Okay, I just have to rant about this...
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"In 200 years, no one will remember your name." - Most likely. Can you name all of your relatives going 200 years back?
"Work hard and your dreams still may not come true." - Absolutely true. You are more likely to reach your dreams with hard work, but trying to sugarcoat things doesn't change the fact that failure is always a possibility.
"Your soulmate will be just as happy with someone else." - Quite possible. While the idea of a soulmate is a very romantic ideal, no one person can be the sole source of love and happiness.
"You can never know what your loved ones really think of you." - Absolutely true. You can know they love you, but they will never tell you everything that they think. It just isn't possible or feasible.
"You will never be the best at anything." - Absolutely true. You can be amazing, incredible, and even world reknown...but someone else can and will be just a bit better. Even world record holders are constantly being beaten. It isn't a bad thing, it is part of human evolution.
"Everyone will disappoint you eventually." Most likely. It can even be short term and minor like someone mispronouncing your name. It happens. Unless you hold grudges like my ex-wife, things like this are easily overcome.
"No love is unconditional." True - There is always a breaking point. Always.
"Your flaws don't make you beautiful or unique. They make you flawed." True. Some people can love your flaws. It doesn't change the fact they are flaws. Accepting your flaws can make you a better person though.
"Your body will turn to shit long before you die." Very true. Visit a nursing home and you'll see. "Wishful thinking" won't make this go away. Neither will denial. Acceptance can help prepare you for this though.
Bacon shortage? That's just mean.
"Some people have good reasons for not liking you." Very true. Not everyone has to like you. You just have to get over that fact. On the flip side, you are not beholden to these people. Accept people into your life who accept you. Dismiss people from your life who don't like or accept you. Why should you care what the hell they think?
Most of these are hard facts of life that were just put forth in a very blunt way. Denying them does not make them false, it only make you immature. Accepting them and learning when they do and do not apply to your life makes you a mature adult.
"Work hard and your dreams still may not come true." - Absolutely true. You are more likely to reach your dreams with hard work, but trying to sugarcoat things doesn't change the fact that failure is always a possibility.
"Your soulmate will be just as happy with someone else." - Quite possible. While the idea of a soulmate is a very romantic ideal, no one person can be the sole source of love and happiness.
"You can never know what your loved ones really think of you." - Absolutely true. You can know they love you, but they will never tell you everything that they think. It just isn't possible or feasible.
"You will never be the best at anything." - Absolutely true. You can be amazing, incredible, and even world reknown...but someone else can and will be just a bit better. Even world record holders are constantly being beaten. It isn't a bad thing, it is part of human evolution.
"Everyone will disappoint you eventually." Most likely. It can even be short term and minor like someone mispronouncing your name. It happens. Unless you hold grudges like my ex-wife, things like this are easily overcome.
"No love is unconditional." True - There is always a breaking point. Always.
"Your flaws don't make you beautiful or unique. They make you flawed." True. Some people can love your flaws. It doesn't change the fact they are flaws. Accepting your flaws can make you a better person though.
"Your body will turn to shit long before you die." Very true. Visit a nursing home and you'll see. "Wishful thinking" won't make this go away. Neither will denial. Acceptance can help prepare you for this though.
Bacon shortage? That's just mean.
"Some people have good reasons for not liking you." Very true. Not everyone has to like you. You just have to get over that fact. On the flip side, you are not beholden to these people. Accept people into your life who accept you. Dismiss people from your life who don't like or accept you. Why should you care what the hell they think?
Most of these are hard facts of life that were just put forth in a very blunt way. Denying them does not make them false, it only make you immature. Accepting them and learning when they do and do not apply to your life makes you a mature adult.
I feel like maybe i'm missing something here. Why would you assume that the person who created this was young? Nothing stated in any of that is false or wrong. I guess i just find it more devastating to believe in a happy lie than a cruel truth. It tends to lead to a longer far more damaging fall later when the truth is eventually revealed. I think it was a very grounded little comic strip. I don't see it as born from angst at all. I think more reminders of this kind serve a good purpose. It keeps us from fooling ourselves into believing we are any better than we are, and that level of humility takes a certain maturity that most people do not have. If facts hurt your pride than your ego probably should be taken down a few pegs. I'm in my mid 30's and i find this comic about the least offensive thing i've seen on this site. I'm actually tempted to print it up and post it up.
