Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]

Fark has been doing that for almost 25 years (e.g. every instance of the N-word becomes “attractive and successful African-American”) and I’d be lying if I said nobody had a problem with it, but people who see fit to challenge it tend to give up very quickly.

The obvious joke here is “If that substance is being marketed as ‘beer’, and if we’ve all agreed to tolerate this, then we’re already on level 2.”

Finally: Halt and Catch Fire, on a smaller budget, with a more confusing tone, and also an all-male cast.

Have you ever looked at a tree and thought, ‘Can I drink this?’

1. If your bit depends on the audience being too stupid to remember that fruit juice exists, it’s a bad bit.
2. American dairy products often contain trace chemical contaminants from sources much scarier than trees. Link
3. Interestingly, wood pulp does have a history as a food additive, but it’s less of a “millennial nonsense” thing and more of a “ripoff scheme sometimes attempted by the agro-food establishment during periods of lax government oversight” thing. Link

Meh. The universal grammar concept has the potential to yield interesting insights, even if Chomsky’s version of it (or at least, Chomsky’s version of it which was current when I was in undergrad) resembles English too much in the particulars. Also, the “linguistic differences between ethnic groups” can of worms rarely contains anything useful, at least not when Westerners open it.

I will reserve judgment until I read more. Got any more?

Someone who lives outside of Canada might be tempted to dismiss this as ‘treat discourse’, and that’s fine, but I would politely urge them to read the article first.

What next? Requiring translations of Chinese-named dishes, so ‘chow mein’ becomes ‘Chow Blvd. Saint-Laurent’?

AFAIK the usual move here is to do a morpheme-by-morpheme translation with the ethnic origin tacked on at the end, so ‘chow mein’ would probably become something like ‘nouilles sautées à la cantonaise’, which is both more verbose and less fun than what Freed is suggesting.

People make fun of a video of someone’s toddler only eating the very tippy-tops of strawberries. They recommend a healthy dose of beatings.

The internet really is exactly the same in every language, isn’t it.

Bob and Linda Belcher. Healthiest marriage in the history of American television.

[Quietly whistles Electric Six guitar riff]

In standard written English I think “they were hurt” is the clear winner.

Closest point of comparison I can think of is “you were hurt”, which uses the same verb form regardless of whether “you” is singular or plural.

Sometimes the libs will coopt the left position and retroactively pretend it was the lib position the entire time (most dramatic example that comes to mind: the Civil Rights Movement) and that’s the best you can hope for.

If you were a normal and fit man in a healthy and loving LTR with a secure job and a robust group of interesting friends, but you were also absolutely miserable, how would you approach the problem?

“I should not have written this story.” -Ayn Rand

Sorry if I’m misreading your third paragraph but I’m not sure if balkanization along strictly racial lines is either practical or desirable, except possibly to Turner Diaries types.

Why should we destroy Canada? It can be reformed in ways the United States cannot be.

What are you basing that on? IMHO the first thing that’s going to happen if the US balkanizes is the Canadian government announces that Canada is willing to serve as a lifeboat for the American ruling elite.

imagine in like 2110 someone makes a rap musical about Alan Greenspan

Thanks to ChatGPT, we don’t have to wait until 2110. Hell, we don’t even have to wait until the end of the day.

In fairness, most of the avant-garde jazz groups that came out of Ann Arbor, MI at the end of the 80s were Goopenists. Two of the best known ones have names that are anagrams of “Spontaneous Councilism” (Opossum’s Canticle Union and Numinous Calico Stepson.) In fact I’m pretty sure Jean-Baptiste Frazzwell played at Goopen’s fourth wedding, although I have no idea who the backing musicians would have been, since this would have been before the second Frazztones lineup came together but after the first lineup died of hantavirus.

The truth is that life on farms from the Atlantic Seaboard to California bore little resemblance to the nostalgic ideal suggested by contemporary imaginings of the family farm. […] Camps, bunkhouses, lodges, taverns, and saloons were spaces rife with intimate and sexual relations that directly contravened dominant middle-class notions of sexual propriety: homosexuality, sexual barter and commerce, public and semi-public sex, and cross-dressing and gender fluidity.

If HBO made a show about this I would probably watch it.