sanguinepar
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- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 6 hours ago:
Naggers?
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 1 week ago:
🙂
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 1 week ago:
Yugoslavia. Mainly because it’s not there anymore. Would love to go to Croatia again for the first time though.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 3 weeks ago:
Nothing wrong with red hair. Mine’s brown now, but was red when I was a kid, and I got bullied for it all the time. Fuck that noise, and fuck the way it’s just accepted as being socially ok to mock people for their hair colour.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 4 weeks ago:
Daaaaaaammmmnnnn. That’s a lot of vinyl. Lovely 😍
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 4 weeks ago:
For me, they are like saying “bread” and “braid” 😁
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a good question. I always wonder the same thing about the US vs UK versions of Craig and Graham.
US - “kregg”, “gram”
UK - “krayg”, “gray-um”
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 1 month ago:
I see you’ve got a rye sense of humour.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 1 month ago:
- Comment on Is streetwear a joke? 1 month ago:
He listed the items because that’s the rules of the sub.
- Comment on Is streetwear a joke? 1 month ago:
I don’t see anything wrong, or even odd about what he’s wearing. It’s just a jacket and some shorts. If I passed him in the street, I doubt I’d even register his clothes tbh.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 2 months ago:
No worries - the general point still stands though I think 👍
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
True happiness is something that should make you happy in the moment and in the long run.
I’m not sure I agree - why is a long term aspect necessarily for something to constitute true happiness?
If I can’t remember something, does that mean it didn’t make me “truly happy”?
If so, that would mean that a child given a toy they play with for years but eventually lose interest in and forget as they grow older, didn’t experience “true happiness” from that toy, which doesn’t seem right to me.
I don’t think permanence or longevity are factors in whether ones happiness is true or not.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Agreed - that’s why many people love, say, the Mona Lisa, or Starry Night.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think you’re going to have to provide a generally acceptable definition of “true happiness” - and a definition that isn’t contingent on the points raised in your question.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Depends on context - if said amiably between friends, it could be fine.
In the context of your comment about it being your boss who said it, and why, I’d say it’s pretty insulting (if not necessarily an intended insult).
It’s pretty dismissive of you as a person, instead focusing on your value (to his bar) in terms of attracting male customers. It’s not very respectful of you tbh.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 2 months ago:
The way Africa looked on maps has never had any bearing on my or probably anyone’s thinking of how important the country is in global politics or economics.
Africa isn’t a country though, it’s a continent. And one possible impact of the continent being represented much smaller than it really is, is people thinking of Africa as a country
- Comment on Why is "mythology" in the public domain in the first place? 2 months ago:
I would say because a lot of mythology comes from the oral tradition of storytelling, passed from person to person and age to age via spoken word and memory.
There’s actually a SUPERB podcast about Greek mythology, called Podyssey. It’s tremendously interesting, and the host, Alex Andreou, just did a 3 part epic on Aesop, both the person (or rather the ‘person’) and the Fables.
Well worth a listen, either just that one, or the whole show tbh.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 2 months ago:
one can argue all day about whether it’s appropriate to have a monarchy in the modern day
That was my main point, I wasn’t really talking about how expensive or otherwise they are (although admittedly it came from a misunderstanding of QE).
I’m from the UK, and it absolutely sickens me that we still have a monarchy, any monarchy (let alone this particular one). I’m opposed to monarchy in principle, and would be even if the specifics of our monarchy weren’t so repulsive.
Appreciate the detailed post, but the cost argument is just window-dressing for me. It’s the core concept I reject. Hopefully we can get shot of them one day.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 2 months ago:
She didn’t help much either though.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Completely agree. Dad is totally overstepping here, it’s none of his business whether OP arranges dates or not.
I’d refuse to go on the date out of general principle.
- Comment on xkcd #3125: Snake-in-the-Box Problem 2 months ago:
Took me a while to follow that too! The three examples of fails at the top each show instances where there are non-consecutive parts of the snake on adjacent corners - it’s the lines highlighted in red.
Basically no two parts of the snake that aren’t directly joined to each other in the snake are allowed to be on corners which are only a line apart.
I think.
- Comment on xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres 2 months ago:
Ha, I missed that! 😁
- Comment on xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres 2 months ago:
I actually kind of like this as a concept for showing the world!
- Comment on does this actually imply alcoholism or just snark? 2 months ago:
I’d say it’s more snark than implied alcoholism.
It certainly could be said in cases where the vicar is known/suspected to have a drinking problem, but it could just as easily be said, with no prior basis in fact, as a dig at someone, meant either nastily or humourously.
The fact that it’s a well-known phrase (including the “again” part) makes it all the more likely that it might be used even in cases where there’s no intended implication of a genuine drinking issue.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s where I discovered them too! Fabulous soundtrack to a fabulous film, I really should watch it again soon.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 2 months ago:
It’s not the same, but for upbeat choir stuff you might check out The Polyphonic Spree. I only really know this tune of theirs, but it might be worth a listen 👍
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 3 months ago:
First they came for the telephone sanitisers…
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 3 months ago:
But realistically civil war would break out because people would just refuse to leave. 40% of the US population is non-white, there is no way you are getting 130 million people to just leave the country peacefully.
Especially not when at least some of the white population would be on their side against those in favour of deportation. There’d be massive non compliance.