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EmptyVessel posted:The origin story of the head (or one of them) is indeed hilarious.  my actual personal favorite version of the story goes exactly the same up until Ganesh keeps his dad (who he doesn't recognize at this point, because hindu gods are often dumbasses on the tier of greek and norse mythology) out of the bathing spring, whereupon Shiva casually decapitates him, as you do, and goes in to chat with his wife "oh hey husband, good to see you back. How's our son doing on security?" "our... uh, he's doing great, but it occurs to me that I forgot to turn off the stove and put the cat in the dishwasher, be right back" *calls up all his dudes* "alright, guys, this is both very important and incredibly secret i need a head for a head transplant IMMEDIATELY, and it has to be on the down low" Ten minutes later: "see, wife? good as new!"
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Dabir posted:I'll take any excuse to break out the DK Illustrated Book of Myths. that is actually also an excellent story
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isn't the House of Lords basically worthless outside of having a middling NOPE button (which is admittedly fairly undemocratic) and a big DELAY button (which is eh), or am i getting my residual-nobility parliaments mixed up?
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lol, Smeeth - that's the most third-party offbrand rename of a name if I ever loving saw one... almost impostor like. Also helps when you spell impostor correct.
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impost imposter impostest i'm post 
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imposter and so’s my wife
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I've got big poster syndrome e: it's too early for reading, this joke has already been made but again this is all part of my condition don't judge me
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EmptyVessel posted:I was joking dude - just thought it was an amusing post/username conjunction. Genuinely sorry  I was a bit out of sorts when I posted (going to a funeral today yay!) and misread the room.Aye, Mills was doing Hindu, as you say, AND saying he was a Buddhist at the same time back then. The "twat about it" apology was what I meant about the rapidly walking it back. Probably didn't help that his previous band played an event where there were right wing anti-semitic speakers. You're a good dude/dudette whose posts I enjoy a lot so I hope we cool.
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The Ganesh story I know (learnt from amar chitra katha comics, so obviously definitive) is that Parvati was having a bath when Shiva wanted to bother her. Her handmaidens went doing a great job of persuading him to gtfo, so she created Ganesh to act as a bouncer. When Shiva turned up again, Ganesh struck him and sent him on his way. Shiva got mad, so he called up his disciples and Nanda, and sent them to deal with Ganesh. The kid is holding his own quite well, but Parvati is getting pissed off by all the noise, so creates/summons Kali and Durga (who are incarnations of her) and tells them to help out. With his disciples being utterly mullered, Shiva takes to the field again, and this time beheads Ganesha. Parvati comes out, goes ballistic on him, and tells him to fix this. Cue elephant head. Another Ganesh story is the reason he has a broken tusk. The sage Vyasa, chronicler of the Mahabharata said he was ready to have it written down, but once he'd started to tell it, he wasn't going to stop. This would require a divine scribe to transcript it. Ganesh agreed to do it, and started taking notes. At some point his pen broke, so he snapped off a tusk to use as a pen. Angrymog fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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I was going to say "pornman replaces rapeman" but on closer inspection it turns out that pornman is also himself a rapeman. Plus, its a different pornman to tractorpornman. It's a deep bench, but all sex criminals
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Ah the right honourable member for Langley. Strictly Protect. Shouldn't she be trained to be comfortable being an impostor? Edit: Correct US Embassy speak. Desiderata fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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I watched the film of that many years ago. Why does the memorial not like it? It didn't seem... bad
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Microplastics posted:I watched the film of that many years ago. Why does the memorial not like it? It didn't seem... bad The comments on that thread provide some of the details, but from what I remember: - there weren't kids at Auschwitz - the book invites you to feel for the plight of the kid of a Nazi commandant, which is something like the novelistic equivalent of that joke about yer grandad dying in WW2 because they fell out of the guardtower
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Failed Imagineer posted:I was going to say "pornman replaces rapeman" but on closer inspection it turns out that pornman is also himself a rapeman. Plus, its a different pornman to tractorpornman. It doesn't bode well because pornrapeman, IIRC, decided to blame the porn for being a corrupting influence on his otherwise innocent and pure soul. Or maybe that was the guy who bought porn on his virgin media account and claimed it on expenses. Or tractor porn guy. There's been so many!
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Ah the kanye defence.
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Microplastics posted:I watched the film of that many years ago. Why does the memorial not like it? It didn't seem... bad franco posted:Aye, Mills was doing Hindu, as you say, AND saying he was a Buddhist at the same time back then.
