well she weren't Puerto Rican that's for darn sure.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
what does that even mean
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
A reference to Maria in West Side Story I’m guessing.
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
yeah mortified that that might not be obvious
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
lol my bad!
fuckin musicals kill me (and i've even seen that one!)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
lol
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 10:43 (three years ago) link
The acknowledgment thing at the beginning of US zoom meetings, so presumably physical ones, where the chairman/main speaker acknowledges the native American tribe whose land they are on and where teh physical meeting would be taking place is also being done vby some i Australia.Was wondering how long taht had been going on in terms of the US since I only came across it when dropping in on talks over there. Seems to be something taht is being done at the start of all at least leftist talks, not sure if it is universal.Also not sure what percenatge of people are doing it in Australia but it was being done at teh talk i listened to this morning.
MNow wondering if it is a new thing and if it is being done elsewhere. THough not sure where has teh same kind of history with its indigenous population that is still within recognition of who that indigenous population is. Are there leftists doing it in Israel?& is it a thing in South Africa or anything?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
It's been done in Canada for a while, even by the PM. Idk how to embed Youtube videos but this p much sums up how I feel about it:https://youtu.be/xlG17C19nYo
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
I have actually never seen it in the US.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
I moved to Canada in 2014 and heard my first territorial acknowledgment shortly thereafter. I had never heard one in the US before then, but I tend to see the DAPL protests in 2016 as a turning point for Indigenous rights/issues finally getting some attention in the US, and I've since heard/seen it a few times there. It's de rigueur in Canada now to an at times perfunctory extent (for example, I don't know how meaningful adding it to your automatically generated email signature is), though I am pretty ensconced in academia
― dip to dup (rob), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
lol that Baroness von Sketch video is excellent, never seen that one
― dip to dup (rob), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
I worked in a Catholic school that has a land acknowledgment plaque, which I found a little bit sadlol.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
lol @ that sketch.
I've never heard of anyone doing this in Quebec fwiw.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
A year or two ago an old friend asked if I wanted to meet up at a ramen restaurant and it blew my entire fucking mind that ramen is an actual part of Japanese cuisine and not just cheap styrofoam-tasting packet noodles.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
There are some insanely good ones out there too
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
Ramen is the queen of soups
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
The slovenly medieval king of soups is potato leek
― pomenitul, Wednesday, June 24, 2020 2:17 PM (fifteen minutes ago)
wow really? I really am in a bubble then
― dip to dup (rob), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
heine and edward milliken both wrote poems called "death and his brother sleep"
i also remember and have mentioned on ilx a book of this same title (or possible "sleep and his brother death") by eric ambler that i remember my dad reading when i was maybe 10, remembering it bcz the title seemed so cool
anyway this doesn't seem to exist (not if written by eric ambler anyway)
it wd have been a thriller, probably spies rather than crime
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
Perhaps another testament to the franco/anglo divide?
xp
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
Never mind, several francophone universities have a 'guide de reconnaissance territoriale' now, which they adopted after their ROC counterparts. I was abroad for a year and a half so this explains that.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tdsb-indigenous-land-1.3773050
Is this still being done every morning in Toronto schools? Seems like it would become meaninglessly rote pretty quickly.
― jmm, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
blew my entire fucking mind that ramen
this is a good one
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_country btw
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
Harry Caray was born Harry Carabina, and was 1/2 Italian
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
Never heard of the indigenous greeting, but I've only lived in two places in the U.S.: The South, where they don't acknowledge anything, and in the Midwest, where they barely acknowledge each other.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 June 2020 00:48 (three years ago) link
The Catholic school I mentioned is actually a French Catholic school.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 25 June 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
In Australia pretty much all higher ed institutions "acknowledge country" at the start of all official meetings, that's been standard for ~ 5 years and patchy for ~ 5 before that. The national broadcaster SBS also acknowledges country on their Australian productions including the nightly news, but only in the credits. They also run NITV which is the national Indigenous network (and pretty interesting viewing more often than not).
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 25 June 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
i learned today that the official name of the state of rhode island is 'rhode island and providence plantations'
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Seal_of_Rhode_Island.svg/1200px-Seal_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
I think of Rhode Island as Providence + Brown + rugged coastal estates + bridge tournaments, but I'm sure there is more to it than that
― Dan S, Thursday, 25 June 2020 02:55 (three years ago) link
mafia and RISD
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 25 June 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link
We might not have the Talking Heads if not for RI.
― nickn, Thursday, 25 June 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
that was what I was missing
― Dan S, Thursday, 25 June 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
Glad no one's been murdered by cops up there recently. There might be hundreds of people inside that Wendy's.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 June 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link
That the second line of the ABC chorus runs "Are simple as do-re-mi". I just coded the "are simple as" bit as nonsense syllables in my brain and never bothered checking what it actually was.
― Alba, Friday, 26 June 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
Still don't really understand why it's not "as simple as".
― Alba, Friday, 26 June 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
in Vancouver a territorial acknowledgement is de rigueuer at the commencement of literally any event at which people will be talking
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
and I work at a university here and we are strongly encouraged to have a territorial acknowledgement in our email signature
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
I guess the 'are' must refer to 1-2-3, meaning that A-B-C isn't as simple as 1-2-3 itself, but as easy as the fact that 1-2-3 is as simple as do-re-mi.
xpost
― Alba, Friday, 26 June 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
Is that definitive? Because it might be "or simple as"
― Josefa, Friday, 26 June 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
I hear it as "ah simple as"
― Gin and Juice Newton (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 June 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII)Posted: June 24, 2020 at 11:14:31 PMmafia and RISDAnd mafia-fetishism and RISD fetishism.Rhode Island: the place where everybody knows a guy who can do that thing for you, as long as you’re willing to pay cash.
― rb (soda), Friday, 26 June 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
the clock tower song has a title and it is "Westminster Quarters"
― joygoat, Friday, 26 June 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
Peter Schmeichel's father was Polish... and a jazz musician!
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 June 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Just found out Sitting Bull was offed by the pigs ☹️
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 June 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
― Alba, Saturday, 27 June 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
Nothing "shockingly old" about this but this seems a good place for a minor piece of trivia I just learned.
The woman on the Sweetheart Stout can was Axl Rose's mother-in-law.
https://assets.sainsburys-groceries.co.uk/gol/7584523/1/640x640.jpg
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Sunday, 28 June 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
Damn
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 28 June 2020 01:40 (three years ago) link
the first 10 seconds of this album sound like a Large Professor beat
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 June 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
half a litre of 2% stout!
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Sunday, 28 June 2020 03:09 (three years ago) link