• @SpaceNoodle
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    1341 year ago

    Well the short guy was also a total fuckwad

    • @Macallan
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      331 year ago

      Well the short guy was also a total fuckwad Farquaad

    • @[email protected]
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      271 year ago

      The reality of the situation for most short men who complain about women not liking them because of their height.

        • @Leviathan
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          01 year ago

          Yes, that’s why I played in with the correction. Jeez, you must be fun at parties.

          • @Pregnenolone
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            -41 year ago

            Says the person with the least original reply in the history of the internet

            • @Leviathan
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              -11 year ago

              I wasn’t going for originality, I was sarcastically pointing out the fact that you’re a spaz.

              • @Pregnenolone
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                -51 year ago

                Cope with your shit jokes and bland personality

                • @wallabra
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                  71 year ago

                  This thread is a good example of why aliens will never visit Earth.

                • @Leviathan
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                  A spaz who uses “cope” unironically. It’s like you’re trying your best to fit the mold.

    • @ettyblatant
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      201 year ago

      Lord Farquaad- king of local Nice Guys™ chapter

      • @[email protected]
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        Historically speaking, a very popular royal choice.

        Even in modern history.

        You know what King Leopold, Butcher of the Congo, ended up doing with the money?

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          131 year ago

          Well with the moniker “Butcher of the Congo” I can only assume he was building orphanages, hospitals, animal sanctuaries, and libraries.

          • @FourPacketsOfPeanuts
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            41 year ago

            Or enriching the world with the knowledge of choice meat cuts, dry cured ham, and chorizo?

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              31 year ago

              Nah, he was from Belgium, not Spain. He was all about that waffles and chocolate life.

      • @WhipTheLlama
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        111 year ago

        Including that she was an ogre, too. She would have expected Lord Farquaad to kill her once he found out.

        • GladiusB
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          11 year ago

          The thought plickens!!

      • @son_named_bort
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        31 year ago

        But there was something his money couldn’t get him: a talking donkey.

  • @[email protected]
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    291 year ago

    The “message” of Shrek is pretty iffy.

    • Looks really are important
    • Ugly green people should only be with other ugly green people.
    • Not all ugly people are bad, but bad people are definitely ugly (short being ugly, of course).
    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      401 year ago

      I thought the message was that ogres had layers and parfait was really delicious.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        91 year ago

        Also, donkeys talk and cats do too but with a Spanish accent

        • @xX_fnord_Xx
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          41 year ago

          That’s how I learned all cats are Spaniards.

    • TheHarpyEagle
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      91 year ago

      Mmm that feels like a pretty big stretch. The whole point is that Fiona loves Shrek for who he is, not what he looks like. She didn’t become an “ugly green person”, because she was beautiful to Shrek and Shrek was beautiful to her.

      Also, even if the idea was short=ugly (which I don’t think it was, more just a king with a big ego and small stature), Shrek 2 is completely centered around Shrek feeling insecure next to what turns out to be a conventionally attractive bad guy.

    • @Syrc
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      61 year ago

      Not all ugly people are bad, but bad people are definitely ugly (short being ugly, of course).

      Well there’s only one bad person in Shrek 1, so that’s not really a good sample. If we move to the sequels there’s Charming who’s good looking but also an ass.

  • @[email protected]
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    231 year ago

    Shrek may have the personality of an ogre, but it seemed much preferable over that of Farquad’s!

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    If you make fun of someone’s physical trait that they have no control over, are you being a good person?

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      61 year ago

      Not at that particular moment at least. I don’t think that rises to the level of you are a bad person as a whole.

      • @wallabra
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        21 year ago

        How bad do you have to be to be considered an all around bad person? How should we weight different kinds of bad (stealing candy from a kid, vs graffiti on an ol granny’s shirt)? Is there an objective measure of badness and how to sum it?

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          91 year ago

          Sure here is my 900 page dissertation on it.

          No I don’t think one shitty remark one time means you are irredeemably a bad person. Just because I can’t tell you where the line is doesn’t mean that there is no line.