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5576332 No.5576332 [Reply] [Original]

It's this thread again.

>> No.5576349

Is there a template

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>>5576349

>> No.5576388 [DELETED] 

>bring this much of a buttblasted faggot

Talking shot about Mein fuhrer? Fite me irl, faggot. I'll fucking REK u, pussy ass nigga.

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>> No.5576413 [DELETED] 

>>5576403
every goddam thread

>> No.5576421

>>5576403
Should we restart the corn thread?

>> No.5576422

>>5576403
there was no corn back then

>> No.5576428

>>5576403
Pls no

>> No.5576435

>>5576403
I see this epic maymay all the time but I still don't get it so everytime I see it I get sad ;_;

>> No.5576437

>>5576403
>newfagsrespond.png

>> No.5576444

>>5576403
Oh god no

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>> No.5576451

>>5576403
LOL'd at file name

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>> No.5576458

>>5576437
am i oldfag now /b/ :D

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>>5576403

>> No.5576480

>>5576403
There are no brakes on le corn meme express

>> No.5576488
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>>5576403
I came here for this image.

Sometimes I'll be driving to work or relaxing at home and this picture will cross my mind and I always have a giggle to myself about it.

Thank you based anon

>> No.5576498

>>5576403
>>5576413
>>5576421
>>5576422
>>5576428
>>5576435
>>5576437
>>5576444
>>5576451
>>5576474
>>5576480
>>5576488

WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS GET SO MANY REPLIES?!?!?!

I've never understood this fucking thing, what is it about corn that makes this picture get so many replies every thread?

>> No.5576510

>>5576403
The ultimate derailment tool. Nice.

>> No.5576552

>>5576498
it's obvious but very effective bait

>> No.5576596

>>5576403
top kek this image again

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>> No.5576734

>>5576725
I had blocked out Vron's stupid fucking horse getting killed lol from memory until making this, also wasn't sure how to add how funny and confusing it was that vronks and mr. karenin have the same first name

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>> No.5576854

>>5576435
Same here I read a bit of commentarii de bello gallico but I can't remember any corn.

>> No.5577019

>>5576403
this is literally the best meme of 2014

>> No.5577026
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>> No.5577028

>>5577019
Learn what words mean retard

>> No.5577035

>>5577028
this is practically spam
>>>/b/

>> No.5577044

>>5577019
are you a meme critic?

>> No.5577104

>>5576403
Corn didn't exist until Columbus brang it over from Argentina

>> No.5577134

>>5577044
i have a Master of Shitposting.

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>>5577104
"Brang"
...why, that's not even a word.

>> No.5577140

>>5576403
i dont get it

>> No.5577232

>>5577140
Read Caesar's Commentaries and you'll understand

>> No.5577265

>>5576403
Is the official English translation of frumentum really corn?
That's totally wrong, frumentum means wheat or grain in English, but Korn in German, probably some retarded translation error

>> No.5577280

>>5577265
Isn't corn in German, "Mais" ?

>> No.5577350

>>5577280
Yes, but the German translation of frumentum is Korn, which then might have been mistakenly translated into the English word corn, when the proper translation would be wheat

>> No.5577416

>>5577350

Corn used to be the general term for all grains. C.f. "The Corn Laws" of the early 19th century.

>> No.5577426

>>5577350
>>5577265
'Corn' means 'grain' in British. American 'corn' is 'maize' in British.

>> No.5577500

80% of the submissions in these threads are reposts
fucking hell

>> No.5577510

>>5577500
is there a place where all the old ones are

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>>5577426
>'Corn' means 'grain' in British. American 'corn' is 'maize' in British.
Yes guvnor, I love me some good ol' grain-on-the-cob.

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>> No.5577518

>>5577512

:^\

Not very clever, is it?

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>> No.5577665
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This book is fucking great.

>> No.5577670

>>5577665
Check out the Bresson film.

>> No.5577673

>>5577670
I will.

>> No.5577885

>>5577670
Luc Bresson is a fucking terrible filmmaker.

