Random Thoughts

[astfgyl]

   all involving velvet of some sort

[ochoill]

https://youtu.be/8jzEoX764x4

I don't know where else to post this but I can't get it out of my head anyway.

[astfgyl]

Was just reading an essay about the russian mobile incinerators in a paper from around a week ago and fucking move over pravda there's a new rag in town. Casting a critical eye on it, I don't think I've seen worse propaganda in real life. The hilarious part is that there are actually people believing it, which I thought was only an olden days thing. Fuck people are stupid beyond belief. If I had a phone I'd screenshot it but I don't so oh well. it's by David Patrikarakos in the Daily Mail from 6th August if anyone wants to tear their hair out while they're standing with ukraine. Here's another question, when one is standing with ukraine what is the correct etiquette? Should one stand still or does it count while walking/going to work etc? Will a simple flag in the bio beside my palestine and trans flags do the trick or do I actually have to do anything?

Maybe a yemen flag or something will salve my conscience as I consume consume consume

[astfgyl]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

Was reading this which I hadn't heard of. It sounds like something I'd be doing myself in the day to day. I do like a good fallacy.

[astfgyl]

This, although it's a rendering of sorts

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaqtRiFX0AI_KX5?format=png&name=small

[astfgyl]

This, although it's a rendering of sorts

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaqtRiFX0AI_KX5?format=png&name=small

Just posting this again because it really amazes me. I've given hours and hours thinking about the likes of this over the years. What even are we?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Blood libel wasn't randomly on my mind, fascinating story here for folk interested in history and/or genetics:
https://twitter.com/AdamRutherford/status/1564997067294007296

The deaths of 17 medieval Jews: An incredible new genetics paper has just dropped: The earliest Jewish genomes and the story of where they are from and how they died is incredibly important, and central to the origin of contemporary antisemitic conspiracy hatred.

[Eoin McLove]

Why is it Toe-blerone and not Toble-rone? 

[Mower Liberation Front]

Who'd win in a kung fu fight, Father McGruder from Brain Dead or Father Servo from NieR:Automata?

[astfgyl]

Why is it Toe-blerone and not Toble-rone? 

My old man calls a hotdog a hot dog. There must be some lad that eats the Toble rone.

Yknow the way the shape of a bar of chocolate can alter the taste in its way?

Well does anyone reckon that the pronunciation can have a similar effect on the perceived taste? Or even the name itself even if the pronunciation is entirely unambiguous, eg reckon a "Rape Sodomizing Catshit bar" might somehow taste worse than a "everyone loves fluffy clouds bar" even if it's the exact same bar in 2 different packets? Then we get to the intonation, and is it Catshit or cat shit or cat's shit?

[Eoin McLove]

Hot dog 

I sometimes hear Brits on telly pronounce icecream in a bizarre way. You know how most people stress the ice part- well these other folk (scum essentially) put the same emphasis on both parts... so ICE-cream becomes ICE-CREAM. It makes me fall out of my rocking chair and puts the heart across me every single time. One of my slippers went straight into the stove on one occasion and I had to fish it out with my pipe.

[Carnage]

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" - not if it was called a 'prolapse flower'.

[Eoin McLove]

Well as I always maintain, if meat balls were called ball meat nobody would go fucking near them.

[son of the Morrigan]

The fat on bacon, which me and every other self respecting Irish person refers to as "bacon fat" is called "fat bacon" by relatives of mine for some inexplicable reason.
Its not a big deal, but they deserve to burn for all eternity in the hottest part of the fires of hell for it.

[astfgyl]

A sodo mizing would be too good for the lot of the mispronunciating animals. Do you hear, a SODO MIZING