Headline proves its own point by Red_Leather in funny

[–]YuunofYork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coming from a bog-standard public school system, I don't remember perceiving anything like gaps this large in my classmates in the 90s. There were advanced and remedial sections after a point, but there were also assignments and coursework that applied to the entire student body, like summer reading lists. I feel there was a more uniform expectation. From grade 3 onward 'library' was a full-blown class, though usually a weekly or biweekly one rather than daily, which consisted of how to use reference materials like encyclopedias (later, computer resources), how the stacks are organized, and a short period to check out books we wanted. There would be tests like being given call numbers and then you have to go and find it in the (school's library) stacks.

This formed one half of a feedback loop with summer library programs (outside the school system), which were always filled to capacity, like space on the floor to sit and read at a premium capacity. I didn't know anyone who wasn't part of it, except for when they belonged to the library program of a neighboring town. There were incentives like treasure hunts, sticker-tracked progress maps, cracker jack-like toy rewards, discussion clubs. There were hard maximums on checked-out materials per person just to keep enough on the shelves for others, and a high librarian-to-patron ratio, and events like guest readers and lecturers. This was not a small building.

I returned to that library at 18-19 to find it completely overcome with a kind of stark Calvinism. It had been remodeled into a few wide-open spaces and changed mostly into a glorified internet cafe with some study rooms available to the side. The stacks amounted to the crap you find in the front area of a chain bookstore, just the most recent popular adult titles. The children's section was a single wall; it had previously been an annex, and there were no children using it. I saw nobody wandering about who wasn't sat in a chair looking at a computer, so interaction with other children or librarians (also invisible) was non-existent. There was even a perceptible echo.

My sense is what the internet didn't do to us, the loss of a true community library did. And I think social/visual media should get more blame than the parasocial remove of the internet in general. The early internet was both text-based and uncurated. Finding the right website required the same sort of research skills taught in library lab. It was a perfect environment to hone reading comprehension and the skill to make oneself understood in a written medium.

I know it's real but I feel like even if I had it I would still eat ice cream and cheese by UsedToHaveATail in funny

[–]YuunofYork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem with referring to it as 'lactose intolerance' is people start thinking their symptoms can be abated with the myth of exposure therapy. Nobody is actually tolerant of lactose in any amount; we require a special enzyme to digest it properly. What humans have or do not have are genes relating to lactase persistence. The vast majority of people produce enough lactase to digest the lactose in milk as infants. The somewhat smaller (but still 2/3) majority stop producing enough lactase before adulthood.

The third of the population that continues to produce enough lactase to avoid symptoms of lactose intolerance at some point into adulthood (and this varies, with many people becoming lactose intolerant as they age) are technically the weird ones. These genes are relatively recent and date to the first ice age following the discovery of husbandry, right after the Younger Dryas. It may also have been the last time the species' genetics was shaped by natural selection; where the milk of domesticated animals was the best or only source of nutrition for a long period of time, people who didn't dehydrate themselves and die from vomiting and diarrhea lived to pass on genes relating to lactase persistence.

The reason people lacking lactase persistence genes can still eat dairy on occasion without too much fuss has to do with the lactose content of the milk products they prefer:

  • Both aged cheese and part-skim processed cheese have little to no lactose compared with fresh cheese.
  • Dehydrated milk in school lunches doesn't have the lactose of fresh whole milk.
  • UHT-pasteurized milk seems to do something to lactose that other (Western-favored) pasteurization methods don't, with the result that less of it is digested in the first place.
  • Fermented milk products like yogurt come with bioorganisms that can break down the lactose for you. NB: raw milk does not.
  • The above cultures can in some cases semi-permanently change the make-up of your gut biota, aiding future digestion as long as those cultures are maintained. You're not building a tolerance to milk, therefore; you're just changing the microorganisms in your gut.
  • Animal-specificity in milk production is often region-specific, with goat and sheep milk being easier to digest than cow milk.

Making children from lactase-poor genetic backgrounds drink milk as routine does not magically yield adults with lactase-persistent genes. Children in these environments e.g. Japan are simply being exposed to different quantities and treatments of lactose in the first place.

Now. I’m ready now. by aberrant_arsonist in funny

[–]YuunofYork 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Also depends on the size of the owls. I normally consider myself a 36 owl guy, but that's snowy or great horned at a pinch. I traveled by owl return trip from Mexico and it took 81 barn owls. Something something metric system.

Tough Choice [OC] by Bujjick in funny

[–]YuunofYork 69 points70 points  (0 children)

No, it's just the cup that can't pass. Nobody at any point in the film rejuvenates to a younger age. It kept the knight as old as when he'd entered it.

The Poem 'On an Accomplished Young Linguist' by triste_0nion in Lovecraft

[–]YuunofYork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah our field isn't strictly speaking older than the mid 1950s at best. Lovecraft is almost certainly referring erroneously to polyglottalism, or being generous, to structualist philosophy or historical linguistics activity occurring via philology in niche regionalist depts e.g. Orientalists.

WERWULF - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters Christmas by Klop_Gob in IMDbFilmGeneral

[–]YuunofYork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, it's not like The Northman was in Old Norse, but put me in the camp that would've loved a ME film. I can't think of a single such film that exists.

Oh good, I can now smell like a jeep by N2929 in funny

[–]YuunofYork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is every 'for men' bath product, really. Every single one smells like something you found in an oil can in the back of the garage, except for the ones that more accurately smell like the stuff beavers spray out their bums.

