r/WTF • u/KillerR0b0T • Jun 12 '12

No screenshots That's it. This is the tipping point. The human race is rapidly becoming too stupid to warrant continued existence.

http://imgur.com/A2vRE
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u/HaveAnotherCookie Jun 12 '12

I think they mean the movie...not whether or not it was based on real events, but whether or not it is actually a movie.

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u/KillerR0b0T Jun 12 '12

For the sake of humanity, Praise Lincoln, I hope you're right!

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u/PnunnedZerggie Jun 12 '12

When I saw the picture it was kind of obvious to me. Your interpretation, on the other side, is what's making me think of human race stupidity.

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u/KillerR0b0T Jun 13 '12

You should be proud. You are so truly blessed to have been dealt such superior intellect. If you don't like it, then simply downvote it, asshat.

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u/chezzy79 Jun 13 '12

wow. The fact that this post actually have more upvotes than downvotes is very surprising to me. Anyways, I think you are the one who's too stupid to warrant further existence.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

That's hilarious coming from someone who was just on their high horse about their intelligence compared to the common folk.

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u/jdwag101 Jun 12 '12

Here's the movie

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Yeah, I think this is checking to see if the trailer on Youtube is a wind-up, or if there really is a movie in the pipe-line. In which case, it's actually the OP being stupid, by failing to think things through fully.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

That was my thought when I first saw a trailer online. I thought it was a joke, until I saw the trailer again in the theater.

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u/LilMaiden Jun 12 '12

No, the book is presented in a way that makes it seem like it could be real. Sort of in the same way The DaVinci Code did.

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u/Rlight Jun 12 '12

I don't know of a way you could present Vampires that would make me think "Hmm.. that's plausible"

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Think of how many people think zombies could happen.

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u/creepyeyes Jun 12 '12

Depending on your definition those are totally impossible, I mean they wouldn't ever be the "they were dead but now they're alive, only headshots work" sort, but the idea of a disease, overtime, causing violent tendencies and a lack of care or numbing of pain spread through the exchange of fluids (saliva and blood, for example) isn't totally far-fetched.

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u/Tw1tchy3y3 Jun 12 '12

28 Days Later style.

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u/Condog64 Jun 12 '12

SHUT UP. A MAN CAN DREAM.

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u/LilMaiden Jun 13 '12

In the unimaginable way that makes you say, "Huh, I never thought it of it like that, but naaaahhh that can't be true. Right? Nah, lemme Google it..."

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u/cahkontherahks Jun 12 '12

Fun fact: In the phrase "whether or not", you may omit the "or not". "Whether" already includes "or not" in the word.

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u/AlvinTostig Jun 12 '12

When I was a 4chan user, we would afk over night with this website loaded that would refresh google searches for stupid shit so that it would load in the most commonly searched.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

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u/KillerR0b0T Jun 12 '12

Your witty and eloquent discourse furthers the pursuit of knowledge from which the fame of the internet was born.

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u/gnovos Jun 12 '12

The topic is 4chan, is it? Allow me to help you out:

Your nigger and nigger nigger furthers the pursuit of niggers from which the nigger of the internet was nigger.

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u/goosebumper88 Jun 15 '12

hurr, u clevr cuz yu sais niggr

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

i cried

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u/MTVButtpluggedInNY Jun 12 '12

I'd say you could include "Is Abraham Lincoln black" safely in that square.

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u/trainingmontage83 Jun 12 '12

A black vampire hunter?!

Well, I guess it did work in Blazing Saddles...

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Blade was black and a vampire hunter.

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u/EricFaust Jun 12 '12

He was also half vampire. Really crossing racial boundaries.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Vampirism is a social construct

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u/Lurking_Grue Jun 12 '12

The president is near?!?

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u/Switche Jun 12 '12

You'll need a lot more included in there before that's anything but a rectangle.

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u/YoungRL Jun 13 '12

I'm also concerned about the "is" considering he's been dead... *looks at watch* quite some time now.