This is pretty true. I also love mah sis and 'rents unconditionally.Little Woodsman said:
OT: Yeah, it's supposed to be funny. It's called "incongruity". It doesn't work for everyone (heck, it works for less than half of people), but it is humor.
That's not what people mean by "love unconditionally", and you know it. They mean "I wouldn't stop loving them because of anything they do or stop doing".Nokturos said:
If you're going to go that direction in semantics, then you can un-define literally any word that implies all-inclusiveness. Why would we do that?
Actually I loved her--and unconditionally--before we had the tests to confirm/verify that she's mine.Nokturos said:
This just reminded me of that SMBC comic:
The guy who made those pictures is clearly the former.
As for OP: Breathe deep, don't worry. It's just a picture somewhere on the internet. It doesn't matter. In 200 years no one will remember it.
The guy who made those pictures is clearly the former.
As for OP: Breathe deep, don't worry. It's just a picture somewhere on the internet. It doesn't matter. In 200 years no one will remember it.
That's not how I understand that phrase, but alright.lacktheknack said:
Also, you can't with absolute accuracy say that you wouldn't stop loving someone no matter what they did. There's bound to be something they could do that completely change your perception of them, and possibly make you hate them. It's a very romantic thought that you can love someone no matter what, but that's all it is - a thought.
Yeye, pretty much this.Aramis Night said:
I don't know if there's a name for it, but when someone sees something that they personally really don't like or challenges their view, they tend to dismiss it as juvenile or something along those lines.
I found this quite air-snort-through-nose-in-mild-amusement worthy.
But yeah, the juxtaposition of cute cartoon cats and dreary facts is nice.
As you said yourself; it's 'Angsty, overly pessimistic and smug' (and of top of it, most are very vague statements that are a matter of subjective perception, context and definition, very little of it was necessarily true). So, what I want to ask you is; Why on earth did this piss you off?bartholen said:I came across this picture while browsing my usual humor website, and it pissed me off so much that I just had to rant about it. This might be the unfunniest, most pretentiously angsty and annoying thing I've seen in a very long time.
Just who the hell thought that picture was worth making? Is it meant to be funny? Is it supposed to say something? Jesus fuck, this is exactly the kind of thing I can see some angsty pretentious 14-year old who's never faced any real problems in their life make to make themselves feel superior and more intelligent to others. What's even more annoying is that the image was called "Realistic cat". No it's not. It's angsty, overly pessimistic and smug cat.
It's like getting angry at the fourteen year old 'Nihilist' who says that 'everything is meaningless'. It's laughable.
It didn't even get a 'Meh' out of me.
Will it cheer you up if I tell you that was all an evil hoax? A trading company made it up in order to increase the prices of bacon while also giving people the fear of an impending shortage causing the customers to buy more despite the increase in price. You don't mess with a man's bacon... EVER.Gunner_Guardian said:
OT: I give that picture a big fat meh. It's all true (except for the bacon) and there's mostly things that I am aware of and don't really care about. I won't be the best at anything? Well, I don't want the attention anyway. My soul mate will be just as happy with someone else? Well thank god, that's a load of my back.
The reason this picture is funny is that the bulk of my Facebook newsfeed is pictures of animals, often cats, with made up 'inspirational' stories or empty platitudes. This is the same kind of picture but with grim truths, it's an amusing twist of expectations. I guess whoever made it got tired of all those 'a true friend supports you whatever you do, even killing homeless people' posts and made this as a retort.
The one that's particularly cutting is the bottom one, that contradicts the largest amount of pretentious shit I see on my feed.
The one that's particularly cutting is the bottom one, that contradicts the largest amount of pretentious shit I see on my feed.
In 200 years, no one will remember your name.
(Don't try to live immortally; live worldly, live for the now, knowing that your life is already book-ended.)
Work hard and your dreams still may not come true.
(That's just being optimistic.)
Your soulmate would be just as happy with someone else.
(I don't believe in soulmates. I believe in love, but I find the notion that there is one person absolutely perfect for us to be an antiquarian fairy tale left over from an age of monogamous relationships where sexual and personal legitimacy stemmed from marital status.)
