May 24 [Ezra Pound]
May 24
I really liked Aric's new birdfeeder—it was always nice to look at the birds in the morning, and Aric didn't mind having my butt in his face. I tickled him with my tail just to make sure he got the message, and pretty soon I felt his fingers on my rump.
He got up and watched the birds with me for a little bit before we got back into bed, and he let me push him down and be on top.
We could have gone to breakfast at Nina's again, but he still had some rolled oats left and that's a good enough breakfast for me. People like to make them mushy by putting them in hot water, but I think that they're fine raw.
When I was ready to fly, he stuck a bag of sunflower seeds in my flight vest pocket. He said it was so I wouldn't have to raid the birdfeeder anymore.
I told him that he couldn't bribe me to stay away from it, and went out the side door and into the yard with him chasing after me. Every time he'd try and grab me, I'd just fly high enough that he couldn't quite reach, and he finally gave up and shook out a bunch of seeds and offered them to me. So of course I had to fly down to try and take them, and then he grabbed my hoof and 'caught' me, and we tussled on the grass a little bit before I pinned him down and sat on his chest, then I ate them out of his hand and kissed him before taking off.
I decided to change around my morning routine a little bit, and followed the Kalamazoo River north and west for a little bit, a few roads past the nature center. I could see a town off in the distance, but I didn't think I'd have enough time to fly there and back again, so I turned around and headed back to campus.
I was getting low on shampoo again, so I hoped that Peggy would be up for a shopping trip to Meijer soon. I probably could go by myself, but they were really big and there were a whole lot of people I didn't know in them.
I wish the college store had Mane and Tail shampoo. That would have been really convenient.
I worked on my essay a little bit, then went to lunch early. I'd gotten to a good point to stop, and didn't think that I'd have enough time to get through the next section before lunch. So I went to stop at the mail hut, and then I remembered that I hadn't asked Aric for the pictures on his telephone.
There wasn't much point in turning back to send him a computer letter now, but I reminded myself to do it right after poetry class.
When I checked my mailbox, I saw that I had gotten another letter from Aquamarine, so I sat down in the lounge and read it.
She said that she could come visit this weekend. It was a holiday, and her botany professor had said that it wouldn't hurt the experiment if she took a few days off.
I took a page out of my notebook and wrote her a quick letter back saying that she was welcome to come, and she could share my room. I didn't think Peggy would mind, and I guess if she didn't want two ponies in the room I could sleep with Aric or Meghan. Then I had to beg the girl at the counter for a stamp and an envelope, because I didn't have any with me.
She took my student badge and wrote down my number which I thought was kind of silly. I'm not sure why people can't remember me without my little card.
But the letter got mailed, and that was what was important.
I was really excited that she was coming, and the first people I saw to tell were Cedric and Leon and Trevor.
Cedric asked if she was as chill as me, and I said I thought so. And Leon wanted to know what she looked like, so I described her for him and he said she sounded like a real girly pony. I wasn't sure what he meant by that—she was a mare—but sometimes humans seem to have trouble with that.
I said that he'd probably like her, and I bet that she could beat him in hoof-wrestling, 'cause she's an earth pony so she's pretty strong.
Leon said that he wouldn't challenge a girl to a test of strength, and Cedric said that was because he was afraid that he would lose. So then Leon spent the rest of lunch pretending that everything was too heavy for him to lift.
I think they'd like her, but I'm not sure she'd like them. They are kind of weird. But I promised we'd have lunch together anyway.
Conrad had rearranged our desks into two circles and put his desk in the middle and it was very confusing. I didn't know where I was supposed to sit, so I finally wound up picking the seat that was nearest to where I'd sat before.
The desk wasn't the same, though. There had been a little carving in mine: it had said morior invictus. This one didn't say anything on it.
Once we'd all found a seat, Conrad said that he'd gotten bored with the old arrangement, and that this new one was much better. And then he said that before anyone in the back got the idea that they were out of his sight, his chair had a swivel, and he demonstrated by backing it away from his desk and spinning around in it.
