stay in business? Wow. He sure has gone bankrupt a lot of times though.",
"you're cherry picking what you reply to. I said he has managed to stay in business with a tremendous amount of opposition. Especially compared to most, post modern businesses. Thats why he was chosen to be the president. But ya keep pretending like that isnt the case. It's working so well for you /s",
"i'm not cherry picking anything. You said he's managed to stay in business, I mentioned that he's declared bankruptcy numerous times. In the *casino* business, no less. When you inherit a shitload of money, it's hard to lose it all. Nothing about his business endeavors show that he's a genius. Quite the opposite.\n\n>Thats why he was chosen to be the president. But ya keep pretending like that isnt the case. It's working so well for you\n\nActually *that's* why he won the presidency. That contrarian attitude you just threw at me. After 8 years of Obama, there was a huge backlash from conservatives who hate liberals. And anyone who dislikes Trump is *obviously* a liberal.\n\nLook man, that's just the divided camps they want us to be in. They *want* us to act like both sides aren't fucking us over. It's a classic divide and conquer technique, and we really need to be smarter than it.",
"I know, those Obama years were a nightmare, the dems just didn’t know how to win gracefully. Seems like Democrats just love protesting regardless of winning or losing. "
] | 38 | pics | A stable genius correctly locates a solar eclipse. |
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http://i.imgur.com/oQFdZdS.jpg | /r/pics/comments/7oodpz/high_resolution_picture_of_the_moon/ | [
"Incredible ",
"i still can't see the infamous japanese bunny with the hammer making \"mocchi\".\n\nthanks for the pic, BTW.",
"Moon's seen some *shit*.",
"false color?",
"anyone else see the hair on the lens of the camera?\n\nlower center and to the left a tad?",
"Damn, how did you spot that! Is it a hair or is it a ridge? If you look just below it there is another lighter line that looks like a ridge on the moon. This does look more like an eyelash though. Fantastic spot mate, I never would have noticed without you pointing it out!",
"Why does the moon have lines coming out of the pole going into the other?\n\nIf it’s hard to understand, imagine an orange that’s been peeled sitting on its “pole” and you’ll see the segment lines going up into the other “pole”. ",
"Clear proof the moon is flat",
"Both poles have a bunch of [craters with large prominent \"rays\"](https://i.imgur.com/u43i5YE.jpg), which form straight lines.",
"Wow that’s amazing! ",
"i thought it was my spiderwebbed phone screen. ",
"Where does this image come from?"
] | 12 | pics | High resolution picture of the moon. |
/r/pics/comments/7oofk4/was_in_dallas_tx_for_the_weekend_loved_this_view/ | [
"Those are some mighty big balls you’ve got there!",
"See the red Pegasus on top of the building on the far right? I stay at the Magnolia all the time. Love downtown Dallas. Nice picture. ",
"I live in Dallas and it has some of the most picturesque skyline moments. \n\nI never thought to karmawhore them. ",
"Be sure and visit spaghetti warehouse...they also do delivery. I have to get some every time I'm in downtown dallasa"
] | 4 | pics | Was in Dallas, TX for the weekend. Loved this view!! |
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"I’m still battling. Good for you finding a way to cope. ",
"please educate me as to what that symbol represents. i am depressed and have general anxiety with no help in sight.",
"People who have the semicolon tattoo describe themselves as a movement dedicated to presenting hope and love to those who are struggling with depression, suicide, addiction, and self-injury. Project Semicolon exists to encourage, love, and inspire.\n\nI believe it started on social media in 2013. Roughly around that time anyway.\n\nSide note: I hope you’re doing well /u/bsd8andahalf_1\nYou’ve got all of us on Reddit for support, keep fighting buddy!",
"thank you. i was not aware of that. ",
"I thought it was some \"deal with it\" shades",
"Remember that you are never alone, you got this, I believe in you ",
"It’s how I deal with things so that works too",
"!!"
] | 8 | pics | Two and half years of anxiety, paranoia, anger, and depression led to this; getting those feelings out of my head and on my wrist, being open about my struggles, and making myself available to others fighting their own battles. I’d rather wear this on my wrist than ever have those feeling in my head |
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"Your an inspiration. Congratulations, does it get easier?",
"Absolutely. I think the first six months are really the hardest. It’s an emotional rollercoaster with random boner. Things get more stable and the cravings subside",
"Thanks, any advice you would I've someone struggling?",
"Its like you aged backwards ",
"You’re an inspiration to more people than you know! Thank you for sharing your story, even as brief as it is! I guarantee you’ll ignite the needed spark in at least one person tonight, likely many many more! ",
"I would really latch on to things that bring you happiness. Even if you can’t quit today, you deserve some joy. The more isolated you get, the more things will escalate. Try to tap into small sucesses. I quit ten times before i finally quit ",
"I appreciate it. It means alot.",
"Happy cake day. Living outside makes a person age quickly. I’ve had years inside to rest and take care of myself ",
"I saw these Recovery posts and I wanted to throw my story in even if only a handful of people see it ",
"Congrats, great job! You look great.",
"The only things I have from back then are mugshots and the rings I got when I got out of jail in 1996. I started over with nothing. It probably worked better that way for me. ",
"Good luck to you ",
"That’s an extra good pic of me 🤣. It’s not filtered just good. I look pretty good for a person who expected to be dead by 30. ",
"Your eyes say “ I’ve been through a lot, I know a lot, yet here I am” \n\nVery nice picture",
"Thank you. That’s pretty true. Life on the streets is pretty insane. I’ve seen things I’ll never forget. ",
"Why is your lipstick smeared? ",
"Breakfast? Or I’m an imperfect person ",
"Beating addiction, homelessness and incarceration - that's one helluva job.",
"Congratulations! You’ve been sober as long as I’ve been alive. Also I love that hat. ",
"The 90s drug era was not that great. I think it’s widely overlooked that AIDS wiped many IV drug users out. Lots of us also contracted Hep C and livers are failing twenty years out. ",
"Using was also a full time job 🤣",
"I had a wide variety of hats ",
"You're an inspiration, stay strong.",
"Thank you 🙏 ",
"That it was ",
"Like what? We're all wondering, don't lie to yourselves.",
"No! You look great for a person who was expected to be dead by 30.\nYou're one of the lucky ones who can say you made it. You should be very proud😁",
"Things I’ll never forget? A person in a hospital bed and a diaper smoking crack, dying from AIDS, a hooker with a colostomy bag, stabbings, children as young as 12 turning tricks, I mean it’s too long of a list. ",
"I try to be. Trying to pass it on. ",
"Good for you! Keep going and the best of luck to you😀",
"Sorry to be 'that guy', but HTML isn't a programming language. It's a markup language.",
"You look beautiful and wise beyond your beauty.\n\n\nCongratulations on your success. I wish you every happiness. ",
"You were in the Lost Boys ?",
"You're beautiful and incredibly powerful. You go girl!\n\nI wish all your days to be blessed! ",
"Thank you? ",
"Huh? ",
"Thank you ",
"Haha no but I was in a movie from the 90s ",
"Thank you ",
"As you said that you had quit several times, what stuck for you that made you want to quit for good?",
"the only thing i can think is you have an h in your username",
"> It's an emotional rollercoaster with random boner.\n\nI am trying really, *really* hard to figure out what this means.",
"hats are the best!",
"Not nice. I can't even see any evidence of what you commented anyway.",
"Middle top right bottom lower right",
"For me, and I’m just saying for me, I had to quit all drugs and alcohol. I was a pretty severe polysubstance user. I really was close to dying. I decided to give quitting everything a shot. Recovery is different for different people. That’s just what worked for me. I should say a lot of the medications that help with addiction were not around then",
"When you detox from drugs, basically all the sexual feelings that disappeared reappear in painful awkward ways in the first few weeks to months ",
"Especially when showers aren’t readily available ",
"Props to you ",
"Yeah the booze is no fucking joke. Good luck to you ",
"You look like my all time favourite UK presenter and funny woman, [Claudia Winkleman](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_small/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/31/12/claudia-winkleman-0.jpg).\n\nShe goes very heavy on the eyeliner though, she caller herself a panda.\n \nThat shade of lippy really suits you.\n\nYou look so youthful and lovely :)\n",
"I had just received some new makeup from a friend so I was trying it out. ",
"Congrats and here's to another 20 years of sobriety!",
"Thank you. Getting old is a trip. ",
"He's posted the same meaningless thing in a few other threads too. Just ignore him. ",
"Good for you. I'm 13 years sober, I hope to make it to 20 one day.",
"you just wrote a bunch of directional words.",
"I didn’t realize this thread would get so many comments. I gotta get to sleep soon but/ and I want to respond to all the comments",
"Congrats to you !!",
"Congrats🎊",
"Middle top right, makeup is outside of the upper lip crevice such that it \"overshoots\" on the lower bottom right you can see a line smear. Didn't realize I had to be your eyes apparently. ",
"😍🙏🙏. I love emojis ",
"Thank you for not only your sobriety but your candor as well. Congratulations, and keep on inspiring people to make a change. ",
"There is no need for this hyper criticism.",
"What does middle top right even mean?",
"Thank you. I appreciate you. ",
"Middle of the lips. On the top. Directly to the right. Pretty fucking straight forward. ",
"I was asking why it was smeared. I mean for all we know she had a stroke and had a hard time applying makeup. It's information, like fuck. ",
"How is this relevant?",
"I am curious to hear more. ",
"Any time when you get scared easily or jumpy? ",
"Yes that’s me. The jail gave me glasses. I’m actually extremely nearsighted, like dangerously so without them ",
"It's information. I like information. I saw something, and I wanted to know more.",
"I was in EMDR therapy and therapy for ptsd for seven years ",
"I’ve written a bunch about those days. ",
"And that movie was?",
"Still don't know if you are talking about the top lip or not.\n\nThe middle of the lips is the whole in the middle.",
"Middle top directly to the right, like I don't know how much more fucking specific I need to be. Do I need to give you fucking coordinates? lol",
"I have to go to sleep unfortunately. Assuming there are more comments, I’ll answer them in them in the morning. Thank you for your kind words.,",
"Hey Tracey!\n\nYou're my favorite poster on that other subreddit. Always supportive & full of wisdom.\n\nGrats.",
"You look much happier now, and seem more at peace.\n\nCongratulations on your sobriety, this is a very big accomplishment!",
"Has anyone ever told you that you resemble Zooey Deschanel?",
"No because I’ve been overweight most of my life. I just lost 44 pounds",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"You look beautiful!",
"😍thank you ",
"Congratulations and may you have many more years to celebrate ",
"Why post a month early? I've seen other posts of the form \"hitting X sobriety milestone soon\". \n\nWhat's going through your head? If you're considering celebrating with a relapse, please don't.",
"I finally quit cigarettes when I also stopped drinking at the same time.",
"7 monkeys\n",
"The Mom from Arkangel? ",
"Thanks for the cake day :) and i hope the best for you, you deserve it ;)",
"Amen. Spread the word to others that addiction can be overcome. God bless you and best of luck. I hope you touch many lives. ",
"[HBO: BTH](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5e1fbk/hey_reddit_whats_that_one_super_cringey_or/da9vcjf/?context=10)\n\nI apparently had her tagged. \n^(I'll remove this if you want /u/traceyh415 )",
"The look in your eyes say it all. Very cool.",
"Great to see that you are doing well. I used to work in the ED at our small hospital. It made me so sad to see people decline in their drug use. What can random people do to help? Is there anything that actually does help, or is it all a personal decision that has to come from the inside?",
"[Black Tar Heroin](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221023/). A must see.",
"Do you think the EMDR helped? ",
"You look so beautiful. Congratulations 😁😊",
"Thank you ",
"No I’m not. ",
"That’s good!!",
"Thank you ",
"Haha no ",
"It’s okay ",
"Thank you ",
"What does middle top mean?",
"I’m a big believer in treating people who use drugs as people first. It’s astonishing how many people miss out on the humanity of just a few kind words",
"Are you a woman?",
"Cool, and congrats on the progress!\n\nI always liked the saying, *\"Life isn't about being better than others, it's about being better than you used to be.\"*",
"It did but I’ve had anxiety pop up over the years. I’m a work in progress ",
"Thank you ",
"😍",
"I'm currently going through the same but I'm now I'm a sober living home. If you need to talk PM me. ",
"My children think so ",
"Good stuff! I know that’s not an easy path in this country. Thanks for inspiring others!",
"Happy Birthday!!! Tracy I grew up around SF and you have always been an inspiration to me. I saw the documentary way back, and have seen a lot of your posts on the forums. Thank you. Just thank you. \n\nYou have helped not only me but more people than you will ever meet or know. \n\n",
"https://imgur.com/a/sxf63",
"Oh. I was just confused by your use of the word boners.",
"You're a better you!",
"Well it seems you've worked pretty hard to get where you are. I hope you've got some pride in what you've done because it really sounds like an amazing change. ",
"very inspirational. thanks.",
"Thank you ",
"Congrats ♡",
"That’s awesome. Thank you",
"Oh yeah I can see that ",
"Thank you ",
"I appreciate the good wishes ",
"Thank you ",
"Much Respect - Thank you and hope your 20th year clean is everything that you want it to be ",
"Well I got a month to go. Thanks ",
"Speak for yourself. Tsss",
"Are you in a documentary called “the dark end of the street?” ",
"Yes ",
"Hi Tracy. I used to frequently post on the opiates board a few years back and always admired your passion and all the harm reduction you personally are responsible for. I was towards the end of 12 years of off and on usage and honestly never saw myself quitting.\n\nToday I have 3 years 4 months and 6 days away from heroin. I'm not going to Karma whore and say you inspired me or anything like that, I was lucky some and work hard to keep what I have earned but without people like you I don't think people like me would ever have a chance. Hugs from a stranger across the miles. ",
"That’s really fantastic, I’m so happy for you and congratulations on all you accomplished!",
"Help me",
"You're awesome. Thanks for sharing your story. ",
"Congratulations and best wishes for a healthy and happy life to come. ",
"Living legend, Tracey from /r/opiates and this amazing documentary. Very inspiring.",
"Kudos to you. You are such an inspiration to others. Seems you've been to hell and back. Time to start enjoying life and celebrating you.",
"You are a survivor. You are an inspiration. Thank you",
"I was gonna mention the serious booty-time potential as-well. 20 years sober & a hottie.",
"You were just in The end of the fxxxing world.",
"I’ve seen that documentary and thought it was you! Super gritty so cool to see you have recovered !!!",
"Proud of you",
"Hey bro good job. You living a better life now",
"Congrats, I’m so happy for you! I think you have many more wonderful years ahead of you. ❤️",
"You’re about the only OP that I’ve seen respond to every one. It is obvious you not o my give a damn about yourself now- but all of us too. Keep it going sister ",
"We love you. ",
"Thanks for what you do tracy. Opiates are destroying america, cheers to the clean life. Heroin sucks. ",
" Most of the time. I still have asshole tendencies and am prone to making stupid impulsive decisions. Just part of who I am. Now I do it without all of the negatives that come with active addiction. Life is decent though and easier now for sure. I'm not hiding out at the library because I lost my job and didn't have the balls to tell my wife or selling my kids extra car seat or my mom's shotguns because I couldnt afford to be ill. ",
"If it wasn’t for the eyes I would have thought you were just going through a grunge phase ",
"I just read through a lot of your posts and comments. You are an amazing person, full of strength, kindness, and inspiration.",
"The documentary you were in, Black Tar Heroin, really stuck with me. I am so glad you made it out! ",
"Yeah buddy: https://youtu.be/sw8nXCx5qgo",
"What would compel you to say something like that?",
"LOVE YOU tracy youre the best!! ",
"It looks like you overcame becoming Rosie O'Donnell!\n\nJokes aside, really good work. ",
"Shes an Angel her posts always help me i think if more people listened to her ideas on harm reduction etc the opiate epedemic could be helped a lot. ",
"congrats that's awesome",
"Wth is wrong with you?",
"Awesome! Good for you. Keep it up and please let me know if you need anything.",
"But you lost a sick hat",
"I don't know you, never heard about you, but I have to say you are such a beautiful soul. You are doing amazing work. Everyone talks about this epidemic, but no one talks about how they're helping alleviate the situation. I don't think they understand the gravity of all of this, but you bring in new perspective and give me hope that with you out there more and more people can get their lives back on track. \n\n\nOpiate addiction is absolutely horrible. There aren't enough words I know to describe how terrible it really is. To top it off, it can potentially take it's toll immediately and happen to *anyone*.\n\nI live in a nice, quiet suburb that no one would associate with opiate abuse. There was a family across the street, a mother, her adult son and his two kids, somewhere about 5 and 3 at the time. The mother had a respectable law career, her son had made some mistakes but was getting ready for med school. People you'd never expect. \n\nOne morning I was getting the kids ready for school when someone ran into my door and started banging on it like a victim in a slasher flick trying to escape. I opened it up to the lady across the street, hysterical and on the phone with 911. She told me my wife (who is an MD) needed to help her son. She ran over and quickly deduced the kid had tried heroine with his new girlfriend the night before, who had thought she knew everything there was to know about the drug and could give him the right \"dose\". Well, it took his life. In such a horrible way. His lady friend rolled out and didn't say anything. I ran over with my wife and it was such a haunting, morbid scene. To top it off, his daughters were the ones who found him like that and I had to keep them away. I took them to my house where they kept asking if their dad would wake up. \n\n\nNot only did his mistake hurt him, it hurt his little girls, his mother and his twisted, contorted, pain ridden look still haunts me. It's a monster of a drug. \n\n\nThank you for being such an angel. ",
"You must be seriously fucked up inside to even say something like that. Absolutely despicable. ",
"I think I watched this on YouTube. \nWas there also a young blonde kid who caught HIV? \n\nI always wondered what happened to the people on these kind of programs. \n\nGlad to hear they haven’t all died. ",
"Good for you OP but damn reddit has been really loving receiving addicts/alcoholics lately",
"Whats up with all these addiction pictures? This is like the 3rd or 4th one I've seen today.",
"Yeah, I'm gonna join ya. As I say it drunk and hopped up on coke, when I was just meeting up with a friend for a casual drink. Good on me, I did it. Thanks strangers",
"Awesome ",
"congratulations ",
"Keep it up! ",
"Damn... now I need some black tar heroin...",
"..i actually envisioned a diaper smoking crack...",
"It isn't a great picture if you don't have to explain it first!",
"That's incredible! Congratulations!",
"You have beautiful eyes.",
"Congratulations on the enormity of your success! Love and peace to your future endeavours. ",
"The Netflix show? I just tried watching the first episode but it was so awkward I don't know if I can continue. ",
"I was gonna say you look like Paz de la Huerta, in her better years ",
"This Facebook? ",
"Yep good job ! I'm at 4y today.",
"Much respect, lady! Stay strong!",
"Congratulations! Keep up the great work!",
"Congrats! How'd you do it?",
"And you are pretty damn cool too!",
"Silent Bob ",
"We are all a work in progress, whether we choose to acknowledge that or not. Congrats on your sobriety. ",
"did spirituality have a major role in your recovery? did any of your spiritual beliefs change with recovery? best of luck ",
"Ok... go put this on Facebook",
"“Attraction not promotion.”",
"Congrats to you and your HP! ",
"Damn you look good! Happy for you! ",
"Transformed from dude to MILF",
"The IMDB Storyline:\n\n>The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, Oreo) during the course of three years. The film depicts their drug-related crimes and diseases: prostitution, **male prostitution**, AIDS, and lethal overdoses.\n\nHuh, male prostitution and regular prostitution are different.\n\nEdit: Holy shit, I did not mean to start a philosophical debate. If they wanted to point it out that there males and females prostituting themselves, there are better ways to do it grammatically. I thought it was a weird/funny phrasing. I did not mean to start a sexism/feminism/MRA debate. ",
"Your eyes and smile tell a great victory, so full of life and determination, thank you for inspiration, keep on trucking :)👍",
"She was in the movie \"The Room\". She was the star, the producer and the writer. ",
".... aaah I’m sure none was taken...",
" Are you ok???",
"Good luck to you",
"Here’s to another 20.",
"Congratulations,you overcame alot!May you always prosper.",
"We know you’re hiding that hat under your hair",
"As a semi frequent poster on the opiates board who has struggled with iv heroin addiction and also followed your posts/your blog, it's awesome to see you make r/all front page!!! But most of all, thank you for everything you do ❤️❤️\n\nEdit: and I also ought to add that I've been free of heroin for 9 months now and counting!~ ",
"Ha, I thought Helen Hunt. ",
"...and may you continue another 40 Years. ",
"AMA time!",
"next month i am going to be 20 years old....its like you decided to stop when i was born...thanks ;)",
"MADDDD LOVE HOMEGIRL!! GET IT :)",
"You’re sexy ",
"You look like a shithead on the left, and like a responsible and functioning adult that contributes to society on the right. Good job.",
"Do you mind me asking what you do for a living now? Congrats by the way, you look great.",
"one involves postage stamps and is a federal crime if it crosses state lines.",
"Not really, but if someone hears the word prostitution, they might think about women first...and that storyline may be from the year 2000.",
"Forgive me for asking this, even after 13 years do you still feel tempted by whatever vice you are sober from?\n\nMy dad was a smoker but I remember the day he quit, it was cold turkey for the most part; nicorette gums had just become available and he used that for a while but eventually stopped and hasn't smoked since. I know smoking isn't like alcohol or drugs, but I don't (knowingly) know any drug users or alcoholics.\n\n",
"Love you and everything you do, Tracey - most people would be proud of just overcoming their own problems, but you've also helped so many people with their own troubles, and saved so many lives.",
"I feel ya!!! You look wonderful ",
"/pics has finally completed its transformation to /cringe",
"Omg....those blue eyes.",
"Your eyes look dead in the picture on the left, which is such a stark contrast to your current picture. They're so full of life now.\n\nCongrats on the sobriety!",
"I wish it wasn't.",
"Omg this brings me tears",
"Congratulations! you should be very proud ",
"Just going to say congrats. I've lost a few buddies to opiates. I'm glad pulling through is an achievable goal. Please stay strong. I'm rooting for you. ",
"Thought it was silent Bob in the thumbnail. ",
"You are an inspiration. Congratulations, sis ❤❤❤",
"This really touches me because of my grandmother and aunt. My grandma died from alcoholism. She never could manage to get through it. But her daughter, my aunt, spent 40 years on a merry-go-round of drugs, alcohol, and homelessness. Now at 67 years old, she is finally 2 years sober. Having seen all this firsthand, I know how desperately hard it is to get past and recover. I have immense respect and admiration for you.",
"Actually hiding behind an online persona makes you not only despicable, but a coward, as well.",
"This. My issues don't compare to most, but I've already noticed how most people reduce my basic emotions to false products of a substance I barely use. I think many people would rather blame addiction than deal with underlying emotions. ",
"You are an inspiration. ",
"no shit! i just watched that San Francisco documentary this week. You stood out to me in particular, i could tell you had a good head on your shoulders despite the addiction. It is a relief to know you are well and gives me hope for others who may find themselves in a similar situation. seriously so cool & random to see you post here ! thanks for the update 🙃",
"crazy how drugs age you! you look like youre only 5 years older!\n",
"Would love to know the story behind this :)",
"So awesome! Yea the getting your head straight thing can be tricky ",
"I arrived here after the fact, but it seems like there is enough interest for you to do an ama, if you're comfortable.",
"Did you play Lucius Fox in the last Batman movie",
"It's especially funny when you legit look better than you used to. I would know. ",
"I thought I was was a new chick, used to be a dude. No?",
"1-800-273-8255. Suicide hotline if you need it. If you want real help, look up AA and NA meetings near you. They'll get you what you need if you're ready to stop.",
"/r/blunderyears",
"Gorgeous!",
"Good for you!",
"The old \"it's the internet\" backtrack. Flawless logic as usual. ",
"💩",
"Are you the sort of person who can’t help saying whatever comes to mind? And that’s not sarcasm or me trying to be rude, I have a friend who ends up in trouble a lot because she has a tendency to say whatever comes to mind without stopping to think of societal etiquette haha",
"Congratulations! You did it. ",
"I don’t believe that you’ve never farted...",
"You can say asshole ",
"Do you use pharmaceuticals to treat anxiety? Or do you have some less dangerous ways of dealing with it? I also have PTSD and try to avoid the pharmies. CBD has been incredibly helpful for me if you have access to it. ",
"About your angry opinion ",
"Its true, education and spreading knowledge is how you empower people to help themselves. I developed a mild addiction after using a strong doesage of codeine to treat sciatica pain.\n\nI recognised I was becoming addicted and got online. I was able to reduce the dosage and deal with the symptoms before it became serious. I know others who still struggle and sadly, I don't know where their journey will end.",
"Is today give me a trophy for doing what I am supposed to be doing day? You overcame something completely self-inflicted. All these addiction posts are such bullshit",
"Nice job! ",
"is it a a girl on both pics or is it a dude who became a women in the next?",
"Good for you. No sarcasm. ",
"So you’re telling me you aren’t like, 25??? ",
"I had no idea drugs take away color",
"Post it again next month",
"Not gonna lie, you looked pretty badass in 1995. Jokes aside, you look really great! ",
"Congratulations. ",
"You don't need personal experience with someone, to love and respect them. You've both done well for yourselves. And from a stranger on the internet, I love and respect both of you as well.\n\nStay strong in your fight. It's probably silly from an outside perspective, but I'm sure most everyone reading this understand when I say, you have reddit's support, respect, love, admiration, etc. The worst is behind you, and the best has yet to come!",
"First, congratulations on turning your life in a positive direction.\n\nSecond, a question. I have a niece (technically a second cousin) that has been in rehab at least once, been on the outs with close family due to suspicion of theft from said family. My wife and I do our best to be encouraging and emotionally supportive.\n\nI have no doubt this is too vague a situation to provide anything specific, but is there anything I could pass on to her from you that might mean more, since it's from a fellow addict?",
"Where in the middle of an opiate epidemic. A lot of people have lost friends and family to the epidemic so people are glad to see other people breaking away from addiction.",
"Can appreciate eyes that have seen. ",
"Not to put words in OP's mouth but addiction is a life long battle. Anthony Kiedis says he still thinks about it pretty much everyday in his book, god damn that was a crazy read",
"good on you (us), also clean and sober since 1999 (gotta party like its 1999) junkie, homeless. Now i have a decent job, a degree, 2 kids, hell, im on my way to being a old fart. it's great, wouldnt go back, using is not an option, ever. But i'll never forget, although i very rarely about drugs, gotta keep the glamour, my unhealthy attraction to the decadence away :D",
"Well you look like a hardcore lesbian in the left and you look like you're actually trying in the right. Congrats on your sobriety.",
"beat difficult odds. good for you! ",
"Do you age!?",
"Ignore him and he'll die alone with his unfounded hatred",
"im abusing narcotics and clonazepam people keep yelling at me, im not seeing any hope right now.",
"This. Recreational weed smoker, even after I quit to find a new job, whole family, friends, current coworkers, dismiss everything as \"coming from the stoner kid\" \nPeople associate habits with identity, it's a nasty practice. ",
"Holy shit are you the chick from that San Francisco documentary on heroin???\n\nThis is amazing to see, well done and don't you fuck it up again and I hope you are reconciled with your poor mother.",
"What's up man? DM me if you want to talk. I'm here for you :)",
"Congratulations!",
"PM me. I know I'm just a stranger but I'm a good listener and I'll do anything I can to help you. ",
"Not OP but everyone is different I suppose. My mother quit smoking almost 10 years ago now but still gets cravings.",
"Woah how did you figure out how to change yourself from black and white to color?",
"Do you have any tips for someone who wants to quit smoking? ",
"That make you feel good, spewing that hate? Bring lots of positive and good change to the world, does it? ",
"Is there anything else to call you other than badass bitch? \n\nCongratulations, in all seriousness. ❤❤",
"Would you be interested in doing an AMA?",
"Thank you, and congratulations ",
"I'll drink to that",
"Haven’t figured out your lipstick situation though hey?",
"You look gorgeous :) I’m proud of what you’ve accomplished. ",
"Word up. Good on you. Here's to twenty more. I'm a recovering addict, I got onto benzos and opiates after getting back from my second tour in Afghanistan, and it nearly ruined my career and life. I ended up divorced, and my superiors were starting to suspect that I was abusing my medication, so I took my 30 days leave and detoxed by myself at home. But, alas, I knew it wouldn't be long before something else replaced it. Bath salts, spice, cough and cold pills, whatever legal thing I could use to get high. I secretly found a drug counselor, started going to NA, and now I'm a year clean. I know it's a small step compared to yours, but I will myself every day to not be that person anymore, not only for my new wife and our baby girl, but for myself most of all. I tell my story at NA anytime I see new people who need to hear it, I tell my story at Celebrate Recovery, and other meetings in my area. It always helps to tell it, it feels like I heal a little more every time. Anyway, I rambled way too long, but congratulations on 20 years. I just pray I have the strength to make it to that amazing milestone.",
"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back",
"You can pretty much go into any addiction based sub and find droves of people with these same stories. It's crazy cause you hear that and think \"man, that homeless shit is wild\", and I mean it is, but it's also so common too =(, and with smartphones people can post up on reddit while they're at the shelter having a meal or posted up in the woods at camp. There's even some active subs centered around being homeless",
"You make my heart happy. ",
"you look good, girl. ",
"Wow, that is wonderful. So happy to hear good stories. ",
"Congrats !",
"They are supposed to be motivating. ",
"Hi Tracy\n\nGreetings from Denmark! Every year I teach 8th graders about drug addiction, and I always show them \"Black tar heroin...\", which we then debate and discuss. The documentary makes a huge impression on them...It scares them...every year.\n\nThanks and good luck! You rock!",
"These threads usually turn into a bunch of assholes asking for their \"prize\" for not having done any drugs in the first place. I am so happy that this thread has turned out so positive. Congratulations!! What you have done is not easy but this internet stranger sure it proud of you!! ",
"I hope you're okay choke, we're here for you",
"Throw the book at him, Carrot!",
"It’s no joke mad props",
"Tracey, would you say your life today is really worth living? I'm a long-time heroin user (not an addict) and I just can't imagine a life without it. I have a successful career, a wife and kids, but really the only thing I look forwards to is feeling that rush. ",
"Oh my, I tot this was a gender transition post. Sorry for my rudeness. But it really shows how big the difference is. Sincerely glad that u finally get back to urself. Great job",
"You do not understand and that is ok. ",
"This is amazing. I read your stories throughout active addiction and always thought of you as such a big inspiration. A good friend was saved from Narcan sent in one of your care packages. We both have over a year clean now. I honestly cannot put into words how much your writing has helped me through the low points in my sobriety. Thank you for all you do Tracey! ",
"Sending lots of peace and love friend.",
"Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years? ",
"Good comment bro😎 got her good 💪🏼",
"Ehhh. I know I’m a shit if i don’t say something like “Wow, that’s amazing & stuff.” And “You look great!” Or whatever. It’s just, ... I don’t know... Ehhh... Gratz guess. I’m happy for you?",
"This defines and is the personification of hope and faith. ",
"Fuck yeah. Excellent job!",
"What the fuck is happening",
"You find people bettering themselves cringeworthy? What a dick. ",
"Holy shit. I actually just rewatched that documentary this morning. Saw it two years ago for the first time while battling my own opiate addiction. Im so glad to see you're still clean. You were the person i connected with the most. You spoke in the film about how you were unsure of what you would do once you got clean. How you still had school to finish and aspirations to live up to. That was my biggest hangup with getting clean as well. Your mother was supporting you after a jail sentence and you hadn't seen her in three years. That part broke my heart. Family is an important part of recovery i was happy to see she stuck by your side, even through all the shit. At the end of the doc you were dealing full time. Im glad to see you finally made the choice to break away!! \n\nEdit: grammar\n\nEdit Edit: thanks for the gold stranger!!\n\nEdit Edit Edit: two shiny's?? You really do know how to make a girl feel special.",
"How does one conjure the determination and resolve to change?",
"So happy for you!! 😊😊",
"Never did.",
"Glad I wasn't the only one who thought this",
"That's fucking awesome. \n\nOff topic but you kinda look like Abby from NCIS",
"I understand they are narcissistic degenerates.",
"I really appreciate this, I had a pretty severe opioid addiction for awhile, I’ve been almost a year clean now. I started using when I was pretty young (I’m still young now, though.) so it really messed with my edu action and etc. I’m happy to see that you’re doing well, it gives me a sense of hope for the future, I hope you continue to do well! ❤️",
"I can hook you up with a list of free rehab clinics. Completely free, no insurance or payment needed. All you need is an ID (they can help, but you will need it before you can get into the program), a SSN, and preferably a clean background. Some places care more than others, sex charges are usually a no no tho.\n\n Sounds too good to be real but I'm no shit man, I walked in off the streets once into the ER. I detoxed off the drugs there because it was a pretty dangerous come down. I'm broke man, homeless I don't have change even. I walk from the hospital to the rehab place, do the paper work, and had to sleep in the hallway before a bed opened up.. But one did, and then it was a 12+ month rehab program for free. They got me clothes, blankets, food, they took care of me. All fucking for free. I didn't complete the program, I quit to go get drunk, but besides the point. Some people do finish, and then they help you look for jobs and housing. You do a program like this and you build some connections in the community, you know? They take care of you because they love you and you're family now. You get to start over if you want in this new city. (this rehab was The Healing Place in Louisville, Ky if you wanna check that out) \n\nFuck I can probably find you whatever you need. Shelters, food banks, clinics, whatever. I'm pretty good at finding resources like this as I've had to search so many before. Only thing is it's up to you to get to them (If you're at the end of your wits man, you'll make it) \n\nIf you aren't ready for rehab or anything like that yet and people are just falling out around you let me know and I'll try to get you some narcan. Can't really get much, it's been a while since I've grabbed any and I'm kinda broke too. I'll work it out if you're struggling though.\n\nOr if you just need someone to talk to, I can get you my phone number or we can talk here, whatever man. \n\nI'm not OP but I'm spent a while as a nonfunctional alcoholic and benzo addict and shit isn't fun at all man. Addiction is pretty wild but I sincerely care about everybody going through it and know I can't really do much to help but I will try.\n\nThis goes for anyone reading this too by the way. I am broke as fuck so I can't really do as much as I'd like, but I try, and resources are free so I can get you those lists all day\n\nEdit\n\nGot a lot of PMs, still open to as many more as you all can send. I'm working on finding rehabs around the US and if you guys know any good free ones feel free to mention it here or Pm me and I'll include them all.\n\nA lot of people want to help give narcan too. I'm not experienced in organizing anything decent scale so I'd recommend hitting up the mods of /r/opiates they help people all the time and would be able to help you help somebody else faster than me most likely. I am still reading up on the process of getting it in my area, it seems i need to take a class to get it from my health department\n\nThey do classes and needle exchanges that I didn't even know we did! Dunno how I didn't lol. I suggest everybody checks their local department too because who knows help may be right there for free or super low cost? ",
"Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing. ",
"I went to the mall with some mates once, and as they all went inside I stayed to smoke a cigarette before catching up. I was sitting on a bench smoking as some guy came and sat down next to me, and though I couldn't place it I was sure I recognised him from *somewhere*.\n\nI left it for a bit, but before the last of my cig I couldn't help but ask him where I knew him from as it was driving me crazy. I had worked out enough that I knew it was from TV that I recognised him, not real life, but I couldn't get any further.\n \nTurned out he was one of the guys who starred on that reality show \"Intervention\", and had been a long term gear addict doing all the usual junkie stuff like stealing from the family/house, stolen phones, shoes, TVs, bikes blah blah.\n \nWe ended up having quite a deep conversation as I was struggling with my own addiction at the time, and it was really helpful to see that someone, even one who was way older than me at the time, had been able to get clean.\n \nIt can be one of the hardest things to do to get clean, not because of the WDs, or the *need* to score again, or the being around enablers, or anything else like that. Instead I think it's so difficult because we oftentimes have little or no self worth/esteem so how can we get the energy up to even *want* to get clean?\n \nSo well done OP, well done everyone else who's trying, and well done me. It can be done, and all you need is to want it. So don't give up if anyone tried to quit using and failed, just try again in a month or a year or a day.",
"U looked like a dude outta a rock band before god bless and keep striving !",
"\"BTR: The Dark End of the Street\" is one of my favorite documentaries ever. The gripping stories, the Cat Power soundtrack, the truth behind heroin addiction and what it takes sometimes to support it. Tracey, I'm so happy to know that you came through it all in one piece and healthy and happy (I presume). Thank you for being so inspirational for opiate addicts out there.",
"This is totally off topic but in 1995 what music were you listening to? You just seem like someone who would be into some rad music. ",
"Slash has basically the same sentiments in his book. If you loved Anthony’s you will love his book as well I promise you;)",
"Look at those pinned eyes. You look so different. Good for you, congrats!",
"Keep it up and well done . My mum was a heroin addict . She went to rehab and got herself clean ,but some how she ended up back on it and her final smoke killed her (respiratory failure) she was only 56 . My kids don’t have any grandparents now and it devastated my eldest when she passed away (he was 9) . After living with a junkie half of my life I urge anyone to get away from that shit . It’s not worth it ",
"This is the exception to the rule, you shouldn't say; 'you haven't changed a bit', when someone shows you an old photo of themselves..Right?",
"It's more taboo than female prostitution I'd say. ",
"Keep on keeping on! ;)",
"Look through her post history. All there. ",
"Beautifull",
"Good for you!\n",
"The thing about addiction is that it's always in the back of your mind as the final thing you can \"lean on\" if it ever came to that, if it ever got \"bad enough.\" That is how I have always felt about my own, anyway. I hope this helps make it clearer.",
"Thank you friend, gives me hope :)",
"You made the leap buddy now it’s small steps",
"Glad you're still doing well I used to visit r/opiates a while back and you were always helping people out and sending care packages. Probably saved a few lives. Take care ",
"r/oldschoolcool",
"Says the person who spammed the same comment 4 times because s/he needs attention.",
"It's crazy seeing you here on the front page. I'm a year clean myself today and on the path to get three college degrees so I don't browse /r/opiates much anymore, but I hope you know even lurkers like me know you saved lives by sending out clean needles and the like to so many people.\n\nGood to see you getting the respect you deserve. Keep up the good work, Tracey",
"First picture looks almost like yelawolf",
"Don't fees the troll, they have -12 karma. Your response is what they want. ",
"Both my father and my brother are alcoholics, my brother also uses drugs, one of my cousins that I used to hang out with is an alcoholic, and I have cut contact with them for four years now, because they wanted to go a different path that I didn't want to return to. Sometimes it gets hard, but I tell myself that I don't want to go back to how it was before. One day at a time, and I keep busy and my mind occupied.\n\nIn short, yes, I do feel tempted sometimes.",
"Hi Tracy. Thanks for being an awesome person!",
"Congratulations! You’re doing amazing! Thanks for sharing :)",
"Are you a professional?\n\nIf not, then what kind of help can a stranger on Reddit, offer someone through DMs?\n\nIt's great for karma, but horrible for the person who truly needs help. Don't do this. \n\n",
"Ok. Thank you. Irritates me so much when people spew hate for no reason. Like they can’t bring them self to say something positive or good. Like hate is the only thing they want to do.",
"I admire your strength, and from what I read here, your willingness to give everything you can to others. \n\nI’m not an addict and never had those tendencies but I’ve lost too many good people in my life (10 in 15 years) to opiates. \n\nThank you for being a positive influence and proof that people with addiction can overcome. ",
"There's toast on the counter but sometimes it's the ones you love the most that are regardless.",
"Transitioned from male to female in the process",
"You are allowed to not use stupid swears like asshat. It's OK. ",
"Beautiful. ",
"Black Tar Heroin: The Dark end Of The Street.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RvyDHhGLs0\n",
"What does that even mean in this context? Is it just something you say.?",
"god damn you",
"Amazing and inspirational! ",
"seconded",
"No but karma whoring for validation is gross. No matter how noble the cause ",
"Fuck yeah good for you!!",
"Sometimes people just need someone to listen to them and to feel appreciated. I've been there and know what it's like to feel alone with no one to listen. And it's shit. No one deserves that. ",
"Been sober since Thanksgiving 2016, no regrets. Let me know if you feel like talking about it",
"This is awesome. Congrats to the both of you. Amazing people overcome amazing obstacles. ",
"Are you actually that clueless? Tons of people just need someone to talk to, someone who will listen and won't judge, someone who can offer advice but needs nothing in return.\n\nIs this applicable to said person? Who knows, but there's lots of people who just want somebody to listen.",
"You look beautiful",
"So many Reddit professionals. Well equipped to handle any type of problem. Can I DM you next?",
"You working up to 1601cc?",
"Heroin themed progress pics today for some reason. ",
"I can see HH",
"You look like a bad ass in both photos. Good on you! ",
"Whoa",
"I feel like Im still pretty fresh into sobriety, it’ll be 3 years this May. My biggest problem is that I feel like ive done enough to get my life back on track, and now I have no idea what to do with it. I’ve overcome alcoholism, heavy drug use, prostitution, and now I feel like I can’t overcome being a barista.\n\nI feel really pretty comfortable in my sobriety and where I am in life, but it has really felt empty lately.\n\nI’m really happy you have done so well though, I hope when im 20 years sober I can do half as much to help people overcome addiction like you have\n💜💜💜",
"Fuck off. No one's forcing you to look at any pic that you don't like.",
"I was also going to complement the red lip! (I mean, all your other sucesses too, but finding the right red . . .)",
"I just finished it about an hour ago. Honestly I loved it, try another go! It's morbid, amusing, sad, and unexpected.",
"look the same to me ",
"And we love you for it, stay strong gorgeous.\n",
"No ",
"You keep on kicking ass. Love you. ",
"Fuck me, I still trying to overcome stupidity. ",
"Eat a dick you miserable fuck. ",
"Jesus Christ /r/Pics first weight loss and now sober pics. Where's my karma for not being a moron who did heroin? ",
"nice",
"Didn't overcome ugly",
"She does live around SF last I knew and does a lot of outreach. Honestly, just PM her, she always seems willing to do what she can. ",
"Wow, I didn’t know you were a redditor Tracy!\n\nI’m a college student in the Bay Area and we read your book in my English class this summer. You actually answered a few of our classes questions in a video. Your story was super impactful to me and many of my classmates. My cousin died of an overdose when I was 12, and it was a very similar story to yours. I used to resent him a lot for reasons related to this, but your story really helped me to understand him and what he went through more. \n\nThank you for sharing your story, it really does make a difference.",
"Good for you..",
"♡♡♡",
"That’s awesome...my sibling overcame it as well, my friend did not and passed away this weekend...I had no clue, it’s a scary thing.",
"I want you to think about a younger version of you, I'm talking child young, and how happy they would be to see that they grew into the kind of person who gave generously and offered empathy for someone asking for help. The best thing we can be is kind. Thank you.",
"fuck yeah i love the internet. good on you my dude",
"You made me smile! I'm so happy for you! You are an example for anyone who feels lost and thinks there is no way out of a difficult situation! ",
"Because they're vibrant green? If she had brown eyes nobody would be saying how his eyes \"say he has been through a lot.\" ",
"Sobriety makes you look hot. \n\nAnd badass.",
"Congrats! I'll have 20 years next week! (January 12th)",
"Wasn't sure whether you're transgender now or not lol\nI'd still hit both though *thumbs up*",
"You legend Tracey. It seems like you're pretty active amongst the reddit addiction community, could you point me in the direction of ways someone can help their friends through long term addiction?",
"So what happens after all the karma has come, this thread has faded into the Reddit ether and someone (not necessarily this person) continues to reach out but you have neither the time or the patience to \"listen\"?\n\nNot knocking you, but don't think that saying \"slide into my DMs\" is the same as helping a person who may need ongoing care and therapy. ",
"That is awesome! I have almost 10 years now. My story isn't even a fraction as bad as yours. Glad you survived to spread the message. God bless.",
"keep coming back!",
"Proof that some people age backwards",
"Drugs must be pretty awesome if so many people are willing to go to these depths and damage so much. Any hints on how to start?",
"Cool style! Congratulations on your victory, and I wish you only the best in life.",
"Lemme try to answer this one...\n\nHeroin addict here who just celebrated 24 years in November. Kicking heroin is no joy and most of the times I did kick, I was in jail where there are NO options. One of my first times kicking in jail, I remember telling the nurse, when she came around for pill call in the morning, that I was going to die and that I needed something to help with the withdrawals. She replied, \"No, you're not going to die, it just feels like it.\" Then she gave me two aspirin.\n\nI'm also coming up on 21 years off of not just cigarettes, but ALL tobacco products. Years ago---before I quit smoking---I heard a quote, attributed to Ray Charles, whereby he said that quitting smoking was harder than quitting heroin. From my experience, that is entirely true, and then some. When I quit, I was smoking ~3 packs of Marlboro Reds every day, so when I quit, cold turkey, I *really, REALLY* felt it---and it wasn't just the chemical part either. From my standpoint, I had just lost the best friend I had ever known. I went through months and months of grieving and just a flat, emotionless existence. I didn't care about anything: Doing laundry, doing the dishes, cleaning my flat; hell, even the simplest task became nearly impossible. Motivation was non-existent. Yet I vowed that, if it was this fucking painful to quit *this* time, why the fuck would I start again so I could repeat this all over again at some point further down the road. Quitting smoking is no joke and, for some people, practically impossible.\n\nCigarettes are truly evil and insidious. For the most part, they're socially acceptable---not quite the social stigma of shooting dope on the street corner. I could 'fix' in just a few minutes. I was *always* holding, I could 'cop' practically anywhere, anytime, and they were extraordinarily effective doing what they were supposed to do. To this day, I *still* have smoking dreams and, in fact, they're much more frequent that heroin dreams. Quitting heroin was one of the best things that ever happened to me, but quitting smoking was far better---in practically all areas---than quitting the heroin. Quitting smoking---as heavy a smoker as I was---was, by far, much, much more difficult, challenging and intense than the heroin ever was. What's truly sad is that I have many friends who have battled the same drug demons as I have, but they're STILL being held hostage by that cursed nicotine. Like they say, \"If you don't start, then you don't have to stop.\" and the ever truthful, \"One is too many, a thousand never enough.\"\n\nI hope this helps answer your question.",
"Lol “karma whoring”— as if any sane person gives a shit about internet points. \n\nIt couldn’t *possibly* be a person wanting to help others by sharing something personal and inspirational in the wake of an overwhelming epidemic. No way. ",
"You're \"that mom\". :D",
"am i the only one who think that u have more swag in ur 1995 pic 😎😎😎",
"glenn danzig?",
"I don't understand the support for getting back to a point where you can contribute the same amount to society as a high schooler. Come back when you actually achieve something more than not dying.",
"I haven't done opiates and mdma is not that addictive thank god but I often think about how it is impossible to feel so connected and happy again without drugs. Now Imagine that with one of the most addictive substances ",
"Congratulations Tracy, so much love from South Africa. Thanks so much for sharing your stories! ",
"I have nothing to contribute to this except being second-hand proud for anyone overcoming any of these things. It's hard to do. ",
"Fuuck the moment I saw your pic and username I knew who you were. I’ve watched that black tar heroin doco so many times there was a period of my life where I felt like I knew you. I’m so happy for you that you managed to pull through. You look lovely and I hope all is well for you. ",
"NOICE",
"Gaaaaaaaaaaay!",
"Were you the lead singer of twiddle? ",
"This is why I didn’t bother trying to say congrats or even just thanks to Tracey- I got in too late, so anything I would add at this point would just get buried at the bottom... Which is of course where all the best and real comments are anyway! Yours being a prime example. I’m just a nobody from Australia trying to live from one day to the next with this monkey called heroin on my back - at this moment in time it is 100% calling the shots. Has been for almost a year now.. I just want to let you know reading about your journey. Your service. Your struggle. Your baby girl. All of it. It gives me hope to know that there is another way. Even if I can’t see it yet, I KNOW ITS THERE SOMEWHERE!! I’m not dumb. Well, I shoot dope everyday now, sooo I am A BIT dumb. But im not stupid enough that I don’t realise that if I can just become even half the man you’ve become ill be a far happier person than any amount of heroin could ever make me. You might not know it, but you are an inspiration to someone on the other side of the world whom you’ve never met. I know more than most regarding what you’ve been through with addiction and the fact that you are where you are now gives me so much hope for my own future. I dunno. I just wanted you to know that. I hope your future is everything you want it to be because I know you deserve it. Thank you for reading and best of luck!:) Kindest regards. Sam",
"Good effort! Keep it up. You are both inspired and inspiring.",
"Just wondering, what did he say?",
"This is wonderful. Keep up the excellent work! You’re an inspiration.",
"Ironically, this guy is just as concerned as you are.",
"Thank you for putting things in perspective. Can confirm, I also don't know WTF is happening.",
"Tracey is a mod of /r/opiates. If you reach out to her on there, she’ll gladly give you advice, narcan, addresses, whatever you need. ",
"go to an AA/NA/MA meeting. Find an old timer and listen to every god damn word they say. That worked for me, and I tried *everything* including expensive rehab. Good luck my dude. ",
"coming from someone struggling to get sober again, this means a lot. I had two years worth of honest, real sobriety and I threw it away for no reason. Today I'm trying to figure it out again. Thank you for sharing your experience strength and hope.\n ",
"You have such beautiful eyes, wow!",
"Well done for being born with the determination to overcome your issues.",
"When I see someone like you who's been through hell and back it makes my addiction feel meaningless. I've felt that way in meetings where, although I think my life has become unmanageable because of opiates, I haven't had nearly the rough times you have had. I know there are no judgements in recovery but I sometimes feel like a pussy for sharing my story when there are people like you who have been through so much more. It's like a pot smoker going to an NA meeting. ",
"Go you!!! That is wonderful.",
"dude, we used to be friends on fb when I had one. you are incredible ",
"Tracey is kind of a big deal on Reddit. She’s the head mod of /r/opiates and THE public health expert on opioids, addiction, and the opioid epidemic. ",
"you look old.",
"You're not a nobody, Sam. You're Sam from Australia, and you're a somebody to people whether you know it or not. You'll break your addiction, I promise you, it takes time, determination and will power that even you didn't know you had. ",
"*you’re",
"you're terrible. they're offering help, and you're worried about karma. why think so negatively?",
"My total respect.",
"Did you get a sex change too?",
"I recognised your 1995 picture IMMEDIATELY from the documentary. You had a lasting impact on me.",
"Totally off topic, but isn't it crazy to realize that 1995 was 20 years ago?",
"Why does your 1995 picture look like it was taken in 1895? ",
"Jason Mewes would be proud of you. Seriously, you look beautiful and confident. Keep it up! ",
"Princess Vespa of Druidia is that you with a new nose? \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KMNFNk_hvQ",
"Yes, please do so. r/cringepics could use some new meat. Here, fish, fish, fishy...",
"Aw Tracy you look beautiful. I remember watching you in \"The Dark Side blah blah blah\". You're amazing, as someone who is 3 years clean, I only wish you the best. ",
"Only you see this post as a marketplace for karma. Drop the focus on internet points, there's more to life. ",
"Happy for you! ",
"Hi Tracey, you look great. Congratulations on everything you’ve achieved.\n\nAre you aware of how the others in the documentary are now? It would be great to have an update. I’m hoping there were some other happy endings.",
"For what it's worth, I salute you and I wish you stay beautiful free and healthy forever. ",
"Congrats\n",
"Proud of you",
"She seems pretty comfortable. Honestly, it should not be taboo to speak about addiction. Whether you're 1 day clean, or 20 years clean, these stories are impact and do affect people along their journey into self-recovery.",
"I love the 1990s",
"Good for you 😘",
"Did you enjoy that? The slow start put me off when I tried watching it a while back. I've had an itching feeling that I shouldn't have turned it off ",
"I always felt that you were the most intelligent and promising one from all characters in the documentary. Congrats and good luck. ",
"Karma is literally quantified attention. I was always told to discourage attention whoring, but here you are defending it. ",
"!!!!!! Omg!!! My favorite doc!!! So glad to see you well!!",
"There’s nothing wrong with seeking and offering peer support. Stop worrying so much about karma and maybe focus a bit more on developing your social skills.",
"Hm, maybe because before therapy/psychology was a thing people helped each other by talking and sharing human experience? Maybe that even, I don't know, spurned the idea of mental health care? It's this weird thing called empathy, which most functional people have by the time they graduate kindergarten.",
"I don't know you, but I'm proud of you. *internet hugs*",
"Thank God I never got into that. Those who have suffered can share their experience to help those who still do. Some of us learn through experience, and some learn by the life stories of others.",
"I plan on watching that documentary and will revisit this post so as to appreciate it in a better way.",
"Where did you watch?",
"Honestly, you can barely tell she’s on drugs in the first pic. It’s more like: “look at how I’ve aged in 20 years.” OTOH, she did age pretty well.",
"Quit cigarettes today, and I really needed to hear this. Thank you. ",
"Has it occurred to you that an anonymous person might have experience in social work and might possibly be able to share some good resources?",
"I have been clean and sober my entire life.",
"Good for you.",
"lol i was born in 95.... ",
"Look, it's great that people are getting clean from drugs and alcohol. I've been there myself still taking it one day at a time. But I have to ask why anyone thinks strangers on the internet care that we used to be total fuck ups? I would never destroy my anonymity for any reason, let alone for a circle jerking attempt at meaningless points. Just blows my mind. ",
"Why is this being downvoted?\n",
"Congrats on staying clean",
"Coming out of hiding just to say fuck yeah she is. My suboxone (which has been a fucking lifesaver) doctor is super cool and understanding. Without him who knows where I'd be now. Thanks to people like Tracey and my doc I'm now 3 months past the last time I used.",
"I personally believe there are different types of addiction and of course, the chemical compound of the substance being imbibed is going to affect how addicted you are. I don't have daily cravings, but still, after a year clean from my toxin (I mean that literally. I smoke weed instead now, yes I'm not perfect) of choice, during particularly hard or stressful times at work or home, I will find myself thinking about using again. Can't let it happen. It will try to find you at your weakest moments. It's why you have to mentally prepare for those as well as your daily microaggressions (racist or not, everyone can be a dick to anyone for any reason. I hate the current definition associated with the word that has such potential) that most everyone has to deal with, addiction or not.",
"And still beautiful god bless you and congratulations ",
"First pics eyes are like “whoa duuuuude”",
"Nice. Congrats. I stopped counting and stopped NA meetings about 5 years sober, I am almost 17 years off my addiction.",
"Eh I've taken way more from people than I'll ever give anybody back, I know that haha. But I've seen a lot of good people on reddit, junkies and drunks helping people they don't know. The folks at the opiates sub have given away a lot of narcan and some of that narcan has went into actual bodies and stopped them from shutting down and that's INSANE.\n\nAnd it's no problem for me to find resources just as I've done it so many times. I've had plans in place to get help, found out I had bad info, and then didn't even bother trying because it fell through. It's just easy for shit to go that way because motivation is hard at that stage. Now I'm sober and eh, it's like trickle down motivation lol\n\nYoung me would probably be pissed, like hold up I do drugs Wtf man? ",
"Ayo it's silent bob!",
"Guess today is guess I'll be a piece of shit on the internet day as well",
"I've have seen this over and over in the streets... Me and my wife take the time to really connect with homeless when we help them, a genuine hug, looking someone in the eyes to talk... Really listening... I've seen so many cry and break down with how happy behaving like a human to them has helped them soo soo much... :)",
"You go girl!",
"Youtube, search the name \"the dark end of the street\". Its gritty and looks like its shot on film. Its an unflinching look at addiction. ",
"Congratulations Tracey!!!!",
"Your eyes look like they've stared into the abyss and got to know it well",
"You should write a book and I would read it. Promise. I’ll pay to know that story.",
"What's it called? ",
"Congratulations!",
"Saddest pair of eyes I've ever seen",
"Craig Ferguson got serious on his show once or twice and talked about it. Same sentiment: he'd been sober for like 20 years, but it was still a daily battle.",
"I'm just responding to junkies spammed on front page not seeking attention, weirdo. ",
"Damn, I know I’m sort of being an asshole, but no one is talking about her being transgender. And I guess we’re all super progressive for not noticing. Yeah, but congrats on being clean, that’s awesome. I’m sincerely not transphobic, it’s just that we haven’t progressed THAT much, but we’re all pretending by voting this to number one on trending that we’re super fucking progressive. Everyone knows why it’s so high. I’m really not bitter, it just feels like reddit decided to be fake today.\n\nEdit: Ok, I don’t think you were ever a man. I guess you are a woman in both photos. I know I look like a huge dumbass now, but I think people will get a good chuckle out of this, so I won’t delete.",
"Slash: the autobiography. \n\nAfter reading both I honestly can’t decide who life was just the outright craziest. Although Slash definitely did more drugs I’ll give him that..",
"Anyway,you are so brave.Difficulities,adversities had been past.I hope you can live a life which you think meaningful.Best wishes to you!",
"It is so beautiful to see life come back into people’s eyes once they’re healthy. Congratulations. ",
"This is amazing, happy for you :) keep it up! It’s incredibly hard to overcome circumstances and you should be damn proud.",
"Thank you for posting. My daughter is struggling with addiction. Even with people right in front of her that have overcome it, it doesn’t count cause it’s family. To see you able to overcome it all maybe She can too. You look amazing! I’m so proud of you (for what it means coming from a stranger). Thank you for posting. ",
"Rock on sister",
"Congrats to you. 100 extra upvotes!",
"You are awesome! Love you!",
"Thank you. I believe addiction is something people don't understand. This documentary helps humanize that struggle.\n\nIn case anyone is looking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RvyDHhGLs0 \n\nThis version doesn't have the annoying echo or overlay of graphics, you can't do anything about that '90s video quality though.\n\n\nEdit: now I have spent my evening on a whole path. Addiction is a terrible disease, and opiates are just terrifying. please view this one as well: \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28rJqj-7pEY&has_verified=1",
"Not gonna lie , you look pretty sick in the first pic.",
"It is really great to see you ok... I've always wondered about everyone in that doc...",
"I can’t even imagine how freeing that must be. So proud. Congratulations!!!!!",
"Thanks",
"I don't know if this has any value coming from a 18 years old dude but those are some seriously nice looking eyes. Congrats on your story :)",
"It’s just like any other time you celebrate someone. Addiction sucks, some one is celebrating 20 years clean. Kinda like you celebrate after so many running yards, or so many triple doubles, or someone posting a pic of their new puppy. It’s fun to celebrate milestones. ",
"And you come back when you stop being a lowlife cretin. Thanks.",
"Really?! Grats! And in case no one told you today you are amazing. ",
"When someone doesn’t make sense, check the usernames.\n\nReal LPT is always in the comments.\n\nDon’t go on redpill or incels unless you want to be angry.\n\nIf it gives you a boner, there’s a sub for it.\n\nThose are my Reddit commandments.",
" I am so proud of you and so, so happy.",
"Great job. Keep up the terrific work!",
"Congratulations.",
"No karma for morons that didn't do heroin. Better lukc next time, asshat.",
"Neither has your personality\n\nE: Downvotes? I thought calling a total stranger ugly (something they have no control over) was an ugly personality trait, maybe I'm wrong.",
"I'm sorry your mother never loved you.",
"I've been sober from opiates for 2 and a half years now and...yes, I wish you the best.",
"If you are in New England i can help you get to a detox center. I have a car and vacation days to take if you need a ride.",
"Jay and Silent Bob Spike Black",
"You got to a nice sentiment eventually. Gratz.",
"Friend of Bill and Bob? I'd ask if you were a friend of Jimmy K, but something else you said made me think otherwise. I have 6 and a half years clean, and life in Recovery is something I would never willingly give up; just for today. I couldn't imagine what 20 years is like! Sometimes I get real beaten down wanting to live life like a \"normie\". It's good to see people with your kinda clean time to see that it works when you work it! \n\nCongrats, man. Thanks for being here before me to show that the process of recovery works. Keep coming back!",
"Are you a writer? I am. This is good.",
"That's because it IS a super famous movie line, but I don't think most people know where it originally comes from. They reference it in the movie Back to the Future 2, which is a very popular movie with millennials, and that's probably where we all know it from. ",
"You're an inspiration. Continue to share your story!",
"That’s amazing you pulled it off!! \nsorry for the stupid question but how’d you stay sober? Was there a strategy you tried?",
"Mum?",
"1 year for me next month but I see this being me in another nineteen. It was an insane ride for me and my family, basically death around the corner every day, people unable to leave me alone due to the fear of me doing something stupid or dying. I tried all those programs and I just don't understand what happens there that actually helps people. I would walk out of meetings just miserable and straight back to drinking. I don't want to hear drinking stories for an hour and then try to not drink that night. It's not for people going through the process but I can see it beneficial to those who have lost friends and family in the process and looking for support.\n\nOne day I just had enough and I went to detox to be safe, I couldn't hold a drink anymore because of the shakes but I had to drink to stay alive until I was admitted. I tried to taper and had successfully done so several times but I was done, I didn't want to stop drinking through drinking this time I just wanted it to end.\n\nI saw that misery and pain that I was ignoring and I let it sink in. I stopped telling myself that I could handle it and I realized that I either quit entirely or I won't see my daughter grow up. This all happened within a few seconds one day and I made the decision.\n\nI don't know what happened, I just remember feeling again and not alcohol induced feelings. It was just pain and it wasn't mine it was everybody else's pain and I was causing it. I would avoid feeling much with the drinking and I managed a lot of anger and stress with it until that day. Now I just deal with it and I'm occasionally an asshole but I keep that shit to myself.\n\nI don't really have any advice for anybody who wants to quit something that's killing them and their relationships but I know it's entirely possible once you make that decision\n\nDon't lie to yourself and say you're done but know that you will one day use again because you can handle it. Honestly I probably could but that's most likely the addict talking and I just have no desire to go back to not seeing the happiness I manage to bring people now that I'm present.\n\nDo what you know is right when the time is right, don't force it or you'll fail but the problem is if you wait to long you'll also fail. Your only happiness will come from the one thing that cost you everything from there on out until the near end.\n\nI wish I had the mental capacity to understand what happened to me and why I did what I did so that I could help people, people tried so hard to help me and I just didn't care. I used them and their hope to get deeper into my vices and get away with it through their pain and pity, it's humiliating now but I was proud of it then. I stopped being a drunk sack of shit literally over night, now I'm just sort of a sack of shit because of what's left.\n\nI make my daughter laugh again and lately she's been going around telling people that she's smarter than everybody because I teach her everything and she's now smarter than me, she's 5. I will explain everything we went through to her when she's older, I'm actually looking forward to this. ",
"You look like someone with a kind sensitivity who'd listen.",
"Tracy, there's an opioid crisis in the city I live in and one of the reasons I carry naloxone with me is because I have read a lot of what you have written, and you have advocated hard for harm reduction and I really believe in it. Thank you for all the work you've done to help vulnerable people. ",
"You have very beautiful eyes Tracey. :) ",
"Fuck G.I. Joe, /u/Soundteq is the real American Hero",
"Good to see you on the front page Tracey. I'm currently in the hospital after taking a nasty fall high on dope, and seeing someone from r/opiates made my day just a little better ",
"Isn't I'll be back from terminator 1, he says it to the copper before driving into the police station ",
"God I keep seeing these overcoming addiction posts. Guess what? No one gives a shit. ",
"I would rather hang out with person on the left. Person on the right would probably want to talk about Jesus and shiznit. ",
"Well she isn’t transgender so there’s that ",
"Well done. ",
"Why post to pics and not r/getmotivated then",
"Actually, a lot of people do, as evidenced by the comments. I'm sorry you don't seem to have a good support network. That's something everyone deserves.",
"If I was worried about karma, I wouldn't say these things. ",
"**If I were**",
"I care. I may not be anyone, but I always marvel at strength. Ps I’m proud of you!!! It may mean nothing coming from an internet stranger. I don’t care if it means nothing. Because I mean it. I’m proud of you. You are amazing and accomplishing something that crushes even the strongest of us. You can just throwaway this comment, insult me, etc won’t change the fact that your small comment made me happy for a few minutes and relish in the fact that people can be amazing. Edit was taking out weird wording :). ",
"Congrats, this stranger is happy for you!",
"So she's a big deal on r/opiates, but I don't think the rest of us have ever heard of her or will ever again",
"Same could be said about you and comments, yeah?",
"https://youtu.be/3RvyDHhGLs0",
"In the first picture, you look like you would evaporate into nothing if you could just *will it*. You look...I don't know...(better? like you're trying?) in the second photo. Your eyes still look far away, though.\n\nI have addictions and I always try to fill the hole with something else, and I am starting to realize that the hole will always be there and pretending I can fix it will never work.\n\nI just have to accept that there is a hole that I can't fill; an insatiable appetite that will consume me if I let it.\n\nI just have to not let it.\n\nBut I can't.",
"Thanks for helping me, bot. \n\nYou are a true professional.",
"Ive been scrolling through the commenfs, but i havnt seen it be said. So i will say it myself\n\n20 years sober? You hardly look a day over 20! You are beautiful!\n\nWell done on your amazing achievements. Its great to know that it is possible",
"I thought you were a dude in 1995 wtf",
"1st one looks like a dude",
"I watched you in that documentary a wgikr back ago. Can I pm you please",
"https://youtu.be/3RvyDHhGLs0[The Documentary](https://youtu.be/3RvyDHhGLs0) ",
"Lol, MILF?!?! Raise your standards bruh",
"Omg I always see you on instagram through Mike! Congrats!",
"You're getting downvoted to hell but you're partially right. If you're not a professional, you should be very careful trying to help addicts and depressed people in any way besides helping them find the professionals they need. This is coming from someone who tried to do this for years.\n\nFirst, you don't have the training you need to know what is safe for this person to do or not. Too often I read advice here on Reddit to the extent of \"Oh you're depressed? Just drop some shrooms man! It fixes everything!\", not realising that that only really helps for specific people in specific dosages. And even if you're not halfway retarded enough to suggest those types of things, anything you say and do has about as much chance of helping or hurting them.\n\nSecond, it takes a goddamn emotional toll on yourself. You may think you're equipped for that, but you're not. I've had several people I was trying to help commit suicide on me (one while on the phone with me), and for a while it left me a broken shell of a man. \n\nI don't doubt /u/i_iz_carcar has the best intentions, but the only way they should be helping the guy is by showing him where the nearest and best equipped professional is. It sounds harsh, but *you are not equipped to deal with this*.",
"Yes because you're clearly a happy, well-adjusted person. 🙄",
"roasted",
"Jesus I’m old ;) ",
"homeless you looks like current Tash Sultana",
"Did you catch hepatitis?",
"23. Damn we are old :) ",
"Recognising that sexism exists in our society does not mean it should not be highlighted. Yes separating prostitution by gender is obviously wrong, them calling it out does not mean they did not know that they are often separated. ",
"I mean, it is actually legitimately different than female prostitution, at least from the perspective of the sex worker. Men who have sex with men deal with a number of different issues, risks, and attitudes that women don't and vice-versa.",
"Is the opiate epidemic part of God's plan? Lmfao",
"Found OPs alt account lol",
"I learn from the documentary \"the dark end of the street\" that you can if you decide.",
"How is it sexism? Female prostitution is clearly way more prevalent. It wouldn't surprise me if 90% of all prostitutes were female.",
"Well I'm glad it made you happy, and I do appreciate the kind words, but I don't feel I deserve them. People who never needed to use drugs to self medicate their shitty lives deserve more credit than me or any other recovering addict. Just my 2 cents. I guess if it makes the addict feel better that's great, I just don't get it. I'm ashamed of my drug use and past actions and don't want to bring them to people's attention. I only mention it here because it's totally anonymous. ",
"You can do it!!! I’m so glad you were good for 2 years. I’m so excited to see your 20 year story in 20 years! ",
"Congratulations! You look great",
"Princess of Darkness.",
"Since when is BTTF2 popular with millennials? Christ, I don't think most of my friends have even seen BTTF.",
"I can't believe you're 47...\n\nAmazing!!",
"Yes these are my fave!! If you're going through addiction, there is a way out and a future for you!",
"Tracey is literally an angel. She has saved so many lives and minds.",
"Growing up happens roughly between the ages of 0 and 25. After that, it's actually called getting older. ",
"Cared enough to comment ",
"Yeah you're totally not karma whoring either. ",
"Did any of this left permanent damages/mental/emotional/psychological scars? \n\nI'm strugling myself and I don't see a future",
"Thanks for the rec. I'm dealing with my own shit and had never even heard of this before.",
"It's not obviously wrong. It's obviously wrong to arbitrarily paint over the specific issues, risks, social circumstances, and vulnerabilities of male sex workers (esp. those who have sex with men) by refusing to make the distinction.",
"You look great, don’t look high at all",
"Keep trying is my advice. You'll slip up and fall off the wagon, but don't let that stop you from starting again the next day. \n\nedit: why are you people downvoting me? Relapses happen, but you don't let that be an excuse to give up trying to quit.",
"You did a great job staying off heroin. Here, have my upvote and keep up the good work. We are proud of you.",
"This stranger is proud of you. ",
"So being an asshole is part of being a grown-up? I don't remember signing up for that.",
"That's great, man. Is this your first time using suboxone? How long have you been taking them?",
"Dude this so so weird, I was just in the life is Strange sub and that was suggested in a post. I'll try watching it this week",
"I get it. My father was an addict. And now my daughter is. While I haven’t been one I see from the outside your struggle. You think people who have never used are stronger? Life hurts. It sucks. We are all only a step away from going nuts. You chose a path. Choosing to fix your situation is strength:). We all (really we all do) have shame about things we have done. The real shame would be if you felt no shame. ",
"could you not afford colour photo in 1995?",
"I'm happy for you",
"Congratulations and great job. ",
"Well done! ",
"Got eeeeem",
"You are an inspiration! God bless. 😊",
"A few months now? I try not to think about it. Opiates are something I used to abuse. Now I take suboxone, just the way I take my SSRIs. Thanks man. ",
"Hey, if you ever need someone to talk to about where to go from here, I may be an internet stranger, but I'll gladly listen. I've struggled a lot with chronic pain and have had difficulty feeling useful when I can barely function sometimes. It can really get to you. Anyway, I'm here. ",
"I tend to agree. In a sick way, society has normalized the sexual commodification of womens bodies and to an extent normalized prostitution and something that \"just exists\" and should exist and is 'the oldest occupation' (doubtful).\n\nWhereas male prostitution seems to be seen as much seedier and riskier (for Punters), more taboo, less common and consequently less studied by educational institutions.\n\nIn part male prostitution is contending not only with prostitution potentially being illegal in that location but also homosexual sex likely being illegal (for a long time) and morally frowned upon.\n\nWhereas heterosexual prostitution could be \"hidden\" under the guise of a regular legal heterosexual encounter\n\n\n",
"Well I've seen some of your other posts and you're being a tit about it. I agree with the point but not the way you handle it further.",
"Where are you now in life aside from being sober? ",
"Right. \n\nFuck me for thinking people should get the proper help they need.",
"You are beautiful 💕",
"Reminds me of Jesse's GF from breaking bad if she didn't meet Jesse ",
"The person Mr. Rogers knew they could be. ",
"> Are you a professional?\n> \n> If not, then what kind of help can a stranger on Reddit, offer someone through DMs?\n> \n> It's great for karma, but horrible for the person who truly needs help. Don't do this.\n\nSo what exactly is wrong with this? ",
"Oh my gosh, this honestly brought me to tears. Tracey, I have watched The Dark End of the Street at least 4 times in the last 20 or so years. One of those times being pretty recent. I always walk away wondering what happened to everyone in that documentary. There are a lot of documentaries out there but for some reason Black Tar Heroin has been the most impactful. It's so great to see you looking so healthy and it makes me feel so warm and fuzzy to know you're doing so well. I have to admit that I have no idea what a heroin addiction (or any opiates for that matter) is like, but I am extremely inspired by your strength to overcome it. Keep on fighting the good fight and continue to inspire others to do the same. You're fucking amazing Tracey; a true hero.\n\nDo you keep in touch from anyone in the documentary? Any idea how they're doing? I did read that Jake has sadly passed away.\n\nEdit: Grammar",
"I think... you know if you spend so much of your time sourcing enough funds to go and score, then prepping, shooting up and being high... sleep, rinse and repeat. And if you've done that for months or years, What can you see for yourself as a future or a reason for getting clean?\n\nWhat would someone caught in that awful game be able to envision for their life beyond that?\n\n",
"I was never unemployed as a heroin addict. In fact, as a heroin addict, I was able to go from a restaurant server, to an Linux systems administrator, and now I work in bioinformatics... without school. My struggle wasn't ever really a struggle, and I still haven't any idea what rock bottom might look like for me. So I can relate to your feeling of inadequacy around your personal story.\n\nThat said, just because you didn't have to face similar horrors to others, that you should discount your journey. You are still a human being who deserves quality to your life just as everyone else does. It sounds like you may still be actively struggling with opiate addiction and if so, please don't let comparisons prevent you from allowing you to find your way. Fuck everyone else's story, as you have your own story with your own trials and tribulations, and I hope you'll continue it to a glorious end.\n\nYou can at least know that I think you're worth it. If you need someone to talk to who you feel might be able to relate to your seemingly insufficient struggle, please don't hesitate to message me.",
"Any advice for someone who is close to an alcoholic? I don’t want to give up on him. ",
"Way to go!",
"The \"it's great for karma\" while not technically incorrect, implies people do this just to get some easy karma, and I think that implication is wrong.",
"I was born in Dec 1995! Glad to hear your doing well. I overcame a lifetime of incarceration that month, too.",
"Kevin Smith fan?",
"You're a piece of shit",
"There are about 25 cigarettes, maybe 20, in a packet aren't there?\n\nSo... something like around 60 or 75 cigarettes per day.\n\nWow. That's an incredible addiction to overcome.\n\nWhenever I heard people say they quite from 'a pack a day habit' I thought that was so much. ",
"Would definitely love an AMA.",
"u/traceyh415 you have been a major inspiration to me for a very long time. Everything from the documentary to now. Through my use, you were the voice of harm reduction and safety in my head. And now, after having some clean time, you are still the reason I advocate safety and proper education to anyone and everyone. I feel we have a similar past, and I hope to have a similar future. Thank you for all you have done. ",
"It's so horrifying (and hard for those never addicted to understand) when someone who has been sober for long periods, like 5, 10, 15 years suddenly relapses and goes from \"totally sober and seemingly normal\" to \"looking like they never stopped using\" over a relatively short period of time.",
"Stunning emerald eyes and you look like a super interesting person. ",
"In my 30's ",
"Are you trans?",
"Super late to the party. But JESUS FUCK YES. I'm sure your inbox is flooded & you probably won't see this but you should know some other stranger thinks YOU ARE FUCKING AWESOME.",
"Be nice to strangers. ☺",
"What helped you stay sober?",
"I read that the original line was improvised but the director got them to refilm it with an extra driving the cab.",
"Just earlier today I saw on a thread (totally unrelated to this) someone mentioned being 'down' and socially isolated, without using the words they essentially described their life and habits like episodic depression, someone responded in an empathetic manner, but beyond the first paragraph it suddenly dissolved into recommending illegal medications, including mushrooms and LSD.\n\nJesus christ, you want to recommend someone who is low to take LSD? \nNo.\n",
"If anyone's interested, Russell Brand has written a book called Recovery. It's quite good, providing details of his own recovery, of course, but also explaining the 12-step AA process in a way that makes it more understandable and more useful for a younger generation. ",
"Not that you're wrong, but it's interesting that you assumed that male prostitutes would be having sex with other men as opposed to having it with women. Though I imagine this is statistically accurate.",
"Hey man - long time addict who is working towards recovery. I hope you are okay. If you want to chat or talk on Skype just message me.\n\nSeeing this comment really hurt. I don't know you but I want to.",
"Called her a \"disgusting tranny\". ",
"Honestly, I don’t mind. If this helps even one person kick addiction it’s worth it. ",
"So beautiful! I love it, including you and your tremendous strength.",
"Do you miss the 90s?",
"You’re crushing it.",
"Still hot",
"Those eyes say volumes and as a recovering addict always looking for hope- thank you- love you- and thank you again.",
"While it's true that addicts need to be treated as people with problems, problems that *can* be helped with time and effort (on that addicts part); addicts and drug users need to face up to the consequences of their anti-social habits.\n\nThere are good reasons that drug use is not socially-acceptable and addicts are usually thought of very poorly, they hurt a lot of people around them or do a lot of dumb shit which piss people off immensely, and to those who have never used may not be understandable.\n",
"You're beautiful, OP. Go you!",
"dude\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fAZJWV1tkI",
"link by u/neuro_nerd220\n\nhttps://youtu.be/3RvyDHhGLs0",
"Thanks",
"r/blunderyears",
"I wish nothing but the best for you fellow stranger",
"I guess you just have to keep in mind no matter who you are, like if you're a parent, child, SO, friend, whatever to the addicted person, it's not your fault. It's nobody's fault, it's just the way it is right now. Bad luck, or whatever.\n\nYou can't rationalize why an addict does what they do. I mean, you can rationalize them doing shady shit for money, because we need money to keep getting more. But the shit we do while fucked up is like.. I dunno, I have hurt a lot of people while drinking and I never meant to do that. I've done a lot of stupid shit that makes 0 sense. Logic and stuff isn't there when you're strung up or blacked out.\n\nA lot of people say you should protect yourself and get away. I think that's not always true and kind of kneejerky. I know that's what people did to me and shit got dark for a while after that. When my family gave up on me shit like suicide attempts and just more lashing out started happening, ideation of death. You lose the last thing you have left aside from booze and fuck, it can really get dark.\n\nMy mom came back and she tried to help me. I'm positive if she didn't I eventually would've successfully killed myself, it was just a matter of finding a balance of drunk enough to get brave and not too drunk to be too sloppy and mess up. Passing out in the middle of a suicide attempt happens afterall. She went to meetings with me, she took me grocery shopping and bought me healthy food. She was upfront with me but she didn't give me the guilt trip bullshit, she treated me like an adult. I think sometimes it's not bad to say \"you are killing yourself and I'm watching you drink yourself to death, and I won't stop watching just because it hurts because I love you and you won't go through this shit alone\". On one hand mom nearly watched me die, on the other hand we have a good relationship and I don't speak with any of the rest of my family now.. So I dunno, in our case, what she did was right I feel. It was conducive to us having a healthy relationship now, though it was hard for some years. I had a few other friends stick it out with me too. I didn't deserve any of it, but it worked out for us. \n\nI can't really give advice on how to make it easier because it isn't easy no matter how you cut it I guess. Kinda have to set a mental line in your head and decide how deep down you're willing to go with them. You can't do much, so it's like, you just decide if you're willing to go the distance with watching them go through hell and suffering or if you can't. Sometimes it will work out good, sometimes it won't and all you'll get in return is to speak at their funeral or some shit. You just have to decide if you want to risk the time and stress in hoping they get better. ",
"Wow you became much more colorful ",
"It is definitely statistically accurate",
"You looked much better in the before photo.....what went wrong? ",
"Sarah Connor circa 1995",
"> You are killing yourself and I’m watching you drink yourself to death. I won’t stop watching just because it hurts because I love you and you won’t go through this shit alone. \n\nThis motivated me to keep trying. ",
"20 cigarettes in a pack.",
"You complete and utter champion! Congratulations for everything you have achieved. You are an inspiration.",
"I battled a mini addiction with hydrocodone due to chronic pain. I'm naturally very un-impulsive and risk averse. It's crazy. Addiction can even find certified lifelong good boys like me. Lost a ton of good boy points during it. ",
"Wish you all the best in your journey to recovery.",
"Yeah, everyone is different. I was one of those weird sorts who just decided (after months of wanting to quit) that lung cancer didn't sound like a terribly appealing way to die, I was tired of the smell permeating everything etc so I just literally stopped smoking one day. Yeah, there was a testing moment here or there for about a year but for the most part I felt so much better that it was worth it. I don't even crave cigarettes during stressful times anymore. I hate the smell- it doesn't make me want to smoke (quite the opposite). \n\nI know that, for many, it is a tough journey but it is so worth it.",
"I think it's referenced in Ghostbusters \n2 also. Not 100% sure though.",
"Yeh I mean, it may be sensational and some people might consider it shitty to say because it's a different situation..\n\nBut like if someone got cancer and began dying.. I wouldn't walk away because it hurt. Even if that cancer was from a vice, such as smoking. Yeah it'd hurt me and there's no reprieve anymore. But I don't feel like we should walk away from those we love, and I think it's times like these that love is the only thing that you can rely on to get you through.\n\nIf by the end someone isn't alive anymore.. It's rough, but you can take solace in the fact they had comfort along the way and didn't do it alone. ",
"Thats awesome of you brother. Also since narcan can be expensive, if they're available in your state/area and it isnt too much of a trigger for you, you can get some for free at a needle exchange.",
"I have a friend exactly the same way as you were in the first pic lol. ",
"Awesome, lifes great sober/straight isnt it?\n\nHowever, there are some times in life that you do whatever you can to cope, if its hard drugs then thats what you have to do. I know Ive been there.\n\nI will never ever not give money to an addict on the street/homeless alcoholics etc. If I had to live their lives I would be doing exactly the same probably worse.\n\nIts amazing to be able to come out of that and get back some control and balance in your life, fantastic feeling! You look so good too.",
"Neat",
"Congrats on being sober ",
"Good job. I used subs for a week after quitting, try to stop sooner than later. It's still opiates. ",
"Looking good too",
"Your an inspiration! Thank you 4 sharing. Gives me hope. ",
"Is there such a thing as a \"strong dose\" of codeine? It's a children's opiate. Hell even vicodin is 6x stronger. ",
"Well, those few weeks of sobriety do have many great benefits: it gives your body/liver some regeneration time, and may be helping your life from totally sliding out of control. \n\nPerhaps as time goes those interval-weeks of sobriety will get longer and longer. \n\nAs Traceyh415 said above every addicts path is different. So perhaps your pathway is simply to chart how long those intervals are, and then try to make them last longer and longer...\n\nEven if it's just increasing them by a single day at a time, through each cycle, that's positive slow growth that can add up to large amounts of time. \n",
"Whenever you're ready to, you're gonna kick that monkey's ass Sam!",
"_Let's celebrate wth some beers_",
"It's not that extreme for everyone, and it's totally worth it! You'll probably miss them a while after the physical addiction passes, but that's all it is, just missing a habit. You can do it! :)",
"Heroin killed 1/4 grandparents and you blame it for your kids not having any? Where are the other 3? ",
"I'm staying away from hard drugs forever- a good friend of mine almost died to an overdose a few years back",
"OP you are awesome and you kicked life's ass.\n\nDon't really have anything else to say. Just go you.",
"There's a short \"Where are they now?\" article for the documentary here: http://documentaryvine.com/black-tar-heroin-now/",
" That is an impressive turn around story. I’m quite inspired. I’d like to ask a personal but deeply serious question.\n\n*What kept you going?* I’m having serious issues in my life and may be facing two years in prison. I feel like life has clearly explained to me I’m no longer welcome.\n\nI’m interested in what you told yourself every day to keep getting back up. I’m running out things to say and feel every step I try to take in the right direction I fall off a cliff and end up miles away.\n\nMy only reason for not doing anything drastic is because I don’t want anyone to have the satisfaction of knowing I gave up. But that’s not going to be enough. ",
"You look like Glenn Danzig on the left, do an INCREDIBLE improvement. Rock out.",
"Much respect, my fair lady!",
"You’re a gorgeous woman ",
"I'm happy for you. I'm in the beginning stages of recovery. My life hasn't fallen apart completely, but my identity has. I've been studying why I think, feel and act the way I do. It's a real eye opener. It's also one of the hardest things I've ever done.",
"That’s amazing you pulled it off!! sorry for the stupid question but how’d you stay sober? Was there a strategy you tried?\n",
"I'm so impressed you have a mental disorder brought about by drug abuse",
"Went from Jay and Silent Bob to goth and kinda hot",
"There's an update here: http://documentaryvine.com/black-tar-heroin-now/",
"congratulation",
"This woman posts in addiction forums trying to help people get off drugs. Why is it karma whoring and 'gross'? ",
"Nice blog post ",
"You really seem to have gotten your color back. \n\nIn all seriousness though good for you.",
"Holy shit, the difference when she was sober in jail is staggering.",
"Do we call you he or it?",
"Lolll",
"> addiction is something people don't understand.\n\nYou can say that again x 1000. \"Why don't you just stop?\" probably being the worst / most frequent offender. If you died in the ER and were somehow brought around, and then kept using anyway, maybe it's not that simple.\n\n",
"Keep on. You're amazing and you fucking know it. \n\nYou fight that good fight.",
"The pic on the left is so familiar, were you ever in a documentary?",
"Smoking hot to well done ",
"Thanks. ",
"I have a pretty relatable experience going on now, but rather I'll go maybe mon-thurs not drinking and then going hard on the weekends. It's finally getting to the point where it's not nearly as fun or necessary, I hope it gets to be like that for you as well. Stay strong ",
"Those words made me smile, thanks a lot.",
"Inspiring ! Congrats on being sober!",
"Ugh I think about that too. I don't think anyone expects their adult self will be a heroin addict. You couldn't have even convinced 19 year me that was in my future. Have about a year and a half clean now though :) congrats on your sobriety as well!",
"Yeeessss, well done.",
"Aww thank you so much guys. Next week changes are actually happening to my living situation for my job and stuff so it’s hopefully going to be a catalyst for killing the monkey. Provided I can plan out my next few weeks well enough to get through the withdrawals and everything that comes after them... But I’m basically about to start giving it a go. Here’s hoping it doesn’t kill me😬\nThanks again guys, I really appreciate it. My current demons in life aren’t really something I’ve allowed my immediate friends, family, coworkers to know about, at least to any great extent. But just being able to tell anyone at all has been a wonderful feeling and despite never having met you your kind words honestly meant more to me than I think you’ll ever know. ♥️",
"She was the only grandparent they had.\n\nMy dad drank himself to death a few years before my mum. My partners parents aren’t interested in grandkids so we don’t bother with them ",
"Yeah that's the plan. Gonna talk to my doc later this week. Thanks for your concern :) ",
"congratulations. you are inspiring. ",
"Awesome. Good for you!",
"That sounds like a huge amount of positive change and progression to me! Congrats on all you've done :)",
"great job Tracy now you can enjoy being stalked by lonely redditors who want to sleep with you",
"Which pic is 1995? ",
"Huge, HUGE, HUGE!!!!! accomplishment! You have every reason in the world to reach back and give yourself a pat on the back. Not only did you fight to go clean 20 years ago, you have successfully re-fought that battle thousands of times EVERY SINGLE DAY since. Congratulations to you and to all those around you that have the gift of you in their life.",
"Don’t be a rick roll, don’t be a rick roll, don’t be a rick roll...\n\nYes!!",
"Not necessarily the best idea for someone in a long term treatment program. I volunteer at a sub/methadone clinic (plus I'm a patient on top of that) and 90% of those who relapse are people who just used them to make coming down easier. ",
"You are awesome and beautiful and I love your lipstick color! By any chance did you do it with the help of kratom, 12 step program, rehab, or cold turkey…or a combination of any of these?\n\nI had a couple of years on heroin and quit cold turkey. Ironically I became an alcoholic later, developed fibromyalgia, then got sober again and got pain relief with kratom. Five years sober off drinking, 18 off heroin. ❤️",
"Wtf. Why would someone hijack someone’s positive thread. People really stink sometimes. ",
"Nice job! I'm sure it isn't easy but way to go! ",
"You look a lot like a younger version of my friend (who’s a guy).\n\nDon’t know where I’m going with that, but it’s true.\n\nCongrats though, I’m rooting for ya. ",
"Next up: Brown guy gets American citizenship, with the occasional 'my dad used to beat me and never took us Disney land, here I am 20 years later with my kid' posts. \n\n/r/pics is the largest circlejerk of people patting themselves on their backs I have ever seen.",
"FUCK YEAH!\nROCK ON, MY HERO!",
"Holy shit. Tracey I know of you. I recently watched an HBO documentary from ‘95 with now deceased Ben Zanotto who was friends with Lars Frederiksen of the Campbell/Oakland based punk rock group Rancid. I spiraled down a few years of meth and heroin abuse. It’s a scary life looking back at shit I did, people who have passed away. \n\nThanks for all you do.",
"Classy.",
"Soft serve ice cream?",
"I once saw a homeless woman breast feeding a rat. I saw a pack of wild dogs take ove and successfully run a Wendy’s. I once bit into a burrito and there was a child’s shoe in it,",
"I personally recommend some new-age hippy shit called Rebirthing (really, an ancient breathing technique), as a strategy for unhooking from opiates. If you can find a good teacher nowadays, don't hold back.\n\nEdit: typo, old age, wrong glasses",
"News flash: no one cares how sober you are...",
"How is addiction a disease when most of the fuckwits chose to go down that path anyway? I've no sympathy for any of them. Fuck 'em.",
"One day you’ll win that battle over narcissistic rage!",
"Yeah people seem to think that if they solves their issues one way, it should suddenly work on everyone with even somewhat similar symptoms without the possibility of any negative side-effects. It's great that certain things work great for some people, hell, they've even worked for myself personally, but recommending them as a treatment option, while the only knowledge you have of them is personal experiences (which vary wildly) and 10 minutes of internet research is irresponsible at best.",
"In Forrest Gump after Lt. Dan loses his legs, Gump is pushing him across the road in NYC and when a cab almost hits them Lt. Dan bangs on the hood yelling \"I'm walkin' here!!\". Which is funny cause *he ain't got no legs*. \n \nThat's where I know it from anyway, I'm 28.",
"*luck",
"I’m going to say something very strange. I have known so many addicts with ice colored eyes. (My little brother included. Your eyes look exactly like his did). I wonder if there’s some kind of connection...seriously",
"Brilliant ",
"Gjdm ",
"Hey, next time you post a single image, post the direct link, like this [https://i.imgur.com/1FHxJr8.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/1FHxJr8.jpg)\n\nThe album links are terrible for mobile.",
"> and then the cycle repeats itself. \n\nThey go back to doing drugs?",
"You're amazing!",
"Good for you former junkie!",
"Recently sober myself - 108 days in. How'd you do it?",
"Subs don't work for everyone. Methadone was my life saver. This is my 3rd time in the methadone clinic and I've also failed on subs 2x don't give up. I've been clean for 102 days today.",
"You are a beautiful soul.",
"You look younger now 😉. And 40ish IS young anyways !",
"Hi Tracy! Just watched the documentary. I’m really glad you’re clean now and doing well! It’s very inspiring. Can I ask what you do for a living now? I had a 4 year stretch of being clean but relapsed for a month, wound up OD’ing and spending 5 weeks in jail, and it’s been crazy hard to get motivated to do pretty much anything since. I’ve stayed clean but feel really directionless. Thanks. ",
"You look amazing! <3",
"It’s weird, whenever I abstain from heroin (5 days clean) my cigarette cravings go away. Opioids and nicotine go hand in hand.",
"So I am an addict. Im on drugs now so i apoIogize for this lengthy text. Ok so here's the deal....I live with terrible anxiety that drains me emotionally and physically on a daily basis. Drugs are one of the ways I cope, unwind, and push myself to reach my full potential. Is this not normal? Doesnt everyone need something which provides moments of peace? Some drown their sorrows by long distance running, some eat their weight in food, some smoke, some fuck, some gamble, some drink, some toke, some shoot up... When is it an addiction and when is it considered just a human trying their best to stay afloat and accept the absurdity of life? \n\nI can't imagine *ever* going full sober. If I was forced, another habit would take it's place. So I wonder, if I choose a healthier habit is it still addiction if I continue former habits like use yoga or something to distract instead of cope? Fuck, is it really possible to live a life in which you have accepted your own death approaches. I'm not sure that peace exists, but I do know I find bits of peace by controlling my bodies neurotransmitters by consuming drugs that work for me. \n\n Are some humans more susceptible to obession to unhealthy distractions then others? Is it a problem in their brain or just that they have not, or cannot, learn the ability to cope in a balanced way? And finally, are all addicts created equal? ",
"How cool is that ",
"Always glad to hear stuff like that, makes me smile :)\n\nEdit: a letter",
"Should’ve kept the hat.",
"Well done ",
"Nice!",
"Getting a real Kristin Hersh vibe from the second picture. In the look and the story.",
"Unsub? Or don't click on these links. I mean the title is pretty clear what it is",
"FUCK off, we don't need you here.",
"Its such a beautiful thing. Congrats on your sobriety ",
"The change in your eyes is amazing",
"Didn't know Kevin Smith shaved his beard",
"Proud of you, lost a buddy to fentanyl at age 23 and it was tragic seeing the decline within him physically and as a person and a friend... He became a stranger to us. Stay strong and keep inspiring people to be a better version of themselves ",
"Congrats on your recovery!",
"You're my hero. Thank you for sharing this.",
"ugh.. this is not pics material. these are just selfies. move over to happy or something. ",
"upvoted as fuck!",
"Can I get some downvotes too?\nE: heh, thanks guys! ",
"No one asked or cares you fucking loser ",
"Good on you.",
"Hey you...keep doing that. I like that.",
"No offense but you look like a drummer in a 90’s band",
"Onward and up. ",
"Congratulations, and all the best for the new year.",
"I was prescribed oxy a few years ago for chronic pain, became reliant on them and the dose kept going up because they were no longer working. Quitting was awful but suboxone helped a ton. Finally was able to reduce the sub slowly and have been off opiates for around 4 years now. It was one of the most awful things I have been through, but also one of the best things I did. Good luck, a random stranger on the internet believes in you!",
"Find NA meetings near you: https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/\n\nFind AA meetings near you: https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/find-aa-resources\n\nThinking about you, pal. I hope you're OK.",
">I'm not going to Karma whore and say you inspired me or anything like that\n\nSuuuuure...\n\nReddit, where everyone needs gold and a hug just for being functional. \n\n",
"Wtg!",
"One thing that resonated with me; you don't feel like shit because you want a cigarette. You feel like shit because of your last one. Good luck! ",
"> You think people who have never used are stronger?\n\nYes, I really do. It would be so much easier for me to take a bunch of painkillers and some Xanax and walk around singing \"I'm walking on sunshine\" than it is now, to wake up every day knowing no matter how good my life may get (which so far is only getting worse, like, my life has actually only gotten worse since stopping drugs) that I will never get a feeling even remotely close to a weak opiate buzz. It's physically impossible. \n\nIf I ever have a kid, or find a woman I *truly* love and want to marry and marry her, those two things would be the best things to happen to me, but I know no matter how great they would make me feel, it is physically impossible to make me feel as good as a drug can. \n\nSo yes, I think people (talking more about people with shitty lives or mental illness) who never drowned their sorrows away with a pill, powder, rock or needle are much stronger than people who did but stopped for whatever reason.\n\nAnd I know reddit always disagrees with me when I say this, but I think people who drink alcohol on a regular basis but aren't alcoholics aren't any better than someone who does coke or heroin or any other drug the same amount. I see it all too often on this site, people talk about drinking like it's a good thing. \"I'm sitting here drinking and typing this...\" \"I can't wait to get drunk this weekend\". Alcohol is a drug people. Stop fucking celebrating it. \n\nAnyway, I sincerely hope your daughter beats her addiction someday, preferably some day soon. You have been very kind towards me, even though my original comment could have been taken badly, so I do truly hope for your sake and your daughters that she beats this. Some people just outgrow it. That's what happened to me. As time went on I realized I wasn't even enjoying it anymore and literally just got sick of it and stopped. I'm not claiming it was easy, it wasn't and it's not, but that's what made *me* stop. ",
"If you had put all this truth in your initial post, it wouldn't have 3k karma.",
"9 years next month. Shit works... I've been volunteering in the jails for 8 years and i used to not think that you could get addicted to pot. Ive since been convinced that you can; the new pot isnt like the old pot. Back in the day, 70's it was laught weed. You kust laughed, it's almost trip weed now. Even if it's not physically addictive, its a mental and spiritual problem as well. You do stupid shit that lands you in jail or loses you a job or career.\n\nMany people are going to start smoking pot soon for the first time. Many are going to be highly rated reddit posts.",
"Congrats",
"My adult son is approaching 2 years clean now. To say I'm still worried would be a lie but the stress level has been reduced in my body thanks to this and I let him know often how proud I am. Good for you for the 20 years.",
"And jew can do it too!",
"Yep. No one asked for this sad cunts life story is all.",
"Please help me stay away from negative/pessimistic thoughts and masturbation. I have no substance addiction. Never smoked or consumed alcohol/drug even once in my life. Hell I even avoid painkillers completely - had a fracture once, a ligament tear once, and now im trying to get out of a mental/nervous breakdown that arised out of ear damage induced by my company's shitty alarm system. I have quit masturbation multiple times but it bounces back. The problem with this is that I practiced a lot of self control and avoid porn and those stuff. Quite often I could do it even without thinking almost anything. But that habit put me in a vulnerability now because it doesn't take a strong source to create this involuntary action. I know it's not that unhealthy, but now that I got tinnitus, and to some extent, hypersensitivity, I want to avoid it altogether because it triggers my tinnitus and sensitivity worser. And just like drug is an addiction, negative thoughts is also.. it starts to get cumulative when something bad happens. Now it keeps triggering my tinnitus worser.\n\nI've started to go for music classes, and I'm meditating/doing yoga for nearly 2 hours a day. One hour in morning and one in evening. 10 days of success, but almost stumbled today. These 10 days were awesome, my tinnitus was reducing, I was seeing wonders out of everything but out of the blue, boredom broke out today and I almost stumbled back. Then I saw this post, thanks for that already!.\n\nTell me options to bust out stress/boredom. I have quite a bit of knowledge (college grad/hobbyist level) in VLSI,optics,audio,electronics, and I'm a fairly good runner, photographer.. but now I feel like my life is sinking right in front of me. I'm afraid to step out of house due to automobile horns. And when I'm home alone, all negative thoughts start to spiral back and I'd probably fall back into the trap again.\n\nOn a side note I've started researching about medicinal properties of certain permissible drugs (I was fairly good in chemistry in my school days). I'm not going to consume them or anything, but just learning might be able to help my brain stimulate some positive response (brain is more powerful than we can imagine) that can help me get out of tinnitus and also any residual bad habit I'd have. Also is there anyone I can stay in touch with to help my recovery? Someone who can help in controlling thoughts.",
