Don’t you also hate it when you expressly took steps to avoid fucking around, but then someone else fucked around and you experience some second hand finding out?
This is my curse...I feel like Cassandra over here, seeing the ways that someone elses plan could go sideways, warning people around me that there is a chance that it goes sideways, they ignore everything I say, the plan goes sideways, and theyre all surprisedpikachu, waiting for me to step in and fix it all.
At home...at work...fucking A.
Being expected to hold the find out bags is another level of infuriating.
Me, the way I set up my life...but the economy been fucking around.
So now I find out I still get none of what I worked, prepared and sacrificed for.
Life really said random event generator: ON 😭
Lol me everyday
I preemptively assume everything will have dire consequences, even pouring a glass of juice.
As a good man once said: "The world is a vampire, sent to dra-e-ay-e-ain."
Might as well start fucking around then.
Has sex one time, contracts both HIV through a faulty condom and herpes because condoms can't protect against it. *Hangs head, goes home
Bad Luck Brian
Before, I was not a witch.
But now I am one.Later
My body of skin waxes and wanes
around my true body,
a tender nimbus.
I skitter over the paths and fields,
mumbling to myself like crazy,
mouth full of juicy adjectives
and purple berries.
The townsfolk dive headfirst into the bushes
to get out of my way.My first death orbits my head,
an ambiguous nimbus,
medallion of my ordeal.
No one crosses that circle.Having been hanged for something
I never said,
I can now say anything I can say.Holiness gleams on my dirty fingers,
I eat flowers and dung,
two forms of the same thing, I eat mice
and give thanks, blasphemies
gleam and burst in my wake
like lovely bubbles.
I speak in tongues,
my audience is owls.My audience is God,
because who the hell else could understand me?The words boil out of me,
coil after coil of sinuous possibility.
The cosmos unravels from my mouth,
all fullness, all vacancy.
Luna?
Margaret Atwood
She's talking about the moon though, yeah?
I don't think so. It was about a woman who was accused of witchcraft and sentenced to die by hanging. She survived the night and in the morning when they cut her down all the villagers were aghast that she was still alive, but she was protected by double-jeopardy and so spent the rest of her days roaming in the wilderness as a mad woman and striking terror into the hearts of passersby.
Basically, she wasn't a witch before they accused her and tried to execute her, but her experience over a night of hanging, near death, turned her into one.
Hence it was my response to "If you're already finding out, then you might as well start fucking around."
Oh wow, that's a sad story that I haven't read. Thanks for explaining it to me.
The short story is titled Half-Hanged Mary if you care to read the full thing. It's based on a true story about a woman named Mary Webster
Thanks, but I think I'll stick to your excellent synopsis. Too disturbing and probably like reading Frankenstein. I'm surprised it isn't a movie.
It's a quick read, just a few pages long
AINT NOTHing but a....oh not the joke
I clicked expecting it too.
This gif is great lol
...hard egg
Tell me why
Aint nothing like a boiled shag
FAFO is just "karma" re-articulated, it implies those who do wrong will receive consequences for their wrongness - it implies the universe is just and that innocent people don't get punished.
Usually rather than admit that nature is not just, that innocent people get punished and hurt for no reason, people instead try to rationalize ways that victims "deserved" it.
For example, the Buddha taught that with enough loving-kindness in your heart, you can become invulnerable to harm from animals, so when one of his monks died from a snake bite, he claimed the monk must have not had enough love and kindness in his heart for the snake to deserve being bitten.
In reality, sometimes snakes act irrationally and bite people who aren't messing with them. This can happen because the snake was stressed by an unrelated event, or because of disease or illness (much like a dog can attack because of rabies).
Ultimately karma is not just a lie, it's a system of gaslighting victims into believing they deserved the bad things that happened to them.
Ultimately karma is not just a lie, it’s a system of gaslighting victims into believing they deserved the bad things that happened to them.
Fucken bars dude. Imagine getting gaslit with toxic positivity and victim blaming by Buddha.
If I had any faith left in humanity at all I imagine that sort of thing would be pretty spirit crushing to hear lol
I always thought of FAFO as a condensed proverb meaning basically "Think about what you're about to do and the potential consequences before you do it, otherwise you may overlook an obvious pitfall and blunder straight into it". I've mostly seen it applied to people behaving recklessly in one way or another. Sometimes it's rednecks doing some jackass style stunt with no payoff, sometimes it's a business making an obvious blunder that could have easily been avoided, sometimes it's a politician doing the same. In this sense it's less about some notion that doing stupid things will come back to hurt you in some unpredictable way and more about the self inflicted consequences that could have been avoided with like 5 minutes of thought. Like you could just leave that snake alone that you can clearly see and aren't being forced to approach, and you definitely don't need to put your hand in it's face and fuck with it, and oh shocked pikachu it bit you who could have seen this coming (except everyone). So to me at least, all it's saying is just think for a minute before you do something, and maybe don't do it if you're most likely going to regret it.
So to summarize
Fuck around = do something reckless without thinking
Find out = suffer the avoidable consequences of your lack of forethought
yes, this is historically always how I've heard FAFO used - basically like a threat before someone does something stupid
but recently it seems like the meaning has significantly shifted, particularly in liberal communities and political contexts, to imply that people we don't like politically will get what they deserve (a bit like /r/LeopardsAteMyFace)
an example was a posts in /r/MarchAgainstNazis titled "The arc of 'F**king Around' is long, but it bends toward 'Finding Out'" (this is a remix of the Martin Luther King Jr quote)
So in a sense it's still taking on some of the threatening tones originally used, but I feel like with a lot of liberals it turns into constant cope, waiting for the criminal political actors they obsess about get the justice that is owed
I agree, it's more like "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"
If you got enough money, just buy the carnival.
Know what? I said fuck it, I keep finding out, so I better start fucking around.
And so far it hasn't been all that bad
I will tell you why, it’s because the people who fuck around are not the same who find out. The tech billionaires and MAGA influencers who helped spread it will not find out. They are above law and above consequences and they don’t even believe that phrase anyway.
Only in the pea-sized brain of the low-life MAGA does that rule count. Ironically enough they are the exception who actually follow their own phrase – or not, because they’re probably too ignorant to connect the dots and actually find out.
I fucked around so you could find out. You're welcome. /s
Wait you’re a MAGA influencer or tech billionaire?
Slop
Blame the counterclockwise turntables
Fuck around regardless, you're always gonna find out
Really stupid meme.
Wtf is the raccoon "finding out"? It's in a nice field with flowers. Not stuck in the bottom of a huge dumpster.
As the kids say, it's not that deep lol
Correct. It's just stupid.
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