TIL: Today I Learned

[Timsup2nothin]

And why would Trump be her enemy? If she's six, she's a few years too young for him. If she's thirty-six, she's a grown woman, and far too old for him to think he can get away with raping.

Trump is everyone's enemy. The Trumpists just haven't figured it out yet.

 

[Samson]

Clock-changing in Britain (ie. british summer time) was spearheaded by builder William Willett – the great-great-grandfather of Coldplay’s Chris Martin.

 

[HoloDoc]

Trump is everyone's enemy. The Trumpists just haven't figured it out yet.

I agree, but wouldn't Rolf Harris be a more immediate threat?

 

[Arakhor]

Rolf Harris was never an angry person in authority who'd use violence (or violent language) to cow others into toeing the line.

 

[Traitorfish]

And why would Trump be her enemy? If she's six, she's a few years too young for him. If she's thirty-six, she's a grown woman, and far too old for him to think he can get away with raping.

Certainly, given that Matilda's fundamental opponent in the book was the grown-up world of discipline and self-repression, Trump doesn't provide her with an obvious foil.

Trump is everyone's enemy. The Trumpists just haven't figured it out yet.

It's not a very good way to commemorate Matilda, then, if her statue could replaced with say, Spiderman, and the meaning of the whole tableau wouldn't change.

 

[HoloDoc]

Certainly, given that Matilda's fundamental opponent in the book was the grown-up world of discipline and self-repression, Trump doesn't provide her with an obvious foil.

Sounds more like Pence should be her enemy. No one is as repressed as a weirdo that calls his wife "mother."

It's not a very good way to commemorate Matilda, then, if her statue could replaced with say, Spiderman, and the meaning of the whole tableau wouldn't change.

Trump lacks the physical fitness to pilot a flying surfboard through New York while throwing pumpkin bombs. Which is too bad, because it would make him a better President.

 

[Hrothbern]

No one is as repressed as a weirdo that calls his wife "mother."

IDK about the US
But here, around WW2 it was:
girl -> virgin -> mother & wife
no time and no space for women

kind of outdated and backward culture to me
but is that not the conservative renaissance we see happening

 

[Traitorfish]

Trump lacks the physical fitness to pilot a flying surfboard through New York while throwing pumpkin bombs. Which is too bad, because it would make him a better President.

On the other hand, his property empire has probably done more damage to the social fabric of New York than some berk in a goblin mask ever could.

 

[HoloDoc]

On the other hand, his property empire has probably done more damage to the social fabric of New York than some berk in a goblin mask ever could.

Of course. The Green Goblin was far more rational than Trump has ever been.

 

[Takhisis]

On the other hand, his property empire has probably done more damage to the social fabric of New York than some berk in a goblin mask ever could.

It's a fabric. Aren't you supposed to get the dark bits out?

 

[HoloDoc]

It's a fabric. Aren't you supposed to get the dark bits out?

You put the whites in one basket, and the darks and coloureds in the other.

 

[metatron]

til:
Faith Goldy is running for mayor of Toronto.
And she's polling in third place, with like a handful of percent.

Ok.

 

[Synobun]

til:
Faith Goldy is running for mayor of Toronto.
And she's polling in third place, with like a handful of percent.

Ok.

Is that so surprising? Rob Ford says hi from the afterlife.

Doug Ford says hi from his current throne.

 

[metatron]

Is that so surprising? Rob Ford says hi from the afterlife.

Doug Ford says hi from his current throne.

Yes, yes it is.

There's a long way from nutty conservative cracklord to Faith freaking Goldy.
For one.
And then... it's also one heck of a lane switch, isn't it?
Like, what's next? This time next year Wynne will launch her daytime talk show and become Canada's Ellen?

Yeah, anyway, i had to do a double take on this.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned that back in the 1970s, a chemistry graduate student was trying to make a drug called MPPP. But he messed up and instead produced MPTP that fried his substantia nigra (part of the brain that makes dopamine) and gave him the symptoms of advanced Parkinson's Disease within a matter of days. That is scary to think about.

