Wednesday, January 1, 2020

581 - Women Are Too Clever For Wikipedia, 19000 Year Old Lodge, Supernatural Killers Are Attracted To The Chase, Lowly Finns In Russia, Stereotypical Cultural Projection, and Hottie Handicap

[3:50 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
there was a story recently that the lady that won the Nobel prize didn't have her own Wikipedia article. Someone tried to create one but a mod declined it.  No big deal, they resubmitted and it was approved. But that opened up some new criticism because only about 16% of articles on Wikipedia (about actual people) are for women
But if men keep finding creative ways to murder women that percentage will go up
[3:51 PM] 
Most articles on Wikipedia aren't about humans
[3:51 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah. Of the ones that are about people 16% are women and the rest are men
[3:51 PM] 
true
[3:51 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Which they hinted was evidence of sexism
probably partly the case
[3:52 PM] 
What it hinted is that men write Wikis about themselves
;)
[3:52 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
As long as men occupy *both* the very high end and the very low end of the intelligence spectrum, men will probably dominate in terms of being "historically noteworthy" in my opinion
Both for doing great things and for doing absolute dumbass things.
Meanwhile women mosey along contributing just as much but being too middle-ground for recognition
( >:-( - Mr. Silver)



[1:47 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
[1:54 PM] 
"Archaeologists found the Neolithic site in pristine condition."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowcroft_Rockshelter#/media/File:MeadowcroftRockshelter.jpg
"The natives who built this really had an eye for material selection and architectural composition.  This is very exciting."
(Camper in turtleneck drinking coffee by the fireplace)  "Really?  19000 years old, you say?  Huh?"
[2:03 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
wow.. neolithic peoples had steel i-beams and corrugated metal sheeting
Neolithic rolling mills



[12:31 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
You know how movie monsters like Michael Myers or Jason are always somehow disappearing when you turn your back and then reappearing like right behind you in seconds?
It'd be funny if they showed them, like, sprinting when you turn your back or look away
[12:33 PM] 
Wheezing to keep up with a 17 year old
[12:40 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
heheh
Jason gets pretty ridiculous in the sequels
and people act like F'ing morons
they always run way too far ahead of the killer
lose him, then turn around looking for him, then he appears in front of [now behind] them
just walk at a good pace in front of him directly to the police station
Or the classic.
You run indoors... close the door, lock it, and then lean up against the wall right next to what looks like a window made of cellophane (usually camera also pans so window is curiously centered in the frame)



[3:12 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
damn this is a real dig...
“House for the poor Finns”
Дом для бедных финнов 
Historical Landmark
[3:14 PM] 
?
[3:14 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Just some building called "House for the poor Finns"
Something at a monastery in Russia
[3:14 PM] 
Is Poor the polite translation of something else?
“House for Finn Losers”
[3:15 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Probably.. seems like they named it as a shot at Finns
[3:15 PM] 
“Finnish Bum Flophouse”
[3:16 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
“Finns Smell and are Stupid Park”
[3:16 PM] 
“Finn House: This is how poor they live”
Moscow Zoo presents “The Finn House”
(sign outside) "Do not taunt or feed the Finns.  They can't man up to the first and are used to starving."



