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No worries, I expect writing to fade as a common skill within the next generation or so, at which point the concomitant ability to spell correctly will have little real utility. You damn well better learn your emoji between now and then, though.

button (common) white mushrooms are pretty much as good as most of the fancy mushroom varieties

That’s kinda true, except grilled portobellos are fucking amazing

hmmmmm idk

Don't get me wrong, I love button mushrooms but some of the fancier kinds just have so much flavor. Porcinis!

No worries, I expect writing to fade as a common skill within the next generation or so, at which point the concomitant ability to spell correctly will have little real utility. You damn well better learn your emoji between now and then, though.

― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Friday, June 22, 2018 12:23 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dislike this view for a lot of reasons. writing has already “faded” a lot thanks to like spellcheck, and this will seem just as banal 20 years from now. more people write now than ever due to messaging apps. my sister was virtually illiterate throughout her schooling yet now she texts and uses social media effectively largely thanks to things like autocorrect and predictive text.

chanterelles <3

Nick Kroll is too distractingly ugly to find funny

Kinda antisemitic tbh

flopson, I think your sister's example, heartening though it may be, is an outlier from the general trend of literacy in this country. The number of work emails I regularly receive from adult professionals who can't seem to construct a coherent sentence never fails to astonish.

Jimmy Fallon is funny.

He's obnoxiously cutesy and obsequious, but fundamentally a funny guy.

cant get cool with the idea of finding an individual distractingly ugly being in itself sufficient evidence of the etc

everyones got ugly ppl most ppl are lets be fair ugly

Especially the dead ones.

I don't know who Nick Kroll is but, having googled him, he has a distractingly large forehead but otherwise doesn't look too ugly.

mostly joking dmac but also y'know I want to defend the allure of my people's foreheads

It's true, Jewish foreheads are among the most gorgeous I've encountered. Sorry if that's controversial, but I guess this is the place for it.

yr ppl?!

i mean, we've met.

I like his stand up fine but hate all the characters he does (which they are all distractingly ugly, ha!) But it's probably because in general I hate Krump/Medea/Armison shit like that.

this isn't a helmet i just forgot to take off yknow

solidarity

✊😶

this is probably not controversial but here's the ranking of Nick Kroll + Fred Armisen personas by tolerability:

1. More or less own gender and ethnicity
2. Woman
3. Latinx person
4. Middle eastern person

Where does Geico caveman fit into your list

flopson, I think your sister's example, heartening though it may be, is an outlier from the general trend of literacy in this country. The number of work emails I regularly receive from adult professionals who can't seem to construct a coherent sentence never fails to astonish.

― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Friday, June 22, 2018 12:57 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya but the ppl sending these emails are old and not significantly influenced by new tech. or do you think it’s worse among youth? at my old job our director in her mid forties was privately ridiculed for spelling mistakes in emails to hundreds of ppl; i never noticed any of the other young people working there with anywhere near as bad writing

Aw I don't think Nick is ugly at all except for when he plays women lol. He makes for a very . . . handsome and striking lady.

like john cleese

Controp: it is a shame that “Latinx” took over from “Latin@“

it also scans weirdly to an old as something about latyrx

Latinx sounds and looks badass

As it is to some extent a self-selected designation with a loose concomitant ideology, I'm starting to feel like self-identifying as 'white' is basically a hate crime of sorts.

Look, it's more of a half-formed notion atm than an opinion per se, but you have to admit it's controversial.

I don't 100% agree, but I definitely regret any time I've typed any variation on "as a white man..." or any other attempted caveat before an opinion that ultimately, if it requires such a nail-clipping, should stay put and remain unexpressed

the category of whiteness was created to allow the enforcement of racism against people who aren't white, and the category persists, so it's not unreasonable to accurately describe yourself as being in that category. But yeah if you feel any kind of dare I say "pride" or even "affinity" about being white you are probably a Nazi

(same with the category of "men", and sexism, tbh [controp ])

I'm starting to feel like self-identifying as 'white' is basically a hate crime of sorts.

a white person saying ‘i don’t identify as white’ is p cringed idk

cringey*

I geddit. There's a thin line between that and 'not all men' except, like I say, 'whiteness' is more ideological than strictly descriptive. Feels like one can identify as, say, being of Western European origin and acknowledge one's status as a beneficiary of a white nationalist hegemony while still refusing to self-identify as 'white'.

surprised nobody's mentioned that the controp is no controp exists

lads

it’s been a stressful week deems

I'm white btw

self-identity is one thing. have a blast w it. call yourself whatever you want in your own house, or in private, or among your friends.

but stepping into the real world of other people that don't live in your bubble... that is a different story.

hmmmmm

idg how it would work if you got pulled over by the cops. i guess you get the benefits from outward appearance all the while secretly thinking "hahah jokes on them i don't identify as the kind of person who gets these benefits i am getting right now"

tbh if I see Americans identifying themselves as of “Western European origin” that’s more of a red flag than “white”.

otm

saying you're white if you're white is fine

but lotsa people, not just racists, use white (or "non-white") as a way of implying that whiteness is the norm, or the default, which is obvs definitely not fine

The notion I propose would, I think, have to be a pretty overtly and vocally political act, not just a matter of circling 'other' on a form and smugly grinning at your cleverness. Totally get the qualms about talking up European origin, as well (immediately calls to mind the naming conventions of the Palin clan et al). It's about a whole lot more than just saying the words and seamlessly returning to your world of bountiful privilege, is what I'm saying here.

ah for god's sake will ye stop

Look, I'm just doing what the thread title told me to do, my dude.

i know i know have at it.

controp: when yr football team is twelve goals down the ref should send everyone home early

they have that rule in uhh recreational softball, I don't think anyone minds