The kinds of people that hand you $120,000 in exchange for criminal behavior aren’t the kinds of people to just shrug their shoulders and be okay with you stealing it.
I promise you that meth would cause far more problems if it was consumed anywhere near the frequency of alcohol. Anyone who has watched someone destroy their lives with meth knows just how dangerous and damaging it is. The scariest part is the speed at which it can happen. People destroy their lives with alcohol too, but it usually takes decades. I’ve watched people become hollow shells of their former selves, completely unrecognizable, and standing on death’s doorstep, within six months of their first usage of methamphetamine. It’s a destructive, dirty, dangerous drug.
There are two types of people in the world, those who will belittle you for not knowing what they know, and those who will be excited that they get to expose you to new knowledge. Date the second type.
If you didn’t see them as a kid, then you definitely won’t understand why they’re so popular. When you see them as a child, then they’re the coolest thing in the world, especially if you saw them back in the 70’s or 80’s when they were groundbreaking movie making. What I don’t understand is how people continue loving them, like being completely obsessed with them, into adulthood. I wish I could be that excited about them as an adult, but they’re pretty juvenile movies for a lot of different reasons.
I know a guy that loves not liking popular things more than anything else. He thinks that it makes him so cool. Realistically it just makes him kind of annoying and insufferable, since you can’t have any normal conversations with him without him going off into some lecture about why XYZ is trash and why he doesn’t like it. We get it dude, you’re edgy. Congratulations, I guess.
I saw Return of the Jedi in the theater with my elementary school class. It was so badass! There were 20 kids outside the theater after the movie pretending they were swordfighting with the rolled up movie posters that they gave us. I loved the movies for a long time. I even enjoyed the prequels, just to see the storyline, but the new movies don’t do it for me at all. The dialogue and writing just seems so lazy. It’s a shame too, because they look really cool and have great sound production.
Those stories made the news because of how outrageous they are, not because they’re common occurrences. There are still plenty of kids running around outside and having fun in the rest of the non-wacko towns across the country.
Yeah, in the case of Windows tracking it is literally sponsored by the government, in the sense that they take our tax dollars, and hand them to Microsoft in exchange for all the data they steal.
Dolly Parton has done wonders for changing people’s perception of the South. Matthew McConaughey has been vocal about progressive issues. And of course there are a number of activists from the South. But you’re right, they’re usually depicted in media as either ignorant racists, stupid, or evil rich people.
I think Southern ladies sound so sexy when they talk. I love their intonation.
My wife and I started doing it because we were backpacking once and ran into a couple of women from Louisiana who warned us not to go down a trail because they saw some bears down there. At the end of the conversation they reminded us not to go down there because of “them bears!”. We thought the way they said it was hilarious, and it started an internal joke for us surrounding that dialect. Then it was reinforced by The Office and the “I do declare” scene, and just about every scene of the Tombstone movie. So we had a lot of quotable material that goes along with a Southern accent, and over the years it started sneaking its way into our normal speech.
That is a personal story I don’t usually share online, but what the heck. Hopefully you enjoyed it.
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