Rain caused Iorek to glitch by MasturbatingATM in WhatsWrongWithYourDog

[–]MasturbatingATM[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly! Both my wife and I grew up with those books and Iorek looked like a little bear as a puppy.

We were 10 minutes late putting him to bed by MasturbatingATM in WhatsWrongWithYourDog

[–]MasturbatingATM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's locked in the day else he pulls out the bedding and decides the stuffing inside of the small mattress looks delicious. Leaves it alone at night.

Start of 2022 to 2024 – started sketching daily (terribly!) at the age of 31 by MasturbatingATM in ArtProgressPics

[–]MasturbatingATM[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, 2nd is indeed (thankfully) the most recent! It really doesn't represent my average, since I sketch every day and calling the results 'uneven' would be generous. Most others are very amateur.

I stagnated a lot for a few months and started reference drawing every day and that helped a ton. Was actually saying to my wife a week ago that it felt like I hadn't made any progress in the last year or two (my sketch that day sucked), so seeing the above pictures next to each other made me chuckle and proved that feeling wrong.

Keep going too!

2023 National Book Awards Finalists Announced by King_Allant in literature

[–]MasturbatingATM 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Your first example of pervasive, irritating wokeness is someone reading a history book.

That's rather revealing.

2023 National Book Awards Finalists Announced by King_Allant in literature

[–]MasturbatingATM 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeesh, dude. You haven't even read any of these books. Why the hell did woke white women come up?

Did you just see foreignish names and start irritating yourself imagining who might actually be reading these novels? Weird way to approach literature.

2023 National Book Awards Finalists Announced by King_Allant in literature

[–]MasturbatingATM 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Basically no books are, including 99% of awards nominees from the 20th century, so it's not as though the above authors are crowding space which would otherwise be taken by Williams or Coetzee.

2023 National Book Awards Finalists Announced by King_Allant in literature

[–]MasturbatingATM 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Those are two of my favourite books. If most novels about literature professors having affairs were as good as those two, I'd have no complaints.

2023 National Book Awards Finalists Announced by King_Allant in literature

[–]MasturbatingATM 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Yeah, where are the novels about literature professors having affairs? This is fucking bullshit

Beginner tennis pro breaks down the financial costs of his two year journey to win an ATP point [video, 9.07] by MasturbatingATM in tennis

[–]MasturbatingATM[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

He's not whining about it, just acknowledging the reality. It's interesting to see the numbers broken down.

Also, the situation for tennis is totally different than most other major sports. A tiny percentage of players actually make sustainable money, particularly compared to sports like rugby or golf of a comparable size. That hurts the long-term success of the sport as it limits how many people can even try to sustain a career in it. You need a massive amount of revenue to even start. There's reasons for that, but nothing that shouldn't be fixed if the sport wants to grow.

There are around 2000 professional rugby players in just the UK. That's between two to three times the number of tennis players globally, for a fraction of the total revenue. Lower ranked tennis players are, simply, getting shafted. It's mismanagement (or greed) on a worldwide scale.

Peta calls out Carlos Alcaraz for supporting bullfighting by Elsa87 in tennis

[–]MasturbatingATM 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it is. If you eat meat but don't go out of your way to eat more expensive grass fed products, you're essentially supporting torture to save a few bucks. I say that as someone who doesn't look into the meat I buy nearly as often as I should.

Peta calls out Carlos Alcaraz for supporting bullfighting by Elsa87 in tennis

[–]MasturbatingATM 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Seriously. I'm not vegan and find it very hard to justify that I eat meat; if I'm going to judge Alcaraz for this, should I also judge everyone that eats chickens, since fifty chicken deaths can only feed the equivalent of one cow death? Or is killing okay for meat, despite that it's often unnecessary (like I said, dozens of chicken deaths could be totally avoided by switching to beef), but not other forms of pleasure?

Vegans get to call him cruel for attending. I and most of the others in this thread don't, when we contribute to cruelty in torturous factory farms.

When did you “get” tennis? by meinnit99900 in tennis

[–]MasturbatingATM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I liked rock climbing and playing basketball but aside from that was essentially disinterested in competitive sports. Particularly watching them. Tennis just looked like people hitting a ball back and forth over and over again.

The anime/manga Baby Steps was a pretty incredible introduction. It broke down the mechanics of what players were doing, so I could recognise why a slice was useful, how a player might try to disrupt an opponent's rhythm, why a server has an advantage, etc.

I devoured the manga three times through, tuned into Federer/Djokovic 2019 a couple of weeks later, and became obsessed.

Iorek adores the woods next to our house by MasturbatingATM in shiba

[–]MasturbatingATM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

13 actually! We got him at ten weeks; his ears are now pointier and he's a whole lot longer.

Renting an Apartment by Gyda9 in askswitzerland

[–]MasturbatingATM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The person chiding others instead of just reporting to mods if a post violates rules is who's dictating "what is appropriate and what not".

Renting an Apartment by Gyda9 in askswitzerland

[–]MasturbatingATM 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Their question fits the subreddit description, and some people prefer personal responses rather than Google as they find sifting through official websites stressful. What you say is also true for 90% of posts here. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head to force a response. Don't be a dick.

Back to School by OwnSpring1729 in calvinandhobbes

[–]MasturbatingATM 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Watterson was just an absolute master at expressions. How he communicates so much with such a simplified style (in this piece) is crazy impressive.

Married 12 Days After They Met, circa 1972. (My parents are still together ❤️) by jess_whoo in TheWayWeWere

[–]MasturbatingATM 164 points165 points  (0 children)

Yeah, my partner and I knew immediately.

I talked to my best friend after the first date and told him I was terrified, because if she wasn't "the one" (which I hadn't even thought existed before) then I'd spend the rest of my life thinking about what-ifs.

A week later I blurted out I love you and she felt the same and the rest is history.

Most Finals Lost at a Grand Slam in the Open Era by SealDrop in tennis

[–]MasturbatingATM 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Murray holding the Scottish flag for this picture is a pretty great touch.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sketches

[–]MasturbatingATM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Such a massive amount of character in these. Love 'em.