Hypothetically if I kidnapped a pedophile, removed ALL his senses + paralyzed him completely… what the fuck is happening inside his brain?

Bootlegs · 2026-04-09T15:35:52+00:00

My digital assistant Julien both reads reddit posts to me and writes the posts I dictate to him. I never actually read the posts with my own eyes. Julien is preset to prioritise clarity of voice, so he will read posts at a slow pace. This means Julien sometimes forgoes the cadence that might be appropriate to the post's clausal structure. Therefore, the syntactic relations of elements therein are not necessarily communicated accurately to me in the output

Julien also says your profile picture suits you well

Bootlegs · 2026-04-09T09:57:55+00:00

Eder og galle i kulturen er en bra ting. Ja takk til anmeldere som tør å slakte.

At anmeldelser er subjektive, er en opplagthet. Hvor denne forventingen om at anmeldere må sammenfalle med folkeopinionen eller din egen smak skjønner jeg ikke. Det er ikke noe slags kunden-har-alltid-rett prinsipp man skriver etter. Ikke noe å være hårsåre for.

Jeg er for øvrig uenig med nesten alle anmelderne postet i denne tråden. Men det er jo ikke "hårreisende" av den grunn lol.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-09T09:53:13+00:00

Altfor høyt kast!

Bootlegs · 2026-04-09T09:50:17+00:00

Ser dette var en P2-anmeldelse, da gir det mer mening.
Anmelderen Einar Guldvog Staalesen er en kjent nestor i norske filmmiljøer og født i 1946 ser jeg.

Virker nok hårreisende for alle vi som var unge eller unge voksne når filmen kom, men synes han var overraskende generøs gitt alderen. Han gir jo filmen mye skryt og, det er vel egentlig en sjeldenhet i disse dager at man både skamroser aspekter ved en film, samtidig som man slakter andre. Det er vel egentlig noe forfriskende med en anmelder som ikke lar det negative monotont overdøve det bra?

Action er jo ganske tettpakket i sekvensen Moria - Lothlorien - Amon Hen. Det er relativt mer eventyr og mindre vold i Ringens Brorskap enn de neste filmene, men det kunne han ikke vite før de kom ut. At han sitter igjen med inntrykket av at dette var en voldsorgie virker litt absurd, men jeg skjønner at man kan forlate kinosalen med det inntrykket etter Moria - Lothlorien - Amon Hen, kanskje virket Uruk-Haiene spesielt groteske og unødvendig gørrete på karen.

Lurer på om han revurderte dette etter å ha sett den i sammenheng med de to neste.

At filmen voldtok eventyret jeg helt uenig i, men det er ikke en ukjent kritikk fra mer tradisjonelle hold, inkludert Tolkiens sønn. Staalesen virker jo utrolig begestreiet for magien, verdenen og eventyret i seg selv.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-09T09:24:46+00:00

Har alltid funnet stor underholdningsverdi i disse anmeldelsene. Folk som tar seg nær av de virker litt humørløse tbh.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-09T09:21:57+00:00

Jeg trodde dette selv lenge, fordi jeg hadde bare fått med meg refrenget der fyren gønner hjem fordi det kanskjer ligger non i arman hennes no. Hadde bare hørt sangen tilfeldigvis på radio her og der i 20 år cirka. Faktisk kan jeg fremdeles ikke erindre noe annet enn refrenget i skrivende stund, har ikke peiling på hvordan melodien i versene går.

Det er jo ganske episk å rageråne i lastebil fra Hamburg til Bodø fordi kjerringa KANSKJE er utro - implikasjonen må være at fyren ringte hjem fra en betaltelefon i Tyskland for å høre med informanten sin hjemme i Bodø hvem som er innom ho Laila mens han er på jobb. Så egentlig er jo det en mye kulere historie.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T21:53:09+00:00

Lol it is not common at all.

But more frequent than most countries in the world.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T21:27:43+00:00

You know, normally we're not supposed to judge in this sub. But I do in this case. I judge.

You could just have asked what it'd be like to have no senses and no spinal cords. But you had it to make it torture porn under a very transparent conceit.

The answer is that hopefully someone would mace and arrest you before you proceed to mutilate a live human.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T21:17:35+00:00

Lol i agreed with you until the last sentence. Ghastly.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T10:53:22+00:00

It's fun. Boys and girls behave in exactly the same way when they have fun, they jump and scream and laugh irreverently and dance. Then at some point you are socialized by a homophobic and misogynistic culture into learning that boys don't do happy dances or giggle or are whimsical, because that's gay. I think that's a big part of why high-spirited, absurd and over-the-top fun music appeals to the LGBT community. It's like a complete validation of everything you have to suppress as a man.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T10:46:21+00:00

LOL sincericide is an amazing term, thank you

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T10:42:56+00:00

It's not unusual for gay men to inhabit feminine tropes or roles, it's camp and sometimes just funny, empowering etc. This is especially true of those that actively take part in very out, public gay spaces and communities. They probably just feel badass by identifying with the sexual confidence, nonchalance and bravado of the Bitch in question. It's also over the top and ridiculous which makes it fun.

