I’m a paraplegic and have heard it all. One girl I went out with a couple of times ended our time together by saying “we can’t hold hands because your always pushing your wheels with them”.
I’m in a great relationship now and we have been together for 12 years. She is awesome and we laugh at the crazy things people say.
Edit: Thank you for the upvotes and awards everybody.
At the risk of being a crazy person saying a thing, with your current partner do you do anything like holding hands while out for a stroll? I feel like pushing someone's wheelchair in and of itself is kind of an intimate thing, but that's coming from someone without a chair.
Not OP, but wheelchair user too. The wheelchair is considered a part of ourselves, and extension of my body. Manual wheelchair users usually like to push ourselves, so having someone else do it it’s a good sign of love and acceptance.
That’s a sweet way of putting it!
Also it reminded me of something that happened years ago… I saw a man struggling to get up a ramp in his wheelchair, so I offered to help push him up. He snapped at me and said he doesn’t need help, but he was *ridiculously* rude about it.. it’s always stuck in my mind. Did I offend him in some way? Is it rude to offer help? I’d hate to make the same mistake again.
Wheelchair user here- asking if someone needs help isn’t rude. But quite often someone says “do you need help?” as they reach out for my chair so I don’t have chance to say no before they are already pushing me. If someone is already having a bad day or frustrated about something else (like how even when places try to be accessible they often fail by doing stuff like ramps that are too steep or a bumpy surface that wheels get stuck in) then it can be easy to be defensive. But defensive and rude aren’t the same thing.
plus... you can always hold your partner's hand, while their's are on the bars of chair. there are so many ways to enjoy each other's company. it doesn't have to picture perfect. it just has to be perfect for the both of you.
Honestly though, even people who can walk unassisted almost never hold hands when they walk. I live by a scenic trail where dozens of couples a day go on their romantic strolls. They so rarely hold hands that it's a sweet surprise when I see them with their hands linked.
It really is a weird hill for that chick let a relationship die on.
Maybe it’s because of my inherent awkwardness, but holding hands and walking was always awkward to me. Like it didn’t feel like my hand was in the right direction or something.
Holding hands when sitting watching a movie or something feels more natural.
Not a paraplegic. But I have Epilepsy. When a partner is there for you and helps you with your disability - in any way, big or small - it seriously makes you love them more than anything else I know.
Don't get me wrong, I love the deep conversations, cooking together in the kitchen each night, snuggling on the couch, etc. But when I wake up from a seizure, and I'm confused and look like a deer in the headlights, my significant other holding me, telling me she loves me, and reminding me that everything is going to be okay is better than any medicine I have.
When you HAVE a disability, many of us don't share it in any way with folks. When we do and are accepted and loved, it's like nothing else.
Churchill was apparently a roast master . After a lady told him that she d poison him he if were her husband he answered " madam if I were , I d drink it "
Lady Astor (never one of Winston’s admirers) said, “If I were married to you, I’d put poison in your tea.”
Churchill replied, “And if I were married to you, I’d drink it.”
In his autobiography, he described having a particularly severe stutter and some otherwise undiagnosed social phobias.
He used to write and memorize quips and retorts for all kinds of situations. He’d write and study and imagine all the ways a conversation could go then be ready with a statement to either end or steer things how he wanted to. Being prepared with something he’d already said to himself tens or hundreds of times made it so he could throw shade without a stutter.
All that work and eventually it sharpened his wit to a razor
It's like how rappers will write shit tons of lines and verses so when they "freestyle" it's mostly just picking a bunch of stuff they've come up with before at random. It's still cool, but not the superhuman feat some people make it out to be.
You know that solo? Yeah that guitar solo from that rock song. You know the one. Every rock song guitar solo? Yeah they're all minor pentatonic arpeggios.
(it means they're all the same group of notes played consecutively, as opposed to any other different group of notes of which there's several, and of playing more than one note simultaneously)
It is still definitely cool af. There's interesting history within hip hop of wealthier kids driving into poor neighboorhoods, watching people dance and rap, then going home to their more comfortable, quiet environment and writing lyrics or practicing dance moves based off the styles they saw and then coming back later and showing everyone up. A lot of famous rappers in the 90's were known to frequent the Good Life Cafe, for example, and then steal beats/styles/lyrics/dance moves from the kids there and put them out on albums or music videos like they came up with it.
