It was really unfortunate. I think sadly the torchbearers probably felt pretty locked in and just followed through. Perhaps they assumed the doves would fly away. Regardless I believe that real doves stopped being used shortly after this ceremony!
Reminds me of the South Korea 1988 Olympics open. Human traditions are cosmic horrors for birds.
Farrow & Ball go further by just calling their salmon paint colour “Dead Salmon”.
Agreed, the flip side is allowing something ending to be sad too. Not everything needs a positive spin.
This just reads to me like a classic step of linguistic evolution, where people can’t be bothered to caveat the normal word with a deeper meaning (eg “my business ultimately ended, but it was the right call and it was always be a great time in my life…” etc) and so think a new word is necessary, until inevitably the same thing happens, ad naseum.
Okay sure I can get behind that. I guess I just like the handle to be a consistent shape because I like to have some precision at the back too, palm or pinky.
I use my fingers I imagine how you would, but then after a gap wouldn’t you typically have the end of the cutlery resting into or against your palm? At least occasionally, depending on what you’re doing with the cutlery. I love that we’re discussing this, by the way.
I want 2’s head on 5’s body. 2’s body looks better than most but it’s too big for me, looks like it’d have bad palm feel.
UK kids in the early 2000s also had “Dick and Dom in da Bungalow”. Basically two comedians doing funny shit to entertain kids for hours every Saturday morning. They had a game called “Bogies” which was just about the two of them going to a calm place like a library or a restaurant and seeing who could muster the courage to shout “bogies” the loudest. Honestly, it’s pretty funny, but it justly caused a lot of outrage as well as kids were emulating it all over.
Example: https://youtu.be/vt_farHgMfM
I love Matt but it was very confusing seeing him peeking out of my memes
To add to the other comment and give an analogy: say you’re concerned that I secretly possess keys to the back door of your house and I can freely come and go. It’s technically possible. But two questions are important; how come you’ve never seen me in your house or any signs I’ve been there? And secondly, why do me and my friends keep asking you to give us your back door key?
The information inside of the commas can be omitted, it’s just extra detail. The sentence can still read as ‘The Trump administration cut funding to Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab last month.’
Agreed, same situation and we both refer to the other as partner. All our peers generally do the same and it’s very normal (UK).
Much better example, thanks. I remember that deal really upset their staff.
My perspective may be off but is €150000 a lot? I’d be curious to know if they donated anything to other similar Democrat events (and in other countries). I’d be more sceptical seeing Spotify donate to Trump’s actual campaign, but donating to the inauguration of a democraticly elected president doesn’t seem insane to me, even if the president is as awful as Trump.
Haha yes that’s fair! I am extremely grateful to not have had kids during that time.
Thanks for sharing. You’re definitely right about the divide. I just found that I had so much time I could do everything I needed and wanted to do (granted, within the confines of social distancing at the time). Housework was joyful because I could do a good job of it, and have time for hobbies, and have time to relax from both. Aside from all the suffering and madness in the world at the time, it was a genuinely satisfying experience at home.
I noticed over covid that many people were telling me that they were happy to be working again after being furloughed (temporarily paused employment in the UK) because they’d been losing their minds with nothing to do. I couldn’t understand it, I was busy and really happy.
Maybe I’m crazy as well but 10kW doesn’t seem like a huge deal to me either? Why do I need a battery for that? I’m in the UK and my shower draws 10kW all by its little self.
Specifically the season 1 episode “15 Million Merits”. One of my favourites.
I think if this experience is related to having ADHD, the part that is relevant is the lack of ability to acknowledge that you’ve made a jump at all. In the example it’s a perfectly valid train of thought, but I’d expect an average person to make an effort to bring the other up to speed. Because most people generally expect to continue conversation in the same topic, you spend mental effort trying to keep tethered to that topic and have to share that rope with the other person.