Meme - "When your female friend sends a titty pic because she knows you're in a coochie drought."
Bran from Game of Thrones: "You are a good woman. Thank you"
Meme - Time Capsule Tales: "The script for Game of Thrones S8 was so disliked that when Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) first got it, she cried, and then went on a walk for 5 hours around London until she had blisters on her feet"
‘Game of Thrones’ Star Reveals Her ‘Full Mental Breakdown’ After Show Ended : r/freefolk - "New article referencing an interview Emilia recently did with the NY Times (that one is paywalled so I didn’t link it but it’s out there if you search). I don’t know about anyone else, but this to me reads she is more and more dissatisfied with her experience on the show. Prior to the show ending, she always talked about how much she loved playing Dany and how that character is a part of her. So I really think she has become more and more aware how unfair it was how they completely ruined her character. That’s not to say actors are owed to decide their character’s endings, but I think she honestly felt betrayed and it was hard for her at the time to say that because she felt like she owed D&D her career. In the NY Times article, she also said, “You’re highly unlikely to see me get on a dragon, or even in the same frame as a dragon, ever again.” Which, I don’t blame her. I mean it’s still sad that the whole experience seems almost tainted, but I’m glad she’s happy in her newer projects."
Game of Thrones Star Sophie Turner Says 'No One Else Was Really Happy' With How Their Characters Ended The Show - "Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner has suggested she was one of the few cast members happy with the fate of their character following the series' divisive final season... "I feel that I was very happy with the way Sansa ended her story in Game of Thrones, and no one else was really happy with their ending," Turner said. "I feel like I got a good one, and so I don't know if I could revisit it.""
‘Game of Thrones’ Star Reveals Her ‘Full Mental Breakdown’ After Show Ended : r/freefolk - "I dint think it was a big secret how upset she was with the ending her character got. Between her sarcastic "best season ever" response during an interview and her face during table reads, the only person more visibly upset was probably Varys' actor."
‘Game of Thrones’ Star Reveals Her ‘Full Mental Breakdown’ After Show Ended : r/freefolk - "The video of Conleth Hill throwing his script after reading his ending always stuck with me."
‘Game of Thrones’ Star Reveals Her ‘Full Mental Breakdown’ After Show Ended : r/freefolk - "They’ll do the same thing that Peter Dinklage did, misrepresent the fans issues with the way the show abandoned logistics and realism, and imply there’s sour grapes because fans didn’t get the story beats they wanted."
Mother Of Sarcasm on X - "Isn’t it weird how KFC is one letter away from Fuck? New slogan idea… KFC: all that’s missing is u."
Latin America turns Right as the Left pays the price of failure - "The rise of conservatism has been fuelled in part by the spectacular failures of Left-wing policies, which in the most extreme cases have tipped countries into economic collapse... The shift is also the result of voters increasingly prioritising tackling crime and corruption over issues like inequality and social mobility... In El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, the Right-wing president, has led an iron-fisted crackdown on organised crime that has incarcerated nearly 2 per cent of the population. Violent crime has plummeted. The formerly gang-ridden country has become one of the region’s safest. By contrast, when a juvenile assassin shot a Colombian senator three times in June, he received a seven-year-sentence owing to lenient laws for juveniles in the country. The case led to calls for reforms to the law, but Gustavo Petro, the Leftist president, has not publicly supported any change. The Right has also been better at portraying their candidates as political outsiders at a time when “there’s a widespread belief that parties and politics are broken, and no longer work for the average person,” according to Mr Young"
Western Lensman on X - "Two Democrats, same night:
Raskin: We can’t have people prosecuting the person who prosecuted them, that would be an endless cycle of prosecutorial vengeance.
Jeffries: When Democrats retake power, we’re going to seek prosecutorial vengeance.
Get your stories straight, guys."
