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I didn't have my phone on me, or I'd have snapped a pic. If folks are curious I'll try to get one on my way to/from work tomorrow. I was walking past the neighborhood dive bar, and there was a new poster in the window. It featured a photo of some smiling, laughing women, looking like they were enjoying some good clean girls night out fun. KEEP HEROIN OUT OF THE PICTURE [then a bigger font] NOT YOU Erm.... I guess the message is "heroin, it's not for you", but goddamn that phrasing made me actually back up and do a double take. My brain immediately parsed it as "keep heroin out of the picture you're gonna share on FB --- but not out of you!" I don't live in Cracktown USA, but our neighborhood definitely has a heroin issue --- I walk to work around 4am and it's not uncommon for me to spot syringes along with the empty 40s in the alleys I use as shortcuts, or behind my workplace's dumpsters. So good on this bar for trying to promote a positive message; but is it just me, or does that not scan well at all? JacquelineDempsey has a new favorite as of 20:29 on Mar 24, 2018 |
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Wendy's put out a bit tape on Spotify called We Beefin' that's either dumb or brilliant
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Mar 24, 2018 20:31
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I didn't have my phone on me, or I'd have snapped a pic. If folks are curious I'll try to get one on my way to/from work tomorrow. I was walking past the neighborhood dive bar, and there was a new poster in the window. It featured a photo of some smiling, laughing women, looking like they were enjoying some good clean girls night out fun. Now I may be dyslexic as gently caress, but it took me three readthroughs and a good think before I could figure out what the gently caress it was saying. And yeah, my first read though I kinda assumed they were asking very politely that bar patrons do heroin in the alley and then come in like proper addicts. I live in a drug den neighborhood and I have never seen posters like that around here. That's actually kinda nice, even if it doesn't scan well. Made you look twice and consider avoiding heroin.
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Mar 25, 2018 12:50
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I think what they were trying to imply is that someone was missing from the picture because she was in the bathroom taking heroin, or passed out or dead or something.
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Mar 25, 2018 12:57
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I get "Don't take heroin! Not you, you're good, shoot it while you got it."
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Mar 25, 2018 12:58
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Part of the problem may be that it's a bad parallel construction: "Keep heroin out of the picture--don't keep you out of the picture" doesn't scan grammatically. "Don't let heroin keep you out of the picture" would have been much better.
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Mar 25, 2018 14:18
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I can see where the phrasing came from - if you are being told that you aren't the target of a thing, the phrasing may be "No, no, we wanted Jessica out of the picture, not you!" the difference being that you don't expect Jessica to end up inside you outside of very specific circumstances, so you don't think to read it that way. (That could be read as "Not out of you" as well but most people wouldn't) They just didn't think that the second meaning is what most people will think of when it's something that often does end up inside you.
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Mar 25, 2018 14:23
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Some nerd has made some videos about the rise and fall of various food chains that's pretty interesting. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBE1BG1CE-80TjC1z_wjOUw
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Mar 25, 2018 14:58
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Oh my god his content is amazing but his delivery is murderous, at least on the first few videos. I'm gonna power through because I'm as big a nerd as the guy in the videos, and this is some cool poo poo.
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Mar 25, 2018 15:39
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fizzymercy posted:Oh my god his content is amazing but his delivery is murderous, at least on the first few videos. I'm gonna power through because I'm as big a nerd as the guy in the videos, and this is some cool poo poo. Man, there are so many youtubers that I can't handle watching because of their delivery. Which is a shame coz some of the stuff they produce is great.
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Mar 27, 2018 09:31
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Rondette posted:Man, there are so many youtubers that I can't handle watching because of their delivery. It's the same reason I don't watch my friend's babies when they ask. That poo poo's gross.
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Mar 27, 2018 13:53
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Rondette posted:Man, there are so many youtubers that I can't handle watching because of their delivery. Which is a shame coz some of the stuff they produce is great. Same but male porn stars
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Mar 27, 2018 14:39
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oldpainless posted:Same but male porn stars And on a cloth couch too!
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Mar 27, 2018 20:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_u_-OD1_z0 You have to wonder how many people can sign off on this without noticing it's a teeny bit racist.
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Mar 27, 2018 23:13
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There is an entire goddamn line of Broad City sex toys.
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Mar 28, 2018 00:02
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food court bailiff posted:There is an entire goddamn line of Broad City sex toys. I'm guessing it's not in collaboration with folks at Realldoll, right?
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Mar 28, 2018 00:11
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Planned Parenthood called for Disney princess 'who's had an abortion' in now-deleted tweetquote:Planned Parenthood Keystone, a branch of the health service provider based in Trexlertown, Pa., tweeted that, "We need a disney princess who's had an abortion / We need a disney princess who's pro-choice / We need a disney princess who's an undocumented immigrant / We need a disney princess who's actually a union worker / We need a disney princess who's trans".
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Mar 28, 2018 03:39
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aren't disney princesses traditionally, like, high-school age girls
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Mar 28, 2018 04:53
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Sagebrush posted:aren't disney princesses traditionally, like, high-school age girls Are we talking about cartoon characters or humans in costume?
