Interesting reads
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@Salacious-Crumb have you read the reviews on Amazon ?
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Finished Utopia for Realists, and How We Get There by Rutger Bregman
Basically Rutger is a rabid lefty socialist, and this is his thoughts on the future for people.
As i expected, I don't agree with a number of his conclusions or points, but, the book did make me think about a number of things/attitudes/beliefs i have always taken for granted, and have a think about why i hold those attitudes.
It's pretty light on real, thought out solutions, but then i don't think that is his overall aim. It's also well researched to find the statistics that help his view.
The surprise to me was how far he varies from the rabid lefties we hear from so much these days. A lot of his points mirror things said by our righties on here. He also spends a chapter decrying the victim mentality of what he calls the "underdog socialist".
So. i found it an interesting read, if only to have a look at an outlook at odds with my own. It helps that he is an engaging and enthusiastic writer, so it stays light throughout (to its detriment at times).
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Some things never change apparently. https://taskandpurpose.com/penis-drawing-hadrians-wall
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'The cancer did not care that he was a good man, the best I've ever known'
'Grief is an ocean, fathomless and wide, and on the surface its most impelling forces arrive in waves.'
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Worth revisiting after nine years
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds
As Greece’s debt threatens the rest of Europe and Wall Street, Michael Lewis wonders if the Greeks have wrecked their own ancient civilization.
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Interesting empathetic interview with Tony Slattery
Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’
His appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway? made him a major comedy and improv star in the 90s, but then his life fell apart. He talks about love, addiction, bipolar disorder and a long-buried secret
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@Stockcar86 very sad. Fuck he looks bad
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@Stockcar86 Wow. Some people don't age well at all do they?
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@antipodean I guess the two bottles of vodka and 10 grams of coke per day wasn't the best moisturising regime.
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@dogmeat said in Interesting reads:
@antipodean I guess the two bottles of vodka and 10 grams of coke per day wasn't the best moisturising regime.
Yeah an addictive personality really ages people. Somewhere in their forties they add an additional twenty years.
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@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
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@Stockcar86 said in Interesting reads:
Interesting empathetic interview with Tony Slattery
Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’
His appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway? made him a major comedy and improv star in the 90s, but then his life fell apart. He talks about love, addiction, bipolar disorder and a long-buried secret
I remember him and that show. By god he looks like absolute hammered shit nowadays and yeah, really sad. You really do assume people like that retire from public life into some luxurious pad in the country with servants and lots of sports cars.
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@Chris-B said in Interesting reads:
@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
I loved that guys books as a kid, after working with his nephew and reading the book written by Barrys brother I'm not surprised she still loathes him.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Chris-B said in Interesting reads:
@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
I loved that guys books as a kid, after working with his nephew and reading the book written by Barrys brother I'm not surprised she still loathes him.
Remind me.....what did he do that made him such a prick ?
I mainly remember him from the Hilux ads.
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@MN5 said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Chris-B said in Interesting reads:
@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
I loved that guys books as a kid, after working with his nephew and reading the book written by Barrys brother I'm not surprised she still loathes him.
Remind me.....what did he do that made him such a prick ?
I mainly remember him from the Hilux ads.
Beat up women he was in relationships with, abandoned a bunch of his kids. He was pretty fucked up, his dad used to beat him pretty badly and he figured out not crying or showing pain used to wind his dad up and that was his best way of getting back at him .
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@MN5 said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Chris-B said in Interesting reads:
@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
I loved that guys books as a kid, after working with his nephew and reading the book written by Barrys brother I'm not surprised she still loathes him.
Remind me.....what did he do that made him such a prick ?
I mainly remember him from the Hilux ads.
Beat up women he was in relationships with, abandoned a bunch of his kids. He was pretty fucked up, his dad used to beat him pretty badly and he figured out not crying or showing pain used to wind his dad up and that was his best way of getting back at him .
Married five times too !!!!!
Wow, fuck that !
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The human-fat market of the 16th and 17th centuries was so lucrative that butchers during the French Revolution offered freshly executed “graisse de guillotiné” as a specialty
The Lucrative Black Market in Human Fat
In 16th- and 17th-century Europe, physicians, butchers, and executioners alike hawked the salutary effects of Axungia hominis.
