if I have just 1 more of these ice cold 0% brewskis by God I’ll be too sober to crash my car into a battery house and get pecked to death by indignant hens

just ridiculously offensive to even compare the falklands with palestine

Getting really into music/literature/art that is itself particularly heavy with allusion to and influence from many other sources is a cornerstone of building actual taste. Extra effective if when this happens you’re an obsessive teenager

Żuławski’s “On The Silver Globe” does what I think counts as a non-diegetic version of this because the director explains in V/O during the opening shots that a fifth of the footage is irretrievably lost, so he will instead be narrating those missing segments himself over B-roll

Unpopular Take: Gen Z is leaving Omelas because we haven’t taught them to properly appreciate the child’s suffering. We have failed our kids. Not that one. The other ones.

The first episode of Letterkenny has several of these in very rapid succession. “Play a little five-on-one action”, “hit the kitchen, mix a batch”, “distribute some free literature”.

While I am, of course, rooting for them, we should definitely double check their results

A brutal documentary about David Byrne’s homesteading efforts being constantly thwarted by hostile trespassers: “Stop Shaking Fence”

from the jordan to the atlantic palestine will be gigantic

everyone at the hotel buffet is a hungry mewling prisoner of a bounteous bardo, except for me. I move among the amazed drooling shufflers like a sage. a bodhisattva. one who understands how a fucking toaster works.

no, goddamnit, feynman was just wrong, some ideas are genuinely irreducibly complicated. i know mathematics it would take literally years to explain to a layman, which is literally why graduate school exists as an institution, to do that high-level mathematics takes place in a very sophisticated language where every concept is defined in terms of other concepts which are defined in terms of other concepts etc. etc. etc. and fully unraveling all of these concepts back to what a layman would be familiar with takes potentially thousands of pages depending on the subject. and i'm not talking about stuff with no applications, this is the level of effort it would take to fully explain all the math that goes into the standard model of particle physics, eg other subjects are also like this! you might question whether some of these subjects are mostly fake, towers of theory disconnected from reality, but that's a different conversation entirely. the towers of theory actually do exist and require actual effort to climb

i say this not with any kind of moral valence (determining one is an exercise for the reader) but there is a *very* long history of the marginalized taking up “dirty work” (morally compromised work) because they do not have the social stability to avoid sullying their hands

surely someone’s said it already but crocheting

plastic Yank lickspittle nonsense, are we going to make the kids say a royal pledge of allegiance too? Fuck off.

quotes like this offer a rare glimpse at one of those subtle hinges on which your entire life pivots

They didn’t need to convince me, because I am one of the few non-Yank freaks who will willingly guzzle a concoction that tastes like Victorian cold medicine. literal snake oil, bur damn if I didn’t fall for it

Since the early 2010s nearly every working class voice has been excised out of the media, so this beige chummy middle-class bakeoff-ification is the end result.

she rumpus on my brouhaha til I hullabaloo

no I’m sorry we are not just breezing past that there parenthetical

the people who constantly bang on about how british culture is being eroded and minority by 2040 etc are all plastic yanks. yank politics, yank ostentaiousness over flags and crosses, eating their silly little smash burgers with buffalo sauce and that. silly cunts.