Re: Breaking learning thread

[Butterfield]

White and pink standard marshmallows are supposed to be vanilla and strawberry flavours respectively.

I always thought they tasted exactly the same.

[Guest]

Throbbing Gristle used a 10cc designed Gizmotron!

[cosmictanya]

Italians were considered non white in 19th and early 20th century America, with all the negative and pervasive stereotyping that entails. The export of American cultural mores has compounded this by typecasting Italians, those of Italian descent, and Italian culture itself as lazy, effete, vain, venal, violent, criminal, dishonest, hysterical, adulterous, sleazy, and incompetent in business and on battlefields.

Specific and longstanding official organisations exist to counter this.

[cosmictanya]

The so called 'Black Legend of Spain' has worked in a very similar way. It has resulted in a white European culture (albeit a colonial import) becoming 'other', to the extent that 'Hispanic' is its own race category conjuring up fear of the myriad forms of criminality and undesirability believed to be racially innate.

Along with Italians, 'Hispanics' also experienced the same widespread discrimination, ghettoization, social containment, and lynchings that black Americans suffered. And this too has also been disseminated by American exports to the rest of the world - including an understandably confused Spain and Portugal.

[Guest]

Finnish Military forces still use the Swastika for military markings







They've been using it a lot longer than other Central European countries did.

[Nightjar]

Natasha Raskin worked on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

[cosmictanya]

Finnish Military forces still use the Swastika for military markings







They've been using it a lot longer than other Central European countries did.

The tall one who's under the P of the Netcup sign is more than quite hot. The one behind him obviously thinks so too. And I think the one to his right hand side has also noticed.

Finland would be welcome to invade. I would volunteer to collaborate under that soldier.

[Guest]

The Japanese dropped Bubonic plague infected fleas on Chinese cities during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

[Guest]

Bomber was the album before Ace of Spades not the one after. Like I thought, for 30 odd years.

[Guest]

Würzel from Motörhead made an ambient album.

[Fangirl Three]

I think 'ambient' is a much better description for that than 'chill-out', it has a lot of ominous, unresolved chords that are the opposite of calming.

[Guest]

It's more like Berlin School of Krautrock 70s German Progressive rock innit?

[cosmictanya]

While a ten figure sum of public money was available to pay off Arlene Foster and the DUP, during the same time period a measly few million could not be found to rescue 5,500 Titanic artifacts from their bankrupt American owner, and house them all permanently and sensitively at the Titanic Museum in Belfast. Evidently they were last seen at the Luxor Las Vegas, whatever that is.

We seem to make a tragic habit of this kind of thing. Greater public awareness should be an aim so we can work towards positive change.

[Guest]

The Wonderbra was first trademarked in 1955!

[Butterfield]

Jennifer Aniston's godfather was Telly Savalas.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

[Nightjar]

Apparently Kenny Rogers was an avid and extremely accomplished photographer.



https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/23/remarkably-talented-the-epic-photography-of-kenny-rogers

[Butterfield]

A young Pauline Quirke had her own teen comedy sketch show on Thames Television in 1976.

[Fangirl Three]

And she was in a Play for Today in 1975. She and the other woman from BOAF were waitresses.

[Butterfield]

And she was in a Play for Today in 1975. She and the other woman from BOAF were waitresses.

I think the other woman - Linda Robson - was in this sketch show too.

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