>muh leon

Fucking pedos....

>> No.5578076

>>5577885
not sure if this is a joke, or you're just illiterate...
(this being said Luc Besson IS a terrible filmmaker)

>> No.5578110

>>5577646
sort of clever
but not really

>> No.5578199

>>5577139
It was a typo, I'm pretty sure he meant brung.

>> No.5578263

>>5576332
that book sucked
no such thing as third way

>> No.5578297

>>5578076
Don't you like Subway?
He was clearly influenced by japan and as such is an example of an alternate mixing of styles to that of the mainstream commercial film while remaining clearly mainstream, it's an important part of film history as Fragasso or Alex de la Iglesia. Not highbrow at all, but iconic in its own right.

>> No.5578338

>>5577885
I think you're confusing Luc Besson with Robert Bresson anon

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>>5576403
ayy lmao
>>5577134
Well I'm the king of shitposting.

>> No.5578465

>>5576712
but anon i got what you expected too

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>> No.5578515

>>5576403
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>>5577265
>>5578406

interesting way to pass the time

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>>5578406
hehe i have the same image my friend
:)

>> No.5578953

>>5577104
wow that post actually made me laugh so hard, literally just sprayed water over my monitor

christ

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>> No.5579683

>>5576403
Ebin

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>>5576332

>> No.5579855

>>5577104
LOL'd hard m8

>> No.5579885

>>5579168
if only they died...

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>> No.5579968

>>5579828
Starfish was soo good. It's to bad peter Watts turns into a hack when he tries to write sequels

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>> No.5580028

>>5579981
if u look hard enough, you can see the james' face there

>> No.5580554

>>5577665

The fun part is, if you exchange the last two images you've got it spot on.

>> No.5580589

>>5576403
Maize isn't found in Europe

>> No.5580661

>>5577512
The British don't eat 'corn on the cob'. (I doubt sweet maize even grows in Britain.)

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My contribution. Note that I like the book - there was simply less emphasis on the military planning and decision making as I would have hoped. It was a lot more high level long-term planning.

>> No.5580948

>>5577514
It's true.

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>> No.5580954

>>5580661
yes we do
yes it does

next question

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>> No.5580961

>>5576848
wut
shouldn't slide 3 be like a barren, cold mountain and a slide of hundreds of dead people?

>> No.5580963

>>5580955

>the trial
>bad

are you seriously this newreader?

>> No.5580973

>>5580963
>implying i though it was bad
i dont even understand how you arrived at this conclusion. just because it's more about absurd bureaucracy than secret police/totalitarian states doesn't mean it's a bad thing. In fact your implying thats meant to be bad. therefore you think it's bad. are you seriously that newreader?

>> No.5581005

>>5580973

> just because it's more about absurd bureaucracy than secret police/totalitarian states doesn't mean it's a bad thing.

lol i never said this

you picture is a fucking non-event. you're a boring person.

>> No.5581008

>>5581005
well you picture is a fucking non-existence. please post something before you starting talking shit

>> No.5581010

>>5581005
you're an idiot

i am not this >>5580955 >>5580973 anon

>> No.5581016

>>5581008

>please post something

lol hurtfag btfo

>>5581010

>you're an idiot

like i could even know that you awkward sperglord it's all anonymous

>> No.5581019

>>5581016
no joke you are cancer

>> No.5581030

>>5581019

you know how boring someone needs to be to take a maymay template like this and make it seem boring in comparison to all the other maymay abortions itt?

really fucking boring.

>> No.5581046

>>5581030
you know how boring someone needs to be to complain about a maymay template like this being boring in comparison to all the other maymay abortions itt?

really fucking boring.

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>>5577104
haha holy fuck

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>> No.5581873

>>5580961

No, what I got was exactly that : endless descriptions of landscapes and flowers and a bald man who gets naked every two minutes for no reason whatsoever.

