southsamurai

@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can any scientists confirm this important fact?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, any time someone ascribes motivations to animals, my butthole spasms.

  The best that should be said is that the behaviors they exhibit are similar to the behaviors they exhibit for kittens or sometimes sick cats.

  Somehow, somebody decided that meant they think we’re bad hunters, and the idea took off because it’s funny, but you can’t know what goes on inside the thoughts of other humans reliably, much less other animals.

  There’s competing possibilities that the cats are showing off their kills to their social group, which is not only a common behavior when cats are young, but when they’re mated, but you don’t see people crowing about them bringing us food to get in our pants.

  Overall, cats seem to treat us like other cats. Not exactly the same, but with less distinction than other domesticated animals. Horses, as an example, have a much wider distinction, for equally unprovable reasons.

  My personal pet idea is that any sufficiently social animal, including humans, is instinctively going to seek out groups. They/we will negotiate the lack of a unifying language as best as possible, but with plenty of misunderstandings. It isn’t so much that other animals see us as being the same as them. It’s that they don’t really have the need for the distinction; there’s the in group (pride, pack, clan, whatever you want to call it) and out groups. When dealing with the family group, any animal will perform the same basic behaviors that their instincts tell them to.

  Domestication just means that a given type of animal has developed or been bred to have, a stronger instinct for social bonding than wild animals, to the degree that they’ll accept other species as family easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ice cream trucks still around?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, we have one that covers this side of town during early spring until late fall.

  I’ve even seen them out in winter, but I suspect they’re selling warm products, not frozen, then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, part of it is the margaritas I specific. That tangy goodness is going to match well with the general range of spices used in Mexican foods. Fajitas in specific have that bold and spice forward flavor profile that goes well with anything citrusy. Tequila has a fairly distinct flavor that mixes well with that lime and orangey mix. Most people already put lime on fajitas to begin with.

  Stuff like guac is fatty enough to benefit from something like that to cut through it as well.

  So you’ve essentially got a mouthful of amazing flavors that are used in Mexican food because they go well together.

  Some alcoholic beverages are going to work with damn near anything. But if you tried a margarita with your meatloaf, you’d not be as impressed. Not until the fourth or fifth drink anyway.

  Something like a low hop beer goes with pretty much any non dessert foods, allowing for personal preference. But you can select bears or wines that would not do well with mexican. Or select for those that would be as good as a margarita. Same with a u cuisine; the right beverage enhances the food, and vice versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, for a given value of good.

  It really depends on the tuna used, imo. You use shitty canned stuff, expect a shitty result. Use decent canned stuff, get decent result. You get the idea.

  Me? I’m not a fan of tuna mixed in with pastas. Doubly so if there’s cheese. It’s edible, but not enjoyable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously fake, no anon has a girl friend of any type.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Gangster granny’ jailed for leading family gang dealing drugs worth £80m⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to be a Gallagher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to be blunt, this reads like reddit rage bait. As such, I’ll respond that way, then give a more neutral answer in case it’s real.

  The response to it as bait is that anyone saying that seriously is an idiot.

  More neutral, anyone saying that has an obligation to explain themselves because it makes no sense by itself. And it doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Predators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the Dying Fetus song “wrong one to fuck with” pop in my head as soon as I saw the image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blunthead Slug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ngl, while it is definitely weird as hell, it has a surreal beauty because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Muppet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn… I missed that on first read. I had down voted for it being off topic until I saw this one.

  Which is both a sign of a great joke and a bad one lol. But excellent word play!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’m not sure what level of familiarity you have with martial arts/combat training. Or with what goes into “stage” combat, or fifty choreography.

  But there’s no single answer here. It’s going to vary based on the production of the film/show/play, and the individual actor’s interest/ability.

  Let’s point to the stuff I’m familiar enough with to have done personally: stage combat. Someone does a play with a fight scene. Actors that do stage work tend to pick up the very specific skills involved in making a fight scene in stage look “real enough”. You don’t have to learn how to fence for real, you just have to look interesting while you clash fake swords together.

  That goes for hand to hand scenes as well. Matter of fact, in both cases, you’ll often be training how to miss and still look like you hit. This means that an actor that doesn’t train outside of stage combat is going to have trouble in a real fight because their reflexes and perception of range aren’t going to work right.

