Groundbreaking Discovery: Paleontologists Have Agreed To Start Saying That Stegosauruses Had Beautiful Singing Voices Because It’s A Nice Thought And It’s Not Like They’re Hurting Anyone
Reddit user TheABrown describes “nice guy” in literary terms and nails it:
A friend of mine who is big into English literature has described a big chunk of them as “The Mr Collinses of the world who are bewildered and angry that not even Charlotte Lucas will have them now that she has more options.”
For those who haven’t read Pride and Prejudice, Mr Collins is a character who has a decent income, isn’t vicious, but he’s annoying and unpleasant. After being rejected by the heroine, he marries another woman called Charlotte Lucas, who marries him because she’s getting older, not likely to have another proposal, and is worried about living the rest of her life as the maiden aunt in genteel poverty dependent on her father or brother. [source]
billie joe armstrong is like…the definition of chaotic good. a prime example of this is the fact that one time at a green day concert this guy in the pit was harassing a young girl so billie stopped the show to help her. however, his way of doing so was to jump into the audience, dropkick the guy directly in the face, and then fight him in a crowd of screaming fans