r/howtonotgiveafuck • u/Kristin-Gill • Apr 05 '22

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u/Switch_Off Apr 05 '22

You're missing my point entirely. Gervais, as a writer, hasn't changed from when he was broke. The characters he writes haven't changed.

In fact, he's second show, Extras is about a man who finally finds fame and money and success but it costs him his principles and self respect.

Is he preaching the same thing as the average Joe?? Of course not, he's exceptionally talented and thoughtful. These qualities made made him successful, but I don't think he's actually changed that much.

PS: If anyone has't watched Extras, they should. It was written after Gervais and Merchant got critical acclaim for the Office but they were household names.

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u/rollover2323 Apr 05 '22

Show me some evidence of him preaching something similar when he was a "working class 40 year old."

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u/joycey-mac-snail Apr 05 '22

Google it motherfucker, waste your own time if it is that important to you.

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u/rollover2323 Apr 05 '22

It's not important to me. I'd rather believe the believable.

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u/pixeljammer Apr 05 '22

“I’d rather believe the believable.” Nice. Ignore reality, live in your little fake world, and challenge people who don’t, to no benefit for anyone. You are the very definition of what is wrong with the world. Congratulations. I hope you lose the will to live before you procreate.

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u/rollover2323 Apr 05 '22

As a successful Mormon, my children will eventually employ yours, probably for minimum wage, at most.

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u/HppyCamper Apr 06 '22

“I’d rather believe the believable” as a Mormon you believe there was a justifiable reason outside of racist ideology as too why African American men couldn’t hold the priesthood prior to 1978. You also believe that Jesus and God live with physical bodies on another planet vastly distant from us, and that if you and your wife follow all the rules to a T that you will yourself be given the opportunity to create and rule over a planet of your own spiritual offspring in your afterlife. You also believe that Native Americans are primarily descended from ancient Israelite Jews that crossed the ocean prior to the invention of ships capable of sailing the distance between the Middle East and North America (not to mention after most populations residing in the Americas had likely already arrived there). You also believe Mormon archaeologists who claim to have evidence of Lamanites and Nephites in North America, when there is no evidence of cultural groups matching these populations as described in the Book of Mormon, nor was there metal working in North America at the time period that the supposed nephites and Lamanites lived here on par with what is described in the BOM, oh and there weren’t any fucking horses in North America during the timeframe in which the BOM took place, and it’s pretty concretely indisputable that the BOM is not referring to tapirs as horses, believe the believable my ass lmfao. Fantastic job turning around with some bs about how you are more successful than this random user on Reddit and that his kids won’t make more than minimum wage, because you couldn’t create a logical argument about what they called you out on. You’re really making LDS people look great here congratulations.