He told us that we were going to read some of Ezra Pound's poetry this week, because you couldn't talk about Eliot without Pound. Then he started out by having Melissa read Shop Girl, and then he followed right after that with The Spring.
It was kind of late in the year to be talking about the spring.
I'd never really thought about it, but it was kind of strange to organize the poems by poet, rather than to organize them by what they're about. We could have read a bunch of spring poems right at the beginning of spring, and read rainy-day poems when it was raining, and so on. I think if I were teaching the class that's how I'd do it.
But maybe that would be confusing for people, because we'd be going from one poet to the next all the time. I think it would make more sense, though.
He had me read a really short poem called The New Cake of Soap. I didn't know what a Chesterton was, but I thought it was really funny to write a poem about soap. Soap is something that you don't really think about, and how clever Mister Pound was to see it and write a poem about it.
What kind of poem would I write about my shampoo?
Or what other things might I write about?
We read two more poems before the end of class: Simulacra and The Tea Shop. The last one was about a woman who had been beautiful but had grown old, and it was kind of sad. It would have been a good fall poem. I guess it was a reminder that our class was almost over—the year was almost over. And that meant that some of the people in the class would graduate and I'd never see them again.
After class, it was still nagging at my mind that he was sorting the poems by their author, so I asked him about it after class, and he got a little smile on his face and said that I was a believer in 'it is the tale, not he who tells it.'
I said that I thought that was a good way of putting it.
He said that I was wise beyond my years, then he told me that the old model was to sort poems by their author but that maybe the internet would change that, and that he would not object to poetry books being sorted by poems about the rain or poems about the sea or poems about the spring or any other classification and he said that if we ponies arranged our poems that way than we were smarter than humans.
I told him that humans were plenty smart, too, because I didn't think that anypony had ever written a poem about a cake of soap, and he said that I ought to be the first.
I was really flattered that he thought that much of me, so I hugged him and then left before he could embarrass me any more.
While I was working on my essay, though, I was also thinking about what he said, and at the same time I was clicking on my pen because I was trying to think of what to say next and then I thought maybe I could write a poem about my pen.
When I got back to our room, I asked Peggy if she would mind if Aquamarine stayed over, and she said that she didn't mind at all, which was a relief. And then I said that she was coming this weekend. Peggy wanted to know if either of the unicorns was coming, and I said that they weren't as far as I knew. Hopefully we'd be getting together in Chicago soon . . . but if school was over for Aquamarine, maybe it was over for Gusty, too, and she was in California now.
I should probably check my Facebook more often. I felt bad that I didn't know.
I went over to Meghan's right after I'd worked on another section of my essay, 'cause I was eager to tell her, too. I was sure she'd be happy to meet Aquamarine, too, and so I ought to tell her before she made plans for the weekend. I thought maybe if I was lucky, she'd be willing to take both of us to her uncle and aunt's hot tub.
She wasn't in her room, though. Amy thought that maybe she was at the library, and said that I could check there or call her, but I didn't want to do that. If she was busy, it would be rude to interrupt her.
So I sat in the lounge instead and read through the rest of 2 Kings and started on 1 Chronicles before Meghan came back. She was sort of trudging when she came into the dorm, but she brightened right up when she saw me.
We went up to her room together and I told her about how Aquamarine was coming and asked her if we could maybe go to the hot tub. She said that she'd have to find out but she was pretty sure that it would be okay.
She said that she had some more homework, and I told her I didn't mind waiting while she finished it. I wasn't going to finish the Bible anytime soon. So she kind of thought about that, and finally got up in bed with me and stretched out and she read her book and I read more of 1 Chronicles, until she'd finished her homework.
Meghan went into the bathroom and got ready for bed while I was finishing up the chapter I was on, and by the time she was done, so was I, so we snuggled together under the covers.
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If you are talking about great 20th century poets, you can't leave out Dr Seuss. Yes, he wrote for the extreme young end of the market. Does that mean he can't be great?
You are probably going to have to mention Rod McKuen & IMO he ain't half the poet Dr Seuss was. You probably can't mention either one in a college class, though.
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sentences that don't end in periods
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Correction made; thank you!
