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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
one of the most annoying things about writing for a US audience is theyāre fucking illiterate and alluding to books confuses them
wanna grab editors by the throat and go āJUST WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU PEOPLE EVEN DOING IN HIGH SCHOOLā
actual example from today: āwho the hell is Fagin never heard of himā
Fagin, of course, the cocreator of Steely Danā¦ right?
yes thatās the guy does nobody remember The Nightfly
So cards on the table here, Iāve never actually read Oliver Twist. But even neo-google is able to point me at enough useful details to get enough of a gist to follow it.
And thatās assuming you donāt pick it up from Wishbone, the animated talking dogs version , or the muppets parody that Iām sure exists somewhere.
@YourNetworkIsHaunted
I never read it but somehow absorbed bits from the ambient culture. Might have watched a version at some point.
Age may be part of it. Iām 53. Perhaps Oliver Twist stuff was more visible in US culture in the 70s and 80s than it was later.
The bleakest lol. Your editor said that?
in this case it was some dickhead, but Iāve had this shit from editors too
Reading books in US high school was an exercise in frustration. There werenāt many books assigned, and not a lot of them vibed with me. Most of my classmates did the minimum reading they could get away with (and this was before cellphones were everywhere).
Also I once read through the entirety of the Lord of the Flies before the first quiz on it and so got a quiz answer wrong because I got mixed up due to remembering stuff that happened later in the book which Iām still bitter about.
Our AP English teacher marked down everyone in our class for failing to identify a quote that wasnāt in the translation of LāEtranger that we all read. She refused to give our points back even after I brought a copy of the French original and showed that the translation in our edition was correct when hers was not.
Imagine being afraid of allusions to classic literature in your own native language.
Itās fine to miss a reference. I do it all the time and make my friends do the same. Not getting a reference is not a punishment to you, itās a bonus to those who do get it.
thatās what got me: this guy was pissed off someone referenced Fagin at all, the crime of making the bozo feel uncomfortable at missing something by not reading