Famous American murderer from the telly, O J Simpson, has been in the news recently for dying. Here are some lesser known facts about him:
O J was known by his fans as "The Juice". This is because his full name was Orangejuice Jorangejuice Simpson.
King Edward VIII of England was forced to resign because he wanted to marry him.
In addition to being good at rugby and murder, O J was also the first man on mars.
He was acquitted after his lawyer, who was one of the Cardasians from Star Trek, convinced the jury that there were five lights.
like this
reshared this
Covid booster means I’ve been vaccinated against seven things in less than a week (measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, polio, diphtheria, Covid).
Done now. Feeling a bit sorry for myself b
like this
“Traffic is heavy, best set off for your appointment now”, says my phone, for the second time in a week.
Thanks, Californian tech device. I’ll get right on that.
like this
Readers of a certain age may remember a fun but flawed vertically scrolling progressive shoot ‘em up game from the mid 80s called Slap Fight. I played it loads on the C64.
I today found out it was called something entirely different in the US, and I feel like part of my childhood was a lie.
Also instructor: “I’ll be five minutes”
like this
Now the UK has used “no medical care for trans people before 25 because brains not developed”, they’re gonna push for 40, “because fertility”.
I would actually put money on them doing that.
That's pop psychology at its worst.
Yes, there is still some development in "the brain" up to the age of 25, but it's mostly to do with the areas of the brain that deal with impulse decision making. The areas of the brain that deal with considered decision making are more or less fully developed at 15.
And despite how things look in transphobic fantasy-land, nobody is transitioning on a whim.
Just had vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria and polio.
On Friday it’s Covid.
My immune system is gonna have fun.
like this
Wilfried Klaebe reshared this.
Dear UK residents. I’m sorry to be tedious, but I’m going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.
The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.
This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who can’t escape from abusive parents, especially young women.
If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.
We all know that isn’t going to happen to any significant extent though.
As you were.
like this
reshared this
@crocket2001
I think it's easy to underestimate how far most people have moved on this already. (Not that *most* makes it safe). There seem to be two groups pushing this:
1. boring folk who moan about the metric system, car parks, youth of today, ULEZ, "they're all as bad as each other", immigrants, etc.
2. Westminster-y policy type people, both left and right, professional dinner-party attenders, columnists, writers, wonks, essayists, student union types.
The (dangerous) difference now is that these groups -- our society's loudest, most boring, dull, dim, and reactionary, who only differ in social class -- are united on one subject.
The public don''t need to "come round".
People think Guardianista idealists lay out liberation's groundwork -- surveyors going ahead. But they're just apologists hanging on the coat-tails of emperors, minting excuses for comfortable lives at court. The powerful, their "clients", are moving right, so they're representing them, coining theories and writing reports.
Sweet pepper is the most disappointing vegetable (yes, I know it’s a fruit).
It’s like someone was, “what if chilli, but shit?”
@Adam probably the best use for it tbh.
It’s marginally less dismal than carrot for dipping in hummus, so there’s that too.
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
After about the first night or so it’s amazing how you get used to sleeping on a boat. The rocking motion and creaking sounds of the lines just become the comforting background rather than the thing that keeps waking you up.
Reminds me of a holiday where the B&B was right above the platforms of Lancaster station. The noise of trains quickly became the background. So much so that when there was engineering works in the last night it was eerily quiet and hard to sleep.
like this
2nd MMR dose on Wednesday, Covid booster on Friday.
This week is going to be ... fun
like this
Trans women, 6 months on HRT: “My breasts must have stopped growing now and I’m only an AA cup! WOE!”
Trans women 18 years after transition (e.g. me, now): “Aw fuck, I gained a cup size last week.”
like this
After watching Oppenheimer the other week, I just rewatched Dr Strangelove.
For the love of god, will one of the nuclear powers announce it’s destroying its hydrogen bombs? These things are psychotically evil. Just get rid of them. Now, before the kill us all.
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
Apropos of a conversation elsewhere c, I’ve always been given the creeps by “Jonathan Pie”. It’s always struck me as “manufactured outrage click bait culture for left wing people who think they’re too clever to fall for that.”
The sceptics in the pub crowd had the same sort of attitude and it made them really really easy marks for the alt right to use as useful idiots in their culture war.
Dr David Mills reshared this.
Sarah Brown likes this.
Do Americans realise just how much it looks like they’re trying to speedrun “imperial power collapsing into failed state” to the rest of the world right now?
Guys, sort your shit out FFS.
like this
like this
@Ghost of Hope I think that’s a stress timed/syllable timed distinction more than anything else (stress timed languages tend to swallow syllables to make them fit, so if you don’t know to listen for the tonic syllables it’s really hard to get the words).
Curiously Brazilian Portuguese is syllable timed, which is the biggest difference. That I wouldn’t mind. What made my ears bleed was rendering all the consonants as “tch”.
A few years ago I was on Scarlet (the yacht of @Sarah Brown and @Zoë O'Connell ) and noticed mid morning that I didn't have the bloating sensation I was used to having some time after breakfast. The reason for this, of course, is that Scarlet runs on lactose-free milk. Evidently I was slightly lactose intolerant, started buying lactose-free milk at home, and everything was better.
It shouldn't have been only today that I extrapolated this experience to cover a large takeaway banana milkshake.
like this
reshared this
Observant viewers will note the presence of hydrofoils. Each one of those is an INTERPLANETARY SEAPLANE!
Also, not a single expendable launch in this game.
like this
like this
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
What I would have liked to have learned in English classes at school:
- Grammar.
- The history of how the language evolved from one with a rich conjugation and case system into the vastly structurally simpler one we have now.
- Points of convergence and divergence with other languages, closely related or not. How did that happen?
- How to speak and write beautifully and precisely with rhetorical flourishes if needed
What I actually learned in English classes at school:
- Thomas Hardy really hated women.
reshared this
On top of that, once you're required to write essays, you aren't actually taught how to do it or given any examples of one looks like (IIRC) which probably explains why I've always been bad at them.
reshared this
Sarah Brown likes this.
Sarah Brown likes this.
like this
Had to look it up to be sure (I mean I have C64s and I have a MiSTer, but YouTube had to suffice for now:)). That title music on the C64 is fantastic, and the main theme is so much better to me.
I often wonder what would have happened if the SID hadn’t been crippled and would have been the 16 voices that was intended. Would have been bonkers 😀
like this
Christians: This Friday we celebrate!
Non Christians: Cool! What’s the occasion?
Christians: Our god died. Tortured to death quite horribly, in fact.
Non Christians: You celebrate that?
Christians: There are sound theological reasons.
Non Christians: Bit weird, but ok.
Christians: We call it “Good Friday”
Non Christians: …
like this
reshared this
In fact the word good stood for "holy", not the modern meaning:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Fri…
And of course christians don't celebrate good friday, but commemorate it. It's like say that jews people celebrate Holocaust_memorial_days.
reshared this
Completely agree!
The use of eth in Anglian and Brythonic names seems to imply a soft 'th' sound, whereas the use of thorn seems to imply a harder one; and my understanding is that the same is true in modern Icelandic (Seyðisfjörður, Egilsstaðir vs Þórsmörk, for example).
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
WOMUMP
in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •