Pretty sure the biggest law broken in that entire video is the size of that car in England
american cars, especially of the 1950s-70s, were definitely not designed for british or european roads, that’s for sure. narrow, twisty, irregular roads. those american cars look like they take about a week to turn a bend.
incidentally judas priest were from birmingham, which was our version of detroit (aka car city). birmingham was supposedly remade to a ‘modern’ urban plan, that is, with the primacy of the car in mind. lots of bigger, wider avenues and the need to drive to get fucking anywhere. nightmare place and subsequently still looks like a hell-hole from the 1970s to this day (just look up ‘spaghetti junction’).
incidentally judas priest were from birmingham, which was our version of detroit (aka car city). birmingham was supposedly remade to a ‘modern’ urban plan, that is, with the primacy of the car in mind. lots of bigger, wider avenues and the need to drive to get fucking anywhere. nightmare place and subsequently still looks like a hell-hole from the 1970s to this day (just look up ‘spaghetti junction’).
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People are upset at the Instagram influencer who posted sexy photos from her dad's funeral.
Her father clearly didn't consent to this but who knows what their relationship was like? Maybe he encouraged her Instagram ambitions? I don't think he would be happy about all of the people being angry at his daughter for something that is family business.
Here are some angry older men to complain about it
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/ … ial-media/
Only one comment was almost good.
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Her father clearly didn't consent to this but who knows what their relationship was like? Maybe he encouraged her Instagram ambitions? I don't think he would be happy about all of the people being angry at his daughter for something that is family business.
Here are some angry older men to complain about it
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/ … ial-media/
Only one comment was almost good.
The people getting angry on behalf of a dead guy they didn't know is weird too. I don't get why people don't like Instagram influencers. I assume it is mostly people jealous their nerd shit and conservatives crap don't get social media likes.I've always wondered just how much money the Brit Roy Family made from: Di's funeral, Willy/Kate's wedding, Pri Phil's funeral, etc. I'm guessing it is a very handsome fortune.
I don't really blame those tacky enough to monetize the moment but rather those ghoulish enough to look a picture of Rivera standing next to her open-casket-father.
Also, let the record state for me when when I die:
what a strange non-story. like all the pedo hysteria, it says more about the affronted crusaders than anything else, i think.
teenage girl cannot process grief entirely properly and behaves like typical teenage girl in breaking news shocker.
'funeral decorum – a custom we can all agree is worth preserving'. i just mean ... what? imagine turning funerals into a front of the culture war. creepy as fuck. it's like these people are determined to make all of freud's theses about 'the death drive' become absolutely, patently true. can the authoritarian personality types and crypto-fascists at least keep their weird, sadomasochistic death cult stuff to the repressed and unverbalised level?
if a family wants to do a mexican day of the dead or an indigenous ritual in which they parade around and dance with the body of the deceased, who gives a fuck? what sort of weirdo right-wing personality wants everyone else's funeral to be dour, thin-lipped, sorrowful affairs with victorian black veils and organ dirges? why is it anyone's business?
as an aside, i swear that's the 4th or 5th article from that sour-faced little wench i've been subjected to. what is her deal? she's a scottish lass with a background in music who seemingly has become a darling of the american far-right's culture wars. talk about a fucking grift. shameless as well as creepy. that girl is literally sat in a seat somewhere pitching articles to american editors about instagram influencer's funerals, probably hoping one day she can become one of those dead-eyed presenters on fox news or something with a nice salary. (there's a phrase in glasgow that 'glaswegians have more fun at a funeral than edinburghers have at a birthday'; clearly this scot hasn't heard it. and let's not even mention irish wakes.)
teenage girl cannot process grief entirely properly and behaves like typical teenage girl in breaking news shocker.
'funeral decorum – a custom we can all agree is worth preserving'. i just mean ... what? imagine turning funerals into a front of the culture war. creepy as fuck. it's like these people are determined to make all of freud's theses about 'the death drive' become absolutely, patently true. can the authoritarian personality types and crypto-fascists at least keep their weird, sadomasochistic death cult stuff to the repressed and unverbalised level?
if a family wants to do a mexican day of the dead or an indigenous ritual in which they parade around and dance with the body of the deceased, who gives a fuck? what sort of weirdo right-wing personality wants everyone else's funeral to be dour, thin-lipped, sorrowful affairs with victorian black veils and organ dirges? why is it anyone's business?
as an aside, i swear that's the 4th or 5th article from that sour-faced little wench i've been subjected to. what is her deal? she's a scottish lass with a background in music who seemingly has become a darling of the american far-right's culture wars. talk about a fucking grift. shameless as well as creepy. that girl is literally sat in a seat somewhere pitching articles to american editors about instagram influencer's funerals, probably hoping one day she can become one of those dead-eyed presenters on fox news or something with a nice salary. (there's a phrase in glasgow that 'glaswegians have more fun at a funeral than edinburghers have at a birthday'; clearly this scot hasn't heard it. and let's not even mention irish wakes.)
