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Positron said:
"Eurabia" sounds like a European strain of rabies, which is appropriate considering we are talking about The Religion Of Peace.
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It's most famous for appearing in Breivik's manifesto before he went and killed a load of Norwegian socialist children.
 
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"mOrE rElEvAnT nOw tHaN eVeR"
 
Uncanny Valley said:
Gross.
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What really gets me about tropes like "Nobody Poops" and "No Periods Period" is that they only list instances where it DOESN'T happen. If a trope is so common that aversions are more notable than straight occurrences, then why not make the opposite situation into a trope?
 
John Merston said:
What really gets me about tropes like "Nobody Poops" and "No Periods Period" is that they only list instances where it DOESN'T happen. If a trope is so common that aversions are more notable than straight occurrences, then why not make the opposite situation into a trope?
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If a cartoon regularly had episodes featuring characters going to the toilet I’d assume the writer had some kind of fetish.
 
John Merston said:
What really gets me about tropes like "Nobody Poops" and "No Periods Period" is that they only list instances where it DOESN'T happen. If a trope is so common that aversions are more notable than straight occurrences, then why not make the opposite situation into a trope?
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From my horribly biased perspective, a lot of tropes list by exception when they are so omnipresent that listing when a production defies norms and acknowledges certain real-world phenomena is easier than listing straight examples, which will likely include every production ever made.
 
John Merston said:
What really gets me about tropes like "Nobody Poops" and "No Periods Period" is that they only list instances where it DOESN'T happen. If a trope is so common that aversions are more notable than straight occurrences, then why not make the opposite situation into a trope?
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I'll go to bat for this choice, actually. It's a media convention that everyone accepts because more often than not, showing these events would either disrupt the pacing of the story or just be gross.
A character performing an action isn't a trope in itself, but it's notable as an exception to the convention since it highlights the actual trope audiences take for granted.
 
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