AegisFear My DanceOvershot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered Userregular
edited November 2018
I don't think there's a more perfect encapsulation of how I feel having to wakeup again at 5 am to go to work after a week's vacation than this Jigglypuff.
Someone on Twitter says they've never heard of Stan Lee, which would be difficult but not impossible (he's an academic focused mostly on ancient history), and it threw up the question of who is the most famous person you've never heard of.
Impossible to answer, of course, but for most people it might well be Sachin Tendulkar.
There was a programme on the radio a few weeks ago about cricket. They even had interviews with some players. And one of them, Bogart this is for you, plain and simply said "yes, it's all made up".
You could hear the twinkle in his eye.
Someone on Twitter says they've never heard of Stan Lee, which would be difficult but not impossible (he's an academic focused mostly on ancient history), and it threw up the question of who is the most famous person you've never heard of.
Impossible to answer, of course, but for most people it might well be Sachin Tendulkar.
Someone on Twitter says they've never heard of Stan Lee, which would be difficult but not impossible (he's an academic focused mostly on ancient history), and it threw up the question of who is the most famous person you've never heard of.
Impossible to answer, of course, but for most people it might well be Sachin Tendulkar.
without going in to the whole thing again because i'm sure i've nebbishly whimpered out this story too many times on the forums: i once randomly grabbed a book at the library and read about the battleship tirpitz for a while. i was interested in military history but knew no naval stuff, really. i'd heard of bismarck and was gobsmacked to learn whoa this was a sister ship that was super important! and what blew me away was thinking about how working on the tirpitz might have been the crowning achievement for thousands of people. maybe the most important thing they ever did was smelt the metal for or fabricate the hull or crew this ship- it could have been the epochal moment of their life, the thing they proudly recounted to their grandkids. and i had no idea it existed.
which got me thinking there are probably almost uncountably many things like that: the most important element of someone's life and me just, never knowing the person or the thing existed
like smaller religions i've never heard of that are the central spines of hundreds/thousands of lives
Abolish copyright, but strengthen the concept of canon
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half of that is solid, the other half is awful
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Feel free to write your fictions, if it is good enough the original owner may deem it cannon. Create an orthodoxy for all fictions, then we can watch schisms form in the wake of authorial death.
cannons are artillery and canon is authorship primacy;
A lot of what gets called alt-right these days is just the right. It is sort of like how neoconservative stopped being a useful term long before it mostly died out as a popular term.
Ehh if anything neocon is a pretty useful distinction to understand these days, considering how the current faction of populist ethnic nationalists define themselves in oppositipn to a ton of neocon thought.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Reading a short article about depictions of the West/Westerners in 1800s Japanese art and this little anecdote amused
When Prince Fushimi Sadanaru made a state visit to England forty years after Utagawa made his prints [around 1906], he hoped to catch a performance of The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan's hit comic opera set very much in the Japan of the English mind (and one that faces accusations of cultural imperialism to this day). Alas, the British government had preemptively canceled all performances during the Prince's stay for fear of offending him. This prompted a Japanese journalist in London to later see the show himself. He went on to write of his disappointment: he'd gone in expecting "real insults" to his homeland, only to find "bright music and much fun."
Utagawa Yoshitora, Igirisukoku Rondon no zu (leftmost part of triptych)
Kana, what does 'no politics in [chat]' mean to you?
Didn't think I was, except in mentioning that there's a group that exists. The conversation about the alt right lasted over 3 hours of slow posting and you didn't care, sooo how the heck am i supposed to tell when it suddenly becomes verboten.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Kana, what does 'no politics in [chat]' mean to you?
Didn't think I was, except in mentioning that there's a group that exists. The conversation about the alt right lasted over 3 hours of slow posting and you didn't care, sooo how the heck am i supposed to tell when it suddenly becomes verboten.
When there's a bold message saying that it needs to stop? Seems fairly clear.
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Kana, what does 'no politics in [chat]' mean to you?