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Your reference to day of the dead reminds me of another article that Brietbart ran about how goat meat is becoming popular in the U.S. The commenters thought it was another sign that America was becoming a third world country. So angry. Angry that people eat a different kind of stupid smelly farm animal? It all looks the same on the shelf at the meat section of Walmart. You can put goat on a bun with ketchup and most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference.uziq wrote:
what a strange non-story. like all the pedo hysteria, it says more about the affronted crusaders than anything else, i think.
teenage girl cannot process grief entirely properly and behaves like typical teenage girl in breaking news shocker.
'funeral decorum – a custom we can all agree is worth preserving'. i just mean ... what? imagine turning funerals into a front of the culture war. creepy as fuck. it's like these people are determined to make all of freud's theses about 'the death drive' become absolutely, patently true. can the authoritarian personality types and crypto-fascists at least keep their weird, sadomasochistic death cult stuff to the repressed and unverbalised level?
if a family wants to do a mexican day of the dead or an indigenous ritual in which they parade around and dance with the body of the deceased, who gives a fuck? what sort of weirdo right-wing personality wants everyone else's funeral to be dour, thin-lipped, sorrowful affairs with victorian black veils and organ dirges? why is it anyone's business?
as an aside, i swear that's the 4th or 5th article from that sour-faced little wench i've been subjected to. what is her deal? she's a scottish lass with a background in music who seemingly has become a darling of the american far-right's culture wars. talk about a fucking grift. shameless as well as creepy. that girl is literally sat in a seat somewhere pitching articles to american editors about instagram influencer's funerals, probably hoping one day she can become one of those dead-eyed presenters on fox news or something with a nice salary. (there's a phrase in glasgow that 'glaswegians have more fun at a funeral than edinburghers have at a birthday'; clearly this scot hasn't heard it. and let's not even mention irish wakes.)
Regarding the girl, I looked at her website and she obviously has more going for her than any of us but she probably doesn't want to do this shit. Nobody moves to NYC to become a conservative writer.
She has a music channel with less than 100 subscribers. Singing Opera seems to be what she came to the big city to do.
https://youtu.be/AimstVIO3tc
I bet if God came down from heaven and promised her she would become a Grammy winning artist like Adele if she did a topless photoshoot in a funeral home, she would. Who wouldn't? People in the performing arts now a deal.
she seems like a pretty average humanities graduate from a decent UK university tbh. i know 100s of middle-class girls like her. most of them who do move to NYC go to brooklyn to work for a charity or do an internship. for some reason she is magnetically drawn to american culture wars and is grifting hard to make a brand in the right-wing media. but there is nothing stopping her from doing typical millennial-in-NYC stuff; she's not there against her will, 'not wanting to do that shit'.
her twitter has a video of her singing the american national anthem. i think she really was drawn to america to 'make it' as a media figure or right-wing pundit. don't underestimate how much the idea of conservative america appeals to some europeans as a fetish object. scotland, especially, is the most progressive and 'lefty' of the UK nations, particularly in the youth demographic. girls who go to 'posh' scottish universities with tory/conservative mindsets are very not cool amongst their peers: edinburgh and st andrews are a bit like columbia and vassar, privileged but full of earnest young people. it's possible she felt bitter and alienated and found a willing reception in the USA.
her writing isn't very good. it's just journalistic hack work, isn't it? the bar is pretty low for publications which are out-and-out right/left. they want competent hacks who can toe the line and file the copy on every hot issue and passing news tidbit. gore vidal or p.j. o'rourke she ain't.
goat is very, very nice in a curry by the way, caribbean jerk-style or in african dishes. under-rated meat.
her twitter has a video of her singing the american national anthem. i think she really was drawn to america to 'make it' as a media figure or right-wing pundit. don't underestimate how much the idea of conservative america appeals to some europeans as a fetish object. scotland, especially, is the most progressive and 'lefty' of the UK nations, particularly in the youth demographic. girls who go to 'posh' scottish universities with tory/conservative mindsets are very not cool amongst their peers: edinburgh and st andrews are a bit like columbia and vassar, privileged but full of earnest young people. it's possible she felt bitter and alienated and found a willing reception in the USA.
her writing isn't very good. it's just journalistic hack work, isn't it? the bar is pretty low for publications which are out-and-out right/left. they want competent hacks who can toe the line and file the copy on every hot issue and passing news tidbit. gore vidal or p.j. o'rourke she ain't.
goat is very, very nice in a curry by the way, caribbean jerk-style or in african dishes. under-rated meat.