"Or 25, or 30, or 40.",
"You are a literal angel, thank you for all you do and props for being strong enough to overcome such horrible trauma and turmoil. You're an inspiration to many and literally save the lives of many more!",
"Now we know what Tash Sultana will look like in 2038",
"Is there anything that you (2017) could have said to you (1995) that would have changed the course of her life? Or were you headed down that path no matter what?",
"watched it and then my curiosity lead me to\n[search where are they now](http://documentaryvine.com/black-tar-heroin-now/)",
"Not sure what this comment means. Is this a typo ",
"I love how OP uses a fake account to promote her druggie documentary. \n\nu/tubesockkk has NO other reddit activity except asking OP about the documentary in the TOP COMMENT...",
"Abso fucking lutely, if harm reduction were implemented widespread in the way Tracey does it, we'd at least have half a chance against the opioid epidemic. She is an actual angel, one of the most compassionate people on the planet.",
"Tf? That subreddit is literally people bragging about drug use. Big fuck you to OP",
"Jes a typo sorry",
"You’re hot ",
"Holy shit, you gotta relax on that front and realize that 98% of people that use this site give literally zero fucks about Reddit karma (since, ya know, it's worthless and doesn't mean shit to people who don't absolutely crave attention). That person is just offering to be someone to reach out privately and anonymously. The majority of people are decent and don't need to be trained professionals to help guide someone to the help they may need in real life or just be someone that listens.",
"Read that ad addiction to homelessness which I could get. It becomes comfortable and the whole fear of change. ",
"I am battling addiction myself and this is the stuff that makes me want to keep trying to quit ",
"What was the most amount of dope you've ever seen in one place?",
"Wow thats amazing!! Im so happy for you",
"I knew i recognised the first pic. I just started the doc and remembered i seen it a few times before. Hard hitting doc with a fitting soundtrack. I'm glad things got better for you",
"So, how are you going? Is everything okay in your world at the moment?",
"Good job, you‘re looking good",
"7:35\n\nOkay, okay, heroin is bad.... but did you SEE WHAT HE DID TO THAT COFFEE?!",
"One day at a time. ",
"Congratulations on twenty years!",
"Congratulations and good luck for the years to come.",
"Woah ur a girl now",
"This sub is complete garbage.",
"1000 mile stare, certainly looks like you've been through a lot. Hope you're well now.",
"That answers my wonder about something you said in the documentary, but I wouldn't have asked. Congrats. :)",
"Thank you. I have a sibling who is struggling with addiction, and I’m trying to learn how to help. Your experience has given me insight, and hope.",
"Wait but yoga doesn't cause cancer?\n\n\nI'm in the same boat as you though tbh ",
"I had just skipped briefly through that documentary you were in;\nI seen that part where you said that one day you would love to have kids.\nI’m so happy it all worked out in the end for you!\nWhat an inspiration, respect feom the UK 🤙",
"It was a joke",
"Deleted for Security",
"You kinda look like demy moore in the 95 one",
"A lot of people care. Just look at the comments. Tracy has saved so baby lived. She's personally helped me before too.",
"Lol yeah",
"You look great! Thank you for your inspiration!! ",
"Is this an HBO documentary about heroin? ",
"I'm in love with this fighter.",
"I saw that documentary and also found your youtube channel.\n\nI'm really glad you got out alive.",
"Why are they all dressed like they're in a squeaky clean 90s bubble gum pop music video?",
"Congrats Jason Mewes!",
"What's something a person can do even if they're not directly affected by this?",
"You're a good person. *Hugs*",
"This is so fucking nice all around imma cry ",
"You look a lot better!",
"First picture looks like you could be in Faith No More. \n\nYou want it all but apparently his time you can grab it.\n\nAlways love seeing a positive post like this. Well done OP",
"Fuck yeah!",
"I was taught in rehab back in '92 (will have 26 years sobriety 1/15) that nicotine is the most addictive drug known to man, and that the only withdrawl from any drug that will kill you if left untreated is from alcohol. My personal addiction is alcohol, but I dont kid myself. I have the classic addictive personality and if I think I can pick up any other drug (marijuana, heroin, meth etc) I will be hooked almost immediately. I got sober through AA and early treatment. Being with other alcoholics who went through what I went through and worked the 12th step with me early on really helped me one day at a time. I can honestly say that today I don't think about a drink. I also made life choices that help me keep it that way. I dont have any alcohol in the house. My wife doesn't smoke or drink. I don't get involved in any discussions online or off about religion or politics. My sobriety is still my priority. One day of forgetting that will kill me, and it won't be an easy death.",
"Hey that shit ain’t no joke man I once sucked a dick for a joint! lol just kidding - I’ve never sucked a dick, but I am a heroin addict! I get where your coming from, but you know as well as I do at the end of the day you don’t need to be homeless for opiates to ruin your life. ",
"Thank you kindly. Keep it up, stranger :) ",
"I'll get downvotes for this but\n\nYour 20 years younger version looks cooler.",
"That's amazing, ur a true inspiration!! 😀😊 ",
"Good for you! Congratulations. ",
"You were in pearl jam?",
"Whoa wait I think I saw you in a documentary on heroin abuse in San Francisco..",
"I saw a documentary yesterday with you in it. Congratulations on overcoming your addiction.",
"Hell ya. You're a fucking badass!! 💜",
"Yep, I got cut off cold turkey from over a year of 120 Norco a month (I was incredibly opiated naive and failed to tell a doctor about the Norco and in turn got prescribed tussionex, and am now apparently blackballed from pain management) and found out you can take that shit exactly as prescribed and still go through withdrawals.",
"He had his issue with alcohol",
"Congrats. Sober you looks all wide eyed ingenue beautiful ",
"<3",
"It took you twenty years to be sober for that long???",
"You look much healthier and overall just great. Congratulations on being sober for so long! That’s quite a determination filled commitment. ",
"If someone has never fucked with opiates, then fuck yeah codeine can hit you hard. There’s a reason rappers fuck with codeine syrup so much, it can do the job for a lot of people.",
"Never gonna give never gonna give... heroin up.",
"Congratulations Tracey! Almost 7 months myself. Not the first time I've been sober this long but things really feel different. I hope I can make it as long as you have. You're an inspiration and always have been. ",
"**If I were**",
"Yeah? Well I'm the public expert on not giving a fuck.",
"Wow congratulations!!!!!! I'm so proud of you and you look amazing!",
"I'm sorry for saying this but man you looked like a death metal band member back then. But what a life story! Wish you live long and prosper!",
"Such a basic view.",
"Nah not in America. 20/pack from coast to coast.",
"Milf ",
"You look like the pretty girl in the second episode of dark mirror. The one that goes on star search, you know?",
"Congratulations on the success, keep it up. \n\nI have addicts in my family, have worked in addictions services for 10 years, it's always incredible when someone can keep it up. Best to you and yours. ",
"Left looks like Jason Mewes from the thumbnail.",
"I thought pic one was a guy",
"Kick your addiction today!",
"Man, I smoked for years and then one day they started tasting terrible. I don’t know if my entire area got a bad batch or what, but I bought packs from 4 different stores in different areas and they all tasted terrible. Quit that day.\n\n7 years later I had a horrible god damn day in the field and I’m back to smoking 😞",
"To be fair to 19 year old you... no one could have convinced 19 year old ANY of us, about ANY thing. Hell most the things I've done that I shouldn't've, I did because I was told I shouldn't..",
"I mean, with the pic title you get an idea of what’s to come. With a comment you’re along for the ride unless they post a TL;DR at the beginning of it.",
"I'm happy that you stuck with sobriety, the world needs a few more lovely faces like yours and society can use more successful life story examples like yours to prove to other addicts out there that sobriety can be achieved if you wan to do the work, and it is VERY hard work to stay sober, you have to want to stay sober more than you want to drink and you've shown that it can be done.",
"Keep Up the Good Work",
"I was at a similar roadblock. I talked to a career counselor and found what i wanted to do and how to get there.\n\nYou can avoid the counselor and just use the tool I used from youscience.com. I found it very helpful and affordable.\n\nWhatever happens I wish you luck and good vibes.",
"People may not be comfortable reliving some of the horrible things they've seen and done. Granted, OP is probably fine with it considering she was in a documentary about heroin addiction, but taboo may not be the only reason someone may choose not to tell all.",
"Where’s your karma for going into a post regarding someone’s personal achievement and indirectly calling them a moron? I dunno, why don’t you try looking up your mums gaping pussy hole - seriously, it’s so big every time I fuck it I always leave something in there.. my car keys, wallet, last time i fucked it I actually lost a shoe in there! No shit! A fucking shoe!",
"Pretty sure the second picture is also a guy.",
"r/stopdrinking is a positive community worth checking out ",
"Are you stupid?",
"Good luck, you can do it!!",
"Who said they even looked at the picture though? By your logic the title was enough for them to make a comment without having to look haha",
"This makes me feel happier today. Thank you for restoring my hope today!",
"Gotta love years off the h train. Keep doin you, super awesome internet person ☺ 3.25.11 Re birthdays are fun! ",
"Congrats.. Good for you. Keep on kreping on.. you inspire myself, and many others I hope.",
"Can you post this in the RedditorsInRecovery page and other similar threads. People there need the hope they can do it too. Congrats on 20 years! ",
"Do you still talk to any of the people who you were hanging around with in the film? Have any of them made it to sobriety like you have?",
"Legit man in a bad wig",
"Congratulations",
"Somebody hasn’t been to the trump sub.",
"\"I'm walking here\" Is also used often as a Rick and Morty reference from the episode \"Total Rickall\" so that's probably where the surge of twenty somethings got it",
"Is it about how people dye their hair so much it doesn't looks natural?",
"whoa look like a man \ndid you transition. ",
"I feel like a program like this would be way more helpful than DARE.",
"*standing ovation*",
"I heard that phrase a million times growing up without knowing where it was from or even who the hell Dustin Hoffman was.\n\nI'm wondering how you missed it.",
"I'm 4 months sober. Can't wait until I'm healthy again. ",
"You have beautiful eyes, now so full of life. Congrats on your sobriety!",
"Awesome. Keep working it!",
"Congratulations. I am battling drug dependency. I just recently slipped too. So I'm starting all over. It's insanely hard. ",
"Jesus the things u stupid fucks find impressive.",
"o.O being sober even has changed ur gender. and ur revelation must be so prefect due to the word\"incarceration\" :-/ ",
"That’s a good point. Personally I’ve never commented on something I haven’t looked at so it never crossed my mind.",
"Good for you! Glad you’re doing better!",
"12 years 2 months 8 days",
"I bet your vagina has seen things ",
"From the thumbnail i honestly thought this picture was of Bill and Ted",
"I have never been homeless myself, but I have a general idea of what it takes to get there, and I must say that you seem like a very tough person to be able to overcome all of that. From what I understand, homelessness is a cycle, and you broke the cycle. May I ask how you did that?",
"No, its such an honest opinion. Most people think the same, they just haven't the balls to say it because its not \"pc\"....",
"Just wanted to say you are more beautiful now than when you were younger - your eyes are clear & captivating & express wisdom & compassion",
"Good on you!",
"Dead on.",
"This isn’t like “assuming someone’s gender.” Male prostitutes get into the business typically because they are already gay or one case of serious addiction understand they will fuck men. It’s not like you’ll find a level headed woman that’s fucking a male addict prostitute for fun.",
"Because its San francisco in the 90s",
"Awesome! Well done! You look amazing and deserve it 👍🏻",
"Wow Tracey, great moves! Keep it up, proud of you.",
"Maybe the first time is a choice but sometimes that first time locks people into the addiction. And sometimes it's not such a deliberate choice. You're at a party, or with a trusted friend, or want to try new things once, or trying to relieve a pain or depression or anxiety that you feel will be the end of you, et cetera. It's a subtle path in the beginning but it quickly becomes too late to go back, it literally becomes a disease with physical, neuro, and chemical changes. In some ways, it is worse than most diseases, in that the addiction disease fights against your will to treat the disease. At least if you have a pneumonia or a heart attack, you really want to get treated. With addiction, every cell and neuro connection in your body makes you not want to get treated for it. ",
"You look like Silent Bob's sister. Glad you're clean!",
"/r/swordorsheath",
"Hey lisbon ",
"Holy shit. That just hit so close to home. I quit heroin ten years ago, but I still battle with alcoholism heavily on a daily basis. I manage to go days without drinking, but I go on benders every month or so and pretty much stay drunk for a week or so at a time all the time. Addiction is a rough battle..",
"You go girl!",
"Beautiful arc of a timeline, way to go.",
"Who's getting a trophy? Get over yourself...no one forced you to click. ",
"Good on you mate, be proud of this accomplishment.",
"Cool, live your life and don’t post nonsense like this. ",
"And you are beautiful. Bravo.",
"The world is proud of you ! 15 years clean and sober myself.",
"GOD BLESS & CONGRATULATIONS on your amazing achievements!!! ",
"Congrats very impressive ",
"Clearly you - but try to stay on topic.",
"This should be in r/aww too. You rock.",
"Very awesome! ",
"You look hot!",
"What a winner :) thanks for sharing the face of gratitude ",
"wish you the best man.God bless",
"Kuddos to you!! You look amazing! ",
"And I'm the Assistant to the Public Expert on Not Giving a Fuck.\n\nSo fuck off, ButtSexEurope",
"A ton of recovered alcoholics smoke cigarettes like chimneys",
"This is so well put and accurate. There's also the added fact that your body is in sync with your mind about these things - you aren't getting the same amount of dopamine as when you were doing heroin so it's even easier to feel bored / confused as to why nothing brings you joy anymore.",
"I understand why ",
"When I was sniffing dope I felt the same way. I looked at everything, sports bars, tv, Instagram, booze, etc., as chemical highs that everyone chases whether they realize it or not. \n\nNow, that out of the way, I still wound up preferring not using H to using, mostly because of the tremendous costs of using. Maybe that doesn't make me an addict, idk. \n\nI wish you the best. I do still struggle with showing up and participating enthusiastically in life. ",
"What made you want to quit",
"Hey Tracey!!! KUDOS!! You are an inspiration to many.",
"As a former addict I'm giving this comment a 9.2, you stuck the landing.",
"I still can't figure out if these are pictures of a girl or a guy...",
"Congrats I see you were a slow learner like myself. Was 42 yrs. old when I came to realize that I was only hurting myself 23 yrs later I'm still sober and clean.",
"How did you get into all of that in the first place and how did you change, what made you change?",
"Great job!",
"You said it my friend. Good luck fighting the fight.",
"But what if it gets 3 people addicted because the pic in the left is so much better than whatever the hell that is on the right?",
"Congratulations! I'm proud of you!",
"Good for you, letting people know this is possible is huge!!!",
"beautiful, kind soul.. I'm aware of all the help you provide for overdose prevention!",
"No. Don’t conflate addicts that are prostitutes to acquire money to buy drugs with high-end male prostitutes whose job requires they properly groom etc. Two worlds a part. ",
"MILYF\n\n",
"Bless everyone in this thread on their journey.",
"Honest",
"Holy shit! Been a /r/opiates lurker for years. I absolutely loved you in the doc from the first time I saw it, and have loved you from Reddit since I joined and read ur first harm reduction centered post over there... So much so I even stalked enough to find a pic of you, but I never realized or researched enough to know you are one and the same! \n\nYou are amazing and beautiful.",
"You have a lot to be thankful for, and proud of. from the sounds of the other commenters, that documentary, and especially your segment in it, have changed a lot of lives in a positive and meaningful way.",
"Great job getting rid of that stupid hat, I guess.",
"You look better without a backwards baseball cap. ",
"Whatever it is - it looks way better in the left pic.",
"I believe in you, Sam from Australia!",
"Thanks, appreciate your time finding and sharing this.",
"Has anyone ever told you you need glasses?",
"The thing is, there shouldn't be a first time. Everyone is made aware what a slippery slope it is, therefore don't even start...",
"I've found one truth to be static in pretty much all people with severe addictions: there's something missing, or there's an underlying issue that needs to be addressed before recovery can actually begin.\n\nIf you don't mind sharing, what was it for you? Was it an epiphany of thought? Fear? Shame? Removal of encouraging environment/individuals? It's obviously something more than just a: \"I was sober in jail and decided to stick with being sober\". There had to be something emotional that allowed the change to take hold. Sorry if i missed it somewhere in your replies. Don't answer if it's too personal, and I know everyone's answer to this is specific to them.\n\nI've got a mother who I haven't talked to for almost 11 years now (she's been addicted to crack and morphine for much longer than that), and my little sister has been in and out of jail/addicted to heroin for almost as long. \n\nMy mother (at her core) seems to have issues that are reasonably beyond repair. My little sister though is a different story. She's bipolar, and I constantly see her\"want\" to change, but her brain chemistry changes so frequently , she doesn't stick with anything. I think it's going to take something dramatic to help her. Jail hasn't done it, being in a coma hasn't, even having a child hasn't given her the strength to do it (who is not in her care). \n\nMy mother and sister are not weak willed people. Incredibly strong in some senses, but they can't kick heroin/opiates. That's a testament to your strength. I've seen and was raised in those lifestyles enough to know to never go near it myself. To come out of it on top, is a major accomplishment that I have a massive amount of respect for. Congratulations, continue being who you are! You're an inspiration to the addicts and non addicts alike!",
"Congrats!!!!!!",
"No... it’s not “not pc” it is just not correct lol",
"But most of the comments are \"no one gives a shit.\"",
"A lot more brown eyed people are criminals than blue eyed. Should we have a blue eyed crime force?\n\nSex work is sex work. Every instance is individual. There is no requirement to differentiate. ",
"Just want to say congrats, Tracy. What a harrowing situation for you and all the others in that doc. I'm glad you came out on the other side of it. What a great milestone you are coming up to now!\n\nMy heart jumped when I saw your then/now photo this morning. I'm glad you are looking so well!",
"I fundamentally disagree with what you have to say there. ",
"Grunge music, not even once.",
"You are amazing!!! How inspiring. :)",
"ODAT",
"I just want to say that the documentary Black tar heroin really moved me and I’m so glad that you are so well now. That documentary must have stopped many people in their tracks and it definitely woke me up to the trajectory of those who use heroin. I’ve watched the documentary about 5 or 6 times and recommend it to people often. \n\nWhat was it in rehab that finally gave you the resolve to quit? How prevalent was heroin in your teenage years? I’m so glad you left that abusive man in the doc! Sending the best wishes to you and your family.",
"That's fantastic! Congrats on the accomplishment. Your journey provides hope to those battling hopelessness ",
"Congrats! That's an amazing accomplishment. I know alcohol isn't the same, but I've moved from a 1.75 in 2 days to a 1.75 in 4 days. I plan to move to 1.75 in 7 days soon. You inspire me!",
"Most addicts use because of an underlying, possibly undiagnosed mental illness. I think it's something like, 70% of crystal meth users have ADHD? So it's very common to self medicate. The saying \"you use to get a feeling or get rid of a feeling\" is tossed around a lot in recovery. It's important to try and understand why you use, and I know that's very vague and I'm sorry. \n\nA little part of it for me was the comfort and time using gave me to fill up my day - something to look forward to after work or to reward myself for mundane tasks, the structure of figuring out to gather money every day and securing who I was going to spend it with, etc. It's different for everyone but the underlying reason for all of the things I did was the constant anxiety I felt of not knowing where my life was going and a need to take control in some way, while also numbing myself to the pain / chaos drugs brought into my life. I used to keep that feeling quiet, and it took control of my whole soul. It was the answer to everything. \n\nI'm rambling but I hope that you can find an answer as well. So to your OP, yes, I think most addicts do need to find a replacement for their drug - but along the way you need to ditch the shitty habits that come with addiction: lying, making excuses, having bad priorities and neglecting relationships. Those behaviors often become addictive, too, and lots of people get sober without changing the other parts of themselves that came with their addiction. \nI wish you well.",
"No theyre not. Nobody forced you to click on this, just hide the post and move along.",
"I understand it's a gateway to the stronger stuff but it still has addictive qualities.\n\nCalling it a childrens opiate doesn't help and is quite insensitive to those who currently struggle with Codeine addiction. In the UK it's a rising problem.\n\nFor anyone currently suffering, you can find help by talking to frank http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/codeine\n",
"Hey Tracy I'm so glad you're doing well and were able to beat addiction. Your story and the documentary touched my life and made a huge impact on me. \n\nWhat advise would you give to someone who is very self destructive? I am very creative and talented musically but I always limit my potential for success and happiness in life because I think I feel deep down that I'm not worth loving and being good to myself.\n\n<3 <3 <3",
"Well done OP....you’re an inspiration, keep it up ",
"I just want you to know that I am proud of you. Don’t stop.",
"> Nobody here cares.\n\nLOL@U",
"Shout to to New England. But get better, Reddit is here for ya. ",
"I'm pretty sure u look better in the black and white picture 20 years ago.",
"You've done well hen ",
"Amazing description. \"You've got nothing, but you're riding on s star, you never thought that she could take you so far.\" I've always been straight but those song lines by Jesus Mary Chain is what I imagine the drugs you describe are like....",
"as soon as I seen the name......to youtube I went to watch it. ",
"Elderly woman here: I am so deeply proud of you /u/traceyh415 \n\nI'm always humbled in the presence of someone who has climbed out of the deepest depths of hopelessness to shine. May your light never dim. May your experience bring so many hope, strength and love. \n\nI too, struggled w/all of those issues. Love is what brought me back. Love for my children. Thank you for sharing. You're beautiful. God bless",
"For me, the hardest part staying clean is that after the WD, after you change your inner circle, and once you have a plan of what you want to do with your sobriety, you still need to address the part of yourself that got you in that position to begin with. Inner change is always the biggest hurdle.",
"Your eyes are mesmerizingly beautiful.",
"It's relevant for subs like r/leaves or r/addiction but not here. \n\nFuking karma whores.",
"Robin Scherbatsky on the left.",
"I’m sorry, but I don’t think it’s commendable to a) expect to be praised because you made the stupid decision to expose yourself to heroin in the first place *because you were bored* and b) post a progress pic about it on one of the most popular communities on Reddit.\n\nGlad you’re clean, yes, of course, and I’m sure it took a lot of effort. But I don’t believe commendations are in order.\n",
"You need to be the main speaker at NA and AA events.",
"Congratulations on 20 years! As a counselor, it's really rewarding to see somebody with that length of success in their recovery.",
"Congratulations!! You look fantastic 👍",
"Three years in May, too, and I've been struggling with same. It's a weird hump, I guess? It's been difficult to get past the \"empty\" feeling because I've been having to relearn who I am and how to enjoy things without that \"boost.\" I think I'm doing well, but, it's not easy and at this time last year I had a breakdown (debilitating anxiety and daily panic attacks) - didn't start drinking or using again, but I got myself into a clinic and on meds. The Zoloft has helped immensely and I feel stable but still...sort of empty. \n\nHere's to hoping we both get over this hump. I believe if we got over the worst part, we can figure this out, too. I wish you the best.",
"The door's over there.",
"No thanks.",
"My dad ODed on black tar 20 years ago and I'm in the process of drinking myself to death. Good on you for getting clean. I hope my son never touches any substance.",
"Do you have any hobbies or anything you are interested in getting into? Or maybe just some classes you might be interested in taking? Someone just notified me of this site, https://www.udemy.com/, classes are only $11 until 1/11. They have all sorts of classes from graphic design, to drawing, to astronomy. \n\n\nYou've accomplished a lot, and I'm glad you're feeling comfortable with your sobriety and where you are in life. I hope you can find something that you enjoy.",
"Consider this post a hundred bouquets of roses to you... place them around your home, take time to smell their sweet scent, and bath in the luxury of your success. ",
"That sounds like a Tom Waits song come to life..",
"Someone should gild this",
"Congrats! Keep your head forward and dont look back :) When I quit 4 years ago (after a 9 year run of daily smoking) the best thing that helped me toward the end of the day when I wanted to smoke was a 10-15 min run or my jumprope... or any activity that made me breathe heavy... The last thing you'll want when gasping for air is smoke. The best part of quitting smoking is when you finally realize it smells like shit 😁 which takes a month or so",
"You are a rockstar! ",
"REDDIIIITTTT!",
"i cant tell whats the intent here. is their something wrong with being a male?\n\n\ni love my dick",
"How does it feel to know you are fairly famous? Seems like a lot of people relate to you and hold you up as an inspiration to quit themselves. Be mindful of that, since they have created bonds with you, your actions can have an effect on them. ",
"If you need to reach out & talking on the phone seems daunting (it is for a lot of people) you can also text 741741. It's a Crisis Text Line and someone there can talk to you and maybe help talk you through this particular crisis. Here's [the website](https://www.crisistextline.org/how-it-works/) with a bit more info if you want to read up on it first. I wish you all the best. Hang in there - it's going to be okay and it will get better.",
"That was so engrossing. I didn't even plan to watch the whole thing and now I'm sitting here crying like a baby.",
"Sure but they aren't sucking dick for work ",
"What a perceptive thing to say",
"You're a miracle! It's been 9 years since I stuck a needle in my arm and over a decade since I've been incarcerated. I'm a firm believer that we are the culmination of our life's events: our struggles are lessons that mold us to be the person we need to become. It's how we use those lessons to help others that reminds us that even the worst things in life are blessings. \n\nAlso, if anyone reads this thread and is struggling with addiction, needs someone to talk to or is on the fence, please feel free to message me. ",
"Some people still think it's some sort of moral failing or that someone is weak for being an addict or alcoholic. In their mind you should \"just don't do drugs\". They have a hard time realizing things happen that set the stage and a taste of something that takes away the emotional pain just takes over your lizard brain. It prioritizes itself in your mid brain over food, sex, shelter, etc. \n\nI once heard addiction causes broken down like this and I agreed:\n\n1. Chemical imbalance \n2. Unresolved events from the past \n3. Beliefs you go l d that are inconsistent with what is true\n4. Inability to cope with current conditions ",
"Find an Al Anon group by you and attend. They are filled with people in your situation, or have come out on the other side of your situation. \n\nThe most important thing to remember is you have no control over that person and what they do. The only control you have is over yourself, your actions, and emotions. \n\nGood luck.",
"Aaaaaaaaand now I'm rewatching it! Turns out my wife never saw this doc, so we're having a lovely time looking at the seedy side of San Fran in the 90's. \n\nSO glad you're doing well!",
"Whatever!",
"I would just like to say thank you for exposing your life to us and allowing ourselves a deeper look. I watched this for the first time when i was 13 years old on a scrambler at a friends house and it shook me to my core. The way these people lived and threw their lives away for the drug hit me hard. It truly scared me straight, and Im sure that seeing this when I was young kept me on a better path. These are the true consequences of the drug, and what people needed to do to survive just haunts me. So thank you, who knows how many people you saved or put on a better path from doing that documentary. ",
"This post just caused me to watch the movie, thank you. My job brings me into a lot of contact with addicts at various steps in their journey. My question is what finally got you to hang it up for good? Seems like you were tired of it for awhile but what caused you to actually do it? Death of a friend, accident of landing in the right rehab, some particular dead end in your life, a conversation? Had you planned it out or did you surprise yourself? I have lost people and see people go through it all the time and I can never guess which folks will make it out and which won't. Unfortunately, neither can they. ",
"It's different though. A person with cancer isn't lying, cheating, stealing, overall hurting their loved ones to get their medication. \n\nPeople have to protect themselves, you can't expect to continually hurt someone and them to continually let you. It comes to a point where a loved one has to choose between their life and the addicts life. An active addict will always choose their addiction, and so you have to choose yourself. \n\nIt's like letting someone continually stab you so they won't stab themselves. ",
"I doubt smoking weed recreationally leads to hurting people or doing a lot of dumb shit. At least not more than drinking alcohol recreationally.\nPeople will refer to that one dude that doesn't drink alcohol but smokes a few joints on saturday night as the \"stoner kid\"/\"drug user\" but alcohol is fine for some reason. It's the exact same thing, really.\n\n\nI do agree with what you said though, in the context of actual addiction to any drug.",
"Oh man, nail hammer and head. Spot on. You do something for so long and it really becomes a part of you. Get a little something something in your system and suddenly you're invincible and you're yourself again. \n\n\nAbstinence, by contrast, after such a long time, just feels off and it's difficult to make it stick. Your thought patterns change. You wonder what stranger is living in your brain. You react completely differently to watching LoTR for the first time not tripping balls.\n\n\nAlso I can't let the MMORPG comment slip past without telling a funny story. When I was on something, my play style was super aggressive. Like \"I have the least HP of the entire group, the worst armor because I'm a mage, so I'm tanking this dragon\" kind of aggressive. When I was not, I refused to pick a fight with so much as a firefly. Told my guild it was a husband/wife tag team.",
"Oh it's no big thang haha, I was just surprised. Looks like you care more than I do.",
"I’m glad one of the stories in that Doc has a happy ending. I’ll bet your Mom is pretty damn proud of you getting and staying clean.",
"Even if you do manage to just stop it’s never gone and the chance for relapse is always there. I have a family member that wasn’t sober a day from the Age of 13-27 he’s been to hell and back but now is clean married with 5 kids. 3 of which were born in the midst of heroine addiction and removed from the home of their addicted mother a family member raised them\nFor 4 years. He and his wife that he met after getting clean were able to get them back and they are thriving. she’s an angel accepting his kids and past and addiction knowing that he has this disease but willing to fight for him. She can do no wrong in my book.\nAny way Seeing his success while amazing we know how fragile it is. There is a real fear that something might trigger him wanting to go back to the only coping mechanism he had previously known \nThen you have to take in to consideration the healing after getting clean. It took him a good year to heal from the physical damage it did to his brain chemistry and thought process. His moods the way he spoke etc. yea people have no idea! I got so pissed at my professor (I’m an older student at the moment) bc she said something like this why don’t they just not do it. And I’m like how are allowed to have access to the minds of the youth. Of course I set her straight. But yea I have the utmost compassion for addicts . I came from the same Background as my nephew and we used to party together (we are close in age) but addiction never took hold of me. Even with smoking I just stopped when I wanted I don’t understand how or why but I know from our experience that for some it’s truly a disease that you don’t know you have until you make\nA bad life choice. ",
"Has this sub ever offered anything remotely intellectually stimulating, or has it always been a catch-all shitpost repository?",
"This news made my morning. Wishing you all the best. Thanks for sharing.",
"Need me where ? In a subreddit about pictures where I ask questions? Oh noes. Such a bitter sad person you are. ",
"You look so alive! Congratulations on 22 years :) ",
"19- almost 20 next month 😀",
"I mean, I didn't say the worse follow up after she got snippy, I felt it was appropriate to ask about the makeup smear tho. ",
"Thank you ",
"She was. She died in 2009. ",
"Thank you. I'm going on five years and this picture literally inspires me to keep going. Thank you.",
"The fact that I was very close to death. I could list all the health problems but the stimulant related heart problems really made me keenly aware it was time ",
"Try to give him a better place to start from. ",
"Wow that really touches me. Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"Congrats to you ",
"Plz write a book and share your story.....people need to see how you did this so they can believe it is possible",
"Are you gonna cry about it",
"Great job! My wife and i just made a similar transition. Alcoholism is different for many of us, but we never thought we were. While \"just drinking a lot\". Thinking about ya, and pm me if you need any support! ",
"That’s an interesting perspective. Thank you ",
"Haha thank you ",
"Love tom waits ",
"🌹🌹🌹",
"I feel the same about my children ",
"Thank you ",
"I was a counselor for years. Cheers to you. It’s a tough road",
"Half measures availed us nothing. ",
"I just started going back to 12 step after a long abscence. It’s helped me. I didn’t think it would ",
"To answer your question seriously, it's an addiction when you continue to do it even though the harm outweighs the benefits. Yes, some people are more predisposed to addiction than others. No, not all addicts are created equally. Habits aren't automatically addictions. Like, dieting can involve eating healthier meals, eating at a reasonable calorie deficet etc. Or it can be engaging in disordered eating habits, like severe calorie restrictions or binging and purging. Even though they'll both result in weight loss, one is developing a healthy habit, the other is destructive behavior. \n\nPlease know that if you are ever ready to get clean, there are so many people out there who have been through it and can help you figure it out. You don't have to come up with all the answers on your own. ",
"I think I have cool eyes ",
"I’m just attempting to show it’s possible. I don’t need praise. Other folks do need hope. ",
"Looking great Trace! Miss the other sub ",
"Wow that’s high praise! ",
"That's a lot of time. Congratulations ",
"Haha ",
"Thanks 🐔",
"Some people like rough trade ",
"😍",
"I did “the big fix: hope after heroin” ",
"That’s rad !!",
"My condolences, glad she got to see a better version of you before she passed.",
"Yes I was at a turning point ",
"She did. 11 years of being best friends ",
"I achieved all the goals I laid out in the film ",
"Good luck ",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"I have yes. ",
"Haha Black is actually my natural hair color. ",
"I did one 2-3 years ago but I would again",
"😍",
"Early on yes. ",
"Thank you for remembering me ",
"Congrats to you !!!",
"Fuck yes!!",
"Awesome ",
"Agreed ",
"That was funny ",
"Haha doesn’t feel like it ",
"Thank you ",
"Yes I’m an avid redditor. I’m glad my book was useful to answering any questions ",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"I did one 2-3 years ago ",
"That’s rad ",
"Let us know what’s going on with you",
"I am trying to respond to every message ",
"Congrats to YOU ",
"I got love for you ",
"I would never ever want anyone to get to near death like me. I want you to live and be happy. No one’s pain is less valid than another’s ",
"😍🙏",
"Thank you ",
"I had no idea I’d get more than 10 post likes 🤣",
"Thank you ",
"Congrats. 🎊 ",
"There is always the hole but it’s filled with healthy things now ",
"🙏",
"Family and close friends are fucking heart wrenching ",
"Omg that’s horrifying ",
"I’m doing pretty well. My cat is staring at me, wanting pets ATM",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you. My current struggle is weight loss. I’ve been dealing with that since July 2006. 44 pounds gone and counting ",
"🎊I’m trying ",
"Thank you ",
"Two degrees, three kids, married, good job, a few close friends. Wrote a book. Mostly, my life revolves around promoting harm Reduction ",
"Google my blog black tar heroin ten questions answered. It’s faster than me retyping ",
"I love death metal. ",
"I’d say it’s an ignorant opinion - in the traditional sense - I.e lacking knowledge.",
"Is that a good show? I need a new one ",
"It does. ",
"That’s why I posted one. Maybe there should be a addiction success subreddit ",
"Yeah Fuck 😞",
"I agree somewhat with this.\n\nThe issue as I see it - all drugs are so demonised as the most dangerous things that will kill you after one go.\n\nWhen you find out it’s a little hyperbole you question all the stories of how addictive they are too.\n\nGive realistic advice, from people who know.",
"I was a cold hustler ",
"😍",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"That’s a generous offer ",
"Fuck yeah ",
"😍",
"Thank you ",
"I appreciate u ",
"Your message alone can help others. Huge congrats on 20 years!",
"You are welcome ",
"Is that a quote? Pretty poetic ",
"Congrats to you !!",
"You didn’t throw it away. That knowledge is inside you. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. Occasionally, you stumble and push forward ",
"I accept them! ",
"Who is Jason Mewes? ",
"Rehab, therapy, four years of sober living, trauma treatment ",
"I hope you are ok",
"Ooof yes ",
"Thank you ",
"Congrats to you !!",
"I appreciate you ",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"It truly will be ",
"Ooof. Been there ",
"Thank you ",
"You guys are weird then",
"Did I overlook this? I went to rehab, support groups, therapy for trauma, and four years of a sober living home ",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"It’s easier over time thankfully ",
"Good luck to you ",
"Congrats !!",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"Congrats 🎊",
"Good job ",
"There are lots of great comments ",
"I liked them though ",
"I didn’t listen to grunge. 🤣",
"Slow and steady my friend ",
"Being a counselor is a tough job- I was one for 15 years 🌹",
":D Good morning!",
"Look him up, you'll get it right away! Funny guy. You reminded me of him in the before picture. Incidentally, he also overcame addiction and looks set on living a healthy life. ",
"I did and I am ",
"Have you tried volunteer work?",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you.",
"I will ",
"Exactly ",
"Good job so far. You can do it.",
"is it bad that I think this person looks completely fine in the before photo?\n\nEdit: Spelling",
"Thank you ",
"i dunno man i just linked the video",
"Food for thought: Treatment is not to get to feel better, but to get better at feeling. No avoidance or escape, but to find peace with feeling. Its a cornerstone tenet of yoga, ironically enough. ",
"What Death Metal you like? I like mostly melodic; In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Insomnium etc.",
"chocolate the best flavor",
"My three kids say no ",
"You seem like a really fun person.",
"Thank you ",
"I can say I didn’t really feel better until right around then. Good luck ",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"It really is and worth it ",
"Thank you ",
"Ha ",
"A Great Story ",
"If they had a homeless adventure ",
"Not as many as you’d think ",
"Better to overcome your Addiction ",
"so much Time wasted/",
"Currently, not death metal but converge and high on fire\n",
"You look a little bit like Liam Gallagher from Oasis.\n\nEdit: On the left picture I mean.",
"Thank you ",
"Haven’t seen that show yet ",
"Is it a bird?\nIs it a bloke?\nHow the hell should I know.\nSorry I spoke. ",
"Less metal more homeless ",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"I don’t know Jeremy ",
"Thanks ",
"I was cool, dying, but cool ",
"Your story makes you look like even more of a beautiful badass than that picture does!",
"🤣",
"I wish I could \"love\" a post instead of just upvoting it. Congratulations on your sobriety! Keep up the amazing work!",
"I love oasis ",
"Thank you ",
"A woman even ",
"Nope. ",
"Thank you ",
"An ounce ",
"Good luck to you ",
"It’s a hard spot to dig out of ",
"Hahaha ",
"Possibly camera angles ",
"Housing and counseling would have helped ",
"? Cultural reference ? ",
"Have you tried support groups on Reddit ? ",
"Thank you ",
"🤣",
"I’m a delivery driver and I work mostly in a larger city in Michigan. A lot of my route takes me into the ghetto. I see people that are dealing with types of addiction. The winters can be be brutal and you won’t see some of the addicts, that have been at it for awhile, surface until the spring. I look at some of them taken back by the simple fact that they’ve made it through yet another winter. It amazing. Unfortunately I’ve become immune to their plight, for me it’s a task of hitting number and getting done for the day, occasionally making eye contact saying “hi” that’s part of the job.",
"So awesome! You should be so proud of yourself!",
"Only the picture on the left. Def a lady now!",
"I guess the people downvoting you didn’t notice the account that commented has literally one comment (this one).",
"At least you know you can do it now! I believe in you. ",
"I mean even if they want to separate it out... theres a better way to do that \n\n>prostitution (male and female)",
"Tracey, you're amazing! I'm 3y clean, and life is so amazing... better than I could have ever imagined. You're such an inspiration and your outreach and harm reduction is just amazing. Thanks for being you and I'm so happy you're still here and kicking ass! ",
"Congrats to you!!!!!",
"Well people have pointed out I looked like a man. that was deliberate for safety reasons",
"thank you",
"I just celebrated 2 years clean and sober yesterday. It's a long road but so worth it. ",
"The most impacted I think I was around other folks addiction was seeing the homeless folks in the winters of NYC and other places I traveled to",
"thank you",
"thank you",
"thank you",
"thank you",
"I'm a brisket!",
"yes",
"I used to look like a man for rape prevention. Being a woman on the street is very dangerous",
"thank you",
"Thank you, and well done you! The street I live on is long and goes way up a hill, and when I go on my \"daily\" walk (I need to actually make it daily) I'm out of breath by the top, so I'm going to walk up the hill and back every time I want a smoke. I am absolutely not turning back this time, whatever happens this is the last time I quit. Smoking is bullshit. ",
"thank you",
"I am surprised the hat inspires so much silent bob",
"Mother...tell your children not to walk my way",
"thank you",
"thanks",
"Malice! I had no idea about her past. I guess I should watch this doc...",
"I think I had to set little goals for myself and achieve them. Jail was fairly easy for me when I got into the routine. Living was hard. I had to find reasons to live",
"congrats!!",
"Okay that was pretty funny, I'll give you that.",
"I know you:) this was fun to see pop up on my feed. I'm every day in awe of you. ",
"Congratulations!",
"Read more about Tracey's story..like so many others, i think..here:\nhttp://traceyh415.blogspot.com\n",
"This is lovely. Beautifully said and so relatable for me as a recovering opiate addict. Thank you.",
"No way :) good from all angles I bet ",
"I love you. You mentioned you are broke. DO you have a chase account. PM me your phone number and i would like to transfer some funds for food and socks/blanket/pizza or anything.\nYOu are awesome. We love you.",
"Doubt you recognize my name from r/opiates but you’re awesome Tracey and I love reading your blog postings! You’re an inspiration to me and many others. Congrats on 20 years, quite the accomplishment. ",
"No one gives a shit",
"Like a boss.\n\nCongrats.",
"thank you",
"thank you!!",
"I honestly thought this MIGHT get ten likes. Crazy",
"thank you!!",
"If I haven't got to answer or respond to your comments, I apologize. I really am trying",
"Thanks. Also for inspiring others. Change is always possible, no matter the situtation.",
"thank you",
"ok",
"that is to prevent being raped",
"that is to prevent being raped",
"You look beautiful! Congratulations!",
"also Mike is my buddy. I love that guy",
"I did. I cleared the virus. I contracted Hep A, B and C",
"very true",
"that is to prevent being raped, looking like a man. Don't feel like a dumbass",
"\"The big fix- hope after heroin\" I was also on NPRs fresh air",
"thank you",
"Honestly, I thought this would get ten likes. I did not know it would blow up",
"thank you",
"thank you",
"I didn't get sober until 1998 and this is one of the only pics i have of myself from 1987-1998.",
"that is to prevent being raped, looking like a male",
"I am!! ",
"thank you. I've considered deleting it myself",
"..the irony of that comment!\n\nThat aside, it's amazing what you've done personally, and even more so the impact you've had on others. \n\nAlso, you have really pretty eyes. ",
"thank you",
"damn I'm sorry",
"Love to you",
"yeah it's unfortunate",
"it's more a purple and I fucked it up and got a BUNCH of comments about the fact it is smeared in one spot",
"that is to prevent being raped, looking male",
"? tell me more",
"haha thanks",
"thank you",
"well the chances are good for a lasting happy clean life if you can make it through the first few years. good luck and congrats",
"After reading all this comments about this documentary, I'm surely gonna watch it.\nCongratulations for staying strong such a long time!\nLike many others I can relate how hard the struggle is. Seeing that you can make it and reading all this support is awesome. \nThank you for this post and best wishes for the future! ",
"My normal makeup is more low key",
"thank you",
"there is a great school of thought called motivational enhancement or motivational interviewing. it is a good read if you have awhile. ",
"Yes.... And they are also some of the worst people alive.\n\nI'm always thankful that people change there ways but as someone who grew up around alcoholics and drug addicts and have been affected by it for many years I can say that I wish my father luck. He did terrible things to me but I don't wish him to be this way his whole life. However just because he quits doesn't give him hero status.",
"I love the word personification. Thank you for that",
"you don't have to say anything sweetie. I appreciate the scroll. Have a great sunday",
"UGH lord. trying to pay for my kids to get through college. I'd also like to open a skate shop when I retire. ",
"OOOHHH I love this",
"It is. I suffer from some depression but it IS worth living",
"It could be worse...",
"It took awhile. Not being funny at all. I had issues and they took awhile to resolve",
"thank you",
"yeah homelessness probably more than drugs",
"Only if I can get their paycheck",
"I’ll hand out free scrolls all day!",
"thank you",
"I am still working on it. It's a lifetime thing for me",
":(",
"I did EMDR and CBT therapies. No meds yet",
"I think addiction does pull a lot of people back. The research shows if you can make it to five years off, there is a high percentage that experience last recovery. Drugs are not my issue today. Depression and anxiety are a constant struggle",
":)",
"It is pretty brutal",
"that is to prevent being raped, looking more like a man",
"Have her contact me if you want. I'm approachable",
"the picture on the left looks like Kevin Smith a female silent bob. Congrats on being sober op best wishes hope you have a great new year.",
"Me too. I am trying to answer 1000 comments and it is taking away from my scrolling time. ",
":)",
"Were you in that HBO documentary? You look like the girl who went to jail then when you came out your mom bought you shoes and Nike shirts. ",
"I am a program manager",
"pretty accurate description",
"It's the camera angle. ",
"thank you baby",
"happy bday to us ",
"I had one but I's do another one",
"You mean from the idiots that have experimented with them? ",
"Check out the community here. Good people: [/r/stopdrinking](https://www.reddit.com/r/stopdrinking/) ",
"[*For reasons unexplained, every person in the world is born with a large, gaping hole in the center of their chest*](https://i.imgur.com/AnnBa)",
"ohhhhhhhh getting old the greatest lesson in humility",
"Can you give us any update on the people in the movie? I know Jake and Oreo died but any others?",
"pretty much",
"What do you do nowadays? For a living etc",
"ok that made me laugh",
"thank you",
"I know enough to know not to get involved with them.",
"Good thing I'm not talking about the program! Also people being silent about how recovery works is killing the next generation. ",
"silent nod",
"Program management",
"Thanks for your reply. Such a sensible response to your situation that unfortunately not everyone would have.",
"google my blog black tar heroin 10 questions answered. It is quicker than me retyping",
"that is brilliant",
"I'm fourteen years sober, however I can still accurately map out my descent into, and ascent out of, addiction:\n\n - I suffered from terrible anxiety (fear) - mostly social. I was also very angry, though I wouldn't have described myself as such at the time. Though there were other issues, these were the two most prominent and most destructive. \n\n - I lacked the coping mechanisms required to constructively deal with these issues. I simply did not develop them in the same way my peers did. Worst still, most coping mechanisms I did develop were *counter-productive* and tended to make things worse. Two examples - If I experienced anxiety at school, I would simply avoid it. If I experienced outbursts of anger, I would turn the rage on myself. Needless to say, these and other twisted means of self-soothing only served to inflame the situation.\n\n - I began abusing drugs and alcohol after I noticed that, by doing this, my fear and anger seemed to dissipate. They made me feel as though I could be the person I was meant to be. That's the best way I can describe it. After a time, I began to shape myself around the newfound persona. Though it was more of a mask than anything else, it was a safe mask. I felt good. There's no denying this. I slowly accepted the life and character of a drug addict.\n\n - As one would expect, my *actual* life got even worse. I began to experience very real consequences for my actions. I wasn't \"just\" dealing with panic attacks and tantrums anymore. I was dealing with robberies, fist fights, arrests, convictions, and eventually - harder and harder drugs. These dramas became the focus of my thoughts and, still practicing avoidance as a temporary solution, I sunk still deeper into drug abuse.\n\n - Eventually I got into so much legal trouble that nothing short of a miracle could save me. I was looking at serving ten years minimum in a state penitentiary. The prosecutor and judge took pity on me and offered me a choice: Total, complete rehabilitation, or annihilation. I stood at the precipice. I picked rehab.\n\n - I could not accept a life without chemical crutches. I could not fathom it. Yet, there I stood, with a choice - Total destruction (ten years in prison is no joke) or total abstention. I knew I had to try. But how?\n\n - Take away my drugs and alcohol, and I was left with everything I tried to cover up with them in the first place. All of that fear. All of that anger. The compulsive behavior, the self-destructive tendencies, the psychopathic qualities, the attraction to risk and drama - All of these things were still there. THOSE, it turns out, were my real demons. Drugs and alcohol had been nothing more than a bandaid. Luckily for me, that bandaid poisoned me so badly that I had no other choice but to treat the true maladies underneath.\n\n - There are programs available to individuals like you and I. AA, NA, etc. These programs offer the hope of finding community, support, and direction. They offer a solution to the underlying issues I've described. Are all addicts created equal? No. But you will find that there are characteristics shared by most all addicts and alcoholics which cannot, and should not, be ignored. They remain after the drugs themselves are removed. And they can be solved with the help of others like us.\n\nI know that you cannot imagine going full sober. I know, because you and I are the same person in that way. I could not comprehend that, once sober and healthy, life could be better. Sobriety seemed not only like accepting defeat - but like the end of hope. Life would forever return to that awful feeling of fear, and anger, and desperation. \n\nI WAS WRONG.\n\nPlease believe me. Believe me when I say that you cannot imagine how wonderful sober life is. If you surrender yourself to a 12 step program, give up drugs and alcohol completely, and do what needs to be done than the rewards are beyond your imagining. A new life. A truly NEW life. Your fear and anxiety - your anger and depression - they will leave you. You will be born again.\n\nI'm reaching my hand out to you and offering you the chance at a better life. If you take it, I and others like me can show you a new way of living. You just have to want it.",
"yes",
"silent nod",
"It's gross. 0/10 would not bang",
"thank you",
"I love that song for whatever reason",
"I didn't like grunge very much strangely",
"Good for you, homie",
"Awesome! You do look pretty bad ass in the first pic tho. ",
"Usually the after pic is supposed to look better in these",
"r/swordorsheath",
" those eyes doh...",
"And living a long and happy life is the greatest reward. May you be rewarded! ",
"lol happy bday :)",
"thank you",
"thank you",
"that is to prevent being raped, looking like a male",
"How does “recovery” work?",
"thank you",
"street life",
"Fooled me",
"Hi . What are you doing for employment?How difficult was it to find a job?",
"I know what karma whoring/attention whoring is. \n\nI’m just confused as to why you’d label someone sharing an inspirational story that might help others an “attention whore”. Takes a really sad person to think that way. Hope your life gets better!",
"may the sun follow the rest of your days",
"I personally believe recovery is an individual journey to get better. There are many types of recovery. Abstinence is one. There are many other types. Opioids overdose is the leading cause of preventable death, reducing the life expectancy in the US. More than even recovery as a concept, I am a big fan of Harm Reduction. ",
"I started as a volunteer to build up a work history in the counseling field while I worked in a call center. Then I did peer counseling. I manage programs now",
"Familiar ground is the toughest shit to deal with. I hung out with an old friend. It started as a get together and turned into a coke and weed party. The moment I saw escorts show up I realized I fucked up and left without a word. \n\nIt was stupid but I'm trying to get back on the straight and narrow. I'm glad the OP overcame this and I hope the op continues. ",
"Unsubbed. Strength and blessed years to those going through things, but this isn't what I subbed to pics for. ",
"good luck to you",
"Oh wow. I'm glad that you are doing well now. Wish you the best:)",
"This may get buried at this point, but. Congratulations! I’ll be watching the documentary tonight after seeing comments about it here. I’m almost 5 years off methamphetamines. How did you manage finding a career path with your criminal record? This is my struggle at the moment due to background checks, it seems they only care what’s on paper and not who you are and how you’ve changed as a person. ",
"Thanks. I'm sure I'll need it. ",
"No, you clearly dont.",
"Fake news lol ",
"Beautiful!",
"Honestly, I was trying new makeup and stuff. I'm generally low key",
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"Lol just take the compliment ",
"OKOK",
"😃",
"Happy sober birthday, Tracey. You are a guardian angel to so many people. \n\nWill you pm me your PayPal so I can drop you some cash for harm reduction? I’ve got 13 months clean now and it’s past time to start giving back.\n\nThank you for touching my life and showing that real change is possible. \n\nGod bless. ❤️",
"That's a super kind offer, lol I pmd you as I could actually use a blanket, like a real one. I totally meant to knit some stuff for myself but turns out I am not good at it and knitting a blanket still costs a lot and just takes a lot haha.\n\nHowever it isn't a big deal either as I have a little space heater and like I said, this is still totally the best winter I've had as an adult because I'm not sick as hell through all of it.\n\nI'm hopeful that I can get narcan for people for free though who've messaged me, I have some resources in downtown I know I need to hit up (someone mentioned a needle exchange and they have those here. You have to take a class but it's just 2 hours long, I recommend others check their area. I'm a former addict and didn't even know we had that, granted I was never too deep into the needle game). $50 for a kit of naloxone is too much imo when it can help so much but I don't know how often you can get it from the health departments here (in KY) ",
"I think everyone should check it out. \nDo you have Netflix?",
"So glad that you're still clean.",
"I agree with yousaid but added to what you said.\n\nMy first sentence was \"Yes...... and.....\"",
"me yeah. That's my weekend companion",
"thank you",
"Best of luck OP. Hope you stay strong.",
"Thank you",
"Sure the first picture isn't you from 1905?",
"You're not wrong. I think it all just depends. If someone is stealing from you I suppose that is a pretty awful problem, I don't really have much experience there because I never had to steal from family (I stole from booze stores if needed, but usually alcohol is cheap enough to get via begging).\n\nBut it's all shit, really. I don't know how you should handle such people. There's no way you can make them stop, but when you feel abandoned it really does make recovery harder so it's like... There just isn't a right answer you know? Either way there's gonna be a lot of pain to go around and this shit really does ruin families.\n\nI can just speak from experience though, the people who stayed with me are the reason I'm alive, and I can't express how much I love them. My dad noped out early on and yknow, I feel hurt still because I stuck out some hard times with him and I feel like he didn't love me enough to stick my hard times out with me. I don't know if that's fair or not, but it's how I see it, and I don't think he and I will have a relationship ever again. So I dunno, I can see how it worked out well for people who stuck around because we are happy-ish now. But it was hell, my mom saw me have seizures and shit too. Saw me delirious and shaking and crying and shit like that so what it's all worth, I don't know. We all try to not think about it anymore and just move on. I do feel bad that the years of stress have affected the health of those I love =(, but I'm happy I'm alive and not all alone too\n\nBut I tried the whole time too. I went to a lot of rehabs and hospitals. I tried to get clean for years and I didn't really keep any secrets or lies except when I pushed people away so they didn't see me relapse. I think I was fairly open about it, I figured I was nonfunctional anyway so not like I can play it off. I did hide it for a very long time as I didn't live with my family, and was the one who finally broke the ice and was like \"I'm coming to you all because I need help, I have this problem and I've tried to quit already and just can't\". I didn't admit I had a problem until I was addicted to benzos to manage a half gallon of vodka a day habit though so what that was worth I dunno\n\nNot that that makes anything easier on my family so much.. Just saying I think both parties need to be putting in effort. But I will say a lot of times people thought I wasn't trying at all and I really really was. Sometimes you can't see the trying ",
"Well after I hoped the freight train with the rest of the Johnson's family, we stopped by the opium den and I decided to spend $2 on a room at the flophouse",
"I mean this with all due respect: Stop being so modest. \n\nYour gesture above is incredibly kind and we need more people like you in the world. So thanks for being you, it’s inspiring to see.",
"Only eight episodes about twenty minutes each. It's really hard to not binge watch it, which I did. :( Don't know if there will be more.",
"I'll check it out. thanks",
"Great, you aren’t an ideologue. ",
"no no no. whatever works for the person",
"They don't pat themselves on the back.\n\nThey pat their cult leader in the back with their sweaty hands. ",
"As someone that has never done drugs, I feel especially alien to people that have. Am I an alien or are we all just disconnected? How do we connect again? I don't even know if I want to be connected to people. I hate so many of them. I'm watching the documentary now. Was your first time experimenting or was it some sort of conscious decision to drop into that world and fuck the rest? Forgive me for my ignorance and if this documentary answers these questions already. I'm not known for my patience.",
"Fuck off, ovenbait.",
"\"you stuck (*the needle*) in the landing.\" FTFY",
"I had a long history of depression and self harm",
"Young me thought I was going to be a lawyer. Loool my last job was at Taco Bell, where I was fired from due to suspected drug use (which was infuriating because I was sober, and even celebrated my 6 months sobriety there as some coworkers and managers were in recovery! Fucking hell I'm still mad lol). But it isn't a big deal, I guess the good thing about these types of jobs is you can find more of them. I'm rambling again blah blah blah. But yes, I am not a defense attorney as little me anticipated. But I am still happy for the most part and I am active in some communities and I think that's just as good ",
"You haven't unconvinced me",
"Fair point. ",
"He's a rapper from Alabama. I tried to find a pic to show what I mean but couldn't",
"I hope that you're happy. It may read as trite and insipid, but it's not. I *hope* that you are happy. You should know and absolutely **own** that all that stuff you went through was not for nothing. You've helped people. You have changed people. No less than music.",
"People upvoting an almost objectively bad picture in a subreddit called r/pics...",
"Ah ha ",
"Yeah this is what my mom did. She went to AL ANON as well as individual counseling =(. She and I never really discussed al anon much but I think it helped her.\n\nI think her just going to meetings helped a lot. I remember one day at AA she was like \"I don't get it but I am starting to. I know you don't mean to do this and I know it's hell on you too\"\n\nWhich may have sounded like she was coddling me but before this it was all \"why the fuck can't you just grow up and realize you can't party forever!?\" \"get a fucking job and maybe you won't drink so much\" and stuff like that, even though it wasn't exactly a party, and drunk me couldn't hold a job over a week.\n\nIt's crazy because as an addict I can feel how much I hate being trapped. But some people don't understand it and I dunno.. It bothered me when people could see me falling apart and think I was doing it by choice. A lot of people feel addiction is a choice but the line is blurry, and once you're in you're fuckin in and it isn't a choice then at least. I think AA meetings with me, where I spoke along with meetings and was open too, helped my mom understand a lot more.\n\nPlus it is easier for me to speak in front of a group than one on one. I can tell a group of strangers how awful it is easier than I could tell my mom over lunch what it feels like to be dying slowly. ",
"Where do you get your rush today, or do you not experience anything that replaces that?\n\nThanks for taking the time to reply.",
"Did you get a good career after all of it?",
"Good job though you look great!!!",
"Harm reduction and validation aren't the same. You don't get 20 years needing \"validation\" you do it forr yourself. \n\nBut you do get the urge to want to help others going through the same shit. This is clearly the latter.",
"I am so happy for you. Do you do speaker meetings ever?",
"Graffiti is the only adrenaline type thing. I also walk 3-5 miles 5 Days a week ",
"I have a great career even w a felony ",
"Thank you ",
"I quit going to meetings for 3-4 years. I just went back. I went like maybe 12 times in four years. Now I go twice a week. ",
"What career field did you end up getting in if you mind me asking?",
"Good to hear. You have that actress look about you. Anyways, all the best to you. ",
"I manage programs related to mental health peer counseling. ",
"thank you",
"it really is",
"I'm so glad you are doing well. I remember you.",
"thank you",
"Tracey you are an eternal inspiration to me and many others. The knowledge that one can go from so low to such a motivating force in peoples lives is truly incredible.\n\nI wish you nothing but the best in your bright future!",
"You have amazingly beautiful eyes.",
"pics or it didn't happen",
"Just saw this on Instagram. 20 years is quite the accomplishment. That's awesome Tracy. People like you always gave me hope to see recovery is possible. I am 2 1/2 years clean now but to see how you helped people on the other subreddit always gave me hope. I am surprised you're able to go on it though still. Once I go on it sucks me in and it feels like a vortex haha. So now I just browse r/deepfriedmemes and r/askreddit lol. Anyways congrats ",
"thank you",
"Wow, that is truly an inspiration. ",
"thank you",
"Haha I had to log into my throaway for drugs and the fact that I used to be addicted to heroin to tell you this. (Been clean 2 years, 5 months, 11 days. Or atleast, not counting the 1 year I spent on suboxone. Which I only count half the time, but felt the need to mention.) Anyway! The point! Heroin users have an affinity for sweets. Sugar tastes SO MUCH BETTER on heroin! Its probably becauae youre starving yourself to support an increasing habit. What he did to the coffee was par for the course in a heroin addicts life! I remember when I was detoxing, anything sugary was VILE and almost made me puke with digust. Withdrawals wont kill you, but they damn sure make you wish you were dead!",
"Don't be too quick, you actually significantly increase your chances of long term success by using the subs to their full potential. That is, take the time to learn coping mechanisms, change the people places and things that lead to using, create a stable life, use the time that has been gifted toi make the changes and build a solid recovery that will carry you on after the subs are gone.\n\nUnfortunately on reddit there can be a lot of pressure to jump off subs asap, because they're \"opiates\" (kind of but not really, it's more complicated than that), when that is a total waste of them. If we just pause our addiction for a few weeks or months,, then get off subs without building the foundation of recovery we need to keep clean, we've only paused our addiction for a short time without making the changes we need to be successful. We won't do any better than the other hundred times we quit because we didn't really do anything different. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is not realistic. Don't let anyone tell you your recovery isn't valid because you are using the tools that science has given us to increase our chances of long term sobriety. You got this, good luck!",
"well it's not yet 20 years. Honestly I made a post like one of my instagram posts thinking ten people would see it. I guess it struck a chord. ",
"Did find it difficult to go to school and get the career you have with your felonies?",
"Well, I don't really have any photos of myself when I was an addict. Honestly I wish I could show every one of the people who say I look great at 36, just how bad I looked at 22. Life is a trip. ",
"Getting bored now. Just hope you never have to call an ambulance for a loved one and they can't get to you in time because they're too busy trying to save some low life junkie....",
"I recognised your 1995 picture IMMEDIATELY from the documentary. You had a lasting impact on me.",
"She didn't break any rules. There's nothing wrong with what she posted and it clearly resonated with a LOT of people. Which makes me wonder why are you so bitter about it?",
"Wow congratulations! I wish you an even better 20 years ahead!",
"I have one felony. I had completed a rehab then I got into school through an exoffender program. Then I found a job willing to hire felons who had completed rehabilitation. Rehabs were much longer back then ",
"I feel this. So true",
"Hahahah well I wasn't even paying attention then I was like wai hold up that's Reddit, wait hold up that's Tracey, then I searched the find it. and I know it's not twenty years yet but still congrats on the length of recovery you do have. I forget what the statistics are of people who use IV drugs to get a year clean, I want to say it's between 5% and 15% out of 100%, but don't quote me on that, so to be able to go from that to 19+ years. I recently had one of my support group members celebrate 30 years clean from 12 years of IV heroin abuse, and at his anniversary meeting and he asked me to give him his coin. It blew me away. You do show people that it can be done though and me it's always nice to see people get clean and get a soul back. Because really when I used I felt like that was what was wrong, no personality no soul on top of other things. and when i took the drugs away I was so lost and scared and feared up. I'm just happy I got clean it was the best decision I've ever made. ",
"Kinda looked like silent bob ",
"Wasn't /r/incels banned?",
"I see 2 books by him, which one?",
"I could understand neutrality or apathy but not the contempt. \n\nShe didn't break any rules. There's nothing wrong with what she posted and it clearly resonated with a LOT of people in a positive way. Which makes me wonder why are you so bitter about it?",
"She didn't break any rules. There's nothing wrong with what she posted and it clearly resonated with a LOT of people. Which makes me wonder why are you so bitter about it?",
"Good job getting over your addiction! It's a hard thing to overcome!",
"thank you",
"silent nod",
"That would be great. What would be the best way for her to do that, please?",
"I’m 3.4 years sober and find if I stop going to meetings I’m grumpy AF. Can’t imagine not going to a meeting for 3 years!",
"It's a much higher number than that. Most people quit on their own so they don; get into the stats",
"thank you",
"Oh wow thats awesome",
"I hope a good one",
"I wish you the best too. \n\nYou're worse than a 'low life junkie'. At least we can clearly tell them. Whereas you're just a snake disguised as human, spewing your pernicious garbage. \n\nGood day. ",
"🤔🤔🤔 interesting ",
"message me and I'll give you my email",
"well I was grumpy AF",
"Can do.",
"Jesus, with that much sugar you'd think it was addictive or something! He's going to have some serious health problems if he keeps that up.",
"Try weed. Worked for me. Initially i started smoking it all day every day like alcohol but then something happened and now i still drink and smoke , just not like an addict. Like i can have one beer with friends or even alone without needing to blackout. Which is more beautiful than total abstinence and being scared of being around alcohol and other people drinking.",
"Is \"granda\" a gender non-binary term for either grandparent?",
"Great way to show there is hope.\nU look awesome",
"It's been 1 month without a drink for me today. I know that struggle.",
"Fuck off, ovenbait.",
"Your comment really hit home with me. Thank you.",
"Glad this is here",
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"Denmark being Denmark! Students there are lucky",
"Aw am I still on your mind. Do you need a diaper change?",
"Nice self portrait",
"What about people who go to the hospital for, say, a broken leg, and are given a prescription for an opiate? I fell and hurt my back a year and a half ago and was sent home with a prescription for tramadol. I didn't let myself finish that prescription because I could feel myself looking forward to the next dose even though I hated the numbness that accompanied taking it. Lots of people become opiate addicts through pain treatment regimens that started in hospitals. You're calling *those* people idiots?",
"Tracey, you saved two of my best friends lives. You sent out Narcan kit to a friend who was there when they both overdosed on heroin that definitely cut with fentanyl/fentanyl analogues. Both friends collapsed after ten minutes when they dosed and thankfully the friend with the Narcan kit that you sent him had the kit in hit car. \n\nAfter my friends collapsed; the sober friend ran to his car and retrieved the kit then he administered the Narcan to them. Within 2 minutes my two friends were brought out of the overdose and were fully conscious. \n\nSo thank you, thank you so so so very much for sending those kits. You've likely saved hundreds of lives, including my two friends. Two days after that very close call, both of those friends admitted themselves to inpatient rehab. \n\nMy friends have now been clean a little over a year now. You truly are an amazing individual for doing what you do. Again thank you from the bottom of my heart. You're an angel.",
"Are you gonna cry yourself to sleep thinking about how I hurt your feelings? \"Waaaah waaah\" that's what you sound like",
"She saved two of my best friends from her harm reduction/Narcan lots she sent out to thousands of people. If I could meet her in person, I'd give her the biggest bear hug. \n\nTracey truly is an angel.",
"Congrats!\n\nIt's tough to be sure, but you're mostly there!",
"From one recovering opiate addict to another; you're amazing. Keep with it and stay strong. Opiates have such an incredibly euphoric feeling that it's like losing the love of your life when you quit. But thankfully it gets much easier the longer you stay clean.\n\nCheers to the sober life mate!!!",
"Yes, same here. That's an incredibly insightful comment.",
"I don't wanna be an ass but this was literally just an ULPT",
"I think that would be a good idea.",
"thank you",
"well fuck thats an amazing story.",
"Thanks brother/sister. Im going on 11 years now clean and it is by far the most misunderstood disease ive come across. I don't drink either, which blows people's minds. The easiest excuse when people ask me why, is i just say, \"I get sick if I drink\", stops the questions in their \"tracks\". Excuse my pun😂. ",
"thank you",
"You're welcome!\n\nKeep it up, and nice job!",
"I went from being a great student 3.5gpa and getting the Eagle scout award when i was 17 to becoming a strung out, worthless IV heroin addict within 4 years. I never thought that in a millenia that I'd ever become the hardcore addict. \n\nI started off by occasionally taking Adderall to keep up with my classes and then taking Xanax or Vicodin/Oxycontin to come down to sleep. Then I realized I could be just as productive using Oxycodone alone for school/work. Soon my tolerance got so high that it made it to where I couldn't afford the pharmaceutical opiates. \n\nI switched to heroin, because wow! I could feel what $20 worth of heroin more than what $150 worth off Oxycodone. At this point I was still a great worker and student. That would changed very fast after I switched over to heroin.\n\nSoon I needed $80-$100 worth of heroin just to function. If I didn't get more everyday by 10am, I would be so sick I couldn't do much more than run to the bathroom to throw up.\n\nAfter that, I read that using heroin intravenously instead of snorting was much more efficient due to a higher bioavailability. So started shooting every time I used. \n\nIt got even worse; I started order fentanyl analogues from the darknet (think Silkroad type sites). Also, at this point; my life was completely consumed by my drive to obtaining drugs, get high until I ran out, rinse and repeat. I dropped out of college and barely kept a job. \n\nFinally I overdosed four times between November 2016 and April 2017. My parents gave me an ultimatum: go to rehab and get clean or be cut off from my entire family permanently. \n\nThankfully, I chose the former. And my life is finally getting back to normal.\n\nSo no, I didn't wake up one day and thought \"you know what? I'm gonna shoot some fentanyl or heroin, that sounds fun!!\" It was a slow progression into the depths of hell that is opiate addiction.\n\nI'm on mobile so I'm sorry for formatting/grammar.",
"Cogratulations on another victory today.",
"Thank you for that. Wasn’t aware of that community.",
"> Sugar tastes SO MUCH BETTER on heroin!\n\nWell that explains why I was drinking so much soda and eating a ton of sugary cereals when I was abusing oxy.",
"Ah, I was presuming you got sober right after the picture. Still, you're doing great and look so much healthier! Keep it up :) ",
"Ah! The angel herself! Keep doing what you do. If there is anyway I can help by donating to your Naloxone package cause. Please let me know. \n\nThank you so much once again. \n\nMuch love!!!",
"Thank you.",
"This. I am living this every day. I don't enjoy hardly any of the things I used to love doing sober. I don't have any hobbies anymore. And it hurts, so damn bad.\n\nI've heard someone describe life after drugs as \"forever living life on hard-mode\" and it hit me so hard.\n\nI hope we can learn to love sobriety again. Sobriety was enough for me for 18 years. It was all I knew, and it was enough. I can't help but feel like my naïvete & weaknesses really fucked up my ability to have the happy life I otherwise could have had.",
"Not knowing you but based off myself, look into PTSD. Also, regardless of whether it is mental illness or straight substance abuse issues, consider looking into cannabis. Even if you succumb to compulsory urges you can still live a good life with cannabis.",
"Are... Are you a dude?",
"What Seattle Band Were you in back then?\n",
"message me!!! ",
"my csection scar says that's a lie",
"think more homeless, less grunge. I wasn't even into grunge although I knew people who used with kurt cobain but that was half of the seattle junkie set back then",
"Thanks. I don't go by the sub anymore but I saw this thread and wanted to come In and show love and respect. You are really an amazing person and deserve everything good in life. ",
"nah, but of course it’ll be upvoted since she visibility had fit this “thug” stereotype she portrayed. ",
"Hell yeah! ",
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"I have been fortunate enough to \"know better\" than to get addicted to heroin. But if I made a mistake and tried it once, than got hooked, you are saying my whole life is forefit? I made a bad decision and now I am not worth anything? Just fuck me?\n\nI don't know what it must be like, but I would like to understand. Maybe I learn something. Empathy is really powerful. These are indeed regular people. You are not made of better stuff, you are just in a different situation. Nobody is below you. \n\nThe question of \"how is addiction a disease?\" Is a real question. A question doctors and researchers are actively working on. You might be surprised what you find out if you actually take time to answer your question.\n\nI would wager you couldn't quit sugar and bread for the rest of your life. It sounds easy on paper. It is worthless to you, so why do you eat it? It it actually killing you. ",
"Good job. How is your world now? Employed etc?",
"Yes, that’s fair, and I agree. Thanks for responding.",
"r/murderedbywords",
"This is dead on. After 19 months, my addictive thoughts are completely different then when I first got sober. Originally, my thoughts were about needing the drug and fighting with boredom. Now,my addictive thoughts border on playing games with myself. I entertain the thought about once a day, and its almost always just a fleeting thought that things would be easier if I just got high.",
"I also came here to say that you have beautiful eyes! 😍",
"Married homeowner employed kids ",
"Ohhh thank you 😍",
"Well done! God bless you",
"Good Job. ",
"Did you ever have the kids you wanted?",
"How's your relationship been?",
"Yeah no kidding. I had no idea this was a thing, but I'm on day five of detoxing on Suboxone and haven't had any appetite for sweets ever since. I was eating 5-10 chocolate chip Nestle Tollhouse Break and Bake cookies every night as well as a few sodas and a pint of ice cream, just for good measure. Now, nothing sweet sounds good any more. I don't even want to touch a cookie right now. My Starbucks habit isn't even much of a thing any more. It's really crazy. I didn't know that opiates had any connection to sugar cravings. I had suspected it, but never heard anyone else say that the two were connected. ",
"Thank you. ",
"Three. They are 6,8,10",
"Except that the account was made 2mths ago. Is it inconcivable that they simply only lurk? Just upvoting and downvoting?",
"Good for you\n",
"thank you",
"You look like a used up old junkie.",
"What a awesome woman you’ve become ",
"thank you",
"Just wanna let you know that you are kicking major ass being 20 years clean, working to save people who others determine don’t deserve life, and then STILL RESPONDING to comments like this without cursing them out. Good on you, congrats on 20 years sober!",
"Tracey is a hero to other people with addictions.. she is an avid harm reduction person and gives great advice on the opiate subreddit.",
"Glad to hear you've seen the light. Don't blow it. Good luck.",
"Found the junkie. The truth hurts huh?",
"well it's next month. I try not to cuss people out. ",
"that is true",
"Your story is like a 20 something year old version of mine. Things aint changed in the City. Hopefully my story ends like yours, too. Congratulations on 20 life affirming years clean",
"Fucking terrible advice for most addicts.",
"I hope so too",
"I found I became a hardcore sugar addict once I got off heroin and started methadone.",
"I was talking about both photos",
"Wow this is heartbreaking. Such a big picture that I as a non addict never would have thought of.",
"Nice, I'm only just getting close to a year and a half.",
"nice\n",
"I'm also struggling with a HUGE sugar intake during recovery... which is rough, being diabetic and all. 😅 it's like my brain always finds something addictive to latch onto, I'm sick of this cycle but can't seem to come up with any solutions that work for me. ",
"Same. I got myself off of suboxone cold turkey. Clean for 6 months and thought I could have a drink. Now a drink is 3 bottles a day....feel so ashamed writing this.\n\nEdit....you know what? I quit suboxone by using the first 3 steps and the serenity prayer. That was IT. But this life on life terms is killing me. I did 9 months of rehab. My addiction is this, I just want to feel different. When I'm sad I want to feel happy. When I'm happy I want to feel happier. \n\nRight now I'm in a homeless man's program in central Sydney. I have 2 degrees and a post grad and the only thing that interests me right now is finding the cheapest bottle. But I know there's someone doing this harder. The compassion and love I found in the rooms keeps me humble. Thanks for all the support.",
"It's not forever. My physch likes to tell me that after 3 years it's like you never took the drugs in the first place. Not sure how much I buy that, but still. You might check out NA if you haven't. A lot of the people that I meet there say that they're as happy as they've ever been. I'm with you, still waiting on that myself, but it beats being dead, I suppose. You've just got to stick with it. It can only get better from here.",
"Thank you so much for your response! I suffer from intense social anxiety, (which is a large part of the reason I started doing drugs in the first place,) so I don't know if I'd personally benefit from NA like most people in my situation would.\n\nBut I find talking about it at all, even with strangers on the internet, really helps. So thank you for making me feel hopeful. I haven't really ever heard anyone else phrase the struggles of life after drugs in the way I've experienced it until I read the initial comment I replied to. So it is even more helpful to hear from you that people can get that normality of living a content & sober life back.",
"Im proud of you for writing this. Fight for yourself. ",
"So is staying clean and sober one day at a time.\n\nShoulders went up to ears reading your reply. Why? Cause anytime I would receive praise........I'd choke. \n\nOne day at a time. Thank God! best to you lady\n\nedit: forgot something, lol",
"If someone you cared about told you this about themselves would you think less of them? Or simply care that they were unhappy? There is no shame in saying something isn't working. It's only way that you have a chance to fix it. By writing this you have already begun to work to make your life better. And for what it's worth, I fully believe you will succeed. \n\n",
"Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. Good for you that you’ve come to a good place in your life. I wish you the best!",
"Fuck all these downvotes. With all the shit coming into effect with the new administration a ton off ppl are being cut off cold turkey. They cut my mom off after over 30 yrs and gave her nothing made her go cold turkey through her withdrawals. If it wasn't for weed and the help it has provided for her don't think she would have stuck through it and may have turned to buying pills or even worse heroin on the streets. So I can understand the one commenter saying it's bad advice for other addicts but at the same time it could be just the advice an addict needs to try and take that first step and it's also the step that's always the hardest to take.",
"Tracy is a angel at R/Opiates",
"Kudos to you, sobriety looks great on you! ",
"Those Eyes.. ",
"* r/opiates",
"Thank you ",
"Thank you ",
"Potato, potato. ",
"If you ever feel up to tackling the sugar thing - I find that cutting out all sugar and all foods that essentially turn into sugar in my body is the only way to beat my sugar addiction. Like keto. I'm on and off the wagon but when I'm on it, sugar has zero appeal. \n\nIt's hard though cause I can't just stop spending time around people who eat carbs like I did the other stuff. \n",
"Almost everyone there has intense social anxiety or did when they first started. You'll fit right in!",
"You're welcome",
"Wow. I've been sober 13 years and this is the clearest explanation of addiction that I've ever heard. This is so accurate. ",
"Hey Johnnyash-\nPlease don't let shame weigh you down. We all have frailties and failures and fears that we aren't as strong as we should be at times. You kicked suboxone which is no small feat! That's actually something that would make most people really proud! Keep swinging, find positive people to surround yourself with and be as honest about your struggle as you can. I'm sure you know it won't be easy, but with the right resources, I'll bet you can kick booze too. Hugs & best wishes from a random internet stranger",
"Yes, but one of said potatoes is green and it activates a link",
"More like, ‘tis one and the same",
"This is amazing! Can’t wait to check out the documentary and use it for my own motivation!!!! Best wishes to all!!!",
"It is so awesome that you are declaring this, it is brave and honest. Your comment inspired me.",
"*hugs* you can get clean again if you want to, in the mean time just celebrate the small wins... eating properly, getting out of the house, getting out of bed... Just one day at a time. You are worth it! ",
"I drink too much too man. Don't feel ashamed--I think you're a strong person for admitting that it's a problem. Alcohol is shitty and insidious though, good luck\n",
"They both work for me. What’s the difference?",
"It’s pretty poetic and brutal ",
"Inebriated clam wasn't correcting that person, he simply posted a working link to the subreddit. The comment the other guy wrote was missing a / before the r so it was not a functioning link, although I believe RES has a function that corrects that into a working link so both may have worked for you. ",
"Admitting the problem is the first step, both in 12 step programs and in a more general common sense way. Nothing can be accomplished or changed without honesty, and you have taken that first step. You have nothing to be ashamed of for being honest about your situation. ",
"It's an ignorant, uneducated personal view. No one with any real knowledge on the subject shares your opinion.",
"I don't think he's a junkie. He's just disgusted by you as your complete lack of a decent moral compass or empathy for something that you seem to think you're an expert on but clearly don't know the first thing about.",
"Oh look, the asshole's argument doesn't stand up in the face of reason. Who would have thought?",
"As someone who’s been in my own personal hell with alcoholism I can always use a punch in the face to remember how terrible that lifestyle is! ",
"Yeah",
"It is terrible 😞",
"That's great. Good on ya",
"You are a good man. God bless you. ",
"I followed you on instagram while I was an active heroin addict. As my addiction progressed, I lost track of you. \n\nI'm now 4 years and 13 days clean and I'm so happy I found you again!! ",
"Wow congrats to you ",
"Thank you! You look absolutely stunning!",
"Thanks a lot for the thoughtful post. I have done a lot of what you've suggested already. I'm also gonna have some backups stashed in case I ever feel the need to start using again. I've been addicted to and quit a lot of things, so I understand what works and what doesn't. That said I've never had as much trouble kicking other substances so I'm definitely gonna try be aware of what's going on and keep on top of it. Thanks again, jo :) ",
"I’m up voting that brisket , now I’m off to save the world ",
"😊",
"Thank you brisket , a smile is the first thing you need to save the world, I will take it with me on my journey, peace and love brisket ",
"I'll put in a request. Thank you for agreeing to doing this!\n\nI'm someone who is having issues overcoming my own struggles, so I'd love to hear everything you have to share",
"As another person on another side of the world struggling with different substances, this honestly just made me start crying, in a happy way. Thanks both of you and stay strong<3",
"Hey, quitting drinking is probably the hardest thing you’ll ever do, but you have to do it at some point if you want the pain to stop. The pain that drinking causes you and the pain that lead to using in the first place. I hope this isn’t coming out as preachy as it’s only something that I’ve recently discovered myself. I’m five months sober as of yesterday and tbh it’s painful as fuck most of the time, but I don’t come out of benders full of questions and regrets anymore. I’m finally able to start healing from the things that happened to me growing up that I numbed out with using. \n\nI’m not saying you have to stop now, or even ever, really, but besides the fact that sobriety is a little boring sometimes, you don’t really hear people who’ve been in recovery for a while say they truly regret getting sober. You do hear a lot of people say they wish the had gotten clean sooner, though. Overall, you have to do what you have to do, boo. My heart is with you, no matter where you are in your journey, and I hope you find peace and stability someday. <3",
"Do you have any advice for the newly sober?",
"20 years, time to break sobriety!",
"No. I don't have much of an idea. Anything you know of?",
"Or, more sensibly:\n\n> prostitution",
"Hey everybody, I found the cunt.",
"No dude, she's giving people hope. Don't be so bitter.",
"Btw, i have a similar view of \"homeless\" people too. The vast majority (95% at a guess) are on the streets because they chose to spend their state hand outs on drugs snd or booze instead of paying their bills and buying food. Don't forget when they ask you for money for food, they're actually gonna use your gift for drugs. Fuck 'em i say.",
"My moral compass tells me not to do drugs then i don't end up beating people up to steal their money for a fix. How's yours?",
"On that front, exactly the same. That doesn't mean every person who has a problem with substance abuse is a worthless piece of shit. Lots of people struggle with an addiction on a daily basis and never beat up or rob other people to feed it. You're taking the worst case examples and pretending they are the norm. Addiction is a serious problem, usually used to help cope with undiagnosed mental issues, and does mean a lot of things, but an instant black mark as being a worthless piece of shit is not one of those. But you have certainly earned that distinguished honor.",
"Jesus Christ. Now you've gone from a borderline ridiculous opinion to one that is quantifiably provable incorrect. The majority of homeless people are on the street because they choose to be, but not because they're normal. It's because they have serious untreated mental illness. instead of using your own \"oh I'm so smart I know everything\" opinion as proof, ask any professional healthcare worker you dumbass. And your surprise that they use drugs or drink to cope with that mental illness? Because they don't have the money or resources they often need to get that treatment. And end up living on the streets because they can't keep a job. You truly are an amazing piece of shit.",
"I just want to say thanks for telling your story and I'm glad you're still with us to do so.",
"Ok, well as a former male sex worker I think you should reevaluate your position because it's homophobic and discriminatory.",
"> assumed\n\nActually I used to work as a male sex worker so I've got first hand experience with the sex industry. The overwhelming majority of us have sex with men.",
"You may not like it, and you may want us to be discriminatory, but this is not discriminatory. In fact it is literally the opposite of discriminatory in that it is not discriminating, where the example cited is.\n\nHow you jump to homophobia from gender I couldn't say, but I strongly feel that gender is artificially introduced into a large swathe of scenarios unnecessarily. Gendered clothes, gendered toys, gendered bathrooms and so on. I have no issues with sex workers being any gender or any sexuality they want, personally I find it very hard to understand why anyone would identify as anything but human. One of my children is neither cis nor straight and, whilst I have only ever had heterosexual relationships, I do not identify as straight, because I find some people attractive, based on only one thing - whether or not I find them attractive - their gender, hair colour, skin colour, ethnicity, language and moustache style play little part in that. As it happens I have never had a Korean partner, nor one with a full handlebar moustache, but I am not ruling those possibilities out, any more than I would rule out gender.",
"r/nofap ",
"Don’t be afraid to get outside help for mental health issues. Find things you really enjoy doing that motivate you to get up on a daily basis ",
"Sure lmk ",
"Thank you so much for responding. <3 I’m still struggling with both those, but recovery is a never ending process. I couldn’t sleep last night so I watched the documentary you were in last night; your intelligence and perseverance and beauty shone through, even at such a rough point in your life. You’re very inspirational, thank you for all that you do. ",
"Hey thanks. Masturbation is something that I now have lot of control over (even earlier I was as controlled as any other lad of my age would be). Nofap definitely would help me when I'm falling back after a while (its natural for body to desire but I'd have to control it). I'm just emotionally down. Like suddenly I get a thought to kill myself even though I want to live. I want my hearing back even though I know it's not coming back. It's a very complex feel.",
"I'm trying like hell man.",
"I don’t know if I could watch that movie before bed 😂",
"This person definitely thinks there is only one ambulance per zip code",
"I have a similar opinion as i have about homeless people and drug addicts regarding the immigrant influx into the united kingdom, unruly pieces of shit that should be shipped back to wherever they came from. I'd even help to put them on the pallets. \nYou dumbfucks need to get in the real world.",
"Congrats on getting off of suboxone. That is brutal. As for your other stuff goes, it's really really hard to quit needing a crutch to fall on. That's why it's said getting clean is the easy part, staying clean is the hard part. I'm not really one for inspirational quotes, but I saw this the other day and it clicked for me: Build a life you don't need to escape from. Good luck to you. ",
"This has nothing to do with your dumb theories of gender. Believe whatever you want outside of this issue. The point is that male sex workers face specific issues targeted at them specifically. Failing to recognize those issues and removing gender from the conversation — when it so clearly determines the type of violence sex workers face — is discriminatory.\n\nGet fucked.",
"Oh good, now you sound like you're also a white nationalist. I keep thinking you couldn't possibly be a worse human being, and then you open your mouth again.",
"Sure, it's possible. It's just very unlikely and I would wager that it is her own 'lurking' account",
"Fuck off cock",
"Nobody is removing male sex workers by dealing with sex workers. \n\nThe fact that male sex workers are often ignored is the issue that removing the artificial divide is intended to address. \n\nAnd for all your anger, you do not know what discriminate means: \"recognise a distinction; differentiate\". Again, you may want us to be discriminatory, but this is not discriminatory, no matter how many times you swear about it, electing not to discriminate is not discriminatory. I think you are wrong to be offended by it, but if you want to be you need to choose a different word.\n\nYou go on being angry, I'll go on trying to help everyone, not just the majority. ",
"I just speak the truth. I just say what most people are thinking anyway....",
"No, you don't. And that's why it's so sad. You don't speak the truth, you speak your own uneducated opinion. Most people think and believe what science and medical professionals say. Unfortunately your ridiculous opinion holds no water as it's based on nonsense.",
"Nah, you've fallen into the pc trap. Stop being a sheep and form your own opinion based on life in the real world...",
"You are a moron. I'm saying that science and medical professionals have an opinion about addiction, and by believing that I'm worried about being PC? Those things don't even have anything to do with one another. I'm basing my opinion both on personal experience and science. Unfortunately you don't get to say the science is nonsense just because you lack empathy. You disregard all science and medical studies and instead based this ridiculous opinion on your personal close minded view of the world. Have fun with that. Sadly, I'm done conversing with an idiot who is unable to differentiate between fact and bullshit. Goodbye.",
"Farewell, precious child....",
"Thanks, means a lot even coming from an Internet stranger. I honestly believe we aren't meant to feel that kind of euphoria as it truly ruins every other form of \"happiness.\" ",
"no problem",
"TIL. That's unique to the States.",
"Thanks so much! And congrats on your 20 years of sobriety. ",
"😀",
"I just meant if nothing else works, give weed a shot. I know its terrible advice and what works for me might not for others.",
"Thanks, it has been an enlightening experience, i feel it evrytime when i drink. The why and how has changed so drastically. But im still not bulletproof. Like i drank continuously for last two days coz i was just fed up of a week long flu, and i could see my old actions and feelings returning. So, need to wisen up.",
"I do kinda deserve the downvotes coz it is shitty advice. I should know better having been in that state of mind.",
"I do kinda deserve the downvotes coz it is very shitty advice. I know coz i have been through it. My point is when you realize you have lost the battle, its always better to smoke a joint and gather some strength than pick the bottlw again. Thats much harder to come back from. For me the more I fought it the more it also fought back\n So every relapse was worse and worse. I had to break this cycle of controlling it 100% then totally give up, say fuck it and drink again. Its like standing on the ledge , fighting the vertigo, the constant non stop struggle with a natural urge, until i finally cracked and jumped right into the abyss. Weed takes me a little farther from the ledge.",
"Oh i didnt mean to insult. I was just speaking mindlessly sry",
"Good effort! Keep it up. You are both inspired and inspiring.",
"No problem ",
"Thank you ",
"Well said. Not to get nitpicky but the idea that drugs make/made you feel better than at any point in your entire life is an illusion. I used to believe that an intravenous dose of heroin was the equivalent to 1000 orgasms. That was my logic. It's not though. Drugs are dangerous tools - double edged swords. Their effects on our neurotransmitters are artificial - and they don't last. Achievement brings about everlasting satisfaction. That's what I'm chasing now. It is fucking hard learning to live again. I've been dope free for over half a decade and I still need a lot of work on my hobbies and social life. I still haven't hung out with someone just to hang out when drugs or sex wasn't involved - still! But I hold my head high and solder on. I continue to be reminded regularly of what my life would look like if I ever looked back. The longer the door stays shut, the easier it is to keep it shut. You can't unopen it but you can turn your back on it. Fuck the bullshit. Fuck the nonsense. Eternal fucking vigilance my friends.",
"Well fucking put my friend. Congratulations. My hats off to you. I feel like saying 'keep fighting the good fight' to you would be cliché as fuck. You've discovered the truth. Life is better without the bullshit. It's not a battle anymore for you (I think), not really. It's freedom. Your spirit has evolved.",
"Beautiful. ",
"Thank you ",
"This is dyed to cover grey but it is ",
"beautiful, kind soul.. I'm aware of all the help you provide for overdose prevention!",
"Thank you 🙏 ",
"And you are beautiful. Bravo.",
"I’m not op. I am a lurker though. I had a different account where my username was either tubesock or tubesockk. Either way I couldn’t get back on because I forgot my password and username for that matter. And to explain my inactivity and knowledge of the documentary; I had my own heroin addiction to take care of. Now that I’m sober, I’m back on reddit.",
"Not op. I’m just another heroin addict with a story of his own.",
"thank you",
"cheers to you.",
"That was terribly unfunny.",
"no problem",
"I know that we can help other women like you. I know what we can do for LA. Join the #SheDoes Campaign and help shelter 1,000 women by August 2018. Sign the petition and spread the word! https://www.change.org/p/mayor-eric-garcetti-mayor-garcetti-open-a-shelter-for-the-homeless-women-of-la",
"I had watched the documentary you were in. I am glad your doing so well now! I had often wondered how you ended up. Congratulations!",
"Thank you ",
"I believe that sense of longing you describe is a lack of fulfillment in areas of your life. I suspect that our modern society has lost touch with something vital and primitive - most notably a true sense of community. Materialism, consumerism and countless other unhealthy idealogical beliefs we are raised to regard as unspoken truths contribute to this - in my mind.\n\nPretending you can fix it with drugs will never work. But don't act like you're incapable of true happiness. That's bullshit. Drugs only offer fake highs. Start making decisions you can be proud of. Drugs just trick our brain into releasing chemicals that it reserves for special occasions. Then it catches on. You feel empty because you haven't done anything worth feeling that good for. Believing you're broken and can't be fixed is a losers attitude. You're mistakenly intertwining two separate issues in your mind. Don't preach your wishy washy bullshit. Don't make excuses for yourself. You can and you know it. The only question is whether or not you're willing to put in the work it takes to find true happiness and durable fulfillment.\n\nI believe the solution is to work on yourself, establish strong and healthy relationships with friends and/or family, and make an effort to help others when circumstances permit. Figure out what your biggest dream is in life, design a plan to get there, and start working towards it.\n\nDon't sell yourself short. You're better than this. I know you have what it takes. ",
"You’re quite welcome, 166 days later.",
"You’re also quite welcome, 166 days later.",
"Haha, no worries, still worth it."
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"There was that one time the patron in seat thirteen found a dick in the bottom of their popcorn.",
"5spooky3me",
"There's a story behind it but I'll only tell you in a dark theater of the showing of \"Psycho.\"",
"Hotels are the same way",
"Truthfully, the real story here is all those unnerving stains on the nearby seat. ",
" I'm not superstitious but I'm a little stitious."
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"He’s a real cutie pie. I’m glad you got to have so many years with him. My kitties will be there welcoming him over the rainbow bridge with lots of catnip.",
"Aww thank you for that. ❤️",
"What’s your favorite memory of him?",
"Wow 19 years is wonderfully long life. I’m so sorry for your loss. You must have a great many sweet memories in all that time. ",
"r/fuckmyfeels",
"He looks very dignified & suave in that photo. RIP. ",
"Awwww he's beautiful! I'm sorry for your loss.😞",
"How handsome! So sorry for your loss.\n",
"He looks like he's about to sneeze.",
"He could play hide and seek with me. We would play hide and seek together and he'd purr when I caught him. ",
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"Its -25C where I am and i feel terrible for you",
"Maybe pour some antifreeze overnight?\n\nEdit: seem to have been downvoted for some reason. This is a valid method to winterize your plumbing. Here's a [DIY](http://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/maintenance-and-repair/sustainability/how-to-winterize-a-toilet#step2), that's easy to do.\nedit: formatting",
"I'm thinking this is the \"before\" pic?",
"I didn’t even know this was a thing, but I live in dirty hot Australia so",
"It isn't really a thing. Most people here have indoor heating. ",
"You're gonna need a new toilet. ",
"Those poor pipes",
"When Elsa takes a leak",
"Cold shit",
"Anyone know a good recipe for poopcicles? ",
"Ugh the imagine the reflected splatter if you pee, when are not paying attention.",
"I lived in a duplex in Cincinnati not long ago that had a downstairs powder room built as an addition off the main outer wall of the house. Lots of cheap apartments and multi-unit houses are built with little regard for proper insulation. For me it got like this every time the temperature got down near zero. Had to run the faucets on lukewarm to prevet the pipes from freezing :/",
"I'm pretty sure that if that water freezes all the way through it'll crack the toilet bowl.",
"You're thinking of jelly fish",
"How many Jellyfish do you pee on?",
"You would be correct. Ice expands.",
"Its 48 c or 118 f in Sydney",
"Just put a firecracker in...",
"All of them for the unlock.",
"I don’t even want to know what that seat would feel like on my booty ",
"but it has room to expand upwards... \n\ntry filling 2 plastic water bottles almost to the top... \n\nput both in freezer, one with a cap and one without... see what happens",
"cold",
"Box Jellyfish is not worth the achievement though.",
"I think we all put a soda can/beer in the freezer and forgot about it at some point in our lives!",
"Only on the orange ones!",
"Ice pooping/peeing",
"This would be the worst water to have splash your pa-tootie.",
"Time to drop a good steamer in there to warm it up.",
"Unless it's illegal to pour it down your drains? After all, it is a hazardous chemica",
"> seem to have been downvoted for some reason. \n\nBecause if you have ice in your toilet, you have far bigger problems. It has to get stupid cold for ice to get in your toilet. Way colder than it is in the north east. The other possibility is the guy doesn't have his heat on in the bathroom.\n\nHe has a plumbing problem. It also is likely illegal to pour antifreeze down the toilet.",
"RV (interior) antifreeze is biodegradable, non-toxic and able to be poured into home drains and toilets. Winterizing a un-used home is a thing, but you have bigger issues.",
"I want to shit on that. Can’t explain why but I really wana shit on that.",
"It was 38 degrees in my bathroom this morning.",
"Right. There’s no room for the ice to expand in a can or bottle. The is in an open bottle. ",
"Yup. That’s how the world works my dude. ",
"Idk I had a nice layer of ice on my toilet this morning and I've never experienced any plumbing problems. It hit -25 last night near me, so",
"Pellet or wood stove owners. Oil only as a backup and maybe forgot to get oil this year since the last two winters it's only gotten down to the tens like twice with no snow, so it slips your mind and now it's like a 3 week wait to get oil because people are tearing through it.\n\nDefinitely not speaking from experience, absolutely no way",
"I finally knew our cabin really was too cold when I saw the frozen soap bottle",
"Indoor heating can be spotty. We're usually fine, but this cold snap -4 F for like a week and we had some freezing (not a whole toilet) because we didn't open our bath cabinets. \n\nA lot of places that regularly get this cold don't put pipes in the exterior walls.",
"Yes, but the top freezes first and then the bottom can only expand outwards. I've had jars crack when they freeze, even when they're uncapped.",
"and porcelain is brittle",
"Unlike plastic that can take the force of expanding ice.\n\nTry putting a bottle or glass jar with no lid on in your freezer. (Warning it will break and broken glass will be everywhere)",
"Cripe. And here I thought *my* insulation was bad. You should see the ice dam and icicles that form. Photo not yet shot. Will get off my @$$ and take one if anybody actually wants to see."