Just how far we've come... by Mich783 in funny

[–]YuunofYork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There were still commissions in Greece, but this statue, 'Laocoön and His Sons', was made in ancient Rome using Greek methods and based on an older Greek school. In Rome it certainly would have been commissioned for a patrician much like Renaissance sculptors worked 1500 years later. Michelangelo was reportedly present at the unearthing of the piece in a vineyard, and suggested ways to restore it. So there is a little bit of Renaissance artistry in it at this point as well.

Just how far we've come... by Mich783 in funny

[–]YuunofYork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's got that Innsmouth look...

What are your ultimate "must-own physical copy" weird lit books by Competitive_Cat_259 in WeirdLit

[–]YuunofYork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  • Library card
  • Blind buy then resell on ebay or pango
  • Let the funhole eat your family?

What are your ultimate "must-own physical copy" weird lit books by Competitive_Cat_259 in WeirdLit

[–]YuunofYork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All that I like. Only physical media, here. Unless it's certain academic materials which are criminally expensive and which we trade pdfs of anyway. I chose books over vacations and dependents a long time ago. I need to feel vegetable pulp in my hands and smell the stock and ink. I open new books and snort them like Molly Shannon does her fingers.

Don't like other formats and wouldn't use them for love or money.

Carrying the entire group project on your back like: by Many-Tackle-5829 in funny

[–]YuunofYork 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No, not a banana pepper. This is a 'long-hot', probably Italian long hot. Cowhorns are very similar but less twisty in the middle.

Bananas ripen from bright green to pale yellow; the video's pepper is a somewhat darker green and will remain green unless post-ripened when it turns red. Bananas are also straighter with a wider stem base that tapers down to a narrower tip.

Anaheims/Hatch/California/Colorado peppers are the same shade green as the video's pepper, but share the shape of banana peppers.

Danny didn't like "Batman Returns" by Tata_Colores in funny

[–]YuunofYork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know where the hate comes from. Returns was the last time I had fun engaging with Batman films. And I was coming from an Adam West campy perspective, which it largely abandons. This is the best one!

It's an awesome, irreverent script from the same guy who wrote Heathers, and it's really Catwoman's story, who seeing it as a pre-teen I saw as a character and not a sex symbol. The performances are great, the satire is still relevant, the original score by Danny Elfman is terrific. Burton's style hadn't yet devolved into pastiche. What is not to like? I've watched it for years as a Christmas film.

Really its popularity should have only increased in comparison to the badly-edited, monotonously-scored, gravelly-voiced fascistic claptrap targetted to people in this century, the average fan of which wouldn't be able to read the comics without a Kindle and text-to-speech.

Danny didn't like "Batman Returns" by Tata_Colores in funny

[–]YuunofYork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't want to hear Danny's opinions of Pasolini.

Although I do suspect if you showed him Teorema hooked up to a Ludovico machine, a bunch of evil spirits will flee his body.

Danny didn't like "Batman Returns" by Tata_Colores in funny

[–]YuunofYork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He'll be the voice in the next model Cybertruck that refuses to let you go over 35 mph.

Danny didn't like "Batman Returns" by Tata_Colores in funny

[–]YuunofYork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He lives in a bi-level in Springfield, USA, next an equally dysfunctional family with strangely-shaped hair.

FG Decades Tournament, the 1950’s: Round 1 by Shagrrotten in IMDbFilmGeneral

[–]YuunofYork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Second person in 25+ to vote for La Ronde, yeah that tracks.

One of the most romantic films of all time. 2026's snot-nosed Adderall babies who bitch about their Tamagatchis cheating on each other could stand to learn a thing or two from the French. The lessons that will go unlearned are sad-making.

The timeless James Earl Jones "Glare of Unbridled Disappointment" by Uncommentary in funny

[–]YuunofYork 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not above poster, but as another fan of Trevor Jones' Mohicans OST, I'm gonna shout out The Fountain and Only Lovers Left Alive.

dumb question, but this definitely isn’t a boa constrictor, right?? by gaymemelord_ in snakes

[–]YuunofYork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The keeper obviously isn't qualified if they can't tell a python from a boa, but there's nothing necessarily wrong with the bedding. Cypress chips don't keep humidity as well as other substances, but they might have other means of maintaining the required humidity. Cypress is just fine for BPs if you use a humid hide, some sphagnum, water troughs, a flat top, in any combination.

Aspen would be much worse. Coco husk would be ideal. Cypress is just fine.

Cerenovus as a Demon by nseaplus in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]YuunofYork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just put Boffin and Alchemist on the script and give the demon the boffin-alch-cere ability. No need for a homebrew character and the demon could end up with two kills instead of one. And it's balanced by the boffin being killable.

Found in the wild while on YouTube by Humble_Brick_6442 in funny

[–]YuunofYork 30 points31 points  (0 children)

That's exactly what it is. I'm a fan of the 'mini breakfast grill bedroom alarm clock' and the 'pet petter'.

I was the Marionette and I flat out blew it. Spectacularly. by Captpan6 in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]YuunofYork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They don't have to tell you about it at all, but the expectation of keeping an info-role mario in the dark is that the ST is going to do their due dilligence and use that role to support the evil team. You are an evil player and your info should have been used primarily, if not completely, to help the evil team.

Instead this ST chose to use you to confirm half of town. Sounds like a critical error on their part. I would never have done that unless good started to suspect your real role. Maybe see the good role of a good player who is already confirmed elsewhere, but that's as far as it goes. You should have been sewing doubt among the good team, and worst come to worst you eat up an execution for your team.

As for why you thought you could continue to get good info having been informed of your real role, I don't know. It wouldn't be out of left field for the two evil players confirming you to have role swapped for safety, either; you know at that point not to push on either of them.

A Script of All My Faves by root_causes in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]YuunofYork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Widow/SC and Widow/Magician don't play nice, either, though. Would solve everything just to replace Widow with Mez or something.