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Times /lit/ helped us in real life

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ITT we share times that /lit/ helped us in real life, here, I'll start:

>be today
>be in interview for STEM job I really want
>small company
>interview with Argentine owner
>gets phone call
>"Sorry, this is my brother from back home, I'll tell him that I have to call him back"
>"[insert cordial Argentine translation of the above]"
>Me: "Was that Spanish or Argentinian Spanish?
>"Argentine, do you know it?"
>"No, I just read a book by this guy named Borges last week and he spoke it"
>"You know Borges? I use to live in the same city as him"?
>holyshit
>Talk about Borges and Argentina for a bit
>ends up offering me the job at the end of the interview
>I accept
>mfw I only read this book cause /lit/ hyped it so hard

Thank you guys so much. This sounds like bullshit but it actually happened to me at 9AM this morning.
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>be 10 years ago
>read myth of Sisyphus by Albear Cahmoo
>depressed ever since
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>>9485221
You proved that you were more than the typical emotionally stunted man child STEMlord with no human depth. Now please use your science powers for good and not evil like designing smaller airline leg room.
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>>9485234
Step 2: Convert to Islam and start shooting up infidels. That is the only solution for you.
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>be me
>former sperg and general cuck loser
>only had two girlfriends
>both have cheated on me
>first one was with her ex
>second girl was with my best friend
>every girl im interested in doesnt reciprocate the feeling
>last one told me, in a drunken state, that i was not her age type and look like im 15
>friend overdosed on heroin a few months back and died
>im a manlet
>only friends are equally lonely dudes who i play vidya with once a week in their parents basement
>read steppenwolf
>dont kill myself
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>>9485293
>dont kill myself
Don't worry, you will get there champ.
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>>9485221
>>"You know Borges? I use to live in the same city as him"?
Yeah, and 12 million people live there too, in Buenos Aires
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>>9485293
Don't worry Anon, you'll make it mate.
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>>9485309
He actually knew him, before he was "famous" and before he went blind. Apparently they were neighbors/loose friends. Also stop shitting on the positive attitude of my story, and this thread.
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>recently read Portrait
>discussing it on /lit/
>learn what a bildungsroman is
>take AP exam
>"This passage is likely taken from a ..."
>mfw when it's a bildungsroman
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I'm sorry I must be lost. I didn't realize this was Oprahs Online Book Club. I was looking for /lit/.
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>>9485293
>>only had two girlfriends
pls tell me this was only a joke
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>>9485324
Well, that´s something else. Living in the same city is nothing special. I´ve been there and i´m not telling people that i´ve been on the same ciy as Borges.
Also, i suppose he´s quite old since Borges went blind like in 1955.
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>>9485324
Holy fuck, can you imagine knowing a writer as influential as Borges? If I was that owner I wouldn't be able to shut up about the fact that Jorge Borges knew me.
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>>9485340
>>9485350
He's in his eighties, but he's still completely lucid, well spoken, etc.

