I'm back with another crack meme, let's see how well this one does
If it does as well as my New Yorker Post then I'll make a navigation list for the memes :D
Bonus:
one of the replies on the "please don't plan events on rosh hashanah and yom kippur" post was like "i don't understand, how does it interfere? is it because events would be noisy and disturb people in synagogue?"
it didn't occur to them that we would want to attend the events
In a 2012 interview in New York Magazine, Mandy Patinkin said that his most famous line from The Princess Bride (1987) (“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”) gets quoted back to him by at least two or three strangers every day of his life. Patinkin told the interviewer that he loves hearing the line and he also loves the general fact that he got to be in the movie, stating, “I’m frankly thrilled about it. I can’t believe that I got to be in The Wizard of Oz, you know what I mean?”
The Princess Bride (1987) dir. Rob Reiner
From the lights to the pavement
From the van to the floor
From backstage to the doctor
From the Earth to the morgue.
Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hlep".
Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you ask for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"
And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hlep".
Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hlep.
At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it helps reinforce the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.
So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hleper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!
Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!
Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!
NYC's Grand Central Terminal, 1929 - before the sun's beams were blocked by surrounding skyscrapers.
These iconic images were taken by photographer Hal Morey.
Bonus Color Photo
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what if doorbells went dong ding instead of ding dong
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don’t say something like that
so the nyc subway doors make a ding-dong sound when they close and a few years ago i was on a G train (which is, like, one of the saddest trains, people make fun of it all the time, and i say that even though i love it and i think it is objectively one of the most reliable trains, it just doesn’t go into manhattan) and it was like 1am and i was just trying to get home but this train car, instead of going “ding-dong” when the door closed it went “dong-ding” and everyone in the train just kinda froze and looked around at each other and made bewildered eye-contact and i’ve seen a lot of weird and fucked up things on the subway since i moved here but hearing the doors go “dong-ding” might be the weirdest thing i’ve ever experienced in the nyc subway system
The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts
FYI if anything I say is contradictory it's cause I have like 8 different opinions at once and I actually have no idea what's going on
Hi, I'll keep this brief but I'm in the red financially again so I'm asking for donations, or if you're interested, commissions.
I moved into my own place for the first time in about 2 years recently, and in doing so accidentally put myself in a position where I'm paying kind of a wild amt of money just to get to and from my job, meaning i'm losing straight up like half of what I earn, plus owing on the bedroom I was living in last because I moved out early for personal safety reasons and the landlord bullshitted me about letting me off the hook for a month of rent, plus standard blah credit card and student debt I'm struggling with, etc etc.
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Scoreboard at Yankee Stadium - July 20, 1969
An estimated 650 million people would watch Neil Armstrong take man’s first step on the moon more than six hours later, but during the actual lunar landing, 32,933 were in the stands at Yankee Stadium on that Sunday afternoon. Ken McMullen was batting against Jack Aker with Epstein on third, a man on first and no outs.
As the umpires, according to prior arrangements, waved their arms and stopped play, an urgent voice came over the loudspeakers: “Here is a bulletin from WWDC News, Apollo 11 is 100 feet from the surface of the moon. We now switch live to the manned spacecraft center.” It was public address announcer Bob Sheppard, sharing the historic news with the crowd.
“Ladies and gentleman, your attention please,” Sheppard said. “You will be happy to know that the Apollo 11 has landed safely on the moon.“
The cheers from the crowd drowned out the final two words of his announcement, but the message displayed on the scoreboard in right-center field was loud and clear: “THEYRE ON THE MOON.”
The cheering at Yankee Stadium continued for about 45 seconds, according to the New York Times, as thousands of children waved the Hillerich & Bradsby Co. Louisville Sluggers they received on bat day.
Finally, the noise died down enough so the announcer could be understood, and he asked the crowd for a moment of silent prayer for the safe return of the astronauts. After a few seconds of silence, a recording of “America the Beautiful” played over the Yankee Stadium loudspeaker. The crowd sang and then cheered some more.
After the roughly four-minute stoppage, McMullen hit a grounder to third baseman Bobby Cox, who threw home to nail Epstein for the first out.
drama I’ve been alerted to tonight that I think you all need to know:
germany wnt’s current manager (martina) dated the current manager of switzerland wnt (inka) back when they were teammates. inka cheated on martina and so martina left the national team bc inka was undroppable. martina then married a man and said she wasn’t gay anymore (she’s 55 so I’m letting it slide lmao). inka then dated another teammate (linda) and cheated on her with a male manager. linda then dated the same manager later on. also inka became the first woman to take over a german mens team in the top four tiers and she took the job from martina’s husband.
football is the best sport and nothing comes close.
Traditional w/ Valence: Kind of the minimum acceptable awning to fall on. Better than nothing but not great for higher drops. 4/10
Traditional w/ Wrap Valence: Slightly better, but not enough to make a difference. You'd aim for it over a standard Valence but you still won't like it very much when you land. 4/10
Dome: Honestly insulting. No matter how you fall on it, guaranteed to throw you in a worse direction than you started. Possibly worse than just falling directly from the top of the building to the pavement? City council continues to ignore my suggestion to ban them. 0/10
Gable: Kind of a mixed bag. Good landing but only if you're very experienced falling onto awnings. If you land wrong that's gonna be hurting for days. 6/10 unless you haven't fallen off a roof before, then 2/10
Bullnose: More user friendly imho, forgiving surface area but it can make you careless of those rounded edges. Still, it's your good working awning, the people's awning, always a solid choice for falling off a roof. 7/10
Quarter Round: Deceptively evil. I've seen people bounce right into incoming traffic from these, avoid at all costs. 0/10
Casement (Hip Roof): May as well have no awning. Tell me you hate people falling off roof tops without telling me you hate people falling off roof tops. Awning for selfish people only. 0/10
Waterfall: Weirdly very springy, unexpectedly stylish if you know your roof falling. A great playful bounce without enough kick to throw you into traffic. 7/10
Stationary Canopy: The gold standard for awnings. When you're falling out of a tall building, this is the one you always wanna see. Catches you like a 12 year old fielding a gently tossed baseball. 10/10
Lateral Arm Retractable: Next best to a Stationary, maybe a little less stability, but almost always a nice clean landing. 9/10
Circular: Not ideal but it will do in a pinch. Terrible stopping power, falling on these you pretty much are for sure going to plow completely through it. 3/10
Concave: It's a slide. Just drop in on one of these for hours of child like delight. With enough experience falling off a roof you can land on this owning and sail into a room in the other side of the street. 100/10
an amazing capture of flight trails Photo: Edu Aguilera
