goddamnshinyrock:

goddamnshinyrock:

OKAY SO TURNS OUT THEY MADE A SCREEN ADAPTATION OF FANNY HILL and it’s not just porn. they’re trying to make this a respectable period piece. this should be…. interesting….

FIRST THING: the Madam, Mrs. Brown, is played by the same actress as Mrs. Bennet in the 1995 Pride and Prejudice and it is doing my head in

We have skipped some of the more creative brothel scenes from the book (although we DID get Fanny’s First Orgasm and it was as Gay as it was in the book) and gone to straight to Lover #1, young handsome blond man who Takes Her Away From It All and gives her…. unsatisfying sex………. 

goddamnshinyrock:

OKAY SO TURNS OUT THEY MADE A SCREEN ADAPTATION OF FANNY HILL and it’s not just porn. they’re trying to make this a respectable period piece. this should be…. interesting….

FIRST THING: the Madam, Mrs. Brown, is played by the same actress as Mrs. Bennet in the 1995 Pride and Prejudice and it is doing my head in

Twelve lovely villages out on the old moor that are absolutely worth a visit

listing-to-port:

1. Bibbling Green. This charming rustic spot is home to a shade of green found nowhere else. Popular with painters and environmentalists. Bring a bucket, you can take some home.

2. Firencestermonceux. Pronounced ‘Fecken’. Nobody has ever been murdered by being thrown from the humble steeple of the local church. You cannot afford to live here. Buy a hanging basket.

3. Gentleman’s Knob End. Extremely proper village. Come and see our massive maypole.

4. Upper Lowering. Watch pigs wander across the beautiful village square whilst you feast on local cheese. Maybe watch the local dramatic society re-enact the Odyssey whilst you do it. Oops, you’re now a pig. Tremendous realism, also very villagey.

5. Little Snorenham. Pretty as a picture, because it is a picture. We painted it on the back of the local rotating parts warehouse, hope you appreciate the thatched cottages, they took ages. Perfect for selfies.

6. Porp. Come for the cream teas, stay for the cream teas, never leave because you are chained to a cream tea. World’s foremost cream tea dungeon. Very popular with connoisseurs.

7. Drizzlage. Only town on the moor to have a mathematically-impossible town square. Make sure not to park your car on the South side or it will be divided by zero while you have lunch at the cafe. Make sure to visit the garlic shoppe whilst you are there.

8. Gurning Norton. Actually, don’t.

9. Haunted Borehole, Upper Moor. You may hear some people call this a bit of a hole. They would be wrong. It is a whole hole. Charmingly rustic phantoms will seize your luggage and throw it down a ten-metre minicliff. Perfect for the adventurous. Coach parties welcome.

10. Fnarpham. We made up this village, because it is raining and anyone who has been out looking at villages all day is probably sheltering by the fire in an inn not out looking for Fnarpham. Unless you are looking for Fnarpham, of course, in which case sorry.

11. Trap. This is actually a trap and not to be confused with Trap, the lovely village on the next map sheet along. The road gets narrower and narrower until finally you are eaten by a mutant hedge. Very vigorous blackthorn in this area, you could probably make an excellent sloe gin.

12. Sillage Borp (Lower). Take this village home, it’s drunk.

the problem with being immersed in the terminology of one group/profession is that nearly all acronyms/initialisms have more than one commonly-used meaning, but people often unthinkingly use them- or other jargon- without sufficient explanation or context, not realizing that those outside their field or social group may need further explanation

….in related news, I just had a really bizarre moment of cognitive dissonance as I tried to understand why ‘men loving men’ was being mentioned alongside pyramid schemes

goldenpolar:

Accuracy – and respect for Inuit culture – matter

Becasue I see people online writing about Ice Ghosts. I hesitated to post a link to this in the fear I may come across as a know it all for encouraging people to avoid what on the surface looks authoritative by saying ‘you should actually read this first’. I like to give people the credit to be able to pull the facts from opinions when reading popular history and know what doesn’t match with everything else they’ve read, but lack of ethics on the authors part is something that should make people avoid buying their product altogether and it isn’t always obvious without knowing the background. I had bought the book when it came out and was jarred like 5 or 10 pages in by the inaccuracies, then read this and wish I’d known what an ass in plain english the author was before I gave him my money. Needless to say I can’t reference what my first wait….what? Moment was since I got rid of it after reading this. Think it was the Fitzjames writing his ‘wife’ thing.

seeing people who are so convinced of the inevitability and Rightness of capitalism that an alternate economic and social system simply doesn’t occur to them argue furiously over a problem to which unionization is the obvious and direct solution (and blame other workers rather than their bosses) is…. baffling

it’s like watching a dog who doesn’t understand that a sliding glass door is open just stand there and bark to be let out