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I have no idea what anybody finds amusing about that terrible terrible cunt

^^ otfm. Baffled by the love for him. I don't get the "nardwuar is a national treasure he may not die!" but I'm guessing it's one of those #lolUSA things I'm better off not understanding anyway (yes, I know he's Canadian).

I don't understand why everybody doesn't just headbutt the fucker and then kick him to death tbh

the man does research!

????????

#lolUSA

Films aren’t art.

― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:42 AM (six months ago)

came here to post this again, oh well.

All my posts in this thread are good

Dance isn't art.

How am I doing?

could try harder

saying things aren't art is performance

Saying it's performance to say things aren't art is performance.

it's not art to say that saying it's performance to say things aren't art is performance

Performance art is bad art

that famous dorothy parker dismissal of the winnie the pooh books is stupid and wrong and not even particularly clever ("tonstant weader fwowed up" or whatever)

i don't know if this is controversial but ppl love to quote that review for some reason

it's wrong but it's funny

the former never matters when the latter is true

otm

is it actually funny tho

kinda up to individual

winnie the pooh wont hit everyone the same way, neither will parker's zing of it, this seems a somewhat universal kind of phenomenon

it's wrong but it's funny

― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:38 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm, also new board description, etc.

J B Morton's put-downs of A A Milne were better, of which this is my fave:

Hush, hush,
Nobody cares!
Christopher Robin
Has
Fallen
Down-
Stairs.

That is a good one.

the parker review wasn't of the books it was of a broadway adaptation

oh nevermind i misremembered. she mostly reviewed theater and i thought it was an adaptation she was reviewing but looking up the review i see it was of the book oops

fp

I am a huge Dorothy stan but, she didn't have children. Her review of a children's book was then, and is now, an amusing footnote.

HOWEVER

when she (in her role as a theater reviewer) absolutely savaged an obviously treacly and stupid A.A. Milne play I was totally cool with it

i also remembered it being a theater adaptation she was reviewing (as i said above) but can only find a book review now. mandela effect :/

oh i see now she did review Milne's Give Me Yesterday

https://ochsnerblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/screen-shot-2020-03-23-at-10.10.54-am.png

https://ochsnerblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/screen-shot-2020-03-23-at-10.11.00-am.png

Yeah there's a bit where somebody is tapping out like rudimentary code for "I love you" and it's pretty cringey.

That said, the book review was out of line so I agree with J.D.

Does the New Yorker still review popular childrens' books?

nah

oh btw i like dorothy parker! her short stories were cool. she just probably wasn't the target audience for the gently paced adventures of a group of neurotic stuffed animals.

I think the time has probably come for everyone to quit it with the (((twitter names))) - the point has been made now.

the time was immediately after people tried to start doing it as some sort of own on the Nazis, especially non-Jewish people who did it in solidarity, for fuck's sake

nauseated

Non-Jewish people do it?

yes

any chance of a link to what this refers to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

thanks i found one

Twitter, gotta love it.

Whenever I see a "Mother's Day is painful for me because I don't have a healthy relationship with my mom / my mom is absent / my mom is dead" post I want to scream. For fuck's sake. Today does not need to be about you and your relationship with your mom. Do you have friends who are moms? wish them a happy mother's day. Do you have family members who are moms? wish them a happy mother's day. There are 364 other days of the year that we can make about you and your maternal trauma. "Me and my mother aren't close; Mother's Day is a holiday for privileged people" is such straight pride bullshit and it makes me really angry

The same opinion does not apply to Father's Day obv

Agree with the above and also Mother's Day / Fathers' Day / etc. Are mostly just Hallmark profit generators; we could do away with all of them and instead just try to be good to everyone, all year

Thxbye

The same opinion does not apply to Father's Day obv

it's been annoying for two days that i haven't been able to figure out why this is "obv"

would you mind explaining ?

annoying me*

it's a tenet of the religion of leftism to say 'men are bad' at any given opportunity, kind of how red sox fans are obligated to chant 'yankees suck' if there are more than one of them gathered in a particular location

While we're at it, I'm not sure I understood the 'straight pride' bit either. I agree with the general sentiment, however.

xp assuming “leftism” is even a real thing, and not just conservatives trying to prosecute a desperate point about empathy being poisonous,

“men are bad” seems to be a made-up excuse for the sorts of people who use the word “leftist” unironically to yell at a cohort of people who don’t even think that.