• ShaunaTheDead
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      758 months ago

      Yeah I was gonna say that. He was famously single his entire life and is speculated to be one of the first historical examples of an asexual and aromantic person.

      • @[email protected]
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        898 months ago

        I can’t be the only one that read “aromatic person” instead of “aromantic person”.

        • ShaunaTheDead
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          38 months ago

          True, but I didn’t say he was the first, I said “one of the first”

        • @[email protected]
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          48 months ago

          Narcissus was not aroace, that’s slapping modern ideals on what’s literally an aesop about living up your own arse.

          Hestia and Athena, definitely though. And Tesla.

          • @[email protected]
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            18 months ago

            in Thespeia of Boeotia (a city not far from Helikon) a child was born, Narcissus, very handsome and dismissive of both Eros and lovers.

            Can you explain in what bizarro universe this is not asexuality? And can you also please explain what Narcissus did that meant he deserved to die?

          • @[email protected]
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            28 months ago

            The Greeks didn’t understand asexuality and thought it was hubris, since the only examples of ace people they did accept were literal gods. Narcissus was 16 when he died. A 16 year old who constantly gets sexually harassed has the right to be a little rude in rejecting people. Ameinias, for example, asked for the 16 year old’s hand in marriage multiple times. If you want to say hounding a mid-pubescent child for sex is acceptable in any cultural context, then I’m going to view you the same way I view the ancient Greeks: as a pedophile.

            • @[email protected]
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              28 months ago

              Narcissus literally loved no one above himself. It wasn’t asexuality it was hubris in the form of solipsism and narcissism - the reason why the condition is literally named after him.

              And the Greeks cerainly DID understand asexuality, go and read Hippolytus.

                • @[email protected]
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                  38 months ago

                  Aromantic people are not sociopaths. It looks like you *think *you’re being an ally or supportive, but you’re actually being extremely offensive and abusive

        • anar
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          68 months ago

          It’s not the same though, those are fictional characters. I know a real person made them, but still, it’s not the same

          • @[email protected]
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            18 months ago

            They’re not fictional, they’re mythical. Here’s the difference between reality, fiction, and myth: Fiction is made out of the rearranged parts of reality. Myth is made out of fiction that people thought was important. And reality is made out of myth that people took too literally.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        Told by Isaac doctors, and a team of nurses, and the results of local biggest apple contest.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        Please don’t try it unless you can already fist yourself, or the retrieval will be a lot more painful!

  • @[email protected]
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    188 months ago

    The center wall that separates the windows is larger on the inside than the outside. Fun

  • @[email protected]
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    168 months ago

    I always laugh at stuff like the small dust cloud of the cucumber, as if it just popped into existence and caused air pressure.

  • @[email protected]
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    908 months ago

    I’m gonna go ahead and be that guy and point out the fact that in the panels showing himat his desk from the inside, th window is to his right and there’s no wall right next to him, while the one from the outside has the window directly in line with him and it’s breaking me

    • Buglefingers
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      38 months ago

      It looks correct to me, the inside view doesn’t even clear the window, the outside view shows that the wall is maybe ~1’ past the window frame which we don’t even see on the inside shot. Unless I’m missing something?

    • Troy
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      128 months ago

      My gawd, you’ve entirely ruined my enjoyment of this cucumber.

    • @[email protected]
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      78 months ago

      I’m gonna be the guy that points out cucumbers are spiky before they get to the grocery store…

      • @[email protected]
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        218 months ago

        I’ve grown lots of cucumbers, and while I haven’t shoved them in my arse, I can confirm that they are smooth. Ridge cucumbers can have spikes, you may be thinking of them.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      The cucumber just fell out of a peddler’s basket who was moving ahead of the woman under the tree.

      • @[email protected]
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        158 months ago

        Admittedly the image quality is “this meme first appeared in a dirty magazine in 1986 and has been re-compressed twice a year since the internet was invented”, but there are falling lines above the cucumber, and a little puff of smoke where it hits the ground. It’s depicted as falling out of a tree.

        • mosiacmango
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          It’s common to use a trellis with cucumbers to have their vines grow vertically instead of covering all of the horizontal space of a garden. That makes cucumbers “hang” in the air like a fruit on a tree, and would lead to those motion lines in a fall.

            • AwesomeLowlander
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              228 months ago

              Well before Newton discovered gravity, the vines would have been floating freely around. His discovery is what triggered the cucumber to hit the ground.

        • @[email protected]
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          28 months ago

          The apple falls next to a tree trunk, the cucumber falls next to vines and leaves near the ground. You wrong.