[8:13 AM] 
[8:16 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I remember that story
[8:17 AM] 
Leaving the H off of Pittsburgh
[8:17 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah, nice spelling
[8:19 AM] 
Also I understand a sense of the dramatic, but not many people in the world would call the guy's dagger a saber
[8:20 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
According to the museum. the artistic style evident in the piece can be viewed as a stereotyped, colonialist misrepresentation of North Africa and the Middle East. 
I assume Bedouins and Berbers rode camels and probably occasionally had to fend off lions
Probably *still* do
[8:23 AM] 
Yeah...it think it's rather a hyperbolic claim. 
Did it happen much?
Probably not so much
Is it a misrepresentation? 
[8:25 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
if we wanted to be accurate and culturally sensitive we'd have him sitting in a tent eating dates and studying the hadith, but nobody wants to pay to see that
[8:26 AM] 
And we could include a series of colonialist stereotypes that feature lions used to people in cars
"Off Duty Arab Courier Fends Off Mosquitoes, Enjoys Couscous At Street Vendor"
All these IT calls really mess up my true work
heh
[8:36 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
heh
[8:42 AM] 
Here...
[9:22 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
he looks so happy
[9:22 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
that exploitive tourist looks rather Ay-rab to me
[9:22 AM]  Mr. Brown.:
hehe
[9:24 AM] 
"Brandishing his two-handed scimitar, the brave man shouts his battle cry 'Please get off of those!' - a tableau scene from the Cargenie Museum in Pitsbruge." 
[9:24 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Very racist Arab diorama of a Arab holding a lamp
[9:26 AM] 
It was interesting, Mr. Blue, in that while I was looking for that image, a lot of tourists seem to look like a lot of them probably have family round those parts.  Makes sense I suppose.  People go to Europe because some great grand-mother came from there.
Thoughts of European Vacation with the Griswald's just piling into "the relatives'" house when they had no idea who these people were
[9:29 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Probably the city folk in Algiers take their kids to the sticks to get pictures of them on camels
[9:30 AM] 
The lad on the camel MUST have some bloodline...he's able to walk on that sand in bare feet.
Mom and daughter are probably going to be glowing crimson in about 5 minutes
[9:32 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Look at those bowed legs too.  That guy was engineered to ride camels
[9:32 AM] 
heh
Look close... the girl's toes are reflexively curled back as tight and far as possible on the flip-flops to keep them from cooking off.
Can one make a fist with toes?
So basically, Mr. Blue, your theory is that parents from the city take their kids out to Bedouin dude ranches?
 (Looks up)
Well...there appears to be two of them
Weird bit?  They are American West themed
LOL
Here we go
Note they have free parking
"Uh... (waves arm around) anywhere.  Here's your ticket."
[10:11 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Ok pardners, we’re gonna go frog gigging in the oasis before the goat roundup.
lol
[10:15 AM] 
How about "Experience a real American style rancher feud in full costume.  Period costumes, weapons, and ammunition will be provided.  Rivalry teams by lot.  Pre-register your own vendetta with 14 day notice.  Groups up to 25 per side permitted."
[10:22 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Riding a lumpy slow animal and sitting in the hot sun.. cool
[10:24 AM] 
(Vacationer sitting on the sand with a bunch of Bedou)  "So what do you fellows do out here for fun?"
(translator back and forth) "This is it."
"Ah."
"They're offering to walk you to the Big Rock to sit."
"How far is that?" 
(translator back and forth) "10 mile walk..."
"Nice view?  Big vista of the multi-colored desert?  Oasis or something?" 
(translator back and forth)  "It's like this but up on the Big Rock." 
"I'm good."



[10:44 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
did i mention the weird bathroom story i overheard?
A guy was telling someone else that he has peacocks
one day a male peacock just showed up at his house and never left... then sometime later a female showed up. and now they're his
I wasn't sure if he was goofing or not
[10:46 AM] 
...some people drop stray cats at a place...
"...and one speck in Western PA"
[10:50 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Probably escaped from Living Treasures or something
[10:52 AM] 
For some reason after the hen had chicks, no one in the neighborhood responded to the cardboard box in the yard they wrote "Free Peafowl" on. 
Even after they added "Cute!     Cuddly!"
[10:55 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
the evolutionary theories on why they look the way they are is interesting
there was one theory i read called something like "handicap selection".
The big bright plumage is a handicap to their survival, therefore showing how *fit* the male with the brightest plumage is for being able to survive in spite of its handicap.. hence the reason why it's been selected
so it'd be like women choosing a man with a ball and chain around his neck over a man without one
I guess my explanation of it isn't exactly correct
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