Just a Wooloo

A bowmouth guitarfish, a fish resembling a cross between a shark and a ray, with prominent ridges along it's head

Do you like guitarfish? They're my favourites.

Oh, yes. It's really quite wonderful.

Sharks!

"So what have the GCIM done for women’s rights?

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That concludes the list."

Brutal

Quick! What kind of scientist would you want to be?

@parchmentscroll.bsky.social "Bill the Cat slept on a tree shredder wrong..."

That's one we have in common then...

Exactly! You get it

Is it Amanda Palmer?

Moonraker.

Tank Girl and the words "Disabled and Disorderly"

#Disabled and Disorderly

#DisabledArt #Art #Artist

Anyway, begging for Louis Theroux to do an infiltration of the GC movement

They had to keep telling the story over and over! Example after example! You can't challenge the gods! There are limits that you, as a fragile human, must be aware of!

And classical mythology spent a lot of time and energy on exploring examples of it - indeed, it might have been the defining obsession of certainly ancient Greek literature and drama, but elsewhere too - because it was obviously felt to be such a vital lesson to leaders.

I was reading this and thinking of historical precedents, and I guess the closest thing is absolute monarchs who were treated as divine (Egyptian pharaohs, some Roman emperors, etc.) and I realised we do have a word for this disorder: hubris, in its classical sense.

The Name of the Rose (book only) is the only one I've spotted. At one point the protagonist discusses just how torture is useless in interrogation. Later on the mere threat of torture from a notoriously brutal inquisitor is enough to make someone confess to murders he is entirely innocent of.

Alice in Chains are a really odd omission considering all the bands that did make it on there.

I wonder if it's significant that & is also dropping out of use in handwritten text as well. In my experience people now are much more likely to use + to abbreviate "and" when writing

Exactly.

It's interesting the other way in time too. Just 18 months earlier the baddies in The Lady Vanishes are clearly meant to be Nazis, but the film is very very careful never to use the N word or say what country they're from.

Original 1940 poster for night train to munich.

Night train to munich (carol reed, 1940)

Hey @mockwooloo.bsky.social i loved it.

Witty, funny and with more than a little textual meat on its very lean frame.

4/5

Glad you liked it!

I inevitably think "Oh I don't think it's THAT kind of book, old man..." every single time I hear any mention of Mein Kampf

Excellent

I never knew the old internet before the war with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. Teletext suited me better. I really got to know it in the classic period of the black market - we'd run anything if people wanted it and could pay. Of course a situation like that does tempt amateurs...

I've always found it interesting that under all the surface stuff about Good Old British Fair Play, the film is also asking a far more subtle question between the lines about whether *anyone* in the British military really believed in all that, except for Clive.

This movie is a nice (timely) reminder that even in the middle of a global conflict, and even with ultra-patriots like Powell and Pressburger, people can, and should, question what going to war is all about.

By far the best Nickelback-related song was that Hero one from the Spiderman soundtrack. And that a) technically was a Chad Kroeger solo song rather than a Nickelback one, b) kind of rips off Kiss From A Rose, and c) still really isn't very good anyway

I thought I was extremely online too, but it still passed me by

What happened is I mentioned this absurd idea to a BBC producer and now I am writing an afternoon play for Radio 4 called THE CALL OF CTHUDO, to be recorded sometime in June with (ideally) various Green Wing alumni doing their best 1930's detective voices.

I liked Kasabian. They weren't big or clever but at least they were fun to listen to.

Pity about the lead singer really.

I only heard about it like a week beforehand.