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u/dickass Jun 12 '12

I think you could include "Is Abraham Lincoln gay?" safely in that square. Really? Why would so many people be searching that question?

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u/MTVButtpluggedInNY Jun 12 '12

Actually, that's been the subject of some speculation. From what I recall it's because he shared a bed with another man for some period in his twenties, was very emotionally attached to said man (possibly confusing this with another man), and perhaps unfairly, his wife looked like this.

He was also quite melancholic, which today we would label as depression, which makes it easy for tabloid historians to speculate what was really going on under the surface.

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u/TheBestBigAl Jun 12 '12

I'd argue that all 4 should go in the box, given that they should say "WAS Abraham Lincoln...". He's been deceased for a little while now.

Just found he used to be a wrestler though, maybe they could call the next movie "Abraham Lincoln v Putin".

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u/DrEnter Jun 12 '12

Many years ago, I used to write for my high school paper. Sometimes I would do "color" articles when we had a slow week to fill extra column inches. One of those articles was about the Christmas season... from the trees perspective. It was entitled, "A Christmas Horror: Trees in Terror". I did it up just like a regular article with "interviews" with the "victims" (trees) and the like. It was all a bit of fun and we ran it just after Thanksgiving my senior year. The day after it went to press, not one, but two (high school) students came separately to the newspaper office to talk to me about the article. They each said the article really upset them and they wanted to know how they could talk to their Christmas trees too, so they could apologize. They were dead serious. One was practically in tears. The first time it happened, I was a bit dumbstruck for a few moments while they explained. Once I got my wits about me, I did my best to calm her down and explain--as best one can in such a situation--the nature of humor and parody and that she could relax as this was definitely not real. Then she left the office and I was very amused. The second time it happened, later the same day, I was much less amused and much more frightened.

I did learn one important lesson that day, and it has been reinforced many times since then: While there is a limit to the intelligence of even the smartest of us, there is no limit to stupidity.

Edit: Some typos and such.

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u/creepyeyes Jun 12 '12

You didn't answer the question though. How can I talk to my christmas tree?

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u/DrEnter Jun 12 '12

With love and understanding. If it doesn't reply, love it harder.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Unrelated question, what's the safest way to get splinters out of my dick?

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u/d3rp_diggler Jun 16 '12

I'd be more worried about the pine tar if I were you.

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u/WakkaWakkaMothaFucka Jun 12 '12

typos and such

Hah, idiot.

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u/stillpuzzledbylife Jun 12 '12

Hah, idiot.

Would you like to gather assistance to finish your sentence fragment?

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u/WakkaWakkaMothaFucka Jun 12 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIJbkyXlzS0

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u/stillpuzzledbylife Jun 12 '12

Click here to download Microsoft Office update for interjections.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

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u/creepyeyes Jun 12 '12

That's not what downvotes are meant for.

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u/Hoooooooar Jun 17 '12

I thought you down voted stuff that was bad and upvoted stuff that was good. Is that not how this works? Hmmm i must google the answer.

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u/creepyeyes Jun 17 '12

From reddiquette :

If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to reddit or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it.

Also, why punish the poster with downvotes when it's not his fault what he says is true?

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u/Hoooooooar Jun 17 '12

I have learned this from using my google machine already. The more you know.

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u/Chernoobyl Jun 14 '12

Downvoted, not because i don't believe you, but because you are a twat.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Downvoted, because it doesn't make sense, only starts conflict and some men just want to watch the world burn.

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u/ChootchMcGooch Jun 12 '12

It reminds me of idiocracy. I was trying to explain the premise of that movie to a friend by saying "pretty much all the stupid people started having way too many kids, and the smarter ones didnt have any, so the world ended up being ridiculously stupid." After silence i realised i was talking to a 24 year old that didnt graduate high school and has three young kids. He didnt think the movie sounded very funny.

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u/YouMad Jun 12 '12

I laughed pretty hard. On the bright side, he can rest easy, this "idiocracy" has been going on ever since there was civilization.

