Sarahel's Semiotics 4U

narcissism of small differences among white northern european people

Very similar to football tribalism imho

yeah, i think it's already been established that i am not a "what you call football" person, though i grew up watching NFL games on tv with my dad, and there weren't really any regional physiognomical differences between the teams.

Britishes, what's the legal logic behind these criminal statutes? It's not that they're prevented from being racist or saying racist things, it's that they're essentially yelling "fire" in a crowded theater?

just a public order offence of threatening violence, with racial aggravation? idk public order offences seem very british in character

sports tribalism doesn't seem interesting at all, just narcissism of arbitrary differences

i hadn't read the article until now -- how are they banned from football? Like, I had thought they were players based on that language.

Football attendance his highly policed in Britain after several highly visible disasters in the 80's. It's like having your name on a TSA no-fly list, sarahell

just narcissism of arbitrary differences

Like narcissism of small differences among white northern european people is all I'm saying, unless you chose the country of your identity and adherence.

a friend of mine who worked in social services in liverpool noted how the local scally kids from the deprived estates that the thatcher govt wrote off also have a kind of 'look' about them which is quite distinctive and goes beyond the regulation sportswear, the sort of hunched posture, preternaturally lined forehead from staring down while looking upwards, sullen and ghostly pale

it is relatively common among white ppl in America to discuss their ethnicity and have certain beliefs about how it determines their behavior and appearance, which is strange to me, because there has been so much mixing here. Like, these aren't 1st or 2nd generation people.

yeah the narc of sd aspect becomes more interesting once it gets to the level of mythos

i have a dear friend that will comment on things I do or how I look with "being Irish" as an explanation.

I have another dear friend that will make similar comments with my astrological sign as an explanation.

have you ever had any degree of belief in horoscopes?

astrology is one of those things i am really ambivalent about that i think is really interesting! I don't really believe in daily or weekly horoscopes, but the descriptions and characteristics of astrological birth signs I don't completely disbelieve, which is pretty logically inconsistent.

some more real english fizziognomies

http://distilleryimage6.s3.amazonaws.com/974348003e2311e3988a22000a1fbac2_8.jpg
http://images.gamme.com.tw/news/2013/09/4/rJiaoZ_YkaeVqKo.jpg

one of those is "403" and the other is the swallow tattoo m8 I thought was attractive

http://i.imgur.com/g1dbKrs.jpg

my family's home had carpet in those colors when i was growing up!

http://artreview.com/home/news_10_feb_14_stuart_hall/

RIP - Resistance through Ritual was a real summer jam!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYhL9jvXgu4

http://www.csklegal.com/wp-content/uploads/in-memory_bob.jpg

today i saw a large, beautiful german shepherd running very fast and elegantly through the streets in north philadelphia. i was going to stop my car and try to help it so it didn't get hit, but i had two other people in the car and they didn't want to do this and now i feel sick. i think it was some kind of omen, maybe… my mom had a german shepherd growing up that looked like this one and she describes it as this legendary figure, almost, who would follow very specific commands (go in the other room and lay down. go wake up _____. etc.) my name is very similar to this dog's name, and i've always suspected that my mom named me after this dog (which would be, idk, weird) but she denies it.

anyway, what's the deal? does this mean i am going to die? ?

(semiotics is a kind of fortune telling right?)

your mom had a dog called Treship?

semiotics isn't fortune telling, but it could address the fact your mom named you after a dog. Does she treat you a like pet? Does she give you treats in order to gain your love? Does/did she have trouble "letting go" when you became an adult?

did she have you fixed?

http://www.neuticles.com/images/ballcap.jpg

???

this is too personal. i am going to consult a woman with a tarot card tattoo i see sitting on the other side of the reading room. thank you for your time.

trís it seems like you need a psychoanalyst, perhaps a lacanian one

i have a fb friend who is a lacanian psychoanalyst!

treesit

http://i.imgur.com/LuhdvyW.jpg

any thoughts on these three?

is the one in his lap real? it looks like a toy?

log is like a phallic crocodile totem

it is his superego. the small one is his ego, the alsatian his id

the small dog is real

lol

http://i.imgur.com/VSxOsMl.jpg

it really looks like a stuffed toy

it looks meek and apprehensive.

little doesn't know what is going on yet but is thinking, i will be first against the wall.

you are all focussing on what turns out to be the least important of the three participants in the story they belong to

http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20100715/640/awkward_family_photos_640_10.jpg

that one definitely refers to classical representations of the holy mother and child, with the cat standing in for Jesus and the large stuffed rabbit for the Virgin Mary.

specifically paintings of the Adoration of the Magi -- except in this photograph, there is a flatness, the man (magi) is right next to the Virgin Mary (the rabbit) and the baby Jesus (the cat), as opposed to at an angle from the mother & child. This is definitely redolent of the post-modern age of this image -- we no longer need to concern ourselves with the issues of perspective that the Renaissance painters did.

http://i.imgur.com/tCwqS6g.jpg

The-shape-things-come-dog-grooming-Pets-fur-trimmed-make-heads-square-circular-bizarre-new-trend-Taiwan.html

Many are now opting for the cuts simply to get more likes and shares on social media sites.

http://www.radioactiva.cl/files/2014/07/hair_man-387096.jpg
http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1545023/meet-square-head-bro-taiwanese-man-blockhead-hairstyle

Wu, whose hair casts a 90 degrees right angle silhouette, told local reporters that he was still single and had difficulty attracting women, despite having a decent job that afforded him a salary of 70,000 Taiwan dollars a month (HK$18,000).

After being rejected by a girl, the dramatic hairstyle was adopted in an effort to “look more like a young guy in his 20s or 30s”, Wu said.

i think this is about toast:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k5_uSmxzH5w/TaETz8nYXFI/AAAAAAAACFY/TMtkOOQ_bOY/s1600/Picture%2B1.png

http://americanlivewire.com/wp-content/uploads/Sonneveld.jpg

http://americanlivewire.com/wp-content/uploads/Sodahead.jpg