2019-04-05
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felren13:
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when ever there’s a chase scene in a film and some fruit stall gets knocked over i always feel really bad because what if that’s the fruit guys only source of income and his wife has left him and he has a kid in hospital with cancer i want to know more about the fate of the fruit seller does he get it together and turn his life around or is it the last straw for him we’ll never know
Little known fact, most fruit vendors in chase scenes have deliberately placed themselves in the path of the oncoming villain in order to collect a huge insurance payout on their fruit cart when it gets destroyed.
i bet they have a deal with the oncoming villain to make sure their cart gets completely destroyed.
I mean, when you’re out to take over the world, who trembles at committing a little insurance fraud along the way?
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felren13:
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when ever there’s a chase scene in a film and some fruit stall gets knocked over i always feel really bad because what if that’s the fruit guys only source of income and his wife has left him and he has a kid in hospital with cancer i want to know more about the fate of the fruit seller does he get it together and turn his life around or is it the last straw for him we’ll never know
Little known fact, most fruit vendors in chase scenes have deliberately placed themselves in the path of the oncoming villain in order to collect a huge insurance payout on their fruit cart when it gets destroyed.
i bet they have a deal with the oncoming villain to make sure their cart gets completely destroyed.
I mean, when you’re out to take over the world, who trembles at committing a little insurance fraud along the way?
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talesfromweirdland: Beauty and the Beast. Illustration by H. M. Brock for THE OLD FAIRY TALES...
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Beauty and the Beast. Illustration by H. M. Brock for THE OLD FAIRY TALES (1914).
Hmm, I’ve been turned into a lion.
TIME FOR A PERM
talesfromweirdland:
Beauty and the Beast. Illustration by H. M. Brock for THE OLD FAIRY TALES (1914).
Hmm, I’ve been turned into a lion.
TIME FOR A PERM
From my D&D game
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Ghost: Please find my wife!
Adrien: She wants us to find her daughter!
Ghost: No.
Adrien: I mean her sister.
Ghost: No.
Me: *losing my temper* THEY’RE LESBIANS ADRIEN!
Ghost: Please find my wife!
Adrien: She wants us to find her daughter!
Ghost: No.
Adrien: I mean her sister.
Ghost: No.
Me: *losing my temper* THEY’RE LESBIANS ADRIEN!
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therationaldove: 61below: xenoqueer: patrexes: elaenathedefiant: countries where prostitution is...
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countries where prostitution is legal have higher rates of human trafficking. that’s like an actual fact. not an opinion or anything. so tbh it seems a bit ‘swerfy’ to completely ignore that
speaking, uh, as a formerly-trafficked sex worker, it’s extremely difficult to come forward as a trafficking victim in countries where sex work is criminalized; you just… get criminalized under those same anti-prostitution laws. of course reported trafficking would increase when the sole fact of coming forward as a sex worker at all no longer endangers you.
This line of argument is the same one that you see with conservatives who point to the increase in divorce rates as proof that making divorce safer is endangering marriage, while ignoring the massive drops in domestic abuse, murder, and suicide.
It’s a shot argument with them, and it’s a shot argument here.
In WWI, when they introduced helmets, they saw a sudden spike in head injuries.
What the casual observer may miss was that they were seeing the increase because of a dramatic decrease in deaths from head wounds.
Say it with me now:
CORRELATION, NOT CAUSATION
Same thing with seat belts. After the mandatory introduction of seatbelts, there was a huge rise in people with chest and neck injuries, and a corresponding massive drop in people who were dead.
therationaldove:
61below:
xenoqueer:
patrexes:
elaenathedefiant:
countries where prostitution is legal have higher rates of human trafficking. that’s like an actual fact. not an opinion or anything. so tbh it seems a bit ‘swerfy’ to completely ignore that
speaking, uh, as a formerly-trafficked sex worker, it’s extremely difficult to come forward as a trafficking victim in countries where sex work is criminalized; you just… get criminalized under those same anti-prostitution laws. of course reported trafficking would increase when the sole fact of coming forward as a sex worker at all no longer endangers you.
This line of argument is the same one that you see with conservatives who point to the increase in divorce rates as proof that making divorce safer is endangering marriage, while ignoring the massive drops in domestic abuse, murder, and suicide.
It’s a shot argument with them, and it’s a shot argument here.
In WWI, when they introduced helmets, they saw a sudden spike in head injuries.
What the casual observer may miss was that they were seeing the increase because of a dramatic decrease in deaths from head wounds.
Say it with me now:
CORRELATION, NOT CAUSATION
Same thing with seat belts. After the mandatory introduction of seatbelts, there was a huge rise in people with chest and neck injuries, and a corresponding massive drop in people who were dead.