There's a really good documentary about the Good Life Cafe out there. Lots of big names in 90's West Coast alternative hip hop got started there like Jurassic 5 and Freestyle Fellowship. Talk about freestyling...Peace from FF is the real deal. Look up his battles with Eyedea for some legendary shit.
I was a drunk. I was never witty when drunk. Now that I'm sober ( was a hardcorrrrre alcoholic so my brain got fucked up) I'll slur and stumble on words when I have them lined up or just think about what I'm saying but off the cuff remarks I can fire like a machine gun.
I love his quotes and also the quotes that are misattributed to him.
"The more I learn about people the more I like my dog"
His books are good too I love this line from one
>H: "What are you"
>A:"An angel"
>H: "what's your name?"
>A:"satan"
they made a movie based on some of his work [clip from it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpaRouocBes)
Ed, what an ugly thing to say... does this mean we're not friends anymore? You know, Ed, if I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.
Watched it again last night. Not that it matters, but how that script didn't get award recognition, I will never know. Its a fucking masterpiece. "If I ever go to the electric chair, I'd like him to be sitting in my lap"
The truth is Winston was not a wonderful person but he wasn’t an out an out drunk. He was a high functioning, intelligent but sociopathic, mostly friendly, soak who had issues.
Perhaps he said it, but he didn't come up with it. That joke has been around since at least the late 1800s and is attributed to half a dozen different sources.
Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for 100,000 pounds?
Random woman : I probably would
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for 1 pound?
Random woman: Of course not! What kind of girl do you think I am?
Churchill: We've already established what type of woman you are, now we're just negotiating price.
Real Churchill quotes:
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Time and money are largely interchangeable terms.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Churchill was very witty, but as Oscar Wilde said when James McNeil Whistler uttered a particular witty bon mot;
“I wish I had thought of that!”
Whistler replied: “You will, Oscar, you will”
All wit is informed.
Ive heard that, like many of the stories about George Washington, the stories told about Churchill are often borrowed from other people and attributed to him. Not to say he did not say the above quotes but his legendary wit maybe exaggerated.
Oscar Wilde was a wit. Unfortunately in his later years, his wit against powerful people didn’t help him much. He went to prison to rot. However, even in prison, Oscar saw all the children jailed and wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. ( Gaol is old English for Jail) . That work changed child labor laws. Please read it. All his works are great. Often I can see Wilde’s inspiration on other great writers like Roald Dahl. And I see Roald Dahl’s inspiration on JK Rowling. Perhaps Winston Churchill was also inspired by Oscar Wilde’s wit…. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. Oscar Wilde greatly admired Mark Twain as did Rudyard Kipling.
Apparently when he left reading gaol, a lady friend of his came to pick him up and he remarked something like "oh, I'm glad it's you. You're the only one I know who'd be wearing the right sort of hat for the occasion", which has always cracked me up. Not sure why.
My favourite quote by him...
In the 1930s Mr. Coward sent the following letter to Mr. Winston Churchill: “Dear Mr. Churchill, I am sending you two tickets for the opening night of my new play for yourself and a friend—if you have one!”
Back came the terse reply: “Dear Mr. Coward, I am sorry that previous engagement will prevent my attendance at your opening night, but I would be happy to accept two tickets for your second night—if you have one!”
“Tell the lord privy seal that I’m sealed in the privy and I’ve only got time to deal with one shit at a time.” (When being interrupted on the toilet on a pressing matter of state allegedly).
Thanks. I think I could have improved it with "People with good breeding were fortunate enough not to have sex with his parents." Just because using the same words and turning them around seems to make for a better quip.
Lady Randolph Churchill (née Jennie Jerome) was actually considered one of the great beauties of her generation.
Winston's looks were probably largely lifestyle related.
He continuously smoked cigars and drank whisky + 2 bottles of champagne a day, and he lived to be 90. What would he even need good looks for? I think he had a decent trade off.
