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#2

We Sadly Live In A Society

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292points

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Andrew Keir 3 months ago

Probably because if we don't, things are even worse for us. Just sayin' ...

55points

#3

Shoo

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285points

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xolitaire 3 months ago (edited)

The most polite GTFO ever

215points

If you came of age in the Instagram and TikTok era, you’re likely not as familiar with Tumblr’s appeal. But looking at its About page will tell you a lot about its character and personality.

“Wholesome chaos” was the phrase used to describe the site’s contents. It also encourages self-expression because “Tumblr is whatever you want it to be.”

#4

Pokemon Names

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262points

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justagirl 3 months ago

kinda wish they would.

72points

#5

It's Not Getting Fast, But It's Getting There

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247points

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Karina 3 months ago

Yeeees

51points

#6

That Tables Turn

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239points

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Auntriarch 3 months ago

Oh dear I laughed so hard I farted

106points

The internet defines Tumblr as a microblog. However, its founder, David Karp, does not use this description. In an interview with Media Bistro, he describes it as “the easiest way to share yourself.”

Karp also emphasizes Tumblr’s flexibility regarding the type of content users can create. Because it is easy for anyone to self-publish, he believes it helped draw in a broad audience.

#7

[u.s.] Michigan Democrats

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235points

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Karina 3 months ago

Did the republicans not notice?

50points

#8

That's How It Works

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219points

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Vinny DaPooh 3 months ago (edited)

Yep. I'm the guy the defense wants on the jury. You committed a crime and got immediate karma so now want the true victim to pay? Your honor, are we allowed to hang the plaintiff?

108points

#9

Astronaut

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214points

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xolitaire 3 months ago (edited)

oh noooo so you can't pay your way into space anymore? Bummer. Well then, how about you use that money to pay your workers better? Sound good?

103points

“It’s the gay people in your phone” is another description written on the site. This comes from Tumblr’s similar claim to be the “queerest place on the internet.”

According to Adweek statistics published in 2021, one in four users on the platform identify as LGBTQIA+. A Tumblr user is also said to be 193% more likely to be part of the queer community compared to other social networking sites.

#10

Scenes Are Meant To Be Seen

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213points

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VikingAbroad 3 months ago

The light comes from the same place as the music - is pretty poetic!

186points

#11

Professionalism

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191points

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Karina 3 months ago

What a lovely story about cool prople. My bar is low, but this was wholesome

100points

#12

Most Embarrassing Thing That Can Ever Happen

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191points

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Marianne 3 months ago

I love everything about it.

63points

To solidify Tumblr’s reputation as queer-friendly, Sydney-based writer and photographer Jonno Revanche wrote an article for The Guardian in 2016. Here, he described the platform as his “saviour” that made him see he “wasn’t monstrous and unloveable.”

“While it may seem simple or silly, social media allowed me to express elements of myself I felt like I couldn’t in my day-to-day life,” he wrote.

#13

Pronunciation

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186points

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Az 3 months ago

Some kid in Tokyo - Fuggetaboutit!

80points

#14

Accidentally Based

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183points

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Verena 3 months ago

Only problem: Somebody has to deliver. Which was solved e.g. in social and health services (as a grneral overall term) in most of Europe, by everybody chipping in so those in need of health treatment, parental leave etc do get help.

57points

#15

What's Your Corpse To Water Ratio?

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182points

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justagirl 3 months ago

It's also called, "Not thinking about the corpse when swimming" so yes if you somehow camouflage a corpse n a pool, don't tell me, and tell me to swim in it i will be fine.

50points

Tumblr seems to have always catered to a younger, more progressive audience. For author and DePaul University professor Allison McCracken, it became the youth’s “best option for an online ‘private’ public space.”

In a journal article she published in 2017, she credits the platform’s ability to “bring a broader range of voices” than any college classroom could. She also believes Tumblr was able to “offer developed minority representation” when the media wasn’t able to.

#16

Yeah, You’d Think They’d Be Able To Put Two And Two Together On This One

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173points

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Moo 3 months ago

I personally think without the social stigma more people would come out as bi, but who knows

126points

#17

Tit For Tat

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166points

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StrangeOne 3 months ago

Taylor sounds like an insufferable girlfriend. I'm sure she's just as bad, if not worse, to her boyfriends and makes it hard for them to please her in strategy. Her muse is break-ups. If she doesn't have fights, falling outs, break ups, her career would be over.