I wonder if that key is going on my keyboard? That's not one that I usually miss.
This keyboard is starting to look well-loved. I've worn the texture off a bunch of keys, and the paint off some of 'em, too. You can see polished spots on the keys I use most often, as well as the spots where I normally rest my wrists and thumbs. And you can also see that I never hit the right shift or right control key.
Well Silver and Aric continue to be adorable together.
I guess she hasn't discovered Amazon, yet? Of course that would take the fun out of shopping with her friends.
I'm interested to know what Ezra Pound was thinking writing The New Cake of Soap, and what reasoning Conrad had for choosing Silver to read it: he seems (to me) to deliberately place specific poems at her hoof.
I'd never read it, but what I could find suggests that it was a jab at G.K. Chesterton, and if so, what cheek was Pound actually referring to?
Last, as Silver's reading the Bible, your naming of Dorinda made me wonder what she would make of the movie Always, which has a plot that flatout requires the existence of classical God, Earth, & Afterlife. And of course it has flying!
Ever think about Stan Rice? The husband to Anne Rice of The Vampire Lestat fame.
The Mummy or Ramses the Dammed andServant of the Bones both of those I've read.
Barnes and Noble here I come.
Being a native of Ponyville, I'm sure Aquamarine wouldn't be bothered by unusual people.
The bit about hoof-wrestling reminds me that I'm pretty sure the difference in strength between stallions and mares is pretty low, since their version of the olympics is gender-integrated.
I'm trying to come up with a funny way Silver could tell Meghan about eating all Aric's seeds, but it's too late (early?) and I don't have enough sleep in me.
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I think Conrad should go all in and surprise everyone with a rapper as the last poet. Maybe someone who'd really blow minds from shock like Blowfly.
Silver doesn't realize the true importance of numbers.
I don't necessarily agree. Having poems sorted by their intent or topic may have literary value, but I believe that the context is of equal (if not greater) importance. Understandings the historical context of the author is critical for understandings; be it book, poem or film. Poems are a lens though which we can view the world and understanding the time period/author of the work allows us to recognize how said lens can be distorted by the ideas of the time and the ideas of the author. Because it isn't just about viewing how things were but how the people thought and viewed such things.
7419640 More people die from cancer (half a million per year), heart disease, strokes, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and suicides than by guns by a huge margin. Death by a gun, whether by murder or accident, accounts for roughly 11,000 per year here. Yes, mass shootings have been on the rise in recent years. Why? Not easier access to guns here. Mass shootings have more in common with individuals who are either mentally unstable or ideologically encouraged to do so. If it wasn't guns, it would sure as hell be things like knives or bombs that would do it.
And second, the NRA is an organization that doesn't represent the average gun owner in the United States. (And I own several guns.) The bullshit thing is the NRA lobbies on behalf of gun corporations in the United States. "Card-carrying members" are very few in comparison to non-members and I have never heard of a mass shooter being a member. This stupid idea that all gun owners are NRA member yokels just shows your own ignorance. And I'm not going into a gun debate since that will just circle around and around in a giant derailing thread.
And if you really think the shit I'm saying there is controversial, you haven't seen the later threads yet.
When I was in Texas someone told me that credit cards are the invention of the devil. In the Bible it says God made the word into flesh but credit cards make the flesh into word. Clearly, Satan's mockery of God's work.
In Texas people like this are not only allowed to run around loose but are taken seriously. One of MANY reasons I no longer live in Texas .
As to cause of death, the last figures I saw on this were over 20 years old but the 2 leading causes of death were abortions and smoking cigarettes.
7419706 Hoss, if you think getting out of Texas will get you away from idiots, I've got some bad news for you.
I wonder if Aquamarine gets treated much differently than Silver does? I mean, Silver's wings would clearly mark her as different in people's minds to a horse, but Aquamarine only really has her colours to mark her out.
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When did I say I was against peaceful protesting? (Especially with how successful they can be.) Violence should really be the only resource when all other peaceful options have been exhausted. Another layer you can add on to why I'm against activism in college in general is when the activists start to become fascists that are encouraged and taught a very specific world view by their professors. Mainly what happened at the University of Missouri. These people are icons as to who I want expelled from universities.