I was surprised at how blithely/nonchalantly he was talking about it. If I had known Borges I would have probably (insufferably) name dropped him at any given chance
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>>9485359
Me too, i would never shut up about it. Just hearing him talk in interviews is an experience.
I imagine that every rich or important person around the age of your boss that live in Buenos Aires knew Borges to some degree. He was very sociable i think,(and very open about writers he didn´t like, too) and held some important positions in government.
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>>9485328
>be visiting Dublin and taking a tour bus
>the Irish bus driver providing commentary asks over the PA if anybody on board has read Ulysses
>I raise my hand
>"Uh-oh! Best watch out everybody, because PROFESSOR YANK here has read Ulysses"
>"All hail the might intellect of PROFESSOR YANK, who has sat down, and yes, read every dense and allegorical page of James Joyce's modernist masterpiece, Ulysses"
>everybody on the bus is now staring at me
>whenever he stops the bus to point out a literary landmark he runs it by me, "the professor"
>"say professor, do recognize that building over there?"
>I don't know and shrug
>"Sorry folks, I guess PROFESSOR YANK hasn't done his homework! That building to our right is of course the iconic hotel where Nora Barnacle, James Joyce's muse, worked as a chambermaid for a number of years. Not to worry, I'm sure PROFESSOR YANK will get the next one"
>this continues for an hour and half
>the Dutch girls in the back of the bus are laughing at me and making fun of the flat cap I bought on Grafton street
>when I finally get off at Kilmainham Gaol the entire bus cheers
>as he's closing the doors, the driver says over the intercom "See you next term, PROFESSOR YANK"
Thanks /lit/
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>>9485381
BTFO
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>>9485381
I'm dying
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>>9485381
Dam
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>>9485381
kekking hard anon
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>>9485381
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>>9485221
>Me: "Was that English or Australian English?
>"Australese, do you know it?"
>"No, I just read a book by this guy named Ringo Digeridoo last week and he spoke it"
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>>9485381
At the same time I want it to be true and not to be true.
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>>9485381
>the Dutch girls in the back of the bus are laughing at me and making fun of the flat cap I bought on Grafton street
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>>9485381
>See you next term, PROFESSOR YANK
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>>9485381
wow, kind of a dick thing to do. least now i know to keep some notes on hand if a bus driver in dublin ever asks if i've read Joyce.
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>>9485221
>Was that Spanish or Argentinian Spanish?
>Borges spoke Argentine in his book
huh
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>>9485658
Rioplatense Spanish is a dialect of the Spanish language spoken mainly in the areas in and around the Río de la Plata Basin of Argentina and Uruguay.
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>>9485381
one of the best things i've read on 4chan in a long time
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>bowl up to girl in nature walk
>learn she's french
>Say 'I like french literature.'
>talk about it, get to Zola's Germinal
>I'm reading that at the moment she says
>chat more
>next day she visits
>fuck no condom cum on her tits
>fuck all the following day too
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>>9485828
Sounds fun Anon
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>>9485511
You know Ringo Didgeridoo? I cracked open a few tinnies with that cunt last week!
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>>9485381
best post on /lit/
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>>9485221
>be on job interview I am woefully under qualified for.
>drop names of made-up books/authors I've been "reading" to prepare
>spout pseudobusiness terms
>use phrases like autodidacticism and autonomy
It's called the Peter Princepal /lit/ and it's how ALL business works, fail upward anons!
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>>9485381
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/lit/ convinced me to take a philosophy class and I got a gf out of it.
STEM is 100% a meme
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>see the hottest girl ever on dating site
>notice she's likes Proust
>send her lengthy message about Mickey Mouse copyright laws barring an new translation to the US
>spout some of my favorite quotes, something about the Irish and souls and lost objects being found
>meet
>11/10
>amazing sex
>begin leaving her romantic gifts alla Swann
Threatens me with a restraining order.
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>>9485381
How can one bus driver be so based?
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>>9485381
Include me in the screencap
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>>9485381
>That building to our right is of course the iconic hotel where Nora Barnacle, James Joyce's muse, worked as a chambermaid for a number of years.

you should have piped right up with "Oh, sure , I know Nora Barnacle. That was the girl he used to fuck the farts out of!"

bet that would've shut those Dutch girls up.
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>>9485381
Was it Eamon Dunphy?
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>>9485381
fucking kek
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>>9485381
Saw this post on /r/4chan and just had to come check /lit/ out
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>>9486663
Welcome! This was posted on reddit? Epic win! Whoever posted it there wins the internet forever!
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>>9486697
you're stupid.
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>>9485328
I put fucking satire because I had no idea what bildungsroman was.
It seemed reasonable because she spent the entire passage calling her family useless cunts.
feelsbadman, 4 inc
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>>9486080
>girl
stop stalking traps, marcel
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>>9485221
>have horribly crippling depression and my typically sources of anesthetizing entertainment aren't cutting it anymore
>start browsing /lit/ as well as around 10 other boards
ill make it a bit longer
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>>9485828
>>9485828
Yes, anon I'm sure this happened to you.
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>>9486747
if u want it to get better, u have to make it better

happiness doesn't just fall into your lap. A lot of happy people that I know found and worked for reasons to be happy. All these lazy, depressed people I see on this board seem to have the belief that they deserve to be happy without working for it.
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>>9485258
>human depth
*sniffs slavically*
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>>9485381
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

5 star post
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>>9485328
Portrait is a Kuenstlerroman (lit. artist-novel). It is also a Bildungsroman (lit. education-novel), which contains the sub-category of Kuenstlerroman.
Your offence is just as severe as calling Waiting for Godot a comedy.

