Nangijala
@Nangijala@feddit.dk
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 20 hours ago:
So, he’s the male version of Pearl, is what you’re saying? 🤣
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 5 days ago:
Sidis deserves to be remembered. Not only was he smart, but he seemed like a genuinely good and reasonable person too. I also like that he took great interest in anthropology and languages. If I remember correctly, he even developed a couple of languages himself because he was fascinated by it.
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 week ago:
True. Social media - Lemmy included - has really proven how effectively people can be socially engineered into hating “the other” to the point where you can kid yourself into believing you’re being tolerant by doing it to the group that is okay to hate.
It makes me feel sick everytime I see it and all the forms it takes.
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 week ago:
It just shows different ways of being smart and pit them against one another instead of celebrating them.
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 week ago:
I’m aware. I just disagree with using the word “emotional” to describe how women are different from men, because that is not accurate.
- Comment on Anon awakens something 1 week ago:
If I remember correctly, they went to the bathroom and put ice on Bernd’s weiner to make the area numb, before Armin cut it off. Then they cooked and attempted to eat it over a candle lit dinner. However, the consistency of weiner is apparently so chewy, that it is inedible. Bernd was, if I remember correctly, fading in and out of consciousness during, due to bloodoss and he was in terrible pain too.
I forget if they attempted to cut more pieces off of Bernd while he was still alive or if Bernd agreed to die after that failed dinner. I know they were intimate and that a lot of it was filmed, as well as the murder. Armin cooked and ate him over a period of time, storing his dismembered body in a freezer.
Bernd too part in the cannibilization of himself before his death, which is partially why that whole case was so friggin bizarre because it was all consensual. It just doesn’t hold up in court, thankfully.
It’s been awhile, so I’m probably mksremembering some details, but this is the roundabout way I remember this case. It was massive and everybody talked about it for years.
I also remember some horror director making a movie, recreating the entire crime from beginning to end, which was very controversial. For some reason my mind is pointing at Harmony Korine, but I’m not sure. He’s always the first director I think about when it comes to fuck up movie projects, lol.
But yeah. Crazy case.
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 week ago:
I like both. I get the sentiment, but it is really sad that men and women’s strengths and/or weaknesses are being used to wage a stupid war that serves no one.
In my home we compliment each other super well. My weaknesses are evened out by his strengths and my strengths even out his weaknesses. It’s great. Almost like that’s the whole point of having a functioning society.
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 week ago:
Emotional. As opposed to men who are perfectly rational at all times and totally don’t sit far beyond women in statistics of violent crimes.
I don’t mind acknowledging that men and women are different, but the “women are emotional and men are rational” narrative is driving me up a wall.
- Comment on A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds 1 week ago:
I wonder what that feels like.
I mean, yeah, I have kept my inner child alive too, but I don’t feel remotely the same from when I was 18, which in my case is a positive. I have better people around me now, I feel a lot freer and like I can be myself now than when I was 18. I understand the world on a deeper level. I am more accepting and patient. I am less angry and I’m gradually building selfworth, which I didn’t have at all at 18.
I like aging because I continue to grow towards the person I want to be in life, and not being forced to be someone I’m not by people who don’t care about me.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong about feeling the same as you did when your were young. I just can’t relate myself because my experience is that life is not just one continous journey, but multiple births and deaths of the soul. I’m going through a death right now where I know that once I’m out on the other side of all these challenges, things are gonna be so nice, but right now I’m saying goodbye to who I was these past ten years which is kinda rough, because overall, I really liked this decade of my life and it was a lot better than any prior decade before it.
I hope it makes sense xD
- Comment on Space 1 week ago:
From what I have been told, astronauts grow a couple of centimeters depending on how long they have been in space. When they come back to earth they shrink over time as gravity pushes them back together.
I’m glad you find it relaxing because I find it freaky af xD
- Comment on A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds 1 week ago:
It’s weird because I definitely feel my own aging a lot. I don’t mind it either. A lot of calm comes with aging. But I guess I don’t see celebrities as creatures that age because they are always the same age in the movies I know them for xD silly, I know.
- Comment on A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds 1 week ago:
So weird to see some of these actors aging. I mean, I don’t mind, but it sure is a reminder that the world moves on whether I’m ready for it or not, lol.
- Comment on Space 1 week ago:
But your spine is slowly being pulled apart Dx
- Comment on Anon is unimpressed 1 week ago:
I don’t really understand your need to shit on my country like that. Just wanted to share some fun facts.
- Comment on Anon is unimpressed 1 week ago:
Isgård = Isengard
Helms Deep = Hjelms Dyb which is a strait between Djursland and the island of Hjelm.
Esgaroth = Eskerod
For bonus, apparently, and I didn’t know this, Tolkien also named a river in Middle earth Aros, which is the ancient name of the second largest city of Denmark, Aarhus or Århus depending on how you prefer to spell it. It does make sense since Aros means something like the mouth of the river.