>> No.5581905

>>5576403
im not sure if its autism but im pretty sure that romans didnt write in english and that book is titled in english

>> No.5581952

>>5577104
i dont get it

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>> No.5581985

>>5577514
>louis ck

>> No.5582007

>>5581905
Wow.

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>> No.5582060

>>5582010

fucking lol

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>>5576403

>> No.5582163

>>5582010
>>5581969
these two actually make me want to read the books

>> No.5582180

>>5582152
7/10

>> No.5582189

>>5582152
I smirked

>> No.5582240

>>5576498
>>5578515

It all started when someone started talking about that memoir of the Gallic Wars and how the translation mentioned corn.

Someone said "corn don't exist back den"

And....

well.....

here we are.

It was a big deal.

>> No.5582241

>>5582152
Oh shit that's funny

>> No.5582246

>>5582240
It wasn't even that long ago either. The ebin meme is only like 2 months old at most haha.

I remember that original thread though, that was so god damn funny all of the pretentious autists informing us that corn and maize differed in translation

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>> No.5582253

>>5582246
I wasn't even in that thread.

I have never seen that meme until five minutes ago.

I literally just guessed at what level of autism might have caused it ....

The fact that I am right means I have been here too long.

>> No.5582254

>>5582248
Top lel I read this book like 3 months ago

>> No.5582266

>>5582253
If I had to guess id say there were probably 40ish replies to the original. And it got to the point where you couldn't tell if /lit/ posters were really this pretentious and elitist or if they were just meme'ing each other. Eventually it was posted in the next "expectations thread" and the same thing happened only this time people could tell who the real autists were.

It's now a trademark /lit/ meme

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>>5582010
Wait, what?

>> No.5582297

>>5582028
Is Jack London a good writer?

>> No.5582299

>>5582010
LOADS A MONEYYYYYYY

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>>5576403
Now I could be wrong but I don't think that the Romans had corn back then m8

>> No.5582331

>>5582297
His books are definitely worth reading. But he wasn't a good writer.

>> No.5582336

>>5582297
He has his moments.

>> No.5582341

>>5582297
No.
Call of the Wild is a fun read though.

>> No.5582351

>>5582331
How so? What makes them worth reading if he isn't good?

>> No.5582353

>>5582351
the prose
is shit

>> No.5582387

>>5576403
is this a meme?

>> No.5582390

>>5582387
you're mums a meme

>> No.5582393

>>5582387
Not just any meme, anon.

An ebin meme.

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>> No.5582825

>>5576403
wtf

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>> No.5582894

>>5580949
10/10

>> No.5582907

>>5576403
Underrated post

>> No.5582922

>>5581869
Thats it, imma read Gatsby. I used to think it was just some high school tierred period novel but it seems more than that

>> No.5582936

>>5580949
That's pretty accurate

>> No.5582974

>>5582922
that convinces you to read the great gatsby..........................

>> No.5582986

>>5576789
accurate. Throw in a random strip mall in a desert and J. Edgar looking at a magazine.

>> No.5583012

>>5582922
> I used to think it was just some high school tierred period novel but it seems more than that
No, it is. You should still read it anyway, just because it is so widely read that everyone knows it. It's short as shit too.

>> No.5583018

>>5579968
Same here. I've read Starfish in a couple of days. I just couldn't put it down. Been trying to finish Maelstrom for six month.

>> No.5583019

>>5582922
no it's 40% yuppies and 60% fujoshit

>> No.5583036

>>5578957
I remember reading this book eight years ago. Left me completely unimpressed and I loved Pelevin. What the fuck is it even about? My friend who is into eastern mysticism keeps telling my that's it's a very profound illustration of the nature of consciousness, but I think he's just bullshiting me.

>> No.5583142

>>5579168
>Reservoir Dogs
Whoever made this is no better, pleb af.

>> No.5583156

>>5582843
Is this worth reading?

>> No.5583179

>>5582297
Poster of the image here.

I'd go with this: >>5582331
Read Seawolf and Call of the Wild.

>> No.5583608

>>5583156
ye