The red head at minute 7 is an assistant professor their that encouraged these students to protest and participated on it hard. "Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here?! I need some muscle over here!"
Here's an example of a bit of activism and not being in college to do so. In the video below, you have the woman on the left, Karen Straugn, the middle woman is Naomi Wolf, and the one of the right (not the moderator) I'm not familiar with. The 2 on the left, I know are prominent activists of two completely different ideas on gender rights. Karen is a stay at home mother of 3 in a middle working class home. She's a Men's Rights activist (a real MRA), anti-feminist, and can be heard talking on a YouTube show\Hangout called Honey Badger Radio. She goes to conferences and universities to talk about mens rights and feminism. Naomi I think lives in New York who's a mother of 2, probably a millionaire as well from her book deals and traveling the country giving speeches. Her bestselling book, the Beauty Myth, is a bestseller and is probably one of the big pushers to the Body Positivity movement.
These are people who do activism without needing a learning institution to hold their activism. It's not hard to be an activist either since much of what you need to do is talk to other people.
Refer to the top video if "nonviolent" means pushing and harassing journalists out of public areas.
You mean from the arson, the bombings, the White Feather campaign, and the Declaration of Sentiments?
Some courses get ever narrower as time goe by as ever more advanced fiddly bits are found and more people write stuff that has to be looked at in association, but if Poetry as it is only means the written word, with very rare Limerick, did they start at the beginning with any oral history rhyming chants, or would that have lead to music and people bringing in Queen as an example?
Teaching poertry poet by poet makes it easier to learn about poets. It is easier to identify a style and see how it evolve. It also ensure that every poet will be there, some of theme won't necesserely have poem with a relevant thematic.
But from time to time haveing poem by theme would be interesting too, it allow to compare how various poets interpreted and viewed similar things.
I would only do it with student that already have some solid base already.
But now she is a stallion?
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Conrad covered him in their last poetry class. The poem Hug War was what lead to Silver becoming friends with Cedric and Leon.
You underestimate what you can get away with at a liberal arts college. In one of my classes, we read The Well of Horniness, and the college library had a copy of the book Candy.
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She probably wouldn't mind Amazon, one she got used to it. On the other hand, SIlver Glow's not likely to be a savvy shopper, so it's probably just as well that she doesn't know about Amazon.
I couldn't say what Pound was thinking. As for why Conrad had her read the poem? To make her look at the world a little differently. Give her a little nudge towards a new way of thinking.
I think she'd like it. And Dorinda's name is a nod to the movie.
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I didn't know that he wrote poetry. Huh.
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She's probably a little bored, since there hasn't been a single monster attack at MSU all semester.
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IRL horses, there is a difference between a mare and a stallion (assuming equal training). I would think that would apply to ponies as well.
But, cutie marks throw a big wrench into that. It's plausible that a mare with a racing cutie mark would be faster than any stallion without such a mark, for example. And if so, do they account for that in the way that the competitions are set up? And what about letting the Wonderbolts race against a bunch of amateurs?
I think that in general, they'd prefer team sports, and if that's so, you'd pick the best ponies for your team--mares or stallions.
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Hmm, I've got nothing that isn't overly crude.
You should have suggested that several chapters ago--I've already got the last poets and poems picked.
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No, she doesn't.
I've got mixed feelings on this. Certainly, in a classroom setting it's usually more sensible to arrange them by author and to understand the context of the poem, and the context in which the poem was written.
At the same time, though, one of the things that always bugged me about English was that we keep reading the same long-dead authors because they were great, but then the world moved on. I never liked being told that Dickens was the pinnacle of Western literature and since then it's been a downhill slide, or what have you.
And I think one of the great things about poems is that they can stay fresh, because there's a lot they're not telling you--in some ways, they're the abstract art of the written word. So you can appreciate them without context. You can even appreciate them if you're completely wrong about what they're about, like how I thought Easter 1916 was about the Easter Truce it WW1 (it isn't).
