That’s so annoying that no one wants to talk about Black pastor who dresses and feeds homeless people before Christmas…
IM SCREAMING WHAT IS THIS
LMFAOOO FUCK ?
I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.
When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.
Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.
They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.
Chadwick talking about his accent in Black Panther. CNET interview.
it’s sad that puppets are more accepting than people…
LET 👏 ERNIE 👏 AND 👏 BERT 👏 TIE 👏 THE 👏 KNOT 👏 THEY 👏 HAVE 👏 A 👏 MORE 👏 ONGOING 👏 STABLE 👏 RELATIONSHIP 👏 THAN 👏 MOST 👏 OF 👏 US 👏
Y’all joke about it, but let me tell you a story: See, back in ‘94 (yeah, you youngins), our sociology teacher mentioned that today was the 25th anniversary of Sesame Street. And he proceeded to tell a story.
See, he was in kindergarten when Sesame Street first aired, and he saw the first episode, live, with his classmates. He described the experience of seeing this for the first time as incredible. The entire class loved it.
The next day, however, the teacher announced that they could no longer show it, due to some people upset that it showed interracial friendships, of kids of different ethnicities playing together. Keep in mind that this show was only two years after laws banning interracial marriages were overturned.
So yeah. They’ve been doing the right thing before many of us here were even alive.
They also handled death better than pretty much any show ever. I remember when Mr Hooper died. Well, really the actor playing him died. They could have written around it or ignored it, but they didn’t. They did a whole show about death and grief, and it was moving and completely perfect. And it pissed people off because it was a kids show and I guess some people think kid shows should be happy all the time. Sesame street is the best show. I would have said so at 5, and I still say so as a childfree 35 year old.
Children’s media should respect the intelligence of their audience and Sesame Street won’t flinch from that.
This is all so true, which makes it even worse that new episodes of Sesame Street are effectively behind a 6 month paywall.
sumer is the earliest known civilization that had to do it to us
You know what
huge crowd shouting “MOVE THAT BUS!!1!” but instead of a beautiful middle class house its my dead body
I don’t fuck with people who enjoy embarrassing/humiliating other people just to look cool. That shit make you look weak and miserable to the people who can see through yo bitch ass
fhshffkfhdkdlgjdh i love john boyega (x)
I think a lot of the mistakes in TLJ come from a fundamental misunderstanding of what audiences want versus what critics want; and a complete misreading of the strengths of the Star Wars saga.
Star Wars has never been about “subverting your expectations” or “destroying your preconceived notions” or any of that tripe reviewers are trotting out to defend the latest movie. Even at its most subversive (ESB) Star Wars was still about building things, loving your friends, and having hope for a better future. The cultural context was different as well. Coming off of the seventies, when sci-fi was still nascent; that sort of borderline downer ending was genuinely revolutionary. It really did “subvert expectations”. Now every other reboot is about making things darker and less fun, and sci-fi has become a grit fest. There is no destroying preconceived notions. We’ve seen it all before and we’re tired.
This is an inherently a constructive series full of destructive occasions. The Death Star may get blown up and planets may get destroyed, but there is an honorable rebellion and real hope for the future. Now it has become a destructive franchise, and the deaths feel cheaper because there is no promise that the Rebellion is still fighting, that hope is just around the corner. Without those “tired” fantasy cliches or actual plot pacing, it’s hard to feel like the story is building up to anything. New directors take glee in tearing down mainstays for the sake of it, killing off characters, and throwing in gratuitous subplots. While this sort of edge might still delight critics, a lot of audience members have gotten tired of it.
We don’t necessarily want old Star Wars back, we recognize that things change, but we do want the same foundational ethos. We want storytelling beats out of fairytales, wrapped in good special effects and cheesy deliveries, touched by a genuine desire to make something good and exciting that people will enjoy. We want childlike enthusiasm, and genuine care, and a storytelling vision that reaches more than one weird episode. You don’t need to be upending what it means to be a Star Wars story, in fact, that’s the opposite of the solution. This is a children’s story (for all ages), and not a gritty reboot. Learn how to tell it like one, or don’t get upset when people complain.
I think a lot of the mistakes in TLJ come from a fundamental misunderstanding of what audiences want versus what critics want; and a complete misreading of the strengths of the Star Wars saga.
Star Wars has never been about “subverting your expectations” or “destroying your preconceived notions” or any of that tripe reviewers are trotting out to defend the latest movie. Even at its most subversive (ESB) Star Wars was still about building things, loving your friends, and having hope for a better future. The cultural context was different as well. Coming off of the seventies, when sci-fi was still nascent; that sort of borderline downer ending was genuinely revolutionary. It really did “subvert expectations”. Now every other reboot is about making things darker and less fun, and sci-fi has become a grit fest. There is no destroying preconceived notions. We’ve seen it all before and we’re tired.
This is an inherently a constructive series full of destructive occasions. The Death Star may get blown up and planets may get destroyed, but there is an honorable rebellion and real hope for the future. Now it has become a destructive franchise, and the deaths feel cheaper because there is no promise that the Rebellion is still fighting, that hope is just around the corner. Without those “tired” fantasy cliches or actual plot pacing, it’s hard to feel like the story is building up to anything. New directors take glee in tearing down mainstays for the sake of it, killing off characters, and throwing in gratuitous subplots. While this sort of edge might still delight critics, a lot of audience members have gotten tired of it.
We don’t necessarily want old Star Wars back, we recognize that things change, but we do want the same foundational ethos. We want storytelling beats out of fairytales, wrapped in good special effects and cheesy deliveries, touched by a genuine desire to make something good and exciting that people will enjoy. We want childlike enthusiasm, and genuine care, and a storytelling vision that reaches more than one weird episode. You don’t need to be upending what it means to be a Star Wars story, in fact, that’s the opposite of the solution. This is a children’s story (for all ages), and not a gritty reboot. Learn how to tell it like one, or don’t get upset when people complain.
The Last Jedi + The Onion Headlines
finding out picasso died in 1973 feels like the fakest thing ive ever heard. everyone talks about him like he lived in a cave with nothing but a torch and paint he made from berries or bear shit or somethin but nah this dude probably sat down watchin looney tunes thinkin “damn i should draw some dude with a nose on his forehead thatd be dope” i feel so lied to
Jesus
This is so satisfying to watch
Why my parents so old and stupid fuck off
“Honor your father and your mother”
“Gargle my dick and balls”