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"Hello from Riverside, CA. I actually know this shop. A little on the pricey side and a bit small, but they are the type of place you get candy for your fancy candy buffet at a quince or wedding.",
"Haha I was getting sandwiches from tummy stuffer and I saw this van. It looks like the embodiment of \"don't take candy from strangers.\"",
"I think they used to have a nice one with a full colorful advertising wrap on it, that they used to deliver those candy buffets, but it got squished. Pretty sure I saw the remains at work (auto auction). How is Tummy Stuffers? I tried to stop in once, but they were closed and I haven't tried again.",
"There sat a van on my street \nIt promised some candy to eat \nLets go for a ride \nI don't care if I die \nAs long as I'm scoring a treat\n\n",
"It was pretty good the steak sandwich tasted like Asian marinated meat. The pastrami wasn't my thing I prefer The Hat for that."
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"I mean it's not really political *per se*",
"Kim Jong Un’s said his sword is bigger",
"\"Ninja sword\"?",
"Got the blade facing the wrong way, duh.\n-And just a little more to your right, please.",
"Nice mom jeans....oh wait, that was the last guy..."
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"This is such a neat concept",
"Love it",
"Or is it a painting made to look like the reflection in a mirror?",
"Yea this is definitely a hazard ",
"Brilliant.",
"Someone carried a mirror and easel into the desert? Strange thing to do but amazing looking.",
"Who ever did this is a genius ",
"Explain how",
"If that where left there, I’d imagine the sun hitting it a specific angle would cause a focus of sunlight on some bark which could ignite it. \n\nIdk the surroundings though so depends if there’s flammable shit around 🤷🏽♂️",
"Does not look like a parabolic mirror, so wouldn't cause the bark to ignite."
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"Spanish word for the colour black, origin of the racial term but nonetheless part of a language that won't be changed due to its misuse, move on.",
"Just a word there. I want to know are those cookies delicious?",
"Dark chocolate, hell yes it is 🤤",
"So a major supermarket uses a Spanish word in a country where the Spanish language is **almost** nonexistent, hmmm, ok moving on.",
"I don't know if it's what's happening here, but I don't find the idea of a company using a single word from the second most common language in the world as a product name surprising. ",
"Sensitive much? ",
"Sensitive? I'm not even black 😂",
"I'm not a fortune teller to know where they got that word from but did they like run out of words so they picked a word from the 2nd most common language which is misused (or close to prohibited) by the 3rd language?",
"Tell that to Microsoft...\n\n(hint: *lumia*)",
"Does that matter? Obviously it has altered something in your mind you did make the effort to post this bullshit in the first place. ",
"If you weren't so dense you would realize that the word negro existed before nigger or nigga. Stop trying to police what people say anyway they are just fucking words. ",
"Yeah taking a picture and writing a 5 words title is lots of effort, and I thought this sub was about sharing pics... ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ ",
"Ever heard of importing and exporting? Or are you oblivious to how the world works? ",
"Oh for fucks sake don't talk to me like I'm 12 yo who knows nothing about the world. \nI've been in the country for a couple of years and this is the first time I've seen it **only** in this store, so if you wanna sound like an all-knowing genius then first do a little research about where the majority of Turkish products come from, find this product in other stores then talk about exporting and importing!",
"I mean, if you didn't want to be treated like a child, you wouldn't act like one, like you're doing right now.",
"When did I act like a child? I legit posted a picture of something caught my sight and wrote a 5 words title that literally has nothing to do with me or the way I feel about it. \nNow for whatever reason you think I posted this doesn't matter a bit for me, but if you tell me that this sub isn't about posting pics of things you see then I apologize for this post and I'm gonna delete it. ",
"'Oh a word I perceive as bad and naughty out of context because I'm uneducated! Better take a photo and post it on Reddit teehee!'\n\nLiterally what a child would do.\n\nAlso, throwing a fit on the internet doesn't help.",
"See, you completely made an assumption about me and now you think I'm the child 😂🤣 \nHere's an idea, use that word in public and let's see how your ability to Google a word's meaning in a different language will help you out 😁",
"An assumption that is entirely correct because it doesn't take a genius to know what stands out in the post and hence why you posted it.\n\nYour post sucks, cry about it and seek validation and internet points with something else.",
"Wow someone who makes an assumption AND believes what he made up is correct... well that's new 😂 \n",
"Go on then, tell me why you posted this otherwise completely innocuous image.\n\nIt's not as if you've already admitted this is about the word through discussion of the Spanish language in this very thread.\n\nKeep back-pedalling, maybe you'll backpedal all the way the front page through all the downvotes you've been getting!",
"Six words. ",
"Now I'm wondering which word you decided to omit not once but twice. I bet it was \"Turkish\", you spiteful little soy boy. ",
"Huh and I thought \"a\" was a letter...!",
"And another assumption 😂 keep going,! I'm actually enjoying this.",
"Emoji spam is also a dead giveaway of being upset too.",
"Wow, you really are fucking stupid. ",
"Oh he's boiling. ",
"I enjoyed laughing at you but now you started to delete and change your comments, now you just don't know what to comment anymore 😏 [you ruined it.](https://youtu.be/Ou76DXq57MI?t=1m19s) ",
"Quite literally the same comment, re-worded, god how terrible of me! You got me on this! I completely changed my argument! Lmao you're upset that nobody finds your shitty picture funny, have another downvote for your trouble.",
"So now I've posted this because I thought it's funny 😂 go on! What's next?",
"All you're doing is proving just how childish, petty and upset you really are that nobody likes your picture.",
"Well I mean I was actually enjoying this conversation but getting to the point where you contradict yourself!? I thought you were better than that!!!",
"Quote me then, don't just say I contradicted myself, quote me.",
"Nah, if you don't even understand what you're saying then there's no point in trying to show you. \nI mean if I just show you how wrong you are then there's a chance you may get disappointed in yourself and then I won't get the chance to keep laughing at you 😔",
"Translation: \"I'm making shit up and when called out on I cannot actually provide any source for my claim so I'm going to refuse under the guise of arrogance so I can continue to pretend I'm totally not embarrassing myself online (emoji)\"\n\nGod your just so easy to see through it's like you're made of glass ",
">I'm making shit up \n\nI swear this made me laugh the most out of all your comments 🤣 \n\n\nOK so you think I'm upset, is it because they used a bad and naughty brand name or because people didn't find my post funny? \n\n",
"If you had the chance to prove I was wrong, you would have, passing only makes it obvious you have no substance.\n\nAnd your upset nobody found your post funny, because were you upset at the brand name itself you would have made it very clear.\n\nStay mad and cry some more <3 Mwah"
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"I would. ",
"Should I be amused or concerned by this comment ",
"I'm pretty sure he's talking about the durian. So both.",
"I love fresh durian! Tastes like sweet garlic custard to me. ",
"It's the Internet. Should always be concerned. ",
"This variety is different from the softer ones you've tasted, its crunchier like a peach and has a sickly sweet smell. I'm just glad my family has durian trees tbh, the prices for each fruit have tripled since a few months ago!",
"I missed \"while wearing designer clothes\" in your description and was startled to notice them in the picture. What gives?",
"Apparently durians taste better after being harvested in Jimmy Choo shoes and cashmere pants, but who am I to judge my moms methodology",
"You should Photoshop this picture to make your mom look older, convert it to black and white, print it out, and put it in her attic.\n\nThen when people marvel at how young and attractive your mother looks, you can say it's all thanks to A Picture of Durian Gray.",
"“Wearing designer clothes” dumbass",
"that comment was wilde",
"Never heard of a crunchy peach. ",
"Lucky you ",
"Probably.",
"That's a hearty durian right there.",
"You know if you cook one of them up you'll get full health +4 revival.",
"And if you cook FIVE of them up, you get full health +20!",
"I think I can smell it from here...\n\nBut seriously though, your Mom knows how to make a statement!",
"Interesting. We were in Malaysia last year during durian season, so I was able to try several varieties. I do prefer the soft, custardy ones. I haven’t had one as you described. Sounds interesting. "
] | 19 | pics | My mom was harvesting durians in the jungles of Borneo this morning while wearing designer clothes. Here she is proudly showing off a particularly beautiful specimen. |
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"So cute!! Was it a lot of work? I always wanted to make my own soap, but it seemed like it was a tedious process.",
"Thank you! It was not hard work at all, in fact it was the most fun & therapeutic! As a first starter beginner I bought premade soap base, fragrant oils & colors plus all the small necessities like colors, molds, glitters, before hand so I had it all prepared to make! One thing that I need to work on is the bubbles in the back surface of the soaps, apprently I needed to spray them more with rubbing alcohol to burst the bubbles but other than that they smell amazing & they're ready to be used after curing which for premade soaps takes about a day I heard. I definitely encourage to try this out, it's super easy & exciting to make at home :)",
"Heart shaped soaps are scented with wild berry fusion fragrance oils & the big star soap is coconut breeze ",
"I have made soap form scratch for years and have never heard of spraying the back to get rid of bubbles. Usually tapping the top of the molds with a wood spoon will bring most bubbles to the top and burst the surface ones.\n\nGuess it's a glycerin soap thing?",
"When you make soap you must dirty some dishes or molds right?? So do you use soap to clean them up?? 🤔",
"really? I've seen it lots on youtube or other sources for this kind of technique, it's just for the bubbles really.. I dont know I followed instructions haha ",
"& I had glycerin & white base as shown, they still had bubbles ontop so I sprayed some on them. One came out ok with no bubbles in the back but the other two had some. ",
"I used plastic containers for mixing the base & coloring, so those would be thrown out. As for melting the base yes I used a glass container but that's easily washable with some hot water. ",
"I like this !"
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"Worst shoes ever. They are waterproof but your feet get soaked anyway from how much your feet sweat. Disgusting. ",
"Too much west Washington State in this photo. ",
"I’m from Olympia WA my whole life and I just laughed out loud to this comment. ",
"Are you guys going on the eighth grade camp trip?",
"/u/DangGhouls, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/DangGhouls&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7oovpg/lets_plan_to_be_a_little_more_original_in_2018/?context=10\\))"
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"Gov Dodge!? ",
"No actually a state park in Northern Maryland!",
"Yar looked familiar, but it's been a while. Nice lookin spot! "
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/r/pics/comments/7op1it/i_just_got_my_asl_apron_and_pin_just_in_time_for/ | [
"Dude, that is so awesome. I work with a deaf girl and I really want to learn ASL so I can include her more in our conversations. \n \nEdit: I am getting a lot of awesome advice! I would like to thank you all!",
"This is amazing, really cool that Starbucks is doing this! Would love to learn ASL but I don’t really know where to start",
"Local community college",
"that's cool.. wouldn't it be great if every cafe was asl friendly it would make things so much easier for all staff... customers gotta quit with the mumbling, leaving sunglasses on so you can't tell if they're still looking at the menu or looking at you waiting to order, or trying to order what they want out of the cake fridge while their face is in front of the glass of the fridge so you can't hear, and then getting indignant when you ask them to repeat or clarify something.",
"I still think of asl as age/sex/location.\n\nKept trying to figure it out so I was just staring at the title without clicking the link. Finally clicked it and immediately remembered it also mean American sign language ",
"In Australia so we don’t have community colleges, not really sure what the equivalent is. I know there would probably be some really helpful stuff online though for learning ASL",
"Youtube has some seriously helpful classes for ASL.",
"I remember it from AIM from the mid to late 90's. :(",
"As a hard of hearing person i can say that this is simply awesome!",
"Start with A",
"Idk about anyone else but if I worked for a store and they wanted me to take classes for ASL I would gladly do it.",
"14/f/cali",
"*Disconnects immediately*",
"We totally do have Community Colleges. But you can also do [TAFE courses] (https://www.tafensw.edu.au/course/22075VIC-01/Certificate-II-in-Auslan) ",
"They’re deaf... not blind... they can read...",
"So how do you shout out their name when their drink is ready?",
"This is how Starbucks markets itself to new demographics. Someone in corporate saw deaf people getting coffee one day and had an idea.",
"That sounds like a nice event that I'd like to attend. I'm not deaf, but it'd be nice to get some peace and quiet.",
"Try YouTube mate. And use [Signbank](http://www.auslan.org.au). We use Auslan, not ASL btw.",
"**Why don't you have a seat over there.**",
"Learn to fingerspell. Start somewhere. Look on YouTube, I've learned a bit from there.",
"this is awesome! ",
"Use the website ASL Pro. My wife is a sign language terp, and we have many deaf friends. Thats where I go for a lot of how to sign things, rather than asking ALL the time.",
"What are the hands above the Starbucks spelling?",
"Each hand is spelling out the specific letter in the word \"Starbucks\" below them.",
"I was like that's not Starbucks... then I remembered that you are probably in America and this is not AUSLAN.",
"Cool, i initially read that as Starbucks' decaf coffee night!",
"This is cool, but the SB logo makes it look like its taking the piss...\n\nLa-La-La Fingers in my ears..",
"\"Can I get a double shot - extra hot - non dairy Latte Grande to go please\"\n\n\"No, Decaf only\"",
"Community colleges are the equivalent to our TAFE or adult learning centres.\n\nAlso learning ASL won't be much help in Australia, you're better off learning Auslan if you want to speak to anyone local.",
"I don't get it. Deaf people can still read can't they?",
"I need that button.\n\nI can't understand anything anyone says unless I can see their mouths. I know I have hearing loss (more like clarity loss) but seeing them speak is the difference between \"amm yem uhmem\" and \"are you ok?\"\n\nThe other night during DnD I derailed the whole session because I misunderstood \"Afghanistan\" as \"Final Fantasy 9\". The syllables almost matched and that was the closest thing I could fit into that sound I guess.",
"You need to have at least 15 pieces of flair on your uniform",
"Deaf can read alphabet.",
"This is awesome! ",
">A\n\nAmerican, got that part, now where do I find the sign? What kind of sign is it?",
"I'm going to get one of those buttons to wear around my wife.\n\n\"What? No, I didn't hear what you said because you were facing *away* from me while speaking and walking outside.\" ",
"My wife is a store manager who just hired an ASL barista after 4 other places turned her down... she is awesome and an excellent employee! The barista was SO excited when she got hers too!!",
"I worked worth a deaf guy who clicked and grunted the whole time. He also apparently did not know that farting makes noise. ",
"Get someone to point it out for you....",
"Years ago, early 90s, I used to do a lot of site work and we were required to stay in B&Bs a lot. We were staying in Bristol and one afternoon went to a chip shop for lunch, I was first in the door and the girl working there signed that she was a deaf mute. I nodded and gave my order, making sure she could read my lips and signed thank you at the end.\n\nMy colleague Nick came in and I mentioned she was deaf:\n\"I'll. Have. A. .....\" I smacked him across the head. \n\"She isn't stupid, speak normally.\"\n\"But what about our accent?\"\nI'd not heard a deaf person laugh up until then but I was a face palm moment.\n\nThen Andrew came in and Nick proudly says she deaf so speak normally. Amazingly Andrew then signed his order, we didn't know he knew how to sign. Turns out his sister is profoundly deaf so his entire family sign. It was amazing to watch this conversation, I've wanted to learn BSL for years but never got around to doing it. ",
"Start with the sticky post in /r/asl",
"Look for bill vicars on YouTube",
"This is such a cool idea. There is a young man that is deaf that works at the Starbucks I used to go to. Once I figured out he was deaf I always tried to remember to sign thank you to him when I grabbed my item from the counter. ",
"I think it is letting them (the customer) know that their barista has reduced hearing, I believe that’s why the button that says “I hear better when you face me is” there",
"I'm studying to teach special education & I'm coming across the notion of some deaf people claiming not to have a disability. That is delusional; forgive my frankness, but I think the topic is very serious & it's irresponsible to suggest otherwise. ",
"Is it totally def when you pour it on ice?",
"This guy America Onlines. ",
"I taught myself in fifth grade how to spell in sign language had the alphabet at the back of a text book . Pro tip need to use the toilet at a deaf persons home make a t and wiggle your hand it means toilet I think either milk or drink is fist with a utter pulling motion like your milking a cow and the last full word I know it (and) flat hand hold sideways similar to a hand shake pull towards you that’s it id have to spell word for word after that but sign language always fascinated me as a kid.",
"In the 80s, I had a roommate that taught deaf ed. Once, (or more) I was jonesing his peer, who was deaf. He would regularly teach me the wrong (usually inappropriate) signs, for his own amusement at parties.",
"Great Design ",
"Please Face me ",
"TIL American Sign Language and British Sign Language have different alphabets.",
"Those little vibrating disks would be perfect. Like the ones they have at Shake Shack",
"A/S/L? ",
"Classic",
"Will decaf be served too?",
"You spelled pisswater wrong lol ",
"Honestly the best way is to find a class taught by a teacher who cannot speak. It's not nearly as hard as it sounds because everyone going into it is incredibly vulnerable and once the bubble gets burst it's really a lot of fun. Most memorable for me was the teacher getting us to emote with our faces as we signed. It felt like an acting class. ",
"Sponsored by deaf jam records",
"Check your local community college or city parks and rec department! You will probably be able to find a class through one of those! ",
"Oh the deaf are having a moment! ",
"Did you ever tell him?",
"I think a lot of that tends to be about perception, and not the acknowledgement that they lack a physical sense. A deaf person can communicate with and perceive the world around them just like anyone else, albeit through different means. ",
"14/f/cali",
"This is a straight up ad. ",
"I work with a deaf girl, too. First I learned to finger spell, and now I know ASL better than most of her hearing friends. I help translate with our boss too. She really appreciates having someone to communicate with!",
"I just learned the whole alphabet and it’s actually pretty cool to do, it’s easy and fun",
"Run from the ad! My downvotes are a conspiracy.",
"> deaf people can... perceive the world around them just like anyone else\n\nThat is a lie & you know it. \n",
"You had me at vibrating.",
"Again, I'm half def.\n\n",
"I want to hear the story of why Afghanistan was in your D&D game where FF9 plausibly was too",
"We were outside a city carved from a giant stone structure at the bottom of a big crater in a desert.\n\nGuy next to me (who I wasn't looking at) says out of no where \"this place reminds me of Afghanistan\"\n\nIt took everything I had to get \"this place reminds me \" after that I was just lost, so I guess it reminded me of Final Fantasy and I jumped to conclusions.\n\nSo I asked him \"Did you just say Final Fantasy 9\" *incredulous look*\n\nThe room explodes and the guy across the table that watched all this go down just loses his shit laughing and we end up taking a 5 minute break.\n\nYeah, I'm def.",
"[Starbucks in ASL](https://i.imgur.com/4sT3Y1z.gif) according to [their page](https://news.starbucks.com/news/gifs-american-sign-language-coffee-words) about this.",
"Yeah, this girl is an amazing worker, and just flies through her tasks. Makes all the other people look slow!",
"It's just one of those things.. If I ~~was~~ were deaf I would never be able to resist doing that to people.",
"**If I were**",
"ASL is not a/s/l",
"Yeah, it's just to show that they know how to sign ",
"I'm already a pro at finger counting, been doing 1-10 for years.",
"Even the mermaid logo is putting her hands to her ears, like \"SPEAK UP!\"",
"Try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4dFkC0PVl8",
"Anyone else just practice signing Starbucks for 10 minutes???",
"My OCD can’t get over the fact that it’s off center. Used to manage at Starbucks, this is great to see. ",
"Could also be an auditory processing disorder.",
"30/almost female/right behind you",
"I think that badge deserves to be on r/dontdeadopeninside",
"What?",
"Time to learn advanced finger counting, where you can count to 100 on your hands",
"there's the embroidered middle finger representing the crappy coffee?",
"Story time! \n\nSo I’m deaf and had a group of friends in high school who were also deaf. (This took place in America, so we used ASL.) My sophomore year of high school, we were sick of the interpreters constantly eavesdropping and watching our conversations. We wanted privacy. We couldn’t have our phones out so we weren’t able to text in class. So the 4 or 5 of us each took it upon ourselves to learn the alphabet of BSL. \n\nAfter that, if we wanted to say something to each other without the interpreters understanding, we’d spell out everything in BSL. It drove them *crazy*. It was like our own secret code. Sure, the interpreters could’ve picked up an ASL book to find the alphabet (our asl class books had a few different ABCs to show the difference from ASL), but we didn’t tell them which language it was in. The reason we chose BSL was because most of the letters require using two hands, so it was harder for them to guess the letters. French ABCs are pretty similar to ASL’s, because ASL is largely inspired by French Sign Language, so we didn’t use French. ",
"A starbucks by me also does a deaf night. They called it deaf chat. It was a healthy mix of Deaf people and students learning sign from near by schools. ",
"And its not even that hard, I can already go to 20 with my shoes off!!",
"The Thumbnail could also fit in r/pareidolia",
"If you count in binary you can count to 31 on one hand ",
"21 when nude.",
"The way your mouth moves is similar",
"In binary you can count to 2047 on your fingers (no really!)",
"Seriously? You really think a deaf person has no idea what is going on? Deaf people, despite what is considered a handicap, are just as capable as any other person of living a full and independent life. If you think otherwise, you probably need to reconsider your career. ",
"Didn’t get it at first. Thought was “decaf” coffee night. ",
"The hottest girl to date that have ever seen is a deaf girl. Second was a girl in a wheelchair who had an equestrian accident. And I did lingerie photography for 6 years. ",
"It was more laughing at me than with me.\n\nKind of a \"how the fuck did you think that\" moment.",
"How big of a pain in the ads was it calling people to pick up their order?\n\nKaren? KAAAAREEN. TALL COLD BREW FOR FUCKING KAAAAAAAAREEEEEEN.",
"That is so cool and appropriate too since after I pay for a coffee I feel like I've just had an \"S\" shoved up my backside.",
"Unless you do signed binary, then you can count negative numbers too!",
"> You really think a deaf person has no idea what is going on? \n\n*Of course I don't think that!* Why would you ask such an absurd question? I said nothing to suggest that I thought such a wrong thing. \n\n> just as capable as any other person of living a full and independent life\n\nActually being deaf presents challenges. Of course people with deafness (you apparently shouldn't call them \"deaf people\", because that puts the disability -yes, the disability- before the person). Why on earth do you think people wear hearing protection? It's because hearing is a blessing, as is every other sense we have. If we could have x-ray vision, that would make us more capable than we would otherwise be, etc. ",
"They're deaf not blind.",
"Based on context, I assume “BSL” stands for British Sign Language? I assumed different languages have different signs. But how different is American sign language from British(?) sign language?",
"Lucky... I can get to around 20.5 nude...",
"Def Coffee Night Jam!",
"Oh look, another 1 month old account with no comments and a PR post.",
"My comment was written in haste, and I did not mean to disparage or insult people with deafness. However, there are some who don't see it as a disability, just another form of sensory perception. Of course it presents challenges in a world not meant to accommodate it. However, nothing about the condition prevents people from taking care of themselves. ",
"> just another form of sensory perception\n\nHang on... are we talking about deafness? That is the absence of hearing. To call the absence of any sense \"just another form of perception\" is to misunderstand what perception is. \n\nNothing about the condition prevents people from taking care of themselves. May I ask why you're telling me that though? Why are you imagining me as being so ignorant? ",
"https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-interesting-differences-between-American-Sign-Language-and-British-Sign-Language",
"People with deafness are not disabled. Period. ",
"You're disagreeing with the scientific consensus & common sense. People like me with ADHD have a disability too. This is how we use that word \"disability\". ",
"We didn't have that kind of relationship. "
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"That's actually really interesting.",
"Thought so too, stumbled upon it by chance. ",
"Great find!",
"I've seen this a couple different places now and in both cases the store owner was just trying to sell off kinda crappy books that wouldn't sell otherwise. I was pretty disappointed, but I have to admit it's insanely good marketing.",
"But all of them are twilight ",
"This is great, until you get matched with your bitter ex.",
"Your last resort when females are showing you no love ",
"At least books don't ghost, they just get borrowed indefinitely. ",
"I was going to say 50 shades of grey. ",
"Waiting for someone to just guess all the books now..."
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/r/pics/comments/7op68y/its_been_4_weeks_since_i_lost_my_father_its_been/ | [
"I am so sorry for your loss. No words of mine can make things ok. But do know there are people out there that feel for you and wish you all the best. \n\nTake your time and grieve, there is no right or wrong with it. Stay strong!\n\nAlso internet hugs! ",
"From one who has been there, you have all my sympathy. I was just relating a story here yesterday about a dream I had about my own father, not long after he died- 23 years ago, and by the time I got done writing it I had tears in my eyes.\n\nLosing a parent is its own, separate breed of agony. They’re the first ones to love you when you come into this world.... They’re the only ones you knew for sure without question that would do anything to try to see the world through your eyes, so they could understand. They’re the first ones there to catch you when you fall. To hold you when you cry and to comfort you when you think there’s a boogie man in your closet, or when that first boy or girl breaks your heart.\n\nSpecial hugs to you to help you through this sad, sad time. It’s okay to cry. It’s right to cry. Your friend is gone- and for the first time ever, he’s not here to help you through your loss. :’(",
"Tell me some anecdote of him that will give me a sense of the man he was.",
"My father always thought he was right about everything, extremely hard headed and would fight back until you gave up. He would always give the most wise advice ever. Extremely smart man, but too funny. He’s a huge fan of Lady Gaga, Madonna, and Donald Trump. \n\nWe went to a Lady Gaga concert once and he was like “Let’s walk around the building and find her.” We started walking and this cop car almost hit me pulling out of the building. My dad turned around pissed as fuck about to say something and then Lady Gaga rolled her window down and said “I love you all” and blew kisses. I remember him running towards the car and the cops held him back. He kept yelling her first name (can’t remember what it is) and said he loved her. Some guy walked up to him after and told him that he was “fabulous.” Best believe that was a constant story told when we got home. ",
"He use to be an alter boy in his younger days but could rap almost every Biggie Smalls song. \n\nMy dad was such a badass. ",
"I can just see that you love him so very much. Peace, and acceptance will come to you.",
"Sorry for your loss, just remember hes always there for you. ",
":(",
"recently lost my dad. he was my best friend, always the guy I could get the right advice from. I found this on reddit shortly after it helped me hope it helps you too.https://www.reddit.com/r/Assistance/comments/hax0t/my_friend_just_died_i_dont_know_what_to_do/c1u0rx2/",
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"Dude, whales my car?",
"January is a good time to plant your car in Boston snow. Planting early in the year makes for a hearty crop come May.",
"Dude, this is a great reference "
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"Brought to you by Hershey’s kisses",
"Somehow I don't think so. That one on the left would be much longer to be a boat.\n\nBesides its inside out, the ribs would be on the inside. ",
"Are they on Holy Island?"
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"How the hell you managed to enter Saudi Arabia?",
"Here is a wild idea: there are Saudi redditors.",
"Who goes on a picnic in a desert? What do you do with all the sand?",
"Loads of non Saudis work there. It might not be touristy or on the backpacker trail, but it's hardly North Korea. ",
"Exactly 😂",
"I am saudi, and I dont know why most of americans think it is hard to go to Saudi Arabia. Everyone is welcomed here and can go wherever they wants.",
"Saudi Arabia does not issue tourist visas to Americans. ",
"Until another tree comes along and they get in a fight about who is *really* the only tree in the valley.",
"Saudi Arabia = ISIS + American Airplanes.",
"Except the Saudi family is equal to ISIS and there are executions in the streets.\n\nYou can go to Saudi Arabia, but no guarantees that they wont cut off your head if you insult their prophet."
] | 10 | pics | Our picnic in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This was the only tree in the valley. |
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"I would do what the microwave says M8",
"*Popcorn*\n*Baked potato*\n*Defrost*\n*First born*\n\nStandard on microwaves nowadays.\n\n*made in China",
"*Feed me a stray cat*",
"That’s a creepy microwave alright.",
"Black Mirror season 5 leaked?",
"Child lock; Disables all the buttons except a specific sequence that disables the child lock, which prevents your little runt from wasting electricity by playing with the microwave. Although honestly, if your kid is playing with a microwave, you need to consider how engaging your parenting style is and how boring your house is. That's less interesting than sticking a fork in an outlet."
] | 7 | pics | Creepy bastard is asking for sacrifice. I just want to eat my Porridge in peace. |
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"An absolutely brilliant and masterful actor. ",
"Fantastic actor and fantastic series. ",
"He was really the only reason to watch that show. Fantastic job."
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"Nice",
"Username checks out.",
"A local bar I once frequented had a chalk board that we used to draw on. They didn't keep it for long.",
"[The resemblance is uncanny!](https://i.imgur.com/J3olmuG.jpg)",
"This is the best I've ever looked",
"Not enough profanity?!",
"Glad you like it ;)",
"Well, it was more of a restaurant/bar, so there were kids there occasionally. They had a little arcade/game area and pizza and such. Anyway, we'd have to make our drunk drawings G-rated, but becuase that's no fun, we usually hid sexually explicit things within the art. Stuff that an adult might recognize but a kid probably wouldn't. Like, I remember drawing a girl choking with a giraffes head in her mouth, like all deep down in there, for example. Maybe the giraffes neck had some veins, I don't know. But yeah, eventually the chalk board disappeared. This is why we can't have nice things."
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"Snow on dark side of the Moon!",
"Is this photoshop? how can there be stars right next to the flat part of the moon? Shouldn't it be like [this](https://www.pixelstalk.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Crescent-moon-wallpaper-high-resolution.jpg)",
"Snow... or dandruff."
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" I think it's bad. It makes a clean neighborhood look dirty. Don't do it.\n\n Old man of 63 speaking.",
"**We** are goot",
"Tags are gross, graffiti can be awesome."
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"Jesus that makes me feel old ",
"Wait how young is your girlfriend?",
"You must be dating a minor. ",
"She too young for you bruh lol",
"Stop dating 12 year olds",
"That's $20 that someone wasted.",
"She caught herself shortly after, recovering with: \"I meant to say why do you have that?\" Haha\r\n\r\nShe's 29, but doesn't have the best vision (lucky me).",
"All me, went through an old box of stuff and although silver fish had made a home in an old notebook, they didn't see fit to touch the cardboard connected to the card.",
"Keep it. Pretty soon we won't have access to internet and Blockbuster might even make a comeback. ",
"I'm sort of surprised that Roy Moore uses Reddit. "
] | 10 | pics | Found an old gift-card while cleaning, my girlfriend asked "what's that?" |
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"\"Hey why aren't you getting in the pool?\" ",
"This photo contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects.",
"...i can either go swimming or give up tacos. It's a shame I love tacos so much ",
"This sign is aimed at dogs, that's why the sign is that low.\nSource: me (I'm a dog)",
"I’m not a doctor, but 14 days sounds excessive. Wouldn’t a week be sufficient?"
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"r/fiveheads",
"Yah it goes all the way to the back of his head ",
"Wait until you realize what a bad actor he is too!"
] | 3 | pics | Just realised how big Bruce Willis's forehead is |
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"hes robocoOOOP roboCOP. he once was LIVING but now hes not. robocoOOOOP roboCOP!",
"That's badass :) ",
"CCAAAAIIIIINN",
"I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!!!!",
"Could you describe the process? It's damn amazing.",
"Are we sure that's not actually Robocop?",
"Beat me to it :) classic line",
"This please",
"There's no substitute for fine craftsmanship. Nicely done. ",
"Thanks! My friend had a lifecast done of his head. I sculpted the helmet out of Monster Clay directly on that lifecast. Started with the top and back portion. Molded that, pulled a casting then used that to finish out the lower part /under portions (jaw, neck back of the head). Molded that sculpt and made those castings out if Smooth-On Vytaflex flexible urethane with black tint. \nThe helmet was painted at Amalgamated Dynamics along with the rest of his costume (which is a copy of a screen used suit) \n\n",
"I'm going to have to look these things up. I only just bought some clay to mess around with and a copy of Pop Sculpture to get an idea of where to start. Time to get off of my ass. "
] | 11 | pics | I made a Robocop helmet for my friend's costume. Pretty happy with how it came out. |
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"This t-shirt is really going to do alot for the world. *like*",
"Upvoting this to show my support. ",
"Literally summing up the left in a nutshell",
"You're god damn right",
"Nah. Not thoughts and prayers. Complain about it all over social media platforms for a couple of weeks, talk about eliciting change because you're sick and tired of X happening and then completely forget about it. If Americans put as much effort into repealing other laws as they did protecting Net Neutrality you guys would have shit fixed by the end of the week. ",
"Sums up The American right and it’s insane gun stance ",
"No as in to be left/liberal is to want to change the current policies and to be of the right/conservative is to be well conservative with current policies the shirt is just a big summary of it",
"You mean The Constitution's gun stance?\n\nNot surprised to see something like this from somebody named Death_to_america though. Seems right on par.",
"\"NYC gun laws adopted nationwide\"",
"What do you do in your free time deathtoamerica?",
"The irony is exquisite. ",
"\"I hope I never get old enough to find religion.\"\n\nIngmar Bergman",
"Nobody that mattered in the vote for NN listened to us, what makes you think that any other bill or law would be changed with the weight of our voices?\n\n",
"I see this being used as a Facebook profile picture the next time it happens. ",
"Or, and hear me out this is a super radical idea, we treat the problem instead of the symptom? We don’t need to clog up the justice system with even more stupid laws that don’t actually solve anything. ",
"> You mean The Constitution's gun stance?\n\n>Well Regulated.",
"And taking guns away from law abiding citizens is the regulation you're proposing? Do you think criminals intending to murder will:\n\na) be able to acquire guns illegally (because murder is legal also, right?)\n\nb) think of another way to murder (knife, bomb, truck)\n\nc) decide to not commit murder because they're unable to acquire a gun legally\n\nd) a & b\n\nHint: the answer is D\n\n",
"Well unfortunately those who enact policy change think Thoughts And Prayers work.\n\nhttp://thehill.com/homenews/house/359079-paul-ryan-praying-is-the-right-thing-to-do-after-mass-shootings-because-it",
"Hey, man. Let me ask you something. If Thomas Jefferson timewarped to today and saw the current state of gun ownership and violence in America, what do you think he’d say? I’m guessing it would be something along the lines of, “holy fucking shit. Are you seriously telling me guys are shooting up elementary schools and you think there’s NOTHING you can do to prevent it? It’s called an AMENDMENT, morons. So amend it. I thought I made all that clear...”\n\nLuckily I’m sure you’d pop by to let him know the NRA is more important than schoolkids for some reason...",
"Because if people payed attention, voted and contacted their reps often instead of talking about change they might be able to actually change something. ",
"The NRA and their constituents get out, vote and they frequently contact their politicians. They're passionate about something where as much as people who don't like firearms hate them, they don't have the same kind of drive to change policy.\n\nEdit: I guess I should stick to making stupid comments on cat pictures since downvotes are the only things I ever get in these situations. People have their own ideas.",
"A picture of a t shirt on the front page? This place is so great...",
"It's not that we just forget about it, it's that we can't actually do shit about it. If the People say they want something, and daddy government says no, then tough shit. We can vote, but both parties support the status quo, so it doesn't effectively change a lot of fundamental systematic issues. What can we do besides complain, short of a revolution? And maybe that's coming down the pike.",
"Yes, let's ban guns and then no children will ever be murdered ever again. problem solved.",
"Devil's advocate: the message is necessary, and a shirt is just as valid a method of delivering that message as anything else.\n\nThere is a basic truism to the world, which is that you reap what you sow. People are starting to realize how all of the liberties and comforts they enjoy require ongoing action, defense, and participation. The ground-zero for that in a democratic society is electing people who will pursue the policies that you want to see become reality.\n\nSo when it comes to elections, I think it's really pretty important for people to stop relying on team colors, smear campaigns, and personality cults, and to support the people who actually have the best policies. And to engage in actionable progress, whether that's volunteering for a cause you believe in, getting involved in local politics, or putting the screws to corrupt power figures.\n\nThat's the message I got.",
"Democracy is broken, but it is founded on basic values and mechanisms that still matter. And there are in fact *a lot* of public servants in politics and communities trying to make shit better.\n\n\"Both sides\" cynicism is easy and self-satisfying, but it doesn't reflect political reality, and it doesn't get anything done.",
"My thoughts nd prayers go out to this shirt",
"That's it, no more hurricanes. I don't know why we didn't ban them sooner.",
"You have an overly optimistic view of American politics and the people that “speak” for us.\n\nWhen NN was going on all lines to my local congressman were “full”. Our voices aren’t being heard, it’s all placation. ",
"It's time to be *party specific* here. Yes, from NN to healthcare to taxes to regulation, congress has made it clear that they don't care what the people actually want. But it's not all of congress. It's a particular half of congress.\n\n*Guess which half?*",
"Nope, pretty sure he wouldn't say that.\n\n>\"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.\"\n- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787\n\nAlso,\n\n>\"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.\"\n- Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776\n\n\nI'd also recommend you go and look up James Madison's response to a private citizen asking if they were allowed to have cannons to protect their ships from pirates. You may be surprised.\n\n\nEdit: I got caught up in how laughably wrong your understanding of the founding father's viewpoints were and forgot to touch on your comment about gun ownership and violence in America today. Turns out, gun violence and violence in general are at just about all-time lows. I think good old TJ would be pretty excited about the gun ownership of today's populace, and would probably encourage more Americans to try learning about and owning firearms safely. There really are only two sides to the argument of gun ownership; those that have owned or used them, and those that have never owned or used them. ",
"Good luck getting this congress to do anything but pass tax cuts for themselves and their rich friends.",
"You know that thing where you take someone's valid point to an absurd extreme to discredit it? You just did that.",
">Because if people payed attention, voted and contacted their reps often instead of talking about change they might be able to actually change something.\n\nYou mean exactly what happened for NN but they flooded their own commenting system with fake anti-nn comments and even made videos mocking the pro-NN side and just didn't give a single fuck?",
"You pissed off a lot rightwingers but it's true.\n\nAfter all here's Paul Ryan stating that thoughts and prayers are the right thing to do after a mass shooting because \"It works\"\n\nhttp://thehill.com/homenews/house/359079-paul-ryan-praying-is-the-right-thing-to-do-after-mass-shootings-because-it",
"We need tougher regulation on propane tanks and pressure cookers. ",
"The point still stands. If someone wants to kill a bunch of people they can find a way. It's not hard. Banning guns won't stop it, and statistically there bigger killers you can tackle that don't undermine the second amendment. But guns are scary so never mind that and let's ban them.",
"I'm sure this thread will be full of thoughtful and reasonable replies :) /s",
"I like to think wearing this shirt gained him a sense of pride and accomplishment.",
"You would like to think that :-) ",
"Thank you!",
"Still beats thoughts and prayers.....those don’t do anything. ",
"Just saying what I think. Is this your shirt? Where'd you get it?",
"I would, but doing so is probably going to cost me $3.99 for the package.",
"That is why we are here :) \n",
"Some of them have been so far.",
"Just having it on today and being in public I have had many compliments and been asked where to get one.",
"Should probably say change the Constitution. Not really policy...they are rights. ",
"Yep but you need to change certain policies to change the Constitution. ",
"None more hurricanes.",
"This shirt might as well say \"Bigger cages! Longer chains!\"",
"What about stricter border laws and not taking demographically dangerous refugees?",
"a) Try to buy a gun illegally in Australia. \n \nb) When was the last time someone killed 40+ people with a knife at long range? Or a truck? How many bomb attacks have their been? What did we do when bomb attacks became common? Oh right, we banned or severely restricted the items to make them. Weird how that works. Imposing restrictions after a disaster.",
">If the People say they want something, and daddy government says no, then tough shit. We can vote, but both parties support the status quo, so it doesn't effectively change a lot of fundamental systematic issues. What can we do besides complain, short of a revolution? \n\nSTOP VOTING FOR THE TWO PARTIES THAT GOT US WHERE WE ARE TODAY.",
"What are you some kind of damn commie libtard? \n\n*Goes back to praying over gun crime*",
"People don’t agree on what the problem is. That’s the problem. ",
"Yeah cause the left is so religious compared to the right...",
"Actually I am rather intelligent but you are welcome to your opinions. ",
"It does stop it in the rest of the first world. Go read stats on worldwide gun deaths if you haven’t already. \n\nAnd I say that as a gun owner that believes in upholding the constitution. Our freedom to own guns is precisely what gets so many of us killed by them. It’s simple statistics. ",
"Playing devils advocate here but the right is not unlimited, just like the rest of the constitution. Some on the left want to ban them, that is true, but in general the conservatives fight against any sort of reasonable restrictions tooth and nail. \n\nGo to any gun forum and they are all pissed off that they can’t own machine guns with no background check or carry their guns onto any property they want. If you take their position, which is that you need this right to fight a tyrannical government, then we should all have military-grade weaponry readily available for the impending uprising. ",
"...smart enough to pick up on my obvious sarcasm, I hope...my comment was clearly a joke, and clearly in favor of the shirt's message.",
"a) Yes, but the last time they had a mass shooting, they banned guns, and miraculously, no more mass shootings. Crazy! \n \nb) He fired into the crowd to kill the majority of those people, which I always find funny that you and yours try to use this attack as proof that Trucks Kill!^^(TM) \n \n>guns prevent far more violence than they cause \n \nThis is literally unquantifiable, and could be immediately disproven. If there were no guns, there would be no additional violence that guns could protect you from, so... moot point. \n \nNeither is a \"God-Given\" right, because no god placed the supreme court in office that said that the constitution doesn't need to be upheld and the words \"Well Regulated\" could be ignored in the second amendment. \n \nHow is that Ironic? How many attacks on US soil were from immigrants in the last 20 years? How many were by Conservative White Men? How many people have died in Europe due to terrorism compared to how many people in the US have died to JUST gun violence (Even going Per Capita, the numbers are insanely high in the US). \n \nI'm done arguing with you. You really have no clue, and you're incapable of using any semblance of logic or critical thought. Have a good one, my dude.",
"I do apologize for not picking up on the on the sarcasm via text. I do believe there should be a font specific for sarcastic comments. ",
"Yeah, this sub can be trash sometimes",
"Messaging has power. Not only that, but whoever is selling this shirt might be some organization advocating for policy change. So it's purchase contributes to it, though it may not be very much in the grand scheme of things. ",
"Would you even say you're a stable genius?",
"Chicago has the toughest gun laws and the highest murder rate ........ ",
"And yet I prefer the people who offer thoughts and prayers over the people going on crusades against people for offering thoughts and prayers.",
"..what the hell do you think an Ammendment is? that's how the constitution is changed, please look it up. ",
"Thoughts and prayers have their place. But change happens with actions. There isn’t a crusade against people who offer thoughts and prayers. Just more of an action statement. ",
"Doesn't matter what policy you change, try to get the guns I dare any lawmaker. ",
"Anti-gunner response would be: But the guns come from the outside!\n\nResponse to that: Same thing will happen with any gun law, unless you want to be a tyrant and make all states comply.",
"Is this some sort of zero sum game where people are suffering because of thoughts and prayers?",
"\"Policy Change\" is the new \"Thoughts and Prayers\", because both do nothing and have shown to do nothing, in face that added beaurocracy of \"policy\" change will create a net loss but creating more money pits of public funds.\n",
"Yes, I do realize and know what an amendment is. Changes the the Constitution itself is harder to amend than a city or statewide policy. ",
"And the best 1st step is a passive-aggressive T-shirt. Gotcha. I hope the back says \"I'm just holier than thou\" to help people understand this brave thought provoking massage.",
"Yikes.\n\nWell, thanks for that. It made me smile actually, because it made me happy that I'm not you.\n\nWhat a terrible way to go through life.",
"That's wonderful! You should totally buy a T-shirt that says you're better than others.",
"Buddy, if you're walking around with this sad, bizarre complex of imagining people are superior to you just because they give half a fuck, you probably need to make some big adjustments in your life.\n\nIn the mean time, don't take your shit out on the rest of the world. ",
"Children stop being killed in the rest of the first world? wow, great statistic. Totally convinced now, thanks.",
"Classic idiotic gun defense.",
"This is dangerously incorrect.",
"Eh.... Waaaaay down on the list of things that actually matter, once you remove the bullshit xenophobic scare tactics of rightwing politics.",
"Did you hurt yourself with all that stretching you just did?",
"No response eh? Typical.",
"Yeah nah. \n\nThe assault weapon ban is only for cook county and the handgun ban was deemed unconstitutional in 2008 and again in 2010",
"controlling access to firearms wont solve Americas problems with guns. Its the mindset towards firearms that's the problem ",
"TIL: Americans think being terrified of other americans is freedom",
"Its significantly harder to kill 58 people and injure 546 with a knife and a bat.",
"Well if you take a raw stat on murder rates, then comparatively yes. You're around 10 times more likely to be murdered in the US than most other developed countries.",
"Here's thje thing, gun control isnt seizing guns. \n\nI live in a country with strict gun control and have guns. \n\na) the idea here is that you slow the ingress of guns into the black market which then drives the price up and makes it more difficult to acquire. It doesn't work overnight, but thats the idea.\n\nb) Sure they probably will. But have you ever heard of an instance where someone has murdered 58 people and injured 500+ with a knife? It just doesn't happen. \n\nc) You're right, if someone wants badly enough to kill someone they will. Why exactly do you think its a great idea to make it easy for them to kill as many as possible?\n\n",
"> And they had a truck attack 2 weeks ago. They also have no possibility of defending themselves in their homes or from a tyrannical government, which is the entire point of the amendment in the first place.\n\nI always love this argument.\n\nSo precisely how is that AR-15 going to stop you from being smeared across 1/2 an acre when the hellfire missile hits your house from the drone 8km away?\n",
"The issue isn't access to firearms. Its the American attitude to firearms. \n\nPut it this way, the majority of weapons that are legally available in the US, i can own where i'm from. \n\nThe limitations where i live are mainly around magazine sizes, and i cant own a fully auto weapon (well i can technically, but i cant fire it, and requires more license hoops) The added benefit is i can buy silencers without any restrictions what so ever.\n\nYet we have almost no gun crime....\n",
"Bombs, cars, planes. Bernie Madoff ruined more people lives than any gunman. With a little creativity you can do a lot of damage. ",
"OK? that really doesnt change the point now does it ",
"I don't owe you anything. Typical cheap move from an inbred conservative (sorry, that was redundant).\n\nYes, if someone wants to kill people, there are other ways besides guns. However, guns are DESIGNED to kill people and are by far some of the most efficient and user-friendly ways to do so. Denying the inherent lethality of firearms or their obvious contribution to most mass violence events is idiotic at best.",
">a) And many people are arguing for no guns, like in Australia for instance.\n\nok? also you can have firearms in Australia. Eitherway, the guns arent the problem per se, its Americans stupid mindset towards them thats the issue.\n\n> b) No, but I've seen it with trucks, planes, and bombs\n\nNo you haven't \n\n>c) I think it's a great idea for law abiding citizens to be able to defend themselves in such an instance. If somebody comes at me with an illegally acquired gun, I want my CC to defend myself and others. \n\n\nAnd that precisely is why you'll never know actual freedom. ",
"Right, it's easier to kill lots of people with a gun than with a knife. That doesn't change my original point now does it.",
"First off, you can't treat a social problem with laws. This is not something that Congress needs to deal with. Second, there is not a single person who does not benefit from the tax cuts. Thinking that Congress only helps themselves and the rich is false and doesn't help anybody.",
"what?\n\nThe question is pretty easy. How exactly will access to small arms assist you in overthrowing the most militarized government in the world? ",
"Your original point seems to be, well people are going to do it anyways, so lets make it as easy as possible for them to kill as many as possible.",
"The thing is, you seem to think what you have at the moment is freedom. \n\nIt really isnt. \n\nYou have the freedom to own a gun! yay so do i. \n\nOn top of that i also have the freedom to walk down the street(sleep in my bed) and not have to worry about being murdered. \n\n",
"1) The 13th Amendment was a law that ended a pretty severe social problem.\n\n2) People would benefit more from universal health care than the $300 tax refund they're going to get for a brief period of time.",
">You can have very specific rifles or handguns with a very hard to acquire license. Ammunition is also prohibitively expensive.\n\nhalf true. Either way, the gun laws in australia are stupid. Ammo isn't that bad around US$12 for a box of 20 cheap .223 \n\n>Considering I was present at the Boston Marathon bombing, yes, I literally have. Also, maybe you're too young to remember 9/11, but I sure do\n\nBoston bombing was 3 deaths and 264 injured. No one is saying its impossible to do something like it, but guess what, you've had significantly more people kills since the boston bombing by firearms since then. Its not about banning guns, its about controlling access and making people responsible for their weapons\n\n>How does this make any semblance of sense? Having the ability to defend myself and others is not freedom? I think you have some issues.\n\nNo it's not. Which is why its so funny you think that way. I have the freedom of living somewhere where the chances of it happening are so fucking slim my guns are all locked away. ",
">Do you think members of the military would entirely be on the side of the oppressive government? Because I can tell you with near certainty that the majority would not.\n\nDepends on the way the government framed it. as for the idea that you can tell with near certainty. thats horseshit, you have no idea how it could play out. \n\n>My point was also quite clear. If it was as easy as \"use hellfire missiles to kill my enemies\", don't you think we would've been out of the middle east a little sooner?\n\nWell given the average American isn't a US special ops trained solider who's been engaged in warfare for pretty much their entire life.... i would think that much was obvious.\n\n",
">so lets make it as easy as possible for them to kill as many as possible.\n\nHow you got that out of what I wrote is beyond me. ",
"> Where do you live? If you don't live in the US, you objectively do not have more freedom than I do\n\n\nIts hilarious you seem to think that this is objective fact without knowing where i live.\n\nWhat freedom do you have that i don't exactly?\n\n\n\n\n\n",
"It seems a lot is beyond you",
"Here's some freedoms i have\n\nI have the freedom to own firearms with very little restriction.\n\nI have the freedom to know that if i get sick the quality of care i get isn't related to the amount of money in my bank account.\n\nI have the freedom to know that if the unforeseen happens i have a government that will help me get back on my feet. \n\nI have the freedom to not have to have a gun in my hand to feel safe.\n\nI have the freedom of not living in a country with the murder rate of a 3rd world country.\n\nI have the freedom to not have to worry about being bankrupted by frivolous law suits.",
"Ban guns. End violence. ",
"You haven’t spent much time on said forums if you believe it’s false. ",
"People say this but it’s usually not true. Where are you from?\n\nMost places you can’t own nearly the firepower you can in the US unless you can get some rare permit that requires significant justification. ",
"Anything other than strawmen and ad hominems is beyond you.",
"I have freedom of speech too.\n\nNext ",
"Not what it actually means but ok....",
"I mean, there is importance to showing sympathy and acknowledging a tragedy and what someone's going through. ",
">Great! Us too. People like you would like to change that though, right? \nNot really, no. \n\n>Great! Us too. The US also has better outcomes and has pioneered the vast majority of groundbreaking medical treatments.\n\nLol, just no. You might have been a pioneer in the 1980's not so much these days.\n\n>Great! Us too, although it shouldn't be their responsibility.\n\nYeah not really,\n\n\n>reat! Us too.\n\nyet you keep harping on about needing guns to protect yourself from the bad men. \n\n>You might wanna check those stats.\n\nSure, what about them do you have trouble understanding? 4.88 per 100,000 puts you between Somali and Kyrgyzstan above you and Kazakhstan and Cuba below you. Most developed countries have rates below 1 per 100,000\n\n>I'd also like to point out that you do NOT have freedom of speech, and if something that you said was deemed hate speech (who decides, right?) that you could see the inside of a cell. Better be careful! On the other hand, I can say whatever the fuck I want as long as it does not put somebody else in danger. Freedom is nice.\n\nYeah i do section 14 of the Bill of rights :) \n\n\nSo literally the only freedom you seem to have is slightly lax'er free speech laws? Wow seems like a fair trade, i'll take a 10 times less likely to get murdered ...\n\n",
"Lets take it slowly\n\n> If someone wants to kill a bunch of people they can find a way. It's not hard. Banning guns won't stop it\n\nThats yoru comment.\n\nApparently you seem, to think that just because it wont stop it, you shouldnt do it.\n\n\nYou're right, it wont stop it, but it will make it considerably harder to kill as many people as easily.",
"> That's pretty horrible. I can buy 5000 rounds of .22LR for $190. That's .038 cents per round vs almost $1 per round.\n\nBulk obviously is much cheaper and .22LR is considerably cheaper than .223 (also 20/12 isnt \"almost a dollar\")\n\n>Nobody is arguing about controlling access bud. Background checks are great with me and the vast majority of lawful gun owners.\n\nLicensing and registration. Its what works for the rest of us. Fundamentally the issue isn't your lack of gun control. The issue is Americans idiotic mindset to firearms.\n\n\n>So you would rather not have the ability to protect yourself? You think not being able to protect yourself is freedom? Ok.\n\nIf the trade off is a 10 time increase in the probability i'd need to, then sure. \n\n>I've never felt the need to use them in defense, and I hope I never will, but if that day should come I'd rather be prepared. \n\nAnd fundamentally thats why you guys have a gun problem",
"Excellent.\n\nSo you're saying that training is irrelevant? Having access to bunker complexes built over the last 30-40 years of almost constant warfare is irrelevant?",
"Sure\n\n>Everyone has the right to freedom of expression, including the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and opinions of any kind in any form.\n\n\nnext question? \n",
"It's not the attitude towards firearms, it's other issues more specific to the US such as the amount of gangs/organized crime (stemming from the failing \"war on drugs\", flaws in the prison system and education system, poverty, etc.) and issues with how mental health is handled. \n\nA majority of US gun violence is gang related and there are plenty of areas have that have very low gun crime rates.",
"> The possibility* If there's a 1 in a billion chance that somebody breaks into my house with the intent to hurt my family, I'd rather be prepared than not. I feel sorry for your family that you don't feel the same.\n\n\nThe difference is, that if its a 1 in a billion chance for you... its a 1 in 12 billion chance for me.... Thats kind of my point.\n\n>Again, where are most of our murders committed? In liberal inner cities with strict gun laws, and in areas infested with MS-13 and other drug cartels that are able to immigrate due to lax border security. Weird, right?\n\nEven the state with the lowest murder rate New Hampshire (in 2015) barely makes it into the developed world territory.\n\n>Ahhhh but are you aware of your hate speech laws? Seems to me that's a relevant caveat.\nEdit: Here's the link in case you were too lazy http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0082/latest/DLM304643.html\nAnd this is not an argument for hate speech of any kind; the problem is that it's subjective. If I say I don't like somebody that happens to be black, is that hate speech? Hopefully the person deciding doesn't think so.\n\n\nI'm familar with it ;) We do have hate speech laws. Generally around if you stand in a public place and start screaming about how you hate niggers and jews ... you might have a problem (even then i doubt it). \n\nI dont really see that as an issue. Apparently being about to abuse people in public is something you hold dear as a freedom? \n",
">> b) No, but I've seen it with trucks, planes, and bombs\n>\n>No you haven't \n\nForget about the Nice, France truck attack that took 86 innocent lives? ",
"You have to balance that with the right to bare arms. To quote the leading intellectual of our times, [\"Hitler took the guns, stalin took the guns, mao took the guns, castro took the guns, chavez took the guns, and 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms!\" alex jones.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqkcxbRSzDw)",
"> You think Americans have no training? Shit, I was at the range yesterday.\n\nYou were the one comparing it to people who have been actively engaged in warfare for the last 40+ years.\n\n>My cousin is special forces and my roommate works for ATF. My father was in the army and my aunt and uncle are bother retired lieutenant commanders in the Navy. My grandfather and two great grandfathers went to the Naval Academy, and my two great grandfathers were a rear admiral and a commander in WWII.\n\nLast i checked, \"my cousin is special forces\" didn't make you any better as a combatant \n\n>Pretty much every family that has been in the US for more than 2 decades has somebody that was military or has handled guns regularly. \n\n\nI dont doubt it, but you were comparing it to people who have grown up in a war zone knowing nothing by combat since they were children. Who live in an area with extensive infrastructure (even if it is just cave/bunker systems) to avoid hellfire missiles and the like. \n\nThe idea that special forces trained ex-mujahideen fighters are comparable to a guy who went to the range yesterday and has a cousin whos int he special forces..... seriously?",
"Oh fuck off.\n\nAccording to the state New Hampshire had the lowest murder rate in 2015. Even that is 10 times higher than where i live.\n\nBig gang problems in New Hampshire huh?\n\n",
"Great, i know we have hate speech laws.\n\nLike i said in the other post... It seems the right to abuse someone because of their race is something you hold dear to your \"freedom\" \n\nFor me, it dont really mind it being illegal \n\n\nSo lets get this straight,\n\nThe only freedom you seem to have over me is the freedom to racially abuse someone?\n\nwow... so much win\n\n",
"> We have licensing and registration. Not sure what mindset you're referring too.\n\nLike this http://www.police.govt.nz/advice/firearms-and-safety/standard-new-zealand-firearms-licence\n\nThe idea that you have any kind of universal licensing or registration is laughable.\n\n>Again, if you had read the studies I linked earlier, you'd see that's a lie. Gun ownership significantly increased during the Obama presidency, but gun violence decreased (except in inner cities with strict gun laws).\n\nOk? it doesn't change the fact that in the USA you're about 10 times more likely to be murdered than anywhere else in the developed world. If you take the state with the lowest murder rate, thats still 10 times less likely to be murdered than i am here in NZ.... ",
"Yeah thats not actually accurate.\n\n\n",
">>So you would rather not have the ability to protect yourself? You think not being able to protect yourself is freedom? Ok.\n>\n>If the trade off is a 10 time increase in the probability i'd need to, then sure. \n\nOutside of large metropolitan areas (where the majority of gun crime occurs), gun crime rates in the US are often pretty low. \n\nSurprise surprise, gun crime rates in the US follows poverty and general crime prevalence, not how guns are viewed or how strict gun laws are.\n\nAlso, even there's a 10× increase in probability, that doesn't mean it's statistically significant (the units really matter). A lot of people don't understand this and will avoid a food or something that a study claims \"makes you ten times more likely to die of a certain cancer\" (raising your chance from .00001% to .0001%). \n\n>>I've never felt the need to use them in defense, and I hope I never will, but if that day should come I'd rather be prepared. \n>\n>And fundamentally thats why you guys have a gun problem\n\nLike I said in another comment, it's the amount of gangs/organized crime (stemming from the failing \"war on drugs\", flaws in the prison system and education system, poverty, etc.) and issues with how mental health is handled that's the real problem and reason for the amount of gun crime in the US.\n\nPeople believing in our right to effective means for defense is not \"why we have a gun problem\" (what even is the logic behind that?).",
"Not at all. \n\nDid you forget about Vegas? or Orlando? or Virgina Tech? or Sandy Hook? or Sutherland Springs church? or San Bernardino? or Binghamton ? or Fort Hood?\n\n\nLike I've said a number of times... It wont stop all people from killing people, but thats not a reason to make it harder for some people to do it some of the time.",
"> Yikes, might wanna do some research.\n\nI mean actual effective licensing \n\n>Unless you live in southside Chicago or New Orleans, the chances of being murdered in the US are significantly lower than pretty much anywhere else in the world. Again, you don't seem to grasp the very obvious reason the murder rate is so high. Felons in inner cities commit that VAST majority of murders. I, and most others, are not located in inner cities, and therefore have as much of a chance of being murdered as you do.\n\n\nWho knew.... new Hampshire had such an innercity gang problem. \n\n",
"> Except most of them haven't, and if they have then why are we accepting any of them as refugees? Why would any sane country accept enemy combatants?\n\nLast i checked you weren't accepting ISIS fighters as refugees?\n\n\n>The point is to illustrate that tons of people know military combatants with significantly more training than the enemy. If you think Al Qaeda or ISIS fighters are more trained than green berets or marines I've got a bridge to sell you.\n\n\nGreat? you seemed to think the fact that the US failed in both Afghanistan and Iraq was proof that ordinary citizens could overthrow the US government. I saying, (as we say here) Yeah Nah Bro.\n\n\n>Growing up in a war zone does not mean they received military training.\n\nIt doesnt, but it indicates that they most likely have more experience in a combat zone than your average american.\n\n\n>Yes, seriously. I'll take my cousin (green beret) and uncle (navy pilot) over 2 ex-mujahideen fighters any day of the week and twice on Sunday.\n\nThey'd probably have a lot to talk about given they're originally trained by the same people.\n\n\n\n\n",
"> Also, even there's a 10× increase in probability, that doesn't mean it's statistically significant (the units really matter). A lot of people don't understand this and will avoid a food or something that a study claims \"makes you ten times more likely to die of a certain cancer\" (raising your chance from .00001% to .0001%). \n\nOh wow.... so in the case of where i live (where the difference is 32 times) thats not statistically significant? \n\n\n\n>People believing in our right to effective means for defense is not \"why we have a gun problem\" (what even is the logic behind that?).\n\n\nWell... take what happened to that guy who got swatted a couple of weeks ago. Shot by the cops. Shit like that is caused by your attitude to guns. ",
"Well the rate i had was 1.1 in 2015 but sure... \n\nCompared to 0.15 in NZ .",
"It starts with conversation.",
"> And like I said, you don't seem to understand what subjective means.\n\nYou don't seem to understand what an effective judicial system is ;) It similar to the reason why i don't need a gun to over throw the government. \n\n>In theory it's nice, in reality it's not. Again, tyrannical government and all. I'd recommend you read Brave New World or The Gulag Archipelago. \n\nI read both, the thing thats sad is you seem to think thats a realistic possibility in your country. That's actually really sad. (also kind of why i think its sad you think you're free)\n\n>Who deems it racially abusive? Is it the morons on twitter that think a frog cartoon is racist?\n\nNo, its our court system. I have faith in their ability to be impartial. If you read section 61 it pretty clear. The words in the statute are threatening, abusive or insulting and likely to incite hostility or bring into contempt.... If i meet that criteria (which isnt that far away from your criteria) then i deserve to be punished.",
">Oh fuck off.\n>\n>According to the state New Hampshire had the lowest murder rate in 2015.\n\nSo now you're looking at total murder rate (a good portion of which not even being firearm related)? \n\n[New Hampshire had a murder rate of 1.1 per 100,000](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_the_United_States_by_state)\n\n>Even that is 10 times higher than where i live.\n\nWhere do you live? Australia? Yeah, statistically that's about 10× the Australian murder rate but even when there's a 10× increase in probability, that doesn't mean it's statistically significant (the units really matter). A lot of people don't understand this and will avoid a food or something that a study claims \"makes you ten times more likely to die of a certain cancer\" (raising your chance from \n.00001% to .0001%). \n\n14 people out of New Hampshire's 1,330,111 in 2015 were murdered.\n\n>Big gang problems in New Hampshire huh?\n\nYou don't think there are gang and other criminal activity in New Hampshire (especially the metropolitan areas)? \n\nThe point is that gangs and criminal activity is the issue. Of course areas with less of that will have less murder. ",
"Never said it was. \n\nLast i checked you could be murdered without a firearm.\n\nif you want to compare gun murders... in 2014 NZ had a gun murder rate of like 0.09 per 100,000 ",
"You're either exceedingly ignorant or being deliberately obtuse\n\nwhich is it?\n",
"\n>I think it's a possibility if people like you enact the legislation that you want. People in the UK are going to jail for liking Facebook posts. I would like to avoid that.\n\n\nPeople could go to jail for liking facebook posts if you entacted effective federal gun licensing? \n\nWow, didnt see that coming. \n\n>Seems like you're an optimist and I'm a realist. I'm glad you think that everybody is so benevolent.\n\nLike i said, you have limits to free speech, we have them too. They have different thresholds and that threshold is subjective.\n\nThe fact remains that seems to be the only \"freedom\" you have over anyone else.\n\nIt seems like a pretty shit freedom to hold so dear to be honest.\n\n",
"> So now you're looking at total murder rate (a good portion of which not even being firearm related)?\n> \n> \n> \n> New Hampshire had a murder rate of 1.1 per 100,000\n\nI've always been looking at it.... whats your point?\n\n>Where do you live? Australia? Yeah, statistically that's about 10× the Australian murder rate but even when there's a 10× increase in probability, that doesn't mean it's statistically significant (the units really matter). A lot of people don't understand this and will avoid a food or something that a study claims \"makes you ten times more likely to die of a certain cancer\" (raising your chance from .00001% to .0001%). \n\nNot Australia no.\n\nOh i completely agree. Which is why this idea that you need a gun to protect yourself (and therefore cant have gun control) is so fucking idiotic.\n\n\n\n\n\n>You don't think there are gang and other criminal activity in New Hampshire (especially the metropolitan areas)?\n\nThe point is that gangs and criminal activity is the issue. Of course areas with less of that will have less murder. \n\nDo you have any actual evidence that those murders were all gun related? or is that just what it said to say on the NRA pamphlet?\n",
">Not at all. \n>\n>Did you forget about Vegas? or Orlando? or Virgina Tech? or Sandy Hook? or Sutherland Springs church? or San Bernardino? or Binghamton ? or Fort Hood?\n\nWhat? That doesn't have anything to do with the point I was addressing.\nI'm just replying to what you said in response to the other person. \n\nYou original said:\n\n>[b) Sure they probably will. But have you ever heard of an instance where someone has murdered 58 people and injured 500+ with a knife? It just doesn't happen.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7opovc/truth/dscg1dn)\n\nand they responded:\n\n> [b) No, but I've seen it with trucks, planes, and bombs](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7opovc/truth/dschjre)\n\nTo which you replied:\n\n>[b) No you haven't.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7opovc/truth/dschoum)\n\nSo I gave you an instance where someone murdered and injuried a lot of people with something other than a firearm (in that case, a large truck and there were even a lot more deaths than any US mass shooting). \n\nThat's the point I was addressing, the native notion that only guns can cause great loses of life.\n\n>Like I've said a number of times... It wont stop all people from killing people, but thats not a reason to make it harder for some people to do it some of the time.\n\nWhat? The point is *what exactly *will make it harder for people to commit mass murder? \n\nTake the most deadly US mass shooting, the Vegas shooting. What laws could have prevented him from killing a lot of people? He was a pretty wealthy man and could get whatever he wanted, regardless of the law. He had a pilots license and owned a couple planes, he could have loaded one of the planes up with fuel and crashed into the crowd and probably kill a lot more people.\n\nIt's impossible to simply remove the ability for people to cause mass murder. Instead of focusing on a fools errand, focus on solving the issues of society that are the actual root cause that drives people to try to commit mass murder, thereby removing that threat/issue all together. ",
">> Also, even there's a 10× increase in probability, that doesn't mean it's statistically significant (the units really matter). A lot of people don't understand this and will avoid a food or something that a study claims \"makes you ten times more likely to die of a certain cancer\" (raising your chance from .00001% to .0001%). \n>\n>Oh wow.... so in the case of where i live (where the difference is 32 times) thats not statistically significant? \n\nWhat? You said 10× before. Anyway, like I said, you need to read up on\n[absolute vs. relative differences. ](https://marketingexperiments.com/digital-analytics/absolute-versus-relative-difference)\n\nSomething can easily be non-statistically significant when it's 32×.\n\nThere's a 32 times difference between 0.00001% and 0.00032%. Both are still extremely unlikely of occurring. \n\n>>People believing in our right to effective means for defense is not \"why we have a gun problem\" (what even is the logic behind that?).\n>\n>\n>Well... take what happened to that guy who got swatted a couple of weeks ago. Shot by the cops. Shit like that is caused by your attitude to guns. \n\n??? That's caused by numerous issues and factors, now is it \"causes by our attitude to guns\"?! \n\nYou're using \"attitude towards guns\" as a cop out. Actually explain your argument and what causes what.",
">> So now you're looking at total murder rate (a good portion of which not even being firearm related)?\n>> \n>> \n>> \n>> New Hampshire had a murder rate of 1.1 per 100,000\n>\n>I've always been looking at it.... whats your point?\n\nBecause I thought you thought all of this had to do with \"American's attitude towards guns\" (as you've cited numerous times).\n\n>>Where do you live? Australia? Yeah, statistically that's about 10× the Australian murder rate but even when there's a 10× increase in probability, that doesn't mean it's statistically significant (the units really matter). A lot of people don't understand this and will avoid a food or something that a study claims \"makes you ten times more likely to die of a certain cancer\" (raising your chance from .00001% to .0001%). \n>\n>Not Australia no.\n\nWell, the example still stands without change.\n\n>Oh i completely agree. Which is why this idea that you need a gun to protect yourself (and therefore cant have gun control) is so fucking idiotic.\n\nNo one is making the argument that we need a gun to protect ourselves. The chance of ever needing one is statistically very low, even in the US. \n\nThat doesn't mean people shouldn't be allowed to have the means to effective self defense if they so choose though.\nMany people would much rather have that means for self defense and never need it than not have it when they need it.\n\n>>You don't think there are gang and other criminal activity in New Hampshire (especially the metropolitan areas)?\n>\n>>The point is that gangs and criminal activity is the issue. Of course areas with less of that will have less murder. \n>\n>Do you have any actual evidence that those murders were all gun related? or is that just what it said to say on the NRA pamphlet?\n\nWhat are you even talking about?! All gun related? What? I even said in that comment that a good portion of those murders aren't even gun related. Read my comments.",
">Ok? it doesn't change the fact that in the USA you're about 10 times more likely to be murdered than anywhere else in the developed world. If you take the state with the lowest murder rate, thats still 10 times less likely to be murdered than i am here in NZ.... \n\nRead up on [statistical significance/meaningfulness](https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/41r5m9/ysk_that_statistically_significant_and). Just because soemthing is \"10 times more likely\", etc. doesn't mean much. \n\nFor instance, you're talking .000001% chance vs .00001% change. ",
"WHat i'm saying is correct regardless of how probable the outcome is.\n\nAgreed the chance of being murdered is still very low. Which is another reason why the idea of needing a weapon for protection is so laughable",
"> Because I thought you thought all of this had to do with \"American's attitude towards guns\" (as you've cited numerous times).\n\n Its is.... \n\n\n>Well, the example still stands without change.\n\nyeah it doesnt. 10x is a statistically significant. Its a ratio so the units are irrelevant.... thats kind of the point of a ratio.\n\n\n>No one is making the argument that we need a gun to protect ourselves. The chance of ever needing one is statistically very low, even in the US.\n\nyeah some in this thread have made that exact point\n>That doesn't mean people shouldn't be allowed to have the means to effective self defense if they so choose though. Many people would much rather have that means for self defense and never need it than not have it when they need it.\n\nWait.... so you're seriously arguing that people should have guns for protection even though the chances of it ever being needed are infinitesimally small even with all of the negatives it gives your society? ok cool.\n\n>What are you even talking about?! All gun related? What? I even said in that comment that a good portion of those murders aren't even gun related. Read my comments.\n\nBrain fart, change gun to gang ..\n\n I.e.\n\n>Do you have any actual evidence that those murders were all gang related? or is that just what it said to say on the NRA pamphlet?\n",
">WHat i'm saying is correct regardless of how probable the outcome is.\n>\n>Agreed the chance of being murdered is still very low. Which is another reason why the idea of needing a weapon for protection is so laughable\n\nAgain, most people don't think there's a need for a weapon for protecting, they believe there's a need to not do away with or infringe upon the natural right of having the means for effective self defense. \n\nMany people believe we should be able to choose for ourself individually if we wish to have that means for effective defense. Many of us choose to because we'd much rather have it and never need it than ever need it and not have it. If I was ever so unfortunate to find myself in a situation when I might have to use a gun to defend myself, I'd much rather have that option and be able to use it if I have to than lack that potentially life saving option.",
"> There's a 32 times difference between 0.00001% and 0.00032%. Both are still extremely unlikely of occurring.\n\n\nDoesn't mean they arent statically significant. Take smoking and strokes, smoking increases your risk of a stroke by 2-6 times. \n\nAccording to you, thats not statistically significant?\n\nGiven a 32x increase isnt statistically significant?\n\n",
"And thats true, You haven't seen killings with vehicles on anywhere near the same scale of mass shootings.\n\n\n>It's impossible to simply remove the ability for people to cause mass murder.\n\nThats 100% true. Doesnt mean you shouldnt try to make it difficult. Crashing a plane into a group of people has a high skill and cost threshold. \n\nbuying an AR, and a couple of large capacity mags can be done for around a grand. The reason ? guns are so easy to obtain and so prevalent.... you know might be why there are so many mass shooting events in the US and almost none anywhere else.\n ",
"and then?\n\nSo it seems that our rates for non-firearm related deaths are about the same.... yet your gun murder rates are much higher.\n\nIts almost like having free access to guns doesnt actually make you safer?",
"1) Slavery is not a social problem, but racism is. An amendment more in line with this debate would be the 14th amendment, which was ineffective since racism still exists. \n2) No, people would benefit more from saving and wisely investing a tax return than universal healthcare. It isn't fair for the person who goes to the doctor once every 10 years to pay the same amount as the person who goes every 10 days. ",
"I'm still trying to work out what your argument is.\n\nApparently its because the US army couldnt kill well armed and well organised terrorists in caves. \n\nThey would have the same problem quashing a civilian uprising of people armed with nothing but small arms, VS the US military with its predator drones and more Abrams tanks than it knows what to do with... because they have cousins who were in the special forces and you went to the range yesterday? \n\n",
"> Again, most people don't think there's a need for a weapon for protecting, they believe there's a need to not do away with or infringe upon the natural right of having the means for effective self defense. \n\nExcellent. And how does federal licensing, mandatory firearms loss reporting, even electronic gun registration databases stop you from doing that?\n\n>Many people believe we should be able to choose for ourself individually if we wish to have that means for effective defense. Many of us choose to because we'd much rather have it and never need it than ever need it and not have it. If I was ever so unfortunate to find myself in a situation when I might have to use a gun to defend myself, I'd much rather have that option and be able to use it if I have to than lack that potentially life saving option.\n\nEven when all the decisions that allow you to do that significantly increase the chances for you to need that weapon to protect you? Its kind of chicken and the egg. The bad guys have so many guns because you make it so fucking easy for them to get them.\n\nHere? i might get robbed? sure. Might they be armed? highly unlikely. Even if they are the chances that they'd kill me for whats in my house? Not even worth contemplating.\n\nPut it this way, if you were a robber and you knew the guy you were robbing had a firearm and was quite happy to use it, do you think they're not going to pickup a firearm and be quite happy to use it? It escalates an arms race and the only loser is you and your kids. But Mah freedoms! ",
"**If I were**",
"Bad Bot!",
">> Because I thought you thought all of this had to do with \"American's attitude towards guns\" (as you've cited numerous times).\n>\n> Its is.... \n\nSo you use statistics which a large portion of is non-firearm related? \n\n>>Well, the example still stands without change.\n>\n>yeah it doesnt. 10x is a statistically significant. Its a ratio so the units are irrelevant.... thats kind of the point of a ratio.\n\nWhat? You said the murder rate in your country was 10× lower than New Hampshire's murder rate and so I assumed Australia (which does have a murder rate per 100k roughly 10× lower). My example still stands because it doesn't matter whether that's your country or not, the murder rate is the same as you said and that's what I'm talking about. \n\nLike I said before, read up on [statistical significance/meaningfulness](https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/41r5m9/ysk_that_statistically_significant_and). Just because soemthing is \"10 times more likely\", etc. doesn't mean much. \n\nYou're talking .000001% chance vs .00001% change. \n\n>>No one is making the argument that we need a gun to protect ourselves. The chance of ever needing one is statistically very low, even in the US.\n>\n>yeah some in this thread have made that exact point\n>\n>>That doesn't mean people shouldn't be allowed to have the means to effective self defense if they so choose though. Many people would much rather have that means for self defense and never need it than not have it when they need it.\n>\n>Wait.... so you're seriously arguing that people should have guns for protection even though the chances of it ever being needed are infinitesimally small even with all of the negatives it gives your society? ok cool.\n\nJust because chances are slim doesn't mean they aren't used often in the US for self defense (there are 100 million gun owners in the US after all) and you're attributing guns as being what gives a bunch of negatives to our society when that's actually crime, gangs and the factors that lead people to them (poverty, our failing \"war on drugs\", flaws in the US prison and education systems, etc.). \n\nIf guns where the problem, gun crimes would follow gun prevalence and lax gun laws in the US (instead of closely following poverty and other causing factors of crime despite how restrictive the gun laws might be in a state). \n\n>>What are you even talking about?! All gun related? What? I even said in that comment that a good portion of those murders aren't even gun related. Read my comments.\n>\n>Brain fart, change gun to gang ..\n>\n> I.e.\n>\n>Do you have any actual evidence that those murders were all gang related? or is that just what it said to say on the NRA pamphlet?\n\n\nI never said that they were all gang related. I said:\n\n>You don't think there are gang and other criminal activity in New Hampshire (especially the metropolitan areas)? \n\n>The point is that gangs and criminal activity is the issue. Of course areas with less of that will have less murder. \n\nA good portion of murder is going to be gang or other crime related (sort of obvious).",
"> So you use statistics which a large portion of is non-firearm related? \n\nYou know you can have a conversation that involves multiple points at the same time right?\n\n>Just because chances are slim doesn't mean they aren't used often in the US for self defense (there are 100 million gun owners in the US after all) and you're attributing guns as being what gives a bunch of negatives to our society when that's actually crime, gangs and the factors that lead people to them (poverty, our failing \"war on drugs\", flaws in the US prison and education systems, etc.). \n\n\nRight so now you're contradicting yourself. The need for protection isnt \"statistically insignificant\" but guns are used for protection \"often\" ..... Ummm ok??!?\n\n>A good portion of murder is going to be gang or other crime related (sort of obvious).\n\nRight so that would likely indicate that if you werent gang related your chances of homicide would be even less, and therefore even less need for protection?\n\n\nAlso... really? murder is going to be \"crime related\"? You dont say.....",
">> There's a 32 times difference between 0.00001% and 0.00032%. Both are still extremely unlikely of occurring.\n>\n>\n>Doesn't mean they arent statically significant. Take smoking and strokes, smoking increases your risk of a stroke by 2-6 times. \n>\n>According to you, thats not statistically significant?\n\n**Units**, like I said, the units are what matter! \n\nIncreasing your risk of a stroke 2-6 times isn't a big deal if it's going from a .00001% chance to .00002% - .00006% chance. \n\nIncreasing your risk of stroke **is** a big deal when it's going from 16.67% chance to a 33.33% - near 100% chance.\n\n>Given a 32x increase isnt statistically significant?\n\nNot when it's in the hundreds of thousands of a percent.",
"> There's a 32 times difference between 0.00001% and 0.00032%. Both are still extremely unlikely of occurring.\n\nThat doesn't make it statistically insignificant.... the risk increase is a massive increase over the base risk, regardless of what the base risk is.\n\n What you seem to be confusing is that fact that the actual risk is still very low. That doesn't change the fact that for some reason the US is significantly less safe than anywhere else in the developed world. This seems counter intuitive when the argument that guns keep you safe gets thrown around so much. If that was the case, given the prevalence of firearms in the US as opposed to the rest of the world, you'd expect the risk to be significantly less.... but it clearly isnt.\n\n>Not when it's in the hundreds of thousands of a percent.\n\nThat's not how stats work. The significance of the increase isnt related to the raw value. \n\nYou have a low risk of being murdered, pretty much everywhere in the developed world. The fact that risk is 5 times higher in the USA than nearest comparable developed country is significant. ",
">And thats true, You haven't seen killings with vehicles on anywhere near the same scale of mass shootings.\n\nWhat? Are you talking semantic about whether I've personally seen them?! The point is that they happen, it doesn't matter whether I've personally seen them. I haven't personally seen any tragedy.\n\n>>It's impossible to simply remove the ability for people to cause mass murder.\n>\n>Thats 100% true. Doesnt mean you shouldnt try to make it difficult. Crashing a plane into a group of people has a high skill and cost threshold. \n\nAnd a large truck (like what was used in the Nice, France attack that killed 86 innocent people) has a much lower skill and cost threshold, your point?\n\n>buying an AR, and a couple of large capacity mags can be done for around a grand. The reason ? guns are so easy to obtain and so prevalent.... you know might be why there are so many mass shooting events in the US and almost none anywhere else.\n\n[16 mass shootings in the US in 2017]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2017_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States), (of course no number is acceptable but lets make clear that even after their increase in the last few years -largely because of copy cats- they're still very rare). The US is a nation of over 320 million citizens, more than 300 million guns, and roughly 100 million gun owners. \n\nWhat restrictions, bans, etc. would do anything to stop mass shooters? \n\nYou talk about ARs but it should be noted that until the Orlando shooting in 2016, the most deadly US mass shooting was the Virginia Tech shooting that took 32 innocent lives and was committed with just two pistols. \n\nYou talk about \"large capacity mags\" (I assume the actual standard size magazines as anything over 10 rounds is considered high capacity by lawmakers generally) but magazine size hardly makes a difference as they're very quick to change and generally a mass shooters reloads before the mag is empty anyway. \n\nActs of mass killing don't have some convenient reason they're happening like people potentially having access to tools like guns (the Paris attacks that took 130 innocent lives and the numerous other attacks all over Europe are a testament to that).\n\nThere are multiple reasons for these acts of mass killings and they're human (perpetrator) derived. ",
"> What? Are you talking semantic about whether I've personally seen them?! The point is that they happen, it doesn't matter whether I've personally seen them. I haven't personally seen any tragedy.\n\nNot you specifically, obviously \n\n>And a large truck (like what was used in the Nice, France attack that killed 86 innocent people) has a much lower skill and cost threshold, your point?\n\nRenting a truck requires ID, and a significant outlay in cash. its also situational. In order to kill the max number of people you need them packed tight, and with no significant barriers to the truck. The fact is people are going to try and kill people no matter what, its easy to only focus on mass shootings but in the end the number of people killed in the USA is disgusting for a supposedly first world country. Factor in the number of suicides and its even worse. The mass shootings are a nice media distraction from the actual issue.\n\n\n>What restrictions, bans, etc. would do anything to stop mass shooters? \n\nyou're never going to stop all people who want to kill people. And lets face it, focusing on the guns only is pointless. I can access 80-90% of the accessible semi-auto/bolt action weapons that you can in the USA. Yet we don't have even close to the same firearms issues you guys do. Why? because we focus on the person and we require people to be responsible for their firearms. (we also don't have that, \"ah shoot the bad guy\" mentality that Americans have either but thats a generational+ change) \nAnyways you can attempt to make sure people are responsible for their actions. How do you do that? Well licensing is a great start. Before you can get a firearm in NZ, you need to attend a safety course, sit an exam to prove you know how to use a firearm. Once you pass that, you can apply for a firearms license. When you apply you can apply for a A cat (bolt action or semi auto/sub 5 round mag) AND or get endorsements for Pistols (B) MSSA (E) (large magazines etc) or Collectors (C) (full auto) You can actually buy suppressors and magazines without any license.\n\n\nTo get your A-cat, you have a full police check, you supply 2 references one of which has to be your partner. They interview your reference, then they come to your house and interview you, and then your partner to make sure everything cool. At the same time they check you have a safe to safely store your weapons. The requirements for A cat are bugger all. E and B cat require a decent 6mm steel safe bolted to 2 surfaces (wall and floor) additionally (for E and B) you need to supply 2 more people as references. \n\nWe focus on making sure the person who can access firearms is a \"fit and proper\" person. We also have mandatory reporting of theft/loss of firearms, registration of e and b cat.\n\nIf you control the supply of firearms and continually seize illegal firearms slowly but surely the market for illegal firearms dries up. \n\nHonestly i think the main cause of Americas gun issues is the mentality around guns. In NZ you cant shoot someone to robbing you, or breaking into your house. Its one of the questions they ask you when you apply for a license. Self defense as an answer for why you want a gun, is grounds for denying the application. \n\n\n\n",
">> Again, most people don't think there's a need for a weapon for protecting, they believe there's a need to not do away with or infringe upon the natural right of having the means for effective self defense. \n>\n>Excellent. And how does federal licensing, mandatory firearms loss reporting, even electronic gun registration databases stop you from doing that?\n\nA better question is how would any of that help and whether or not it could be implemented in the US? We already have firearm licencing (must be of legal age and pass a background check). Mandatory firearms loss reporting is likely to happen in a crime report anyway and is otherwise unenforceable. An electronic gun registration is infeasible for a country with well over 300 million guns that is boardering a third world nation filled with cartels (instead of being an isolated island nation).\n\n>>Many people believe we should be able to choose for ourself individually if we wish to have that means for effective defense. Many of us choose to because we'd much rather have it and never need it than ever need it and not have it. If I was ever so unfortunate to find myself in a situation when I might have to use a gun to defend myself, I'd much rather have that option and be able to use it if I have to than lack that potentially life saving option.\n>\n>Even when all the decisions that allow you to do that significantly increase the chances for you to need that weapon to protect you?\n\nWhat? Again with the assumptions that it's guns that are the cause of the US higher crime rates (not all the other important factors that differentiate the US from other first world nations).\n\n>Its kind of chicken and the egg. The bad guys have so many guns because you make it so fucking easy for them to get them.\n\nIt's more that there's a problem with crime and gang prevalence in the US because of many different factors (the shear size of the US, poverty prevanlence, the geographic location, failing \"war on drugs\", flaws in the education system and prison system, flaws in how mental health etc. is handled, etc.). And even then, gun crime is pretty localized in the US to more impoverished and highly populated areas where there is more gang and organized crime activity (regardless of the strictness of the gun laws). There are many areas in the US with lax gun laws (and high gun ownership) and still exceedingly low gun crime rates (because they also lack the criminal activity and factors that lead to it).\n\n>Here? i might get robbed? sure. Might they be armed? highly unlikely. Even if they are the chances that they'd kill me for whats in my house? Not even worth contemplating.\n\nWhere I live it's the same. It's all very unlikely and many people don't feel any need to contemplate it. But since I'm a fully free citizens, my natural right to still have a precaution and way to effectively defend myself isn't infringe upon. It's my choice. It's a rare occurance but for those who have had to defend themselves with a gun in the past, they're glad they had it. \n\nNo matter how safe your country or area may seem, there are always people with a desire to harm others. Even in a country with extremely low crime rates, there are still people who die horrible, agonizing deaths and worst at the hands of others for no good reason. Again, it's not something necessary to dwell on (the chance of it happening to a given person is extremely slim) but it's still reality. \n\n>Put it this way, if you were a robber and you knew the guy you were robbing had a firearm and was quite happy to use it, do you think they're not going to pickup a firearm and be quite happy to use it? It escalates an arms race and the only loser is you and your kids. But Mah freedoms! \n\n??? For one, a robber won't know if you're armed because most people concealed carry. A robber isn't likely at all to target someone they know is armed as there are plenty of probably unarmed people to choose from and it's not worth the risk. \n\nRobbers don't have guns just because their victims have guns. There is no arms race. A gun is very useful to them regardless of whether or not their victim is armed (if only robbers had guns, they'd still use those guns). They don't target people they know are armed and capable of fighting back and they don't expect their victims to be armed . \n\nFor the most part, in most robbery situations it's best to just given them your wallet etc. and not risk escalating the situation and putting yourself in more dangerous. It's only when the situation is right and/or has escalated itself that you fall back on the options that being armed gives you.",
"**If I were**",
"So who should have guns? just the government? Fucking morons.",
"And Home Depot trucks",
"> A better question is how would any of that help and whether or not it could be implemented in the US? We already have firearm licencing (must be of legal age and pass a background check). Mandatory firearms loss reporting is likely to happen in a crime report anyway and is otherwise unenforceable. An electronic gun registration is infeasible for a country with well over 300 million guns that is boardering a third world nation filled with cartels (instead of being an isolated island nation).\n\n9 states require background checks, 2 more have them but only for handguns, 11 states + Washington DC have mandatory loss/theft reporting\n\nYeah, thats not proper licensing look at literally any other developed country for what i'm talking about.\n\n> What? Again with the assumptions that it's guns that are the cause of the US higher crime rates (not all the other important factors that differentiate the US from other first world nations).\n\nSo specifically what is it about the US thats unique among developed nations?\n\n>It's more that there's a problem with crime and gang prevalence in the US because of many different factors (the shear size of the US, poverty prevanlence, the geographic location, failing \"war on drugs\", flaws in the education system and prison system, flaws in how mental health etc. is handled, etc.). And even then, gun crime is pretty localized in the US to more impoverished and highly populated areas where there is more gang and organized crime activity (regardless of the strictness of the gun laws).\n\nIts weird how Americans seem to think that gangs cause the problems and no where else has gangs.\n\n>There are many areas in the US with lax gun laws (and high gun ownership) and still exceedingly low gun crime rates (because they also lack the criminal activity and factors that lead to it).\n\nI would love to see stats to back that up.\n\n>Where I live it's the same. It's all very unlikely and many people don't feel any need to contemplate it. But since I'm a fully free citizens, my natural right to still have a precaution and way to effectively defend myself isn't infringe upon. It's my choice. It's a rare occurance but for those who have had to defend themselves with a gun in the past, they're glad they had it. \n\nThats fundamentally the issue though... that mentality effectively causes the issue that it protects you from in the first place. Either way, gun control doesnt mean you dont have guns. I live in a country with strict gun control and have guns.... \n\n\n>No matter how safe your country or area may seem, there are always people with a desire to harm others. Even in a country with extremely low crime rates, there are still people who die horrible, agonizing deaths and worst at the hands of others for no good reason. \n\nCompletely true. But the reality is, for the extremely rare cases when that happens, most (well here at least) are killed by a family member, or killed by a criminal associate. \n\n\n>??? For one, a robber won't know if you're armed because most people concealed carry. A robber isn't likely at all to target someone they know is armed as there are plenty of probably unarmed people to choose from and it's not worth the risk. \n\nMost long term studies dont back that up. \n> Ten years after the adoption of RTC laws, violent crime is estimated to be 13-15% percent higher than it would have been without the RTC law\n\nhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w23510\n\n\n>For the most part, in most robbery situations it's best to just given them your wallet etc. and not risk escalating the situation and putting yourself in more dangerous. It's only when the situation is right and/or has escalated itself that you fall back on the options that being armed gives you.\n\nYet you're advocating weapons for protection.... If someone comes up to you with a gun, how are you suppose to know they are going to rob you (and therefore you shouldnt defend yourself) or there to kill you?",
"You don't have to add the word \"do\" before every verb. It looks tiring to type that every time.",
"Who's mindset? Advid gun owners are usually the most responsible with them and the biggest advocates for people taking classes to understand them.",
"See now, I don't like this argument because it implies that both halves don't need to die.",
"Because no one ever died before guns were a thing.",
"The amendment still changed society. While your can (quite coldly) define slavery as a purely economic construct the removal of it by law had an effect on society as a group of people were given freedom of movement, religion, speech, and age-old social hierarchies were shaken. If a law or legal action can affect social structure (the root of most social conflict) then it can affect social issues.\n\nNor is it fair that some people will be born needing to go to the doctor every 10 days while others will never truly need a doctor more than a handful of times in their life, regardless of life choices. The world isn't fair, but Nationalized healthcare, and Single-payer systems provide a service to society that benefits everyone within it. Without the loom of insane medical bills people of all classes are more likely to get checked and receive treatment for diseases. \n\nA healthy population is also more productive, with not only physical diseases and illnesses being treated more properly allowing people otherwise hindered or prevented from being productive citizens to be so, but mental illnesses can more readily be engaged and prevented/treated leading to increased productivity and decreased drug usage, suicide and crime rates. \n\nHealthcare is a service that benefits not only those who receive it, but those around them, and everyone needs it to one degree or another. As is education, infrastructure, and many other services that are traditionally the responsibility of the state (at least in Western society). Like the others, it has the greatest benefit to society when it is available to all, equally. It also comes out much cheaper to provide en masse than on a individualized scale.",
"Agreed.\n\nI'd also suggest that the \"Advid gun owners\" that are the \"most responsible\" are the minority of gun owners.\n",
"I would like to start out by saying thank you for providing an actual, intelligent debate over the issues present. I personally believe that the unwillingness to hear out and debate the other side only hurts democracy. \n\nOn the subject of slavery, my views may be considered \"cold\", but I cannot name a single society that has existed without slavery at some point. I believe no one should experience the atrocity of slavery, but I do believe that slavery in the United States of America was based on economic requirement, not racism. Cotton and tobacco had very small profit margins even with slavery, and the 13^th amendment was an attempt to further weaken the Confederate States of America by eroding their economic base. The amendment that attempted to place the former slaves on equal footing with the voting white class was the 14^th amendment, but even that had its flaws. Jim Crow laws and the concept of \"separate but equal\" prevailed in the post-civil war era, and the racist ideals behind both remained in various forms until the Civil Rights marches headed by Martin Luther King, Jr. caused a shift in public sympathy and finally placed descendants of slaves on more equal footing. \n\nWhile I agree that everyone has different medical needs, I do not believe that it is the job of the society to contribute for the medical care. However, this is one argument I will concede on; with the current state of hospitals, and the heavy involvement of insurance companies, reasonable and affordable healthcare is impossible. A reform is possible: lessening or removing the prevalence of insurance companies and reining in the cost of higher education could bring healthcare down to an affordable cost for all. However, this reform cannot come from laws which, in my opinion, only serve to provide a race in who can find the best loophole. Reform would require a shift from the public dependence on insurance and the government to a self-dependence. \n\nBut, back to the original topic of attempting to \"solve\" gun violence in the United States with laws. The number one contributor to gun crime statistics is suicide, and no mass shooting has happened without some underlying mental health problem as the driving force. Legislation, no matter how comprehensive, will not help this. All of society must change the process of discovering and dealing with mental health disorders in order to curb the numbers. ",
"You know what needs to die? Voters dodging responsibility by hiding behind apathy and juvenile, pseudo-rebellious ignorance.\n\nAlso, the plague of throwaway troll accounts on this website. Those can die too. \n\n\\*ahem*",
">Apathy and juvenile, pseudo-rebellious ignorance.\n\nLol, alright.",
">You don't seem to understand history; either that or you choose to ignore it. Ever heard of the term \"it's a slippery slope\"? \n\nSure, but like i said. Both countries have limitations to free speech. yet apparently its only a problem with us?\n\n>Notice how gun legislation has continued to be pushed further and further over the years? \n\nNot here it hasn't ours has stayed relatively static since it was updated in the mid 1990s\n\n>The second you start censoring anything, there's precedent, and people will push for more. One day you can't say the N word (again, not that being hateful is the point of the argument, since that seems to go over your heard), and a few years down the line saying that you don't like a person that happens to be a minority is hate speech. \n\nWhy does so much of your argument revolve round i might need this, because the boogeyman might get me? Its also ironic that apparently you have this amazing amount of freedom of speech, yet you're terrified to type the word Nigger. But apparently i might go to jail for it \n\n>You might think I'm straw-manning, but I'd implore you to go look at tumblr or on twitter, or at the fucking head of the DNC, because there are people that actually think this way. If those people get their way, we will legitimately lose our freedom of speech - and I hope for your sake that New Zealand's laws don't begin to be abused like they're being in the UK, Germany, France, etc.\n\nThat's why the strength of our democracy is the most important thing. Anyone who tried to change our laws in that way wouldn't last. Which is why the idea of having to overthrow a government with force seems so idiotic. That's what elections are for ;) I can understand your issues with it, you live in a country that allows foriegn powers to manipulate its elections without issue. Lobbists to effectively buy your politicians, and Politicians to manipulate voting zones to ensure they stay elected. \n\n>A good example is Bill C16 in Canada; you can be put in front of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and jailed for misgendering somebody, regardless of intent.\n\nThats an interesting interpretation of it \n\nfrom a quick read of the Canadian government website\n\n>This enactment amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination.\n\n>The enactment also amends the Criminal Code to extend the protection against hate propaganda set out in that Act to any section of the public that is distinguished by gender identity or expression and to clearly set out that evidence that an offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on gender identity or expression constitutes an aggravating circumstance that a court must take into consideration when it imposes a sentence.\n\nBased on that it seems that your fear mongering of \"regardless of intent\" is complete horseshit.\n\n> evidence that the offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, or on any other similar factor,\n\nThat's the actual piece of legislation. Seems intent is actually relevant... \n\n",
">> So you use statistics which a large portion of is non-firearm related? \n>\n>You know you can have a conversation that involves multiple points at the same time right?\n\nYes but we're talking specifically about difference in gun laws and difference in amount of gun crime in different countries. \n\nWhat the difference in total murder rate (including a good deal of non-firearm related murders for both) shows is that there's just a lot less crime in general in your country (and that's my point). There isn't lower rates of crime in your country because of gun laws, it's because of many various factors (which aren't effecting your country or not to the same degree as the US). \n\n>>Just because chances are slim doesn't mean they aren't used often in the US for self defense (there are 100 million gun owners in the US after all) and you're attributing guns as being what gives a bunch of negatives to our society when that's actually crime, gangs and the factors that lead people to them (poverty, our failing \"war on drugs\", flaws in the US prison and education systems, etc.). \n>\n>Right so now you're contradicting yourself. The need for protection isnt \"statistically insignificant\" but guns are used for protection \"often\" ..... Ummm ok??!?\n\nThere's no contradiction there. Like I said, there are roughly 100 million gun owners in the US so even though an individual defending themself with a gun is very rare, it still occurs often (many times each day). \n\n>>A good portion of murder is going to be gang or other crime related (sort of obvious).\n>\n>Right so that would likely indicate that if you werent gang related your chances of homicide would be even less, and therefore even less need for protection?\n\nYes but like I said, it's not about a need for protection, it's about the right to choose to have that protection as it very well could mean the difference between life and death if one is so unfortunate as to find themself in a situatuon that calls for it. \n\n>Also... really? murder is going to be \"crime related\"? You dont say.....\n\nLol, yep. I was trying to get you to acknowledge the part which warrants the \"you don't say\". Of course if crime in general id much less prevalent in a country (because of many various factors) there's going to be much less murder in general (is what I'm getting at).",