The one Marxist who understood modern Britain - "“If you’re not a Marxist at 14 you’ve got no heart, but if you’re still a Marxist at 40 you’ve got no brain.” This certainly applied to me at 14, but in my defence I’d point out that, in the 90s, Marxism was still about redistributive economics. Now it has been subsumed by identity politics, so being a Leftist means favouring puberty blockers, open borders, anti-Semitism and police intimidation via non-crime hate incidents. There doesn’t seem to be much “heart” in such things. Pre-woke Leftism, for all its faults and utopian pipedreams, often had a youthful, creative energy. Surprisingly, this energy has become much more common on the Right during the last decade. Some people call this change a political “vibe shift” – as in all the vibes switching side, from Left to Right... a typical phenomenon of the 2020s: “cultural repetition”. You may have noticed how many Hollywood films are remakes. You may have noticed that pop music sounds the same today as it did twenty years ago. You may even have wondered how it can be that the distance between this year and the year 2005 feels so much shorter than the distance between 1990 and 1970, if you’re old enough to remember a time of significant cultural changes in fashion and music. Fisher argued that popular culture now stays largely unchanged by time because people have lost a sense of direction, a collective narrative, a feeling that things are moving meaningfully toward the future, a sense of optimism toward our shared life unfolding in time. Being a Leftist, he blamed the collapse of Leftist hopes for a brighter future, but the same phenomenon can be said to apply to the collapse of the stability once provided by things like family, religion and national culture as well... things get a little odd when today’s programme makers start trying to make new the classics. This happens every year with Eastenders, of course, and this year we’re promised an Only Fools and Horses reunion. The problem is that shows like this can no longer work. They portray all those things which post-pandemic Britain has lost: a sense of civilisational self-confidence, of material comfort, of an unquestioned faith in national institutions. Those old shows function against the background of shared experiences, shared cultural values, and – particularly at Christmas – shared aspirations and shared hopes. A soap that realistically portrayed today’s East End or Peckham would probably need subtitles. Watching the woefully unrealistic portrayals of British life today thus has a spooky quality. It feels like a ghostly apparition of the future we once assumed would come now returns to haunt us before suddenly disappearing out of sight when you watch the news. Fisher coined a word for this uncanny feeling: “hauntology”, the ethereal appearance of the future that never came, returning to haunt those who ancestors once assured of its reality. Fisher’s writings thus have that “heart” so often lacking in Left-wing writing today, that creative energy that’s now so rare among grim faced identitarians. This applies even to a concept as melancholic as “hauntology”, which he said not only acknowledges that the hopes of one era have evaporated – it also shows “a refusal to give up” on that desire to create the world we have lost. It is common for Leftists to dismiss conservatives for political nostalgia, for unrealistic portrayals of some golden era that never was. Fisher is important for showing how nostalgia can function politically, even in relation to the future. Indeed, public fury at the Left-wing radicalism of the BBC is a version of the same impulse – a reminder that a once-treasured national institution was never meant to behave like this."
How the world’s authority on HR descended into an HR nightmare - "The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) describes itself as “the global authority on work, workers and the workplace” and the “voice of all things work”. It is an HR training and education company with, it says, nearly 340,000 members in 180 countries. As the largest such organisation in the world, it should be a shining example of how to foster healthy, happy, productive employees. Instead, the SHRM’s HR record reads more like a catalogue of blunders and embarrassing missteps... Managers also introduced a “conservative” dress code which promoted “enclothed cognition” – the idea that what an employee wears impacts their performance. The rules banned trainers, hats and denim, as well as any clothing that failed to cover the body between the shoulders and knees. In October Johnny C. Taylor Jr, the company’s chief executive, is said to have called many of its employees “complacent,” “sloppy” and “entitled” at an all-staff meeting at which he announced a round of redundancies. “I am going to reorganise the business of SHRM. There will be a total reorg,” Taylor said, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by Business Insider, in which he also confirmed he had taken the decision unilaterally. “This is not a decision that I’ve made [in consultation] with anyone, no one.”... the same HR employee tasked with investigating Mohamed’s complaints was simultaneously drafting the paperwork for the termination of her contract, as well as ghostwriting emails for Mohamed’s manager. Just a couple of weeks before she was let go, SHRM had published a guide titled How to Conduct a Workplace Investigation, which stated that investigators “should focus on being impartial.”