No. Hollywood has an older man problem.
this is so gross
I wish I could remember the name of the actress who went ballistic after being told that, at 35, she was too old to play the love interest for the 55-year-old lead.
It was Maggie Gyllenhall. And I stand corrected, she was 37.
Damn
I want to go back in time and rescue teenage Scarlett Johansson tbh
bro Scarjo was so fucking hypersexualised, and it’s still going on……that shouldn’t happen to anyone smh,,,,,fucking hate it here
The most impressive communal shitpost I’ve yet seen from a linguistics Facebook group
If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?
The Drama of The Gifted Child, Alice Miller (via dramachild)
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bipch erastosthenes schooled b.o.b. 2,230 years ago
Ok so this is cool but I always wondered how they knew the shadows were different at the same instant. I mean it is not like they had phones. How did they sync up that instant. I feel like that would be interesting to know but no one ever says.
^^^Does anybody know this one? How, that far apart, the time at which the shadows were observed was synced up? I am genuinely curious, not a goddamn moron asking a gotcha question. High/Low tide? (I live in the middle of the country I do not know for the precise habits of tidal activity.) The appearance of a star (or planet) in the sky? Something as utterly mundane as sunrise?
Well, first of all, it wasn’t actually pillars! Eratosthenes was told about a well in Syene that, in the summer solstice every year (June 21st) would be illuminated at the bottom entirely and without any cast shadows. This indicated that the sun was directly overhead. Going off that well known curiosity and an intelligent hunch, our dude Eratosthenes waited until high noon of the summer solstice to measure the angle of a shadow cast by a stick in Alexandria. (Sidenote: Eratosthenes was a librarian of the infamous Library of Alexandria.)
His next course of action was to hire bematists, surveyors of the time whose professional specialty was to measure distance by walking with equal length steps. They measured a distance between Alexandria and Syene of about 5000 stadia. (Guess where the word stadium comes from.) Once he had that measurement, Eratosthenes did his math-y thing, and there you have it.
ANSWER EVEN COOLER THAN I HOPED!!
Eratosthenes’ work was thorough enough that by the time he finished revising his calculations, he ended up only 66 km off of the actual polar circumference of the Earth, or an error margin of 0.16%. [wiki]
every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking
it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.
Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends
every time i see this post i’m reminded of the video of 65,000 people singing bohemian rhapsody in near-perfect harmony
like, what other song can make that claim?
Some of the highlights of that video include:
- The crowd cheering after the first stanza when they realize what they’re all doing
- So many people audibly ‘doing the guitar parts’… like ya do
- The sheer number of voices joining the rediculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)
- How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stomp me”
- Hands up, hundreds, thousands deep for the final “ooooo”s and the last line to close the song
Just saw this on a post and thought I'll start a fun challenge ;) : **#that's why I didn't study Humanities#it's only text over text#no empirics there.** Isn't data just as much text as text? Something in need of interpretation?
Hello! I hope everything is alright over there and you and your loved ones are well.
I feel I need more knowledge or proficiency (of English and actual theory XD) to answer, but I will give it a go.
Well, Clifford Geertz (I studied Social Sciences once) said something similar, that understanding a culture was finding the meaning, so, it would be, in fact, interpretation. And most of the new developments in the field are very linked to linguistics and discourse. I think there are some valuable approaches, but I tend to be a positivist, so, for me, postmodernism isn’t that great. Discourse is a part, but language and text aren’t the whole social reality. Why? Because people tend to say something and do the opposite, so you have to contrast with their behavior and others (the famous triangulation) and you have to take a lot of factors. It’s true that is an interpretation and a subjective one and it always will be like that in some way.
What I meant is that, even if I love Literature, I didn’t study it for two reasons: i) I think it would have killed my interest once it became a duty (that sort of happen with my career), ii) I like some meta anaylsis once in a while, but analysing a text from a textual perspective and a framework that is mostly text is too self-reference for me. It has a value and cool if that is your jam, but I need some empiricism, to contrast with different types of sources and types of data and such.
I don’t know if it’s understandable, ha, ha, Well, I tried :)
Thank you for taking the time to answer and for asking about my loved ones. We are all fine, no sicknesses yet and more healthy numbers in Germany now due to a rather rigorous regime of lockdown and social distancing. Most people here are relatively tame. But COVID-19 is far from over.
I totally understand your point of view. Philology can be a bit of a l’art pour l’art, which isn’t so thrilling for most people. Wobbly and yes, self referencing, but IMO still a nice tool for creating an understanding of the human condition.