"Then work to build consensus. Can’t amend the constitution without it. The policy changes you think are no-brainers I would probably actively work to oppose. And I have a lot of friends who would join me. Universal health care? Britain is now rationing care and people are having to go to other countries to get care. Same in Canada. Gun control? Argument has been settled. The police cannot react fast enough to protect us. Net neutrality? I am a software engineer and certified geek. This is a solution in search of a problem. You NN guys are clueless. NN gives the government the right to screw with our internet businesses. It accomplished nothing. A bunch of socialists created a fake scare to convince you that bureaucrats know better. Guarantees only work in the sense that it’s guanteeed to screw up the system. I hope corporations do profit from the internet, ISPs and phone companies. That’s the point. Where do you think the “internet” came from? How much fiber cable is the government laying in your neighborhood?",
">> There's a 32 times difference between 0.00001% and 0.00032%. Both are still extremely unlikely of occurring.\n>\n>That doesn't make it statistically insignificant.... the risk increase is a massive increase over the base risk, regardless of what the base risk is.\n\nBut that risk still doesn't matter. It's still exceedingly low. It begins to matter when you're increasing the risk such as with the stroke example. Smoking at least doubling your chance of stroke (from 16.67% to 33.34%) **makes a real difference**. Something increasing a risk from 0.00001% to 0.00032% (32 times) **still doesn't matter.**\n\n> What you seem to be confusing is that fact that the actual risk is still very low. That doesn't change the fact that for some reason the US is significantly less safe than anywhere else in the developed world. \n\nBecause the US is very different than other first world nations. The US (the third largest country in the world by population) isn't an isolated island nation (or only boardering other first world nations). The US boarders a third world nation filled with cartels and those cartels throughout Central and South America are funneling drugs etc. into the wealth market up north that is the US. This coupled with our failing \"war on drugs\" (that only serves to fuel it) and the US specify flaws in our prison system and education system as well as the prevanlence of poverty unique to the US (as a first world nation) all contribute to the prevalence of gangs, organized crime, and other crime in the US (which is unlike anything seen by other first world nations). \n\nThere are many clear reasons how the US is different.\n\n>This seems counter intuitive when the argument that guns keep you safe gets thrown around so much. If that was the case, given the prevalence of firearms in the US as opposed to the rest of the world, you'd expect the risk to be significantly less.... but it clearly isnt.\n\n??? Guns aren't the only factor, quit acting like they are. \n\nIt's not that guns make a country (as a whole) safer, less criminal activity does that. It's that being armed makes an individual safer as it gives them options they wouldn't have otherwise if they ever were so unlucky to find themself in a life or death situation (which doesn't hinge on the perpetrator being armed with a gun, you know). \n\n>>Not when it's in the hundreds of thousands of a percent.\n>\n>That's not how stats work. The significance of the increase isnt related to the raw value. \n\nYes it is. That's why a 2 times increase of stroke (from 16.67% to 33.34%) **makes a real difference** while something increasing a risk 32 times from 0.00001% to 0.00032% **still doesn't matter.**\n\n>You have a low risk of being murdered, pretty much everywhere in the developed world. The fact that risk is 5 times higher in the USA than nearest comparable developed country is significant. \n\nAnd it's because of many various factors including the ones I discuss above. It's not all about guns. ",
"> But that risk still doesn't matter. It's still exceedingly low. It begins to matter when you're increasing the risk such as with the stroke example. Smoking at least doubling your chance of stroke (from 16.67% to 33.34%) makes a real difference. Something increasing a risk from 0.00001% to 0.00032% (32 times) still doesn't matter.\n\nSo you're saying the idea that you need a gun to protect yourself is idiotic? \n\nI'd agree\n\n>Because the US is very different than other first world nations. The US (the third largest country in the world by population) isn't an isolated island nation (or only boardering other first world nations). The US boarders a third world nation filled with cartels and those cartels throughout Central and South America are funneling drugs etc. into the wealth market up north that is the US. This coupled with our failing \"war on drugs\" (that only serves to fuel it) and the US specify flaws in our prison system and education system as well as the prevanlence of poverty unique to the US (as a first world nation) all contribute to the prevalence of gangs, organized crime, and other crime in the US (which is unlike anything seen by other first world nations).\n\nThe same can be said for most countries in europe. Poverty isnt unique to the USA, Nor are gangs or organised crime\n\nThe only true thing you've said is the levels of crime in the US are unlike anywhere in the developed world.... Which is weird... because guns keep you safe right.... yet here you are\n\n\n>There are many clear reasons how the US is different.\n\nAre there? Maybe try clearly articulating one of them.\n\n>??? Guns aren't the only factor, quit acting like they are. \n\nNot saying they are, but they sure as hell dont help. \n\n\n>It's not that guns make a country (as a whole) safer, less criminal activity does that. It's that being armed makes an individual safer as it gives them options they wouldn't have otherwise if they ever were so unlucky to find themself in a life or death situation (which doesn't hinge on the perpetrator being armed with a gun, you know). \n\nWhich makes no sense, given your levels of crime are so high and your gun ownership is so high. Yet places with lower gun ownership and laws against the use of them dont have the same problems. \n\nBut sure, lets go with the USA is a unique snowflake \n\n>Yes it is. That's why a 2 times increase of stroke (from 16.67% to 33.34%) makes a real difference while something increasing a risk 32 times from 0.00001% to 0.00032% still doesn't matter.\n\nWe dont have enough space and i dont have the inclination to explain to you why the increase in risk is significant even if the risk itself isnt.\n\n>And it's because of many various factors including the ones I discuss above. It's not all about guns. \n\nWhat makes you say that?\n\nWhat if i said to you, the chance of being murdered with anything other than a gun in the US and NZ was about the same. It was when you added firearm murders that the risk increased by a factor of 32?\n\nIt would seem the impact your gun laws have is significant in that statistic.",
">>And a large truck (like what was used in the Nice, France attack that killed 86 innocent people) has a much lower skill and cost threshold, your point?\n>\n>Renting a truck requires ID, and a significant outlay in cash.\n\n(or just theft)\n\n>its also situational. In order to kill the max number of people you need them packed tight, and with no significant barriers to the truck. The fact is people are going to try and kill people no matter what, its easy to only focus on mass shootings but in the end the number of people killed in the USA is disgusting for a supposedly first world country. Factor in the number of suicides and its even worse. The mass shootings are a nice media distraction from the actual issue.\n\nAnd that's an entirely different issue all together. The US has a lot of issues ans they aren't all stemming from guns you know.\n\n>>What restrictions, bans, etc. would do anything to stop mass shooters? \n>\n>you're never going to stop all people who want to kill people. And lets face it, focusing on the guns only is pointless. I can access 80-90% of the accessible semi-auto/bolt action weapons that you can in the USA. Yet we don't have even close to the same firearms issues you guys do. Why?\n\nBecause your country largely lacks many of the various issues the US has which contributes to our much higher prevanlence of gang and other criminal activity? \n\n>because we focus on the person and we require people to be responsible for their firearms. (we also don't have that, \"ah shoot the bad guy\" mentality that Americans have either but thats a generational+ change) \n\nYeah... I'm not buying that as the reason. \n\nAlso, the US does requires people to be responsible for their firearms and I don't see how that supposed mentality has anything to do with it.\n\n>Anyways you can attempt to make sure people are responsible for their actions. How do you do that? Well licensing is a great start. Before you can get a firearm in NZ, you need to attend a safety course, sit an exam to prove you know how to use a firearm. Once you pass that, you can apply for a firearms license. When you apply you can apply for a A cat (bolt action or semi auto/sub 5 round mag) AND or get endorsements for Pistols (B) MSSA (E) (large magazines etc) or Collectors (C) (full auto) You can actually buy suppressors and magazines without any license.\n>\n>To get your A-cat, you have a full police check, you supply 2 references one of which has to be your partner. They interview your reference, then they come to your house and interview you, and then your partner to make sure everything cool. At the same time they check you have a safe to safely store your weapons. The requirements for A cat are bugger all. E and B cat require a decent 6mm steel safe bolted to 2 surfaces (wall and floor) additionally (for E and B) you need to supply 2 more people as references. \n>\n>We focus on making sure the person who can access firearms is a \"fit and proper\" person. We also have mandatory reporting of theft/loss of firearms, registration of e and b cat.\n\nA lot of it is entirely unfeasible in the US (as a country that's 70 times larger than NZ, isn't an isolated island nation, already has more than 300 million guns and a hundred million guns owners, etc.). \n\n**What works for New Zealand is not having the various factors that effect the US and thus not having anywhere near the same prevalence of gangs and other criminal activity. When you largely lack people like that to begin with, you don't have those issues.**\n\nLook at the Orlando shooter, he had two extensive background checks, a medical evaluation that certified he had no condition that would preclude him from performind duties in an armed capacity, and had to register proof of identify, citizenship and fingerprints. He also had to take over 60 hours of gun training and was required to renew is license every year. \n\nSafety training and training on how the guns work is all fine and good but still the majority of the 500 fatal firearm accident each year (remember, that's out of 100 million gun owners) are out of negligence, not a lack of safety or firearms knowledge. Just saying.\n\n>If you control the supply of firearms and continually seize illegal firearms slowly but surely the market for illegal firearms dries up. \n\nIn NZ maybe but the US is very different for many major reasons (as I've already made clear). \n\n>Honestly i think the main cause of Americas gun issues is the mentality around guns. In NZ you cant shoot someone to robbing you, or breaking into your house. Its one of the questions they ask you when you apply for a license. Self defense as an answer for why you want a gun, is grounds for denying the application. \n\nHow is that at all is that a \"main cause of Americas gun issue\"? Can you even explain how that would be the cause?!\n\nThe main cause is the US' prevalence of gangs and crime, not the notion of believing in self defense. \n\nThe greatest utility of firearms is as an equalizing force. Even a little old ladies can adequately defend herself from a large intruder (one she wouldn't be able to defend against even if he was unarmed) if she's armed with a gun. They're the most effective tool for self defense.",
"> Yes but we're talking specifically about difference in gun laws and difference in amount of gun crime in different countries. \n\nYou might be, but thats not the point i was making at the time you butted into an existing conversation.\n\n>What the difference in total murder rate (including a good deal of non-firearm related murders for both) shows is that there's just a lot less crime in general in your country (and that's my point). There isn't lower rates of crime in your country because of gun laws, it's because of many various factors (which aren't effecting your country or not to the same degree as the US). \n\nthe funny thing is, non-firearm related intentional homicide rates between the US and the rest of the developed world are very similar... its the gun murders that make it look like a 3rd world country. So given that fact how do you explain that?\n\n>There's no contradiction there. Like I said, there are roughly 100 million gun owners in the US so even though an individual defending themself with a gun is very rare, it still occurs often (many times each day). \n\nI'm sorry, but im calling bullshit on that unless you can provide a single shred of evidence to support it.\n\n>Yes but like I said, it's not about a need for protection, it's about the right to choose to have that protection as it very well could mean the difference between life and death if one is so unfortunate as to find themself in a situatuon that calls for it. \n\nI need to protect myself from a tyranical government... and the bad hombres with guns.... but its not about protection. Which is it?\n\n>Lol, yep. I was trying to get you to acknowledge the part which warrants the \"you don't say\". Of course if crime in general id much less prevalent in a country (because of many various factors) there's going to be much less murder in general (is what I'm getting at).\n\nWeird, we have higher rates of some crimes than the US... you have higher Murders..... But its you have more crime in general? \n\nWait what? You're talking out your arse. \n",
"> (or just theft)\n\nThe same can be said for firearms.... given your non-existent storage laws and lack of mandatory reporting it would seem much easier to steal a firearm in the US than a truck. \n\nA) Smash window when /u/TrilobiteTerror is out, steal gun from nightstand\n\nb) Find truck, break in. Defeat immobilizer, google how to hotwire truck... profit??\n\n>A lot of it is entirely unfeasible in the US (as a country that's 70 times larger than NZ, isn't an isolated island nation, already has more than 300 million guns and a hundred million guns owners, etc.). \n\nWhy exactly? Why does not being an island nation make licensing gun owners unfeasible? That makes absolutely no sense. Would it be tricky? sure, take time? sure, Is it better than doing nothing? definitely\n\n>What works for New Zealand is not having the various factors that effect the US and thus not having anywhere near the same prevalence of gangs and other criminal activity. When you largely lack people like that to begin with, you don't have those issues.\n\nit doesnt just work here.... everywhere else in the developed world. Sure we dont have the population you do or the urbanisation. But plenty of other developed nations do and still dont have the problems. Its easy to make excuses for behaviours.... \n\n>Look at the Orlando shooter, he had two extensive background checks, a medical evaluation that certified he had no condition that would preclude him from performind duties in an armed capacity, and had to register proof of identify, citizenship and fingerprints. He also had to take over 60 hours of gun training and was required to renew is license every year. \n\nRight so because it didn't work for 46 of the 33,000+ gun deaths you have a year... that means do nothing? Can you even register how stupid saying that is? Also interesting something you less than a paragraph ago said was completely infeasible for the US... appears to be happening in the US.\n\n\n>Safety training and training on how the guns work is all fine and good but still the majority of the 500 fatal firearm accident each year (remember, that's out of 100 million gun owners) are out of negligence, not a lack of safety or firearms knowledge. Just saying.\n\nGreat... So, remind me again why trying to fix that is a bad idea?\n\n>In NZ maybe but the US is very different for many major reasons (as I've already made clear). \n\nWhat is it about the US that makes a pretty basic principal not work? If you choke supply, there are less things.... \n\n>How is that at all is that a \"main cause of Americas gun issue\"? Can you even explain how that would be the cause?!\nThe main cause is the US' prevalence of gangs and crime, not the notion of believing in self defense.\nThe greatest utility of firearms is as an equalizing force. Even a little old ladies can adequately defend herself from a large intruder (one she wouldn't be able to defend against even if he was unarmed) if she's armed with a gun. They're the most effective tool for self defense.\n\n\nThe fact you think the important thing is this is your right to shoot someone. My point would be, why not look at why and how people are trying to kill you? Like i said. non-firearm related deaths in the US are almost identical to the rest of the world. When you factor in firearm related deaths you surge ahead..... but shit, totally not related to your lax attitude to guns \n\n",
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">> A better question is how would any of that help and whether or not it could be implemented in the US? We already have firearm licencing (must be of legal age and pass a background check). Mandatory firearms loss reporting is likely to happen in a crime report anyway and is otherwise unenforceable. An electronic gun registration is infeasible for a country with well over 300 million guns that is boardering a third world nation filled with cartels (instead of being an isolated island nation).\n>\n>9 states require background checks, 2 more have them but only for handguns, 11 states + Washington DC have mandatory loss/theft reporting\n\n\"Nine states (California, Colorado,Connecticut, Delaware, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island,Washington) and DC require **universal background checks at the point of sale for all sales and transfers of all classes of firearms, whether they are purchased from a licensed dealer or an unlicensed seller**.\"\n\nFederally, all dealers have to perform a background check, fill out paperwork etc. whenever they sell a firearm.\n\nUniversal background checks are different as they apply to private sales and most states don't require background checks on private sales as it's unenforceable. It's already illegal to sell a gun to someone who can't legally purchase/own one so laws requiring private sales to perform background checks also lacks any utility that doesn't already exist (someone who's caught selling to someone who can't pass a background check will still get charged, just as they would if private sale background checks were mandatory and they were caught selling without a background check to someone who can't pass a background check.). Because of that, if it's a lawful seller and they're selling to someone they don't know, they usually perform a background check even if it's not technically required for private sales.\n\n>> What? Again with the assumptions that it's guns that are the cause of the US higher crime rates (not all the other important factors that differentiate the US from other first world nations).\n>\n>So specifically what is it about the US thats unique among developed nations?\n\nAs I said in other comments, unlike other first world nations, the US (the third largest country in the world by population) isn't an isolated island nation (or only boardering other first world nations). The US boarders a third world nation filled with cartels and those cartels throughout Central and South America are funneling drugs etc. into the wealth market up north that is the US. This coupled with our failing \"war on drugs\" (that only serves to fuel it) and the US specify flaws in our prison system and education system as well as the prevanlence of poverty (unique to the US as a first world nation) all contribute to the prevalence of gangs, organized crime, and other crime in the US (which is unlike anything seen by other first world nations).\n\n>>It's more that there's a problem with crime and gang prevalence in the US because of many different factors (the shear size of the US, poverty prevanlence, the geographic location, failing \"war on drugs\", flaws in the education system and prison system, flaws in how mental health etc. is handled, etc.). And even then, gun crime is pretty localized in the US to more impoverished and highly populated areas where there is more gang and organized crime activity (regardless of the strictness of the gun laws).\n>\n>Its weird how Americans seem to think that gangs cause the problems and no where else has gangs.\n\nGangs and other organized crime **do** cause a lot of problems in the US and it's not that no where else has gangs, it's that gangs etc. are much more prevalent in the US. \n\n>>There are many areas in the US with lax gun laws (and high gun ownership) and still exceedingly low gun crime rates (because they also lack the criminal activity and factors that lead to it).\n>\n>I would love to see stats to back that up.\n\n(From one of my past comments)\n\n[Just look at how much murder rates vary simply by state.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_the_United_States_by_state).\n\nYou can see that areas such as DC (which has the [strictest gun control in the US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/)) has the highest murder rate with 24.2 per 100k. This is followed by Louisiana (10.3) and Mississippi (8.7) which both have less strict gun control ([ranked 17th and 18th in US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/))\nand this is followed by Maryland (8.6) which, like DC, has very strict gun control too [ranked 44th in terms of least restrictive in US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/). \nHow strict gun control is varies widely between these states so what's the common factor? It's the prevalence of crime, gangs, and their causes such as poverty! These states (and the others at the top of this list) have some of the largest crime and gang problems in the country (regardless of how strict their gun laws are).\n\nIf you look at the other end of the scale, you'll see that New Hampshire ([which has the 10th least restrictive gun laws in the nation](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/)) has a murder rate of 1.1 per 100k. This is followed by Hawaii (1.3) [47th least restrictive](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/) (which is obviously its own case since it's an isolated series of islands). Following this is Vermont (1.6) [which has the 2nd least restrictive gun laws in the US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/), Maine (1.7) which is the [29th least restrictive](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/), and Utah (1.8 per 100k) [which has the 4th least restrictive gun laws in the US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/).\n\nAll of these are fairly weathy states with a lot less prevalence of crime and gangs (regardless of how strict their gun laws are). \n\nThere are many states and areas in the US that have very high gun ownership and very relaxed gun laws yet they continue to see very little crime compared to other areas of the country. \n \nThe problem lies with the presence of gangs and crime itself (and the factors that contribute to it), not the mere presence of guns. \n\nAlso, crime in general has decreases massively in the US in the last 20 years ([violent crime rates are down 50% from 1993 to 2015](http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/21/5-facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/)). This is in spite of millions and millions more guns being produced and sold and gun ownership becoming more common and less restricted in general. Various strict gun laws have become over turned and [concealed carry has become much more common as laws against it have been over turned](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States) ([See this gif in the history section](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rtc.gif)).\n\n>>Where I live it's the same. It's all very unlikely and many people don't feel any need to contemplate it. But since I'm a fully free citizens, my natural right to still have a precaution and way to effectively defend myself isn't infringe upon. It's my choice. It's a rare occurance but for those who have had to defend themselves with a gun in the past, they're glad they had it. \n>\n>Thats fundamentally the issue though... that mentality effectively causes the issue that it protects you from in the first place. \n\nWhat? How does believing in effective self defense cause the issue?\n\n>Either way, gun control doesnt mean you dont have guns. I live in a country with strict gun control and have guns.... \n\nI realize that but the main thing your countries strict gun control does is prevent a law abiding person from using their guns for one of the most fundamental and important uses of a gun... defense.\n\n>>No matter how safe your country or area may seem, there are always people with a desire to harm others. Even in a country with extremely low crime rates, there are still people who die horrible, agonizing deaths and worst at the hands of others for no good reason. \n>\n>Completely true. But the reality is, for the extremely rare cases when that happens, most (well here at least) are killed by a family member, or killed by a criminal associate. \n\nYes but it still does happen and many people would rather have the possibility to do something to save their life (and potentially save their loved one's lives) in that extremely rare situation than be all but defenseless. \n\n>>??? For one, a robber won't know if you're armed because most people concealed carry. A robber isn't likely at all to target someone they know is armed as there are plenty of probably unarmed people to choose from and it's not worth the risk. \n>\n>Most long term studies dont back that up. \n\n? That a robber is less likely to risk their life attacking someone they know is able to fight back? Robbers etc. choose people they think they can over power/get what they want from. They aren't looking for a *worthy adversary*. That's common sense.\n\n(This is getting too long so I'll be continuing my reply to you in my reply to this comment)",
"> \"Nine states (California, Colorado,Connecticut, Delaware, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island,Washington) and DC require universal background checks at the point of >.....\n\n>they usually perform a background check even if it's not technically required for private sales.\n\n\nWhich is a great start... but 9 states is fuck all and the check is completely inadequate. On top of that, you can bypass most of that with private sales. Or even just driving to a less restrictive state.\n\n>As I said in other comments, unlike other first world nations, the US (the third largest country in the world by population) isn't an isolated island nation (or only boardering crime in the US (which is unlike anything seen by other first world nations).\n\n\nSooner of later you have to start taking responsibility for your actions rather than trying to blame them on everyone else. Europe has porous borders, a vast amount of drugs coming in from north africa and none of the problems you have. \n\nStop trying to pretend you're special, it doesnt make sense.\n\n> the rant about murder rates differ per state\n\nYeah great. You seem to miss the fact that gun control you can drive around isnt very effective. Take DC. yeah strict controls. an hour or less and you're in two states where you can bypass those restrictions and drive back... Wow, wonder why that doesnt work.\n\n\n>What? How does believing in effective self defense cause the issue?\n\n>I realize that but the main thing your countries strict gun control does is prevent a law abiding person from using their guns for one of the most fundamental and important uses of a gun... defense.\n\nFundamentally the reason why you cant wrap your head around this, is why you're always going to be in the position you're in. Slowly tearing a country apart from the inside.\n\n>Yes but it still does happen and many people would rather have the possibility to do something to save their life (and potentially save their loved one's lives) in that extremely rare situation than be all but defenseless. \n\nBut last time you said pulling your gun would escalate the situation. The reality is the way americans treat guns and their attitudes to self defense make their country less safe. The reality is like you said the chances of something happening are very low, all you do is make it a lot more common for when it does happen the criminal will be armed. You can still have your weird ideas about shooting people and gun control... its a false dilemma \n\n\n>? That a robber is less likely to risk their life attacking someone they know is able to fight back? Robbers etc. choose people they think they can over power/get what they want from. They aren't looking for a worthy adversary. That's common sense.\n\nWho knows, you don't see a correlation with decreasing violence and robberies in states with more guns so it would seem unlikely its much of a deterrent. I guess its a mindset, to me the idea of shooting someone who is trying to steal my TV is ludicrous. Who gives a shit, thats what insurance is for, its not worth my life or anyone elses. \n\n\n",
"(Continueing from comment above)\n\n>Ten years after the adoption of RTC laws, violent crime is estimated to be 13-15% percent higher than it would have been without the RTC law\n>\n>http://www.nber.org/papers/w23510\n\nSo let me get this straight:\n\n\"[But researchers used an unusual method to imagine what crime trends would have looked like in right-to-carry states had they not adopted those policies. The researchers built fictional, or “synthetic,” states as near-identical counterparts to the 33 that passed right-to-carry laws between 1981 and 2014. Using the states’ crime rates prior to the laws’ adoption, as well as national crime data from before and after, they created an algorithm to estimate what trends would have been prevalent had these areas never passed right-to-carry. The researchers then compared crime in the real states with findings from their synthetic versions.](\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/right-to-carry-gun-violence/531297/)\"\n\n\"[“Ten years after the adoption of RTC laws, violent crime is estimated to be 13 percent to 15 percent higher than it would have been without the RTC law,” the authors concluded. Just five years after, it’s about 7 percent higher. “There is not even the slightest hint in the data that [these] laws reduce violent crime,” they write.](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/right-to-carry-gun-violence/531297/)\"\n\n\"[I spoke with one of the lead authors, Stanford Law School economist John J. Donohue III—who personally supports stricter gun-control laws—about the report and its implications.](\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/right-to-carry-gun-violence/531297/)\"\n\nWow, so the openly biased towards stricter gun control economist John J. Dinohue III conducted simulations of states (which means controlling for endless variables) to **estimate** what the violent crime trends for those states would have been 10 years after RTC was passed if the states they're based on hadn't passed it. \n\nSo based on his simulation which was was able to extrapolate out to ten years (all while somehow being able to control for all the endless factors that would effect the results) he was able to **estimate a whole 0.13 to 0.15 difference** in where crime rates are now and where his simulation says crime rates would have been if RTC hadn't been passed. \n\nSuch conclusive, indisputable results\n /s.\n\nNever mind the fact that with over 16 million permit holders across 50 states, no state has ever held a legislative hearing to consider rescinding right-to-carry laws.\n\n>>For the most part, in most robbery situations it's best to just given them your wallet etc. and not risk escalating the situation and putting yourself in more dangerous. It's only when the situation is right and/or has escalated itself that you fall back on the options that being armed gives you.\n>\n>Yet you're advocating weapons for protection.... If someone comes up to you with a gun, how are you suppose to know they are going to rob you (and therefore you shouldnt defend yourself) or there to kill you?\n\nIt's on a situation by situation basis. Situations vary endlessly, a person has to use reason to try to determine the best course of action in each situation.\nIf the perpetrator just says to give them your wallet etc. you're probably just getting robbed. If they tell you they're going to kill you and order you to get on your knees, you're probably going to have to fight for your life. If they demand more than you would ever want to give, you'll know you have to fight for your life.\n\nIt's not difficult to see how someone could tell when a situation goes from bad to worst.",
">> But that risk still doesn't matter. It's still exceedingly low. It begins to matter when you're increasing the risk such as with the stroke example. Smoking at least doubling your chance of stroke (from 16.67% to 33.34%) makes a real difference. Something increasing a risk from 0.00001% to 0.00032% (32 times) still doesn't matter.\n>\n>So you're saying the idea that you need a gun to protect yourself is idiotic? \n>\n>I'd agree\n\nThat wasn't what we were discussing there at all, you first thought a 10x lower murder rate was meaningful when it was a difference between a 0.00001% chance and a 0.0001% chance and then you started saying 32 times lower and I explained how 0.00001% chance and 0.00032% chance still isn't meaningful. \n\nAll that said, that's not even the true murder rate of New Zealand. \n\n[New Zealand has a murder rate of 0.91 per 100,000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate) and the [US has a murder rate of 4.88 per 100,000.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate)\n\nSo New Zealand's murder rate is 5.36 times lower than the US' (and the US isn't an small isolated island nation and has a lot more gang and criminal activity in general than NZ). \n\nAlso, as you pointed out before, New Hampshire ([which has the 10th least restrictive gun laws in the nation](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/)) has a murder rate of 1.1 per 100k. **So even though New Hampshire has pretty unrestrictive gun laws, it has almost the same murder rate as New Zealand (because like New Zealand, it largely lacks crime in general which is the true issue).**\n\nAlso like I said, it isn't about a need of of being armed (the chance of being in a situation like that is extremely low), it's about having to ability to choose to be prepared if you were ever so unfortunate to find yourself in that situation. It's better to have it and not need it than to ever find yourself in a life threatening situation and need it but not have it. \n\nIf I never have to defend myself with a gun than that's all the better but if I even happen to be unlucky enough to be in a situation that calls for it, being armed gives me options that I wouldn't have otherwise that could save my life and possibly others. \n\nAs a free, law abiding citizens, my choices aren't based soley on needs or relative likelihoods. \n\n>>Because the US is very different than other first world nations. The US (the third largest country in the world by population) isn't an isolated island nation (or only boardering other first world nations). The US boarders a third world nation filled with cartels and those cartels throughout Central and South America are funneling drugs etc. into the wealth market up north that is the US. This coupled with our failing \"war on drugs\" (that only serves to fuel it) and the US specify flaws in our prison system and education system as well as the prevanlence of poverty unique to the US (as a first world nation) all contribute to the prevalence of gangs, organized crime, and other crime in the US (which is unlike anything seen by other first world nations).\n>\n>The same can be said for most countries in europe. Poverty isnt unique to the USA, Nor are gangs or organised crime\n\nDid you read what I said? No, the same can't be said for countries in Europe. I'm talking about **prevanlence** of poverty and the resulting gangs and other crime. The prevalence (stemming from the multiple US specific factors I discussed there) are what's unique to the US as a first world nation.\n\n>The only true thing you've said is the levels of crime in the US are unlike anywhere in the developed world.... Which is weird... because guns keep you safe right.... yet here you are\n\nGuns can be used to protect an individual, I never made any claims about them lowering crime rates (what I did show is that they can be plentiful and with non restrictive gun laws in an area and the area still have a very low crime). Also, I explained the US specific factors that fuel that prevalence of gangs and other crime which make the US much different than other first world nations.\n\n>>There are many clear reasons how the US is different.\n>\n>Are there? Maybe try clearly articulating one of them.\n\nNow you're just being obtuse. I outlines the major differences pretty clearly in that paragraph above.\n\n>>It's not that guns make a country (as a whole) safer, less criminal activity does that. It's that being armed makes an individual safer as it gives them options they wouldn't have otherwise if they ever were so unlucky to find themself in a life or death situation (which doesn't hinge on the perpetrator being armed with a gun, you know). \n>\n>Which makes no sense, given your levels of crime are so high\n\n(5.36 times higher than NZ (as the whole of the US) or about the same (1.1 vs .91) as NZ for New Hampshire which has the 10th least restrictive gun laws in the country)\n\n>and your gun ownership is so high. Yet places with lower gun ownership and laws against the use of them dont have the same problems. \n\nBecause of a fundamental lack of crime in general compared to the US because of a fundamental lack of the main driving forces of crime. As I showed before, crime in the US follows poverty and those driving factors, not gun prevalence or how unrestrictive gun laws are. (see previous paragraphs about state murder rates vs how restrictive their gun laws are).\n\n>But sure, lets go with the USA is a unique snowflake \n\nAs I showed before, there's a lot about the US that is unique for a first world nation.\n\n>>And it's because of many various factors including the ones I discuss above. It's not all about guns. \n>\n>What makes you say that?\n>\n>What if i said to you, the chance of being murdered with anything other than a gun in the US and NZ was about the same. It was when you added firearm murders that the risk increased by a factor of 32?\n>\n>It would seem the impact your gun laws have is significant in that statistic.\n\nAnd now we're back to the first part of this comment where I showed how that was wrong. As a whole, [NZ actually has just a 5.36 times lower murder rate than the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate) and in comparison to New Hampshire (which has the 10th least restrictive gun laws in the US) has nearly the same murder rate (1.1 vs .91). ",
">>What the difference in total murder rate (including a good deal of non-firearm related murders for both) shows is that there's just a lot less crime in general in your country (and that's my point). There isn't lower rates of crime in your country because of gun laws, it's because of many various factors (which aren't effecting your country or not to the same degree as the US). \n>\n>the funny thing is, non-firearm related intentional homicide rates between the US and the rest of the developed world are very similar... its the gun murders that make it look like a 3rd world country. So given that fact how do you explain that?\n\nPrevalence of gangs and other crime (and prevalence of factors that contribute to it like poverty) that are more similar to that of third world nations than to that of other first world nations. \n\nIt's not difficult to see that guns aren't the. determining factor.\n\n[Just look at how much murder rates vary simply by state.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_the_United_States_by_state).\n\nYou can see that areas such as DC (which has the [strictest gun control in the US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/)) has the highest murder rate with 24.2 per 100k. This is followed by Louisiana (10.3) and Mississippi (8.7) which both have less strict gun control ([ranked 17th and 18th in US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/))\nand this is followed by Maryland (8.6) which, like DC, has very strict gun control too [ranked 44th in terms of least restrictive in US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/). \nHow strict gun control is varies widely between these states so what's the common factor? It's the prevalence of crime, gangs, and their causes such as poverty! These states (and the others at the top of this list) have some of the largest crime and gang problems in the country (regardless of how strict their gun laws are).\n\nIf you look at the other end of the scale, you'll see that New Hampshire ([which has the 10th least restrictive gun laws in the nation](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/)) has a murder rate of 1.1 per 100k. This is followed by Hawaii (1.3) [47th least restrictive](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/) (which is obviously its own case since it's an isolated series of islands). Following this is Vermont (1.6) [which has the 2nd least restrictive gun laws in the US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/), Maine (1.7) which is the [29th least restrictive](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/), and Utah (1.8 per 100k) [which has the 4th least restrictive gun laws in the US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/).\n\nAll of these are fairly weathy states with a lot less prevalence of crime and gangs (regardless of how strict their gun laws are). \n\nThere are many states and areas in the US that have very high gun ownership and very relaxed gun laws yet they continue to see very little crime compared to other areas of the country. \n \nThe problem lies with the presence of gangs and crime itself (and the factors that contribute to it), not the mere presence of guns. \n\n>>There's no contradiction there. Like I said, there are roughly 100 million gun owners in the US so even though an individual defending themself with a gun is very rare, it still occurs often (many times each day). \n>\n>I'm sorry, but im calling bullshit on that unless you can provide a single shred of evidence to support it.\n\n[Here is a large list of cases where mass public shootings have been prevented or stopped by an armed civilian.](https://crimeresearch.org/2016/09/uber-driver-in-chicago-stops-mass-public-shooting/)\n\n[\"Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010).\"](https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/3#15)\n\n>>Yes but like I said, it's not about a need for protection, it's about the right to choose to have that protection as it very well could mean the difference between life and death if one is so unfortunate as to find themself in a situatuon that calls for it. \n>\n>I need to protect myself from a tyranical government... and the bad hombres with guns.... but its not about protection. Which is it?\n\nWhat? I'm saying it's not a about a **need**, it's about the **right to choose**. \n\n>>Lol, yep. I was trying to get you to acknowledge the part which warrants the \"you don't say\". Of course if crime in general is much less prevalent in a country (because of many various factors) there's going to be much less murder in general (is what I'm getting at).\n>\n>Weird, we have higher rates of some crimes than the US... you have higher Murders..... But its you have more crime in general? \n\nYes. In general means \"as a whole\" or \"usually\". Sure NZ can have higher rates of very specific crimes but as a whole, the US has higher violent crime rates than NZ. \n\n>Wait what? You're talking out your arse. \n\nNo, you just are having difficulties understanding. ",
">> (or just theft)\n>\n>The same can be said for firearms.... given your non-existent storage laws and lack of mandatory reporting it would seem much easier to steal a firearm in the US than a truck. \n\nNot when your consider than firearms aren't left sitting out in the street or parking lot.\n\n>A) Smash window when /u/TrilobiteTerror is out, steal gun from nightstand\n\nLike most responsible gun owners who have common sense, I don't need laws to tell me leaving guns on my nightstand is a bad idea. \n\n>>A lot of it is entirely unfeasible in the US (as a country that's 70 times larger than NZ, isn't an isolated island nation, already has more than 300 million guns and a hundred million guns owners, etc.). \n>\n>Why exactly? Why does not being an island nation make licensing gun owners unfeasible? \n\nThat's the 300 million guns and hundred million gun owners part (for the level and type of licensing there is in NZ, not licensing in general because the US already has that). It's convenient how you only saw the \"island nation\" part there. Man, my argument there sure would be shaky if I hadn't included that rrelevant stuff you ignored. \n\n>That makes absolutely no sense. Would it be tricky? sure, take time? sure, Is it better than doing nothing? definitely\n\nIt's not between that and nothing, it's between doing nearly unfeasible and poorly suited things (which will ultimately have little positive effect for the US) versus targeting the direct causes of our problems (poverty prevanlence, failing \"war on drugs\", major flaws in the US prison and education systems, etc.). \n\n>>What works for New Zealand is not having the various factors that effect the US and thus not having anywhere near the same prevalence of gangs and other criminal activity. When you largely lack people like that to begin with, you don't have those issues.\n>\n>it doesnt just work here.... everywhere else in the developed world. Sure we dont have the population you do or the urbanisation. But plenty of other developed nations do and still dont have the problems. Its easy to make excuses for behaviours.... \n\nYeah, other first world nations don't have the various factors that effect the US and thus don't have anywhere near the same prevalence of gangs and other criminal activity either.\n\n>>Look at the Orlando shooter, he had two extensive background checks, a medical evaluation that certified he had no condition that would preclude him from performind duties in an armed capacity, and had to register proof of identify, citizenship and fingerprints. He also had to take over 60 hours of gun training and was required to renew is license every year. \n>\n>Right so because it didn't work for 46 of the 33,000+ gun deaths you have a year... that means do nothing? Can you even register how stupid saying that is? \n\nCan you even register how intentionally misleading it is to include those suicide numbers when I was discussing not just firearm homicide numbers (generally a total around 8k a year in the US) but the much, much smaller and more specific mass shooting death numbers?\n\nThe point is that it had no effect at preventing the **2nd** most deadly US mass shooting in history (and it wouldn't have prevented the 1st most deadly mass shooting in US history either since the shooter was a very wealthy person who had the means to easily get whatever he wanted). \n\n>Also interesting something you less than a paragraph ago said was completely infeasible for the US... appears to be happening in the US.\n\n...because the shooter **worked for a security company**... \n\nTrying to do all of that for each of the other roughly 100 million gun owners and, well...\n\n>>Safety training and training on how the guns work is all fine and good but still the majority of the 500 fatal firearm accident each year (remember, that's out of 100 million gun owners) are out of negligence, not a lack of safety or firearms knowledge. Just saying.\n>\n>Great... So, remind me again why trying to fix that is a bad idea?\n\nIt's not that trying to fix that is a bad idea, it's that the problem is some people are just negligent and it won't fix the problem. \n\n>>In NZ maybe but the US is very different for many major reasons (as I've already made clear). \n>\n>What is it about the US that makes a pretty basic principal not work? If you choke supply, there are less things.... \n\nTrying to choke a supply thats over 300 million strong and can't be controled as easily as on a small population isolated island (where they're a lot less prevalent) that isn't directly boardering a third world nation filled with cartels already smuggling illegal goods into the country.\n\n>Like i said. non-firearm related deaths in the US are almost identical to the rest of the world. When you factor in firearm related deaths you surge ahead..... but shit, totally not related to your lax attitude to guns \n\nYeah, I make pretty clear how it isn't related to lax attitude to guns in comments like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7opovc/z/dsfgjbb).",
"I mean... good robot overlor.. I mean good bot! ",
">> \"Nine states (California, Colorado,Connecticut, Delaware, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island,Washington) and DC require universal background checks at the point of >.....\n>\n>>they usually perform a background check even if it's not technically required for private sales.\n>\n>\n>Which is a great start... but 9 states is fuck all and the check is completely inadequate. On top of that, you can bypass most of that with private sales. Or even just driving to a less restrictive state.\n\nHmmm, that's a pretty major correction I see you're side stepping without acknowledging. You tired to make it sound like only 9 states had background checks and I corrected that was for universal background checks. You also conveniently ignored all of my explanation regarding the uselessness of those universal background checks and on private sales.\n\n>>As I said in other comments, unlike other first world nations, the US (the third largest country in the world by population) isn't an isolated island nation (or only boardering crime in the US (which is unlike anything seen by other first world nations).\n>\n>Sooner of later you have to start taking responsibility for your actions rather than trying to blame them on everyone else. \n\nWhat? I'm blaming major social issues (like poverty, failing \"war on drugs\", major flaws in the education system and prison system, etc.) for the problems they cause and calling for us to find solutions to those issues.\n\n>Europe has porous borders, a vast amount of drugs coming in from north africa and none of the problems you have. \n\nBecause that's not even close to the same as in the US. There's a lot more factors.\n\n>> (the rant about murder rates differ per state)\n>\n>Yeah great. You seem to miss the fact that gun control you can drive around isnt very effective. Take DC. yeah strict controls. an hour or less and you're in two states where you can bypass those restrictions and drive back... Wow, wonder why that doesnt work.\n\nWonder why it's so high in certain areas with strict gun control **but still a whole lot lower in the nearby areas with the much less strict gun control**. \n\nIt's almost like other factors (such as poverty levels) are the cause of higher crime rates, not gun prevalence and laxed gun laws. \n\n>>What? How does believing in effective self defense cause the issue?\n>\n>>I realize that but the main thing your countries strict gun control does is prevent a law abiding person from using their guns for one of the most fundamental and important uses of a gun... defense.\n>\n>Fundamentally the reason why you cant wrap your head around this, is why you're always going to be in the position you're in. Slowly tearing a country apart from the inside.\n\nNice *actual-counter-argument* avoiding response. \n\n>>Yes but it still does happen and many people would rather have the possibility to do something to save their life (and potentially save their loved one's lives) in that extremely rare situation than be all but defenseless. \n>\n>But last time you said pulling your gun would escalate the situation.\n\nThat's all specific to the situation. You draw your gun when the situation has already escalated to where you need to immediately defend your life.\n\n>The reality is the way americans treat guns and their attitudes to self defense make their country less safe.\nThe reality is like you said the chances of something happening are very low, all you do is make it a lot more common for when it does happen the criminal will be armed. You can still have your weird ideas about shooting people and gun control... its a false dilemma \n\n\"Saying it's a reality makes it a reality and I don't have to explain why it's a reality\". (ignore all previous relevant arguments made). \n\n>>? That a robber is less likely to risk their life attacking someone they know is able to fight back? Robbers etc. choose people they think they can over power/get what they want from. They aren't looking for a worthy adversary. That's common sense.\n>\n>Who knows, you don't see a correlation with decreasing violence and robberies in states with more guns so it would seem unlikely its much of a deterrent.\n\nThis is beyond guns. Does a robber pick the big guy to try to rob or the small guy to try to rob? Their many conserns are \"am I likely to be successful in robbing this person\" and \"what could happen if I'm not\".\n\n>I guess its a mindset, to me the idea of shooting someone who is trying to steal my TV is ludicrous. Who gives a shit, thats what insurance is for, its not worth my life or anyone elses. \n\nBecause that **isn't** the mindset. You draw a gun when **you or someone else is in danger** (you use your judgement on what's best in the situation) and even then, you do realize pointing a gun at someone =/= shooting. \n\nFor the vast majority of criminals, a gun pointed at them is all that's need for them to stop or run away. ",
"> Wonder why it's so high in certain areas with strict gun control but still a whole lot lower in the nearby areas with the much less strict gun control.\n> \n> \n> \n> It's almost like other factors (such as poverty levels) are the cause of higher crime rates, not gun prevalence and laxed gun laws. \n\nBang on..... which is why it seems so weird you dont want to do anything to slow that down. \n\nSuppose its just poor, mostly black people right... who cares\n\n\n>\"Saying it's a reality makes it a reality and I don't have to explain why it's a reality\". (ignore all previous relevant arguments made). \n\nWhats to explain... You have easy access for people to get guns. Bad people are still people... therefore it is easy for bad people to get guns too. That's not rocket surgery.\n\n>Because that isn't the mindset. You draw a gun when you or someone else is in danger (you use your judgement on what's best in the situation) and even then, you do realize pointing a gun at someone =/= shooting. Because that isn't the mindset. You draw a gun when you or someone else is in danger (you use your judgement on what's best in the situation) and even then, you do realize pointing a gun at someone =/= shooting. \n\nThats the bit you seem to struggle to follow.... the fact that you think that way increases the chances you'll need to do that. It becomes self perpetuating, Much like whats happening now, Jumpy cops shooting innocent civilians because they thought they might be going for a gun. Its all a symptom of a wider problem",
"> Like most responsible gun owners who have common sense, I don't need laws to tell me leaving guns on my nightstand is a bad idea. \n\n\nThat doesnt change the fact that its perfectly legal to do so. figures put it at anywhere between 250,000 and 600,000 guns every year get stolen. If you get a weapon stolen and it wasn't secured in NZ you lose your license. \n\n\n>Yeah, I make pretty clear how it isn't related to lax attitude to guns in comments like this.\n\nThats great, but its not true. \n\n2014 \n\nAll homicides Number of deaths: 15,872 Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.0\n\nFirearm homicides Number of deaths: 11,008 Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.5\n\nThat puts your non-firearm homicides at 1.5 which in 2014 would have been close to the rest of the developed world.\n\n\n\nThe rest of your post seems to be, well its just like really hard! As far as i know really hard! hasnt really been an excuse to let people get wholesale slaughtered. But i guess its ok when its not you or someone you know \n ",
"> Yes. In general means \"as a whole\" or \"usually\". Sure NZ can have higher rates of very specific crimes but as a whole, the US has higher violent crime rates than NZ. \n\nYet you still seem to think guns make you safe.... But obviously they dont",
"> Now you're just being obtuse. I outlines the major differences pretty clearly in that paragraph above.\n\nThe only thing you keep harping on about it is this provably false idea that gangs and organised crime are unique to the USA. \n\n",
">> Wonder why it's so high in certain areas with strict gun control but still a whole lot lower in the nearby areas with the much less strict gun control.\n>> \n>> \n>> \n>> It's almost like other factors (such as poverty levels) are the cause of higher crime rates, not gun prevalence and laxed gun laws. \n>\n>Bang on..... which is why it seems so weird you dont want to do anything to slow that down. \n\n(facepalm) I've been saying this entire time that the way to truely address these issues is to address the causing factors such as poverty.\n\n>Suppose its just poor, mostly black people right... who cares\n\n**The entire time I've been saying that what should be done is address poverty, the failing \"war on drugs\" (which is doing the opposite of what was intended), and flaws in the US prison system and education system.** \n\nYou have no grounds whatsoever for those *implying me to be a racist* ad hominem statements. \n\n>>Because that isn't the mindset. You draw a gun when you or someone else is in danger (you use your judgement on what's best in the situation) and even then, you do realize pointing a gun at someone =/= shooting. Because that isn't the mindset. You draw a gun when you or someone else is in danger (you use your judgement on what's best in the situation) and even then, you do realize pointing a gun at someone =/= shooting. \n>\n>Thats the bit you seem to struggle to follow.... the fact that you think that way increases the chances you'll need to do that. It becomes self perpetuating, Much like whats happening now, Jumpy cops shooting innocent civilians because they thought they might be going for a gun. Its all a symptom of a wider problem\n\nNo, that's an entirely different issue and it's under entirely different circumstances. Cops are actively confronting people and then because they are trained more towards dominating the situation (instead of de-escalate the situation like they should be) they are shooting innocent people. \n\nAn armed civilian isn't confronting anyone, they're reacting to a confrontation and reacting to a situation the attacker is escalating.\n\nI'm finishing up my last replies and then this discussion is ending. I don't put with people when they're out of arguments and resort to ad hominems.",
">> Now you're just being obtuse. I outlines the major differences pretty clearly in that paragraph above.\n>\n>The only thing you keep harping on about it is this provably false idea that gangs and organised crime are unique to the USA. \n\nRead my comments. Gang and organized crime **prevanlence for a first world nation**. ",
">> Yes. In general means \"as a whole\" or \"usually\". Sure NZ can have higher rates of very specific crimes but as a whole, the US has higher violent crime rates than NZ. \n>\n>Yet you still seem to think guns make you safe.... But obviously they dont\n\n(Sign), you're not not even attempting to make actual constructive counter arguments anymore. It's just \"no, you're wrong\" and resorting [ad hominem statements.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7opovc/truth/dsftolp).",
">>Yeah, I make pretty clear how it isn't related to lax attitude to guns in comments like this.\n>\n>Thats great, but its not true. \n\nI even went through and showed state by state how it follows poverty and other factors, not gun prevalence or non-restrictive gun laws but go head and keep comparing the US as a whole (a country with a variety gun laws by state widely varying in how restrictive they are) to other countries which are a poor comparison to the US for multiple non-firearm related reasons.\n\n>The rest of your post seems to be, well its just like really hard! As far as i know really hard! hasnt really been an excuse to let people get wholesale slaughtered. But i guess its ok when its not you or someone you know \n\nAre you done now? It seems you've ran out of arguments because now you just have this assumption filled drivel. ",
">I even went through and showed state by state how it follows poverty and other factors, not gun prevalence or non-restrictive gun laws but go head and keep comparing the US as a whole (a country with a variety gun laws by state widely varying in how restrictive they are) to other countries which are a poor comparison to the US for multiple non-firearm related reasons.\n\n\nIt makes no sense.\n\nSo lets look at cities. St. Louis St. Louis murder rate 60.37 per 100,000 Which is apparently caused by poverty and the war on drugs and countless other excuses. \tIn mexico we have Culiacán 51.81 and Ciudad Juárez 43.63 \n\nSo you're with a sraight face suggesting the drug, gang problem and poverty in St Louis is worse than Culiacán (home of the Sinaloa cartel) and Ciudad Juárez ? Really? you're delusional\n\n>Are you done now? It seems you've ran out of arguments because now you just have this assumption filled drivel. \n\nHow is it an assumption? your response anytime i suggest firearms licensing is \"its too hard\" we have too many people, too many guns. Thats not impossible, it just takes effort",
">Are you done now? It seems you've ran out of arguments because now you just have this assumption filled drivel. \n\n\nI dont know how to break it to you, but thats not an ad hominem attack\n\n\nIf i was to say... \"The reason why you dont understand is because you're a dumb hillbilly that should have spent at much time at school as he did fucking his sister....\n\nThat would be an ad hominem\n",
"It doesnt make it any truer the more i read it ",
">>Are you done now? It seems you've ran out of arguments because now you just have this assumption filled drivel. \n>\n>\n>I dont know how to break it to you, but thats not an ad hominem attack\n\nThat wasn't the ad hominem statement, it was you saying:\n\n> \"Suppose its just poor, mostly black people right... who cares\"\n\nWhich is implying that I must be a racist. That is an ad hominem statements. \n\n>If i was to say... \"The reason why you dont understand is because you're a dumb hillbilly that should have spent at much time at school as he did fucking his sister....\n>\n>That would be an ad hominem\n\nYes, that would be an ad hominem statement.",
"Its a great way to avoid dealing with the fact that you're trying to claim US cities have bigger gang problems that known trafficking and gang hotspots in 3rd world countries... \n\nfeigned indignity is such a great response\n",
">>I even went through and showed state by state how it follows poverty and other factors, not gun prevalence or non-restrictive gun laws but go head and keep comparing the US as a whole (a country with a variety gun laws by state widely varying in how restrictive they are) to other countries which are a poor comparison to the US for multiple non-firearm related reasons.\n>\n>It makes no sense.\n\nIt makes no sense seeing that some of the states with the least restrictive gun laws still maintain the lowest murder rates in the US? \n\nIt's because there are many factors at work.\n\n>So lets look at cities. St. Louis St. Louis murder rate 60.37 per 100,000 Which is apparently caused by poverty and the war on drugs and countless other excuses. \tIn mexico we have Culiacán 51.81 and Ciudad Juárez 43.63 \n>\n>So you're with a sraight face suggesting the drug, gang problem and poverty in St Louis is worse than Culiacán (home of the Sinaloa cartel) and Ciudad Juárez ? Really? you're delusional\n\n[The murder rate for the St. Louis metropolitan area is just 10.5 per 100,000 inhabitants](https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-6)\n\nThe smaller the focus (population wise), the easier for the murder rate to be higher. If you focused on just the worst neighborhood in St. Louis, you could come up with an extremely high murder rate (say if there's 1 murder out of 100 people, that's a murder rate of 1000 per 100,000)!\n\nCuliacán has a population of over 900,000 and Ciudad Juárez has a population of over 1,391,000. The city of St. Louis has a population of about 317,000 (roughly 1/3 and 1/4 the size). \n\nOf course the Metropolitan area of St. Louis is 2,811,000 but Ciudad Juárez is able to maintain a murder rate of 43.63 per 100k (not 10.5 like St. Louis metro) despite only being half the size of the St. Louis Metropolitan area.\n\nIf you focused on a bad area of Culiacán or Ciudad Juárez that's the size of the city of St. Louis (300k), how much higher do you think that murder rate would be above 51.81 or 43.63?\n\n Now you see which area has it worst.\n\n>>Are you done now? It seems you've ran out of arguments because now you just have this assumption filled drivel. \n>\n>How is it an assumption? your response anytime i suggest firearms licensing is \"its too hard\" we have too many people, too many guns. Thats not impossible, it just takes effort\n\nThe part I was calling assumption filled drivel was when you said:\n\n>\"hasnt really been an excuse to let people get wholesale slaughtered. **But i guess its ok when its not you or someone you know**\"",
">Its a great way to avoid dealing with the fact that you're trying to claim US cities have bigger gang problems that known trafficking and gang hotspots in 3rd world countries... \n>\n>feigned indignity is such a great response\n>\n\nI see you haven't seen my response to your comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7opovc/z/dsg7plf) yet. \n\nA summary is below:\n\n>So lets look at cities. St. Louis St. Louis murder rate 60.37 per 100,000 Which is apparently caused by poverty and the war on drugs and countless other excuses. \tIn mexico we have Culiacán 51.81 and Ciudad Juárez 43.63 \n>\n>So you're with a sraight face suggesting the drug, gang problem and poverty in St Louis is worse than Culiacán (home of the Sinaloa cartel) and Ciudad Juárez ? Really? you're delusional\n\n[The murder rate for the St. Louis metropolitan area is just 10.5 per 100,000 inhabitants](https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-6)\n\nThe smaller the focus (population wise), the easier for the murder rate to be higher. If you focused on just the worst neighborhood in St. Louis, you could come up with an extremely high murder rate (say if there's 1 murder out of 100 people, that's a murder rate of 1000 per 100,000)!\n\nCuliacán has a population of over 900,000 and Ciudad Juárez has a population of over 1,391,000. The city of St. Louis has a population of about 317,000 (roughly 1/3 and 1/4 the size). \n\nOf course the Metropolitan area of St. Louis is 2,811,000 but Ciudad Juárez is able to maintain a murder rate of 43.63 per 100k (not 10.5 like St. Louis metro) despite only being half the size of the St. Louis Metropolitan area.\n\nIf you focused on a bad area of Culiacán or Ciudad Juárez that's the size of the city of St. Louis (300k), how much higher do you think that murder rate would be above 51.81 or 43.63?\n\n Now you see which area has it worst.",
"You really don't know what a \"rate\" is do you. By its definition its population adjusted. \n\nYour excuse for why the murder rate was so high is because you have gang problems and drug problems.... and poverty....\n\nBut fine, lets play along how about Obregón similar size, also a cartel hotspot similar size 40.95... Palmira Colombia birth place of 1 of the 4 primary members of the infamous Cali Cartel . Conveniently located on the main trafficing route north from Bolivia and Ecuador... Similar size and a murder rate of 46.30\n\n\nBut apparently in St Louis city, its more drug ridden, Poor and gang controlled than some of the major narco trafficking point in the 3rd world.\n\nYou're dreaming mate \n\n\nYou are a developed country and you have 5 cities listed in the 50 most dnagerous places in the world.... think about that\n\n\n\n>The narco-paramilitary groups and guerrilla militias have been engaged in tit-for-tat battle of extortion, kidnapping, murder and even terrorism in Palmira as they fight to secure the lucrative Pacific coast drug trafficking routes.\n\n>It is the crossover of military groups and drug cartels (e.g. the Urabeños, Rastrojos and the FARC) that have led to this part of Colombia become one of the murder capitals of the world.\n\nThats a nice description about Palmira..... But sure... much more drugs, poverty and stuff in the USA ...\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
">It makes no sense seeing that some of the states with the least restrictive gun laws still maintain the lowest murder rates in the US?\n\n>It's because there are many factors at work.\n\n\nIt totally wouldn't if that was actually true..... \n\nLouisiana ranked 50th in regard gun restriction, 1st for murder rate Mississippi, ranked 48th for gun restriction and 2nd for murder rate, Alaska ranked 44th for restrictions 5th for murder. South Dakota 43rd for restrictions \n\nSure there are exceptions, but there is a strong co-relation between relaxed gun laws and murder rates \n\n>The part I was calling assumption filled drivel was when you said:\n\n>> \"hasnt really been an excuse to let people get wholesale slaughtered. But i guess its ok when its not you or someone you know\"\n\nWell yeah i guess its an assumption you havent been murdered",
">You really don't know what a \"rate\" is do you. By its definition its population adjusted.\n\n??? Yes, and what does that have to do with what I said? Go read my comment again, was anything I said incorrect?\n\n>Your excuse for why the murder rate was so high is because you have gang problems and drug problems.... and poverty....\n>\n>But apparently in St Louis city, its more drug ridden, Poor and gang controlled than the major narco trafficking point into the USA.\n\nYou do need to go back and read what I said. \n\nSt. Louis City (population 317k) may have a murder rate of 60.37 per 100k **but [the murder rate for the St. Louis metropolitan area is just 10.5 per 100k**](https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-6). This is because the population of the St. Louis metropolitan area is 2,811,000 and that larger population is able to lower to apparent murder rate from a large number of murders which are more localized to the city of St. Louis. \n\nThe smaller the focus (population wise), the easier for the murder rate to be higher.\n\nIf you hypothetically focused on just the worst neighborhood in St. Louis, you could come up with an absurdly high murder rate. Say if there's 1 murder out of 100 people, that's a murder rate of 1000 per 100k (**when the number the rate is out of remains the same**). \n\nCuliacán has a population of over 900,000 and Ciudad Juárez has a population of over 1,391,000. The city of St. Louis has a population of about 317,000 (roughly 1/3rd and 1/4th the size of the cities you're comparing it to). So does it not make sense it would be easier for those significantly larger cities to maintain lower total murder rates than the much more focused city of St. Louis?\n\nThe Metropolitan area of St. Louis has a population of 2,811,000 (and has a murder rate of 10.5 per 100k). Ciudad Juárez is able to maintain a murder rate of 43.63 per 100k (4 times greater than that of 10.5 like St. Louis metro) despite still being **half the size** of the St. Louis Metropolitan area. It should not even have twice as much (since the murder rate was higher when just St. Louis was included) but it's 4 times greater!\n\nIf you focused on a bad area of Culiacán or Ciudad Juárez that's the size of the city of St. Louis (300k), the murder rate would be a lot higher than 51.81 or 43.63 (and even higher than 60.37)?\n\n Does that make sense? ",
">>It makes no sense seeing that some of the states with the least restrictive gun laws still maintain the lowest murder rates in the US?\n>\n>>It's because there are many factors at work.\n>\n>\n>It totally wouldn't if that was actually true..... \n\n\"If that were true\"??? It is true! I said \"**some of** the states with the least restrictive gun laws\" and said \"maintain the lowest murder rates in the US\". \n\nNew Hampshire ([which has the 10th least restrictive gun laws in the nation](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/)) has the [lowest murder rate of any state at 1.1 per 100k](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_the_United_States_by_state). This is followed by Hawaii (1.3) [47th least restrictive](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/) (which is obviously its own case since it's an isolated series of islands). Following this is Vermont (1.6) [which has the 2nd least restrictive gun laws in the US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/). Then Maine (1.7) which is the [29th least restrictive](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/), and Utah (1.8 per 100k) [which has the 4th least restrictive gun laws in the US](http://www.gunsandammo.com/network-topics/culture-politics-network/best-states-for-gun-owners-2015/).\n\nSo out of the top 5 states with the lowest murder rates, **3 of them rank in the top ten for least restrictive gun laws** (and that includes the state with the lowest murder rate).\n\n For the other two states in the top 5 states with the lowerst murder rates, Hawaii is an outlier because of its isolation and it being a very wealthy state and Maine is still ranked 29th least restrictive for gun laws (which is middle of the pack).\n\nThe take away thing to notice here is also how all of these are pretty wealthy states.\n\n>Louisiana ranked 50th in regard gun restriction, 1st for murder rate Mississippi, ranked 48th for gun restriction and 2nd for murder rate, Alaska ranked 44th for restrictions 5th for murder. South Dakota 43rd for restrictions \n\nYou're flipping the numbering order. Where I was ranking lowest number is least restrictive, you're ranking the states with the highest number as least restrictive.\n\n(you also didn't finish)\nSouth Dakota 43rd for most restrictions (so ranked 7th for least restrictive gun laws), 20th lowest murder (which isn't bad, it's 7th least restrictive for gun laws and has a lower murder rate than 60% of the other states). \n\nSo what the take away with your examples is that the very impoverished south (Louisiana, Mississippi, etc.) and the most \"lawless\", wilderness state, Alaska, (which also is filled with poverty) have pretty high crime rates.\n\n>Sure there are exceptions, but there is a strong co-relation between relaxed gun laws and murder rates \n\nWhich is not true at all. Looking at the full data with my examples included, the only correlation I see is with the poverty of the state and rate of murder. ",
"> ??? Yes, and what does that have to do with what I said? Go read my comment again, was anything I said incorrect?\n\nNot incorrect, completely irrelevant, that the populations are different. Your claim was the murder rate was caused by drugs and poverty that was unique to the USA... and totes nothing to do with the guns. Yet we have MANY examples of cities with actual drug and gang problems which significantly lower murder rates. Weird huh \n\n\n\nI added some further examples.\n\nPalmira for one, same size as St Louis, 33% lower murder rate. Narco hotspot, in a third world country, just coming out of the longest running civil war in the history of the world.\n\nLike i said, you're dreaming if you think the murder rate is not related to your idiotic stance on firearms \n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
">So what's the take away with your examples is that the very impoverished south (Louisiana, Mississippi, etc.) and the most \"lawless\", wilderness state, Alaska, (which also is filled with poverty) have pretty high crime rates.\n\n\nBut wait i thought it was the Narco traffickers and the gangs. ",
"Here's something for you \n\nfrom a 2013 Boston University School of Public Health study\n\n>Gun ownership was a significant predictor of firearm homicide rates (incidence rate ratio = 1.009; 95% confidence interval = 1.004, 1.014). This model indicated that for each percentage point increase in gun ownership, the firearm homicide rate increased by 0.9%.\n\n\nFrom Franklin Zimring regarding his 1999 book Crime Is Not the Problem\n\n>\"There has been quite a bit of work on these issues in the 18 year[s] since the book was published,\" he wrote, \"and it confirms the basic argument rather powerfully.\"\nThe data seems to support this. \"Robbery and assault rates ... reveal several Western nations that rival the United States,\" a 2011 review found. \"While the level of lethal violence in the United States is probably the highest in the Western world, it is hard to make the case for US exceptionalism when it comes to non-lethal violence.\"\n\n\nhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4006202/gun%20ownership%20countries.jpg\n\nhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/s8ajDRMxa8Oi8c1HwSJcYh_R4ts=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4006032/gun%20homicides%20per%20capita.jpg\n\n\n\n\n",
"Yeah. The unelected head of the FCC screwed us. And then most of reddit gave up and decided to pout instead of contacting their congressmen. Not a single person I talked to in person here in CA actually called ANYONE. \n\nBut if you want to give up give up. Nobody is forcing you to do anything. ",
"And Sander's getting royally screwed by the dems is what? The democratic party being great? Have you seen the list of the congressman comcast paid off over the last ten years? Did you notice that there are a good number of Ds on that list? ",
">> ??? Yes, and what does that have to do with what I said? Go read my comment again, was anything I said incorrect?\n>\n>Not incorrect, completely irrelevant, that the populations are different. Your claim was the murder rate was caused by drugs and poverty that was unique to the USA... and totes nothing to do with the guns. Yet we have MANY examples of cities with actual drug and gang problems which significantly lower murder rates. Weird huh \n\nIt's not irrelevant, you keep saying that those \"cities with actual drug and gang problems\" have significantly lower murder rate and I showed that the St. Louis metro area actually has a murder rate of 10.5 (a 4th of those other cities) and I explained why.\n\nYou're also misquoting my comments. I've been saying \"unique to the US **as a first world nation**\". Pay attention to all of the words in the sentence please. I'm saying that the US gang and crime prevalence is unique for a first world nation. \n\n>I added some further examples.\n>\n>Palmira for one, same size as St Louis, 33% lower murder rate. Narco hotspot, in a third world country, just coming out of the longest running civil war in the history of the world.\n\nYou're quoting [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate) which has it at 142 murders meaning a rate of 46.30 (per 100k). But not long ago, Palmira had murder rate much higher than St. Louis (up to over 100 per 100k). \n\nhttps://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/police-social-action-credited-with-taming-deadly-colombia-city/\n\n\"Palmira had seen a steady reduction in homicides from 317 in 2011 to 214 in 2014.\" \n\n\"The big increase in murders prompted the arrival of reinforcements from the National Police and renewed focus on combined social and police work in the most affected communities. In January 2016, a contingent of 130 National Police officers whose disciplines ranged from street patrols to investigation to working with youth were dispatched to Palmira from Colombia’s capital city of Bogotá. El Pais reported that the reinforcements hit the streets, targeting members of eight local gangs.\"\n\n\"According to the World Atlas’ Most Dangerous Cities in the World index, Palmira ranked eighth with a homicide rate of 70.88 per 100,000 people\"\n\n>Like i said, you're dreaming if you think the murder rate is not related to your idiotic stance on firearms \n\nAnd as I showed [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7opovc/z/dsgfglb), that's clearly not the issues at work.",
">>So what's the take away with your examples is that the very impoverished south (Louisiana, Mississippi, etc.) and the most \"lawless\", wilderness state, Alaska, (which also is filled with poverty) have pretty high crime rates.\n>\n>\n>But wait i thought it was the Narco traffickers and the gangs. \n\nI've always said one of the main contributing factors was the prevalence of poverty (which is a main contributing factor for gang prevalence as well, right beside the US' failing \"war on drugs\" which has created big business for the gangs and a lucrative market for the cartels in Central and South America). ",
">from a 2013 Boston University School of Public Health study\n>>Gun ownership was a significant predictor of firearm homicide rates...\n\nAnd they themselves said it's just a correlation, they could not determine a casual link (for example could be more people buy guns for protection in crime filled areas).\n\n>https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4006202/gun%20ownership%20countries.jpg\n\n(sneakily using gun deaths instead of homicide so it's higher)\n\n>https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/s8ajDRMxa8Oi8c1HwSJcYh_R4ts=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4006032/gun%20homicides%20per%20capita.jpg\n\nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/06/23/why-is-vox-doing-violence-to-gun-statistics/\n\nWe can trade opinionated and biased studies all day. There's many factors that greatly effects gun crime rates and how it can be shown and interpreted.\n\n[Some](https://www.reddit.com/r/progun/comments/1x7zdt/i_just_made_this_progun_argument_elsewhere_on)\n is less biased though, as it's based on more raw data.\n\n\n\"Rural households are twice as likely to own guns than urban households, and suburban households own more guns than urban households. [See here](http://www.people-press.org/files/2013/03/3-12-13-14.png)\n (data pulled from a Pew Research Center survey from February 13-18, 2013). Note: I am only referring to legal gun ownership, because illegal gun owners are not reporting their gun owenrship. \n\nDespite the fact that more guns are owned by rural and suburban households, most gun crimes occur in large cities than in small cities, suburbs, and rural areas. (Gun crimes, in this context, are murder, robbery, and aggravated assault, as those terms are used by the FBI.)The rates of robberies and aggravated assaults involving firearms are much higher for cities with more than 250,000 inhabitants. For example, in 2012, for cities with more than 250,000, the average rate of robberies was 129 per 100,000, and the average rate of aggravated assaults was 128.8. For cities with more than 100,000 but less than 250,000? The rates were 64.4 and 69.1. That's a huge drop!\n\nFor cities with 50k to 99.9k people, the rates were 36.7 and 41.9. \n\nFor cities with 25k to 49.9k people, the rates were 28.7 and 33.4. \n\nFor counties that surround cities, the rates were 25.0 and 35.9, and for rural counties, the rates were 5.3 and 26.3\n\nAll of this data comes from [this chart](http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/19tabledatadecpdf)\n\nWhat about murder rates?\n\nI apologize, but the FBI doesn't break out murder data by geographic area and by murder weapon together. So I had to use the CDC's WONDER database. I did a search for non-accidental firearm-related causes of death from 1999 through 2010, and I grouped the results by \"urbanization\" (which measures population density). The CDC calls these \"assaults by ____\". You can access the CDC database yourself [here](http://wonder.cdc.gov). \n\nThe results? The rate of death by intentional firearm is 6.8 for \"Large Central Metro\" areas, and significantly lower for all the other urbanization categories. [See my results in this screenshot here.](http://i.imgur.com/Gt1UXji.jpg)\n\nSo we know that gun ownership is more prevalent among rural communities than urban communities, but communities in large cities have much higher rates of gun crimes. \n\nYou can't argue that gun culture is to blame. Large cities have been hostile to gun rights for years - many cities have (or had) more restrictive gun ownership policies than the suburban and rural counties that surround them. I'm looking at you, New York, Detroit, Washington DC, New York, and Chicago. Gun culture has never been allowed to flourish in the big cities. \n\nGun crimes happen more in big cities than elsewhere, and there are several causes for that - failed drug war policies, underfunded and undersupported public school systems, poor policing strategies, lack of job opportunities, inadequate access to higher education, inadequate access to job training programs, etc. The violence that occurs in big cities can even be traced to particular \"micro\" hotspots such as particular corners or intersections. [See this article (from the Huffington Post, no less!)..](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-m-kennedy/the-story-behind-the-nati_b_4634755.html)\nThe problem of violence in cities isn't easily traced to gun ownership, and certainly not to the American gun culture. \n\nFinally, I want to point out that violent crime has been declining for the last two decades. At the same time, it has become easier and easier for Americans to get a license to conceal carry a firearm - yet there has been no corresponding increase in gun crimes. Gun sales have hit record highs in the last few years (thanks Obama!) and still the violent crime rates are dropping. This is true in places like [Virginia](http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/va-gun-crime-drops-again-as-firearm-sales-soar/article_a9a3cd36-dc50-5192-9b97-e14258e6168a.html)\n where gun control laws are weaker, and [California](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/as-calif-gun-sales-go-up-number-of-gun-casualties-goes-down/)\nwhere gun control laws are very strict, but it's also true [nationally](http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/). If guns and gun culture were \"facilitating\" violence, we would see the opposite happening, and we don't. \n\nOK, so I think that I have sufficiently shown that gun ownership in America does not facilitate violence. Does it prevent violence, as you ask?\n\nAbsolutely, every day. Subscribe to /r/dgu and read it for a month. Read the stories about mothers defending their children, old ladies defending themselves, etc. But those are, at best, anecdontes. \n\nThere's at least one study which suggests that there are millions of defensive gun uses every year. (A \"defensive gun use\" includes situations where the gun owner fires her weapon, but it also includes situations where the gun owner merely displays her weapon and that is sufficient to end the encounter with her attacker.) This study, by John Lott, is widely cited by pro-gun folks. I won't link it, and you don't need to read it, because anti-gun folks have torn it apart over the years. Let's just say that the outer bound of estimated DGUs is in the millions per year. \n\nWhat about the lower bound? Well, the anti-rights group the Violence Policy Center has a paper that says there were only 235,700 DGUs for the entire five years of 2007 through 2011. [Page seven of this paper.](http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable.pdf) If we assume that those DGUs occurred in roughly equal amounts each year, that gives us 47,140 DGU per year.\n\nSo on the low end, even the most anti-gun group admits that there are at least 47,140 DGUs per year. And on the high end, we have 2.5 million. That's a pretty massive disparity, and unfortunately we just don't have the data to narrow it down. \n\nPersonally, I think it's reasonable to accept that many DGUs go unreported - there's no reason for a gun owning victim to report a non-shooting DGU if the criminal leaves once the firearm is displayed, and the criminal certainly isn't going to report the encounter, so non-shooting DGUs are almost certainly an underreported behavior. And DGUs that result in a justified self-defense shooting do not often lead to prosecutions of the self-defending victim, which is why the \"justifiable homicide\" statistic is so low - it only includes cases that were prosecuted and successfully defended against.\n\nOk so let's assume 47,100 DGUs a year. How many people were murdered with guns? How many people were killed by accidental discharges?\n\nThe FBI tells us that there were 8,855 people who were murdered with a gun in 2012. [See here](http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2008-2012.xls). The CDC gives us a slightly higher number, 11,078, for 2010 (the last year that data is easily available). [See here, table 10, page 40 of the PDF. ](http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_04.pdf)\n\nIf we assume the higher number of homicide deaths by gun, 11,078, then we can calculate that there are slightly more than 4 DGUs for every gun homicide. That’s pretty important, in my opinion, because that number is using the lowest estimate of DGUs and the highest reliable estimate of deaths from intentional gun use. \n\n(And don’t worry too much about accidental discharges – only 606 deaths in 2010 were caused by unintentional discharges of firearms. See the same CDC chart that I linked above.) \n\nOk, so I’ve shown that DGUs occur more frequently than gun murders. That ignores how many people are hurt during assaults involving guns. Here’s an interesting fact: murder is more likely to involve a firearm than a knife or other weapon ([see here](http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_7_murder_types_of_weapons_used_percent_distribution_by_region_2012.xls), but you are far more likely to be the victim of a robbery or aggravated assault involving a knife or other weapon ([see here](http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/19tabledatadecpdf) In 2012, there were 176,037 robberies and 514,426 aggravated assaults. It’s tough to parse out the data – perhaps there is some overlap? But it’s pretty clear that most robberies and aggravated assaults occur without a gun. So it seems to me that guns are not a huge driver of these types of crimes. \n\nSo, to conclude: Yes, I think there is a credible argument that gun ownership has a legitimate benefit – self-defense – and does not “facilitate” gun violence.\"",
"> And they themselves said it's just a correlation, they could not determine a casual link (for ecample could be more people buy guns for protection in crime filled areas).\n\nRight.\n\nWhich would be great, if narco trafficking hubs in 3rd world countries didn't have lower rates than you. Or are you suggesting baltimore, st Louis etc have significantly higher levels of poverty, gangs, drugs and problems with the cartels, than places like Palmira in Colombia?",
">You're quoting this\n\nwhich has it at 142 murders meaning a rate of 46.30 (per 100k). But not long ago, Palmira had murder rate much higher than St. Louis (up to over 100 per 100k).\n\nhttps://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/police-social-action-credited-with-taming-deadly-colombia-city/\n\n>\"Palmira had seen a steady reduction in homicides from 317 in 2011 to 214 in 2014.\" \n\n\nIt did,\n\nAlso the Colombian Government changed the their gun laws about the same time! Magic huh... But totally not related right ;) \n\n",
">(sneakily using gun deaths instead of homicide so it's higher)\n\nNot really, You have a horrific gun suicide rate too. Thats another thing effective gun control could help with.\n\n> \"Rural households are twice as likely to own guns than urban households, and suburban households own more guns than urban households. See here \n\nYes... Poverty is linked to crime.. this doesn't actually change anything thats being said... It doesn't change the fact that making guns freely available to everyone increases the amount of firearms available to criminals.\n\nYou've spent a page of writing debunking something thats never been claimed. You have crime, we have crime... You have more crime in cities, we have more crime in cities... You have more fatalities and incidents of violent crimes especially relating to firearms. \n\nWhich apparently you think is totally not related to your firearm laws or lack there of.\n\n\nThe only thing thats worth fishing out is this\n\n>Finally, I want to point out that violent crime has been declining for the last two decades.\n\nThat's the same everywhere, well it was... the US violent crime rates have increased over the last two years, pretty much everyone else has been dropping \n\n>Violent crime increased for the second consecutive year, while property crime decreased for the 14th straight year, according to the FBI’s annual report on national crime statistics released today. There were an estimated 17,250 murders in the U.S. last year, an 8.6 percent increase from 2015.\n\nBut again, totally not related to guns.\n\n\n",
">>You're quoting this\n>\n>which has it at 142 murders meaning a rate of 46.30 (per 100k). But not long ago, Palmira had murder rate much higher than St. Louis (up to over 100 per 100k).\n>\n>https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/police-social-action-credited-with-taming-deadly-colombia-city/\n>\n>>\"Palmira had seen a steady reduction in homicides from 317 in 2011 to 214 in 2014.\" \n>\n>\n>It did,\n>\n>Also the Colombian Government changed the their gun laws about the same time! Magic huh... But totally not related right ;) \n>\n\nAnd by change you mean \"extended a nationwide ban on carrying firearms until the end of 2016\" while they underwent a massive effort with large increase of armed police on patrols targeting the local gangs, etc.\n\nAlso:\n\n\"[One question is how much state and security force initiatives are driving these huge improvements in Colombia, and how much of the drop in violence is due to initiatives by illegal actors. A truce brokered in 2013 between Colombia’s largest criminal group, the Urabeños, and the descendants of the Medellin Cartel, known as the Oficina de Envigado, has undoubtedly contributed to Medellin’s tumbling murder rate.](https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/colombia-on-track-for-least-violent-year-in-3-decades/)\n\n[In mid-2013, the Urabeños and the Oficina de Envigado decided that fighting was bad for the various illicit businesses based out of Medellin, from drug trafficking and gun running to extortion. After representatives of these criminal groups hashed out a deal in a luxury countryside house, the effect on Medellin’s security was palpable. The city reportedly registered just 653 murders in 2014 — its lowest in 35 years, and a stark contrast to the era of Pablo Escobar, when — at one point — the city saw 17 homicides a day.](https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/colombia-on-track-for-least-violent-year-in-3-decades/)\n\n[A similar criminal pact was reportedly brokered in Cali at the end of 2013. Colombia’s third-largest city has also seen violence fall: homicides dropped 23 percent between 2013 and 2014, the greatest decrease in two decades, according to Cali newspaper El Pais.](https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/colombia-on-track-for-least-violent-year-in-3-decades/)\n\n[While it’s difficult to measure precisely how much these respective pacts have contributed to the falling national homicide rate in Colombia, it’s clear that this new wave of tranquility is fragile. Should these pacts break down and violence once again climb dramatically, Colombia could face the uncomfortable truth that its security may be more dependent on the interests of criminal actors as much as the actions of the state.](https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/colombia-on-track-for-least-violent-year-in-3-decades/)\n\nYou try to make it seem like gun laws are the deciding factor.\n\nEdit: (this is getting no where fast. They continuously selectively ignore points of my argument)",
"I know right!\n\nSo, Lets take this slow.....\n\nDo you think that places like palmira have more or less poverty than lets say any US city?\n\nMore or Less Gang and Cartel issues?\n\nMore or less Problems with drugs and education?\n\n\n\nHere's an interesting thing for you to make an excuse about why it doesn't mean what it says\n\n>Santos said the initial December to January restriction had produced positive results towards reducing homicides, saving many lives. During this period, Colombian Minister of Defense Luis Carlos Villegas said homicides fell 13 percent when compared to the same period in 2015.\n\n\nhere is the thing, They have significantly worse problems with things like what you seem to think cause all your problems. They also have low levels of gun ownership, relatively decent gun control (since the 1990's) .\n\n\nBut please, by all means, keep telling me that the reasons your murder rate is higher is because you have poverty, and gangs............\n"
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/r/pics/comments/7oppfs/i_never_find_anything_either/ | [
"a piece of wrapper?!?!\n\nyoure going to choke on this dude! we talked about this!!",
"They swallow it fast every time.",
"Just like my toddler. Jesus she can run when she's found something toxic to eat. ",
"Wow I love to see this on a weekly basis. ",
"This happens with toddlers as well",
"/u/StayFrostyFriend, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No pictures with added/superimposed digital elements.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/StayFrostyFriend&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7oppfs/i_never_find_anything_either/?context=10\\))"
] | 6 | pics | I never find anything either |
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/r/pics/comments/7opshr/something_strange_or_the_andalusian_horse_gave_me/ | [
"You mean the cardboard cutout of an Andalusian horse?",
"It’s a real andalusian horse btw.. ",
"So the cardboard cutout of a real Andalusian horse."
] | 3 | pics | Something strange or the Andalusian Horse gave me a perfect pose? 🧐🧐 |
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/r/pics/comments/7opsqp/ive_been_staring_at_the_blue_circle_for_so_long/ | [
"A charging cable for a phone. By the looks of it, micro usb. ",
"Don't let your dinner get cold. ",
"Wh-why is the pasta ABOVE the sauce???",
"Asking the right questions"
] | 4 | pics | I've been staring at the blue circle for so long trying to work out what I'm looking at. |
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/r/pics/comments/7optal/think_twice_where_we_go/ | [
"This is so deep the life guard would almost let you dive in it. ",
"Ironically there is no lifeguard for real life ",
"This wouldn't be a bad wallpaper image if it were higher resolution."
] | 3 | pics | Think twice, Where we go !!! |
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/r/pics/comments/7opubf/car_fire_resulted_in_big_grass_fire/ | [
"Man, their insurance is going up so much. ",
"“Lost in the fire was a 2007 Toyota Camry, 33 groundhogs and 4,866,322 grasshoppers.”",
"That’s a Mercedes.",
"I also didn’t know the exact amount of grasshoppers that died. \n\nBecause it’s a joke.",
"Wasn't me this time.",
"Or maybe the entire fire culminated at that one car",
"Also, we don't have groundhogs in Australia, but as it was a joke I'll let it slide :P",
"It’s okay. You can just say something to the effect of- \n\n “Your comment was a complete failure on every imaginable level. You wasted your time, my time, and the time of every Redditor who unwittingly stumbled onto your enfeebled little joke. (All four of them.)Being from Australia, I’d call you a cunt. But cunts are usually just simple minded idiots. You qualify for something beyond that. Please write your mum and tell her you’re sorry to have put her through the agony of childbirth. You weren’t worth the pain.”\n\n I’ve got big shoulders. I can take it."
] | 8 | pics | Car fire resulted in big grass fire |
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/r/pics/comments/7opx6h/a_greek_soldier_resting_on_a_statue_of_king/ | [
"That's a pretty badass statue.\n\nI know that there were more than 300 Greeks that repelled the Persians...but it's still a badass story",
"If they were all that big it’s not really a surprise!",
"Pretty pivotal moment In history for all the Ancient Greek states",
"ye Alexander the Great was just like a thing.",
"I think that there were around 3000 Greeks but the 300 comes from 300 Spartans who lead the army ",
"[Relevant](https://oglaf.com/plumes/) ",
"Wouldn't have been an Alexander the Great if leonidas hadn't pulled a delaying tactic to prevent xerxes from controlling Greek states - his influence would surely extend out to Macedonia and beyond which would probably have prevented Alex's empire from forming.\n\nIIRC battle of thermopylae was 157 years before Alexander was born?",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppGCbh8ggUs . They didnt think themselves as Greeks and in slaved the local Population and were in a state of perpetual war against they own slaves and used that to justify atrocities against the Helots. \n\nAm quoting the video.\n\n\n\n\n\n",
"Looks like he's honoring him.",
"Yeah 300 Spartans and a bunch of Thespians.",
"I agree 100%"
] | 11 | pics | A Greek soldier resting on a statue of King Leonidas on the national holiday, March 25th 2015, Sparta, Greece. |
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/r/pics/comments/7oq023/this_frozen_mountain_range_on_my_girlfriends_car/ | [
"r/mildlyinteresting",
"There's cold in them thar hills! ",
"Are they actually peaking like that or is it a perspective thing? Because that’s fucking badass. ",
"How does this form? can someone explain?",
"Just an illusion!",
"Happy little accidents! ",
"What is the only company to win the JD Power award for dependability on every vehicle they make while pairing those vehicles with built in wifi, 360° camera functionality, ecoboost control, and a full, never before seen, mountain range on each roof?\n\nIt's Chevrolet. And this is the all new Chevy Cruze with Rocky Mountain aerodynamic LTZ trim",
"The mountain range on the way to Mordor.",
"That’s crazy, looks so genuine. ",
"I just hear the sound of scraping ice in my head. Drives me nuts.",
"plot-twist: it's a hyper-realistic paint job of a mountain sight",
"now *smash* it",
"So your girlfriend ??.... Is she single ??... Just asking for a friend !? ;)",
"And shiver too!",
"Ski resort for fairies!",
"You can shoot video like Paramount pictures's movies openning",
"These Skyrim ports are getting out of hand.",
"!redditshiver\n\nEdit: I had absolutely no idea that would actually summon a bot.",
"\n**[Here's your Reddit Shiver, Bombingofdresden!](http://178.62.92.227/reddit-x-bot/shiver.png)**\n\n/u/Bombingofdresden has received shiver 1 time. (given by /u/Raevix) **[info](https://github.com/gemdude46/redditx)**\n",
"An illusion Michael! A trick is something a whore does for money!",
"Submit to r/coolfrost",
"[OP is right - those are Pyrenees!](https://i.imgur.com/YO59lot.jpg)",
"!redditblowjob.\n\nEdit: Bot is a no show. ",
"\n**[Here's your Reddit Blowjob, reddit-x-bot!](http://178.62.92.227/reddit-x-bot/blowjob.png)**\n\n/u/reddit-x-bot has received potato 3 times and blowjob 1 time. (given by /u/HR_Dragonfly) **[info](https://github.com/gemdude46/redditx)**\n",
"Very artistic Rain ",
"May be illusion ",
"Cool Hwhip.",
"Looks like meringue ",
"When ice crystals grow they follow a repeating form, also called a crystal lattice. They start from many different points and grow outwards until the start hitting each other creating the straight lines you can see in the picture. Also, since ice has more volume than water, it pushes out as it freezes which can create fault lines.",
"Can someone PS Bob Ross into this picture please? :D",
"Bonus fact; ice is a naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid, with a specific chemical make up, making it a mineral.",
"Fractals? This is beautiful.",
"haha",
"I 50% believe, but only because I don't know enough about it one way or the other to be sure. ",
"Your sedan is evolving!",
"Ford Focus?",
"Ford Ka. Hateful thing but cheap to run",
"Bot comes through. ",
"that John Denver is full of shit.",
"Is that whorefrost?",
"Klingon forehead ",
"Imagine all the poor tiny little mountain climbers who died trying to reach those summits :(",
"That looks extremely topographic.",
"Imagining there's a mini civilization on top",
"Deeeeeeeeelicious COOOOLD! *dances frozen jig to keep warm*",
"Neat! How much did it cost to have Bob Ross paint your roof?",
"What are you hiding?!",
"Wow, I've never heard of anything like that! That's awesome...you have a girlfriend?",
"Call me stunned. Unblown.",
"Take a close up picture with the sky in the background so it looks real!",
"I comes too",
"*girlfriend's",
"I laughed at this really hard and now everyone I'm eating lunch with is staring at me.",
"r/miniworlds",
"It's hiring a necromancer that really gets expensive...",
"You started it. ;)",
"thats really cool what you did there :D",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"Fractals fractals everywhere, fractals fractals in my hair",
"Cheeky pedant. \n\nPs. Deepest apologies. ",
"A) this was this morning, sun rose, mountains fell. \nB) you might be able to see the fence, behind the fence was a hedge. Hedge was tall. Sad. ",
"Mother nature did it ;)",
"Bob Ross comes down from the heavens every christmas, to give the gift of joy in painting.",
"Maybe, maybe. Yep. Let's just put a happy little tree right here. I spent some time in Alaska while in the Air Force, beautiful country. You should go check it out. Now remember, a thin paint will always stick to a thick paint. Now I'm going to use a little phthalo-blue, and mix in a little cadmium yellow, just a touch. Right about there. You don't need much! That's it, just load the bristles, and you want to gently push, and lift. Think about where your tree lives in this world. Maybe, maybe...yep. Let's give him a friend. Shwoosh *chuckles* I like to make little sounds like that. Alright. Let's go to our two inch brush. We want a clean brush. Need to beat the devil out of it. *thapa thapa thapa thapa* *chuckles* I once rescued a squirrel while stationed in Alaska...happy little critter. I called him Jonesey. Me and Jonesey had many adventures up there in the snow.",
"Damn, that's a good hecking bot!",
"Topographic Roof ",
"Put this on r/EarthPorn and label it Banff, Canada.",
"Mother nature wrote Photoshop? ",
"If you go deep enough then actually yes - she did :)",
"or candy!",
"something's not quite right",
"How are those maggots?",
"Ooohhh ah ah illusion Ooohhh ah ah illusion.",
"No kidding. When's the last time you priced eye of newt? It's highway robbery these days!\n\nDon't even get me started on blind-worms sting. You ever seen a *blind* worm before? Gotta buy that shit with bitcoin on the darknet.",
"Good bot",
"I thought frosted tips died in the nineties. ",
"Better than mountains of snow",
"That bot has three Reddit potatoes, definitely a \"good hecking bot!\"",
"r/unexpectedbobross",
"Total Silk Road goods, fo sho",
"You should marry her for no other reason than her car is a literal Magic Mountain.",
"An illusion? \nWHAT ARE YOU HIDING?!",
"Are we sure it wasn't his girlfriends' car?",
"Or cocaine!",
"Happy Little Mountains",
"You know how Warf has shit all over his head?",
"Thank you, only came here for this... and maybe Bob Ross’ happy little accidents... but mainly the Klingons!",
"Looks like a klingon forehead.",
"Is that a White Russian blow job?",
"That was the least helpful answer possible.",
"Why can I never get/remember to take pictures when I see cool things like this. ",
"/r/coolfrost",
"Just like saying it’s your *girlfriends* car!",
"You can trust me, I'm a geologist. Though you are welcome to Google it as well.",
"In my defense I did also write an actual answer, this is just an extra tidbit about ice that consider to be neat.",
"it is frost in the morning, how have people never seen this\n\njust the way ice crystals form",
"I think an Ice Wraith spent the night on her car.",
"TIL it’s not spelled marang. ",
"Not gonna lie, I had to look it up...\n\nI was about to say it looked like a Dominican dance ",
"I lied. I knew that but my comment was the most ‘reddit’ way I could think of how to explain that without getting into details about pie creation and eggs. ",
"This is why I have trust issues ",
"It's actually a real picture from space of Flat Earth.",
"Bob Ross would be proud ",
"That's what you see when you [fly over Siberia.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg02iGy08E4)"
] | 104 | pics | This frozen mountain range on my girlfriends car |
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"What I think is that you need some self-respect. As for your butt, there isn't much to look at, not interested.",
"your no fun!! I am a webcam model and use reddit to have fun and advertise !I have respect fuckingblackmale lol and thats your screenname bahahha",
"/u/hillarylynk, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/hillarylynk&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7oq0mh/what_do_you_guys_think_of_my_butt_new_pic_shot/?context=10\\))"
] | 3 | pics | What do you guys think of my butt? New pic shot 2018 |
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/r/pics/comments/7oq1la/buddy_just_finished_painting_his_paragliding/ | [
"That bird is smiling like 'you know you gon' die, right?\"",
"Perfect for freaking out real life birds. ",
"What happens when the Apex Condor spots him?",
"Let's see it on",
"r/ATBGE",
"Looks like /r/crappydesign material to me",
"It’s a cool design but I just can’t get away with how crap these full face helmets look on people. Helmets in every other sport look cool AF but paragliding? Ugh. ",
"Reminds me of Battle of the Planets or Gatchaman",
"this post brought to you by /r/shittyjerks",
"ummmm.... coolness is the last thing to worry about",
"Well. The colour of your wing is obviously the most important - everyone knows that. But not looking like a berk is up there too. \n\nMight make it my mission to design an airports helmet which looks cool. Something like motocross or bmx would be a good start. ",
"I think you need to talk to OSHA first"
] | 12 | pics | Buddy just finished painting his paragliding helmet |
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/r/pics/comments/7oq3fa/anyone_lost_a_husky_near_grove_park_south_east/ | [
"Take it to the vets and see if chipped ",
"We've called rspca and someone's on their way to pick it up, if it's not picked up within 7 days then it'll be put up for adoption but I hope we can get it to the owner, worst case I'll try to adopt her/him myself ",
"Doggo",
"Huskies are a lot of work ",
"Yeah I actually own a husky right now only problem is they're extremely territorial, we tried bonding them a bit before rspca get here but they're just attacking each other, guess I'll just have to figure something out ",
"/u/Kriloz, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/Kriloz&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7oq3fa/anyone_lost_a_husky_near_grove_park_south_east/?context=10\\))",
"I have a male and female they play very aggressively but they also grew up together. "
] | 7 | pics | Anyone lost a husky near Grove Park, South East London? Walked into our backyard, also has a red collar |
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/r/pics/comments/7oq3fo/this_was_me_on_december_31st_2017_and_this_is_me/ | [
"Amazing, I can only guess what you'll look like in another 6 days",
"[Probably like this.](https://m.imgur.com/CWfKrnh)",
"Here's the weird bit of the photo, the one on the left is all legit tattoos, and the right is makeup",
"I don't believe you.",
"Holy moly. You look a bit wild with that piercing. Go back to your old look ",
"a giga nigga",
"Left in the hardware though. "
] | 7 | pics | This was me on December 31st 2017 and this is me now January 7th 2018. I’ve quit smoking for 6 days. I really feel like I’ve cleaned up and am ready the new life ahead of me. |
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/r/pics/comments/7oq40l/i_sharpened_my_kids_crayons_this_was_the_knife_i/ | [
"Looks like you took a Damascus steel knife and stabbed all the Care Bears. ",
"Accidental art",
"Kitchen Knife | Case Hardened",
"Have you ever known someone to sharpen their kids crayons?",
"Maybe he's an artist at heart, stuck in a job that doesn't nurture his creative side.",
"Did they also take the picture? It's so blurry and pixilated. ",
"Why did you sharpen crayons? They don't need to be sharp",
"If you want a sharp looking picture. ",
"How do you have this much time on your hands with kids who are still young enough to use crayons? ",
"My son asked for them to be “pointy like his pencils” ",
"I have an amazing Fiancée who enables some one on one daddy kid time with each of my kids (F1 and M4) every weekend. ",
"Dawww yay for all of you"
] | 12 | pics | I sharpened my kids crayons. This was the knife I used. |
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/r/pics/comments/7oq7nc/my_bestfriend_and_i_share_a_love_of_champagne_and/ | [
"Which champagne was it based on?",
"No ragrets ",
"r/shitytattoos...",
"Well, mimosas. And Andre, Cooks, etc. Only the finest. ",
"*r/shittytattoos.."
] | 5 | pics | My bestfriend and I share a love of champagne, and today we got matching tattoos. Cheers |
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/r/pics/comments/7oq7yb/kraków_polska/ | [
"That's a nice image. I've always wanted to visit since I have Polish ancestry..",
"every time I see the name of that city, all I can think of is the [Calvin & Hobbes comic](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/30/2e/0e/302e0e7165f837af410dea8453d1926e--april--calvin-and-hobbes-comics.jpg).",
"It's a great place to visit. I too have Polish ancestry and got to go visit Krakow a few years back. The food was great and there was a lot to do and see in the short time I was able to spend there. The salt mine is close by, Wawel Castle, a ton of Art museums, Auschwitz, Schindler's enamelware factory. Ton of history and very beautiful. ",
"looks meh, or just a meh picture.",
"I loved it. I got a laugh out of all the ‘computery’ ‘laptopy’ ‘internety’ stores!",
"I just came back from my trip to krakow! What a amazing city!",
"My families place of origin!",
"My parents are from Poland, and we finally took a family trip last summer, it was fantastic and you should definitely try to go.",
"Funny, every time I hear it I only think of [ponies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODKu4QpoH4).",
"They need a Slavic Disney princess. "
] | 10 | pics | Kraków, Polska |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqau6/a_steam_train_going_up_the_brocken_the_tallest/ | [
"Here is a nice video with a full ride from Wernigerode to the Brocken station during summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-McIAViisUA\n\nand some impressions in winter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6QUB4LrPew\n\nAnd the rotary snow plough when there is too much snow on the tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB-M-uRt9bg",
"That doesn't look like a steam engine. Cool (hah) picture though.",
"what? do you doth see the steam?",
"not sure i see it either. which part are you pointing to?",
"Why do you suppose it would have all that steam coming out the top, then?",
"Woow what a view. It’s like an epic journey to some magical castle filled with wizards.",
"This is pretty cool.",
"Needs more HDR",
"In case anyone is interested. \n[wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harz_Narrow_Gauge_Railways)",
"Witches. They congregate on the Brocken during the \"witches night\"",
"Is a RAW version of this photograph available ?"
