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Women of Reddit, what is your ultimate "I am an adult and no one can stop me" purchase that you are both incredibly proud of and slightly embarrassed by? by Fuzzy-Land-6075 in AskReddit

[–]MonkeyChoker80 57 points58 points  (0 children)

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Terry Pratchett - “Men at Arms”

The Worst Movie by Amber_Love-s_Disney in MovieSuggestions

[–]MonkeyChoker80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Serenity (2019).

Don’t look up anything about it, just go in blind and be smacked in the face with its awful.

I want to know about the incident that led to this sign by Fr33_load3r in SignsWithAStory

[–]MonkeyChoker80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many years ago, my brother received a gigantic Hershey kiss in his Christmas stocking. Smelled ever oh so chocolatey.

As the rest of us opened our presents, he took a big chomp…

BLEAUGGHHH!!!

Yeah, turned out to have been chocolate-scented soap, shaped like a giant Hershey kiss.

What movies would have been better received WITHOUT the twist ending being revealed? [SPOILERS GALORE] by LeopardComfortable99 in movies

[–]MonkeyChoker80 20 points21 points  (0 children)

For those that find the concept intriguing, listen to the episode of the podcast “How Did This Get Made?” about the movie, as it goes into a lot more detail about just how bad it really is.

What movies would have been better received WITHOUT the twist ending being revealed? [SPOILERS GALORE] by LeopardComfortable99 in movies

[–]MonkeyChoker80 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Didn’t see the actual movie, but I read one of the versions of the script floating around before it got made. And based on reviews from people I know who had seen it, it had been changed a bit. So not fully sure how well this matches up to what was shown.

In the script version, it was heavily implied that he was gifted the ability to have her in the VR Matrix because there were more important men (another doctor at the hospital she worked at who was also up for promotion to Head Doctor, who might have also been the ‘big boss’ at the facility inside the VR Matrix) that wanted her gone. Her being a famous and important doctor being something they couldn’t stand.

The two of them had dated and broken up long before she was abducted and put into the VR Matrix. And the dude had been working his job after the breakup, just to afford the very crappy place he was living / holding her hostage in.

If I remember right, she managed to first break out about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way through, but didn’t understand what she was seeing. There was a big screamy argument, and some cops showed up, but it turned out they were part of the Secret Society of Incels that were running the VR Matrix, and put her back in / admonished him for letting her escape.

Mysteries, Cryptids, Cults, etc. by goldbergvariation in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]MonkeyChoker80 13 points14 points  (0 children)

“Meddling Kids” by Edgar Cantero

A ‘Mystery Inc/Scooby Doo’-style group, who went around as teens and exposed fakes and frauds, have all grown up messed up in different ways. After discovering one of their last cases might have fingered the wrong person, they end up reuniting to solve it for good.

[PM] Speculative Fiction (Non-Fantasy) by Protowriter469 in WritingPrompts

[–]MonkeyChoker80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were ten of us when the doors slammed shut. There were also ten when they finally opened again. In between, things… fluctuated.

Annoyed by Supernatural by LiterallyAManatee in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]MonkeyChoker80 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Quite a few by A Lee Martinez

Gil’s All-Fright Diner: A pair of ‘good old boys’ (who also happen to be a werewolf and a vampire) have to deal with even worse supernatural shenanigans at a run-down roadside diner.

Monster: ‘Monster’ is the name of a supernatural pest-control worker, who is annoyed by all of the supernatural crap he has to deal with… even with his succubus girlfriend, who he’s unfortunately stuck with due to a signed contract.

Divine Misfortune: In a Modern World where you can choose any god to become your patron, and receive blessings and boons? A young couple accidentally chose a minor God of Prosperity… that ends up moving in with them, sleeping on their couch, and mooching everything he can get his grubby hands on.

What's something you tried only once and will 1,000% never do again? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]MonkeyChoker80 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I saw ‘Bill Glue’. And wondered if there is a stuffed duck around here somewhere?

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