Describing someone with cancer as a warrior. FFS does that mean the person who died didn't fight cancer hard enough to survive? They fought a "courageous battle" is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. As an aside, when you are looking for medical advice/support and someone chimes in they will pray for you. 🤦🏼♀️ If I could post a meme it would be the one of Jeebus looking over the shoulder of a surgeon asking him why he is removing the tumour he had put in there.
YES, totally this! It also encourages toxic positivity in people diagnosed with cancer, when it’s absolutely okay to not feel like a badass warrior ~ there are total cowards and really obnoxiously negative people who beat cancer, and brilliant, positive, intelligent, compassionate people whose lives cancer fucking snuffs out. Apart from the statistically proven adage that early diagnosis saves lives (which still comes with annoying exceptions ~ you can get all the tests, do all the regular self-examinations, only to find that your cancer is stubbornly treatment-resistant), cancer can be really fucking random in who survives it and who doesn’t, which is one of the many reasons why cancer sucks all the arses. I *cannot* believe in God in a world where cancer exists, and yet some people fail to see the illogical nature of praying for those diagnosed with cancer, rather than being fucking furious with their so-called God for building the design flaw of propensity to develop tumours into the human body in the first place.
Great for that guy that he could afford $18.75 for a fleeting luxury item. He must be doing extremely well in this economy. He could have saved a lot of money and just gotten some Oreos.
Glad to see I’m not the only person who feels that way. Also, I’m pretty sure you can get a whole package of Oreos almost anywhere in many asskicking varieties for way less than $18.75.
Ferengi are a brilliant commentary on the natural consequences of capitalism within the Star Trek universe, their storylines are both hilarious and have a very sad element of truth. It really is science fiction at its best, using alien races and their societies to hold a mirror up to the aspects of humanity a lot of us would rather not confront directly.
A lot of immigrants coming to the USA in the late 19th and early 20th century weren't considered 'white.' [Never mind that the only "real" Americans wouldn't be considered white either but that's a discussion for another time.] Irish, Italian, Eastern Europeans -- especially if they were Jewish (aka my great-grandparents and grandparents) -- Mr. Fell, thank you for writing and being sweary. Keep up the good work.
Not really. Amongst other things, they mucked with the Thin Mints again. Now they taste like cardboard that was mashed up next door to another facility that once processed mint, or something vaguely approaching mint, years ago.
The Scouts are still well worth supporting. But the cookies aren’t so great anymore.
Glad I saw this comment. Thin mints are my fav. Our neighbor's daughter hit us up last year - too cute to say no to. Thankfully she didn't bother us this year. I was thinking "oh well, guess I'll hit them up when they're outside the grocery store, hawking their wares." Looks like that will be a hard PASS.
Everything happens for a reason seems to be a Christian thing. (Maybe the same for other religions.) God's in control, so the things that happen are meant to be. What a crock.
Thank the Renaissance and later European painters for our persistent visualisation of Romans and Greeks as Northern European looking white folks usually depicted in Northern European dress no less. Also for Aryian Jesus, as depicted in His bathrobe in Justice Thomas' bathroom.
You are 100% correct. There is no reason my little grandson was born with an extremely rare gene mutation that causes malignant tumors to grow in his pleural cavity. The first big tumor was found when he was 2 1/2. He's now 7 1/2 and has been through three surgeries and three rounds of chemo.
"The intentions may begin honorably, but once in power, those revolutionaries inevitably become just as bad or worse than those they replaced. See: Most of history."
History has shown that the very people who want to fuck the establishment become the very establishment they wanted to fuck. Remember the Hippies? Or Young Americans for Freedom? Campus Crusade for Christ? Phyllis Housefly?
The one phrase I hear that is cringe worthy is "I'll have that sundae with Crushed Nuts." <---used to work a soda fountain.
Describing someone with cancer as a warrior. FFS does that mean the person who died didn't fight cancer hard enough to survive? They fought a "courageous battle" is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. As an aside, when you are looking for medical advice/support and someone chimes in they will pray for you. 🤦🏼♀️ If I could post a meme it would be the one of Jeebus looking over the shoulder of a surgeon asking him why he is removing the tumour he had put in there.
