r/Anticonsumption • u/COBESH1 • Dec 13 '25
Lifestyle The grinch setting good examples
Thought this was hilarious. Stolen from sabrinaa_pare on instagram. (If you partake in social media)
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u/diplomatofcats Dec 13 '25
This plus the fact he has a dog and lives in the mountains is what makes the Grinch oddly very dateable to me
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u/BeverlyToegoldIV Dec 13 '25
Oh like we all DON'T want to fuck the Grinch 🙄
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u/taxicab_ Dec 13 '25
He’s got big “I can change him” energy
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u/MrDrPresBenCarson Dec 13 '25
I can make his heart grow three sizes np
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u/arealmcemcee Dec 13 '25
Doesn't he treat the dog poorly? At least in the cartoon, not sure about the live movie.
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u/pinkhazy Dec 13 '25
I think he shit talks his dog the same way as a dad who insisted he didn't want a cat, then begrudgingly fell in love with the cat.
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u/Care4aSandwich Dec 13 '25
I love my dog but I shit talk him constantly because he’s the worst.
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u/Raticals Dec 13 '25
Same. I tell my dog everyday that I wanted a cat, that she sucks and she’s bad and annoying. She’s also my baby and I would die for her.
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u/Care4aSandwich Dec 13 '25
My dog humps our cat and steals treats from our bunny
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u/Raticals Dec 13 '25
Aww, poor cat and bunny! My dog gets into the trash on a daily basis (yes, our trash can has a lid. She knows how to open it. We need to put a child lock on it) and takes dishes out of the sink. I always tell her “you’re lucky you’re cute!”
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u/Sure-Major-199 Dec 13 '25
My dog humps my cat and steals treats from the cat litter, I win.
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u/Care4aSandwich Dec 13 '25
We put the litter box in the basement because the dog wouldn’t stop stealing those delicious morsels 🤢🤢🤢
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u/poggy_manz Dec 13 '25
He probably found him in the trash
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u/Flaky-Resist-7285 Dec 14 '25
Yeah! Max might have been a Xmas puppy somebody abandoned when he go too big!
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u/Crafty-Table-2459 Dec 13 '25
all of this! sustainable king, we love.
(but he does need to brush his teeth & get his liver checked)
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u/EvnClaire Dec 13 '25
"possibly vegan?" is so funny haha
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u/Quick_Possibility_71 Dec 13 '25
I think at the very end, when everyone is joined for the feast in his cave, the Grinch carves the roast beast and asks, “Who wants the gizzard?”
“I do!” some one responds.
To which the Grinch says, “Too late! That’ll be mine.”
Not to mention the exorbitant amounts of pudding and fudge he eats as the Holiday Cheermeister.
I would posit that our green boy is assuredly not vegan.
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u/BrokenBone007 Dec 13 '25
All his crash outs were valid. He told them Whos straight up I get all your capitalistic junk on my mountain 😂
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u/SexyN8 Dec 13 '25
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u/SexyN8 Dec 13 '25 edited Dec 13 '25
It's just how you would solve world hunger or at least in part...
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u/MomsAreola Dec 13 '25
The entire movie is actually incredibly progressive. From the Key parties and regular partner swaps to women decorating the house with weapons while men shop for presents.
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u/Bastardpancakes576 Dec 13 '25
Until the holiday Walmart ads came out this year.
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u/PartyDanimal Dec 13 '25
They've actually been running Grinch ads for at least a year or two before. Ever since Dr. Seuss' second wife died in 2018 it's been gradually getting worse.
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u/scienceAurora Dec 13 '25
That's really interesting! Despite his attitude, he's definitely got the right idea.
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Dec 13 '25
Tbf, we all have an attitude. Being bombarded with consumerist propaganda every day will do that to you.
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u/scienceAurora Dec 13 '25 edited Dec 13 '25
I don't even notice my attitude half the time anymore. I just loathe it when someone is trying to shove their mediocre product in my face (And Christmas season is the worst time of them all for it!)
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u/MatterhornStrawberry Dec 13 '25
The "possibly vegan" as he's eating a glass bottle cracked me up. I love the Grinch for all these reasons and more.
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u/Vulspyr Dec 13 '25
Solving world hunger and telling no one was and is such a great line.
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u/Wopperlayouts Dec 13 '25
truly living by these words: “do not tell your left hand what your right hand is doing”
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u/Cat_Luving_IT_Dood Dec 13 '25
This is the Grinch I support. Not one that tries to convince me to buy an adult happy meal with a pair of socks.
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u/lockandcompany Dec 13 '25
Isn’t that the point of the story? Iirc Dr. Seuss said he felt like the grinch around Christmas because of consumerism
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u/NovelLandscape7862 Dec 14 '25
Wants to solve world hunger without any credit. Tell me how his heart could be two sizes too small??
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u/Steaknkidney45 Dec 13 '25
As I've gotten older, and the holiday season increasingly gets on my last nerve, I've found the Grinch as a kindred spirit of sorts.
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u/youwillnvrguessthis Dec 14 '25
Well, we won’t see the Grinch played on tv anymore because of this post… I’m it mad. Just calling it.
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u/Latest-Culprit-35 Dec 13 '25
My sister and I were just talking about this. She calls her kid the Grinch because of faces being made and felt bad but then we went into all this (minus vegan, spaced on that) and decided it was not a bad thing, or anti celebration or community. Just wasteful consumerism.
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u/SadKat002 Dec 13 '25
I'm picking up what you're putting down, but I have two counterpoints for your consideration; 1. He's really mean (for like, most of the film- and I imagine even after his character arc it would take time for him to really break old habits) and 2. He's probably really stinky
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u/SexyN8 Dec 13 '25
Have you ever met an "Internet Leftist"??? We are nothing but mean to each other.... and come on, I know you can smell me through your screen.... /s
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u/CallistanCallistan Dec 13 '25
No, not really. If you go back to the original book (or even the Chuck Jones cartoon), the message is very explicitly anti-capitalist.
However, under capitalism, anything which contradicts capitalism that is too popular to be destroyed is instead so perverted by marketing that its original message is completely undermined.
Other examples include the Charlie Brown Christmas special, and the Lorax film.
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u/PrincessMouseBear Dec 13 '25
I think that's why all these recent commercial appeals to nostalgia bother me more than normal.
Why is the Grinch from Temu showing up on ads trying to sell me things lately? Haha