Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment “Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.” - ThreadSky

rincewind.run • 7 days ago

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.”

Reposted from Micah

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

“The children refused to disbelieve in the monsters because, frankly, they knew damn well the things were there. But she’d found that they could, very firmly, also believe in the poker.”

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wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social•7 days ago

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
“What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter”

yingtongiddle.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'd forgotten this. How prescient of Sir Terry minus the tangerine orange hue!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣

torrone51.bsky.social•6 days ago

Succinct Pratchett.

highway-dan.bsky.social•6 days ago

By far my favorite Discworld book. Thanks for the reminder.

kithrup.bsky.social•7 days ago

* Unless you're Carrot

bluetigas.bsky.social•6 days ago

Carrot ends fights my making everyone busier (writing letters back home to their momma that you promised you'd write when leaving for the big city)

kithrup.bsky.social•6 days ago

No, he just reminds them that they're better than this, that they shouldn't be doing all this tomfoolery, and sometimes organizes team sports.

cmookbridgman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Unfortunately Obama and Biden both tried, "This is America! This isn't who we are!" and it didn't work because it was objectively false. Not who we want to be, maybe, but very much who we have been and apparently we still are.

kithrup.bsky.social•6 days ago

Which has nothing to do with the thread, nor my particular comment, so thanks for the non sequitor, and bye.

deadpiratesociety.bsky.social•6 days ago

Monstrous Regiment lives in my head rent-free. I grew up with and still live around a lot of conservative christians and it honestly hit a lot harder for me than Small Gods. I was technically in church hierarchy before I left, so that's an accomplishment.

cathmason.bsky.social•6 days ago

Sz,#

cathmason.bsky.social•6 days ago

Z,,-,

catkimbriel.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's a good lesson to learn that monsters exist, but they can be routed or even killed.

Thanks for some great Terry quotes for today.

justafrenchcat.bsky.social•6 days ago

So true 😓

rincewind.run•7 days ago

similarly, it is so much easier to break things than put them back together

breaking only requires that you smash it, after all, putting the delicate fiddly bits back together is a lot harder

wdgnw.bsky.social•7 days ago

My small god(s), I miss Terry so much for his take on the human condition!

hyouko.bsky.social•6 days ago

A few years ago, I read Penrose's "Cycles of Time." His math largely went over my head, but his explanations of entropy - you can't return a cake to its constituent ingredients, and you can't un-break an egg - have stuck with me.

beaver1224.bsky.social•6 days ago

"As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create."

mlovers.bsky.social•7 days ago

Rebuilding from the ground up is also a lot harder after things have been torched.

scazrelet.bsky.social•7 days ago

Can't get the toothpaste back in the tube, as they say.

winniethewitch.bsky.social•6 days ago

As a whole generation of tech boy 'disruptors' are finding out much to their chagrin and our expense.

isomeme.bsky.social•3 days ago

Take pity of your town and of your people
Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command

- William Shakespeare, "Henry V", act 3 scene 3.

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