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9432544 No.9432544 [Reply] [Original]

Itt only the coolest most alpha looking authors. Wyndham Lewis pic related. Why dont they let soldiers take these badass style photos anymore?

>> No.9432547

>>9432544
How could anyone take a picture like that today without looking like a massive inauthentic posing retarded fedora?

>> No.9432557

>>9432547
So what your saying is its the uniform?

>> No.9432577

>>9432544
>Why dont they let soldiers take these badass style photos anymore?

What are you talking about? Are you claiming that a picture of someone actually kitted out for combat isn't badass? Because there are plenty of those pictures.

>> No.9432590

>>9432577
No you idiot. Every soldier gets a photo like a picture you woukd get in school.

>> No.9432717

>>9432590
And you're complaining because they don't get to limply hold a cigarette in their mouth like a strung-out faggot?

>> No.9432738

>>9432717
Expardon me? Read apes of god and tell me hes a faggot.

>> No.9432745
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He's one of my favorite authors

>> No.9432750

>>9432738
I'm not saying he's a faggot. Just that he looks like one.

>> No.9432766

>>9432544
Hemingway said he had "the eyes of an unsuccessful rapist"

>> No.9432776
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mig-Killer

>> No.9432784

Most soldiers are the dregs of society, very few aristos in the officer corps anymore.

>> No.9433036

>>9432784
So true. Only losers join the army at a time of peace.

>> No.9433045
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>>9432544

>> No.9433581

>>9432544
Gayest thread of all time

>> No.9433647

how old is the "picture of author with cigarette" meme?

>> No.9433650

>>9432784
My cousin joined the marines and is very smart. Math masters or something, works as a high-ranking guy at a consulting firm

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