E is for Ennui - [The Existential Comics]
Source: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/602
Alt-Text:
Big Bird: "The next letter is G. God is for God, who doesn't exist, and if God doesn't exist, that means everything is permitted..."
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I thought it was just boredom but in a pretentious and French way...
The word is loaned 1:1 from the french word for boredom
https://youtu.be/dJfHF312STE
Yeah, exactly that.
Yeah, there's no need for the redundancy, really; if you say “French” you can omit “pretentious”, it's already implied.
Did anyone else automatically read this in a french accent?
This u being xenophobic?https://lemmy.world/comment/16896329
Because stating true shit that happens in that country is xenophobic?
How about when you buffoons started calling french fries freedom fries? Or had your president order McDonald's in the white house? Or maybe that time you got indoctrinated to worship a flag as a kid, only to then watch as your classmates got shot to death because "muh guns"?
Literally all of it happens, but god forbid the french use a word in their own fucking language. Go fuck yourself, fucking clown.
The fries are Belgian...
https://nationaltoday.com/national-french-fry-day/
Then your country is twice as stupid as I thought, because you have a national holiday to French fries, and you called them French fries out of idiocy:
"Let us return for a moment to the horror of the First World War. Europe struggles under the occupation. British and American soldiers finally push back the Germans after a hard-fought battle in the trenches. A lot of hungry mouths to fill. At the Belgian front, the soldiers learn about chips. Due to the chaos and confusion, and because they hear French words being used all around them, they accidentally assume they are in France... Result: another adjective that will forever define the international image of our snack. 'Tastes good, let's call them 'French Fries' folks!'"
https://www.compass-group.be/en/stories/french-fries-are-a-belgian-invention
Lmao whataboutism, ur trolling but ok here https://www.google.com/search?q=xenophobia
Dude... y u so mad?
Yeah, there's no need for the redundancy, really; if you say "American" you can omit "fat fucks", it's already implied.
Because you hypocrites would get just as mad at the reversal, idiot...
I honestly feel a bit bad for you if you're actually this mad about someone making a joke about stereotypes and not just trolling... For the record, I'm not American, and work in an international environment where people make jokes about my language and culture on the daily. Life gets a lot better when you don't take yourself too seriously and just have fun with the quirks and stereotypes attached to your nationality.
So I say again: y u so mad bro?
Regards, An inbred, rotten fish eating, mountain monkey
You can call American words "just English words." We dont care, we stole the language from 3 others. You're alone in your butthurt here.
The French, truly an oppressed populace.
Haiti is having a rough go of things
Pal, all the "racism" you speak of is only in your mind. My comment at no time was meant to be denigrating to the French,
I mentioned French because I know ennui is a French word, which I understood was used by philosophers to speak of a kind of "transcendental" and therefore "pretentious" boredom. So no, I didn't say the French were pretentious, if you thought I was.
Sorry if i wasn't clear enough.
Va prendre un café
TG. Pas besoin de capitulateurs qui aiment la botte américaine.
Wait, what do you mean it's nameless? It's called Ennui? Is that not it's name?
The combination is ennui. Ennui is a conglomeration of despair inducing feelings, among which is the nameless horror.
Ah, ok. I thought it was an umbrella term, not a conglomerate.
Maybe more a consortium, or a concern. Definitely not a corporation; it's not publicly traded.
Frogs aren't happy.....I had a frog in my back yard last year for 2 weeks. He just screamed bloody murder the entire time. Just hours and hours of screaming at 2am.
I don't know if he hopped away, or if he got eaten by a predator, but I feel like I appriciate the circle of life a little bit more knowing that fuckers probably dead.
He wasn't necessarily unhappy. He was probably horny, though.
That's a good stratagy. I'm going to go to the bar this weekend and just stand next to women. Then just start screaming as if I'm being stabbed, while a basket of puppies burn in a fire. All with an erection.
What could possibly go wrong?
If you're eaten by a snake because you sound like a frog, I will enjoy the scientific paper that results.
Lots of watery wet frog eggs in a pond near your bedroom window.
Nothing like empiricism.
It's worth a shot.
N is Neville who died of ennui
The Gashlycrumb Tinies!
N is for Neville, who died of ennui.
https://youtu.be/iMSdV9misgc
Sometimes frogs are brown.
They may have dyuers coloures.
This feels like a very Tumblr joke. Purple prose trying too hard to expand on a simple concept, ultimately losing any real connection to the starting context.
Fuck me... That's a real word.
Taken from french, maybe ? IDK, I'm not a languiste.
Yes. It's french for "boredom", but the kind of boredom that's results from life being too easy. It's like being an over-achieving student in a class where the teacher is focused on the kids who are struggling to catch up.
It actually translates to boredom in every context!