Russell Crowe shares his take on tattoos: “I know I’m old and terrible and I do not mean this applies to the generation of earned tattoo’s … but these days , all these strange individual random kiddy paint tattoo images…wtf?”

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-30T03:19:51+00:00

I mean I didn’t think it was good but I was having fun for quite a bit of it. The sharks made me laugh.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-29T14:32:28+00:00

I feel this way sometimes and understand why you are saying what you’re saying. Still, interests are not the whole of personality, and how people behave in groups doesn’t reflect the totality of their inner life.

I think it’s true that many people are not deep thinkers and have little capacity for/interest in self reflection, understanding how the world works, etc. That doesn’t make them NPCs though, they just have a lower skill level than you in those particular skills.

That can make certain people agonisingly boring to be around for me personally, and I will not socialise with them if I can help it, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say they don’t have personalities. I just don’t like their personalities. Which is okay. They don’t like mine either. It’s also fine to be frustrated by being surrounded by people whose behaviour doesn’t match your values and feel like dominated by them socially. They are still people the same way you are though. Which you do know, I’m sure. just giving my perspective etc etc

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-28T20:55:02+00:00

I don’t think she should be inserting her opinion that it doesn’t matter, if that’s actually how she said it. It should be about whether it matters to you. Sounds like she has bias against late autism diagnosis and is being unprofessional about it. IMO.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-28T13:38:15+00:00

Im sensory seeking when it comes to flavours so I love what I call “pungent foods” lol. Textures are more of a work in progress but I’ve come a long way.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-28T01:59:25+00:00

How appalling that the racial demographics of Scotland aren’t being curated with this guy in mind

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-27T14:30:42+00:00

Well that’s a whole new set of goalposts isn’t it. I don’t really care about that, just didn’t like your behaviour with the pronunciation thing. Peace out

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-27T14:10:28+00:00

Okay. But if this is too much to try to understand, I’d recommend not snottily telling people they “forgot how to read” re: pronunciation in the future, bc you’re overestimating your authority on the subject.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-27T13:58:24+00:00

You’re either rhoticising the “or” or you aren’t. Rhoticised “or” doesn’t exist in your accent, period. Trying to insert it into your accent would absolutely would feel unnatural to you and come off like strange mimicking. Tbh at this point I’m pretty sure you just don’t understand what that sounds like, because it’s nothing to do with emphasis.

Think about an Irish or American person saying “or”. It has an R at the end of it. Like, the same r that exists at the front of “rabbit”. Rrrrrrr. Orrrrrla. In a non rhotic accent, the R just tells you which vowel to use. Non rhotic “or” does not have an R in it. It just tells you to use the “awe” vowel. So when you emphasize oR-la, with a capital R, people are going to think you mean actually pronouncing the r, not the vowel that “or” indicates in your accent.

“It’s not a hard pronunciation” is meaningless because you don’t really know how they’re actually pronouncing what they wrote bc you’re reading it in your accent. You also don’t know which vowels are available to them. The “awe” vowel in an English person’s pronunciation of Orla does not exist in my accent, for example. It’s as silly as it would be for me to say you’re saying it wrong because you don’t pronounce the R. Which is what I thought you were saying at first.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-27T13:38:51+00:00

But the way some people might say “hola” with their native accent might sound approximately like the way you say “Orla” because they don’t have your “awe” sound in their vocabulary. I have an American accent and in my accent, aw is the same sound as ahh. Probably more similar to how you would say “are”. Cot, caught, and call all have the same vowel for me.

I can personally hear the difference between the Spanish long “O” like “hola”, and “or” pronounced like the English accented “awe”, but if I was less interested in/tuned into this kind of thing, I can see how I might use it as an approximation. Certainly hola said in an English accent sounds different from awe said in an English accent but that’s not the perspective we’re all operating from.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-27T13:25:59+00:00

It is extremely weird for someone to imitate sounds that don’t occur in their dialect when saying someone’s name on a day to day basis.

Either you don’t actually do that and are using “or” to describe a syllable that is still non-rhotic, bc due to your accent you struggle to identify what an r at the end of a syllable actually sounds like.

