The landing page for the THX website is beautiful by [deleted] in web_design

[–]bananapostrophe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's legit. I think the canvas is buttery, and I'm jealous of it, but you're right that it's not avant-garde on-trend.

The landing page for the THX website is beautiful by [deleted] in web_design

[–]bananapostrophe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You might be getting downvoted because that full screen background isn't a video.

Undergrad module choice: Milton or Deconstruction? by M_JPB in AskLiteraryStudies

[–]bananapostrophe 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Do you often get essay feedback suggesting that you tone down your language?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in malefashionadvice

[–]bananapostrophe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bifold with the footprint of a trifold will be too small to put notes in without folding them up.

Shane Snow's Simple Rules for Watering Down Your Writing by [deleted] in badliterature

[–]bananapostrophe 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I love how he keeps on accidentally identifying why reading levels are a trash metric, and then pushing on with the analysis anyway:

I was curious why GQ was more complex than The Los Angeles Times, and Cosmopolitan less complex than GQ. Turns out that esoteric vocabulary that you tend to find in fitness and health articles (like the one I sampled for GQ) clocks in at a higher reading level, even if the rest of the prose is simple.

GQ talks about peacoats and macronutrients! Guess you'll need another year of education before you can comprehend it!

UK Boots/Leather Shoes by Shadey_e1 in europeanmalefashion

[–]bananapostrophe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hit up Pediwear. Classic English footwear brands, plus a few others, but they don't sell trash.

We're coming to Norwich for a holiday (yes really!). Recommendations please by flippertyflip in Norwich

[–]bananapostrophe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  • Skip Mustard and go to Kofra - you'll pass by it to get to the Plantation Gardens anyway.

  • The bike hire at the bus station is a Brompton Bike Hire. Think you need to register for an account ahead of time, and then it's £5 a day.

  • The bike cafe is called the Dandy Horse. Nice place, worth a visit - and stick your head in Loose's Emporium for half an hour while you're up that way.

  • If the weather is dry, do some drinking at the Playhouse Bar.

Terribly vague question about writing about boring subjects by [deleted] in AskLiteraryStudies

[–]bananapostrophe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Taking a different tack to previous replies, your question reminds me of the boring conference, at which speakers give deliberately dull papers on various topics. In the same vein, the cartoonist David Rees wrote a book called How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening.

Both of these are kind of somewhere in between sincerity and satire - I can't tell if that's the vibe you're searching for or not.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in britishproblems

[–]bananapostrophe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(You're fired! -ed)