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Nevertheless, She Persisted

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calamitys-child

What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas

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sassysousa

Canadian Columbine - Aquilegia canadensis

And also all the Milkweeds but particularly Asclepias tuberosa, Butterfly Weed

Both native to the midwestern US among other places on Turle Island, Columbine is very very very easy to grow from seed, while I would actually recommend purchasing grown plants or plugs of Butterfly Weed. I'm not sure why but I just have such trouble starting it from seed in a garden setting (as opposed to a prairie reconstruction/restoration)

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speakingofdoorknobs

Pretty much any member of the onion family, but chives in particular have gorgeous flowers - purple puffballs that still taste faintly oniony so you can use them as garnish on food for a little splash of color.

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derinthescarletpescatarian

Potato blossoms

#alstroemeria#or sometimes they’re called Peruvian lilys
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wrennette
petronellastirling

Extracts from Emma Thompson’s diaries while shooting Sense and Sensibility, from ‘The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries,’ a rather wonderful book I just happened to find - in English - at the back of a second-hand shop near Rorschach.

Okay I know it’s possibly my favourite book and movie ever but still…

TUESDAY 18 APRIL: We discussed the ‘novelisation’ question.  This is where the studio pay someone to novelise my script and sell it as Sense and Sensibility.  I’ve said if this happens I will hang myself.  Beyond revolting.
Lindsay said that the executive she had discussed it with had said ‘as a human being I agree with you - but …’ I laughed until my porridge was cool enough to swallow.
WEDNESDAY 19 APRIL: Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant].  We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.
Photographer: ‘Hugh, could you look less - um - ‘
Hugh: ‘Pained?’
MONDAY 1 MAY: Incipient thrush, me.  Luckily Kate [Winslet] had some live goat’s yoghurt which I’ve applied with middling resuts.  Ang [Lee] told us about his early sex life today. ‘So painful,’ he said, then laughed a lot.
SATURDAY 13 MAY: Overheard later:  
Kate: ‘Oh God, my knickers have gone up my arse.’
Alan [Rickman]: ‘Ah.  Feminine mystique strikes again.’
SUNDAY 14 MAY: The party on Saturday was wild.  Everyone fell on the opportunity to let go and was drunk before having drunk anything.  Alan nearly killed me, whirling me about the place.  Everyone was under the table by midnight except Greg [Wise], who was on the ceiling.
Home at 3.30 am in a taxi, arseholed.  I stumbled into my bedroom where Harriet Walter (who’d come down specially and was sharing my room) was already asleep.  She sat bolt upright.
‘Help me!’ I wailed.
‘Oh, God,’ she said. ‘Why don’t you try throwing up?’
A good line in that cut-glass accent, I thought, even as I threw myself at the loo bowl.
TUESDAY 16 MAY: This was the day a very sodden Greg bounded up to Alan and asked, with all his usual ebullience, how he was.  Long pause as Alan surveyed him through half-closed eyes from beneath a huge golfing umbrella.  Then - ‘I’m dry.’  Sometimes Alan reminds me of the owl in Beatrix Potter’s Squirrel Nutkin.  If you took too many liberties with him I’m sure he’d have your tail off in a trice.
10.20 pm In bed with a herbal cushion from Kate.  She fainted at 6pm - so cold, so wet for so long.  Alan found Ang sitting on a box, his head low, his fists clenched.
‘I tortured her,’ he moaned.
‘Don’t worry,’ said Alan. ‘You’ll have the opportunity to do it to me soon.’
SATURDAY 3 JUNE: Very nice lady served us drinks in hotel and was followed in by a cat.  We all crooned at it.  Alan to cat (very low and meaning it): ‘Fuck off.’  The nice lady didn’t turn a hair.  The cat looked slightly embarrassed but stayed.
SATURDAY 17 JUNE: Weather dull and we’re all a trifle confused because the scene numbers keep changing.  Hugh [Laurie] and Greg are playing the blues on their guitars.  
Raining, of course, so I am doing bastard close-ups on camera with the hangover from hell.  Fine but weary and giggly.  Later in my trailer, the boys are in to watch the rugby - wild with excitement and very apologetic.  South Africa v. France.  Apparently it’s very important.  Telly dodgy so Hugh has to hold it above his head at a 45-degree angle.  They take turns to watch and yell.  Tremendous business, sport.  I wish I could get that worked up about it.  Do you have to grow up with it?  The boys’ faces lit up with pleasure and excitement, it’s really very inspiring, she said, sounding a hundred and four.
TUESDAY 20 JUNE: Alan was very moving.  He’s played Machiavellian types so effectively that it’s a thrill to see him expose the extraordinary sweetness in his nature.  Sad, vulnerable but weighty presence.
THURSDAY 22 JUNE: Noon.  Finish scene with Alan.
Me: ‘Oh!  I’ve just ovulated.’
Alan (long pause): ‘Thank you for that.’
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lookingatyouwriter

I finally watched The Old Guard and tumblr did not adequately prepare me for how funny the van kiss scene actually is. Like I've seen whole gif sets of Joe's impromptu love poem but that's not the half of it.

  1. Dude are you sure you want to be making a homophobic jab at these people specifically
  2. Joe: "Yeah he is and what about it, bitch boy" <- said with far more grace and eloquence
  3. Nicky: "<3"
  4. (This is where we give kudos to the actors for not smashing each other's teeth in when LAUNCHING at each other. Couldn't have been me)
  5. Everyone is so taken aback they fully just watch for a whole second in, presumably, homophobic horror before all simultaneously deciding This Cannot Stand
  6. you INTERRUPT joe and nicky? you interrupt their kiss like the football game? oh! oh! death for homophobes! death for homophobes for One Thousand Years!!!!
  7. This isn't really part of the scene but "There's a TV, Joe!" is close enough that I'm going to add it. As an epilogue.
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bionelly2

Found this one that checks all the boxes on r/boomerhumor.

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supreme-leader-stoat

Wow

Weirdest experience I ever had with this is with a customer at work.

It’s not an uncommon occurrence for men in their 40s and 50s to refer to their wives as “old bags”, so whenever I do the whole “Would you like a bag” spiel, there’s a 50/50 chance they will point to their wife and say “No thanks I have one right here” or say “Nah I left her at home” Or something else awful and then wink at me and call me darling or sweetheart and just make me want to be smited by god right in that second.

However there was one customer that came in and did this whole song and dance. Not out of the ordinary. What was, however, was how he then followed it up by going “I’m kidding, I’m divorced ha ha.” Then, his face drops and he turns to his friend with a look of absolute horror and goes “Wait, that’s probably why. Do you think that’s why she left me Andy? Because I said things like that?” And then proceeded to look like he was re-evaluating his whole life as his friend led him out of the store.

TL; DR = Boomers are weird and this one was given a glimpse behind the veil of self awareness in a Tesco Extra

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dagny-hashtaggart

I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

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voxette-vk

You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her?

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booksandchainmail

according to wikipedia, before

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decepticonsensual

There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it.

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stele3

If he’d been butler material, he’d have finished the job.

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