the world after autumn
Dec. 18th, 2019 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaThe Hoydens and Hoyts are being shitty. RES uses “females” because he’s a frigging Ferengi. And he wants to force women to take a break from their educations. And he says to eliminate daycare becaue it conveys the wrong message about parenting. The problem with RES’s proposal, Hoyt herself, is that not that he makes too much sense, it’s that it’s incredibly dumb. Also, Hoyt doesn’t know what menarche means. I assume she thinks it means the peak of menstruation and not the start of it. Menarche happens somewhere between 12 and 14.
Which, Michael says, is why they fetishize the ancient world so much.
GWB says that we need to encourage marriage at a young age and making women be a constant caregiver for 2-4 children and not sending those kids to school. And he says that the country can afford to do this but we wont’t because we love our vacations and our gewgaws too much. My response to this was a series of inarticulate noises.
also, someone blamed the lack of respect for traditional gender roles on families having fewer children.
I used learning Akkadian as the example. Either you will become a scholar of ancient Babylonian texts or you won’t converse with anyone in Akkadian and lose your grasp on it.
To use a Fallout analogy, they don’t have enough perception or charisma or intelligence to see through all the bullshit and they put a ton of points into speech.
There's a post on how femininity is the real toxin and boys need to be inoculated from it and girls need to be quarantined for their own good, but, really, it just rehashes a post Hoyt made in February and doesn't even call itself a Blast From The Past.
Abby had a shirt with Winnie-The-Pooh on it and I immediately thought of Xi Jinping.
Hong Kong is waking up to the fact that their democracy is a sham. The thing I’m honestly surprised about is that all the resentment in the rest of the PRC towards Hong Kong hasn’t boiled over.
Jean was reading a book called Mistletoe Murder and it didn’t involve death by mistletoe poisoning, like Baldr. And despite the cover, it is not about a mutant killer snowman.
Like me, she has books covering every shelf and like me, she prefers her reading to be season appropriate.
Harry suggested a murder mystery novel in which it turns out it really was a suicide.
There are at least three movies called Jack Frost. Two of which involve someone coming back to life as a snowman. One kills people. One does not. One is a Soviet production based around a folktale. A girl is cast out into the wilderness by her evil stepmother and comes across Jack Frost and tells him that it would be a shame if she died on such a beautiful snowy day. Jack Frost gives her silver and diamonds and a blanket and she returns home. The evil stepsister tells Jack Frost to give her diamonds or else, so he freezes her.
There’s a Rankin-Bass stop motion special where Jack Frost becomes human and fights an evil Cossack king who may or may not be manipulated by Dr. Wily and I don’t associate the name Holly with Christmas, I associate it with St. Ajora’s Day.
Michael told me of a Ninja Turtles Christmas special and if Shredder stole Christmas, it would be leagues better than the actual thing. Nay, the truth is, the Ninja Turtles forgot to get Splinter a gift. And they rap about wrapping.
Michael called the third Hobbit movie a war crime. A bit of exaggeration there, says Jean, but she does agree they do get progressively worse.
I got to see what a raccoon penis looks like. I thought it was viscera and Jean’s like, no, that’s what the glans looks like when they go under anesthesia. The raccoon had either distemper or rabies. I don’t know if distemper is an automatic death sentence but rabies is. For what it’s worth, Wikipedia says it depends on whether they were vaccinated beforehand and what species they are, and most of the time, it is an automatic death sentence.
burning question: Okay, Pandora, why do I need to hear White Christmas three times in half an hour?
Which, Michael says, is why they fetishize the ancient world so much.
GWB says that we need to encourage marriage at a young age and making women be a constant caregiver for 2-4 children and not sending those kids to school. And he says that the country can afford to do this but we wont’t because we love our vacations and our gewgaws too much. My response to this was a series of inarticulate noises.
also, someone blamed the lack of respect for traditional gender roles on families having fewer children.
I used learning Akkadian as the example. Either you will become a scholar of ancient Babylonian texts or you won’t converse with anyone in Akkadian and lose your grasp on it.
To use a Fallout analogy, they don’t have enough perception or charisma or intelligence to see through all the bullshit and they put a ton of points into speech.
There's a post on how femininity is the real toxin and boys need to be inoculated from it and girls need to be quarantined for their own good, but, really, it just rehashes a post Hoyt made in February and doesn't even call itself a Blast From The Past.
Abby had a shirt with Winnie-The-Pooh on it and I immediately thought of Xi Jinping.
Hong Kong is waking up to the fact that their democracy is a sham. The thing I’m honestly surprised about is that all the resentment in the rest of the PRC towards Hong Kong hasn’t boiled over.
Jean was reading a book called Mistletoe Murder and it didn’t involve death by mistletoe poisoning, like Baldr. And despite the cover, it is not about a mutant killer snowman.
Like me, she has books covering every shelf and like me, she prefers her reading to be season appropriate.
Harry suggested a murder mystery novel in which it turns out it really was a suicide.
There are at least three movies called Jack Frost. Two of which involve someone coming back to life as a snowman. One kills people. One does not. One is a Soviet production based around a folktale. A girl is cast out into the wilderness by her evil stepmother and comes across Jack Frost and tells him that it would be a shame if she died on such a beautiful snowy day. Jack Frost gives her silver and diamonds and a blanket and she returns home. The evil stepsister tells Jack Frost to give her diamonds or else, so he freezes her.
There’s a Rankin-Bass stop motion special where Jack Frost becomes human and fights an evil Cossack king who may or may not be manipulated by Dr. Wily and I don’t associate the name Holly with Christmas, I associate it with St. Ajora’s Day.
Michael told me of a Ninja Turtles Christmas special and if Shredder stole Christmas, it would be leagues better than the actual thing. Nay, the truth is, the Ninja Turtles forgot to get Splinter a gift. And they rap about wrapping.
Michael called the third Hobbit movie a war crime. A bit of exaggeration there, says Jean, but she does agree they do get progressively worse.
I got to see what a raccoon penis looks like. I thought it was viscera and Jean’s like, no, that’s what the glans looks like when they go under anesthesia. The raccoon had either distemper or rabies. I don’t know if distemper is an automatic death sentence but rabies is. For what it’s worth, Wikipedia says it depends on whether they were vaccinated beforehand and what species they are, and most of the time, it is an automatic death sentence.
burning question: Okay, Pandora, why do I need to hear White Christmas three times in half an hour?
