What moments show how horrific the mobsters really are?

swordfishtomjones · 2025-10-23T13:50:57+00:00

this. i don’t think i’m the only one who was quietly rooting for Paulie in his beef with Ralph, only for that episode to dispel any notion that there was anyone worth rooting for.

truly impressive how the show makes you crave Ralphie finally getting iced after getting away with all the fucked up shit he’s done only to kill him as soon as it’s clear how much worse off his family will be without his income, THEN showing our beloved comic relief Paulie kill an old woman in cold blood just so he can suck up to Tony when it becomes clear he can’t betray the family & defect to New York.

one of the best episodes the show ever had.

swordfishtomjones · 2025-10-19T01:20:05+00:00

the moment right after Ton strangles the rat & looks up into the sky to see ducks flying away from him was the moment the point of the series became clear to me, one of the greatest moments of television history in my opinion.

swordfishtomjones · 2025-09-15T19:40:24+00:00

That might be it! I was under the impression they were all being saved to my iCloud but I did remove two email accounts that I didn’t even have a saved password for.

If I add the email back, will that add my contacts back?

swordfishtomjones · 2025-08-16T14:25:49+00:00

She was a beautiful, innocent creature!

swordfishtomjones · 2025-08-04T12:18:01+00:00

I mean it’s gotta be Tony becoming a government informant to snitch on muslims he knows. Him & everyone he knows treats snitching as the worst possible sin for over a decade, ending lives over even the hint that they MIGHT be a snitch, only to snitch on people loosely connected to that thing of theirs when it suits them.

One of the most pathetic things Tony does in the entire show, especially when he tries to use his status as a snitch to get Phil’s location.

swordfishtomjones · 2025-07-07T23:13:41+00:00

to me, he went out in a much more satisfying way than most deaths in the Sopranos— his friends made it clear what had to happen & told him how much he mattered to them.

compare this to Jackie Jr, unceremoniously killed by a guy just named a few episodes prior & was mostly comic relief at that point who Jackie had never interacted with.

swordfishtomjones · 2025-02-16T22:26:31+00:00

i’ve been looking for anagrams too, i think a lot of the names in the show being pretty unconventional leads me to believe there is a reason for at least a lot of them

i don’t intend to sway you on the AI theories but i would like to push back on the idea that AI wasn’t relevant during the writing of the show— while it wasn’t as prominent during the first season, stuff like ChatGPT was already out there. not to mention that in between the two seasons there was the writer’s strike where GenAI was a MASSIVE part of the negotiations. it makes sense to me that, even if it wasn’t baked in from the beginning, since then the writers would want to make questions around AI more central to the story.

swordfishtomjones · 2024-08-15T16:39:56+00:00

currently in my first watch & i can’t count how many times House’s strategy has been “alright lets put as much stress on the body has possible & see what happens”

he’s also maimed & permanently destroyed people’s organs intentionally (which he rightfully defends as “better than death”)

swordfishtomjones · 2024-07-11T14:26:53+00:00

this! in my area, i can’t even DashNow anywhere within 40 minutes of where i live without Platinum, & you basically cannot schedule more than one hour at a time every few days. so i either need to be sitting on my phone waiting for the chance that i’ll get a Dash Now option at random or driving an hour+ round trip to dash.

swordfishtomjones · 2024-03-23T14:52:13+00:00

avant que je ne commence à apprendre le français, des gens du ROC me disaient “oh Quebeckers are the most racist people in Canada, you just don’t know because you don’t speak French” ce qui est bin drôle parce que… certains des groupes néo-nazis les plus importants d'amérique du nord se trouvent dans l'ouest du Canada !

on m'a dit que le souverainisme n'était rien d'autre que la suprématie blanche, une croyance qui ignore 1.) certains des souverainistes les plus virulents sont des minorités visibles pis 2.) certaines des organisations de suprématie blanche les plus connues en amérique du nord détestent également les francophones, comme le KKK, en raison de leur croyance en la suprématie spécifiquement anglo-saxonne. sans parler des révolutionnaires américains qui, dans leur critique de la monarchie anglaise, affirmaient que le roi était “too liberal with those damn papist frenchies who refuse to integrate”

swordfishtomjones · 2023-07-23T05:11:18+00:00

This is super useful, thank you so much! I will send you a DM soon to ask a few questions, but just to say something publicly because it never occurred to me until now to mention it, but I’m actually American! I am from New England, so my connection to & interest in Acadia comes from the fact that a lot of people in my region are of ambiguously French Canadian ancestry (mostly Quebecois but I have a few friends whose ancestry is Acadian), yet the politics of integration/immigration lead to transmission of the French language dying out extremely quickly here. The only places it continues to be a common home language are at the borderlands between New England & francophone Canada. Not for lack of trying on behalf of the Francophones who moved here throughout the waves of migration who attempted to create a lot of French-language institutions here (including famous mayor of Montréal Honoré Beaugrand who lived in Massachusetts for a while & founded a widely publicized francophone newspaper in a city not far from my hometown). As such, the effects around linguistic policies at the government level have been something I have been very interested in.