Fucking high schoolers.
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>>9486972
have you ever thought that some of us work towards happiness and continue to meet with failure?
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>>9485293
>helped
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>>9486747
what other boards
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>>9485381

top bants
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>>9485319
is this your subtle way of saying "do a flip"? bad anon
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>>9489340
/biz/, /fit/, /sci/, /soc/, /pol/, /cm/, /mu/
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>>9486112
i think youre wrong
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>>9485381
this post made my day
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I started reading David Foster Wallace because /lit/ memed him hard. I guess his writing style rubbed off on me because one of my English professors at my shitty community college told me that my writing reminds her of his. We started talking about literature a lot and she wrote me a letter of rec, which helped me get into Cornell. I start this fall. Thanks, /lit/.
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>>9485381
Jesus Christ I'm dying
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>>9485381
nice post
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>>9485381
i didn't want to read such a long piece of shit, but that was worth it, shit was rad af
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>>9485381
fuck
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>>9486080
>alla

hu
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>>9491784
>falling for the ivy meme
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>read random post while scrolling through /lit/
>the book ends up being the answer to Final Jeopardy the next day

Happens all the time. I don't even read books, but I get to look smart.
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>>9485381
Could this really happen?
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>See 10/10 in the library
>THICC
>I say hi and ask for a name
>"Do you wanna take a walk with me?"
>Disgusting librarian watches me and the 10/10 coming
>Looks at the 10/10
>"Ulysses huh? Is that for a class or something?
>Put the book down and walk out without saying anything.
>Two weeks later I fuck the librarian.

Thanks lit.
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>>9485234
Try imagining Sisyphus happy you dumbfuck.
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>>9485339
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhKGtgcZghc
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>>9485293
Bitch I am 27 and I never even kissed a girl on the lips in my life.
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>>9485381
jesus fucking christ
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>>9492361
I sucked a girl's dick once.
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>>9492306
>calling him a normalfag when you've had two girlfriends
Not only do I want you to get off my board, I want you to leave the internet you fucking normalfag cunt.
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>>9485381
Professor Yank enjoys a good wank.
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>>9492375
go with him you samefag faggot.
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>>9492387
Get fucked dickhead.
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>>9492392
I'll get fucked before you ever do you spineless little cocksucker.
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>>9492413
Yeah take that tranny cock you fuckwit.
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>>9485339
mfw ive only had two girlfriends back in highschool 6 years ago
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>>9485381
Raising your hand for anything will never be the same famalam
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>>9485221

>russian professor in technician program
>we talk about russian literature
>I only knew war and peace :/
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>>9485381
I don't get it? Would probably sue the tour bus company desu. He's a bus driver, not a comedian.
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>>9492449
Only a insecure little cunt would sue over being made fun of.

I know it makes your skin crawl, but it's probably a bit of autism on the poster's part. He makes it out like some malicious hate mongering, when it was probably light ribbing that he was too self important to laugh at.
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>>9492474
>tour guide singles you out for the whole trip because you answered a question he asked
>let him get away with it

No
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>>9487009
Waiting for godot is a comedy
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>>9492483
>It's okay to fucking tear someone apart anonymously but do it to my face and I'll cry cry cry.

Learn to laugh, you self righteous little cunt. Why even visit Ireland if you don't like how the people are.
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>>9492494
>repeat the same joke over and over again
>at the same guy
>for the whole trip
>lol learn to laugh dude
>lol its just the Irish that's how they are
Britain clearly didn't go far enough with them then
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>>9492507
>Obviously ribbing
>Crying not because of what he said but *GASP* because girls you would never fuck anyway were laughing.
>so insecure about your manhood that the girls bother you more than the driver.
>Prove the driver right that you are a little baby and can't handle it.

