trenchant social commentary 2

30 years ago a nude celebrity would kick a ball on the street.

It was a glorious time to be alive.

he was just trying to trick everyone into spilling the beans

The people who read the Daily Express are the people who believe the bigoted, prejudiced, anti-everything attitude it foists on it's readers. It is the same as all tabloids in that rather than make it's readers think about things or challenge their ideas, it just writes what they know their readership already think and believe.

― Oliver R Tones, Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:58 (10 years ago)

low hanging fruit

true
just a nice lil slice of olde ilx, a simpler time

a cracking slice even

slicey wicey

Corporations are people, my friend. You can even follow them on facebook.

― Aimless, Saturday, September 13, 2014 5:54 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry; had to

(struggles to rise above it all)

(does not succeed)

False modesty

honestly, it was done with reluctant duty rather than vindictive glee

ask yourself who is really holding the selfie stick

- you or the phone?

― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, October 1, 2014 12:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

this thread needs more (relevant) posts

get cracking!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/Screenshot%202014-10-05%2020.22.46.png

(A poll about modern life)

the couple are in different continents and the only way they can keep in touch with each other is via the internet, score one for technology

^ ungrammatical conclusion

nah they are taking a photo of a projection of both their screens imo

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wd have posted that here myself if it wasn't 77 ;)

I think willingness to marry a conservative guy is probably the red flag there, not decision to get married.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gif

The most pejorative word in my lexicon is 'dickcheney'.
― Momus (Momus), Monday, February 10, 2003 2:06 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From a vintage thread called "dickhead as pejorative"

one of the scarier things about the internet is it allows people to grow up in an environment where actions don't have consequences

― ciderpress, Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:21 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i aspire to have all my posts pasted to this thread and similar ones

(that one can probably go to posts very much in character)

http://mashable.com/2014/10/27/death-of-a-conversation-photography/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

Romero says he is not entirely averse to technology, however, thinks "people are starting to derive more pleasure from their 'computer cuddles' than from their person to person interactions."

I'll be so happy when we evolve beyond physical interactions so people will quit bemoaning the inevitable death of it and just accept their fate.

OK let's entertain for entertainment the fact that her "Music should not be free" stern balled editorial wasn't corporate shilling and just the regular blazayblah opinion probably most people on the street might have if you pressed them on this subject of i.p rights and internet downloads that they don't often think about and have never dl'd a song for free in their life. Let's also ignore, for the moment, the fact she's from a rich family a stock broker father and Merril Lynch financial wealth management adviser of millions of dollars. Let's also ignore, for a second, that generation of her grandfathers are banking presidents. Let's also put aside the fact Taylor's parents have been shaping and controlling and market managing her pop career since she was 14, setting up merchendising companies in her name, alienating people with that alleged arrogance and 'pay as little as possible and treat people like shit' attitude.

Let's put all that aside for a brief moment and reconsider her assertion: "It's my opinion that music should not be free".

And remind ourselves: She's only worth $200 million, guys. She only made $120 million on her last tour. We shouldn't forget that. She's only 24. People at 24 with only hundreds of millions in the bank and millions of adoring merchandise wearing fans can only be asked to give so much. I mean come on, her New York penthouse was only bought for $20 million, how do you expect her to keep up this lifestyle? Music should not be free. Music should not be free. It is my opinion that music should not be free.

― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, November 5, 2014 4:30 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Never Coming to a Cinema Near You - Arthouse Cinema 2014 [Started by Frederik B in February 2014, last updated 1 minute ago by Frederik B] 1 new answer
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NSFW

Hey, Tom - do you mean "written tics" outside of obvious grammatical errors and poor spelling? (I loved those 3rd-grade-level e-mails I used to get asking if I was selling Dave Matthews Band tickets. I felt like I was in a hi-tech version of Fast Times - "No, I DON'T have any Blue Oyster Cult!")

I've always chafed against constant use of those damn emoticons. You know - ;), :), :P, %). Once in a while, okey dokey. Fifteen times in the same "conversation", I'm about to go alkdjfalkj.

Origin of such things (i.e. "Two words:", "Can you say...") - television. Bane of our existance. Glass tit. Sweet oblivion.

― David Raposa, Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:00 AM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

okey dokey

David Raposa was an absolutely classic poster and I shall hear no ill spoken of him

yeah it's pretty standard from-the-vaults type stuff & I was was only gonna include the last paragraph as the tsc part but stuff like "okey dokey" adds so much to the experience, also hints of cunty spelling & grammar nazism followed swiftly by "those blasted emoticons" followed by "existance" is just like, take a bow whoever you are

xp I'm sure you're right

it was a different time

http://i.imgur.com/ZDyMWHj.png

I don't know if I can make it through this article

http://i.imgur.com/kL6umQG.jpg

Elite Daily

unconvinced that any mode of meeting people is inherently more ~real than any other, real is what u make of it

― lex pretend, Monday, December 15, 2014 11:56 AM (5 hours ago)

so annoying

~ next time

lol matt

Sure, I get that about automation and fragility and buying parts - but the espresso people are less "buy a receiver at the pawn shop" and more "my diamond-encrusted cable really allows me to HEAR this section of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' for the first time."

