Dunking on London is good and proper but doing so by ridiculing Weird Foreign Foods is p dodgy imo. Ruby otm.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 09:26 (one year ago) link
Lol no that post is classic. Y is from the north (Preston I think) and yes, he is just a funny troll who knows exactly what he's doing.
Ruby's reply to that got more RTs than her own piece. Classic twitter.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 09:28 (one year ago) link
Oh well if it was classic and epic trolling I take it all back, Y has won the internet.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 09:31 (one year ago) link
He has! It's an appreciation revival. No criticism allowed.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 09:34 (one year ago) link
unimpressive trolling if you ask me, but I'm just annoyed because it whooshed over me!
― calzino, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 09:36 (one year ago) link
Tins is a British Muslim from Preston, it’s a bit for his audience who are all aware of this
― (who is an amazing ice cream maker by the way) (gyac), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 09:39 (one year ago) link
oh right - I see it now. Will take note that Tins is NOT Workington Man for the next time I read their posts!
― calzino, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 09:44 (one year ago) link
That's the joke jpg
It's a pretty good piece by RT, the piss take enhances it.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 10:11 (one year ago) link
Mark Dolan just has fags and a pint of Bass while he eats a pie stuffed with another pie No way this former stand-up has ever ordered a colourful drink with a foreign name, and he would never swill. More of a chugger. pic.twitter.com/dW3N9HdCUz— Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 (@HackBlackburn) July 14, 2023
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 14 July 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
negroni swilling? is he specifically targeting ILX?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 14 July 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
Kayleigh: You flip over to our commander-in-chief leaving his spin class and pilates with a drink in his hand… We did not elect pilates instructor. pic.twitter.com/JCjXaeHoN1— Acyn (@Acyn) August 24, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 August 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
how dare he? Trump would never exercise
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 24 August 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
Fox continues to carry water for Trump even after Trump casts them into the outer darkness.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 24 August 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link
many of their audience probably think that Pilates is some sort of Christ-killing demon association
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 24 August 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
also is she implying that he is walking around with an alcoholic beverage? because it looks like a smoothie to me
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 24 August 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
he went to pilates class, now he thinks he knows shit about plane crash???
graduate pilates school, then talk shit how bout tht
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Thursday, 24 August 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
This is just a bingo card
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-50-quid-hour-and-a-bit-troll-aphex-twin-at-field-day-reviewed/
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Sunday, 3 September 2023 12:46 (one year ago) link
if he'd done 2 hours of the hits any true Aphex fan would be outraged
― da elephant in daruma (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 September 2023 12:49 (one year ago) link
This was an attack, not a gig: stop-start blares, schizophrenic synths, artillery-fire drums with not a hint of structure
I don't see the problem.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 September 2023 13:00 (one year ago) link
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Sunday, 3 September 2023 13:08 (one year ago) link
“underwater basket-weaving”
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 10:04 (seven months ago) link
I have read that there is a native American tradition of weaving baskets in water (to make the materials more pliable). And that the use of the phrase to mean "doing something pointless" is potentially disrespectful.
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 12:36 (seven months ago) link
Much of this sort of thing is pretty racist when ye scratch the surface, and you usually don't have to scratch hard
― Ethinically Ambigaus (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 13:08 (seven months ago) link
A course on underwater basket-weaving was genuinely on offer at Reed College when I was a student there back in 1990.
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 13:14 (seven months ago) link
Surprisingly old, per Wikipedia:"The phrase in its pejorative sense has been used since at least the mid-1950s. According to a 1953 article in the Boston Globe on 'Hepster Lingo,' 'Any snap course in school is "underwater basket weaving.'"
