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WHAT: A man who talks to a cardboard cut out of Lana Del Rey.
HOW MANY SUBSCRIBERS AT TIME OF WRITING: 353
WHY SHOULD I CARE: Something you all should have learned at school is that it's not good to laugh at people who don't deserve it. Watching the school bully get a mouthful of mud after being tripped into a pool of shite and hyperventilating with laughter is perfectly acceptable behaviour, but pointing at and jibing the kid with the Thomas the Tank Engine pencil case is not cool. I would say, however, that it is good, maybe even important, to laugh with them. If there's a quirk they enjoy, be it Warhammer, be it drone modification, it's good to lightly rib, but not destroy. Making someone's hobby a point of fun can be a bonding experience if done the right way. One of the guys who works here at VICE makes scale model aeroplanes, a fact that, after several drinks, becomes almost impossible not to mention and mock. In the case of Fred Red, this approach works, as Fred isn't hurting anyone, but his hobby is very strange.His name isn't actually Fred, though. It's Bob, and he lives in Massachusetts. Bob is a huge Lana Del Rey fan, and owns more than one cut out of the sultry chanteuse, in a variety of poses and expressions. It's unclear whether he makes them himself, though unless the Lana Del Rey Cardboard Cut-Out Emporium had a closing down sale, I'd say it was likely.
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