When eating a box of chocolates, I know what I'm going to get
because I pay attention to the packaging, in particular the pictoral guide to what the individual flavours are.
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Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇,
Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:11,
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this with a bell on
Still, he was a dullard, you can't expect too much of them.
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Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE,
Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:14,
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"My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." "
Tooth decay from too much sugar.
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Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇,
Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:16,
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Exactly this. In terms of the metaphor: you can know what you are going to get in life if you read the instructions.
I hate the way that film falls into the trap of confusing the virtue of simplicity with the dubious virtue of being an idiot.
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The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:19,
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Dammit, I knew someone would ask this...
(Er, it was a further metaphor for, um, education?)
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The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:29,
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I just eat them all
because they're all chocolate
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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:20,
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