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I think these non-stories get traction because people are weary of influencers, and have never been on board with that kind of stuff.
Maybe she just wasn't that close to her old man and just doesn't have (or care about) the usual western decorum or whatever. Who am I to butt into another family's business, anyway. From 2013, "are we losing our humanity?" in response to the 'narcissistic' funeral selfie trend.
irt goat meat, probably zero complaints about the meat from all the fat blue collar people who've been lining up for kebab and gyros for years. People complaining about US standards falling in this fashion probably regularly go for Mexican. At home, typing an angry comment about immigrants over a plate of freshly microwaved burritos, lmao.
Maybe she just wasn't that close to her old man and just doesn't have (or care about) the usual western decorum or whatever. Who am I to butt into another family's business, anyway. From 2013, "are we losing our humanity?" in response to the 'narcissistic' funeral selfie trend.
I've been to "traditional" western funerals, and settled into people watching. Call me cynical, but lots of rehearsed tears behind the podium, easily put away to return to socializing. Selfies with the deceased, in the 90s. Not that I didn't have any coping mechanisms, but any further on that would probably be an overshare doomed to getting macbethed.Today in social media news: apparently people take selfies at funerals now. What will these darned kids come up with next? This trend already has some in arms, with Business Insider bemoaning it as a “narcissistic impulse” and a “true sign of the times.” The Atlantic showed the images juxtaposed with lines about death from famous authors, clearly implying society has gone downhill. Meanwhile, over at Salon, Tracy Clark-Flory claims this trend is actually healthy, a new reiteration of the age-old impulse to reaffirm our own existence in the face of death.
Whatever it is, it has its own Tumblr now.
Really, though, while I wouldn’t go so far as to call this trend life-affirming, it’s not necessarily a sign that the new generation is immature or that society has declined. Even in W.H. Auden’s time, it was a rare person who could have mustered the emotion or artistry to produce lines like those quoted in the Atlantic. There are always people who aren’t appropriately solemn at funerals or don't know how to react appropriately to death. In fact, few people ever do feel exactly the way they think they’re supposed to at funerals. Kids now just have camera phones to document the experience.
Honestly, I have more of a problem with the idea that people are supposed to be somber and grieving at funerals. I’ve had the misfortune to attend several, and, at least in my family, they’re sad occasions, but there’s no wailing and gnashing of teeth. Instead, there are little kids running around with no idea what’s going on, people telling stories about the deceased, family members catching up.
irt goat meat, probably zero complaints about the meat from all the fat blue collar people who've been lining up for kebab and gyros for years. People complaining about US standards falling in this fashion probably regularly go for Mexican. At home, typing an angry comment about immigrants over a plate of freshly microwaved burritos, lmao.
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She probably is a flavor of ill if she wants to make a career out of Instagram influencing. A harmless flavor of ill though. I rather live next door to her sexy ass than some guy taking showers with conservative books.
Maybe the funeral girl should start writing some articles about being a social justice warrior. Maybe she could start a funeral related grift.
The other day my job was serving Gyros to the patients. Smelled so good that I had to buy some for myself. Not a clue what meat they used for it. A few days later they gave them sweet and sour chicken. Last time I was there they got meats balls and rice. It's nice to see the kids are eating well and for FREE. I bought every single one those meals and enjoyed it.
Maybe the funeral girl should start writing some articles about being a social justice warrior. Maybe she could start a funeral related grift.
The other day my job was serving Gyros to the patients. Smelled so good that I had to buy some for myself. Not a clue what meat they used for it. A few days later they gave them sweet and sour chicken. Last time I was there they got meats balls and rice. It's nice to see the kids are eating well and for FREE. I bought every single one those meals and enjoyed it.
Afaik, gyro meat around here is usually goat, lamb or something like beef+lamb with spices. Town had a greek place, and there was a dedicated gyro place the other town over I would sometimes grab one from when in the area for business.
Between goat and beef, I would say goat is the more sustainable.
Between goat and beef, I would say goat is the more sustainable.
One of my sister's classmates went to work for Epstein.uziq wrote:
she seems like a pretty average humanities graduate from a decent UK university tbh. i know 100s of middle-class girls like her. most of them who do move to NYC go to brooklyn to work for a charity or do an internship.