33points

#18

Chess

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163points

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Captive 3 months ago

And who won???

86points

Despite its reach and popularity among the younger demographic, Tumblr had its fair share of controversies. In 2018, it announced a prohibition on “adult content” after an iOS ban on the app due to child pornography issues.

In an official statement, Tumblr assured its users that it would continue to work to keep the platform a “safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community.” However, it received backlash, with affected users attacking its queer-friendly claim.

#19

Rich People And Ghosts

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162points

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Andrew Keir 3 months ago

But they looked cute and, let's face it, looks beat facts every day!

17points

#20

Boring Queers

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161points

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Nat Rich 3 months ago

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32points

#21

[u.s.] Vocal Minority

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157points

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VikingAbroad 3 months ago

They should be able to give a short review of the book and tell you on which page the offensive material is, and whether or not it is reoccurring in the book before being even allowed to ask for a book ban.

164points

By the time the controversy arose, Tumblr had already spiked in value and had been sold to media giant Yahoo! for a whopping $1.1 billion in 2013. In an interview with Inc. at the time of the sale, Karp admitted he wasn’t expecting it to happen that year. However, a “remarkable opportunity” presented itself.

“This was an unbelievable opportunity to shortcut a lot of the very hard things that we’re about to be going through,” he explained.

#22

Autism Awareness

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156points

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clairebear 3 months ago

Omg you can't group us. As the saying goes, If you have met one autistic person, you have met one autistic person. We present differently.

63points

#23

😔

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155points

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Cat Palmer 3 months ago

The first part happened to me: after a sudden massive decline in health I was found to be dangerously deficient in a vitamin (B12, fwiw). Sadly the "solved all my problems" bit has yet to take effect.

9points

#24

I'm Late!

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148points

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Kalikima Premium 3 months ago

You met The Doctor.

72points

Tumblr remained with Yahoo! for four years before moving to Verizon Media. Two years later, in 2019, Verizon sold the platform to Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com.

This time, the price tag was far less. Reports didn’t specify the amount, but it was believed to be “well below” $20 million, a far cry from its original purchase value.

#25

Gargle My Balls, Microsoft

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147points

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Karina 3 months ago

I bought a cromebook, and had to find a way to distale security so I could downlod... VLC 😅🤬

34points

#26

Catholicism Patch Notes

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144points

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Joshua Moore 3 months ago

If you’re an atheist you don’t believe in any of it! 😁

71points

Joshua Seaman 3 months ago

If you're an atheist, you find it hilarious that the Vatican did a "papal investigation of the concept of limbo" lol 😅

26points

Philly Bob Squires 3 months ago

I'm going to Hell in multiple religions so, hey.

3points

Hassel Davidhoff 3 months ago (edited)

Yes! As all adults should. Believing any religious BS is not something a grown adult person should do. And I don't really admit this a lot but I can totally be getting to know a person and be thinking "yeah, this person seems kinda cool". Then I learn they're religious and I just think "really? still? How sad." And then I'll pretty much ghost them. Because, y'know, it's 2024 and all of these stories are so obviously myths. I just don't get it.

3points

two-sided llama 3 months ago

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Ephemera Image 3 months ago

The mental gymnastics of these religious people...

18points

MurderMittens 3 months ago

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Vay 3 months ago

I’m agnostic but I still kind of hope children are somewhere at peace

14points

Krd 3 months ago

Here's the thing, if there is a god, and he lets innocent babies suffer for eternity in limbo, then God's an a-hole and deserves no respect. Same with the whole baptism thing. Why would a god give me l9gic and free will, that leads me to believe there is mo god, then punish me for it?! Thats like giving a kid an ice cream cone and being mad they ate the ice cream ;like what? You gave it to them, what did you expect to happen. So either there isn't a god, or there is a god and they don't give a f*** what you do because they gave you the ability to do it. If god has such a problem with it, he could instantly make it stop.

0points

Thom Serveaux 3 months ago

This is so bizarre. Imagine thinking you can have a personal relationship with the creator of the universe, but you have to ask a council of crusty old men if unborn souls go to heaven.