As for the saga that inspired Aragorn and Eowyn’s characters, that story plays out on the island of Samsø and here’s a short summary of the story
I’m pretty sure there are more places. There’s a hill called Ellemandsbjerg = Mountain of the elfman which is part of folklore, where the elfking lives with his daughters underground, under a hill. Supposedly, Tolkien took inspiration from that hill too and based his elfkings on that hill. Granted, Tolkien elves and folklore elves are two very different things, but most people think about Tolkien elves when they think about elves. In reality, Danish elves are more nature than they are human. They dance in the morning mists and are delikate, beautiful creatures. Their backs are hollow like a tree trunk and if you become ensnared by them they will either take you underground to the halls of the elfking where you will die or they will drown you in the lake.
Some kind soul made a map of Tolkien inspirations in Djursland, that you can check out, but it’s all in Danish.
Bonus fun fact: our longest reigning regent, Queen Margrethe II was a big fan of Tolkien and had similar interests in folklore and language as he did and she illustrated Lord of the Rings under the pseudonym Ingahild Grathmer. Tolkien himself said that he liked her interpretations of his world the best out of all the illustrations he had seen.
- Comment on Anon is unimpressed 1 week ago:
I mean… I don’t find my country super impressive either, but Tolkien based middle earth on Djursland and both Aragorn and Eowyn are based on the same character from an old Danish myth about Hervør, the shield maiden who dressed like a man to gather an army. Isengard, Helms Deep and Esgaroth are real places in the area.
Hamlet is also based on the myth about Amleth and his grave can be visited in Denmark if people can be fucked to find it.
In fact, we have so many viking graves all over the countryside, that tourists don’t even realize what they are until they are told. My Ukrainian friend was thrilled to get to stand on one and he started talking about the riders of Rohan and their graves and all that. He was almost about to keel over when we told him we weren’t that far away from the part of Denmark that Tolkien based Middle Earth on.
Ps: I haven’t seen the pyramids irl, but I think they are amazing. Still insane how they were created without modern technology. I can’t hate on them even if I wanted to.
- Comment on Aerosol 1 week ago:
I can add to that: the cormorant population in my country, Denmark, used to be endangered and now they are fucking everywhere. We also used to almost have the stork go extinct. For many years we had like 6 breeding pairs left. Now we have 26!
And we brought back beavers. Our otter population is growing too and we have wolves now, which sadly, is a controversial subject. A lot of lobbyist in the farming community (farmers are basically the closest we get to the marfia here) are trying to convince the population that wolves don’t belong in Denmark and should be eradicated. People fall for it because they are scared for their kids. Meanwhile I’m over here like: 🫠 you guys are aware that the only reason they’ve started coming closer to cities is because some of you retarded fucks are feeding them and also, farmers are killing our nature so there’s less food for wildlife in the countryside. That’s why wolves are moving closer to cities.
I still have great hopes for our wolf population. Our newly elected government is planning on cracking down hard on farming after 40 years of these assholes fuckign around and destroying my country with their poisons and pigshit and penicillin abuses etc etc. Finally, someone is gonna hold these psychos accountable. I am very excited for our wildlife because we still have time to save it. But if we don’t do something now, I fear that within the next 10 to 20 years, our natural ecosystems will be erased. It is insane to have grown up in a time where we used to have a much healthier nature and gradually I have seen species disappear completely. Species that used to be everywhere.
But there are still many passionate people who are fighting to preserve and save nature and they are having way more wins in recent years than they have had for decades. So yay!
- Comment on Aerosol 1 week ago:
I don’t care what people say, that movie is a banger.
- Comment on Their name is Spike. 1 week ago:
Whenever I start feeling sorry for myself about hardships in life I remind myself that I’m lucky that life exists, that I got to be born at all, that I was born as part of the most intelligent species on Earth and I was born in a country where I have every opportunity to have a good life.
I could’ve been an ant or I could’ve been nothing at all.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
Psh. We all know that clegs are the true scum of nature. Wasps are the dude bros of the bee worth. Like a midlife crisis lemon yellow race car that constantly gets into trouble as if they were born to recieve a Darwin award. They get drunk on fermented fruit, they constantly go out of their way to get into people’s homes and even build their hives in or on human homes if they can get away with it.
I have lost count of the times I have tried to help a wasp out of my house and they seem to actively avoid any openings to freedom and actively choose to give themselves CTE against the window glass.
I don’t like them. I will never like them, but I don’t hate them like how I hate clegs. Now there is a mistake of nature that I refuse to argue for, even if they are pOLLenaToRs too. Go fuck yourself, clegs. Wasps are cooler than your because they have color and speed and mosquitos are smarter than you because when they suck the blood of their victims, at least they are trying to be discreet about you. You’re the reason why horses and cows had to elongate their spine to make it a whip so they can flog themselves to keep loser bugs like you off their skin. You’re so bad at sucking blood discreetly that thick skinned animals had to evolve to slap you off them. What a failure you are, cleg. I hope you all go extinct.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s a wild 24 hours!
