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the mexican football team has a 17 yrs old player and one of the funniest outcomes of this is that he cannot appear in any ad for gambling or drinking so he only appears in candy and milk advertisements. his first world cup and he's not even legally allowed to drive. his nickname is "morita" (little berry). he's three apples tall.
they couldn't put him in the beer campaign so he was represented by a bunch of berries
why the fuck all these indie folk rock bands putting birds and fish in random places. theyre putting canaries in coal mines and finches in pantries and fish in birdcages. wth
So I just made a joke that "more women should poison their husbands" to my cool boss and then immediately found out that he got divorced because he was poisoned by his ex-wife
I'm apologizing profusely and he's like "oh it's fine it was funny" and then he offhandedly mentions that his next girlfriend tried to poison him also
Yeah this is going to break containment babe.
I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area theyāve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record Iām fine with
But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy
Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy
when i was younger and stupid and in the (glass) closet i was dating the son of a pharmacologist. this man had made millions developing medications. he was fond of me and privately told me i was too funny and smart to be dating boys.
he also said that it was incredibly unlikely that sexism will ever be resolved in the medical field. that the majority of medications i will ever take - even some of which are "for women" - will not be clinically tested on my body.
the problem, he said, was in getting any human clinical trial approved. to test on a body with a uterus - any body, even elderly patients or those who have been sterilized - was often nigh-impossible, because the concern was that the test patient may, at any point, become pregnant. once/if the patient became pregnant, the study would not be about "the effects of New Medication on the body." instead, the trial would fail - the results would be "the effects of New Medication on a developing fetus/pregnant patient."
it was massively easier, he said, to just test without accounting for a uterus. that's how he phrased it - accounting for a uterus.
at the time, i remember him talking about the ethical implications of testing on a developing fetus; how such testing could theoretically bankrupt a company if a lawsuit was filed. he talked about informed consent and about how long it took for any legislation to be passed about this - that in 1993; the year i was born, it finally became illegal to outright exclude women and minorities from clinical trials.
i remember him shrugging. "that's not to say it doesn't happen," he said. my ears were ringing.
i was thinking about how every time i have been rushed to the ER, the first thing they have asked me is if i am pregnant. when i broke my wrist at 16 years old - despite never having had sex - they made me wait three hours for the test to come back negative before they gave me pain meds. the possibility of a child haunts my health.
how many people have died on the table because they were waiting for the pregnancy test before treatment. how many people have died on the table because they were pregnant, and the only thing we care about is the fetus.
it is hard to explain to other people, but it feels like some kind of strange ghost. our entire lives, we are supposed to "save" our bodies for our future partners. but really we are just saving the body for the future child, aren't we? that hovering future-almost that cartwheels around in a miasma. you can't get your tubes tied, what if you change your mind? think of the child you must have, eventually.
who cares about you and your actual safety. think about what you could be carrying.
Hi, epidemiologist and clinical research expert here!
Take this with the caveat that it might vary by region, but the situation is not quite as bleak as you make it out:
This definitely used to be more of a thing, but at least in the past 5-10 years I've been studying/working in the field, we try to ensure an approximately even split of make and female subjects. For drugs that we have some reason to believe might affect fertility or fetal health, we might check first that the subject is not pregnant or looking to become pregnant (this often goes for male subjects looking to imminently have children as well, because some drug classes can affect sperm quality). And while my experience with pharmacological testing has mostly been for non life threatening conditions, and therefore we have the leisure to wait for testing and pick and choose subjects, I've worked in enough hospitals to know that none would deny or even delay acute therapy in a life threatening case. Likely, they'd give the treatment, and if the patient turned out to be pregnant they'd have to present the case before the Institutional Review Board to determine if it was necessary treatment or a lapse in vigilance.
The world is be bleak, and there are definitely problems with sexism and bigotry in medicine. But not always.
this fanfic shit easy as hell š„š„
Iām crying
"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"
"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."
And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.
Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?
Oh. Shit.
Also, consider this analogy.
I have a drawer that has underwear. There's nothing in that drawer that could possibly be considered unethical, immoral, or illegal.
And yet I do not want anyone but those I choose to have access to that drawer, because the contents are private. My underwear is nobody's business but mine and the people that I choose to grant that access to.
That's what privacy is.
The truth that there are some things that you should be able to choose who has access to. Things that are yours, that are nobody else's business unless you choose to involve them.
