The Off Topic Topic

[DGuller]

Just heard on CNN that are hacked pictures of a nude Miss Teen USA floating around on the interweb. 

Bullshit.

[MadImmortalMan]

That said - I don't think most of the books I had to read in school were particularly worthwhile (only really changed about starting college). Certainly not Gatsby.

Maybe all humanities courses should come with trigger warnings, 'The past: not the present', 'Art: occasionally challenging'

If you have a trigger, you should be in counseling, not a classroom.

[MadImmortalMan]

Cankar Hall.

Because life's not worth living as a socialist politician unless you get a horrible ugly-ass building named after you.

[Liep]

I took a test called "Which Danish cultural pessimist are you?" and got Birthe Rønn Hornbech. I'm somehow relieved as the other options would mean I'd have to throw myself off a building. Sørine Godtfredsen.

[Ideologue]

What's a cultural pessimist?  It sounds like something I'd be into.

[Ideologue]

Oh, nevermind; it's exactly what it says.   I thought it might be something specific to the Danish context.

I'm definitely a cultural pessimist.

[Liep]

In Denmark it's mostly hating "the celebration of mediocrity" and thus being staunchly against X-Factor. And whether or not it's a sign of doom that people are clapping along to the music on x-factor on 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3.

It's a small country.

[Josquius]

I couldn't find one of the UK or by county, but here's London boroughs by the most spoken language (after English):

Lithuanian?
That's a surprise.

[Norgy]

I imagined cultural pessimism to be deep skepticism about a night in the opera.

[Jacob]

But they didn't win shit, so fuck them.

I'm sure they can find volunteers to do that, yes.

[Jacob]

I imagined cultural pessimism to be deep skepticism about a night in the opera.

I thought it is a profound conviction that the yoghurt in the fridge has gone off and is no longer fit to eat.

[Norgy]

Possibly.
It could also be a growing fear that no-one will enjoy the school play. Shouldn't have picked "Death of a Salesman" for the third-graders.

[Jacob]

Possibly.
It could also be a growing fear that no-one will enjoy the school play. Shouldn't have picked "Death of a Salesman" for the third-graders.

Yeah. You need something like "Waiting for Godot" for that crowd.

[Norgy]

I was thinking the same. That, or just let them join the fourth-graders in one massive version of "The Cherry Orchard". I'm sure that thought could fill anyone with a bit of cultural pessimism.

[jimmy olsen]

$20,000 houses 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/05/19/rural_studio_builds_brand_new_20_000_houses_in_alabama.html