in the appendices Tolkien says that the characters are not *actually* called what they appear to be called in the text, that he has translated their "real names" into approximately similar english names, eg samwise gamgee is really banazir galbasi
People love making this joke about Dune, where it makes no real sense since that it's set in the future & many common names now are thousands of years old, but not for LOTR, where it's much weirder for a guy to be called Tom.
"protests turn violent" says the chyron underneath this footage of cops in full space marine armor shield-bashing a passing septuagenarian to the ground for no visible reason whatsoever
As part of the crackdown on fare evasion, more emergency exits in NYC subways are locked. This is wrong and dangerous for countless reasons. Also a person on my train couldn’t get their baby stroller out. I tried helping them lift it over the turnstiles but it wouldn’t fit. 🤬
Fluidity is a dishes drying rack designed to serve a double function. It lets you grow your fresh herbs and any small plant you want. The water that trickles from the washed dishes irrigates the plants
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How difficult laundry would be was also really oversold to me as a child. “Oh boy just you wait until you’re grown up and have to do your own laundry, mister!”…it’s like what 2 hrs of work twice a month to wash and dry clothes. You lied mother.
Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was"
incredible to have handled this so badly that celebrities, or their teams, are going out of their way to post about how they won't buy your product, on your product, in order to make themselves look cool to the other users of your product
Steven Spielberg’s “LINCOLN” focused on the passage of the 13th Amendment.
Which President would you like to see a movie about, and more specific, which part of their Presidency would you want the movie to focus on?
#POTUS
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this routine is especially odd when it comes from people like seinfeld or john cleese, whose career-defining work has mostly aged perfectly well and has never really been cancelled or controversial
Jerry Seinfeld is on the New Yorker Radio Hour blaming "the extreme left" & "PC crap" for why there are no sitcoms anymore. Not streamers or any systemic reasons that we *just* saw at play with the WGA strike. Just "The wokes won't let us make comedy anymore." Absolute brain rot.
in fairness to the "the sun is a different color now than when i was a child" person you would also sound mad if you said "there used to be more bugs when i was a child" but that one's true
i mean of course they can do it to you too. who in america was under the impression that the FBI couldn't raid their house under the right set of circumstances
my reaction to 90% of this trad stuff is "no one is stopping you from doing this except you" but this one is really something. there is definitely nothing in 2024 america stopping you from commuting to work in a car
he was ten thousand times too fussy about language to just call some guy in another universe "Sam" without elaborate metafictional scaffolding. anyway imo this is the most fun thing about the books
the book you are reading (lord of the rings) is supposed to be tolkien's translation/fictionalization of the hobbits' "red book" of history, and he has englished some but not all of the names, depending on translator-type judgments as to whether translating is appropriate
FACT CHECK: it is technically true that Bill Gates has many hundreds of thousands of times more money than you. But this fact is not especially meaningful, because you are nothing, less than nothing, lower than an ant; the mere comparison is insulting to Mr Gates
she kept up the performance consistently until my wife got home at which point she immediately gave up. i absolutely believe they have enough theory of mind to understand that the humans can communicate face to face, they just do not understand phones
no appeal has ever moved me less than the idea that i have a duty to spend an hour and a half every dat commuting in order to keep midtown commercial real estate prices up
it is just incredible that the democrats nominated joe fucking biden and gave over most of their convention to republicans and politics hacks are still doing these "why are both sides so mean to voters in the middle" cartoons
my only opinion is that the more they make them look like real people the more jarring the gameplay gets, which as i recall is mostly about committing hundreds of thousands of hit and run homicides
so he says that "galbasi" translates to "gamgee" because both are derived from corruptions in their respective languages of words for "game" and "village" and "samwise" is a modernization of an old english word that means something like banazir and shortens to something simple
WATCH: This father confronts LEGO for promoting LGBTQ agenda to children, then gets thrown out by store security.
Why is LEGO doing this when its products are designed for children?
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surprised by this lawsuit because i had come to believe that works such as john wick 4 that were reproduced in full on twitter and not taken down for extended periods were licensed by the holders. in fact i continue to believe that, to the lasting damage of the rights holders
BREAKING: Full statement from Target announcing changes to Pride merchandise from stores ahead of June Pride month. Says threats to workers forced the change.
why, if you have a desire for beauty that you expect to have catered to, are you watching a movie for children about radioactive turtle mutants that live in the sewer
this is absurd! screenshotting because I don't want to pile on the guy but having to issue a formal apology to people who were harmed by seeing a cartoon that told them they are not the best person in the world at math is absurd!
My daughter went for a routine chiropractor appointment. Now she’s paralysed - 1:20 000 chiropractic neck manipulations result in stroke from vertebral artery dissection
The IRS has quietly built its own prototype system to allow Americans to file tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to three current and former agency officials, essentially creating government software that could disrupt the industry.
i may not agree with the malaysian government's suppression of free speech but i will fight to the death for their right to execute ian miles cheong over it
thirty years ago bush senior had the DEA set up a crack deal outside the white house so that he could hold up a bag of crack on TV and say that it was seized just outside the white house
no look i'm sorry but as a taxpayer there is a limit to how much i am willing to pay to have the coast guard fully prepared to launch into a bottom of the ocean floor private sub rescue at a moments notice
I survived food shortages as a child through nothing except my own gumption and a massive national program of food subsidies and controls designed to make sure I survived