there's a sickly sweet smell of wood that the table at my summer camp made when i scraped/filed it w/ the broad side of my pencil. also that chlorine'y indoor swimming pool smell.
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:31 (eight years ago) link
I vote "strange scent wafting out of the a/c vent"
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:31 (eight years ago) link
I think it's a shame that not all schools are teaching cursive writing anymore.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:51 (eight years ago) link
I have a limited range of small-c conservative beliefs but the ones that tend to cause the most arguments are:
The interests of teachers and teaching unions don't always overlap with the interests of learners.
Defamation and privacy laws need to be fit for purpose and resistant to obvious abuse but should be robust enough to provide a genuine check on a 'free press'.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 19 August 2016 07:16 (eight years ago) link
weirdly i think all of my conservative beliefs are really leftist beliefs in disguise?
like, nature is indifferent, nobody deserves or is owed anything, not freedom, not safety, not a future, not care nor consideration -- there are no rights, history has no moral arc. that these things exist in the present is the result of long struggle, easily reversed.
― goole, Friday, 19 August 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
humans are totally depraved, by their nature
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 19 August 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
that's not really conservative though? hobbes is a foundational thinker in liberal thought?
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 August 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
it's a conservative belief cf. Lakoff
― bamcquern, Friday, 19 August 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
My most conservative belief is probably that deep down I'm pretty glad/relieved to live under the protection of the world's most powerful military.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 19 August 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
I like Uber a lot.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:32 (eight years ago) link
I like Airbnb a lot and ppl are always equating the two. Is there a difference? *wanders out*
― imago, Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
i love airbnb
― marcos, Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
i have an almost physical revulsion to public shaming -- even in cases where the person did something "bad," i feel there is something unseemly about reveling in how bad and awful they are and how they are a "perfect example" of some larger social formation that is ultimately outside their control
― Treeship, Friday, 26 August 2016 11:31 (eight years ago) link
People who use Uber and AirBnB and all these services should dispense with any pretense that those they are paying are equals, when they are functionally "the help" and should be treated accordingly and dress the part.
― The Flash API from the officially deprecated "youtube" site (sarahell), Friday, 26 August 2016 14:14 (eight years ago) link
i get mildly annoyed by the use of "latinx" instead of latino, it is just cumbersome and i am skeptical of the notion that grammatical gender is oppressive
― marcos, Friday, 26 August 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
sarahell's posts itt
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2012/12/friday-damn.gif
― flopson, Friday, 26 August 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
Twenty One Pilots is a good band
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 29 August 2016 02:48 (eight years ago) link
― marcos, Friday, August 26, 2016 4:39 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'll go one further and say that i think the notion that grammatical gender is oppressive is deeply anglocentric, as many languages -- including spanish -- can't do away with gendering things as easily as english can
― Treeship, Monday, 29 August 2016 03:32 (eight years ago) link
except "latino" and "latina" are words used in an english language context in the first place. it is a political designation in the US to describe people whose national/ethnic heritage traces to latin american countries. the term itself is already anglocentric. making it gender neutral in writing is p cool, though kind of a bear to vocalize. la-TIN-ex? la-TINKS? la-TIN-equis?
(also language is def oppressive tho obv using the right pronouns alone is not justice, etc.)
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:03 (eight years ago) link
throws conservative 2 cents in: polyamory is a fool's errand
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:07 (eight years ago) link
I wouldn't call it a belief but when an acquaintance or internet stranger goes on about their life being out of control, my reaction is sometimes "why not just have your life not be a nightmare train wreck" as if they chose it
This is the most uncool thing I'm aware of about myself.
Being roughly aligned with J Street as far as I/P issues makes me a conservative by some standards and a self-hating Jew by others so I don't count that.
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
I really don't enjoy people who use FB as the place to air all thir woes
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:22 (eight years ago) link
*their
you shouldn't be able to graduate college without passing a class called Shutting the Fuck Up About Things Most of the Time
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:25 (eight years ago) link
bureaucracy is good
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:27 (eight years ago) link
― 6 god none the richer (m bison)
for straights
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2016 10:27 (eight years ago) link
Noted!