YES, totally this! It also encourages toxic positivity in people diagnosed with cancer, when it’s absolutely okay to not feel like a badass warrior ~ there are total cowards and really obnoxiously negative people who beat cancer, and brilliant, positive, intelligent, compassionate people whose lives cancer fucking snuffs out. Apart from the statistically proven adage that early diagnosis saves lives (which still comes with annoying exceptions ~ you can get all the tests, do all the regular self-examinations, only to find that your cancer is stubbornly treatment-resistant), cancer can be really fucking random in who survives it and who doesn’t, which is one of the many reasons why cancer sucks all the arses. I *cannot* believe in God in a world where cancer exists, and yet some people fail to see the illogical nature of praying for those diagnosed with cancer, rather than being fucking furious with their so-called God for building the design flaw of propensity to develop tumours into the human body in the first place.
There are people who literally believe that 🙄
Great for that guy that he could afford $18.75 for a fleeting luxury item. He must be doing extremely well in this economy. He could have saved a lot of money and just gotten some Oreos.
Gee, he must have wanted a cookie really bad. 🙄 He should have used his economic consumer power and not bought it. 🤔 If that really happened, that is.
WTF would pay almost $20 for a damn cookie anyway?? ;)
Glad to see I’m not the only person who feels that way. Also, I’m pretty sure you can get a whole package of Oreos almost anywhere in many asskicking varieties for way less than $18.75.
What idiot pays 18.75 for a cookie?
A 1%r. N Ferengi is Dari or Pashto for foreigner
Thanks for defining Ferengi…I didn’t know, and it certainly made a difference in understanding the post. 👍
Ferengi in this context is an alien race in Star Trek who were known for their...not always scrupulous...businesses.
Ferengi are a brilliant commentary on the natural consequences of capitalism within the Star Trek universe, their storylines are both hilarious and have a very sad element of truth. It really is science fiction at its best, using alien races and their societies to hold a mirror up to the aspects of humanity a lot of us would rather not confront directly.
A lot of immigrants coming to the USA in the late 19th and early 20th century weren't considered 'white.' [Never mind that the only "real" Americans wouldn't be considered white either but that's a discussion for another time.] Irish, Italian, Eastern Europeans -- especially if they were Jewish (aka my great-grandparents and grandparents) -- Mr. Fell, thank you for writing and being sweary. Keep up the good work.
Dude's cookie dealer is ripping him off. He should find his local Girl Scout troop for a better deal.
Not really. Amongst other things, they mucked with the Thin Mints again. Now they taste like cardboard that was mashed up next door to another facility that once processed mint, or something vaguely approaching mint, years ago.
The Scouts are still well worth supporting. But the cookies aren’t so great anymore.
Glad I saw this comment. Thin mints are my fav. Our neighbor's daughter hit us up last year - too cute to say no to. Thankfully she didn't bother us this year. I was thinking "oh well, guess I'll hit them up when they're outside the grocery store, hawking their wares." Looks like that will be a hard PASS.
Them GSCookies done jumped da shark.
My mind is spinning with so many comments, instead I plan to laugh spontaneously most of the day. ( phrases that annoy: “you’ve got this”)
You be you, buddy ()))
Everything happens for a reason seems to be a Christian thing. (Maybe the same for other religions.) God's in control, so the things that happen are meant to be. What a crock.
Thank the Renaissance and later European painters for our persistent visualisation of Romans and Greeks as Northern European looking white folks usually depicted in Northern European dress no less. Also for Aryian Jesus, as depicted in His bathrobe in Justice Thomas' bathroom.
“Everything happens for a reason…”
Well, yes it does. Usually because of assholes.
Asshole humans, asshole genes, asshole circumstances, asshole economics.
It’s as useful as pointing out: rain is wet.
You are 100% correct. There is no reason my little grandson was born with an extremely rare gene mutation that causes malignant tumors to grow in his pleural cavity. The first big tumor was found when he was 2 1/2. He's now 7 1/2 and has been through three surgeries and three rounds of chemo.
Sending you so many hugs my dear.
That sucks hairy gorilla ass.
I have no words.
"The intentions may begin honorably, but once in power, those revolutionaries inevitably become just as bad or worse than those they replaced. See: Most of history."
History has shown that the very people who want to fuck the establishment become the very establishment they wanted to fuck. Remember the Hippies? Or Young Americans for Freedom? Campus Crusade for Christ? Phyllis Housefly?
The one phrase I hear that is cringe worthy is "I'll have that sundae with Crushed Nuts." <---used to work a soda fountain.
Asking (i.e.) telling me to "reach out" to someone. Or some nuisance phone call telling me why they are "reaching out" to me.
“Meet the New Boss” should be the national anthem.
Any nation, any time.
😘