Post a controversial opinion

but don't, as its surface temperature is zero kelvin and yr fingers wd shatter into an icy dust

*cough*

"What would you ask us?"

Miss Lavis laid her hand pleasantly on Lucy's arm, as if to suggest that she, at all events, would get full marks."

OK, then, something I DO believe; Derek Bailey will have a number one single before this decade's out.

*does this controversial opinion necessarily have to be mine?

that's something I WANT to believe.

AND WHAT ANDREW SAID!!

The people who sometimes annoy me on ILE are on the whole the ones whose talents I most envy.

AND WHAT ANDREW SAID!!

I believe the Harry Potter industry is even more guilty of this.

But he DID!

I don't have a firm opinion on whether abortion should be legal. I've yet to see a totally convincing pro-choice argument (not that I've been reading in depth). My main reason for being sort of pro-choice is that it's a controversial topic and since I don't have a firm decided opinion I want to leave it up to personal choice.

I like rice in burritos. For older person health reasons, I rarely eat them with rice anymore. Also the Germans brought the accordion to Mexico …. another point in their favor.

Rice is an essential part of Mission burritos. It is toasted in oil and simmered in broth with onion, garlic and a little tomato paste. It’s not like they just stuff jasmine rice in, it adds a very definite taste and texture

Sounds like a Spanish recipe … tbh

My favorite Mexican-fusion food fact (from the al pastor wiki):

During the 19th century, variations of a vertically grilled meat dish doner, now known by several names, started to spread throughout the Ottoman Empire. The Levantine version of doner, called shawarma, was brought to Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by a wave of Lebanese immigrants, mainly Christians who have no religious dietary restrictions on eating pork.[14]

By the 1920s, lamb meat was mostly replaced by pork. The Mexican-born progeny of Lebanese immigrants also began opening their own restaurants. Later, in Mexico City, they began to marinate with adobo and use corn tortillas, which resulted in the al pastor taco. It is unknown when they began to be prepared as we know them today; however, some agree that it was in the 1960s when they became popular.[15]

my controp of the day: if your IPA doesn't have gypsum or extremely hard water in it, then it's not an IPA it's just an overhopped pale

I can remember when Marstons' pale ales in the UK had a distinct whiff of sulphur from the gypsum in the water in Burton on Trent.

xps to mh Sbarro is (recently?!) in Ireland, I had never heard of it before, passed one by in Heuston station. Nobody was in there.

Passed this place four times in the past week and it was shuttered the entire time

Sbarro is quite literally worse than dog food.

I have memories of delicately biting into their Greenland-sized slices in mall food courts in the '80s, memories that aren't rose-covered.

it’s the skatole connection

Skatole or 3-methylindole is an organic compound belonging to the indole family. It occurs naturally in the feces of mammals and birds and is the primary contributor to fecal odor.

I hate reading manga right to left and would read a lot more if it was the other way round. I don’t care about mirrored images or the original artistic intent.

_Skatole or 3-methylindole is an organic compound belonging to the indole family. It occurs naturally in the feces of mammals and birds and is the primary contributor to fecal odor._

also a scent note in most roses— aka why that Outkast line exists.

The same root word as scatological!

stinky!!

The same root word as scatological!

But not where the term scat singing comes from. (Though it should be.)

Mel Torme is coming to kick your ass

I hate zombies but I would like to hear zombie Mel scat.

ew

Zombie Mel's Cat?

Ska doodly oodly oodly bopbopbop

Zoom conferences should be used as rarely as possible, including teaching.

Completely agree - only in the most desperate circumstances is it a good substitute for irl interaction. Especially considering young people’s lived experience with zoom school.

I think mmv with Zoom. If students are invested and interested, I've found that the Zoom classes that I facilitate can be really wonderful, but that's probably because the people *want* to be there.

To the ppl who don't post in the Palestine thread bcz you might have a problem with "a couple of people" that post on there let me just say: I see you and hear you.