  Movie fighting can be exactly the same. The actors aren’t supposed to hit each other at all. Fight scenes are planned ahead of time, with camera angles set so that the shoot is reasonably safe, but the action looks good on screen.

  So, again, most movies or shows aren’t going to be training actors to actually fight. They may not even do amy marital arts training at all, even just to look a little more realistic, because it’s faster and cheaper to have an actor just memorize steps like in a dance. Which isn’t too far off from what kata are tbh. So an actor in that kind of production isn’t going to gain any practical skills at all.

  However, some productions do have the actors train to some degree or another because it allows for a little improv and for the actors to move like they know how to fight both within a fight scene and in other scenes.

  That productions sometimes end up with actors having a degree of real proficiency in what they’re taught. However, it’s very rare for a movie to have the budget for that. Even the Matrix and John Wick didn’t go super deep into it. They hired top end stunt performers and choreographers that prepped the actors extremely well. The Matrix in particular was a lot of wire work, really heavily influenced by Hong Kong style kung fu movies. So they didn’t teach the actors any significant fight skills, more how to look like they knew how to do stage/movie kung fu.

  Now, Keanu is actually a really great example to use. He’s got a reputation for putting his work in outside of what’s required. He’s done a shit ton of firearms work over the years on his own. And, supposedly, he has done some h2h training too, though I’ve heard conflicting stories about what kind.

  And there’s been plenty of actors that have a background in some variety of fighting art. Plenty of actors end up finding a love for one style or another from acting. Fencing ends up being fairly popular among stage actors, though they rarely compete, and never seriously that I’ve ever heard of.

  But could Keanu do the same things as in the movies? Hell no. Dude is human, and doesn’t have an entire team supporting him in a real fight. Nobody could pull off the stuff John Wick does because he has plot armor. He’s going to get hurt, but not catch a stray bullet in the head and drop dead.

  Could Keanu hold his own in a realistic fight? Probably. He’s physically fit, has done at least a little training, and those two things are huge advantages in a random fight with some asshole looking for trouble. Could he step into an MMA gym and hold his own with fighters his own weight class and age range? I don’t know. Maybe, like I said, he stays in good shape, so he wouldn’t be an utter failure.

  But it depends on how much work he puts in on his own time. A year of training for a movie isn’t going to mean shit if that’s all the training you ever do, no matter how good the training is. Fighting is one of those things where you will lose your skills to some degree if you don’t practice in some way. I’ve lost a good bit of ability over the years since I can’t train the way I used to. I can’t take falls, I can’t move the same, so if I was to jump on the mat and try to roll, I’m likely going to need a doctor. I might, however, be able to fake it on camera with a little help.

  But I have had violent encounters since becoming disabled, and that’s not the same as sparring with someone trained in controlled settings. So I did fine. Came out of it uninjured entirely in every case, though I felt like I’d been beat to hell because my body just ain’t what it used to be. So I wouldn’t count an actor entirely as untrained if they were dealing with a low threat fight over a parking spot or whatever.

  So, there’s no single answer here. In some cases it’s a hell no, they’re toast; in others it’s where I’m not likely to start a fight with them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing more gay than sister/sister stuff.

  Which has to be fake right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t all anons?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not seeing the problem here…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, you’re misguided.

  Be yourself, all the time, unless you’re a bigot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s harder than it was before I needed bifocals, but yeah.

  Once you learn the trick of it, it gets easier to do.

  I wanna say I was late teens/early twenties when they first started showing up in my area, and I stood in the store I first saw one for like a half hour trying to see the image. My vision was kinda bad across the board, even then. But I got the first one, which was a boat, and then flipped through the rest of the selection they had, maybe five or six different ones?

  But any time I got new glasses, it would take a few minutes to adjust when I’d run across one again. Same if I needed new ones.

  They really are fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has standards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, everyone at the company owes you head at that point. 10k hours = head, that’s just the way it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has standards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With a title like that, anyone that doesn’t like it is probably yuppie scum, and needs composting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel that!

  I roll armed everywhere, and I would be all “yo, you got this! Ima nap, we cool?” And be snoring before they could even swivel my way.

  Napping under unusual circumstances is my special power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is special⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the first time a teacher gave me wood.

