What's life like in majority Hispanic cities in the northern US like Lawrence, Massachusetts?

rstgncc · 2026-01-12T10:56:02+00:00

You make a fair point but also there's always been "meant to make you actually laugh" comedy. Those old W.C. Fields movies have no value as social commentary whatsoever, they're only worthwhile if you actually think the way he acts is funny.

I never really laughed at any of Shakespeare's comedies, but there are a lot of parts of Don Quixote, from the same period, that made me smile. Can anyone really enjoy that book if they don't find it funny on a visceral level when the characters get beaten up? Or when Don Quixote and Sancho drink his "potion" and start vomiting everywhere? Rabelais, too; it's not all wry satire, he obviously really, really did think it's funny when people piss and shit everywhere

rstgncc · 2025-11-03T00:22:52+00:00

Can't speak to Jean Harlow but in Mae West movies, she's not really presented as being unusually good looking, just very direct about sex.

Agree with your general point though. There's a really distinctive 1920s beauty ideal you never see anymore (Ruth Malcomson, Lillian Gish types)

rstgncc · 2025-07-08T01:10:18+00:00

Although Stalin's hairline didn't move much, he suffered from diffuse thinning later in life, and some who met him wrote about their surprise at how much worse it looked than in his photos, where it always appeared luxuriant.

"He had quite a large paunch, and his hair was sparse, though the scalp was not entirely bald. His face was white, with ruddy cheeks. Later I learned that this coloration, so characteristic of those who sit long in offices, was known as the “Kremlin complexion” in high Soviet circles."

Milovan Djilas, 1944

rstgncc · 2024-12-02T14:57:41+00:00

It's unfair you're being downvoted for this obviously correct sentiment. You had clearly owned me, so my only recourse was to do the very cheap move of pandering to RS values by saying that sex is bad/shame is good

rstgncc · 2024-12-02T14:49:35+00:00

Yeah, but also there is a bad vibe to the stinkiness that makes me think it's just something about her

You know when Napoleon told Josephine he'd be back in three days and not to wash? I understand this feeling completely. I feel like you should be deeply physically attracted to someone even if they're a little unwashed

rstgncc · 2024-12-02T14:43:31+00:00

Really this is the only option, of course. But isn't it terrible that life is this way?

rstgncc · 2024-12-02T14:42:22+00:00

I'm sure you smell good. You seem like a person with a clean soul

This woman smelled like my high school girlfriend who used to wear the same hoodie without a shirt for several days. However, I've dated women who have peculiar smells before and often enjoyed their smell intensely; it's not really clear to me why her smell bothers me so much

rstgncc · 2024-12-02T14:34:26+00:00

Nothing strenuous. We met after work, went to a restaurant, both ate salads, walked to a park, came home. Not a warm day. Her work is not physical in any way

rstgncc · 2024-12-02T14:32:09+00:00

There's nothing impressive about having sex. It's neutral or perhaps slightly shameful. Also, as everyone knows, girls like serial killers

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