Mirabel *officially* joins the waiting room š
The waiters
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after noticing an unfortunate trend of an increasing reliance on potty humor in the past PJO universe releases, i've gone over every PJO book I can find and documented the instances of potty humor. I wanted to know what the numbers said, so here they are:
I coded each instance of potty humor jokes (PHJs) under eight categories:
Fart
Poop
Butt
Burp
Pee
Underwear
Toilet
Bathroom
I searched each work for those words, then determined if the instance fell into one or more of the following criteria:
Instance used as a punchline
Instance used as a humorous location or object
Instance framed as an unexpected reaction (e.g., random farting, nervous burping)
If the use of the term did not apply to any of these categories, I did not code for it. For example, a hero may use the "butt of the sword" in combat. In this instance, I omitted the use of the term from the overall tallied count, as it was not a joke, it was a natural descriptor.
For each book, I totaled the number of PHJs to create a graph.
The data from 2005-2009 suggest a moderate usage of PHJs in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series. Many of these jokes are underwear (such as in the case of the Minotaur's choice of dress) or bathroom related (upon meeting Clarisse).
The data from 2010-2014 are fairly moderate as well. Blood of Olympus features the most PHJs at seven, with Leo ending up in his underwear twice, Frank's bathroom habits mentioned humorously once, and a few other coded instances of potty humor. Mark of Athena and The Demigod Diaries, an off-shoot book, only feature one PHJ each.
2016-2020 shows a significant increase compared to the two prior ranges. Each Trials of Apollo book features at least five PHJs. The Dark Prophecy features a whopping 18 PJHs, The Tower of Nero has 14, And The Burning Maze has 10. This range also includes two "other" classified books, one of which, Camp Jupiter Classified published in 2020, features 13 PHJs.
2023-2025 consists of the senior series and the Nico and Will series. The newest book, Court of the Dead, contains 32 PHJs, the second most of all time. The worst offender is Wrath of the Triple Goddess, which features 36 PHJ's, twice as many as the highest number in ToA.
I then took the overall total averages of PHJ's per book in a series to determine if there is a trend based on a series alone. I omitted books I coded as "other" as they range so broadly in date and often did not fit directly within a series, it would not provide any productive result. The averages are as follows:
PJO: 2.8 HoO: 3.4 ToA: 10.8 Sen. Series: 17 Nico & Will: 19
This study is limited, as potty humor does not solely consist of using the actual term. For instance, Percy wets himself in WotTG, but it does not explicitly say the word "pee" in the action. Thus, it was not counted in this study, meaning there are more instances that I was unable to feature.
While potty humor can draw in very young readers, it lacks the seriousness that some of the topics Riordan and Oshiro attempt to cover in Court of the Dead. It becomes dissonant to read jokes about a monster with nervous flatulence issues when the writers attempt to use the novel to cover heavier issues. The trend of an increased use of potty humor makes the books feel more superficial than those written before them.
The PJO series used potty humor sparingly. It wasnāt oversaturated, but it offered some well-timed comedic relief. The Senior Series and Nico & Will series, however, seem to rely a bit too much on juvenile humor to lighten the heavier topics Riordan used to handle with more nuance in the original five books.
When every punchline revolves around bathroom humor, it starts to feel like the book belongs in the bathroom, too. The "comic relief" Riordan and Oshiro are aiming for ends up feeling less like relief and more likeā¦ constipation.
I need to make a quick amendment here: @merlinsbeard4332 pointed out I mixed up the averages per series for the Senior Series and the Solangelo seriesāand they're totally right. The numbers are correct, but the series are flipped. The Solangelo series has 17/book, and the Senior series has 19/book on average. The new graph looks like this:
It doesn't change anything about the raw data or first half of the post, just the final two averages and appearance of the second graph. Nothing earth shattering, as it's only a difference of two jokes per series, but I felt I should revisit this and fix it.
okay you know that scan/photo of a teen girlās diary entry that goes like āwore yellow dress today. chris keeps trying to talk to me even though he KNOWS iām not interested! ugh! man landed on moon.ā anyway thatās the mood
THIS person is valid, as is their grandmother
Things like this are specifically why Iāve started keeping a paper journal this year.
ā100th day of protests in Portland, weāre approaching 200k coronavirus deaths, things are very strange and the west is on fire. Tried my banana bread recipe with olive oil and less sugar, thought it was quite tasty but will stick with butter in the future.ā
āDad says heās settling into the new house fine, the dogs are happy to have a nice yard. The president keeps saying heās not going to commit to a peaceful exchange of power. But thereās evidence of possible life on Venus, which is nice.ā
Frank Kafkaās Journals: August 2nd, 1914 - āGermany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon.ā
Seeing an individual life ebb and flow in the context of the massive tides of large-scale events is one of the most emotional parts of studying history for me.
