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like it's pretty well known that when you go to a show and it sucks that you have to boo. and if it's particularly bad and you live over a hundred years ago you have to throw rotten poo poo at the entertainer to let them know that they suck rear end. it begs the question though, where did all the rotten fruit and veggies come from? did they bring them to the show? like in their pockets? did they know the show was going to suck or did they just bring it in case it did suck? was it what they were planning to eat because they were poor but then decided the show was bad enough that they didn't need dinner that day? i am very confused about this whole situation.
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Feb 21, 2020 00:08
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Uncultured swine, they sell rotten produce at the theater like an adams family farmers market. Have you never been to a play?
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Feb 21, 2020 00:10
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Yes, the insult is bolstered by the target's knowledge that the rotten fruit had to be stored and delt with for perhaps weeks, specifically to throw at YOU. It's a pretty sick burn.
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Feb 21, 2020 00:11
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iirc elizabethian theater basically had a moshpit where poor people ("groundlings") could get in for a penny. they had a reputation for being rowdy (shakespeare had a lot of fart and dick jokes to keep them happy) vendors sold food outside (or possibly in the theater by an unknown mechanism), so they could snack during the boring parts it was rumored that they'd throw the food when they were bored but for some reason it's really hard to find a source it was rotten because ice wouldn't become a mass market commodity for another 200 years. no j/k idk where the rotten part came from
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Feb 21, 2020 00:59
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yes. in olden times, people would bring rotten fruit to throw at the stocks
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Feb 21, 2020 01:03
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I generally forgot what we were arguing about.
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Feb 21, 2020 01:04
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i was there giving out the fruit
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Feb 21, 2020 01:20
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Putty posted:i was there giving out the fruit gently caress you putty
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Feb 21, 2020 01:21
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Feb 21, 2020 01:23
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Nowadays we just throw batteries
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Feb 21, 2020 01:25
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1redflag posted:Nowadays we just throw batteries Hmm you ain't all Philadelphia Eagles fans.
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Feb 21, 2020 01:28
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They kept it tied to their belt. It was the style at the time.
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Feb 21, 2020 14:15
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Well what were they SUPPOSED to throw, OP? HAMS?! Oh sure mister money bags lets all just parade down to the theatre in our gilded ham carriages pulled by our team of white horses and have our servants launch our finest cured meats upon the players. Hams. Honest to god, OP. Where the gently caress do you get off with this poo poo? That's perfectly good ham, I'm not throwing it at those men because their transvesticistic frivolities don't live up to your ever so high standards. Good lord.
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Feb 21, 2020 14:45
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all fruits and vegetables were rotten back then. people just ate them anyway. explosive diarrhea was commonplace but tbh you didn't want to spend any more time in the outhouse than you had to, so having the shits fly out of you as fast as possible was quite beneficial.
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Feb 21, 2020 14:58
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Big Beef City posted:Well what were they SUPPOSED to throw, OP? HAMS?! Oh sure mister money bags lets all just parade down to the theatre in our gilded ham carriages pulled by our team of white horses and have our servants launch our finest cured meats upon the players. I would throw a ham if the show was good
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Feb 21, 2020 15:23
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You would. ...You would.
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Feb 21, 2020 15:34
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Ah yes, the old slam ham. A particularly well thrown one of appreciation knocked Romeo right out, just after the balcony scene. Masterful performance up until that point.
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Feb 21, 2020 15:49
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Just  if you don't just have Enrique throw some of your leftover venison for you.
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Feb 21, 2020 15:52
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They call me....the Mutton Malice
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Feb 21, 2020 15:56
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Universe Master posted:Ah yes, the old slam ham. A particularly well thrown one of appreciation knocked Romeo right out, just after the balcony scene. Masterful performance up until that point. They still hunted whales in those days for whale oil and what not, right? Throw a big ole piece of whale blubber on stage. Slam whale!
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Feb 21, 2020 17:18
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i would definitely throw a ham or two. maybe a rotisserie chicken
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Feb 21, 2020 18:04
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You ate dinner, went to the Theatre Show, if you didn't like it, baby-bird it out of your mouth, bing bang boom, throw it at the stage.
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Feb 21, 2020 18:12
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I'm pretty sure this is what's known as a metaphor and people never actually did this. Hth op
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Feb 21, 2020 18:15
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bradzilla posted:I'm pretty sure this is what's known as a metaphor and people never actually did this. Hth op More like "Oth-HELL-No", liver and onions dinner special straight to ya dome piece!
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Feb 21, 2020 18:16
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you havnt lived until you have thrown a rotten tomato at a bad stage performance
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Feb 21, 2020 18:21
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I woulda brought a rotten squash and knocked the actors the gently caress out
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Feb 21, 2020 18:34
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We do, yes. Why?
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Feb 21, 2020 18:38
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could you imagine throwing a pumpkin at dane cook?? lmao im imagining it and its really funny.
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Feb 21, 2020 18:39
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Tomatoes were acidic and people thought you would die if you ate them, so throwing them when the show wasn't good was a sign of dislike. Also the term break a leg was because the poor would stare up at the stage and drool if the show was good, and saliva would pool up on stage making it slippery.
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Feb 21, 2020 18:45
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i have a question about people thinking tomatoes were poison like why would they bother growing them if they thought they were poison?????? just to huck at people i guess????
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Feb 21, 2020 18:47
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numberoneposter posted:could you imagine throwing a pumpkin at dane cook?? lmao im imagining it and its really funny. I'm imagining someone heaving a large one on stage and it just sorta cracks sadly, and him going all "...the gently caress is THAT" and going to look at it, bending down, and just as he does, someone uses a sling shot to absolutely PELT him with one of those real tiny, decorative ones like right between the eyes or in the crotch. So. Ya. I am now. e: numberoneposter posted:i have a question about people thinking tomatoes were poison like why would they bother growing them if they thought they were poison?????? just to huck at people i guess???? Honest answer, they were grown for decorative purposes, as lots of poisonous plants are today. People weren't wrong about them being poisonous - the green parts of the plants and blossoms ARE actually poisonous (mildly), as they're a member of the nightshade family. Folks just assumed cautiously that would extend to the fruits as well. Big Beef City fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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Feb 21, 2020 18:47
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numberoneposter posted:i have a question about people thinking tomatoes were poison like why would they bother growing them if they thought they were poison?????? just to huck at people i guess???? Yes, purely out of a passion for the arts.
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Feb 21, 2020 18:50
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Do you think someone ever tried to theatrically kill themselves by eating a tomato?
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Feb 21, 2020 19:07
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who would win in a fight a killer tomato or a killer clown from outer space???
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Feb 21, 2020 19:14
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numberoneposter posted:who would win in a fight a killer tomato or a killer clown from outer space??? yo just an fyi neither one of those things is actually real you can rest easy friend
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Feb 21, 2020 20:02
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in the modern era it really is quite difficult to convince the bouncer that your hucking tomato is a snack
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Feb 21, 2020 20:04
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yes i intend to eat this festering tomato
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Feb 21, 2020 20:06
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They should bring those back to garden catalogs. In mine now, I get cherry tomatoes, beefsteaks, slicers, you name it. Not ONE goddamn "chucking" tomato in the whole lot. Where the hell are my West Virginia Tossers and Southern Belle Pelters??
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Feb 21, 2020 20:16
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numberoneposter posted:could you imagine throwing a pumpkin at dane cook?? lmao im imagining it and its really funny. I threw a watermelon at Gallagher and it didn't really pan out like I'd hoped.
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Dolphin posted:yes i intend to eat this festering tomato
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