Comments | porsupah: Pride in July

porsupah

Pride in July

Jun 15, 2019 17:54

I was feeling somewhat pointlessly melancholic last Saturday night, and thought a good way to help fend that off would be to watch the second season (well, really the first half - the second season was poduced as thirteen episodes, but Netflix only released the first seven episodes, keeping the rest until Aug 3 2019) of She-Ra. Surprisingly, for ( Read more... )

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schnee June 15 2019, 17:48:26 UTC

Quite an interesting look at how terms will migrate between languages, sometimes relieved of their weight in the original tongue - in this case, Angela Merkel using a term justly brought to prominence with Brexit, "shitstorm". ^_^

Interesting but not entirely accurate, specifically this-

"It generated quite a shitstorm," she said, using the English term - because Germans, it turns out, do not have one of their own.

You could say "Sturm der Entrüstung" in German. It's a (much) older term that's not quite so scatological, but it basically means the same thing. Of course it also is a decidedly more neutral term that does not judge whether said uproar is justified or not, and politicians who like to paint whoever disagrees with them as ipso facto cockamamie prefer the term "shitstorm", which implies just that.

c_eagle June 16 2019, 10:27:41 UTC

Excellent point on WFMU ... thanks! It does look worth a listen at first glance... certainly lots of listings ( ... )

porsupah June 16 2019, 17:54:48 UTC

4ZZZ is definitely worth trying as well. ^_^ Like CHIRP, it's all the work of actual DJs, so there'll be some shows that appeal more than others - it's definitely not a single format station. =:D Others I enjoy include ( ... )

c_eagle June 17 2019, 08:27:41 UTC

haha! I looked at the Corn Pone Flicks... er.. most of it... heh! When ya are watching something SO awful, I think a little bit of skipping ahead here & there is allowed, yes?... :D
They make a good point though... how can anyone really name the *worst* one.... heh!

and YEP!... They used to have a "Listening Bar" with about a dozen seats, where you could pick a CD and they would open it for you to check out.... they if there was a slight chance you didn't like it, they'd shrinkwrap it up again, good as new!
Alas, someone somewhere decided that made them used, even if handled properly with kid gloves, and after a few years the music in Blockbuster music was defeated... but yes the video lasted quite a few years after that.

Thanks also for the international radio links!

Apparently there's still a few remnant links for the RealRadio, but I don't think the service fully exists now.. http://cache-download.real.