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[zialldevine]

Just stumbled upon this hilarious review for hangover pills

#funny review #funny #meme #Amazon review #idk how to tag things #dark humor

[stelly38]

Yes, it’s an old article, but this is the sort of taking-the-piss-out-of-it I LIVE for.  It gives me liiiiife, darling.  This is by Patrick Freyne, in the Irish Times, dated June 11, 2017.  Hilarious!  (and that’s not the photo that came with the article; I grabbed this one off the nets.)

Poldark: He’s so fertile, I may have got pregnant watching him

18th century mining mogul, stealth Irishman and professional hunksman Ross Poldark is very fertile. As someone who has studied 18th-century medicine (the points were low) I believe this may be due to all that cliff-top horse-riding he does and possibly regular leechings.

And so Ross's first love, Elizabeth, is pregnant with his child but married to his arch-enemy, the upwardly mobile rotter George Warleggan. This is the key dramatic driver of the new series. The elitist banker Warleggan is, once more, pitched against the tin-mining man-of-the-people Poldark, as if they're the protagonists of some sort of olden-days Brexit.

We know Warleggan (Jack Farthing) is a baddy because he enjoys the effete pastimes of the age – thwarting villagers and standing in a drawing room with his hands behind his back and a puss on him.

In contrast, whenever we cut to Ross (Aidan Turner) and his saintly wife Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) they are carrying bales of hay, or pumping water, or punching sheep, or wrestling horses. They are generally to be found breathing heavily and perspiring, with a lock of hair in their faces, something which has no effect on the general viewer whatsoever.

Poldark, all in black, his brow furrowed like an Olde Tyme goth, has much on his mind. Demelza wishes he didn’t always “rise before dawn” Fine-Gael-style as he walks by, once more, carrying a cow over his head or something. “Everyone has shadows,” he explains later. “The trick is to outrun them.”

This shows a basic and panicky misunderstanding of the science of shadows, but we’ll let it pass. It’s the 18th century.

Over in Warleggan’s place George is trying to wean the family off Ross’s earthy influence. There’s Ross’s Aunt Agatha, who hints darkly about disasters to come from the corner of the room, much like a newspaper columnist or Twink.

And then there's Elizabeth's son, Geoffrey Charles, who has never read any old English novels about what happens to the first children of remarried English aristocrats, and so is unwisely insolent towards George.

In a moment of rebellion, he runs off with Ross who shows him how to manfully batter the inside of a cave with a pickaxe, thus inculcating him with a transgressive love for manual labour and, possibly, shirtlessness.

Actually, Ross keeps his shirt on for this episode, leaving the more explicit hunking to two new characters, Demelza’s brothers, the wannabe preacher Sam and the Canadian hip-hop artiste Drake (editor’s note: um, I think that’s a different Drake, Patrick).

This tuneful duo arrives to bring news that Demelza’s father is dying, and we are promised, in a teaser for next week, that one of them will divest himself of his horrible chafing shirt. Shirts are so uncomfortable. I regularly take my shirt off, because, as you know, typing is manual labour (editor’s note: that reminds me, you’ve a meeting with HR today, Patrick).

There are minor subplots. Caroline Penvenen, a friend and local pug-farmer (well, she has a pug), is marrying noble military doctor Dwight Enys in defiance of her kindly, slowly-expiring guardian Bergerac (John Nettles). Geoffrey Charles also bonds with his new governess, his cousin Morwenna, who gazes lustfully at hunky Drake, no doubt contemplating his Hotline Bling.

Poldark is, as always, almost bizarrely gripping and entertaining. Possibly due to its roots in the novels of Winston Graham, it never undermines its historical strangeness with high-concept notions or overly prescient references to the internet or the millennium bug or Jeremy Corbyn. It looks amazing. Everything is sun-dappled or candle-lit.

The tense omnipresent soundtrack is, somehow, never intrusive. The striking-looking, charismatic actors never undermine the dark, morally problematic melodrama by winking to camera.

And then there's the beautiful, ocean-battered coastline of Cornwall along which Ross and Demelza ride when in emotional turmoil and which some liken to "another character on the show".

Sadly, it hasn't yet been given any lines ("Whatsa matter Mister-a-Poldark?" for example) but it is spectacular. It is, as you know, played by Timothy Spall.

It’s the 18th-century so life is hard. There are references to the war which will, I think, dominate later episodes. There are two deathbed scenes (for nice Ray Penvenen/Bergerac and Demelza’s brutish father) and a difficult childbirth scene which all occur under the eerie shadow of “a black moon”.

Elizabeth spends the episode trying get thrown from a horse or flinging herself down stairs in fear that George will listen to Aunt Agatha’s hints about the child’s parentage and figure out that Elizabeth is nine months and not eight months pregnant.

The latter action apparently causes her to go into labour. Ross spends a bit of time lurking outside the window spying at this point, which is pretty weird behaviour even for him (this show expects you to forgive a lot).

Anyway, it’s very important for Elizabeth that there’s no indication that she might be giving birth to Poldark’s child. The baby comes out shirtless, brooding, riding a small horse and wearing a tricorn hat.

“He favours you, I think,” says Elizabeth to George, chancing her arm.

“Yes,” says George, a little desperately, as the baby moodily gallops along a clifftop with a sheep under his arm. “I see the resemblance.”

Back at the Poldark residence Demelza tells Ross that she too is pregnant, and to be honest, after an hour watching I’m feeling a bit pregnant myself. “Curse my hunky fertile genes!” cries Ross Poldark shaking his fist at the heavens in anticipation of an excitingly tumultuous eight episodes to come.