... SHRM’s allegedly rank hypocrisy raises broader questions about the ballooning HR industry and its increasingly powerful role in the workplace. HR workers now outnumber doctors and lawyers in Britain – there are more than 476,000 people in the industry, an increase of 68 per cent since 2010. Only the Netherlands has a larger HR industry than Britain, and yet a rise in HR professionals has not necessarily made a difference to employee health or productivity... Pamela Dow, a former senior civil servant, posited that our bloated HR sector could be the reason for the UK’s “national sluggishness”... So, what has gone so wrong? Tanya de Grunwald is a former journalist, now an entrepreneur and campaigner who hosts This Isn’t Working, a podcast on the HR industry. She says: “It can look like it’s just a huge mess, but what I see is a battle for the soul of HR. Over the past five years particularly, there’s been huge confusion about what it actually is. A new generation of people have come into the HR industry, a lot of university graduates, and they’ve brought in quite an activist agenda.”... While the primary function of the industry used to be legal compliance, staff welfare and personnel issues – literally the hiring and firing – there is now an overemphasis on employee wellbeing and inclusion, she says, and this creates tension. According to de Grunwald, the harsh truth is that businesses are ultimately “about making money”. She adds that HR “lost its way with all this wellbeing and DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] stuff, when really all they should have been doing was making sure that we – that our organisation – was as productive as possible.” That’s not to say that employee wellbeing isn’t important. “You should be nurturing your best people, you should be investing in them, training them,” she says. “But you’re not everybody’s mum.”"
I didn't know the US had gotten so informal that moderate dress codes were bad
Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Why do identical twins have such similar personalities? Is it because they're reared together? Is it because people treat them alike due to their visual similarity? Nope! Neither theory holds water. Despite looking as similar as identical twins and being reared apart, look-alikes are not similar like identical twins are. In fact, they're no more similar than unrelated people. This makes sense: they're only minimally more genetically similar than regular unrelated people. The other thing is that twins reared apart and together have similarly similar personalities. In fact, there might be a negative environmental effect going on, where twins reared together try to distinguish their personalities more! This data also came with data on dizygotic twins reared together and apart, delivering heritabilities of 0.76, 0.66, or 0.56, depending on which group is used as the comparison. And as an aside, the traits of same-sex and opposite-sex dizygotic twins are similarly correlated. Twins who are perceived to be fraternal rather than identical and vice-versa also seem to be aligned as predicted genetically, not by perceptions. That is, people seen as identical (fraternals) but who are not are as similar as fraternals (identicals). If being reared apart or together doesn't matter, and looking alike doesn't matter, misperception of zygosity doesn't matter, and even sex doesn't matter (mostly excepting sex-linked traits), there's just not much room for twin methods to be biased by a lack of equal environments"
Matt Van Swol on X - "I am still waiting for someone to help me understand why DOZENS of donations were made in my name, to Act Blue Democrat candidates in KANSAS... ...when I've never been to Kansas, nor ever knowingly donated to any political candidate in my entire life What is going on???!!!!"
AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ on X - "This practice is referred to as "Smurfing." Act Blue, an illicit Democrat money machine, takes the information of anyone who has donated to Democrat causes and then uses that information in perpetuity as cover to slather their candidates with micro donations (generally from illegal foreign sources to evade laws that prohibit them) to fly under the radar with illicit micro donations."
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 on X - "Rereading some of the docs in the Proud Boys case really gets my blood boiling. These guys had no chance given the conspiracy between the court and the DOJ to convict. Here, Jocelyn Ballantine told Judge Kelly--who quickly agreed--in March 2023 that the accidental disclosure of FBI texts revealing one agent had been instructed to delete evidence represented a "classified" exchange. FIRE HER."
Eyal Yakoby on X - "Horrifying, an Islamic Scholar at North Carolina State University: “If a loving father wants to marry off his nine-year-old daughter to a righteous man and all parties consent, what is the issue with that?”"
ian bremmer on X - "no serious european leader today believes that the continent is facing “civilizational erasure” warned in the us national security strategy. since world war ii, the us and europe have never been so far from alignment. a crisis for the transatlantic relationship. welcome news for putin."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "Europeans have a track record of almost always being right on matters of major political importance. Anyways, here’s a photo of German delegates laughing at Trump in 2018 when he warned they were becoming too dependent on Russian oil."
