Ben Hur Horse Race

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.world•Google's WebP
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    22 days ago
    spoiler

    yes… well, its about this guy, you know? his name is ben hur, and his childhood friend from rome comes back to and ben hur wont help him take over his homeland. then tiles fall off of this roof and then the roman guy uses it as an excuse to jail ben hur’s sister and mother to get him to help, but it only makes him freak out. so, he gets consigned to a slave ship where there’s a battle and he saves his captor’s life, which endears him to his captor, so the captor takes him back to rome where he ranks up a bit and has high status as a horse racer in the colosseum. ben hur leaves to go find his old roman buddy and take revenge, and he meets this arab horse trainer (played horribly embarrassingly by a white dude in brown face) and they make friends. ben hur goes back and basically fucks his old slave woman, then challenges the roman dude in a massive horse race where he basically kills him. turns out all this time the mother and sister were in prison they contracted leprosy, so ben hur goes and gets them from the leper colony. jesus is crucified nearby and his blood drips off the cross and cures the mother and sister of leprosy.

    its three and a half hours long. its super campy and over-acted. it used to be on tv when my wife was a kid and now we get high and watch it around easter. its fuckin hysterical…

  • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.eetoFunny@sh.itjust.works•it never works
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    27 days ago

    really?

    i mean… there was a study recently released about adderall (featured in the NYTimes, everywhere really) that shows they dont do a fuckin thing after the first while (cant remember how long, but less than 2 years).

    the study also showed that people dont actually get better at staying focused on something, but they enjoy things more which makes them more likely to try to do the thing. there is another term for that phenomenon: “being high”.

    but bro if youre taking an upper and falling asleep your brain has made adjustments to expect the constant presence of this stuff and be in equilibrium while theyre in the system.

    of course, if you stop abruptly you’ll be in hell for a few months

    im sure you know all this and im not trying to come off like im giving you a lecture… i just worry when i hear someone say they do a drug every single day, first thing