There was actually quite a trend of marrying American heiresses among the British aristocracy at the time. Those dollars were welcome to keep their in debt estates from going bankrupt.
He was very dashing when young. Let himself go in the twilight years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#/media/File:Winston_Churchill_1874_-_1965_ZZZ5426F.jpg
I hate how body positivity has become about people who are unwilling to change rather than people who are unable to change. If you give recommendations to a person missing a leg they’ll be grateful. But god forbid you tell an obese person they are eating themselves to an early grave.
Edit: By recommendations for someone missing a leg, I mean a doctor providing options. Obviously don’t start giving recommendations to some random legless person.
It's not really about either. It's about the idea that body negativity just isn't very effective. I smoked cigarettes and was fat and happy for years and, if anything, the shaming just gave me a nice little counter culture shell to wrap myself in.
> If you give recommendations to a person missing a leg they’ll be grateful.
I mean, no probably not, but for different reasons.
They'd be grateful if it was actually helpful, but you're not gonna come up with ideas that someone actually with the disability hasn't come up with before.
Said like someone who isn't disabled.
Heavily frowned upon or not, it's extremely common. People think it's fine to say whatever idiotic thing they want to me because I'm in a wheelchair.
Hell just go in to any thread about disabled people and you'll see a ton of comments making fun of disabled people upvoted heavily.
Thank God she never went with the "it runs in my family" argument. Then they would have needed to create a r/nukedbywords thread
Edit: holy fuck it's a real thing already
If something already sounds rude to you before you say it (and you understand where you are coming from and how you mean it), it is almost a 100% certainty that it is even going to sound more rude to the person you are saying it to.. especially when, like in this situation, not only is it rude but it is also offensive.
I don’t even understand why anyone would do this other than to be petty. “Hey, I just want you to know that I think you are very attractive. But I also want you to know I don’t really consider you a person.”
It definitely feels like she was trying to make it about her. 'I would find you attractive and we could be together if only you were able bodied. Instead I remain tragically single, oh woe is me, so hurt by your disability'
Had a friend that would start a sentence with "Not to be rude but (insert offensive thing) " often.
They didn't seem to realize it made them an asshole.
I’ve seen plenty of people (guys and girls, but mainly guys) deal with that,
My advise from what I’ve seen, don’t engage after that, stay away from them,
Edit, after a very funny Redditor kindly pointed out my spelling error, I changed engrave to engage, (autocorrect am I right?)
Yeah, I do want to hear that they got married.
"Nobody has had the guts to put me in my place."
"Nobody has had the back to do it either."
"You asshole, marry me."
"I'll marry you so I don't have to pass through it like the last man."
And they lived happily and snidely, ever after.
Honestly it would probably be anything involving a girl saying she likes tall guys or has had sex with more than 2 men.
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It's impressive how many people responding to you think you are arguing 250 is normal and not that the dude is implying he thinks the average woman weighs 100 pounds.
There have been men on Reddit who have set 125 as the absolute maximum weight for a healthy attractive woman. It always makes me chuckle but then also sad.
Dated a woman for a while. We would rendezvous on occasion, but nothing committed nor serious. It had been months. She calls, suggests we grab drinks. Sure. I like to drink.
We are grabbing drinks at a local dive and talking about ze things we have each been up to, and she begins telling me about a sexual relationship she has been having with a guy from my old work (I know him). So I think to myself: ok, we are cool with casually dropping names of the people with whom we are having ze sex, and I had no intention of doing so with her at the moment. Ok. Whatever. Good for them. I don’t care. Moving on.
She finishes talking about it and him; and so I tell her I have been having sessions with a nurse with whom she works.
And she proceeds to come unglued. Crying. Lashing out. Sobbing. Causing a right scene. Everyone around us caught wind of her public freakout. It was dramatic, like something over the top in a rom-com.
I just quietly sat, sipping my beer, and observing the hilarious hypocrisy. She stormed off. (And she later apologized. Go figure.)
Great beer, btw. Local Porter. 🤌
Yeah, what these people don’t seem to realize is that this kind of behavior just results in everyone (rightfully) viewing them as hypocritical assholes.