Cry more. And don't go to another country if you can't handle banter.

Would you cry if an Australian called you a cunt?
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>>9492494
It's pretty much why the world including other parts of the anglosphere actually hate America.
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>>9492551
Do you mean that Americans constantly visit places and don't like them because they aren't like America?
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>>9492538
No, The problem is the Driver showing his lack of professionalism. You're there to drive a bus and point things out to people

>>9492551
>its another Inferior countries hate America because they're so terrible episode
lmao europoors honestly what went wrong?
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>>9492563
Pretty much.
>>9492565
I do not hold any European nationality but I have European blood. Bet you're a complete mutt that has various races in him.
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>>9492565
American bus drivers do the same thing. Sometimes they like to play around with people.

Keep in mind he stayed on for an hour and a half, and got off when his dick felt small because the GIRLS, not the driver.

God damn it's like dad jokes. And also, a bus driver is not a professional. He's there to drive the bus and be entertaining.

When did my fellow American become such a limp wristed pussy.?
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>>9492575
America has the same problem with whiny Europeans though. They don't like America yet they are there in America for whatever fucking reason.
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>>9492582
All people do. But not nearly on the same scale as the Americans.
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>>9485221

>be sad
>read book
>be less sad :D
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>>9492591
Maybe, but that's just the ones that go abroad. It's not our fault some of the dumb ones think they are so important that they should go revisit their "Ancestry" or whatever they do over there.

At least when we are pretty fair to the ones that come here, legally. Which is different for the other places.
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>>9492575
/pol/yups need to leave, Why do you people constantly feel the need to spread your crap outside of you containment board?
>>9492579
Pretty sure he got off at his stop, at which point everyone decided they would keep on harassing him.
No he's not there to be entertaining, he has a job to do, nothing else. Why do people feel the need to over complicate things? Drive the car, point out landmarks and let people appreciate your third rate country.
>fellow American
Seriously doubt you're not a Europoor
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>>9492605
>abandon your people and culture so they degrade and eventually become non-existant white boi
>inb4 le spook maymay
Fuck off burger. You want the entire world to become a shithole or something?
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>>9492605
>Goes to country he thinks is third rate.
>Cries about treatment he thinks is third rate.

I bet you'd try to go on Amtrak and sue them because they let white trash on and they always fuck up the ride.

I'm an American, and I'm from Arizona. You may be from some wimpy little Eastern suburb, and you can cry when someone talks shit about you, be we wont. We can handle jokes and banter. You big pussy.
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>>9492301

>Imagine Sisyphus happy
>still depressed
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>>9492618
Glad that you know it's a spook.

While the other anon is a whiny little embarrassment, Europe seems to enjoy playing a love hate game with America, and they wouldn't be anywhere close to where they are without us.

You can go back to the days when your faggot kings and Queens played with their lands if you want. We are going to stay in the future, which isn't all mixed together like you want to believe.
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>>9492619
>spend an hour and a half insulting someone for no reason other than he answered a question YOU asked
>don't realise when the joke is dead
>lol just bants guys deal with it
What's wrong with you rural people? Too much sun probably.
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>>9492630
At least we actually had kangz and queenz. Unlike yourself nigger.
>We are going to stay in the future, which isn't all mixed together like you want to believe.
Ah so you're a pure "African" that doesn't know which African country the slavers took his ancestors from.
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>>9492652
Wow do you actually have any arguments or are you just going to yell 'LOL N*GGERS HAHAHAHA'? Drumpflets honestly...
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>>9492659
Not from America (aka land of the nigger), so how could I be a drumpflet?
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GUYS THIS WAS SUCH A COMFY THREAD STOP RUINING IT WITH YOUR STOOOPID SHIT ABOUT FROGS, NIGGERS AND MULTICULTURALISM
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>>9492678
>t. nigger
No one was even talking about frogs, you just added that in to have an extra thing to bitch about.
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>>9492643
>Live a life of work and honesty instead of one where your dad sues your friend's mom for him calling you a poopyhead.
>Be able to joke around and be tough, instead of demanding the manager because your little coffee didn't come the way you want.
>Not needing a safe space.

