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[–] 202 points 3 months ago (9 children)

God forbid someone has a hobby....

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Wait, if Ole Grim is being detained, then who is going to harvest the souls of dying mortals? Does this mean we won't be able to die, or that our souls will simply be trapped somewhere between the realms of the living and the dead? Hmm...

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    If Terry Pratchett is to be believed, then it's zombies and ghosts.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    If Piers Anthony is to be believed, this will only affect people with balanced souls, but everyone else should be fine. (Well, dead)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Holy shit. Forgotten memory accessed.

    Dude is about to shoot himself, Death turns up to collect him but has his hood down or something, the guy freaks out and shoots Death instead and has to take his place, right?

    I read that 30+ years ago burning through my town library's small sci-fi/fantasy section.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yes, that's the one. "On a Pale Horse" is the first book in the series, and the one about Death. In the books, magic and science coexist and aspects of reality like War, Time, Death, etc are all offices that people hold.

    The whole Incarnations of Immortality series is one of my favorites, but it's been a bit since I've read them.

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  • [–] 50 points 3 months ago* (2 children)
  • I'm very tall and one time I was in my 97 year old grandmother's room because I'd had to use her bathroom and she was half awake and said, "No! Go away!" and I was like, damn, ok. But I think she thought I was Death! :/

    She was the best. So close to MLK during the Dream speech that she sat on the steps and couldn't see him. Black Panthers would salute her white self. The best. I asked her what the most impactful technology she'd seen in her lifetime was and she said, "the next one." So cool. There's a picture of her and her crew with Jimmy Carter and she's standing in front of him. What a badass.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Someone has to do this around the US capitol buildings.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Someone needs to dress as the grim reaper and rock up to whatever hospital Mitch McConnell is staying at. When security tries to turn him away, he can simply say, "I'm here to collect Mitch McConnell".

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  • [–] 77 points 3 months ago (15 children)

    At first glance it is really funny. But of course the people who were genuinely affected are the victims. And nothing funny about it.
    Reading the article I don't think the guy is actually 100 there. I believe he is struggling and just acting out - not that it is an excuse.

    Gillespie also stole £30 to £40 of cat food and litter from a local Pets at Home on March 26, along with food and drink from Sainsbury's in Llandudno on May 28, a court heard. He was ordered to pay £100 in fines, £100 in cost to the Crown Prosecution Service and £50 in compensation.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Aside from stealing and stuff, I would've found it really hilarious even when I was in hospital after being resuscitated.

    It IS really funny.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    There are situations where it isn't: loosing the morher and baby at the same time - you look outside and there is this baboon making fun of it.

    But if you look at a Scrooge like situation it might poke someone in the right direction also.

    It would be more appropriate to be in a grim reaper costume in front of smoke shops / liquor stores. Nobody would raise an eyebrow. And that's still funny while being the good guy reminding people of the dangers.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    It's personal taste. Just because it's not okay doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Neurodivergent people are facing bad reactions from others every day each day.

    Anyhow, just as I said, I find it funny. Surprisingly I thought especially the British (source) are a fan of dark humor.

    Still, your opinion is fine too of course!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    It would be pretty funny in a sitcom, but significantly less so in real life.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    If you think so, fine. But you did read I was in a critical hospital situation?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I don't see how that is relevant. Do you understand that simply because you would laugh it off doesn't mean everyone would? In a sitcom, everyone is acting so there's no potential harm, but in real life, if you can muster any empathy at all, it's pretty clear how that prank could make a bad situation even worse.

    Very often people are having the most stressful days of their lives in a hospital and I see no value at all in making that harder for them for the lulz.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    I repeatedly stated that I find it very funny and it's perfectly fine to think otherwise.

    So it bears a relevance if I also am one who is telling you (in hopefully better condition) go ahead have fun and laugh, it's all that we have.

    It leaves the impression of gatekeeping to be honest and being on a morally quite high horse.

    I'll give you another example. Something that deeply impressed me. It was a disabled person in a wheelchair asking that jokes please include him and his situation because otherwise that's also just another exclusion in life.