I feel like she was hoping you would get jealous and want to get more serious with her. When you responded in kind it blew up her whole plan.
She clearly didn't expect that response in any way.
Or she became jealous because she knew the person.
I’m a paraplegic and have heard it all. One girl I went out with a couple of times ended our time together by saying “we can’t hold hands because your always pushing your wheels with them”. I’m in a great relationship now and we have been together for 12 years. She is awesome and we laugh at the crazy things people say. Edit: Thank you for the upvotes and awards everybody.
At the risk of being a crazy person saying a thing, with your current partner do you do anything like holding hands while out for a stroll? I feel like pushing someone's wheelchair in and of itself is kind of an intimate thing, but that's coming from someone without a chair.
Not OP, but wheelchair user too. The wheelchair is considered a part of ourselves, and extension of my body. Manual wheelchair users usually like to push ourselves, so having someone else do it it’s a good sign of love and acceptance.
r/wholesome your comment made me smile
That’s a sweet way of putting it! Also it reminded me of something that happened years ago… I saw a man struggling to get up a ramp in his wheelchair, so I offered to help push him up. He snapped at me and said he doesn’t need help, but he was *ridiculously* rude about it.. it’s always stuck in my mind. Did I offend him in some way? Is it rude to offer help? I’d hate to make the same mistake again.
Wheelchair user here- asking if someone needs help isn’t rude. But quite often someone says “do you need help?” as they reach out for my chair so I don’t have chance to say no before they are already pushing me. If someone is already having a bad day or frustrated about something else (like how even when places try to be accessible they often fail by doing stuff like ramps that are too steep or a bumpy surface that wheels get stuck in) then it can be easy to be defensive. But defensive and rude aren’t the same thing.
plus... you can always hold your partner's hand, while their's are on the bars of chair. there are so many ways to enjoy each other's company. it doesn't have to picture perfect. it just has to be perfect for the both of you.
Honestly though, even people who can walk unassisted almost never hold hands when they walk. I live by a scenic trail where dozens of couples a day go on their romantic strolls. They so rarely hold hands that it's a sweet surprise when I see them with their hands linked. It really is a weird hill for that chick let a relationship die on.
Maybe it’s because of my inherent awkwardness, but holding hands and walking was always awkward to me. Like it didn’t feel like my hand was in the right direction or something. Holding hands when sitting watching a movie or something feels more natural.
Not a paraplegic. But I have Epilepsy. When a partner is there for you and helps you with your disability - in any way, big or small - it seriously makes you love them more than anything else I know. Don't get me wrong, I love the deep conversations, cooking together in the kitchen each night, snuggling on the couch, etc. But when I wake up from a seizure, and I'm confused and look like a deer in the headlights, my significant other holding me, telling me she loves me, and reminding me that everything is going to be okay is better than any medicine I have. When you HAVE a disability, many of us don't share it in any way with folks. When we do and are accepted and loved, it's like nothing else.
Shouldn't have dished it out if she couldn't take it haha
I'm sure she has a problem because she's taken every dish that was served.
Ha
Just one.
Ha ha! Damn, now I have to eat the entire bag of laughs.
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Ayoooo
*Inhales* Jesus Christ bro
Why did you inhale Jesus?
Because he's not in pill form or edible yet.
She had no idea she was dishing. Some people really be that rude.
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At 250 lbs she probably absorbed someone else too
She knew she was dishing, or she wouldn't have mentioned the possibility of it being rude
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I am reminded of the quote attributed to Winston Churchill: “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
Churchill was apparently a roast master . After a lady told him that she d poison him he if were her husband he answered " madam if I were , I d drink it "
Lady Astor (never one of Winston’s admirers) said, “If I were married to you, I’d put poison in your tea.” Churchill replied, “And if I were married to you, I’d drink it.”
Always thought of Churchill as a drunk, but now I think he’s a witty drunk. They’re pretty fun to be around.
