Caribbean immigrant to UK / Long posts tagged #long or #long post / Officially mentally unwell // Please don't hostile ping me into any arguments, or hostile ping others to see my posts.
Watching movies with small children is an EXPERIENCE, like tiny human, you have NO sense of story progression
Which is to say we put on the first How to Train Your Dragon
And at the dramatic "first flight" scene, two-year-old shouted "HIM FALL" and started SOBBING. She straight up thought that movie had murdered Hiccup and Toothless halfway through. Had to get double parental hugs and a constant stream of reassurances until they figured that whole flying thing out
All movies could be horror movies if your brain hasn't equipped Plot Armor to the protagonists
Anyway five-year-old is pleased to report that he "liked the part where the big dragon exploded"
#Welcome to the action adventure genre my children#Five year old was VIBRATING through the climax like straight up legs kicking fists clenched#Had to be held by Spouse until we figured out he wasn't afraid#He was experiencing baby's first blood lust#Kid wanted that dragon DEAD and it HAPPENED and he was VIOLENTLY SATISFIED
I took my 5-year-old nephew to see How to Train Your Dragon 2, and I remember him sobbing unconsolably that Hiccup's father was killed. We tried to comfort him by saying it was just a movie, a story, and no one real was hurt, and he said, "They're not real!?!?!" and I noped out of that conversation and started talking about going to McDonald's so quick, let me tell you.
One of life's underrated pleasures is seeing things with children, because they have no filters. If they like something, it is the best thing ever.
I saw HTTYD with some young relatives, and many other shows I would never have seen otherwise.
In the black community, you CONSTANTLY hear people shaming other black people (especially black men) for dating/marrying outside of their race and I have to keep reminding people that we fought for interracial mairrage!
There are a bunch of black movies and television episodes based on the white boyfriend/girlfriend and the disapproving black family. It's a trope at this point.
And that's not even getting into social media drama.
We fought for this, guys. It used to be illegal. You could get murdered for even trying to date a white person.
Incidentally, Guess Who? is a racial inversion of the classic, groundbreaking film Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? Where the boyfriend was Sidney Poitier visiting his white GF's family.
Since none of you assholes seem to get it, the person responding to the news article is saying that because of the fact that they exist in a gender separate from their sex their very existence is seen as sexual in nature so they would receive the death penalty for merely existing in proximity to children under this law because of transphobia
And some people legitimately think men shouldnt babysit or be around children. But the law doesnt cover someone disapproving of you existing near children. It covers legitimate crimes against children.
Saying hello to a child while trans wont result in an conviction. Sticking your hand down the pants of a child probably will though.
My favorite joke in Metalocalypse is how as the show goes on it becomes increasingly obvious they’re naming characters with the sole purpose of torturing Mark Hamill.
Like I just love how you can pinpoint “Ninmiltrid Fmiltindryden” as the exact moment the joke went from making Mark Hamill say funny but still vaguely name-shaped words to forcing that poor man to pronounce straight up keysmashes out loud.
Henry Nowak's alleged killer has claimed during his trial that he was acting in self-defence.
Here's the context missing;
>Vickrum Digwa, 23, claims he acted in self-defence after [Nowak] used a racist insult, punched him and knocked his turban off, Southampton Crown Court heard.
And;
>Police initially handcuffed the victim before discovering his fatal injury a short time later.
So, officially, the cops didn't even notice he was stabbed when they cuffed him.
Even being very charitable, that sounds a lot like incompetence. Were they in a very dark alley or something?
Still, the trial of his killer has been covered multiple times by the Beeb and other outlets.
A Sikh man, Vickrum Digwa, is standing trial for the murder of a Polish student, Henry Nowak, in Southampton, Hampshire
>It is admitted that Nowak, already weak from knife wounds, was trying to reach help when the police arrived. The evidence is that, having arrived, the police interviewed both parties; told that Nowak had started a drunken fight and racially abused Digwa, they immediately handcuffed him. Afterwards, they realised his condition. When he collapsed, they removed the cuffs and administered first aid. But it was too late. He died in their hands.
The popular narrative is that the police automatically arrested the white guy who allegedly made a slur. I think the punching complicated things, but I still wanna know why they didn't notice the stabbing.
this is missing some of the big sticking points of this story. like that digwa's family was extremely complicit. his parents and his brother helped him lie to police on the spot. iirc, his mother even held henry down as he was bleeding out in the street.
none of his family members were charged for any of this, last i heard.
but that's just a family of criminals. what's maybe more egregious is that henry told police multiple times that he'd been stabbed and one of the officers turned around and told him, word for word, "i don't think you have, mate".
they didn't just arrest him because they were told he attacked someone. they arrived at the scene and immediately started treating him with open contempt.
