In the light of his recent passing, I feel like

*Captain Picard facepalm*

…would be a proper rebuttal, lol.

“TL;DR” covers a host of sins, and we live in a world drowning in information, confusion, propaganda, and rapid change. Still, like most people, I use that popular acronym as an easily-understood placeholder, you know what I mean?

Sure, I could spend every little bit of mental effort I had as a dying man to try to focus in and understand any particular lengthy article, and that’s fine. But it’s also a ‘choose your poison’ kind of situation IME. Every day is full of them.

I can tell you this, tho-- if I’d read any particular article and felt like I’d understood it well, and then someone who hadn’t came up to me and asked what it was about, well… generally speaking I’m pretty sure I’d at least be able to give it a quick overview for the stranger.

I mean… I’ve personally been on Reddit for 10+yrs, and I feel like I’ve -also- discovered some things about them during that timeframe. Indeed, the whole reason I’ve been here for 3+yrs is because of the shit that went down during the summer of '23.

You?

@deedan06_@lemmy.dbzer0.com

PROBLEM my asking for clarification, lads & lassies?

PROBLEM?

don’t try to disguise it as something with a well-balanced nutritional profile. 😄

Oh god, what’s that Broadway hit… The Impossible Dream, or whatever?

Still, tho-- I think you kinda put your finger on the pulse of it, via ‘the bread.’

Oh gosh, Auntie Anne’s, that’s right!
(could also read “Anti-Anne’s,” meaning lowkey disappointing pretzels?) XD

Myeh, I don’t want to be all stupid-ass ‘gatekeeping’ here. BUT:
Anon, you just described the perfect cheesesteak in your earlier comments. That is the common FORMULA, oh yeah.

Now for whatever reasons, people all across the nation and all across the world somehow just can’t manage to follow the basic directions… like… EVER!

Now I SUPPOSE there are wilder things I’ve seen in my life, however…

It’s also a pretty long-form article, indeed.

Is there maybe a TL;DR?

And you have to say water like “wooder” to keep it proper.

“Crick” for creek, “earl” for oil … takes me back. I just looked up a couple more and some sources are saying dentist was also pronounced “Dennis,” apparently(!) Haha, I don’t remember that one.

I feel both of those have become US foods now though. They seem pretty popular in a lot of places.

Well, nominally… or to extent, yeah. But not unlike a proper cheesesteak, I find that they need to be made fresh and locally for best taste. For example, going to the freezer section and buying water ice and soft pretzels is invariably disappointing. And for me it’s been decades, but the last time I tried making homemade pretzels, they were a crushing disappointment. I believe that’s because the dough is prepared to fairly tight standards which you really need to get right for best ‘Philly’-style results.

Last time I was at 30th Street Station (which was years ago) I remember a popular stand called… “Anne’s Pretzels” or something like that with a blue logo. I thought to myself "great! they’re right in the heart of Philly, so they can’t possibly screw up a soft pretzel. Err, nnnnnnope! 😅

My granpop could speak PA Dutch with the Amish

Hmm, I wonder how far back you have to go before PA Dutch and German Deutsch were co-intelligible… 🤔

Most divisive is scrapple

Hah, that takes me back.
I was kind of surprised when I had it as a kid, as it didn’t really taste like hot dogs nor sausage, and oddly tasted more like a hashbrown-variant with some kind of pleasant, mystery seasoning. But after I took my first nutrition course in college, that was the end of my scrapple days. :P

Hmm, so you’re Pennsylvania Dutch it kinda sounds like?

Btw for the Philly area, I also want to add two favorites: soft pretzels & water ice. Total junk food really, but surprisingly tasty. Soft pretzels themselves are actually kind of odd, since they’re not unlike eating half-baked bread, but with a vaguely crusty outer layer, salt crystals, and hopefully stone ground mustard. They really shouldn’t taste as good as they do.

Eh, sorry about that.

You go ahead please and prove me wrong!

Every once in a while I might have time to check in…

Explanation for what, exactly?

still though… damn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71eUes30gwc

I mean… that’s fair.
And sorry for my rudeness, or whatever.

Ernie Johnson’s retirement really hit me hard.

You can do whatever you want to, OP. 🙂

Well, it’s an example of actual content sharing & curation, is it not?

I’m speaking English-Castellano here, with a bit of French-inflection, I hope?

Here you go:
https://piefed.social/post/2542281

Dude. Dude… dude.

No argument, but… just reality.

Do what you will, as always!

It’s just gone off a bit ‘GORN’ if you will, old sausage…
@rimu@piefed.social

Is that you laughing ‘pon ‘tinny’ or ‘woody’ things above there, me ol’ basket of briskets?

GORN…
youtube.com/watch?v=T70-HTlKRXo

In Gamesters of Triskelion he’s featured rather prominently. Mirror, Mirror is a great one because he gets to really cut loose.

IME sports league subs are hard to get going here, but maybe if you set up some scripts and bots to automatically pull content from other sites, that might work.

If you re-watch the first Indiana Jones movie, the backstory with him and Marion is that she was the daughter of professor when they met and fell in love. I think she even includes the line “I was underage” when they’re reminsicing at the bar. So Indy slept with a minor, singular.

