Hey, aren’t you supposed to be focusing on your classes?!? I hope that means they’re going well.

I’m glad all that info I put in the sticky was helpful. I’m thinking of taking a break from doing so much social media. The last couple weeks have been rough. Anyway, other people are posting here so I’m glad to see this community will thrive.

Sure, but… is “too much discussion” really a problem that Lemmy has? This is kind of a threatening time for some of us, especially if we don’t have a lot of friends irl.

I mean… you’re kind of right, but this is a “read the room” situation.

FWIW most clowns are hard-working, skilled individuals who bring joy to people’s lives.

Yeah, I know… it’s easy to be cynical and do nothing… I have to fight against that feeling every day, I’m dealing with it now even…

A lot of thought went into that haircut, friend-o.

[The haircut] is wedgy, greasy, somehow old womany, and that, combined with Bardem’s machismo, makes it unsettling. The actor himself is supposed to have reacted, “Oh no, now I won’t get laid for the next two months,” when he saw it.

Now the man behind the cut has emerged. He is a Canadian hairdresser from New Brunswick called Paul LeBlanc who has previously styled hair on movies such as Star Wars and Casino, and who shared an Oscar with make-up artist Dick Smith for his work on Amadeus.

Le Blanc says that his inspiration was from the crusades, “when knights and Muslims were murdering each other, and this was a typical haircut. It was a dangerous time and we wanted to make Javier timeless and dangerous at first sight.”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/feb/28/fashion.oscars2008

• My fellow Americans, the election day “ground game” is crucial
• If you’re in the US, look here: https://events.democrats.org/ to get involved. It’s not too late!

“…simian-headed biped…” lolz

FWIW the cartoonist Condo lived in Ohio (Toledo, Cleveland, and Findlay) from 1882 to some time after 1910:

• https://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2012/03/news-of-yore-ad-condos-aim-is-true.html
• https://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2009/05/d-condo-1872.html

“You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.” -Georges St-Pierre, mixed martial artist

OMG… I wouldn’t have got the joke if you hadn’t said that!

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959; some were former members of the Nazi Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

p.s. also see Ministry of Space, an alternate history comic book in which the British grab all the scientists instead.

I never really “got” Bach until I saw the smalin visualizations.

Ah, good point. What I specificaly had in mind was conservative husbands worried their wives might be voting for Kamala this cycle. There’s a danger that such husbands might be violent against their wives, and I think it’s worth discussing. But because of that, “the joke” of the cartoon is more problematic.

I disapprove of Mrs True’s use of violence here, but I think it’s good to occasionally post some of these cartoons that are more dated, for the same reasons as the earlier post about selection bias. See also these other cartoons that came out on the same day over the years:

• Everett True objects to a man’s use of perfume - wtf Ev?
• Everett True discusses The War (WWI) with a neighbor - historically interesting, but not as relevant to today. some interesting articles on that newspaper page btw
• Everett True wants service. Not bad, but E.T. comes off as a bit of a Karen. Also a case where newspaper damage to the cartoon would make it difficult to clean up

The cartoon selected above is also a bit tougher to clean up, and I didn’t spend that much time on it. The newspaper page it was on was pretty damaged. There are some very interesting articles on that page though, including “Bolshevists Plan Unique Monument”, “German Intrigue in Bomb Plot”, and a bunch of ads and classifieds (which are always fun).

“I’ll have to ask my niece what exactly are those medieval chants we’re listening to.”

“Over the Top” is free on youtube, btw:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyVokX7JnEU (360p)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-BBgKzcWO8 (1440p) - another link, this one’s higher-res visually but the other one has better sound.

In comments someone said E-Tru had old-fashioned clothing, and the people he outburst against usually had newfangled (for that time) clothing.

Unironically I would like to be buried unembalmed in a forest. Or maybe at the bottom of a lake. Hey, I bet if I insulted some old-school gangsters, they could make it happen.

Suggest a first date that involves a mosh pit.

DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED

• vote early if you can
• tell your friends to vote early
• contact your local campaign and see if you can help – it’s not too late!