Does Jamal just take your mom automatically or do the dads actually put up a fight over there?

>>9492652
>At least we had kings and queens

Oh pardon me let me have one of those sister fucking genetic rejects with bits of brain missing, much better than the Presidency.

Just because you think stormfront does real research doesn't mean we all have to. The world is not going to mix into one big mess. The real issue is the backlash of ungrateful non whites who want to pretend like the "evil whites" did nothing for them.
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>>9492670
Ahh so you''re one of those European ""Nationalists"" are you? Careful, don't want to get arrested for hate speech now.
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>>9485381
F
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>>9492684
>he thinks its ok to disrespect people
>not complaining when a product that you paid for isn't top quality
>accepting B-grade products because HURR IM A HARDY GUY FROM ARIZONA
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>>9492690
This.

Everyone who is allowed to say whatever they want in their "Superior country" raise their hand.

NOT SO FAST EUROFAG
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>>9492694
>He thinks that murder and death are a part of life but mean words aren't.
>Thinks that buying a product makes it top quality for some reason.
>Thinks that simply asking them to remake your drink is the same as crying to the manager about how the service is atrocious.

You gonna sue me, you cunt?
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>>9492690
>>9492695
Why do you American fags always believe they are Eurofags? You realise the world thinks lowly you.
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>>9492710
>implying I care what the world thinks
That's the great thing about being on top
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>>9492710
We'll realize that the world thinks lowly of us when they stop coming over and begging for us to help with their little pet projects.

Such a terrible place America, I went there three times and each one was terrible, awful America, it's not like my backwater, they have GUNS.
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>>9492710
America has achieved the majority of modern advancement, but Europe has CASTLES
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>>9492720
Citation needed
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>>9492719
>taking the time to type all that out.
Quality post my friend, thank you for contributing.
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>>9492727
You are welcome. This thread has been successfully derailed.
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>>9492727
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>>9492721
Google it. Wait. Google. Internet. Computer. Phone. Current Democracy. Airplane. Automobile. Your entire fucking life would be vastly different if not for America.

We didn't do it alone though, and I don't mean to imply that.
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>>9485221
When I was alone for two years /lit/ let me stay...relatively sane. Things got pretty rough, but, they would have been worse.

Other than that, /lit/ legitimately helped me so much in high-school English. Seriously arguing with you shitters has made essays so fucking easy.
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>>9492740
You'd probably get more help if you actually read instead of thought about reading.
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>>9492737
>Google. Internet. Computer. Phone. Current Democracy
>implying these are good things
America didn't even invent democracy.
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>>9492737
>Your entire fucking life would be vastly different if not for America.
Yeah it would've been better and so would everyone elses.
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>>9485381
Haha, well, we do hate American tourists.
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>>9492751
Actually reading the books helped too, yes, but /lit/ made it easy to talk about them. A-level EngLit is on about the same level as some shitflinging thread.

Reading about good books is more help than reading the books themselves (gotta slip in those slick references).
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>>9492737
Internet - British
Phone - Italian
Computer - British
Current Democracy - You're talking about two party oligarchy of yours as democracy...
Airplane - Granted
Automobile - German
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>>9492780
>Internet - British
World wide web you mongoose.
>Computer - British
America also contributed a lot.
>Current democracy
Yeah that's got nothing to do with America, and a lot to do with France.
>Automobile - German
America also contributed a lot.

t. Brit

It's not necessary for America to have single-handedly developed these things, it just needs to have been a significant part of it.
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>>9492720
If that were true Europe would still come out on top.
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>>9492754
If they aren't good things than stop using them.
Your KANG was very democratic.
>>9492757
I'm sure, maybe we could have had a couple more pointless wars started by your faggot leaders. Sooo much better.

