• Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    alright here’s my new grift

    ring of protection +1

    makes you 5% less likely to be affected by negative events, including environmental hazards, poisons, and mental attacks.

    $2000

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    for the foreseeable future the shortfall in profits will be made up by scamming atomized elderly people with home equity

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    Can confirm, this is one of my many side gigs. I take AE/Shein jewelry that looks like something a MMO mage or Walter Mercado would wear and say its lucky or for love or something for like 15 bux. What gets me is you can literally grab any random thing in your house say you blessed it with hexbear-specter or whatever and off you go. Hard part is this stuff goes in boom busts, could be holding onto it for months then suddenly all your items sell at once.

    I shouldn’t have sold my lucky cat buckle belt, I could have used it for a 70s costume, oh well.

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        Nothing like going into the living room talking to be greeted by shushes, everyone’s around the TV listening intently to ‘el mentiroso’ for their horoscope like an absolutely major world-shattering announcement gonna drop, and my luck near everyone, even my grandma was a Sagittarius, so whatever I needed to say was gonna wait a good long min while you could hear a mouse fart. I had a bit of a crush on him when I was little tho, lol.

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          I have fond memories of him. I grew up with him and drag queens on our local TV. Obviously it’s not that there wasn’t a veil of homophobia and transphobia around them, but I definitely feel like over here it’s usually the case that gender non conformance is so politicized that you can only exist in marginal alternative media if you don’t live up to a specific image that the boomers who still watch TV expect.

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      picture of a similar box with liquor inside it

      Wikipedia’s description: A duplicate box Biddle ordered online following his investigation, complete with actual spirits.

      that’s a great pun, Wikipedia should have more humorous asides on non-serious subjects, like the old description of the song “baby got back” that they unfortunately got rid of.

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        In the opening verse, Sir Mix-A-Lot professes his affinity for large buttocks and his inability to conceal this fact from others. He goes on to describe other desirable physical attributes such as a trim waistline, tight fitting garments, and unblemished skin. Though the song does not contain a distinct narrative, the author does visit upon recurrent themes such as, female body image as depicted in media, male attitudes towards dating and relationships, and the author’s own sexual prowess.

        In later verses he expresses his exasperation with the entertainment industry’s portrayal of the ideal female form. He soundly rejects the notion promulgated by fashion magazines that smaller diminutive buttocks are more desirable. His critique of the women that appeared in contemporary music videos was particularly scathing, likening their appearance to those of prostitutes. To further illustrate his point, he stipulates the purported ideal proportions of 36-24-36 (measuring the bust, waist, and hip diameter respectively) would only be pleasing on women with a standing height no greater than 63 inches.

        Mix-A-Lot also briefly touches upon the rolls that ethnicity, nutrition, and physical fitness play in determining the shape and size of the female buttocks. He recommends that any exercises performed should be limited to the abdominal area. He cautions against a fitness routine strenuous enough to diminish the heft of the gluteal muscles. Though he offers no broad dietary guidelines, Mix-A-Lot contends that the dish “red beans and rice” is an important food staple for maintaining a healthy buttocks.

        Various lyrics address the fact that some men find no intrinsic value in large buttocks and consequently feign disinterest. Mix-A-Lot makes clear that he would eagerly strike up relations with any woman overlooked or discarded by such men. The remainder of the narrative is fleshed out with the author’s various attempts to entice women into enjoying a ride in his luxury automobile, presumably in exchange for sexual favors.

        It’s an accurate description, wiki fascists spoil our fun

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          I remember not long ago seeing a video essentially doing this same bit but for Love Sosa; it was a vertical short form video of this skinny blonde white lady reading books in various spliced shots, voicing over with a really long and overintellectualized analysis of the lyrics. It stuck out to me that someone commented that it was distasteful as a genre of joke because it boils down to “this art that Black people made is stupid, wouldn’t it be funny if we treated it like it isn’t?” but then I thought about it for a bit and I think that’s overtly uncharitable. Why can’t it just be treated as art that is worth dissecting with that level of granularity? Sure, there’s a humorous element to doing that because of how different the tone of the analysis is from the piece itself, but that doesn’t mean it’s a derisive or denigrating engagement. If irony can help break the barrier of taking something seriously, why not? I mean, not that there hasn’t been lots of scholarship on hip hop semiotics and its political implications, but you have to find a way to communicate that info to the masses.

          Maybe it’s my pathological overthinking to go through about 3 steps of dialectical synthesis just from seeing a short video. Apologies for shadowboxing under your comment, I don’t mean this to be an argument or anything I’m just recollecting.

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    Those are three conflicting magical traditions and the last one is just the dudes who were like “what if we invented international banking”

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    You can buy the ring of Suleiman and gain control of all the djinns for less than 500 american dollars? Inflation must be a lie

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    I found out about this because I was trying to find a teddy bear that looked like one I had as a kid and there was a similar looking one on eBay but it was being sold as a “haunted” teddy bear with a whole tragic backstory of the little boy who owned it and now haunts it I guess.

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