Okay, he doesn’t say the last bit but you get the picture. That Poldark, what’s he like?

Link to original if you like:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/poldark-he-s-so-fertile-i-may-have-got-pregnant-watching-him-1.3116115

#poldark series #taking the piss #thank you #funny review #patrick freyne #period dramas

[exquisite-steam-reviews]

#steam reviews #cooking simulator #funny steam reviews #funny review #these reviewers should not be allowed in a kitchen

[sleepy-bebby]

Review of a butterfly farm… 🦋

#reviews #customer service #memes #meme #funny memes #butterflies #butterfly #the customer is always wrong #butterfly farm #Karen memes #top post

[bigmeatpete69420]

Bless whatever I was going through in 2019 that merited me to leave this review for domino's pizza

#i review #pete review #bigmeatpete review #haha #funny

[hamletthedane]

my brother just called me late at night, barely able to get two words out because he was laughing so hard. Finally, through the wheezing, he told me “go google the new Gollum game. Please”

So I did. And now I just spent half an hour on the phone nearly dying. We just kept sending eachother pictures of Gollum from the game and LOSING IT all over again. I haven’t laughed this hard in YEARS.

#gollum game #lotr #jrrt and Christopher Tolkien are both rolling in their graves while I’m rolling on the floor #WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE THAT #WHY IS IT SO FUNNY #DID A SINGLE OTHER HUMAN BEING REVIEW THIS BEFORE SHIPPING IT OUT #THIS IS GLORIOUS CHANGE NOTHING

[buttersteps]

ayo edebiri: the movie reviewer we deserve

and her dad also has an account

#why did i only find this out via twitter what have i been doing with my life i could have spent the pandemic going through her letterboxd #she is so funny #but some of her takes are also incisive and poignant #what a great read #ayo edebiri #the bear fx #inception #pride and prejudice #etc #films #film review #jeremy allen white #movies

[katnissandpeetamellark]

More BOSAS Reviews Pt 3 ⭐

#The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes #TBOSAS #BOSAS #coriolanus snow #Lucy Gray Baird #volumnia gaul #Review #Funny #The Hunger Games #president snow #hunger games #thg #Funny Reviews #Reviews

[dearly-befuddled]

Goodreads 1 star reviews complaining about how the book was trying to be "edgy". Babes you picked up a book about sci-fi necromancers with a cover of an aviator-wearing skull-painted lesbian and you weren't expecting to run into any edge lords or emos? That's not the book's fault, that's a skill issue

#with love #what the hell are you talking about #goodreads #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #book review #the comment section is always so funny #and so infuriating too #the locked tomb

[ao3-crack]

(x)

#archive of our own #ao3 stuff #ao3 quotes #archive of our own quotes #fanfic #fanfic quotes #funny #ao3 #ao3 tags #the Medical Science in this is NOT peer reviewed

[tropicalcryptid]

Absolutely based Etsy review

#Honestly I aspire to whatever this person has going on #ace attorney #narumitsu #wrightworth #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #funny #Reviews in the wild lol

[softpng]

sometimes I think about that guy on amazon who reviewed pride and prejudice and did an entire angry, weirdly math focused rant about how awful darcy is and then ends it all with "I could carve a better man out of a banana"

#the funny thing about the review is that hes so right about most of his points but like #that's why the book is good BECAUSE darcy is super flawed and so is elisabeth and everyone else #also his criticism of how basically nothing happens in the book except them all going to each others houses #austen literally says that's love love is going to someone's home and love is looking across the dinner table at you and love is walking #love isn't grand gestures love is saying i love you in a fucking field bro #anyways i love pride and prejudice in postmodern context because it's absolutely hilarious and deeply relevant #pride and prejudice #jane austen

[eternalgirlscout]

i know there are people who complain that quintonreviews doesn't do interesting media analysis, but to me his videos aren't for making a well-constructed argument. there are a lot of video essayists who do that and do it well. the absurdly long nickelodeon videos are for indulging in one of my favorite pastimes: listening to someone explain the bizarre plot of a tv show I'll never watch in excruciating detail while getting incandescently, hilariously angry for reasons that take more time to explain than the run time of the source material.

#''give a secondhand plot synopsis of something you know a lot about and wish weren't hot garbage'' is 70% of my friendship with rith #the nsu miniseries is an emulation of a funny conversation i would have with a friend that i can absorb #without having to expend the energy to contribute #quinton reviews #winning tumblr roulette

[jeeaark]

You have no idea how much I really wanted a 'call Orin out on her bullshit' dialogue option

Wishful thinking this comic. I did not know about the initiate-combat-while-talking option until after this campaign, so I have no idea if there are actual consequences to kicking orin's ass mid-trickery or not

Bonus in Regards to Sleepy Gale:

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #astarion #....do I tag this as halsin or orin?????? #greygold #gale of waterdeep #jaheira #tw:violence #DID I MENTION IT WAS A LONG DAY THAT DAY???? #Its okay I let Gale take a break at camp after this ahaha #Look Stelmane's book collection was funny to me because I was having similar questions at that very conveniently same time #needed a quick illithid lore review and Stelmane didn't let me down

[katnissandpeetamellark]

Pt 6

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #THG #TBOSAS #BOSAS #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #Reviews #Funny Reviews #Funny #Ballad of songbirds and snakes

[good-pokemon-center-reviews]

#pokemon #stuffed animals #toycore #plush #drifloon #pokemon center reviews #there aren’t a ton of funny halloween collection reviews but still happy october 😈