Hopefully the thought “it just feels wrong to say ‘god save the king’ and ‘his majesty’” will lead naturally to the realisation that yes, it should always have felt wrong and take a fucking look at yourself you abject lickspittle cunt
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Friday, 9 September 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
Gonna be weird calling that state above New South Wales, "Kingsland."
― pplains, Friday, 9 September 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
saw someone noting that after 70 years all the 'queen's counsel' lawyers have suddenly become KCs; i'm sure there are many more weird things like this
The King's English, for one.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 9 September 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
i think it's time to move to a gender-neutral anthem - won't need to keep changing it every few decades that way, and it'll piss off all the people i enjoy pissing off.
last night of proms cancelled as well. ha ha.
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
God Save the Qing
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 9 September 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
if we could abandon the dirge entirely, that would be ideal.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 9 September 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolean_era <- charles ii was carolean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_era <- charles i was caroline
so one of those, or something else. truss used carolean in parliament today but i wouldn't trust her to tell me the time of day so...
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
Mail-in ballot for "Caroliner Rainbow era"
― doug watson, Friday, 9 September 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
wow that's a deep reference.. I saw them a couple times
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
Chaotic and living out a retrospective dream that makes sense only to them?
Or at least that's what I gather from the couple of interviews I've read.Pioneer/frontier fixation that belongs in the 19th century.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 10 September 2022 06:27 (one year ago) link
a lot of noise tied in with pseudo nostalgic pseudo philosophy but apparently the show is good
― Stevolende, Saturday, 10 September 2022 08:47 (one year ago) link
that there's another one called Prince Edward
His main funfact may be his self-referential acronym: his name is Edward Antony Richard Louis, and he is Earl of Wessex.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 11 September 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
Nice. My Dad’s initials were DAD. <3
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 11 September 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
::D that's great
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 September 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
Rebel Without A Cause borrowed its title from a case study of a psychopath written by Robert M Lindner which is now thought to be a classic. Robert Hare has it cited as being the source of the film which i could half believe when I read it since there have been a number of films that have taken episodic sources and created a narrative out of them , book is based around a lot of interview transcripts. But no, it is apparently just the title.
I had heard that the film was supposed to be made several years earlier with Marlon Brando but it looks like he did his film test for the studio using one of the scripts based on the Lindner book and had nothing to do with the Dean film. Book had been bought with the intention of making a film out of it but that only got as far as several partial script versions being written.
I'm currently reading Robert hare's Without Conscience book 20 years after having met the author at one of the PsychSoc talks put on at the University i was attending. He is the psychologist who devised the Psychopathy Checklist which is the Psychopath test that Jon Ronson went onto write a book about
― Stevolende, Monday, 12 September 2022 09:30 (one year ago) link
I knew that Lou Reed's 1991 album, "Magic and Loss", was written in response to the deaths of his friends, Doc Pomus and "Rotten Rita" - pretty sure Lou said as much ad nauseum. One slight problem though, Rotten Rita didn't die until 2010.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2022 09:37 (one year ago) link
... 1992 album.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2022 09:39 (one year ago) link
Reid Miles, mastermind of the classic Blue Note album cover aesthetic, took the picture on the cover of Bob Dylan’s the Basement Tapes― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, December 6, 2021 1:41 PM (nine months ago)
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 September 2022 10:43 (one year ago) link
It was Robbie Robertson’s idea, apparently.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 September 2022 11:39 (one year ago) link
Joan Baez's mother was born in Edinburgh.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
Big Joan?
