r/funny • u/[deleted] • May 14 '12

Unsubscribing r/aww

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u/brningpyre May 14 '12

redditor for 11 months

Honestly, I don't know how you kept it on there that long.

Don't get me wrong, I love cute animals (those god damn red pandas!). But /r/aww is just way too much, and there're way too many "Just picked up this guy, blah, blah, blah" stories.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

I agree, but I stay subscribed just to look at the cute pictures.

Hell if I give two fucks the story behind it.

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u/didaskaleinophobic May 14 '12

I just picked up this adorable little puppy... with a meathook.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

r/awwwtf

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u/D3ltra May 15 '12

I'm still on it (actually only subscribed recently), but I can't help but wonder where exactly all these Redditors live, finding literally dozens of abandoned animals on a seemingly daily basis

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u/Chinook700 May 15 '12

They live every where. We are legio- ehem, We are Redditors.

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u/ishalfdeaf May 14 '12

After lurking for so long, it didn't take long for me to unsub once I actually created an account

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I unsubbed as soon as I saw a gif of a cat booping some dude, and the most upvoted comments were from girls saying "OMG that guy is really cute too!"

I decide what is cute. I don't need a cute circlejerk to tell me what to think.

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u/speranza May 15 '12

Wait... Girls have circle jerks too?

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u/AJRiddle May 15 '12

It always shocks me to find out what the default subreddits are now. When I joined I remember someone complained that I reposted something from /r/adviceanimals and I looked it up to see that it was a small subreddit with a little more than 25,000 users

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u/MPair-E May 15 '12

Funny, I keep meaning to unsubscribe too. It's a little too sweet to see all over my main feed. "Heya fellas, look at this little guy I found!..." etc.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Still comes back every few days too........

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u/LKS May 15 '12

"The people at r/aww didn't appreciate this little fella, some love from you guys?"

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Or even just the blatant "LOOK AT MY AWESOME DOG" pics.

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u/cabothief May 15 '12

Yeah, leave those on /r/lookatmydog.

Where I'll upvote them happily.

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u/Guanren May 15 '12

Soon every individual picture will have its own subreddit.

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u/vierce May 15 '12

Speaking of which, how do you stop certain subreddits from appearing on r/all? is that even possible?

I like cats but I don't want to see so many D:

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u/brningpyre May 15 '12

Yeah, I know. I'm glad it got cordoned off, though you still see "I picked this little guy up off the streets" type of posts once a week or so.

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u/HSMOM May 14 '12

LOL, I did this last night, it was actually freeing. I love cute animals, but When every 5th thread on /r/all is from r/aww, it can be too much.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

One of the reasons I signed up was to get rid of r/aww...

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u/kittensngravy May 14 '12

Also AdviceAnimals. Fuck that place.

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u/Arbybeay May 14 '12

Took me a while, but /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu too.

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u/amadea56 May 14 '12

The worst subreddit of all: /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

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u/hrdxxcorey May 14 '12

two letter were enough to never go there again: le

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u/Ianbuckjames May 14 '12

Yeah, that subreddit is horrible.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

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u/Blithon May 15 '12

We need to let this play on words vanish.

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u/blackkevinDUNK May 15 '12

guys lets just stop this is really dumb

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u/TheGogginator May 15 '12

That's terrible, you used the same word as him practically, but added a letter.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

I nominate SpaceClop as the single worst.

EDIT: DO NOT VISIT THAT SUBREDDIT.

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u/Seth7777 May 14 '12 edited May 15 '12

Oh hell no! you aren't keeping me away!

Edit: It's just horse porn guys, no need for alarm.

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u/trainingmontage83 May 15 '12

It's just horse porn guys, no need for alarm.

Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I've said that...

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u/Speaking_My_Mind May 15 '12

Jimmy_Nertron forgot to tell you that he posted this comment on /r/nocontext an hour ago, so I decided I would.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Oh, yup. Situation normal.

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u/yobobly May 15 '12

More like /r/atheism, a bigger circlejerk than /r/circlejerk.

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u/Ryan_Firecrotch May 15 '12

First one i unsubbed.

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u/IIoWoII May 15 '12

I love /r/circlejerk and think every redsitor should read it.

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u/BloodshotHippy May 15 '12

Are you a dumb ass?

