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[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"How I spend my leisure time is superior to how you spend your leisure time."

As though trash books and thought-provoking television don't exist.

Edit: oh wait... I see the actual joke. Thought-provoking television indeed.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They are saying one uses imagination and the other doesn't.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

My original point is that either can engage the imagination, but that point is overshadowed by the jar.

[–] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Both kinda do though because at first i couldn't imagine what the boy is watching, but after i saw that video for myself not a day goes by without imagining it.

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[–] three@piefed.social 161 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, and it's about to be 2 deep 4 him.

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 85 points 3 days ago (6 children)

What is the TV's shadow? It seems like a pair of legs standing on a box and a small floating rectangle.

The book, meanwhile, looks like a convoluted mess. Crashing spaceship, T-Rex/Godzilla, and what might be Dracula's castle. If there's a coherent story in this, I have got to read it. Book title? :P

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (16 children)

I can't believe no one in the comments has told you yet. I want to tell you because I just learned about it last week! It's horrible! A man in Russia, only legs & feet in the camera frame, squatted over an empty glass jelly jar with the lid on it, tons of lubrication, and he kept going until the entire jar was fully inserted in his rectum.

Then you can hear an explosion sound. But it was an implosion sound. It was the sound of the jar being crushed & glass shattered inside of him. The man didn't make a sound. Complete stoic silence which lends more creepiness to the video.

Then we see tons of blood dripping out of him, down his legs, all over the floor. The man starts manually digging glass chunks out of his asshole. That's all I remember. I never actually watched the video myself but that's the description.

Follow up: he never went to the doctor for this injury because he says he didn't want to deal with the embarrassment. He had some scarring. He says he healed within a couple weeks. He says he has no regrets. He makes tons of fringe kink videos, this was apparently nothing unusual for him. But he waited until the event was far enough in the past before he posted the video online, over a year after it happened. It happened in August a few years ago. He posted it in December a year and a half later.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I knew it was going to be bad, why did I read it anyway?

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This wasn't "a few years ago". It was probably closer to 15 or 20 years ago. I remember watching it in college.

That being said, the description you gave is accurate. I've only seen it once, and that is exactly what is burned into my memory. Also the taste of Disaronno because that was the only bottle I'd snuck in, and I needed something to drink.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

It was around the same time as 2 girls 1 cup IIRC

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This is like actually worse than just watching it, you're a master storyteller.

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 3 days ago

Thank you! That text description is more than enough for me. Expertly told.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

After reading this and the replies, I am legitimately not sure if this is a joke or not. I'm not going to go try to find out, but if this is a joke, this is an absolute master class. Bravo.

Very real yes and a very commonly mentioned piece of internet history

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

It's absolutely true. I am not clever enough to make up fiction.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

It's unfortunately real.

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

The TV's shadow has been edited to a still from an old shock-gore vid, "1 man 1 jar". I don't recommend looking it up.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ddplf@szmer.info 5 points 2 days ago

Ah, a relic of the late stage of this meme format where hardly anyone remembered what the "POV" stands for.

Good thing it effectively died soon after

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 57 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I’m 14 and this is so deep fr

E: I agree though that when a book clicks it paints a picture far more vivid than a screen ever could.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 2 days ago

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tv can lead to imagination and books can leave no lasting impression.

However in recent years I've taken more to books because video programmes seem to be getting dumber.

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Unless you have aphantasia, in which case books are either just text or very limited images.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 50 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Dunno man. TV just seems like plays in the magic frame.

Also things you watch spark the imagination if it's a good piece of art

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[–] EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago

Both are having fun \o/

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I can do both.

As an artist, a good movie or videogame can get my mind racing with cool ideas to draw or model.

[–] JimFox@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago

...and the jar breaks... oO

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

ITT: People who need to take a closer look lol

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Its actually so much funnier watching people compare the "blandness" of the TV to the book lmao.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, that T. rex in the book is clearly about to do something terrible.

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Heh...yeah...that sound of the jar breaking will haunt me for the rest of my days.

[–] Batmancer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you. I was having trouble identifying the shadow of the tv.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I never thought I'd be thanked for mentioning 1 man 1 jar...

Lol you're welcome.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Missing another kid farther to the left watching Andrew Tate on his phone.

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

The theater of my mind is not that great unfortunately

[–] Hisse@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

What this is saying is that kids who watch TV tend to be more focused

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For a second my ingenuous mind suggest me he was watching soccer. Then internet clicked in.

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