"PAY YOUR GODDAMN POWER BILL, CHUCKLEFUCK!"
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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Needs a sprinkle of "if you prefer unbroken kneecaps" for flavor
I was going to say, the mob has been well aware of the violent reminder option for quite some time.
They go from white envelopes to yellow! I don't know if they become red.
I bet they do!
This was funny the first time I read it. Even more so after I reread the body of the post.
Chucklefuck!
🤣
~I am so out of my gourd right now. 🌎 🧑🚀~
We've tried that, it doesn't work.
A rude awakening!
I just watched a political thriller that had plenty of violent reminders.
I doubt you want that.
Was it "The News"?
Tax is a gentle reminder. or should be. The alternative includes blades and baskets. The 1% should remember this.
The violent reminder is whatever happens if you forget.
Gentle reminders at my work the past months: sign this company policy change that unilaterally changed your benefits with no upside for you, please. (Or you will be in trouble)
We working at the same place are we?
My company will start to give reminders 5 minutes beyond their arbitrary 'deadline', but will take months and months and months to sign off on a promotion..
I found out what a violent reminder looks like.
Trust me, people's lives ain't shit. You can be unpersoned really quickly if you blab im the wrong place.
I sent a coworker a "friendly reminder ... fore some issue..., now don't forget, lest I will have to give you unfriendly reminders as well".
I had the pleasure of giving him an unfriendly reminder later (for something else), where I threatened to tell his mom.
Well yeah, you can say things like "the eruption was a harsh reminder of the dangers of living next to a volcano"
Along those lines: If somebody sends a "friendly reminder," you know that they had the unfriendly kind in mind. Otherwise, they'd just send a reminder.
Yeah that's why gentle reminders are actually threats
Mafia and dealers only work in violent reminders.
Kneecaps. Fingers. Finger nails. Knife to the nostril. Lots of options.
I'm pretty sure violent reminders are served via the kneecaps
Harsh reminder
My pet peeve is getting a ”gentle reminder” about some completely new information.
A grim reminder.
There is such a thing as a "stern reminder".
Violent reminders do exist. They're called "spanking"
Yes, daddy. 🥹
may i have another?
Sam Kinison was the violent reminder. Nobody could do it as well as he did so we don't use it anymore.
We call the violent reminder, the revolution.
Well, yeah, those happen all the time. Just read some headlines.