Care to Explain, Charles?
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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People will drink when they’re thirsty… but apparently, waterboarding is a no-no.
We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeve.
Some people lift weights to get strong but get crushed by heavy objects 🤷
Sounds like something a drunk would say after he had enough and should shut up and go home.
Bukowski really woke up one day and chose ‘shower thoughts’ as a lifestyle
Actually what he’s explaining here is state of mind.
This quote is from one of his poems… “86’d”
the most binding labor
is
trying to make it
under a sanctified
banner.
similarity of intention
with others
marks the fool from the
explorer
you can learn this at
any
poolhall, racetrack, bar
university or
jail.
people run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.
it is fairly dismal to know that
millions of people are worried about
the hydrogen bomb
yet
they are already
dead.
they keep trying to make
women
money
sense.
and finally the Great Bartender will lean forward
white and pure and strong and mystic
to tell you that you’ve had
enough
just when you feel like
you’re getting
started.
Just read Bukowski, his realism is completely fucked up
Bukowski was a genius, fucked though his personal life was.
Trying to look slick by trashing him is like a 6th grader trying to dunk on Shaq.
Can someone confirm if this is actually Bukowski? Or just internet Bukowski™?
God who’d wanna be
Isn’t that the point? That context is important. I don’t know who Buttkowski is, but I don’t think they are calling people hypocrites
You know what? No. I respect the stupid quote.
What has putting a filter in every thought I ever had got me? A therapy bill, that’s what.
Charles Bukowski wrote this particular quote (which is an excerpt from his poem *86’d*) in reference to nuclear war — a thing which had been the fear of many at the time. Why should you waste time worrying about getting hit by a hydrogen bomb when you’re already dying as is? Hydrogen bomb or not, you’ll still die.
It’s still a bit edgy, sure, but it’s not as stupid as many people like to portray it to be. People in the comments are just being ignorant.
In fairness when it rains it makes me laugh watching the occasional moron who acts like rain is literally toxic – shrieking and pulling jackets up over their heads etc.
It’s a tiny bit of water guys, you’ll be fine.
It’s actually far more comfortable to just continue at your current pace then to work yourself into a sweat sprinting for shelter
Ah, yes, Charles, the master of obvious contradictions. Next, explain why we eat food but avoid poison
The insult here is “you dickhead”, which is not rare at all.
Baths tend to be warm. Rain is cold.
Like watching a chef burn toast and call it culinary innovation.
A person will run from a maniac attacking them in the street, but live in a physically abusive marriage for 20 years.
Get it?
Charles Bukowski is full of retarded quotes.
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People will gladly take a paracetamol for a headache but aren’t happy to take the whole bottle and overdose.
Sometimes when someone is shitfaced drunk they will have profound wisdom, sometimes they say stupid shit?
Did he hear this from a stand-up gig downtown? Lmao jc
+1 for shitting on Bukowksi.
cum in the sink is odd but sink in the cum is outrangous?
Tbf, passing out in a running bathtub while fully clothed and throwing an apple at someone’s face and both things I can see Bukowski doing.
This is funny
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sometimes it can be incredibly frustrating to care about literature.
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To be fair, probably Bukowski sat fully clothed on bathtubs more times than all of us combined.
I kinda get what he’s saying. I was once cycling up a river and a torrential downpour started. I was an hour away from home so decided to embrace it and enjoy the experience.
On the same path loads of people weee going the other way, and maybe one out of every 10 cyclists had a smile and were having fun. The rest were fuming. The looks me and the other happy people gave each other were priceless. It’s now a positive core memory for me.
Big ‘ I’m fourteen and this is deep’ energy
Well, if it is acid rain. I think that is a good reason to run from rain. You’re completely brain-dead if you choose to sit in a tub of acid.