>>9492780
>Modern Internet is British
>Modern Phone is Italian
>Modern Computer is British
>Two party system is worse than Louis xIII
>Modern Automobile is german

Please stop taking from my shitty culture while you are at it.
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>>9492789
I'm not saying that America had a monopoly on anything. I'm saying that without America those innovations would be nothing like what they are.
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>>9492791
Because they had castles?
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>>9492808
That's what I'm saying too, blockhead.
>>9492812
Yes.
>>9492803
>Your KANG was very democratic.
Well, yeah.
>maybe we could have had a couple more pointless wars started by your faggot leaders
It'd be balanced by the lack of pointless wars started by your faggot leaders.
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>>9492824
America has been a stable democracy for hundreds of years
>in the meantime Europe has faltered between various extreme ideologies including communism and fascism
>it even continues to do so today
lol but Americans are the stupid ones right?
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>>9492824
>That's what I'm saying too, blockhead

I know. I was attempting to clarify myself for what I admit was unclear before.

>The king was democratic
Explain.

>It'd be balanced by the lack of pointless wars started by your faggot leaders.

More than fair.
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>>9492836
Civil wars aren't particularly stable, and let's not pretend America didn't get pretty bad for a while during that Cold War. But sure, America's democracy has been more consistent than, say, Germany.

But England's been comfortably democratic since the restoration. And they had a king.
>>9492840
>Explain.
See above.
>>
And this thread started off so nice.
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>>9492836
America was not a stable democracy. We tried to rip in half only 100 years after we had it.

Europe's situation was also not the same as America. The history of royalty, and then the wars that devastated the continent, are not comparable to a new nation attempting a new form of government. In the aftermath, they knew that America had the right idea, but America still doesn't get it completely right.

At least Europe has more than two parties.
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>>9492846
>Cold war
As if England and the rest of the world wasn't in the same shadow.
How is a monarchy democratic?
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>>9492848
>rip in half
No, the union won the war. The country didn't rip in half. There was still democracy during that time.
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>>9492855
>How is a monarchy democratic?
Democracy does not require a republic. Have you heard of constitutional monarchies?
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>>9492605
His job is to be entertaining so more people will by tickets for the tour bus, you fucking goon. He would be fired if he just did what you're saying. Have you literally never been on a tour bus before?
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>>9492859
If half your country is fighting the other half, your country's pretty fucking torn.
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>>9492859
You mean to tell me that every year, around voting time, the Confederacy and the Union would stop voting and see if they couldn't vote out that mean old Lincoln and stop the war?

Or did the argument over State's rights completely destroy the democracy for four years. Tell me.
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>>9492861
When did you acquire your constitutional Monarchy? Was it before America had their constitution?
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>>9492868
*Stop fighting
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>>9492872
Of course. Constitutional monarchy just means a monarchy where the king has to obey a certain legal framework. What you should ask is whether England had democracy before America had their constitution -- an argument which would obviously come down to what you consider democracy. Certainly there were country-wide elections for members of Parliament over a century before America had their constitution, and elected MPs had a lot of control over how the country was governed.
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>>9492863
>>9492868
It's not like it ended with the country torn though, it's still one country even today
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>>9492889
Yeah and it's not like France isn't democratic even today, what's your point? It wasn't exactly stable.
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>>9492754
>implying what america has is democracy

nice meme
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>>9492890
>Yeah and it's not like France isn't democratic even today
what?

>>9492897
>le superior european meme
how's sharia working out for you guys?
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>>9492888
It wasn't enough. That's one of the concepts of America.
>>9492889
Yeah, and if the Union hadn't won the country would have been destroyed, that's not called stable. The Civil war had tremendous impacts onto the country and they show it's instability.
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>>9492897
>Implying there is something closer to Democracy somewhere else

Your meme was better.
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>>9492902
>what?
Are you saying France isn't democratic.
>how's sharia working out for you guys?
How's that rule-by-minority working out for you guys?
>>9492903
>It wasn't enough.
Too fucking bad because it's democracy. And that's discounting the changes by the time the American revolution happened.
>>
>>9492902
>What?

