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Top ten worst anime tiddies
just off the top of my head
Seems appropriate this evening
Surprised you forgot these two
The fact that anime titty physics continue to be this ridiculous as an art form in and of itself. Do I like it? No, I find it distracting. But seeing them all together like this is weirdly delightful.
the original series of star trek is absolutely my favorite thing bc every episode is like:
-kirk manhandles a penis shaped rock prop for a very long time
-spock dances flamenco
-sulu fences down the hallway shirtless
-episode plot is kirk v massive sentient lump
-kirk tries to explain spock's ears as a childhood accident where he got his head caught in a mechanical rice picker
-on an unrelated note, spock starts wearing a beanie
-redshirts get turned into like. cubes of salt
-uhura defeats a giant green hand by hotwiring the entire comms console
-spock and kirk hold hands
-scotty stops chekov from starting a bar fight with klingons only to immediately start one himself bc the love of his life (the enterprise) gets insulted
-mccoy's fantasies involve meeting characters from alice in wonderland, including a giant anthropomorphic rabbit
-spock's alien sex drive episode
-kirk gets bodyswapped
-gladiator fight episode (1)
-gladiator fight episode (2)
-gladiator fight episode (3)
AND YET, every episode is ALSO like:
-war cannot be reduced to numbers from an outside perspective, because that makes it easier to stomach without change; the horror that is war must be acknowledged in order to make room for peace
-more types of life can be extant than we can conceive, and just because they are different forms of life doesn't make them incapable of prospering
-love cannot be programmed or controlled, and discriminatory hatred is a tool only for death and pain
-cultures that are different than our own are valuable and can be vibrantly rich with history, and judging them before we try to understand and empathize is not only reductive but contemptible
-happiness is something that we have to allow ourselves, and actively seek out, because it can't come to us without work and acknowledgement of our own state of being
-genocide can never be justified, and certainly not even to supposedly save the people that are more "valuable" by any given metric over those who are not, because all lives have worth
anyway the balance of absurdity and meaningfulness gives me life, and we haven't even gotten started on the whale movie lmao
I come to offer Hellboy meeting more Cryptids/ urban legends.
Enjoy!
Hi Neil,
Do you have any fun stories about Terry Jones? Kinda feeling his loss a lot at the moment.
Terry Jones was the only person I ever interviewed as a young journalist who got me drunk. I was 23. He asked what I'd like to drink when I arrived and I said "coffee". He though about that for a moment and decided I would prefer Chablis, and a few moments later he produced a bottle of Chablis twice the size of a normal wine bottle and then proceeded to pour it into both of us while I interviewed him.
The interview was enormously fun (Terry was in the process of writing Labyrinth at the time.) After the interview the photographer and I went out for a pizza and I remember heading to the toilets and then lying on the floor while the room spun around, holding on to the floor because otherwise I might fall off.
Photo taken of me during the photos after the interview concluded...
Youtube playlist Aladdin Soundtrack (not ours)
Youtube playlist Mulan Soundtrack (not ours)
Currently sat in a summer school type thing we're hosting in work and some English architect is telling us about sustainable design in Wales, except she hasn't bothered learning a single Welsh name and if I have to listen to one more "I don't know how to say 'Welsh name' so I'm going to use 'shitty English name/nothing while laughing at it' I'm going to throw this slanty drawing desk at her head
Spot the unforced errors:
"Wales has three national parks. There's the one I can't pronounce so I'm going to say Brecon Beacons, there's Pembrokeshire Coast, and there's Snowdonia."
Said with that lil laugh English people do when they say this stuff, because they think they're being funny and charming in a 'what am I like' way rather than disrespectful and arrogant as fuck
"This one is by a reservoir in Gwent I can say, tee hee! Landy something, but-"
Me: Llandegfedd
Her: uh... yes, so difficult! Tee hee!
FUCK OFF
"This one is called... Um... I don't know how to say it tee hee!"
Me: Ysgir.
Her: I'm so bad at Welsh haha
YOU ARE DELIVERING A THREE QUARTER HOUR LECTURE TO WELSH STUDENTS IN WALES ABOUT WELSH INFRASTRUCTURE
YOU HAVE MULTIPLE WELSH SPEAKING COLLEAGUES CRAWLING OUT OF THE WOODWORK WHO COULD HAVE TOLD YOU
LEARNING TO PRONOUNCE THE PLACES SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRIORITY ONE YOU ARROGANT BITCH
Like listen. LISTEN. I know this is entirely normal. I know this is so exceptionally common that about 80% of English people do it, I know they think it's funny, I know they don't even see there's a problem, I know I'm basically kicking off at rain in a wet country. I don't know why this extremely normal and commonplace occurrence is nettling me this much today.
