(I have no idea if accurate.)

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Police are like a box of chocolates

They’ll kill your dog.

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I don’t know what I expected. Nothing can just be fun anymore.

I come into a comments section to read and maybe find something interesting and we have police brutality jokes, political bullshit, mean comments.

It confuses me that people are thinking about this stuff all the time and trying to jam their misery into everything.

Downvote me, up vote me, I don’t care but I am just so tired of being forced to think about all the bullshit in the world every day all at once. It’s inescapable.

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21 points

Police are killing people. No one gives a fuck if you’re sick of hearing about it you arrogant little shit.

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Dude, there are thousands of people on this application every day. Someone is going to be thinking of something relevant to what’s going on in the world at all times. Not everyone is thinking that all the time, but odds are someone is. Just like it’s almost certain you won’t win the lottery, but it’s almost certain someone will. Lots of events happening all the time means even unlikely things are likely to happen.

Also, this was pretty funny. Comedy almost always has a political element to it. If you Rent saying anything meaningful or impactful, why say it at all, right?

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3 points

You’re sick of hearing about it, imagine the people who gotta get in your face and remind you of it because you can’t empathize with the fact that they’re the ones living it.

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Ooooh noeee, poor wittle guy. He’s annoying that people correctly point out THE INSANE LEVEL OF MISERY MOST PEOPLE LIVE UNDER. How could you survive knowing that lots of people got actually murdered and thus can’t survive.

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-4 points

Welcome to the fediverse.

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48 points

I’m not sure he was illiterate but he did play football at Alabama so it’s a distinct possibility.

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2 points

You just burned bama

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25 points

Back in the day there wasn’t maps when you got chocolate. Food allergies were not much of a concern back then and nutrition information wasn’t required.

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More to the point, the boxes weren’t all the same. Sure, they only had ~10-20 different pieces, but they would be placed seemingly at random. You may (or may not) have had a card to identify them, but that wasn’t tied to location.

It also doesn’t cover the quantities. Does this box have 5 cherry cordials or just 1? What about honeycomb? Opera cream? Peanut butter?

You still see this from some of the smaller chocolatiers.

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I’ve always seen literal maps showing what’s what. Sounds like maybe none of the Gumps could read. But even so, wouldn’t you learn to tell the shapes apart? It shouldn’t keep surprising you over and over.

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I was mostly stuck on how that joke is older than most people on this site

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. I’m pretty sure that Lemmy skews older to such a degree that most users are my side of 35 and the movie is “only” 30 years old 😁

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… So you’re upset that I said card instead of map? Really? Whatever. Round here it’s a little card.

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I’ve seen them in recent years, but I haven’t always seen the maps.

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Momma told him that so he wouldn’t feel bad being unable to read it.

All the cards I’ve seen always had pictures and text of what’s what.

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16 points

Most boxes of chocolate didn’t have a card or map explaining which was which back in the 90s.

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There was always a risky box of chocolates on grandma’s kitchen table.

Each bite was a gamble: might be a delicious milk chocolate with a peanut inside, or it might be a bitter chocolate with some medicine-like cherry filling.

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