"Phonoaesthetics isn't my thing so I can't explain why, but German is an inherently funny language," exhibit A
I love it because it was a choice. They could have put the whole title in English, THE QUEEN. They could have put the whole title in German, DIE KÖNIGIN. Anyone writing at the spiegle speaks English proficiently, it was not an accident they choose chaos.
MR. GUICHON THE TIMING 😭
2 HOURS BEFORE SHE CROAKED 😱 CHOCOLATE GUY IS SOMETHING ELSE
Chocolate guy killed the queen and to assert dominance cooked her into a crown
what's this? OH NO IT'S AMAURY GUICHON WITH THE STEEL CHAIR
Here’s the story of the little wine doors of Florence, Italy. Of the millions of tourists that visit Florence, how many of them walk by the old palazzos without ever noticing their most interesting little secret hiding in plain sight?
About 18 cent.(7″) wide and 35 cent.(1′1″) high, they are just the right height to fit a bottle of wine.
The buchette del vino, the wine windows of Florence, are totally unique to Florentine architecture, dating back to the 17th century when they were used for the sale of wine directly on the street.
With a knock and a few coins, any Florentine citizen could conveniently purchase a glass of wine or a bottle from a local vineyard.
It was a time when upheavals in the European markets led to a decline in manufacturing and international trade for the noble Florentine families. The buchette del vino (literally, “the wine holes”), allowed the savvy aristocrat to cut out the middle man and sell their wine straight from their residence.
Also, b/c of the Black Plague, the use of wine windows provided the safe sale of wine, without direct contact between client and seller.
Some charitable families gave food and wine to the poor. The height of the doors also provided anonymity.
Today, there are only 140 buchette left. They don’t pass out wine and some are converted to mail slots, door bells, intercoms, but the majority of them were plastered over.
But, wait! During the Covid pandemic, as Italy emerged from lockdown, some enterprising Wine Window owners have turned back the clock and are using their Wine Windows to dispense glasses of wine, cups of coffee, drinks, sandwiches and ice cream—all germ-free, contactless! Bravo!
Tucker Carlson’s favorite pundit on the war in Ukraine is an anti-semitic fascist. As a reminder, this is regularly one of the most-watched news programs in the US
Reading reviews for havdalah candles written by unsuspecting Christian housewives who bought them to use for dinner candles is my new passion. I’ll be laughing for an eternity.
Imagine letting a candle burn that looks like this once lit:
For an hour.
Dude, get the wine!
Different havdalah candle, same guy.
For my goyische followers: Havdalah is a service to mark the end of shabbat and the beginning of the week. The flame is big so that everyone at the service can see it. You also only have it lit for a few minutes before extinguishing it (traditionally in wine). They are not table candles. My guess is that these people bought them because they’re pretty and braided without knowing or caring what they’re used for.
For my Jewish followers: the goyim are at it again.
It needs to be multiple wicks, and I think a tall flame is just what happens in that situation
Look, I know facile trope inversion is for weenies, but I still really want to see a JRPG-style game where the shouty teenage boy who gives long speeches about the power of friendship is the fragile healer and the girl with the gentle piano-and-strings theme song and self-sacrificing “must save everyone” attitude is the melee tank. I don’t think I’m being unreasonable here.
I’m not even being ironic – I honestly think it would work better that way. Like, let’s put power-of-friendship boy in a position where he actually needs to rely on his friends to get anything done, rather than just talking about how they’ve inspired him while he solos the final boss. And as for Little Miss Messiah Complex, well, tell me you can’t perfectly picture how the standard tank protagonist move where you intercept a blow meant for a critically wounded party member, facetank a fucktillion points of damage, then get back up again with one hit point and a voice quip about how the baddies will have to do better than that would play out under her idiom. You can see it, right?
People in the notes are looking at the second one saying “that’s just She-Ra, that’s just–” no, it isn’t. Gentle piano-and-strings theme song, remember? It’s essential that each archetype’s stock personality remain intact, and only the role changes.
