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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 6:31 pm
(April 18, 2015 at 6:18 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: (April 18, 2015 at 5:13 pm)bennyboy Wrote: You're a fucking asshole for putting this in the philosophy section.
That is a legitimate criticism. I did consider the the Humor section but I thought the widespread phenomena of people self-identifying with their asshole was a valid philosophical issue. Even if not one's brain or heart, why one's asshole? Why not one's liver, kidneys or pancreas?
Can you imagine Arnold's classic line in, "The Terminator" changed to, "Fuck you, left kidney." It just doesn't have the same ring to it. Why the preoccupation with one's ass?
I've always considered myself a walking, talking gallbladder.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 6:32 pm
The answer is simple. Poop is funny.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 6:37 pm
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2015 at 6:39 pm by Anomalocaris.)
c172 Wrote:AFTT47 Wrote:That is a legitimate criticism. I did consider the the Humor section but I thought the widespread phenomena of people self-identifying with their asshole was a valid philosophical issue. Even if not one's brain or heart, why one's asshole? Why not one's liver, kidneys or pancreas?
Can you imagine Arnold's classic line in, "The Terminator" changed to, "Fuck you, left kidney." It just doesn't have the same ring to it. Why the preoccupation with one's ass?
I've always considered myself a walking, talking gallbladder.
Perhaps a walking, talking gull stone.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 6:46 pm
(April 18, 2015 at 6:18 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: (April 18, 2015 at 5:13 pm)bennyboy Wrote: You're a fucking asshole for putting this in the philosophy section.
That is a legitimate criticism. I did consider the the Humor section but I thought the widespread phenomena of people self-identifying with their asshole was a valid philosophical issue. Even if not one's brain or heart, why one's asshole? Why not one's liver, kidneys or pancreas?
Can you imagine Arnold's classic line in, "The Terminator" changed to, "Fuck you, left kidney." It just doesn't have the same ring to it. Why the preoccupation with one's ass?
No, you missed it. You're an ASS-hole for putting this in the philosophy section. 
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 6:53 pm
(April 18, 2015 at 6:46 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (April 18, 2015 at 6:18 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: That is a legitimate criticism. I did consider the the Humor section but I thought the widespread phenomena of people self-identifying with their asshole was a valid philosophical issue. Even if not one's brain or heart, why one's asshole? Why not one's liver, kidneys or pancreas?
Can you imagine Arnold's classic line in, "The Terminator" changed to, "Fuck you, left kidney." It just doesn't have the same ring to it. Why the preoccupation with one's ass?
No, you missed it. You're an ASS-hole for putting this in the philosophy section.
If it makes you feel any better, I saw what you did there.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 7:32 pm
I have a great ass.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 7:34 pm
(April 18, 2015 at 3:26 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Arse came first, american pigdog 
Ass came about in the 19th century, arse was used as the standard term for the buttocks but slowly became vulgarised.
Arse is even international in it's origin. The old german word was "ars" before the languages really drifted apart.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 7:35 pm
I love it when all you guys talk dirty . . .
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 7:36 pm
(April 18, 2015 at 7:32 pm)Kitan Wrote: I have a great ass.
1) Pictures or it never happened.
2) You'd better be female or at least be wearing pumps. 
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 19, 2015 at 4:38 am
(April 18, 2015 at 10:35 am)AFTT47 Wrote: In a body that contains the brain and the heart, our language (at least in English-speaking countries) seems to indicate we place the most value of all on our ass. So much so in fact, we self-identify with our ass. Our ass is us. The references in slang are numerous:
It's going to be your ass!
You're going to lose your ass!
Your ass is mine, sucker!
Your ass is grass and I'm the lawnmower!
Your mouth should never write checks that your ass can't cover.
I'm going to kick your ass!
You can bet your ass on it!
I better see your ass at the meeting tomorrow!
Get your ass over here!
You're not going to see my ass in that contraption!
You better haul ass!
What a pain in the ass!
Your ass is going to regret this.
It's an interesting cultural phenomena and I don't know what it says about us. I can't help wonder what psychological effect it has on children as they learn from schoolyard talk that the most noble part of them is their ass. Is this why so many of them grow up to be assholes?
I'm curious if anyone knows of any non-English-speaking cultures with a similar fixation. I'd hate to think it's a human thing because if it is, we're fucked up the ass.
Tl;dr, can't be arsed.
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