Plus, I doubt the person making the threat would wait for any actual preparations such as canceling various subscriptions. And I don't think they'd allow for the necessary witnesses required while I'm writing my will.
Plus, I doubt the person making the threat would wait for any actual preparations such as canceling various subscriptions. And I don't think they'd allow for the necessary witnesses required while I'm writing my will.
31 Comments
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 35d
Inigo Montoya would like to have a word with you...
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social · 22 pts · 35d
He wasn't doing it as a threat. He was doing it because he was a gentleman who happened to be seeking revenge.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 35d
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.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 35d
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.
Photonic@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 35d
I mean, doctors do say that a lot. Not in those exact words but yeah
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 35d
Usually not as a threat, though
TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social · 5 pts · 35d
That you know of
espentan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
Maybe that's exactly what they are, or promises? "You have 6 months to live".
drolex@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 35d
Dr. Theoden of Rohan will receive you now
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 35d
It's more like a "say your prayers" than "pay your taxes" kind of thing.
Tiral@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 35d
I was thinking they were nice in letting you delete your browser history.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 35d
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.
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 34d
"No, Mr. Bond. I expect YOU to pay your taxes."
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 34d
inigo montoya disliked this
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 34d
Pretty sure OP has six fingers on his right hand.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 35d
I’d like at least a few seconds so I can relish the lack of responsibility
ceenote@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 35d
"Well, I'll try. Come back in a few decades. Or not at all; I can do it myself."
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 35d
Ten years later: "Sorry, I need more time... those fucking gym memberships, you know.."
nickhammes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 35d
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).
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 3 pts · 35d
I prefer “don’t renew your library books”
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
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.
deft@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 34d
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
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 2 pts · 33d
Just preface it with "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father,...".
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
Preferred: “I EAT BONES AND SHIT GHOSTS”
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 35d
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.
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 34d
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
I'll just put this over here with the rest of the corpses.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 34d
Remember to die is another way to phrase it less as a threat and more as a reminder of what is inevitable.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
Momento Mori is a common stoicism among certain types. Basically means the same thing.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 34d
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.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 34d
It's way more normal-sounding than "Scholar of the First Sin"
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35d