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"What the fuck"
Saved you a click and way too much scrolling
There's an article?
I probably can't afford that car, but I definitely can't afford that blender.
Oh come on now. You expect these people to be able to afford to just be able to send you text? For free. Madness!
Also, use Firefox mobile, install those ad blockers. Have a useful mobile internet again.
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Man, how do you guys survive an ad-unfiltered internet?
Crouch in the corner and hope it forgets about us.
Extended
Yeah, we could tell
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I guessed right 🤣
My guess was "Fuck you too" or "Go fuck yourself".
For the last one he could just have quoted Al. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ZfahRzz_w
My guess was the last one.
Go f yourself
It's okay, you can swear here, I won't tell mom.
glances around ^fuck^
thank you!!!
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To save you visiting the hellscape that is The Independent: those 3 words were "What the fuck?" Nothing really remarkable.
Could have fit that right in the headline without even increasing the number of words.
Thank you for your service.
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I snapped this at my local library last week.
The image is a flyer for a "Banned Books Club" (Bokklubb för förbjudna böcker) targeted at young people between the ages of 13 and 18 in Bromölla, Sweden. It invites readers to explore the topic of banned books, asking questions like "Which books are banned, where are they banned, and why?" The club aims to discuss these books during the fall and winter, and the first meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 19, from 3 to 4 p.m. at the library (biblioteket).
The flyer has a "STOP" sign, a warning label at the bottom, and a bird illustration. It encourages participants to sign up via email and features logos for Kulturpunkten and Bromölla Municipality.
It's just gobbledygook
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Every book report in high school where I could choose the author was a Stephen King novel and I turned out fine. And in Florida too. Class of 1991. 😁. BRD.
Back in the ‘80’s I had a high school English teacher that had us read his Night Shift short stories. The entire class loved it.
Night Shift is fantastic.
I read The Stand and It before high school, and lots of other mature books with "inappropriate" material. It resulted in improved reading skills.
Definitely don’t tell kids about libgen.
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
Love that book. There's some sad sex in it and a very unsympathetic preacher, but overall pretty tame by King standards.
"What the fuck? Fuck that shit. That's fucking stupid."
The sex in It was a but weird but 23?
Did you forget about the shit weasels in Dreamcatcher, the various instances of SA in Hearts in Atlantis, the forced abortion in the Gunslinger, insomnia, and so forth
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I'm not for banning any books, but with that said, Stephen King has some very fucked up books, like the one where the 10-year-olds have a spontaneous orgy at the end of It.
Technically it was a train, and they were experiencing a transcendent connection across time with their older selves, in a deliberately unsettling and transgressive scene meant to evoke the rawness of adolescence being laid bare before the worst cosmic horror -- an eldritch carrion-eater who feeds on destroying the souls of children -- as a way of reclaiming strength from vulnerability. At any rate, depiction is not endorsement.
But yes, considering how many actual adults misinterpret and mischaracterize that scene, I don't recommend that particular book to children -- not because they'll be damaged by it, but because they won't have the wisdom of age to understand it.
This guy book reviews
I read IT in the 8th grade and I didn't really get the whole "transgressive scene meant to evoke the rawness of adolescence being laid bare before the worst cosmic horror" part, but I did understand that they were doing it as a way to 'ground' themselves to reality. And as a 13 year old boy, I thought it was kinda hot.
I always read it more acting as a final severing of their childhood to protect against It as it preferred to eat children. Not to mention as a more substantial blood pact as part of the ritual of chud to become metaphorically one being in the cosmic fight
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Yeah. It was horrible but literally “need to grow up fast” as a kind of pseudo protection from the demon that is pennywise.
The entire book is a series of horrors. Another story that hits just as hard but in a different way is Needful Things. Definitely an apt metaphor for how people can be cajoled and manipulated into doing heinous things.
It’s definitely messed up just like the old vampire in the body of a 13 year old in the Diaries of a Vampire series.
It’s fair to have an issue with it but what about all the other books?
I bet I can guess what they don’t like about them and that isn’t it
Technically, it was Stephen King being high out of his mind on cocaine and booze. He'll be the first to admit it.
Did he write It during his cocaine years? I know Cujo, Tommyknockers, and Maximum Overdrive were
The real turning point in the non cocaine years is Dreamcatcher. And that was morphine.
Which really explains Dreamcatcher.
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I think high schoolers can handle that. But I guess when you're in a state where the intention is to prevent young people from understanding sex, it starts to make sense.
Now violence on the other hand... No problem there.
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"The skibidi toilet"
“Skibidi toilet Ohio”, even.
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