Brawnfire posted:

Coco

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

"High Noon" is when the sun is at its zenith, if you mean 12PM local time then you just say "noon".

root beer posted:

OJ Simpson, on the other hand, is not
Also, I recently learned that Gene Hackman is still alive and 94, but he looks every bit his age

Grillfiend posted:

Tom Lehrer is still alive and turned 96 a few days ago

FreudianSlippers posted:

The chai tea of reptiles.

Brawnfire posted:

The population of the land of the dead in Coco is kind of an odd thing to consider. The only people there either are in the memory of living people and/or still have a portrait on an ofrenda. An art piece or painted portrait also seems to count on an ofrenda same as a photo, so you could have people from like the medieval era possibly still there.

The ofrenda portrait is only necessary to visit the land of the living on Dia de los Muertos. However, those no longer in the memory of anyone living vanish from the land of the dead, the Final Death. So without ofrenda portraits, that's maybe two generations of staying power before anyone who met you in life is dead themselves.

So the population is basically comprised of:

1.) People with a single portrait kicking around from antiquity on, of which the identity is known and cared about. Probably wealthy families or historical figures, well-represented and beloved celebrities, artists.

2.) A disproportionate bias towards people born after the advent of photography, probably the majority of the land of the dead. A lovely little blurry pic from 1888 that says "Papa" could potentially keep some dude going in the afterlife indefinitely.

It's interesting to consider that the Land of the Dead has probably grown hugely in just the past century or two, with an ever-increasing upward trend as photography and digital imagery becomes more commonplace. Instead of everyone who dies spending on average a couple living generations in the land of the dead then going on to the Final Death, suddenly nearly everyone who showed up was both there indefinitely AND had access to the land of the living via the ofrenda offering, probably necessitating the complex bureaucratic infrastructure witnessed in the film.

In summation, far from being an eternal afterlife, the Land of the Dead in Coco is a crowded limbo rife with exaggerated inequity reflecting the inequity of the living world.

Tree Bucket posted:

Or the spotted pardalote! Pardalote just means spotted. So it's the spotted spotted.
They are however quite hard to spot.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

It used to mean that back before we had mechanical clocks (the phrase goes back to at least 1370 according to the OED) but it hasn't actually meant that in practice for a long time now. In the 1952 movie High Noon Gary Cooper was always glancing at his pocket watch or the clock on the wall as it got closer to noon, he wasn't running outside to check a sun dial or the length of the shadows

If you can find an example where they stand around measuring the shadows before they agree to start the shoot out I'll concede the point but I don't like your chances, lol

sebmojo posted:

Huh, noon is a corruption of the ninth hour (nona hora), and it used to be 3pm because monks got up at 6. TIL.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

'Galapagos tortoise' is a tautological name since 'galápago' is Spanish for 'tortoise'. Explorers named the islands after the tortoises.

Hyperlynx posted:

People responding to dating app prompts of "What is your love language" with "acts of service" aren't being weird, demanding or kinky, they're quoting an early 90s book that defined five specific "love languages" that apparently everyone is intimately familiar with.

All they actually mean is "doing nice things for me"

3D Megadoodoo posted:

my love language is german

3D Megadoodoo posted:

my love language is german

Hyperlynx posted:

People responding to dating app prompts of "What is your love language" with "acts of service" aren't being weird, demanding or kinky, they're quoting an early 90s book that defined five specific "love languages" that apparently everyone is intimately familiar with.

All they actually mean is "doing nice things for me"

rollick posted:

There's a popular channel on YouTube called Vsauce, and there's a popular guy on Youtube called Vinny Sauce, but they aren't related.

credburn posted:

I've asked three different people what the hell a "love language" is and I've gotten three very different responses. The term is definitely popular, but I didn't know it came from a book and I bet the three people I know who regularly use this term don't know it came from a book either.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

DACK FAYDEN posted:

the original concept is actually not awful - it's really fairly straightforward when you say something like "some people are touchy-feely, some people like to do little favors for their partner, some people like to buy gifts, some people like to express love with words, some people really like to just spend time with their partner", and then obviously you can have a preference to receive that isn't your preferred way to express

...but, of course, the book was written by a Baptist minister to begin with and has gotten more and more cargo-culted through the years.