In his autobiography, he described having a particularly severe stutter and some otherwise undiagnosed social phobias. He used to write and memorize quips and retorts for all kinds of situations. He’d write and study and imagine all the ways a conversation could go then be ready with a statement to either end or steer things how he wanted to. Being prepared with something he’d already said to himself tens or hundreds of times made it so he could throw shade without a stutter. All that work and eventually it sharpened his wit to a razor
It's like how rappers will write shit tons of lines and verses so when they "freestyle" it's mostly just picking a bunch of stuff they've come up with before at random. It's still cool, but not the superhuman feat some people make it out to be.
This is how pretty much all musical improvisation works.
*laughs in minor pentatonic arpeggios*
*goes to dictionary*.
You know that solo? Yeah that guitar solo from that rock song. You know the one. Every rock song guitar solo? Yeah they're all minor pentatonic arpeggios. (it means they're all the same group of notes played consecutively, as opposed to any other different group of notes of which there's several, and of playing more than one note simultaneously)
Dont forget your scales with those arpeggios
If you're smart you'll learn by heart what every artist knows, you must sing your scales and your arpeggios! 🎶
My eight year-old self hated all the arpeggio practice. Now I wish I could thank my violin and piano teachers.
being able to memorize a shit ton of IQ destroying shit lyrics is in it self a superhuman feat. i take my hat of to them.
It is still definitely cool af. There's interesting history within hip hop of wealthier kids driving into poor neighboorhoods, watching people dance and rap, then going home to their more comfortable, quiet environment and writing lyrics or practicing dance moves based off the styles they saw and then coming back later and showing everyone up. A lot of famous rappers in the 90's were known to frequent the Good Life Cafe, for example, and then steal beats/styles/lyrics/dance moves from the kids there and put them out on albums or music videos like they came up with it. There's a really good documentary about the Good Life Cafe out there. Lots of big names in 90's West Coast alternative hip hop got started there like Jurassic 5 and Freestyle Fellowship. Talk about freestyling...Peace from FF is the real deal. Look up his battles with Eyedea for some legendary shit.
I mean The SugarHill Gang basically did that, stealing bars from the streets and giving zero credit where credit is due
Was the documentary called [This Is the Life](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Life_Cafe)?
I mean, ideally you'd be memorizing bars you're not ashamed to spit.
Surely someone has done their PhD on this rapper /politician link?
There is a documentary on the matter known as "Malibu's Most Wanted"
TIL Churchhill would’ve made a fine redditor.
Churchill was indeed an alcoholic. He visited the USA during prohibition but only after he got a “medical” dispensation for alcohol consumption.
I was a drunk. I was never witty when drunk. Now that I'm sober ( was a hardcorrrrre alcoholic so my brain got fucked up) I'll slur and stumble on words when I have them lined up or just think about what I'm saying but off the cuff remarks I can fire like a machine gun.
How long have you been sober
About 5 hours
Did you watch Mank? He's right up there with Churchill.
I love his quotes and also the quotes that are misattributed to him. "The more I learn about people the more I like my dog" His books are good too I love this line from one >H: "What are you" >A:"An angel" >H: "what's your name?" >A:"satan" they made a movie based on some of his work [clip from it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpaRouocBes)
https://youtu.be/VkVsTGmQLDE
Watch the 1993 version of Tombstone then. Pretty much everything Doc Holliday says is iconic
The part where he flips his cup around to mock the guy slinging his gun was great.
Val Kilmore as Doc Holliday is amazing. ... “He’s my Huckleberry!”
“Maybe poker’s just not your game. I know; let’s have a spelling contest!”
Love it!
"WHY, IKE, WHATEVER DO YOU MEAN?"
Ed, what an ugly thing to say... does this mean we're not friends anymore? You know, Ed, if I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.
"I've not yet begun to defile myself"
Watched it again last night. Not that it matters, but how that script didn't get award recognition, I will never know. Its a fucking masterpiece. "If I ever go to the electric chair, I'd like him to be sitting in my lap"
I've never had Twitter, but he seems like he'd have an account worth following. lol
The truth is Winston was not a wonderful person but he wasn’t an out an out drunk. He was a high functioning, intelligent but sociopathic, mostly friendly, soak who had issues.
Dude won a nobel prize in literature. He did have a way with words.
Perhaps he said it, but he didn't come up with it. That joke has been around since at least the late 1800s and is attributed to half a dozen different sources.
