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Buuhh sooo longgg get to the point alr smh đ like fr dis aint bussin brooo don't even have text to speech and subway surfers or family guy
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If they asked for ÂŁ1,000 instead then it would've had them go through a *Jarndyce v. Jarndyce* style wrongful death lawsuit and 10 years later after being completely drained emotionally and physically and his wife dies of a stroke from the stress, he chooses to settle the case for ÂŁ1,000
"Say you wish for a back rub, who is going to give it to you? A dirty bear? And where does this guy come from? Do I just zap some guy while he is eating dinner with his family?"
-Prismo The Wishmaster
Prismo even explains that the proper way to make a wish is to be ULTRA-specific to make sure you really get what you want. He only really did that because he liked Jake, though, which is fair, Jake would make a great friend.
Thats a plot of a short story that you would read in an English class lol I think the one I was forced to read was of a woman that pressed the button to get 50k dollars but she ended up getting it in life insurance money from her dead husband something like that
Another that I remember is that a lady wishes for 50,000 dollars but her son dies and she gets the insurance. Then she wishes for her son to be alive again but then his corpse digs itself out of the grave and tryâs to break her door down.
Well, thatâs not *technically* what happens. You donât ever see the dead son after he dies. Thereâs just a pounding on the door and then before whoeverâs there can get in the husband undoes the wish. Itâs implied, but never explicitly stated or revealed.
Itâs good horror personally. On one hand, it couldâve been some horrible undead creature that would kill you, in which case the third wish wouldnât have really backfired, but I think itâs equally possible that the second wish had no drawbacks, so the person knocking on the door really was his son, who he just erased out of fear, making the true drawback to the second wish be using the third wish to kill his son again.
>Then she wishes for her son to be alive again but then his corpse digs itself out of the grave and tryâs to break her door down
no, her son escapes his grave and knocks on the door because he wants to see his parents
he's \[probably\] horrifically mangled but he's not a monster
Wait a minute..... an amateur succubus is........basically....a child... OK that's a grim twist can I undo the wish? Please I don't want to have intercoms with child succubus
i haven't seen a hazbin post on this sub since like February
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Youâre thinking of an asshole genie, not the monkeys paw. The monkeys paw doesnât really twist your words in a clever way, it just fucks you over but sort of gives you what you âwantâ at the same time. The asshole genie thinks of funny, sometimes deadly sometimes inconvenient sometimes boring ways to butcher what he knows youâre trying to wish for.
This is the basic distinction between âmonkey pawâ and âasshole genieâ, for me at least. The monkey paw will give exactly what you asked for in the worst way possible, whereas an assholw genie will try to twist your words so as to not give you what you want.
You wish for 100 bucks from the monkey paw, and it gives you $100 but you find out itâs stolen out of the pocket of someone whoâs now $100 short on rent. You wish for 100 bucks from the asshole genie, and they send 100 fully-grown male deer charging towards you.
Monkey paw asks you âhow badly do you really want what youâre asking for? Bad enough to accept it under the worst circumstances?â Whereas asshole genie says âfuck you for even asking, Iâm going to exploit a loophole in your wording or phrasing to make sure that you donât get what you want, just what you asked forâ
Iâm pretty sure all the Monkeyâs paw did was kill people as the twist. Like, I donât think it went any further than that.
First wish was for money, and the twist was their don died and they got the money off of life insurance, exactly as described by OP.
Second wish was for the son to come back alive, the twist was that he was only half-alive (a zombie)
Third wish was the opposite of the 2nd, to put him back to death. The twist of course was that the wife was dead now too.
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Did none of them read the story? Cause that's exactly what happened.
[The story](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_the_Barge/The_Monkey%27s_Paw)
Buuhh sooo longgg get to the point alr smh đ like fr dis aint bussin brooo don't even have text to speech and subway surfers or family guy https://i.redd.it/r7k96f7z4pwc1.gif
Its actually so boring and hard to read
Reading issue
When teachers complain about Gen Z/A reading skills I think this is exactly what they're talking about
[ŃдаНонО]
Yeah, of course I think. What else would I do, *not* think??
[ŃдаНонО]
Well, I'm not certain, because I'm not a teacher.
Brainrot
Get this man back to school
I read this shit in middle school bro you're cooked
Iâm sure watching more skibidi toilet will help develop your reading skills
Redditor when more than 6 words
Try adding a small window with subway surfer or family guys or something, that'll help
In find it so funny that they only asked for ÂŁ200 in the short story
Story came out in 1902, so that's over ÂŁ30000 adjusted for inflation.
I think its more like ÂŁ17k. Still, it reads as a somewhat comically small figure to ask for from a modern perspective.
