Meltdown
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- Comment on Movie theaters are trying everything to bring audiences back — from pickleball to cocktail bars 1 week ago:
I might be more inclined to go to the cinema if the employees would ever actually do something about noisy children on their phones during the show. But instead, we pay an arm and a leg for tickets and popcorn, then we have to sit through 20 minutes of commercials, and then instead of a real movie, it’s just boring ass CGI action sequences.
- Comment on What mythologies have poor representation in media, in your opinion? 2 weeks ago:
There are lots of adaptations of Greek myth, but none of them are especially faithful to the source material
- Comment on Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods? 3 weeks ago:
Only if they don’t want to be condemned to hellfire for the blasphemy of monotheism
- Comment on Did anyone else learn that "a group of cats is called a Whisper?" 3 weeks ago:
A gay agenda of peacocks
- Comment on Did anyone else learn that "a group of cats is called a Whisper?" 3 weeks ago:
There’s a difference between using collective nouns that already exist in a language and making up brand new ones whole cloth.
Merriam-Webster writes that most terms of venery fell out of use in the 16th century, including a “murder” for crows. It goes on to say that some of the terms in The Book of Saint Albans were “rather fanciful”, explaining that the book extended collective nouns to people of specific professions, such as a “poverty” of pipers. It concludes that for lexicographers, many of these do not satisfy criteria for entry by being “used consistently in running prose” without meriting explanation. Some terms that were listed as commonly used were “herd”, “flock”, “school”, and “swarm”.
- Comment on Did anyone else learn that "a group of cats is called a Whisper?" 3 weeks ago:
None of those are goofy terms though…
- Comment on Anon reads a depressing book 4 weeks ago:
I too have read David Foster Wallace/Ernest Hemingway/Virginia Woolf