My brother, who is a physicist, and I had a lot of fights about the pros and cons of fact and fiction. And we were both right and wrong all the time. :D
I am not that into theory and understanding anymore as well unfortunately, got old and forgetful over the years, so can’t really get too deeply into it. But I noticed a really interesting thing:
When I was at uni (blimey, 20 years ago!!!), positivism was kind of a swear word, totally out of fashion. We were all into hermeneutics, into constructivism and deconstructivism (although following a specific paradigm wasn’t cool as well among our group of philologists, you had to know them all but not become a cult-member). Zeitgeist, it’s always just zeitgeist. ;)
Now, empiricism and the absolute respect for numbers and facts are experiencing a massive renaissance among researchers, a deserved one, and I think it is due to the current political climate, which does not oppose empiricism with hermeneutics but with anti-factualism (does that work in English? You could kind of use it in German).
In a culture where people ask how you’re doing as a symbol of politeness and not out of any sincere desire to actually Know, you are equally expected to answer with some vague polite affirmative (“it’s going good/fine/ok”). Being truthful and saying “it’s not going well/its going bad” implies intimacy and invites further questions about your personal life. So somehow the alternative has become that being exactly neutral conveys a sense of negativity and gets the point across without opening yourself to invasive questions from strangers (Who, once again, are probably only asking them because this is the politness script) and honestly it’s kinda buckwild.
Question to my German and French followers: In these cultures, is it ok to answer truthfully and openly to the question “Wie geht es dir/Ihnen?” or “Ça va?/Comment allez-vous?”?
someone asked me what fifty shades of grey was the other day and I was stumped as to what answer I could give that definitely wouldn’t prompt further questions.
discreet footnote links appear for “BDSM”, “Twilight”, “fanfiction”,
“What’s 50 Shades of Grey?”
“Oh dear, that’s a very complicated question. Let me start at the beginning: in the 1820s, Joseph Smith started a new religion called Mormonism, which grew rapidly before…”
Unrelated to this movement, in 1897 the Irish author Bram Stoker published a book called Dracula; although this was not the first work in the vampire fiction genre, it established much of the framework of how future works would be viewed, even when they deliberately avoid some of the tropes.
Donatien Alphonse François was born in 1740, but the world remembers him as Marquis de Sade, who gave his name to
Published in 1597, Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet is one of the most famous examples in a tradition of stories about young, forbidden love
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common conception includes the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) and the U.S. states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Broader conceptions reach north into Southeast Alaska and Yukon, south into northern California, and east to the Continental Divide to include Western Montana and parts of Wyoming. Narrower conceptions may be limited to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains. The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region’s history, culture, geography, society, and other factors.
While the concept of fanfiction is a relatively modern concept related to the rise of copyright law, the concept of creating fiction using the ideas and characters from a previous work of fiction is historically well-attested right from the literature of Ancient Greece where authors worked and reworked already existing myths into new genres.
Most of medieval literature kind of is fanfiction. Variations, experiments with tropes, smutty versions of well known pre-existing stories, translations, parodies...
Monschau Germany
Monschau is a small historical town located in the hills of the North Eifel in North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen) in Germany, situated just 4 km across the Belgian border. The picturesque old town center has many preserved 300 years old half-timbered houses along the river Rur.
© J.Höhn
Here’s some fun facts about one of my favorite stories being told in Hamilton: this is Ariana Debose, who plays a special role within the ensemble known as The Bullet. She’s killed for suspected espionage right after You’ll Be Back, and is the first one to die (not counting Hamilton’s mother or cousin who hangs himself). After this moment, she becomes an omen of death. At the beginning of Stay Alive, she carries a shot that narrowly avoids hitting Hamilton. In Yorktown, she helps Laurens kill a redcoat, shakes his hand, then Laurens is the next to die. In I Know Him, she’s the one bringing the message to King George about John Adams and symbolically heralding the impending doom of Hamilton’s political career. During Blow Us All Away, she’s the one who tells Phillip where to find George Eacker, (and flirts with him! Phillip is literally flirting with death!) then Phillip is the next to die. In Your Obedient Servent, she brings the desk on stage and hands Burr the quill to write the first of several letters that will eventually lead to Alexander Hamilton’s death. During the final duel, she again catches a bullet (fired by Burr), and if you watch her, she gets closer and closer to hitting Hamilton while he’s doing his soliloquy until Eliza pops onto stage. At this point, The Bullet is stopped by other members of the ensemble, the time freeze is abandoned, and we all know what happens next. (soure: JC Payne)
This absolutely works and provides you free amusement
NO REALLY, TRY IT. Try it with any kind of inappropriate humor. Sexist, racist, homophobic, all of it. Look at them blankly, say, “I don’t get it.” And watch the discomfort with the old timey pleasure of a rich old lady wearing pearls.
Hamilton Final Bow
Watched it, LOVED it. What poetry!
Dan Stevens as Alexander Lemtov in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020) dir. David Dobkin.
How very dare you Daniel………