] | 11 | pics | A steam train going up the "Brocken", the tallest mountain in northern Germany |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqbbm/fallen_tree_holding_back_duckweed/ | [
"I am the tree the green is my friends trying to pick up girls. ",
"The hero that swamp needs",
"You know what they say the duckweed is always greener on the other side",
"Why are you cock blocking your buddy?",
"Good lord get over yourself",
"Plot twist: he's his own buddy",
"The thin wood line",
"The left side is run by a private farmer and the right side is governmwnt owned and there are no restrictions are overgrazing. This is a very impactful image that you took Opie. It just shows how gocernment should stay out of things. Sad. ",
"Good guy fallen tree",
"I am the tree, the green is duckweed.",
"Cringed",
"Ew",
"Harvest duck weed. Feed tilapia. Profit.",
"Man that was a powerful film- Sean Penned was great in it.",
"I hear that duckweed is legal in California now.",
"We're just posting this everywhere today aren't we? /r/mildlyinteresting /r/Damnthatsinteresting /r/interestingasfuck \n\nAnyone seeking more info might also check here:\n\ntitle | points | age | /r/ | comnts\n:--|:--|:--|:--|:--\n[This log dividing duckweed and clear water](http://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/6dllfi/this_log_dividing_duckweed_and_clear_water/) ^**B** | 2343 | 7^mos | oddlysatisfying | 32\n[This fallen tree is holding back the duckweed](http://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6dlkje/this_fallen_tree_is_holding_back_the_duckweed/) ^**B** | 61 | 7^mos | mildlyinteresting | 12\n[This fallen tree is holding back the duckweed](http://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/5530ar/this_fallen_tree_is_holding_back_the_duckweed/) ^**B** | 7251 | 1^yr | mildlyinteresting | 1153\n[Fallen tree blocks algae going to other side of the pond](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6iebvi/fallen_tree_blocks_algae_going_to_other_side_of/) ^**B** | 326 | 6^mos | pics | 10\n[This log holding back algae](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/739kqk/this_log_holding_back_algae/) | 754 | 3^mos | pics | 30\n\n*[Source: karmadecay](http://karmadecay.com/results/u9918392) (B = bigger)*",
"Roses are red, some cups have lids...",
"That'll do tree, that'll do. ",
"Nothing gets past Gandalf the Log.",
"Duck Weed https://imgur.com/gallery/ZKeuA",
"duckweed is awesome in cascade filtration systems for aquariums",
"Bad bot",
"Bad Meatbag",
"But not the one it deserves ",
"See, I'm the kinda guy that would start throwing duckweed across to the other side. I would be sure to come back in a few weeks to see what the fruits of my labor were.",
"I reposted ^^^I'm ^^^sorry this a few months ago and everyone got mad at me :("
] | 26 | pics | Fallen tree holding back duckweed |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqc73/trying_to_have_a_quiet_bath/ | [
"They hear the bubbles popping. Cute selection of breeds! ",
"If your a guy they are waiting to grab the \"dog toy\" that may float up.",
"Haha female ",
"Thank you ☺️"
] | 4 | pics | Trying to have a quiet bath |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqeym/found_this_book_while_doing_a_house_clearout_i/ | [
"Future breeders of America.",
"More bones than an old..... that sentence bothers me greatly ",
"''children non-fiction'' obviously",
"I was thinking the same. The same as an old?",
"Do you always think about sex when you see pictures of children?"
] | 5 | pics | Found this book while doing a house clear-out. I think the boy is enjoying himself a little *too* much. |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqfo2/street_in_san_francisco/ | [
"“It’s going to be a bumpy ride!”",
"Beautiful!!",
"Is this from the Rock?",
"Been there, love that street, it's fun to jog up it",
"I was referring to Harry Potter - Prisoner of Azkaban\nIf you want to get technical ",
"No one mentioned Steve McQueen yet?",
"It looks like this was taken from Pacific Heights. ",
"Hyde near Lombard\n\nRussian Hill was a nice place not long ago. Now it's a real estate moneygrubbing nightmare. Overrun with tourists constantly, summer or winter.\n"
] | 8 | pics | Street in San Francisco... |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqgdw/trip_to_wroclaw_poland/ | [
"Is Poland typically bubbly or is just a rare occurrence? ",
"Strange but today had a 72% chance of bubbles ",
"Are you sure you got the location right? I only see like two poles in this picture.",
"Great place, easy girls."
] | 4 | pics | Trip to Wroclaw Poland |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqi52/aerial_picture_of_a_stealth_bomber_flyover_at_a/ | [
"That place about to blow",
"Ikr",
"That is obviusly a weather baloon!",
"0/10 stealth. I can clearly see it.",
"I think it did after the second overtime.",
"That's the decoy one.",
"Ok, so this makes me wonder (I know it's kind of morbid and dark), how many people in that stadium would be killed if that bomber dropped it's maximum (non-nuclear) payload?\n\nLike, would it kill everyone in the stadium? Just maybe half of it? Would the stadium collapse?",
"Bored and dug a little. The Rose Bowl has a capacity of ~90k. Add in 5k - 10k for all staff (teams, media, security, concessions, parking, etc) lets call it an even 100k. The US MOAB or GBU 43b (the US's biggest non nuke) could easily take out everyone in the stadiun. But that can only be launched from a C130. The B2 in the photo here can offer a wide varierty of munitions and was originally meant to use stealth to fly deep behind soviet lines and drop nukes. So a nuke could do it, as for non-nuclear, Im not sure if traditional bombs that fit on the B2 would be big enough to cover the entire bowl. It can carry cruise missles, so maybe with guided bombs it could be done.\n\nFYI that photo wasnt from this year, there was a very similar one for the UGA/OU game.",
"Interesting info, thanks for the response!"
] | 9 | pics | Aerial picture of a stealth bomber flyover at a football game |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqjy9/tobey_maguire_and_leonardo_dicaprio_bowling_1989/ | [
"Toney really!",
"Why are they holding their balls so close together?",
"You mean, why are their balls touching?",
"The pussy posse™",
"I never realised they were childhood friends! Have they ever been in a film together? I can’t think of one off the top of my head.\n\nDoes anyone know how they met?",
" > Does anyone know how they met?\n\n(Hate to be that guy) Spacey's pool party if what I've heard about Hollywood is true...",
":(",
"They've been in The Great Gatsby together. ",
"Looks like DiCaprio smashed his finger",
"DiCaprio: Sell me this ball. ",
"Pussy Patrol\n",
"I thought Leonardo was much older than Spider-Man ",
"There was also a movie called Don’s Plum they did together then subsequently blocked its release. I have never watched it, but the whole movie is on YouTube.",
"Toby looks more of a man here than he does now.\n"
] | 14 | pics | Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio bowling, 1989 |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqlk4/my_girlfriend_made_the_cutest_elmo_cupcakes_for_a/ | [
"She also made a badass [Elmo/Cookie Monster cake](https://i.imgur.com/2VdAYJC.jpg)",
"Its really the cutest Elmo Cupcakes .\nMay I take your one cupcake .\nHappy birthday to that 2year-old .",
"Its really the cutest Elmo Cupcakes .\nMay I take your one cupcake .\nHappy birthday to that 2year-old .",
"Cute and all, but the bottom left seen some shit",
"I think it knows what's coming. \n\nThe others are blissfully unaware. ",
"Mhmm, minced meat."
] | 6 | pics | My girlfriend made the cutest Elmo cupcakes for a 2 year old's birthday! |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqllv/my_uranium_glass_collection_is_growing/ | [
"so is that bump on your neck....",
"Is that a fidget spinner holder in the right? Do you have the uranium spinner as well? ",
"Glowing",
"What does Barry and Larry say about your sweet collection?\n\nOn a more serious note, the glass glows because uranium fluoresces under black-lights, not because of radioactivity.\n\nUranium glass is not regulated by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) because it does not emit enough Becquerel’s (Bq)\n",
"No, it's a small ashtray in the shape of a club. I suspect there's spade, diamond, and heart shaped ones out there.",
"that's cool, i heard Uranium ore's worth more than gold. let smuggle that thing to north korea ",
"son, why is the FBI here",
"I feel clover is a better term than club ",
"[How i imagine people who collect uranium glass](https://i.imgur.com/RyDazjh.jpg)",
"*Glowing",
"Maybe OP is Japanese. ",
"No, it's a fidget spinner holder for sure, bro.",
"So, not knowing a damn thing about radiation emissions, would there be a level of it being transferred to the food from physical contact, and then ingested by the user? Or is this stuff just non-radioactive?",
"wow. didn't know this was a thing.\n\nwhat do I need to know if I want to buy some?",
"Dammit!!! Beat me to it!!",
"Maybe they meant they added to the collection, meaning the collection grew?",
"I know its a repost story but i guess some one found all kinds of stuff like this and crushed it up into a block, and made a shitty reactor out of it?",
"Actually, truer than you might believe. First cancerous growth I had was on my neck... Just had a huge chunk o cancer removed from my leg 4 weeks ago. It's all been squamous and basal, but still. I've got more scars than you can shake a stick at.\n\nEdit - chunk of cancer, not chuck - about the size of a 50 cent piece.",
"Hope you’re better now dude!",
"Where do you but these?",
"Found this on Reddit: [Eli5: is uranium glass not radioactive and dangerous to use?](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2r730r/eli5_is_uranium_glass_not_radioactive_and/)",
"Thanks! That I am...",
"I've picked up all of these at Goodwill for very little money - each one of these cost less than a dollar. (The black light was $5) The toothpick holder (middle in the front row) was made in 1888.. Most of the rest are from the 20's and 30's. So the stuff is old, but really not worth very much.\n\nAlso, the toothpick and the piece to the left of it, are also called 'vaseline glass'. In normal light, they are somewhat yellow, all the other pieces are green in normal light.",
"Keep tax savings rolling",
"The danger is in direct irradiation. To irradiate food is not a danger. You get direct rads from banana (potassium) which is more than the glass.",
"Well I don't know but I've been told...",
"I'd be concerned about the glass leeching uranium into food, not irradiating the food. Uranium is pretty harmless until you start ingesting it, which this glass could (no idea if it would, but could) allow to happen.",
"Except it's not radioactive in the dangerous sense.",
"Get used to going to antique and thrift stores. You'll only find it in old, greenish glassware. You'll also want a blacklight, both for making sure you're actually buying what you're looking for and to display. It only glows like this under a blacklight.\n\nShit's also dirt cheap.",
"But are they microwave safe? /s",
"You dont use that for anything, just for collecting. ",
"Radioactive sources don't \"transfer\" radiation to other materials. If it helps; radiation is just energy. Compare it to light. If you put a sandwich next to a light bulb your sandwich doesn't start emitting light. ",
"friend! finally i realized i'm not the only person that llive in the 50's"
] | 33 | pics | My Uranium Glass Collection is Growing |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqn2e/meanwhile_in_new_zealand/ | [
"MAHGA, it's MAGA said with a kiwi accent",
"The original Half Life is on sale through Steam for $.99! I bought it last week and have played pretty much every day. It’s like 1999 all over again!\n\nEdit: was on sale. Must have ended. $9.99 now, but still a steal IMO. ",
"Valve just said half life 3 confirmed :P",
"15 years later, make a COD game again",
"Black Mesa is a much better experience IMHO.",
"Maybe, but playing Half Life in the dorms in the early 2000s pretty much defined my college career. Since we were on a LAN, it was guaranteed that at least 15 guys were paying at any hour of the day or night. It’s actually how I met some of my college buddies who have remained my closest friends. I guess I have a huge sentimental attachment to Half Life!",
"Trump has ruined red hats, I hate seeing red hats now.",
"Yeah, those LAN CS matches with people you actually knew offline were great.",
"what's the half line Game?",
"Look everybody I made some hats! ",
"It bloody well was back then",
"Those hats are wayyy too nice to be MAGA parodies",
"It bloody well still is. That guy doesnt know what the fuck hes talking about or he just woke up to a hangover bad enough which would make pornstar grade boobs dangling in front of his face a severe irritation...",
"With this updoot I award thee the *Vivid Language Aaward of the Day*",
"I agree, the original experience is great, but Black Mesa really dialed it up to make it a much more refined cinematic experience.",
"You mean the portal/half-life crossover portal-life 3",
"I hate these parody hats because they always make me do a massive double take.\n\nLike, \"you can't *seriously* be -- oh, God damn it.\"",
"Your loss",
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. ",
"Can we petition the world leaders to contact Lord Gaben and force him to make Half Life 3? \n \nI mean if a petition in the UK reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will respond. \n \nIf it gets 100,000 signatures it will be considered for debate in parliament. \n \nI feel as if us gamers should make a stand and get our government to contact Valve and ask them for HL3. \nConsidering currently we have 37,275 people online in this sub right now, we would atleast get a response. We might need to cross post this to /r/Gaming and /r/PCMR",
"Is 9.99 now. :( oh well. I have it on ps2. ",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"I have genuinely never seen these hats in NZ.\n\nThen again, no one wears hats in my city. They don't stay attached to your head for very long.",
"I don't really look for a cinematic experience when playing half life imo. You just cant beat that 90s artstyle and goldsrc feel.",
"Haha",
"Have you played deus ex?",
"Haha Wellington?",
"There's a sub to arrange lots of independent talent to make a fanmade HL3. /r/dreamsofhalflife3/",
"Why would they ever make a game again when they can just sit back and make billions off of other people's work? Plus at this point, I don't think any new Half Life game could ever live up to the hype after this long. ",
"Ye bro. Windiest city on the planet, good times.",
"):",
"I am with the Easy Allies on this. I don't even remember who or what valve is or was. I am no longer interested. ",
"It's based on the line game but isn't quite as long.",
"I think members of the community should make there own HL-3. With hookers and black jack.",
"While a mountain of gamers do want HL3, the success of the first two combined with pushes from fans haven't brought it into existence, and I'm willing to bet that the reason is that they don't have the direction to take the franchise/material to make a decent game that measures up to what fans will automatically expect from another addition to a hugely popular franchise. \n\nI would argue that after this period of time, if they felt they had a HL3 to make, and material to do so, they would have done so already. Maybe it's better for all of us to let it be left at 2 where it was, so it doesn't just become a cash cow of little actual substance. ",
"This.\n\nNot to mention they cant force them to make a good game either. So not only would the game never live up to the expectation, but you also cant force a business to make a game and expect them to react nicely to it.\n\nSteam is a great platform and i dont want to overstep our boundaries as a community to make something happen if it means possible negative consequences.",
"Yes I agree it would be total war, and a far cry from 1 and 2. Someone would assassinate their creed of game making, fifa'ing the franchise down the proverbial drain.\nIt's not steam's call of duty to build another game, and it may turn out to be like grand theft it it bombed like daikatana.",
"What does this have to do with NZ",
"I have to play it on the toilet otherwise I ruin my ottoman.",
"If they don't have the confidence to do it themselves they could let other devs pitch for it. There's really no major risk here, it's a pretty straightforward genre, and plenty of studios have been making awesome games in that genre for a long time, and they can always pull the plug if it's not living up to expectations.\n\nI really think not making hl3 is a dick move.",
"For fun? Just for the creative pleasure?",
"Its a straight forward genre but youd be surprised how a \"good game\" to devs can blow up in the community. Sometimes without reason (though not usually to be honest).\n\nEDIT: and usually in the instances where it does get bad reactions, it ruins companies from time to time.",
"I don't think you understand how large game development companies work. ",
"Its not about confidence in my opinion. It's more likely about actually having a whole, substantial, cohesive plot, and the characters that will go into it, and all of that fitting into the Half Life lore. \n\nAs for risks, aside from the risk that the story and characters they could have for you to play through would be poorly received (high probability of this if it is forced and uninspired). There is also financial risk since video games, especially big name titles, have costs involved in development, and if the game flops that invested cash will not be multiplied in profits (not likely to do much damage to Valve, but no company wants a loss on any product). \n\nBut by far the biggest risk of all would be that developing a Half Life 3 would developing a game that gamers will expect to be, by far, one of the best games ever. The fact is, even if they did make it, they risk fans not receiving it as well as possible when they overhype themselves. ",
"I finally got someone to play it, but they broke my heart saying they wanted to install some texture mods.",
"Imagine if Valve published these hats to announce that Half-Life 3/Episode 3 is coming out soon. \n\nNo, what am I saying? Valve doesn't make games!",
"Hey mehn, we're gonna wear these hehts to try and get a sequel to our favorite game. Wanna come?",
"Gmdx v9 is really fucking good. Textures basically same but gameplay has some brilliant tweaks.",
"Another thing is that the old half lifes are basically old school fps shooters that are out of style now. They also couldn't reinvent it in another style, so they're basically stuck.\n\nI think another thing is that the engines for the first two were meant to be moddable easily enough. They did well on that with HL2, but they'd have to be pretty clever now to make some great engine that could produce a modding community that wouldn't just drown in steam itself. There are too many good games around, playing amateur mods isn't going to be tempting enough.",
"The only reason \"old school fps shooters\" are out of style is nobody is making good ones anymore. Tons of 30-something gamers have checked out.",
"Heva-eh-hev-hev-heaven is a half-life ",
"whereas in Auckland, it's only Yankee hats",
"I'm one of the poor few that's old enough to have been born in Upper Hutt when there used to be a hospital there.\n\nAdmittedly, things have changed a hell of a lot in the Hutt since I was a kid. Like that time they tried to rename Upper Hutt to Trentham City...what a bloody fiasco that was.",
"Yis. ",
"I want hats like these that simply say \"Masturbate All Weekend\". ",
"https://media1.giphy.com/media/KDRv3QggAjyo/200.webp#14-grid1",
"Why make something new when you can make bank on shitty shovelware and microtransactions? Seriously though, screw steam",
"Oh wow that does look cool. It always seemed like most mods didnt change enough, so I'd always prefer to get the nostalgia wave by playing vanilla. This looks fresh enough to try though.",
"Your first time camping with the crossbow sniping people who can't figure out where you're hiding ;)\n\nDropping a mine as you run from someone.",
"An epic tale of unspoken love between a man and a woman.",
"That indescribable feeling watching someone run toward you with nothing but a crowbar when you have a shotgun aimed at their head. ",
"In where?",
"WRONG... not a MAGA hat, this I New Zealand! OP is a dirty Hobits ! .... (inside joke from my most disliked comment in on Redit where somebody missed the point)",
"A packet of pineapple lumps will be destroyed, for each day that this demand is not met. ",
"Pfff. I live on Windy Ridge. Wellington's breezes come here after they've grown up.",
"Which totally isn't a city lol.\n\nStill, it's funny to see the chaos that 100mph/160kph winds cause around the world. At 100kph crosswinds I might consider not riding my motorbike, at 160kph watching tourists get off cruise boats is pretty much my favourite thing to do",
"... and their pet walrus.",
"Mostly gameplay changes, retextures on the gun models tho. Updates gunplay but keeps that awesome (eventually) feel of the original.",
"I would like to see them make hl3 a completely different genre just to fuck with people. Like something rts turn based c&c style.",
"It’s the only game I’ve ever given a shit about. Best series ever made. Besides bioshock.",
"Well first, we gotta convince Valve to actually make games again",
"What the hell is going on with this comment",
"At this point even if Valve decided to make Half Life 3 I don't know if I'd be interested anymore. ",
"Someone did me wrong Joseph... Someone did me wrong...",
"The important question: how do i buy one of these?",
"You'd probably still be pepper sprayed for wearing it though...",
"I read this like rhys Darby ",
"Half life: bridge constructor (2019)",
"As do I. It was actually one of the first fps games I fully played and fell in love with our hero. I've even got lambda tattooed on the back of my neck. In 7 years only 3 people have recognized it",
">MAHGA\n\nAm kiwi, da fuq u mean ow?",
"At this point, HL3 would never be able to meet the crazy high expectations of the internet. It's sad.",
"Nice to see a fellow Wellingtonian. We don't get much limelight on here! Cheers! ",
"Did you print enough panflits?",
"What the hell is going on with this thread",
"We don't have real politics in NZ. Nor do we have any significant problems to complain about. So we have time to spend campaigning for HL3."
] | 85 | pics | Meanwhile in New Zealand |
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/r/pics/comments/7oqpzm/ruby_rhod_heading_to_the_jagsbills_game/ | [
"\"Bzzzzzz!\"",
"Super green.",
"Quiver ladies, quiver.",
"I'll be looking for ya. ",
"\"I got no fire!\"\n\nYeah you do. You be smoken.",
"I don’t want one position- I want all positions! Nice cosplay!",
"What is this? A fashion statement?",
"Is that Jarrett Jack? ",
"Let's go Buffalo!",
"Where’s your cane/mic. ",
"That's my favorite movie and character! Great job!",
"Cane/mic/recorder used during sexy times. It does everything",
"You're going to be cold.",
"Something something DUVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL",
"yup, haven't seen him yet tho",
"I expect nothing more I’m just happy the bills finally made it. ",
"Hi Kevin! Fuck Brightway!",
"GO BILLS",
"But... Why? Someone fill me in here please. ",
"Not foo formal, not too casual - just right. ",
"Plot twist, that’s OPs real hair \n\nOn another note you killed it, haven’t seen this done before ",
"\"Sweetheart, what was that? It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing! Y'know I got a Show to run here, and it must pop POP POP! So tomorrow from 5 to 7 will you PLEASE act like you have more than a two word vocabulary. It must be green, okay?\"",
"You need the big hairdo to hide a Bildo in there and sneak it in, right?",
"Go Bills!",
"CORBIN DALLAS!!! The one and only winner will of the Gemini Crockett’s Contest (Gemini) . This boy is fused, like fire. So start melting ladies, cause this boy is hotter than hot, he’s hot, Hot, HOT!\n\n...that’s the best show I ever did.",
"*faints*",
"I take it you haven't seen The Fifth Element ",
"If they didn't let you be the announcer for a while, there's no justice in this world.",
"Don’t work in chemistry and haven’t taken a chemistry class since my first year of college.",
"I'm with you. I don't understand why people dress in costume to go to sporting events... Even on Halloween.",
"[Because it's fun!](https://youtu.be/LgQcKpvrzUA)",
"UNBelievABLE!!!! ",
"[Unbelievable!!](http://i.imgur.com/33m6IJk.gif)",
"Aaaall night long",
"A bold decision. I approve!",
"Game is in Jacksonville today.",
"It’s a movie, “The Fifth Element” with Bruce Willis. Classic.",
"I've been waiting for this for so long. Lovely",
"Not complete without the microphone staff sir.",
"That hair style is SUUUPER to say the least",
"It was in the low 30’s this morning, but now it’s risen up to the low 50’s. For Floridians without proper attire that’s death. ",
"My favorite part of the movie is the way the camera cuts when he walks up to korben and does a spin move. The edit is purposefully off to give it a little spice. Love it.",
"Ah, so that's why Hyde sprayed the water on the fan. He was trying to activate the water stone.",
"COMMERCIAL! ",
"SHINING DIAMOND!",
"\"BZZZZZZZZzzzzZZZZZ!\"",
"It's boron.\n\nAnd it's super green!!!",
"> Sweetheart, what was that? It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing!\n\nOh, god, was that supposed to tie into him at the end when he had to activate the fire element but literally had no fire and needed Corbin to bring it to him? Did I miss that foreshadowing all these years?",
"For attention. This is exactly why I would do it if I could pull it off.",
" Important question...\nDid he remember to bring fire?",
"Word of the day: Thrilled",
"Mind blown 🤯 ",
"Who? Why?",
"Corbin.. Corbin, my man.. ",
"BULLSHIT.. YOU CANT FOOL US CUBA GOODING JR.... SHOW ME THE MONEY!",
"Found him! It was awesome.",
"This would be a super hard cosplay to pull off if you want to stay in character.",
"You can do anything if you set your mind to it!",
"50s? Shit, it's been -10 here for the last two weeks. I think I could just walk around naked in 50 degree weather right now and be completely fine. ",
"That's impossible. *I* am Korben Dallas.",
"Why",
"Key word to my comment is Floridians. We are a warm, and humid people. Snowfall here means the apocalypse. ",
"\"Corbin, Corbin my man?!\"",
"Super green!",
"This costume is green, it’s super green!!!",
"Coooobinn ma mannn!",
"Apparently we live in the hunger games. ",
"all niiiiiight",
"Right on, right on!",
"Do yourself a favour and go watch *The Fifth Element* right away. ",
"[Clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyqwwbK8SH0). ",
"Thanks!! Hahaha. "
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"This bear is actually Edward. The name Winnie-the-Pooh came from a Canadian bear named Winnipeg at the London Zoo.",
"What is that horror on the left? ",
"'*but I've wandered much further today than I should\nand I can't seem to find my way back to the wood* . .'\n\n\n^^sigh",
"I agree, It belongs in a stop-motion horror movie!",
"That would be Kanga/Roo. You can tell by the pocket in front.",
"Silly old bear.",
"So after learning that Christopher Robin was based on a real person, I looked up his wiki page and found out [that he grew to resent his father’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories because he thought they were exploitive. Also, he became estranged from his mother after marrying his first cousin against her wishes.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Robin_Milne#Later_life)",
"TIL Christopher Robin was a real boy. ",
"Roo",
"On a lighter note everyone, try reading the tao of pooh. Great book\n",
"oh, bother",
"On that note, the movie Goodbye Christopher Robin released last year is an interesting movie to watch!\n",
"or on the poster of You're Next 2\n",
"Got Tao Te Puuh as Christmas gift - love it!",
"> Christopher Robin Milne (21 August 1920 – 20 April 1996) was the son of author A. A. Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems.\n\n[Reference picture to see the difference imagination makes](https://cdn.movieweb.com/img.news.tops/NEPKlaA4AI61ST_2_a/Christopher-Robin-Movie-Cast-Winnie-The-Pooh-Tigger.jpg)",
"The bear was actually named Winnie, but yes it was named in honour of Winnipeg. \n\nEdit: Also the bear cub was purchased from a small town in North-Western Ontario called White River. ",
"And what about “Pooh”?",
"It’s on my pants *badum-tssss!*\n\nI’ll be in the basement.",
"The real Eeyore looks even more depressing than the animated one.",
"What if Tim Burton did a movie from the perspective of Eeyore",
"You’re next to what?",
"Named after a Swan he met along his travels ",
"I wonder who's in each one and what their two responses are",
"Can't wait to see what these children of today's vloggers think about their parents in about 20 years.",
"Very fitting with the release of the [Goodbye Christopher Robin movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1653665/)",
"That made the meme community circuit several years back you may still get some karma for mentioning on til though",
"It has a pouch. Wouldn't that mean it's Kanga?",
"Or a Tool music video ",
"It's a much different society and generation, my guess is most of them won't care when they get free rides though most of their early adult life.",
"[“You know what the fuck I mean”, said Pooh.](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/JqeRdBs) ",
"Am I the only one wondering where Rabbit is?",
"Eeyore was always my favorite, and I'm glad to see the real one was loved as much as he deserved. ",
"Then there's Owl",
"I don't know. Just Winnie - the - Pooh!",
"He and Owl aren't canon.",
"Hundred Acre Wood",
"[A part of our heritage](https://youtu.be/MlA6oEs3C18?t=27s)",
"Looks like someone tried to strangle Roo. ",
"As depicted in the photo above, Winnie the Pooh grew up to up to slowly realize Christopher Robin was abusive so he turned to crack cocaine and began pimping out Tigger and Piglet while Eeyore started an underground fight club where he lost and eye to a man named \"Shanks McGillicutty\".",
"Never meet your heroes",
"I'm sorry to say this but piglet is nightmare fuel",
"I feel like these are gonna be attacking me in a five night at freddys setting in my nightmares tonight...",
"Shaving the neckbeard I hope? ",
"Roo is missing, has been for a long time. So if you come across a mangy little kangaroo joey doll, the NYPL would probably be very happy. ",
"These toys certainly look like they've been through their share of adventures. ",
"Piglet looks like that hyper irradiated SCP....or maybe the murder bear that assembles more murder bears.",
"Thank you",
"Wow, Kanga looks like a headcrab from Half Life.",
"All I can think of are the velvetine rabbit and how the toys had to go away because they were germy (hope I'm remembering the story correctly). Those stuffed animals look well used. ",
"This guy Pooh.",
"Good ole Kenny Logging. I used to sing this to my son when he was a baby.",
"Aww I think he’s adorable!",
"This guy Poohs.",
"My dad recently passed away quite suddenly. One of my best childhood memories is sitting on my parents' bed while he played that song",
"With its head vibrating back and forth",
"Yeah... no shit. ",
"Then watch tao of steve. Significantly worse but also has tao in title",
"they *what*",
"How utterly disturbing.",
"roo looks fucked up",
"Pooh looks like he has seen some shit.",
"They look like the they need to go through the washer...",
"It’s a wonderful movie!",
">He disliked the idea of Winnie-the-Pooh being commercialised.\n\n[whelp](https://i.imgur.com/TQ43N1E.png)",
"They aren't cannons.",
"I don't remember Kanga having a goiter in the books.",
"What a sweet memory. I am sorry about your dad. My dad had an unexpected death when I was in my 20's so I know it's a very confusing time. Hang on to that memory!",
"It's believed he was lost in an apple orchard in the 1930s, so I don't know that there would be much left of him sadly. :( ",
"These are most wonderful. I just returned home from spending Christmas in NYC and the only thing I wanted to do was make sure we visited the NYPL so that I could see these guys. I've always loved Winnie The Pooh and Friends and all of the stories. The trip was well worth it and honestly, the child in me thought it was one of the best experiences ever. ",
"Even Logan Paul's kids will think he's a piece of shit.",
"Have we gone too far?\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/33IFbw9.jpg\n\n(Yes, they're Pooh Butts)",
"They look haunted ",
"Yeah no shit",
"Something about old toys in disrepair makes me long for childhood. I guess, in a sense, I see myself in them and know that time is not running out but dwindling. ",
"Disagree. It was a well done movie with great acting, but it was a horrible story about exploitation and neglect. \n\nEdit: Wow, fuck me for having an opinion that's different from the hivemind...\n\nEdit 2: Also, way to use the disagree button! I upvoted the comment I disagreed with and added to the discussion that I felt the movie was about as wonderful as Requiem For A Dream. ",
"Meth is a terrible drug!",
"But where are they?",
"So you disagree with his point then immediately agree?",
"Wasn't Owl apparently destroyed or something",
"In the forest. They’re actual animals. ",
"Is Piglet flipping us off?",
"But I already ate?",
"Winnie the Pooh is a very British creation so I'm surprised to see these in an American library. I know Pooh is popular in America too but IMO these probably belong in the UK.",
"I second this. A great intro to Taoism and it really made me appreciate Winnie the Pooh. After reading it I bought the books and read through them. ",
"it'll be too far after I install a fleshlight",
"Where's Roo?",
"What do you think that bulge in its neck is?",
"They're there due to Christopher Robbin being rather disillusioned with his father's books. He donated them to the American publisher of said books, and they made their way to the library.\n\nhttp://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24777838.html",
"At what point did pooh get the trademark red shirt? ",
"[I could have sworn they had a falling out over a baseball game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvhKRN-WrYQ)",
"Have a spot of hunny?",
"Roo was lost decades ago.",
"Rabbit is doing a dime for amphetamine trafficking.",
"That's Piglet. Roo is long gone.",
"Nah, check out the [original illustrations.](https://www.google.com/search?q=pooh+illustrations+milne&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjcif3l5MbYAhXkQt8KHYNUDIoQ_AUICigB&biw=1324&bih=1036#imgrc=mW0AI7o433z9CM:)",
"So does Tigger. That's definitely a thousand yard stare.",
"That was Disney I believe.",
"[From a review of his book: ](http://www.thingsmeanalot.com/2010/07/enchanted-places-by-christopher-milne.html)\n\n>But as much as you do disguise the facts, there is always some potential there for making people feel exposed and hurting their feelings. Is it a form of personal betrayal if a writer decides to write freely? In A.A. Milne’s case, there weren’t even any attempts to disguise anything – he gave the little boy in the Pooh books the name of his real-life son, and the young Christopher Robin starred in theatre adaptations of the stories and recorded Pooh-inspired phonograph records.\n\n>This was all very well when Christopher Robin was a little boy, but things took a darker turn when he grew older and went to boarding school, only to have his classmates torment him by playing the aforementioned records over and over again. There’s also the fact that a very private moment of his life and a very specific, temporary identity had been immortalised and were perpetually associated with him, regardless of who or how old he had become. Can you imagine having complete strangers asking after your favourite childhood toy when you’re thirteen, seventeen, twenty-three or thirty-eight?\n\nSounds like he's misdirecting the blame for his torment at school to his father. ",
"Yeah we know. It's reposted every day.",
"Knew what this was referencing even after all these years. Always found that origin story ridiculous - where do you just randomly come up with “The pooh” after a name?!",
"🤣",
"Oh. Too bad.",
"I'm just gonna cry now.",
"\"Pooh\" was the sound Winnipeg used to make when he sneezed. He was rescued from a forest fire and he had respiratory problems, so occasionally he'd let out a little \"POOH!\" sneeze. ",
"Well this is endearing as hell, why couldn’t they put this in the Heritage minute?",
"Well, probably because I've heard two versions of the story by Christopher Milne. I heard the sneeze story about thirty years ago while researching the origins of the teddy bear. \n\nBut Milne has stated that \"Pooh\" was the name of a swan he used to visit. Not sure if that makes any sense, though.\n\nedit: Milne also told the story that the \"Pooh\" part of his name came from the idea that a fly or a bee would land on Winnie's nose and because his arms were so stiff, he could only try to \"pooh\" with his breath. Neither the swan story or the fly-on-the-nose story seem likely, as they both sound highly made-up. I remember reading the story of Winnipeg and his sneezes back in the 80's, but I don't remember what book I read that in. ",
"Yeah, I feel they should make a horror movie inspired by this. They can even include the story of real life Christopher Robin's resentment somehow.",
"/r/creepy",
"Kanga's like, bitch please.",
"boo hoo he got to be a child star..",
"> makes me long for childhood\n\n/r/LittleSpace",
"No, I was disagreeing with the wonderful part.",
"Im not entirely convinced he's batting for that team.",
"No, cousin ",
"Adopted, then",
"They're so sad looking.",
"I expect that's where Christopher grabbed it and hauled it around. The cloth is worn away and the stuffing is bulging out.",
"They were restored in 2016 here is an updated image. [Restored toys](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-york-public-library-original-winnie-pooh-doll-613085) ",
"I'd never noticed the patches on Eeyore before. I have a Teddy Bear which I loved so much that he lost his fuzz and acquired lots of patches just like that. ",
">Sounds like he's misdirecting the blame for his torment at school to his father.\n\nI'm sure that anyone living through that would be salty at their father as well.",
"Don't ruin my body horror with your rationality and logic!",
"/r/TIL",
"This is amazing. I can see where Shepard got his inspiration -- they're so close to his original illustrations.\n",
"Who doesn't like Requiem for a Dream?",
"Secret REddit pro level marketing.",
"no pooh*",
"ther*",
"They just made a movie about him and his dad, the author A.A. Milne. \"Goodbye Christopher Robin\", starring Domhnall Gleeson I believe.",
"Iirc some of the animals are based on actual animals Robin saw playing.",
"I'm Sure he would be happy knowing this picture gets on the top page every 3 months",
"And before age 10 he modified a cap gun to shoot real bullets? That kid was twisted.",
"Did you just repost the top comment from last time this was reposted?",
"Are they butts tho? Isn't that from when his belly [tears](https://m.imgur.com/LM9cUEc) after his morning workout? ",
"No... Ya shit",
"Oh good, it's not just me. Umpteen million reasons for me to visit NYC (never have), but this is damn near #1 on the list of \"Things I Can **NOT** Miss On Such A Trip\".",
"What do you mean his real animals? He was a real person? What the hell",
"I just watched that movie too",
"Honey addicted man, you are the queen now. ",
"#GOOD REPOST!\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6rr8om/the_real_stuffed_toys_owned_by_christopher_robin/\n\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/53uybh/the_original_winnie_the_pooh_gang/\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7dpghd/original_winniethepooh_and_his_crew/",
"ASS TO ASS!!!",
"You can see them on display anytime you'd like at the New York Public Library in Manhattan's Midtown district.",
"\"The guy I don't like is gay.\"\n",
"Yes, and America kept them and will not return the to Britain.\nIt has been a source of arguments for years.",
"Was a birds nest first, then probably dirt.",
"Exploitative",
"Well, if I liked him that would be pretty gay dude. ",
"He also married his first cousin. Gross ",
"I’ve never seen a owl play before. I sure would like to though. ",
"The description of him sounded like he was on the spectrum. Idk about twisted defiantly a shame that he felt that way About his fathers writing. ",
"I don't think you understand how the word was being used.",
"After Meth was introduced to the 100-acre woods it was never the same.",
"Robin saw *while* playing*",
"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone_Poops",
"Huh, TIL. Thanks. ",
"I knew someone that spent a bit of time around Christopher in his final years. He was beyond salty. Dude was a shit and would try to destroy anyone’s love for AA Milne’s stories. Some people have a dark heart. ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIfRqhHV7d8",
"My local woodland. It's a great place. ",
"Trust me. Trust me. ",
"Thanks for not putting me in a landfill....",
"His mother wasn't keen on it because she was also his father's cousin. One first cousin marriage is bad enough, let alone two in succession.",
"What the actual fuck",
"Wow, a library? Is it just me that considers these objects as priceless artifacts? ",
"You heard him! In the forest!",
">won·der·ful\n>ˈwəndərfəl/\n>adjective\n>adjective: wonderful\n\n> inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration; extremely good; marvelous.\n\nI did not find the movie to be those things.",
"I find it hard to believe an adoption agency is gonna pass that background check.",
"Yep. Been there. Used to live nearby.",
"you ever just stop and wonder what you are doing with your time?",
"[Poo butt ass.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jHdScWW6k)",
"Many of today's children will be living that when everyone in town remembers their weird diaper accident because mom plasters it all over facebook and the kid turns into a meme for it.\n\nHowever, I had thought Milne himself actually regretted writing the books because people would come to his house and would constantly bother his family over them, that he realized on his own that he had made a mistake including his son.",
"According to another comment, the Milnes said Roo was lost while playing in an apple orchard in the 1930s.",
"OP just watched “Goodbye Christopher Robin”",
"That’s pretty neat",
"Memes aren't exactly what I'd call immortal",
" No. ",
"Name checks out.",
"Yes but he was using the word incorrectly to mean the same thing as really good. Context my dude. ",
"Because I know you like rabbits and I know you like cheese.",
"Unfortunately they couldn't do much for poor ol' piglet",
"Why do I get the feeling that Roo is mad-dogging hard",
"I was to know he was using a word incorrectly when there were four words in a sentence? He said it was wonderful. I disagreed. What context is to be missed? I was hoping to have a discussion about the movie but I forgot reddit isn't that platform anymore. ",
"Crazy that we got a depressed Eeyore just because they decided to model that stuffed animal to be grazing grass.\n\nSo if it was looking up he wouldn't have been depressed.",
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. :pours out 40 in apple orchard:",
"Don't forget the episode The Tao of Rodney.",
"Dang, roo boy look like he only just survived a forest fire and eeyore might have spina bifida",
"There was a big feud between New York and Great Britain about where the animals should be housed. Many people felt like they shouldn’t be in the basement of the N.Y.C. public library. ",
"It’s actually been controversial and part of the reason why NYPL basement was remodeled. ",
"Roll Tide.",
"IIRC, he had scarlet fever and they got rid of the toys because they were contaminated, yes. \n\nThat book scared the shit out of me as a kid because I had a stuffed dog I loved more than anything and I was afraid he'd be taken if I ever got too sick. My mom had to explain that the book is old and modern cleaning shit could clean all of my toys if I ever got that sick. Helps that my favorite was also hers as a kid and she wouldn't ever just throw him out. ",
"Am I the only one wondering where Rabbit is....?\n\n",
"Oh so it's actually supposed to look like it wants to fight me.",
"The real kanga seems to have developed a thyroid problem",
"\"Also, he became estranged from his mother after marrying his first cousin against her wishes.\"\n\n>A few months after his father's death in 1956, Christopher's daughter Clare was born and diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy\n\nDoes anyone who can science better than me know if this is probably a result of that or a coincidence.\n\n I'm asking.. for science (literally though I don't bang my cousins)",
"Except right now the bear is on display at London's Victoria and Albert museum as part of the Winnie the Pooh exhibition",
"🎶You can tell by the way I use my pock, I'm a Kangaroo, no time to hop🎶",
"yup. There is a movie how now about his life called Goodbye Christopher Robin.",
"Yep, can confirm - after driving past (since it’s not really through, when you’re on the Trans-Canada) I re-read about A.A. Milne to learn about the actual bear story.",
"Didn't know it was a repost. Just saw the movie and decided to do some research. The oldest one not counting the post that didn't get any traction was 5 months ago though, so I don't feel so bad.",
"Yes I did.",
"Kanga is the mother, Roo is the baby. Roo went missing long time ago.",
"Yes. The last time this came up, someone quoted a passage where of Rabbit and Owl, one said to the other something about neither having sawdust for brains like the others, or words to that effect.\n\nOn the other hand, in reality, neither owls nor rabbits are particularly smart, despite tropes to the contrary.",
"What?!",
"Good ol Stargate!",
"Teddy needs a hug",
"Wow, only just seen this has blown up. Sorry for the downvotes! I agree with your first line and that was what I was mainly talking about. Wonderfully put together, despite the storyline being negative - however it's hard to do much with that storyline considering it's based on a true story...",
"They should be in Winnipeg.",
">Oh shit that's incredibly insulting. Upvoted. ",
" ...with himself ",
">In 1951, Milne and his wife moved to Dartmouth to found the Harbour Bookshop. This turned out to be a success, though his mother had thought the decision odd, as Milne did not seem to like \"business\", and as a bookseller would regularly have to meet Pooh fans. While both of these issues did at times cause them frustration, Milne and his wife ran their bookshop for many years without any help from royalties from sales of the Pooh books\n\nGuy was a sadomasochist.",
"He possibly was looking up at one point I'm thinking? ",
"Kiwi? ",
"Who is the kangaroo?",
"Kanga https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/0/77/518199-kanga_roo.jpg\n\nRoo has been lost since 1930's apparently.",
"Thanks.",
"*Perfection*",
"Have you ever seen The Thing?"
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"No, snout is a bit proud. Sorry, just a normal tabby. ",
"But them freckles. ",
"Ok. I'll give your tabby an 8. Get it a nose-job and we'll talk. ",
"Are cat nose jobs a thing?\n\n...if they’re not, I may have just found my true calling. ",
"Your cat sucks and so do you.",
"https://i.imgur.com/CZNFPzW.jpg\n\n\nDoes this make it look better? 😔"
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"This is the best.",
"No comment about the 2nd guy to the left? He's doing the same thing. ",
"It's stupid and he's probably wondering whose dumbass idea it was to try to do a group handshake. What's next, the hokie pokie? ",
"Repost",
"Who's fucking idea was it to hold hands like that anyway?",
"He’s happy just Being There.",
"I read recently that it's actually the fault of the blue suit guy to the right. ",
"Nope, it doesn’t fit on the “hate trump” bandwagon silly! "
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"Why is there an otter with prosthetic jazz hands staring at me?",
"It looks like an otter with with claws.",
"I give it two weeks before someone licenses the rights to this picture to make a horror movie based on it.",
"Know that saying, \"Scary as a moose's chin.\"? Well, this is where it comes from.",
"\"Boo. Did i scare you?\"",
"I was thinking seal. ",
"But what would the movie be [called](https://imgur.com/a/0dsJs)?",
"I like it",
"No"
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"Those don't look like plows. ",
"I want to see one of these in action",
"Those are apparently [MIG-15 jet engines.](https://gizmodo.com/5332274/in-russia-snowblowers-use-mig-15-jets/)",
"The fuel must cost a fortune.",
"I know what I’m getting with my tax return ",
"Also apparently not for roads, but to defrost other plane engines.\n\nQuite an alternative to an engine block heater. ",
"Those would be snow incinerators rather than plows"
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"So cute! Relationship goals right there",
"Oh yes! It was a long evening of bonding!",
"...you gave your guests, rocks.",
"This is really cute!",
"And other goodies, too. Ha ha ha",
"We gave them all away. Sorry."
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"He was just following through on something Obama wanted to do ",
"With there being 50 predominately Muslim countries, I don't consider restricting travel from the 7 who have sponsored terrorism or have a history of radicalism an actual ban. I think media hype has blown the situation out of proportion. I am all for allowing immigration and believe that people from other countries can enrich our society, but also believe that we need to be prudent with the process. It is also ironic that many of the countries that are sanctioned, themselves have very strict travel and immigration policies.",
"> prudent with the process\n\nBan is not a process.",
"Pick apart the facts with semantics. Still 7 out of 50 predominantly Muslim countries. 7 with a history of supporting racialism. ",
"Just pop them on a plane and send them to Islamarab.",
"Wow you need some help understanding this I guess. I can only help you a bit but I'll try to sneak something in when I can.\n\n\"Pick apart the facts with semantics.\"\n\nI did pick what you said apart by showing you that the meaning you were using was illogical. Semantics changes the logic and in this case proves what you're saying there is not actually factual. A ban doesn't allow for any process. Being \"prudent with the process\" and banning or restricting without review are entirely separate ideas. So your continued insistence in this statement that these are still \"facts\" is also completely illogical.\n\n\"Still 7 out of 50 predominantly Muslim countries. 7 with a history of supporting racialism.\"\n\nEntire countries are not homogeneous. So this entire idea is straight ignorance based on dull understanding of reality. Restricting immigration from an entire country, instead of finding individuals within it who truly yearn to breath free using a \"prudent process\", is cowardice brought to you by the party who ironically calls everyone else snowflakes."
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"When? How? ",
"It may surprise some people, but the desert isn't always hot. In fact it can be freezing cold. The Gobi Desert comes to mind.\n\nWhen I visited the Skeleton Coast in the Namib desert one December, the highest temperature I experienced was 22 degrees Celsius (71.6 F).",
"In before a conservative says something about how global warming is obviously a lie",
"In after a liberal claims global warming makes things colder...",
"Our upvotes will blot out the sun.",
"Sahara desert and snow. Didn't you read the title?"
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"But where's Peggy? ",
"Peggy's dead.",
"Have been there! My folks used to have a house near Heckman's Island, not too far from Lunenberg. Good people up there. "
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"He’s so regal!",
"That is a darn good carving out of wood. Look at the detail!",
"perfectly carved bark"
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"Did he sell you soup?",
"Yeah, he's the spokesman for a line of packaged soups by the original soup nazi his character is based on. But instead of talking about Seinfeld I impressed him by referencing his role as the blackjack dealer in the first Austin Powers",
"Take my daily upvote, stranger.\n\nYou got to meet him AND reference one of my favorite movies ever, awesome he was surprised."
] | 3 | pics | Met Larry Thomas, the Soup Nazi, on a promotional tour while grocery shopping |
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"I worked nights for over a decade and I so wish I had known about these then. \n\nKarsh",
"The twist being that they no longer function as blackout panels?",
"I've browsed em before\n I like the idea but I want a more generic city-scape and not be based on actual cities.",
"That’s a nice touch ",
"I like these. They'd be almost perfect when I'm trying to sleep in the daytime. And my eyes are closed. And I can't see anything.\n\nEdit: my sausage fingers",
"Where can one buy black out panels?",
"Ikea, though Joanns sells just the fabric. ",
"What a twist!",
"Waaaow ",
"Came to say this. Still a cool idea though but would suck to need to sleep during the day in that room.\n\nEdit: Thanks for all the messages. I already have some black out panels for my bedroom. I use to work nights at UPS loading planes for the holiday season. It was glorious walking into a pitch black room around 10am after working all night.",
"Very old repost. Unfortunately these are not readily available and are super expensive",
"In the bed area of Bed. Bath and Beyond. ",
"The kitchen foil I use on my bedroom window works better than these. And cost me pennies...",
"You'd think they'd be cheap considering they can just stamp out the shape.",
"I use two bathroom towels as blackout curtains lmao",
"http://holeroll.com/en/collection\n\nEdit: Ah the reddit hug of death. Here's a [Google cache](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7dXOwhJ9_48J:holeroll.com/en/collection+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) provided in the original post. \n\n\nFrom the comments of the [original post](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/68pxct) last year to r/pics with, *gasp*, the exact same title as this one.\n\nBonus: [View](https://i.imgur.com/X7Neviv.jpg) of the blackout curtains when they are closed.",
"Sometimes it's worth it to spend a little bit more not to have foil on your bedroom windows.",
"Not without their patent pending hole-punch process, this is cutting-edge stuff",
"Whoa, who pissed in your cornflakes?",
"I used the cardboard from my 55\" television box. That way people know I have money.",
"But the edge is already cut",
"I mean, if that is ALL of the light being let into the room then I doubt it would be hard to fall asleep. Maybe I’m just not light-sensitive, but I think it would just be similar to falling asleep during a full moon or in a place with street lights. ",
"While is wholeheartedly agree with you... not everyone has been a redditor for years it was on that specific day to have seen this post before. This could be their first time seeing this. I’m positive that there are many awesome posts that you saw for the first time when they were reposted. \n\nIf you feel frustrated every time you see a repost, you’ll be a very angry man indeed. ",
">sleeping schedule is fucked \n\n> weather hot, window open \n\n>can see sunlight\n\n>finally sleepy\n\n>if I close the blinds wind’s gonna blow against them and makes it so sun shines in, can’t sleep\n\n>if I keep the blinds up it’s too sunny, can’t sleep\n\n>close windows and blinds gonna be hot af, can’t sleep\n\n>wanna die\n\nSummary of my nights, or mornings, rather\n",
"It's the holes that need punching.",
"Guilty!",
"Is it really though? The aesthetics really don't bother me and I live in a fourth floor apartment.",
"Sounds like you need to invest in a fan, fam",
"Except with this you're still exposed to the full spectrum of light that the sun puts out... and it's still a lot of light anyway since human senses work on a logarithmic scale",
"What's with saying your name after a sentence?\n\npatacable",
"Work night shift for a few years. A dime-sized beam of sunlight can ruin your shit real fast.",
"Gets rid of gorgeous natural green view, just to replace it with a claustrophobic inner-city view. ",
"Yeah. Fuck nature.",
"Man I have the perfect apartment for sleeping during the day. It's like a cave. Unfortunately I don't work nights or anything so it's wasted on me. ",
"Get your screams and police sirens white noise machine to complete the illusion.",
"yeah i know i tried to find these last time and you cant buy them anywhere",
"I happen to like city views.",
"I am curious to see from outside view during night time when the lights are on. ",
"Must be nice to not have sleep issues.",
"That's why I use dollar bills. The down side is people can tell when I'm broke because they can see me undressing.",
"Those aren't black out at all! ",
"Where could I purchase something like this?",
"when will people use original jokes and stop spitting out shit they heard a million times",
"So ineffective black out panels. WHAT A TWIST!",
"That was my thought. Just from what I can see under the little flap, I would much rather have that nice view of the trees. ",
"Considering I live in the DFW area, I do too, but I definitely prefer the mountains. ",
"This. Good job.",
"Nowhere. Don't you listen?",
"Fuck off wanting new users or even old users who have a life and don't spend their lives on the site from seeing content that is new to them. ",
"Walmart actually. The brand is Eclipse. I love mine.",
"I think he’s unhappy with people calling out reposts from a whole year ago, not unhappy about the repost itself.\n\nSo in that sense he holds the exact same views as you lol.",
"This is weird.. We use blackout panels to keep the city out... not to remind us we're stuck in it...\n\n-A NYer",
"Amazon, but read the reviews. \"Blackout\" curtains that block 99% of the light still leave the room pretty bright if you're trying to sleep during the day.",
"Not sure, reminds me of forum posts though\n\nMakalasu",
"How to be a classy goth. ",
"That's beautiful! Too bad that the effect can only be used when it's light outside. It'd be amazing if somehow during the day you could get the view but at night you could use the curtains to this effect.",
"You can sleep in a place with street lights?",
"And a sleeping mask",
"agree. i live in a place where there's 24 hours of daylight in the summer.",
"He's a freemason thats how we end our sentences\n\nKarsh",
"So not blackout panels anymore?",
"Trust me I used to work nights an led light on a charger could ruin your sleep attempt ",
"The trick is to have a child. I’ve been night shift for 14 years, the last year I have had zero window coverings and sleep fine due to complete exhaustion.",
"For real. City scapes are so relaxing to me. ",
"Noisy, and they just move, not cool, air.",
"Just pretend it’s not an actual city",
"rerun",
"Why exactly? ",
"I get it. Because they're twisting the panel. ",
"Hot damn! I thought this was r/Art for a second until I took a second glance at the hand",
"Yup even with blackout curtains that tiny sliver is like a semi truck shining lights in your whole face",
"This is my view without blackout shades (I need to buy some to cover it up hahah)",
"Ya dude. I mean chase your bliss but it is for sure worth it. ",
"Are blackout shades common where you live? Anything else unique about being in 24/7 sunlight that one may not be aware of?",
"Ok but what about 200 dime-sized beams of sunlight?",
"I fucks with it",
"Are you a penguin?",
"You either die making it to the front page, or you live long enough that everything become a repost. I’ve been on reddit for about 4 years. When I first read that I thought how much reposting can there be? Truns out it’s a fuck ton, I just decided to stop giving a fuck and enjoy Reddit for what it is. ",
"[it’s actually not that bright](https://m.imgur.com/X7Neviv) personally, I’d be able to sleep here",
"Are these handmade?",
"They're calling out the original comment for shitting on a year old repost. They agree with you ",
"kind of defeats the purpose",
"Where do I sign up?",
"These aren’t blackout but these are hard",
"I think he's a potato.",
"Or just use a sleeping mask",
"\"What a Twist!\" - M Night Shyamalan",
"They don't cool the *air* but they still cool you. Moving air increases the evaporation of sweat and moisture on your skin which cools your body. It also exchanges the air around your body so cooler air is against your skin (like how fans blow across CPU heatsinks).",
"In the winter you get 24/7 darkness",
"Light pollution panels",
"Would you rather fight 200 dime-sized beams of sunlight or 1 beam of sunlight-sized dime?",
"https://i.imgur.com/sT8gMqk.jpg",
"Blackout curtains\n\n10 exacto knives\n\n20 hours (+?)\n\nBingo",
"Do you not have air conditioning?",
"**Baked potato**... a *high* fry, if you will.",
"Speaking as someone who has worked shifts for over 30 years, kids usually means nights shift gives you a free ride. You come in from nights, your SO looks and feels sorry for you. You end up with a days sleep uninterrupted. Meanwhile she/he spends a full week getting up midway through the night. \n\nI know this happened to me, and when I have pointed it out to many new shift workers, I always get that knowing smile.\n\n**edited** for grammar \n",
"Agreeing with you. \n\nAlso, get off night shift that shit is bad for your health. ",
" I emailed them cause I wanted these; they never responded.",
"must be a very old repost because I have been on reddit daily for over 6 years and have never seen it.",
"This is great for those daytime depression naps.",
"Meanwhile, I often fall asleep (unintentionally) with my overhead bedroom light on (32 watts of LED light). ",
"If the material is laser safe you may be able to laser cut it.",
"The white noise helps me sleep. And warm air is much easier to handle when it's moving than when it's still.",
"IamAPenguin",
"Just mold some rubbery plastic sheets. I can't imagine this being more than a few bucks per sheet.",
"Here we see the unabashed slaughtering of a joke that was already not being subtle.",
"Unless you work nights, in which case the sun and those happy little trees can fuck right off. ",
"Prime hunting season for vampires. ",
"Before now. Long before.",
"Is this my entrepreneurial opportunity? I really need to get rich quick, I only have $40 to last me this next week. \n\n*Desperately gathers cardboard and x-acto knives.*",
"Oh you!",
"Idk I work night shift and I can sleep in broad daylight",
"That sounds terrible. Also reminds me of this guy: https://youtu.be/q5q77MQzU2Q",
"AMA?",
"You also have to consider that OP is 100% a karma bot/harvester. Each of OP's comments and posts are copied word for word from elsewhere. It seems like karma bots are becoming the future of reddit.",
"Cool as hell but they definitely serve a different purpose.",
"I was about to say the same thing. Can't be from the US in that case. ",
"I am light sensitive. The light from a smoke alarm will keep me up. This would be hell.",
"It’s too cold for air conditioning but too hot for closed window",
"Just add another layer of blackout panels on top. Obviously.",
"works as dim panels.",
"Curio machine or Laser cutter can do this pretty easily.",
"Haha! Totally. It’s been years since my child was little, but my day sleep is still strong. I still need it on the darker side, but this would totally be within acceptable parameters.",
"Reddit hugged it... ofc.",
"You must live, in[*New Yorrrrrrrk*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCMc6oC2T34)",
"Ah someone else who lives in a city. Add in the sound of train horns, airplanes and freeway traffic and the atmosphere will be complete. ",
"This is a repost from a couple of months ago. Let's get to downvoting guys.",
"I don’t work nights, I’m just a worthless teenager :>",
"New York is pretty safe these days. Safest major city in the US, as a matter of fact. The ambulance sirens are still pretty annoying though.",
"Replace 10 exacto knives with one paper hole punch.",
"I'm much younger and I've seen it before so you gotta step your game up",
"that was relevant",
"I could make it. Seems easy. Just buy the black out film and lazer cut it.",
"No, I saw it a recently on here. Got a LOT of comments and upvotes.",
"Charging lights in my room are the bane of my slumber",
"Seems like a full moon would still be a thing, and as someone who lives up in the mountains away from city lights I can tell you a full moon feels almost like daylight.",
"Well, a beam of sunlight that hits you on earth is 93 million miles long, so is that the diameter of the dime, or the width?",
"Because I have no real connection to New York or Chicago or whatever, so why would I want them to line my window?\n\nI would even be a little hesitant to put the city I live in on my windows.",
"I don't understand. Set the thermostat to whatever a comfortable temperature is and just let the machine do its job. It'll only turn on when it's warmer than you want and turn off when it's as cold as you want.",
"You can fuck off with that fuck off shit. ",
"You kinda sound like Bob Ross' slightly more negative brother. ",
"What thermostat?",
"... But why bring that into this thread? We had a good thing going... ",
"Username checks",
"Ah, thank you, Thing.",
"So not a black out panel then?",
"They keep your place cool as well",
"Is it daylight there?",
"Price?",
"What's a potato?",
"I thought: party screams. So many bros and woo girls.",
"Have an upvote, sir. ",
"How that dime-sized beam manages to hit the one reflective surface in the room and bounce back directly into your eye is amazing.",
"I purposefully started not closing my blinds in order to get used to light shining through and I'm happy to say that I can now sleep no matter how bright it is. ",
"Vampires really aren't as much of a problem as you'd think. The Summers starve them, so none really stay as permanent residents. You've only got to worry about sanguine tourists, and even then only in Winter.",
"I don't see that phrase too much on here but there's a couple others that are overused, including but not limited to: \"play stupid games, win stupid prizes\" and \"who hurt you?\". I don't know why it bothers me so much but I automatically want to downvote that shit. ",
"So is being homeless and not able to afford food",
"You say potato I say potato.",
"I wouldn't mind *some* light, especially with this visual bonus. I don't like absolute darkness anyway.",
"That would be a very tedious job.",
"Electric lights and sunlight are two very different things when it comes to sleep.",
"/r/ineeedit",
"You know what a potahto is?",
"There it is ",
"I wish. My wife works, so the kid goes to my mothers, however, my mother works second shift. That means I get home at 7:45 and have to be awake at 1:30 to pick him up at 2pm. So, if I fall asleep instantly, I get 5 3/4 hours sleep at the most. ",
"Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Canadian or Russian most likely.",
"Perfect for gaming!",
"Cities and their light pollution... ",
"Black out panels with a ton of holes.\n\nStill cool though.\n",
"I'm pretty sure Reddit has become my Pinterest",
"Concrete jungle wet dream tomaaaaato there's nothing you can't doooo",
"But you have no connection to a nonexistent city either so what's the difference?",
"These are more like pretend city skyline at night panels. ",
"This is why I sleep with a pillow over my eyes.",
"You also probably won't like my [\"condom with a twist\"](https://imgur.com/a/FSUuJ) idea either...",
"I prefer a cave like experience. I would have to wear a sleep mask with those panels.",
"Oops. Sorry! I shouldn't be on here when I'm in a bad mood. ",
"This is an old repost.",
"PSA: This is not good for any nocturnal animals that may live in that apartment, it will confuse their internal clock. ",
"My job is based on seniority, so I need a few people to die off before I can. Leaving is a substantial pay cut(union job).",
"Nah bro, thats the New Jersey crowd (or bridge and tunnel people as we call them), they do infiltrate the city on the weekends, but thankfully stay in manhattan mostly.",
"User name checks out",
"Literally laughing aloud at this hahaha fuck it’s too real",
"Bingo is enjoyable.",
"I need something like this. My bedroom is always bright as shit because the mini blinds on them do a shitty horrible job of keeping light out. In the spring and summer, I'm up by 8:30am every day because sunlight is hitting my face directly in bed and I can't sleep.",
"You could work day shift and live in the city being depicted and still sleep. Actually, my experience has been to live in places where I have been unfortunate enough to have idiot neighbors who light up their yards like a WalMart parking lot, so country living for me has been much worse than any city existence.\n\nI mean, that god-damn spot light is aimed right at my fucking house! I’m not gonna steal your shitty grill or you worm-infested dog that barks all night!\n\nWhen we shopped for the house I’m in now, I spent a lot of time looking out the windows at the neighborhood, and a lot of nice houses were left behind because of inconsiderate douchbag neighbors. There’s a LPT for you, drive past a place you are interested in at night.",
"Please sell these",
"Am Latvian",
"How much",
"It helps to put something above the curtains (we always laid cardboard across the top) and also to use Command clips to clip the sides to the walls. You can also get very long ones to keep light from spilling in from below.\n\nWe've been able to get a very decently dark room doing this. \n\nSource: wanted child to nap.",
"No.",
"On the contrary, I love that it is something iconic, recognizable.",
"Where would one acquire these gems?",
"as long as you get a solid 8-9 hours sleep, why is night shift bad for your health? wasn't aware of this. I know many people who work night shift have poor sleeping habits , is that perhaps why?",
"That's what she said.",
"Sure!",
"Can shades like this be purchased online? These are awesome! ",
"Same here, I'd say I sleep better during the day than at night. Warm sunlight makes me kinda drowsy. That's why I love working night shifts, suits my sleeping habits better than \"normal\" working hours.",
"My potato senses are tingling.",
"Well I think the rays of light are pretty benign so either way it seems fine.",
"That's a very good point. Perhaps a generic city feels more unique, and not as cheesy like he's trying to be somewhere else.",
"That would not reach the middle of the board though. One would have to use a blade. ",
"Okay this part sounds cool, is tourism popular in the summer? I want to see what that's like",
"I feel like there’s gotta be a DIY for this",
"And so can these curtains full of holes",
"The same effect could be achieved by printing a [design](https://images.megapixl.com/6309/63098837.jpg) onto black card and sticking it over the window. \nEDIT: Obviously you'd have to cut out the white with a scalpel, or a laser cutter, anything precise.",
"Lol, nice. Your oops brought a smile to my face it's kinda cute. ",
"Used to live in Alaska where summers are also 24hrs of daylight. I grew used to the constant light but every now and then wife needed to black out the room. We had neat window folds though that completed darkened the bedroom.",
"I work normal hours but LOVE to take naps and sleep in VERY late on days off. I need blackout blinds... even a tiny bit of light will constantly disturb my sleep",
"Boil em. Mash em. Put em in a stew.",
"Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew?",
"Well I can tell you that switching from night shifts to day shifts and back every other week sucks. Don't know about if you just work nights, I have to imagine that would be better though.",
"Jack et po tato?",
"Why would you trade flying for swimming?",
"I can often sleep with lights on, but even a tiny bit of sunlight will wake me up (I need blackout blinds to sleep)",
"1 beam of sunlight sized dime. It would make me an incredible wealthy man.",
"You realize that as of 2017, NYC has the lowest crime rate of **any** major city in the US, right? And they've had a Democrat as mayor for the last 4 years and Democrats as governor for the last 11 years? And those Democrats didn't cause the crime rate to go up. It's been steadily falling since the mid-90s, through Republican, Democrat, and other*. So how do you rationalize your statement?\n\n*Bloomberg was a bit of a political anomaly. He was Democrat, then Republican, then independent. Don't really know how to classify him.",
"Repost of a reposted repost. Jees.",
"Fish.",
"I think they might be good.. less like you're loxked in a black box. More like it its really night outside .. especially if effect is realistic.",
"Looks really nice, would drive me crazy trying to sleep after nightshift however!",
"Solid answer ",
"Thanks, see new link",
"It’s all fun and games until the sun finds its way perfectly through one of those cutouts straight to your retina. ",
"since I would be crushed under the weight of the dime I'm gonna go with the 200 beams of sunlight. I might not win given the ephemeral (yet seemingly contradictory intransient) nature of light, but at least I won't die, along with the rest of the planet.\n\nAnd before you say anything, I choose sunscreen as my weapon of choice.",
"Painful, isn't it.",
"I've never seen an air conditioner without a thermostat, even if it's a shitty window unit and not central air.\n\nWhere are you located?",
"Exactly what I was thinking. ",
"Most places outside of America don't use air conditioning",
"I don’t enjoy going to the city, NEXT! ",
"No way. Just cut it out on a flatbed cutting plotter. You would just have to design it, lay the material on the table, and hit print. Machine will do the rest. Could probably make this in about an hour.",
"/r/Beetlejuicing ",
"Yes. Having a friend from Iceland and traveling there, blackout blinds were pretty standard. The RV we rented even had them on every window. ",
"More like blackout panels with a bunch of holes in them, amirite",
"a black out blind, that lets light in, do they also sell bowls with holes in the bottom? /s\n\nno shit people\n",
"Mix things up. Make each panel have a landmark and correct surrounding skyline from a different city. You now have your own skyline.",
"And that dime sized beam of light will somehow always shine right on your eye. ",
"These would be great for people who worked graveyard and have to sleep through the day",
"Where do I buy 1 of these that includes a cool pattern?",
"Sounds like you need to stop spending time on 4chan fam",
"I think this is for people who aren’t on night shift and just want something that looks cool. ",
"When you live in the suburbs. And miss city life",
"What about migratory vampires??",
"Has no one on this post heard of a facemask used for sleeping?",
"Mac OS screensaver circa 1998",
"I’ll take the opposite as I live in a city and as they say, the grass is greener..",
"https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287569.php\n\nThere's another one at the bottom about brain function. No idea if these are mitigated by proper sleep but having worked graveyards for a while I can't imagine the REM sleep is equivalent between day/night sleep of equal hours. ",
"Good thing facemasks while sleeping are a thing ",
"Those are called blinds",
"It's for movie day!!",
"I would market the shit out of this in Alaska or any geographically prolonged sunlit area.",
"For people who hate sunlight?",
"Looks like I need to brush up on my air guitar skills! Thats really interesting, thanks for sharing",
"Some people don't want 100% pitch black though.",
"In the Lap(land) of Luxury, no doubt...",
"#GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE",
"air conditioning requires an exhaust to for the hot air, ie the window, so same problem.",
"How do you guys feel about tourists?",
"what does this mean? looked up logarithmic scale and said it was a way to measure things like earth quakes and light intensity etc?",
"Well then don't get BLACKOUT panels",
"Also it’s made by top men. ",
"Had a friend in college from New York City who lived in a small suburban area off campus in southern Chicago. He said he couldn’t fall asleep because it was too quiet and he’d lie awake at night because of how eerie it was. ",
"Direct midday sunlight is tens of thousands, sometimes as much as a hundred thousand times brighter than full moon illumination. Even if those holes make up just 10 percent of the surface of the window, it's still up to ten thousand times brighter than wide open windows at night.",
"Id be glad for that! Do you find jetlag harder to adjust to?",
"Cover up the trees, I want a city skyline!",
"_Thank you_ , Barrow tourist guide!\n \n ಠ_ಠ",
"Good quality sleep mask and ear plugs. Wouldn't be able to sleep without them.",
"Front page? This was all over Reddit 6 months ago. ",
"you arent sleeping *in* a place with street lights... more like *on* a park bench",
"Where can you buy them? If you know :)",
"Ok, those are cool. It’s a shame that they are covering up all that beautiful nature though. Unless they are in the city or an apartment and don’t have that great of a view. I would like it better if it was stars or maybe a cool shot from a movie or something. Still a cool idea!",
"Blackout curtains\n10 exacto knives\n20 hours (+?)",
"Depends where it is did a few years of 12hr shifts 3 days day 3 days off 3 days night. So never got in a rhythm. I'd sleep through no problem but sometimes there was a little beam of light that hit perfectly on my right eye. ",
"Helsinki is a popular tourist location throughout year, but yeah definitely would recommend summer. Lapland is cool during the winter. ",
"Oh god like this hasn’t been on the internet for a decade now?....",
"Must be a european no climate control pleb.",
"Here I am sleeping with a tv on and these people can't fall asleep with a digital clock in the same room ",
"I feel like this is a two kinds of people thing. One sees it as an excuse to not do their share, the other sees the revelation as an opportunity to correct the imbalance.",
"Or even stadiums. I would love this if I could have Minute Maid Park. ",
"All summer or in a row?",
"Maybe I'm a cat. I sleep the best in sunbeams (iv worked nights for years). They relax me, all warm and shit.",
"Just get them for a city you haven’t been to. Then you won’t know if it’s “real” or not. ",
"Where can I get these???",
"Oh gosh the night sky one would be so worth it. ",
">folding",
"If you have blackout shades that work properly, you shouldn't need a sleeping mask. Buying both is redundant.",
"Fold it over and you can punch 2 holes in the middle at any point. ",
"Get AC?",
"Wow I'm the exact opposite. I can sleep in a fully lit room. As long as I have my eyes closed.",
"Night shift in the summer is the worst. I barely sleep 3 hours a day",
"You came first?",
"> do they also sell bowls with holes in the bottom? \n\nYeah they are called colanders.",
"yep. its crazy how many times I hear that a fan is worse as it blows hot air. the only time it wouldn't work so well is in an EXTREMELY humid environment if the air is already saturated with water (Im talking insane levels of humidity)",
"Cool as fuck 😎 ",
"r/INEEEEDIT",
"Yes, those are called colanders.",
"You need to get a \"jalousie\". They are kind of like big venetian blinds in a frame like a shutter. We have a bunch in our house.\n",
"We don’t have AC everywhere in America. Houses can get pretty hot in the summer in northern climates like Alaska due to all the insulation. ",
"Move your bed. Or turn the blinds so they angle up instead of down. Trust me.",
"Sounds like alot of anxiety lol",
"[What a twist](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kdhhQhqi_AE)",
"I wonder if FuckLogicMan will take your advice. ",
"\nWell yeah of course, but people acting like these shades are useslwss cuz of the holes. They look cool and facemasks aren't hard to get.\n\nOptions spelled out: \n\n-get normal blackout shades \n\nOR \n\n-have cool blackout shades and have to spend like $10 on a sleeping facemask \n\nI'm sure for most redditors the top options is preferable, but for people with money these shades are really cool and facemasks cost next to nothing ",
"That's the worst. I live in Chicago right next to the big hospitals and the sirens go off all damn night. ",
"And a rope ",
"And some tramadol",
"City view > boring trees\n\n*person with a view of boring trees in their room ",
"I have worked nights for 10 years. You get used to a little light. Work hard enough you can sleep through it. You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the night.",
"Is the twist that there are stars visible in manhattan?",
"Where can i buy these :o ?",
"Sweet! Why pay millions for the same view of Manhattan when I can just get these?",
"Hahaha! Thank you for existing",
"this is increasingly changing. especially in hotter climates. meeting the energy demand of the developing world adopting air conditioning en masse is actually a future problem…",
"I did",
"Don't forget Alaska!",
"It's been called a cancer hazard, osha warns about long term shift work. I Worked graveyard for a few months and I didn't get cancer but I did start feeling like shit and out of touch with reality and quit. ",
"Or people trying to minimize their air conditioning bill on really hot days.",
"Iunno, I work nights and I like to leave just a little light coming through the windows around my curtains as I sleep. It helps keep my nights and days in check. It's much easier to switch back to days on my off time when I do this.",
"Yo just imagine looking at that and seeing a massive fucking shadow move across it ",
"I'll never sing that song the same way again. Thank you. ",
"Sounds reasonable, have an upvote.\n\nWhat several people here seem to have missed is that I didn't really chastise OP for reposting, I was calling out the fact that the title was copied word for word. Which may suggest that OP is a bot. I have no big problem with reposting on default subs, unless it's in the same week or something.",
"I moved to NYC from a pretty quiet area a few years ago, I'll always remember my first few nights sitting up for hours because I couldn't handle all the noise. Now whenever I go home my first few nights are a struggle because the silence is deafening. \n\n\n",
"You don’t strike me as experienced hole puncher.",
"IDK what curtains you got, but the ones I've bought from even just target made everything *dark* and it was easy af to sleep even with the sun going right at the windows. I wouldn't be able to tell you time of day. \n\nYou can't just buy black curtains, they're usually pretty pricey compared to normal curtains, but they definitely work. You have to make sure you set them up right (floor-ceiling is how I had mine set up, but just make sure it's longer and wider then your window to block everything), but they would even keep the room cool they blocked so much light. ",
"I use foil. I just don’t bother ever to open the window. ",
"Most of europe doesn't use air conditioning, at least not for our homes. \n\nWe build houses completely differently. ",
"This is such a reddit comment. Yeah, of course they no longer function as blackout panels. They're using a product for another purpose, dummy. And you know this. ",
"Depends on the person. I've worked night shift for 6+ years and any level of light does not bother me.",
"It’s called a signature in some circles.\n\nCrealis",
"Never could get used to wearing one. Ended up doing tinfoil on the windows and alter that black out curtains. These would have been a good looking option. \n\nKarsh",
"> facemaeks\n\nwhoops",
"I guarantee that one little beam of light would go directly in my eye no matter what",
"I had never experienced a midnight bro scream til I visited London. In the middle of the night I awoke to an \"oi oi!\" Followed by a few moments of silence and then a defeated and sad sounding \"...oi?\" It was one of the funniest goddamn things I've ever had the pleasure of being woken up from. It was like a mating call that the caller had just realized would never be answered. ",
"So they covered up the view of the wilderness with the view of city lights?",
"Do you know da wae?",
"Fans are supposed to cool you, not the air. They help evaporate sweat and moisture more rapidly from your skin which cools you very rapidly (an air conditioner also removes moisture from the air - together you can cool off very quickly)\n\nif you sleep under a very heavy blanket and the fan isnt hitting you it wont work (but if its hot out why do you have a quilt or comforter on?)\n\nAlso if it is hot in your house and cool outside, can use to bring in cold air, or can use to remove hot air from your house. house fans are very old school and work great - often older homes have them in the hallway near the bedrooms",
"I can never sleep on tramadol because of it's SSRI properties, a traditional opiate or benzodiazepine might be better in this situation.",
"And my axe!",
"Lol original post a year ago? Pretty sure I saw this on tumblr like 5 years ago ",
"Thank you",
"Just get blackout curtains and a cat. Worked for me. ",
"Reminds me of when my family and I went to Chicago. The hotel we stayed in was directly next to a fire station and apparently they are needed all god damn night.",
"I think they *do* have a connection to the city in that they know of the city and are aware of its skyline, but the problem is that said connection is an impersonal one. So putting up something you don't have a personal relationship with feels silly. ",
"Residential air conditioning is uncommon in Seattle, even though it would be nice for about two months out of the year.",
"Where can i buy one?",
"My step mother's apartment back east didn't have a.c. and they weren't allowed a window unit. Also, my husband's family in Argentina doesn't have a.c. because it's extremely expensive to install. They use a floor fan, though.",
"It was posted like 4-5 months ago. ",
"To be honest I know fuck all about pharmaceuticals. I just named the last thing I was given by a doctor. :/\n\nBut good to know on the other stuff!\n\nEdit: Jesus Christ, I just read the wiki. Fucking doctor didn't mention of that stuff. Nor ask about depression or something, considering there's apprarently there's a fucking suicide risk? Double you tea eff",
"Does it work if you put them the other way round?",
"A hellish existence I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy",
"I grew up in PA and didn't have air conditioning until I went to college. Now I am totally dependent on it. ",
"That what tin foil is for. Make it look like a grow op in that bitch.",
"Beautiful. Now let’s create one that displays the time across your floor. ",
"/u/skyttlesog ",
"[snik](http://www.snikarts.com) is an art duo that creates amazing stencils peaces.. I bet if they had their way with this, though it would still not be functional as blackout curtains. Shit would look amazing. Especially if they could throw in some colored paper lol ",
"There's actually a good few towns and cities in the arctic circle that have this happen \n\nhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Arctic_circle.svg/1200px-Arctic_circle.svg.png\n\nIn fact I'm pretty sure the arctic circle is defined by having the sun still visible at midnight on the solstice. ",
"I worked the graveyard shift for a few years, and the thing that honestly saved my ass was a sleeping mask. Got one for about ten bucks and used it for a couple years before replacing it.\n\nIt works really well, I ended up having my window and blinds both open and it was barely noticeable.",
"Do you know deh whey",
"So a black out panel.....with a bunch of holes in it. What does this accomplish except a waste of money. ",
"To be fair, I had blackout panels that were so dark they were a hazard so I almost understand this. ",
"Yea I don't think it depends on night shift work. I worked night shift for a while and I didn't mind a little bit of light. Even now that I work first shift I sleep with a couple nightlights. I think some people like a little light and some don't. Just depends who you are.",
"[Can a Human See a Single Photon? ](http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon.html) Answer: Yes. Saved you a click but it's fascinating how our eyes evolved to be this sensitive.",
"I'm not getting them, I just said these would be fine.",
"Im certain this is a repost",
"This is lit af (literally) :p ",
"Or hypnotics? Jumping straight to tramadol and opiates and benzos seems a bit quick",
"People must see this same thing from the outside during the night. As long as there’s a light on inside the room",
"Ok but not even kidding I used to fall asleep by counting how many horns I could hear when I was like 8 (we had a condo on lakeshore drive) ",
"Some people can sleep with light in the room, but there's a ton of people who need total darkness. I'm in the group of people with blackout curtains, putting tape over every charger LED, but then can't fall asleep without white noise.",
"GO AND CHECK OUT MY NEW VIDEO ",
"I totally agree. That's why I got myself a sleep mask. if I leave my computer on at night the light on the tower can absolutely reck my night. ",
"yeah..we all live in caves outside the US..no electricity etc..",
"Dude he plowed your mom, it checks out.",
"Now I need a second set of blackout curtains to go in front of these",
"I've worked shifts for years. Darker is better, of course, but there's often a couple cracks of sun. Never bothers me.",
"Do you ever dress down?",
"hm, never thought of trying tin foil. Might try that myself, since I have similar problems in the summer.",
"there’s something peaceful and poetic about the top post being a blackout panels pic. i know there’s pain and suffering in the world...but it’s like a momentary reprieve... like blackout panels for the soul. \n",
"I could see this being preferable in restaurants ",
"underrated comment ",
"as I said only you americans got it going 😂",
"Might have meant trazadone?\n\n\nIf you take opioids or benzos for sleep every night you will have a slew of other problems, sleep still being one if you ever run out. ",
"We have a/c in Canada, hey.",
"Not everyone who sleeps during the day requires pitch black. I can sleep just fine in full daylight, as long as the sun isn't directly on my face. My \"blackout\" curtain is more opaque than anything, so I can still know if it's day, night, or dusk. \n\nI almost got these for my gf for Christmas since out apt is NY skyline themed, but these are stupid expensive.",
"Sometimes it's worth it to spend a little bit more not to have foil on your bedroom windows.",
"And a bottle of rum!",
"But what’s wrong with me?",
"THAT'S THE POINT OF BLACK OUTS GET REGULAR CURTAINS IF YOU WANT LIGHT DIFFUSAL.",
"Is it a twist because you’re twisting the curtain?",
"That movie was pretty boring.",
"And waffles! Tasty waffles with lots of syrup.",
"I NEEEED IT ",
"Did you ever think that, you know, your opinion isn't universal and that there are people that actually like city views? No, of course you didn't.",
"Been here. Seen this. NEXT!",
"is hallucination from malnourish",
"[holes need punching](https://i.imgur.com/4efWtRa.gifv) ",
"I need this in my life.",
"I would put the city of light from the Golden Compass.\n\nWell, whatever my image of it is. I have a distinct picture in my head but I can’t remember if I saw it somewhere or extrapolated it from the books description",
"...In NYC you gotta add the delivery truck lift gate slamming to the ground... taxi horns.. and my favorite: metal scaffolding rod dropping ",
"It basically means we don't perceive a 2x increase in light as a 2x increase in brightness.\n\nAs an example, a normal 60W light bulb may produce around 60 lux, while a bright therapy light (for treating SAD) can produce 10,000 lux, and a normal sunny day outside can give you around 100,000 lux. Despite these large differences in light intensity, you don't necessarily perceive them as vastly different levels of brightness.\n\n\n^^^^Full ^^^^disclosure: ^^^^I'm ^^^^not ^^^^a ^^^^physiologist",
"Plenty of places in the northern part of the US don't have AC (window units or central) because it doesn't typically get hot enough to need them. I've been watching some friends suffer on unreasonably hot 90+ degree days the last few summers because the highs aren't usually that high in the area.",
"Some people like the view of cites at night.",
"That's a repost",
"Im happy to announce that the downvote train is about to leave. ",
"What a stupid incorrect statement. ",
"I found that the Target blackout ones still let in too much light. If found some on Amazon that block 100% of the light. The only light in the room comes from above the curtains since I have the sides tucked into the blinds.",
"I mean by hypnotics do you mean Lyrica and other Z-drugs? Because they work in a similar fashion to benzodiazepines just more selective to a certain part of the gaba receptor. They're just a ton more expensive than benzos though ",
"The missing verse of The Nightman. ",
"yeah shift work where you bounce back and forth between night and day is much different and wrecks havoc on your mind and body. I know a state police officer who does this and its rough on him. he works 12 hour shifts and every week it alternates between night and day",
"Not if there's a diffuser layer in front and not just holes",
"this wont help you sleep",
"These are amazing. I want them!",
"They would still work when I have a bad migraine and it is sunny out.",
" mom's spaghetti",
"Awesome idea! Are there different patterns? Where can I buy this? Hope it's under $100!",
"Not as blackout panels tho.",
"> patent pending\n\nChinese farm workers are now patentable?",
"Maybe, shit though I would much rather take a benzo for sleep rather than an antipsychotic. It's near impossible to run out of benzos now anyway. ",
"Take my money!",
"Aight I gotchu man, \n\nThis [Sleeping Mask is baller ](https://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/Sleep+Therapy+Mask/204864?cm_mmc=alsobought-_-204864-_-null-_-null&rrec=true), I've had insomnia for like 2 years since working as a nurse aid and having crazy hours, but having this makes a HUGE difference. Don't get that weak ass shit on Amazon, you need something that makes it impossible to tell what time of the day it is. \nGet [Blackout Window Curtains like this, even the beige ones work, but I'd get black ](https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B016MB5K0A/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1515353124&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=blackout+window+curtain&dpPl=1&dpID=51KHRT3cfDL&ref=plSrch)\n\nNext is your sleep hygiene. I know it sounds weird, but what do you right before bed? What do you eat? What do you drink? What do you think about? Do you watch YouTube videos on your phone for an hour after eating a snack right before bed? \n\nYou gotta analyze everything you do my man. Working 12hr shifts that fluctuated from days to nights started it for me, but playing Overwatch till 2am after I got off at midnight was what really continued the insomnia. I felt like the day was wasted because I couldn't do anything besides work. I slept in since I stayed up late. Then when I switched to first shift and had to get up at 6am I was nervous I couldn't get up and didn't sleep. \n\nYou get into routines and start to feel helpless. Like nothing you can do will change anything. It can. Only use your room for sleep. Get back out curtains and aromatherapy infusers (lavender is great)! Don't watch TV Or play games 1hr before bed (I'd say don't look at your phone too but start with TV and games). Get a blue light filter app for your cpu and your phone. \n\nLastly meditate before bed. Even if seems stupid, even if you think you're doing it \"wrong\". There's no wrong way to sit in a dark room and breathe. Let your mind run wild for a few minutes and just breathe it will calm down EVENTUALLY. \n\nYou can beat this man. Insomnia is no joke. Good luck man \n",
"Dat’s genious.",
"I did a lot of research trying to find these back in the day and it legitimately took me months. If any body is interested in these they're called holerole. You can Google them and buy them from numerous places including Amazon ",
"dont forget your upstairs neighbours arguing!",
"pretty sure you are joking because you obviously wouldnt get cancer from working a few months... but if you were serious about longterm causing cancer I didnt know about that",
"Still as dark as typical blinds.",
"Anyone know where these could be bought?",
"Reddit should be called Reppostit :/ smh I've seen this reposted so many times.\n\nI like it but I wish I could see new things instead of the same every few months ",
"What does that even mean?",
"Tape tin foil over the windows shiny side out. Dark as night and reflects the sunlight. Win-win!",
"No, thank *you* for existing. <3",
"Plot twist being you fucking stole this content. ",
"I love these. ",
"You’re a Digg refugee aren’t you?",
"i mean, he's right if you at least try to understand what he's saying. of course we use air conditioning here in europe, but it's waaaay less than in america, especially at home.",
"He doesn't know what lightswitches are.",
"This. It wont affect afternoon naps, but I used to work night shift for over a decade and these won't work on a regular basis.",
"Which it is not",
"Awesome but they kinda defeat the purpose of blackout panels.",
"Does he penguin?",
"Idk, I've been working nights for a while, light doesn't really effect me anymore. I can fall asleep with the lights on no problem. Maybe it's just cause I'm always so damn fucking tired all the time though.",
"M. Knight Shamalan made this post.",
"Tastes very strange!",
"If it was one window it may not effect circadian rhythm as much but I'm more concerned about how easy it is to take them off and put them back on. If it isn't easy, then why purchase? ",
"If your holes need punching, I can do that.",
"I mean z-drugs specifically, as well as things like antihistamines or melatonin. I take quitiapine for my insomnia (and related bipolar disorder) and it's an antipsychotic that has me asleep in under 30 minutes. That being said I live in the UK and honestly price never came into it for me because my prescriptions are free. That fucking sucks that you'd have to try tramadol over a less severe/addictive alternative just because of price... ",
"It took me forever to figure out what \"double you tea eff\" meant until I said it out loud. You sly dog.",
"Why? Did you respond to the wrong comment?",
"It's pretty obvious that these aren't meant to be functional ",
"As someone who can't sleep if the charging light on their phone is on...this would kill me.\n\n",
"I work 12 hour night shifts and have for years, at first it would bother me but now I don't give a fuck and could probably sleep anywhere",
"Don't be an idiot. I never even hinted that that's what I meant.",
"Top. Men.",
"#SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGHET",
"This is not necessarily true.",
"*rutting",
"Dan is that you?? ",
"that article is about people with rotating shift work where they alternate between night and day - which is the absolute worst. I definitely agree and even common sense tells you that has to be horrible for you. I couldn't imagine having a job like that. they would have to pay me a LOT of money and doing it longterm can mess you up physically and mentally. plus many times those jobs have 12 hour shifts which means you likely arent getting enough sleep in general. \n\nI meant for people who work only nights and its a steady shift. for example you work 8 hours a night 5 days a week such as 10pm - 6am mon-fri. you would still be able to have plenty of sleep and could get on a stable sleep schedule- just during the day. \n\nI wonder if that is also at an increased risk?",
"Was from a company called holeroll. No longer available.. gutted",
"And I almost understand this...",
"A place with streetlights ... like my bedroom? A level below the street so you think there would be much, but the entire room is that weird orange colour and ridiculously bright. From moving in to buying blackout blinds my sleep was completely and utterly appalling. I didn't get a single night of rested deep sleep because it was far too bright for me.\nFrom 1 streetlight.",
"Also, the sun can be below the horizon in the summer and it not be dark, while in the winter the sun is above the horizon by the same amount.",
"Coincidentally most of m night shamalamadon's movies are ruined with a twist",
"Unless you live in a temperate climate it seems you would still need a thermostat for heating, if not AC. But, you'd know better than me, since I don't live there. ",
"Where do i buy this?",
"Am from the US. Don’t have AC. It’s only hot enough for AC in Michigan from about late June til late August when it reaches the 90s ",
"I have a kitten who climbs my blackout panels and there's little claw marks all over it. It lets a little bits of light in which is obliviously not what I wanted. I couldn't imagine of having actual little squares all over it.",
"*she, but thank you anyway. I live in the UK and generally the weather isn't warm enough often enough to justify buying air conditioning.",
"Where can I get some of these\n",
"How was this done ?",
"Holy fuck this look cool ! Where can I buy those ?",
"That's an amazing idea. I work swing shift so this would be amazing for me.",
"\"Almostblackout panels\" doesn't sound that good, though.",
"lite-bright 2018.",
"I wonder too. When I worked graveyards for two years it was 4, 10 hr shifts. Still with the same company which is now moving to 12 hour shifts. Regardless, all of my peers did day sleeping during the work week and night sleeping during the \"weekends\". The transitions are really hard. ",
"Of course it matters. Europe generally builds houses that incidentally are better at staying cool or warm passively. A lot more common to have all brick and concrete constructions and with thicker walls at that, than in the US. \n\nIt's not that one is better or worse, just different.\n\n\nSo we spend a lot less energy keeping our houses warm or cold, relatively, but they're more expensive to build in the first place",
"Your hand will be sore from xacto knifing in no time",
"Yeah tramadol isn't something to lightly wander into, especially if you take other medications.",
"Shut up and take my money?",
"And my suicidal ideations!",
"ah ok I understand now. its not a linear scale. thanks!",
"Our spot lighting neighbors moved in a year after us. Ruined our night time city lights views. Assholes.",
"*CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKERS*",
"Making the twisty rod thingie on blinds close the \"windows\" on these would be cool, but probably turn them into (more) expensive blinds.",
"idk about black out shades... at least everyone I know in Alaska just use foil wrap... I guess we are all just poor...\n\nAlso waking up and needing to go to the store and driving to the store... to realize it's 2am and it's closed not 2pm... that's a thing you really only do when it's mostly 24/7 light outside... doesn't happen much in the winter for darkness because the twilight is around 11am - 2pm anyways.",
"its *really* bright for blackout blinds. ",
"http://holeroll.com/en/\n\nThis seems to be the exact one...they star at around $140",
"> being this mad",
"I always wonder what made someone photoshoot images like that",
"That's a bingo",
"Yep. It's all fine and dandy until that one little laser beam of sunlight creeps through at just the right angle and hits you directly in the eye.",
"Damn I feel ya. I worked graveyard shift for two years and remember the constant struggle with sleep. I had blackout curtains, an eyemask, and earplugs. Sometimes all of that wasn't enough.",
"quit using Reddit 24/7",
"Black electrical tape.",
"Mkay. Looks like “hole roll” actually sells them. About $200-ish. There was an artist listed too but limited edition. Amazon failed me. \n\nhttp://holeroll.com/en/price-and-order",
"Who would cover a view like that with buildings?? I would kill for a view of a forrest!",
"That price tag gave me a heart attack",
"Hmm... $200 blinds. No thanks",
"Repost ffs",
"True, although generally if someones getting blackout panels the purpose is to block out all the light. I guess this person doesn't mind some (\"some\") light getting through so it works for them.",
"Waffle. WAFFLE!!",
"No one mentioned a gun. Good job America.",
"These blackout panels were a thing until someone ruined them too.",
"so's my xacto knife! Har har.",
"Yeah, I mean if I want to buy asthma inhalers for myself they're $60 at the pharmacy and $5 a piece online. The healthcare system is a huge scam.",
"#DO YUO KNOW DE WEY?",
"I disagree they are ruined. I think they look cool and the loss of functionality isn't very important since cheap facemasks are a thing ",
"Reeeere",
"Omg where did u get those ?",
"Came here to say the EXACT same thing probably verbatim. If light leaks out the sides just a little bit it wakes me. ",
"And my /r/suicidewatch!",
"#I will show u de wae",
"I have never seen blackout panels before! Where do I get these in the UK!!!!!",
">\tthere’s 10 days straight of drinking\n\nSounds like Alaska except there it’s 365 days straight of drinking.",
"I'd say that didn't apply to everyone. I used to work nights and could sleep just fine with just those slotted window covers. Ive also fallen asleep many times having left a light on.",
"Kinda defeats the purpose of being \"blackout curtains\" though.",
"I thought this was an ad at first. ",
"whoops, sorry.",
"Where can you buy these? ",
"What's the weather like in Russia?",
"Yeah I moved away from NYC recently and it took a while to adjust to both not having the light and the noise. I found the noise and city lights at night very comforting. ",
"Wat",
"Unless they're Korean",
"That's too much light. \n \nI need my room so dark it makes emos yearn for optimism.",
"They're more browned out, not quite blacked out ",
"General reposti!",
"That is the American way .... fml ",
"Someone suggested I get a sleeping mask when I had sleep issues too. I got one of the ones with the little gell balls inside that I stick in the fridge every morning. It seriously works wonders for me.",
"This reminds me of my year in the Aleutian islands. ",
"I used to work day/afternoon for 6 weeks then two weeks of nights. Screwed me up. Was always tired, grumpy and disliked my job. I have now changed to permanent night shift working 7x10 hour nights straight then have 7 days off. I feel great again. Bugger working all those shifts again. ",
"I live in Oakland, CA. No AC. No one has it here.",
"... repost with no twist whatsoever.",
"I don’t even hear the trains anymore. Whenever someone visits they’d ask: *“how can you sleep with all that noise?!”*\n\nBut if my bf snores then I’m wide awake O_o!",
"Train horns? Where do you live, Queens?",
"Ooo, somebody should make a facemask with a giant cutout of a smiling sun over each eye! That would be so cute!",
"I too live in the East Village. ",
"Melatonin worked wonders for me for a month then it started giving me some serious stomach issues.",
"Then you probably want blackout panels that blackout all light. I don't care about the view from my window when I'm trying to sleep.",
"I am PASSIONATE about sleeping masks. I live with two other girls in the same room at school and my mornings were shit before I got a sleeping mask. Now I can sleep whenever I want. It's wonderful. Everyone should use them.",
"._. okey thanks I’ll try some of this stuff out I guess, happy cake day..? :>",
"A tweekers nightmare if you ask me...",
"Wow!! I’d order these today if they were still available.",
"Everyone is off from work in Alaska too except it is because they are unemployed.",
"Look out. As soon as the weather breaks you’ll get the double bridge ‘n’ tunnelers over in Brooklyn",
"Mountains are awesome, but just trees get very bland after a while.\n\nSource: Grew up 19 years in a rural town",
"Must buy,.... But where?",
"Nope, we only recently got a thermostat in the last few years and that's only because we moved into an older house that we decided to do a complete refit on the oil burning heating system. \nBecause houses tend to be a lot more expensive to build, they tend to be kept intact a lot longer than the US I've noticed. I know a few americans who bought houses for the \"lot\" rather than the building and ended up rebuilding in entirety because it was cheaper than trying to retrofit the old building. That'd be a lot rarer here too. By comparison I know exactly one person who did that in Ireland and he's obnoxiously rich.",
"omg now thats all I hear this was a good song damit!",
"WAFFLES! BUY WAFFLES! ! \n\n***ROFFEL! ROFFEL!***",
"Pocatello, ID. ",
"WHERE TO BUY??????",
"Can't see the twist. ",
"Yeah, because trees get pretty damn boring when it's all you see out your window your whole life. Trust me.",
"If you think so then great, but I disagree. \n\nThis pattern on a window looks excellent because it's in clear view, large, and makes a cool pattern on the floor. I don't see any reason to try this with a facemask but to each their own. ",
"Shut up you fool!\n\nSadboyBooHoo doesn't know anything about freemasons. Just ignore him.\n\nKarsh",
"Wow looks amazing!",
"This got out of hand so quickly lmao",
"I fucking love this",
"Because it's more about the idea having this design than actually representing a city.\n\nIf I had a friend over and they saw New York all over my apartment, they would probably ask me if I'm from New York. If I had a generic non-existent city up, they would probably focus more on the concept of using blackout panels to create and image and not what the image specifically is.",
"At one point I lived on a small mile long pond, and across from me there was someone with a 24/7 spotlight on the lake that of course, reflected off the water and came into my multiple water view windows two fold. They were understanding when I brought it to their attention, but it was rented by students for a nearby college, so I had to do this every time someone else moved in.\n\nOne young lady said it was to make her feel more secure. “Are you always looking outside?”...”No”...”I noticed you streetfacing light is never on”...”I forget about that”...”Do you think that the likelihood of an amphibious home invasion is greater than some one walking up the street?” She wasn’t sure what I meant.\n\nOne day I was canoeing with a friend on the same pond, and there was a place right on the waters edge with a second story light blazing out at the neighbors house across the way, maybe 25 or 30 yards. The light touched nothing of theirs at all. I said to my friend “I’m glad I don’t live across from that bag of puke (or something like that) and then I hear, “That’s rude! mind your own business!” My friend...”If I wasn’t blinded by you fucking lights we woulda known you were there!”\n\nAssholes indeed!",
"Stock photo sites hace pictures of so many random things, waiting for someone to need them... https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/unexplainable-stock-photos?utm_term=.qo22KO36w#.ukeGyLMAE\n\n",
"He's right. See you at the pigroast \n\nKarsh",
