Its OK - I don't careuziq wrote:
erm, the parataxis and obscure legalese in that passage is there to elicit a point. lmao.
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part of the whole skill of good writing is tailoring a style towards an intended effect. satirising legal bilge and bloviation is there part of the intended ribaldry.
whoosh!
whoosh!
lmao you won't even engage a friendly bookstore clerk on starship troopers but you want to teach a whole ass class.Dilbert_X wrote:
No I think I'll teach a community college class on live-action remakes of children's books.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
not to come down harshly on the comic book bilgewater relentlessly sucked directly out disney's wrinkly corporate anal cavity by its Very Discerning Fans…
you enjoy that stuff for reasons you couldn't elaborate much on. you really should give classics another pass. more in that pool than just dickens. fresh start and all. add to the ol' box of tools.
"This week we're going to analyse 00:30 to 01:30 of Taylor Swift's rendition of Macavity: The Mystery Cat
I want 2,000 words on the deep significance and wider historical context, you can contrast with Britney Spears music videos and any other pop-lite you feel is relevant"
Relevant material:
""There are some things that are really similar about Cats and what I do on tour," Swift says in her behind-the-scenes vid. "So I'm really stoked to come here and do live singing.""
it’s amusing to me that dilbert’s idea of what college-level english classes are about is essentially indistinguishable from jay’s: book reports and ‘trying to figure out wot the author is sayin once and for all’.
while he simultaneously misuses the term ‘deconstruction’.
you’ve just got love people in their 50s just sailing through life in the most ignorant and moronic way possible.
while he simultaneously misuses the term ‘deconstruction’.
you’ve just got love people in their 50s just sailing through life in the most ignorant and moronic way possible.
literature in college felt different to me than literature in high school. more like a book club, and the vibe was more people wanting to be there than not. it's like the shackles were removed.
i would hope to see more of that in high school settings (and enjoyment of learning focus in general), but people would probably cry about wokeness influencing their poor kids or something.
i would hope to see more of that in high school settings (and enjoyment of learning focus in general), but people would probably cry about wokeness influencing their poor kids or something.
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the point being that literature classes engage with things at a higher level of abstraction and with a bit more theoretical underpinning than 'wot did this passage say then? discuss wot the author wanted'.
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OK I'll concede that reading and literature does have a valuable spot in society, I don't think Dickens is a good hill to die on.
Don't forget, the first incarnation of WTF was WTD - 'What the Dickens'
Don't forget, the first incarnation of WTF was WTD - 'What the Dickens'
Imagine sailing through life never having experienced the symphony of a 24 cylinder sleeve valve engine at full bore, appreciated how close roman aquaduct arches are to the perfect load-bearing form, marvelled at the exponential rise and fall of a bacterium on a petri dish.nerziq wrote:
you’ve just got love people in their 50s just sailing through life in the most ignorant and moronic way possible
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you know about as much about microbiology as i do, judging from your cod-darwinianism expressed here over the years and your 'KKK newsletter' eugenics. i read scientific journals all day for my job, midwit. that o-level you took in 1987 doesn't hold currency now, chap.
i have no problem appreciating the sciences and marvelling at the entire endeavour. science is great. i don't set the arts and the sciences against each other. it's insecure reddit-brain stuff partaken in by losers (that's you). i never experienced any weird tribalism in my undergraduate years. we weren't maladjusted dorks. quite hard to explain just how alien all this raging about STEM/humanities is outside, in the real world. normal people don't care, or make their 3 years of undergraduate education the basis of their identity well into their middle years.
what i take exception to is scientISM, to the valorisation of scientists (or more often engineers) as 'gods of the universe'. that's again your bag. just another form of zealotry, another off-the-shelf ideology with a fast approaching expiry date. that stuff is as cringe as richard dawkins and his church of atheism. it's dumb to turn the scientific method into the basis of a worldview. and sad, actually, to make it your personality. every successful scientist i interact with for my job doesn't partake in these silly affectations and posturing. not a few of them probably even read dickens!
i have no problem appreciating the sciences and marvelling at the entire endeavour. science is great. i don't set the arts and the sciences against each other. it's insecure reddit-brain stuff partaken in by losers (that's you). i never experienced any weird tribalism in my undergraduate years. we weren't maladjusted dorks. quite hard to explain just how alien all this raging about STEM/humanities is outside, in the real world. normal people don't care, or make their 3 years of undergraduate education the basis of their identity well into their middle years.
what i take exception to is scientISM, to the valorisation of scientists (or more often engineers) as 'gods of the universe'. that's again your bag. just another form of zealotry, another off-the-shelf ideology with a fast approaching expiry date. that stuff is as cringe as richard dawkins and his church of atheism. it's dumb to turn the scientific method into the basis of a worldview. and sad, actually, to make it your personality. every successful scientist i interact with for my job doesn't partake in these silly affectations and posturing. not a few of them probably even read dickens!
