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[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] HootinNHollerin 15 points 8 months ago

Her enthusiasm really sells it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

tfw you just finished cleaning some kid's remains from the chocolate packaging assembly line and now it's time for the daily Oompa Loompa dance routine rehearsal

[–] EdibleFriend 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Laugh all you want all I know is I got $10 in my wallet and could probably get just about anything I want with her.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] EdibleFriend 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lol this website is so fucking weird. I make a joke that she looks like a prostitute that wouldn't charge much and it's so controversial. You come along and say ' she's even cheaper' and it's not controversial at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

We like a good saving here, even if it's from an imaginary prostitute.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago
[–] ThePowerOfGeek 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

TBF, Willy Wonka's chocolate factory in the movies did leave the child contestants in tears too (not to mention improbably alive in some cases). So maybe this botched experience wasn't that far off how it should have been.

Edit: also, I wouldn't be too surprised if an unspoken plot point for the oompa loompas was that Willy had them hopped up on meth.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He does solely pay them in cocoa beans and I'm pretty sure you can get high off of cocoa beans if you consume enough and oompa loompas are dramatically smaller than humans, so yeah he's paying them in drugs to live and work in his factory, after he smuggled them from Loompaland.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

i thought they were saved from being hunted as game?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

That's what Willy Wonka's PR department would like you to think.

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

In the Depp one its a bit that and a bit that they worship the beans, so he being a smart businessman saw that as free labour

[–] pastaPersona 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Incredible, they made pretty much no effort to hide the scummy AI generated text

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[–] CrayonRosary 15 points 8 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ungirevel sviide sounds like an alien pick up artists name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Delphia 16 points 8 months ago

Holy fuck the pictures are hilarious.

[–] BenM2023 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Ah. This sounds just like the "winter wonderland" event a few years ago.

Same modus operandi only that was in a field by the side of a main road in a scruffy part of The New Forest.

The organisers wound up in court, lost and, totally unsurprisingly, seems to have 'lost' the money so no refunds for the marks iirc.

I guess it's been a while so someone decided to rinse and repeat.

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

You hear about one of those every year, prime material for [email protected]

[–] HootinNHollerin 5 points 8 months ago

So that’s where Ja Rule and the Fyre Festival guy have been

[–] LifeOfChance 3 points 8 months ago

It honestly looks like the Tumblr meet up that had the ball pit that someone peed in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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