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[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Well the short guy was also a total fuckwad

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well the short guy was also a total ~~fuckwad~~ Farquaad

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I guess so...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

sounds of planes flying

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I hope it's a deliberate team effort that you have exactly 12 upvotes right now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The reality of the situation for most short men who complain about women not liking them because of their height.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Short man syndrome is very real unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I never connected those dots before 🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Yes, that's why I played in with the correction. Jeez, you must be fun at parties.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I never thought about it like this, but lord farquaad is absolutely an incel.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Lord Farquaad- king of local Nice Guys™ chapter

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Should have used all that castle money to just hire whores.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Historically speaking, a very popular royal choice.

Even in modern history.

You know what King Leopold, Butcher of the Congo, ended up doing with the money?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well with the moniker "Butcher of the Congo" I can only assume he was building orphanages, hospitals, animal sanctuaries, and libraries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or enriching the world with the knowledge of choice meat cuts, dry cured ham, and chorizo?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Nah, he was from Belgium, not Spain. He was all about that waffles and chocolate life.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean, it was also a fascist or an ogre.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A fascist or an ogre you genuinely have a lot in common with

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Including that she was an ogre, too. She would have expected Lord Farquaad to kill her once he found out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The thought plickens!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fascist got that capitalist money tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

But there was something his money couldn't get him: a talking donkey.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The "message" of Shrek is pretty iffy.

  • Looks really are important
  • Ugly green people should only be with other ugly green people.
  • Not all ugly people are bad, but bad people are definitely ugly (short being ugly, of course).
[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought the message was that ogres had layers and parfait was really delicious.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also, donkeys talk and cats do too but with a Spanish accent

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That's how I learned all cats are Spaniards.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

There is also this thing called personality and Shrek was all aroud a better person.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Mmm that feels like a pretty big stretch. The whole point is that Fiona loves Shrek for who he is, not what he looks like. She didn't become an "ugly green person", because she was beautiful to Shrek and Shrek was beautiful to her.

Also, even if the idea was short=ugly (which I don't think it was, more just a king with a big ego and small stature), Shrek 2 is completely centered around Shrek feeling insecure next to what turns out to be a conventionally attractive bad guy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Not all ugly people are bad, but bad people are definitely ugly (short being ugly, of course).

Well there’s only one bad person in Shrek 1, so that’s not really a good sample. If we move to the sequels there’s Charming who’s good looking but also an ass.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes but have you seen ogre dong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes yes we’ve all seen “the gif”

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Shrek may have the personality of an ogre, but it seemed much preferable over that of Farquad's!

[–] Lexam 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you make fun of someone's physical trait that they have no control over, are you being a good person?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not at that particular moment at least. I don't think that rises to the level of you are a bad person as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How bad do you have to be to be considered an all around bad person? How should we weight different kinds of bad (stealing candy from a kid, vs graffiti on an ol granny's shirt)? Is there an objective measure of badness and how to sum it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Sure here is my 900 page dissertation on it.

No I don't think one shitty remark one time means you are irredeemably a bad person. Just because I can't tell you where the line is doesn't mean that there is no line.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty telling that they think that that's the only downside of the literal cartoon villain

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a joke, not a character analysis.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

What about the one with the spherical chickens

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Yeah, and so was Fiona

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Neither you chose to be, so who cares ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

True. I chose to be a huge, handsome guy so I chose neither and don't care about these losers

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