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Yeah, I think it just refers to the amount that a spade can hold. Something something "in spades". It's a measurement.
People will fucking trash them.
Yeah, there's a reason why these goblins would have no dates.
Apparently, they don't even want to date each other.
Dark and gritty reboot of The Raccoons - Cyril Sneer is an invasive aardvark shoving monkeys into all the available tree homes. The Raccoons and their canine buddy join forces to rip all their throats out.
What, no one noticed that the villain of the original piece was a long-nosed critter that doesn't belong where raccoons live naturally?
Well, then what the fuck shall I call my favourite gardening hand tool?
Don't get me started on what they started to do to Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts in the 80s ... especially "Mouse Wreckers", with the cat gulping "Nerve Tonic" by the bottleful ... so that any home recordings after that time are, guess what, the censored versions of these films ... and the censorship started about the time VHS became affordable ....
They've been doing it a very long time.
The original ET in both theatres and old VHS releases had the mom say the boy looked like a "terrorist" because he needed a haircut (before he finds the alien). This was changed (in the DVD era) to "hippie". Edit: I remember some friends making hay with this, but upon reflection, it might have been changed after 9-11 for reasons.
Aladdin, there used to be a line - theatrical release only, I don't think it made it as far as VHS, but I saw that flick in theatres several times (I had little kids), and the line was "Where they cut off your hand if they don't like your face". Can't remember what they changed it to, something lame, anyway.
Although some physical stuff has already been altered; ET and the original lyrics to the Aladdin theme are two examples that spring immediately to mind.
You might also want to start watching what edition of books you're looking at.
Granted, it's better than digitial, which can be altered faster and more completely than the old ways of altering, but hell, even stuff actually carved in stone was never safe.
But people who do actual productive labour jobs don't deserve much money, no, fuck 'em, let's pay ball players and fagtors (fag actors) millions upon millions instead.
Humanity is a fucking scam. Needs to be shut down immediately.
All "wild animals" are. I mean, all that is true for every free-living, non-human species. They're not goddamn robots, or background dressing to an exclusively human drama, you know.
I wish someone would point out to these fuckers that the alternative is to be "treated like an animal" like their feral, no-tech extinct Tasmanian cousins. Or like the still-extant Sentinelese.
Yes, they're being treated like protected wild animals. If they were treated like humans, they'd be offered the fruits of civilization and knowledge. But they're too retarded to take it, anyway, Goodall's chimps are more tolerant.
But they'll fail to mention the Muslim SS unit in WW2
That last replacement kind of takes away an obvious joke - Bowser calling anyone "Tubby".
Pratchett died too early.
Imagine the endless carts of goods not coming and going from Ankh-Morpork any more.
Yeah, so maybe this is why I'll just stick to games with cute critters. Haven't even touched my zoo-building games yet.
Unlike Man's tricksters, El-Ahrairah always advocates for his people. It's the gods he plays tricks on. Which makes sense; for humans, the trickster is both a comedic character as well as a representation of the fickleness of Nature and Fate; rabbits need tricks and wile just to survive, so he more serves as an example of how to stay alive ... and stories about him tend to be scary af.
Adams was pretty good at looking from their perspective.
Been listening to the audiobook of Watership Down.
It occurred to me that when it's discussed, it's Efrafa that gets most of the attention ... but the Warren of Shining Wires gets kind of glossed over.
Why?
Because that place pretty much sums up modern civilization, and there are certain questions you must not ask in rl as well.
But what leapt out at me this time was the enormous cultural difference between the Sandleford rabbits, and SW ones, how the SW rabbits traded stories about a trickster hero that inspire rabbits to survive against all odds, for miserable, empty, nihilistic nonsense like the poem Silverweed recites .... They felt they no longer needed Frith's promise, when The Man provides food both great and plentiful, and protection from the other 999 ... but they were physically free enough, so they didn't mind the mental shackles they willingly donned ...
Now imagine the transitional period, as it's implied the warren was there first.
The "freedom of speech" they talk about starts and stops with getting toilet humour, swears, and gore in movies and on television.
Oh ffs, just so they can have something to cry about when tire tracks get all over it, or what?
They also died regularly of infections and physical injury from occupational hazards, childbirth, among other things, if not by a doctor's attempts at fixing what ailed you.
It's how human populations more or less remained steady state and didn't get too dense for too long until the 19th century.
They just can't stop wrecking stuff
Humans with money trash shit, too.
ESPECIALLY "New Money".
It's like they went to the Joe Walsh school of trashing shit.
They'll trash shit because it's NOT THEIRS. Plain and simple.