A scary woman accidentally posts a naked selfie on eBay's air fryer list - "A British woman mistakenly included a naked selfie on eBay's list of air fryer, but before being attacked by a "crude" message asking if "melon" was included. Claimed to remain "quivering in a panic". Sale. 26-year-old Emma Jones is puzzled that she received requests from hundreds of new followers and friends on social media after she listed Ninja Foodi Max at the end of last month... This list has since become viral, but electrical products It explains as follows. There are "previously used" and "signs of wear"."
Meme - Kid prepping for Battle of Helm's Deep: "Please sir, I'm only 9 years old"
"And the orcs you're fighting aren't even a year old. Now shut up and get ready to kill some babies"
Airdrie warns public of brazen coyote after 6-year-old attacked at light festival - "Child is safe but disappointed he didn't turn into a werewolf, mom says... Airdrie mom Elizabeth Dawn wrote on Facebook that the victim of Monday's attack was her six-year-old son. She said his snowsuit protected him from being injured, and her boyfriend took quick action to kick the animal off the child. "However, he is a bit upset he has not turned into a werewolf yet," she wrote."
Meme - "Sometime in 1906 I was walking in the heat of the day through the Bazaars. As I passed an Arab cafe an idle wit, in no hostility to my straw hat but desiring to shine before his friends, called out in Arabic, "God curse your father, O Englishman." I was young then and quicker-tempered, and foolishly could not refrain from answering in his own language that I would also curse his father if he were in a position to inform me which of his mother's two and ninety admirers his father had been. I heard footsteps behind me and slightly picked up the pace, angry with myself for committing the sin [of] a row with Egyptians. In a few seconds I I felt a hand on each arm. "My brother; said the original humorist, "return, I pray you, and drink with us coffee and smoke. I did not think that Your Worship knew Arabic, still less the correct Arabic abuse, and we would fain benefit further by your important thoughts.""
"White boy shocks Egyptian by telling him to fuck off in perfect Arabic"
Team conflict over lunch habits turned into HR issue. Food place recommendation near Tanjong Pagar. : r/askSingapore - "I manage a small team of 5: 4 Chinese and 1 Malay. The Malay team member came to me saying she feels left out because the Chinese members always go for lunch together without her. I spoke to the Chinese members, and they said they’re not excluding her intentionally. They just don’t want to eat Malay food. To stay neutral, I alternate having lunch with different people, and mostly eat alone to avoid any perception of favoritism. Eventually, the Malay team member escalated this to HR. HR spoke to me, and I told them that lunch is personal time and I can’t force people to eat together. At work and in meetings, I’ve already made English mandatory and there are no communication issues professionally. I bring them out to eat together occasionally maybe once a quarter. What would you do? Food recommendation near TP?
EDIT: Thanks for the responses. At least I know I did what I could in this situation.
EDIT2: I understand the malay colleague feels left out. Even the chinese colleagues don't always eat together. Sometimes 2 went to eat different places because they have their own "cravings". I think everyone has to put in a bit of effort if they want to have lunch together or compromise.
EDIT3: Malay colleague prefers Malay style restaurants or sell only Malay food. Nasi padang, Mee rebus, Nasi lemak etc"
"you can’t force adults to eat together, complaining to hr is ridiculous. Lunch is a private time and if employees want to exclude others that’s their prerogative. Excluding someone from lunch because they don’t like you is a perfectly acceptable reason. I think you need to have a conversation with the employee feeling left out and explain it’s not high school, it’s a job. Hr and management can’t regulate people free time."
"One of my friend groups consists of several conflicting dietry restrictions: one Muslim, one Hindu, one can't take chili, one vegetarian, and one extremely picky eater. Every meal together was difficult (to plan), but we take turns compromising (except me, I eat everything) because we are friends and the point is to get together. But colleagues, dealing with lunch every day? It's such a tiring prospect that I'm really happy that I'm the sort who packs their own lunch and wouldn't mind eating by myself."