Mostly no. The difference between the espresso you get out of a top-quality commercial machine like a La Marzocco and out of a substandard quality home machine is enormous. There are pricey but not insanely pricey home machines where you can get pretty close to the Marzocco quality with the right technique. And certain factors in making espresso are pretty well-established -- pressure, temperature, grind, tamping (not to speak of the beans themselves). The best machines are simply able to produce the appropriate pressure and temperature consistently, which is surprisingly difficult. Other bells and whistles can make a difference -- the bottomless portafilter, for example, but there's a pretty commonsense reason for that one -- in a normal portafilter oils from the coffee build up and are hard to clean away. The bottomless portafilter simply eliminates that problem.

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:35 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

meanwhile

http://www.unicefusa.org/press/releases/unicef-too-many-children-dying-malnutrition/8259

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:48 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf that "meanwhile" could've linked to a local news story about a flatulent dog and the contrast would not have been lost

lol just came here to post that

I like the idea of this cat poster as a terrible harbinger, like some film set in 1933 Germany where someone catches their first glimpse of a swastika.

“hang in there, baby” was the original facist wall hanging

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/AnimalRightsNaziGermany.jpg

it sort of almost was really!

Big HIGNFY energy from Simplicissimus under the nazis

Big HIGNFY energy from Simplicissimus under the nazis

― maybe the beeple would be the times or between clark and hill (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 27 May 2021 10:05 (nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

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really doubt such a clear, linear thought process as "better dead than autistic" is actually going on in antivaxxers minds

“I’d rather have X than not do Y” when it’s those stakes are college stoner thought experiments and not great for the real world

so sure, how trenchant

I also feel like it follows a formula I see a lot on Twitter where you take something that is already bad (antivaxers, hatred of or misunderstanding toward autism) and extrapolate an even more extreme conclusion that doesn’t actually follow. Like “White America’s apathy toward police killings of black men just proves they would like to see every black person in America dead” or “Global warming inaction demonstrates how much our politicians hate our children.”

Hmm

I was following up to the examples and then hmm

it’s not far fetched at all there is a massive overlap between anti-vaxxers and autism parents. and neither of those other examples seem massively out there to me either

they might not necessarily be part of a conscious linear thought process but what is

anti-vaxxers generally question the efficacy of the vaccines. so it is a stretch to say that they would rather their children dead than autistic. this kind of thing is usually an emotional response, often from someone with autism themselves (or close to people with autism), so is a bit more understandable in that context

man alive is technically correct; more accurate statements would be "White America’s apathy toward police killings of Black men just proves they don't give a shit about the treatment of Black people" and “Global warming inaction demonstrates how much our politicians don't care about the existence of the world past their lifetimes.”

however, anyone capable of parsing sentiment should be able to understand what those original examples are driving at so it really is just splitting semantics for the sake of splitting semantics

hmm

fair

DJP has parsed those the same way as I did. Apathy becomes indistinguishable from directed harm when it’s unyielding

some philosophers may say differently, etc etc

and also indistinguishable from tacitly condoning

to the outside observer, you are just a guy staring blankly as it happens

Just a guy who thinks we shouldn’t do something to make these things not happen

Apathy becomes indistinguishable from directed harm when it’s unyielding

brb, getting this as a tattoo

Sure, but there are many evils in the world at a given time. You can't be said to be actively supporting anything you aren't actively opposing, it wouldn't even be possible to actively oppose everything.

Or, you can say it's bad on facebook, check a box, and you're no longer complicit?

man alive did you get vaccinated against covid-19

? of course

I guess going back to the original thing, my experience with antivaxxers is that their reasoning is a few steps removed from reality, and usually includes believing that their kids won't actually get those diseases for whatever reasons ("natural immunity," use of homeopathic immunity boosters etc). I guess it's possible that the grossly twisted thinking of an antivaxxer sometimes grows out of struggles with having a severely autistic child, even though it tends to take a life of its own from there.

been a banner 24hrs for this thread imo

tbf being trench about this stuff was a formative experience for many of us I'm sure

not to mention that everyone I agree with is otm

Benmont Trench

Found a book, this is gonna be great pic.twitter.com/78BDQ2Sqas

— Kiki Rosecrans (@KikiRosecrans) September 10, 2021

truth is now .. an opinion

— Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) November 25, 2016

don't look up don't look up amirite

if you look up, the ruling classes do a shit on you. is that about the gist of it?

i skimmed that thread and chaki had the best responses

Back in the 90's, The Simpsons made fun of America and the world. Did things that were out there because it's seem to fit the animated world.
Now 33 years later, the world is becoming to like The Simpsons pic.twitter.com/jvkDeriG6C

— Out of Context Simpsons Couch Gags (@OOCCouchGags) January 20, 2022

The real March Madness is taking place in Ukraine at the hands of Putin aggression.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 20, 2022

oof

i was gonna say that the modern world is starting to make trenchant feel simply accurate but that's a great example of how this is still a thing

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2022/oct/04/david-squires-on-going-to-the-match-2022-ls-lowry

my god, it's full of trench

I assume Telsa will eventually use the subscription model for braking

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 October 2022 17:15 (nine minutes ago) link

the typo really makes it

A new British song (genre: folk) pic.twitter.com/L6KSuhNlPO

— Jonathan Coe (@jonathancoe) April 12, 2023

I'm no expert but this doesn't read as very folky to me, if I imagine this set to music it's more like some kind of poor man's Instant Sunshine or something

That has made me a gbnews/fascist minion meme guy

this guy gets it

https://i.imgur.com/GoEsOb8.jpg

it's smaller than i imagined

love that

Kids these days reserve their solemnity for Tiktok reels

― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 18 December 2023 20:04 (sixteen minutes ago) link