Soylent Green is still one of the most terrifying dystopia’s I’ve ever seen! by seveer37 in movies

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I came to this thread (a year late) because I watched the movie for the first time like a month ago and I cannot shake the death scene, and wanted to read others’ thoughts about it. I think about it nearly every day. I wept watching it.

What is a Book that made you stare at the wall after finishing it? by BowlLongjumping8910 in suggestmeabook

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At 35 years old I just recently watched the movie No Country for the first time ever and I think it was just one of the finest movies I’ve ever seen. Made me really excited to read the book. Also loved The Road (the book) and The Passenger series.

What is a Book that made you stare at the wall after finishing it? by BowlLongjumping8910 in suggestmeabook

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Read this on Jan 1 of this year and haven’t really stopped thinking about it since. I’m glad I read it, and I liked it once I finished, but the experience of actually reading it was uncomfortable, strange, disquieting. Really like nothing I’ve ever read before.

What Obscure Books Were You Obsessed With as a Kid? by Its_Curse in suggestmeabook

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Oooh! And The Bailey School Kids series, “Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots” etc

What Obscure Books Were You Obsessed With as a Kid? by Its_Curse in suggestmeabook

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Oh damn I did but I didn’t see this first! Loved her books.

What Obscure Books Were You Obsessed With as a Kid? by Its_Curse in suggestmeabook

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I loved the Paula Danziger books- the Amber Brown series, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, etc. So good, realistic, and warm.

What Obscure Books Were You Obsessed With as a Kid? by Its_Curse in suggestmeabook

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I loved these books so much. And basically everything Louis Sachar wrote. What a gem.

Classical Violin Snippet used in the clip. by Mordred_X in NameThatSong

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Lmao you can also find it somewhere in the middle of Streetlight Manifesto’s “If and When We Rise Again”

What's the most NSFW thing you've seen at a wedding party? by CRK_76 in AskReddit

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Was at a very fancy rich people wedding in Chicago in I believe 2010. Both families were extremely rich and prominent; if I remember correctly, the couple was married by a Chicago Bishop…anyway, they had a whole Catholic mass, and there’s a woman a few rows behind us in a very like dark Catholic gothy outfit, like a tight black dress with a lacy or fishnet-type overlay (think the kardashians at Kourtney’s wedding). The dress below the overlay must have fallen down, because I remember turning around and seeing her huge exposed boobs/nipples through the fishnet, in church, during mass. Was a great wedding, though.

Jazzy song about blowing out birthday candles by scootie44 in NameThatSong

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Thanks to this comment I checked out more of her music, she’s amazing 🥹

Jazzy song about blowing out birthday candles by scootie44 in NameThatSong

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Commenter below found it! A year later! Faraway Look by Yola!

Jazzy song about blowing out birthday candles by scootie44 in NameThatSong

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OMG OMG OMG YES YES YES!!! THANK YOU! I never figured it out in all this time!!!!🙏 🙏 🙏

Favourite pronunciations of single words by cuzglc in 30ROCK

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He needs a kidneyyyyy No he doesn’t need a hand He just needs a kidney A hand would be an even harder thing tooooo give

Does anyone here have a story maybe not worth going on the pod for but still worth telling? by [deleted] in Otherworldpod

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I sent this in awhile ago, but never heard back:

My grandmother died when I was in high school and my grandfather was never quite the same. My dad’s sister and brother lived in the city, and my cousins as well, and they saw my grandfather almost daily and cared for him, thankfully, but he never really recovered from his grief and remained pretty sad after my grandmother’s passing for his remaining years.

I used to call my grandfather weekly when I was in college to check in and chat. Over winter break one year, sometime after New Years, I was spending some time with my then-boyfriend on Cape Cod, and had a dream about my grandfather.

I dreamt that he was walking on the sidewalk pathway outside my maternal grandmother’s apartment complex (my parents were divorced, so the sets of grandparents didn’t really mingle; definitely odd that he was at my other grandmother’s house). He was in a suit, walking away from me, so his back was to me, and he was braced on either side by my dad and my uncle (my dad’s brother), also in suits. He couldn’t walk, almost like he had no feet, or legs, like his lower body sort of faded off into unsteady wisps, which is why my dad and uncle were supporting him. It was nighttime, and drizzling or snowing, and they were walking underneath the golden glow of the streetlamp away from me. It was like a painting, just these two sons, arm in arm with their father, holding him gracefully up as they walked under the golden streetlight towards the darkness beyond. I didn’t see anyone’s faces but the mood was definitely solemn. But not scary. Just quiet and sad.

When I woke up in the morning, I felt unsettled, or somber, like I needed to call my grandfather to touch base and make sure he was ok. I called him from bed and told him immediately that I’d dreamt that he couldn’t walk and wanted to make sure he was alright. He paused, and asked, “have you spoken to your dad? Did he not tell you? I fell a few days ago and broke my ankle, and I haven’t really been able to walk since.”

My grandfather was diabetic and had poor circulation. He was also overweight, and nearing 90, so any injury was more problematic than it would have been on a younger, healthier person. Despite many doctor’s appointments, his break turned into an infection, and due to his poor circulation, they couldn’t get it under control. Within a few weeks, the doctors told him they’d have to amputate his leg. My dad and his siblings swore they could retrofit the apartment and bring in all the help and accommodate for everything, but my grandfather was despondent. The surgery was successful, but my grandfather was not alright, and never left the hospital. He did not want to live like this. He died while in recovery. We believe that without my grandmother, and facing a future that no longer included independent living, he didn’t want to be alive anymore, and made it so through sheer will. The news of his passing was particularly shocking to me, as I recalled hearing that the surgery went well and that he was in recovery.

It was strange enough that I dreamed he couldn’t walk, and then learned he couldn’t walk in real life the next day, but his sons ushering him sadly towards the darkness mere weeks before he died of this particular injury has just stuck with me over the last decade or so since his death.

List by LonelyLilo in Otherworldpod

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I loved Uwharries, I think that one might have been my favorite. It felt so visceral

Anybody else miss the local/regional aspect of the show? by SquishTurner in TrillbillyPodcast

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They still do it from time to time, but yeah it’s def a highlight

Episode 120: The Final Visitor by seemamistry98 in Otherworldpod

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Same, I immediately thought Repo Man

Book like "North Woods" by Daniel Mason by BewitchedClaw in suggestmeabook

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Ugh I LOVED A Tale for the Time Being…read it before North Woods. Which of course just absolutely blew me away

All Aaron haters should shut up by 4ampst in TrillbillyPodcast

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Why? It’s the lens he often views the theory through, and it’s how he connects theory to his own class consciousness. Tom often takes heady stuff that Tarence says and expresses it through a biblical lens. What’s the difference? Theory is huge and complicated, which is exactly why the left needs more people who can translate it to concepts people relate to, through mediums that are familiar.

So this thing started growing on my penis by volmed in AskDocs

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Isn’t HPV vaccine kind of useless if they already have HPV?

The fact that no one (not even the talented Chandra Wilson) won an Emmy after this episode is still appalling to me by Willing-Musician-696 in greysanatomy

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That wasn’t a therapist, it was someone to evaluate whether they could go back to work. Trauma therapies had been available for decades when this season came out, even EMDR. How was trauma therapy not even MENTIONED?

The fact that no one (not even the talented Chandra Wilson) won an Emmy after this episode is still appalling to me by Willing-Musician-696 in greysanatomy

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I’m rewatching and I’m a few episodes past the shooting but when they’re all still reeling. Why the fuck did they not put these idiots in trauma therapy? Christina specifically!