He's saying that just because democracy won in the end, doesn't mean it was stable. England's democracy is only stable because they slowly starved power from the royalty until they became a symbol of the country.
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>>9492909
>Rule by minority
It's not a minority rule. We have many different checks and balances.
>Too fucking bad

Yeah it was too fucking bad we had to throw your tea in the water, your democratic king voted that he wasn't going to stop being a tyrant.
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>>9492909
>he's fine with having sharia patrols and daily riots because lol majority rules ^_^
Europe, what a joke
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>>9485381

>The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

In case anyone even doubts it, there is absolutely no way this actually happend. Excellent story though OP
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>>9492929
>Sharia patrols are as frequent as stormfront thinks.

Come on.
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>>9492934
This isn't /b/
>>
>>9492934
Of course it didn't happen. You think that we believe the bus driver somehow has a lot to say about the book and also shits on someone for enjoying it?

>"All hail the might intellect of PROFESSOR YANK, who has sat down, and yes, read every dense and allegorical page of James Joyce's modernist masterpiece, Ulysses"

You can tell it's fake from that.
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>>9492935
>UK President literally said Sharia would be good for Bongland
>Sweden's strong womyn government bends the knee and wears the headscarf when they visit Saudi Arabia
>France in national emergency for like two years now
>they just elected a President who thinks Terrorism should be a part of daily life and wants to increase North African integration
>>
how have all these people not met irish people before? did we start a temperance league?
>>
>>9485221
Are you from LA?
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>>9492949
Uk president also said she would look into if they violate English law
Sweden isn't england
Neither is france
America understands that terrorism is a possible part of life and we aren't even allowing these people to come in like France is.
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>>9485221
>Me: "Was that Spanish or Argentinian Spanish?
>"What? We speak Spanish in Argentina"
>"Heh, d-do you know B-B-Borjes"
>"No? What the fuck are you talking about"?
>holyshit
>>
>>9492967
>Sweden isn't england
>Neither is france
How does that excuse them?
>America understands that terrorism is a possible part of life
What?
>>
>>9492977
It doesn't excuse them. We are talking about England though.

Just because you wanted Le Pen to win doesn't mean you can propagandize what he said. It seems the French PM meant that terrorism was a possible threat. I know that you think the threat would be fixed if they just kicked out every immigrant. I don't think so.

Arizona has anti Sharia Law bills though, so there's that.
>>
>>9492983
>We are talking about England though.
No we weren't?

>I know that you think the threat would be fixed if they just kicked out every immigrant.
What are you talking about? I think you've lost your mind
>>
>>9492949
>>UK President literally said Sharia would be good for Bongland
>>9492967
>Uk president also said she would look into if they violate English law

>Uk president
>neither of them disputes it
jesus fucking christ, there's not a board retarded enough to deserve you
>>
>>9492961
No

>>9492972
Argentine Spanish sounds noticeably different you shiest. Kinda' more like Italian. Google it.
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>>9492988
What's wrong with that? Or were they suppost to say UK Queen?
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>>9492720

They kidnapped a few krauts to nuke some gooks.

P I N N A C L E

O F

H U M A N

A C H I E V E M E N T
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>>9492995
Nothing, I quite liked what the UK president said when he visited the King of Nebraska. Much better than that time the Duke of Texas had a summit with the Raj of Russia, I couldn't understand a word, highly illiterate those third world titles.
>>
>>9493004
>not Tsar of Russia
You had one job
>>
>>9492902

Schrödingers Europe:

A homogenous white utopia if American Inner City problems are discussed but at the same time the new Saudi Arabia with crime running rampant, all depending on what narrative seems fit.
>>
What the fuck happened to this thread?
>>
>>9493007
>Tsar of Russia
Tsars are Brazilian I thought? Did Brazil colonise them now too? Explains Tolstoi, I suppose
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>>9493012
Literally one guy started funposting and then a bunch of idots joined in.
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>>9492991
>Argentine Spanish sounds noticeably different.Kinda' more like Italian.
Please just shut up.