It was unsettling when I realized I see the exact same thing when I look back at some of my journal entries from the early pandemic.
happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY
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hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is june 12, not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically because it is your independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized for a time as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we donāt want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasnāt even a work holiday for us.
june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day
one of the funniest conversations I ever had with my ex was when they were still getting used to Celsius and asked me "what's 20 degrees?" and instead of converting it, I said "it's the highest your dad will ever let you set the thermostat and when you say you're cold he tells you to put on another sweater, we're not made of money" and they went "oh, 68"
the fact that this reference was that fucking precise was something they went on to tell people about for years.
watching massive franchises bomb at the box office while Backrooms has made $212 million on a $10 million initial budget has brought me hope for the future of cinema
One piece of writing advice Iāve always struggled with is the notion that your characters have to have as much agency as possible, and anything else is a flat/boring/uninteresting character. Anyway I rewatched The Truman Show last night and that got me thinking about the exceptions to that writing rule that are oftentimes so much more compelling and interesting to me than the rule itself.
The entire premise of The Truman Show hinges on the fact that the main character has had no real agency since the day he was born. Every aspect of his world has been engineered and scripted by outside forces whose only goal is to control the narrative of his life. At the beginning of the movie, Truman goes along with everything, because heās never known any different. Then, slowly, he grows more and more determined to push back against those outside forces and claw out some agency for himself. Which, to me, wouldnāt be nearly as compelling or interesting without the contrast of that initial premise of a character with no agency.
Plus, I think itās important that the conflict isnāt just Truman vs. the world, itās also Truman vs. himself. I donāt think Christoff was entirely wrong when he made that remark about Truman preferring his cell and not actually wanting to be free. I think a part of Truman genuinely struggled with the desire to continue living with no agency, going with the flow, making the easy choices, not challenging himself. Because otherwise, this would be a cut and dried case of āoh the character REALLY DID have agency all along, he just had to Winā¢ļø against the outside forces.ā I think a very real potential outcome for this character based on how he was written was that he might have Given Up instead. Which I guess is the part I feel goes against every convention of writing today, at least in regards to āwhat makes a compelling character.ā Even though to me, a character having a genuine apathetic streak (it took 30 years for Truman to push back, after all!), genuinely prone to succumbing to his fears and taking the easy way out, is so much more relatable and compelling than a character whoās just an unstoppable juggernaut of taking action and exercising free will all the time.
Another thing that really struck me this time, this being my first rewatch of the movie since generative AI slop became such a prevalent scourge upon our world: the importance of something being Real. The specific scene where this came to mind was when Marlon is having that emotional heart-to-heart with Truman toward the end, underscored with ominous music the entire time, which doesnāt match the mood of the scene UNTIL the critical cutaway to the person feeding Marlon all his lines. And you realize the whole interaction is so cruelly fake and preying on Trumanās emotions in a vulnerable moment. It struck me there, the importance of someoneās words being their own, meant from the heart, not just copy-pasted from somewhere else. It reminded me of that pro-AI episode of Abbot Elementary where the ultimate message was āit is unreasonable and burdensome to expect your friends to spend their time and energy replying to your messages in their own words instead of sending an AI-generated reply they donāt have to think about.ā Which is such a miserable, dystopian sentiment if you think about it even a little bit beyond the surface-level comedic way it was presented in that episode.
Anyway, those were the two biggest things that stood out to me when rewatching The Truman Show this time. Itās available for free on Tubi right now, go watch it.
ok one more post about the truman show. if this movie was made today it'd be criticized for being too on the nose, but it's not even about what it'd be about today
if you made the truman show in 2025, it'd be about family vlog channels and people posting their lives for all to see and parasocial relationships, but that wasn't even a thing in 1998. in 1998 it's a movie about stagnation and accepting your surroundings, about becoming complacent and not working towards bettering yourself
and it's so unsubtle about that, christof basically says that in the interview with mark markson or whatever his name is.
"Christof, may I ask you, why do you think that uh, Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now?" "We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that."
and like. on the surface that's about reality confusion and not looking through the cracks or whatever but you look a little more and it's like.... that's not really about truman the guy, it's about truman the character, some guy who works in insurance who's not really trying to get to fiji, who wants a break and a vacation and to get out of his hometown but isn't really trying that hard and then you're hit with-
He can leave at any time. If it was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him from leaving. What distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately, Truman prefers his "cell," as you call it.
which like. holy shit dude. if that's not an on the nose commentary about complacency i dunno what is. like sure it's about truman trying to get out of the Domeā¢ but it's also about the insurance broker who's not trying to get to fiji, the vending machine stocker who's staying in his hometown, the nurse who's too worried about finances to see the world.
there's so many layers of commentary yet none of the themes it was made with are what it'd be about today and that's. very interesting