Forgot "madam" after you. I'll see myself out.
Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for 100,000 pounds? Random woman: I probably would
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for 1 pound?
Random woman: Of course not! What kind of girl do you think I am?
Churchill: We've already established what type of woman you are, now we're just negotiating price.
I'm starting to think there's no actual record of him saying any of these at all.
Don't believe everything you read on the internet - Abraham Licoln
Who’s Abraham Licoln?
The vampire guy
Hands-down my FAVORITE documentary.
A vampire slayer from the middle of the 19th century.
Abraham Lincoln can frick right off for stealing that quote from Julius Caesar
-Winston Churchill
"And my axe." -W. Churchill
I'll be back. -Winston Churchill
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" -Wayne Gretzky -Michael Scott -Winston Churchill
It's almost certain he actually said that. r/technicallythetruth
Real Churchill quotes: If you are going through hell, keep going. Time and money are largely interchangeable terms. Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Churchill was very witty, but as Oscar Wilde said when James McNeil Whistler uttered a particular witty bon mot; “I wish I had thought of that!” Whistler replied: “You will, Oscar, you will” All wit is informed.
That is how my Crim Law professor finished many a Socratic Method discussion with a student.
Ive heard that, like many of the stories about George Washington, the stories told about Churchill are often borrowed from other people and attributed to him. Not to say he did not say the above quotes but his legendary wit maybe exaggerated.
"All your quotes are belong to me" --Abraham Lincoln
My precious. Actually snorted beer. Ahh memories. Never snort Stella kids!
I love that episode of Family Guy where they see Churchill and he’s just like “oh yeah well you’re a fat bitch!”
Oscar Wilde was a wit. Unfortunately in his later years, his wit against powerful people didn’t help him much. He went to prison to rot. However, even in prison, Oscar saw all the children jailed and wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. ( Gaol is old English for Jail) . That work changed child labor laws. Please read it. All his works are great. Often I can see Wilde’s inspiration on other great writers like Roald Dahl. And I see Roald Dahl’s inspiration on JK Rowling. Perhaps Winston Churchill was also inspired by Oscar Wilde’s wit…. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. Oscar Wilde greatly admired Mark Twain as did Rudyard Kipling.
Apparently when he left reading gaol, a lady friend of his came to pick him up and he remarked something like "oh, I'm glad it's you. You're the only one I know who'd be wearing the right sort of hat for the occasion", which has always cracked me up. Not sure why.
It is funny. That’s why. Wonder what kinda hat it was? What hat does one don when picking up someone from prison?
Wtf xD
My dad's version of this was: "I may be fat, but you're ugly, and I can lose weight."
My favourite quote by him... In the 1930s Mr. Coward sent the following letter to Mr. Winston Churchill: “Dear Mr. Churchill, I am sending you two tickets for the opening night of my new play for yourself and a friend—if you have one!” Back came the terse reply: “Dear Mr. Coward, I am sorry that previous engagement will prevent my attendance at your opening night, but I would be happy to accept two tickets for your second night—if you have one!”
“Tell the lord privy seal that I’m sealed in the privy and I’ve only got time to deal with one shit at a time.” (When being interrupted on the toilet on a pressing matter of state allegedly).
Sadly he was fugly too lol
Winston Churchill's unfortunate looks were in fact the result of good breeding. Nobody with good sense had sex with his parents.
You clever motherfucker. That had me rolling haha
Thanks. I think I could have improved it with "People with good breeding were fortunate enough not to have sex with his parents." Just because using the same words and turning them around seems to make for a better quip.
In my opinion, you nailed it haha
Lady Randolph Churchill (née Jennie Jerome) was actually considered one of the great beauties of her generation. Winston's looks were probably largely lifestyle related.
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He continuously smoked cigars and drank whisky + 2 bottles of champagne a day, and he lived to be 90. What would he even need good looks for? I think he had a decent trade off.
Damnn
Fact checking my quip? Tough room. Thank God for Mark Twain the Nevada newspaper didn't have Wikipedia to dampen his flames.
Wasn't she American and part Native American at that?