You can never know what your loved ones really think of you.
(Nor do I want to. I love them; to have someone to love in this world is enough.)
You will never be the best at anything.
('The best' implies singularity, omnipotence. The fact is that there is always something new, some aspect of your skill that you have never seen or practiced before, and that is someone's specialty. And likewise, what you know will never be known b everyone. 'The best' cannot be simply because it is an implied singular in a plural realm.)
Everyone will disappoint you eventually.
(And I shall have disappointed and will disappoint again in turn; we reap what we sow.)
No love is unconditional.
(Well, not if you're religious... But speaking practically; no. No love is unconditional. Nor should it be. Some people just need to be cut off.)
There's enough food in the world to feed everyone. 24,000 people die of starvation every day.
(Life is Hell. What are -you- going to do about it?)
Your flaws don't make you beautiful or unique. They make you flawed.
(Don't mistake weakness for charm.)
Your body will turn to shit long before you die.
(What do you mean 'will'?)
There is going to be a bacon shortage.
(You see! A solution to the previous problem right here!)
Some people have good reasons for not liking you.
(Then I shall have to give them some good reasons -to- like me.)
(Don't try to live immortally; live worldly, live for the now, knowing that your life is already book-ended.)
Work hard and your dreams still may not come true.
(That's just being optimistic.)
Your soulmate would be just as happy with someone else.
(I don't believe in soulmates. I believe in love, but I find the notion that there is one person absolutely perfect for us to be an antiquarian fairy tale left over from an age of monogamous relationships where sexual and personal legitimacy stemmed from marital status.)
You can never know what your loved ones really think of you.
(Nor do I want to. I love them; to have someone to love in this world is enough.)
You will never be the best at anything.
('The best' implies singularity, omnipotence. The fact is that there is always something new, some aspect of your skill that you have never seen or practiced before, and that is someone's specialty. And likewise, what you know will never be known b everyone. 'The best' cannot be simply because it is an implied singular in a plural realm.)
Everyone will disappoint you eventually.
(And I shall have disappointed and will disappoint again in turn; we reap what we sow.)
No love is unconditional.
(Well, not if you're religious... But speaking practically; no. No love is unconditional. Nor should it be. Some people just need to be cut off.)
There's enough food in the world to feed everyone. 24,000 people die of starvation every day.
(Life is Hell. What are -you- going to do about it?)
Your flaws don't make you beautiful or unique. They make you flawed.
(Don't mistake weakness for charm.)
Your body will turn to shit long before you die.
(What do you mean 'will'?)
There is going to be a bacon shortage.
(You see! A solution to the previous problem right here!)
Some people have good reasons for not liking you.
(Then I shall have to give them some good reasons -to- like me.)
Well, it really doesn't piss me off at all. I can think of some very naive, overemotional and self-important people on my Facebook (read: people I used to go to school with, didn't like enough to maintain contact with but am vaguely interested to see if my life turns out better than theirs) that need to read that, although they'd probably just throw a shitfit over it and not change at all.
I do kinda agree with all the things in that picture (although it doesn't bother me- people not remembering me in 200 years has literally fuck all bearing on how I'm going to live, I'm still going to enjoy myself and love my friends and family), but personally I doubt I could be arsed about any of it enough to bother trying to share it with others though. My basic beef with nihilism is that whilst yes, nothing matters in the long run, on a day-to-day, human level, they do. The way I look at that is that the artist just wanted an excuse to draw some cats.
I do kinda agree with all the things in that picture (although it doesn't bother me- people not remembering me in 200 years has literally fuck all bearing on how I'm going to live, I'm still going to enjoy myself and love my friends and family), but personally I doubt I could be arsed about any of it enough to bother trying to share it with others though. My basic beef with nihilism is that whilst yes, nothing matters in the long run, on a day-to-day, human level, they do. The way I look at that is that the artist just wanted an excuse to draw some cats.
Pretty much this, really, although I appreciate it's easy to come off as a frothing rage over the internet, and people really need to stop using that 'keep calm and bollocks' poster. If you're going to get pissy over picture, get pissy over that, it's just so fucking lazy.Ponyholder said:It is a picture... on the internet...
Seriously, dude.
