Reminder: Dodgeball has references to Gullivers Travels, The Jabberwocky, and Treasure Island, despite the film tag line being "Grab life by the balls"
Movies used to be smarter.
1918: they sold radioactive water as a health tonic. It was radium, and it dissolved men's jaws.
1898: they sold heroin as a children's cough syrup. It was heroin.
1863: they sold cocaine wine as a daily pick-me-up. Popes and presidents put their names to it.
1946: they sold cigarettes on a doctor's recommendation. Whole campaigns ran on which brand physicians preferred.
1960s: they sold margarine as the heart-healthy fat. It was loaded with the trans fat that actually stops hearts.
Every one of these came with an expert's blessing and total confidence.
The people telling you today which fat to fear are the institutional descendants of the ones who put radium in your water and a doctor's face on a cigarette packet.
"The experts recommend it" has a body count going back a century.
When we first met Tofu, someone had decided he was "too old" and walked away. But we just saw a sweet soul who needed a safe place to land. We promised him he would never feel unwanted again. Watching him slow down more and more each day is a deeply bittersweet experience. Even though his physical body is failing, his spirit still loves the outdoors, the fresh air, and being part of the pack. So, we found a new way for him to explore the world. Now, it is our turn to carry him. It is an absolute privilege to load up his wagon, surround him with comfort, and push him through his golden days so he can still experience the joy of a daily walk. You are so loved, Tofu. We have got you, and we will be right by your side all the way to the very end.
“Lol people have always thought the world was ending.”
Entire civilizations have been wiped from memory. There was a 1k year period where only 1 in 17 men reproduced. There was a 100k year period where the human population dropped 99%.
The world has ended many times.
People don’t take Watergate seriously at this point because they have no respect for the media. Watergate was a media myth about themselves as fearless guardians of ‘our democracy.’ Robert Redford played Bob Woodward ffs.
Really it was a sordid palace coup, and ‘deep throat’ was just an angry FBI agent who got passed over for promotion. You can’t prop up a myth like that when we can all see that journalists, working with dishonest federal employees, are more prone to lies and setting up fake conspiracies than just about anyone else.
The fact that existence exists when its opposite is infinitely more logical should keep you in a state of the perpetually mind-blown. Yet, it doesn’t. You forget.
Taxes or something, the big game, tonight’s dinner …
Hahahah! Silly!