My impression is that Backrooms is a more unique concept and it’s focus may be more on telling this weird, complex story about people and governments being exposed to an inexplicable phenomena, where Obsession is an intimate story that focuses on the complexities of relationships in a modern context.
So, I mean, maybe it was unfair of me to ask if one is as good as the other as they try to do very differenet things. Probably should have asked if they have a similar entertainment value. Because as a sucker for psychological and interpersonal horror, I don’t expect that I will connect in the same way with Backrooms as I did with Obsession, but I hope it’s at least a fun ride that would be worth a movie ticket. :D
As long as Backrooms isn’t as terrible as The Happening, then I’m good. It’s almost been 20 years and I’m still low key mad that I spent money on a ticket for that POS movie. The fact that it became an internet meme years later, didn’t help my regret and disdain. XD to think, back then, you expected every movie to be of a certain standard of quality as a movie goer. If the happening was released today it would be considered a masterpiece on Netflix, lol.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Oh, I couldn’t disagree more on your interpretation on obsession. Bear is not stupid and he doesn’t make his decisions out of stupidity. Everything that happens after the dinner scene, he knows exactly what’s going on and he doesn’t care. That is why it becomes so scary on so many levels.
I’m still curious about Backrooms, but I genuinely think you either missed the point of Obsession or you didn’t pay attention to what was going on in that film.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Thank you. If I understood wendigoon correctly, the movie is basically the prequel to the entire YouTube series, which I thought was pretty neat, but sucks that he didn’t stick the landing. Bit of a bummer.
I think Kane is super good at making spaces feel threatening. I still remember that one he made about the giant on wheels, that chases a guy through a mall and it’s borderline ridiculous how such a silly concept can be this scary, haha.
I look forward to checking it out.
Highly recommend Obsession as well, my friend. That film is terrifying and the ending is horrific in the best way possible.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Fair warning though, the protagonist does get verbally agressive/abusive/physically abusive.
I should hope so, since it’s a horror movie xD
But cool. I’ll check it out. I know a bit about Kane Pixel and his style through Wendigoon and I’m sure he made something freaky with the concept. I blank on the lead actor’s name, but I really liked him in 12 years a slave and its cool to see him in a movie like this one!
You should really consider seeing Obsession as well, my friend. It is currently threatening to kick The Wailing out of my personal number 1 spot for favourite horror movie of all time. The bedroom scene is one of the most viscerally terrifying scenes I have ever seen. I’m a big fan of horror and while I do scare relatively easily, I rarely carry the fear with me after the credits.
Obsession kept me awake for two straight days because of that fucking bedroom scene. Total masterpiece of a scene, and the movie is very, very close to being flawless. Maybe don’t bring fiancé if she isn’t good with horror, though, because this one embeds itself into your nervous system for a little while after seeing it. Not only is it scary, it’s also funny as hell and deeply tragic and quite the conversation starter.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Then you have my language where poison and marriage is the same word, lol.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Genuine question: what’s the verdict on the movie? I am very tempted to go watch Obsession for a second time, but am also wondering about checking this one out. Is it better or worse or equally good as Obsession?
- Comment on Rotund 2 weeks ago:
Still not as cursed as hairless bears.
- Comment on Anon does some genealogy 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people in this thread are the must be fun at parties types. Some are also afflicted with whoosh syndrome and somehow they try to make it everybody else’s problem.
- Comment on Differences of Opinion by Wendy Cope 2 weeks ago:
Wendy Cope has a healthy way to cope with frustrating interactions, I see. Maybe I should start writing poems too, when I run into human shapes brick walls.
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if I communicated things properly in my first comment, but based on yours, it almost sounds like you think I’m a foreigner, which I’m not! :D I’m Danish born and bred. Sorry if I was unclear, but that was kind of the point of my original comment, that I’m somewhat of an outgoing person in a hyper introverted society.
I will also say that while I do crave social connections, I’m not interested in meeting new people just for the sake of it.
I have plenty of good friends and a nice social network. The thing is that the closest friend to me lives an hour away. The furthest one lives on a different continent. I have often joked that the closer friend I am to someone, the further away they live.
So for me, the goal is to just become friendly with neighbors. Not to go out and join a bunch of clubs or festivals or go to pubs and meet people there.
When it comes to alcohol, I would be cool with having neighbors over for a beer in the garden or something like that, but I’m not going partying with people who are “functional” alcoholics. I have seen my fair share of people who’ve ended up on that trajectory, and that’s not the type of mess I want to invite into my life.
As for joining clubs and such, there isn’t a lot of interesting clubs in my area and those that seem interesting are at least an hour away. And that’s part of the problem, because the people I’d potentially meet there, will most likely also live far away and then I have done nothing but add to the list of friends who live too far away for casual, neighborly relationships.
I think your suggestions are fine for someone who just moved to Denmark and have zero network and just needs to get out there and look for anything and everything to build a foundation on. That’s not me, though xD