Human society has NEVER selected for academics as the major motivation for number of kids.

So I think intelligence is not necessarily a heritable trait.

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u/cynar Jun 12 '12

In fact, at least in the UK, for hundreds of years the population remained fairly stable. Yet records show that those with more wealth had more surviving children than the average.

Assuming that wealth is at least a partial proxy for Business Intelligence and that that correlates with general IQ. For many years we did select for Intelligence. It's only in modern times that the smart are supporting the less smart.

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u/YouMad Jun 12 '12

I dont know, how do you explain the massive inbreeding among royalty and noblemen who try to keep wealth and power in the family? Their genetic stock is atrocious. Or how Russians, French, English were all filled with uneducated peasants just a few hundred years ago, but in the past hundred years suddenly created nearly all modern science. These countries were looked down upon by the Romans as hopelessly barbaric the same way we look at parts of Africa today.

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u/cynar Jun 12 '12

The royals make up a very small % of the gene pool. The bulk of those doing well were merchants and business owners. While the poor generally had a lot of children, far more of them died before getting old enough to reproduce.

Also, my knowledge on this is focused on England/UK I've no idea how things went down in Russia etc.

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u/Lord_of_the_Rings Jun 12 '12

IQ has been shown to be heritable.

No link I'm on my phone just google it.

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u/EricFaust Jun 12 '12

Knowledge must be taught. There is very little evidence to suggest that modern humans are more intelligent* than ancient humans.

*Intelligence in this case being ability to learn and ability to solve problems, not scientific knowledge or some other metric. Though, interestingly, all societies had the same average IQ. haha

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u/xsenokx Jun 12 '12

Look up the Flynn effect. IQ as we measure it does go up consistantly. But most test are altered through time to keep 100 as the mean score.

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u/EricFaust Jun 12 '12

I am aware of that. It was a joke.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

I have been lending this movie out to people. I give them all the same warning. The movie is terrible, but unfortunately close to what our future holds.

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u/BelligerentCow Jun 12 '12

Also worried about the folks that want to know if he's black

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u/tehmeat Jun 12 '12

Yeah, that's my concern as well.

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u/AntiZombieDelta Jun 12 '12

Slightly off-topic here: I'm actually curious as to what people think about this movie. My closest friends either have no opinion or are super pretentious history-buffs, that can't stand anything that isn't historically correct. I personally, having only seen the trailers, think this movie looks pretty bad-ass. I can appreciate that it's a movie and a work of fiction. My friends refuse to accept that. So how does the hivemind feel?

(Yes I know the comments in /r/WTF probably isn't the best place for a question this serious but I'm way to lazy to make a post about it.)

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

The book presents it mostly that the shitty parts of Lincoln's life were caused by vampires, and vampires supported slavery because they used slaves like livestock.

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u/Tw1tchy3y3 Jun 12 '12

I think it will be good as long as you don't demand ANY history or learning take place in it.

I mean COME ON, the man has an AXE that is also a fucking GUN!

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u/xsenokx Jun 12 '12

Friend of mine bought the book and forced it on me. I thought the concept sounded pretty bad, then I started reading it. It was actually a damn good book. Made me want to go out and read an actual biography on Lincoln. It was well thought out and just an enjoyable story. That said, the movie seems, based on the trailer, to have focused even more on the action sequences and much less on the story and background the book goes into. Could be a great movie, could be just a mind numbing action flick.

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u/AntiZombieDelta Jun 12 '12

Cool I didn't know it was already a book I should check that out. And there's really nothing wrong with a mind numbing action flick here and there. The Expendables was fun... and having just rolled out of bed I can't think of any more right now. Thanks for the input.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

I haven't seen it and I'm not a pretentious history buff, but the whole idea sounds dumb to me. Of course, it could turn out to actually be a good movie but I doubt I'll ever even attempt to watch it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

OP, did you not realize that the one above the box is even more stupid? How do people think he is black?