― jaymc, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 13:46 (seven months ago) link
Also seeing references in 1960s congressional hearings, via Google Books:
SENATOR ALLOTT. But excuse me, Mr. Driver, I don't have my correspondence here on this but on this same subject, I am just as interested as you and the chairman or anyone else is in seeing that we don t get into the situation that we were in after World War II where we had universities setting up courses in underwater basket weaving, and all this sort of thing.MR. MONK. Chicken sexing.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 14:16 (seven months ago) link
So, it seems to partially reflect an elite anxiety, post-GI Bill, about the opportunities for more people to get college degree through new types of institutions/programs/curricula.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 14:39 (seven months ago) link
At my college (which is the east coast iteration of Piedie’s one) the ‘underwater basket-weaving’ dig was definitely in common use, even by the students.
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:15 (seven months ago) link
lol S my ex who went to your school (we've talked about this before) did a semester at Reed because of course he did.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:36 (seven months ago) link
My dad LOVED to use the underwater basket weaving thing when I was an English/creative writing major.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:37 (seven months ago) link
Weaving a basket underwater would actually involve a pretty good set of useful skills.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:48 (seven months ago) link
― kinder, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:35 (seven months ago) link
'Evergreen is harder than other colleges! You have design the curriculum, you even have to grade your own papers'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:42 (seven months ago) link
I took a few classes that could easily have been put into that umbrella- "Ability and Disability in German Film and Literature"— but perhaps unsurprisingly, these courses were often incredibly rigorous and taught by profs who knew their shit. (I went to midwestern version of Reed, fwiw)
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:43 (seven months ago) link
xxp I remember my father as well referencing underwater basket weaving, snickering under his breath
There was 'rocks for jocks' (geology 101) and 'clapping for credit' (music appreciation)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:44 (seven months ago) link
haha! i taught music appreciation for a while and it was extraordinarily fun
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:51 (seven months ago) link
the light of my life at the time. if i am being honest
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:52 (seven months ago) link
I bet that class was so fun both to teach and be a student in.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:11 (seven months ago) link
It really was. It was an honor to be given the opportunity and I’m glad I made the most of it. Haters can take their share elsewhere! It’s a great class if you need a humanities credit and have a teacher who doesn’t sleepwalk through the semester.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:30 (seven months ago) link
share - * hate
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:31 (seven months ago) link
big reveal is that underwater basketweaving was being taught for the benefit of Navy SEALS undercover as liberal arts college students who were using the skills learned therein to swim up to enemy ships frogman style and attach timed charges to the hulls with a swiftly woven basket
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 22:02 (seven months ago) link
when will we understand that everything is an op, everything has always already been an op
I forget what the actual course was but it was "math for liberal arts majors" - the professor walked us through everything using a TI-82 and then gave us all of the questions that would be on the tests in the exact order. He bragged about having 90% of his students get As, dude was awesome.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 22:05 (seven months ago) link
Then I took him for stats which should theoretically have been a real class but it was pretty much the same. I appreciate a professor who knows he's teaching things that only exist to fill in requirements.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 22:06 (seven months ago) link
re: Rocks for Jocks, I took an amazing course to fulfill my science requirement: "Volcanism 101." It was a class entirely about volcanos. Never thought I'd have so much fun in a geology class!!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 22:11 (seven months ago) link
Did you get to make a model with a baking soda/vinegar eruption?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 22:26 (seven months ago) link
i took an intro electronic circuits class which had a reputation for being easy. some people called it “shocks for jocks”. reader, i found it one of the most difficult classes i had ever taken.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 22:26 (seven months ago) link
geology is cool af, I took one course on the geology of the US’s national parks which was awesome, and another general geology course taught by someone who owned their own excavation company
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 22:28 (seven months ago) link
the actual zero-value classes are obviously in the business school
(my partner is a fibers prof; she can't swim though)
― rob, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 22:47 (seven months ago) link
Did you get to make a model with a baking soda/vinegar eruption?― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, January 31, 2024 2:26 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, January 31, 2024 2:26 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
No, but one of the jocks made a scale model of a volcano for a research project and "erupted" it in class.
I, on the other hand, found lots of archival footage of Nyiragongo and showed some wild footage of the lava lake at its center. Nyiragongo is the coolest active volcano, I think.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 23:01 (seven months ago) link