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Logged into facebook to see if anyone wrote on my wall for my birthday, nope. I think it's the first time this happened since getting an account, all bday wishes were in real life or private messages on various platforms.
Also while jogging I saw someone showing off his Call of Duty ass pistol to a friend. Drum mag, some big ass red dot sight, and a suppressor. Made my morning.
Also while jogging I saw someone showing off his Call of Duty ass pistol to a friend. Drum mag, some big ass red dot sight, and a suppressor. Made my morning.
airsoft? otherwise, who puts a drum on a pistol?
Who doesn't put a drum on a pistol.
But what is an ass pistol?
But what is an ass pistol?
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Went on a ride along with a cop Saturday. Pretty boring.
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Aww sounds like a date.
But seriously, why?
But seriously, why?
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You are moving to Cincinnati. You will see some eventually.
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I made it to San Francisco after a 6 hour flight.
The boomers who are like "people used to get dressed up to take a plane" are literally retarded.
Who the hell wants to do TSA and 6 hours dressed up?
The boomers who are like "people used to get dressed up to take a plane" are literally retarded.
Who the hell wants to do TSA and 6 hours dressed up?
I've been here for 2 months. All I've seen are protests against trumpSuperJail Warden wrote:
You are moving to Cincinnati. You will see some eventually.
Also why SF?
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Congratulations on making the move. How do you like it out there?
My girlfriend has family in SF. So I spend a weekend a year out here which she visits family.
My girlfriend has family in SF. So I spend a weekend a year out here which she visits family.
people used to dress up to go shopping too. that and other stuff was being de-formalised during young boomers. even their parents got in on it. turns out, it's comfy.mac wrote:
suits on a plane
i remember like a decade ago(?) some united gatekeeper person got thrown under the bus (oh, our vague policy? up to the underlings). for making girls put skirts over their yoga pants to meet some kind of dress code? bunch of social media people of both sexes decided to wear yoga pants on their next flight.
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Sweats and slides on flights. I want to be comfortable!SuperJail Warden wrote:
I made it to San Francisco after a 6 hour flight.
The boomers who are like "people used to get dressed up to take a plane" are literally retarded.
Who the hell wants to do TSA and 6 hours dressed up?
Go to Hiuse of Prime RibSuperJail Warden wrote:
Congratulations on making the move. How do you like it out there?
My girlfriend has family in SF. So I spend a weekend a year out here which she visits family.
i actually do tend to get dressed up for flights, but only for eminently practical reasons. i wear my heaviest formal shoes and either sling a trench-coat over my shoulders or hang it off my suitcase handle just because it allows me extra weight for my luggage. these things matter when you're trying to haul as much of your life's possessions as possible to the other side of the planet.
short-haul domestic flights, yeah, i'd probably wear trainers and breathable fabrics.
i suppose an irony of that picture/the 'glamour' of that era is that everything fucking reeked of cigarette smoke, which was just barely disguising the malodour of BO below, clinging to all those plush fabrics.
short-haul domestic flights, yeah, i'd probably wear trainers and breathable fabrics.
i suppose an irony of that picture/the 'glamour' of that era is that everything fucking reeked of cigarette smoke, which was just barely disguising the malodour of BO below, clinging to all those plush fabrics.
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random tokyo (new local home acre specifically) photo-dump.
lots of green space, large park, outdoor swimming pool, as well as local hot baths (pictured). much needed already during this wet season.
lots of green space, large park, outdoor swimming pool, as well as local hot baths (pictured). much needed already during this wet season.
I lived through the pub/nightclub changeover from smoking to non-smoking, that felt like progress.
For rare flights I try to be smartish, you get treated better, and as streamlined as possible.
Not impressed with the "I'll save time by changing for the beach before my 5 hour flight" people.
I need to start looking for an all-plastic belt as taking it off to go through security at airports and workplaces has transcended tedious.
Flying with firearms is always a blast, but easy as long as you follow the process.
Haven't yet been pinged for firearms residue when not travelling with firearms - surprising.
For rare flights I try to be smartish, you get treated better, and as streamlined as possible.
Not impressed with the "I'll save time by changing for the beach before my 5 hour flight" people.
I need to start looking for an all-plastic belt as taking it off to go through security at airports and workplaces has transcended tedious.
Flying with firearms is always a blast, but easy as long as you follow the process.
Haven't yet been pinged for firearms residue when not travelling with firearms - surprising.
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i have some, er, 'residue' concerns of my own when going through security.
i've been stopped a few times now for things on the scanner, mostly glycerine-related stuff in roll-on deoderants.
a few times the german security staff have stopped me with their H&K mp5's to double-check all the musical electronics i'm flying with. maybe the bomb squad guys just really like techno. very german-coded.
i've been stopped a few times now for things on the scanner, mostly glycerine-related stuff in roll-on deoderants.
a few times the german security staff have stopped me with their H&K mp5's to double-check all the musical electronics i'm flying with. maybe the bomb squad guys just really like techno. very german-coded.