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 September 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
Her arms are too small and her head's like a ball, so I've heard.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
Not to be confused with Big Nancy.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 September 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
I just learned that P.D.Q. Bach orchestrated three Joan Baez albums.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 September 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
This week: that the Sean O'Hagan who writes for the Observer and the one in the High Llamas are two different people.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 September 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
it took a long time for me to figure that one out
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 12 September 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
think I learned that from this very thread
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 12 September 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
"sleeper prince"
I remember that Prince Edward tried to join the Royal Marines, but gave up after about six weeks into the training. Looking it up it seems he went to Cambridge as part of a scholarship deal whereby he would join the army after leaving university, but after graduating he put in a perfunctory effort and paid his way out. Apparently he got a 2:2 in History. Hearteningly the college let him study there despite the fact that his A-level results were dismal. But at least unlike e.g. Polly Toynbee he did finish the course and has a degree. It must have been tempting to get someone to do the work for him! And only do well enough for a 2:2 so as not to arouse suspicion. But that would be wrong.
It was probably a bad moment, but he just doesn't look very impressive in military uniform, despite carrying an SLR:https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/13/23/46504FB500000578-5079315-image-a-2_1510617058122.jpg
He still wears military uniform on special occasions, presumably because he's an honorary something or other. Prince Edward is fascinating in that he had all the ingredients to be a popular Royal but the execution was all wrong and no-one liked him. He just didn't look like a man who commanded respect. He had the air of Wesley Crusher about him but without the ability to reconfigure the phase matrix of the chronometric feedback loop:https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/3026200a/dba4e22e/Shutterstock_3026200a.jpg
Whereas conversely Prince Andrew came across as a massive arse even before The Modern Era and Princess Anne was obnoxious. I wonder if republicans rue Diana's memory. Without her the modern-day Royals would be an unappealing lot, instead of the universally-beloved people they are in our world.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 12 September 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
Prince Edward has never been fascinating even for a nanosecond. As for Princess Anne, she is literally the only one of the Queen's children anyone ever has anything good to say about, and always has been.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
haven't eaten it, but i had no idea squab was a fucking immature pigeon.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link
I have eaten squab and pigeon many times and never new that! Thought it was just a different bird.
― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 11:08 (one year ago) link
A hectare (100x100m) is made up of 100 ares (10x10m).
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
no way
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:32 (one year ago) link
What the hec!
― nickn, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
Wait till you hear about the decare
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
dan i’m not sure about that math
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
The math is right afaics?
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
...one hectare contains about 2.47 acres.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
wait what is an 'are'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as 100 square metres
okay, I learned a new word usage today
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
Wikipedia can’t be wrong surely?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Hectare_Diagram.svg
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
I've been reading about advanced LEGO techniques. They might come in handy one day. In particular I've learned about "SNOT", which stands for "Studs Not On Top". It's a technique where the studs are not on top:https://toweringbrickcreations.com/2022/01/20/isnt-that-stud-supposed-to-be-on-top-no-its-snot-building-sideways-using-lego/
That's not the thing I was shockingly old to learn. I knew that already. I've built LEGO models with studs not on top. No. The thing that I was shockingly old to learn is that wedging a piece into the gap between the studs is, or was, an actual legitimate official old-school LEGO technique:https://media.brickinstructions.com/00000_thumbs/0611/004.jpg
A legitimate technique from the instruction manuals. When I saw that image a weight lifted from my soul. I thought I was wrong. That I had been wrong. That what I did when I was younger was unnatural and wrong. But I realise now that there is no wrong. Everything is permitted. I was not wrong at all.
There is no centre. No edge. No solid ground. The universe is a mass of motion and nothing is at rest. Nothing.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
woah
― sweating like Cathy *aaaack* (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
(i had that Lego car)
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
Probably determines the width of a flat layer dunnit. Or that is the thickness.So not so arbitrary but absolutely planned. Intelligent design like.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
everything is very simple when measured in 16ths of an inch - a 1x1 brick is 5x5x6, stud is 1 high, diameter 3, walls are 1 thick, plates are 2 thick...
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
re maths yeah duh. i was thinking 10x100 = 1000. for some reason squaring always confuses my head
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:25 (one year ago) link
i also had that little car
ilx lego-cops assemble (all senses)!
― mark s, Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:28 (one year ago) link
ALCAB ("builders" of course)
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 15 September 2022 10:21 (one year ago) link
I technically still have that little car but it's in a giant bin of legos in my kids room
― joygoat, Thursday, 15 September 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link