But last year, I gave a lecture on grassland management. As part of it, I told the students about the ngitili silvipastoral systems in Tanzania. I am in no way saying I'm perfect!!! I am not a template to be copied!!! But ahead of that lecture, I scoured YouTube until I found a video of an indigenous person in Tanzania talking about the system!!! And I listened to how they pronounced it, and I memorised it, and then I even wrote out the phonetic pronunciation on the slide so my students could learn too, because not bothering to learn that while then presenting myself as an authority on the subject would have been grossly appropriative and colonialist and also plain fucking rude.
And none of those students were Tanzanian for me to insult to their faces
While I can agree that it can be infuriating to have something near and dear to you be mispronounced (especially if they have that obnoxious kind of attitude about it), the issue that I’m taking from this is that it heavily ignores the fact that that is not how language works.
There is no set pronunciation. Accents exist. To steal a joke from Community, there are different ways people say bagel (Britta says it bah-gul, instead of bay-gul.) I say coyote (kie-oat) different from most people (kie-oat-tea). Words are said differently in different locations. Just looking at English in England, there are near 40 different accents. Or Japanese in Japan, which also has over 40 different accents. And there certainly isn’t only one Welsh accent. So which one of you is pronouncing the language correctly?
This type of argument also ignores the fact that some people have never encountered certain sounds before or just can’t say it for another reason. Is an Arabic speaker wrong for not being able to pronounce “P” sounds because they aren’t used to hearing them? Or a Japanese speaker for not being able to pronounce “L” sounds? Or what about English speakers who can’t roll their “R’s”? Are they just wrong because they never developed the ability to say certain sounds in their youth?
Some people also have speech impediments. This can wildly change how things are pronounced. I had to go to speech therapy* for years because I couldn’t pronounce “R’s” and “L’s” (which is kinda sad when both of them are in my name). Were kids like me just wrong because we couldn’t physically pronounce certain words?
While yes, you should be able to speak the language you are working with to at least some degree (I don’t think anyone is asking for fluency unless you are going to be living in the area), getting actively mad at someone for not being able to pronounce something is pointless in the grand scheme of things. Yes, the teacher handled this horribly, and there is nothing cute about being an asshole. But, and this is coming from a guy who will spend 10 minutes trying to make sure I pronounce someone’s name the way they want it said, pronunciations are made up. And the idea of “correct pronunciations” usually comes from the dominant group trying to oppress the minority group by treating them as inferior for how they express themselves in the spoken word, eg. People being treated as stupid for having a Texan accent. So, yeah.
*I have a rant about Speech Therapy, but this isn’t the time for that.
yes that's all very nice for certain situations, but here OP is specifically talking about
1) how this lady wouldn't even TRY
2) in a professional setting/her own specialization
3) at a language in her own political sphere of influence (within the UK)
4) with a history of linguistic oppression from the English towards the Welsh.
it's not about ability or linguistic diversity, it's about attitude, ignorance, and pre-existing power structures that are being upheld by behaviour like this and by excusing it. yes, language can be hard. no, that doesn't give you an excuse not to try, or be a dick about it. this woman was being a MASSIVE dick about it, and laughing in their faces about it to boot.
Read the post again.
If you reread my thing, I did agree with OP about how the teacher was being an ass. I will also agree that I could have been more focused on OP’s actual argument as well. My issue came from the last part, where OP made over generalizations that I definitely misread.
And, of course, I will never defend the British. Their history of oppression is well documented and, honestly, most of the time the British’s attitude towards other cultures is incredibly horrible and much worse than most are willing to admit (for anyone just randomly reading these, at one point the British basically attempted to ban Welsh in Welsh schools).
So, yes. The British government is terrible. The teacher in OP’s original post is awful. But there is still no set way to pronounce something. And I need to learn how to read, because I definitely misread English people as English speakers. Sorry, OP for that.
First off, I’d like to point out that the fact that you are repeatedly referring to “the British” here in a post specifically about how the English oppress the Welsh and routinely disrespect and disregard the Welsh language is… less than ideal.
British means “person from Britain”, which is a geographical area that, depending on if you are referring to Great Britain or the British Isles, will include England, Scotland, and Wales at minimum, as well as potentially several other places, many of which have also been victims of English cultural oppression. It is not a synonym for “English”.
Further, your commentary on this post does nothing but derail OP’s extremely valid points about the way that the English treat the Welsh language and culture and make it into a totally different topic. You also seem to insinuate that it is ableist to expect people to have the common courtesy to try to pronounce place names in other languages correctly, which is the worst possible faith response to the matter at hand.
I would really recommend that you consider why you felt it necessary to tell a Welsh person that they are wrong to be upset and offended by this blatant and casual disrespect. You clearly have some awareness of the intense history of oppression of the Welsh language, so I am frankly astonished that you think that this is an appropriate response in any way, and I really suggest that you interrogate your reasoning on this point.
