Hear hear. Back in my day you had to earn your musculoskeletal chronic pains, they were not handed to you easily like today.
drolex
joined 1 year ago
Anglo-saxons got the UWU, nice
Astronauts now: we need ice cream, stat! These space travels are very uncomfortable.
Cosmonauts then: I will jump through the atmosphere with this glorified handkerchief to slow me down
(Me in my armchair, also now: all these guys are such losers. I could do all that any day. But not today, maybe later though)
You could even, oh my god, have a hug or touch her nose.
So this is why there is a "Block user" option. Thanks for clearing that up
Gadget Hackwrench
Congratulations to Gwyneth Paltrow and Benedict Cumberbatch for their baby
Lei Feng, the epitome of temperance? He was very fond of long and hard poles, or so I've heard.
(And I like how everything is slightly wrong in this meme. Too bad no one was purged in this list)
They will rip your dick out, Jamie send that video of jacked hairless chimps
Lol your 12! Get in your grave grandpa
You're really getting out of your way to miss my point. The number of professional writers is some orders of magnitude bigger than the number of billionaires, so much so that taking some arbitrary subset of writers of approximately the same size is easily done.
Another counter example (because I'm really nice like that): some contemporary French writers, just from memory:
- Annie Ernaux
- JMG Le Clezio
- Amélie Nothomb
- Michel Houellebecq
- Erik Orsenna
- Virginie Despentes
- Patrick Modiano
- Christine Angot
- Jean Echenoz
- Sylvain Tesson
- Marie Ndiaye
- Virginie Grimaldi
- Marc Levy
- Alain Finkielkraut
- Michel Onfray
- Mélissa da Costa
- Andrei Making
- François Cheng
- JC Rufin
Yes I know, it's not 43, but I could easily go to my local bookshop and find 180 more, and again 43 billionaires is a lot for 70 million inhabitants. In any case the number of 500 writers in the article is laughable.
But that's not the main point. What gets on my nerves is that the author of the article is cherry picking facts to entertain an idea. I could deliberately try something like "but you know there are more astronauts than true painters" and refute everything opposed to this with No true Scotsman fallacies.
The article proves absolutely nothing and the author makes a mess of logical thinking, while managing to blur what the wider perspective is supposed to be.
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Maybe it's the flag of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party? Maybe that cartoon was openly defending the right for Iraq to get WMDs?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Iraq_Region