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  • One of the most on the nose scenes in the Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6r2a2PaQPI

    The conversation (copied from IMDB)

    Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty : Guy leaves two dozen bodies scattered all over the city, no one gives a fuck.

    Detective Lester Freamon : It’s because who he dropped.

    Detective William ‘Bunk’ Moreland : True that. You can go a long way in this country killin’ black folk. Young males especially. Misdemeanor homicides.

    Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty : If Marlo was killin’ white women…

    Detective Lester Freamon : White children.

    Detective William ‘Bunk’ Moreland : Tourists.

    Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty : One white ex-cheerleader tourist missin’ in Aruba.

    Detective William ‘Bunk’ Moreland : Trouble is, this ain’t Aruba, bitch.

    Detective Lester Freamon : You think that if 300 white people were killed in this city every year, they wouldn’t send the 82nd Airborne? Negro, please.


  • Charapaso@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldGynecologist* joke
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    10 days ago

    Accuracy: the most important part of humor! It’s so crucial to comedy that I have never, not in a million years, seen someone exaggerate for humorous effect. It’s simply not done in civil society: so I thank you for the bravery you’ve shown by shining light on this horrid case of inaccurate humor.


  • Most people could for sure: but in the same way that most people could do the motorcycle maintenance I do regularly.

    Remove spark plugs to inspect, change the brake pads, change the oil and replace the oil filter, top up the brake fluid, heck: even just get the chain tension correct. None of it’s even physically difficult, but most people are terrified of breaking something, or otherwise so unfamiliar with the basic tools required that “torque to spec” sounds more like a spell than instruction.

    The last time I installed Linux mint, something went screwy with the partition, so I had to run a couple updates in Linux and then a couple command line arguments to get it to show the grub on startup. That process was easy, but someone unfamiliar would hardly know what to search for, and would likely be as uncomfortable for many folks as it would be to get a stripped bolt out of the engine case. Not rocket surgery, but intimidating the first time, and possibly the point at which they get a professional involved.