She's in deep shit now.
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here in seoul i met a guy from manhattan who grew up living on the same street as epstein's place near central park. a rich upper-east-side jewish kid. very funny. he sent me some photos of him and his sister posing outside epstein's scary-looking double doors.
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How much money would it take for you to sign off on some monstrous stuff if you were guaranteed to get away with it?
No amount of money, I'd do it for kicks.
Nah, I'm an idealist, I can't be bought. Blackmailed maybe.
Nah, I'm an idealist, I can't be bought. Blackmailed maybe.
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Today my father fell from the seventh rung of a ladder and sustained a light fracture to his hip. It's going to require surgery and and a plate, and he doesn't react well to anesthesia.
Not posting as a snappy return for Jay's awkward, one-more-Christmas post, or for "woe-is-me" attention-seeking clout. More of a one-sided vent, really, maybe a little frightened (everyone is). I'm not sure where else to put it. My mind is going about a hundred miles a minute and I don't know if/when I'll crash or how big it'll be.
He's currently being transferred to another hospital currently. The only other person from his side of the family I'm in semi-regular contact with is my aunt. Nobody from my mom's. She's on the phone with her now. I suspect I'm in for a hectic time besides, filling in for some of his job stuff while doing my other job, helping out my mom where needed, and dealing with potential bills.
Tonight, I don't even know where to begin on appraising his contacts.
I have my own other immediate thoughts and criticisms about how stuff went down, but I don't think now's the time.
Not posting as a snappy return for Jay's awkward, one-more-Christmas post, or for "woe-is-me" attention-seeking clout. More of a one-sided vent, really, maybe a little frightened (everyone is). I'm not sure where else to put it. My mind is going about a hundred miles a minute and I don't know if/when I'll crash or how big it'll be.
He's currently being transferred to another hospital currently. The only other person from his side of the family I'm in semi-regular contact with is my aunt. Nobody from my mom's. She's on the phone with her now. I suspect I'm in for a hectic time besides, filling in for some of his job stuff while doing my other job, helping out my mom where needed, and dealing with potential bills.
Tonight, I don't even know where to begin on appraising his contacts.
I have my own other immediate thoughts and criticisms about how stuff went down, but I don't think now's the time.
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I am so sorry for what you are dealing with. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Stay strong. Everything will be okay.
Oops, sorry to hear that, good luck.
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Update on that, open book pelvic fracture and internal hemorrhage. The doctor said he expected a positive outcome, but the surgery is postponed for two days, and then rehab after. My mom's on the brink of collapse (my aunt is a little high strung so that conversation was probably already draining), already trying to works stuff out with billing and insurance, who won't talk to me. There's hope that it'll be covered under L&I since it was an accident during maintenance of his office building, though I'm feeling pessimistic. I'll save a lot of the incident details and hindsight stuff for later, if I ever decide to overshare.
Best case scenario, I get to look forward to a good few weeks of running on pure caffeine and anxiety.
e: hearing about the internal bleeding, thoughts went to potential hypotension and shock on top of other underlying conditions.
e2: I can't think of anything proactive to do right now and have been opening and shutting the same tab for the past five minutes. not sure if I should be scoping out a new bed for him, or a special office chair or any other equipment. going to need to make a list of stuff to do tomorrow once I know more. i am considering clearing a wheelchair pathway through their house, so I'll probably need to start moving unnecessary stuff into storage.
Best case scenario, I get to look forward to a good few weeks of running on pure caffeine and anxiety.
e: hearing about the internal bleeding, thoughts went to potential hypotension and shock on top of other underlying conditions.
e2: I can't think of anything proactive to do right now and have been opening and shutting the same tab for the past five minutes. not sure if I should be scoping out a new bed for him, or a special office chair or any other equipment. going to need to make a list of stuff to do tomorrow once I know more. i am considering clearing a wheelchair pathway through their house, so I'll probably need to start moving unnecessary stuff into storage.
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Consider contacting a pain management specialist. They would know what to do.
That's a good idea, and something I'll bring up. Between the surgeon(s), his GP, and whatever other specialists he's been to recently, I'm sure it will also be taken into consideration as a matter of fact.
e: apparently the nicked artery had already started clotting, so he didn't bleed as much as he could have
e: apparently the nicked artery had already started clotting, so he didn't bleed as much as he could have
What job stuff do you have to fill in for?
Family business?
Family business?
