Bitter Truths.

Jul 18, 2015 1:40 PM

randymarshmallow

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I hate things like this

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

A Jesus fish AND a cross? Hmm?

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Watch out for the sharp edges

10 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 2

Hey that bracelet lock for your phone is a good idea!

10 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Try not to cut yourself on your own edge.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

DO YOU GET POINT? POINT IS SUBTLE! BUT GET POINT!!! METAPHOR

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 3

Who said they're trying to be subtle? Why do they have to be subtle?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

This is known as "pessimistic"

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Calvin and Jobbes

10 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 6

Calvin and Sobbes

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

The nutritional value of the iPad is greatly exaggerated.

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Just because white people have pizza doesn't mean we're going to kill you >:(

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I wish that phone and chain one was real, that would've saved my phone from being lost...

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Bitter oversimplifications for children more like. Moderation is more likely to yield good results.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

#7 needs to jailbreak their iphone.

10 years ago | Likes 128 Dislikes 1

Nobody replied to this yet, so I feel I had to. Hi! How are you? :)

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Hey, nobody replied to your comment in a whole year, so I thought I should

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hey, no one replied to your comment in 6 years, so I thought I would :-)

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hey, nobody replied to your comment in a whole year, so I thought I should. How are you? :)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It frightens me when retards think pictures like this are only meaningful if they blow your mind.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 4

Guys, let's just build a time machine and go back to the 90's.

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

I hear the 90s are alive in Portland.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The 1890's.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

We're like, a PRISONER of our PHONES, man. It's like, we need to SIMPLIFY.

10 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Like, right on, man.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's a reason cameras have neck or wrist straps!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

SIIIMPLIFYYYY MAAAAAAN

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They actually did #4 in China... it's still shit.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Okay, but obesity isn't the opposite of malnourishment.

10 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1

Right, but its more a statement on the issues that threaten us. Poor nutrition/starvation vs. struggling with obesity as a society.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

This is a result of the "children in Africa are starving!" argument. #BlameMoms

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

There are a lot of aspects to the North American health crisis than just moms not letting their kids throw away food. Its multi-faceted.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

It was a joke, lol

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My deepest apologizes, Assball. I love addressing peeps with their username.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#7 If you can't go 5 minutes without your phone then it's your own fault for being an addict. Put it down.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

2edgy4me

10 years ago | Likes 173 Dislikes 19

I love how 140 people have upvoted this but none of them had anything constructive or witty to say above "2eji5me"

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

3edgy5me

10 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 4

(n)edgy(n+2)me

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 3

s.t. n ∈ N \ {1}.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

oh yeah well {[(n)edgy(n+2)me]^3}/[√(edgy)]

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

666edgy420me

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Technically, (n)adjective(n*2)me and (n)adjective(n^2)me also work for the original equation. Not sure why '+' gets all of the love.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Because it started as 2x4me and 3x5me.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It started as 2x4me, then developed into 3x5me. Could have just as easily gone to 3x6me or 3x9me though.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

The tough thing about social issues is that you can't really explain them in a single image and/or sentence.

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

Sometimes you can sum them up pretty well, though.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

2/2 That's why comedians can get away with it, because they just use them to be funny.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Yea but that doesn't really get solutions. You need to know what the actual problem is, not an oversimplified image. 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Why is every single person who agrees with these pictures being downvoted? The bad comments section is full of okay comments.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 7

Because pictures are not good? In the first picture parents of baby actually thought before giving a birth, what i can't for the second kid.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

As an artist, I don't really understand it. Apparently everyone here is older than their age and enjoy vast wisdom.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

I like it how this was >12, in 15 hours it has lost 8 points. I guess we'll see how much more I lose for asking an unanswered question.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because the americans are awake now.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 11

"Fuck tounge in cheek, I wanna taste the inside of his belly button through his throat." - the artist most likely.

10 years ago | Likes 276 Dislikes 3

I dnt think they were going for tongue in cheek

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

I am going to save this for later

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i dont get it

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

what was humorous about any of the pictures?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

basicly saying 'not at face value." not necessarily humorous.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That is such a beautiful conflagration of words I want to give you a hug.

10 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

I will take it

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

*hugs sent*

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't think conflagration means what you think it means. Probably conglomerate.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

No, but I talk funny. I know what I'm going for hoss.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's cool. That's one of my favorite words, I like seeing it used right

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You mean "used correctly", or perhaps "used the right way"..

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Conflagration works for me.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Why do people make America feel bad for being successful? You you do know most foreign aide comes from America, private and govt.

10 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 7

Most of it goes to Israel, a pretty developed country. The rest goes to the UN, where we can threaten to pull funding to get what we want.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

It isn't an attempt to make you 'feel bad', just highlighting that our way of life comes at the expense of the suffering of others.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 13

Successful = wasteful?

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 12

Not people in America. Socialists in America that want to redistribute the wealth want the successful to feel bad.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

i.e. read the story of United Fruit Company. Press the profit out of south american countrys, overthrow democratic elected governments...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

More like insipid platitudes.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 5

Because the ideas sound cliche? Too many artists/activists moan about them? It's like these things don't happen all over the world at all!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

Nah, see, they're insipid because they're simplistic and uninteresting, as eye-opening as a Hershey's kiss.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

What's wrong with simplistic? Why does it have to be mind-blowing? The artist is just putting down his/her thoughts on social issues

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

And they're facile and uninspired. "War is bad" is not an enlightened or wholly accurate statement.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I feel like the first two are supposed to mean something, but I've no clue what.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

*Your way of life comes at the expense of the suffering of others* - That's what the first two mean.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Because we should feel bad about having nicer stuff than people 3000 miles away, it's that simple right?