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Monday, 29 August 2016 11:08 (eight years ago) link
I don't think septum piercings look particularly good.
― emil.y, Monday, 29 August 2016 11:11 (eight years ago) link
Tattoos are fucking repulsive.
― cakelou, Monday, 29 August 2016 11:15 (eight years ago) link
i think sometimes you probably have to execute your political enemies
― Ban Lencowink (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 August 2016 12:36 (eight years ago) link
i prefer latin@s. haha.
nothing anglocentric about the use tho, you see latinxs and latin@s in Spanish - well ive seen both used in spain and chile.
i agree that the fact that the plural term in spanish for something including both genders is just the form used for dudes is not the biggest issue.
the term "gender" was historically purely grammatical of course, up until modern times at least
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 August 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
isn't rendering something in a way that's unsayable privileging the written over the lived? or does it call attn to that fact? is it logocentric (only 90s kids will understand)
― goole, Monday, 29 August 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
I assumed that ppl who use it just say "la-TIN-ex" like m bison suggested above? has anyone here heard someone say "latinx" irl?
― soref, Monday, 29 August 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
or, to be accurate, I assumed ppl pronounced it "la-TEEN-ex"
― soref, Monday, 29 August 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
Pretty much only at Black Lives Matter rallies and similar protests.Xp
― one way street, Monday, 29 August 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
(It is la-TEEN-ex as far as I know)
― one way street, Monday, 29 August 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
la-TEEN-ex is phonetically atrocious imo, sounds like portmanteau of latrine and kleenex. i had previously imagined it pronounced la-TINX, which doesn't quite roll off the tongue, either. i'll call anyone whatever they want tho because being uptight about it is NOT one of my Uncool Conservative Beliefs B-)
there needs to be a word for the cycle of denial, anxiety, frustration and acceptance we go through when made aware of new inclusive/pc terminology lol
― flopson, Monday, 29 August 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
The 4 stages of woke
― jmm, Monday, 29 August 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
i don't tihnk i'm getting more conservative but i think like internet social justice clickbait shit and all the pop culture armchair sociology and shit around it is getting tiresome, like analyzing every beyonce VMA appearance or young thug album cover as some hugely meaningful thing in our discourse around social justice is annoying. idk im a poc and have spent a lot of time the past few years immersed in social justice / diversity / inclusion work in my career including chairing the diversity & inclusion committee at my last job so part of it could just be diversity fatigue which i've talked about w/ other people doing this kind of work byut i also just have less patience for the dumber shit said by people who i otherwise agree with
― marcos, Monday, 29 August 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
latinx okay i get it but i still think it is kind of dumb
latinx sounds like an energy drink for latin@s
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 August 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
This is an uncool liberal belief, not a conservative one
― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 August 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8o9Z2lZ.jpg
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
like one way street upthread what I think of as "uncool conservative beliefs" may in fact be "mainstream liberal beliefs" that I suspect would catch flak from my more occasionally radical interlocutors
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
Many xposts
To be clear fwiw my la-TIN-ex pronunciation is the long I sound in Spanish
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link
Latin@s is almost there but exclusionary of non-binary genders
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 00:41 (eight years ago) link
i'm kind of wondering if sarahel has ever used airbnb or uber
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 01:41 (eight years ago) link
you don't "pay" uber drivers and aren't most airbnb "landlords" middle class ppl?
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link
aren't most airbnb "landlords" middle class ppl?
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/mar/18/airbnb-from-homesharing-cool-to-commercial-giant
most airbnb landlords are landlords
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 01:50 (eight years ago) link
and uber, at least in cities, is mainly a way to fuck over unionized cabdrivers who actually did the work to get a hack license and appropriate insurance for their business
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 01:51 (eight years ago) link