"buy an air conditioner",
"If they were made with a layer of sheer fabric behind it (or some other light diffusing material) it would be much better.\n\nIn the photo it looks like it's just the cutout and nothing else, so there would be thousands of daggers of light stabbing your eyes.",
"No. Up only. ",
"Whhhooooosssshhhhh",
"Mmm i love those sounds. Used to live about 50 feet from the L train in chicago. That was heaven.",
"Per a google image search, you can normally buy these at [holeroll.com](http://holeroll.com/en/), but it appears people have overloaded the server right now. ",
"mom's spaghetti",
"I mean, it would significantly suck less if you had already been sleeping for a while there without any covering on the windows. ",
"yeah in Australia we just pay koalas and kangaroos to fan us and spit on us in the 40°C heat",
"I suspect you're correct but I've had people say stupider things to me so meh ",
"Upstairs neighbours are actually Stag.",
"As cool as those panels are, they kind of defeat the purpose of \"black out\" window coverings😅 When I use black out window coverings it's either because I'm trying to make my home like a movie theater or I'm trying to sleep, and those would let too much light in for my liking😕",
"Happy cake day my dude",
"Use an app with sounds? I like the airplane.",
"Happy cake day my dude",
"Are you signing your Reddit posts? Did I just Time Warp into an early 2000s era vbulletin forum?\n\nl-t123 ",
"Man I 100 percent hate the noise in NYC, what is the comfort, that if someone sneaks up on you you won't hear them coming? ",
"Did it, by any chance, create some *cameras obscuras* in the room?",
"Walmart has them. They're great, i have them in several rooms in my house. My last house had an east-facing bedroom with a huge bay window, and we only lasted about a day before running out to get those sleep-savers.",
"Shitty non-functioning blackout panels. ",
"This would be really sad if it was black out panels of a forest, but the real view is of a city instead of it being vice versa...",
"Emergency foil blankets work well, and are light. I use big black \"linen\" table cloths from Walmart.",
"lol\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs&feature=youtu.be&t=52",
"yo anyone think I can hook my Apple Airpods up to my xbox one?",
"You should really check out window film! You can get it tinted (if you want the room dark) or clear (if you want to be able to open the curtains for sunlight), but you can get either with high ratings for heat blocking. It can drop the temp in a room 15 degrees, which is significant. I used the tinted film in my rental when I worked nights. I didn’t want to take down the landlord’s blinds and put up black out blinds, and curtains just weren’t cutting it. It was perfect because there’s no adhesive, it’s just a cling decal, so it peeled right off when I moved out. I know the perils of day sleeping. Haha. A hot, bright room is misery. If you cut the heat with a fan and window film, you might be able to keep the blinds closed (or get the tinted film) and sleep peacefully. ",
"Yeah, I had some neck pain from a strain and as given a script for... 4? Probably not a big deal but anyway",
"That's true, you can never underestimate the pervasiveness of stupidity",
"Maybe I'm weird but having one of those masks on always makes me extremely uncomfortable. I get sleep paralysis often and having one of those on makes me anxious as hell. ",
"That particular design probably wouldn’t work that well though. Those buildings would be flopping down like banana peels.",
"I live in Chicago and hear all of those. 2 blocks east from my place is a railroad that's used by freight trains and they like to sound off their horn",
"Nah, it's the sound of the world going on and people living their lives and humanity doing it's thing. ",
"I still can't handle the light and noise in the Chicagoland area, and I'm not even close to downtown. This is my hell. I haven't had a good night's sleep outside of trips to the backcountry since probably last Christmas.",
"Ooooh how neat",
"Chuck?",
"Shift work disorder, CAD, obesity, liver cancer...the list goes on. Your body is not designed to be awake at night and it WILL take its toll on you. ",
"I don't even use it 24/7 and I still see repost \n",
"if i get air-raid curtains, ill definitely consider this. ",
"Reposts are pretty cheap and easy to find mate",
"Good pun +1",
"Bridges? Tunnels? If they smell, then I'd say you're probably talking about trolls.",
"Blackout panels. Shouldn't need them, but my neighbors are clueless as to how much light they give off. Asshole to the south has a \"security light\" that basically turns on and off on its own all night. House to the east has goddamn streetlight strength sodium lamps under the eaves. It's a nice neighborhood FFS.",
"no, blinds are the slatted things. ",
"Same here! My friends visited me not too long ago for the first time after I moved to the city. One of the first things they say is \"wow, so I guess all those background noises in movies were right. It's all police sirens and ambulance sounds in the distance\" I honestly didn't here them until they were pointed out.",
"And my axe!",
"Ahah! You're right, they would. The design was mainly for proof of concept.",
"Can you purchase those somewhere?",
"It is incredibly easy to run out of benzos",
"South side Chicago is where I moved to!",
"They're on amazon here http://amzn.to/2CBDFkh for those who can't get on their websites. Pretty dope! ",
"Just a tip for anyone who wants a blackout room: You can spray a window with water and then stick tin foil (aluminum foil for you Yankee doodles) to it. There re no issues at all with it coming off - just be careful if you live where it is super hot it may be an issue ",
"Вообще не думал, что в горячее тут выйдут такие баяны.",
"very cool, where to buy one?",
"More like RLS and the shits and cold sweats if you start taking opiates every night before bed. Plus that's a waste. Just wait to nod out.\n\nGet a 215 card if you aren't in a legal state. I was an opiate addict for 5 years. Trust me, it's great at first but it's a spiral you don't want to go down.",
"What’s the twist? Old repost?",
"I would recommend getting a radio or putting Pandora or another music app on a timer so there's still noise. I've seen others use fans or white noise machines",
"If you made these, you should probably have patented it before posting this, if they already aren't \n",
"And the fact that getting off benzos is a hell you don't want to know ",
"These are gorgeous, purposes defeated or not! Gimme some!!!! Or tell me how to make!!!\nOh, and please send the outside as well. Yeah, I mean the nature. ",
"This guy upsells",
"Yeah I get you. I don’t have sleep paralysis, but they still make me really uncomfortable. Reminds me of not being able to breathe. ",
"Then they bomb your house specifically cause it resembles the lights of a city",
"Yeah I get you. I don’t have sleep paralysis, but they still make me really uncomfortable. Reminds me of not being able to breathe. ",
"I’d recommend against reading a wiki for any medications. Tramadol doesn’t increase the risk of suicide in any substantial means tbh. I wouldn’t even mention it to a patient because, as you’ve now seen, it just caused undue fear.\n\nSource: am pharmacist \n\nOn that note, feel free to ask any questions if you have them because apparently your’s didn’t do his/her job properly :)",
"i would love these for my bedroom with some kind of country scene on them",
"I wouldn't advise anyone to use antihistamines for sleep. I used Benedryl for a while and then got a Rx of Hydroxyzine. Fuck that stuff for sleep. I would wake up every 3 hours and in the morning I'd feel like a zombie. I'd rather just take 2-3 hours to fall asleep on my own. ",
"I don't get it. What's cool or important or interesting about this?",
"Are these rich people actually blacking out the view they pay for unironically? \n\nReally?",
"Haaa it is aluminum foil, good idea I will try it",
"Honestly that guy killed the show for me.\n\nThe rest was pretty good and i had a couple problems i could get past, but his \"condition\" was just too ridiculous.",
"Not to mention melatonin in the long term is supposed to make your sleeping issue even worse. ",
"I mean just put a second layer behind it. If you wanna nap bring the second layer down. If you wanna gaze at the art work bring the second layer up. ",
"I bet you are the sofa king. We Todd did?",
"This guy sleeps",
"his level of mad is pretty justified imo",
"These are incredible. What an amazing use of creativity.\n\nPlease provide link for purchase or artist.",
"Just take a sleeping pill or maybe few of them at a go just to be sure",
"this also protects against government surveillance. ",
"I can fall asleep in almost any light and noise conditions. Maybe its because I dont get enough sleep as it is. ",
"Non-functional AND painful! sold!",
"I don't really have trouble falling asleep when it's not completely dark, my problem is my bed room being on the east side of my house so in the summer in the morning it's the hottest room in my house so trying to fall asleep after work in the summers sucks.",
"It's actually fine because those panels are terrible and let a bunch of light in.",
"Well, I hope they stay in the cities until they can appreciate what the rest of us have.\n\nI've had overwhelmingly negative experiences with those from cities that visit or move to rural or wild places. Not to say the locals aren't spare parts, but it seems less prevalent.",
"They can be an issue, but *most* vampires prefer to 'nest' in one place for decades at a time, with trips being short jaunts if they ever take them at all. So the population of migratory vampires is much smaller than the overall population of vampires.\n\nI'm originally from Seattle myself, and oohhh boy let me tell you, few places have Vampire populations as big as ours, they grow in the shadows like mildew.\n\nThough even we can't hold a candle to the Canadians. It's gotten to be such a problem up there that it has seriously affected their population growth, leaving vast stretches of land uninhabited.\n\nRussia used to have much the same issue, but they managed to kill of a majority of their vampiric population during the Russian Revolution, and the sanguine Eco-system is only now beginning to approach it's old numbers.",
"Was it done with a Dot matrix printer?",
"It's letting like 5% of the light through...",
"If you look at it not as a \"medical condition\" but just as an undiagnosed panic disorder it makes a lot more sense and is actually not that far from a realistic scenario.",
"Well I guess either could be gotten used to",
"wait wtf why does the sleeping mask have a blue glow isn't that supposed to simulate daylight and mess up your circadian rhythm",
"Is there a boy that can tell you how many ones something has been reposted?",
"Shuttup and take my money. 😍😍😍",
"> feelsbadman.jpg",
"If your blinds have a steel bottom, get two reasonably strong, circular magnets, one bigger than the other, a bit of string, a weight (even a rock will do), and some sort of reasonably lightweight paper, like packing paper or shoebox paper. \n\n\nAll you need to do is attach the small magnet to the bottom of the blind, then the bigger magnet to the smaller magnet. After that, wrap the weight up in the paper, tie it shut at the top with the string and tie a loop at the other end of the string. Then when the blind is down, just put the loop around the bigger magnet.\n\n\nIt should hold the blind still enough even in the wind to not let sun in or be too loud.\n\n\nAlternatively, if you don’t mind putting a hole in the metal at the bottom of the blind, or it’s not steel and magnets don’t work, you can just drive in a screw instead of using magnets, and it works just as well. And if there’s no metal at the bottom of the blind at all, you could just punch a hole in the bottom of the blind and use the string to tie through the hole. You can google to find the right type of knot/loop for you!",
"I'm an illustrator and totally am considering doing this. But does anyone know what kinda curtains has material that would work for this?? It seems like it would be a frayed edge nightmare.",
"Design by M. Night Shamalalalala",
"I think I'm using Reddit too much. I see reposts on front page almost daily now. ",
"Such as what...?",
"Could someone provide me with a link to maybe buying something like this?",
"> I know a few americans who bought houses for the \"lot\" rather than the building\n\nWhere I live, developers are doing that a lot... buying 2 or 3 (or more) adjacent houses and demolishing them to build one large home, or a multi-unit building. I assume it's happening all over the place. ",
"I need. Where get?",
"I want it",
"Took way too long to realize what was going on ",
"I was on Effexor and attempted suicide a couple months into it. My mother claims it was from the Effexor, as the side effects read “Increased risk of suicidal thoughts or actions” but my doctor claims that the medication is often taken by those that are suicidal, so naturally people who use it attempt suicide, therefor they have to label it as such.",
"!dreambot10",
"That means buying extra equipment to do the cutting, which takes up more space, uses more labor, and takes longer. Those things add up. ",
"Not really, you can get over 5,000 doses of a variety of benzos online legally for less than $100.",
"I make papercut art and have done panels this size before! Your index finger will feel like it’s about to fall off by the end. And for days after you’re done you’ll see those stupid tiny shapes every time you close your eyes from the pattern fatigue. Ugh. Love it though. ",
"Look at this millionaire with his cold air blowing machines...",
"When that song came out all I could hear was \"TOMAAATOOO\"",
"I want a DIY on how to make these. ",
"Yeah I have a friend who's strung out on Atarax. Doesn't do shit for him anxiety or sleep.",
"Those Are cool!!",
"it's posted like *every* 4-5 months",
"That has to be an infringement on your human rights. It's insanity.",
"This is very very important, is the sunlight acting as a wave or a particle in this situation?",
"r/trypophobia ",
"Also do read up about the internal body clock. What you just described is to get the body clock back in the proper functioning. Good advice.",
"Subscribe to Logan Paul ",
"Yeah I would hate working 3rd with kids, a couple of my coworkers have kids and listening to them talk about their schedules makes me glad I can sleep when ever the hell I want.",
"What the fuck? Where are you getting this information.",
"Cool vampire trap bro ",
"More of a city and less of a twist",
"This is true. I use black out panels and black out blinds. ",
"The highly anticipated /r/overwatch sequel from blizzard ",
"Or air conditioning.",
"Yeah I definitely run out of benzos more often than I'd like ",
"That's dope ",
"Is it handmade ?)!",
"Or repost in a few months from now",
"IDK... I've been working nights for about 6 months now and I have blackout curtains similar to OP, but Seattle's skyline. Works fine for me.\n\nI've always been a heavy sleeper though; as long as I have a blanket and am a comfortable temperature I'm out like a light. I'll fall asleep with my bedside lamp on at least once or twice a week. Weed probably helps too :P\n",
"That's pretty cool - where can I find those?",
"Thank God, you can get rid of that awful view of nature ",
"Too much light.",
"Where I grew up the people with foil on their windows were addicted to crack cocaine",
"Ah. Aussie shift worker. Sorry dude. ",
"Haha, came to say this",
"\"Uh yeah, I ordered the 'Blackout Panels' and you guys sent 'Lit Up Cityscape'\"...",
"Why is this picture famous again? ",
"30 Days of Night was underrated ",
"That's the twist.",
"Person here who lives outside of the US; like everyone else here I don't have airconditioning, still have electricity. Not mutually exclusive.",
"I've heard they have awesome parties. ",
"Walmart.....curtains ",
"I feel like felt could be good, I'm sure that would be hard to cut though. ",
"Need to keep a bag of three week old rubbish just outside the bedroom door for the full effect.",
"No, thank you.",
"What are you guys taking about",
"Sneak over there with a can of black spray paint",
"Hey Paul!",
"Alexa has a feature for “city sounds” ambient noise hahahaha. ",
"Why would you want to block that view?",
"We have a helicopter landing pad beside our high rise. So you could always add in the deafening sound of that.",
"Hey Paul!",
"I don't know how to stop this from turning into a chain of thank yous, but thank you, haha :)",
"Right. They're for aesthetic ",
"This is the only good advice on this thread besides the others who mentioned sleeping mask or curtains. Unless you wanna end up like me, addicted to benzos after going through trazadone(gross), ambien(eventually you’ll make a bad decision on it),and opiates(best sleep of my life but not worth it because I also lost another year of my life to opiates as well as my best friend.(RIP big dog) so at this point happy to just be dependent on a low dose benzo(Ativan)\nUnless you wanna risk going down any of those paths, all of those paths, or anything similar, just try what this man is saying first",
"Better Call Saul",
"Stevie Wonder I can see youuuuuuu",
"Where can i buy these? ",
"Get air conditioning?",
"Stolen. I have seen this before.",
"Charles 'Chuck' McGill, a character in the TV series \"Better call Saul\", a prequel to Breaking Bad. He has this \"condition\" that makes him sensitive to electromagnetic fields so he always blocks all his windows with tin foil.",
"Get it? They're providing a clockwise twist to the middle black-out curtain.",
"Neat",
"They're for aesthetic ",
"Are we gonna kill their website again like last year when this was posted? ",
"Ok I know my limits and this is waaaaay beyond them. Kudos to vision.",
"Define \"major city\". San Diego (where i live) has a 15% lower violent crime rate than NYC. Also Portland OR, San Jose, Riverside, Omaha, Fresno are lower than NYC. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate",
"Same thing happened to me when my family moved to the suburbs. The first good night’s sleep I had was when a helicopter had been moving around all night and finally made me feel at home. ",
"Nice ",
"Great tip, it may also alert you to neighbors playing loud music at night. ",
"I dont think these are meant for sleeping. I think it is more for just an interesting feature you can enjoy once in a while. That or a man cave.",
"i wonder if they make this in a paris theme.. hmm",
"Yes.",
"Kinda.",
"I took quetiapine for sleep when I didn't have insurance and I never paid more than like $7 (in US) at a pharmacy.\n\nWhile it is true that drug prices overall are crazy in the US it doesn't really apply to older generic drugs. Also, no doctor is going to prescribe tramadol for sleep to an average patient.",
"The twist is always in the comments\n\nhttps://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/68pxct/black_out_panels_with_a_twist/",
"LOL! So these are just shades?",
"I've lived under the Logan[Boston] Airport flight path for about 7 or so years in different neighborhoods in the Boston area. Those night time flights over Somerville that start at 1045 every night and living across the street from one of the city's busiest fire stations was soothing to me. I moved to the middle of the state and the quietness for the first few months was really weird. ",
"No.",
"This is actually one of the coolest things ive seen in the last 2 years on reddit. Props for being creative",
"It possible to make them yourself, buy felt or heavy fabric from a craft store and get stabbing.\n\nFun and therapeutic.",
"Vodka with a twist. ",
"Are you a polar bear?",
"meh, too much work, maybe sleeping earlier might be healthier haha",
"Nah just a teenager ",
"That's frankly disgusting. Why would I want to look at a Gross City when there's trees outside?",
"But... but... that doesn't line up with **my** experience so you must be wrong! /s ~ fellow night shift worker not bothered by light/noise.",
"[Do you like waffles?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDU0CTDMk2g)",
"This guy night shifts. I feel your pain every other month",
"First time i used one i thought it was gonna be crap...but then it worked great! Slept like the giant baby i am\n\nNow, i use a flowery japanese silk sleeping mask, as a 6'5\" 235 pound man and i love it.",
"No. They are mean.",
"Oh, well here I've never had a conversation with a pharmacist about my script. I don't know if my experience is an exception but it's literally just a transaction, hand it in, get the meds, pay, gone. Ireland for your information. \n\n\nThanks for the offer though. I was prescribed the tramadol during the summer and don't have any left even if I was nervous of them.",
"[Here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminance)'s a start",
"All 10 buildings that are over 20 stories. \n\nDfw has such a sad skylines and all the new constructions is 10 stories or less. \n\nWould be nice if they started building up considering traffic is getting bad and you can no longer buy a house cheap until you are an hour out. ",
"Be careful with foil, someone in my family used it once as a substitute for black-out curtains and after a few months they kept getting sick and ended up looking behind the foil to find a shit-load of mold covering the windows. ",
"Repost",
"Not so bad if you were originally someone who didn't use blackout panels",
"That does happen sometimes here but mainly on derelict sites rather than habitable homes. Most developers prefer greenfield sites.\nI'd imagine the more expensive a house is to build the more expensive it is to demolish?",
"> I bet you are the so fucking. Wetarded?\n\nWhat.",
"Their purpose is to look cool ya dummies, not block out the light. ",
"Can confirm, used to take Benadryl for sleep. It's a shitty sleep too, sort of a sludgy slumber that is hard to shake the next day. Hell, I don't even take it as an antihistamine because of the side effects.",
"Be careful not to cut yourself with that edge\n\n(/s because I’m going to be unsubtle like that)",
"I find it hilarious that you are wary of tramadol for its SSRI properties, and suggest instead a nice traditional opiate, or perhaps sir would prefer 5000 Chinese xans? ",
"Was he taking it for opioid withdrawal?",
"Be careful. If the ambient temperature is above body temperature, a fan can actually increase thermal stress on the body and potentially kill you.\n\nIf it's hot enough, your best bet is to sleep naked on the floor.",
"i require an amazon link please",
"I pay $140 for generic Ambien.",
"Cute, love it",
"Do they sell black out panels with designs similar to this?",
"Mom’s spaghetti ",
"It’s actually edge-cutting stuff",
"Most countries outside of the US don't have it in homes. And getting it installed and running is expensive as hell.\n\nHere in England we die in the Summer. But we only get 3-4 hot days a year, so it works out.",
"It is weird, in almost every other country asthma medication is over the counter too. But asmathic people in the USA just have to suffer ",
"> star\n\nI think you mean st- oh... Oh, well done\n",
"O-Desmethyltramadol would be a much better option in this place.",
"This guy Benzos",
"Belongs in /r/ATBGE\n",
"Sleeping masks. The mascot of /r/nightshift. ",
"That's substantially less light than what would come in through these blinds in direct sunlight",
"Nope",
"r/ATBGE",
"WAFFLES! BUY WAFFLES!!!",
"Do you have any tips?\n\nLike for getting lines straight, or speed, or not slicing your fingers off. ",
"This is AWESOME!!! ",
"Jeez, I'm going to make some for myself!!!! That is such a great idea. ",
"Dude, many places dont use ac.\n\nI lived in upstate NY and only used ac 5 days each summer on average . In winter i had to heat, but as a survival necessity. \n\nEdit: i didnt even have my ac set up 99% of the year. As in it was in my closet, in a box. Ac is not ubiquitous or necessary, even in the US.",
"I just don't get it then. I'm on Reddit pretty much every day and reposts don't bother me at all. I either don't notice them or they aren't that numerous. I sometimes see posts that have made it to the top of 2 or 3 subreddits at the same time, but for things I remember seeing weeks or months ago, it doesn't seem to happen. ",
"Iceland too pretty much",
"Where can i buy these?! ",
"What brand are these?",
"Yeah idk about the blue light... It says it doesn't interfere with your body producing melatonin... But you're right it definitely does. I don't use it, it's just a very good mask that blocks out literally all light. I've had the blue light on before and it's very hard to keep your eyes open with it on, maybe that's what they were going for? ",
"That's gonna become a real issue as climate change worsens. ",
"Just like how this is a repost with a twist, wait no it’s the same title and picture",
"Throw a hangover in for good measure. ",
"u/cfh29",
"Exactly. Chuck is severely mentally ill. I found myself identifying his triggers for his panic attacks and severity of his “condition” (specifically Jimmy succeeding) during the show. I never really considered it being a physical condition, except to put myself in his shoes and attempt to empathize with him.",
"Benadryl. Dryl'n\n It's not healthy but not sleeping will shorten your life. : /",
"Took me a minute to figure out that the bottom of the picture wasn't a floor, and that your arms weren't super long",
"r/iNEEEEDit",
"But these aren't blackout blinds",
">a relaxing photo luminous blue glow that eases your anxious mind, from a busy “Beta state” to a relaxed “Alpha state.”\n\nThey say in the video it is similar to meditating, relaxing the mind. It fades over time so it isn't on constantly.",
"Oh good to know. I was wondering what to do with that laser cutter that I have in my bedroom. ",
"This would look so beautiful if I had windows to look out though. ",
"“Did you ground yourself?”",
"There are so many white noise apps for phones, apps that let you mix and match sounds like rain/river/wind/thunder/birds/frogs/etc., or even just youtube videos of white noise/forest sounds/crackling fire.\n\nMakes it so easy to find something to help you sleep when travelling.",
"[I use this mask.](https://mantasleep.com/) It's totally adjustable, which is nice, because traditional masks leak too much light for me.",
"I do this thing where I pull the blanket up over my head, but kind of twist it around a bit so that it covers everything but my nose and mouth. It's wonderful. ",
"So not blackout panels",
"There are tons of cities with lower crime rates. Limiting it to \"major city,\" i.e. comparing only to Chicago and Los Angeles, is sort of damning with faint praise...",
"These are awesome. It open up a full world of options and ideas. ",
"So if repost in 6 months I also make it to the front page?",
"I put in a ceiling fan... Biggest piece of shit ever. 20yo pedestal fan? Frigging brilliant. I can't sleep without a fan going, I need air on my face or I can't sleep.",
"Benzo withdrawal can cause seizures. Do not use benzos for consecutive nights longer than a wk or two. Using benzos and opioids for sleep is super dangerous advice.",
"Ok, ok, ok, I get it. Black Outs Matter. ",
"r/2meirl4meirl",
"Please do man, sleep is so important and I've been there. You definitely can overcome this. Don't ever feel like you're alone and helpless, there's always others out there going through what you are. Let me know if you need any help, feel free to pm me! ",
"That's really neat!",
"It means that my room, during the day was too dark and I would constantly trip over things when trying to navigate a dark room to find a switch. ",
"Not only do I know what they are, I understand how they work!! ",
"Ah, nice",
">if you sleep under a very heavy blanket and the fan isnt hitting you it wont work \n\nMany people need the feeling of weight to help them sleep.\nI have a summer weight (4.5 tog) quilt (lightest I can sleep with), with my window open, and there's frost outside. \n\n>Also if it is hot in your house and cool outside, can use to bring in cold air\n\ngparent comment had the problem of not being able to have the window open, so not much good.\n\n\n",
"Almost....blackout curtains",
"Yes, block out that natural area with trees for a POS city scape. :-/",
"Someone should record city background noises at certain spots and put it online. ",
"I prefer roo spit. you?",
"Where's the cream? ",
"Did you ever think that, you know, someone might be able to peacefully share an opinion, while still respecting and even sharing others opinions? ",
"Yes",
"Where'd you get this?",
"hell no. Gave me the worst nightmares I’ve ever had after recovering from surgery. Got to the point I was scared to go to sleep. Will never take it again",
"It you were on Reddit the past 2 years you'd have seen this the first time it was posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/68pxct/black_out_panels_with_a_twist/?utm_source=reddit-android",
"Anyone else notice how insanely long this person's hand is?\n",
"Hmmm:https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/68pxct/black_out_panels_with_a_twist/?utm_source=reddit-android",
"As someone who lives in the UK, I dream for this kind of weather. \n\nThat being said if I wear a fuck load of clothes and open my window at night under a heavy duvet I sleep pretty well. ",
"Are they trying to trick the gremlins?",
"Miss the city? Block out your view of nature with a nice skyscraper skyline. ",
"$200 seems like a fair price for that level of an investment, especially considering how much one would have to spend on a good bed, good furniture, etc. This is definitely not a purchase meant for those still in school.",
"You could add a tinted layer of plastic behind them and then the light coming through would just slightly glow which would achieve the desired effect of blocking out a lot of the light. ",
"Unless you also go blackout curtains",
"Where do I buy this ",
"\"Before I lost my sight, I saw a white spot of light, beautiful and iridescent, with rainbows emerging from it's sides like a holy form of message to me from god...it was beautiful\"\n\n\"Oh, that was just a double slit image you saw before you lost sight, grandpa.\"\n\n\"Does that mean I've been blessed?\" \n\n\"No, just that light can be of wave as well as particulate nature\" \n\n\"DAMN YOU, SCIENCE!\" ",
"when online, it's just easier to use \"they\" for both singular and plural. ",
"Where can I get this?",
"So says u/mostlybullshitstory",
"about 400,000 times brighter.",
"local lazercutting dude",
"Reddit. The fact that this is number 2 on the front page with 57k votes. This website is nothing. And the visitors left are just so. Time to find somewhere else.",
"Obliviously",
"/r/CrappyDesign",
"Hey thanks for being so nice and helpful :) and sweet dreams!",
"So your the super trashy guy! Even the homeless staying in temp housing have the decency to use beach towels or cardboard.",
"We brought the site down. ",
"when my eyes are closed, i still sort of see light through them. I dont know if my eyelids are just really thin or something. If I can spend enough time in the daylight, It helps, but work usually keeps me busy during daylight hours. Part of it is psychological too I think? Ive been trying really hard just to train myself to be able to sleep with light.",
" I want!!",
"I was there too. Coming up on three years clean with one or two single use slip ups. Taking them for a legitimate problem generally turns into taking them to feel good, and then it turns into taking them so you don't feel like death. And once you reach the latter stage it's too late to go back without dealing with hell. ",
"The site is down lol. We did it.\n\nhttp://holeroll.com/en/price-and-order\n",
"Trazodone isn’t an antipsychotic. It’s an ssri. Also, tramodolnis an opiate",
"Site's down: http://holeroll.com/en/price-and-order",
"Just get massive dark curtains.\n\nKeeps the heat and the light out. Do not open that window.",
"How many? 7? 12?",
"Get some curtains and you could have the best of both worlds. ",
"Pick up your mess and get a lit switch?",
"*wow*\n",
"What a tweest! ",
"That's what I did when I worked night shift. I put up two white towels to reflect light and heat, then some cheap $4 blackout shades from Walmart, then our normal curtains. Made it pitch black during the day and cooler since the black shade wasn't absorbing heat in the daylight",
"Cold sweats, restless legs, lethargy, depression to an extreme, anxiety, cravings, inconsistent body temp, brain zaps, tremors, seizures, death. \n\nOpioids and benzos are shit. They trick you though; they feel like miracle drugs at first. ",
"Probably a hazard getting from bed to light switch. A table lamp or flashlight could solve that. ",
"You are indeed correct ",
"How hot is it getting in your room? I've had foil over my windows for 3 years now and never heard a single crinkle. In the summer we get up to a hundred, and in the winter we get down to 20. ",
"What, so now everyone’s an expert hole puncher?",
"You’re not my dad, geez!!",
"I love these where can I get some?",
"This multiplies the Garfield problem by 1000.",
"I work late, and usually stay up during the nights. Sunlight isn't as much a problem as the source of screeching kids in the form of a kindergarten outside my window. I live on ground level, and even during weekends there's kids out there. Anywhere between 8am to 7pm. Parents usually have to drag obstinate crying children after them to get home in the afternoon too. \n\nPutting a kindergarten with focus on \"being outside and free\" smack dab in the echo chamber that is the square in the middle of several apartment buildings is not a good idea. ",
"Melatonin supplements work wonders",
"Thanks.. even thought the site was down, a google search of the biz name, then images led me to other businesses that have the same product. Thanks again.",
"I could sleep on the floor when the tv and light on while people have a wrestling match next to me. ",
"It’d be neat to use as a privacy screen in a bathroom instead of those blurry tile screens. I live in the country, this would be fun. ",
"Common sense tells me it’s definitely not 100 thousand times brighter than a full moon.",
"I don't really watch reddit that closely",
"Okay, sure Reddit they don't completely block out all the sunlight. A little sunlight isn't going to hurt and it stops those windows from looking like ugly black hermit shields.",
"Yea, both are nice. To each their own :)",
"I'll add the caveat that some of the cheap sleeping masks can seriously mess with your eyes. I slept wearing one of those once and woke up with blurry vision for a couple of hours. Suffice it to say waking up unable to focus your eyes can lead to some heavy freaking out.\n\nThat was when I learned you always need to get the masks that prop up the cover in some way to keep it from pressing against your eyeballs all night. Other than that thumbs up for sleep masks.",
"Wow this is awesome. I would buy these if I had these windows. ",
"Where do you get these?\n",
"Double twist, this is actually at central park. ;)",
"Tramadol is also an ssri, trazadone is an antidepressant that binds like a antipsychotic.",
"In NYC the train horns aren’t on trains. They’re in Hummers driven by assholes that live on Staten Island. ",
"I do pillow hat. Nose/mouth out from under pillow. Helps to have two pillows obviously. Heaven.",
"Same here, but it’s assholes driving hummers. ",
"Really cool",
"Put it up when it's cool inside. The heat won't come through the foil very much, but the same effect happens inwardly. If it's relatively cool inside the foil should reflect most of the coolness in, and reflect most of the heat out.",
" Sounds like you weren't looking for blackout curtains in the first place. Or you need a nightlight. ",
"I need these in my life!",
"I didn’t realize that other people did this. My boyfriend bought me a sleep mask for Christmas, though. Revolutionary. ",
"As many you can, we want to be sure we get proper sleep don't we",
"Yeah :) Lots of practice and a LOT of blades. I swap to a new one every 20-30 minutes of cutting. Although I do save them for other crafty/non fine art projects. Dull blades are more dangerous since you’re more likely to slip, just like with cooking. Be patient and take it slow. \n\nMake sure you rotate the work to suit your natural movements. Don’t worry about having it oriented a certain way as if you were drawing. Your design should already be laid out before you start.\n\nIt’s easier to get nice clean lines when you chose a thicker paper that will provide more resistance. I like to work with heavy weight watercolor paper for most of my work. The depth you get with thicker paper is really nice when viewing them up close too! \n\nIt’s much faster and easier on your hands to work with thinner paper, but you’ll make a lot more mistakes... and with papercutting you have to either work that mistake into your design or just scrap it and start over. It can be very frustrating at times but also quite meditative if you enjoy meticulous work. ",
">”tramadol is an ssri”. \n \n \n[no, it’s not](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramadol) \n \n>”trazodone is an antidepressant that binds like an antipsychotic.” \n \n[no, not really](https://www.medicinenet.com/trazodone/article.htm#what_is_trazodone,_and_how_does_it_work_(mechanism_of_action).\nTrazodone does have some antagonistic action at the histamine receptors, as does remeron/mirtazepine, most tricyclic anti depressants. It does not act on the dopamine receptors (antipsychotics). However, many antipsychotics (especially seroquel, Thorazine, zyprexa) also have action at the histamine receptor. That’s what makes people sleepy. It’s like taking Benadryl, atarax, vistaril or cogentin. \n \nThe primary binding sites for trazodone are serotonin, and the side effect of sleepiness comes from additional binding at histamine receptors when serotonin receptors occupancy has maxed out. Antipsychotics bind Dopamine receptors, and the side effect of sleepiness (for some, not all) comes from additional binding at histamine receptors when dopamine receptors occupancy has maxed out. \n \nThe mechanisms of action are completely different, except for the anti-histaminergic action as overflow binding to produce side effects. \n \nEdits: typo and link formatting error",
"Nicely done. I had a few slip ups about 2 years ago with a coworker. It went from getting drunk to getting meth then heroin the next morning. It was for a few months but my tolerance to opiates are so high still due to daily kratom use.\n\nI dabbled in oxys for a few months snorting half an 80mg OC once a day. Then I broke my ankle and I was prescribed percs. I saved hella percs for when I could walk without crutches just to enjoy feeling good but then of course started deep with getting suboxone from my neighbor for just 5 bucks, and snorting a whole one made me feel like I was on oxys but for a shit ton cheaper. My \"friend\" turned me on to smoking crystal with her and she had a fucking fishing tackle box FULL of opiates and benzos so we would stay up all night smoking meth, then around 6am go outside for a coffee and a smoke moment after taking a norco + xanax. \n\nI was wd'ing from my job at WHole FOods when I walked out of the job. Later that night I left my phone open with texts to a homie about shooting up. Mom found the texts because she knew what was up. It was a blessing in disguise because I told her I needed real help. My dad said \"abstaining from drugs all together\" is the best method. Not true. I tried that for a week knowing deep down Subs were the real choice. My mom researched them because she figured it was trading one addiction in for another, but I was ready for sobriety so I followed the doctors tapering. I was out of work for a year getting better with a few slip ups of shooting the subs here and there for fun. \n\nNow I take kratom, smoke weed before bed; I have a bit of a bad drinking habit but hey it's not meth or heroin.",
"Yeah but a machine big enough for those is gonna be suuuuuuper pricey! ",
"Wonder if end up working as a bunch of camera obscura. ",
"I take Kratom daily too, and I smoke weed when I can get it, but since I cut out all my deadbeat friends it's hard to get unless I take a trip up to my buddies in Brooklyn (2 hours one way.) I drink on occasion but not often just socially. I go to NA but feel weird lying about those things, but fuck other people for judging me; it helps me stay off hard drugs so I go whether they like it or not. \n\nKratom is not the best for you either but way better than shooting up. Good luck friend!",
"Stop whining then?",
"Lol then it would get all crumpled by the time you finish.",
"Well, the kitten is oblivious to his needs for the blackout panels.\n",
"Wtf nr six has nothing to do with any gangsign he is clearly playing it like a violin... ",
"Do the sun rays still hit you in the face? ",
"Ooooooo",
"Redditor sees sunlight\n\n*hisses*",
"Windows 10 (night light) and my Android (eye comfort) phone both have settings that reduce the blue light in the display at a set time. Mine is set at 9:00pm. It also serves to tell me it's time to go to bed.\n\nI also entirely agree that creating the right environment and holding to a regular bedtime routine are crucial to good sleep hygiene. ",
"“And it’s no coincidence that the rope store is located right beside the rickety stool store”",
"It is if you are out and about, but if you make it dark then your body will trigger sleep mode. One night we parked our RV at a waterfall and my wife and kid went to bed at like 10pm and I went for a hike to explore and take pictures - my wife text me at 2am asking me where I was - I was very surprised, even though I knew the sun wasn’t going to get any lower I still completely lost track of time.",
"The cancer is due to the added cortisol from lack of sleep and stress. Night shift is hardly worse for your body if you sleep 8 hours",
"You’re a wise and good man.",
"I’m just saying moving to the woods to view the city seems counter intuitive I get that people like the city lights. I’m just appreciating the irony is all ",
"I get that. I live in a city and I get so stoked when I see green anything I couldn’t imagine wanting to view city lights like that. Haha",
"The price of products is determined by what people are willing to pay, not on their cost to make. Even if it's free to manufacture they'll still charge the same.",
"Light in panels",
"The ones in the picture don't seem very wide. Length doesn't matter for curio.",
"Surp.",
"Hey mom I didn’t know you were on Reddit",
"Geez. When was the last time you ever slept? ",
"Then your common sense is failing you. Eyes adapt to different intensities of light, and most of your senses are less linear and more logarithmic, because our senses have pretty wide ranges. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night in a pitch black room, opening your eyes, and having five 100 watt bulbs in the ceiling directly above you turn on. Compare the perceived intensity of that with the perceived intensity of having sat wide awake in the same room with the same lights for hours. Then compare that to standing outside in the middle of the day in bright sunshine with the same five bulbs the same distance from you. The first example would be painful, but the last example with the same lights at the same intensity is just a day outside. The source of your pain in the first example would be barely perceptible in the last example.\n\nHearing works the same way. Rustling leaves in a light breeze is around 10 decibel, a normal conversation between two people is around 60 decibel. The sound pressure from the conversation is 100,000 times larger than that of the leaves.",
"Ah. For some reason I thought you guys were talking about 'Chuck' the TV show with Zach Levi and felt incredibly stupid when I wasn't getting the reference. Thanks!",
"I initially thought 'Chuck' with Zach Levi but didn't understand the reference and hoped that I wasn't just dumb lol. Cheers!",
"Ive lived in the city and upstate. Theyre both awesome in differdnt ways (relating to sound and light). Very easy to chill upstate. Very easy to be active at all hours in the city.",
"How?! I looked it up on GoodRx (which is what I used when I was uninsured) and even the extended release was less than $40. Are you not using a discount card?",
"Just like aproximately 99% of people, I'm going to confirm, No, I have not worked in a blinds shop. ",
"i was in a similar situation as you and have tried all of those, but i've found that melatonin honestly works the best. that said, it helps me *fall* asleep, but doesn't really force me to get a good sleep, unfortunately.",
"this guy sleeps",
"I know the feeling, I need to have a blanket (or sheet /light blanket when hot) to sleep. a fan still helps with a light blanket or sheet\n\nwas just giving some tips, some may not work for everyone. with an oscillating fan, ceiling fan, heavy blinds/curtains, and a light sheet... I rarely need the AC on",
"30 of the CR. When I used a discount it was $110 but sometimes I would forget it because I'm a dodo bird. I didn't realize Walgreens was so much cheaper than Walmart. Thanks for the heads up!\n\n ",
"Sign up at a discount site like goodrx.com and they will send you a card or you can just print it out yourself. Definitely shop around when filling a prescription--it is ridiculous the difference in prices!!\n\nIt is definitely a pain in the ass having to do all of that just to get a rx filled but it saved me thousands and meant I could still function as a human :) Hopefully it can help you out a bit too!",
"Thanks, man. I really appreciate it.",
"Nice repost ",
"I live in the Chicago area and not having ac is unheard of here. ",
"Ok but specifically referencing Milwaukee and Seattle for sure ",
"I guess it's just strange to me that people don't have ac in a developed country even if it's only needed a couple months out of the year. I've lived in the Midwest for the vast majority of my life but I've been to a decent amount of places outside that. I can't remember being in any home in the US that didn't have AC. I haven't been to Seattle though. ",
"Umm excuse me, where can I buy this?",
"Yup! It's a regulation by the FDA. If ANY person during a clinical trial has any \"abnormal\" occurrences during the entire duration of the trial, you have to add it to the patient handout.\n\nHOWEVER, I'm actually not a super fan of effexor because it has fairly significant NE reuptake inhibition as well as the normal 5HT reuptake inhibition seen in antidepressants, which works for some people/was the basis for first generation anti-depressants, however it's shown little clinical value compared to the potential side effects.",
"Of course! Yeah I wasn't sure where you were from/what your circumstances were, so I at least wanted to offer because it was no additional effort for me to type out a few sentences if needed :)\n\nEdit: Also, that's how it is here half the time too, people usually don't even want to talk to the pharmacists even WHEN we actually have something important to tell them. I work in clinical so I don't see patient's how a typical pharmacy does, but I'm always a proponent of counseling regardless of circumstance. Regardless, I think even in Ireland a pharmacist should still talk to someone about a medication, especially one like tramadol, but I'm not a lawyer and I'd be talking out of the other end if I said I know anything about international pharmacy law :D",
"Damn it. And here I'm just a Stonecutter",
"Oh man ive heard stonecutting can be Karsh on the joints and muscles",
"I'm not? ",
"You may be sarcastic, but there *are* people who have one in their bedroom (probably without a feed slot for oversized items though), and many more who can access one at a makerspace or simply by exchanging money for goods and services.\n\nAnd if you know how to handle Inkscape or are not totally incompetent with computers and willing to learn, it's pretty easy to work with a laser cutter (unlike e.g. CNC). Basically, know which materials you can put in and which ones generate toxic fumes, draw your shit with hairlines, print to the cutter software, align the laser head, set the speed/power, and fire away.",
"Awesome! Ordering tomorrow.",
"Happy cake day and good research!",
"I take it you don't work nights, or have absolutely no idea how it batters your system.",
"We opted to use a child minder to collect the kids after school. I dropped them off and she picked them up. This covered me for dayshift also. \n\nFriday after nights used to kill me, I used to have the kids all day, so never a chance to sleep. It was easy once they started school, but prior to that and school hols was heavy going after a long night. Mondays was my first night, so I also took the kids then. This meant getting a few hours in prep for the night didn't always happen. I was working a 2 week on/off pattern, so it meant potentially 8 days with bad sleeping. \n\nWorking nights is hard on family life I know. I was lucky my kids had no health issues or long term problems. A friend of mine has an autistic kid. I feel for parents who turn into long term carers.",
"I know, but majority of people don't have easy access to a machine like that. That's why it would be cool if you could actually buy those from somewhere for a reasonable price. ",
"No, generalized anxiety and he had some allergy issue. Guess his doctor thought two birds one stone.",
"Yeah that's fair, I more mean it as a milder first line of treatment than tramadol haha. It does make you feel gross though - I used it a few times for travel sickness and it's very much a \"what year is it\" situation",
"That’s why the environment is fucked.",
"Yeah I can agree with this, I work in the city and have spent many nights around there as well. ",
"I've worked nights. Batters your system less than working days on no sleep because you were up all night taking care of an infant.",
"[I see...](https://i.imgur.com/otCvWR5.jpg)\n\n\nCrealis",
"Me too. Couldn’t remember any episodes about aluminum foil",
"There's a DIY anywhere?",
"Ahdunno, my neighborhood in Brooklyn has gotten pretty bad.",
"Interesting. I never knew it was taken for travel sickness. I've taken dramamine when I've been deep sea fishing but it also made it a lot less fun as it makes me feel like I do with benadryl.",
"The ole \"how to make this room tacky\" aesthetic? ",
"I live in the UK and I either don't need it at all or a couple of days a year it gets hot enough to where air conditioning might have some use. \n\nIt might be strange to *you*, but most developed countries don't need AC *at all*, never mind needing it a couple of months a year like you expect.\n\nFor most places it's just a waste of money, and why waste money on something that you will get almost no use out of?",
"Why do you not think it would matter? ",
"Well it helps the nausea a little but the primary benefit is it knocks you the fuck out so you don't have to be conscious for it ",
"I love the look personally",
"Well put, I stand corrected",
"Yes, used to live by an intersection that a train went through. Passenger trains during the day, freight trains at night. Law require 4 horn blasts every time the train goes through the intersection. Pure hell.",
"If I was you wouldn't be tripping over things in your room to get to a switch ;)"
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"It even has those lines comming from the middle to the outside of the proboscis",
"Look for buried treasure around there... definitely a place a pirate would put treasure. \n\n\"At the elephants trunk you shall find its booty\"",
"Erupted or eroded?",
"I thought the booty was at the back.",
"Yes",
"Trunk. You're looking for the word trunk.",
"Neat",
"Thank you, I thought trunk was wrong and this sounded kind of fancy so I just rolled with it",
"I thought that was only on the island of Monte Cristo",
"Something something Lord of the Rings blah blah.",
"Yarr it’s a riddle ye swine",
"I’ve been there. It’s dope",
"👌",
"If anime teaches me anything it’s that a race of furries lives on the back of that Elephant island ",
"As opposed to what? Unnaturally erupted rock?",
"/r/pareidolia",
"I feel that's a good enough reason to worship elephants.",
"Eroded. ",
"That common troll is witless. ",
"Only in England.",
"AKA dynamited rock",
"Erupted *and* eroded.",
"at the elephant's back you'll find the trunk wherein lies the booty. ",
"It was a giant tree.",
"Zou!",
"Id like to think this is an ancient fossil of an elephant hundreds of thousands years ago",
"r/OnePiece fam we out hea",
"It also looks like a cartoony camel if you look at the elephant's ear as a snout.",
"This is some Power Rangers Wild Force shit",
"I also see the camel ",
"I see a camel",
"First one, then the other. ",
"I miss the rest of the crew. ",
"That's not natural! I had chemicals in it! ",
"Looks like you've found the 5th Elephant.",
"It looks like an elephant. ",
"Significant lack of exploding elephants, 3/7.",
"Eropded",
"Oh look, we found Zou.",
"Beautiful!!"
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"Neat!",
"Opened picture, tried cleaning dust from phone screen, felt silly.",
"Where's fucking Jupiter when you need it",
"Not too often do you get all this neatness in one location. ",
"I'm guessing Venus is the brighter of the two correct?",
"Where is Elon's Roadster?",
"Great shot",
"Wasn't dust. Was star stuff.",
"Judging by where the sun is in the pic, I think you’re right. ",
"Which one’s the moon?",
"Top 3 favourite planets ",
"Well now that Juno is keeping a close eye on him, he can't dip out for pics with the other babes of the night sky anymore.",
"Even when it's closer, Venus is larger, has a higher albedo, and its proximity to the Sun makes it brighter anyway.",
"Could be one of those two tiny dots between the moon, mars and venus",
"How did you get the shadow of the moon exposed? And how did you get the rays of light from Venus? A small apaerture doesn't make sense here because it's night but I may be wrong. Did you use a star filter?",
"I would definitely like to know the composition/lens used. I have never been able to get a shot of the moon and Venus like that before in one shot.",
"How would they line up in their orbits to see them like this? I'm having a hard time understanding how to see Venus and Mars so close. Not very good at this.",
"Sweet, now show me one of Uranus.",
"Enhance!\r\n",
"Vechain travel path.",
"Here's the [Moon and Jupiter from my phone camera](https://imgur.com/hfKZJHG)",
"Moon not planet, moon is moon.",
"How the hell do you get both Venus and Mars in the same picture at night? We're between the two, so you shouldn't be albe to have them both in the sky unless you are looking towards the sun so that Venus and Mars could sort of align. ",
"I was wondering this too. I think the sun should be to the left of the picture, that would make Venus closer to the sun. Earth is the vantage point in the middle, then mars is to the right.",
"Venus and Mars are alright tonight.",
"I always like seeing the old Moon in the new Moon's arms.",
"The only planet I care about seeing is Uranus. ",
"[This](http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/venus-and-mars-kiss-at-dawn/) shows how. Mars' orbit allows the planet to get almost behind Venus from the perspective of Earth. ",
"You're always looking more or less toward the sun when you're looking at Venus. That's why it's visible (when it is at all) only in the evening or morning. The sun is then blocked by the horizon. And, yes, the two planets can be seen together.\n\nI've actually seen Venus and Saturn (much farther way than Mars) through a _telescope_ at the same time. Venus was in a crescent phase, and the rings of Saturn were plainly visible. It looked like a child's bedroom wallpaper.",
"Triple combo!!!",
"Low light lens.",
"Its amazing that you could do that. I imagine that in 40 years time, people would be able to whip out a pocket device and take a photo of Zarmina (Gliese 581g)",
"Star dust",
"The one that looks like a space station",
"I wonder what determines how many shiny light lines come off of distant light sources. I should probably google it or /r/askscience or something.",
"I’m pretty sure that’s a Death Star. I don’t see a moon anywhere",
"Thanks. When's the next time this will happen? I don't think it said in the article.",
"Dammit Moon Moon! ",
"I believe that you may have a photo of Mars and Jupiter rather than Venus? I saw this early this morning as well and looked at Google Sky. Mars and Jupiter are sitting very close together in the Libra constellation.",
"This is impossible, right?",
"I think it has to do with the lens that is looking at it.",
"Venus would have a higher albedo. That sexy minx",
"I never knew that Venus was so spikey. Thanks for sharing your cool shot with a space geek-o-saurus.",
"El\n",
"https://i.imgur.com/OQ8UxmS.jpg\n\n",
"This is not a recent picture. Credit appears to go to Peter Barvoets (https://500px.com/photo/100089283/conjunction-by-peter-barvoets?ctx_page=1&from=user&user_id=429706) who says the picture was taken Feb 20, 2015",
"The trick is that they're not really close by even though it looks like it.\n\nThey are actually several thousand miles from eachother.",
"So like from here to there? Or from there to here",
"you can tell it's space because of the way it is",
"> I'm having a hard time understanding how to see Venus and Mars so close. Not very good at this.\n\nwhat you do is open your eyes, and then focus them on the part of the picture where mars and venus are located",
"So this proves that the Moon is the biggest of the three.",
"We’re all star stuff. ",
"Getting that starburst effect requires a really high f-stop...not sure how that's possible on a dark sky w/o an insanely high ISO.",
"Risky click of the day.",
"riskiest click of the day... ",
"[One possible scenario](https://i.imgur.com/dV4P3A9.png). Sorry for the low effort.",
"a quote from the [photographer](https://500px.com/photo/100089283/conjunction-by-peter-barvoets?ctx_page=1&from=user&user_id=429706):\n\n>The exposure was actually around 2 seconds . to minimize camers shake, I covered the lens with my hand, tripped the shutter and uncovered the lens for about 2 seconds..\n\n",
"And the Sun!!!",
"I was looking for this comment! Surprised I had to get to the bottom to see that.",
"How much of the lit side of Venus is visible from Earth when it appears brightest in the sky?",
"How can you see that - Venus and Mars? Because of it’s locations? ",
"That's Neptune. [This](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Uranus2.jpg) is Uranus.",
"No, just because of the way it is... How neat is that?! :D",
"That good sir is a Death Star. ",
"Star dust woman!",
"Always pack a.. bring the heat.. pack a gun. ",
"I don't care what any Hitchhiker's Guide says, we live in a nice neighborhood and I like it.",
"And as always some stars that feel the need to photo bomb.",
"This is fake. Everyone knows Venus is in front of earth duh. Jesus how can people believe in this and not realize the earth is flat!\n.\n.\n.\n.^/s",
"[You can tell because of the way it is](https://imgur.com/a/pk5gD)\n\nI made this in 3 minutes with paint to help illustrate how you can see this.",
"Night ball my favorite, day ball too bright",
"That's really neat",
"Great shot. What’s your latitude?",
"Yes, about seventy-four thousand thousands of miles.",
"Charles Salvador\n",
"How to do get Venus and Mars in one photo? That seems impossible to achieve... or am I not thinking hard enough about this? ",
"Will this be visible tonight? ",
"[like this?](http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25200000/Sailor-Moon-Sailor-Mars-Sailor-Venus-sailor-moon-25225821-500-370.gif) ",
"Who would win? ",
"Is that to scale? ",
"just gorgeous\nbut explain to me how the moon is visible while in crescent state?",
"Space Engine?",
"Wouldn’t this diagram put OPs picture in the day light though? It’s been a while since I last had a science class, but I thought Venus was usually low in the sky when it could be seen due to it being an inner planet in relation to earth. Isn’t it more likely that OPs picture is mars and Jupiter?",
"With the planets visible but this small in the night sky, I have always wondered - without a high powered telescope, how do we actually know that that's Venus and Mars, and not other stars? ",
" funny things are everywhere",
"‘Several thousand miles’ would be extremely close. That’s how I’d describe the distance between London and New York, not between planets.",
"[Yep](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/jupiter-mars-syzygy-how-to-see-together-cosmic-event-beautiful-space-stars-astronomy-a8145241.html)",
"The night side of the moon is dimly illuminated by light from its day side being reflected from the night side of the earth.\n",
"You can tell where the Sun is by looking at the illumination on the Moon.",
"Why would you even bother typing that out?",
"The stars will always appear in the same spots at the same time of night at the same time of the year, the planets won't. Mercury and Venus move particularly fast, Mars makes a complete circuit of the sky in about two years, and even Jupiter (~12 years) and Saturn (~25 years) move fast enough to see over the course of a season.",
"But Mercury is my favorite Sailor Scout ",
"They're all moons in a way.",
"How much a gram?",
"Actually, it happens quite a lot more often than you'd think.",
"Not here...",
"See!? They're all flat! #flatearth #wakeup. /S",
"Also that's actually Neptune. [Here's Uranus ;)](http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/technology/technology/2017/10/171019_TECH_Uranus.jpg.CROP.promo-xlarge2.jpg)",
"[This is what it would look like if it were to scale](https://i.imgur.com/EZboqA2.png). For the orbit circles, I just used the semi-major axis (average distance to the sun) to size them. The real orbits are slightly elliptical.\n\nI'd also like to point out that every body except the sun is oversized (even though they're only one pixel large). The real planets are so small compared to the sun that they'd round down to zero pixels",
"I'm confused by the twelve 'sparkle' lines coming off Venus.\n\nI'm pretty sure these are caused by light diffracting around the struts that hold a reflecting telescope's final mirror. What kind of telescope would make this many diffraction lines?",
"Aside from movement, nearby planets are also noticeably bigger than any star through a telescope. They've got a real 'roundness' to them, except for maybe Uranus and Neptune because they're a bit too small and far away for a backyard telescope.",
"No, I'm pretty sure that's a nipple. I don't see a moon anywhere.",
"These look nothing like the sailor scouts",
"better than Marijuana? ",
"https://imgur.com/a/xx6xj Is this another shot of Venus? The bright object to the right of the tower is the moon. The object to the left was invisible to the naked eye.",
"Something something alignment of celestial bodies or whatever nonsense ",
"It could be a long (several seconds) exposure",
"Venus is the brightest thing in the night sky after the moon so its an easy give away.\n",
"We are billion year old carbon.",
"A little lower and you could have gotten some of Earth in there, too.",
"Venus and Mars are alright tonight",
"Exactly! It's right there! In plane sight. ",
"What else is shown? Which stars? This picture at least a year old yeah? ",
"Makes sense, thanks. Here's a followup question- what if someone like me, who doesnt look at the night sky on a daily basis, want to look at Venus, or Mars, or Jupiter with a telescope. How would I find it in the sky? I would have no idea where the planet was yesterday, or a week ago, or a month ago, so how would I know what I'm looking at? Thanks in advance!",
"Yeah these mincy little celestial rocks wouldn't be prancing about so carefree if their jovian master were around",
"There could be mountain cougars and...biting goats!",
"It happens like all the time. That's why it's not in the article.",
"Sitting in the stands of the sports arena\nWaiting for the show to begin\nRed lights, green lights, strawberry wine\nA good friend of mine\nFollows the stars ....\n",
"Not sure how that’s possible but okay.",
"Was this the view from Uranus?",
"Boys go to Mars to get more candy bars, girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider!",
"Wow, you can even vaguely see all the stars. Do you happen to have a link to the original photo, which could have a higher resolution?",
"How is this possible if the Earth is between Venus and Mars? Can someone please explain?",
"have you always been without a sense of humor?",
"https://giphy.com/gifs/neat-MJkHFHYcPZfeo\n\n-op, probably",
"It's because the earth is flat that makes this possible. /s",
"how is the moon shiny?",
"Amazing.",
"Mars is bright tonight. ",
"What about Uranus?",
"Has a near-3-dimensional quality to it. ",
"That’s no moon...",
"What gear are you using and what were your settings?",
"In eighteen years, precisely the planets will allign ever so nicely.",
"For some reason this makes it easier to understand than the not to scale version",
"Now we need a picture of Uranus",
"Now, get your ass to Mars!",
"It happens somewhat often!\n\nCheck out Sky and Telescope's This Week's Sky at a Glance to see what cool things are happening in the sky!\n\nFor example, right now Jupiter and Mars are very close to each other!",
">several minutes AND multiple exposures\n\nseveral second is not going to expose the dark park of the moon so well.",
"I was hoping this was here.",
"Very cool. Much better quality than the pic I took last summer of [Mars, Mercury, and Venus.](https://imgur.com/a/2BFnG)",
"I can almost see litecoin up there...",
"That's exactly what I was thinking, but even still I reckon at least a minute would be needed (which would introduce trailing) unless there's some natural phenomena that causes the shadow to be brighter than usual.",
"People don't think it be like it is, but it do.",
"I'm not alone!",
"It's called Earthshine. During the thin crescent phase we can observe the dark part of the moon because the sun is reflecting off of Earth and into the Moon. :)",
"Are we sure this is Venus? I had thought that Venus never rose very far above the horizon and was only visible around sunrise and sunsets. \nEdit: NVM just found out that Venus can be seen sometimes at 30 degrees above the horizon. ",
"And the sun",
"Oh dear",
"The rays around venus suggest a very small aperture, which would require at least a minute long exposure, which would definitely not give a clear picture of the moon because of movement.\n\nthere is definitely some shooping going on.",
"They're known as [diffraction spikes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike), and how many of them appear are decided by how many blades make up the aperture of the lens used.\n\nLight, due to how it acts like a wave, bends when it gets close to an obstacle, and the blades of an aperture iris are no exception. Since aperture irises aren't completely circular in camera lenses, the corners in their shapes end up amplifying the effect of diffraction of light passing through the iris.",
"Here is a free program that can help you with that. http://stellarium.org",
"You need to install Distant Object Enhancement. The rest of the visual mods look great though!",
"AND A SOLAR ECLIPSE??",
"The three of them are obviously flat. Just look at them.",
"Should be noted that 74 million miles is the difference in the Radii of their orbits, not necessarily the straight-line distance between. That varies greatly depending on where they are in their orbits",
"Even if you can't tell them from a dim star by their size, Uranus and Neptune will have a very un-starlike color in a decent telescope.\n",
"Venus is quite visible to the naked eye at almost any time except daytime (and sometimes even then). It's probably some kind of reflection in the lens.",
"Venus is almost always brighter than any star, Jupiter is frequently brighter than most stars, Mars is dramatically red/orange at close approaches (there are a couple of obviously red/orange stars though), Saturn to me looks yellow/brown at close approach in good skies.",
"Cool. Thanks.",
"Ok. Thanks."
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"oh, hai there\n",
"Where was it taken?",
"Omg it's Mittens!",
"If you’re cold, they’re cold. ",
"Naw, that's just Steve French. ",
"is this an actual breed of panther?\n\nare they called a Florida panther because they mostly inhabit Florida, or because they wear Oakley's and have a tribal arm band tattoo?",
"According to a Wikipedia article florida panthers were once classified as distinct branches of the cougar family but they've been retroactively grouped with all north American cougars.",
"Looks like at a zoo of some kind",
"Yeah. I was just wondering if it was Flamingo Gardens. I grew up around there. ",
"OH HAI, HOOMAN!",
"I was out mountain biking in Central Florida once and saw one of these on the trail. I had stopped and looked about 10 feet off the trail and there he was. Just looking at me. He wasn't very big but I was new to the area and didn't know what it was or if I should be scared. I just didn't make eye contact, pretended I didn't see him and got the fuck out of there quickly but not in a panic.",
"Can he skate? Like it matters. ",
"shitter's full",
"Pussy Magnet",
"Yea that’s exactly where I took this photo",
"HA! Great. I’m not stalking you, I just grew up right by Western HS."
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"Wow no tank tops? This must not be from a scalding hot state. In Oklahoma if I don't even plan to go inside somewhere I don't wear a shirt but have a tank top with me at all times.",
"Woah",
"That’ s probably been there since the 60s."
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"What the hell.is going on with this tide shite?!",
"Are they overpriced like the real Tide pods",
"They know what’s up. ",
"Just another dumb meme. \nhttp://knowyourmeme.com/memes/eating-tide-pods\nhttps://youtu.be/Wpcai1110vI",
"Yum! I love old fashioned candy like that! What flavors are in it?",
"It doesn’t specify (I think it’s a secret blend) but they make a lot of other, non meme-inspired flavors too! ",
"I've seen that made on one of those \"how it's made\" tv shows. It is amazingly complex :)"
] | 7 | pics | A local candy shop in my hometown made these “Forbidden Treat” candies |
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"[Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Franz?wprov=sfla1)",
"It IS about US politics if in the context of omfg this could never fly in the US.",
"Definitely no lizard people here.",
"http://vladimirfranz.webnode.cz/obrazy/galerie/#! His paintings are interesting.",
"He Czechs out",
"*Playwright.",
"Can you imagine if he had won? The currency designers would have had a fit trying to put him on the dollar bill.",
"Bright guy. ",
"Who's the tattooed guy beside him? ",
"Looks like Yondu and Drax had an old baby.",
"When someone commits to doing this, I wonder how they decide what minimal blank space will remain for the designs. I wonder if it’s somewhat random or if he strategically and purposefully decided on placing the swirl on his cheek (for example). Once you’re out of space you’re out of space, so I can’t imagine just winging it. On the other hand, his blank space appears to be so random. Interesting. ",
"Orc from bright?",
"He's a half orc?",
"Imagine being so empty inside & desperate for attention that you did that to yourself. ",
"No. That's Jakoby.",
"Well, it didn't fly in the Czech Republic either. Fifth isn't very impressive, no one knows about whoever placed fifth in any other country's elections, they're just the candidates that never had a chance. The only reason people even know about him is because the fact that he ran for president at all while tattooed like that is odd.",
"Is this a scene from the next season of Bright? ",
"He's not even maori",
"He wrecked himself before he Czeched himself.",
"And he placed first in the election for Papa Smurf.",
"Oh shit, did Mystique lose her powers halfway through transforming?",
"But in the Munich circus, he was known as The Incredible Nightcrawler!",
"Although the thumbnail looked like the GoT Night King, the full rez pic made mw think of [Mazer Rackham](http://enderverse.wikia.com/wiki/Mazer_Rackham).",
"\"I ragret nothing.\"",
"Thanks to you we now know there were no more than 4 real candidates",
"It's based off [Maori](https://goo.glimages/bfXSWB) tattoo which has a very old tribal tradition.",
"Because a play is considered a thing you *build* to be used, like a wagon or a wheel (both of which have *wrights*), rather than a thing you *write* down.\n\nI love English.",
"That reference is going to go over a lot of people's heads.",
"I can't think of any puns that involve the word Maori.\n\nGuy's ta moko is intense.",
"I thought it was Nick Jakoby from Bright at first. ",
"The Hangover Part 4",
"Okay",
"He looks like a more badass Putin",
"Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are much too quick. I would catch it.",
"He finally got blooded. ",
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2: 863.7 million USD\n\nStar Wars the Last Jedi: 1.056 billion USD\n\nI mean, probably not that many heads. ",
"Why are discriminating against green people? Or are you trying to say that beeing green is a choise!?",
"Looking at them, makes the whole facial tattoo thing a logical consequence.",
"Job interviewer: Oh I see you have a tattoo.",
"This. It’s counterintuitive -I too tried this a few years back. It Doesn’t prevent sunburn like one would think",
"Of five.\n",
"FUCKING LEGEND!!! 🙏 ",
"Clever marketing for the new show Bright",
"What's that comment got to do with Star Wars?",
"Especially as they don't even use dollar bills, they'd have to change currency yet again.",
"Koruna*",
"Star Wars is so popular even presidents are quoting it. So, if Guardians of the Galaxy is only a little bit behind, then it is safe to assume a large number of people would get the reference still. ",
"I understand this reference, unfortunately. ",
"Wish someone could explain how it's culturally respectful/relevant for a white man to have Maori facial tattoos. It's an expression of one's genealogy and identity as a Maori...so again...wht this white fellow who obviously ISN'T Maori?\n\nGiven the history of colonisation in NZ it seems like it might be insensitive for non-Maori people to have this done as a mere fashion statement. Sort of like a Pakeha child or adult wearing the toki (greenstone necklace that represents wisdom/strength of a tribal elder or leader).\n\nThat being said...I still have the same question after seing a white guy with full-on Ta Moko accompanied by a Maori woman (wife?). Maybe it's an expression of cultural or social unity?\n\nEdit: It's awesome that people only have a downvote to contribute to such a discussion. Those people are fucking stupid. ",
"Looks like beast from x men",
"Is it though? Because I would assume that most people on Reddit have at least seen the first Guardians movie by now, or if not at least seen some characters or trailers and seen references to it. ",
"What a terrible movie that was...\n\nEdit: Sorry guys, I just didn't like it that much",
"I'd vote for him. \nI mean he did lasso the sun, to light our days and bring us fun. Also he harnessed the breeze, to fill our sails and shake our trees.",
"Imagine being so empty inside & desperate for attention that you ~~did~~ posted your comment.",
"I mean if you’re gonna get a facial tattoo this is probably the best way to do it",
"I guess you could say that he violated himself?!",
"Plærite",
"It went over yours though...",
"I thought it was an ad for the Bright movie\n",
"Only 5th place??!? Surely, educated voters would have elected the guy who has a 100% face tat. ",
"I think they're making a sequel",
"I'm referencing this line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtUtXRRbQR0",
"Except Star Wars has been mainstream for the 40 years while GotG exists like 3 years",
"Who cares?",
"You got something on your face\n\nOh it’s a piece of actual skin colour still\n\nHold on I have a sharpie I’ll fix that for you quick",
"Nega Putin",
"Obvious Sith infiltration. ",
"Apparently it is the act of claiming it as a Ta Moko which is considered offensive, not the facial tattoo itself.\n\nThe term given to a non-moko facial tattoo of Maori design is kirituhi.",
"Deadass thought this dude was a orc",
"Right? ",
"Alright - that means that a 40 year old mainstream franchise only lightly beat out this newcomer. Safe to say, people liked it and would get the reference.",
"Thought I was looking a thumbnail for the movie 'Bright' before opening",
"Fucking reptilian bro ",
"You can go home. ",
"I just realized Drax and Dwight Schrute say some of the same things. ",
"Eh. It looks cool so they can want it.\n\nI don't believe in cultural appropriation.\n\nOffensive vs appropriation is different",
"But.... I liked it :/",
"https://i.imgur.com/CqUPv2c.png",
"Placed 5th out of 5 candidates?",
"Cause he’s bad for his health ",
"That's okay, we don't all think the same",
"You must have extremely high standards.",
"It's a good bad movie.",
"Fun fact, the actor of the Night King in GoT is Slovakian which is a neighboring country of Czech Republic. ",
"THEY LIVE",
"I saw [that guy](https://imgur.com/a/dcmS6) on the metro in Prague earlier this year. I was standing right behind him when we got on and even though I couldn't see his face from that angle I knew right away it was him. \n\n",
"They are",
"The one in the middle?",
"X-men material",
"I unreservedly agree. Face tattoos are for schmucks. Mooks. Mental defectives.",
"A face tattoo of any kind is FULL RETARD.",
"Is this a cultural thing?",
"Mean as Moko ao",
"I'M MARY POPPINS, YA'LL!\n\nEDIT: I PUT THE APOSTROPHE IN THE WRONG PLACE YAL'L!",
"Drax is what Dwight thinks he is. I wonder if the germans have a word for that.",
"He was smart enough to match his skin to his eyes. It enhances their color.",
"I thought he was one of the orcs from Bright!",
"I blue myself.",
"Are you getting confused with Yoda?",
"**Make the Galaxy Sith again**",
"He looks a little green around the gills. ",
"Well to be fair, spending months or however long that took and investing thousands of dollars into that versus taking a few seconds to type a comment for free aren’t really in the same ballpark. ",
"If only Russia has helped him. One Vlad to another.",
"That’s why I keep coming to this damn website. I nearly pissed myself at this comment. ",
"They would have been delighted.",
"Is that an orc from bright? ",
"Seem like at any second he will zap a fly out of the air with his tongue. ",
"You mean they had a Benjamin Button?",
"I thought he was an Orc from the movie Bright.",
"Queequeg is a survivor! ",
"I'm sure the elves are gonna love working by his side!",
"So this would be like Kanye West running?",
"Jakoby ",
"and he's blue ",
"He's an orc from Bright",
"is he cool?",
"No, WRIGHT... They just said it, ffs.",
"So they know each other, right?",
"http://files.vladimirfranz.webnode.cz/200000130-ef323f02e7-public/bartok.jpg\nThis one makes me feel uneasy.",
"I bet his hakke is on point",
"A classic looks like a nice person",
"That's what I said, write?",
"I like how the ink matches his eyes. ",
"The Pict are invading!",
"That's what I thought! ",
"Looney bin material",
"I’ll ask... what movie?",
" So listen up here's a story...",
"You shut your whore mouth! Different opinion = shame!!",
"So...by the same right...people should wear burquas for fashion, have the bindi (worn by married Jain/Hindu women), wear a Sikh turban, dress up as Native Americans as a fashion statement? We should just borrow people's cultural symbols without any sensitivity to its original meaning or purpose? \n\n",
"You’re not that Bright.",
"I wouldn't judge without knowing his context. Maybe he went and lived in a Maori town and got hand tatted like a boss. Maybe that's a cover up of all the tattoos his sick sociopathic parents placed on his face against his will. Maybe he did it for charity. \n\nGenerally speaking cultural appropriation is risky to engage in, but you can't doubt his commitment, so maybe it's just cultural exchange. Hard to say without knowing more. ",
"Jeez these soundcloud rappers need to stop...",
"Yeah...I did read about that. I just asking sincerely what the meaning of having Pakeha (non-Maori white people, Europeans) sporting Ta Moko is and whether or not that is considered offensive or absurd to Maori people. \n\nI'm not asking because I have a problem with experiencing other cultures or sharing culture, just to be clear. ",
"Looks like you do. ",
"Damn dude relax",
"Sorry bud, but I really dont",
"Mal'akh can do that with all of his money...",
"It looks like someone tried to powerwash him but gave up halfway through.",
"Bravo ",
"I came to the comments for someone to tell me why this guy has tattoos on his face and some sort of cultural significance, but instead all I've got are ass butts making the same few jokes about his tattoo.",
"schadwightfreude",
"He's definitely a fan of Francis Bacon ",
"they got Beast from the xmen running for the presidential elections.",
"Mom: You'll never get a job if you get a tattoo!!\n\nVladimir Franz: Hold my becherovka and tonic.",
"Yes. \nI believe culture is meant to be shared.\n\nOriginal meaning is pretty useless in the long run. Religions get bastardized and cultures get romanticized.\nHow is it within anyone's power to tell someone else what they can and can't take from another culture? If someone likes a headdress, they should wear it. Does it have the same meaning to that person as a person from the culture? obviously not, but that's exactly where the distinction is.\n\nFor example: the cross is sacred to christians, but I could go out and wear a cross as a person of a different religion because I think it looks nice.\n\nCulture is what it means to YOU. If you're so sensitive about only people of your own culture participating in that culture, maybe your culture is not ready for globalization.\n\nI don't understand how people are so keen on being individualistic and respecting everyone else for who they feel they are, but then try to impose hard limits of what they can and cannot express themselves with. Like WTF?\n\nAlso I believe the vast majority of people are culturally respectful. Tasteless use of a culture as a caricature for a cheap joke is not in style, and will never be in style, because it's a superficial tactic.\n\n",
"You say you don't care but your first click on this article and two replies determined that was not true. You do not know de way ma bruddah.",
"Yeah Ill agree with you on this one.\n\nHowever the \"love\" song in the suv scene was cannibal corpse's song hammer smashed face. As a metal head this made me extremely happy. \n\nCannibal Corpse also made the appearance in Ace Ventura with the same song.",
"Not even that, the word is just a copy of the wainwright/cartwright structure and was accidentally a pun.\n\nI love English, but it's dumb.",
"And now you have your answer.",
"And on the left is our beloved comrade Milos \"Ovar\" Zeman, the winner. Probably drunk and wearing red boxer shorts.",
"Is there anything particularly Maori about his tattoos? They're not the only culture to practice facial tattoos and I don't see anything in his face that looks Maori other than \"swirly bits\".",
"It seems the joke he was making did, in fact, go over your head",
"Looks like the result of dark souls 3 sliders",
"I wasn’t a fan either, and was downvoted into oblivion for saying as much. Gotta be careful around here:)\n\nIt’s not that everything was bad, it’s just that I expected better. Too much hype maybe",
"The guy is actually just an attention seeking moron. He's not that intelligent, has no intention of winning, and is only running to sell more of his own shit.",
"Be a shame if he isn’t with the Green Party",
"If you defeat him he will give you a spirit orb.",
"he appears to be green",
"I think the point here though was that only one of these people os actually sad and desperate. It is more likely that the man with the face tattoo gives no shits if you pay attention to him or not. Most people with face tattoos get them because they themselves like them, and that’s it. They don’t scream at you to look at it. They don’t harm anyone, or mock anyone. They simply get something they wanted. However, at the same time the Reddit user is living such a sad and lonely life that they feel the need to act out and be edgy about this guy to get attention from reddit.\n\nSo the point here was that while one has actually done nothing to grab attention (the man with the tattoo) the other was very literally begging for it in the image of a shit comment. ",
"And that's why you urinate before you wet yourself.",
"Thought it was another casting call for Bright 2",
"a sequel to cirque du freak?",
"At what point do we recognize that the dude was just sharing his opinion on an Internet forum? “People covered in face tattoos are attention seekers” isn’t an unpopular opinion. Whether that’s true or not is probably unknown, I think researchers have their hands tied up with other things, I assume. I’m the guy that doesn’t read the article so don’t take my word on anything. ",
"I think that's what they are getting at. Things can mean different things to different communities. Western society is big on fashion and using clothing/accessories to present themselves. Short of using cultural/ritual dress to disparage another culture I haven't been able to see why they shouldn't be adopted by other cultures. Like a scout can work for their swimming badge or whatever and be proud and its a great accomplishment. But when a teenager who finds one at a thrift store patches it onto his/her Jean jacket it doesn't devalue the Scout's accomplishment. This is my understanding of the argument that cultural appropriation isn't a thing. Personally I say wear what you want, just don't be a prick to people.\n\nTL;DR the clothing itself is just material, the meaning behind it is what matters.\n\n",
"Out of only five candidates I hope ",
"Hell yeah he’s cool!",
"I've got a bow for that.",
"> Generally speaking cultural appropriation is risky to engage in\n\nNo it isn't. It's a big part of how the world progresses. ",
"Illustrated and Illustrious!",
"I will show them respect for their opinion when they show respect for other peoples choices that do not effect them. The point of their comment was to be a little rude to both the person pictured, and to those out there with face tattoos by implying the only reason they would ever get one is for attention, which is false. Some people will get them for that, sure. But then again, some people jump off roofs and try to flip over cars for attention, so that is more so a problem of stupidity than a problem in just the tattoo industry. \n\nMy point here is that everyone does something for attention, big or small. But making blanket statements and judging someones character based off a picture and a tattoo, something that has nothing to do with who they truly are, their intelligence, or how their life is, that is just it’s own cry for attention. If you are still at a point of judging people in such a superficial manner, you are still at a point in which you will judge yourself in the same way and add that same pressure to your own life. ",
"I bet he has at least five dick piercings. ",
"And I only had to get downvoted twelve fucking times to get it. Seems like some people need something even more pared down than Twitter to stifle and prevent intelligent discussion. ",
"I'll give him this - he took it far enough that it became kind of interesting.",
"playwright",
"I’ve seen all Star Wars movies and both Guardian movies and only because I’ve seen the Volume 2 recently in Netflix do I know the name Yondu. I don’t know who Drax is but I’m assuming it’s someone with face tats? But, I don’t represent the majority because I tend to forget common details like character names and remember dumb minute details instead. ",
"I'm mostly surprised that all your upvotes seem to indicate the amount of Americans who didn't think twice about whether the Czech Republic uses dollars.",
"The high horses on this website would put the fuckin Trojans to shame. What, you don’t have some potentially ignorant thoughts running around in your head? \n\nI just don’t think anonymously leaving a comment on the Internet is on the same page as permanently inking the majority of your face, if both were hypothetically done for attention. It’s just basically a big fat “no, u” ",
"What didn’t you like the most? The inherent social commentary of real world class and race issues, the overacting by Will Smith, or the plot?",
"And?",
"Seriously. I’m from r/all and don’t know shit about Czech politics and don’t care enough to google it outside of this post. Somebody explain pls",
"drax is the buff guy who takes everythign seriously",
"That's awesome",
"Presumably he's Drax's white-collar cousin.",
"I thought it was bad but liked it anyways, and not even ironically. ",
"And at that guys age he was certainly originally just a Czechoslovakian. So, not just a neighboring country, but formerly the same one. I realize that happened a while ago before some Redditors were born. So while it seems like a captain obvious statement to some of us, it might not be to all. ",
"Yeah that's disturbing.",
"I think they mean that sometimes people get very judgmental about how others view other cultures and as a result can think you’re a bad person for it. Being seen as a band person over something with no ill-intent is a risk. ",
"How do you tattoo something as thin as an eyelid?",
">Generally speaking cultural appropriation is risky to engage in,\n\nNo such thing exists in the first place to begin with. Get your Tumblr euphemisms out of here.",
"I appreciate your sacrifice. Your joke was great. ",
"It's great to see svartalfs finally integrating into European society.",
"I'm blue...",
"It's apparently pretty divisive ... my gf and I have VERY similar tastes in film - in everything, really.\n\nWe watched Bright separately and I REALLY didn't like it and she said she thought it was a lot of fun.\n",
"At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi",
"France is bacon?",
"I mean other than the tattoos he seems like a really professional guy ",
"Some of the symbols are similar to the Tattoos from my home country New Zealand.\nThough this is something else.\n\nMen tend to have more \nhttps://www.google.com.au/search?q=nz+maori+facial+tattoos&rlz=1C1GGRV_enAU748AU748&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJqdLc4MbYAhUKxrwKHe75CWgQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=949#imgrc=f8rUqSHhAZ6KHM:\n\nWomen normally on the chin below the mouth\nhttps://www.google.com.au/search?q=nz+maori+facial+tattoos&rlz=1C1GGRV_enAU748AU748&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJqdLc4MbYAhUKxrwKHe75CWgQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=949#imgrc=2r-TVhKQJkF8OM:",
"Still better than Trump",
"Jakoby from Bright?",
"I’ll chip in to the discussion as someone that has witnessed cultural uniqueness turn into platforms for hatred. If someone finds a certain culture interesting or intriguing and they find joy in trying to submerse in it, then I believe discriminating against them because they weren’t born into it or because they aren’t a specific race, is pretty shitty. It blows me away that in a world where we blast people for “nationalism” which is often based on culture, we also support other cultures that want nobody else to interfere or touch it. And even more so when ethnicity or race is used as a shield. At the least, it appears to be a double standard at the surface. At the worst, it’s resistance to Anglo adoption of non-Anglo ways. \n\nEither we accept that humans will continue to merge beliefs and cultures and ethnic lines and we appreciate the cultures at the roots, or we don’t accept that and in turn accept ethnic groups trying to stay pure. ",
"Exactly, right? ",
"No fangs? Fuckin traitor.",
"What do you mean? Are you trying to be clever? I was making a serious comment about attention-seeking behavior; attention-seeking behavior which borders on self-harm. ",
"🎵I'm blue...🎵",
"Shhhh! Don't bring any logic into this...Man! can't take you anywhere...",
"What do you mean? Are you trying to be clever? I was making a serious comment about attention-seeking behavior.\n\n",
"Schrutenfreude",
"^ comedian",
"^ empty inside",
"Hahaha how are you getting downvoted for this? I couldnt finish that movie, it was so bad and I went into it stoned with no expectations. It got like a 20% rating on rotten tomatoes too so its not like we are the only ones with this opinion. ",
"The Night King?",
"You come across as a bully. ",
"[they don't have any cultural significance, he's just an artist/drama professor with a lot of tattoos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Franz#Tattoos)",
"Says the guy who made this statement about someone he has probably never heard of before.\n\n>Imagine being so empty inside & desperate for attention that you did that to yourself. \n\n",
"I take lungs now, gills come in three weeks ",
"Eh, it's easy enough to see \"dollars\" but read \"money.\" It's less a question of ignorance and more just not paying attention. ",
"I first thought they looked like Maori tattoos, but thats New Zealand, so I'm kinda curious myself.",
"That is correct. I don't think that cutting your skin with a needle and putting ink in the wound should be normalized. Covering your face with decorative scar tissue doesn't seem healthy. It seems like something that a desperate person would do. ",
"if the Americans have an orange president then it's only fair that the Czechs can have a blue one. ",
"You come across as a bully, empty inside & desperate for attention.",
"I’m getting a big piece done on my back and I’m wimping out so badly due to the pain.\n\nMy first session I only lasted 2.5 hours. The second session I lasted 3 hours. But jeez, it’s tats like this guys that really send home how much I have been failing. ",
"No, /u/the_barroom_hero is wright",
"Carefully ",
"I read his wiki, it seems like he just enjoyed the aethetic aspect of them ",
"The guy's just doesn't give a shit what other people think.\n\nHere's his comment about his tattoos during an interview:\n\n\"The art of tattooing is accompanying mankind since time immemorial. In addition to the original magic and ritual function, it represents also an aesthetic function. Of course - an aesthetic point of view is a matter of each free individual. Tattooing is an expression of free will, not touching the freedom of others. It is an expression of permanent and unchangeable decision to stand up for your opinion, in both good and bad. (...) My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion.\"",
"What did virmin supreme place in the us election?",
"Duh! Thanks. Just saw that actor in a Netflix movie called Bushwick. Serious in that one, too. ",
"Wow that reminds me of the story of the grasshopper and the octopus.\n\n\"All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a racecar.\"",
"To be fair, I think Harambe finished fifth in ours...",
"Do the tattoos make the skin u can see look red or did he get the tattoos because he was so fing red?",
"Well, their reference apparently went over your head.",
"very carefully, i'd imagine",
"Very carefully. Seriously that's it, you just have to get between the right layers of skin, and they're much more compacted on the eyelid than a majority of the rest of the body. If you want some really precise tattooing though, the eyeballs are where it's at:\n\nhttps://www.popsci.com/this-is-how-eyeball-tattoos-are-supposed-to-work#page-2",
"When you got a meeting as the president of the Czech Republic at 4, but gotta open the 8th Gate to prevent Madara\nfrom taking over the world at 3.",
"He could almost be a member of the Blue Man group without even putting any makeup on",
"Your repetition of my own words suggests that you're not being serious but are instead just trying to offend me. ",
"Looks like Creed from the Office auditioning to be an Orc in Bright.",
"I’d like to see the guy that placed 6th",
"[Thought he consumed too much silver like this guy did before clicking on thread.](http://i.imgur.com/Y2eFdp9.jpg)",
"And then they assumed that it's normal for every country to put the face of their leader on money.",
"I still haven't watched that but read the books. I'm scared of the suck.",
"These are traditional Maori tattoos (from NZ). \n\nYou can tell he didn’t get them alongside Maori Culture and just as an aesthetic decision because any traditional Maori artist would have more gaps between the chin, cheek, and eventually forehead area. Each section represents different things from origin, bloodline, and success in battle (more commonly success in business in the modern era). \n\nAlso traditionally this would be done with a hammer and chisel, so the detail would not be able to be so compact. \n\nI’m not Maori myself but there has been a few debates from Native Iwi and Maori Parliamentary Representives here in NZ about an increase in global cultural appropriation of Maori practises - such as the Haka, Moko (Face Tattoos), and “Maori Savage” costumes that came out around the world with the release of the film Moana. \n\nI think it’s a good thing for a dying culture to be recognised and revered personally, but people in general need to make an effort to understand and show respect for the culture they borrow from. A big part of this would be to call the costume “Maori Warrior” instead of “Maori Savage” haha",
"Not a traitor, just not blooded. ",
"I feel like without the tats he would look like Daniel Craig's older, balder brother.",
"He'd definitely be a better president than the jackass we ended up getting from those elections.",
"Does anybody know what his political stance was when he was running? ",
"my wife and I watched it last night. it was an enjoyable popcorn film.",
"Bright?",
"I mean, it's a fairly common occurrence going back thousands of years. \n\nEither way, I'm spending way too much time thinking about a joke lol ",
"Not in the Czech Republic.",
"Thank you. Well put.\n\nVladimír Franz is known also for his extensive tattoos, including facial ones. His unusual appearance attracted the attention of world press during the 2013 presidential election.[9]\n\nIn an interview for the TV NOVA, he commented:[10]\n\n“The art of tattooing is accompanying mankind since time immemorial. In addition to the original magic and ritual function, it represents also an aesthetic function. Of course - an aesthetic point of view is a matter of each free individual. Tattooing is an expression of free will, not touching the freedom of others. It is an expression of permanent and unchangeable decision to stand up for your opinion, in both good and bad. (...) My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion.”",
"The uruk-hai?",
"Sichmonstertäuschung",
"Not you, Mr. Sunman. ",
"ja gut",
"Your attacking a complete stranger without even doing minor research into him suggests that you enjoy being a completely insufferable human being.\n\n>Vladimír Franz is a Czech composer, painter, university scholar and occasional journalist, poet and playwright. Since mid-1980s he has composed stage music for more than 150 theatre performances - for many of them he was awarded national-level prizes -, he has also composed a symphony, several operas, oratorios, a musical, ballet, as well as film music and music for documentaries and radio plays. His second main area of activities in the field of arts is represented by painting. Since 1991 he has been a lecturer at the Prague's Faculty of Theatre.\n\nSeems more accomplished than some random troll naysayer will ever be. And his comments on his tattoos suggests he's more well adjusted and comfortable with himself than you can ever hope to be.\n\n>The art of tattooing is accompanying mankind since time immemorial. In addition to the original magic and ritual function, it represents also an aesthetic function. Of course - an aesthetic point of view is a matter of each free individual. Tattooing is an expression of free will, not touching the freedom of others. It is an expression of permanent and unchangeable decision to stand up for your opinion, in both good and bad. (...) My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion.",
"Darn",
"New Zealander here. It looks like he saw a picture of a moko once, mashed it up with some proto-European influences then described it to his tattoo artist by text message. ",
"In case that was a question. \"Bright\" is the name of a Netflix film starring Will Smith. I have yet to see it, but I've read it's like a buddy-cop movie but with magic. In it Smith's partner is an orc whose markings look similar to the man depicted in this post",
"Is 5th in a presidential election a bigger deal there than in the US?\n\n5th place presidential candidate in the US for 2016 was Evan McMullin. Someone most people have never heard of.",
"It seems like a lot of people think these tattoos would be found offensive by New Zealanders (Maori specifically obviously). As a local, do you believe his tattoos would be offensive?",
"New comer? Gotg have be around since the 60s",
"This.... Actually makes sense... Lol",
"Guardians of the galaxy came out in the late 60s",
"They a) dont look like Maori tattoos to me and b) Maori facial tats aren't the only example of cultural facial tattoos in the world.",
"“At last, we shall reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At least, we shall have our revenge.”",
"it's an older meme sir, but it checks out.",
"My point here was not that neither or both are attention whores. My point is that we know next to nothing about wither of them personally. Yet we sit there and make an extremely rude judgment call about who they are as a person. The commenter assumed this was some sad dude who begged for all the attention and couldn’t live without it, when he could actually be an introvert who enjoys tattoos and liked the aesthetic of what he has done. So I applied the same logic to that commenter. If the only reason this man could have a face tattoo is for attention, than the only reason to bitch about it is for attention. I merely used their own way of thinking.\n\nNow as to the high horse. Sure, from time to time I make a rash judgment about someone. Then I slap myself on the wrist and re-evaluate. I do everything I can to not judge from the outside looking in, and have made an even bugger effort to do so since taking a job at a vape shop. I’ve been called a douchebag by people who have never met me multiple times solely because I was carrying my vape, or at the shop. Yet they do not know me. Through those experiences I realized how it can hurt to be judged and described based on made up attributes. So I have made a massive push to no longer make superficial and subjective rulings about someones personal life. I merely did so here to highlight that doing so makes you an asshat. \n\nSo again, my point: Don’t make judgments about someones personal character and composure based on your own thoughts about their appearance. So what someone has a face tattoo, it doesn’t mean they need attention. Oh no, some guy drives a truck you don’t like? It doesn’t mean he has a tiny dick and a rage problem.",
"These tattoos and meant to speak about the life journey, family and tribe of the individual.\n\nI'm not really one to get offended. Each to his own.\nBut Yes I can see how this might offend some people. \n\nBut I also imagine these tattoos also speak to this mans journey.\n",
"Lol I thought it was a clip for blight 2 or something ",
"Why did you copy & paste all of that stuff though? And free will doesn't exist. He says it's a result of a long-term sophisticated concept. I understand. But it looks desperate to me. It looks like self-harm to me. We are still talking about cutting one's skin with a needle & putting ink in the wound, right? ",
"Thumbnail makes him look like Dr. Manhattan. ",
"plenty of adults around now that don't remember the horrors of mid-90s eastern Europe :/",
"Bright is the new Will Smith movie on Netflix. Orcs, elves, fairies, etc. all exist in the modern world and Smith (a cop) gets the first police orc for a partner, surrounding them in racial controversy, but they have to put all that aside when the bad guy starts blowing shit up. I haven’t seen it yet, I got all that from the trailer, but I plan on watching it tonight.",
"I was thinking more nightcrawler",
"calling it a buddy cop movie is bit of an oversimplification. The way it portrays inequality is amazing. the movie is a bit predictable but in a good way. ",
"Don't bother it's just a bunch of annoying people trying to be funny.",
"It was just a joke on my name lol",
"Jokes it's my name",
"Got limes?",
"For a minute I thought I was back browsing r/powerwashingporn",
"He filed them down to get the human vote",
"When your a custom character in a cut scene!",
"just suit up and everything is possible",
"Kudoes to the Czechs for nominating men of letters for president. Wonder what that's like?",
"It’s not my favorite but definitely a good watch. You’ll enjoy it. ",
"Considering the downvotes, yes.",
"So call me maybe?",
"the first issue of GOTG was published back in jan of 1969... star wars did not come out for another 8 years. But I am assuming you were only talking about the movie franchises.",
"Good Bot?",
"Tonic on the side. ",
"the lizard people are becoming more bold",
"And to think a job turned my down because of a small tattoo on my hands. ",
"For the horde? ",
"I love that you thought of/mentioned Ender's Game (as it is my favorite book/series), but I hate that you drew attention to the movie's existence (as it is my favorite book/series).",
"The Parshendi have gone deeper into the government than I had previously thought possible..",
"Me too thanks ",
"50 year anniversary of GOTG is jan 2019. star wars 50th is may 25th 2027.",
"Fifth, I wonder what kept him from first. ",
"I pasted it so you can judge someone on their merits rather than their appearance. Sorry that's a foreign concept to you. And your insistence to disparage a complete stranger seems desperate to me.",
"oh. well thats cool too",
"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Franz#cite_note-10",
"How many people ran? ",
"New trend alert on the internet \"writing multiple paragraphs makes me correct\" these are not maori tattoos and he doesn't claim they are.",
"Thanks!",
"The spiritual successor to Frank Zappa. ",
"It’s a pretty enjoyable film tbh; nothing incredible, but it’s a cool concept of fantasy in the modern world. There’s some obvious social commentary too, although it adds to the story. Definitely check it out. I was presently surprised.",
"We have to shun them!\nShun the non-believer, shuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnn. ",
"Damn, based on the thumbnail I thought he would be a brother! What is this Mickey Mouse bullshit I see before my very eyes? ",
"Def check it out. It’s an enjoyable flick. I went in with low expectation and was pleasantly surprised. I’m excited for the sequel.",
"Who the fuck names their kid Bright? What was wrong with your parents?",
"Exactly, they swear they have the most original jokes and puns like, shoo",
"*slow claps*",
"You misunderstand, that is my internet name",
"That's actually a really well put together response. ",
"r/almostbeetlejuicing",
"Well he figured if an orange man with no talents can get himself president of the US then a blue guy with more than one can run for Czech president.",
"Eh. You're conscious for a few short decades and forgotten shortly after. Do whatever you want.",
"Tattooed dude here... lots of us draw inspiration from the tattooing traditions of the world, but don't want to appropriate (or appear to appropriate) something as deeply meaningful as moko. I'm sure they exist, but I don't know any tattooed person who would ever get an \"authentic\" moko inked (I don't know any Maori). Nor do I know any tattoo artist who would ink a moko or a facsimile of one.\n\nSo, if you're European, and you want a face tattoo... you might adopt generic geometric elements from moko, adapt to your own cultural traditions with influences of proto-European sacred geometry, and then ask your tattoo artist to draw you something amazing from your reference art and your descriptions.",
"????? Guardians of the Galaxy came out before Star Wars. The first one, I mean. The fourth episode. You know what I mean.",
"Why, just why.",
"Brighter",
"Actually, there weren't any horrors during the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, it was a peacefull process.",
"would'nt have been awesome had he won, imagine the memes, THE DANK MEMES, they would have been beatiful",
">They a) dont look like Maori tattoos to me\n\nThe korus on the chin, nose, and cheeks absolutely look like Maori designs. [This comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7ork5s/this_is_vladim%C3%ADr_franz_a_composer_scholar_and/dsc4v7y/) gives a good semi-serious hypothesis on how the tats came to be",
"So that's what Hannibal Lecter is up to these days.",
"He's rocking those Sith tattoos",
"5th out of how many? In the US being third is a significant level of insignificance of numbers in support for a candidate. ",
"Cut the bullshit, guardians werent even 4th tier characters in the comics, i know some really hardcore marvel fans and they were shocked when gotg was announced.",
"The man loves ink. ",
"The top comments are so unfunny it's embarrassing ",
"I just call it \"The World Wide Web\". ",
"Thought I was looking at a dirty penny",
"Fighter of the moonman!",
"It's a good watch but very very derivative.\n\nI actually really hope they embrace this in Bright 2 where it's a straight knock off of Lethal Weapon or something and it becomes a running gag.",
"awh, I liked the movie",
"when you stay up all night watching your shitcoin tank",
"I really, really regret clicking on that picture. It's 22:07 here and I am in bed, in a dark room. \n\n",
"Bootleg Czech Darth maul looks great",
"Translate \"Yo, that shit looks cool, bro.\" into Czech.",
"I believe the West, particularly North America, cares much more about cultural appropriation than the rest of the world.",
"I saw that link and clicked it thinking ' please don't be Ben Kinsley please don't be Ben Kinsley'",
"Vladmír Franz.",
"It's good as long as you expect a buddy cop movie with serious themes of race relations. It's not really a comedy or drama and I think that's why critics didn't like it",
"So, Zootopia?",
"He hasn’t been blooded yet. ",
"It doesn't appear to me that he's trying to emulate moko, although he may have drawn some inspiration from the Maori tradition. The defects you point out aren't defects, they simply represent a different cultural tradition from which the artist drew his motifs and composition. They don't look like moko because they *don't* culturally appropriate from the Maori. In fact, that was probably conscious and intentional so that it wouldn't even *appear* to culturally appropriate any Maori motif, symbol, or significant composition.",
"Is he actually anybody to anybody in any of those fields or is he just a guy who wrote some crap and the post is making it seem like a big deal? I just made some shit music on my computer a second ago...adding it to the resume.",
"I am guessing you did not read the book then...",
"Always put down by those elves",
"It’s a shame really. I miss the time when Reddit comments were just as interesting as the post itself. Now it’s a race to make the most obvious dumb joke. ",