The racial motive of the cops is attributed largely to
1, the family and suspect claimed racism in the first place to justify claiming victim status.
2, the murder weapon was a religious dagger that they were allowed to carry around as an exception to britains stringent knife laws.
3, someone's apparently put out the handbooks and such that the police are trained by and IIRC, it basically codifies "don't arrest the non-whites, arresting non-whites means contributing to racism" behavior, which people are also claiming is part of why they didn't bother checking Nowak for injuries at all until he collapsed and stopped responding.
also, as far as i know the only info we have of concretely what happened before the cops showed up with bodycams is the fact that nowak was stabbed and Digwa had the murder weapon. Dunno if there's medical reports on Digwa having any injury.
What are the rules and policies for this sort of situation if they were not acting on racial motives, and were they following those rules?
This BBC article says Digwa's brother called 999 and claimed Nowak was the attacker. Even if he was stabbed, it could've been in self-defense if they thought the call was true.
The operator also said they sent an ambulance.
And the cops called a bus and started CPR one minute after they arrested him. Which was one minute after they arrived.
So, two minutes total. That doesn't sound like they could've done a lot to help him even if they hadn't cuffed him.
The judge said Nowak's injuries were so severe he would not have survived, however quickly he received first aid, CPR or expert medical treatment.
Also, Digwa was convicted three days after OP's post. 21 year minimum sentence.
There's also the famous "well, there were a small number of Black Vikings, therefore it makes perfect sense for Vikings Valhalla turn an actual historical white male chieftan into a black woman."
The second part is implied, because not a single person in that article defending the racebending actually addressed that complaint. I had to go to Screenrant for the canon explanation of "the real guy got killed, and his wife took over".
And they immediately admitted there was no evidence of any female Viking ruler, ever, but, but, there COULD have been!
This incident was held up by some people as an example of progressives living down to memes about racebending.
Bridgerton had to invent an entire alternate history to explain black British nobility.
Of course, since musicians apparently play orchestral covers of Taylor Swift and Billy Eilish, I gotta wonder why they even bothered.
Funny thing is, when I Googled for controversy, I kept finding criticism from the left, not the right.
I also remember the times MedievalPOC said it made perfect sense to for a random African trader to head hundreds of miles out of his way, over a mountain range, to a random corner of medival Europe (that is still extremely white today) to appear in Kingdom Come:Deliverance.
Just to be clear; anti-woke people have been wrong about diversity. Both in fiction and IRL. Up to the point of riots and terrorism.
I have argued with them.
But I think it sure is curious that neither OOP nor any of the people in the reblogs had a single actual example. Heck, none of them even named a specific work.
And of course they never admitted their enemies could be right about anything, ever.
man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great
To anyone confused- he said he’d give money to anyone who could give him a concrete action plan, then the UK called his bluff and showed him one and now he’s leaving them on read.
people seem to think that since I am an adult male and am incredibly lucid that i can be therapy'd and medicated into helping myself but you'd think that would have happened already given i've been on both since i was eight
There's also the famous "well, there were a small number of Black Vikings, therefore it makes perfect sense for Vikings Valhalla turn an actual historical white male chieftan into a black woman."
The second part is implied, because not a single person in that article defending the racebending actually addressed that complaint. I had to go to Screenrant for the canon explanation of "the real guy got killed, and his wife took over".
And they immediately admitted there was no evidence of any female Viking ruler, ever, but, but, there COULD have been!
This incident was held up by some people as an example of progressives living down to memes about racebending.
Bridgerton had to invent an entire alternate history to explain black British nobility.
Of course, since musicians apparently play orchestral covers of Taylor Swift and Billy Eilish, I gotta wonder why they even bothered.
Funny thing is, when I Googled for controversy, I kept finding criticism from the left, not the right.
I also remember the times MedievalPOC said it made perfect sense to for a random African trader to head hundreds of miles out of his way, over a mountain range, to a random corner of medival Europe (that is still extremely white today) to appear in Kingdom Come:Deliverance.
Just to be clear; anti-woke people have been wrong about diversity. Both in fiction and IRL. Up to the point of riots and terrorism.
I have argued with them.
But I think it sure is curious that neither OOP nor any of the people in the reblogs had a single actual example. Heck, none of them even named a specific work.
And of course they never admitted their enemies could be right about anything, ever.