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Doggles posted:Trexlertown, Pa They had a game preserve here when I was a kid. It might be a zoo now. Little herds of bison, elk, and palomino horses, and I was addicted to the river otter exhibit. As you're leaving, there was a little ford over a creek with good places to park nearby to picnic and then mess around in the water. A+++ day for a kid. Weird place for anything progressive to come from, though.
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Sagebrush posted:aren't disney princesses traditionally, like, high-school age girls I mean in theory a teenager could be all of those things. I do not think a movie about a Disney princess who was a prochoice trans person who used her union insurance to get an abortion would go over well though.
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Mar 28, 2018 05:15
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I'd settle for a Disney princess with HIV
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Mar 28, 2018 05:19
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Mu Zeta posted:I'd settle for a Disney princess with HIV A pædophile and a bug chaser?  Sorry, that’s a terrible thing to suggest about someone.
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Mar 28, 2018 05:25
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Len posted:I mean in theory a teenager could be all of those things. I do not think a movie about a Disney princess who was a prochoice trans person who used her union insurance to get an abortion would go over well though. Tumblrella and the Seven Genderfluid Little People would be a dope movie, son.
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Mar 28, 2018 05:26
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Screaming Idiot posted:Tumblrella and the Seven Genderfluid Little People would be a dope movie, son. This sounds like one of those internet trainwreck stories like the Final Fantasy 7 House.
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Mar 28, 2018 08:47
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Screaming Idiot posted:Tumblrella and the Seven Genderfluid Little People would be a dope movie, son. trans princess would be fine, since kids can struggle with gender identity. kids dont really have a connection with abortions or unions
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Mr. Flunchy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_u_-OD1_z0 https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/978965055143161856
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Mar 28, 2018 13:06
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mandatory lesbian posted:trans princess would be fine, since kids can struggle with gender identity. kids dont really have a connection with abortions or unions Well, at least they shouldn't. Also, jokes aside, I would totally support a Disney flick with a trans protagonist.
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Mar 28, 2018 13:59
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Doggles posted:Planned Parenthood called for Disney princess 'who's had an abortion' in now-deleted tweet good the tweet, not that it was deleted
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:good The union bit was a little odd to me, but otherwise, yeah, a Disney movie that dealt with trans issues or abortion? That would be some interesting stuff.
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Mar 28, 2018 17:41
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The IWW has a junior division - they're called "Junior Wobblies" or "Junior Wobs." 
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Mar 28, 2018 17:50
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Avenging_Mikon posted:The union bit was a little odd to me, but otherwise, yeah, a Disney movie that dealt with trans issues or abortion? That would be some interesting stuff. I don't know that I'd trust Disney to do it without a heavy hand and making it feel pandering, though. Maybe Pixar?
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Mar 28, 2018 18:33
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:The IWW has a junior division - they're called "Junior Wobblies" or "Junior Wobs." Wait, Wobblies? I’d heard "throwing a wobbly" as slang for having a tantrum. Related? SpacePig posted:I don't know that I'd trust Disney to do it without a heavy hand and making it feel pandering, though. Maybe Pixar? Same company 
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Mar 28, 2018 18:39
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Same company Same company, different studios.
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Wouldn't be hard to do, maybe a story about a a guy that always wanted to be a princess and makes a Faustian bargain with the villain to become a woman and a princess and the twist being that she was meant to be a princess all along but the villain hexed the mom to make the person biologically male for ~reasons~.
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Mar 28, 2018 19:07
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Wait, Wobblies? I’d heard "throwing a wobbly" as slang for having a tantrum. Related? a quick search shows the etymology of "chuck a wobbly" is unclear. the reason IWW members started calling ourselves Wobblies is similarly unclear. on the other hand me dad used to call me "a bit bolshie" when I was defiant, and that's definitely a reference to "bolshevik."
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Edit: ^^^ Good to know I wasn't accidentally being a gigantic rear end in a top hat then. I'm still going to stop using the term, just in case. IWW is good peeps.SpacePig posted:Same company, different studios. True, I look at it more like different imprints than different cultures, but I don't really know about how it's structured over there beyond the rare article I skim. The culture could be significantly different between studios. So yeah, the PIXAR side would likely end up with a better movie about those topics.
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Not quite transgender Unless you're breitbart.
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Panfilo posted:Wouldn't be hard to do, maybe a story about a a guy that always wanted to be a princess and makes a Faustian bargain with the villain to become a woman and a princess and the twist being that she was meant to be a princess all along but the villain hexed the mom to make the person biologically male for ~reasons~. Caeneus. Born Caenis, she Then you can end with the Centauromachy, where he killed six centaurs to rescue a wedding party. "Despite his success in battle, another Centaur, Latreus, chided Caeneus for having been born a woman. Caeneus would throw his spear at Latreus, but his aim was slightly off, and only grazed the Centaur. Latreus himself would throw his own lance at Caeneus, but despite Latreus hitting Caeneus in the face, the lance caused the Lapith no injury, for Caeneus’ impenetrable skin protected him. Latreus would close in on Caeneus to use his sword, but neither thrust nor blow could harm Caeneus, and indeed the sword of Latreus would fracture through the effort. Caeneus then took up his own sword, and thrust it easily into the side of Latreus; Caeneus killing his sixth Centaur." Unable to injure him, the centaurs instead buried him under trees and rubble, but the gods turned him into a beautiful tawny bird and he escaped.
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