To be perfectly clear, anybody speaking a language, or using place names from a language that is not their native one, will make mistakes. But in an academic setting there is no excuse not to try. It is an environment where OP has every right to expect a higher standard than one would from a person speaking in a second language because they are, for example, on holiday. And if you legitimately cannot tell the difference between regional accents and pronunciations and somebody not even making the slightest bit of effort, which is what happened here, then I frankly don’t know what to tell you.
I want to be perfectly clear that I do not intend for any of this to be an attack on you. I merely want to point out to you why your addition to this post is ill conceived, and why it comes across as disrespectful. If you want to have a conversation about linguistics and pronunciation, I would suggest that you make a new post of your own that does not address such a loaded topic and criticise people who are being directly impacted by microagressions.
Good point about the British thing. I will work on that part.
And valid points all the way through. I clearly messed up.
Thank you to everyone for their efforts on this, and to rolanthon for this acknowledgement. I have a feeling this might be becoming the little pebbles before an avalanche, so let's leave this part here. Again, though, genuine thanks to all of you, I did not have anything close to the spoons to deal with it myself tonight! No hard feelings
Also like. Just to demonstrate how lazy Colonialist English Lady is, I looked up the Welsh name of Brecon Beacons. It's Bannau Brycheiniog. The pronunciation is readily available online, but I tried saying it before looking at the pronunciation, and guess what? I wasn't right, but I was within spitting distance, just by taking a guess. The only syllable I really royally screwed up (beyond having an American accent) was the "brych" in Brycheiniog. Seeing W as a vowel in Welsh can trip you up until you're used to it (although weirdly enough, when I was growing up I was taught that W could be a vowel. I've never heard that from anyone except Welsh people and my first-grade teacher and I would love to know how she learned that pre-internet in a podunk little town in America), but it's not really all that different than, say, German pronouncing "j" as English "y" or Spanish pronouncing "i" as English "ē." It's just one more way we're all trying to use a single alphabet forced on us by a colonizing force in the triple-digits millennium. I don't say this to dunk on rolanthon, who basically made this a masterclass in how to course-correct when you're wrong. I'm saying this specifically to dunk on Colonialist English Lady. I'm sure if she'd given it an actual proper go she would have said it with an accent, but it's not hard to say. This is not a case of "people who didn't grow up with tonals can't hear tonals," it's a case of "yeah, this was just laziness and racism."
Because like
if you ever doubt your writing, be it your themes, or the reason behind it, remember that h.g wells wrote war of the worlds both as a commentary on colonialism and the horrors it brings, and because he fucking hated his neighbours and his 13 hour job, and wanted to write about the town in which he lived getting blasted to the fucking ground by lasers into an irreparable heap and all of the townspeople dying painfully
you, too, can channel your hatred for that guy that lives down the hall and blasts music at 4am into the one of the most influential science fiction stories ever written! fuck it! i believe in you!!
This is one of the most inspirational things I’ve ever seen
Been looking for this
so my younger cousin is flying in to visit from brazil on sunday, and will be staying here for like, the entirety of july. which, don't get me wrong, is super cool! i love the kid! but it felt like a super weird move, considering his parents are the SUPER strict and borderline helicopter parents. even the smallest prank/roughousing with him/his little sister would lead to a strict talking to from his parents, he couldn't ever do anything without their clear permission, that sort of stuff. so letting him fly at alone at 16 to a whole different country and stay there for a whole month seemed WILDLY out of character. additionally, it just felt like a super last-minute trip. it's not like we have any plans to do when he gets here, and the flight itself and stuff only got booked like, midway through june.
and i was talking to my mom about it, kind of trying to nudge some answers out of her, and after a while she went, "yeah, i think they're sending him over here to get away for his boyfriend. see if the distance breaks them off." which, first of all, surprised me because last i checked, they didn't KNOW he had a boyfriend. literally everyone in the family did EXCEPT for them because while that entire side of the family being semi-conservative, his parents (mostly his dad) are EXTREMELY old-fashioned. so clearly something already went wrong. and considering the only reason the rest of the family knew is because one person found out and it spread like wildfire, i have a sneaking suspicion he wasn't the one to tell them, either.
and second of all. they're sending him HERE. to try to make him forget his homosexuality. i couldn't do anything but just wordlessly gesture to the multiple pride flags scattered around my room, then to myself, because really? he has like two other cousins in the us and they're sending him to me? honey i am about to introduce this kid to queer scenes you have never even heard of. he'll be returning home with labels only shrimp can perceive
not every gay person is the evil faggot trying to convert your kid to the gay agenda like the media claims, but i sure am
he'll be returning home with labels only shrimp can perceive
Absolutely unhinged religious merch today. Crystal mirror angel waterfall clock and bedazzled crown of thorns?????? Which was at a booth with a bunch of rosaries
ooh, I know who the bedazzled thorn crown is for! It's for the lipstick & eyeliner wearing Jesus statue I saw through the window of a little historical church some years ago!
