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Etiquette warnings shown before silent films (1910s)

Hats were like the cell-phones of the 1910s.

“Applaud with your hands only” what….what happened to make them put that warning?

Foot stomping.

Really grim stuff here

The entire point of a strike is to cost the company money without interfering with their revenue streams striking workers have no leverage this in practice negates the right to strike entirely basically and makes above ground unions pointless.

Exactly. If peace is no longer a legal option, then it’s a good time for war.

quick! the first line of the last song you listened to is the title of your memoir now - share it in the tags!

Never forget what they took from us.

For those asking how it compares today

and also

And no the food hasn’t changed a damned bit.

Shoutout to everyone using receipts as bookmarks you’re providing valuable information to future scholars

It took Oscar Wilde like 65K words to say this exact thing.

Oh my god it’s true

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I am very disappointed in the people praising the censoring / editing of Roald Dahl’s books.   Let me tell you a little story.   About five years ago I decided to re-visit Treasure Island.  I found an unabridged version.   I was surprised to discover that Long John Silver had a black lover.   Because the book used the term “n–ress” the mention of her was removed from many American editions of the book when I grew up.

Note: I am not saying they removed the N word.  I am saying they removed her *all together.* I didn’t know Long John Silver had a love interest until I was in my thirties and read an unabridged version of the novel. It revealed so much about the story that I hadn’t noticed before. 1.  That Long John Silver believed in love despite what was considered a cultural norm of the time.  He didn’t care about what others considered proper and he was in love. 2.   It shows that even Robert Louis Stevenson acknowledged the existence of interracial couples and yet no movie version I can think of addressed this until the TV series Black Sails. 3. It helped remind me of the culture of the era in which Treasure Island takes place and when it was written, the stigma against interracial relationships that existed in America right into the twentieth century and in some places is still a thing. Sometimes books tell us more than just a story.   They show us how a world was once viewed.   I felt like this was an important discovery, that Long John Silver had a black lover (or wife).   And I was even a little angry that I had been robbed of this in previous readings of the book.   I think the removal of words like “Fat” and “ugly” from Roald Dahl’s books does us a disservice.   It “cleans up” the past and denies a chance for us to learn some of the less pleasant aspects of the past and how and why language has changed since then.    What should be a teaching point and experience is lost in the name of sensitivity.   I felt cheated and it even felt a little racist that Long John Silver’s love interest isn’t mentioned in many editions of Treasure Island.  And I feel that one day there may be similar feelings if people discover they aren’t reading the original versions of Dahl’s books. Try to remember the original reason Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit  451.  It wasn’t about an evil government taking away people’s blooks. It was about this group and that group getting offended at various titles until they just banned everything to try to make everyone happy.    

"keep the knife when you get stabbed so you don't bleed out" is good advice but it seems to me like in most situations you wouldn't get a say in the matter

*gets stabbed* ouch what the fuck *killer pulls out the knife* wait no put that back

obsessed with the way my robotics team lead talks

she’s reinventing hieroglyphics

Someone made an engagement map for TERF tweets

Y’all in the notes please be mindful when you say stuff like “it’s time to kill the British.” The people suffering the most from British transphobia are....British trans people.

^^^^^ for serious. British trans folks rarely get to transition at all, and when they don't they're often denied any social transition period. TERFs in the UK aren't here to start laws against people in America, they're trying and succeeding to kill off trans people in the UK. This really isn't the situation to cram on the brits to look and feel better about yourself... the trans body count is tremendous over there. Please have some respect for the people actually effected.

Please do keep this in mind. As much as I find the anti-British memes funny, this is a genuine issue in the UK.

I’m a trans man in the UK, I’ve been on the waiting list to be diagnosed for just over 2 years now, and am expected to wait around another 2 years before I get my first appointment (if the wait time doesn’t increase). I will then wait around 2 more years (at the very least) for my second appointment, and if I’m very lucky and am diagnosed in that appointment (which is not guaranteed in the slightest), I’ll enter another waiting list to access healthcare. The service I’m in is considered around average. There are people waiting 6 years for their first appointment in other services, so I am incredibly lucky with my supportive family (in that I haven’t been kicked out or abused, parents still don’t respect pronouns or name) and I have good friends who respect me, as well as only waiting 4 years for a first appointment.

Maybe you could go private if you had the money, right? Go a similar route to trans people in the US? A diagnosis from a private practice can be rejected by your General Practitioner, and any referral you get for hormones or surgery can be completely dismissed, because you weren’t diagnosed by an NHS practice. You would likely have to go entirely private, which is not possible for thousands of trans people who rely on the NHS. This is an issue within the NHS and a completely lack of funding and training for trans healthcare, resulting in horrifically long wait time and difficult to access help, especially given doctors and surgeons have and are having their practices shut down because they aren’t considered proper by the NHS, despite being one of very very few who commit to this kind of work.

