I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdist humour. Dan Carlin relates a story of an old Air Force colonel who
I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdist humour. Dan Carlin relates a story of an old Air Force colonel who
Birds are reptiles.
Oh, this is something I love doing IRL. Love getting in there and pruning and shaping until things have been restored. I love being the chance to rejuvenate a neglected apple tree over the course of a few years.
I mean, Mademoiselle Cochonne would be her own special kind of lady.
Holy shit! This dude’s pluralising in Greek!
Do you change the emphasis? da-ko-TANT?
Canada’s Brightest Ditch-Digger
“Vamipre”.
When they are in Kill Mode they are absolutely vicious. They’d reach through the fence and pull the chickens’ heads off.
They’re naked seeds. I get you.
It takes time for earth worms to occupy available ecosystems. It’s not like they’re natural migrators. In particular, they’re slow to cross rivers. Not very good swimmers either. I’m addition to agriculture and construction, anglers also seem to be spreading them.
I was wondering until this comment. “Ethiopia? Ecuador? Oh! Colombia.”
The leaves change colour
Technology fails humans
A second stone age.
So it’s Francophones, not Anglophones misgendering you?
A power outage
Turns my shiny computer
Into a dead rock.
EDIT: Lemmy edited out my paragraph breaks.
No. Decanting is pouring, bit specifically not mixing.
Oh man, I think it’s the ‘e’ at the end of your name, which in a bunch of Romance languages would make it feminine. If it’s any consolation, solid men’s English names like ‘Lindsay’ and ‘Ashley’ are almost exclusively women’s names now for the same reason. (The “-y” or “-ie” marks a cutesy diminutive version, i.e. “bird” to “birdy”.)
I don’t think it’s the similarity to “Imane” (unless this is happening in your home culture) because I have never heard of that name before. However, I have seen “Imran” and I would have assumed that “Imrane” was the feminine version because of that ‘e’.
Wasn’t Imran Khan a famous cricketer?
Old English was ‘den’. Place names ending in ‘den’ or ‘don’ were originally farmsteads cleared in the forest, i.e. Wimbledon, or Camden.
I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdism in humour. There are people who laugh when they see something disastrous happen, like a man reflexively trying to stop a cement truck from tipping and getting squashed dead. Or a recent news story of the only fatality in a school bus crash: it was an observer who got hit by a vehicle as he ran across the highway to see if the kids were ok. A lot of the time this laughing response to a disaster is interpreted as schadenfreude, but a good portion of the time I believe it’s absurdism.
We try so hard to have agency, to do something, but the World doesn’t give a fuck. You have two choices when shit goes so wrong: you can wail about the unfairness of it all, or you can laugh at the absurdity of our efforts in the face of the colossal chaos of it all. The laughter is stronger.
It’s interesting to me that some cultures seem to have absurd humour baked in. The Aussies and Kiwis seem to have it. They just make jokes about and laugh at the most horrific situations.