Back when I was in junior high in the early 1980s, I found a copy of Atlas Shrugged on my father's bookshelf, and started reading it. I can't remember how far I got into it, but I do remember thinking it was just awful in just about every way: story, writing, pacing, everything.
I asked Dad about it, "Oh, that. It's terrible, isn't it?" A friend had given it to him. Neither one of us finished reading it and after that it ended up at a book reseller.
On the plus side, he'd gone through his books and gave me James Clavell's Shogun to read, which was an awesome novel.
The only other book I struggled with was Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The travel-log sections were entertaining, and the relationship with his son was interesting, but the discussions on the nature of quality were completely lost on me.
I did get through Zen on the second attempt because I thought it was worth it. I saw no value in Atlas Shrugged at all.
Was your father an English teacher? That’s how I ended up reading those books around that age. Add some Hesse and the Gulag Archipelago and we may be related.
Dad had an interesting career. Started as an office clerk for a railway with only high school education. Then he got into using an IBM 650 (IIRC) for doing freight rate calculations. How he managed that transition, I have no idea. He didn't care for being cooped up all day flipping switches, dealing with punch cards and tapes.
He switched to marketing and got on there very well and retired after 37 years as a regional director.
He always has a book on the go, even now at 83. He has an eclectic pile of them that he kept, from Zane Grey to an early history of the Civil War written around 1870.
I like to fall asleep listening to audiobooks, except they have to be kinda dull otherwise I get actually invested. You may have just picked my next one!
I hate to break it to you, but the characters in Atlas Shrugged are famously one-dimensional. They’re terrible caricatures who are 100% good or bad. They never develop or learn anything new about themselves.
It’s obvious who’s good and bad from page 1, which makes the massive length even more ridiculous. It could have been a pamphlet that said “money good, helping people bad”.
The best possible book review is just a recycled quote from Billy Madison:
“what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
That’s how I ingested it. I did it on work related cross country drives at 1.3x speed. It was… underwhelming and made me ask “What the hell is this?” and “She can’t seriously see the world like this, right?” many, many times.
Shogun is a good one. My favourite book for a long time, and it currently sits on my bedside table for a second read. I’m just amazed that you mentioned it.
Why is it that so much of the internet wants to stick a tongue in an asshole? You realize that only porn stars do anything more than wipe and shower. You’re literally eating shit. Which is a great way to get wierd diseases or start involuntary vomit attacks in a supposedly sexy moment.
You know what’s better than ass? You know what tastes better and is self cleaning and an actual pleasure center? Pussy.
You deserve a finer dining experience. Eat pussy instead.
But what if poo piles are literally coming out if it multiple times a day and being sprayed from it with every fart and anal pucker.
Sure, a pussy can be dirty. But if a pussy is dirty, guaranteed the ass is toxic. If a woman is going to clean either, it’s going to be the pussy. A woman with a clean pussy still needs to do some prep before you go chowing on her ass.
Plus, the pussy has a self-cleaning mechanism. So even a woman with average hygiene (takes a shower occasionally) will have a pussy that’s generally safe for consumption, notwithstanding any STDs.
The ass’ only job is to jettison waste from your body. It’s literally just a shute for poop. It doesn’t clean itself because it doesn’t need to. It’s gross because that’s its job. A lady will need to be asked to do extra work to clean that shit up for you. Which is fine in the bounds of a relationship with trust and communication…
But it seems a little unreasonable to expect that of a random encounter with Daphne or Velma.
You realize that only porn stars do anything more than wipe and shower.
TIL I’m a porn star. I guess that’s a promotion from slut?
I do agree with you about the disease thing; I use a dental dam when the mood strikes me.
I think it’s an age thing, my friends in their 20s are evangelists for ass eating, my fwb keeps asking me to let him do it, it’s kind of out of nowhere for me.
I get that people that are really into anal play do a lot of prep to make the ass safer and more appealing. I get that safe ass eating is a thing and takes some prep.
But that also means it’s a highly specific sexual act that takes a lot of prep, conversations, and assurances of consent. Ass eating isn’t something you do unless you’re in a committed relationship with a fair amount of trust.
The authors of ass eating memes aren’t taking in this context. Instead, the meme is more like “man, I’d like to eat that random person’s ass out of nowhere without any prompting”. And what I’m saying is that 9 times out of 10, that person’s ass is fucking nasty at that moment.
Now if they wanted to do it right, it would be more like, " man I’d love to date that woman for a while, fool around a bit, bring up the idea of ass eating, buy some dental dams, wait for her to douche and clean her asshole thoroughly, and then go to town on that specific hole". But that’s not what they’re doing.
This has been a highly informative discussion about eating ass, and I want to thank you for your contribution.
May I suggest that the depravity of eating a stranger’s ass is a large part of what makes it such a widespread meme? A significant portion of the internet relates heavily to being a degenerate coomer, and thus memes which emphasize this aspect tend to be well-received.
As my late grandfather always said, “Eat ass till you pass”
I have a bidet. But I also know the shit it cleans off and how disgusting my toilet is after even a few days of shit going through it and being wahsed away with water.
Does she think that g-string and oversized t-shirt she probably wears to bed would provide a suitable barrier preventing the demon from cramming a lasagna up her ass? Must be one weak ass demon if it’s so easily deterred from its objective.
I’m the person who basically never throws a book away (I did once, but I bought a replacement after the old version literally broke apart in several places). But I would light a chimney with “Atlas shrugged”, if only to prevent it from falling in gullible hands.
Our high school literature teacher gave the class each a copy of Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead as a graduation gift. This was before I knew anything about these books, but once I figured it out it explained a lot about her. Nice for the most part, overdramatic and cheap at times, mostly just went to work or the casino, and smoked like a chimney.
Never read those books though I might still have them somewhere, I’m bad at throwing out gifts.
Nah, you did bad research. 🤨 But I do like that video. That’s a henley, henley definition: A collarless pullover shirt, characterized by a round neckline and a placket about 3 to 5 inches long and usually having 2–5 buttons. It essentially is a collarless polo shirt.
Country clothing is usually very simple, practical. Like the henley. It is a far too convenient piece of clothing to be owned by any one group! 🙂 I don’t like henleys, I love henleys. Just don’t wear it in combination with a dumbass cowboy hat. 😂 Or camo. 🤢
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