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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

Stephen King gives blunt three-word response after discovering Florida banned 23 of his books in schools

www.independent.co.uk

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Stephen King gives blunt three-word response after discovering Florida banned 23 of his books in schools

www.independent.co.uk

@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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Stephen King gives three-word response after realising Florida banned 23 of his books
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Twenty-three of King’s novels have been banned from schools in the US state thanks to a 2022 legislation signed by Ron DeSantis
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  • Tiefling IRL
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    “What the fuck”

    Saved you a click and way too much scrolling

    • @[email protected]
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      There’s an article?

      • @[email protected]
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        I probably can’t afford that car, but I definitely can’t afford that blender.

      • @[email protected]
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        24•1 year ago

        Oh come on now. You expect these people to be able to afford to just be able to send you text? For free. Madness!

        Also, use Firefox mobile, install those ad blockers. Have a useful mobile internet again.

        • @[email protected]
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          I’m all for the use of ad blockers but I really hope that statement was intended to be ridiculous.

          • @[email protected]
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            First part, a bit. Although we seem to have replaced most journalism with “ChatGPT, please rewrite this press release as a news article”.

            Second part, no.

            • @[email protected]
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              thats a great 8dea heh

        • @[email protected]
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          I only wish I could use it as the system WebView implementation.

          • @[email protected]
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            There’s Chromium based mobile browsers with AdBlocker that can be used as WebView. Vivaldi, for example. Not FOSS, though, no freedom, only beer.

        • arglebargle
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          Firefox Focus for visiting random sites. Adblock built in drops all cookies on exit.

      • @[email protected]
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        Man, how do you guys survive an ad-unfiltered internet?

        • @[email protected]
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          Crouch in the corner and hope it forgets about us.

      • @[email protected]
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        Extended

        Yeah, we could tell

      • @[email protected]
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        deleted by creator

      • @[email protected]
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        AdBlockers, my buddy in Buddha, AdBlockers.

        • Jojo, Lady of the West
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          It’s pronounced bodhisattva.

    • @[email protected]
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      I guessed right 🤣

      • @[email protected]
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        My guess was “Fuck you too” or “Go fuck yourself”.

        For the last one he could just have quoted Al. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ZfahRzz_w

        • @[email protected]
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          My guess was the last one.

          Go f yourself

          • Miles O'Brien
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            It’s okay, you can swear here, I won’t tell mom.

            glances around fuck

    • @[email protected]
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      12•1 year ago

      thank you!!!

    • @[email protected]
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      Doing the lord’s work. Thank.

  • @[email protected]
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    To save you visiting the hellscape that is The Independent: those 3 words were “What the fuck?” Nothing really remarkable.

    • @[email protected]
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      Could have fit that right in the headline without even increasing the number of words.

      Thank you for your service.

      • Jojo, Lady of the West
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        But then they would have printed the word fuck on a headline. Can’t have that, someone might see it.

    • @[email protected]
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      8•1 year ago

      These headlines here are becoming some google news clickbait titles.

      • Jojo, Lady of the West
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        Becoming?

    • @[email protected]
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      Damn. He could have gone with, “Fuck Ron Desantis.”

      • @[email protected]
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        “No. More. Cheeseburgers”

    • @[email protected]
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      You mean “what the f***” right? You know it’s illegal to swear online and will have you face capital punishment

    • KillingTimeItself
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      perfectly remarkable, i think.

    • @[email protected]
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      i mean, its pretty obvious what the 3 words were just given the context of the title.

  • @[email protected]
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    I snapped this at my local library last week.

    I snapped this at my local library last week.

    • @[email protected]
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      The image is a flyer for a “Banned Books Club” (Bokklubb för förbjudna böcker) targeted at young people between the ages of 13 and 18 in Bromölla, Sweden. It invites readers to explore the topic of banned books, asking questions like “Which books are banned, where are they banned, and why?” The club aims to discuss these books during the fall and winter, and the first meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 19, from 3 to 4 p.m. at the library (biblioteket).

