Forest Gump thought "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get" because he was illiterate and couldn't read the little card. : showerthoughts

[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 75 points 5 months ago

Police are like a box of chocolates

They’ll kill your dog.

[+] FoD@startrek.website -27 points 5 months ago

I don't know what I expected. Nothing can just be fun anymore.

I come into a comments section to read and maybe find something interesting and we have police brutality jokes, political bullshit, mean comments.

It confuses me that people are thinking about this stuff all the time and trying to jam their misery into everything.

Downvote me, up vote me, I don't care but I am just so tired of being forced to think about all the bullshit in the world every day all at once. It's inescapable.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Police are killing people. No one gives a fuck if you're sick of hearing about it you arrogant little shit.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Dude, there are thousands of people on this application every day. Someone is going to be thinking of something relevant to what's going on in the world at all times. Not everyone is thinking that all the time, but odds are someone is. Just like it's almost certain you won't win the lottery, but it's almost certain someone will. Lots of events happening all the time means even unlikely things are likely to happen.

Also, this was pretty funny. Comedy almost always has a political element to it. If you Rent saying anything meaningful or impactful, why say it at all, right?

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

You're sick of hearing about it, imagine the people who gotta get in your face and remind you of it because you can't empathize with the fact that they're the ones living it.

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Ooooh noeee, poor wittle guy. He's annoying that people correctly point out THE INSANE LEVEL OF MISERY MOST PEOPLE LIVE UNDER. How could you survive knowing that lots of people got actually murdered and thus can't survive.

[-] cooljacob204@kbin.social -4 points 5 months ago

Welcome to the fediverse.

[+] zelifcam@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 18 points 5 months ago

I've always seen literal maps showing what's what. Sounds like maybe none of the Gumps could read. But even so, wouldn't you learn to tell the shapes apart? It shouldn't keep surprising you over and over.

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I've seen them in recent years, but I haven't always seen the maps.

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

You've always had the iconic Whitman's sampler, haven't you?

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

Are there other boxes of chocolates?

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

None that matter.

Except maybe Sees. Not a big fan of the company but I've had some great chocolate assortments from them.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Momma told him that so he wouldn't feel bad being unable to read it.

All the cards I've seen always had pictures and text of what's what.

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 52 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure he was illiterate but he did play football at Alabama so it's a distinct possibility.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

You just burned bama

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

Back in the day there wasn't maps when you got chocolate. Food allergies were not much of a concern back then and nutrition information wasn't required.

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

More to the point, the boxes weren't all the same. Sure, they only had ~10-20 different pieces, but they would be placed seemingly at random. You may (or may not) have had a card to identify them, but that wasn't tied to location.

It also doesn't cover the quantities. Does this box have 5 cherry cordials or just 1? What about honeycomb? Opera cream? Peanut butter?

You still see this from some of the smaller chocolatiers.

[-] Drusas@kbin.run 22 points 5 months ago

Most boxes of chocolate didn't have a card or map explaining which was which back in the 90s.

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

There was always a risky box of chocolates on grandma's kitchen table.

Each bite was a gamble: might be a delicious milk chocolate with a peanut inside, or it might be a bitter chocolate with some medicine-like cherry filling.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago

I've bought plenty of local chocolate shop boxes that didn't have a map.

[-] Fisk400@feddit.nu 19 points 5 months ago

Yes. Nice chocolate didnt have a map because they were custom made and had people experimenting on site. It's very rare to do it that way now because most chocolate is factory made and require ingredients breakdowns.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

Not in the 1950s.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -3 points 5 months ago

How do you feel about that?

[-] Batting1000@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

He wasn’t illiterate though. His character was just rather simple, and wholesome. I never thought his character was stupid, just perhaps autistic.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

He is literate, it just took him longer to fully learn to be than most folks.

I think his mama was talking about how Boxes of chocolates were often sent to folks as a surprise, meaning they wouldn't know what's inside from being the ones to buy them originally.

[-] dco@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Well, I thought it was cute.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Cops are like a box of chocolates: they'll kill your dog.

[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Even if you can read, it’s mostly just cheap praline.

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