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What a charming individualist young lad! Great contrapunctus to all these TikTok wannabe "'subscribe my channel' influencer" losers that lack any personal style

by jll29 3y ago

What a charming individualist young lad! Great contrapunctus to all these TikTok wannabe "'subscribe my channel' influencer" losers that lack any personal style, acting merely as advertising and exhibition space (their room and their body). His photo reminded me of the film "Harold and Maude", if anyone here has seen it. Once I'm retired, I would like to digitize my own grandfathers prisoner of war diary, including that episode where they ate a dog so they didn't die from starvation, but it turned out to be the camp commanders dog, so that meal had an enormous price tag in terms of consequences. (Just to point out it wasn't all black shiny cars in the 1940s!)

Erratic6576 3y ago
As soon as I get a tenure, hopefully, Before I retire, I want to ditch every screen and live like it’s the nineties
- sophacles 3y ago
  I presume you mean the 1890s... In the 1990s it was rare for a house to have 0 screens. It was much more common to have several - a couple of TVs, a computer, maybe the kids would have a gameboy. At least that's true of the US.
  - Erratic6576 3y ago
    Yeah I had a few screens mid 90s but most folks had just a TV set in my European country. Some even a video games console as well
  - dudul 3y ago
    I guess the main difference with the 90s isn't really about screen count, it's about what you would see/do with these screens.
hermitcrab 3y ago
I read a book years ago about a British soldiers in an Italian POW camp. They caught and ate the German commandant's poodle. Tasted like lamb apparently. The commandant was never sure what happened to it. IIRC. So wasn't a one-off?
echelon_musk 3y ago
The scene I find most memorable from Harold and Maude [0] is the priest's response! I consider myself to have seen a lot of films, but it took watching There's Something about Mary for me to discover the film! [0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=n7qd7UrR5ic https://youtube.com/watch?v=n7qd7UrR5ic

by jll29 3y ago

Erratic6576 3y ago

As soon as I get a tenure, hopefully, Before I retire, I want to ditch every screen and live like it’s the nineties

sophacles 3y ago
I presume you mean the 1890s... In the 1990s it was rare for a house to have 0 screens. It was much more common to have several - a couple of TVs, a computer, maybe the kids would have a gameboy. At least that's true of the US.
- Erratic6576 3y ago
  Yeah I had a few screens mid 90s but most folks had just a TV set in my European country. Some even a video games console as well
- dudul 3y ago
  I guess the main difference with the 90s isn't really about screen count, it's about what you would see/do with these screens.

hermitcrab 3y ago

I read a book years ago about a British soldiers in an Italian POW camp. They caught and ate the German commandant's poodle. Tasted like lamb apparently. The commandant was never sure what happened to it. IIRC. So wasn't a one-off?

echelon_musk 3y ago

The scene I find most memorable from Harold and Maude [0] is the priest's response! I consider myself to have seen a lot of films, but it took watching There's Something about Mary for me to discover the film! [0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=n7qd7UrR5ic https://youtube.com/watch?v=n7qd7UrR5ic