Interesting Links for 01-10-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Anyone want to be our neighbours?

(tags:housing Edinburgh )

2. Many men are simply incapable of being around attractive women

I officially apologise to any woman I've made uncomfortable. And I'm absolutely sure I have.
(tags:men beauty OhForFucksSake jobs )

3. Porn on Tumblr is a complicated

(tags:porn tumblr business censorship Apple Android )

4. Goblin cats are the best cats

(tags:cats funny )

5. Just how insidious is K-Pop?

(tags:music Korea )

6. Too... Many... Unusual... Laughs!

(tags:laughter funny video viaPatrickHadfield )

7. Some examples of languages younger than Scots

(tags:language history )

8. This house definitely has "unorthodox" design choices

(tags:design housing EpicWTF )

9. Elon Musk's Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius

(tags:Twitter sms ElonMusk )

10. Dredging the river Tees has released contaminants that killed crabs for miles around

(tags:crabs death pollution )

11. The lack of Third Places is definitely one of the major issues in modern cities

(tags:community cities video )

Comments

[calimac]

I was away from home when I first read this post, and trying to read it on my tablet. Amazing how many twitter, reddit, etc. threads the tablet simply will not display properly.

2) Yeah. The newspaper columnist Bob Greene wrote in his memoir about when he was an intern in 1964 and accompanied a woman from the editorial dept when she had an errand that caused them to pass through the compositors' room. All the guys then started hooting and howling and cavorting around, and generally acting (Greene does not make this comparison) like Tex Avery characters. Greene was aghast, but the woman ignored it. "They act this way to all women," she said.

7) I've never seen Scots criticized for being new or (in the sense meant here) artificial, only for being a low-class dialect. Which of course is the origin of many now-respected languages (Norwegian from Danish is cited in the article; Dutch from German, though of older origin, is another obvious European example, and for that matter Afrikaans from Dutch), thus illustrating the truth of the maxim I learned in elementary linguistics, a language is a dialect with an army.

[andrewducker]

Twitter is a pain in the neck for long-form writing, and I wish that people used blogs/journals more!

(2) Sounds entirely, sadly, normal. And basically the kind of thing that (some) men do to establish dominance. "Look how we can easily make the lesser people feel uncomfortable." I'm glad that it's harder to get away with nowadays.