I don't understand why everybody doesn't just headbutt the fucker and then kick him to death tbh
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
the man does research!
― ogmor, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 12:11 (three years ago) link
????????
― brimstead, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
#lolUSA
― brimstead, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
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
― silby, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
Dance isn't art.
How am I doing?
― coco vide (pomenitul), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
could try harder
― silby, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
saying things aren't art is performance
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
Saying it's performance to say things aren't art is performance.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
it's not art to say that saying it's performance to say things aren't art is performance
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
Performance art is bad art
― Frederik B, Thursday, 2 April 2020 08:00 (three years ago) link
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
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
it's wrong but it's funny
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
the former never matters when the latter is true
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:39 (three years ago) link
otm
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:45 (three years ago) link
is it actually funny tho
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
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
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
it's wrong but it's funny― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:38 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:38 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm, also new board description, etc.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
J B Morton's put-downs of A A Milne were better, of which this is my fave:
Hush, hush,Nobody cares!Christopher RobinHasFallenDown-Stairs.
― fetter, Thursday, 7 May 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link
That is a good one.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 12:08 (three years ago) link
the parker review wasn't of the books it was of a broadway adaptation
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
fp
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
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
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
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 :/
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
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.
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
Does the New Yorker still review popular childrens' books?
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
nah
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
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.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 07:16 (three years ago) link
I think the time has probably come for everyone to quit it with the (((twitter names))) - the point has been made now.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 May 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
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
― silby, Friday, 8 May 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
nauseated
Non-Jewish people do it?
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
yes
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
any chance of a link to what this refers to
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
thanks i found one
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
Twitter, gotta love it.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
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
― it’s been one week since you pissed on me (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
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
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
it's been annoying for two days that i haven't been able to figure out why this is "obv"
would you mind explaining ?
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
annoying me*
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:23 (three years ago) link
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
― lumen (esby), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
While we're at it, I'm not sure I understood the 'straight pride' bit either. I agree with the general sentiment, however.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
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.
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
(That was an xp to budo jeru btw.)
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
Sure, I'll explain
First I don't ascribe to any "men are bad" bullshit, I'm of the opinion that people of all genders are bad
Second I think that having a day (at the very least) devoted to acknowledging not only the physical stress and exertion of carrying a baby to term and/or bearing said baby and/or (especially) rearing that child is pretty necessary? And that appreciating these acts for a day (at the very least) is necessary, and should supersede the concerns of an individual that such a holiday might feel exclusionary to those of us who have poor/bad relationships with one's own mothers, and/or have lost their mother.
Thirdly, putting the focus on A Day That Celebrates Mothers (as opposed to fathers) would hopefully be interpreted (as being obvious) that it's an inversion of the historical dynamic that tends to give single moms the short stick, societally-- not to mention that 80% of single parents are moms, citation needed? ok here's a google https://www.verywellfamily.com/single-parent-census-data-2997668
I don't disagree that it's a Hallmark Card Holiday but ultimately there is something necessary and political about it imo! that's all
― it’s been one week since you pissed on me (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link