Ian McShane deserved an Emmy for his work as Al Swearengen. That slow stare at the end of the scene alway kills me. I know it's supposed to be a drama, but they really go for some laughs.
There was a guy who started a personal website back in like 96 or 97. He basically posted his scans and screencaps of celebrity nudity. He also opened a celebrity nudity message board that he built from scratch. The board thrived. It became a hub for all the superstars in the "celebrity imaging" internet community. All the guys from all the best IRC channels would premier their work on this site. Eventually he expanded into a celebrity nudity database. He wrote scripts that would scrape Usenet, IRC and a slew of other resources for new pictures of famous women in various states of undress. Each image was meticulously cataloged, indexed and tagged. The entire thing was an amazing bit of engineering. He was a literal pioneer in the wild west that was late 90's internet. Mr Skin LITERALLY got his start on this man's board. The database was huge, and it ran smooth as butter. He eventually changed to a subscription model where you pay by the gig. I don't know how much he charged, because he grandfathered all the regulars and old schoolers in for life.
He could have gone the Mr. Skin route and partnered up with sponsors, put banner ads on every single page, he could have asked me to actually pay for my membership... And he would have made a shit load of money in the process. But he didn't.
For almost 25 years he ran the site, personally cataloging every new image that was added every day. He closed it down this past November. And it really hit me just how rare a place like that is these days.
That's what I miss about the old internet, when people did things for fun, to share information, to connect... and they had integrity.
I've used this specific nick for 20 something
years, it's a variation on my original nick "Lingo". The "h0e" part was from #bluelight, back when bluelight had an IRC server. One random day those of us in the channel dubbed ourselves the chat hoes. Being the l33t kids we were, it quickly became ch4th0e. We started referring to each other by adding "h0e" onto our existing nicks. I became lingh0e.
That was over two decades ago. I was an aggressive asshole when I first started using it. I keep it because I like to remind myself that I'm a better, nicer person now... but that cynical asshole is still a part of me.
Yeah, no. There's no complex or embarrassment here. I really don't give a shit what anyone else thinks about my pale weird legs. It's just personal preference. I've never been much for short pants.
But I absolutely, unironically appreciate your word salad at the end there. Masterful writing.
Much like the Death Star contractors discussion in Clerks, I can't feel sorry for anyone who stuck around after it became clear who they were working for.
That's the beauty of most tech based work. The actual labor isn't "real" and associated costs are whatever the market will bear.
I worked for a photography studio that did almost all of the school photography work in NE Ohio. I was paid a pittance in relation to the profits the owner was raking in.
One of my primary responsibilities was cleaning up school rosters... removing duplicate entries, spelling errors, non-printing characters etc.
They had us going through the rosters manually doing this work. I made a suite of Excel scripts and macros that automated 97% of the work. I took work that would have taken 60-120 minutes to complete and literally made it a try 2 minute job. My boss used this as an opportunity to increase his prices and fire me for an unrelated mistake that I didn't even make.
This is the same boss who tried to give me advice when I turned 40 by saying "a man's boat should never be less in footage than his age". Because apparently every 40 year old has the ability to buy not only A SINGLE PLEASURE BOAT, but is able to buy a new pleasure boat every year that is a single foot longer.
This is the same boss who only hired "temporary" staff through a series of dubious sources, so he didn't have any actual staff and never had to pay insurance or any other kind of benefits.
And yet when these greedy fucks can't stop their turnover it's our fault for not wanting to work for these people.
The 'stripped-down' version is being pushed into schools.
Cite your sources. Show proof.
I won't play these semantic games with you.
All you have been doing is arguing semantics. Literally the basis for your entire debate is based on semantics and wordgames.
Dude, there's a very good likelihood that I am descended from slave owners several generations back on my mother's side. Do you think I felt guilty? Do you think I felt responsible? Do you think I felt "harangued"? No. I felt lucky to be alive in a time where I can be a better person than my ancestors. I felt glad to know that I can help raise my kids to be on the right side of history going forward. I felt appreciative that I can do what I can to be a force for good in this world.
#1 - The Guardian is a super left-wing biased newspaper that always twists everything about conservatives.
You can read his quotes for yourself.
#2 - Yes all history needs to be taught. However, little white kids in 2023 should not be made to feel guilty about a race massacre in 1921. Just like I wouldn't make little German kids in 2023 feel guilty about the Holocaust.
Teaching students that white people did terrible things to black people isn't some ploy to make white kids feel guilty.
Would it help to start liking/subscribing to videos that specifically debunk those kinds of conspiracy videos? Or, at the very least, demonstrate rational concepts and critical thinking?
It doesn't help that a sizable subset of Americans will bitch and moan at any efforts to reduce the reliance on things like disposable plastic forks, plastic straws or plastic shopping bags because it's "woke".
So much of the dialog is Deadwood is absolutely brilliant, but one scene really stuck with me.
"Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man — and give some back."
Ian McShane deserved an Emmy for his work as Al Swearengen. That slow stare at the end of the scene alway kills me. I know it's supposed to be a drama, but they really go for some laughs.