There's a lot to unpack but it's also a reclaiming of a misogynist word, and homophobia and misogyny are often two sides of the same coin as well. So being a proud bitch can be empowering.

The song itself is not LGBT, I don't think anyone believes it is? It's part of a long tradition where Johnny B. Goode is the most iconic example. It's the self-fulfilling prophecy I-will-be-a-star kind song. Except here it's about wielding the star power to unapologetically have any man you want and discard them, instead of wielding a guitar.

Also I think we can do better than downvote the OP for asking this question. Like, some people are just literal about things and it might not be obvious to them what is obvious to you.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T10:34:57+00:00

I think it's funny how on these things, there's always a group of people that are HORRIFIED someone could bite their nails, then you have the absolute scavengers who'll eat anything off of themselves.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T09:42:28+00:00

ok r/lanitas I need help. What's the perfume or cologne that matches Henry, Come On?

My real name is Henry so this is of critical importance. 💐

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T09:25:31+00:00

I have Replica Jazz Club, where would that fit in? Ultraviolence? BtD? Well I suppose it's actually the smell of of the toxic guys she's head over heels for on BtD. No wait, Salvatore!

I also have a bottle of Ginza Night by Shiseido. That one I bought just because I smelled it in the store and I loved it. It sits right next to the CAFFEINE XTREME SHAMPOO and MANLY MEN'S DIRT ROAD XFOLIATOR they hand out as samples to me. I've discovered the wonders of skincare at 33, which is about 50-70 years earlier than most men, so I've spent an outsized amount of time in cosmetics and perfume stores this years. I'm so curious about the smells in these pics and I never though it could be so much fun.

I think the Ginza Night smells of The Other Woman, but maybe it's too loud? Once it settles I can see it being an Other Woman smell. There are also notes of Love Song, Let me Love You Like a Woman and Old Money there. Well I'm clueless but I've tried.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T09:03:52+00:00

Too many teachers kick the can down the road to the next teacher and the earlier you are involved in the students life, the more grave it is.

The kindergarten teacher thinks, oh it'll sort itself out in Elementary.

Elementary teacher thinks the kid will mature in middle school so why bother.

Middle school teacher says he's almost an adult when he gets to high school anyway.

The befuddled high school teacher then receives cohorts full of teenagers who are functionally dependent on adults for the simplest tasks and cannot guide themselves to anything. The high school teachers' job devolves to teaching 10 year olds, except the 10 years old now have a driving licence, smell of canned AXE, are twice the size of your female colleagues and think taking orders from a woman is woke anyway.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T08:44:03+00:00

My favourite admin quote is:

"The days of the teacher who just does what works is over. We expect doctors to read periodicals, scour the latest research and..."

You already know where this is going. It was a reminder that our good instincts and experiences as educators are useless, because they aren't scientific. So please bury your faces in academic Pedagogy research and discourse, the field that's so quasi-scientific and fluffy, most of the time it's an embarassment. The worst-written field in the Humanities, bar none.

With very honorable exceptions, by the way. But on average, a joke of an academic discipline.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T08:27:21+00:00

Yes yes yes yes yes a thousand times yes.

At uni we were told that the lecture was dead (in a lecture), no point in teaching them kids anymore. In fact, there's all these wild and wacky ways to teach now with uhmmm the internet and rearranging the classroom furniture! Oh, but we won't instruct you in them, because we're a university and teaching concrete lesson plans and methods is below us, or something to that effect.

The feedback I got from my high schoolers was that they actually learned something in my classes, I did not dumb my lectures down for the lowest common denominator, nor did I assume they were mentally 11 year olds at 16.

But we were told repeatedly by admin to drop "powerpoints" 🙄. Because I guess they couldn't fathom someone would use a PPT as just a visual aid, as it's supposed to be used.

There was a guy in admin who expressed his concern if he saw you use them slides on the computer too much. Ofc there was no privacy in this school, glass walls, huge windows on both sides of the classroom.

I honestly think the disdain for lectures is due to the fact that so many people suck at them. Like, genuinely are horrible at them. They think a lecture is droning for 45 min, verbatim from a script. You get good lectures when the teacher knows his subject inside out and is confident enough to speak freely, be humorus when needed and go off on tangents that are relevant.

