The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

If you get paid for producing content, you are not an amateur.

Fair point. I guess indie would be a better term in such cases. Though I guess an argument could be made that the line pro/amateur in the porn business is between full time and part time performers.

[Valmy]

commemorative statues are weird because they are often seen as a public endorsement of the person.

What would a statue as non-endorsement look like?

Well I think it comes from a tradition of public history not really being about past events but as models for citizens to follow. Sort of something like Plutarch's Lives. Something more about using historical figures to advance virtues.

So typically a statue is not so much "this important event happened here and we should all remember it" but something that is supposed to represent civic virtues of some kind. So a statue of an insane baron might be a tough sell on that level

But I am pretty sure there are statues that are simply commemorative that don't have those other connotations. I don't know. You are the professional historian here, am I saying anything correct here?

[Saladin]

Wtf?
Our local auction house is selling two Iron Crosses from 1939 and a bunch of manuals from the Wehrmacht.

[Josephus]

Wtf?
Our local auction house is selling two Iron Crosses from 1939 and a bunch of manuals from the Wehrmacht.

cool

[Habbaku]

Wtf?
Our local auction house is selling two Iron Crosses from 1939 and a bunch of manuals from the Wehrmacht.

I don't see why that's bad. Buying and selling of historical junk is very common.

[Sheilbh]

Man who rode jetski from Scotland to Isle of Man to see girlfriend jailed for Covid breach

The man, who had never driven a jetski before, believed the journey would take 40 minutes, but it took four-and-a-half hours

I think fair play to him for getting to the Isle of Man. After landing he then walked 15 miles to Douglas

[The Brain]

Jetski? Is that like the Konkordski?

[Tamas]

So apparently "Wet Ass Pussy" is the song of the year and the lady rapping it is Billboard's woman of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsm4poTWjMs

I really am growing bloody old because I think this is repulsively terrible.

[Habbaku]

You're definitely growing old, because it's hilarious. Lighten up, Shapiro.

[HVC]

Repulsive? Your poor wife

[The Brain]

So apparently "Wet Ass Pussy" is the song of the year and the lady rapping it is Billboard's woman of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsm4poTWjMs

I really am growing bloody old because I think this is repulsively terrible.

Yeah the clean version is horrible.

[Eddie Teach]

It's more sad than funny, but it is both.

[The Larch]

So apparently "Wet Ass Pussy" is the song of the year and the lady rapping it is Billboard's woman of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsm4poTWjMs

I really am growing bloody old because I think this is repulsively terrible.

Dude, no offence meant, but given your track record in the forum you've always appeared, at least to me, as an old man trapped in a younger man's body, so you're not really growing old but physically catching up with your mentality. 

[mongers]

Man who rode jetski from Scotland to Isle of Man to see girlfriend jailed for Covid breach

The man, who had never driven a jetski before, believed the journey would take 40 minutes, but it took four-and-a-half hours

I think fair play to him for getting to the Isle of Man. After landing he then walked 15 miles to Douglas

I think he should sign up for special forces training, he's shown initiative, endurance and tenacity.

[Sheilbh]

Dude, no offence meant, but given your track record in the forum you've always appeared, at least to me, as an old man trapped in a younger man's body, so you're not really growing old but physically catching up with your mentality. 

This reminds me of the most biting comment my mum's ever made.

My dad said I was looking well and, not being able to take a compliment I asked what he meant by that, he said I was looking good given I'd just turned 30. My mum roared with laughter and said "he's looked thirty since he turned eighteen". Oh how we laughed ().