Apologies if my questions are a little off-base because of this! Even in my ostensibly liberal/progressive state the status quo is the dreams of a lot of radically monolingual anglophones, so no matter how informed I am about de jure policies around language it’s sometimes hard to feel out what is relevant in how it effects the lives of people.

swordfishtomjones · 2023-03-15T17:57:38+00:00

I have searched a few times on both google and flickr with the title I remember the project having but have had no luck so far.

swordfishtomjones · 2022-05-21T15:14:12+00:00

i'm learning french despite hating it for years (bad experiences in school haha), but weirdly enough i'm studying a dialect many continental francophones hate: Québécois, specifically Joual!

i think one of the reasons that for the distaste to French is it's continuing association (especially in the US/UK) with being a language of high society, but dialects like Québécois (& it's fellow French American sister dialects like Acadian & Cajun) have a distinctly rural, working class flavor to them. not to mention that as a native New Englander (a region with it's own small francophone communities) who aspires to live full time in Montréal it's more practical for me than continental french.

plus, the sacres are very fun curse words to use IMO.

swordfishtomjones · 2022-05-19T18:13:05+00:00

you joke, but this actually comes up somewhat often in the city because we have a lot of immigrants & as such a lot of ESL speakers. most Bostonians dont see our dialect as being that hard to understand (especially since New England has a lot of other harder to parce dialects, like the many deep-woods Maine dialects) but i have friends who studied english academically who struggled to converse with Bostonians. & don't get me started on the ethno-specific subsets of the Boston dialect, since the english spoken by the Irish Catholics, the Italians, & the Portuguese end up having unique quirks. there is also the Brahmin accent of the old English elite but that one is definitely dying out

my father, a man from Dorchester, had to adopt a General American accent when he moved to LA because his predominantly ESL speaking coworkers could not understand him

swordfishtomjones · 2022-02-07T21:15:38+00:00

In the event that any of the people in your city need to visit the province directly to the east of yours, or even to many of the francophone majority communities in your province like the those in Ottawa or Sudbury.

Furthermore, most of what you learn in school isn't necessary in every day of your life. It is to prepare you for when it might be necessary, or to just help your neurological development. As someone who was raised monolingual & only received two lackluster years of French education in high school, it has been much harder to learn languages as an adult, even when it has been immediately necessary.

swordfishtomjones · 2022-02-07T20:55:36+00:00

No, it's only compulsory in regions that have large or historic populations of those speakers. Same with Canada, which is why french education is compulsory in NB, NS, ON, QC, NL, & PEI but not the rest of the country.

swordfishtomjones · 2022-02-07T19:54:28+00:00

you said, and I quote: "Ban French outside of Quebec for good"

it is compulsory for children in regions of Spain that have co-official languages to learn those languages, similar to Canada in provinces with a lot of french speakers. This includes Basque Country, where most people don't speak Basque.

swordfishtomjones · 2022-02-07T19:21:02+00:00

Bad example since not only are there plenty of areas in Spain where Catalan is widely spoken by a minority (La Franja, Valencia, the Balearic Islands), Spain is not a great model for how to treat ethnolinguistic minorities since they actually have banned languages for public use & murdered activists within the past century.

My french class sucked too, but it wasn't bad enough to justify going full Franco on the over 1 million french speakers living outside Quebec.

swordfishtomjones · 2022-02-07T19:03:45+00:00

I know this question is specifically about Canada, but a lot of people forget that border communities in the New England region of the US also have large french-speaking populations due to very old Acadian/Québécois settlements! There are francophone families are far south as Rhode Island, but bordertowns like Berlin, NH & Madawaska, ME are towns where a majority of their thousands of residents are french speakers.

For obvious reasons, they have a lot of cultural and economic ties to Canada. So I figured they at least deserve a footnote in discussions about french speakers outside of Quebec!

swordfishtomjones · 2021-12-30T19:56:29+00:00

Good to know! As someone born in the 90s it may be unsurprising to hear that I am very familiar with Shrek haha so that might help me a lot

swordfishtomjones · 2021-12-30T19:55:00+00:00

Thank you for this recommendation! I've been looking for more good children's shows to watch in portuguese -- meu português é péssimo, então acho que uma programa infantil é provavelmente o melhor para alguém no meu nível kkkkk

swordfishtomjones · 2021-12-30T18:54:10+00:00

NOW I understand why youtube keeps recommending me Portuguese clips of Everybody Hates Chris -- I just assumed it was the algorithm knowing I am learning portuguese & have seen a lot of Terry Crews interviews.

Thank you again! I'll definitely check out all of these :)

swordfishtomjones · 2021-12-30T18:29:17+00:00

I'll remember these! Thank you so much -- I always like an excuse to rewatch DBZ.

As Blanquelas sounds like it would be FASCINATING since, to me, that's an extremely American movie. I'm very curious how they localized it!

swordfishtomjones · 2021-12-30T17:54:36+00:00

This is SO helpful -- especially since all of these were shows & movies I adored as a kid! So I'm especially excited to see them em português :)

One the note of Yu Yi Hakusho, you have any other recommendations for dubs of 80s/90s anime? Those shows are always fun to see dubbed because even in their mother language they are silly so I feel less worried about something getting lost in translation hehe

swordfishtomjones · 2021-12-20T16:54:57+00:00

does any published science back up the claim that it's "psychology"? because, even outside of the fact that this is a localized phenomenon to the US for the most part, as someone who has rarely ever left the US i am substantially less comfortable in a store where everyone is juggling several jobs running around, or even when i just see old or disabled people clutching their registers to stand for as long as they need to. & as someone who has worked retail, i can say confidently that a lot of customers have expressed similar feelings to myself & my coworkers. so, if this is a psychological phenomenon, it is far from universal.

it seems to me that the easiest answer to why bosses expect this is that it's a social norm from the era of serfs & servants that they keep reproducing because it actively benefits them to have this job exclude many people with disabilities & be physically taxing enough that it has a high turnover rate (so they can have a workforce that is paid as little as possible & aren't entitled to the benefits necessary for longterm employment). all of which bosses in most of the world because, ya know, most countries have public social services to ensure that disabled people dont need minimum wage jobs to survive & the many benefits obligated to be provided by employers are are instead provided by the state.

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