Rarely entirely serious. Fond of otters and dogs, scarily obsessive about music and old videogames. He/him.
Jesus H Christ, no. Rich? Sure. It would make a lot of things easier and less stressful. Famous? Not on your life. Can’t imagine anything worse. And Michael Jackson levels of fame? Sounds like hell. No wonder he was such a monumental fuck-up.
This may be well-intentioned (although I am sceptical). Regardless, it’s a bad idea, it comes off as deeply sinister, and smacks really strongly of “not all men”. He should find something else to do.
“Great” used to mean “big” rather than “really good”. Which is why the largest of the islands in the North Atlantic archipelago is called “Great Britain”.
Family recipes are great though. Not women’s job, but they are great and should be preserved. Unless they involve gelatin.
Otters truly do make everything better. Even education, it seems.
You can, if the context allows it e.g. you can answer the question “Where were you earlier?” with “Went to the doctor” and it means the same and would be understood as “I went to the doctor”.
The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers. Probably the darkest record ever made, and it starts with the striking cover design. From the Wikipedia article:
"The album cover, designed by Richey Edwards while hospitalised, features a triptych by Jenny Saville depicting three perspectives on the body of an obese woman in her underwear, and is titled Strategy (South Face/Front Face/North Face). Saville gave her permission for use of her work for free after a discussion with Edwards in which he described each song on the album. The back cover features a photo of the band in military uniforms and a quote taken from Octave Mirbeau’s book The Torture Garden …
… The lyrics booklet features various images including Christian iconography, photographs of the gate at Dachau concentration camp and a plan of the gas chambers at Belsen concentration camp, a photograph of Lenin’s corpse, an engraving depicting an execution by guillotine in Revolutionary France, a picture of an apple, a photograph of a woman with a parasitic twin, photographs of each of the Manic Street Preachers as children and a photograph of a group of British policemen in gas-masks"
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I mean, there was that time Roy Hattersley was supposed to be on HIGNFY and he didn’t turn up, so they replaced him with a tub of lard on the basis that it was “liable to give much the same performance and imbued with many of the same qualities”.
Not as deranged as what’s going on in the USA right now, but it was fucking funny.
If that’s a serious question: probably Myra Hindley and Ian Brady aka the Moors Murderers.
I feel like OP is of the cusp of a realisation: “Hang on. Are we the baddies?”
Back in the day, Switzerland was one of Europe’s main sources of armies-for-hire. We see the echoes of that today in the Swiss Guard in Vatican City, for instance.
It’s not just Americans who do this by any means, and nor are they the worst offenders! Trust me on this, I’m British - the most wilfully parochial nation on earth.
You’ll always get the odd jerk, but mostly this stuff tends to come from a lack of travel experience more than anything else. Unless you’ve travelled, you may not even realise what assumptions you’re making about how day-to-day life works. And, well, a lot of Americans haven’t travelled much outside of the USA. (That’s not a criticism by the way - the USA is absolutely enormous and incredibly diverse, and you could spend a lifetime exploring it and not see it all.)
All that said, back in the days before dual voltage power supplies were common I did used to find it amusing watching Americans in Europe blithely plugging their electrical goods into the 220V mains and wondering why they blew up.
Ghanaian Shitto sauce. Silly name, looks like the output of extreme gastro-intestinal distress, but is an absolute God-tier condiment.
Cleopatra. There’s no way anyone would release a 4 hour historical drama as a movie. It would be a TV series these days.
Look at what happens to the women who do come forward. Is it really any wonder they’re so reticent?
You tell them, gently, directly and as a matter of fact. Then you pick up the pieces.
Read “The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists” by Robert Tressell. Or, if reading a book is too difficult, there’s a graphic novel version I think.
It really depends what threat you’re trying to guard against. For instance, I do use a password manager plus 2FA for all my online accounts, but I unlock both my computer and my phone with biometrics. That’s good enough for me because I’m a fairly well-off cis het white man in a relatively safe and civilised country, I’m not likely to be persecuted/hurt/arrested/killed just for existing,. so really all I’m guarding against in securing my technology is crooks, and biometrics plus a password manager and 2FA is easily good enough to guard against them. If on the other hand you’re in a dangerous country (Russia, United States, etc), or you’re a member of a group that is typically at risk from government authorities (e.g. you’re black, gay, trans etc) then your threat model is likely different.
WhatsApp is a product of Meta, one of the most outright evil organisations in the world. Signal isn’t - the Signal Foundation isn’t perfect, but they do at least try to do right by their users.
For me, the killer app for Plex is Plexamp, the music client. It’s superb, and AFAIK Jellyfin doesn’t really have an equivalent (there are 3P options, but they’re lacking).