So I think that there are two ways to appreciate a poem. One is to know the context of it, and the other is to just read it blind and take what you can get from it. And I can't say which way is better.
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Changing the goal posts from mass shootings to suicides is kind of a dirty trick, but I'll level with you. Firearm homicides are 11,000~ per year while firearm suicides are 20,000~ per year. What makes it interesting is that it starts to spike at people who are 65-70 years old and white men are overly represented as the ones killing themselves the most. Being an old age, it's kinda obvious why they would commit suicide, but I think research needs to be done why so many white people and men commit suicide in comparison to everyone else.
I know you think banning guns will keep more of these people safer, but I disagree since hanging or pills is still a viable option for them too. These people use guns the most because it's quick and painless, while the others can be botched or be very painful. The only good news is that suicides have gone down a little in recent decades, though it's just now remains steady. My heart goes out to them and I wish them to have a recovery and happy life. I still won't give up my weapons for some clinically depressed people though.
Yeah, gun's are very good at hitting far targets.
I don't think that a reprimand would necessarily work on those people, not when you know how it went. The beginnings of this protest is actually the most ridiculous and stupidest shit that you can imagine. I can't make this up. A student at this university found a poop swastika smeared on one the bathroom walls. Other people within the university took it as a sign that there was racism going on within their school. They decided to go on a witch hunt to root out any "racism", to the point of even accusing the university administration that they were "upholding white supremacy" within the school. (That escalated quickly.) Despite that if "white supremacy" existed at that school, a young man named Johnathon Butler (who's father is a railroad tycoon and multi-millionaire) who went on a hunger strike to try and force the Dean out of the school, would have been ignored or laughed at. These protestors are frauds as well since they even jumped in front of the the Deans car and Johnathon claimed he was hit by it as if he was ran over. The Dean resigned for that and number of other reasons, including staff and the football team walking out because of how morally outraged they were that there was "racism" at the school. In the end, the Dean had to resign and even APOLOGIZED to these people.
I honestly wouldn't have believed it, but these are the social justice idiots infesting schools across the country right now. There is a bit of karmic payback that I'm still laughing at. The university has lost 1,500 or 20% of its students and is projected to have a $35 million dollar shortfall, forcing the university to have massive spending cuts. The students are still whining and pathetic.
You know I smiled when I saw you were against all forms of genital mutilation and not just on girls.
Boys and even the intrasex don't get enough love when it comes to talking about genital mutilation. Thank you.
I'm not against protesting or activism itself at all, but I think college should be used what it was designed for. Studying for specialized careers and learning advanced topics. At least that's what I think. Function over form. The protesting I see a lot these days resemble more of the ones at Missouri University than anything else I've seen lately and I get very frustrated seeing these happen. It's become a common thing these days.
I would think petitioning or protesting the government as if they were the public servants they are supposed to be and you were the will on how the country should be run. (Though obviously, direct democracies aren't really workable.)
The first 2 are still terrorist acts and are black spots that mared what suffragettes set out to do. The last one however, the Seneca Falls declaration, is a bit... shady. Skipping over the copy paste of the Bill of Rights, I noticed there's quite a bit about these women blaming men, as an entire class, for the suffering and pain of all women. It starts:
And it keeps going from there. I need to look up the cultural history of the America's and Europe in the 1700-1800's, but I'm pretty sure women weren't an oppressed class of people. At least not in the context of how they viewed it back then. There's quite a culture gap between now and then, and the things they are complaining about may have been there for good reason.
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That's a rather extreme view.
I've heard it said that the only problem with Texas is that it's filled with Texans. I personally don't know any, though, so I can't say if they're any crazier than people anywhere else.
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Well, of course she talks and goes to college classes . . . but you're right; a first impression of her might be that she's a painted pony, rather than being an sapient creature. And that could be even more problematic for a pony who has 'normal' horse coloration. Hmm.
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Outside of a classroom perspective, especially, it might be nice to have poetry books by theme rather than by poet. For example, I've got a few books of thematic short stories by any particular author. Perhaps some of those do exist for poems.