11points

Michael Largey 3 months ago

To be more precise, limbo was never a teaching of the Catholic Church. It was offered as one theory of what God might do with unbaptized babies, but it was never church doctrine. In 2007 the Church finally got around to admitting that this theory contradicted everything else they were saying about the goodness of God and dropped it.

9points

TheBlueBitterfly 3 months ago

Then why was my mother, a nurse in Labor & Delivery floor sometimes, have to be have training/some kind of certification on how to baptise a newborn quickly that was not expected to survive long? Non-religious hospital.

3points

Don't listen to me 3 months ago

So it only took the catholics ~2000 years to have pity on the lost souls of totally innocent children

9points

Michael Largey 3 months ago

Promulgated by Pope John XXII in 1321 and discarded in 2007, only 686 years. But yeah, way too long, even for a theory.

0points

Guess Undheit 3 months ago

The depravity of christian sadism knows no bounds. They want torment for eternity.

7points

TheBlueBitterfly 3 months ago

And the hunger for the Almighty Dollar.

4points

Moo 3 months ago

I'm Christian, but I really don't understand Catholicism. I'm reading the Bible all the way through and I just don't understand where they got any of the things they say and do-

4points

Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 3 months ago

Serious question. Which version of the Bible? There's no such thing as THE Bible.

16points

xolitaire 3 months ago

By now there are so many variations and sub groups of Catholicism (especially in the US) that cherry pick what to concentrate on or believe in, it's ridiculous. Just remember that the Bible was written by Man, not God and has been and always will be used as a tool to instil fear.

5points

VikingAbroad 3 months ago

Dante. Dante is often the reply.

2points

LittleWombat 3 months ago

Don't worry, there are so many contradictions in all the various versions of the Bible that has been mistranslated from its previous mistranslations, taken out of context from the culture and customs of the day in which its various parts were written, and had parts included and omitted by scribes who were editors/writers for parties who couldn't verify that their correct words were even written down. That book is such a contradictorty mess that if you think you understand the Bible and live by all of it, you'd be living like a multiple personality disorder.

1point

Michael Largey 3 months ago

That could be said about every Christian denomination.

0points

Andrew Keir 3 months ago

Not an expert but I thought Catholics weren't supposed to read the Bible , they were supposed to do what their priests told them. Until the rules get changed.

0points

BoredPossum 3 months ago

Why downvote the most sane person on here? Take my upvote.

-1point

Marie Clear 3 months ago

As a recovering Catholic, I wish the Catholic church leaders would go back to spending all day arguing about whether or not Adam had a belly button. At least each side of THAT argument was based on logic.

2points

T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago

AFAIK, in the '90s the Catholics also decided that people who commit self-unaliving (just in case of censorship) aren't automatically assumed to go to the Bad Place. I only know this because people were talking about it on a Forever Knight (the vampire TV show) list at the time.

1point

Rich Black 3 months ago

This is so offensive

0points

Maude Lin 3 months ago

Religious people are so dumb

0points

Stephanie A Mutti 3 months ago

Good to know. I've been telling everyone for decades that unbaptized babies become vampires.

0points

Celtic Pirate Queen 3 months ago

Who the f*ck cares WHAT the Catholic Church decides? Pretty sure heaven & hell don't exist in the first place, but if they did - who's version would be correct? Christians? Buddhists? Hindus? There are several thousand religions on this planet & I refuse to believe that Jesus is the only answer.

0points

Child of the King 3 months ago

All babies who died will go to Heaven

0points

Cydney Golden 3 months ago

This cartoon doesn't work if it shows zygotes talking, which is more realistic.

0points

Leah Banks 3 months ago

Most Christians (not Catholics) believe that God takes children, and those who cannot tell right from wrong, to Heaven when they die. Based on Bible verses such as Deuteronomy 1:39 where God says "...children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it." And also the famous "suffer little children to come unto me" verse Jesus said.

0points

LadyManx 3 months ago

Just like that, the exegesis fairy loses a feather. So for those that need to know. Limbo is a place invented by Catholics to explain their theory of salvation. Protestants don't believe in Limbo. It is not a Biblical concept, so we just passed on it. I always assumed that it was very sad that only Catholic babies were in Limbo. I mean, how could they have any fun? How can tiny babies play Limbo, they've hard got any way to bend over backwards, they are so smol.

0points

Mongo Marcia 3 months ago

Limbo is never mentioned in the bible.

