I like Bach myself, probably not as much as Beethovan and I think the 9th is probably his best - it is really amazing - but that was a literary reference to one of my favorite, though perhaps not terribly widely read, books by Vonnegut; Galapagos.
It seems that every generation since the dawn of humans have said that āthings were better in the pastā or ādamn kids these daysā and the like.
Hot take: for the first time in history, these statements are correct: things are worse now than they were ten years ago, and things ten years ago were worse than ten years before that. I donāt think it extends beyond that. The internet has made the world worse off.
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Nah, we just know about more of the bad shit that was already in existence.
Phrases like āā¦itās a great show to kill some timeā or āI had to kill some time, soā¦ā are low-key some of the saddest common sayings that are for some reason taken to be normal or unremarkable.
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Is it for the first time ever? Hotter take: TV ruined the world as well. That said, both that and the internet came with benefits as well.
Like I donāt know that we get stuff like LGBT rights improvement etc done without mass media, but Iām open to being convinced otherwise. TV as mass entertainment seems like straight downside.
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Potato salad? tartar sauce on fried fish?
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Gross and also gross.
I saw a documentary on a largely pre-industrial community I think somewhere in Southeast Asia and it mentioned a very indifferent attitude towards homosexuality. It happened and just was not an issue. I canāt find it now, but If you say being gay is not African, you donāt know your history | Bisi Alimi | The Guardian
Without mass media, like the Bible, maybe it wasnāt a problem.
See also the indigenous two-spirit people of Canada prior to colonization.
Iāve done the same before. Thing is, it kind of is tho.
Letās go deeper:
milqueĀ·toast
/ĖmilktÅst/
INFORMALā¢NORTH AMERICAN
noun
noun: milquetoast; plural noun: milquetoasts
- a timid or feeble person.
āJennings plays him as something of a milquetoastā
adjective
adjective: milquetoast
- feeble, insipid, or bland.
āa soppy, milquetoast composerā
Origin
1930s: from the name of a cartoon character, Caspar Milquetoast, created by H. T. Webster in 1924.
Caspar Milquetoast was a comic strip character created by H. T. Webster for his cartoon series The Timid Soul . Webster described Caspar Milquetoast as āthe man who speaks softly and gets hit with a big stickā. The characterās name is derived from a bland and fairly inoffensive food, milk toast, which, light and easy to digest, is an appropriate food for someone with a weak or ānervousā stomach.
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Even more irritating is when you had to look up Milquetoast and are like āoh yeah, Iāve looked that up before and forgot it already.ā
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Fittingly, milquetoast takes arenāt very hot.
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Milquetoast was named after Milk Toast anyway. Probably. So it is a food?
Real shocker
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Too much trouble, but I considered making a picture of Milk Toast with some sardines on top.
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I always say I donāt want to be a genius or anything, I just want to be able to remember the stuff Iāve already read.
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Welcome to your 50s. Hope you enjoy it here.
Until youāre in your sixties, and everything is a new exciting experience.
MM MD
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Garbage disposals are gross, unnecessary, awful and disgusting. Totally creep me out.
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