The transphobia in the UK runs far deeper than just tweets, and combining the aggressively transphobic attitude of a large portion of the population with the lack of healthcare due to wait times and difficulties with funding, you set up an incredibly difficult and dangerous position for trans people. Maybe this sounds like a bunch of complaints and nothing to people in the US, but people here are dying as a result of this. Please do keep this in mind when making anti-UK memes surrounding specifically transphobia.

also, our wait times for HRT have gone up to 6 years through the NHS.

There are officially English asylum seekers in places like New Zealand now because other countries have acknowledged that it is genuinely unsafe for trans people to stay in this country.

#when you say everyone in [insert place here] should die #you are also talking about the countless number people who are suffering there #and that makes you kind of a cunt

Also you need to understand that while engagement in Britain is off the charts it is NOT because there are a lot of transphobes - polls show brits are MORE accepting generally in fact. What this is actually showing is the small and completely insane network of online terfs in the UK who dedicate unfathomable amounts of time and energy solely to driving up engagement on transphobic content, the numbers are unbelievable. Britain is not a place full of transphobes, it's a place with very dedicated transphobes who have the backing of the government and a certain outrageously wealthy and bigoted author.

Fuck you #TARGET . i just want some God damned shoes

I just want some god damned clothes

i know we've already made a hundred jokes about it but oh my god. dean winchester escaping heaven with his car to save the multiverse is a real thing that happened. like that was airing on live tv in the year 2023. he drove. the car. and it took him to an alternate dimension where his parents were better people. you cant make this shit up

im sorry WHAT happened

are you in a position to receive information that might harm you

Wait I'm sorry WHAT???

okay so. tldr for anyone who didn't know anything about the supernatural prequel. november 19th 2020, the show ends with a mediocre at best ending. dean dies young and goes to heaven where he waits for sam to die for 30 years i guess idk. it was bad. no one is happy with it. one of the people who's maybe the least happy with it is jensen ackles, who's been playing dean winchester for the past 15 years

so half a year later he buys the rights to supernatural to make his own prequel show. kind of insane, i know. what's more insane is that the premise of the prequel contradicts canon. way back in season 5-ish it was established that mary and john winchester only got together through divine intervention because sam and dean's births were pivotal in the plan to start the apocalypse. it's long and complicated and i don't really want to explain the plot of the best two seasons of this show because it would take way too long but.

what you need to know is that the premise of the prequel does not make sense within the context of canon. jensen ackles and the writers are aware that this does not make sense. supernatural is also a show that has messed with the concept of alternate universes since the 5th season

the winchesters is a show revolving around mary and john winchester, who are sam and dean's parents. it covers their first meeting in the 70s and their hunting adventures. theyre also fighting against a previously unmentioned group of monsters called the akrida. central to defeating the akrida is this man who's apparently been fighting them and knows exactly what they are and what they're after. this man is dean

dean shows up in the last episode to explain everything. apparently this is in fact post-spn finale dean who escaped from heaven after his death. he caught wind of the akrida (who are monsters created as god's failsafe in case he was defeated. god was evil in the end, just roll with it) and left to help kill them. the world of the prequel show is an alternate dimension, presumably one where mary and john winchester get to leave the hunting life and be their own people free from the tragedy that eventually befalls them in the original show. no, destiel does not happen. yeah.

I unironically fucking love this. Absolutely losing my mind. Fucking hell Jenny.

I don't know what to do with this information, so I'm inflicting it on all of you.

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YOU CANNOT LEAVE THIS IN THE TAGS

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I ordered a second-hand book and I feel so bad. Not only is it signed by the author but it includes a personal inscription to the author's friend. If my friend wrote a book and gave me copy and included a note about how much they love spending time with me, you would need to pry that book out of my cold, dead hands.

I ordered a second-hand copy of a book online a few years ago, and when I got it, written on the blank page before the title page was a handwritten inscription that read "Happy 93rd Birthday - Sharon & Dennis".

Sure I felt a little sad at first to know that this book's original owner had parted ways with it, but also isn't it so wonderful to see that physical proof of the love that friends have for each other? I don't know the person who owned this book originally, I'll probably never meet them, in fact they're probably long gone at this point, given they were turning 93 when they were given it, but I know that 'Sharon & Dennis' loved them. Enough to buy them this book (which happened to be nonfiction and discussing a very niche, weird subject, so not just the kind of thing you'd grab for someone at the last minute) for their birthday and write a note in the front to remind them of that love. And just. How wonderful it is to have briefly brushed lives with a complete stranger.

That's such a lovely way of putting it. You're giving me feelings over here.

I hope the previous owner of that book had the most wonderful 93rd birthday.