yep! I'm pretty sure that image is from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Sergio
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I was thinking more like: if the advertising is that bad but they can still sell their produce, it must be good.
Bet those maters taste awesome tho...
My gog, Mina's an Austen-level wit:
He will not admit anything, and downfaces everybody. If he can’t out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views.
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I could see from the old fellow’s self-satisfied air and the way in which he looked round for the approval of his cronies that he was “showing off,” so I put in a word to keep him going
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I nodded, for I thought it better to assent, though I did not quite understand his dialect.
That's no air-bleb. I'ma keep looking up pics of her by Kevin O'Neill, so maybe I can forget that whatshername played her in the 1992 Dracula movie:
"Leave DENIED!"
"they should have sent a poet"
A track to help you furiously get your job done today to get ready for the weekend!!?!
Perturbed by the apparent mistake, the user tried to speak to employees and managers at the Hertz counter, but none were able to help, and all "pointed fingers at the 'AI scanner.'" They were told to contact customer support — but even that proved futile after representatives claimed they "can’t do anything."
"Did the AI scanner [misinterpret] water reflections or dirt on the black car as damage?" they pondered. "There’s no way to even present that possibility, no path to defend yourself. It’s an unchallengeable, automated accusation."
Synth-pop, alternative rock, 1989
Why was I thinking of this song? Oh yeah bc of this meme.
Track link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xrNaTO1bI
Bonus comic:
MaryDeath is a comic about life, death, and everything in between. The story follows a young girl named Mary who happens to have befriended Death. Why Death has chosen to take interest in Mary remains a mystery, but despite his ever dark presence Mary finds comfort in his companionship.
https://www.marydeathcomics.com/archives/comic/
MaryDeath Comics was created in the 2010s by Gwen Tarpley. The artist transitioned recently, but it seems they don’t mind their deadname being on their older comics (i.e. some of the recent posts still use it on their Cats Cafe comic, which is their main effort now.)
Reminder that on !vampires@lemmy.zip Count @Zagorath@aussie.zone is posting a timed readthrough of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. bc it's an epistolary novel told in letters and diary entries and stuff, so you can read it over the course of a couple months by reading the entry that happened on that day, see?
If you click on this link I think you'll see all the posts so far in mostly the right order.
Anyway, I made this meme template to tell a mundane story on !dullsters@dullsters.net and I wanted to use it in another context, and this is the best I could come up with. The images are from the 1992 movie Dracula. Here's the template if ya wanna do better:
I have a bit of a headache so I grabbed a couple acetaminophens in "easy to swallow caplet" form. then I grabbed my water bottle, but it was empty. fml. grabbed the empty bottle and prepared to head downstairs to fill it up. Bumped that fingernail that I keep meaning to cut. ow. ok, I'll cut it now while I remember. but I got these pills in my hand.
no problem, I'll hold the pills with my lips while I trim the fingernail, then head downstairs for the water. OK, find clipper, trim. pills still in lips. OK, downstairs, OK, fill waterbottle. pills still in lips. Prepare to swallow pills.
wtf the pills are stuck to my lip somehow. Kinda like how your tongue gets stuck to a lamp-post, I guess? but it's not even cold. probably just a little sticky or something. just force the pills off my lips, no problem. hurts a bit more than expected.
Look in the mirror: my lip is freakin' bleeding from where the pills were stuck on them! each pill took a small strip of skin with it! there are two little cuts, one each from each pill. wtf!? how is this even possible...
there was only one way to express my state of mind....
I told my cousin and showed them this meme and I was like: this is my life now. this is how I spend my saturday nights. and cuz was like: taking pills and making memes! living the life!
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here's a short video of St Mary's cemetery in Whitby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_tflzCJYus (Whitby also has Larpool Cemetery, which was only like 20 years old when Stoker visited, but St. Mary's is the Dracula one and is several hundred years old.)
here's another short video of St Mary's cemetery. If I had to guess, I'd say Mina and her people were at the end of the walkway at this timestamp: https://youtu.be/pGzSsunFeoE?t=110
here's a walkthrough of modern Whitby. looks like a lot of the buildings date back a couple hundred years. https://youtu.be/6r1SsUo0_H0?t=1099
A lot more videos about Whitby up, but mostly full of fool talk by illsome normie "hosts" who bean’t cared a pinch of snuff about, it makes me ireful to think about! the ones above are pure walkthrough, no belderin. I must gang!
BONUS clip of Sir Patrick Stewart saying something in a Yorkshire accent: https://youtu.be/uS4Ln054ULk?t=23