Yeah, that certainly wouldn't be something for a beginning poetry class, but it would be great for a senior class. You could even compare how different poets talked about the same things. How did Dickinson write about the rain, vs. Dr. Seuss, and so on?
"Pinkie, you've got to get past that. Ponies change. Why, Ah used to be a stallion."
7420193 Conrad might be my favorite character in the whole story. I love Silver's interactions with him, and his subtle mentorship.
I feel like I might be confused on a point here, though. How long is Silver's stay? For some reason I thought she was only on earth for a year, but she's mentioned not seeing people after they graduated, and I was like 'wait, wouldn't she not see them again anyway?'
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Yes, but have you posted those poets yet?
There's still time!
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nope, not gatlings, but regular old machine guns. because by this time, belts beat gravity fed ammo...
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and i thought that was to save weight and thus fuel ... cause paint is heavy and the way to japan was long.
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Meghan and Aquamarine, hehehe
i wonder where this is going to lead
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Credit cards, how do they work?
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I only brought up suicides because you kept on bringing up non sequiturs like dying from old age which is unpreventable with current technology when the subject is preventable deaths from lunatics with firearms (either take the firearm away from the lunatic or take the lunatic away from the firearm by putting the lunatic in an insane asylum).
A delayed suicide is often a prevented suicide. Basically, if the means to commit suicide are available in the home, suicidal people commit suicide. If people have to leave the house to buy a rope, gun, pills, et cetera, by they time they get back, they are not suicidal any more:
¡Bingo!:
In Orlando, if the shooter would have used a knife, he probably would not have murdered 49 people.
Yes, they sound like idiots, but it occurred to me that we may be talking at cross-purposes:
I feel that it is okay to protest at any point in life, including University. Maybe you mean protesting on the University-Campus. Certainly, if one discovers that the University enslaved HouseElves, it is appropriate to protest on campus, but generally no:
* If one spends so much time off-campus protesting that one earns an F- because of neglecting studies, that is on the student for having such bad time-management.
* If the University uses HouseElves for slaves and students protest, if during the protest, a student causes injury or damage, in addition to the appropriate criminal charges, the student should be subject to the University-Policies about discipline.
* Universities should not care what students do on their own time off-campus, but students should be 100% responsible for their academic performance.
People protesting should do it on their own time and on their own dime.
You are welcome, but what do you mean by "even intersexuals":
It is not the fault of the intersexuals that something went wrong, so that they have ambiguous genitalia. They suffer greatly at the hands of doctors:
Doctors often respond with scalpels, rendering intersexuals sexually frigid and sexually nonfunctional, but less ambiguous. Because of health-problems associated with deformed genitals and the problem of round pegs and square holes, most of these children require corrective surgery, but is should perserve as much sensation and function as possible and with input of the patient.
* The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA)
That is rhetorical parallelism. The Declaration of Sentiments is based off the American Declaration of Independents. It should not be taken literally.
Actually women where an oppressed class of people, who could neither vote nor hold public office. Women in Europe and North America received much worse treatment than they do not, but still much better treatment than under Sharia-Law.
I've never read enough Pound to get a feeling for him, and those fragments still aren't enough to get an idea of him past his apparent interest in Pre-Raphaelite and Parnasseian poets. I mean, I'm as big a Swinburne fan as you'll find outside of an English department, but I don't get what ol' Ezra was trying for with those name drops.
It occurs to me that in 10 years time there MUST have been some documentaries made about EQ. Even if the price looks like the 12 digit phone number used to call other countries this is First Contact. The ratings would justify almost any price. Vox populi vox Dei is the code that the Networks live by.
When I was a kid I watched "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". At the end there was a statement about all footage depicting real or authenticated natural facts. (IIRC). What I now know is that means is that sometimes they fake it.
After the May sweeps these may be on TV. If it's the 10th anniversary of the 1st contact, there could be something on PBS during pledge month.
Silver's reaction could vary from "This piece of. * won an award!? For what, racially offensive stupidity?" to "that's hilarious, it's so wrong in so many ways"
It could also have some things that make her think "Is that really how we look to outsiders?”