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Microplastics posted:I watched the film of that many years ago. Why does the memorial not like it? It didn't seem... bad I couldn't tell you, having never read the book nor watched the film but I do think kids (& tbh adults too sometimes) aren't always the best at differentiating between works of historical fiction & something like Anne Frank's Diary. A cursory look at an article on the topic (https://gcedclearinghouse.org/sites/default/files/resources/The%20boy%20in%20the%20striped%20pyjamas.PDF) suggests the book implies that people outside those directly involved in the camps were unaware of the horrors, which is generally regarded as either untrue or only true because people were deliberately revelling in their ignorance of what was directly in front of them. If you did it in IDK, media studies or something & explicitly point out the differences between reality & fiction, that seems one thing, but a teacher would have to be explicit in that (age-dependent) Honestly though, I just think an opera featuring a line “Why is that fence there? Why is that fence there?” is pretty funny in a gross kind of way. Maybe this is my own prejudices but I'm not really sure how you do musical theatre on a subject like the Holocaust without trivialising something of this magnitude of tragedy. Because musicals are inherently silly. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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I think the answer is probably "do not do Holocaust: The Musical unless you are Mel Brooks"
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They would have been hard pressed not to notice given that, for example, the T4 program was sufficiently well known as to merit a denouncement by the pope in 1940.
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I think Boyne just wanted to make a gentle story about childhood innocence with this sort of horrific background for dramatic irony or whatever. But he was not the right guy for the job and his presumably good intentions don't really matter for poo poo based against the weird choices he makes and his hubris for plowing ahead with. And then he kinda shat all over himself on Twitter defending it/himself. It's weird though, because he has some other books where he is a lot more nuanced and sophisticated, I guess when he sticks to topics he had a more personal understanding of.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I think Boyne just wanted to make a gentle story about childhood innocence with this sort of horrific background for dramatic irony or whatever. But he was not the right guy for the job and his presumably good intentions don't really matter for poo poo based against the weird choices he makes and his hubris for plowing ahead with. And then he kinda shat all over himself on Twitter defending it/himself. Aye, not sure a guy who says he did the first draft while staying up for 60 hours is the right choice for a book about such a emotive subject
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forkboy84 posted:Aye, not sure a guy who says he did the first draft while staying up for 60 hours is the right choice for a book about such a emotive subject The same guy who did so little research for one of his novels that he used a red dye recipe from Legend of Zelda
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Just Another Lurker posted:Aww bollocks... my interest piqued when you mentioned Babylon 5, but then quickly died. Who bought Dodi Fayed an account?
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Shameless posted:The same guy who did so little research for one of his novels that he used a red dye recipe from Legend of Zelda That was the same guy? loving rad.
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That's the kind of "wrong, but very specifically wrong" that literary historians in 100 years will love if we've somehow still remembered those books and forgotten Zelda and still have a society by then.
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Hard to argue with this… https://twitter.com/planetjedward/status/1612839202894319617
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/11/labour-plans-to-embed-career-advisers-in-health-services-to-help-people-into-work Labour will “put health and wellbeing” at the heart of its employment strategy by embedding career advisers in health services, including addiction clinics, rehab centres and primary care, the party has said. New Labour rear end policies
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Seems Boyne also recently wrote a book about trans people that had its heart in the right place and its foot in the wrong mouth.
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forkboy84 posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/11/labour-plans-to-embed-career-advisers-in-health-services-to-help-people-into-work "Doctor, doctor I'm having a heart attack!" "Have you considered a career in finance?"
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People don't get "written off", the DWP won't let that happen which is why they keep tormenting people who are clearly not fit for work, so it is hard to parse the idea of adding more DWP psychos to every facet of life to hound people who have had to disengage from jobseeking because it's too loving miserable, as anything other than a threat.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-regulation/staff-on-high-alert-over-fake-health-secretary-/7033991.article He turned up in a shirt with his sleeves rolled up and talking complete bollocks, of corse they thought they were from the government.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:if shiva cut ganesh's head off and was able to replace it, why not just put the original head back on instead of pestering a poor unrelated elephant 3 second rule, innit
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:if shiva cut ganesh's head off and was able to replace it, why not just put the original head back on instead of pestering a poor unrelated elephant Coz who doesn't want an elephant headed child?
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