If they asked for ÂŁ1,000 instead then it would've had them go through a *Jarndyce v. Jarndyce* style wrongful death lawsuit and 10 years later after being completely drained emotionally and physically and his wife dies of a stroke from the stress, he chooses to settle the case for ÂŁ1,000
People usually miss that this is the point of the monkey's paw
"Say you wish for a back rub, who is going to give it to you? A dirty bear? And where does this guy come from? Do I just zap some guy while he is eating dinner with his family?" -Prismo The Wishmaster
Prismo the goat
Prismo even explains that the proper way to make a wish is to be ULTRA-specific to make sure you really get what you want. He only really did that because he liked Jake, though, which is fair, Jake would make a great friend.
he also basically told Jake what to wish for lmao
Thats a plot of a short story that you would read in an English class lol I think the one I was forced to read was of a woman that pressed the button to get 50k dollars but she ended up getting it in life insurance money from her dead husband something like that
Another that I remember is that a lady wishes for 50,000 dollars but her son dies and she gets the insurance. Then she wishes for her son to be alive again but then his corpse digs itself out of the grave and tryâs to break her door down.
Thatâs the original monkeyâs paw story, where it all started from
Wow. I just read it in some web archive of an early 2000 ghost story website. Just thought it was a retelling
thatâs crazy because 50k isnât even a lot
The story was written in the 1800âs so yes, it is a *lot* of money
The amount in the original story was ÂŁ200.
Losing your child for a Nintendo switch lite is questionable
No, it was for a mortgage pay-off.
Wait what the fuck I bought mine from my cousins for 400?
They go for ÂŁ200 on Nintendoâs website my guy you have been robbed
Itâs actually tons after decounting for inflation
Well, thatâs not *technically* what happens. You donât ever see the dead son after he dies. Thereâs just a pounding on the door and then before whoeverâs there can get in the husband undoes the wish. Itâs implied, but never explicitly stated or revealed.
Itâs good horror personally. On one hand, it couldâve been some horrible undead creature that would kill you, in which case the third wish wouldnât have really backfired, but I think itâs equally possible that the second wish had no drawbacks, so the person knocking on the door really was his son, who he just erased out of fear, making the true drawback to the second wish be using the third wish to kill his son again.
>Then she wishes for her son to be alive again but then his corpse digs itself out of the grave and tryâs to break her door down no, her son escapes his grave and knocks on the door because he wants to see his parents he's \[probably\] horrifically mangled but he's not a monster
Moral of the story: Don't let your family buy life insurance just in case you find a monkey's paw
Your family still died but you won a lawsuit against the billionaires that killed them. It's a miracle that you beat them, but at what cost?
Yeah we got different families...
Wait if I wish for something like a succubus who will have sex with me and drain all my life force till I die what would the twist be?
Theet-y bj
Ah.... so an amateur succubus
She's doing her best >:(
Wait a minute..... an amateur succubus is........basically....a child... OK that's a grim twist can I undo the wish? Please I don't want to have intercoms with child succubus
they'll be ugly or the sex will be excruciatingly painful because of some reason
Invisible man having the time of his life
The invisible man was present in this episode, actually. He was on a raft in the middle of the ocean
this ought to make it to hot I swear if it doesn't but sloppy shitty hazbin hotel and anti hazbin hotel posts make it
You cooked buddy đ
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Luffy *is having the first true mental breakdown in 10 years* This sub: hahaha the invisible man is banging him
Me getting railed hard by Griffin from the hit novel âthe Invisible Manâ by H.G. Wells
r/distressingmemes could use this for a change from the 8374word paragraphs about skinwalkers
This is literally the OG story of the monkeys paw
Youâre thinking of an asshole genie, not the monkeys paw. The monkeys paw doesnât really twist your words in a clever way, it just fucks you over but sort of gives you what you âwantâ at the same time. The asshole genie thinks of funny, sometimes deadly sometimes inconvenient sometimes boring ways to butcher what he knows youâre trying to wish for.
But this example is literally from the short story "The Monkey's Paw"...
this is literally what happens in the monkeyâs paw story
that's literally the original story
that happens in the story.
A ghost give luffy CRAZY backshots
This is the basic distinction between âmonkey pawâ and âasshole genieâ, for me at least. The monkey paw will give exactly what you asked for in the worst way possible, whereas an assholw genie will try to twist your words so as to not give you what you want. You wish for 100 bucks from the monkey paw, and it gives you $100 but you find out itâs stolen out of the pocket of someone whoâs now $100 short on rent. You wish for 100 bucks from the asshole genie, and they send 100 fully-grown male deer charging towards you. Monkey paw asks you âhow badly do you really want what youâre asking for? Bad enough to accept it under the worst circumstances?â Whereas asshole genie says âfuck you for even asking, Iâm going to exploit a loophole in your wording or phrasing to make sure that you donât get what you want, just what you asked forâ
Wasn't a million dollars in Pennie's an episode of a Nickelodeon show I don't remember exactly which one.
Jokes on you I donât have life insurance
What do you still have?
sounds like a win
I wish for all wishes to be taken at face value without a horrific plot twist
Wait so I get the penny's and the life insurance? Monkey's paw really pulling through today.
Me when i hump the air
Iâm pretty sure all the Monkeyâs paw did was kill people as the twist. Like, I donât think it went any further than that. First wish was for money, and the twist was their don died and they got the money off of life insurance, exactly as described by OP. Second wish was for the son to come back alive, the twist was that he was only half-alive (a zombie) Third wish was the opposite of the 2nd, to put him back to death. The twist of course was that the wife was dead now too.