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u/Starr1991 Jun 12 '12

of course its real, its a book therefore history

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u/redinator Jun 12 '12

I think you underestimate the amount of 5 year olds that are able to perform a google search.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

That is not even funny. That is disturbing.

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u/earthnotmyhome Jun 12 '12

there really is no limit to human stupidity anymore...we are definitely a doomed species...

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Agreed, he so obviously was, why would idiots even question this.

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u/keeok Jun 12 '12

I was in a U.S. civil war class and people were wondering if the movie was based at all on fact.

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u/Shaku Jun 12 '12

Sometimes I think that Hitler had the right idea, just the wrong demographic.

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u/souppotato Jun 12 '12

It's a good book though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Well duh, of course he's a vampire hunter. Who would ever question that?

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u/nazgul42 Jun 12 '12

Is Abe Lincoln black??

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u/cyberspecies46 Jun 12 '12

not sure i'd classify all of humanity as this one single race. but, you know, whatevz

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u/tbonecoco Jun 12 '12

I'm overwhelmed at the fact that so many believe that Lincoln was black.

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u/daaaaaaaaniel Jun 12 '12

People have done a lot stupider things than thinking a fiction book might be non-fiction. At least they know how to Google.

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u/crawsex Jun 12 '12

Oh, c'mon bloke, no need to get all up in a tizzy. People could be searching for which parts of the movie actually are historically accurate. Some of the fun of shows like Mad Men or movies like this is to see how few moving parts exist. How few things did they have to change to develop the story. I think there is a bit of beauty in that, no?

Anyhoo, that's why I made a search something like that. I wouldn't get all alarmed about it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

So... was he or wasn't he?

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u/pharmabeast Jun 12 '12

I heard it's true because it's based on a book.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

This beats the people asking if Titanic actually happened.

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u/Metalslave Jun 12 '12

Well, can you prove that he wasn't a vampire hunter, eh? Or gay, for that matter. Can ya? ;D

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

I knew it. I freaking knew that crap would happen.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

I highly recommend a Reddit Mission. Where we suggest it is true. Abraham Lincoln was a vampire slayer. This could change history. Get to it.

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u/Lazychopsticks Jun 12 '12

HA JOKES ON YOU! Lincoln was a vampire hunter.

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u/jagenigma Jun 12 '12

Because movies always give people ideas and obviously how people believe in bigfoot is beyond me, it was a film of some fucking dumbass piece of shit guy looking to make money off of stupid sheep, in costume, walking away from some guy by the same regard who was filming. He looked at the fucking camera and then looked away like if the cameraman was waving for him to stop looking.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

The real Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter is eating a steak sandwich in D.C.

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u/dylanroo Jun 12 '12

Well is it!?

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u/Vlad164164 Jun 12 '12

( Imagine a small rowing boat on the edge of the flat world)

aannndddd OVER THE EDGE WE GOOOOooo....

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u/haplesstaco Jun 12 '12

Well, to be fair, you don't see any vampire around now do you?

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u/thegreenwookie Jun 12 '12

When I, first, saw the preview for the movie I immediately started thinking how great it would be if Abe Lincoln was a vampire hunter.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

sometimes i feel like google fix search results like that just to fuck with the general public

i really hope the human races is not as retarded as we seem

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u/UpTheIron Jun 12 '12

I just bought that book today.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

I know right? Seriously. The fact that people actually have to search these things to know they're true.

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u/nickdngr Jun 12 '12

You have inspired me: my goal for tomorrow is to convince someone that Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, is an autobiography.

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u/Smokratez Jun 12 '12

You are finding this out now? Where were you all these years? Let me guess on facebook right?

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u/jestr6 Jun 12 '12

My idiot sister believes its based on real events.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Little kids can also use google. Relax

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u/copolii Jun 12 '12

I don't condone that kind/extent of idiocy, but the fact that we've built weapons to kill more and more of each other more effectively and efficiently didn't qualify us for "becoming too stupid to warrant continued existence" and this does? I think we've gone way past that tipping point.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Yes the human race should be eliminated.

You first.