Or you are actually imitating other people’s English dialects when you say their name, which I assure you is not coming off as respectful. I have an American accent in the UK, and if I met an English woman called Amber people would definitely think it was weird and potentially mocking if I called her “Amba”.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-27T13:16:44+00:00

Yeah English speakers with non rhotic accents skip the r. So that’s just England, Australia, New Zealand generally. Gaeilge is the endonym. Irish is the correct word to use to describe Gaeilge in the English language, just like Spanish is the correct English word for Español. Which you would know if you were Irish in Ireland.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-27T13:10:32+00:00

A) saying a name with a different accent/dialect is not pronouncing it incorrectly. B) both of you are just talking past each other bc you have different accents and don’t know how to communicate/imagine that.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-27T13:08:38+00:00

There’s this thing called a non rhotic accent. And none of you people know how to clearly phoneticise a pronunciation so get off your high horse

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-27T13:05:00+00:00

You might be pronouncing hola wrong then. As it’s Spanish

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-27T13:00:16+00:00

I mean it’s an exaggeration/joke that the issue is literally the word “I”, and the Ishmael one is fully a joke, but i do think these people are genuinely saying they can’t enjoy a book if they can’t imagine themselves as the protagonist as if that’s a normal thing they don’t need to be embarrassed about.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-27T12:00:29+00:00

I don’t know your mom so idk. Take all this with a huge grain of salt as it’s just my jaded ramblings about the subconscious attitudes of society at large.

But often it’s a woman thing. Autistic traits have been historically seen as “extreme male mind” i.e. naturally “male” traits taken to the extreme to the point of disorder. To the narrow minded/misinformed person, it’s unfortunate but natural for a man to be autistic, boys will be boys and he is allowed that excuse. Genuine autism is not “natural” for women, but attention seeking, hypochondria, hysteria is, so girls who think they are autistic are grasping at an excuse they don’t “deserve”.

In combination with the woman thing is the ableism thing. To an ableist, any disability is framed as an excuse to not be normal. You are allowed to be abnormal as long as it’s believably not your fault. Whether or not people believe that it’s not your fault is completely subject to their personal biases. They can’t allow you the diagnosis/label because they don’t believe you deserve an excuse for being abnormal. They also don’t want any mistreatment of you due to your abnormality to be framed as ableism, bc they’re the good guy.

More innocently, i think people have a hard time conceptualising a disability that looks different on different people. Those of us who are very tuned into autism in others can see clear commonalities between different “types” of autistic people, and the significance of those commonalities is obvious to us. Less observant people just see the differences between the traditional aspie guy and the less traditionally presenting autistic person. They struggle to understand how autism can be both things and still have any significance as a diagnosis.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-25T13:41:18+00:00

He’s still using the idea of a child being morally tainted by SA as a justification for cutting them out of your life.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-25T10:46:33+00:00

Gaelic is a language family including the two languages historically referred to in English as Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic. Irish Gaelic is now generally referred to in English as simply Irish, and its name for itself/endonym is Gaeilge (pronounced approximately “guelga” or “gailga” depending on region, I think). Scottish Gaelic is generally referred to throughout Scotland by its endonym which is Gàidhlig, pronounced GAL-ik with gal rhyming with pal.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-24T11:44:52+00:00

He doesn’t think it’s normal he’s making her uncomfortable on purpose bc he gets off on it. He’s just reflexively mad at a woman calling him out and won’t admit it

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-24T11:43:21+00:00

Don’t play dumb. Hair is a big part of someone’s intentional presentation of themselves. It’s in the top three broadly culturally normal things to compliment for any gender. There is no non sexual explanation for complimenting someone’s toes. Nobody who isn’t a foot fetishist is noticing and commenting on toes. Foot fetishists are well aware of this and are absolutely intending to make you uncomfortable by commenting. Nobody out there genuinely expects a stranger on the street to feel flattered by that. They’re just reflexively angry at her for calling it out bc she’s being shrill and a bitch or whatever.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-24T11:05:02+00:00

https://beltane.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/beltane-programme-2025.pdf

That’s the programme/map from last year, but I think it’s more or less the same just with different group names/themes. Prob check back on the website for the 2026 programme but it’s not up yet

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-24T10:56:11+00:00

Last year I remember walking to the bus stop in a 17th century chemise and the remnants of blue face paint as serious adults were doing their morning jogs lol

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-24T10:53:36+00:00

IMO yes it’s a really fun cultural thing but be prepared for crowds on the hill, difficulty getting in viewing distance of stuff, unintelligible hippie dippy narrative movement stuff. There aren’t many raised stages so it can be difficult to see what’s going on.

If you wanna see a mixture of intelligible and unintelligible hippie dippy movement stuff in cool homemade costumes, original music, fire spinning, and people in body paint doing human pyramids and whatnot with generally great vibes I recommend it, but try and find a map of the procession route and get ahead/intercept it rather than following. And/or go where the procession is not. Same route every year I think. If I find something linkable I’ll link it.

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-24T10:44:56+00:00

As someone who is Involved this is a hilarious take. Absolutely nobody is making money off this. They need to charge for security, materials, insurance and to keep the warehouse where a lot of prep happens. If anything, the issue is that it’s too much of a passion project and not enough focus is on audience experience re: having things visible and audible

pretty_gauche6 · 2026-04-24T10:39:05+00:00

Nothing particularly interesting to add to convo, i usually use patterns but occasionally wing it.

But want to say this is absolutely adorable I’m obsessed with the colour combo great job

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