It's way more normal-sounding than "Scholar of the First Sin"
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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That's why I walk up to random people on the street and angrily shout at them "PREPARE TO DIE!!"
I then calmly hand them a brochure for my estate planning business.
You could take the idea Hollister had. Get shirtless men to handout the brochure maybe have them look a bit viking esque.
Seems like a good business idea
Remember to die is another way to phrase it less as a threat and more as a reminder of what is inevitable.
Momento Mori is a common stoicism among certain types. Basically means the same thing.
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Pretty sure OP has six fingers on his right hand.
Inigo Montoya would like to have a word with you...
He wasn't doing it as a threat. He was doing it because he was a gentleman who happened to be seeking revenge.
Inigo Montoya saying it so many times feels like an action movie where some idiot with a gun cocks it over and over every time they really mean it this time.
Except of course Mandy Patinkin is a fucking treasure.
I watched a lot of movies as a kid, but I never noticed until Back to the Future (the 2nd one, I think), with Biff Tannen cocking his revolver excessively on the roof. That movie caused me to start counting.
It's more like a "say your prayers" than "pay your taxes" kind of thing.
I was thinking they were nice in letting you delete your browser history.
This implies that they'd be willing to wait while I spend forever saying my final prayer, in an effort to filibuster my own murder.
It just so happens that I'm an ordained priest and pretty good at talking shit about nothing.
"No, Mr. Bond. I expect YOU to pay your taxes."
The stament is because they want the victim to know they are going to die and that they are going to do it. Its a personal murder type of thing.
I mean, doctors do say that a lot. Not in those exact words but yeah
Usually not as a threat, though
That you know of
Maybe that's exactly what they are, or promises? "You have 6 months to live".
Dr. Theoden of Rohan will receive you now
I’d like at least a few seconds so I can relish the lack of responsibility
It depends.
If the threat is "we're about to have a fight you won't survive", your critique is valid. If the threat is "you've just been poisoned, and will succumb within a few days", then giving them the time to put their papers in order really won't harm the speaker at all. Though maybe it isn't entirely effective as a threat. If the threat is "I can take actions that will end your life, but all I'm telling you is it's happening soon" it works as an ominous threat, and a sincere offer (though they'd probably better hurry).
So, it isn't actually supposed to be a threat, really, in the 'intimidating' or 'terror inducing' sense.
It is supposed to be something of a warning... its a courtesy, a formality from someone who is familiar with causing death.
It makes a bit more sense if it comes from a context where a warrior or assassin of some kind... is indeed genuinely urging you to actually perform some kind of final prayer, or absolution ritual, or otherwise mentally prepare yourself for your life to end.
Maybe think of the John Wick movies. One of his targets, he simply has cornered her in her bath, gives her the relative dignity of allowing her to slit her own wrists, talks her through her death... only shoots her once she's already lost consciousness.
Subject: Die. Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a death that is about to break out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road... no, that's too formal. [deletes text, starts again] die - exclamation mark - die - exclamation mark - you will die - exclamation mark. 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice Moss.
I'll just put this over here with the rest of the corpses.
I prefer “don’t renew your library books”
"Well, I'll try. Come back in a few decades. Or not at all; I can do it myself."
Ten years later: "Sorry, I need more time... those fucking gym memberships, you know.."
Preferred: “I EAT BONES AND SHIT GHOSTS”