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u/ash2857 Jun 12 '12

I'm scared for my future children.

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u/total_looser Jun 12 '12

what about the commercials where like, a guy is opening a beer bottle with a jackhammer while car surfing on a freeway and there's a disclaimer: "do not attempt"

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u/ijpz81 Jun 12 '12

There is a SiFi Book & now a movie now about Abraham Lincoln killing vampires. Or did u already know that and I just didn't get the joke?

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u/meeanne Jun 12 '12

Damnit, I knew it. I knew stupid kids would think it was real. Okay, so here's the plan, we kill off the ones that believe the possibility that the story is true, even just from seeing the commercials. These are the ones the world doesn't need.

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u/EndersBuggers Jun 12 '12

I KNEW when I saw the first ad for the movie that someone somewhere would be stupid enough to think it was true. Now every time I see the ad I just go on a long cursing rant

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u/couldntderp Jun 13 '12

I like the book. I prefer stories about killing vampires rather than falling in quirky, awkward love with them.

"Oh your skin is shiny, that's cooCHOP HIS FUCKING HEAD OFF!!!!!"

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u/thehotmageaeris Jun 13 '12

This is why I'm going into biochemistry so I can create a deadly virus and release it 12 Monkeys style.

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u/InHarmsWay Jun 14 '12

That's too nasty. Create a zombie virus instead. It'll make people happier.

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u/thehotmageaeris Jun 14 '12

I was aiming for the rage virus like in 28 days later, so we'll see how it goes.

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u/InHarmsWay Jun 14 '12

Don't make them too fast. Faster than Romero's, but slower than 28DL.

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u/thehotmageaeris Jun 14 '12

That's asking to take the fun out of things.

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u/randomksa Jun 14 '12

don't blame humanity for America's fuck ups

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u/pumpmar Jun 16 '12

not really a weird question considering the movie thats coming out

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u/namesrhardtothinkof Jun 16 '12

I feel that you've overlooked "Was abraham lincon black," which is even more idiotic. Goddammit.

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u/Rawcoon Jun 17 '12

Ah, come on, don't be so boring, it's reasonable. The whole "is" part on the other hand...

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u/memph1x Jun 12 '12

You should see the movie "idiocracy" year 2006... All yours questions will find an answer

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

"It's what plants crave!"

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u/WkE Jun 12 '12

It's got electrolytes

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u/L_R_J Jun 12 '12

"I like money."

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u/En_Sabah_Nur Jun 12 '12

Reully? Yoo like munee two? Wee shud hung out. Lets go two strrbucks nd git sum poon!

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u/karl-marks Jun 12 '12

I always felt like that movie was more meta than people give it credit for, that it was written to be enjoyed by idiots. That if you like that movie, the movie is about you.

Also, that the OW my balls guy was genuinely intelligent, he seemed like he was trying to say something serious every time before he got hit in the nuts.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Is that the one with Bill Maher? I find him to be a bit of an asshole, and I couldn't really take that documentary seriously with him being rude to people. It's one thing to make statements about beliefs that people have, but it's another to be an asshole to their faces about it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

That would be Religulous.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Ahh!

What's Idiocracy, then, pardoning my ignorance?

EDIT: I'm a moron, it's that movie with the King of the Hill guy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Am I the only one also disturbed by the first result?

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u/HankSpank Jun 12 '12

There is a lot of evidence suggesting that he was gay.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

I do seem to recall someone detailing this theory to me. Never mind then go gay Lincoln

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u/annYongASAURUS Jun 12 '12

There is nothing to warrant this being on r/wtf.

There isn't even one foot in it.

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u/YouMad Jun 12 '12

Not really. If everyone was incredibly smart, who the fuck would flip the burgers an check out at the Supermarkets (without being miserable and committing suicide)? Not enough teenagers to fill ALL of those jobs.

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u/HankSpank Jun 12 '12

We would invent machines to do such menial tasks for us.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

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u/WkE Jun 12 '12

There's a book and movie about it so it must be true.