      The flyer has a “STOP” sign, a warning label at the bottom, and a bird illustration. It encourages participants to sign up via email and features logos for Kulturpunkten and Bromölla Municipality.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s just gobbledygook

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    • @[email protected]
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    • dropcase
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      jättemycketbra!

  • Zerlyna
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    Every book report in high school where I could choose the author was a Stephen King novel and I turned out fine. And in Florida too. Class of 1991. 😁. BRD.

    • @[email protected]
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      Back in the ‘80’s I had a high school English teacher that had us read his Night Shift short stories. The entire class loved it.

      • DominusOfMegadeus
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        Night Shift is fantastic.

    • @[email protected]
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      But, are you religious and support the right like it’s your job?

      • Zerlyna
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        Not at all.

        • @[email protected]
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          Welp, then according to their plan, you didn’t turn out fine, you’re the problem. Good for you though, I’m hoping your state turns it around quickly because I really want to live there. It’s beautiful and I love the weather there, I just can’t deal with the bullshit they’re doing.

          • Zerlyna
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            It’s not cheap. I left in 2005 because the insurance cost kept doubling every year despite never having a claim and I was 30 miles inland. And the deductibles would increase too. t’s worse now. Just do your homework first.

        • @[email protected]
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          You idiot!

    • @[email protected]
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      I read The Stand and It before high school, and lots of other mature books with “inappropriate” material. It resulted in improved reading skills.

  • @[email protected]
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    Definitely don’t tell kids about libgen.

  • Subverb
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    “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

    Love that book. There’s some sad sex in it and a very unsympathetic preacher, but overall pretty tame by King standards.

    • @[email protected]
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      I absolutely loved the entire series. I miss Eddie and Susannah, and I want to reread it again now.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m just happy to find other people who read them. ❤️

        • @[email protected]
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          I kennit sai

        • @[email protected]
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          “Dancing the commala” has broken my pronunciation of Kamala Harris permanently

      • @[email protected]
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        Everything after Wizard and Glass doesn’t exist.

        Cut my teeth on King, but he ruined his magnum opus in his rush to complete when confronted by his own mortality. It has some good moments, there are interesting bones in the structure, but he ruined it in the last few books.

        This opinion formed after reading the entire series twice, and the first 3-4 books many more times.

        It makes me happiest to view it as an incomplete series.

        • @[email protected]
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          I respect your view. A few weeks back I was complaining that I hated reading the Dune series. I enjoy the story and having read it, but I really hate reading it. Somebody told me they felt the same way but about the Dark Tower. Different strokes and all that, but I loved every moment of the whole series including how the tone changed after his accident.

          • @[email protected]
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            See, I don’t know how many times I’ve read the Dune series. It’s probably my favorite series and rewards rereading. (Not counting the crap his son and Kevin Anderson put out.)

            Different strokes for sure.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆
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    “What the fuck? Fuck that shit. That’s fucking stupid.”

  • @[email protected]
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    The sex in It was a but weird but 23?

    • @[email protected]
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      Did you forget about the shit weasels in Dreamcatcher, the various instances of SA in Hearts in Atlantis, the forced abortion in the Gunslinger, insomnia, and so forth

      • @[email protected]
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        you forgot the necrophilia in Under The Dome! ;)

        • @[email protected]
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          Damn, I knew I was forgetting one. Lol

  • Lad
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    I was hoping for “go fuck yourselves”

    • @[email protected]
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      “What? You scared?”

      • @[email protected]
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        I would also accept “Sucks to Suck” or “cool story, bro.”

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      I was hoping for an “Actual Cancel Culture”

  • Blackout
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    I could have done it in 2 words and I’m no great writer.

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      best i can do is 1 and yes it is “fuck”

  • @[email protected]
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    “The skibidi toilet”

    • @[email protected]
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      “Skibidi toilet Ohio”, even.

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    “I love you”

    • @[email protected]
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      “Please and Thanks.”

  • @[email protected]
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    I wonder how many bytes were spent sending these three words to my screen.

  • @[email protected]
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    I started reading King in like the 4th grade. WTF is right

  • @[email protected]
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    “I hate florida-nazis”

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