She’s sweet. She’s humble. She wears homespun dresses and grows pretty flowers in her free time. She has that vibe that says “I’m going to die halfway through the game to make my boyfriend sad”, except that doesn’t happen, because the baddies don’t have a big enough gun.
I want to see the obligatory scene where the bad guy’s army is burning down her Beloved Peasant Village™, and she’s standing between the evil commander and a group of soulful orphans, begging with tears in her eyes for him to see that there’s already been enough death – except when he callously rejects her entreaties and moves to backhand her out of the way, she catches his armoured fist mid-swing, without even the faintest tremor of effort, and in a tone of infinite patience informs him: “You misunderstand, sir: it’s not our lives I’m pleading for.”
And then she punches people until all the soldiers run away and feels conflicted about it afterwards.
Ziad Nakad ‘Rhombus’ Fall 2022 Haute Couture Collection
Find someone who will learn a language for you just to say the shittiest pick up line with it.
another philosophical question that is very very related. is Chuck E Cheese a restaurant ?
absolutely not. it’s an arcade that happens to have “food”
I respectfully disagree, sir noctude, because arcades lack one thing that Chuck E. Cheese has, performers. So, you may ask, what businesses have games, food, and performers?
a casino
now this is some semantic bullshit i can get behind
That carrot sounds really good
I’ve spent hours trying to play instruments and this guy just whittles up a carrot and kills it
The notes are so full of extremely salty clarinet players and I love it
I still stand by this statement, dude just drills up a carrot and knocks everyone flat off their socks while simultaneously ensuring that every single clarinet player who hears this is foaming at the mouth and out for his blood. Absolute legend.
Make a thorough job of it.
and deliberately created an image of the most badass woman on the fucking planet
I like how she’s got the pointed gun, but they also need the tommy gun so they just- posed it across the pic right there
watching a video about this cargo ship that blew up in texas in the 40’s and it’s like . i know that with a lot of incidents especially older ones like this the reason that the safety standards were so shitty was because they literally did not know that these kinds of disasters COULD happen (and in many cases these disasters are what MADE the safety standards better) but sometimes you just learn about this shit and you think. how could all these people be so stupid
- cargo of the ship consisted of twine (flammable) peanuts (flammable, oily) and cotton (FLAMMABLE) from houston and POST WAR AMMUNITION (OH MY GOD) FROM CUBA
- additional cargo they were picking up in texas city was LOOSE BAGS OF AMMONIUM NITRATE that the dock workers described as being ANOMALOUSLY WARM UPON BEING LOADED INTO THE SHIP ??????
- small fire breaks out in cargo hold, instead of putting it out with water that could damage the cargo the captain decides to close all the hatches to try to make the cargo hold airtight and smother the fire (stupid but you can kind of understand how they got there)
- the heat of the trapped smoke in the cargo hold instead causes the aforementioned LOOSE BAGS OF AMMONIUM NITRATE to undergo a chemical reaction and turn into nitrous oxide, massively increasing the pressure inside of the airtight hold
- one of the hatch covers fails
- mfw all the pressure in the cargo hold is released at once causing an explosion that fucking levels everything in the port within 2000 feet
- mfw the shockwave shatters windows up to a hundred miles away
- mfw on-fire twine and peanuts and fucking grenades are raining down over texas city
- mfw some of the pieces of the ship got launched into the sky faster than the speed of sound
- mfw they found the ship’s anchor inside of a ten foot wide crater over a mile and a half away
- mfw this was one of the largest and most devastating non-nuclear explosions in world history
- mfw this could have been avoided if they’d just taken the L and put the fire out with water
also worth a mention: the SECOND boat that exploded in a very similar manner the next day which was an even more violent explosion, but less devastating because most of the port was. you know. already leveled and evacuated
someone running rescue and recovery after the FIRST boat exploded noticed that the second boat's cargo was on fire and reported it....and this just went. ignored. for several hours. until someone was like "oh shit better get this under control" and tried to move the boat to no avail and they just gave up and evacuated
next day it started raining glowing-hot metal boat chunks all over the city. AGAIN.
Today's problematic ships are the Grandcamp (first explosion) and High Flyer (second explosion).