Ohh… damn.
Shit, and they seemed similarly-aged in the first movie.

Actually this is one of the many reasons I appreciate so many French films, because it usually wouldn’t just be an incidental like that, that doofuses like me could casually miss. Nah, it would be more of an inflection point, methinks.

…it’s also a common pedo fantasy to be seduced by a child.

🤢

Besson was trying to get Reno to be more receptive to Mathilda’s approaches, and that’s what Reno was pushing back against, even making the character a little simple (child-like) to make the connection more real while at the same time fully understanding that it was horribly wrong.

Oof, and… fascinating. Phew, and good for you, Reno.

Oh dear, it’s times like these in which I sometimes comfort myself via The Rockford Files eps. It’s an hilarious formula to me-- the aging PI (private investigator) bad boy, still attractive to various ladies, who sometimes brilliantly and sometimes bumblingly solves cases, with various results, but the result is usually steeped in irony. XD Yet I really like the agency of the women characters portrayed overall in those eps, which I try to do a good job of focusing in on via the many subs I post to, starting with my own.

There is Mathilda’s corruption in terms of being involved in Léon’s jobs, but that’s completely cut out of the original (US?) version.

Huh! Do you know if there are any online sources to watch?

Women are often the unsung heroes behind great men.

Oh, for sure. That’s something that has endless scholarly foundation IMO.

Indeed, something happened to me a couple months back when I was reading “Sapiens,” and it was mainly the transfixing idea that with the general dawn of the Neolithic / Agricultural Revolutions, which happened ~12Kyo ago, the very first casualties were arguably women. I.e., the ones who were typically expected to ‘hold things together on the home front.’ Or something like that.

One of my major fascination points is the Bonobos, or “dwarf chimps,” our very close cousins. They are absolutely matriarchal in order, not unlike meerkats, and there’s even a fascinating series about them. (Meerkat Manor)

Ford’s character in graffitti seemed predatory to me, probably because he was a man in his twenties getting high school girls in his car…

Good point!

…maybe something not entirely foreign to Ford if the stories about him and Carrie FIsher are true. Not to mention Indiana Jones sleeping with teenagers.

Ford and Fisher absolutely did have a famous affair during shooting on Star Wars. I think he would have been about 33yo and she, 20yo at the time. That said, they were consenting adults, and friends, and that’s enough for me. That said again, I can understand people having a moral problem with it. And so the world goes.

Not sure what you mean about the Indy films (I pretty much only count the first three, as the next two were awful). All three of his love interests in those films were absolutely not teenagers IIRC.

My bad about the French angle. Obviously I misunderstood something, but in my mind it’s also a compliment. Probably not hard to guess why based on the sub I founded here.

And speaking of pedophilia (or hebephilia, if you are so inclined), I think French were pretty horrified by Luc Besson take in Leon because it was Jean Reno himself pushing back against it.

I don’t understand that one. Mathilda (Portman) was the one portrayed as consistently pursuing Leon in the film, against his wishes, and it was pretty obvious why she did it in large part, with her whole life being instantly shattered like that. Certainly, it’s not healthy in my mind, but it’s something completely understandable. I don’t feel like the film ‘cheated’ in terms of portraying that aspect, but then again it’s been years.

I know he’s pretty open about not liking Star Wars and just made the connection that he’s a guy that’ll take a paycheck.

I’m gonna always think of him as a boss for telling Lucas that “George, you can type this shit (dialog), but you sure can’t say it! Move your mouth when you’re typing!” And to me there’s a long backstory on that, specifically relating to his then-wife Marcia Lucas, who was an underrated genius IMO upon adding the human touch to the first two films, even brilliantly so.

George didn’t make a single strong movie after they divorced… not that he made a slew. But I lowkey resent that Marcia didn’t get more credit, as one of those people like Lebowski’s rug… really tying the room together(!)

Ford to me is one of those actors who enjoys their craft, but not so much the showbiz side of it. He’s not alone in feeling annoyed by having to do press tours, interviews, and all that, and seems like the type who’d much rather pursue his hobbies, like carpentry and solo-flying… even if it literally kills him, haha.

Was there a movie with a similar theme with fellow Graffitti alumnus Richard Dreyfus?

He was in the sequel briefly (as a police officer, oh the irony), but Dreyfus was not. So I don’t know.

(Ford’s role in Graffitti was a different character than his usual; that guy made my skin crawl.)

Interesting, because Bob Falfa was a fairly standard American bad boy trope / character / stereotype. I’m personally not a big fan, but there’s been something of an Hollywood industry of such characters, such as the many bad boy cop movies. But you are French, if I recall correctly? Based on my knowledge of French films, that type of character seems too over-the-top for general Gallic audiences. Kinda makes me curious what your thoughts are on Luc Besson’s Léon. (“Leon: The Professional”)

Maybe because he’s so openly talks about not liking so many of the roles he does.

I know that famous Caine quote and I think I see what you’re saying, altho I’m not sure Ford’s general style of acting would play well with Brits. It would probably come off on the whiny side, I’m thinking. Anyway, I’m not aware that Ford disliked so many of his roles. Is that right? oO