Mindiana Jones and the Temple of Rude

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[mindyanddannyfineanddandy]

LMAO, this image is from a college textbook, it’s supposed to illustrate “behaviorist principles” as in, someone can do someting everyone hates but one person responding positively to it reinforces the behavior.... but like, i can’t stop looking at the guy in the top right corner.

[elletao]

100 FEMALE CHARACTERS IN 2021

38. Eleanor Shellstrop ☆ The Good Place (2016 - 2020)

[macrolit]

20 years. Ugh.  And you?

[radiantflower]

[spankerella]

[daniellasaga]

[just-shower-thoughts]

1980 and 2021 are as far apart as 1980 and 1939

[mindyanddannyfineanddandy]

psst

Hey, college students,real quick, a request from an elder millinial who works in Higher Education....

When you send an official email in a corporate or school setting with an attachement that the other person needs to do something with, please include a subject line, at the very least, if you are not going to put anything in the body of the email.

I am not psychic, and there are over 500 students in the degree program that our office handles, cool thanks.

Granted, I know email isn’t used as much, and definitely not in the same way as it was when I was in college, but I NEED pertinent information, otherwise the random file you sent me means nothing (unless i spend ten minutes pulling up your info in the university’s secure database, then peruse your transcript and try to decipher why the heck you would be sending me a particular document - it’s not productive). University Admin/ Assistants are not your teachers, we deal with a much higher number of students than the teachers, and that list of students is constantly changing. I will never “just know” what you need, but if you give me even the SLIGHTEST clue in the email i’ll figure it out much faster.

[mysharona1987]

[garden-owler]

[okayysophia]

Stupid bastard.

[orwell]

Domesticated Woman by Marianna Rothen

[humanveil]

You can come up with four thousand other guesses, of course, about why Amma did it. In the end, the fact remains: Amma enjoyed hurting. ‘I like violence,’ she’d shrieked at me. I blame my mother. A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

SHARP OBJECTS – Gillian Flynn.

[funnytwittertweets]

[spectrestephrogers]

Here is my opinion as a recruiter (of course recruiting is highly subjective and everyone has their own biases in hiring)

1. If its your first job after a gap, don't say its a health reason. They will probably not ask more but they'll probably mentally downgrade you because 'Are they really okay to come back to work?' If it's further back, it'll be less of an issue. This goes triple for any job that is physical.

2. Depending on hiring person, I find 'I was caring for a family member full time' to be a good reason for a gap that I won't question.

3. If you have the opportunity while in a gap, get a certification or degree. Then you can use that as a reason for your gap and it could potentially turn the view of that gap from negative to positive.

4. If you have a "good" reason, most people understand. I speak to people daily who were a Covid layoff and we don't count this gap against them. I also sometimes talk to people who have to explain gaps around 2008 with "Well that was during the financial crisis" and I go say no more I understand.

4. If you don't have a "good" reason, pretend you do. Don't lie but make it sound like the gap was a thing you chose. "I had the opportunity after leaving my last job to take a few months before looking for work again." "I was able to work on building my home business (Ebay, etsy, etc), but now I'm looking for something more stable."

[toebeens]

These are all really great and very helpful, thanks for sharing!!!

[50firstfilms]

Listen to this episode from 50 First Films on Spotify. SPOILERS - We discuss the entirety of A Quiet Place Part II, so keep that in mind before listening! Steven and Sylvia went to the movies! This isn’t our normal format, so things go a little off the rails in this special episode. Topics include moviegoing experiences, copaganda, survival genre tropes, and more things I don’t want to talk about here because they’re spoilers!

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[50firstfilms]

A Quiet Place Part II – A Return to Normalcy – by Sylvia.

This isn’t a movie review, but rather a reflection. There are no spoilers.

Excerpt:

“Watching A Quiet Place Part II is a movie-going experience unlike most. There are so many scenes where there is no sound at all. Where even your breathing can be heard by your neighbors, let alone the crunch of popcorn, or the swishing of your ice in it’s cup as you go for a drink of soda. You become so conscious of all the little sounds simply existing makes, which I think is a brilliant tactic for the movie. It places you directly into the bodies of the characters on screen, and it winds up the tension even more. You hold your breath when Regan does, your body tenses as she tries to so carefully pick something up without making a noise. It’s intense in the best way. ”

[50firstfilms]

In this episode, Sylvia and Steven talk about the Seinfelds and the Bees… And capitalism… And Marxism…  And the inevitable overturning of humanity… but mostly, bees… We think.

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[scorpionsandhoney]

Bo’s putting Inside on Spotify on Thursday

[50firstfilms]

Movies that Shape Us - Bee Movie

By Sylvia.

When I share movies the goal isn’t to expose someone to the greatest movies ever made. It doesn’t honestly matter to me if a movie is objectively good. Because really, who can actually be objective when consuming media? Everything about ourselves dictates whether or not we enjoy a movie, whether or not we think it’s worth sharing. To me, all a movie has to do is garner some kind of reaction for it to be worth sharing.

This week I made Steven watch the absurd 2007 animated film “Bee Movie,” and I will say there were multiple times where the look on his face said, “Why are you making me watch this, you lunatic?”

I’m not laboring under the delusion that Bee Movie is good. Because honestly it isn’t. It’s loses the thread of it’s own plot too many times, makes questionable decisions about humor style, doesn’t understand who the audience is supposed to be, etc… It’s not an “objectively” good movie. But, it is definitely something that sticks with you, something that you remember and maybe even laugh about later. It has a few good one liners, a weird romance plot between a bee and a human that to this day still has people scratching their heads, and a really fumbling attempt to say something about capitalism and communism that leads to some interesting thoughts about the working class and their place in the social hierarchy.

Not to mention the meme culture, the fan fiction, the weird inside jokes that the absurdity in this movie inspired are something that could be looked at through quite an interesting anthropological lens (but I’ll leave that for the scientists among us).

All this to say, this movie did have some kind of impact on me, on my sense of humor, on the way I interacted with people online in the early 20-teens. So, of course I wanted to share it with my partner. I won’t say something like Bee Movie is a big part of my personality, but I like to think of myself as a multifaceted person, and if one little sliver of a glinting facet was put there by a ridiculous movie from 2007, then I’d like to share that with someone who cares to know every part of me.

How about you? Any weird or “bad” movies that contribute to the overall you?

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Our Podcast Episode for Bee Movie will drop 6/9/21. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify and 14 other platforms.