Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

sometimes you shd have second thoughts about posting yr second thoughts imo

I made a thread for that but sleepingbag wasn't who I had in mind

anyway, how about "the smoothie of class oppression is only made possible by the banana of bigotry"

Bill Gates don't like it

"Cartoons were once exponents of fantasy as opposed to rationalism. They ensured that justice was done to the creatures and objects they electrified, by giving the maimed specimens a second life. All they do today is to confirm the victory of technological reason over truth. A few years ago they had a consistent plot which only broke up in the final moments in a crazy chase, and thus resembled the old slapstick comedy. Now, however, time relations have shifted. In the very first sequence a motive is stated so that in the course of the action destruction can get to work on it: with the audience in pursuit, the protagonist becomes the worthless object of general violence. The quantity of organised amusement changes into the quality of organised cruelty. The self-elected censors of the film industry (with whom it enjoys a close relationship) watch over the unfolding of the crime, which is as drawn-out as a hunt. Fun replaces the pleasure which the sight of an embrace would allegedly afford, and postpones satisfaction till the day of the pogrom. Insofar as cartoons do any more than accustom the senses to the new tempo, they hammer into every brain the old lesson that continuous friction, the breaking down of all individual resistance, is the condition of life in this society. Donald Duck in the cartoons and the unfortunate in real life get their thrashing so that the audience can learn to take their own punishment."

Who was that?

Reads like Vaneigem?

In which case we are currently worrying the same cartoon duck

good guess: not vaneigem

i'm p sure ilx's research fu is a match for this

On my phone: too much work

https://rocknerd.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/adorno-thumbs-down.jpg

it's adorno - culture industry

beat me to it :( did a whole paper on that passage basically.

ok lena dunham

do you think George Jetson ever fucked his robot

https://i.imgur.com/h51GuQ5.jpg

HAHA EJACULATE HAHAHA

wooooo, sign me up!

everything is fucking terrible and reading this thread makes me feel terrible

what in the name of fuck is this thread

oh great

Lads

Lads

Lads

Did ye ever get this sorted

one more Lad in here and we'll have a full bunch requiring moderation

https://soundcloud.com/missy-kulik/09-lads-on-holiday

fuck you with a marble obelisk

http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/fightclub_1.jpg?resize=1100x740

more likely to be doing bizarre experiments on neighbourhood pets tbh

let's not actually drive him to full psychosis idk

*lets sleepingbag lie*

<3

i want to believe
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CjQKFoUdk4g/hqdefault.jpg

I'm not going to interfere with someone else being offended, I don't think that ever works. Not posting this:

"Much like today's widely socially acceptable terms idiot and moron, which are also defined as some sort of mental disability, when the term retard is being used in its pejorative form, it is usually not being directed at people with mental disabilities. Instead, people use the term when teasing their friends or as a general insult when in an argument." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retard_(pejorative) )

I did once see someone shame a thinkpiece writer for using "idiot" and the writer apologized for being ableist.

Is it still okay to say lowbrow, barbarian or philistine?

"Philistine" is offensive to Palestinians.

I'll continue to broadly use CHUD until the CHUD lobby strongarms people into using a more politically correct term.

Do many people ask to stop using philistine as an insult?

Barbarian is only an insult if used against somebody who is Ancient Greek. Pretty sure lowbrow didn't originate as a dis on Neanderthals

Cannibal-Americans are a much-maligned group, OL.

the idea that idiot retains ableist connotations seems pretty idiotic, like the kind of thing a soi-disant grammar pedant would be wrong about

actually a shambles is a slaughterhouse *pushes glasses up nose*

I thought lowbrow was anti-black?

general phrenology-type nonsense I think which had a racist component but wasn't exclusive in this case

like I was sort of joking above because I think the physiognomical belief was that a low brow suggested caveman-like tendencies and therefore low intelligence etc and this was definitely applied racially but also across the class spectrum etc

highbrow the concept as cultural praise originates in maybe the 1800s, from gall's phrenology (word is probably later): neanderthals were identified in the 1840s, and their qualities back-inferred from there (viz they must have been bad not good bcz brows low not high: thus the feelin-yr-bumps science, anyway)

in other words lowbrow did more or less originate as a diss on neanderthals, as did the adjective neanderthal :(

in fact it is we who are the monsters here (since we obviously entirely absorbed the entire strain, probably mostly by eating them)

it's their own fault for being so darned tasty

idiot actually means 'someone who does their own thing' it's actually a celebration of individuality kthx

"Philistine" is offensive to Palestinians.

lol no it's not