It has been noted.

same but for 'rolling favourite dj mixes'

Now now lads, these aren't even opinions.

sounds like a threat to me!! hoho j/k!

thinkpiece culture has created a level of dependence where people want to be mindlessly told the 'right' opinions to have on things without having to think on them, as if there is isn't a wide range of opinions amongst people that mostly agree with each other. sort of farming out the work to other people, then treating the end result as settled science. and there are plenty of nu-thinkpiece writers who also think it's offensive to disagree with them on any individual point, as if the entire piece needs to be canonized.

^ otm and to me very intertwined with a personal bugaboo which is writing in 1st-person plural voice in a way that includes the audience, assuming that all your readers are just looking for their marching orders

groupthinkpiece

From a production standpoint, thinkpieces being much cheaper than actual journalism is a big part of the appeal.

The "writing a lengthy essay in the tone of an angry lecturing parent" motif has its usefulness, but mostly comes off smug and annoying because it assumes nobody in the intended audience knows anything about the subject

^^^goes for posting styles too

here are my thoughts, all of them, for the last three hours in post form. yes and

Trump and Epstein fucked. It’s the only thing that explains the administration’s panic over the issue and Kash’s weird “Epstein acted alone” performance.

not only that but Trump is a bottom

this plays right into the othering of queer life that these assholes have been trying to reinforce for years, doesn’t it?

I’m not implying it’s the source of his evil or anything explaining why he is the way he is. He can have internalized his homophobia along with his mentor Roy Cohn.

I am also absolutely not saying queerness is anything to be ashamed of.

no way. trump has no known history of relationships with men, but a very long and public history of objectifying teenage girls and abusing and assaulting women. trump told his former chief of staff john kelly that he was “more attracted to his daughter than his wife” and there is a long disturbing history of him speaking on his attraction toward his daughter. the katie johnson testimony, in which she describes being horrifically assaulted by trump at epstein’s house, is in my view true. it came out during theb2016 campaign long before epstein was known to anyone but gawker readers and way before trump was linked to epstein. She describes him comparing her to ivanka — again, before there was reporting on his weird comments in this area.

Donald Trump is not gay. Gay is ok. Trump is a pedophilic rapist, which is not ok.

Trump has that fascination with male beauty common to fascist types; he's not ashamed to praise this or that pound off male flesh for their looks and telegenic side. But we've known this for a while. Doesn't mean he sucks cock.

a very long and public history

in other words, the Don doth protest too much

powerful "straight" presenting men have been fucking , and being fucked by, dudes since the dawn of time, against a backdrop of shifting attitudes about homosexuality through the years. the perceptions of homosexuality have changed but the behavior has largely stayed the same. the reason it's amusing to point out that Trump is obviously a bottom is not because bottoming is somehow bad, or homosexuality shameful. it's for the same reason people always laugh when Grindr crashes during Republican conventions, because it's hilarious to see these hypocrites for who they really are

I don't think this is uh fertile ground, budo jeru.

Trump and Epstein fucked. It’s the only thing that explains the administration’s panic over the issue and Kash’s weird “Epstein acted alone” performance.

Nah. The administration's panic is based on the (incorrect) assumption that Trump's association with Epstein will matter to his followers.

I don't think this is uh fertile ground, budo jeru.

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no it isn't. but look at what thread we're in

I’ll just end with: Trump’s relationships with women have been obviously joyless and abusive his whole life.

Ok I lied—Watch Berlin Alexanderplatz for the unsubtle gay subtext of two allegedly straight men passing women between them.

Yeah not here for this shit.

Trump is a pedophilic rapist, which is not ok.

It is absolutely ok with his base, and he's alluded to it before.

Whatever is in those files isn't going to be something he periodically references or alludes to

This may not actually be controversial but: A lot of people who become parents absolutely should not.

Sure, but in that case I wouldn’t be here and neither would my kid. Lol

that is controversial, tom! you actually care about your kid and don’t treat them in many of the terrible ways my childhood friends’ parents who obviously just had kids for dubious reasons did