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I didn't know bleeding was involved. Yikes. You both seem to have made it through the first night. That is the hardest part. Please let me know if there is anything we can do to help. Keep us updated on how it goes. We all have older parents so it is important we discuss stuff like this.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
That's a good idea, and something I'll bring up. Between the surgeon(s), his GP, and whatever other specialists he's been to recently, I'm sure it will also be taken into consideration as a matter of fact.
e: apparently the nicked artery had already started clotting, so he didn't bleed as much as he could have
I'll post some of the milestones and new developments as they occur. Aside from a family friend (mostly mine) on Steam, this is the only "social media" that I'll keep updated to even a small extent. I'm not doing the facebook thing. I was up a good portion of the night exchanging texts with my dad, who hardly ever casually texts. Slept in until noon, still drowsy. There are energy drinks in my future, which I'm not looking forward to.
Right now I think people are coming to terms with how long the recovery will be, but I think he'll follow doctor's instructions and be cooperative. They had started him on fentanyl the other day and then migrated to morphine. If all goes well, I may be able to spend multiple more Christmases with my parents to spite Jay.
Turns out my aunt also fell off a ladder this summer or the last. First I heard about it. My Steam friend's grandpa fell off one too (less recently?). Unsure about the extent of injuries there but they returned to work pretty quickly. Ladders are probably a greater threat to overconfident Americans than Al-Qaeda ever was. For close family, I guess a twist of fate could have made things ladders 2, covid 1.
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Hopefully temporary transition might not be 100% smooth. He didn't delegate much and had a unique system of note taking. Probably going to need a make a rosetta stone for the filing system alone.
Right now I think people are coming to terms with how long the recovery will be, but I think he'll follow doctor's instructions and be cooperative. They had started him on fentanyl the other day and then migrated to morphine. If all goes well, I may be able to spend multiple more Christmases with my parents to spite Jay.
Turns out my aunt also fell off a ladder this summer or the last. First I heard about it. My Steam friend's grandpa fell off one too (less recently?). Unsure about the extent of injuries there but they returned to work pretty quickly. Ladders are probably a greater threat to overconfident Americans than Al-Qaeda ever was. For close family, I guess a twist of fate could have made things ladders 2, covid 1.
We're both in contracting so our paths sometimes cross on projects. I've got ethernet cables to route soon, but I might delegate most of my other IT hitlist to a local repair company who turned out to be reasonably competent. Very ironic that I got out of IT only to still work IT part of the time.Dilbert_X wrote:
What job stuff do you have to fill in for?
Family business?
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Hopefully temporary transition might not be 100% smooth. He didn't delegate much and had a unique system of note taking. Probably going to need a make a rosetta stone for the filing system alone.
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Reading between the lines...newbie's dad is his boss. Is newbie's dad the guy who threatened to karate chop him over Critical Race Theory?
lol no. although we do sometimes disagree on fiscal politics, it never devolved into a Steven Seagal showdown or my wishing to not spend another Christmas with my parents. I feel pretty done with having political conversations with stereotypical pig-person conservatives in person, at work, from work, on work email. Elsewhere on the internet, bring it on.
My father's position at his place could probably be described as COO and some CFO, below president. My place is even more informal, despite my preference for formalizing things. I'd say I bounce back and forth from middle management, recruiting, to field work (not so much nowadays, mostly job site inspection), multiple levels of IT, and various department chief as needed. A literal tower of hats that I'm not sure how to even start on with a resume outside of "~15 years in contracting."
Technically, I have "a boss" but apart from some inconveniences, I've never really felt "bossed" (in practice, I'm my own boss). Probably one of the reasons I've stayed at this as long as I have. Most of my working life, I have never actually been "ordered" to do anything, a very nice state of affairs. Informal work order, task, or potential contract shows up, I deal with it.
Non-sarcastically, thx for the distraction, mac.
My father's position at his place could probably be described as COO and some CFO, below president. My place is even more informal, despite my preference for formalizing things. I'd say I bounce back and forth from middle management, recruiting, to field work (not so much nowadays, mostly job site inspection), multiple levels of IT, and various department chief as needed. A literal tower of hats that I'm not sure how to even start on with a resume outside of "~15 years in contracting."
Technically, I have "a boss" but apart from some inconveniences, I've never really felt "bossed" (in practice, I'm my own boss). Probably one of the reasons I've stayed at this as long as I have. Most of my working life, I have never actually been "ordered" to do anything, a very nice state of affairs. Informal work order, task, or potential contract shows up, I deal with it.
Non-sarcastically, thx for the distraction, mac.
One of my favorite recurring questions I've been asked in the field was if my measuring wheel was a unicycle. I've gotten that from kids and grown-ass adults. Brightens my day.