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[conuly]

I suppose I should've directed you all to the feed with the last post I made on that comm. Sorry.

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The Victorian Cards That Explained How to Use a Book to Flirt

My naym is pome / and lo my form is fix’d....

Earwigs take origami to extremes to fold their wings

Average first leaf appearance, as animated map

Jewish candidate for Muslim party breaks barriers in Tunisia

The Grocery Stocker Who Makes Hypnotic Vegetable Designs

Utah Governor Signs Law Legalizing 'Free-Range Parenting'

The Bike-Share Oversupply in China: Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles (Photos)

New jeans, new schools, new worries: North Korean family settles into South Korea

How Portraiture Gave Rise to the Glamour of Guns

The Lost Kids on the Line

A day in the life of India's 'tuberculosis warrior'

The New ‘Superpredator’ Myth

Trump Signs $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill, Averting A Government Shutdown

Trump Can't Get What He Wants and Doesn't Know Why

California Once Targeted Latinas for Forced Sterilization

When ICE Tries to Deport Americans, Who Defends Them?

Behind Facebook's baby step fixes: Defending its ad business

Forget Facebook: Turkey Is Moving to Control All Content

This Is So Much Bigger Than Facebook

Comments

[dawnebeth]

I never have time to link to all your intriguing articles but those vegetable designs were cool! The fish mongers at Harrods in London make lovely little art with their wares, as well.

[conuly]

Thanks. I wish I could see a pic of the Harrods fish then.

[greghousesgf]

maybe I just don't understand Victorian attitudes but what exactly is flirtatious about asking someone if they're going to church?

[bibliofile]

That vegetable art is happening in my own town, and I had no idea! Fun, cool, and tasty.

[conuly]

I suppose it's not that you ask, but how you do it. "Hey, you gonna be at church next week?" is probably not flirtatious. "Ah, Miss Bennett. I was wondering if I might have the pleasure of your company next week at church" might be.

And that's assuming there isn't some opaque code we just aren't privy to anymore. There's nothing flirtatious about asking somebody to "come up and see my etchings" or "Netflix and chill" except that those are coded euphemisms for sex. Not that coded, but they might be completely obscure in 50 years.

[greghousesgf]

Okay, that makes some sense.

[conuly]

Now you gotta go see it.

Re: ‘little_details’ - Yes, BUT - !!

[nodrog]

https://nodrog.dreamwidth.org/2500923.html

Re: ‘little_details’ - Yes, BUT - !!

[conuly]

You should definitely post that in the comments there.

[firewhispers]

Is little_details moving to DW do you know?
Also, does emptying out the queue mean they're posting entries that weren't approved? I didn't check whether or not posting to the community was moderated or not.

[conuly]

1. They're considering it, and if you have an opinion on that subject you should tell them: https://little-details.livejournal.com/3555147.html

If they decide to move here full time I'll go back on LJ long enough to make them a feed, same as I made their feed from LJ for here.

2. I think all entries are moderated and have been for a long time for spam-control purposes.

Re: ‘little_details’ - Yes, BUT - !!

[nodrog]

Well, I would do, you know, but - wow, must be ten years ago now! - I violated a community rule.  It was something trivial, something about the formatting of my entry - yes, I WAS in the wrong, completely, but not intentionally, and it could have been handled by simply saying “Read the rules, dummkopf,” and I’d have said, “Oops, sorry,” and life goes on, y’ know?  Instead I fell afoul of a moderator who appeared to be about thirteen and had been fed paint chips as a child.  To this day I remember my astonishment as this little ego-twit went up in roaring flames, how dare I go up the ‘Down’ staircase!  (That’s really about all it was.  Entries had to be formatted just so.  I hadn’t.  O dear me.)

For this ghastly and heinous crime against the community I was summarily banned!  Not warned, not given a chance to show that I’d learned my lesson (or not) - I was taken out and shot without delay!


        BRIAN: What will they do to me?

        BEN: Oh, you’ll probably get away with crucifixion.

        BRIAN: Crucifixion?!

        BEN: Yeah, first offence.

        BRIAN: Get away with crucifixion?! It’s--.

        BEN: Best thing the Romans ever did for us!

        - Monty Python, Life of Brian


There were people on LJ in those days to whom being a community mod…  meant a bit too much, y’ know?

So to this day I’m banned from that community and cannot post comments there.  O well.



n b  I understand the infamous mods at fanficrants came to ban so many usernames that they exceeded capacity - like a cloud shadow on a meadow or a blanket pulled up, as they put more people on the banned list in front users started dropping off in back.  Wait long enough, and you’d find you’re no longer banned!

[nodrog]

“This Is So Much Bigger Than Facebook”

Data misuse is a feature, not a bug—and it’s plaguing our entire culture.

This is a fascinating (and well-written) article.

[nodrog]

What it reminds me of is the bad old days in the Soviet Union, where nonverbal cues flourished in that society of microphones and eavesdroppers.  You might be saying something innocuous, but a flicking hand-gesture or crooked fingers supplied your real meaning.

[Prostitution did not exist in the Worker's Paradise - just ask them, they'd tell you! - so ‘working girls’ would chalk their prices on their shoe, and coyly ‘flirt’ with that foot forward…  and rub it out against their leg when the cops showed up.]

[conuly]

That's quite a dystopian leap :)

I think every society has some things people prefer to say in coded, plausibly deniable ways.

[jesse_the_k]

Wait, what!

Thanks for keeping me up-to-date for all the states.

(The leaf-peeping animation is also lovely.)

[conuly]

Nice pics!

[conuly]

Why thank you :)

[nodrog]

Calling cards are a well-documented phenomenon of Victorian Britain and
the late 19th-century United States…  [They] were variously used to
announce a forthcoming visit, invite someone to your home, or denote that
you had attempted to visit someone at their home while they were out…


To this day, commissioned officers of the US Armed Forces are - or often are - taught social niceties of this level; upon arriving at a new post, the officer is expected to call upon the post commander to convey his respects, and if the commander and his wife are “not at home to visitors” (which is unrelated to whether they're there) he is expected to leave his card.  … His calling card, that is.

Business cards are still commonplace, last time I checked; they serve the same general purpose.

[nodrog]

Holding [book] between the teeth:  I hate you


Instantly I thought, “The thickness of the book indicates the intensity of the hatred.”

“I’ ’isloca’ed my ’aw.”

“Well, you sure told him!”

[nodrog]

“Cigar flirtation” - why, yes, Dr Freud was quite familiar with this!  /ahem/