hey guys can you help me find that old portrait of a girl holding a little painting of a naked dude and cracking up about it?? I want to say it’s by Rembrandt but that’s probably not right
It’s “Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image” by Gerard van Honthorst!!
zzedar asked: Did you know Jude Wanniskis was friends with Louis Farrakhan?
Yeah. I was looking at his website and he apparently also thought Marx would have agreed with all his supply-side and libertarian views – the essay on this is not very convincing (to put it mildly), but I always like it when people try to project Marx’s responses to 20th C economies rather than just assuming he would say the exact same things he said about the 19th C
One evening early in the Reagan presidency, Mr. Lipsky recalled, a private dinner was held in a Midtown New York club for President Reagan’s new ambassador to the United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick. The conversation was nearing dessert, when all of a sudden Wanniski threw his head back and emitted a deafening scream, which brought the dinner to a stunned silence, at which point Wanniski leaned forward and said: “Taxes. I haven’t heard one mention of the word taxes.”
Before you tagged me, I actually had this in my queue (w/o commentary). It’s pretty much accurate, with the caveats that (a) it corresponds well to mainlanders’ perceptions, not necessarily reality, and (b) the geographic accuracy is about the same as the tomato-potato Europe map. Going through these in random order:
2. This is by far the funniest. It’s even better than “Us” and “Ours” are both translated as CHINA.
6. Industrialization in any country can probably be summarized as “dirt farmers join the workforce”. China had a crap ton of dirt of farmers, and especially a lot in populous inland provinces (四川 and 河南 come to mind). The jobs are all in the rich coastal cities, so this has resulted in massive internal migration. Every year when people go back to see their extended families for 春节, hundreds of millions crowd into trains, planes, and automobiles, and the big cities can feel like ghost towns. Naturally, the 本地人 look down on the 外地人, and the 外地人 think the 本地人 are snooty pricks (Taxi drivers especially love to bitch about this). As a fellow coastal transplant from bumfuck nowhere, it’s easy to feel a degree of camaraderie with the 外地人 on this point.
1, 7, 11. Oversimplifying, but sure.
4. lol (but pretty sure you can combine the first two–everyone, or at least their grandma, is into syncretic superstitious nonsense)
9. Yeah, although the south has the same problem as SF–it’s just warm enough that you don’t get proper indoor heating or insulation.
10. Pretty sure everyone is both a tea-sipper and a devotee of that industrial solvent we call 白酒. I guess in the south there might be more drinkers of 黄酒 (a libation with the major advantage of being fit for human consumption).
3. I’m curious who made this. I feel exactly the same way about 儿化 (the accent where you add -r’s all over the place), but I didn’t realize there were Chinese people who thought the same. Anyhow, story time: We had a TA from somewhere northern. Her favorite filler word in English was “yeah”, and she pronounced it with such powerful 儿化 that parrots started manifesting in the classroom physically.
5. At least Southerners don’t speak like pirates, bro.
8. I laughed hard at the third one. 撒娇 is where a girl pouts and whines and makes puppy dog eyes and talks in an affected cutesy manner and then makes you hold her purse for two hours while she converts your savings into handbags and shoes. See also: 发嗲 (best pronounced in Shanghainese).
12. At first I thought this was just a shittier version of #2, but combined with #6, there’s actually something funny to be said. The historical cradle of Chinese civilization was the Yellow River valley. However, after the sinicization of the South, the conquest of the West, and the economic opening up, it’s no longer very relevant to understanding the divisions in modern China. Basically just overlay #2 and #6 and you get something like rich-coastal-cities vs populous-rural-areas vs non-Han-frontier. Inland provinces on the Yellow River are basically like Sichuan w/o the famous food. Henan in particular drew the shortest of all the straws. In the airport recently, I saw a tourist ad for Henan showing some white dude practicing kung fu in a temple with the tagline “WHERE CHINA BEGAN”. I suppose that’s a lot better than what you’d come up with based on autocomplete and zhihu results: - Why do Henan people have such a bad reputation? - Why do Henan people steal manhole covers? - Why does everyone always hate on Henan people? (Clicking through, this turns out to be the setup to a joke: “Without them, we wouldn’t have theft-proof doors!”)
Saw the phrase “The Inspiration for Neil Gaiman’s Death” in a headline and briefly thought someone had like … murdered Neil Gaiman as an act of conceptual art
The Homestuck community is diverse and broad in its scope, with an
unbelievable amount of culture being nested in places that will almost
surely never see the light of public attention. I’ve taken it upon
myself to write a journal that documents as many elements of the fandom
as possible, in an attempt to preserve our culture in case circumstances
lead to its eventual destruction as time goes by.
To this end I’ve been conducting interviews for a few months now,
trying to seek as much information as possible about various aspects of
the Homestuck fandom. Alexis “Gankro” Beingessner is one such individual
who deserves a fair amount of consideration due to his contributions to
Homestuck. It is difficult to imagine many others who have contributed
to the webcomic in quite the same capacity that Gankro has: while many
artists and musicians have contributed their considerable works to the
comic, Gankro was involved with a different aspect entirely, that of
coding.
I highly recommend reading the actual interview, if you wanna read Gankro’s responses instead of the interviewer’s paraphrasing. Otherwise, you kinda miss out on his voice. https://pastebin.com/J9bZyBy3
I would strongly advise against trying to use Andrew Hussie as a job reference. Background check people get really upset when one of your references is impossible to contact because they’re basically a drifter.
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