"Without touching on the actual content of the tattoos. My interpretation of that particular comment (or the motivation behind it) is that he got the tattoos as a means of exemplifying his belief in the right of free expression/freedom of choice (without encroachment on the freedoms of others). Tattooing (particularly that amount) is a serious commitment and I would guess he is seriously committed to protection of those freedoms- which is truly a good thing.\n\nIt seems like maybe an extreme way to make that point but he seems to be successful and competent in multiple domains. I would guess that he views his job as quite the responsibility, which is admirable if that is the case.",
"Nah, becherovka is the trademark drink of the asshole we actually elected as the president. ",
"He didn't get the job though dumb ass",
"These are definitely not traditional Maori tattoos. Maori tattoos are also definitely not created using a hammer and chisel, that’s insane to say. You don’t know what you’re talking about. ",
"EDWAAAAD",
"He is, like, really smart. ",
"Lil' Czech.",
"Two wrongs don't make a wright but two Wrights made an aeroplane.",
"It would be fun to run for president and finish top ten, just so you can brag about how you finished top ten in the presidential race. ",
"The Czechs know better than electing an alien ",
"We dont put the current president on our money bills.",
"It's not limited to his face...",
"Yep. You don't want to extend the \"taste of Becherovka in your mouth\" experience. No sane person would make a Becherovka cocktail or mixed drink to sip. Throw that shit back as fast as possible and rinse it down with more Czech beer.\n\n(You know how there were old-school alcohol \"tonics\" that were \"good for you\"? Yeah, that's what Becherovka makes me think of. It's not \"medicinal\" like cough syrup, more \"grassy/herbal\" but not herbs that taste good like sage or tarragon. But supposedly it helps you to keep drinking with less of a hangover the next day (which scientifically is pure bullshit, but, hey, go with the local culture) and when you're in a beer hall in Prague drinking surprisingly cheap liters of really fucking good Czech beer and eating surprisingly cheap pretty damn good roast pork and such, you just go with it and toss back the Becherovka shot because it's all part of the experience.)",
"After reading that I thought “yeah I could vote for that guy” ",
"He also just thinks they look good, which is too often rejected as a valid reason for tattoos.",
"I actually talked to himn and I have voted for him. He is quite smart and reasonable, but you will never win a presidency looking like this, at least not at this time. \n\n",
"Out of nine. He was one of the better ones, certainly better than who we elected.",
"Welcome to reddit.",
"I thought it said this is vladimir putin lol",
"No!",
"they ruined it 😓",
"Prof. Dr. Vladimír Franz is a leading Czech music composer, artist, university educator and also occasional publicist, poet and playwright. Since the early 1980s, he has been staging music for which he has won numerous awards, as well as free music production and composition of film, television and radio music; the second basic area of his artistic activity is artistic creation. Since 1991, he has been a teacher at the AMU Theater Faculty, where he has been conducting the Cabinet of Stage Music for many years. Since March 2016 he has been working at the JE Purkyně University of Fine Arts Department in Ústí nad Labem, and he is also lecturing at the AMU Film Faculty. Since February 2014, he has been advised by Minister of Culture Daniel Herman.\n\nHis scenic compositions influenced the creation of the most important representatives of the new generation of Czech theater direction. In his scenic compositions, he uses the principles of his own theoretical concept of the autonomous role of music as one of the determining components of the drama. \n\nThe basic themes of Vladimir Franz's artwork are both the ambivalence of man's relationship to nature, the transience of human intervention in the landscape, and the gradual disappearance of his traces in the ruthlessly refreshing context of elemental natural energy, as well as the reflection of many models of today's social behavior and their conviction from ridiculousness and hypocrisy. \n\nHe is a six-time holder of the Alfred Radok Award (1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007), Theater News (2001) and OSA Awards (2012). \n\nIn the autumn of 2012, Vladimir Franz became a civilian candidate for the post of President of the Czech Republic, with more than 60,000 voters supporting his petition. He won approximately 350,000 votes in the first round of elections, and ranks fifth among the nine candidates. \n\n-- Taken from his website, where you can also find his paintings, interviews, speeches, and other things.\n\n http://vladimirfranz.webnode.cz/",
"Every tattoo artist I know would put whatever you want as long as you're paying. This guy's sense of cultural appropriation is not standard in America lol.",
"Great to see how Kurt Wagner turned his life around.",
"It’s mostly “meh”",
"This guy must be a pretty high-ranking Obligator in the Steel Ministry.",
"First I thought he had Maori roots, but after reading the wiki I think he is the vessel for a captured demon and the tattoos are the binding runes.",
"Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin, naal ok zin los vahriin,\nWah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal!\nAhrk fin norok paal graan fod nust hon zindro zaan,\nDovahkiin, fah hin kogaan mu draal!",
"He looks like Gully Foyle",
"Caterer: Mr. Franz, we have a delightment assortment of cheese and biscuits, as well as a nice spread of roe and choice Italian meats.\n\nMr. Franz: Hmm. Yes, quite. It all sounds delightful, but do you have any Hobbit legs? They are good for eating, yes?",
"Sounds like shadowrun.",
"I’m not into tats, but I can respect commitment of this level.\n\nPlus, he’s covered so much of skin that his SKIN looks like the tattoos lol.\n\nHe looks like a lizard person that’s served in the lizard wars ",
"Looks like he's from the new will smith movie on netflix",
"As someone who likes abstract art. He is good!",
"I guess he wasn't really all that smart then.",
"me wallowing in depression and anxiety while staring at my dark laptop screen after just submitting an essay that was due at midnight at 11:58pm knowing that it was substandard and mediocre just like me\n\n\n\n:)",
"Definitely a stable genius",
"Don't bother, you just summarized the whole movie.",
"Also, France has become a complete shithole. It's sad really.",
"Movie on Netflix w/ Will Smith and orc cops. ",
"Most of the time you can find something interesting. Im all for shitty jokes, but I want secret knowledges that I can use to prove myself one of the elite amongst my peers too.",
"Some 50 year old lady is currently thinking “how does he expect to get a job with all those tattoos?”",
"He also has a lot of tattoos.\n\n...or one really big tattoo.",
"I heard somewhere a rumor that he had several tattoos. ",
"> dumb ass\n\nFor some reason, I recoil whenever someone spells \"dumbass\" with a space. ",
"he literally has 3 other professions listed in the title of the post, dumb ass",
"/r/ANormalDayInRussia",
"Does have a real Shadowrun vibe to it. Just less tech.",
"Man he looks like an idiot. ",
"Becherovka!",
"I honestly liked the movie, thought it was a cool twist on ancient mythos in modern day.",
"Aren't most tattoo artists scummy? At least in my experience. ",
"Can someone pls tell us what his policies are and his reasoning for going into politics?",
"The filed fangs aren't symbolic of his being unblooded, it's of his intent to reject orcish ways, to never be blooded, and to live as a human.",
"Good movie a lot more grit than I thought it would be.",
"I thought it was dude from Enders Game...",
"Dave Bautista? The dude went from a great performer on TV to a great performer on film. \nI'm glad his wrestling career took him further",
"Well shit, dawg! I guess his momma was right! Listen to your momma kids!!",
"a lot of people (the vast, vast majority) of europeans would not have a clue what people mean when they say \"cultural appropriation\"",
"Is he stable though?",
"I thought he had argyria.",
"So basically the Trump of Czech but with talents ",
"Darth Maul",
"That's why I originally watched it. World is really interesting IMO, and there's already a confirmed sequel, so that's exciting. Even if not, it's just an enjoyable action movie to throw on",
"Also likes tattoos ",
"Orc lives matter!",
"When I watched the trailer for the first time I thought holy shit they made a shadowrun movie and will Smith is in it",
"Have you even seen Shirtless Putin yurting a pony? ",
"*y'all",
"ok can someone explain his tattoos? they are very similar to the traditional Maori tattoos but he looks very white under all the ink",
"Are those the credentials for president you put in the title? If so its good he didnt win.",
"Wasn't that a movie with James Caan and Mandy Patinkin? But with aliens? ",
"Uh, but he did have a job? A composer, scholar and playwright who ~~almost~~ got 5th place to became a president. The comment was \"you'll never get a *job*\" which clearly he did. You're the dumb ass. ",
"Haha sounds like how Americans view Malört.",
"Aside from the snazzy red tie, I don't see anything that interesting about him ",
"It's freaking terrible. I especially like that they had a mentally challenged elvish girl that didn't speak English (and her not knowing the language almost killed them few times) just to have her all like 'JK guys, I' actually useful'. Won't say much because of spoilers",
"Seems fine to me.",
"You're going to the wrong ones. ",
"It's actually *playwright*, as plays are wrought, not written.\n\n*wright*-a worker, especially a constructive worker (used chiefly in combination): *playwright*. *wheelwright*\n",
"Yeah it is a pain in the arse especially on those threads with in-jokes, or you've been away a while and have no idea who anyone is/what's going on.",
"Well, first time I’ve burst out laughing at a Reddit comment.",
"He looks arty. ",
"He passed out on his friend's couch the night before.",
"Mister sandman",
"He didnt get the job so...",
"How is this not the top comment?",
"Only enjoyable if your expectations are low.",
"I'm blue abbadida ah badadidah...",
"Is that an anti-tattoo?",
"[Maori face tattoos are a thing](http://spokenvision.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/M%C4%81ori-Tattoo-Art-770x957.jpg) but the Czech guy isn't Maori. \n\nHe's got the lizard edition.",
"http://www.zealandtattoo.co.nz/tattoo-styles/maori-tattoo/",
"2 Bright 2 Wandz",
"When the Ugandan Knuckles memes hit a bit too close to home. ",
"Not bad for a Sith lord ",
"God this is a great comment. GJ sir/madam ",
"They are Māori tattoo's.",
"Wouldn't it be awesome to see him posing for pictures with EU leaders?",
"I never comment on clever post but Brilliant!",
"5th out of how many?",
"Well she got a billion dollars then.",
"And I've got a turquoise cock",
"He looks like shit. ",
"[Shut the fuck up about moonmen!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqiSBxvdws&t=2m13s)",
"Came for this info, but all I've got is this comment I relate with.",
"Did anybody ever play Arcanum? That was like a steampunk Shadowrun.",
"I thought it was awesome all around. I enjoyed the world they crafted and the way they applied it to our own. \n\nLooking forward to the next one. ",
"Or their tattoo artist isn’t going to interrogate them to see if they “deserve” to get a tattoo. I don’t get pissed at people with sparrow or turtle tattoos, people don’t have to have a significant meaning to get a tattoo",
"Actually my friend just got his tattoo done by a very worldly, friendly guy who’s done white power and swastikas before. The catch is he’s african American, but he told us he did it because he’s getting paid and doesn’t have to live with the consequences. If you’re making money off of these idiots, who cares?",
"5th out of 5\nSfw ",
"Looks like a fun guy ",
"I actually enjoy becherovka and tonic, with a splash of lemon. Not bad at all, and many people there drink it like that!",
"Yes. I enjoyed Bushwick. Lots of POV long action shots. Not the deepest of plots, but a good late night, put on the headphones and enjoy, type flick. ",
"Is it insensitive to have a traditional looking Japanese tattoo fkr instance? Asking because I rather like the style. \n\nAnyway, why does it matter? If you appreciate the art you should be able to get it.",
"Czech him out!",
"How was Bright, by the way? I was going to watch it but I've read so many negative things about it I don't think I will.",
"Blue > Orange",
"Lit*",
"Agreed. I felt the same going in; was very happy.",
"no need for me to continue reading as this comment wins",
"Is it? Sounds like pretentious twaddle to me.\n\nAnd factually incorrect on anything that isn't entirely subjective.",
"He looks...interesting.\n\nEdited to add: Love his art. And strangely enough (or not strangely), his facial tattoos really suit him.",
"\"Don't get that tattoo it'll effect your job\"",
"The stars his destination.",
"You can always tell who has been enlightened to LSD.",
" Watching it right now (took a pee break) and it’s SO good. Far better than I originally believed. Far better than reviews and critics have lead people to believe. Will Smith is back in his punchy, sarcastic/asshole role and it’s damn perfect. The movie as a whole is surprisingly fun, and well written, with tons of potential for further exploration. I hope you enjoy it!",
"What's wrong with your face !",
"The Brightening ",
"I.. uh..kinda like Malört..",
"nice make up....oh wait those are tattoos??\nis he umm tattooed everywhere?",
"whoa",
"Lol",
"It's a typical American action movie with nice visuals and solid actors, with an interesting premise, but formulaic storyline.\n\nWhy would you expect anything more than that from Hollywood?",
"And white people instigate most situations. \"Hey minority guy, aren't you mad that this white person did something not white?\" Minority person....\"no, I don't care.\" White antagonist...\"you really should be.\" ",
"Really? Fuck me.\n\nYou don't even know if he stands to the left or right. ",
"That's a very culturally thoughtful opinion.",
"How’s his hair green??",
"Hey you missed a spot",
" He looks dark to me.",
"Becherovka&bitter lemon seems more easy",
"He ain’t had nothing but maggoty bread for 3 stinking days",
"His people don't understand metaphors. They go right over his head.",
"So it 's like Alien Nation. Jfc the critics really have been bought the fuck out now, haven't they? The disconnect between their 'opinions' and reality grows ever wider",
"*playwright",
"They kind of relax me. Like I get those tingles u get when your tensed up muscles just kinda stop and you get calmer and your eyes go doughy kinda thing. I like them.",
"Is this considered black face? ",
"Seeing the thumbnail, I was curious why they put a bust of someone between two men.",
"Most movies these days are like that ^^^^^^^^book ^^^^^^^^shill",
"I love Becherovka! It tastes like gingerbread cookies. ",
"Riiiight, as if your artists have never done trad sailor, Japanese, or tribal work. You can be sure they've done their fair share of dream catchers inspired by little more than...Etsy.",
"This is a relatively new phenomena, it wasn't nearly this bad 2 or 3 years ago.",
"Not directly stemming from that dissolution yes, but on the other hand there were quite some horrors in that time (politics, business, mafia/gangs etc.), maybe he/she meant that? ",
"The guy on the right yeah?",
"Orc land anybody Bright Part 2 I think he nailed the part really good, no lines just stand there\n",
"My expectations for everything is low. Therefore everything is quiet enjoyable.",
"Becherovka is a great cocktail ingredient. It's rarely going to be the base spirit, but there are lots of common cocktail ingredients that occupy that space: lots of amaros, green and yellow chartreuse, etc. \n\nA friend of mine and I came up with this drink for a local cocktail store's quarterly recipe card thing. It's delicious!\n\n1.5oz cognac \n0.5oz rye \n0.5oz fresh lemon juice \n0.25oz Becherovka \n0.25oz 1:1 syrup \n2 dashes Jerry Thomas bitters \n1 dash Scrappy's cardamom bitters \n\nStir with ice, strain into a coupe, and garnish with a slice of pear. \n\nHighly recommended! We tried other, similar things in place of the Becherovka, and nothing was better. ",
"Out of five?",
"From the thumbnail I honestly thought it was a screenshot from Bright",
"Someone calling you a douchebag because you vape hurts you? Thin skin",
"The real reason he's painted blue is because he's actually Daniel Craig in disguise. He's just trolling everyone.",
"No I don't, and don't call me Nate!",
"With a few exceptions (my friends parents rented out space to the President of the SLC chapter of the Banditos) every tattoo artist I've known has just been a person. A lot of them came from art backgrounds. And I used to live in one of the most tattooed cities in America where there's a tattoo shop every other block.",
"I feel like it could have been something more. Like there was a corniness to it. I can't put my finger on it exactly but I felt it could have been more real...not in a realistic type of way, but how the relationship between the two main characters played out. ",
"> First I thought he had Maori roots\n\nSame thing I thought, that or some other pacific islander.",
"When you loose a bet",
"Slightly more bright than ever",
"Murican here can confirm, were assholes",
"da bu dee da bu die",
"So the time when something gets fans is when it is made? \n\nSomething gets fans AFTER it has been invented.",
"Guess you couldn’t tell if he’d been drinking.",
"Top 10 anime comebacks",
"Seems like a pretty normal guy to me.",
">US elects Donald Trump trump as the next president of the United States\n\nVladimír Franz: hold my beer",
"[I thought this one was worse.](https://i.imgur.com/R390EId_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)",
"Yeah. Most of my tattoos are just things I like. Some have some significance but it's mostly just using my body as a Pinterest board.",
"Darth Maul, Czech version",
"Knock off of a Maori Ta Moko. ",
"r/alwaysexpectfuturama ",
"Franz has been on record saying his tattoos are simply body art and he is widely accepted by his government peers as well as citizens, as he has been apart of the arts circle in Prague his whole life. Franz is quoted saying:\n> \"A tattoo is a sign of a free will and that does not harm the freedom of anyone else,\"\n\nand that the presidential race is not a beauty contest.",
"Which part of it is factually incorrect?",
"I'd have voted for him. He has an ice dragon now. ",
"Oh God, you just made my day.",
"3? Any souls game even demon souls had beautiful sliders.",
"The right to gay piracy.",
"It’s panned by critics,\n\nYet popular with actual viewers.\n\nGoes to show that critics don’t speak as the voice of people’s opinions, and also...they believe every movie is shit.\n\nThey thought the breakfast club was shit when it came out.",
"The Maori facial tattoos have more cultural significance than just a Japanese style tattoo would. It's like festival girls wearing a native American war bonnet.. nobody is going to stop you from being an asshole, but it's your fault if people treat you like one. If you like a religious or sacred cultural symbol and want to incorporate it into your own style, try changing it up or altering it to make it unique. Otherwise you're going to have people wondering why white boy from Idaho has Maori coming-of-age markers on his face.",
"his button is big and ACTUALLY WORKS",
"Thats worse than beeing black.. Man what a moron",
"\"My father would tell the story of impregnating my mother every winter solstice.\"",
"These tattoos look Maōri....",
"I claim this campaign, FOR THE HORDE!",
"Can you imagine what Trump's thought is gonna be when he meets the President of Czech if this guy had won?",
"Weird af",
"Sometimes you make it to the bathroom. Other times you *almost* make it to that bathroom.",
"I don't mind Becherovka actually, reminds me of a better tasting Schnapps... like Christmas morning\n",
"Yes, yes I am. ",
"Well, bro has nice eyes...I guess",
"Goyer can make a cop movie. End Of Watch was amazing, and Bright felt closer to that than it did to Suicide Squad",
"I knew I loved that country",
"Looks like the style of art every art student in my college did. Abstract in a really cool way. I’m convinced drugs were involved.",
"Gross why would anyone think that looks good? He looks like a lizard ",
"He dresses rather conventionally for someone with a face like that.",
"Playwright. English ¯\\\\\\_(ツ)\\_/¯",
"What am I missing here? How is this comment clever?",
"FYI, Czech Republic is a parliamentary democracy, meaning that the prime minister is the head of the executive.\n\nThe president is largely ceremonial (although there has been a push to give him more agency). Think of him as a chief diplomat of sorts. ",
"It's a taniwha",
"Czech your privilege.",
"Yeah but did you consider the coconut?",
"Well obviously that plays a factor lol. I *could* see myself voting for him. Not: I *am* voting for him. ",
"Because why not?",
"No, them saying it in its self is not hurtful. But I would compare it to when I was young and had a lot more weight. When someone was mean about my weight, I would become heavily conscious of it. It made me aware that everyone around me was passing off judgment on me because of it, and that in some way they saw me as lesser or worse. At the end of the day, I’m not going home and crying over this shit. I go back to living my life. But it still has that sting to it, to be called something rude for doing absolutely nothing. And that was my entire point. Cut out blanket statements. Learn who a person is before you assign attributes. Assuming who someone is does absolutely nothing. ",
"A perfectly fine movie, nothing jaw dropping but worth the watch. Critics have absolutely slated it, but general audiences gave it a lot higher reviews. Personally I'd put it at a 6-7/10.",
"That's bullshit.",
"Bright Knight rises",
"So uhh.. what’s his story",
"He’s my president ",
"understatement ",
"r/Bright\n",
"And....?",
"i'd like to respectfully disagree. the europeans i engage with are aware of this stuff :) older generations have more trouble with it, but from what i've heard from american friends, so do older generations in america.",
"Line B! \n\nChecks out, I've seen him there as well.",
"Exactly how principled do you think tattoo artists are? ",
"5th place seems about right for Nightcrawler",
"The election was around the time the film Avatar was released, so that's what everyone ended up calling him. The other candidates were a notorious drunkard, a Jew, a Japanese, and an Austrian count, so naturally there were a lot of \"walks into a bar\" jokes running around.",
"Got a head like a dropped meat pie ",
"Why though seriously",
"Because they're generally comfortable with an established identity that they don't need to misappropriate as much.\n\nEdit: /s",
"Staring Anthony Hopkins",
"\"a scholar\" what does that mean? ",
"Cute",
"I actually had a bad-ass redditor (thank you, bad-ass redditor) to mail me a bottle of Malort, because I was intrigued. How terrible could this liquor actually be? I was imagining like oily, fermented fish sauce and kerosene bad. It's really got as god-awful as everyone would have you think though. If you can handle a neat glass of Scotch, Malort is fine. Not to *compare* it to Scotch, mind you, but only to make the point that the people who think Malort is disgusting probably haven't developed their palette enough for it.",
"2 Bright 2 Furious",
"Just came back from Prague. This seems about right. ",
"2 Bright 2 Furious",
"Do any quick google search or better yet visit New Zealand and see for yourself the tools they used to inscribe traditional moko. \n\nYou’ll find infact I do. ",
"Jesus Christo...he has made enough bad decisions, don't let him into office...",
"They didn’t like it because they weren’t getting paid for it. ",
"Anyone else think this was Mike Pence after a photoshop?",
"Lol. The shit eating smile at the end.",
"if youre tattooing swastikas I assure you that everyone else in the industry thinks you're a piece of shit. regardless of getting paid for it. ",
"Night crawler",
"Looks kiwi....",
"Because that should have been the pilot for a tv show. If you truely want to build the world you need more then that. \n\nLike opening scene great world building, them driving through, good world building. But eventually you need to start the story.",
"Popular does not equate to good. I think mostly what it says is that the trailer gave people an accurate idea of what to expect.",
"Those are Maori tattoos, aren't they?\nEdit: a word",
"\\\\[T]/",
"\"Find the boy! You must...find the boy...\"",
"5th out of how many?",
"\"Dear Mr. Queequeg you have been informed your life's been saved / You are not a black-hearted vicious mess so it has been claimed\"",
"I felt that many things where lost on the cutting room floor. Why for example show us the recording device and then never bring it up again?",
"It is, because Czech elections aren't first past the post- there's a second round featuring only the top two candidates. As such, a lot of minor parties jostle for the top two slots, and the candidate who finished fifth could at one point have had a realistic shot at advancing to the second round. In this case, he got about 6.6% of the vote- which, while not much, is about double what the third-place finisher got in the US.",
"Is he a Bright Orc?",
"If you're talking about the fact on Reddit yesterday, that was the movie's producers, not critics. Initial critical reviews of The Breakfast Club were generally positive.\n\nEbert gave 3/4 stars for instance.",
"Stars My Destination? ",
"The thumbnail makes him look like Dr. Manhattan ",
"He’s got something on his face ",
"Becherovka and tonic is an actual drink here. It even has a name “Beton” which also means concrete ",
"They look like a Sandman comic.",
"Supa hot fire",
"Me too. I went in expecting meh and came out thinking it was a really cool movie. It reminds me of a movie back in the late 80s early 90s called “alien nation”.",
"If I didn't know better I would assume these were Moari tattoos",
"I mean, it's an herbal bitter liquor. The brand is owned by Pernod, so if that tells you anything, it probably tastes right about how you would expect it to taste. I would think the people who say it tastes nasty just probably don't enjoy bitter flavors.",
"Critics didn't like it because the worldbuilding is lazy and derivative, the dialogue ranges from cringy to cheesy, it's both predictable and full of plot holes, and the racial analogies are ham-fisted. It was not because the critics were confused about its genre and had somehow missed the myriad of other buddy cop movies that came before it. \n \nIt's not the *worst* movie of 2017. I'd go so far as to say it's entertaining. I'd definitely not blame anyone for enjoying it - I even enjoyed it myself, though more in a \"so good it's bad\" kind of way. But it's definitely not a good movie.",
"Knowledge is power. ",
"Has he been blooded tho?",
"Daniel Craig in Jason Bourne 6: Aboriginal Bugaloo",
"This looked like an alien humanoid from Star Trek or The Orville.",
"☝️",
"What are his politics though? ",
"If it comes on top, I send it back.",
"Me too in a sec ♨️",
"You mean playwright?",
"I've never even had Berechovka before, but damn that cocktail sounds delicious. Really though, it's hard to go wrong with one and a half ounces of cognac, lol.",
"Came here expecting edgy Zeman memes. Close enough, I guess. ",
"It's fine. We go for it in America, too. \n\nExcept somehow it just gets way out of hand...",
"I didn’t know the Bright sequel was already filming.",
"I think his explanation makes a lot of sense: Tattooing is an expression of free will, not touching the freedom of others. It is an expression of permanent and unchangeable decision to stand up for your opinion, in both good and bad.",
"I had to scroll down this far...",
"I thought it was round tooth, pigskin ",
"Bright 2: Electric Brightaloo",
"LOOKS LIKE MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!",
"Am i the only one who thought this was the night king at first glance?",
"I like how he still has to put a suit on.",
"It's amazing how we have prejudiced thoughts. First thing I thought, without reading the title, was that he was some criminal at court. I tested with friends and almost everyone thought the same. \n\nThat's why we should never judge a book by it's cover...",
"Being European myself, I get the impression that over here we generally regard \"cultural appropriation\" as a term used by people looking for an excuse to get offended.",
"He’s a part time lecturer at a theatre school in Prague. ",
"Chur thats a mean moko cuzzie!",
"He looks like QuiQuay from Moby Dick",
"More evidence that you can never go wrong with a face tattoo.",
"Americans don't do that either. The leaders on American money are not recent, whatsoever. It was just a joke. ",
"They call it beton, translates to concrete ",
"I have never thought that someone could be this wrong but here we are.\n\nIf there is one 40% alcohol that is pleasurable to drink neat its Becherovka.\n\nFor people who dont know, its kinda like Jägermeister but less sweet.",
"Lol what",
"Looks like an Orc from the movie Bright. Respect his game though ",
"I agree about the traditional Maori tattoos! Although you don't need to be brown to have Maori tattoos. ",
"Looks cooler than our president cheeto, probably less of an ass too.",
"Now we know that's only 99.9% true.",
"\"I used to be in MS-13, look at me now\"",
"Same with games. I think steam user reviews are a much better gauge on whether I might like a game than say IGN",
"Farewell sweet Doge",
"Aka Apocalypse ",
"Vladimir Franz and a doggo.\n\nhttp://files.vladimirfranz.webnode.cz/200000375-678156878e-public/holomicek-a.jpg",
"Would you really want to elect someone who makes impulsive decisions, or obsessive tendencies? I appreciate that he's an accomplished artist and well educated but so are a lot of mentally unstable. Unless their president is like the Irish one and not the head of state and doesn't hold any power.",
"*Return the slab...*",
"Lizard People are coming out",
"It reminded me of Fernet Branca. ",
"Yeah but did you notice he has tattoos?",
"Was count a typo? Lol",
"Let's not pretend it was a masterpiece. It reads much like a kid's book, and the movie was pretty faithful to the core story.\n\nI'm with you on the series though, even when things get a little wild towards the end. Same for the Bean series too.",
"You have to understand that we Czechs are jokesters. When we had a tv show where we voted for the greatest Czech person we almost voted for a fictional character (Jara Cimrman) before the disqualified him. So you gotta understand that most of the votes that Franz got were just a joke.",
"Is this the Cree taking over? Where is the Destroyer of Worlds when you need her?!?",
"I liked the concept, but it's not a great movie. It's functional, it hits its beats, and it's got moments of successful comedy. But ultimately the Will Smith character is a raging asshole in ways that the movie seems to endorse or excuse, and the worldview is disorienting in how casually hostile it is - beyond macho, and into exhausting insanity.\n\nIf you're just watching for an interesting take on dumb action movies, it's actually pretty good at that. The world building and shootouts are both really gratifying. I think it shoots itself in the foot by pretending to be more than that, and not delivering.",
"Hah well I actually really like the taste and also the drinks made from it (mainly beton - Becherovka + tonic) and know many people that do too. I guess Czech taste is a little different :-D",
"https://imgur.com/a/g2wc5 this is André Douzette. He studied Computational Physics at Universitetet i Oslo and lives in Oslo, Norway.",
"That looks likes Jakoby from Bright lol",
"My guess is some of the younger posters don't understand the reference. I'm just glad enough people do. Great post",
"That man has an incredible tolerance for pain. He got tattoos on his eyelids.\n\nRandom: Some 12ish year old kid just scooted by my house on a Razr. in a full on “Where’s Waldo?” Costume. On January 7th. Little man is my Soirit Animal.",
"you sound like you spend a lot of time being mad about this",
"Look hard and long enough on Reddit...you'll never find your answer. It's a rabbit hole.",
"Someone tell that lizard person to put his skin back on ",
"I fucking love Malört. Every Blackhawks game.\n\nThat being said, the best taste comparison... It's like taking a shot of Marmite/Vegemite",
"I legit thought he was Maori for half a second.",
"Wow, that's...kind of interesting. ",
"And he placed 1st for lead orc in Bright II",
"Dude looks like an orc from Bright. ",
"Sorry I didn't let you Finnish.",
"Pretty sure he's an X-Men",
"Serious question: If you're set on being unconventional, why wear a suit?",
"Kind of, but not really?\n\nIn the movie Bright, Orcs, elves, fairies and the like have always been around, and the relations between the races are the focus of the story.\n\nIn Shadowrun, magic returned to the world at the end of the Mayan calendar and humans started giving birth to the sub races... but that's not even the focus of the setting. Corporate espionage is the focus, the mythical stuff is just there for flavor",
"He also is an Orc from the Netflix show Bright",
"Well, to be fair, pretty sure I wouldn't even hire this guy as a gas station attendant. Also... None of thoes listed accomplishments in the title are really that impressive. Composer, playwright and Scholar are really just fancy ways to describe unemployed and 5th in an election? Actual swastika wearing Nazis come in 5th in places like France and Germany and first in the U.S. ",
"I guess you missed the part where i said that star wars has been MAINSTREAM for 40 years huh",
"In the wiki he describes them as a sort of long term work of art. If you look at his paintings it’s a lot of abstract stuff, I guess he just views his body as another canvas. They do look similar to Maori tattoos but I think they’re more abstract. I bet he must have had some inspiration from Maori designs. ",
"It's Dr. Jan Itor",
"what a fuckin idiot",
"It's a play on an old line from this Ice Cube song:\nhttps://youtu.be/bCY9L3Xidoo",
"Perfect. I hope you get all Scrooge McDuckian with gold for this.",
"This is an outstanding comment. You should be very proud",
"Lord of the Rings was filmed in New Zealand.\n\nMaori are from New Zealand.\n\nOrcs are from Lord of the Rings.\n\n🤔",
"He must be a really big Bright fan!",
"How does one go about being considered “a scholar”?",
"Think of it as a public service. Previously, these dudes walked among us unnoticed. Now everyone can immediately see that they're a d-bag. It's like how poison dart frogs are really vibrant to show that everyone needs to avoid them.",
"For a second I thought this was a joke pic of the guy from \"Bright\"",
"The one in the middle? Or?",
"Cool the Grinch will be a politician ",
"\"Bright 2: The Real Orc King Arrives\"",
"daniel craig and mystique have an offspring..?",
"Well that’s certainly something.",
"Is he an orc from bright? ",
"He also wrote the 1999 hit \"I'm blue daba dee daba die\"",
"But are his music, writings, and plays any good?",
"From the thumbnail I thought it was an opponent of Vladimir Putin.",
"Hellllll yeaaaaah!!",
"I thought he was Dr. Manhattan from the thumbnail.",
"\"The art of tattooing is accompanying mankind since time immemorial. In addition to the original magic and ritual function, it represents also an aesthetic function. Of course – an aesthetic point of view is a matter of each free individual. Tattooing is an expression of free will, not touching the freedom of others. It is an expression of permanent and unchangeable decision to stand up for your opinion, in both good and bad. (...) My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion.\" - Vladimir Franz via wiki \n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimír_Franz\n",
"This is this kind of image aliens would post on r/humansarefuckinglit.",
"Whenever someone I know goes over there, I ask to get me a bottle. I love BeTon!! ",
"What’s up with the tats? ",
"I would rather have happy pirates then angry ones I guess",
"*So that’s it, huh? We’re some kind of Brightener?*",
"Probably cause they were in the slums most of the time.",
"Ah, there may be something lost in translation here. They're discussing what you folks call \"economics.\"",
"The movie was **not** faithful to the book. ",
"It looks good to him, it's all subjective",
"5th out of how many?\n\nThe threshold for running varies massively from country to country.",
"Really? I hate the pun top comments. They're often what people ridicule from this site.",
"Thought this was a picture from Bright. ",
"I agree... couldn’t finish it, not sure why you are getting downvoted. ",
"See, Orcs ARE smart!! ",
"Basically like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5NW94K51A) ",
"He said in some interview that they are the result of a long term sophisticated development, not some sudden emotional thing. However, looking at this guys work history I think he does whatever he can to get public attention. He comes across as a bit douchey",
"Thought that was Dr. Manhattan in the thumbnail",
"I don’t know about other cultural tattoos, but tā moko are basically sacred in the Maori culture - enough so that there was a lot of controversy around a Maori man last year who got a moko that was traditionally meant for women - he’s since added to the moko (which was always his intention) and is planning a full face tattoo, but you can see my point; here in NZ tā moko are considered carefully and with respect for the culture, and anything that could be seen as disrespectful isn’t taken well. This is probably because a lot of tā moko are so personal, and are either linked with an iwi or are a whanau’s history. A friend of mine has her family lineage stretching back a few hundred years tattooed on her back - it took her years of research and design to get it right. The cool thing with the tā moko is that each individual design is slightly different and has meaning.\n\nSo when it’s taken and used as a basis for a “tribal tattoo” that completely ignores the history and meaning of the tā moko, you can see why people may get offended; whether they’re Maori themselves or Pakeha who know about tā moko, simply because they’re a Kiwi.",
"Malört is wonderful thank you very much.",
"Is his hair dyed or does it appear that color because his scalped is tattooed as well? r/nostupidquestions",
"lol",
"No, of nine.",
"He's more tattoo than man now",
"I think I saw him as an extra in the movie Bright.",
"I would like that guy to be our president since that time. It would bring Czech rep. so much attention! He has smart head guys. That drunk idiot behind him (who will be probably our next president again) has just fucked brain. \nFor cannabis fans - he is for legalization. ",
"Oh god. I’ve never heard of this Malört but that comparison really killed it for me.",
"The best way I’ve heard the taste of Malort described is “imagine touching a 9-volt battery to your tongue and sniffing your grandmother’s couch at the same time... but in a good way.”",
"I like it to! I feel like my love of bitter drinks found its peak with Malört. ",
"That man would use so much ink writing speeches... black paper white lettering",
"In 40 years from now we will have a lot more data on how much tattoos increase the risk for skin cancer.",
"he's got some serious swag as well\n\nhttps://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/styles/story_main/public/vladimir_franz_tattoos.jpg?itok=ysn6mmmP",
"POWER!!! UNLIMITED POWER!!! ",
"Does he hold any other positions of government now?",
"I will never have anything tattood on my face / head",
"I like Vegemite.",
"Don't insult my taste in music.",
"Imagine waking up with him standing at the foot of your bed ",
"Not true. It’s also enjoyable if your standards are low!",
"In most countries more than 2 candidates will be allowed to debate on national tv. Accordingly more than the top 2 candidates will be known to the public.\n\nAmerican democracy is a bit of a joke its either one or the other. Slightly better than China where theres one party but a long way from Europe",
"So? This is being upvoted because of his facial tattoos? Who cares, what are his policies, political achievements, is he a saint or sinner?",
"6,84% of the vote is quite respectable for an independent candidate",
"Being in slums wouldn't stop the cops from coming in with drones and other high tech stuff though in my opinion.",
"Everyone loves it except the critics. ",
"r/photoshopbattles ",
"If it’s not on the side.. I send it back.",
"Grab the eye lid and pull it out then slide something below it. ",
"Looks like Daniel Craig. ",
"This guy did the real life equivalent of completing dark souls with a depraved character.",
"For me, the thumbnail was Dr. Manhattan.",
"I don't see you on the front page for your accomplishments",
"That, and cardamom bitters are a magical thing. ",
"[Warning, mild spoilers]\nNothing groundbreaking from your average 90's buddy cop movie with a twist and that is why it is good. Better story and writing, fx are good enough that don't look like more industrial light and magic special effects random spinning crap. No love interest either to muck up the storyline that doesn't need it. Watch it if it sounds good to you.",
"Looks like a Bond villain. ",
"I liked it, and it seems a lot of others did as well. stop trying to make someone dislike something before theyve even been able to experience it for themselves.",
"We're forgotten before we die. ",
">punchy, sarcastic/asshole role\n\naaaaand time to watch Hancock again",
"that's called beton, actually",
"I like Marmite in moderation. Lightly scraped or it's gonna be a bad time.",
"They would never let an orc into the government ",
"The kindest thing I ever heard about becherovka was that it tastes like Christmas in your mouth. ",
"2 bright 2 furious",
"I really liked it, haven't seen anything similar before so I enjoyed it being something different. ",
"I said the core story. Peter and Valentine's roles weren't important to the movie without the intention of making sequels.",
"And I like Marmite. However, if you just ate a spoonful of it, you'd have the same reaction as Malört",
"Drax also moonlights as a Czech politician I see.",
"Same difference! False orcs regardless.",
"Good to know. ",
"Oh! I remember him from the X-Men movies. ",
"I do believe that it would have been better in a mini-series or series format than a standalone movie. Mostly because the setting needs a bit of exposition and you either have to use half the movie length to provide it or it gets really rushed which in my opinion was what happened with Bright. ",
"Unfortinately only \"Vladimir Franz\" out of \"everyone else with face tattoos\" is also a genius. ",
"Looks like Daniel Craig if he starred in Avatar",
"What's Malört?",
"I have no expectations, I also tend to enjoy more movies and shows than others.",
"Looks like South Pacific tatts...",
"or you can be like me and complain that noone did it for me and then someone will do it for me.",
"Avatar IRL!!!",
"Honestly, I felt like all but the final ~30 minutes were a really bad watch. I actually turned it off about 45 minutes in and had to go back to it (I hate not finishing movies, even if bad).\n\nOverall I'd give it 2.5/5 stars. Not quite unwatchable, but I'm definitely not recommending it to anyone. ",
"Very dynamic & interesting. ",
"I like his eyes",
"bro i know this feeling all too well, happens at least three times a week. it's like every time i turn in a trash assignment that i *could've* done well on but didn't because i procrastinated, i can feel my will to live slowly being sucked from my body\n\nuh i mean me too thanks",
"Dude missed an obvious calling as a super villain. ",
"Well, apparently he was against corruption. \n\n\nhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepublic/9791046/Tattooed-man-gains-ground-in-Czech-presidential-race.html",
"Totally looks like Daniel Craig’s twin brother, over-compensating for the lack of attention being the brother of a very famous actor",
"Are his tattoos black or white?",
"Is that Nightcrawler's older brother? ",
"\"playwright\"",
"If you enjoyed Bright, here is a small list of modern fantasy you may not have heard of and will likely love as much as I do :)\n\n* Hellblazer (DC comic John Constantine is from)\n\n* Dresden Files (Paranormal investigator who is himself paranormal)\n\n* World of Darkness (Tabletop RPGs but the books go really deep into lore for half of them and the other half is lore + gameplay rules/character abilities for anything you can think of. There's a book for normal people, vampires, mages, fairies, werewolves, demons, etc. Also, the show Supernatural was based on the book \"Hunter\")\n\n* Hellboy and the BPRD (Another comic, modern fantasy done well!)\n\n/r/worldbuilding does a lot of modern fantasy writing\n\n/r/whitewolfrpg is a good resource to learn more and read about the world of darkness setting",
"everyone in the country tied for 5th",
"Seeing someone decked with tribal-like face tattoos while being obviously of higher intelligence (composer artist, scholar..) just kind of evokes this instinctive sense of awe towards him. Idk what it is, but I feel like it must be an extremely similar feeling to actual ancient tribal culture where a \"chief\" like figure like this would possess the most knowledge and skills of the tribe and thus looked at as a figure of authority and capability. ",
"Bright 2: Electric Lightbulb",
"Sounds like my MIL’s Tiger Claw - cheap vodka and a mix of god knows what herbs and spices. It’s awful. ",
"I think the American people are the greatest jokesters of all, theirs became president.",
"Ok... So was Dragonball Evolution true to the core of the story? I mean, they both featured a Goku that fought a Piccolo to save the world.",
"I loved his performance in Guardians of the Galaxy.",
"I fucked brain once.",
"Jesus fucking Christ. Reddit really is the capital of degeneracy",
"Who the hell drinks bitters though? Have you run out of literally everything else? It's bitters. It's not something to drink on it's own. Just because a few weird people do something doesn't make it normal in any way. Sorry.\n\n*\"I prefer toilet wine. It's got a high alcohol content and it reminds me of prison.\"*\n",
"Czechs out",
"https://imgur.com/a/rrrLk",
"A [particular brand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeppson%27s_Mal%C3%B6rt) of digestif made in the US",
"He looks like a real life Gully Foyle from The Stars My Destination.",
"I thought he was an Orc from Bright when I saw the thumbnail ",
"Any context for what 5th place means in a Czech presidential election? As in, 5th place in the US is no where close to a victory. \n\nHe looks like a cool dude though and I'm glad someone with those kind of tats can receive a substantial delegation.",
"DO YOU KNOW ZE WAY",
"He was independent (no party associate and technically non political guy) - you can take part of elections if you get 50k people to sign that they want you to run as candidate (or you can get certain number of signatures of parliment members). \n\nAs for what his plan was -> he mostly went on about cultural goals and maintaining the traditions. I could go to greater detail but I feel it isnt necessary, as our president doesnt really have much of power over what is done in legislative.\n(funny thing - this presidential elections, out of 9 candidates, only 2 are former or present politicans, so you can get really funny assortment of people)",
"Im American and thats what I think of when I hear the word.",
"He looks like a really hard core Mike Pence.",
"Have you seen our president?",
"Yea well clearly he is very successful ",
"Bartok was an ausum composer but I don't remember him looking like that. Maybe it's intended to be a current pic.",
"*cough* The Last Jedi *cough*",
"Malört - “These pants aren’t gonna shit themselves”",
"Before I clicked this, I thought it was going to be silver poisoning. ",
"To be fair, he didn't get the job. . . not even close",
"Yer from the burbs ain ya",
"5th out of 5 though right?",
"> developing a palette for heavy construction noise as music.\n\nNot that I go out of my way to listen to it but there is something oddly soothing about the sound of a jackhammer ",
"Don't wanna offend anyone but that honestly looks gross. ",
"Full blooded but had fangs filed.",
"Fucking Nightcrawler!",
"His tattoos look like their inking up his hair. ",
"I saw Moana, so I know everything there is to know on this subject.\n",
"That's what he would look like if scrubbed his tattoos off with a brillo pad!",
"I wonder how you knew...",
"Vorga, I kill you filthy.",
"In the preview picture it looked exactly like Doctor Manhattan ",
"I guess Champaign is technically a burb at this point. Grew up in that town, though now living in Minneapolis.",
"Ok WTF happened about commenting on the tattooed renaissance guy?",
"What was his tax policy?",
"Hey nobody said anything about if your whole body was a tattoo.",
"Who has high expectations for \"Will Smith is World of Warcraft in ghetto af LA?\" I thought it'd be alright-good and it was alright-good. Probably a little better than I thought it would be but I didn't go in with low or no expectation.",
"I assume you don't mean policies, as the Czech president is largely ceremonial (PM runs the executive) and the national debate is in a very different place from the American one. \n\nHence I'll try to sum up his thinking as I remember it. \n\nA good bit narcissistic, to the right from contemporary Czech centre. Distrust of the other, belief in \"natural order\" where everyone is best left to fend for themself. Supposedly used to be close to the skinhead scene in early 90's. \n\nOn the other hand, fondness of individual freedom (but to the point of oppressing other people's freedom if you can get away with it). \n\nHe ran 5 years ago and curious things happened in the meantime. Czech society, while prosperous thanks to left of centre politics (European integration, welfare state sorting out the demographic crisis, quality public media and education), moved to embrace his thinking. \n\nSo who knows. He possibly would fare better this time around. ",
"Scandinavian here! I love Malörtsbrännvin! Here's the herb if you want to read up.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_absinthium",
"Wonder why he lost",
"It chaffs my nipples.",
"Can you explain why? Because I've read the book a couple times but none of the sequels, and I've seen the movie recently and I would agree that the movie pretty much covered the core story.",
"Maori Ya Moko tattoo for sure. \n\nOdd to see on someone from the other side of the world who's not kiwi",
"I went to Chicago in 2016 and tried Malört, died. Moved to Australia in October and tried Vegemite, died. What should I try next?\n",
"Here are his comments he made about public opinion & polling shortly after the election. \n\n“This election campaign gave me such a breadth of experience that some polling results make me laugh. It is a kind of custom-built virtual reality, which is based on the principle of sampling “12 people out of a thousand”. However, concerning blacksmiths, they can’t know for sure whether those people actually prefer confectioners. I have learned from my experience how ridiculous it can get. This is similar to the work of political analysts, after all nowadays every other individual considers himself a political expert. They are trying to make everyone believe that this is an extremely complicated science, but in fact they can spend a half year ruminating about some inference, which a normal person can make in a couple of hours. Only people of this sort can delve into the data, and after six months they get frustrated because the actual events do not comply with their graphs. Those experts should have focused their minds on personal matters, instead of only using data sheets from the specific books. The fact that theory precedes practice is the major fundamental problem of our Euro-American civilization. Obviously, we have the National Statistics Service in our country, but I stick to the opinion that every individual has to find confirmation of his beliefs on his own. As for public opinion or public sentiments, I’ve also encountered it on many occasions. In this regard, the presidential campaign was very useful to me. That’s why my trust rate for television and newspapers is no higher than 5-7%. Their information is of some interest to me, but I have to complement it from other sources, from different angles. A person has to create his own opinion in reliance on normal ways of thinking.”\n\nVíce zde: http://m.vladimirfranz.webnode.cz/news/vladimir-franz-systems-ultimate-purpose-is-to-create-a-slightly-dissatisfied-consuming-robot-an-interview-for-the-youthtime-magazine/",
"Doesn't matter, he can form complete sentences, that trumps our president already. See what I did there? Our president wouldn't.",
">\"Yo, that shit looks cool, bro.\" into Czech.\n\n\"Vole, to vypadá hustě, kámo.\"",
"Made me think of these parodies...\nhttps://youtu.be/6inYiDycWJU",
"He’s apart of the lizard person ruling class",
"The thumbnail looks like it’s Doctor Manhattan.",
"Oh God I just vomited a little",
"Exactly this. I'll bet he hasn't made a dime on any of those \"professions\". ",
"Becherovka is delicious. It's like ginger liquor with a hint of cinnamon. Everyone I've had try it likes it.",
"Ive seen this nigga on netflix...pretty good actor",
"You are substandard in some things, above average in others. Why give a shit? You have an impact on the world and can be happy regardless.",
"Four other guys? ",
"This is why I don’t want tattoos",
"You think he likes attention much?",
"he wasn't anywhere near of winning the election",
"And yet he reveres the orcish ways at the same time. Maybe he was defanged against his will by his family or something, but that part was odd.",
"Yea I spent a few months in Czechia and would sip it straight from the bottle to kick off my evenings. Very drinkable. ",
"He looks like on the outside what Donald Trump looks like on the inside. ",
"Mom was right",
"It's got an 87% positive audience rating. It was well received among the general audience, just not by critics.",
"This guy really tattooed his lips",
"Oh, so there were only five candidates?",
"Mälort tastes like how you feel about yourself on the inside.",
"Yeah, well Scandinavia is also responsible for Lutefisk so forgive us if we discount that vote of confidence :P\n\nBut yeah, it's not too bad actually. I'd rather drink it than Laphroaig, for instance.",
"Thanks, guess I never heard of it because I'm not in Chicago. Sounds interesting - I'll have to keep an eye out for it",
"Lutfisk",
"Best comment of 2018 thus far.",
"From the thumbnail, I thought he was one of the orcs from \"Bright\".",
"Right ,who doesn't. Like a long excavator jam.\n ",
"Tattooed Anthony Hopkins?",
"Look at Orville vs Discovery, the Last Jedi and now this. I am starting to think many critics don't like more serious science fiction that isn't everything to everyone. And if there is a large corporation that wants it to succeed, it is all thumbs up. It is getting to the point if I see a science fiction movie that the critics think is great, I see that as a warning it could suck.",
"So kinda like drawing jesus on the dinosaur? \nOnly fanatics get offended by that.",
"Palate*",
"Hey must HATE jury duty in order to get a face tattoo!!",
"good ≠ popular",
"Except 'composer, scholar and playwright' are very loose job descriptions. I know many self-styled 'photographers' who've done little more than buy a DSLR camera.",
"Palate*",
"Wonder why he didn’t win....",
"Mazer?",
"this is POC appropriation!!!!",
"Brightest: The True Story of Edison Screwing Tesla and Electrocuting an Elephant",
"“Bright 2: DAMN ITS BRIGHT AS HELL” starring Kevin Hart",
"He is a weird dude. He joined skinheads to make them into good people but they beat him but he joined them again to give them some kind of a moral outlook on life. He wanted to lead them actually but he hated nazism and fascistic outlook on life. Right now he is a member of the ANO party which is classified as company-party. No idea what that is. Ill try to look for his political specturm.\n\nedit: At some point he encouraged? I think its called other presidential candidates. Except for an anti-communist, a guy that ran for a racist party and some kind of a mystic/witch candidate. Like that card type tell you your future kind of witch. He basically supported all the democratic parties and some sociologist said that it was very democratic of him. He had a limusine that he went around the country in called Air Franz One which is hilarious to me. He dislikes right wing extremism but he also hates the communist. He thinks about himself as a humanist and a democrat in the sense of someone who like democracy. For political questions that are asked of him he says that he would ask the scientists and people who know their stuff. He is against criminalization of weed. He supported the Pride march in Prague and he says that homosexuality is not an illness or a political matter.\n\nHe is basically a liberal in the US sense but in the Europe sense he is a blank slate. I cant tell what he actually thinks about real politics.\n\nSource: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Franz#Prezidentsk%C3%A1_kandidatura\n\nIts in czech and its long as shit. If you wanna know ill tell you with my limited english. Im Slovak but I understand czech like my native language but my brain is freezin because I have to go from czech to slovak to english.\n\nedit 2: so it bothered me a bit and I looked around more. He currently is a member of a party called ANO at least I think he still is. He definitely was in 2014 but I cant find anything sayin he still is but cant find anything saying he isnt anymore. The party is mainly centrist and somewhat libertarian. They have close to the german FDP and Liberal Democrats in the UK.\n\nAlso I looked into that thing he did with the neo nazis and of course there are people saying that he is just lying and his motivations were different but I think thats just a she said he said kind of an argument. Some seem valid but after further inspection they seem bad. Like he didnt support some guy and some other guy told him that he is a nazi because of that, but the guy he didnt support is calling for better democracy like they have in Switzerland. Which is nice you know, but he wants that because he thinks that KGB controls the voting system. Holy shit he thinks there 270 000 KGB agents in the whole Czech Republic. Thats like a fifth of Prague. I dont really know what to make of those racist claims but Im inclined to think that he was actually trying to change the skinheads. Holy shit he is actually a profesor. And a law doctor. Also he teaches at the Prague academy of arts from like 1991 so I really doubt he would have a job teaching art if he was a skinhead.",
"I mean, it sets up the inevitable netflix exclusive series pretty well, and that was the intent. If you give people too much, no reason to revisit the world and make more shows. Executives are always looking for that next dollar",
"It shows that Netflix knows their audience better than anyone.",
"dont know if anyone answered but there is this quote on his wiki that says, \"The art of tattooing is accompanying mankind since time immemorial. In addition to the original magic and ritual function, it represents also an aesthetic function. Of course – an aesthetic point of view is a matter of each free individual. Tattooing is an expression of free will, not touching the freedom of others. It is an expression of permanent and unchangeable decision to stand up for your opinion, in both good and bad. (...) My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion.\". ",
"nice.",
"I'll check him out. Got any cliff notes on him?",
"...no, he’s darth maul’s half-brother...",
"Oddly enough, the guy in the background is the one who most looks like a cartoon ",
"wtf are you talking about? idk what \"hardcore marvel fans\" you are talking about but the GOTGs are not some side show bullshit, they have been in almost everything. but none of that matters because that was not anyone was talking about. Everyone else was talking about star wars being a 40 year franchise and GOTG only being 3 years old which is true for the movies but these franchises are not limited to only movies and when you consider the full life of these characters and stories, GOTG is older then star wars. ",
"Because it is.",
"No sir. I *am* the tattoo.",
"This guy fucks.",
"fam",
"It's an excellent B movie with an interesting premise, nothing more, nothing less.",
"Hahhahaha get a load of this guy. ",
"I think his reasoning goes way beyond that, which he tries to address by stating:\n\n>My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept\n\nYour interpretation definitely seems to be part of one of the reasons, though.",
"It sounds like something that I wouldn't enjoy but others might",
"That guy must be rich af.",
"SO BECAUSE HE LOOKS FUCKED WE ARE SUPPOSE TO THINK HE IS COOL? ",
"It's the best brand of bacon tbh",
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: \nLook on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!",
"Get talented enough and you can do whatever you please. If you are not 100% sure that your talent can pay your way, maybe avoid a face tattoo. ",
"*Beast from X-men ",
"And the brewery is owned by the guy who lost the second round, Karel Schwarzenberg.",
"kids these days",
"14 years old and i get it!!",
">they believe every movie is shit.\n\nExcept for movies that are actually shit, but whose makers make sure to *compensate* the critics.",
"That is completely besides the point, as I implied. ",
"Is it anything like Underberg?",
"ohhhhhh *couch*",
"and psycho ",
"I wonder how many gallons of ink that took",
"Castiel?",
"What? Bitters are amazing. ",
"Dude looks pretty damn good for a 60 year old with a face full of blastovers and blackwork tbh",
"It really brings out the blue in his eyes.\n\n.... I'm not even joking, it really does.",
"Why is that SO funny hahaha? i'm hurting with cramps from laughing so hard, but i can't for the life of me understand why that particular line was the best i've had in weeks.",
"More like Nightcrawler but you got the right idea",
"Those three things aren't really a comparison to Maori tattooing imo\n\nKeep downvoting, God forbid people have a discussion, obviously I'm just some soyboy for holding a different opinion.",
"Almost looks like a more full-coverage take on traditional Celtic tattoos?",
"He's pretty accomplished honestly\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimír_Franz\n\nI mean it's fine if you didn't like this comment but he clearly made money as a composer...",
"This is Vladimír Franz a composer, scholar, and playwrite. He is the Dohvakiin.",
"I like Laphroaig. \n\nDo remember that scandinavians are alså responsible for [Surströmming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming) and [Hákarl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl). ",
"Yet he accepts being blooded at the end yes?",
"I thought ebert does thumbs? ",
"you said he almost became the president, which is blatantly false",
"Yeah but in his case he's pretty accomplished\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimír_Franz",
"surstromming or casu marzu",
"Also very very influenced by Alien Nation movie and TV series. ",
"I’m Australian and that even sounds awful to me.",
"Yeah, he does. And so does everyone else. Humans are scum outside of your cultural bubble. Have you heard?",
"Misread couch as crotch... ",
"Cool. ",
"The only people who think tattoos have to have meaning beyond aesthetics are people with none or 1-2 tattoos. Everyone I know with 2+ tats will freely admit that the main factor in getting a tat is liking how it looks. My tats don’t have meaning beyond the fact that I find them to be pleasing to look at. ",
"Saw thumbnail and thought this was another weird advertisement for Bright",
"Go all in on ReddCoin RDD you use the site maybe they will let you use it to buy Gold.",
"I thought he gave up on being blooded, so he put on a front of not caring.\n\n\"You won't accept me, so I might as well reject you back.\"",
"Brite guy, according to OP.",
"Why he rocking a ta moko. Who's his tribe? ",
"Perfect. Sweden was 3rd on my list of countries to go to in the next 5 years.",
"This is the only way to fool aliens to come talk to us... make this guy a president, NOW!",
"i haven't watched it but it seems like a buddy cop movie where they replaced the white guy with a black guy and the black guy with an orc.",
"That's what I was going to say... I was admittedly a few drinks in already when I had it, but it reminded me of Christmas flavors. Gingerbread, cinnamon, etc.",
"Well it’s not like you need his face for a positive ID, so.....",
"Looks like he could have played the part of the Orc in Bright",
"> and also...they believe every movie is shit.\n\nOh come on. ",
"Except that the average viewer has no metric for quality, only a set of feelings. Critics are literally experts in the subject. Its easy to say critics are pretentious. If it wasn't, not *everyone* would do it.",
"There absolutely were Europeans who were adopted into Maori culture. They were called Pakeha Maori and many received, in time, full Ta Moko.\n\nHere is a wiki link to one such individual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnet_Burns",
"\"What kind of tattoo you want, man?\" \n\n\"Just fucking hold the trigger and close your eyes.\" ",
"Reverse tattoo",
"> Also, the show Supernatural was based on the book \"Hunter\"\n\n...source?",
"Man they're really pushing the marketing for Bright",
"I really enjoyed it. As usual, Will Smith is the lead in every fucking way, but it's still a really good movie, contrary to the reviews. ",
"I mean, my and others gut reactions were that it looked like a fake moko, so yeah, I think there's something to it being a maori rip off. If there's any other cultures that produce similar tattoos I'd love to learn about it, but I don't think so.",
"He looks like the dude from Bright",
"He would have been much better than the current idiot... ",
"Horc?",
"No but I played the other troika game “Vampire the masquerade bloodlines” that games deserves so much praise.",
"Wait. What's the backstory on this?",
"Casu marzu looks dangerous. ",
"Jello Biafra, lead singer for the Dead Kennedys, finished third in a mayoral race in San Francisco in 1979. His slogan was \"There's always room for Jello.\"",
"How do you not get ink poisoning from this?",
"No, it's the next Ender's game without Ben Kingsley. ",
"The koru is just a pattern taken from nature - an extremely common natural pattern (the spiral). Just because it looks like a maori design, doesnt mean it is even remotely maori influenced",
"Is there anywhere that says where he got those Māori tattoos?\n\n Is the guy a bloody honorary Māori warrior too? ",
"The problem is also that your average joe (and some reviewers) can't differentiate between a movie review and a film critic - we tend to view them as the same beast. They are not. One is from the 'academic' POV, the other is *supposed* to be from a consumer POV. ",
"\"would you like some merlot? i make it in the toilet\"",
"I saw this guy in Bright! Great actor too!!",
"Haha ya same",
"This post has no point of persuasion, it just looks interesting. Put your pitchfork away ",
"I’ve been to the CzR twice and never had becherovka, only slivovitz. How do the 2 compare? I believe slivovitz has a much higher alcohol percentage ",
"[Before his tattoos](https://cdn.mamamia.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/gallery/vladimir-franz/626_900.jpg)",
"I love marmite, eat it with a spoon",
"Disagreed, beherovka on its own is amazing and the bitterness is the whole beauty.",
"My main point was the whole \"you'll never get a job\" comment I was replying too. How close or far he was from being president is moot because we're talking about if he could ever get a job. ",
"who?",
"He passed away in 2013. ",
"Thats an interesting way to think about it",
"It's a big Nac Mac Feegle big jobber. ",
"I mean this in the most sincere way possible. He doesn’t look evil at all. ",
"TELL ME A JOKE SO I CAN PISS ME'SELF!",
"Also, why is it ok to kill fairies? They're not much uglier than orcs.",
"How impressive is coming fifth in the Czech elections? I don't think anyone even knows who got in fifth in the USA elections, it was probably Harambe ",
"Jesus Christ that's horrible. I ate a half a teaspoon of vegemite on a bet I lost. Never again. Fuck. That. \nEdit: an actual teaspoon not a measuring one :(",
"I like the swirly on his chin",
"He must be good at something. He received over 6% of the vote as an independent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_presidential_election,_2013#Results\n\nJill Stein (green party) and Gary Johnson (Libertarian) received a lower percent of the 2016 votes with their combined results. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2016#Results",
"At first I thought it was Mazer Rackam",
"Full face tattoos are kinda weird and tend to make you unemployable, but I'd hardly call it \"degeneracy.\"",
"It still holds up. I bought it off GOG and it looks great for its age and is still a lot of fun.",
"I never thought about how painful an ear tattoo must be.",
"No no no no no",
"Is he an Ork?",
"Does.... Does he have powers?",
"Czech please!",
"Well, if you read the sequels, you notice how little character details make a bigger difference in the long run. In the movie, Bean was a cocky arrogant little shit-nugget and in the book he was much more reserved. This doesn't really seem like a big deal if you look at Ender's Game by itself, as he was just a supporting character that they tried to make more interesting via adding edgy personality traits - but to a series reader, it would be like making Neville Longbottom behave like Draco Malfoy. \n\nPlus a bunch of little details that lay the foundation for a bigger picture, or larger message. Seems like a little thing, but the fact that Bonzo was half the size of Ender, instead of twice as big truly undercuts what make Ender so important to humanity as a whole. Humanity is vastly outnumbered and out gunned (technologically speaking) in comparison to the Formics. Much like Ender is vastly outnumbered and out gunned (physically speaking) to Bonzo and his two lackeys. It shows that, however bad the odds are, Ender is willing to do **whatever it takes** to win. Even if it means drastic escalation.\n\nThere is an entire litany of examples to post, and I would be happy to do so - if you would like.\n\nThis movie does the book (as a part of a series) no justice. If you only read Ender's Game (and not the series) then... ya... ok... It's a *meh* movie to a good book. However, if you only read Ender's Game and not the series then are missing the masterpiece.",
"This guy looks like straight out of new will smith movie bright",
"Does He self identifies as New Zealander Maori?",
"The dude looks like an X-men",
"Except he specifically explained there significance in the link you shared...\n\n\"The art of tattooing is accompanying mankind since time immemorial. In addition to the original magic and ritual function, it represents also an aesthetic function. Of course – an aesthetic point of view is a matter of each free individual. Tattooing is an expression of free will, not touching the freedom of others. It is an expression of permanent and unchangeable decision to stand up for your opinion, in both good and bad. (...) My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion.\"",
"Bright Harder ",
"I enjoyed it. I feel like it was an alright movie that could have been an incredible series.",
"He looks like Robert Irvine",
"He's dead :(\n\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/Health/internet-sensation-papa-smurf-dies-blue-people-live/story?id=20368758",
"A lot of critics panned it that is why the rotten tomatoes score is so low.",
"3/4 [thumbs up](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/mkwikia/images/7/74/GoroRenderMKX.png/revision/latest?cb=20150506005824)",
"Czech that shit out.",
"Signs movie contract with Marvel.",
"An evolved obligator",
"Isnt placing 5th in a presidential race really bad?",
"Well, he talks about the tooth filing being a family thing. His father and grandfather also did it.\n\nAt no point does he actually behave toward the orcs in a way that suggests he rejects them. He's all sad that they don't like them, and he looks up to them like a kid looking up to cool hero dudes.",
"Is it like absinthe? Cuz if you chase that root beer it’s not bad. ",
">ABCNews.com interviewed Karason in 2008. At the time he lived in Oregon. He said the blue tinge had started more than a decade before that when he saw an ad in a new-age magazine promising health and rejuvenation through colloidal silver. He drank about 10 ounces a day of the home-brew that he dissolved in water.\n\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/Health/internet-sensation-papa-smurf-dies-blue-people-live/story?id=20368758",
">they believe every movie is shit.\n\nNo they don't.",
"Becherovka is actually damn good when mixed with ginger beer!\n",
"Nightcrawler?? ",
"FETCH THE PUN STRETCHER",
"It's interesting, check it out if you have time to kill. I went in with low expectations and left wanting to recommend to my brother.",
"You're a monster",
"I just half tried to photoshop him without tatoos\n\nhttps://imgur.com/4wA1xNa\n\nEdit: Improved\nhttps://imgur.com/a/2Zujt",
"*playwright",
"*PlayBright",
"He missed a spot....",
"Imagine how painful this was, especially under the eyes ",
"Ah, so he is! Looking through his biography I think it'd be more accurate to just call him an award winning composer, the plays and scholarly activities appear very minor relative to his composition work. Kind of like calling Barack Obama a best selling author or Stan Lee the highest grossing actor of 2017 - technically true, but important context has been left out. (This is in contrast to, say, Leonardo Da Vinci who was a true polymath)",
"It was so heavy handed. \n\nDriving the point home with a pneumatic drill...",
"That movie had such potential but they ruined it by having no story at all.",
"Malört, for that subtle blending of grapefruit rind and nylon seatbelt webbing with undernotes of that je ne sais quoi that you suspect you're better off leaving that way. Truly, it is the Samuel Jackson Beer of hard liquor.",
"Is there a story behind his tattoos?",
"Is this who Kanye was referring to when he said “I only like green faces”?\n\nBonus: they should make him president and put him on a green note. That would be historic.",
"R/Natureisfuckinglit",
"Not at all. Tā moko are tapu, meaning they are inviolable and sacred. A closer religious parallel would be burning a quran.",
" Like mom's taint! ",
"On the bright side, every ten to fifteen years his face comes back into fashion.",
"Playwright*",
"My dad would've said that if I had not gotten a tattoo, I would've placed 4th. ",
"Eh, I hadn't planned on watching it until I saw the hubbub about how it's actually good, ended up enjoying it too",
"Most of the West outside North America doesn't care much either, because what people in the US call \"cultural appropriation\" the rest of the planet knows as the normal way cultures have blended and merged throughout human history.\n\nMost of what Americans consider traditional European culture has been \"appropriated\" at some time or another. There is very little truly \"original\" culture.\n\n",
"The thumbnail makes it looks like he's Dr. Manhattan ",
"Yes, we have noticed",
"Umm.... Works as a Dodgeball (movie) reference too. It's a two-fer.",
"Well, Malört isn’t salty like Marmite/Vegemite, but it’s still nasty. To me, it tastes like if you dipped grapefruit skin into a tub of grain alcohol and chewed it.",
"*y'all\n\nCarry on.",
"Bright Harder",
"\"Fun\" fact: *Malört* is Swedish for *wormwood*, which also is what *Chernobyl* translates to. *Yey*.",
"is that Tattoo or is Putin trying to kill him? ",
"Czech him out :~)",
"Trump would be a lot cooler if he only placed 5th. ",
"Inagine him at any nagotiations ",
"Face tattoos are like ohhh shit he doesn't want to be part of society anymore... However when you get old, you go grey and your face sags and goes wrinkly, and basically all old people look more or less the same. I see pictures of celebrities I like as a kid and they don't look like the same person. They have white/silver hair and saggy old face and they just look like my grandpa and everyones grandpa. So if you are going to just look like a generic old person, the full face tattoo is actually not a bad idea. You can't look individual or style yourself anymore because you have no hair to style and you just look old no matter what you do, so why not style your skin! tl;dr it looks bad but it at least he doesn't look like an old man. ",
"So like jãgertee?",
"Didn’t even think of nightcrawler but I totally see it now",
"*floats back to spaceship using the force*",
"> who drinks bitters ...\n\nThose with pallettes that differ from yours, I reckon.",
"I imagine some of those areas must have hurt a fair bit to get tattooed.",
"great quote from the guy explaining the personal significance of the tattoos, literally nothing about any kind of cultural significance (eg that of maori tattoos) in the sense that op was obviously wondering about.",
"I've found that if you want someone to buy you a shot in Chicago, all you have to do is say you've never tried Malört before and every Chicagoan in the bar will make sure you get a shot of it. Not even worth drinking for free though, yuck",
"Were there five candidates?",
"That slang term is offensive!",
"Sorry I was eating a snickers",
"Drow. ",
"Because that isn't really the point of critics, they are not trying to guess if the general public will like it. If they were they would purely rate movies based on enjoyment factor, because lets be honest the average movie goer doesnt have very high standards. Critics review every aspect of a movie. So when a movie like bright comes along that is generic, and lets be real even the so called \"great\" world building isnt even orignal, its basically the shadowrun world, they are going to be bored by it.",
"Placed 5th out of how many tho?",
"Serious question is this some for of tribal thing or just wanting the tattoos? I know some cultures do these kinds of tattoos on there faces like this.",
"I thought this was a scene from Bright",
"I call it the never ending void of entertainment that subsequently sucks your soul out of your pupils, NEVOETSSYSOOYP for short",
"well you said something that is not true, I pointed it out, and instead of correcting yourself you focus on the rest of what you said. great job",
"r/totallynotrobots",
"no one said that he wasn't 5 out of 5\n",
"Vun for every sin",
"He hasn't ridiculously over tattooed himself though. ",
"And why is that?",
"The demons are going to snatch his ears.",
"Malort is a running joke. It is shit. Everyone knows it’s shit. Everyone will drink it anyway because lol, Malort. Every dive bar in Chicago will sell you a Malort/pbr and usually do a shot with you bc lol, Mall rt.\n\nIt’s nasty, but I still love it. Not for any redeeming quality of it itself, but for the general “ughhhh oh god damn it fine, whatever, let’s do this” atmosphere that it creates. That I love.",
"You'll probably feel more inspired after you graduate and somebody is paying you to do quality work, instead of you paying them to turn in boring assignments. ",
"100% Ben Kingsley from Ender's Game. \n\n\"My father was a Maaari\"\n\nSeriously how does a theatre actor mispronounce a name like Māori. ",
"Glad to see Orc culture getting represented. ",
"I too enjoy industrial",
"Yes. Welcome to reddit\n",
"Yes we could all speculate what a Trump presidency would be like from the safety of our imaginations.",
"He is a disturbed mofo. ",
"I like how he's wearing a suit and tie so he doesn't look rediculous ",
"This is like if the drama prof at a community college wrote a bunch of shit and then ran for president. \"Scholar\" indeed.",
"Why would you say so? ",
"Came here looking for Parshendi comment. Was disappointed how far down I had to go. :(\n\nBack to reading Oathbringer.",
"No, that is Nightcrawler, he is a member of the X-men. Get your facts straight. ",
"How dare people share culture >:(.\n\nIn all seriousness, in some situations I get it. Like where it's something sacred.\n\nBut when it's something like \"how dare a white person rap?\" It's stupid. Sharing culture is good. You wouldn't see me getting upset for African/African-American people playing classical piano.",
"Thanks man that was really helpful!",
"Probably got the job before that expired expensive tattoo",
"He missed a spot",
"My problem was more that it’s not the typical story structure a good world building story needs. There’s no narrative focus on a character taking in and experiencing this world for the first time either. There’s exceptions to this but everything from Mad Men to Harry Potter uses this narrative device for a reason. \n\nIt’s a fascinating world and I want to see more of it but they really did themselves a disservice not starting with introducing a new character to the world. Especially since it’s a fish out of water story to begin with. ",
"Will Smiths character was meant to start off being \"Racist\" against orcs, upset that he has to share a car with an orc but then later realizes his views are wrong and he changes his ways. It's called a fucking CHARACTER ARC. It has a weaved sub-plot breaking down the barriers of race and accepting each other. \n\n\"Endorse\" \"Excuse\". So apparently movies can't have characters who are assholes? Now it has to be some sensitive bullshit movement? Fuck that nonsense. ",
"He also did a great job in the movie \"Bright\".",
"'Ay smooth skin'\n",
"I'm heavily tattooed as well (not quite like this guy, but I have quite a few), and this is the perfect explanation of how I feel about it as well. It gives me a sense of connection to the human tradition of art and self expression. His comment is great!",
"That’s night crawler. Sorry whoever lied to you ",
"Slivovitz",
"And if he wasn't an artist, then what? Then you would say he looked foolish?",
"He lost a bet.",
"Alt Dr. Manhattan",
"https://www.eater.com/drinks/2016/4/27/11148504/malort-liqueur-chicago-sommelier-new-york-city\n\nThis always cracks me up. I've never paid for a shot of it. If a bartender overhears me talking about it he or she just places one in front of me",
"i mean...i placed 7th in the us presidential elections. so..",
"Yes. From the interviews before the election he seemed like one if the least competent out of the 20. I didn't get where he gets the praise from. He might be smart but he spoke like he did not finish primary education (during the campaign at least)",
"Which one? There’s 3 dudes in this photo. ",
"I guess...",
"Typical lizard people.",
"*smacks*\n\nWhat's your name?",
"So concerned with someone else's appearance. I'm sorry this tattooed freak is so clearly a more successful and better person than you. You have my deepest condolences.",
"Can't wait to start it, I'm about 1/3 through the WoR graphicaudio and then I'm gonna dive into Oathbringer. Can't wait. ",
"what about him?",
"Yeah.. stupid 4% GDP growth",
"He used his pone to cross reference!",
"I’d been forced to do so many shots of Malort since I was of legal drinking age that now I enjoy it. I like making people take shots with me, thus continuing the cycle. ",
"r/titlegore",
"If you don't see a very distinct difference you're just being fucking obtuse.",
"Maori tattoos are generally designed to be specific to the individual. They will have information on genealogy, tribal land, local mythology etc included in them. That's what makes them so important to many Maori. It would be strange for someone to get a tattoo of someone else's genealogy in most cultures\n\nAn artist can design a Maori tattoo for a non-Maori individual. Everyone has history. But most people looking for a tattoo like that will prefer to go for something from their own culture... because it better conveys the meaning they are looking for. \n\nYou can also design them to not mean much at all. Which AFAIK is done fairly commonly. It looks like a Maori tattoo but just doesn't contain anything specific. ",
"So bright I'm gonna need shades.",
"Exactly. My wife and I were watching it at home and kept asking each other, \"Wait, what happened in that last scene? Why are they there now? Wait, that doesn't make sense.\" I honestly found the movie to be so overly sloppy that I actually questioned the quality control of the Netflix Exclusive approach. Did they just not tighten up the writing because it was going to be realeased to their subscribers, and not in theaters? I mean, yes, I enjoyed it for the world building, but as an actual coherent action/crime movie, it fell flat on its face. On the flip side though, I'm glad that it came direct to Netflix, because paying $20 for a couple of tickets at the theater plus snacks, I might feel a little salty paying that much to see that movie. But in my Netflix queue, well, I was entertained and can deal with it. I just hope they do a better on the sequel, because the world they built was really cool. What would be even better though, would be a better written lower budget series based in that world.",
"Didn't they make a miniseries of that? I seem to recall enjoying it.",
"\\* Playwright",
"The art of tattooing is accompanying mankind since time immemorial. In addition to the original magic and ritual function, it represents also an aesthetic function. Of course – an aesthetic point of view is a matter of each free individual. Tattooing is an expression of free will, not touching the freedom of others. It is an expression of permanent and unchangeable decision to stand up for your opinion, in both good and bad. (...) My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion. - wikipedia",
"Fucking love becherovka, easily my favourite drink.",
"The lizard king. ",
"From the thumbnail I thought he had that colloidal silver problem, came to comments to find out more. Reddit is leaving dumber ever day.",
"Thank you for your well-considered reply. \n\nI firmly believe that if someone takes the time to reply online that I ought to upvote them unless I have serious objections to what they've expressed. Not sure anyone will care but I just thought I'd put that out there. ",
"Possibly the foulest thing that has ever entered my mouth from the normal direction is Fernet-Branca, an alcoholic bitters made in Milan, Italy. \n\nSome people like the fact that it's made with a base of 80-proof grape spirits, but the proprietary blend of herbs and spices make it taste like pine tar and cod liver oil, with just a hint of burned tires (best description I've ever heard of it, unless you've ever had the joy of retching up pure bile.)",
"But like what's on his face?\n \nEdit: Thanks for the gold! Still have no idea what is on his face though",
"pretty tasty on some melba toast though",
"He never sought the ways of the ork cause he thought they were wrong for following the dark lord and their ways were corrupted by him... but to never seek it and still receive the respect of his fellow ork, that's pretty flattering.",
"From his wikipedia, \"The art of tattooing is accompanying mankind since time immemorial. In addition to the original magic and ritual function, it represents also an aesthetic function. Of course – an aesthetic point of view is a matter of each free individual. Tattooing is an expression of free will, not touching the freedom of others. It is an expression of permanent and unchangeable decision to stand up for your opinion, in both good and bad. My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion.\"",
"He is also the first Orc in LA’s police force. ",
"Ok",
"This is basically true for all of the Reddit eco. ",
"The pun hardly makes sense too",
"If its not on the side I send it back.",
"If you're confusing my disapproval of self-harm with envy, I apologize for not communicating more clearly. Unlike you, I'm being serious. ",
"Idk what becherovka is, but it is true that clearer liquors generally result in lighter hangovers, so it might have a grain of truth.",
"As an American I drank a bottle once. It tasted like Christmas going down and hot Christmas coming up.",
"I also thought they were Maori. ",
"Hmm... Well he DID know that he must not be beholden to bending easily to pressure by those who think differently than him. So would you rather have a strong person in power that is his own man, or someone who defaults to the Left or Right, even if the consensus Left or Right opinion isn't best for the country?",
"Czechs generally have 1 president so 5th out of 20 candidates just meant that people who did not really care just thought it would be fun to have a president with >95% of skin covered with tattoos.\n\nSo yea. He has a full body tattoo and was a president candidate. Nowhere close to win it.\n\nHe had 350K votes which was 500K less than the next candidate. Winners of primaries had over 1.2M each. Country has ~11.5M ppl",
"Destroyer of The Formics.",
"Yes you did!",
"What a good looking man\n",
"I think it's because (from my limited knowledge of the Maori culture, American living in NZ) the tattoo denotes status and speaks of your life, family, tribe, and character.\n\nA dream catcher is a totem. If you have a dream catcher, it's an image of a good luck sleeping charm, not a declaration that you are an authentic native American.\n\nDreamcatcher is what you have. Moko is who you are.",
"Czech Fugate",
"Derulio?",
"Yfw you either almost pull of black face , or Jackobi cosplay from Bright.",
"Black History Month! X that isn't white Month!",
"It was interesting. Especially if you look at it like a native American who grew up in the cities and barely/never visited the reservation. Thse kind of natives oft times become a subject of ridicule you could say. Most times rez natives refer to them as apples. Red on the outside but white on the inside. Which in turn causes them to further reject their heritage. Maybe that's how the orcs see him or something. I just thought of it as something interesring. ",
"I kinda liked that, the classic fish out of water stuff with a newbie is starting to taste stale and I know why they did it that way to further remove me from it. Using normal people from the world (instead of an Outsider) felt more genuine and less condescending - \"try to keep up, kid\" without the \"kid\" at the end to put it one way.",
"He's related to the Illustrated Man.",
"There is no free will (apparently) so why are you judging him for something he has no control over? Also, since there is no free will, it was god or the universe or whatever that was making me call you an insufferable, bullying, desperate, attention-seeking, nay-saying, superficial, whiner. How does that make you feel?\n\nAnd nobody said anything about envy. Just stating the fact that he's a better person than you. Do with that what you will. I care not.",
"This is why we have \"a'ight\".",
"Nu-matic",
"Well that's disappointing. Short of arbitrarily assigning more importance to one culture's markings over another, there's really no legitimate basis for your comment. \n\nJapanese tattooing alone has been documented since the Paleolithic period and has served as social signaling in an ever changing landscape for thousands of years. Their tattoos were incorporated for the exact same reasons the Maori have expressed. Are you gonna say their efforts are not as legitimate as the Maori? Why?\n\nI have plenty of respect for ta moko work, but you should know that what is commonly referred to as \"tribal\" tattoos also includes a number of indigenous and aboriginal influences. \n\nSo I'm really wondering what it is you're talking about.",
"Looks like an alien or orcish Anthony Hopkins",
"They're pests, cursing growling rats with wings ",
"I thought this was a submission to a Mike Pence photoshop battle.",
"What's a pone?",
"Why does he look like James Bond lol",
"I prefer amaros, fernet branca, underberg and other digestifs/apertifs but Malört will do in a pinch. \n \nThat first shot did taste like bandaids and battery acid though.",
"He looks like if Daniel Craig fell down a chimney.",
"That's unfortunate. ",
"He looks like he's about to spill the beans on some magic tricks.",
"And the feel. ",
"From their website - if I remember correctly it was a contest for customers to come up with taglines for Malört. “Turns taste buds into taste foes.”",
"\"...and feels no pain.\"",
"Scotch is meant to be drank neat, it’s something you handle it’s not just how you are meant to serve it.",
"[Oh you](https://i.imgur.com/zTtpw8D.jpg)",
"A critic's job isn't to 'be the voice of the people', a critic is specifically supposed to analyze the work from the standpoint of someone who has the education and experience to accurately pinpoint its strengths and weaknesses. If anything, the point of film critique is to help inform the masses, rather than serve as an amplifier for the popular opinion. ",
"It's The Murphy!",
"Nothing about his tattoos?",
"Thought this was r/fakehistoryporn and that was a pic of Draxx",
"Lol Mystique ain't slick...",
"I hope there were only 5 candidates :)",
"I adore all of those. I’m an Amaro Lucano guy. Big fan of Campari as well. ",
"I thought nightcrawler was German?",
"Five.",
"I know that there's some people who get whole body tattoos because they have a skin condition that is only fixed when there's a tattoo over it or some shit. ",
"That would've been cool having an orc president. Really progressive.",
"What's he a scholar for? Sounds like he's just an all around great artist. ",
"When I moved to Chicago it was apparently a tradition to do a shot of....that God dammed shit. I still don't know what it's classified as flavored liquor?",
"pun of the fucking year, ladies and gentlemen",
"My god, this is utterly horrifying. I _love_ it.",
"“My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion.” - from his Wikipedia page",
"Ooh, good analogy. Now which reserves are you talking about, normal or horrifically poor? I'm starting to see some parallels with the poor ones. ",
"Doge is up 500% in the last 20 days or so.",
"I will eat marmite straight... I really like it. It makes the roof of my mouth sting, though. I like vegemite but it’s gotta be on buttered bread ",
"Slivovitz is petrol. becherocka is delicious ",
"\"It was *beautiful*\"",
"I thought the chemistry between him and Will Smith was amazing",
"It's not a story the Jedi would tell you.",
"Like Underberg? ",
"Really? Because I just read it as, \"I think they look rad and don't care what you think. No regrats.\"",
"Supreme lizard race confirmed",
"r/bossfights",
"He’s not even in one of the blooded clans.",
"Why would white supermacists go to get their tattoos from an African American? I have a hard time believing they'd pick him instead of all the white people they could choose to put swastikas and white power tattoos on them... like how would that even come to be? \n\n",
"That's beautiful.",
"The Women's version looks like they're vampires that just finished feeding.",
"How many total voters? I was thinking “fifth? In America only top two even matter and third gets an honorable mention.” Maybe they’re much more competitive.",
"I thought it was Lee priest for a moment s\n",
"Ok, I acknowledge my minor exaggeration, however it has nothing to do with my main point - and 5th place is better than most people is it not? I reworded my original comment just for you. ",
"It can't be harsher than Riga Black Balsam.",
"Anyone notice that his face shape kind of looks like another Vladimir that we all know and love?",
"So, exactly *and* basically, that.",
"Yep. Because no member of the First Nation would be pissed if you rode a horse just outside of their territory, while wearing full Apache garb, swinging a tomahawk, and performing a war screech. That’d be cultural progress. \n\nSo would putting on a dreadlock wig and going to a bar in Oakland and calling the nearest black guy your nigga. That’d be progress, too. ",
"Agreed. Youd never say that shit in real life without everybody cringing. ",
"But did you recommend it to your brother?",
"Is it a good movie? All the reviews say it’s terrible but I’ve learn not to fully trust them.",
"That doesn’t make sense. There are plenty of crtiticallg acclaimed Netflix originals. ",
"I liked it too, although it doesnt make much sense... If orcs have super smelling abilities and are super strong... then why you not want them in law enforcement? Not to mention the elves come straight from Matrix! Why do they even have humans doing anything at all in that universe??",
"I've used the bech in some cocktails and made it taste good. A little goes a long way but it's harnessable. ",
"Touché",
"He blue himself.",
"He campaigned until he was blue in the face",
"I tend to be a bleeding heart liberal by American standards, and cultural appropriation is basically a term for stealing culture as if there's some sort of ethnic intellectual property, which is a ridiculous concept. You're pretty much right.",
"He’s a professor, a composer, an artist and does a lot within his community. At least he *does* have a job. ",
"Does he realize that his hair is blue?!?!",
"Oh yeah I remember seeing him in Avatar",
"Czech this guy out. ",
"You nailed it. I went in with high expectations and was sorely disappointed. ",
"Nah, the pun was secondary. It wasn't about if a play is a thing you build or you write, it was about the words we had for people who make things.",
"idk if this has been noted already so preemtive sorry for repost but for the interested this looks a lot like maori tattoo known as te moko. Dude must be of new zealand heritage",
"I did not say that he could have chosen to choose other than what he chose. I'm saying that what he did looks absurd & could be telling of a \"look at me\" attitude. I could be wrong. But it's hard for me to imagine doing that to myself without feeling like, \"Now they'll see me. Finally, I'll get the attention I deserve.\" \n\nLet's disagree about tattoos. I'm sorry you're so offended by my opinion, Mr. Rebel. ",
"Just a wee bit of mustard",
"Jakoby is really moving up in the world. ",
"Bright 2 looks good",
"No. That is not the reason this term would have come about for. \n\nThese are two different, though related, meanings of the word \"wright.\" The \"wright\" you are thinking of does indeed mean \"One who works in wood,\" but no speaker would ever consider a \"playmaker\" (the word used before playwright took over) to be a woodworker. Rather, the \"wright\" that got replaced \"playmaker\" would carry the more general definition of \"craftsman\" or \"artificer\" which had existed longer. \n\nThe most *logical* conclusion is that \"playwright\" came about due to metaphor or analogy: just as a craftsman creates something, so a playmaker creates a play - but *not* because the thing being created was thought \"a thing built to be used,\" because that really makes no sense. \n",
"Watch a movie if you've got the time for it. Don't watch a movie because of what Reddit/Critics say. ",
"What the fuck. ",
"'magine tattooing your eyelids... I'd vote for him just for that.",
"Isn't that kind of the point though. How we look down on certain people and how it affects things.",
"God damn it. Best comment I've ever read on reddit.",
"He blue it.",
"An extra from Bright?",
"Well... He clearly didn't become president, now did he?!",
"Looks like an orc from bright",
"Makes sense considering how America has a bad habit of exploiting cultures, historically speaking. ",
"TIL Yondu has a Russian relative",
"Looks like an orc from bright",
"It's like that time I had a doodle poster and only a black marker....",
"Well... He clearly didn't become president, now did he?!",
"Good on the citizens not to vote in someone with such an appearance. That's no way to represent your country. Unfortunate they even took him into consideration.\nOh but hey cool tats bro rock out hell yeah!",
"*Playwright",
"[👍👍👍👍 Perfect](https://orig00.deviantart.net/30ad/f/2016/121/b/f/_commission__four_thumbs_up_by_theartrix-d3hahqz.jpg)",
"Is any of this getting through to you?",
"I misread couch as cooch.",
"I whole heartedly disagree! Becherovka is delicious...who doesn't like cinnamon? C'mon",
"Me too thanks ",
"earlier this year\n\nSo this week?",
"This dude fights in the UFC no?",
"I didn't mean to imply that it's ENTIRELY based on it, but the Winchesters fit the archetype \"Wayward\" in the hunter book quite well in the beginning of the show. At this point they're more \"Defenders\" or \"Avengers\". A lot of Sam's powers at the start work just like Hunter \"Edges\" (the powers the book gives hunters to fight evil creatures).\n\nI don't think it's ever been explicitly said, but man it matches just a bit too well.\n\nThere are a large number of episodes that play exactly like they're taken straight out of one of the scenarios from the books.\n\nIt's why I got into the show so heavily lol. I guess I'd just be absolutely **shocked** if it turned out that Kripke had never heard of or read Hunter: the Reckoning or anything else form World of Darkness.\n\nAlso, the writer has said before that he based Castiel's look on John Constantine from Hellblazer, and \"The Colt\" is based on \"The Winchester\" from the same source. (A gun that can kill anything)",
"I remember him from the X-Men movies",
"Why unfortunately? Bright was pretty decent. ",
"Woa! He’s an X-Men!",
"Neat story, bro.\n\nYou sound like you're in your mid-twenties and just bought your first bottle of Dewar's, LOL. So cute 😊",
"I... I... like Becherovka and sugar free Red Bull....",
"I haven’t tried this Malört that you’re all talking about, but I would imagine it is the same or some version of what we in Sweden call besk (which is basically wormwood infused vodka). Can confirm, it is an acquired taste. It’s lovely. Source: am swede",
"It's plays well on the irony that Will Smith is a black cop, but because he is a human, his color doesn't matter. In this universe, it's the Orc species that play the lower class and the Orc that plays Will Smith's partner struggles to prove that his allegiance is to the police and not his kind.",
"I'm sorry but you can't have all that shit on your face without saying something about it. Am I not suppose to mention it. Pretend that it's not there. This is the VF equivalent of giant tits in a pushup.",
"To be fair a white guy in dreadlocks able to communicate on equal terms with neither side batting an eye would be a form of progression if neither side saw it as anything beyond individual expression.\n\nMost of these things are just human perspective to start. I get your point though, I only reference a scenario played out without centuries of history and tension.\n\nWhether it could happen today with how the world is, is a different story",
"I appreciate your input, but as I mentioned to the other commenter, it's really an arbitrary line being drawn here.\n\nConsider [Irezumi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irezumi). \n\n>The Samurai picked up the art of tattoo after being forced to disband. Previous to Japan's unification as a country it was split into many smaller city-states. These smaller independent states were protected by the Samurai. Under a new emperor and new country, the Samurai were forced to burn their armor, composed mainly of wood, in large gatherings shifting local tributes to the new emperor. The Samurai had served its people for many centuries-spanning generations and were highly admired, almost being treated as royalty. Being stripped of their armor the Samurai adopted tattoo as a means of replacing the armor. In effect the samurai were forced into hiding, thusly forming the fraternal order of the Yakuza. The Yakuza was originally seen as an organization of high honor, not the image it has in modern times. Often these previous city-states still paid their tributes to the local Samurai ignoring the emperor. \n\n>This practice was eventually abolished by the Meji government who banned the art of tattooing altogether, viewing it as barbaric and lacking respectability. This subsequently created a subculture of criminals and outcasts. These people had no place in \"decent society\" and were frowned upon. They could not simply integrate into mainstream society because of their obvious visible tattoos, forcing many of them into criminal activities which ultimately formed the roots for the modern Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, with which tattoos have become almost synonymous in Japan.\n\nThat's an identity. I'm not one to pick and choose relevance or authenticity, but for many tattooers with an appreciation for history-- the Japanese traditional is sacrosanct bar none. \n\nIt's all good, I was just curious to hear the thinking behind Maori work being particularly more respectable than others.",
"I misread it as cooch.",
"What tattoos?",
"Actually, your name is BrightSunMan... I assume you are a fighter of the Nightman and friends with Dayman,",
">And, perhaps surprisingly, few take issue with his tattoos. \"Personally, I wouldn't vote for him – but [the tattoos] are not a problem at all,\" said Tomas Pistora, a 33-year-old IT specialist from Prague. \"The young people prefer him because they don't have a better choice.\"\n\n>Many Czechs, especially in the capital, are not shocked with Franz's appearance simply because the 53-year-old professor at Prague's Academy of Performing Arts has been around for years.\n\n>\"Franz says his tattoos are simply body art and that the election is not a beauty contest. \"A tattoo is a sign of a free will and that does not harm the freedom of anyone else,\" he said.\"\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/09/vladimir-franz-tattooed-czech-elections\n\n>Vladimír Franz is known also for his extensive tattoos, including facial ones. His unusual appearance attracted the attention of world press during the 2013 presidential election.[9]\n\n>In an interview for the TV NOVA, he commented:[10]\n\n>“\tThe art of tattooing is accompanying mankind since time immemorial. In addition to the original magic and ritual function, it represents also an aesthetic function. Of course – an aesthetic point of view is a matter of each free individual. Tattooing is an expression of free will, not touching the freedom of others. It is an expression of permanent and unchangeable decision to stand up for your opinion, in both good and bad. (...) My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Franz",
"Fifth out of 9 isn't bad considering his appearance. ",
"Sound like he is much more adequate than the pale in the face politicians we have in Washington right now. I don't remember the last time I read a statement from any Republican that is quite thoughtful outside of maybe John McCain",
"I’m gonna assume this was a midlife crisis.",
"Yo I'll pay for you to get an MRI so we can see exactly what is wrong with you ",
"I AM THE SEE SENATE",
"No, it’s Nightcrawler",
"A play's script is clearly a thing to be used, often by dozens of people at once, as anyone who has worked on a play could tell you.\n\nPlays are not written to be read, they are written to be performed, which is a very intensive use. \n\nI have no idea what your point is.",
"Point stands...\n\nThough I suppose I can't give you too much grief, seeing as how I originate from a country responsible for [Maotai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maotai), [century eggs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg) and [stinky tofu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinky_tofu)...",
"Anthony Hopkins as Nightcrawler ",
"I approve.",
"Can we please stop quoting those made up TILs bot accounts keep posting on Reddit?",
"A device used for poning",
"He’s from the Orc 1st party",
"Always two there are. No more, No less.",
"I don’t know that there is an absinthe payoff. I did it in NOLA at the original absinthe bar and then in Breckinridge and all it did was put a dent in my wallet. ",
"Same here, the only scenes that kept me going were the ones including the wand.",
"> If there is one 40% alcohol that is pleasurable to drink neat its Becherovka.\n\nDid you, honest to god, just write off all Scotch and many whiskeys?",
"I've heard it compares to driving through Gary, IN with your mouth open. ",
"Makes those people who like to joke about a person with a face tattoo not being able to find a job, think.",
"What face?",
"Yeah but the difference is Last Jedi was actually shit.",
"The answer is a lot. ",
"If I am not mistaken the other guy is Vaclav Moravec who hosts political debates on TV",
"Aka the reverse The Last Jedi (kinda) ",
"That's cool. Still looks like an idiot. ",
"Dr. Manhattan",
"/r/unexpectedwordsworth",
"What? Becherovka is tasty. Drink before food to whet your appetite, or after as a digestif (and enjoy the taste of Becherovka rather than comparably disgusting food you just ate)",
"yeah, apparently it doesn't really exist much outside of Chicago. It's not really in that wormwood family of herbal bitters, but you're getting the right idea. I haven't had much of it, but the taste is definitely one that lingers on the tongue, so if you don't enjoy the taste, you're in for a bad time, haha.\n\nRegional Spirits always really intrigue me. I'd like to try some besk if ever I had the opportunity. Although it makes you wonder, there is probably a good reason why it's only a regional thing, lol.",
"It's destructive when somebody adopts part of a culture without any of the depth it originally held, or when it becomes attributed to somebody that adopted it, rather than somebody that created it. It's beliefs like \"Elvis created rock and roll\" or \"country music was started by southern whites\". Since we're the group in power, it's pretty unlikely that people are going to think a minority invented classical piano, just because he's popular.",
"Who doesn't what now?",
"Not many tattoo artists do swastikas",
"Heboric light touch!",
"Lmao no because if I did he would say some shit like;\n\n\"hah yeah you read it on Reddit or something, *literally* everyone says it's bad, look at the rotten tomato score!\" \n\nAnd I ain't got time to try and persuade a 19 year old.\n\nlove ya Kalvin buddy.",
"Gangsta af",
"I loved him in Bright!",
"> Why would white supermacists go to get their tattoos from an African American? \n\nNot *all* white supremacists are hateful. They may be racist in the fact they believe they are superior to blacks and other minorities, but that doesn't mean that every white supremacist wants to see them hanging from trees. \n\nThings are usually more complex than good/bad. Most people are in the middle.",
"He has. Please see my reply to tnafam's comment above.",
"Sounds like you're not actually a bleeding heart liberal then.",
"Effectively, yes.",
"Darklord fucking *everything* up.",
"Most likely more of a statement than not being smart. ",
"not gonna lie from the preview i thought this was a picture from Bright. ",
"Sir?",
"He has pretty eyes.",
"But what _if_ dark souls 3 was made of pizza?",
"He looks like the first Orcish cop",
"Okay, Jimmy Doohan.",
"You don't get it then if that's your whole take from it. I would know since I used to be that guy",
"This is what happens when a Maori warrior and Vladimir Putin have a baby. This is awesome. ",
"That's Anthony Hopkins on makeup for his new movie. ",
