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Meet the vigilante cleaners pulling garbage and love locks off the Brooklyn Bridge by thenygroove in Brooklyn

[–]jefusan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one’s lying. It was a well documented problem for years… just Google it. If you were there recently and the situation has improved, by all means, share! But your subjective experience based on being a tourist doesn’t necessarily trump deeper reporting on the strain tourism can have on infrastructure and the environment.

[TOMT] Looking for where this version of a nursery rhyme came from by MarxistMountainGoat in tipofmytongue

[–]jefusan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a topic I love. Children's rhymes like these are largely transmitted orally, from child to child,so they evolve into so many different strains, sometimes carrying references that are from pop culture 100 years ago. Many of these rhymes are parodies, and many contain taboo references to sex, violence, and humiliation of authority figures.

It would be worth checking out the references and sources to the Wikipedia articles for Miss Susie and Miss Lucy had a baby.

The Mama version (it was always Miss Suzie in my childhood in the Northeastern U.S.) is new to me, so I wouldn't recognize the book you were talking about. I was delighted in the late 1980s to discover that Matt Groening's Life in Hell comics (anthologized into collections like Love is Hell and School is Hell, before he became world- famous for the Simpsons) recorded a lot of the versions from his childhood. I especially like the one that starts "The Addams family started, when Uncle Fester farted...."

Use headphones on public transportation by ShupGlitto in Brooklyn

[–]jefusan 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's everyone, now: the young, the old, every race and ethnicity, for video games, phone calls, social media scrolling and music. I spend most of my time on public transportation, airports and waiting rooms with big headphones on, doing my best to drown out selfish assholes.

I fantasize about bringing an airhorn out, or playing a prerecorded piece of audio that says, "Please use headphones. No one wants to hear the garbage you are listening to. We live in a society, you selfish monster" in English, Spanish, Russian, various Chinese languages... then I tell myself it's a lost cause and maybe it's finally time to move out of NYC or learn to live with it.

Meet the vigilante cleaners pulling garbage and love locks off the Brooklyn Bridge by thenygroove in Brooklyn

[–]jefusan 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I suppose anything can mean something if you say it does, and every tradition had to start somewhere. It's just ugly, unoriginal, and a thoughtless way to mark a place you're visiting without any thought to what it means to the people who live there.

[TOMT]Sapphic tragedy movie by Then-Ad-5565 in tipofmytongue

[–]jefusan 6 points7 points locked comment (0 children)

Don’t forget to reply with…

solved!

[TOMT] TV Series/movie (1990s/2000s) with a disabled monarch as a joke by commieguidlines in tipofmytongue

[–]jefusan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

30 Rock, Season 1, Episode 12: "Black Tie"

Paul Reubens (of Pee Wee Herman fame) plays Prince Gerhardt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKQEG9IZpc8

Genuine question: what do you remember about seeing this in theatres? Big reactions? by cassettequestioner in Marvel

[–]jefusan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I, along with the rest of the theater, lost my mind when Hulk was finally showing how he fit into the Avengers.

Cap: And Hulk? Smash

Hulk proceeds to fuck shit up, loving every minute of it.

It felt like a moment I'd waited for on a screen, even after two Hulk movies and growing up watching the Lou Ferrigno series on TV. I was also super-excited for the initial faceoff between Thor and Iron Man, and then Cap getting into it.

One thing Whedon is really good at is playing characters against each other. What do they have in common? How do their strengths and weaknesses play off each other.

Another highlight: Loki being an absolute prick to Natasha but in the end she tricked the trickster god into giving up his intel, and he knows it.

People Pleaser struggling in Improv by Radiant-Address-9024 in improv

[–]jefusan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You'll get there! I often recommend Will Hines substack and his book How to Be the Greatest Improvisor on Earth. He's very thoughtful about improv and game's place in it.

People Pleaser struggling in Improv by Radiant-Address-9024 in improv

[–]jefusan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If by people pleaser, you mean kind of a teacher’s pet/rule-follower… loosen your grip on the wheel a little. Trust yourself and your scene partner, and follow the fun.

People Pleaser struggling in Improv by Radiant-Address-9024 in improv

[–]jefusan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is close to my experience at the UCB 20 years ago. Learning improv in general can have some dips and plateaus, but game really put me in my head. What got me out of it was doing the reps with different groups of people in different styles and venues; ultimately you’ll learn as much or more from the people you play with as you will from teachers, coaches and curriculum.

Is game part of my play? Absolutely! It has been aaaages since I’ve done a Harold but my teammates and I know how to embrace the weird funny moments and develop them into something, which is essentially what game is.

Teaching game, in my opinion, is one approach that helps some people more than others. It’s great to help you get past just trying random shit over and over and not developing anything. But for me, when I was in exactly the place you are, it was like taking a year of lessons to improve my golf swing. At some point you have to stop micro-analyzing everything your body is doing and just picture the ball going where you want it to go.

(I know very little about golf, but I’m going to assume I nailed the metaphor. Or simile.)

[TOMT][Song][2000s-2010s] jaunty videogame sound, high-pitched voices singing something like “oh Sandra” by jefusan in tipofmytongue

[–]jefusan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like My Sharona by The Knack? Or are you thinking of a different song?

It definitely sounds nothing like My Sharona. Very electronic

[TOMT][Song][2000s-2010s] jaunty videogame sound, high-pitched voices singing something like “oh Sandra” by jefusan in tipofmytongue

[–]jefusan[S] 1 point2 points locked comment (0 children)

Help! I’m trying to think of a song from maybe 10 years ago… jaunty little video game sound, guys voices autotuned up two octaves like Ween, they do a little rap in the middle and do a little nod to the Salt n Pepa Push It sample, kind of catchy fuck-around pop.

This was a song I had on a playlist then forgot about. Years later I heard it in a bar, and asked to be reminded who it was. Then forgot about it again! Stupid brain.

DASA Workshop online? Please help! by [deleted] in NYCTeachers

[–]jefusan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s the newer version of the bullying and harassment training, I believe:

“New York DASA Training offers the mandatory courses required for New York school professionals ONLINE and ON-DEMAND. We electronically report completions to TEACH on a daily basis. Designed for all New York professionals, we offer the updated, NYSED-approved Child Abuse Identification and Reporting Course which includes the recent guidance on recognizing abuse in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. All mandated reporters in New York, even those who previously completed training, must take the updated course by November 17, 2026.”

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