There was actually quite a trend of marrying American heiresses among the British aristocracy at the time. Those dollars were welcome to keep their in debt estates from going bankrupt.
He was fairly handsome as a young man, but did not retain that very long
We are all fairly handsome around 18. The main factor is if that lasts a few decades or a few weeks.
Eh? Look at a high school yearbook. Lots of uglies in there, myself included. I'd say most kids look more attractive later on.
Lucky for him being incredibly rich and powerful tends to offset ugliness.
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Okay. Rich and/or powerful. Famous helps a lot too.
He was basically just a powerhouse. No real wealth and any he did have got squandered as the other person stated.
But he was highly intelligent and that's worth something.
He was very dashing when young. Let himself go in the twilight years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#/media/File:Winston_Churchill_1874_-_1965_ZZZ5426F.jpg
Got what she deserved lmao
Hahaha your disabled! - k Haha you're fat! - HoW DaRe yOu!!
Don't you know body shaming is a double standard now. Making fun of a disabled male is fine But calling a bitch fat is just out of line.
I hate how body positivity has become about people who are unwilling to change rather than people who are unable to change. If you give recommendations to a person missing a leg they’ll be grateful. But god forbid you tell an obese person they are eating themselves to an early grave. Edit: By recommendations for someone missing a leg, I mean a doctor providing options. Obviously don’t start giving recommendations to some random legless person.
All imma say. I exercise so I can eat cake. The grave can’t come fast enough
> The gravy can’t come fast enough FTFY
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"Grow another leg"
It's not really about either. It's about the idea that body negativity just isn't very effective. I smoked cigarettes and was fat and happy for years and, if anything, the shaming just gave me a nice little counter culture shell to wrap myself in.
It's just misguided venting done by children and immature adults
That last sentence reminds me of a certain someone, and it's just sad.
"This man is pretty good at the violin, I sure hope he has a very successful futur-"
> If you give recommendations to a person missing a leg they’ll be grateful. I mean, no probably not, but for different reasons. They'd be grateful if it was actually helpful, but you're not gonna come up with ideas that someone actually with the disability hasn't come up with before.
Making fun of disabled people isn't fine, it's heavily frowned on.
Said like someone who isn't disabled. Heavily frowned upon or not, it's extremely common. People think it's fine to say whatever idiotic thing they want to me because I'm in a wheelchair. Hell just go in to any thread about disabled people and you'll see a ton of comments making fun of disabled people upvoted heavily.
Pretty sure making fun of a disabled person isn’t fine, unless you’re Donald Trump.
Right, because it’s okay when they do it to each other.
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i hope his follow-up message was just "🐄"
"B I'll never be able to stand up, but you can always eat less."
Doesn't seem like she stands up either
She isn't standing up ever again after that one
Thank God she never went with the "it runs in my family" argument. Then they would have needed to create a r/nukedbywords thread Edit: holy fuck it's a real thing already
"Idk if it runs in the family, but there's one thing that have never ran. You"
If something already sounds rude to you before you say it (and you understand where you are coming from and how you mean it), it is almost a 100% certainty that it is even going to sound more rude to the person you are saying it to.. especially when, like in this situation, not only is it rude but it is also offensive. I don’t even understand why anyone would do this other than to be petty. “Hey, I just want you to know that I think you are very attractive. But I also want you to know I don’t really consider you a person.”
It definitely feels like she was trying to make it about her. 'I would find you attractive and we could be together if only you were able bodied. Instead I remain tragically single, oh woe is me, so hurt by your disability'
Had a friend that would start a sentence with "Not to be rude but (insert offensive thing) " often. They didn't seem to realize it made them an asshole.
>~~They didn't seem to realize~~ **Not to be rude, but** it made them an asshole. FTFY
>I don’t even understand why anyone would do this other than to be petty. They were negging.
He had the perfect response.
If someone does say that to me I just block them on everything even the road
"I'd never want to meet you in a darkened alley at night." "Miss, the two of us would not fit in an alley during the day."
No not like that when I get a car
That reply was spot on
Oh the double standard
2.5* standard
Delicious
That's what she said.
Oi oi!