"Well he is a composer, scholar, and playwriter",
"I totally agree. The draw of reddit for me is finding those hidden gem comments where an expert explains something insightful about the post.\n\nThe thing is though that it's all of our responsibilty to make that happen. If any of you, my fellow redditors, see something discussed that you have a expert knowledge about then please share your take on the matter. It's what makes reddit great!",
"I thought it was the guy off of that new netflix Will Smith movie...bright?",
"What's with all that shit on his face? ",
"This a promo for Bright??",
"I just watched Bright on Netflix and thought that he’s an orc for a moment!",
"5 million in first round. Presidential election in CZE is two round system, so at the end only 2 candidates matter indeed. Before the first round however, all the candidates were given the same media time and attended the debates together. Generally. Franz never stood a chance to win, but as president doesn't really have any executive power in CZE and serves more of a representative role, many people liked the idea of being represented by someone like him.",
"Joke: Hey how does it look down there?\n\n\n\n\n\nYou: Pretty good",
"Didn't realize there were Czech Maoris.",
"I was kinda looking forward to it when I saw the first trailers, but then I saw it was the same director who directed Suicide Squad... So I kinda lost interest, but was still gonna watch. Then netflix started pestering me to watch it, with those annoying autoplaying adds on up to three places on the page... So I'm like fuck you netflix, I'll watch when I want...\n\nThat'll teach em",
"Only from the waist down ",
"> one 40% alcohol that is pleasurable to drink neat\n\n/r/scotch would like a few words with you",
"He also has a high pain tolerance",
"does this look like a maori design to anyone else ? ",
"Spooky",
"That would be my first time seeing a parentheses inception.",
"It's like comparing tequila to jagermeister. One is a spirit, the other is a herbal liquor. ",
"Thumbnail made me think it was Doctor Manhattan.",
"Please conclude your sentence! ",
"I love civ so much, I just don't have 10-12 hours to play a game anymore",
"When your created character in a cutscene ",
"Too much lsd",
"It was a full-blown TV show but Fox ran out of money or something. They were still a pretty new network then. Think they cancelled a lot of stuff that year. ",
"Marmite/Vegemite is delicious. It's essentially spreadable beer. What's not to like?\n\n",
"Yes. Spun off from the movie. ",
"He looks like what Daniel Craig originally had in mind for his character in Logan Lucky ",
"Placed 5th, Is i like a playoff situation in the Czech Republic?",
"Fuck you 80's laughtrack is the only music that's even worth listening to.",
"Here. Have a Moxie.",
"Wasn’t he in that Netflix movie called Bright?",
"Recursive parentheticals? Have an updoot.",
"[me looking at his website](https://youtu.be/kmzpdd4pWvM?t=1m19s)",
"Same here. It wasn't the best movie ever, but it was entertaining enough, and I'm really looking forward to where they take this universe in the sequels.",
"I thought this was a picture from the movie bright for a moment.",
"Jerry Thomas Bitters was my favorite 50's Canadian comedian.",
"Can confirm, five years in Nola and every variety of absinthe the city had to offer - the only payoff was a few ludicrous bar tabs and some *really* bad choices made while drunk.",
"Set your sites higher.",
"Smurf",
"I wonder why he came in 5th and didn't win.\n\nI guess it will forever remain a mystery. ",
"We were *this* close! ",
"their*",
"SUFFER ME NOW",
"Thats it and its very bad.",
"They had no problem making Mexicans look like gangbangers though.",
"Doesn't your equating the misuse of the moko tattoo to \"tribal tattoo\" completely ignore the history and meaning of tribal tattoos?\n\nSo how about we make a rule. Nobody can get a tattoo that has any significance to another culture. You want a lion? No, that shit's African, and you've never left Maine! You want Japanese tattoos? You better be proficient. You want a four-leaf clover, then you'd better be Irish as fuck. Every person getting a tattoo should have to prove their heritage in order to get a tattoo, and an artist who doesn't vet his customers properly will have their license revoked and hands cut off.\n\nMaybe every tattoo design should have to go to a panel to check for any possible cultural appropriation? We can also go and start hunting people with insensitive tattoos and have them removed by force. ",
"But that’s not important right now",
"Fox cancels tv shows all the time, before their time.\n\nFirefly is their fault.",
"Why does no one point out the man is clearly a Frost Giant?",
"Ew",
"The premise is great. The writing kinda shit.\n\nThe premise is what holds the whole thing up. It's cool to see centaurs cops and orcs and elves and how it's a reflection of our world.\n\nRemove that part though and you have a mediocre episode of Starsky & Hutch \n",
"One man's cultural appropriation is another man's cultural victory.",
"Is this the chap from Bright right?^^^^\\s",
"Good old Fox. #remembertheserenity\n",
"Quite the use of negative space!",
"Ha ha thought the same",
"Cultural appropriation is an inherently flawed concept resting on faulty premises about culture, only north Americans still use that because they're called racist if they try to argue against it\n",
"No, your mom is a race to make the most obvious and dumb joke. ",
"For everyone else that came here wondering about his tattoos, this is from Wikipedia.\n\n>In an interview for the TV NOVA, he commented:\n\n>“The art of tattooing is accompanying mankind since time immemorial. In addition to the original magic and ritual function, it represents also an aesthetic function. Of course – an aesthetic point of view is a matter of each free individual. Tattooing is an expression of free will, not touching the freedom of others. It is an expression of permanent and unchangeable decision to stand up for your opinion, in both good and bad. (...) My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion.",
"I think you're right.",
"Hold my rabbit I'm going in.",
"Rakfisk",
"I dont know, he looks like Bill Murray.",
"> My tattooing is result of a long-term sophisticated concept, not a sudden emotion.\"\n\n(\"I was sober when I did this.\")",
"I mean most puns are silly twists on a normal sentence. As a Czech Canadian though, it's a super overused and simple pun. ",
"Speaker for the dead",
"RIP Sarah Connor Chronicles",
"Is he a bright? ",
"Because?",
"You would be spot on. Someone once claimed cultural appropriation when their dining hall served sushi.",
"This was my first thought and hope for the movie, but I've heard it does not play out like Shadowrun should at all. \n\nI'd fucking *love* a good Shadowrun adoption. Dunkelzahn for President? Yes please, even for those sweet 10 hours.",
"And my mom trips over me having dreads, smh",
"me too",
"\"No mum! I need MORE TATTOOS!!!\"",
"Is he also a fucking kree?",
"Who's the poor guy that placed 6th?",
"he is a new series with Will Smith now",
"If you feel the urge to get swastikas and white power tattoos on yourself you're kinda guaranteed to be hateful and/or a complete idiot, not somewhere in the middle.\n\nI really have to call bullshit on that story. If you're in the circles where you're confident enough to walk around with white power tattoos it makes no sense that you had to find an African American to put them on you...",
"that dude is buggin!",
"I assumed that 5th place would be some fraction of a percent ([in the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2016#Candidates_table), 5th place had 0.54% of the popular vote and 6th place had 0.15%), but in fact [Vladimir got 6.84%](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_presidential_election,_2013#Results) of the vote in the initial round",
"I got a distinct crushed Tylenol flavor. Malort: once and never again. ",
"NO FREE WILL. HE HAD NO CHOICE. GOD MADE HIM GET THE TATS. DON'T QUESTION GODS PLAN.\n\nGod also thinks you're a twat. He told me to tell you that. Sorry, I don't have the free will to say otherwise.",
"TBH none of those sounds like a real job (i.e. getting paid to do it)",
"Yep. I did it for the experience (was already trashed) but definitely would not do that again in any city except I believe Paris or Prague has an absinthe bar my husband wants to try. \n\n",
"M E TA\nE\nT\n\nA",
"> But that's the thing, developing a palate for Malort is like developing a palate for heavy construction noise as music.\n> \n> You have to wonder how you ended up at that point in the first place.\n\nWhat an amazing line.",
"Something real something something always in the comments.",
"“Really wish I could adjust my cock ring without anybody noticing.”",
"Brigh2er",
"He’s got a little bit of ink on his face ",
"Not even the least bit interested in that approach of thought. \"hard to see if I'm offended yet but I'd love to know more to see if I should be.\"",
"Are you sure? I've definitely heard blacks, natives, latinos, etc get heated over that stuff.",
"Darth Maul's cousin",
"ok this was cute and helpful thanks",
"It's End of Watch but with the Burning Crusade expansion.",
"You'll never become an artist with those tattoos!",
"Fifth in the first round, didn't make it to the second. ",
"Man, he must have lost a long string of awful bets. ",
"His mutant superpower is teleportation in case anybody is wondering.",
"Yeah, pretty much everything is.",
"Playwright ",
"I too am a master of karate",
"Czechia is not some kind of dictatorship to use money with it's president printed on it",
"Scholar in what respect? I can't find anything online... or does uni scholar = fancy way of saying uni graduate?",
"Actually, that's not what he says. His tattoos are saying, \"I'll stand up for what I believe in, whatever you think\".",
"Dresden files is the shit. Bob for the win",
"American dollar actually comes from Czech tollar though",
"So what does he do that would make him a good political leader besides writing plays and music?",
"It's funny because without any of the local context everything he said could just be factual but entirely bloated and meaningless awards that someone who got 1% of the vote is aggrandizing himself with. \n\nI mean. They might be super prestigious. I don't know. ",
"You all = Y'all\n\nGeez, I'm Canadian and even I know this! When in doubt, say it in full. ",
"Someone is getting real with the bright movie",
"From the previews, I thought that too. But it was just the buddy-cop angle during the first 20-min that was right out of Alien Nation. The rest was it's own cool thing.",
"Milky Way. And Regerts.\n\n/u/Warrenwelder 's reference is from We're the Millers",
"When you see your GTA 5 character in a cutscene.",
"I actually think his tattoos look pretty damn cool. I wouldn't get anything like that on my face personally, but I can still appreciate it.",
"And they liked the new all female Ghostbusters. definitely not to be trusted. ",
"Y O U T R I E D\n\nO \n\nU\n\nT\n\nR\n\nI\n\nE\n\nD",
"I...don’t believe that’s true. I’m pretty sure it was indicative of him not being blooded",
"President Drax.",
"Not dumb, [violent](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d6/f7/61/d6f76169e1fb4ad56a6f6f9724b47dec--english-grammar-english-language.jpg).",
"He's more tattoo than man",
"This first thing about him you ask is tax policy? wut",
"“Long story, but essentially, I was the first person to fall asleep at a sleep over in a tattoo parlor”. ",
"I got into an argument with my aunt about tattoos and she asked had the balls to ask me if I would let a person covered in tattoos like this if I would allow them to do the surgery. I replied \"If they are there then the have the credentials to do it so I don't see the problem.\" She then said \"What if he's just starting out?\" I got mad and replied with a bit of sarcasm saying \"Well at least has a decent amount of experience with sharp objects.\"",
"Ogers are beginning to make there way into politics",
"It was just a TV movie wasn't it? Did it have a theatrical release?",
"I mean that might be why he ran and he might be attention seeking, but he seems pretty intelligent either way,",
"A friend bought me some and I really liked it 🧜♂️",
"Sorry, but getting a tattoo of a lion is completely different then taking a pre-existing design that has been used by a group of Maoris for hundreds of years. I agree that 95% of time, this \"cultural appropriation\" hysteria is bullshit, but try to see some nuance in the issue.",
"A long excavator jam.",
"Oh",
"That’s personal significance, sure. But they were asking about cultural significance ",
"Lizard people aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.",
"Yeah, I don't get this guy. I'm really not a fan of that 40% or more stuff, but becherovka is great.",
"I like how he dyed his hair to match his face ",
"Jakoby?",
"Wormwood liquor",
"Guest stars on Netflix's Bright",
"I thought it was x-men from the thumbnail",
"Yeah... I know.\n\nI'm just trying to understand how this relates to this guy beyond his being Czech. You could literally take a picture of anything Czech related and make that joke.",
"Gotta give him credit for the matching hair color. That’s passionate dedication.",
"I still occasionally announce \"HAHAHA, I HAVE FAMOUSLY HUGE TURDS\" to myself when I'm home alone",
"\"That's him officer! That's the man who (insert crime of your choice)! I'd recognize him anywhere!\"\n\nP.S. : I'm not saying this guy is a criminal, but if he chose to be, he might have a hard time in a line-up!",
"Ah I see. I’m just perplexed by this because all my life I’ve been surrounded in Czech culture and this somehow passed under my nose. Slivovitz is pretty much the only clear alcohol I can tolerate, the stuff is still pretty foul though. I’ll have to try becherovka next time I visit!",
"I'm fairly certain he could get 350K votes in a US presidential election too, without changing anything about himself, his nationality, or his platform. 100s of thousands of people write in things like Darth Maul and Snoopy, so I'm sure this guy could pull in some impressive numbers just based on his looks.",
"That sounds amazing",
"Paging u/CzechYourself",
"I can suddenly imagine scholarly articles written in 2050 by Vladimir Franz III, about the cultural significance of Brooklyn hipster tattoos of the 2010s. \n\nAnd arguments on /r/science about its validity and appropriateness.\n\nAnd TL:DRs on /r/TIL.",
"With such a detailed and accurate response. I'm curious to see OPs rebuttal.",
"Reminds me of Darth Maul",
"[The bunnies plot their conquest of the neighboring kingdom.](http://files.vladimirfranz.webnode.cz/200000120-9a46b9b3f2-public/08-dvojhrady-koko-a.jpg)\n\n[Rejoice! Rejoice! For the bunnies have fucked us all!](http://files.vladimirfranz.webnode.cz/200000184-14f5b16df4-public/15a.jpg)",
"Professor doctor ",
"I've heard it described as tasting like \"Christmas on fire\" which I agree with whole heartedly.",
"😆😆😆..... Not me. Just an observation. I believe those that participate in the actions I described are very angry people though. It's almost as if they seek out triggers. ",
"It's alright. He hasn't been blooded. He's chill to roll with the humans.",
"What a misleading thumbnail, I thought he was a draugr",
"I completely agree. Other than that scene with the drug lord towards the end that felt so cliche, the wand scenes were great for me. ",
"Because it's held as up as of enormous significance to the culture that created it, unlike many other forms of tattooing. Appropriating a style of tattoo with that much cultural/spiritual significance is fucking weird",
"Seriously, I love the taste. Was so confused reading the other comment.",
"This comment isn't even funny. The only thing that even makes this relevant is the fact that he's Czech and this guy is referencing an Ice Cube song.",
"Don't disrespect Malört like that.",
"Oh, so composer and playwright aren't jobs?",
"Yet the old folks would say \"He wont be able to get a job\"",
"Definitely. They can kill entire discussions that would otherwise have been interesting.",
"#### ORC LIVES MATTER",
"Fifth out of five? ",
"You do realize that US as a whole is result of constant cultural appropriation? Just don't be insensitive asshole towards other cultures. ",
"Scotch and whiskey are very acquired tastes. I would never introduce someone to whiskey neat. ",
"Please enlighten us",
"I really, really like attention.",
"I loved that guy in Bright",
"Nah it's more an autistic thing",
"The Russian remake of Bright looks interesting",
"*playwright*",
"[there are lots of dumb customers](http://www.cc.com/video-clips/u3x3fh/this-is-not-happening-one-sided-love-story---uncensored)",
"Can someone who's nifty with Photoshop show us what this would look like without the tattoos? Or is this a ridiculous request?",
"Lizard people exist!!!. ",
"This dude looks like an orc from Bright",
"Kinda looks like Daniel Craig",
"I had to double check just to make sure he was not a whitewater.",
"Malört - \"Tonight's the night to fight your dad. ",
"[Czechmate.](http://cz-usa.com/product/cz-75-ts-czechmate-9mm-black-2x20-rd-1x26-rd-mags/)",
"What’s something funny to you? I’d like to take a stab at dissecting it in a boring way too.",
"i like becherovka. that shit tastes good.",
"Becher and black currant juice is shockingly delicious.",
"Yeah, but critics loved it because Disney $, claiming it was the best Star Wars yet, while audiences overall disliked it on roughly par with the prequels. Was going along the lines of critics being completely out of touch with audiences. ",
"I guess we could say... \n\nthat he da ba died.",
"PREACH",
"In our village, we called him Avatar. We actuly rooted for anyone beside Schwanzerberg and Zeman. One sleeps in motion, and second is Czech version of Trump. ",
">A closer religious parallel would be burning a quran.\n\nAgain, only fanatics get offended by that.\n\n\n",
"Will smith was his running mate.",
"You speak Czech and don't know that 'hustý/hustě' is used as a variation of 'cool'? \n\nAlso, check the name of the user you replied to, pretty sure he knows his Czech well.",
"That's a weird question. I encounter funny things throughout my day but rarely bookmark those moments in my diary.\n\nI just don't understand how a simple pun and song reference is that clever. It only works on one level.",
"My roommates and I used to mix becherovka lemond with sprite, was actually really good! ",
"reminds me of the pantera (i think) dvd were they are running around drinking and all have a thing of pepto bysmol (sp?) to keep from getting hungover the next day. maybe it was a disturbed dvd saying they learned it from pantera",
"I never would have thought Prague would have good pork. I guess I erroneously thought the population was mostly Jewish. \n\nEdit: after doing some reading it seems the Jewish connection is mostly historic now and today's population seems quite small. Admittedly I know little about Prague except it was occupied by the Nazi's and that's why I knew about Jews there in the first place \">_>",
"What qualifications does someone need to be a ‘scholar’ these days?",
"Of course, don't address any point I've actually made.\n\nI'm aware that 'tribal tattoos' include a number of traditions, but contemporary 'tribal tattoos' aren't representative of shit.\n\nI've spent plenty of time reading about tattooing, but that's an easy way to sideline an argument isn't it.\n\nI didn't say it's superior, I said taking something so important to a group of people and just sticking it on yourself because you like how it looks is fucking tacky and lame, but whatever you don't have any real points so fuck off.",
"Looks like Creed.",
"Does he also have a tail and the ability to teleport?",
"fucking malort. that fucking shit. \n\nevery had buckfast, it's like the scottish version of crapwine.",
"Yeah I would recommend this dude never come to New Zealand. I think a lot of people here would be offended at a white dude having tattoos resembling Tā moko.",
"What an accomplished Orc",
"Well... He didn't get it now, did he? Unless they have a job for 5th place. ",
"When your custom character is in the cutscene.",
"Looks like Jocoby from that new Netflix film, Bright.",
"Better than Trump",
"That’s a lot of good info. But it doesn’t really answer the most pertinent questions. When and why did he get the “full monty”?",
"Is this a piccolo reference ",
"[Or the doctor from Mr Nobody ](https://i.imgur.com/3ezIM2G.jpg)",
"I personally think it's all silly. Especially in a place called the \"melting pot\". While I'm sure anyone can complain about something or claim exclusive rights to it I'd have to say that someone from the culture the \"thing\" supposedly came from would have more justification to complain. Even then I say blah. Maybe said perpetrator identifies as \"insert ethnicity\"? Lol. IDK. I think people just like to complain. ",
"thats just the face of a very stable and like really smart guy",
"This could be Ink from the We're Alive podcast. He started it all!",
"Sometimes when I'm in a hurry, I go to pull it out, and the tip is still in my pants. Leaving me with piss pants. :(",
"Hold my czechvar",
"Fair enough. And I am not against getting whatever you want regardless of social meaning, FWIW. It's just the first distinction that came to mind.\n\nI once asked a man what his tattoos meant and he refused to tell me because I was a white foreigner. I also have a Maori friend that won't tattoo moki on non-Maoris. I guess each artist has thier own beliefs and principles. God help any sports team that wants to try to do a Haka. They tend to get pretty livid when anyone other than a kiwi does it, considering it a personal slight against their culture, as if we are mocking it.",
"Looks like a nice dude actually.",
"I was really excited for this sub, then it was fake. I dislike you leading me on like this.",
"His tattoos look to be similar to those on NZ Maori? Seems like a very interesting individual. I’ll have to read more about him! ",
"dear god, bring on the nightmares ",
"If you're intrigued by this kind of thing, I would recommend Riga Black Balsams. Definitely not for everyone but an interesting experience.",
"Mystique's father!",
"The good King Wenceslas thanks you for your positive review.",
"Can't think of any 40% whiskey that is pleasurable to drink neat?\n\nAlso, I'd recommend Tatra Tea, it's not Czech but Slovak but what's the difference...\n\nIt's very good, has a very great taste and is available at 52% and 72% (or 82%, not sure)",
"Composer, scholar ... stand in drax for guardians of the galaxy 3 ?",
"I had someone describe it as \"Christmas in a glass\" and I gotta agree",
"And it tastes like Christmas",
"That’s Praguably the worst pun ever.",
"Looks like a full [moku](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=moku+tattoo&t=iphone&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_ufQo9WKoZMU%2FTTU6eeZJ8eI%2FAAAAAAAAA3c%2FhcwYO85pQQg%2Fs1600%2FMoko%252BFull%252BFace.jpg) ",
"I wonder if he starts every government meeting by leading a group haka.",
"Yeah? What about him. ",
"TBH I thought this was another Bright add",
"My people.",
"first Smurf president ?",
"When your custom character appears in a cutscene",
"I thought it was something related to Netflix’s Bright movie... ",
"\"I member\"",
"The man in the picture was a Czech presidential candidate. Czech and \"check\" have the same pronunciation in English. It's a pun",
"Eh?",
"No, I'd say even someone who was passively religious or even in the community would be offended by that. Hell, I'd be offended if someone burned a Quran. Or a Bible, or a Jain text, or 11th century commentary on the Talmud. It's sacred to people, you just don't do that. Honestly I don't think any reasonable person can be perfectly comfortable when any book is burned. ",
"can we trade our president for this guy. he seems pretty rad.",
"Somebody get Blade on the phone ",
"Who knew that the blue man group was Czech ",
"/u/shitty_watercolour has better paintings than this guy",
"Most orcs ‘commit an act of bravery’ by doing something illegal and he was never interested in that. So when he did what he did in the movie and the other orcs saw that they had to recognize it.",
"Bright 2: The Bright light.",
"You know... when they were flying the Lambda shuttle and got quite close to Vader they should have tried spinning. \nEven at that point in his life, he would like a good trick. \n \nVader whispers \"Woohoo\" but it's amplified by the tech in his mask, a bridge officer hears him. \n\"Lord Vader...?\" ",
"Just wondering, they looked vaguely like Maori tattoos.",
"That’s all I’ve got, too! Plus one dickface complaining about it!",
"That’s playwright btw ",
"I thought he was cosplaying Dr. Manhattan from the thumbnail.",
"Isn't his goal to be elected? And wouldn't getting tattoos like this be very counter productive to getting elected. \nI guess you could make the argument that he only got those many votes by being who he is and having a tattoo is part of that. It still wasn't enough to get him elected and probably isn't sustainable anyways.",
"my guy can be pretty specific of what he will do. he wont do anything that might affect someones life negatively. For example, no hands or face for a beginner. Only people who are already covered up pretty well. \n\nOne story I enjoy is when this guy went to a rival shop that had a promo that was free tattoos for life if you got their contact info inked on you anywhere and the guy did it and came to my guy for a cover-up and he told him no fucking way",
"[King Wenceslas massacred my people.](https://xkcd.com/959/)\n",
"Bet he's always organising parties with a Watchmen theme...",
"It made me think someone watched Training Day after an LOTR marathon and decided that it should be a movie.\n\nI thought it was okay, but not great",
"It's an herbal liquor? Where is it from?",
"Get a tattoo and throw away any job prospects they said...",
"Dude is from the future",
"Every fucking time ;)",
"Wow, what a cool looking character. I wonder what his policies were. ",
"Taken from his website...\nNice try Vladimir! ",
"Before I had ever heard of it, I watched 10 min or so and had to turn it off because it was so stupid. Now that I know people like it I'll probably try it again ",
"Saying that cultural appropriation is a thing is a form of racism if anything. How are we all supposed to embrace eachothers differences if we all try to own certain things. It's stupid and it's setting us back 100 years. ",
"Tell your parents they've succeeded.",
"Not a lot of tattoo artists will do racist shit, so I guess they take what they can get",
"It's basically Bad Boys 3, minus Martine Lawrence and plus some magic",
"I thought they meant crotch and misread it as cooch. ",
"Yh there basically a manifestation of his belief in free will I’d say ",
"He only ran to save face.",
"I didn't say everyone didn't get it. I said SOME younger people. Is that really something to get offended and downvote someone over?",
"I've put together guitar arrangements, have a Master's degree in education, and a collection of tattoos from 6 yrs in the military....maybe it's time for people like us to make decisions? What's his platform?",
"And we elected that Hutt sitting behind him",
"Looks like someone skinned Stan Lee. ",
"I thought his name was eggnog.",
"> Malört\n\n\"\"tastes like pencil shavings and heartbreak.\"",
"He looks like an Orc",
"Thank you for actually typing the full name, I know how to say it but never knew how to type that or write it",
"Composer, scholar, playwrite, and badass Maori warrior. \n\nFTFY. ",
"stupid question probably, but with that level of ink, do you still need sunscreen?\n\nOr is the ink beneath the skin layer that needs protection?",
"Reptilians confirmed. 👁",
"A person can be all those things and not have a job. Is he a professor *at* somewhere? A *successful* *professional* composer/artist? \n\nedit: I looked it up. \n\n> Since mid-1980s he has composed stage music for more than 150 theatre performances—for many of them he was awarded national-level prizes—he has also composed a symphony, several operas, oratorios, a musical, ballet, as well as film music and music for documentaries and radio plays. \n\n>His second main area of activities in the field of arts is represented by painting. Since 1991 he has been a lecturer at the Prague's Faculty of Theatre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Franz",
"Ever try a Negroni slushy? Campari is soo good.",
"He also destroyed the Formic mothership. ",
"seriously?",
"I want to like him. Please tell me he's not some neo-Nazi scum.",
"It makes you feel hard?",
"Parsons is my favorite chicken place in the city. I can’t get enough negroni slushees! And now they deliver! ",
"No, not like that at all.",
"Haha almost creepier",
"I sip Becherovka warm, and it's amazing.\n\nFilthy casual.",
"check the children comments, Ive got results dog",
"You got an A for this right?",
"I actually really enjoyed that aspect. I hate the exposition that accompanies the first timer in a strange new world. This movie let you figure it out through clever graffiti and small hints. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and think Netflix did an amazing job.",
"He was great in Guardians of the Galaxy",
"I thought he was a Orc from Bright!",
"Yep. No shit.\n\nI'm just trying to figure out why people are flipping their lids over it. It's almost surely been used before. It isn't clever. It only works on one level.",
"Same reason it's ok to kill bugs I'd wager. Different world different rules.",
"NONE of this explains the face tat tho...",
"He puts it well.",
"If you couldn't follow that movie, maybe you are the slow one. It was very linear, almost no time skipping at all, just them in one night trying to escape a neighborhood.",
"Vladimir “I am the senate” Franz",
"Oh Becherovka! What I would do to suckle from your sweet teat once more...",
"Talk about regrets",
"https://i.imgur.com/BNF6IU1.gif",
"2 Bright 2 Luminous",
"I thought that was an Ork",
"Mazer Rackam anyone?",
"Because it showed he was willing to sell out his partner simply because he was an orc (ie he started the movie speciest against orcs) so that by the end of the movie we could see Will Smith learn the error of his beliefs and change his mindset. I believe in the literally world they call this a character arc. ",
"I think you're overthinking it. It's just a simple pun based on a reference many people are familiar with. \n\nBut we've all been there before -- trying to figure out why a post has so many upvotes when it personally didn't do much for you. ",
"Latvia. I've found it in the UK as well. If you can find a Lithuanian/Latvian shop they'll stock it.",
"I just figured I was missing something because people are acting like it's the most incredibly comment they've ever seen, literally. I'll just walk away from this one.",
"Came here for the Bright jokes. Was worth it",
"It's the only spirit you can tolerate? My stomach hurts just thinking about the time that my Czech neighbors in the dorm introduced it to me. ",
"In his own reviews (for the *Chicago Sun-Times* and his website), Ebert did up to four stars, reserving \"zero stars\" for films that offended him (*The Human Centipede*, for example). *Siskel and Ebert at the Movies* was where \"two thumbs up\" came from, as each of them would give one thumb up or down for a film as they discussed. So \"two thumbs up\" meant they both liked it.",
"What happens when you fall asleep with your shoes on at a friends party who’s profession is tattoo artist.",
"I went in blindly on this one and I would have to agree with the critics here. It felt extremely cliche and goofy. Will Smith was annoying and the script was bleh. The world-building was excellent, but the story and many of the jokes fell flat for me. I can certainly see why people did enjoy it though. Just my humble opinion! I expect to be crucified for it haha. ",
"Because you decide what is and isn't a good movie right?",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/Foodforthought/comments/3s5n16/the_case_for_cultural_appropriation_cultures_are/cwuf71u",
"We'll which is it, Marmite or Vegemite, because they sure as shit don't taste the same",
"Could you imagine a world where everyone wasn’t judged at all on how they looked? That would be sweet man. I wish more people saw tattoos and stuff that way. It’s a shame I’ll never be able to do the things I want to with body modifications because I want to work in an archaic industry. ",
"Bright 3: Electric Boogeree",
"God damn music hipsters, I mean come on, just because roadwork got popular now you guys hate it.",
"Can confirm, Maori person here. Ta moko was traditionally reserved for high status members of a hapu (group) and would be chiseled by hand and took much planning and had to have the go ahead from elders in the tribe. Since colonisation though it is more common to be done by needle without all the fuss about social approval. I've many friends that are not maori by blood but have moko and engage in the culture. For me personally I consider the culture to be more important than the bloodline, but there are still some people kicking it old school with exclusive beliefs. ",
"Good Lord that was fucking terrible.\n\nHave this upvote and may God have mercy on your soul.",
"Nah, you should find better ones. Guys who just do flash pieces out of a book are often hit or miss, but anyone better than that has spent a lot of time and effort getting to where they are and have a lot of respect for tattooing and their art in general. If they're successful, it's usually in part because they are sociable and easy to get along with and as such usually have a pretty broad knowledge of things that they've gained from sitting with all manner of people for hours at a time. Any decent tattoo artist didn't just get there by doing tattoos either, and they usually are pretty dedicated traditional artists as well, every artist I've been to has lots of their own paintings, pen and ink art, etc. surrounding their work area, and you can tell they are passionate about their craft. The gross, grungy tattoo artist is an easy stereotype to jump to, but it really couldn't be further from the truth with the majority of quality artists. ",
"Just give him some eyebrows. Any eyebrows at all. ",
"Yes, as much as anyone else does. Besides, if I didn't think my opinion on whether or not the movie is good was valid, I'd have to change my opinion, now wouldn't I?",
"Isn't culture just another barrier between human unity? Take your own words. \"Elvis created rock and roll.\" Elvis popularized rock and roll. It was created by a group of both black and white artists influenced by black music (what music wasn't influenced by black music?) You being upset that Elvis is sometimes (rarely) credited with creating it, belittles both his promotion of it, and the white artists involved in its creation. It's a merging of influences and minds. It's human. Cultures merging is a good thing. And, if you're going to rant about miss-attribution, then where's your rant about Edison being given credit for the light bulb, or Bell the telephone?",
"As an American that's exactly what it means.",
"Yeah, I forgot about that, lol.",
"Found the critic",
"Or maybe he just like tats for what they are. He is an artist after all...",
"There's a large difference between saying \"I don't think that movie was good.\" and \"it's definitely not a good movie.\" The first is an opinion, the second a objective statement. You used the latter, as if your opinion created that objective truth that the movie was bad. I thought it was the best movie I've seen in a while.",
"It tastes like an abortion clinic in Iceland",
"Going back in to the house to save Scott",
"Czechia doesn't even have a sea... it's literally on the opposite side of earth. ",
"I'm a composer and playwright",
"Not even close",
"I *think* you must be too busy being a pedant to watch movies that are actually good.",
"Tell that to Mel Gibson in *The Bounty*",
"Oh, I am questioning it. Make no mistake. ",
"Yeah as potent as it is it has a distinct sweetness. Also I have to add that all of the slivovitz I have has was either small batch or home distilled, and I hear that store bought slív is just awful. ",
">playwrite\n\nhow uneducated can you be",
"I mean, it kind of happened the other way around. Great Britain was so dang invadeable that multiple grammars forced their way into the language.",
"Because again you get to decide that right? What movies are actually good?",
"A script, as you have pointed out yourself, *is not itself a play*, so really you made your whole first statement worthless with your second. A play is indeed a performance. A performance cannot be used like a wheel or wagon can, because....\n\n**A play is not an object**, for a performance is not an object. A play exists much more abstractly than it does concretely. Shipwrights, cartwrights, wheelwrights etc. work with *materials* to produced concrete *objects*. BUT if we consider the older, more general definition of \"wright\" (as it came from OE *wyrhta*) to mean \"craftsman, inventor, maker, etc,\" then calling a playmaker a playwright works *by metaphor*, not by *literal meaning* as they invent and make an abstract idea. We see clearly that \"wright\" has ***two*** meaning: to create an object or to create an idea, a concrete or an abstract. \n\nThe problem is is that you didn't read my comment very well, and the original comment writer (idk if you) made the mistake of seeing \"wright\" in the name and thinking it was the exact same. It's not, and that's linguistically naive. I said that playmakers were called playwrights because of the *metaphor* or *analogy* of their creation of something, NOT because what they made is an object to be used, as was the original comment's belief. And *you yourself* said that a play is a performance, not the script, and performances are not objects. \n\nI don't see why you would hold on to this unsubstantiated notion that people saw plays as \"something you build to be used\" like it is literally so. Just consider how that works semantically. \"I have built a play\" doesn't make sense now, and it wouldn't have made sense then in any way other than metaphorically.\n\nWhatever ideas the playwright writes into the play, it is still in the end only that: ideas. \n",
"EMBERPANTS",
"I wasn't attacking your argument, just the exaggeration you used to back it up. Otherwise I tend to agree.",
"Everything apart from shit I bought.",
"His mouth is much like Daniel Craig's.",
"🤷",
"Not in mainstream media it wasn't - which is what we're talking about. I'm well aware the comics are older.",
"Don't know what you just posted.",
"Waisted youth on heroin and/or meth\n\nAnd toxoplasmosis.\n\n",
"Sure. Why not. ",
"They're neighbors.",
"It looks like he’s from New Zealand. The tattoos look very similar to a Maori face tattoo. Regardless anyone know his story for his tattoos?",
"I think it was pretty clear to most of us that it was a joke.",
"I see what you’re saying, but in his case - yes. Thanks for looking it up. ",
"No. It had a theatrical release. \n\nAlien Nation was released in the United States on October 7, 1988, and grossed over $32 million worldwide, becoming a moderate financial success.",
"Fixed, lol\nhttps://imgur.com/a/2Zujt",
"Well they were planning on killing Will Smith from the beginning, so they would have just removed it from his corpse. ",
"Drax the destroyer ",
"> Scotch and whiskey are very acquired tastes\n\nCommonly acquired by a large demographic. Aside from the cheap, nasty whiskeys, the majority of the stuff is drunk neat. You don't mix good scotch or expensive whiskey. They're vastly more popular than Becherovka, so it kind of goes against your point that it's rare to find a high ABV beverage to drink neat. ",
"I bought a bottle here in the States when I got back from my semester abroad and it was so much harsher than the stuff that my friends' families had made. ",
"Or tattoo for ten years like I have. I didn’t learn how to tattoo from google, and there isn’t a single culture in the world that uses a hammer and a fucking chisel to do a tattoo. You’re not an expert because you have google, you’re misinformed",
"I hated it before it was popular, but only cause my neighbor used to crank it right up at 7 am every day for like a month straight",
"Google is a wealth of misinformation about tattooing",
"K but what's with that shit all over his face?",
"And dollhouse. And space above and beyond. And ...",
"5th? I'm shocked. /s",
"It wasn't meant to back up my argument, it was just a minor addition that was admittedly irrelevant. The part where I mentioned him being a scholar, composer and playwright to show he was indeed able to 'get a job' was the part that was backing up my argument. ",
"Looks like he blued himself.",
"Did ebert and roper just continue the thumbs up started by siskel? ",
"I love white people telling everyone else cultural appropriation doesn't exist.",
"well at least he's not orange....",
"This but unironically",
"> I believe the West, particularly North America, cares much more about cultural appropriation than the rest of the world.\n\nIt's because people still need to find something to complain about",
"It's pretty much only white people who complain about it. I've never seen one of these perpetually oppressed people actually complain about someone eating tacos or doing henna or watching anime or whatever. It's invariably whinny white dudes with nothing better to do.",
"One of the cops who convinced him t wear it was there were they not?",
"Yeah but thats literally the only level it works on. ",
"Agreed. This is why I reddit.",
"cultural appropriation doesn't exist. If you say cultural appropriation outside of your internet echo chambers, you'll be laughed at. \n\n\nCry about it srs. ",
"I would say normal. I'm fortunate enough to have a father who worked many jobs and got enough experience and training to making more than $100k a year and my mom went to school and is a few classes away from a PhD so I was never had to live with needs going unanswered. But I know people around me who have lived with no water and electricity for most of their lives. Many of my friends became alcoholics or drug abusers. But for me my reservation is nice. It's normal but not everyone was fortunate as me. ",
"Ahhh I’ll admit it got me! My apologies lol",
"But seriously why the tattoos??",
"> You want a lion? No, that shit's African\n\nNo, you're wrong though. Lions have been used as cultural significance in cultures from Europe, Asia and Africa for thousands of years.",
"Sorry anything less then a perfect 5/7 I don’t watch. ",
"mad? lol",
"No, not really",
"In most cases, there is a pretty distinct difference between exchange and appropriation. Attending a Native American history event and purchasing a headdress to preserve charity would be a reasonable exchange. Buying a knockoff one off of Etsy and wearing it to a music festival/ war crying? Kinda shitting on somebody else’s culture. \n\nIt’s like making cultural food for yourself that you’ve never tried, vs selling it to others as authentic. Like, how would you even know?\n\nSomeone else brought up using the n word to a group of black people if you’re not one. I’d argue that’s probably one of the best examples as to how misappropriation can be more racist than not ",
"Huh? A professor is, by definition, someone who works as a professor.",
"yeah you're mad.",
"ehh.... nah",
"!Dreambot14",
"you sure? you seemed pretty mad! g",
"No because if he just wasn’t blooded yet he could eventually BE blooded and how would he get his teeth back in that case?\n\nI dunno maybe I’m wrong. Cool movie though either way ",
"Yeah I mean the movie is a thinly veiled (if at all) allegory for racism right? So I think that is basically him accepting that what he is doesn’t define him and he can still respect his culture ",
"I think he specifically mentions that he did it because he rejects that part of orc culture. It’s sort of hinted that filing your fangs is like trying to live the human way or something (or at least that’s what I got from it)",
"You are wrong. \n\n https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/12/new-zealand-haka-maoris",
"No, I saw this movie. A buddy cop film with Will Smith. Best just not to mention it. ",
"I understand the sentiment but I kind of disagree with that. People shouldn't be judged by the way they look naturally, but he made a deliberate decision to change the way he looked specifically because he wanted to express something about himself and communicate it to others. If people like the message he's communicating they're going to respect him. If people disagree with the concept they're going to judge him negatively. There's nothing wrong with that.",
"Yeah pretty sure",
"That's a good look",
"fuck malort. you can't get the taste out of your mouth. it doesnt matter what you eat / drink it just get's stronger, and stronger, and stronger. it's like herbs and licorice and evil",
"Did they culturally appropriate whining about stupid non issues from white people? Give it back!",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7s16ewP1RU",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7s16ewP1RU",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7s16ewP1RU",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7s16ewP1RU",
"I thought he was forced to do it, but you might be right. I don’t recall.",
"Going on 7 years there, Gramps. \n\nSorry that all the karmawhoring assholes like me are doing is ruining the internet for you. ",
"Cultural appropriation is such a nebulous term. I think in some cases, like a white person wearing an aboriginal headdress, it's wrong. But on the other hand, most culture is appropriated from other cultures. It's a touchy subject for sure.\n\n",
"I can’t argue that logic. ",
"Why? White people dont have culture? What about when everyone dresses up for St. Patrick’s day for instance?",
"He's also not Chinese",
"Did he ever give an explanation as to why he got all those tattoos? ",
"I was pretty tired and generally fully covered faces are tribal, the only people I've seen prior with fully covered faces were Maori (except one or 2 people who have their whole bodies done), I think there's a new Zealand politician with his face covered",
"White people get to mimic a lot of cultures with nobody batting an eye. They get so much less shit than black men in dreadlocks. That's the problem. It's considered okay if it's just fashion, if it's not ethnic. \n\nBut if it's meant as a proud statement of your own acceptance of your blackness, you're getting followed around the store and people are sadly explaining that you can't get a raise because you don't have \"professional hair\". That's why cultural appropriation sucks, because white upper class girls with carefully braided traditional African American hair are in the same moment sneering at the Black girl at the pool as culturally beneath them. \n\nIf it were cultural exchange, it's okay, so it's important to just look critically and assess. Is the person doing this out of respect for the culture, would people from that culture they're imitating feel disrespected? \n\nBecause it's when everyone preserves the class and race barriers so that only the white people aren't harrassed for dressing like Indian that's it's more like stealing than sharing. ",
"It was more of a joke comment than anything, I don't think I've heard of any instance that I would agree was actually cultural appropriation, it seems to be people trying to get upset over nothing",
"What a bizarre and backwards take on me saying not to judge someone. ",
"I really don't think it is.\n\nSharing culture and technology is what makes humanity great.\n\n> It's beliefs like \"Elvis created rock and roll\" or \"country music was started by southern whites\".\n\nThis view is not shared by the majority of people. And if someone does hold this opinion - just correct them and move on. The positive effects of sharing culture far outweigh the divides that would be set-up by saying \"only x people can do y\".\n\nThis is just another example of Americans being overly PC about something you shouldn't worry about, while ignoring real issues.",
"Lol....so?",
"They both taste like Malört",
"To my knowledge, yes.",
">I think in some cases, like a white person wearing an aboriginal headdress, it's wrong. \n\nWhy? I'm pretty sure this case, like virtually all other cases of \"cultural appropriation\", falls squarely in the \"who the fuck cares\" category.\n\n",
"> or a complete idiot,\n\nThere's your answer.\n\nPlenty of white supremacists are just failures that blame minorities and try and project their failures onto them. I knew quite a few white supremacists in prison, and they had no problem talking to, doing business with, and being friendly to blacks and other minorities. \n\nThe main guy was in his late 50s, couldn't read or write, was in a biker gang, had tattoos ranging from SS to 88 and everything between, except a swastika. Yet I seen him help blacks, natives, asians, etc. I've seen him get help from them. Do business with them. And even behind closed doors, he wasn't particularly hateful. Just thought whites were superior. He was even a really decent guy and helped me out a lot in prison (I'm white, though). Had more sense than 99% of the criminals in there.\n\nI'm in Canada, though, so maybe our racists are just nicer?",
"That's the weirdest word by far. It has more power than any other word in the English language. And it's stupid that we let it have any. ",
"To prove your point, u/dlgn13 got offended by your comment and posted it to Shit Reddit Says.",
"But what about Maine?",
"Let me say it clearer, because you got real mad at a strawman just now. It doesn't bother me if you disagree, but at least do so from an accurate understanding.\n\nThe \"CHARACTER ARC\" is exactly the thing I kept waiting (and hoping) for. And for me, that wasn't delivered. Ward is a raging asshole _the entire movie_. I can see an arc where his view of Chris Jakoby moves from \"useless liability\" to \"useful expendable pawn\". I think the movie *wanted* to have a more successful arc here - they clearly were setting up for one, by starting from a position of heavy racism. I wouldn't be surprised if there was material to finish the arc, that made it into the script, but died on the cutting room floor for time.\n\nI also never said a movie can't have asshole characters. In fact, I think we'd both argue that there is a distinction between what the characters do, and what the movie says about those actions. I think we *both* hate when people try to ban Huckleberry Finn from curriculums, because it has the N-word, never realizing that the book criticizes those behaviors (and has to present them in order to criticize them).\n\nWhat I'm saying, is that it often feels like the movie is taking the side of (and justifying) Darryl Ward's asshole behavior. Not just presenting it, but treating it as reasonable. If it was just the former, I honestly would have no problem with that - I don't need some lollipop world full of rainbows and moonbeams, it's fine to be gritty and grim and realistic. But there were directorial choices, that framed some shitty treatment in approving ways, beyond just presenting it. Even late-arc Ward downplays the importance of Jakoby's pain and survival. I think it would have worked better if, at the end, Ward went back to rescue Chris, rather than the other way round - even if that means they need to rearrange the circumstances where Chris gets blooded. Obviously that ties in pretty strongly with what I was just saying about the protagonist arc.",
"Good summary. As long as you keep those expectations, the movie _does_ actually work, and great. The biggest mistake the movie makes is poorly telegraphing the expectations you're supposed to judge it by - it swings above its weight, a bit. But I do agree with you, yeah.",
"I do think they got just about the right amount of lore for that. Maybe could have had a little more, but it's close enough to right for me not to have complaints there.\n\nMost of my frustrations are in other departments, like the protagonist character arc, and some of the dumber plot leaps/shortcuts/cul-de-sacs. It kinda reminds me of all those TV networks trying to capture the magic of Lost after Lost ended, with shows like The Event. They all forgot how important it was to have great characters. I think all the execs and writers thought that as long as the plot was mysterious and dripped out at the right rate, people would be hooked. Turns out, people in the audience don't give a damn about your elaborate mystery if they don't care about the characters it's happening to. Hopefully Bright doesn't make the same mistake.",
"Found the rustled jimmies",
"consensually works",
"Sorry :) \n\nHere's the actual one to make up for it: [/r/william_wordsworth](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/e/e9/Nelson_Ha-Ha.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121205194057)",
"“It’s the product of a Gypsy curse” 😂",
"Because the headdress is something that's earned, and it kind of trivializes aboriginal culture. I can see why they'd be offended by it. Especially because a lot of their culture was obliterated or forcefully altered by white people.",
"fair point",
"Was that meant for me? I just mentioned a hypothetical future where the preferential treatment and discrimination based on race was non existent. \n\nNot really an argument, more of wishful thinking.",
"I actually updooted you mate! ",
"How does it prove their point? Is dlgn13 European? And how do you know they needed an excuse?",
"And I get the impression that this is not true. But who knows who is correct because it's not like it possible to really know that, right?",
"That’s a whole other argument altogether!",
"Get it in me!",
"That's funny, when I was studying abroad, my group ended up calling it Christmas too.",
"My culture invented computers and the internet.\n\nAnd as a representative of western culture, I am deeply offended by your appropriation of it to spew marxist crap.\n\nPlease stop using our language and customs.",
"I thought he was drax",
" ok so it was 2017, looks like you got me. just checked. Early May. ",
" They definitely knew each other. It felt like a celeb sighting to me, now I'm extra pleased. Two in one! ",
"Agreed about listing the scholar and playwright but he does appear to be a legitimate composer",
"Thank you so much for this summary! Your Czech and English is much better than mine! So, it sounds like we in the UK would call him centre-centre. I like how he's tried to convert right-wing extremists. It reminds me of the USA musician Daryl Davis befriending members of the KKK.\nI really like interesting people and he sounds very interesting. \nThank you for all your hard work!",
"Do you mean privacy? What are the Czech laws around sexuality? And how progressive is the culture there?",
"Thanks for your thorough summary. So, Czechoslovakia has both a President and a Prime Minister? Is that helping or hindering more progressive Centre-left policies?\nI'm from the UK and it's a shame we're leaving the EU and the right is also demolishing welfare, NHS and education by privatising it bit by bit. It happened to rail and the post office and we've still not learnt from those mistakes.\nI hope Czechs keep fighting for progressive policies.",
"Oh my god. I didn't even notice this! I don't think I'm interested anymore.",
"Well, Czechoslovakia split in 1992. Since 1. 1. 1993, there are two countries - the Czech Republic and Slovakia - that, while similar in many ways, have different political scenes.\n\nHiowever, both are parliamentary democracies where PM factually holds the executive power, while the President is the ceremonial head of state (in charge of appointments based on proposals from the government etc.).\n\nThe Czech Republic just had what I would call the most successful government in its 25 years long history, and the result of that is weirdly that the former PM lost leadership of his party and the party itself lost the election, and one of the richest people in the country won on the platform of running the country as a business. \n\nI think there are plenty of similarities with the UK here, mainly that people are very confused about the causalities of the world they live in. They feel like they are held back by other people, whoever those other people are - in the UK these were Eastern Europeans, in the Czech Republic it's middle Eastern migrants, who are practically non-existent in the country, but they still dominate the public debate. \n\nEven ideas for Czexit (Czechout?) are floated around, although mostly at the fringes. The thing is, considering the country's location and economy, it's so profoundly idiotic that Brexit doesn't hold a candle to it, yet there's a considerable chunk of population that's in support of that. Just points to the disconnect between reality and perception. \n\nWorth to mention the country is under heavy stream of Russian propaganda, which is made more effective by the network of influencers that have been in place since the Soviet times. \n\nI must say I'm not super optimistic about current developments, but I'm also determined to do my part. \n\n ",
"I was thinking Enemy Mine, which is entirely underrated if some of you haven't seen it.",
"Wow! Good for you, keep fighting the good fight. I think we're seeing the consequences of media-savvy fear groups realising that \"common\" knowledge beats facts anytime anywhere. It's getting increasingly more difficult to see through the FUD. And it's even harder to convince the public what's in their best interests when politics is marketed so heavily. I just hope it's the pendulum swinging and that eventually it'll swing back. \n\nI was wandering whether brexit would start a domino effect and weaken European unity. I wonder how the UK will fair in a future dominated by superpowers. Maybe things will improve when China decides to move its call-centres here because labour is cheaper lol.\n\nAs far as Russian influence goes, it's a symptom of superpowers dominating media and therefore public discourse. The more countries try to go independent the more likely they won't be able to stand up for themselves. \n\nI just checked Wikipedia and Slovakia has a population of around 5.5 million. Czech Republic 10 million. UK 65 million. But Russia has over 144 million! How are we going to compete in the global stage. The faltering brexit negotiations are showing just how little the UK has to offer but has inflated demands! \n\nAnyway, keep working hard and slowly we'll be able to get better people in office.",
"... if you walk into a bagel shop in Idaho on the 4th of July, don’t even consider yelling out “Cherry tree fish water Bankok horse whisper” like you always do. I don’t know if I can do it again. The ages of you and I will live with you in the front door and be the first one to be sure. ",
"It's almost as if people have varying levels of access to education... wright?",
"That’s a good one too. ",
"That's more like it! ",
"Nah dude, Mauls brother was *big*",
"Oh no problem! I didnt want to call him anything because I feel like here in europe those issues are not exactly political but I guess center-center is somewhat of a pretty good classification.",
"It's never an accurate description but the right left divide is a good thumbnail approximation. From what I gather now, he was mainly just trying to get people to think about politics but has some strong views on individuality. Interesting. Thank you.",
"I made another edit because I went searching to actually classify him better and yeah he is a centrist with a little of freedom and individuality mixed in there.",
"That's not how cultural appropriation works. Natives were forced to adapt Western cultural norms. You weren't. But trying to explain this to a T_D user is like explaining gravity to a retarded chicken, so I don't know why I bother.",
"> Natives were forced to adapt Western cultural norms.\n\nYes. Stronger cultures are always going to conquer weaker ones. That's how societies evolve. It somehow doesn't stop those weaker cultures from using all the things that the stronger culture invented though.\n\nNow get off our internet. This is for people with Western Liberal Democratic values, not for Cultural Marxist Authoritarians who have no skills or value to society.\n\n",
"nope, he kind of brags about it at one point as proof that he loves being a police officer and has dedicated himself to that life.",
"Anybody who uses the term \"Marxist\" is probably an idiot who doesn't know what that word means",
"> \"Marxist\"\n\nCultural Marxism is the act of dividing people into different racial religious and cultural identity groups and pitting the \"oppressed\" groups against the \"oppressor\".\n\nCultural Marxists are worthless and resentful individuals who prey upon the insecurities of young people and try to turn them against Western Culture.\n\nThe same western culture that developing nations are fighting to join and leftist celebrities never seem to be able to leave.",
"Magic marker",
"Haha, yes, and the past tense of the verb *to copyright* is not, as I sometimes hear people say, *copywritten* but *copyrighted* because it refers to one's rights (noun) to copy something, not *write* or *wright* or any other verb that happens to rhyme with those words.",
"Your point would have merit if we lived in a society where one cultural or racial group does not oppress the other, which is not the case. You're basically asking marginalized groups not be bothered when they are oppressed. If Western culture is so weak and fragile that it will collapse if we address historical injustices done to minority groups, that's a problem because it indicates that you have built a culture entirely off of the subjugation of others.",
"> where one cultural or racial group does not oppress the other\n\n> asking marginalized groups not be bothered when they are oppressed.\n\nSo much marxist nonsense.\n\nWhat have you personally done with your life Berephus? Have you ever had a successful private sector job? Have you started a family? Do you own your own house? Do you have other human beings that depend on you?\n\nDon't try to save the world before you have your own house in order. Work on yourself first and foremost and then let your life be an inspiration to others.",
"Don't worry about me. It sounds like you're insecure and trying to find relevance by latching on to the achievements of men greater than you.\n",
"We all build upon the achievements of our forefathers. That's how a society works. \n\nAnd when your life adds to and benefits from a society, you as a person want to defend that society no matter what your skin color is. This is why people get more conservative as they get older.\n\nIt will happen to you one day too if you can ever get over your Marxist programming.",
"*Playwright",
"I want to live in a society where people do not need to suffer from bigotry and racism. It's a shame that's such an affront to your delicate sensibilities. If your culture is that weak and fragile maybe it deserves to die.",
"> maybe it deserves to die.\n\nSpoken like a shortsighted utopic fool with no understanding of history. A canadian living in the womb of the first world, more privileged than 99% of humanity wants to tear down western civilization in favor of the \"oppressed\"\n\nYou are a hypocritical, resentful mess of a slactivist ideologue.",
"Nobody wants to tear down Western civilization. It's hilarious that you think addressing historical injustices constitutes \"tearing down a civilization\". It really emphasizes your utter lack of intelligence and critical thinking skills.",
"> Nobody wants to tear down Western civilization\n\n> America is a third world shithole\n\nAccording to you. \n\nHow can you have so little respect for a country that has achieved so much? Do you have any idea just how much of the world's culture has been influenced by the US? Or just how much of what you use on a daily basis was created here?\n\nHave you ever watched a movie? Flown on a plane? Driven an automobile? Guess where those came from? How about all the worlds major web services? Guess where those were hosted and created at?\n\nYour Marxism has reached ideological proportions to the point where you are denying reality. Get yourself right man.",
"> How can you have so little respect for a country that has achieved so much? Do you have any idea just how much of the world's culture has been influenced by the US? Or just how much of what you use on a daily basis was created here?\n\nSo because a country achieved great things that suddenly invalidates the bad things it has done? Nobody is disputing that U.S has been a major cultural and scientific force in the world. That doesn't mean we can't hold the U.S accountable for things it has done wrong. You seem to think that a country's cultural exports suddenly absolve it of any moral responsibility. \n\n>Your Marxism has reached ideological proportions to the point where you are denying reality. Get yourself right man.\n\nlol",
"point of reference, my friend, point of reference",
"So does most of Europe, Asia, half of Africa, Hell I can’t think of many places that haven’t. ",
"Here I am! Where do we know each other from? Looks like we're both from Hamilton and both went to WLU? Unless it's just a coincidence! ",
":(",
"I appear to have paged the wrong person (though you certainly are the right person in this situation). My friend has that username in a few different places (PSN, etc.) so I thought it was him. Once I saw that you were from Hamilton I thought you were him. This is a crazy coincidence!!!",
">Sharing culture and technology is what makes humanity great.\n\nThen why bother having copyright law? Why attribute anything to anybody if in the end it all just becomes a part of \"culture\"?\n\nCultural appropriation is different from cultural exchange because there's a difference in power between the cultures. It's a violation of intellectual property of the minority, and often part of the creation is lost in a way that is disrespectful or violates the original intent. In many cases, fetishizing a minority culture alienates them as well.",
"The marketing for Bright is simply out of this world.",
"If by good and semi serious you mean neither.\n",
"Give Cynar 70 a shot.\n\nThink Malort and Fernet / Jager had an accidental lovechild.",
"Big fan of regular Cynar, but I’ve never actually had the Cynar 70. I will have to check it out.",
"> Being a redditor myself, I get the impression that over here we generally regard \"cultural appropriation\" as a term used by people looking for an excuse to get offended.\n\nftfy",
"Lmao and you’re getting downvotes, people can’t stand to see an opinion other than their own.",
"I've met him in person and it's about the same :D",
"Mexicans do that to themselves.",
"Guy learns on Reddit that some of the 7 billion other people in the world have different senses of humor. More news at 11!",
"It's just sad to learn people are so stupid. Farts are funnier."
] | 1,836 | pics | This is Vladimír Franz a composer, scholar, and playwrite who placed 5th in the 2013 Czech presidential elections. |
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"i hope u r joking. clearly it is fake.",
"It's fake.",
"Check your PayPal account and see if anything's gone out. If so, Ring the real PayPal number and tell them to stop it and pull your money back and secure your account, but it looks fake to me. However if you did make the purchase than I really don't know lmao.",
"EA here, you must pay $3.99 to unlock fraud detection",
"wow okay. Just trying to confirm my suspicion.",
"yeah, man. careful with those crooks.",
"The question should not be whether the email address is legit or not. The real question is whether the entire email is legit or not, and if you have to ask, then you should already know the answer...",
"Paypal doesn't use a yahoo email address"
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"For a moment the aquarium's corner seemed like a pole and I thought I was looking at a pole-dancing lizard. ",
"(\"... an den, den Freddy puts his hansup an be shakin' his booty - an de crowd, dey go wilds dey lub him so...\")",
"Repost",
"The next Geico commercial perhaps?",
"Alternative title:\n\nRedlight District in Amsterdam.",
"...or a clever teaser for a [Gex](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRiCWLyNjhw) reboot?",
"I like yours better.",
"So sexy it hurts. ",
"That's a fucking terrible \"terrarium\". Poor fella.",
"I'm bringing sexy back",
"Is this a karma chameleon? ",
"Well he has nothing else to do in there...",
"His cloaca is making kissy face",
"Looks temporary, I put mine in something similar when I clean her terrarium.",
"Plus you can see an actual terrarium in the back.",
"Yep",
"/u/devonthed00d, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\nrecent repost \n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/devonthed00d&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7orp2w/im_too_sexy_for_my_cage/?context=10\\))"
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"Then make sure you dont drop it.",
"No she doesn't. She looks like a regular baby",
"She's beautiful! I love her eyes :)",
"She is remarkably beautiful. ",
"She is lovely and perfect looking!",
"Pics has completely gone to shit.",
"Everyone thinks that about their kid, man. Ask pretty much any normal parent and they'll tell you their kid is the most beautiful, the most amazing, the cutest...",
"dang...typically babies just look like interchangeable potatoes but yours is legit pretty and individual looking",
"Is that white paint on her lips?",
"Nothing on her lips...just drool",
"looks chinese to me",
"Close!! Half Korean, half Caucasian ",
"All good parents think that, and they are all correct. This love and respect helps make the world a better place.",
"^^^^I ^^^^wouldn't ^^^^know ^^^^my ^^^^parents ^^^^were ^^^^shit.",
"He is very cute!",
"I am sorry. This totally sucks. Your parents missed out on one of the best parts of life and they robbed you. I wish you all the best going forward. ",
"Yeah so sorry. That stinks. ",
"Good thing about real kids vs porcelain dolls.. the my m real ones bounce.. at first.",
"Your baby looks like its wearing makeup naturally.\n\nI dont really know the correct way of saying it but you have a pretty baby.",
"It's a baby, it looks like other babies. Go back to facebook with this garbage. ",
"lol so ugly /r/hapa is this way",
"That is actually a very good looking baby. ",
"Where The Woodbine Twineth\n",
"Do you say the same thing anytime people post pictures of dogs or other animals? Or do babies just upset you?"
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"This is the Diavik diamond mine, approx. 300 km north of Yellowstone - it was featured in 'Ice Road Truckers'",
"How could the Earth possibly be flat, huh!? It's obviously a bowling ball, look!!\n\nSeriously cool picture though! :D",
"Uhhhh... that's no diamond mine. That's proof of... something weird.",
"Dam that looks beautiful. ",
"Sandworms?",
" Hollow earth. ",
"You mean flat earth",
"Exactly and the water should be in the holes not outside of them. ",
"Mersmerizing.",
"You mean Yellowknife?",
"Oops, thanks - well 300km north of Yellowknife or 2191km north of Yellowstone ",
"I spent 6 months on a project at that very mine. Seeing it in the winter looks nothing like this photo. Can't even tell it's an island when the lakes are frozen and snow covers the ground. One of the most interesting places I have ever been by far!",
"The upside down ",
"Hey I live in Yellowknife. I know tons of people that have worked there, including my dad.",
"\"In the borehole pressure mines 100km beneath Planetsurface, at the Mohorovicic Discontinuity where crust gives way to mantle, temperatures often reach levels well in excess of 1000 degrees Celsius. Exploitation of Planet's resources under such brutal conditions has required quantum advances in robotic and teleoperational technology.\"\n\n-Morgan Industries, Ltd.-\n\n--Annual Report--"
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"1 shit per hour over. ",
"You know you're dealing with a small town when the license plates are single digit.",
"This resulted in a shootout but the cops aim was so bad they couldn't even hit the broad side of the barn.",
"Faster than a shed SHOULD go, that's for certain. ",
"\"To protect and serve, that's what we do.\"",
"Pataskala, Ohio.\n\ndefinitely not in Kansas anymore.",
"Unregistered with the dale Earnhardt vanity plate. ",
"Change Location\n\nThey were moving the moonshiners shed to the other side of town.\n",
"\"Has anyone seen my bank?\"",
"ANYTHING can happen in rural Ohio. ",
"Made me wonder if the license plate was photoshopped",
"While killing 4 innocent civilians on accident ",
"Dunno about speed, but that barn does NOT have current registration & inspection stickers.",
"That's a shed ",
"It clearly ran a light!",
"[Either that, or Dubai](http://fortune.com/2016/11/01/car-license-plate-dubai-auction-rolls-royce/)",
"I used to live near Pataskala. I am genuinely not surprised.",
"They're just smart and realized they don't need state plates ",
"Yeah...I don't know if that shed is going to pass a soberiety test...\n"
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"Years ago that was me! Sailing around Jamaica was fun.",
"Oh, so this is where all those Payless shoes come from!",
"While laughing at all the poor people from a safe distance?",
"I didn't have any money. I just had the boat. That was it. I think we paid about $36k for the boat, added $5k to it, and had about $5k in the bank. Montego Bay was a racist shit hole but it was fun to sail into. Further east in Jamaica was fucking awesome.",
"Racist how?",
"The industries and the tourists tend to be a lot of rich white people who treat the workers like secondary citizens. That leads to a lot of Jamaicans there also being racist to white people; after all, it's their fucking country. It took me about 2 days to finally convince the bartender I wasn't a dick and to take me to local spots. I experienced it in other places; but it usually wasn't that ingrained into every transaction and was easier to make friends.",
"Ok well its less racism and more classism here in Jamaica.",
"That is an interesting distinction.\n\nI just remember sitting at the bar and some dude called the bartender \"boy\". I gave the bartender a wtf look and he just sort of shrugged his shoulders.\n\nOutside of Montego, I really never saw anything like that. I do know my Jamaican friends said I shouldn't go to Kingston because of white hatred.\n\nIf you live there you know way more that me, I can just relate my experiences there around 1995. \n\nI did go to a resort in Negril about 17 years ago. I hung out with the maintenance people. They were really nice. ",
"Well I live in Montego Bay and for the most part tourists are actually safer than locals when out and about, I'm not sure of that white hatred you talking about , people here are generally accommodating and nice to tourists. Racism is kinda weird here because it's not super pronounced so if it does happen to someone chances are it will not evoke the same reaction as it would in the states. We mostly deal with classism here like I said it is much more prominent in everyday life here",
"Classism is probably the better word. I didn't spend more than a week in Montego Bay but my experiences were like what I see in movies with imperialism.\n\nAnd there is a difference between being nice to tourists and just welcoming people. I've lived in tourist towns and the only that compares to the amount of traffic y'all get would be Key West. It's a love hate relationship. Everyone local steers the tourist to where they get kickbacks and the such. That's fine. That is how the economy works.\n\nI like to make friends and go visit their homes and eat where they eat for lunch. That wasn't very easy to do in Montego Bay in my experience.\n\nI didn't mean to slam your city. Just out of all the time I spent in Jamaica, it was my least favorite.",
"No prob I understand I'm glad you enjoyed other parts of the island, you should go to Portland next time it's especially nice there",
"Port Antonio was my favorite and I almost got a job outside of Oracabessa. I just didn't have the money to stay on \"possible job\""
] | 12 | pics | ITAP of a sailboat in Montego Bay, Jamaica. |
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"Beautiful",
"Aaaaaand there's my new desktop background! Thanks!",
"Cliffs of Moher",
"You're not fully clean til you're zestfully clean. This jungle popped into my head as soon as I saw the photo. I will be singing it for the rest of the day. ",
"The Irish Spring people may have something to say to you...",
"I was here! This is a locals secret spot a photographer brought us to on my honeymoon.\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/Xx93VPZ.jpg\n\nIt was spookier the day we went",
"Don't worry, this is how it looks 364 days a year. You did well with this picture -",
"Haha, we hired a local Irish photographer. My wife is a photographer so she wanted some really good pictures",
"That's terrible! I can't even see the green or flag stick."
] | 9 | pics | Irish Coast |
/r/pics/comments/7orx8a/my_friends_trailor/ | [
"Love!",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers/",
"Thanks for showing me the subreddit. I've posted there too :)",
"Beyond kitsch."
] | 4 | pics | My friend's trailor |
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/r/pics/comments/7ory4p/honda_accord_turned_into_a_deathtrap/ | [
"What the hell am i looking at...",
"I understand the concept but I do hope they know how to do body work and that's not complete yet.",
"It looks odd, but flatbeds are legal. He has fenders over the tires and a bumper. Proper lights. License plate. That's pretty much all that's required.",
"Came here to say the same. How is it any more of a \"death trap\" than the thousands of work trucks on the road outfitted with every manner of thing bolted and strapped to them? I don't see any acetylene tanks hanging out over the pavement or long projections you could impale your car on if you got too close. I'm fine with it."
] | 4 | pics | Honda Accord turned into a deathtrap |
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/r/pics/comments/7os1pj/what_a_rainbow_over_the_ocean_looks_like_from/ | [
"Looks like someplace unicorns live. Aqua unicorns.",
"That is so great!",
"Love that the colors start over again. ",
"Wow, that is more beautiful than I would even have imagined.",
"I could be wrong here, and I'll be really happy if I am, but I don't think that is how rainbows work.",
"Oh man, please somebody tell me this is real. ",
"Narwhals?",
"How neat is that?",
"Yeah, rainbow's cant have a reflection because they dont produce any light. I was confused for a second myself. Also they change in perspective when you look at them, they are not located in space at a specific point. \n\n\n",
"On the left you can see Mario in a little car flying off the map for the fifteenth time this lap",
"Yea. This is more art than anything.\n\nEdit: Art not are",
"[Does this break the laws of physics here?](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/29/fly-over-rainbow-break-laws-physics) \nOr are we seeing something else here",
"I bet you think climate change is real too.\n\n^I'm ^joking ^don't ^crucify ^me",
"Then I passed the sea of swirly twirly gumdrops",
"I learned 2 years ago that Narwhals are real. I'm 34 years old now. For 32 years of my life I thought narwhals were mythological creatures. ",
"Wow, just wow.",
"It’s not real. ",
"...srsly? It's not real, poorly edited and offers a spectacular view only into JPG artifacting.\n\nPhotoshop layers:\n- CLOUD-IMAGE: clouds over plain color, likely blue. Select an individual color channel so that it's black & white. Adjust curves or levels until blue of water/sky are black and the clouds are mostly light grays/whites. APPLE+click channel thumbnail to select opaque pixels. Go back to full RGB with selection and create mask so that you now have a clouds layer only on top.\n- WATER-IMAGE: Any water image that might reasonably match up with our doctor clouds layer. Perhaps the water and sky in this really go together (hard to see you the low quality JPG) in which case it's the opposite of the mask we just made (APPLE-I). This needs a couple layer styles: gradient overlay for the unrealistic repeating-red rainbow with color blending mode; and levels to integrate however poorly OP chooses.\n\nFake and stick-bundled. It's okay, I first got into Photoshop by faking things badly too.",
"It is. Don't listen to the haters.",
"I'm almost certain it's a camera with a polarizing filter shot through a polarized aircraft window, then with saturation kicked up.",
"Stay in school.",
"Unfortunately, only the latter.",
"As much as I love this picture, I had to down vote for this reason.\n\nNice pic, but don't insult my intelligence OP",
"I concur. Definitely more are. ",
"Shit. Android never used to auto correct. Just upgraded to an s8 and all of a sudden it keeps changing my shit. Now I see why iOS users are always sending me weird autocorrect messages.",
"False Views !",
"[Here's a better version of the uncropped original](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1M4ET5UUAAzR5f.jpg:large).\n\nHere's a bunch more reposts of this, the last being two weeks ago:\n\n\ntitle | points | age | /r/ | comnts\n:--|:--|:--|:--|:--\n[What a rainbow over the ocean looks like from above the clouds.](http://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/50tgv3/what_a_rainbow_over_the_ocean_looks_like_from/) | 2056 | 1^yr | interestingasfuck | 28\n[Rainbow picture from above clouds.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/50ss08/rainbow_picture_from_above_clouds/) | 17 | 1^yr | pics | 5\n[A rainbow below the clouds](http://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/26jlfd/a_rainbow_below_the_clouds/) ^**B** | 466 | 3^yrs | woahdude | 5\n[above a rainbow](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7khwu4/above_a_rainbow/) ^**B** | 475 | 20^dys | pics | 13\n[This is amazing. “Above the rainbow”.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1o43gc/this_is_amazing_above_the_rainbow/) ^**B** | 1489 | 4^yrs | pics | 46\n[I found a Rainbow when I was looking down](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/28xnxk/i_found_a_rainbow_when_i_was_looking_down/) ^**B** | 1867 | 3^yrs | pics | 96\n[Rainbow effect over ocean.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6kssnz/rainbow_effect_over_ocean/) | 3387 | 6^mos | pics | 45\n[Rainbow effect over ocean.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4ie9mu/rainbow_effect_over_ocean/) | 5133 | 1^yr | pics | 59\n[Rainbow Clouds](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19rwam/rainbow_clouds/) | 2261 | 4^yrs | pics | 104\n[What flying over a rainbow looks like.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5obq5z/what_flying_over_a_rainbow_looks_like/) ^**B** | 216 | 11^mos | pics | 29\n[Above the rainbow](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2f8fkw/above_the_rainbow/) ^**B** | 44 | 3^yrs | pics | 8\n[Above the Rainbow](http://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/28i3mo/above_the_rainbow/) ^**B** | 2778 | 3^yrs | woahdude | 73\n[View from above a rainbow](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1jddzu/view_from_above_a_rainbow/) ^**B** | 17 | 4^yrs | pics | 5\n[Rainbow from Above \\[PIC\\]](http://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/1hpuvl/rainbow_from_above_pic/) ^**B** | 2242 | 4^yrs | woahdude | 70\n[Above the rainbow \\(x -post from r/pics\\) \\[548 x 825\\]](http://www.reddit.com/r/SkyPorn/comments/1hoojb/above_the_rainbow_x_post_from_rpics_548_x_825/) ^**B** | 745 | 4^yrs | SkyPorn | 15\n[Above the rainbow](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ho01h/above_the_rainbow/) ^**B** | 974 | 4^yrs | pics | 23\n[Ocean Rainbow](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cqvi3/ocean_rainbow/) ^**B** | 2332 | 4^yrs | pics | 52\n\n*[Source: karmadecay](http://karmadecay.com/results/u9917778) (B = bigger)*",
"> APPLE+click\n\nJust a heads up, it's the command button. I don't think it actually has an apple on it anymore either.",
"... I was just trying to leave a funny comment. I mean I'm new to Reddit and all but goddamn are you serious.",
"And then, I walked through the Lincoln tunnel.",
"If clouds were gay, this would be a great poster for the parade.",
"I can’t believe how many people are upvoting this. It’s so painfully fake",
"I know some folks are calling OP out but I've seen something similar on a flight. A blanket of big, fluffy, marshmallow clouds as far as the eye could see below us and the sun had lowered just enough to create rainbow colours over the entire cloud sheet. To this day one of the coolest, most impressive things i've seen. \n\nThis picture may be photoshop, but i've seen it before and know it can happen for those who still want to believe! ",
"Largest LGBT flag",
"I'm pretty sure that's just the gay district of the ocean.",
"Fake news. ",
"Maybe you had it turned off. I have an S6 and it autocorrects, I know earlier android phones did too.",
"\"Don't lose your WAAAAAAAAAAY!\"",
"The end of your comment is correct, but one doesn’t need to produce light to have a reflection.",
"Kinda maybe, but the title is a lie. Except for the fact that this is color and light, it has fuck all to do with rainbows. Rainbows happen when the sun is aligned behind you and is reflecting off of water in the air ahead of you. Different wavelengths bounce back at different angles, creating a \"circle\" of color. We see a bow because the ground tends to be in the way.\n\nThis picture (I am mostly certain) is from light bouncing off of water getting polarized. Then it gets a little thin film action from something on the airplane window and run through a polarizing filter on the camera.\n\nSource: am optical physicist and I have worn polarized sunglasses on an airplane before.",
"What Photoshop looks like from a person who doesn't understand refraction.\n\nI love posts like these though. Why do people feel the need to try and deceive?\n",
"I just want to add that I too have seen something similar. While I was in the Navy, one morning I went top side and a rainbow was cast across the ocean and it has been by far one of the most amazing things I have witnessed. So this pic may be fake, but something like this can happen. ",
"Fake. But whatever u idiots want to believe, I won’t stop u",
"Read the article you posted. What they are saying is, this is a physical phenomenon, it's just not a rainbow.",
"And did you find the leprechauns gold? ",
"Source: http://santossaul.com/image/2713",
"You're right that's not how rainbows work.\n\n[This is what they look like from the air.](http://i.imgur.com/hOmqXTc.jpg) OP just took a photo of some optical illusion.",
"That how they turn the frigging frogs gay!",
"It isn’t ",
"This is retarded. You are retarded. I am retarded. ",
"That’s not how rainbows work. ",
"If you've been calling it the Apple key for 25+ years, you're likely going to call it the Apple key for another 25 years. ",
"Whatever on that picture is - it looks interesting.",
"Yes, just like a \"real\" rainbow.",
"> What a rainbow over the ocean looks like from above the clouds. \n\nExcept it doesn't.",
"this is why trump won",
"My god, is that why the only thing I can see in a mirror is the lightbulb in my room?",
"It fucking is. \n\nThe OP is full of shit, this is a repost. ",
"Rainbows do not work like that, sorry",
"We want to believe it's real, okay :(",
"Your new phone hasn't gotten used to your typoalgorithims.",
"Last time I saw this it was on /r/facepalm as well.",
"This is not how rainbows work. Source: Am pilot. Rainbows from air are cool. ",
"In all fairness, maybe OP is just really dumb and truly believes this is what happened. ",
"Looks like something from Lisa Frank ",
"I'll do it. It's real.",
"Glad this is top comment. I hate false advertising when it comes to this stuff. I’m an artist myself and I love clever photo manipulation, but as long as it’s advertised as such. \n\nActing like stuff like this is reality only helps make us stupider. ",
"Is anyone surprised by this?",
"Christ, every time this is posted everybody always like \"look at this beautiful rainbow!\"\n\nIt's the fuckin Bifrost, idiots...",
"did someone make taste the rainbow joke yet? ",
"\"what a Photoshop on Reddit looks like in pics\"",
"Pretty sure that's the Sea of Sashay Shante.",
"Oh yeah, and it's not really wrong per se either, but just potentially confusing now for people who aren't aware it had an apple on it or was the apple key.",
"picture taken- somewhere over the rainbow",
">Is anyone....\n\nYeah probably. \n\n\n\n",
"Go join a debate club or something. ",
"Go join a comedy club or something. ",
"What and have to be relatable? No thanks. "
] | 79 | pics | What a rainbow over the ocean looks like from above the clouds. |
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/r/pics/comments/7os415/stayed_up_till_5am_to_paint_this_rick_and_morty/ | [
"That’s so cool",
"This is so great! Well done. ",
"Weird, looks exactly like the ones they sell on Facebook",
"When did you start? November?",
"I’m not saying he’s bullshitting but.. uhh.. https://www.canvasfreaks.com/products/shroom-world-rick-and-morty-canvas-set?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIutfrr73G2AIVUUsNCh1bXQqIEAQYASABEgKfQPD_BwE&variant=39529172753",
"Are you calling bullshit? Do you suggest someone on the internet has lied? If you have any pictures of the facebook ads selling this I bet /r/quityourbullshit would go nuts for a good call-out.",
"Why couldn't you start till 5am?",
"There appear to be some differences in the details, but it does look like this was based on that rather than being an original work. For what it is, it's well done.",
"Comparing the two, there is a difference. It's believable that OP painted it themselves based off the one you linked.",
"Why does Morty have a leash?",
"That's a nice scene. Where's the one you painted?",
"https://i.imgur.com/quFf4OZ.jpg\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/jkP9iUf.jpg\n\nAlmost exactly the same, so could be true. Enough differences that I'll lower my pitchfork... for now.",
"This needs to become a tapestry hung in every home like the last supper",
"I recognize that Ikea rug.",
"You say that you were up til 5am as if they were completed in one sitting. I call bullshit ",
"Yeah it looks just like the one I bought my wife for christmas.",
"Nice job painting the scene! And five pictures in the foreground look not so bad either. ",
"Nice picture, why make it a rug background",
"Nice , but don't hand it in until tomorrow ",
"reminds me of the game Braid ",
"Pretty cool!",
"Good job.",
"Damn that's awesome!!! ",
"Had this exact same rug once",
"Stolen by German Nihilists?",
"I like that rug. Really ties the room together.",
"Haha, I get this reference, did take me a moment though",
"If you did paint this:\n\nHow much would you charge for a duplicate painting?\n\nIf you just bought this online:\n\nHow is it? I hear they are pixelated. Does it look good?",
"It's a nice rug. Source: I have this rug.",
"To copy this painting of Rick and Morty* LUL",
"I stayed up until 5am on Reddit, can I have some karma too?",
"Why is Morty on a leash?",
"That rug really ties the room together.",
"I too have this rug",
"I studied this closely. They're definitely different. Honestly now that I think about it, redditors do get pretty anal about these things. He never actually claimed he was the creator just that he stayed up to paint it. This isn't directed at you, just a thought that occurred to me.",
"You must have extremely high intelligence.",
"I like your painting better than the source material. It has a more authentic feel to it. Good work!",
"I have a large and small of this rug",
"PICKLE DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!!!!!",
"So how long have you been using meth?",
" might as well clean my pitch fork since I have it out",
"Why is there fan-fic art and then something as good as this???",
"For now.... But OP is on thin ice.",
"Since he copied someone else's work the decent thing would have been a citation. Maybe a comment with an original source. I'm not a lawyer but maybe someone at r/karmacourt will take the case.",
"I checked out his/her profile and from what I can see, he/she hasn't been here very long. In fact, I think his/her account is new. It's not a big deal to me and I don't think it's a big deal a citation wasn't added because like I said, they never claimed to be the creator. Now that we can google images, we can find sources for ourselves.\n\nEdit: yes, suddenly I am thinking about gender for no apparent reason lol. I just remembered not to assume a gender based on my own beliefs.",
"Very cool painting, I like the different canvas sizes. Would suggest in future you use a less detailed backdrop just because it competes with the picture a fair bit.",
"Painted? Or bought online? ",
"Looks like Morrowind to me.\n",
"> Almost exactly the same\n\nnot even remotely the same. Its the same image being drawn, but it is very obviously two different artists.",
"Omg I love it I'd so buy one of these",
"Just beautiful and amazing. ",
"You should have credited the source. You should always credit the source.",
"That's just, like, your opinion, man.",
"I'll give you 3,000 flurbos for it.",
"Similar to https://ivanlaliashvili.deviantart.com/art/Loading-animation-2-414647626",
"Why did you start at 5 am?",
"It's pretty close",
"Good job, I like the extra little touches you added.",
"feel like it would be dope without random rick n morty silhouettes for no reason",
"Was gonna say, my friend has this exact thing on their wall.",
"9/10 Russian households have rugs exactly like this.",
"Yeah but those have really bad resolution if you actually buy one. I think he just copied them cause this looks way better.",
"Thanks to OP for sharing their version of this, and you for that link. I've been looking for some new decor, think I've found it :)",
"Order one...then you'll see theyre photoshopped the resolution on the actual product is fucking shit.\n\nOPs looks like a real photo...if the ones sold on the net were that big they'd be pixelated as fuck....source i bought one from the net.",
"Because he liked the painting, and most likely wanted to practice his painting skills.",
"It really ties the room together",
"Ignore the negative nancies. \nYou're not profiting from it and you certainly didn't claim it as your own. \nPainting one for yourself is a thousand times more enjoyable than just throwing money at someone and receiving it in the post. \nYou did great work :) the majority of us appreciate it.",
"That site is awfully annoying. Little popups to tell me very quickly what people in other parts of the US just purchased. Who cares?\n\nFollowed by .... a mailing list popup. Of course.",
"Seems all the pitchfork holders have done that for OP so it doesn't really matter. \nAs someone who's had my work stolen numerous times, where people have actually profited from my work, this isn't a problem. OP is a harmless enthusiast. ",
"That's pretty cruel. OP didn't claim it as original work, and the original can be found very easily. I don't think OP intended to fool people into believing it was original. Compassion goes a long way - I doubt you'd appreciate it if someone misunderstood a completely innocent action of yours and called it out for a public shame.",
"I know it, and obviously no harm no foul, but just as a matter of principle I think people should have it in their head that they shouldn't accept any kind of credit without passing it on when they can. It's better for them, the people that want to know, and the source most of the time, isn't it?",
"Didn't you have work the next day?",
"To be fair...",
"You missed the pointy silhouette of the tip of a Mega Fruit poking out of Morty's ass like he's got a tail.",
"Most impressed that your socks camouflage into the rug ",
"Due to gamut issues (lots of those pretty colors are outside of the color space cmyk printers can reproduce), they will come out with muted colors much like op's post (that might be an actual painting though because that red is brighter than I'd expect). Sauce: work for one of those facebook-ish stores (but not the one posted in this thread). Gamut issues are the bane of my existence.",
"It is this image but flipped with Rick and Morty inserted",
"I understand this. ",
"OP's has a much more wobbly set of lines to it, very obvious in the left window.",
"That's great work for a grade school kid! Keep it up! You'll be an artist someday.",
"I have this rug too",
"Awesome",
"The CanvasFreak one is not an 'Original Work'. \n\nThat title actually goes to the Rick and Morty show itself. Both are derivative works from an underlying original copyright work.\n\n\"RICK AND MORTY and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © 2013 Cartoon Network.\"",
"Well, they said it was a scene. So if the original was based on the scene, then it was properly cited. ",
"If someone draws an original picture of Rick and Morty that is not itself a reproduction of a scene from the TV show, that is still an original work. Using trademarked characters does not detract from this. It just adds the requirement that you need permission to reproduce and sell it.",
"Very true.",
"Yea definitely for enjoyment, my sibling requested I paint it for her as a gift and it was a fun way to procrastinate :)",
"I did the last panel (in the middle) from 7pm-5am the others I did on different days",
"Yeah, sorry you've had so much shit for this from people who have no clue what they're talking about. I'm glad you had fun doing it :) painting really settles the mind, doesn't it? ",
"I painted it :) I’m not sure I would do the same thing twice since I like the novelty with painting but if you have an idea of something you would like Feel free to contact me! ",
"Did it on a Saturday haha",
"It does.iIt’s definitely an escape! "
] | 93 | pics | Stayed up till 5am to paint this rick and morty scene |
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"Knew what?",
"We all knew that a Trump presidency would be a career-saver for Seth Myers. ",
"About all of the sexual misconduct in Hollywood?",
"Hollywood sexual harassment.",
"\nSo they all \"knew\" and now they are telling us they all \"knew\" and now that we know they knew and know that they knew, they knew we should be....ah fuck it, where's Rumsfeld when we need him? \n\nWhat a bunch of hypocritical assholes. "
] | 5 | pics | We All Knew |
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/r/pics/comments/7os67y/never_moving_this_arm/ | [
"I know the feeling, my cat lays in my lap and I get nothing done. My gf never understood it until the cat sat in her lap",
"Fuzzy lumpkins.",
"You move, I claw",
"Our cat is more powerful a sleep aid than any drug. Lie down with something over you to guard against the razor sharp knives attached to his toes, and you'll be fast asleep in under 15 minutes. ",
"If this was our cat my arm would be covered in drool. ",
"You are now the bed",
"rrrrrrrrrrrrrefgrrrrrr444444444444444444444444444tgfr\n\n\n\n\n\n\n- my cat\n\n",
"Lest it get shredded.",
"I think that's your crus rather than arm？",
"One paw is ready to slice open your veins if you move",
"So sweet.",
"cutest kitten. what breed?",
"Dsh tabby",
"thanks! do you really talk that way?",
"She looks EXACTLY like mine!!! Awww.... ",
"Dsh stands for domestic short hair. They were not trying to talk cutesy. ",
"oh",
"Feline purralysis.",
"Daesh tabby",
"My kitten is all about sleeping on me, but if I move her reaction is usually something along the lines of \"Huh, thought I killed that.\" followed by a pretty decent approximation of tearing out my forearm's jugular.\n\nShe's a barn cat. Hunting instinct is *strong* with her.",
"This is a \"Hemingway cat.\" Notice the thumbs.",
"THAT CAT LOOKS LIKE MINE! Who is currently laying on my chest near my face."
] | 22 | pics | Never moving this arm |
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"It looks like this post is about US Politics. Various methods of filtering out content relating to US Politics can be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/wiki/v2/resources/filter/politics).\n\n*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/pics) if you have any questions or concerns.*",
"Dumb and dumber",
"Hey Barry when do you want to fuck my wife? Said Canada's head idiot while wasting thousands of tax payers dollars."
] | 3 | pics | During a visit to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2017, Justin Trudeau speaks to the former president of the U.S. Barrack Obama at a restaurant |
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/r/pics/comments/7osb1d/what_a_life/ | [
"Omg it’s just brought tears in my eyes 😭😭😭😭",
"its painful",
"my problems are crap",
"Really sad ",
"I have slow WiFi...and last year’s Iphone...and Netflix just took off HIMYM...and Starbucks is going to start charging for cups. *sarcasm* \n\nthank you for the post."
] | 5 | pics | What a life! |
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/r/pics/comments/7oscbf/i_found_this_book_at_the_world_book_fair_today/ | [
"the writing at the bottom of the cover **Strictly Unauthorised** XD",
"Check out the hand",
"Look at those tiny hands. Lol",
"Vogons will get a run for their money (or forms)."
] | 5 | pics | I found this book at the World Book Fair today |
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/r/pics/comments/7osea3/heading_north_from_vladivostok_towards_magadan/ | [
"Big kitty!",
"This is awesome. Big cats are the best.",
"Don't attack humans? Nice try Mr tiger",
"you should never feed wildlife. also, you should strangle with your bare hands city zoning officials who expand residential zones into the habitat of wild animals, and gouge out the eyeballs of developers who raze habitats",
"Animal version of a cop sitting at the side of the road.",
"that escalated quickly ",
"Comrade Tiger",
"yoooo, I grew up in vladivostok, where did u go?",
"Sitting in a sunny spot, just like a housecat. ",
"Nope.",
"Holy shite...",
"/r/anormaldayinrussia",
">They dont attack humans and disappear into the woods if you approach them\n\nEither OP is being held at ‘claw point’ by this tiger to write something like this, or OP is waiting with a camera in this area till a ‘human’ approach one of these tigers so he can post it in liveleak. lol ",
"That's still a bit scary",
"So, would that be a Siberian Tiger?",
"Correct.\n\nThey're the biggest tigers in the world. Males can weigh up to 700 pounds. They sometimes kill adult brown bears.",
"Siberia looks so much like northern Canada. Anyone know if there were tigers in North America at some point? ",
"DA-FAQ!!!!\n\n700lbs???\n\n",
"I want to hug all the big cats in the world, but I can't :'(",
"Came here for the post, but this comment is WTF material.",
"Not Tigers. But certainly very large cats. Cats of various types are or were found just about everywhere. Turns out being a very good predator was an evolutionary benefit. ",
"Mountain Lions and Cougars, cover our \"big cats\" of north America.",
"Name checks out.",
"IIRC, those are common names for the same species. Go back a few (thousand) years, though, and you get the [North American cave lion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_lion), a species of megafauna that was something like 25% larger than the African lion of today. AKA, big, dangerous, apex predator.",
"Hmm... I kind had that thought when writing it, but I thought there were two different large cat species in north America...\n\nGoogle, here I come!\n\nEdit: Looks like we only got the biggest of the small cat breeds.\n\nCanadian Lynx, bobcat, and puma",
"siiberian tigers are the largest natural feline by weight (lions are longer)",
"Here kitty..",
"Adjust difficulty level to reduce random encounters. /r/outside",
"Hey man. You got some frosted flakes? ",
"What you looking at, Bub? I'm just catchin some rays.",
"[Revenge Tiger](https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459) \nVladimir Markov, a poacher who met a grisly end in the winter of 1997 after he shot and wounded a tiger, and then stole part of the tiger's kill.\n\nThe injured tiger hunted Markov down in a way that appears to be chillingly premeditated. The tiger staked out Markov's cabin, systematically destroyed anything that had Markov's scent on it, and then waited by the front door for Markov to come home.\n\n\n\n\"This wasn't an impulsive response,\" Vaillant says. \"The tiger was able to hold this idea over a period of time.\" The animal waited for 12 to 48 hours before attacking.\n\nWhen Markov finally appeared, the tiger killed him, dragged him into the bush and ate him. \"The eating may have been secondary,\" Vaillant explains. \"I think he killed him because he had a bone to pick.\"",
"Guess who won't be testing that claim....",
"OP assumes these Tigers are well-fed.\n\nHe should test his claim and report back. ",
"Wonder if a Siberian Tiger would thrive if it was dropped off in the Northern Canadian wilderness. ",
"Except Australia. Pretty sure we never had any big cats.",
"Good kitty.",
"I say do it ",
"Australia seems to be the exception to many of the things we see repeated in nature. ",
"This is going to settle a long standing debate for me, do adult brown bears sometimes kill them?",
"Yeah, kind of similar to how Galapagos works. The animals are all weird!",
"Da. Just Da. \n\nftfy",
"Wow, they're not orange at all. I guess because they evolved here in snowy places. Just always assumed tigers had orange stripes.",
"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/story-cats-about/14638/\n\nYou guys should check out this pair of documentaries on PBS. It is about the evolution of cats, and the variety of cats big and small around the globe. The bit about the future of domestic cats is fascinating.",
"If you had, i'm sure it would have being venomous!",
"I think it would be more difficult to guess who would be! Ha! Ha!",
"We kind of did have one (Tasmanian Tiger) but it was a marsupial and not a cat and kind of more looked like a dog with stripes.",
"Tigers usually stalk their prey and are more timid if confronted, which is why those Indian bee farmers put masks on the back of their head. That being said if they actually feel threatened and or cornered I'm sure as hell not coming to help you.",
"Didn't you guys have a Tasmanian tiger before it went extinct a century or 2 ago?",
"Yep, but it was a marsupial so not like a tiger at all. The only thing that was like a tiger were the stripes. It also kind of more looked like a dog.",
"This warms my heart. I hope the poacher suffered and was aware it was the same tiger. ",
"Point...",
"Sometimes yes, but tigers kill bears more often.",
"I dont remember this from The Long Way Round. ",
"thats a xxl sized catloaf",
"upvoted for \"claw-point\"",
"Closest we had was the Marsupial Lion\n\n[Marsupial Lion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial_lion)\n\nHad the strongest bite of any known mammal. A 100kg Marsupial Lion had a similar bite strength as a 250kg African Lion. And the way it’s teeth and jaw was designed it would cut through flesh, crush the windpipe and sever the spinal cord all in one go. Absolute beast. \n\nNot a big cat though. ",
"Marsupial Lion was much larger than the Tassie Tiger. Close to the size of female Lions and Tigers of the current age.",
"The internet has convinced me I could never survive in Russia. ",
">Siberia looks so much like northern Canada. \n\nI mean, aside from the tiger this could be anywhere with snow and trees. ",
" Yes, there were. Variety: Sabertooth.",
"They have pulled many sabertooth tiger skeletons out of the tar pits in california. I would consider that to be a large cat.",
"Sure, but extinct animals, don't really count.",
"I’ll take your word for it... but I’m staying in the car.",
"And still humans managed to hunt it, judging from that article. \nThe true apex predator is a hungry human I guess. ",
"Um, sure.. If you say so. 🙄 Even though the fucking question was 'were there large tiger species in North America AT SOME POINT?'",
"You can’t hug every cat. ",
"Later on Tiger Reddit:\n\n\"[Self] So this fucking idiot human took the bait\"",
"Just catching some rays.",
"This message was sponsored by tigers.",
"\"Usually\"... \n\nThe one time they don't, I'm pretty sure it's going to be me on the menu. ",
"It probably would. ",
"Very cool",
"Why would you want to? It’s just depression and alcoholism. ",
"\"They don't attack humans...\" OP is obviously a tiger trying to throw us off with the monkey name... I'm not buying it.",
"Sabre-toothed.",
"Pet it",
"I've always wondered about introducing them into the similar habitat of Canada. You know, just to shake things up a bit. ",
"Im assuming Siberian Tigers? I promise im not a moron.",
"COMRADE TIGER MAKE BEST CEREAL IN LAND. ITS GOOOOOOOOOOOD ENOUGH!",
"Unless they are hungry.",
"And tigers?",
"/r/JusticeServed",
"Well, considering most big cats are on endangered species lists, I don't think that is an impossible goal. ",
"If I came around a corner and saw that , I'd probably crap myself. A bit.",
"Same here, America. ",
"So jealous ",
"Initially read as \"tigers pooping out into the road\". Was disappointed. ",
"I know this is bad, but I'm for it.",
"Cats can be very empathetic, intelligent and vindictive animals. We had a stray that would come around when I would garden. She noticed that I got upset when birds pecked at my tomatoes, so one day she decided to help. She'd wait on the roof watching for birds and killing them mid air. Then bring them to me. I did not train her, nor did give her anything in return except rubs. She just didn't want my tomatoes to be destroyed.",
"On a hike at White Sands, NM, with a park ranger, he mentioned that African oryx had been introduced to the park decades before. He wanted to introduce African lions to balance things out.",
"Or human wanting to avoid being some other animal's dinner. ",
"But you had the thylacoleo. Convergent evolution, baby! https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ark-survival-evolved/images/8/8f/Thylacoleo-carnifex-a-marsupial-heraldo-mussolini.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/280?cb=20160916214539",
"I picked up a great book on Australian megafauna. There were a lot of similar animals that had evolved in Australia, including animals similar to lions, rhinos (giant wombats!), etc. But they were driven to extinction either by human hunting or the huge environmental changes brought with humans living there.",
"Sounds like another possibility yes",
"Uh... I believe my answer is valid and useful.\n\nNo, there are not any tigers, but here are out \"big\" cats, that we do have.",
"You make your animals well over there.",
"Yea,they are chilling .. Magadan at night is like -35°C :)",
"Almost correct, Amur tigers are biggest in captivity, Bengal tigers are bigger in nature. Wiki says, I just wanted to read more",
"Note to Self: In case of breakdown, don't walk for help.\n ",
"No, those run away when they see people. Or so I'm told.",
"I would take that note multiple times... bart simpson style on the board\n",
"Hey friend! I thought I'd remind you:\n\nIn case of breakdown, don't walk for help.",
"What’s the ratio? Like 60/40 tigers?"
] | 104 | pics | Heading north from Vladivostok towards Magadan, you often come across tigers popping out onto the road. Sometimes they will relax by the roadside like this. They don't attack humans and disappear into the woods if you approach them. |
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