7420214 Saying College/university isn't the place for activism is a bit weird. Part of what they're designed to do is to make you think critically, which would naturally lead to questioning the current state of things. Being surrounded by people also (hopefully) thinking critically is how movements start.
All this talk about fascism and forced thinking is strange to my ears, too. Is it impossible that people could independently arrive at the same conclusion?
Ain't Trudeau the guy that does Dunesbury? I've heard of Putin, never heard of the rest. Heard of Tony Blair because he was mentioned in the news section of Saturday Night Live. To save my life couldn't tell you who is in charge of Canada or Mexico.
7421198 True, but it is not really what she would read about, the african and arabic fronts aren't the "main" story of the war and unless she took a very complete book, it will be glossed over. Same for the use of horse to carry stuff.
Not to mention that horse used to pull a wagon don't exactly charge.
Has she started reading her book about World War I?
7420199 Yeah. Poetry. Let's go with that. You'd have to imbibe some highly questionable substances so you can feel colors and taste numbers to call it that. You'd have to trip balls like that guy in Smoking Aces.
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Anyway's, yes I know it does seem strange that I say that college and university isn't the place for activism, but it's also strange to me that a place that is supposed to try to make people learn about subjects and be taught critical thinking is also a place for protesting and activism as well. It kinda makes me question why these activities are so strong among 20-something students. I'm not sure about the answer to that.
Nice to see you again.
I could be cynical and say that these students still have the bright eyes of youth and finding out about the various injustices that happen around the world, try to do something about it by usually doing something inconsequential like a march at some random place or making a hash tag. God speed, those bright young lads. Or I could go full conspiracy and say that these students are encouraged by the overly Leftist professors to become social justice activists in promotion of any ideology from BLM to Marxism.
And yeah, given enough time and study, people can independently come to the same conclusion, but ideas can be fed through a particular lens. I just hope people are still thinking critically when they get the information.
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Yeah, I kind of tend to do that at times since my mind can get some ideas jumbled. And I do agree these lunatics should be put in asylums or kept close watch in case anything suspicious happens. (The Florida shooter would have been caught sooner if his neighbors and co-workers weren't afraid of being labeled as racists.)
And having banned guns will be more likely to prevent suicide? Seems a little nonsensical to me since by that logic, banned over the counter drugs and rope will prevent suicide.
You can thank Islam for that.
I had a laugh because it reminded me on an incident exactly like that 2 years ago.
Uhh, the people who's genitals aren't fully formed as male or female at birth. Birth defects. And yeah, the way doctors try to "fix" them at birth is horrendously cruel. I've been on that site before and I agree with it. Intersexed people are the only kind of people in general that I'll acknowledge as neither male nor female, but not transexuals or the "I'm a man but now I'm a woman today" type of person. Physical deformities is one thing, but psychological problems and trendy hipster garbage is another.
You mean fluff piece words strewn in to speeches to make them sound more important?
Reading through the Sentiments, I keep thinking of little nuggets of information I've picked up. The document reads like it's men's fault in general for not allowing freedom to women, but I keep thinking the problems they are complaining of is more like classism, the infusion of religious doctrine into family life, and natural human biology expressed through behaviors and social life. For example, land or business owners in general had the most political power in many countries pre-sufferage. Women who owned these could technically vote. There's even a news article I found some months prior saying an early 1800's or so British voting ledger showed a lot of female voters. Roughly 30-40% I think. So yeah, I don't believe that women were a fully oppressed class throughout history.
I agree. I don't really eat them for breakfast raw, but I'll munch on them.
not to mention stupidly expensive.
my lit class was essentially arranged by era. Romanticism, transcendentalism, etc.
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does the cutie mark make ponies good at things, or do they get the cutie mark because they are good at it? Personally I think it's the later. Fluttershy wasn't good at entertaining when she had Pinkies cutie mark . A pet peeve I have is when people assume that ponies can't be good at things that aren't their cutie mark. If I was a pony, I'm not sure what my cutie mark would even be. I'm currently in college for mechanical engineering and I like it and i'm good at it. But I also like and am good at electrical engineering, chemistry (probably chemical engineering as well), and cooking. So what would my cutie mark be? I have no idea.