Longest urban cable car in Europe lets Paris commuters soar over gridlock - "It is France’s seventh urban cable car, with others in cities including Brest, Saint-Denis de La Réunion and Toulouse."
Meme - "I'll take movies for $500, Alex"
"TIM BURTON DIRECTED THIS DARK TALE STARRING JOHNNY DEPP & HELENA BONHAM CARTER"
"you gotta be kidding me"
Meme - "Lesbians when a new haircut for 9 year old boys drops:
Wooooooo!"
Sean Davis on X - "BREAKING: The corrupt Obama DOJ, including James Comey and Andrew McCabe, explicitly blocked efforts to criminally investigate the Clinton Foundation in 2016 because they did not “want to create any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons,” according to new evidence released today by Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa. Documents show that federal agents were blocked from issuing subpoenas about the Clinton Foundation or conducting interviews with or about the Clintons in order to protect them from scrutiny during the 2016 election. At the same time, the Obama FBI was using the bogus, Clinton-funded dossier as pretext for illegally spying on the Trump campaign."
Weird. I thought "nobody is above the law"
F20 French girl...Let's be honest about what we're looking for here.... : r/Needafriend - "Most people lurking around posts searching for internet friendships are usually insecure, and/or lonely which is often combined with some sort of mental disease (depression, anxiety)."
Was Saudi Arabia’s tourism dream too good to be true? - "You have to hand it to Saudi Arabia. When Mohammed bin Salman announced his intention to turn the desert nation into a $100bn tourism destination within a decade, he was smart enough to realise he’d need something special to make that happen. For the millennial crown prince, there was one obvious solution to that conundrum: a flurry of breathtaking “mega projects” that would need to be seen to be believed, and which would help lure international tourists who might not otherwise have dreamed of visiting the Islamic kingdom... If it all sounded too good to be true – well, you might have been on to something. Less than 10 years since Mohammed bin Salman dazzled audiences with his transformational vision, Saudi’s tourism dream appears to be slipping away – at least when it comes to the mega-projects... It certainly wouldn’t be the first time that a giant Saudi construction project has been put on ice due to falling oil prices. Fans of particularly tall buildings may remember when the country announced its breathless plans to build the Kingdom Tower: a one-kilometre-high skyscraper in Jeddah that would dwarf Dubai’s Burj Khalifa and put Saudi Arabia’s second city of Jeddah on the map. Not long after construction began in 2013, the project ran into trouble, not least when oil prices plunged in 2015."
How Faces of Death traumatised a generation (and made millions) - "Blurring reality, Faces of Death is a mockumentary that queasily combines news clips too graphic to make it to air alongside staged footage... Schwartz, who was widely reported as having died in August 2019, had been working at a family-run nature documentaries firm when Japanese executives visited him with an intriguing proposition: could he make a macabre movie about death for their more extreme market? Initially, Schwartz intended Faces of Death to comprise only real footage, scouring local news stations for unaired material from accidents or murder, but quickly realised he’d need to bulk it out with fabricated recreations. Filmed on a paltry $450,000 budget, Faces of Death ended up grossing a reported $35m (the equivalent of $168m today), and spawned three official sequels – plus a Fact or Fiction video tie-in which sought to debunk some of the myths. Its current cultural currency is high, owing to a reboot (apparently languishing in release-limbo) starring Gen Z scream queen Barbie Ferreira as well as zeitgeist-shaping musician Charli XCX... Apone reckons 60 per cent of the footage is genuine. The brooding Dr Francis B Gröss is, in fact, played by Michael Carr, an actor who reacted to the script by shrieking: “Who wrote this s---?”... “Some of the stuff at the time, I thought, there’s no way people are going to buy this!”, he laughs, singling out a moment where someone is killed by a crocodile. “The alligator trainer was a friend of John’s, and we built a fake alligator, fake arms and different body parts, and we weren’t sure it was going to pass muster, but that was one of the things that people swore was real.” “Whereas the bear attack – which is real – people still think is fake.”"
