There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: Difference between revisions

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There are two kinds of "There Are Two Kinds of People in the World" jokes in the world: tautologies, false dichotomies, and jokes on either binary (or some other base) or people who can't count.

{{quote|''The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.''}}

 

 

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== Comic Books ==

* From ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'':

{{quote|'''Alter:''' There are only two kinds of people, those above the earth and those beneath it. Which side do you choose?}}

{{quote|'''Domino Harvey:''' There are [[Take a Third Option|three]] kinds of people in the world: the poor, the rich, [[Take a Third Option|and everyone in between]].<ref>Also a pretty useless observation. What she's literally saying is "[[Captain Obvious|everybody fits]] ''[[Captain Obvious|somewhere]]'' [[Captain Obvious|on the wealth scale]]".</ref>}}

* ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding]]''. "There are two kinds of people in the world... Greeks... and people who ''wish'' they were Greeks."

{{quote|'''Gary Johnston'''': ''We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from assholes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!''}}

* In ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'', there are two types of "girls", according to John Travolta's character. "You gotta decide now, <s>Sandy</s> Annette. Are you gonna put out? You're either gonna be a nice girl or a cunt."

* In the Brazilian film ''Tropa de Elite'' (a.k.a. ''[[The Elite Squad]]'') the (arguably) protagonist/narrator says Brazilian cops have three options: omit themselves, corrupt themselves, or go to war.

* In the Japanese movie ''Swing Girls'', a jock-ish minor character seems to start all his sentences this way, leaving the protagonists on the negative end, of course. It isn't until the swing band's penultimate performance that he changes his mind.

* The infinitely preachy, [[So Bad It's Good]] film The [[Butter Cream Gang]] has the main characters ex-best friend say this line after he falls under a bad influence. "There are two people in the world: Your friends and your enemies." He doesn't seem to have anything in mind about people he's never met.

* In ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' these are "Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off."

** And it's actually necessary to say this line: Lloyd buried a landmine which will blow up in your face if you dig yourself.

** [[Older Than They Think|And this is of course a reference to the above-mentioned line from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly]]

{{quote|''"The way I see it, there's basically two types of people. Most of them are guys like me. Guys that sit on the couch, we might not like the shit that happens to us, but we deal with it. Then there are guys like you."''}}

 

== Web Comics ==

* There are two kinds of women in the world: Sluts and my Mother.

* [[Billy West]] was sufficiently disgruntled after working with [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|John Kricfalusi]] that his website once separated people into two categories: "''Ren And Stimpy'' fans" and "human beings".

 

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