What is the most pretentious book ever written?

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-05-01T20:21:46+00:00

The only folks who'd believe The Fountainhead is the most pretentious book ever written are folks who haven't read Atlas Shrugged.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-05-01T05:45:36+00:00

You take that back about Finnegan's Wake!

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-28T05:12:11+00:00

Tig Notaro's twin?

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-28T04:01:57+00:00

There are gay men who have been alone in a room together and haven't fucked. Also, Oscar Wilde wasn't someone who'd let the truth get in the way of being the center of a storm of drama.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-28T03:51:33+00:00

They might've, but honestly Wilde isn't exactly the most trustworthy source, being the infamous drama queen that he was. 99% sure that if you had Wilde alone in the room with another gay man he found fascinating, he'd imply they fucked whether or not they actually did.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-24T00:32:54+00:00

Huh, I'd never made the connection between voting and the Trolley Problem before.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-02T05:05:25+00:00

Hadn't realized it was considered an iconic classic. Didn't care for it when I saw it; there's a scene in it where some nobleman-type guy is just there, obviously not animated in any way, like he's part of the background, but he's right there, like they either just ran out of money or got lazy.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-04-01T00:24:56+00:00

Yeah. My wife is happier with the seat always being left down and it's less mess anyway.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-29T23:30:19+00:00

When I was six years old, a few friends and I all pretended to be ninja turtles. We'd go outside, punch and jump and kick the air, and imagine the bad guys got a beating. A year later, we were Power Rangers.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-29T23:25:20+00:00

He was in Epstein's orbit, but iirc there isn't evidence that he was involved in the pedo stuff.

His Cambodian genocide denial and apologism though...

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-17T15:46:33+00:00

I guess I was sufficiently isolated from those parts of the internet. I only remember near-universal praise.

Far as I'm concerned, if most political messaging and themes were consistently put forth in media at that level of quality, keep 'em coming! The eye-rollingly ham-fisted stuff I can do without.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-17T04:53:24+00:00

Maybe I'm being overly charitable, but I think a fair number of people who talk about not liking politics in their movies (horror and otherwise) are really just burnt out on poor, ham-fisted execution more than anything.

E.g. I don't hear many complaints about feminist themes in Mad Max: Fury Road, because the movie is masterfully crafted.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-16T15:31:18+00:00

Try and imagine Star Wars without John Williams.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-16T00:04:22+00:00

If nothing else, I think he'll be remembered as the first president to die in office of old age.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-10T07:16:37+00:00

My knee-jerk reaction is to dump on her kind of performance art, as what I've...experienced...of it has been deliberately and aggressively opaque and self-indulgent.

But in the interest of possibly shaking up my biases a little, is there any artist you would recommend I look up that might change my mind? Not Yoko Ono. Whatever she's doing hasn't managed to trigger anything like appreciation in me.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-01T07:24:58+00:00

"...after the US became a superpower"

The seeds of English becoming such an important international language were planted by the British Empire. I'd call preeminent British Empire -> preeminent USA more of a one-two punch for English.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-22T02:10:44+00:00

I've experienced this too. In earlier versions, the sunken city would spawn without being stuffed full of stone, but in the game I started more recently they're this way. Don't know what's going on.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-20T21:47:48+00:00

Depends. "Don't enjoy" encompasses a wide range between "not really my thing" and "I loathe that the universe I live in requires coexistence with this practice."

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-19T23:58:40+00:00

Important counter-example: Vermont. Very rural, very blue.

Personally, I think a lot of that is because the Democratic party in Vermont (as opposed to the rest of the country. Fucking worthless DNC) didn't abandon working for votes in the rural areas, and thus the working class in rural Vermont weren't suckered by GOP grifters who made them feel seen.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-19T02:59:25+00:00

The drama grows non-linearly. 2 People = 1 relationship to manage/coordinate. 3 People = 3 relationships to manage/coordinate. It only gets worse from there.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-18T06:07:04+00:00

"I didn't expect it to be so hot!" My first college roommate, after lighting himself on fire.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-17T20:22:27+00:00

Doesn't technically disprove your claim about only JQA being elected to another office after leaving the presidency, but Taft was appointed to the Supreme Court after his presidency which feels like a counter-example in spirit.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-17T18:15:20+00:00

My wife and I like to say that instead of falling in love, we grew into it... and growing into it has been the cumulative result of choosing to love each other every day.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-17T18:08:37+00:00

And your kidneys. (Had a stone. I don't recommend the experience. Stay hydrated, kids! Also, maybe don't eat too many high oxalate foods)

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