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 7

That nicer stuff was made in a factory by those people.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Whoop dee doo

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

No, those people 3000 miles away suffer so that you can have nice things. You didn't die of exhaustion mining REE's for your computer... 1/?

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

And it's not like i get it for free, you know, i paid money for the shit.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yea, me too. Money that goes straight to [pick large corporate entity here] with a little as kickback for the warlords who control the mines

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Who do you suppose did? Answer: children enslaved by warlords. No need to feel guilty, just realize the real cost of our way of life 2/2

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Things are so significant! Fuck off.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

Write a letter

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Nope...not biased at all...no agenda what so ever by the artist.

10 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 18

Why do conservatives often brand anything non-religious as being a part of an "Agenda?" Most of my friends are theistic, I still love them >

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

I don't have some secret "agenda" to turn them into Atheists. Hell, all of my family believes in God. I'm fine with that, its their choice.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

You do realize that artists make things like this for the specific purpose of expression, right?

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 4

Are you seriously criticizing an artist for putting a message into their work?

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 10

The artist is criticizing the world with his/her art, I am criticizing his art for those views. We're all allowed to have opinions.

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 19

That's not what you did. You may have intended to do that, but you attacked them for bias/agenda, not the TYPE of bias/agenda.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Also there's like 10 artists here.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yes but you didn't criticize his views, you criticized him for putting his views into his work. Which is ridiculous.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

Also just because you have views doesn't make them accurate. These pieces largely are representative of reality, whether you like it or not.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Most of them, yes, others are just, well, not accurate.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

Fair enough, out of curiosity, which don't you think are accurate?

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

r/im14andthisisdeep

10 years ago | Likes 1030 Dislikes 53

funny thing is, this isn't even from reddit

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

Exactly

10 years ago | Likes 79 Dislikes 2

The fat man one was quite good. I think they have to be artistically pleasing first and the message comes second

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

The image portrays the contrast in our world problems pretty well, in a form (the ying yang) that has been overused quite a bit.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

More like "I'm over 20 and think everything must be superduper deep to have relevance, or be worthy of my attention or appreciation."

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Honestly. It's not a ringing endorsement for this site that people have thought these images were so profound for so long. There's no subtly

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 10

Honestly, I prefer it simple like this.

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

I know you're making a joke, but this isn't deep, this is blunt, both can feel very similar when you're young.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

These messages are worth being reminded of now and then - even if lacking in subtlety. If not, they wouldn't be true anymore.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is any of this somehow shallow at 15+?

10 years ago | Likes 75 Dislikes 13

Yeah, you reach a point where you're more interested in specifics and solutions than these fairly lazy generalisations.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's hamfisted, heavy-handed delivery of clichéd, broad-strokes platitudes. Some more than others, but none of them are deep.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

at 16 it's sea level.

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

They are valid points and we shouldn't leave behind our disapproval pf the world's problems when we get older and cynical. Not deep though.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

It's more that the messages here are utterly hamfisted. They're true, but in no way deep. Unless you're in your teens, when this is all new.

10 years ago | Likes 112 Dislikes 7

They’re not even true

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It frightens me when retards think pictures like this are only meaningful if they blow your mind.

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 74

Hjelper ikke å kalle folk retard, Tarjei

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Gjør ikke noen skade heller.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Deep implies that the full meaning isn't immediately apparent. These are blatant. True and meaningful, but nowhere near deep.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 3

People are quick to find a way to dismiss messages that clash with their established views. Sorry if me saying that is trolling.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 19

"should we do another cross one or a star one?" "the last 3 have been cross ones, change it up a bit" "fish one it is!"

10 years ago | Likes 746 Dislikes 6

Sounds straight up like Eddie Izzard. Glorious!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So is that what a pescetarian is...?

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This sounds like my mom and me when we make our Christmas cookies.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

"This one's gonna worship satan."

10 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 2

The star one could also be Wiccan since the point is not facing down

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty sure that's what it's supposed to be.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

See the more people know

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That one was super accurate, I thought.

10 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 10

Depends on the parents and the country of raising, really. It's poignant all the same.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Agreed. If my parents were born elsewhere, I could have as easily been raised in Islam as I was in Christianity. Parents shouldn't 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

force-feed their religion to their children in any case. Tradition, location, or culture doesn't make it right.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Dunno why you're getting down voted for a pretty non-offensive comment :-/

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Haha, thanks. People seem to get butthurt when someone has a differing opinion. Oh well. I stand by my opinion. :P

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

What confuses me is I assumed your opinion would be the more prevalent one on imgur.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Seems like it...imgurians are fickle ones, though. XD

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dunno why they have the cross AND the fish, both refer to Christianity.

10 years ago | Likes 254 Dislikes 2

Crosses are a bit more prominent in Catholicism. Both are used in either, but I always equate the fish to jesus, cross to marry

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Marry is a verb, meaning to combine or join together in Marriage. Mary is the name.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fish symbol is pagan. Has nothing to do with Christianity. Just look at the pope's hat from the side. Most people don't know this. Sheep.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fish is for Christians inside a car and cross is for Christians not inside a car.

10 years ago | Likes 187 Dislikes 1

Maybe catholic and protestant?

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Possibly? But the cross is blanket christianity, and the fish originates from back before any schisms happened.

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Is the cross blanket? Only Catholic churches display the cross on the roof.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Not where I live, interesting it is some place in the world.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

the cross was a late symbol actually http://symboldictionary.net/?p=2041

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

At any rate, the only group I can think of who don't preach the cross are JWs, otherwise it's pretty central to Christianity.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not necessarily, just google imaged 4 other groups off the top of my head and a lot of their churches have crosses, inside and/or outside 1/

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0