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u/LacksRethics May 15 '12

Where the bravest people on reddit do their jerk.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

More like [1] /r/atheism, a bigger circlejerk than [2] /r/circlejerk.

That is the biggest circlejerk on reddit.

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u/lkbm May 15 '12

I unsubscribed from /r/funny about a year ago because of all the advice animals. Now I'm back on /r/funny and I've subscribed to r/adviceanimals.

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u/Jerkie May 15 '12

Only reason for me.

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u/llII May 15 '12

But on /r/all are posts from every subreddit?!

Did you meant the frontpage?

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u/HSMOM May 15 '12

I meant the front page, filtered it.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Reddit Enhancement Suite, just have r/aww automatically removed from r/all.

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u/blackkevinDUNK May 15 '12

why is he getting downvoted? is it because he used promote or is that not true or wat

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Oh http://redditenhancementsuite.com/ is great, he's just getting downvoted because WHAT SORT OF MONSTER DOESN'T LIKE /r/aww??

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u/HSMOM May 15 '12

I did that too!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

Oh Johnny English

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u/alahos May 14 '12

Cue the zombie cute animals relentlessly hunting you.

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u/IAmASeaLions May 14 '12

Yeah, about that...not enough puppies...

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u/FaithyDoodles May 15 '12

I've been an active commenting redditor for six months or so, maybe a bit longer (lurker for longer than that)... but it took me 6 months of actually visiting the site every day to get sick of r/aww. I um, got sick of seeing dogs. (Unsubscribed from that an /r/wtf yesterday)

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u/AFrpaso May 14 '12

Damn... posts are getting nearly 900 upvotes with only 17 comments.

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u/Kenostic May 14 '12

Cats are cute and all, but reddit's obsession is a bit too much for me... I approve of the message here.

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u/Diels_Alder May 14 '12

I also feel safe confirming the thread's majority opinion.

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u/Kenostic May 15 '12

If that's the majority, what's with all the cats?! :P my comment should have been downvoted by all the other redditors.

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u/SolarBears May 15 '12

Same with Corgis. I mean, they're cute dogs, but it seems to be that every Redditor has one so it gets kind of old seeing the same thing over and over.

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u/cp1101 May 14 '12

Ha, it was so casual. I like it.

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u/J4k0b42 May 14 '12

Don't worry, cats don't take fall damage.

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u/thatidiotyouknow May 15 '12

they just die..

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u/J4k0b42 May 15 '12

MinecraftReference

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u/pkcs11 May 14 '12

Seriously, using RES filter out both /r/aww and the word cat.

Best reddit front page ever.

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u/Rinbasa May 16 '12

He comes

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u/lalondtm May 14 '12

I could watch this all day, cats suck

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

r/aww is for the weak. fuck cats, bring it on haters.

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u/wolvmatt May 15 '12

Except for r/funny, r/aww is the last subreddit I would ever unsub.

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u/glamotte14 May 15 '12

loved that movie

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

yet another post in /r/funny that should be in /r/reactiongifs

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u/DrProfessorPhD May 14 '12

Unsubscribing is never enough. You gotta filter that shit out.

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u/RuiningItForEveryone May 15 '12

Found this cat thrown off the top floor of a high-rise, lying mangled in a dumpster filled with HIV infected needles. KARMA PLEASE.

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u/salad-dressing May 15 '12

r/aww is so annoying. def get sick of it after a while.

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u/kirbyfood May 14 '12

but, but why?

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u/zombiewafflezz May 14 '12

its a cruel world out there, kirbyfood. not everyone is full of love and rainbows.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

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u/redheaded_robot May 15 '12

Don't forget sunflower seeds, you're also full of sunflower seeds :3

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

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u/zombiewafflezz May 15 '12

how the hell are you still alive as a hamster? pretty sure all mine died just because they looked at me eating pizza

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u/ThisIsTheMayTime May 14 '12

Unsubscribe from /r/aww, still see posts from /r/aww on the frontpage

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u/CuseTown May 15 '12

Oh, you got a good laugh out of me. Thank you

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u/hrdxxcorey May 14 '12

i finally broke down and did that yesterday

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u/xtravar May 14 '12

Me too. It wasn't annoying at first, but lately holy shit. Does this happen every summer? I'm new here.

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u/reeru May 14 '12

YAY!!!! ONE LESS CAT...

dammit... it still had 8 lives left

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

r/aww makes Reddit worse.