0points

Eugenia 3 months ago

Quite a traffic jam up there while moving all those babies around

0points

Angela C 3 months ago

I wish I'd been aborted

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Nikki Martinez 3 months ago

Cuz punishing the aborted fetus for eternity in limbo is so much more moral than forced labor....

0points

Andrew Read 3 months ago

Haha. Some of the funniest comments I’ve read.

0points

BoredPossum 3 months ago

Sorry to tell you this but there is no such thing as heaven or limbus.

-1point

censorshipsucks 3 months ago

So catholics are in favour of David Benatar's work?

-2points

#27

Poker > AI

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130points

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 3 months ago

Amazing

19points

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#28

True Allyship 🏳️‍🌈

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129points

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The explanation 3 months ago

Then again, maybe if you question somebody's identity and sexuality, they'll be annoyed. Also, what if their friend was gay but hadn't come out yet? Seems a jerkish way to treat your friends

59points

#29

A Collection Of Alternative Sayings

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120points

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Andrew Keir 3 months ago

My favourite put-down remains "100 000 sperm, and *you* were the winner?"

67points

#30

Racist, But Funny

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115points

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ScarletRos 3 months ago

My son is autistic and in a special needs school and the kids are allowed to leave class and go outside if they need to.

46points

#31

Cursed_sitcom

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113points

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The explanation 3 months ago

Sounds like if Doki Doki Literature Club was a TV show

22points

#32

Dumb Ways To Die

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110points

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xolitaire 3 months ago

Tesla's are proven to freaking RUST.

35points

#33

Evolution

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96points

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CanadianDimes 3 months ago

Evolution is reactive, not proactive. There's no goal per se, as in, a species isn't trying to evolve toward something, just trying to adapt to changing conditions so as to not die.

18points

#34

Shaggy, The High Geologist

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95points

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_physically_insane_(he/they/any) 3 months ago

The high geologist meme is one of my favourites

22points

#35

From What I Can Tell This Hasnt Been Posted Here Yet So Here

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95points

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Verena 3 months ago (edited)

It fascinates me endlessly, how in the one hand people are totally loving electronics taking over human work and free stuff on internet, and at the same time complain about not being able to find well enough paid work. Guys, we are 8 billion, not 2,5 as in 1950s happy fantasyland. These 8 billion need food, clothing, shelter and entertainment, which requires them to find well enough paid jobs. Shopping deadcheap stuff from deadcheap countries ruins your local economy and employment. By this making a few incredibly rich and you screaming hell and fire because they are rich.

53points

#36

Forged In Fire

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89points

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Brenda 3 months ago

I quit watching when he left

10points

#37

Good Person

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89points

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Andrew Keir 3 months ago

Because my opinions are facts, whereas your 'facts' are just opinions.

55points

#38

Female

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87points

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lenka 3 months ago

Unless the story involves her breasts, vagina or menstruation then adding 'female' to boss is irrelevant. Just don't. If the story involves your boss's breasts, vagina or menstruation then perhaps you should be reconsidering whether your relationship is appropriate and just not tell the story at all.

69points

#39

I Love How Stupid The Cybertruck Is

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85points

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Moo 3 months ago

I saw a cyber truck with a shattered windshield, Elon is a liar

47points

#40

[u.s.] Confederate Surrender Day (Was Yesterday)

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78points

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TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago

What is is the difference between Georgia and Germany? It took only one Sherman to defeat Georgia... (Just a history joke I heard recently)

59points

#41

[marvel] A Simple But Elegant Solution

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78points

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Navindu Wijewardena 3 months ago

for further context: the man shown is Matt Murdock, a.k.a Daredevil (Marvel). He's blind.

35points

#42

>greentext Form

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76points

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justagirl 3 months ago

are you allowed at whatever this guy went to if you're not lgbtq+? cause it sounds pretty lit.

4points

#43

"This Country Used To Build Railroads!"

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70points

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Savahax 3 months ago

I've seen this. TV's at 90% off etc. Insane

16points

#44

Sex

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65points

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Chihuahua Mama 3 months ago

*Talking to an incel* "Yes, complaining about 'females' is good, but have you tried sex"

65points

#45

Book-Ish

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62points

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Auntriarch 3 months ago

A bible, unless it's one you had in primary school but your friend wrote something really naughty in it and you didn't dare give it back when you left and told the teacher you'd lost it.

17points