21074th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 8)

“‘Shortcuts’? Yeah, the one with, um, uh, er, directed by Altman and with Tom Waits, yeah. Yeah, that’s a really good movie, yeah, uh, really powerful movie too, I mean, basically destroyed my relationship with my dad, um, 'cause, uh, he and- he and my mom were watching one night and I was there too, we’re all- we’re all watching it and um, um, it’s really long, it’s like three hours long, and it has this weird violent ending so after the credits started rolling, I was, like, just jokingly like, “what a bad ending,” but um, I mean obviously I was joking I wouldn’t have sat there for fucking three hours if I had actually thought the movie was bad but I mean, my dad got all pissed. So, next time he started up a movie, um, I was in the room when, like, I had been reading when we started the movie, and he turned the lights off so I couldn’t read anymore, so I w- I put the book away and started watching the movie and it was ‘Zabriskie Point’ which, you know, I probably wanted to see that movie longer than he because it had this Pink Floyd soundtrack and they never released it on album or anything so, you know, I wanted to watch it for years. So, ten minutes into the movie he pauses it, and he turns to me and he says, he tells me he doesn’t want me to watch movies with him and my mom anymore and would I please leave the room and, you know, so I was just like, oh. Okay. And I wal-walked out of the room, I mean, and I​ was just so pissed off and angry and hurt, and I mean, why, why the fuck would he do that? I mean, like, he has- he has this teenage son, a teenager who likes the same movies that he does, and has a similar taste to him, I mean, he should be fucking celebrating- he should be fucking embracing that and instead he fucking kicked me out of the room, so, I mean. It’s not that he didn’t want, like- ‘Zabriskie Point’, it has like a sex scene and everything but its not like he actually cared about me not seeing that, and I, I know that he doesn’t care because the next day, he offered to let me- he offers to let me borrow it and- and watch it on my own, and I was like, thanks a fucking lot. I really want to watch this movie by myself after you kicked me out last night. But, um, yeah, that’s basically, uh, when I started- or, when I just lost all respect for my dad. That and my, uh, seventeenth birthday party. Well, it wasn’t a party, it was just me and my family, uh. Uh, we were eating cake, you know, I’d opened presents and we’d had a nice birthday dinner, and we were just topping off the evening with some cake, and I was- I was fine, I was perfectly happy, and my sister, uh was talking to my mother, and she was imitating her boyfriend. My sister’s boyfriend. My sister was imitating her boyfriend, uh, talking with, like, a high-pitched voice, this high-pitched, you know, annoying voice, not that loudly, I mean, I wasn’t- I wasn’t paying attention, I was just eating my cake, I was fine, but my dad just interrupts her in the middle of it, and he says… oh, what did he say, he said, like, yap yap yap, I just wanna eat without hearing any of this shrieking, and, you know, just something incredibly rude like that. So, you know, my sister’s face fell, there was just this dead silence for like, minutes, everybody’s just, like, picking at their cake, noone’s actually- everybody lost their appetite now and then after a couple minutes my dad just walked out of the fucking room and tosses his cake in the garbage. You know, fucking ruined my birthday, so, um, uh, after that I didn’t really want anything to do with my father but, um. Yeah, uh, ‘Shortcuts’ is a really good movie, yeah, we should definitely see that some time.”

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Ban

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Anyway yeah it like hurts to walk any slower than max speed and it hurts to type slower than max speed and it hurts to think slower than max speed. Makes me dumb pretty often. Makes me crazy also

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Crazy… I might be crazy too. Difficult

When i was a kid i always wished i was one of my peers. Imagining that made me feel happy

i wish i was many people i don’t think it’s uncommon

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and before someone asks - no, none of them were women

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Arctic is now preemptively denying comments

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you never aspired to be a marie curie, or an emmy noether? not even caitlin clark?

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Lookw hat you’ve done

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Misogyny arc…

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Either you’re a Transgender or a Misogynist. Pick your fucking path

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i only know one of those people and i admire marie curie but i never wanted to be her

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true!

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marie curie is perhaps a bad example, given that she surrounded herself with so much radiation that she had to be buried in a lead coffin. but the other two!

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earlier in another chat i said that if i did use non-standard pronouns it would be it/its but i couldnt explain why without it being weird so this is a good sign to not trans my gender

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No that’s aspirational

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I want to be a danger to others

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I want to lick uranium

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it’s probably really sour

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