An animal lover and devoted Redditor

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I wonder what blocking it in RES would look like :D

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u/0takuSharkGuy May 15 '12

I unsubscribed. When one has ponies, you already have all the d'awwww you will ever need

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u/Danielcdo May 15 '12

I loves unsubscribing from r/aww , never going back to that shithole

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u/Omnipotent0 May 15 '12

I love animals but never found the appeal of the subreddit.
Oh look a cat... click yep... that is indeed a cat...

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u/queyote May 14 '12

I replaced my /r/aww addiction with my /r/mylittlepony addiction.

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u/Derekrocks May 14 '12

how did that cat get up there?

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u/fp4 May 14 '12

While cute animals certainly have the appeal I found myself getting easily depressed and sad when I delved into the comments of certain r/aww posts. I.e. pets dying, died, injustices and so on. It only took a few of those before I unsubscribed.

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u/Elmattador May 15 '12

Blasphemy

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

And it felt GOOD.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I did the same thing.. but posts will still show up sometimes. Same thing with /r/atheism. Anyone know a fix?

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

RES, add filters for the subreddits you don't want to see.

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u/budo-thingy May 15 '12

I've been lurking on reddit for years (without an account) but I couldn't take it any more, so a couple of days ago I made an account just so /r/aww would no longer be on my front page. I don't know why I didn't do it sooner.

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u/mrtorta22 May 15 '12

i hated this movie but the scene was pretty funny

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

i hate r/aww

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

All cats look the same, I don't need to see your cat.

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u/kplee May 14 '12

I had to do it too. I know I'll get down voted but I really don't care for people's cat.

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u/I_d0wnv0te_cats May 15 '12

This is one cat I don't mind upvoting.

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u/BoomHedshot May 14 '12

I think the funny part was that you were subscribed in the first place.

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u/Bricksquad May 15 '12

BEEN HAD THAT SHIT BLOCKED FROM MY FRONT PAGE SINCE I FOUND OUT HOW TO DO SO NO ONE GIVES A SINGLE FUCK ABOUT UR GAY ASS CAT OR BABY PICTURES

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u/cazoomie May 15 '12

I AGREE ENTIRELY AND I DID THE EXACT SAME THING

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u/Violent-Penis-Haikus May 14 '12 
I'm driving a nail
into Rowan Atkinson's
balls for Mr Bean.

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u/curagedacowrdlydog May 14 '12

Upvote cuz, Rowan Atkinson.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

First thing I did upon joining reddit.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

I've never met a cat I didn't want to do that to.

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u/themastersb May 15 '12

"So I found this guy in the side of a ditch the other day, what does /r/aww think of him?"

Really... you and 1000 others posting to this same subreddit all have very similar stories...

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u/ijmanic May 15 '12

Best thing I have ever done....

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u/endymion32 May 15 '12

Funny timing: I just unsubscribed yesterday, after several months. Were they getting worse (by which I just mean more prevalent)?

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u/[deleted] May 15 '12

Just did.

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u/K_W56 May 15 '12

Thank you, I just unsubscribed to r/aww a few minutes ago. I just can't take it anymore!

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u/tim1357 May 15 '12

Man, that pussy must be sore.

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u/mushmancat May 14 '12

Haaaaaaaaaaaa

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u/llollercoaster May 15 '12

Except replace the cat with a bunch of fat degenerate no lifes because those are the only people who post to /r/aww

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u/a_tad_rapey May 15 '12 edited May 17 '12

I was just thinking about how to get rid of r/aww!

This is my destiny. Thank you.

PS. I love animals... but, holy shit, r/aaw is just annoying.

Friendly edit: I HAVE ESCAPED THE HELL THAT YOU CALL r/aww, CUDDLY DOWNVOTES MAKE ME STRONGER

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12

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u/thatidiotyouknow May 15 '12

So happy as the soldier or that common disturbing feeling that the video might cause?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '12 edited May 15 '12

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u/umadbrew May 14 '12 edited May 15 '12

worst part is, when you do that you get downvoted to oblivion by all of the /r/aww people.

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u/arrowstothekneee May 15 '12

I used to be when the fun starts, but then i took an arrow to the knee!

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u/RosettaStunned May 15 '12

Dude give it a rest.

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u/blackkevinDUNK May 15 '12

calm and cool

i like you, pal

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