Didn't think I was, except in mentioning that there's a group that exists. The conversation about the alt right lasted over 3 hours of slow posting and you didn't care, sooo how the heck am i supposed to tell when it suddenly becomes verboten.
I literally said knock it off! In bold!
I'm not going to infract anyone for discussing the meaning of a word but the post right before me saying knock it off was someone saying all conservatives these days are Trumpers, which is like ten seconds away from people talking about politics in [chat] and Trump and so I gently, lovingly nudge people to stop.
I'm watching a video in which Joseph Gordon Levitt play MTG with some decks he hasn't taken out of a cardboard box for twenty years and now I know where MrMr's avatar comes from.
I can identify highly electronegative carbonyl groups and their individual contributions to enzyme substrate recognition but this? This article is beyond incomprehensible to me.
A billion Indians revere him like Americans revere, I dunno, whoever is the best at baseball.
If it makes you feel any better we're over here in the US trying our absolute best to try and shorten all attention spans to the point where cricket no longer exists.
I'm watching a video in which Joseph Gordon Levitt play MTG with some decks he hasn't taken out of a cardboard box for twenty years and now I know where MrMr's avatar comes from.
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No because as life played back before my eyes it was in English and not Chinese.
I can't explain it.
Unless they have already been explicitly religious like that. I don't watch Dr. Who.
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damn vampire
Yeah. I nearly got him. Time to spend all these souls and eat his heart
that is alot of provinces to conquer
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I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
Impossible to answer, of course, but for most people it might well be Sachin Tendulkar.
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It’s much brighter now then the past like three weeks so I’ll probably have to take at least a little stroll.
You could hear the twinkle in his eye.
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
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not even sure if you just made up a name or not
Well no wonder games take days to finish.
These posts were clearly out of order
A billion Indians revere him like Americans revere, I dunno, whoever is the best at baseball.
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without going in to the whole thing again because i'm sure i've nebbishly whimpered out this story too many times on the forums: i once randomly grabbed a book at the library and read about the battleship tirpitz for a while. i was interested in military history but knew no naval stuff, really. i'd heard of bismarck and was gobsmacked to learn whoa this was a sister ship that was super important! and what blew me away was thinking about how working on the tirpitz might have been the crowning achievement for thousands of people. maybe the most important thing they ever did was smelt the metal for or fabricate the hull or crew this ship- it could have been the epochal moment of their life, the thing they proudly recounted to their grandkids. and i had no idea it existed.
which got me thinking there are probably almost uncountably many things like that: the most important element of someone's life and me just, never knowing the person or the thing existed
like smaller religions i've never heard of that are the central spines of hundreds/thousands of lives
Lol maybe your weakass ships
Mine are canon proof
Ehh if anything neocon is a pretty useful distinction to understand these days, considering how the current faction of populist ethnic nationalists define themselves in oppositipn to a ton of neocon thought.
Or, indeed, someone from here trying to explain the forums to someone else.
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(this tweet is a comedy skit but prob don't click through to the twitter account at work, folks)
Utagawa Yoshitora, Igirisukoku Rondon no zu (leftmost part of triptych)
Didn't think I was, except in mentioning that there's a group that exists. The conversation about the alt right lasted over 3 hours of slow posting and you didn't care, sooo how the heck am i supposed to tell when it suddenly becomes verboten.
When there's a bold message saying that it needs to stop? Seems fairly clear.
I literally said knock it off! In bold!
I'm not going to infract anyone for discussing the meaning of a word but the post right before me saying knock it off was someone saying all conservatives these days are Trumpers, which is like ten seconds away from people talking about politics in [chat] and Trump and so I gently, lovingly nudge people to stop.
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But I did get myself a Allogator horse saddle in Red Dead
I can identify highly electronegative carbonyl groups and their individual contributions to enzyme substrate recognition but this? This article is beyond incomprehensible to me.
If it makes you feel any better we're over here in the US trying our absolute best to try and shorten all attention spans to the point where cricket no longer exists.
Ivory tower was a super annoying card