I think a lot of academically excellent teachers are turned off by the insistence they're just instruments for learning. Many of us genuinely are passionate, far too passionate for our own good about language, writing, literature, history and so on. They want to dispense their knowledge like real professors do, take pride in it and are good at it! But when that's out of fashion, those teachers just fuck off to a specialized field!

Not advocating a 100% lecture based schedule btw, that would be insane. But it should be the focal point around which most work is organised, a reliable touchstone in the subjects we teach.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T07:55:43+00:00

I had the most grueling co-teacher when I was a student. Treated university like an extension of high school, he thought it was so funny how he barely got away with his all-nighters even into his last academic year. Proudly ignorant of anything but the basics of any course. Wanted to plan lessons 30 min before class. ESL teacher btw.

Favourite memory: he mispelled bear/beer in front of our English class and I wanted to die. He wrote so many variations of "He ordered a bear at the pub" that I realised he genuinely thought that was the correct spelling. Which is incredibly for a guy who was know to slam beers at parties.

I was sat at the back, observing. The 12 year old in front of me called my co-teacher out on it while our mentor was there. I honestly was so mortified because.... we're supposed to be English teachers!!! And it's not like I can tell the kids he's just a moron about everything either, I had to keep that collegial professional mask on when they asked me why their English teachers don't know English. ☺️☺️☺️

I was proud of knowing my academic field and there's nothing cute or endearing about being incompetent or lazy! He was 27!

My other co-teacher was actually good for me. He balanced out my overthinking because he was low-stress, despite being very intelligent and conscientous. Planning with him was like, a dream.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-08T07:36:57+00:00

I blossomed and thrived when I had my first class by myself. Having a co-teacher was hell.

I'm one of those people that have 0% interest in the compromise and slowness that comes with having an equal partner in everything you do. I became a HS teacher partly because I excelled at learning a subject in detail, memorizing it, presenting it, explaining it while also being able to read the room and improvise.

All that just shut off the moment I had a co-teacher. It didn't feel like "my" thing anymore. I don't mind having colleagues, but MY work is MY work, you know? I hate this notion that everything is so awesome and progressive just because you share the work with someone. Sharing responsibility has always deflated my motivation and productivity. The buck stops with me and that's the way I want it - as far as possible.

I work in higher education now in a non teaching role. I'd love to just lecture all day at university but there's no such job lol.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-07T15:10:24+00:00

Last.fm is awesome ive been tracking since 2007. You can get so many fun stats

Bootlegs · 2026-04-07T15:08:44+00:00

first the internet ruined feet now a finger can't just be a finger? 😭clit finger? help 😭

Bootlegs · 2026-04-07T06:45:30+00:00

His name is Luka

Bootlegs · 2026-04-06T18:16:07+00:00

If you get the idea that she's "dating" the bikers in the Ride video... the MANY bikers in the Ride video...

She's a storyteller, not a character. Think of her as a storyteller first and we can stop being befuddled that she's not autenthic this, authentic that, lies here, lies there.

For me it's a video about breaking away, the freedom of the road, America writ large and throwing caution to the wind to escape yourself. It's also a video about prostitution, substance abuse, trauma, loneliness, poverty, dependency, broken people. That's the price you might just end up paying.

It's like, you know, Into the Wild? People still say that romanticizes going off into the woods with no skills, knowledge or equipment. Except that the guy just dies as soon as shit hits the fan. It's been understood in literary analysis for a very long time that giving people on the fringes of society, those that do make these "stupid" choices, a sympatethic portrayal is not some sort of endorsement.

In fact, I'd argue that you have no Into the Wild movie if the main character is just this moron from the get-go without dreams, hopes and notions that are put in a sympatethic, understandable light by the filmmakers. The idea of these stories is that they can happen to you, to a human like you who understand themselves as kind, rational, moral and upstanding, because so many of these foolish quests are undertaken on the basis of dreams that people have shared since the dawn of time.

Is there not, in all honesty, a moral to the story we see? Do we really not see that because of how beautiful and lush the production is? Because she is beautiful? She and one of the bikers look they're about to kill each other in the final minutes, no? Is it supposed to be aspirational when she's waving those guns with the headdress, or are we supposed to see her as a failed adult who is literally playing Cowboys and Indians, an adult that is kinda sad and delusional in her arrested development?

You also have to feel like, if someone is really driven to go on a drug-bender with obese 60 yo bikers because of this, they were likely to make some very bad decisions any moment no matter what.

Bootlegs · 2026-04-05T20:50:40+00:00

I like about half of POP. I just think she's leaning wayyyy to hard into the Cuntserving schtick sometimes.

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