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In Evil Dead (2013), Eric finds a book bound in human skin, wrapped in barbed wire, with "Leave This Book Alone" scribbled on it. He then cuts the barbed wire, reveals the hidden text and read it al…
Why would he think it’s a real cursed book? Seems like it might be an intriguing meta horror novel or something
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Spinning around
Change your frame of reference and the moon is just as much to blame
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Corn time, everyone get corny
“What is the word for the thing inside corn on the cob? Huh, it’s impossible to know. Guess I’ll go with corn bone“
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Saying white people food tastes plain isn't the same as calling the cops on a black teen
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If you’re trying to talk to people don’t define the word to inherently include systemic power structures, then you’re never going to get anywhere by refusing to use language in a way that they understand. There’s no harm in specifying “systemic racism“ if the people you’re talking don’t include “systemic“ in their idiolectic baseline definition of racism. But just telling a person they can’t experience racism when their definition of “racism“ is simply analogous to prejudice will only make them defensive and hostile
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Saying white people food tastes plain isn't the same as calling the cops on a black teen
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They don’t understand the concept. And using language in a way they don’t understand doesn’t help.
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midas touch is a greek myth warning people about greed, yet we use it to describe someone who succeeds at what they do.
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The “original” version of that quote is unattested and likely made up post facto
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It really do be like that
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Sadly, this is my experience too
