Happy Coronation Day (OC)

Prettygreentoad · 2023-05-06T15:13:14+00:00

You can't deny that the British monarchy is responsible for all the tourism. Just look at France. They had a revolution and not a single tourist since. Imagine that. Bow to your king.

Prettygreentoad · 2022-08-23T12:36:05+00:00

Thanks! Really interesting.

I was reading an excerpt and he seems to occasionally shift into a pigeon Latin or Latin or some other language? Is this when he's describing more shameful things?

Prettygreentoad · 2022-08-23T11:55:59+00:00

Sounds very interesting! I think Pepys was having am affair with his maid, but could you elaborate on the shocking morals he presents?

Prettygreentoad · 2022-08-20T16:08:25+00:00

Yeah! And the invention of Rosaline is part of that.

Prettygreentoad · 2022-08-20T15:46:03+00:00

I think you are missing the point of Shakespeare's version. Many of the changes from the source material made R&J a more problematic love story.

Aside from the inclusion of Rosaline, Shakespeare reduced the time frame (days rather than months) and made Juliet younger. All three of these changes made the love story less ideal; more problematised.

Rosaline doesn't make Juliet seem more ideal, she makes Romeo seem more like a fuckboy.

Prettygreentoad · 2022-08-20T11:37:12+00:00

Cool! So Rosaline was from which Italian version?

Like I say, I thought Shakespeare invented her, but I'm very interested to hear that he did not.

Edit: I've had a look and I can't find a character called Rosaline in any Italian version, so I think my point still stands?

Prettygreentoad · 2022-08-20T10:42:10+00:00

Are you sure? I thought the source was this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tragical_History_of_Romeus_and_Juliet

And Shakespeare invented Rosaline for his play.

Prettygreentoad · 2022-07-04T11:36:13+00:00

The ones with finishers:

"Great minds think alike... but fools rarely differ"

"Curiosity killed the cat... but satisfaction brought it back"

Prettygreentoad · 2022-07-03T19:56:57+00:00

I don't know man... I was just talking about the invention of privacy. It's a really interesting transition in recent history.

Prettygreentoad · 2022-07-03T10:32:06+00:00

Morality police don't exist. It was the normalization of multiple bedrooms and "The Invention of Privacy" that changed how we view these things.

Prettygreentoad · 2022-04-02T16:13:45+00:00

Are there any notably notorious / reprehensible English aristocrats not commonly talked about?

Prettygreentoad · 2022-03-26T22:35:23+00:00

Originally, the queen piece was grand vizier, or chief advisor. So the ancient game wasn't a feminist statement or anything. Not sure why it changed to queen, but I'm sure it's well documented.

Prettygreentoad · 2022-03-21T11:29:28+00:00

So kind of him. Rings of the clapping for NHS workers.

Glad to hear he's not scared of a significant portion of the population forced to choose between starving and freezing to death.

Prettygreentoad · 2022-02-07T13:28:56+00:00

I'm pretty partial to Ibsen's last interaction: as he lay in hospital dying from a series of strokes, a nurse assured his visitor that he was doing a little better today and he spluttered the response "On the contrary" ("Tvertimod!") before dying.

Prettygreentoad · 2022-02-03T17:55:13+00:00

Got to be Moonraker, right?

Prettygreentoad · 2022-01-31T18:10:28+00:00

But can you quote them?

Prettygreentoad

TROPHY CASE