To be fair, it was only Ponyville, a small earth pony town, that was fielding amateurs (and that was becasue of Rainbow Dash). I'd assume other other larger cities with larger populations of flying species would be fielding professional fliers.
I'm an English major and I really refuse to take a poetry class. I'm not good at finding out the meanings of the poems we read and I honestly don't like it when poems don't rhyme
I've taken classes that included poetry or me having to write poetry before however, and some things about poems I don't really get. We read this one poem that honestly looked like a short story paragraph. It was just this one huge paragraph. How was that a poem? Could I write a story and classify it as a poem?
I gotta say though that I'm still proud of this one poem I wrote a few years ago for class. Poetry is so hard for me and I really think I did well with it...and it rhymed! Yay!
7422405 No. This is complete bullshit. The first time any woman gained the right to vote in elections under UK law was as part of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which also granted the vote to non-property owning men and started the UK's transition towards democracy.
The requirements a woman had to meet were:
1) To be no less than THIRTY YEARS OLD, because the ruling class' belief was that Women took until their 30th birthday to equal the intellectual ability of a 21 year old man.
2)To own land or business valuable enough to incur specific taxes, or to be married to the owner of a land or business, because poor women were considered to be permanently retarded through poor breeding.
For those who met 1) but not 2) there was a special, limited exemption for those women who held a degree. However, the limitation of this option was that A) you had to be one of the few women in 1918 Britain to be able to afford education past the age of 14, B) you had to be one of the few women in 1918 Britain to be able to afford education to the University level, C) You had to be one of the few women in 1918 Britain to be ACCEPTED to university, when the accepted consensus was that women were too stupid, and finally D), which is that the vote granted under this extraordinary sentiment was limited only to the constituency of the University she had attended.
I have to stress here that before the passing of this act of parliament, NO WOMEN, ANYWHERE IN THE UK, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, COULD VOTE. NONE. It didn't matter if they were rich. It didn't matter if they owned a business. They were forbidden. Anything you have read otherwise is wrong. This is undisputed historical fact.
It should be noted that the granting of this extremely limited and unequal suffrage was the direct result of the feminist suffragette movement and it's twin, the socialist movement, becoming too great to ignore. It was part of a whole package of parliamentary acts intended primarily to prevent the extremely common wartime mutinies transforming into a civilian revolutionary movement as those soldiers were demobbed- this is why they enacted the first gun control laws at the same time as they were granting boons.
In honor of John Dillinger, who was better at this:
A brand new cake of soap,
On it I placed my hope.
I carved and shaped it with such care,
For jail was making me go spare,
I yelled and waved it in the air!
Now I'm hanging from a rope.
Jesus-tap-dancing-Christ that's adorable.
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I agree. Adowabu!
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There's nothing quite like playfighting your marefriend. And she is adorable.
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It's too late for this, of course, but thinking about it they probably DO have better soap & shampoo for horses. Try Pet Smart, or look at Amazon. Also, I'd make a small bet that Pegasi don't like to get their feathers wet (based on ducks, they can't fly w wet feathers) & use something like a shower cap for their wings + maybe mane & tail for some showers.
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I'm sure that they do . . . although Mane & Tail shampoo (which is what she normally uses) was actually a horse shampoo that was bottled for humans. Supposedly it's the same formula.
That's a good question. They obviously fly in storms, so they must be able to get wet wings and still fly . . . I think that they have some kind of oil or something that protects them and lets the water roll off.
Some stories have them have an oil gland under each wing (as some birds do), and part of preening is to rub that on their feathers.
I'd forgotten how adorable she gets with the bird feeder. My god.
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Silver Glow and the Bird Feeder could practically be its own series.
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Sunset Shimmer is quite insistent that they market it for human usage. (Seriously, go look at a bottle of the stuff and then at the shot of her bathroom we get in one of the shorts)
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They do market it for human usage, at least in Michigan. That used to be my preferred brand, in fact.
I know, but its inclusion in an ex-horse's bathroom is clearly something that would be joked about.