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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

That's a poor assumption.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

I'd kill for a set of bed sheets like this.... no, wait..

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

this would be perfect for a childrens hospital

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Of the affairs (rēs, rei; g. pl)?

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

Sorry, I iz too dum-dumz to understand this - want to walk me through it? Murder of the affairs (the thing, genitive... plural?) => Death of the heart?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Overthinking it, I'm just seeing Latin in stuff that isn't supposed to be. I read the text as "Reōrum." Rēs/Reī means "thing / affair," Reōrum is the genitive plural so "of the affairs." Just nonsense that's not really related to the post but my polyglot brain picked it out.

What is the photo supposed to say? I'm confused lol.

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

murder backwards

typically used as a reference to The Shining

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Don't worry about it - being intelligent and assuming the best of others is nothing that you need to apologize for imho!:-)

As the other commenter pointed out, it is from that movie "The Shining". It is more than 40 years old, and based on an even older book by Stephen King. I wonder if most younger people today have even seen it, and it wasn't even all that "good", as in like production values from the modern standpoint (especially things like pacing) - though the story itself was quite excellent.

That said, it is one of those cultural, iconic "classics" like Wizard of Oz or the three stooges that most everyone seems to know about, especially in the horror genre. In particular, the main character in it starts to slowly go crazy as he sees visions of ghosts (leaving it unspecified iirc whether they are real or just a product of his delusional mindset), and one of the bits is the word "murder" spelled backwards, and written in red lettering, seemingly in blood.

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Another bit is the two ghost girls that appear in the hallway - I suspect b/c it is one of the more SFW images that can be shown on the internet for this movie, but really that's all there is too it, they just stand there, creepily.

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The last thing you really need to know about The Shining is the scene where the character portrayed by Jack Nicholson (edit: I misspelled his name) uses an ax to cut through the door to get to his wife, who is ofc absolutely terrified.

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And there you are, you are all caught up with The Shining!:-) You are probably far more knowledgeable than I irl and in the wider sense, but I did enjoy this chance to explain what I know:-D.

[–] alyth 10 points 3 months ago

Looks like my bed sheets when I wake up with a nosebleed

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yea, they look pretty bad in a low res picture at an extreme angle.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Much better here:

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Also imagine actually buying these “creepy bedsheets“

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

Oh, don’t mind the print. It’s definitely not real blood.

[–] beebarfbadger 5 points 3 months ago

"At least half of that isn't even real blood."

[–] dustyData 4 points 3 months ago

I went to school with a couple of edgy teens who would've definitely bought those bedsheets if allowed to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

It should, they’re completely different sheets designed to look blood covered.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Bold of you to assume

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Artwork I call “Journalism, 2020”:

That's one way to kill the mood! Duvet set with a rose pattern that looks a lot like splatter of blood turns bedroom into 'gruesome crime scene'

-Daily Mail

[–] chemical_cutthroat 7 points 3 months ago

Journalism is carrying a lot of weight when applied to Daily Mail.

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

British tabloids are a different breed. Pretty sure Daily Mail writers get off on producing the absolute dumbest articles humanly possible.

[–] chalupapocalypse 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Death_Equity 1 points 3 months ago

Especially if she is irregular and not cautious.

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

it's basic color theory

[–] HootinNHollerin 2 points 3 months ago

New FARGO line

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Or they're the exact effect I'm going for.

[–] jenny_ball 1 points 3 months ago

like a dateline episode