    I am also not simply laughing it off. Death is a constant companion. If you're lucky you are not constantly reminded. Better find a good way to accept this when it is required, because it's inevitable.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Okay, empathy is not your thing so I'll help.

    A man's wife was in a terrible car accident and as she dies on the operating room table, some assclown dressed as the grim reaper walks up and stands there. Do you truly believe anyone is going to "have fun and laugh" in that scenario?

    I'm not saying you can't laugh at the guy, but for fuck's sake hop out of your own head for a minute and consider other perspectives.

    This is what I meant with my first comment. In a situation where there was no potential for harm, like in a sitcom, this is hilarious. In real life, it is not funny, because there's that risk of harm.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    This is not going anywhere. Yes even and specially then it's best to laugh. Listen, I died once and recently buried my best friend. I know pain, I know loss.

    And everyone works differently. That's what I said. To each their own. But you don't seem capable of understanding that.

    The one who is judgy and intolerant is you.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you! I'm somewhat irritated by the comment section here. Like yeah, in some way it's funny but it doesn't take much imagination and empathy to get why it wouldn't be funny to people in the hospital who are fatally ill or sth. It's not just the one side making the joke who decides if it's funny. Otherwise "it was just a prank bro" would be an okay excuse for any form of acting shitty.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Otherwise “it was just a prank bro” would be an okay excuse for any form of acting shitty.

    If this implies that arsehole prankster influencers should be arrested and fined in this manner: yes, please.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    Hey no spawn camping

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Game idea, grim reaper has been arrested, you have to fill in for him while he's in jail.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago

    Ok this is a mean joke to play in patients, but I would be lying if i said I didn’t laugh when I read this

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    What was the crime he was charged with?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    causing a nuisance without reasonable excuse

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    god forbid someone have hobbies

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    He dressed up in a ‘Grim Reaper’-style outfit at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital in St Asaph, Denbighshire, and climbed onto the roof where he stared at staff and visitors.

    Am I stroking out or is that just how the English do things?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    St. Asaph is a place in North Wales, a nice place to visit.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I would hope a place named by smashing face to keyboard would be a nice place to visit

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    Welsh has its own alphabet that’s different from the English one, the spelling is actually a bit more sane than English. English would sound bloody ridiculous too if you used the Welsh alphabet to speak it as well.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Everybody needs a hobby.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    hospitals is where death hangs out, as non-coporeal entity.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Send that person to McConnell, if he's even alive anymore.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Shut up! Shut up you American. You always talk, you

    Americans, you talk and you talk and say ‘Let me tell

    you something’ and ‘I just wanna say this’, Well you’re

    dead now, so shut up.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    (cross posted from the gabe newell own a yacht company post)

    A man's gotta have hobbies.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Oh! Whew! I was worried for a moment! Thishappened in the UK.

    Perfectly fine to do this here in America. Actually most hospital rooms are empty. Ain't nobody got money to pay for our broken healthcare system!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (8 children)

    While your sentiment is for sure in the right place, the inverse is the case right now; I don't know of a region that isn't floating at crisis levels for bed avaliablity (right now US hospitals are roughly 89% full, well over the predicted threshold for "shit starts collapsing" at 85%). It's really, really bad out there.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    My hospital hovers around 100% year round. We were at 130% recently, that was bad. Very bad.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    130%??? Are we talking like the stereotypical image of a collapsing country with patients laying in gurneys in the hallway?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yes. This is in a major city in Colorado, we're not a small hospital nor are we in a rural place. There's no excuse

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    Hey it could be worse, you could be at one of the psych hospitals! Poor fuckers are running at 400%+ capacity on a good day. They're so overtaxed they're turfing people from forensic beds, and anyone that isnt a critical emergent case is never getting admitted. It's so much fun!

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    costumes are illegal now smh smh

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    if I was coherent and the lights weren't off, I think would have laughed pretty hard

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Hahaha what? If I were a patient, I’d be cracking up 😂

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Your honour, i ask for leniency due to the objectively funny nature of the crime

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)
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