PARTICIPATION AWARD - Episode 41 (10/18/24)
Added 2024-10-18 14:52:43 +0000 UTCIn this episode:
-My Big Fat Greek Funeral
-Doordash Spouse
-You, Uh... Actually Have to Do Stuff
Comments
i actually think the answer to scenario 1 is clear to me, regardless of how you feel about death and final wishes. Because, obviously, if you believe death and the rituals we have surrounding it have some spiritual significance, then the guy is an asshole for stomping on his sisters dying wish. But even if you're of the camp that says there's no special meaning in death, that dying wishes are a silly thing to fret over and that funerals have no more significance than as a party to help the family cope, then the guy is still an asshole. Because he's showing up to a party uninvited. Not only was he not invited, he was explicitly banned from coming. Funerals are for the living, and the living didn't want him there. He knew that, but he came anyway. The only reason you do that is to cause a scene, which is exactly what he got. There's nothing magical about the exact moment a body is put in the dirt, there's no reason he couldn't have had his "final sendoff" alone at the gravestone after she was buried. But this guy wanted his stupid movie moment, so he chose to show up someplace he wasn't wanted and cause a scene. It doesn't make sense to me to say that death is so meaningless that a final wish isn't worth respecting, but is meaningful enough to grant everyone who ever knew the person an irrevocable pass to watch them get put in the ground regardless of what anyone else wants.
Dr-doc-phd
2024-10-24 14:43:05 +0000 UTCThat was the nail in the coffin for me as well no pun intended, it’s a jab for the sake of hurting someone that at very least other people in the family do love and care about and shows that she was never really over it no matter how much work she did in therapy
Jordan Juarez
2024-10-19 08:24:53 +0000 UTCDude there was an armed guard at the theater when I saw Joker in 2019. Absolutely insane shit.
Nick Lancaster
2024-10-18 23:50:21 +0000 UTCduring the bottle night episode
maya
2024-10-18 23:16:01 +0000 UTCme omw to listen to three hot guys sharing their opinions
maya
2024-10-18 21:24:45 +0000 UTCThe first one is so easy. Her dying wish was "hurt our brother one last time for me." Yeah she for sure did a lot of therapy and doesn't at all think she's entitled to forgiveness
dustdevils
2024-10-18 18:53:19 +0000 UTCI would wager that the issue with the daughter in the third one is that her interests are not as easy to find community for as her brother and she is frustrated that everything he does is as easy as signing a sheet at school or church. I didn’t know what a convention was before I graduated high school and now I go to at least 3 a year. There just aren’t as many furry bike riding clubs or cosplay clubs at school as there are sports teams and academic honors.
Dormagio
2024-10-18 18:07:01 +0000 UTCStory 2 is bothering me so much because everyone is completely ignoring the fact that the man had an issue with his wife years ago where he tried to sit down and have a conversation about her ability to work and she did absolutely nothing so he eventually just dropped it bc of her unwillingness to do anything. What we are seeing in this story is a partner who knows his wife is unwilling to make any kind of change just from discussion alone and as someone who was in A 5 year relationship with this exact type of person, i dont exactly think he was in the wrong. He already know shes going to find any kind of excuse so this was probably his only viable option to actually stop the situation. Ultimately if hes had a problem for so long he should have just left a while ago.
Johnb3rry
2024-10-18 17:28:27 +0000 UTCThat first one really is tough especially because of how much info is left out but I gotta say my opinion really is that if you dont want to see someone or find closure with them when they’re living, why would you even think showing up to their funeral would provide any sort of closure? The sister tried to make amends multiple times and I gotta say I think I agree that he didnt really have the right to go to her funeral. Theres very fringe scenarios (like the ones Joseph mentioned) where my opinion on that would be flipped but if it was just normal brother/sister stuff and all we can go off of is whats in the post I think OP was absolutely correct in denying John.
Johnb3rry
2024-10-18 17:07:59 +0000 UTCWas mentioned multiple times but to me the first one really does depend on the exact nature of their relationship and what happened between them. I feel like for it to have lasted into adulthood and gotten to the point where one goes to therapy and one refuses to see the other when they're dying...it must've been pretty bad, but...we don't know. That said while I do think that is a major factor, I think refusing to say a final goodbye and/or make amends when they're dying is also huge and potentially disqualifying in of itself to me... But that ALSO could depend on the exact nature of their relationship. If it was literally abusive, for example.
Kamui
2024-10-18 16:30:29 +0000 UTCOoh that first one is real rough. While I agree that family does have a right to say their last goodbyes I also feel you can lose that right and what causes you to lose it may differ by the person but like…idk I feel like refusing to say your final goodbye in person to your actively dying sister before she goes is a huge thing that would disqualify him in my eyes.
Jay Smith
2024-10-18 15:43:54 +0000 UTCif you're gonna watch joker 2, make sure to watch it through very legal means with your friends and not in a theater where you need to be quiet, it's so fun to riff on
NoDePop
2024-10-18 15:23:11 +0000 UTCWhen are we going to get the episode where they all kiss
Sion Labeouf
2024-10-18 15:09:29 +0000 UTC
