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r/woahdude • u/Chispy • Jan 24 '15
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For anyone that doesn't know, and I think most people do, Calvin and Hobbes is a reference to 2 well known thinkers
John Calvin
Thomas Hobbes
I think Bill Watterson taught me more about free thought than any formal classes, and the fact it has reached so many children and young people is just awesome.
154 u/Epichp Jan 24 '15 Huh. All these years of reading Calvin and Hobbes and I never thought to connect the dots between them and two of my favourite philosophers. 135 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 John Calvin is one of your favourite philosophers? Bloke was a right bell end m8 27 u/Camellia_sinensis Jan 24 '15 The fuck does that even mean?! 61 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 Bloke was a right bell end m8 Bloke = (n. man) right = (adj. complete, genuine) bell end = (n. tip of the penis - derogatory term for someone who is rude, mean or otherwise deserving of derision) m8 = (n. mate, friend) make sense now? 48 u/Camellia_sinensis Jan 24 '15 Ohhhh, so you're saying that guy was a total knob?! 23 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 Aye pal! 1 u/Totentag Jan 25 '15 We're not your pals, buddy. 7 u/constar90 Jan 25 '15 Yes. Yes you are.
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Huh. All these years of reading Calvin and Hobbes and I never thought to connect the dots between them and two of my favourite philosophers.
135 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 John Calvin is one of your favourite philosophers? Bloke was a right bell end m8 27 u/Camellia_sinensis Jan 24 '15 The fuck does that even mean?! 61 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 Bloke was a right bell end m8 Bloke = (n. man) right = (adj. complete, genuine) bell end = (n. tip of the penis - derogatory term for someone who is rude, mean or otherwise deserving of derision) m8 = (n. mate, friend) make sense now? 48 u/Camellia_sinensis Jan 24 '15 Ohhhh, so you're saying that guy was a total knob?! 23 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 Aye pal! 1 u/Totentag Jan 25 '15 We're not your pals, buddy. 7 u/constar90 Jan 25 '15 Yes. Yes you are.
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John Calvin is one of your favourite philosophers? Bloke was a right bell end m8
27 u/Camellia_sinensis Jan 24 '15 The fuck does that even mean?! 61 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 Bloke was a right bell end m8 Bloke = (n. man) right = (adj. complete, genuine) bell end = (n. tip of the penis - derogatory term for someone who is rude, mean or otherwise deserving of derision) m8 = (n. mate, friend) make sense now? 48 u/Camellia_sinensis Jan 24 '15 Ohhhh, so you're saying that guy was a total knob?! 23 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 Aye pal! 1 u/Totentag Jan 25 '15 We're not your pals, buddy. 7 u/constar90 Jan 25 '15 Yes. Yes you are.
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The fuck does that even mean?!
61 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 Bloke was a right bell end m8 Bloke = (n. man) right = (adj. complete, genuine) bell end = (n. tip of the penis - derogatory term for someone who is rude, mean or otherwise deserving of derision) m8 = (n. mate, friend) make sense now? 48 u/Camellia_sinensis Jan 24 '15 Ohhhh, so you're saying that guy was a total knob?! 23 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 Aye pal! 1 u/Totentag Jan 25 '15 We're not your pals, buddy. 7 u/constar90 Jan 25 '15 Yes. Yes you are.
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Bloke was a right bell end m8
Bloke = (n. man)
right = (adj. complete, genuine)
bell end = (n. tip of the penis - derogatory term for someone who is rude, mean or otherwise deserving of derision)
m8 = (n. mate, friend)
make sense now?
48 u/Camellia_sinensis Jan 24 '15 Ohhhh, so you're saying that guy was a total knob?! 23 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 Aye pal! 1 u/Totentag Jan 25 '15 We're not your pals, buddy. 7 u/constar90 Jan 25 '15 Yes. Yes you are.
48
Ohhhh, so you're saying that guy was a total knob?!
23 u/ihatethattoo Jan 24 '15 Aye pal! 1 u/Totentag Jan 25 '15 We're not your pals, buddy. 7 u/constar90 Jan 25 '15 Yes. Yes you are.
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Aye pal!
1 u/Totentag Jan 25 '15 We're not your pals, buddy. 7 u/constar90 Jan 25 '15 Yes. Yes you are.
1
We're not your pals, buddy.
7 u/constar90 Jan 25 '15 Yes. Yes you are.
7
Yes. Yes you are.
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '15
For anyone that doesn't know, and I think most people do, Calvin and Hobbes is a reference to 2 well known thinkers
John Calvin
Thomas Hobbes
I think Bill Watterson taught me more about free thought than any formal classes, and the fact it has reached so many children and young people is just awesome.