  Then I gave it back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Preach! We should be way past the silliness of body hair choices being open for other’s opinions. It took my sasquatch looking ass a while to get there for myself, but there’s still social pushback that just pisses me off. I’m glad you found your balance :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People are fucking weird. There’s also prudes and morons that assume any contact at all has to be some kind of horror.

  But we’re supposed to teach our kids how to clean and manage their bodies. That’s the job; we do it for them when they’re too young to do it themselves, or if something temporarily/permanently disables them from doing so.

  It isn’t weird to help with genital care under those circumstances either. You gotta teach kids how to wash their junk, and if they want/need to change their pubic hair, it’s part of the job to discuss it, decide if it’s the right choice at that point, and if the mutually agreed answer is yes, to teach them how not to screw up.

  For real, who else is supposed to? You gonna hire a nurse or nurse’s assistant to teach them? That’s weird, and there aren’t any specialists in aesthetics that are going to agree to it in most circumstances when the kid is under the local age of consent. Too much risk.

  And even that assumes that the kid is going to be okay with a stranger helping them with their genitals. Not every kid would be. For me, there’s no way I’m going to have a total stranger fiddling with my kid’s junk for non medical reasons, even if the kid was alright with it.

  You did the job, end of story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I don’t miss the kiddie porn being dropped into chat rooms and forums randomly like could happen back in the day. But I like having a decent chance of finding whatever product I want/need and a better than zero shot at finding whatever obscure thing I’m interested in on Wikipedia.

  There’s tradeoffs. But the old net was a lot more fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has standards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While OP is obviously made up, and definitively loves others of the same gender, that is not a bad metric for compatibility.

  If it’s your favorite song, ever. Something that just brings you great joy, and the prospective partner isn’t at least able to jam with it, the chances of being on the same wavelength about other things get smaller.

  I don’t really have a favorite song because how the fuck am I going to pick just one. But let’s pretend that I managed to and it was Master of Puppets (which would be on the final list no matter how that list got decided). If my lady can’t at least smile and throw the horns in solidarity, how the fuck we gonna handle that big a gap in tastes? Not saying it has to be her favorite too, but there’s gotta be at least a friendly neutrality or it means our tastes in music are radically different.

  If tastes in music are far apart, chances are that other things like movies, tv, books, are almost guaranteed to be similarly apart. That wipes out big chunks of conversation and leisure time. And, how the fuck you gonna handle road trips? Stuck in a car with music you can’t at least tap a foot along with isn’t gonna be fun. It’s going to be stressful as fuck after an hour or so. Trust me on that one, I’ve been stuck in a vehicle for work purposes for long trips without realizing exactly how horrible the people I was with were. And I’m one of those people that doesn’t entirely reject any actual genre. Even the stuff I avoid, it isn’t because of the genre, it’s tangential stuff.

  But after two hours of shitty contemporary christian bullshit I was ready to strangle someone.

  Imagine that, but you hate Taylor Swift, and the date you’re with is a swifty. Or, imagine your poor date just can’t tolerate death metal, and you’re blasting some Behemoth. The fuck? You’re doomed. And that’s what long term relationships bring: hours in the same place frequently. You gotta be able to find common ground.

  So, anon up there making the right choice for the wrong reasons, what with the fictional nature of their same sex lifestyle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Into a pool? Yeah, it really isn’t that hard. Plenty of people manage to get in their first time after verbal instructions and make it short distances.

  You won’t have great form, and you’ll probably wear yourself out fast because of it, but as long s you know ahead of time that there’s some basics that even a dummy can do to stay afloat while you rest, you’d be fine.

  Wouldn’t even take six months. If there was a book written with basic techniques, described well, you could absorb that in however long it takes you to read.

  Panic would be the barrier, not knowledge. But knowledge can sometimes prevent panic, so it’s totally doable.

  I mean, fuck, I know people that have started out with way more complex movements with nothing but reading up and done well for a first timer. If there’s illustrations, it’s even easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rude.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My chaps are large and pendulous too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon listens to the radio⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dammit!

  Anon is totally gay, but the realness present in this text has broken my brain.

  Also, that song is still fucking awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's family tries to rein in grandma⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t have to be a 1:1 equivalency

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's family tries to rein in grandma⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It absolutely works because it’s about holding onto an emotion, not a specific expression of that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the "dip"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really was a great era for CG.