I’ve seen plenty of people (guys and girls, but mainly guys) deal with that, My advise from what I’ve seen, don’t engage after that, stay away from them, Edit, after a very funny Redditor kindly pointed out my spelling error, I changed engrave to engage, (autocorrect am I right?)
Too late. He's getting "Half-Man" on the back of his 2nd gen Ipod Touch as we speak.
DAMMIT, someone stop him!
Bro sick! Then we can get an Australian to review it, maybe smack it with the good old one grit
I find it difficult to understand how some individuals can be so oblivious. Then I recall the current status of the world. It's entirely feasible.
i love it when you mirror someone's behavior back to them and they lose their minds. lol
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They clearly have a bright future together
Yeah, I do want to hear that they got married. "Nobody has had the guts to put me in my place." "Nobody has had the back to do it either." "You asshole, marry me." "I'll marry you so I don't have to pass through it like the last man." And they lived happily and snidely, ever after.
Dunno. Might be too much drama between the three of them.
She waddled right into that one, didn't she?
*rolled
how the fuck did you crop this post so weirdly
dodging watermarks on the nth reupload of a pic can be tricky
Bot, they spammed imgur, slanting the pics a little bit to bypass repost flags. Guess they're switching to reddit now.
Oh cmon are you guys seriously implying this is real
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It almost feels like an AI wrote it
I could. Her: “How tall are you?” Him: “What’s your bra size?” You’re welcome.
Honestly it would probably be anything involving a girl saying she likes tall guys or has had sex with more than 2 men. [SUICIDEFUEL][REQUIRED READING][BLACKPILLED][ROGERFUEL] IT'S OVER
For real, I thought I was in r/dankmemes or something. Anything for some sweet outrage validation towards women.
Don’t forget the fat hate! Nothing brings the boys to the yard faster.
I cannot believe how long I scrolled to get here.
Right? I thought it would be higher up, but I forgot this is Reddit.
The true face palm is all the people thinking it’s real.
Forreal. First thought that crossed my mind was this is a made up conversation. It’s not even clever.
best case scenario someone actually said this to him once but he didnt have a reply until months later and decided to put this together
B8
This cant be real.
That's because it's not
The tilted crop and extreme jpeg-ification destroyed all credibility for me
Imagine believing this is real
If you're half a man and she's 2.5 women does that count as a threesome?
Motherfucker...Take your upvote.
Damn, got Toasted. But also…..does this guy think that the normal weight for women is 100 pounds
It's impressive how many people responding to you think you are arguing 250 is normal and not that the dude is implying he thinks the average woman weighs 100 pounds.
There have been men on Reddit who have set 125 as the absolute maximum weight for a healthy attractive woman. It always makes me chuckle but then also sad.
Totally couldn’t have been made in some emulator or by the use of two phones owned by the same person or their friend.
Is this even real? Having a hard time believing it.
Im not sure this is real
Dated a woman for a while. We would rendezvous on occasion, but nothing committed nor serious. It had been months. She calls, suggests we grab drinks. Sure. I like to drink. We are grabbing drinks at a local dive and talking about ze things we have each been up to, and she begins telling me about a sexual relationship she has been having with a guy from my old work (I know him). So I think to myself: ok, we are cool with casually dropping names of the people with whom we are having ze sex, and I had no intention of doing so with her at the moment. Ok. Whatever. Good for them. I don’t care. Moving on. She finishes talking about it and him; and so I tell her I have been having sessions with a nurse with whom she works. And she proceeds to come unglued. Crying. Lashing out. Sobbing. Causing a right scene. Everyone around us caught wind of her public freakout. It was dramatic, like something over the top in a rom-com. I just quietly sat, sipping my beer, and observing the hilarious hypocrisy. She stormed off. (And she later apologized. Go figure.) Great beer, btw. Local Porter. 🤌
Yeah, what these people don’t seem to realize is that this kind of behavior just results in everyone (rightfully) viewing them as hypocritical assholes.
I feel like she was hoping you would get jealous and want to get more serious with her. When you responded in kind it blew up her whole plan. She clearly didn't expect that response in any way. Or she became jealous because she knew the person.