(I have no idea if accurate.)
Police are like a box of chocolates
They’ll kill your dog.
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.
Police are killing people. No one gives a fuck if you’re sick of hearing about it you arrogant little shit.
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?
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.
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.
Welcome to the fediverse.
The quote is “mama always said, life is like …. “. Isn’t that card traditionally a note? Not a chocolate map last time I checked.
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.
Well, it was just a fictional movie and it’s just a joke. So people can interpret however they like. I seem to remember the “map” being underneath the lid. Providing an actual layout of the chocolate in reference to the box. Cards were on top and usually “gift card” where you find out who sent it to you.
I was mostly stuck on how that joke is older than most people on this site. Definitely not a shower thought. And seeing it written out it ages it even worse.
It’s fine, everyone can laugh. I’m not trying to be the fun police. Just a thought I had while reading this in the shower.
I was mostly stuck on how that joke is older than most people on this site
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. I’m pretty sure that Lemmy skews older to such a degree that most users are my side of 35 and the movie is “only” 30 years old 😁
it was a joke
… So you’re upset that I said card instead of map? Really? Whatever. Round here it’s a little card.
No. I’m saying this is a joke, not a shower thought. It’s an old joke that’s been around in various forms for decades.
Your version written out just makes less sense the more I looked at it. Especially since we are talking about the 50s and older era of chocolate shops.
Anyway. Decided to apply a bit a pressure because of lack of originality. Carry on with your internet points. Good day.
Wasn’t the part with him telling other people that set in the 80s or 90s?
You need to rethink that. Yes, but that has nothing to do with his mom telling it to him as a child. Which is why he tells it to other people later in his life.
I guarantee you 100% it’s a showerthought.
I said Good Day Sir!
I’ve seen them in recent years, but I haven’t always seen the maps.
You’ve always had the iconic Whitman’s sampler, haven’t you?
Are there other boxes of chocolates?
None that matter.
Except maybe Sees. Not a big fan of the company but I’ve had some great chocolate assortments from them.
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.
I’m not sure he was illiterate but he did play football at Alabama so it’s a distinct possibility.
You just burned bama
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.
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.
Most boxes of chocolate didn’t have a card or map explaining which was which back in the 90s.
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.
I’ve bought plenty of local chocolate shop boxes that didn’t have a map.
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.
Not in the 1950s.
How do you feel about that?
He wasn’t illiterate though. His character was just rather simple, and wholesome. I never thought his character was stupid, just perhaps autistic.
Exactly. It’s the main take away of the film.
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.
Well, I thought it was cute.
Cops are like a box of chocolates: they’ll kill your dog.
Even if you can read, it’s mostly just cheap praline.