 

[Farm Boy]

girl -> virgin -> mother & wife

Eh. Spend enough time talking with your kid one on one and calling her "mom" sort of creeps into situations where all three of you are interacting. I'd be hard pressed to find a situation I'd find it weird or demeaning to be referred to as "Dad" unless it was somebody out of the blue and it wasn't in context of a statement that would be referring to me around my son. It's a title I spend a lot of effort on. It's a good title. It's fun to spend time around my mom with him though, since then the same word gets used and it's a functional lesson on shifting language and relationships that exist both in the light of our love for him and independently of it.

But right, we're talking about a person instead of actually the point, so "ruh ruh ruh duh duh duh," or something appropriate for context.

 

[Hrothbern]

Eh. Spend enough time talking with your kid one on one and calling her "mom" sort of creeps into situations where all three of you are interacting. I'd be hard pressed to find a situation I'd find it weird or demeaning to be referred to as "Dad" unless it was somebody out of the blue and it wasn't in context of a statement that would be referring to me around my son. It's a title I spend a lot of effort on. It's a good title. It's fun to spend time around my mom with him though, since then the same word gets used and it's a functional lesson on shifting language and relationships that exist both in the light of our love for him and independently of it.

But right, we're talking about a person instead of actually the point, so "ruh ruh ruh duh duh duh," or something appropriate for context.

Within the family, parents and kids, using mammy and daddy, when talking with your kids about theother, confirms the roles (and the affection).
But with friends of us I have never use mammy for my wife. I used her first name. And between the two of us, or calling her in presence of the kids: always the first name.
Between the two of us she was the woman I loved, and not the mother of our kids.
And vice versa.
With my mom, it was dual: I called her basically mom, but when talking with my kids about her, it was oma (grandma) and in other not to confuse them I called my mom often grandma when the kids could hear it.
Somehow putting myself, my relation with her aside, for what I felt the more important relation between a grandma and her grandchildren.

Anyway... I hope you that came over... that girl -> virgin -> mother & wife is pushing a woman into roles only. Stealing away her own identity as independent woman.
Imagine that the other way around.
That you Farm Boy, are no longer a man, no longer someone that can fetch back to his boyhood... but you are chained as provider-hubby-father. Solely an appendix role to your family with never a period in between kid and hubby to find out who you are as a man.
Because that is what happened, at least in my country before WW2 among many people.
The most precious property of a girl was her virginhood, to be consumed by her hubby, and avoiding by all means that that Eva, that tempting, seductive sexual threat for malekind, would exist. Except for that short period of hardly accepted romance and courting.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Meh. My gf calls me dad more often than she uses my name because she speaks for our dogs. "C'mon dad, give them some snacks" is probably the most commonly spoken line of dialog in the comedy that is our daily lives.

 

[HoloDoc]

Eh. Spend enough time talking with your kid one on one and calling her "mom" sort of creeps into situations where all three of you are interacting. I'd be hard pressed to find a situation I'd find it weird or demeaning to be referred to as "Dad" unless it was somebody out of the blue and it wasn't in context of a statement that would be referring to me around my son. It's a title I spend a lot of effort on. It's a good title. It's fun to spend time around my mom with him though, since then the same word gets used and it's a functional lesson on shifting language and relationships that exist both in the light of our love for him and independently of it.

But right, we're talking about a person instead of actually the point, so "ruh ruh ruh duh duh duh," or something appropriate for context.

I've been in situations where I've been called Daddy and found it very creepy. Namely, by a seventeen year old coworker. And on another occasion, by a guy I had just met.

 

[Farm Boy]

That you Farm Boy, are no longer a man, no longer someone that can fetch back to his boyhood... but you are chained as provider-hubby-father. Solely an appendix role to your family with never a period in between kid and hubby to find out who you are as a man.

Well, at least this time we have something clean to disagree about.

I don't agree with this as a consequence of my title at all. I am Dad. Dad has a name, was a boy, is a man, and more. Mom has a name, was a girl, is a woman, and more. These are not diminishing or limiting terms. Thinking of them such is disturbingly, I dunno. I'm looking for something non-offensive. But it seems self-centered and small when interpreted otherwise, I guess?