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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Elkot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dare I ask what you mean by that?

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Vance the couch fucker.

There was a claim that, in the first draft of his book, Vance recounted a teenage sexual encounter with a couch. In great detail.

This claim came with an image of the text, which is easily found if you want that sort of thing.

The truthfulness of the claim has been questioned, but Vance just seems like the kind of guy who would fuck a couch.

[–] Elkot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

He looks like a right pervert so I wouldn't be surprised

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

The truthfulness of the claim has been questioned, but Vance just seems like the kind of guy who would fuck a couch

But not the truthiness of the claim, which I think is the more important part.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

you might find things other than loose change behind the cushions when there's a couchfucker on the loose.

[–] sporkler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

you write a book that gets turned into a movie, help draft the most optimistic plan for turning a reasonable functional democracy into a dictatorship, rock eyeliner at least as well as any 80's glam-rock start, but you fuck one* couch, and that's all you're remembered for.

  • well, you know, the ones in the furniture store didn't count, and the futon was technically a futon, and I was genuinely concerned that I'd be maimed by the recliner, and when I was drunk didn't count, and beanbag chairs are barely even a chair...