t. Spanish speaker
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>>9493016
pay debts
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>>9492868
False dichotomy. Had the country remained torn, it simply would have been two democracies. There was a presidential election in the middle of the war between Lincoln and General McClellan. Lincoln barely held on and was forced to take on Democrat Andrew Jackson as his new VP to signal his willingness to compromise. The integrity of the nation and the integrity of democracy are not the same thing.
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>>9493016
He's right though, it doesn't sound like Spanish to americans
>t. Argentinean who travelled to USA
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>>9493060
¿So they associate spanish with the mexican accent or they expect us to speak like Don Quixote?
>>
You know, I was going to stop by the semen pipeline on my way home from work today as I was in a charitable mood, but all the yuromeanies ITT have made me reconsider. Your loss, really.
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>>9493204
I genuinely thought I was on /fit/ there for a second until I reached the end of your post.
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>>9492949
>Sweden's strong womyn government bends the knee and wears the headscarf when they visit Saudi Arabia

Yeah as you fucking should. When you go to another country, you follow and respect THEIR customs. Not your fucking own you entitled piece of shit.

If there was some country out there where it was normal to walk around naked and greet each other by giving a handjob, you would expect them NOT to do those things when they come to your country.
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>>9493128
I believe it's the exposure to the mexican accent, because when I spoke in Spanish with my sister they said we sounded Italian and that we spoke nothing alike their Mexican friends
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>>9493222
That's not the point. The point is that they are all about 'oh we're strong feminists! Girl Power!' and then they submit to a custom that goes completely against feminism.
>>
>>9493222
this was a multidimensional post
>>
>>9486980
Underrated
>>
>>9493249
>then they submit to a custom that goes completely against feminism.
>making yourself not look jewish goes against feminism
i know you haven't read enough to realise how good your unintentional jokes are, but let me assure you of your savant glibness
>>
>>9492690
The Alt-right is getting dumber every day more
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>>9493358
Yeah cause Saudi Arabia forcing women to cover up is so empowering isn't it, I guess that's why western feminists use it as a symbol of freedom
>>
>>9492128
>being to unintelligent too be to intelligent too fall for the ivy meme
>>
>>9493222
I for one would like to hear more about Anon's made-up naked country.
>>
>>9485274
I thought the thing was to shoot arabs and not the other way
>>
>>9485381
I feel like you're forgetting your own behaviour, Ignatius. It couldn't have been worse than the Greyhound trip to Baton Rouge, now could it?
>>
>>9487009
All I said is I learned what a Bildungsroman was. I think the post from which I first heard the term was something to the effect that Portrait satirized Bildungsromans.
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>>9492361
I'm 23 and I kissed a girl and a guy once.
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>>9485381
yank can't handle the bants typical
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>>9488765
And that's a reason to stop working towards it? Having wasted your entire life looking for something is better than to never have bothered to look.
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>>9485381
>he didnt recognize the hotel where Nora Barnacle worked as a chambermaid

kys
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>>9494703
He's not claiming that people are giving up after having met failure in their pursuit of happiness. He's claiming that people are, in their pursuit of happiness, depressed. I.e., the initial perception that >>9486972 was founded upon is a misconception.
Either way, working for your own happiness is the mission of plebs. True patricians restrain themselves and abstain from that which would make them happy (love, gluttony, wealth, prestige, family), allowing for themselves only the minor satisfaction with which one is rewarded for being virtuous.
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Yanks can't handle the bants
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>>9492449
Don't fucking do this. You're perpetuating the stereotype of Americans being lawsuit-happy. Just get a sense of humor and stop being a pussy ass bitch.
>>
>>9492375
as the normie fuck who had the gfs, I just want to clarify that i was not the one who replied with that ree shit. I didn't quite understand your initial comment and left it at that.
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>>9494705
oh wow, nora was beautiful. i always pictured her as old and fat thanks to the fart letters
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>>9492949
>UK
>President
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