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Oct 13, 2017
now THIS is an ally
Awe dude his sister died last year and she was gay.
And he had this huge mass wedding party to honor her.
And he called a bunch of celebrity chefs to make the food for it.
Wow this is… really cute?
I’m… sympathizing with Guy Fieri?
(And he did 101 gay weddings because he was trying to compare the Attorney General against marriage equality to Cruella DeVille, like, 101 dalmations.)
THE TRUE UNPROBLEMATIC FAVE
Come to think of it I never actually found a single reason to dislike him. To my knowledge he’s just a goofball who likes food.
Okay, so as far as I can tell, the whole thing people kinda roll their eyes about is Guy Fierei’s whole presentation. He’s loud and he’s got the bleached hair and he kinda seems like the annoying frat bro chanting “Shots!” at a party.
But.
Dude’s biggest show on TV is one where he drives around and highlights tiny restaurants that make good food. (And they do- I found my favorite pizza place in town because it was on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.) And they’re all little places, usually run by family or something, making food they love. So he’s doing an amazingly awesome thing for these small restaurants, driving a lot of business to them. I found this article that’s talking about how places see a definite bump in sales, and they can even tell when a repeat airs, because they’ll still get emails and stuff.
And there’s the fact that every time he goes out to film an episode, he invites a kid along from the Make-a-Wish foundation- actually, he invites their whole family, so no one feels left out. Apparently, that happens on all his shows, which is pretty amazing. Again, this is because of his sister- she was diagnosed with cancer as a kid, and beat it, though she died of melanoma a few years ago. So because he went through that as a kid, he does a lot to help out families who are dealing with that sort of thing. It’s pretty awesome.
I admit it, I’ve made fun of him before, because he does have that whole attitude that kinda grates. But when you put that aside, he’s a dude who’s enjoying himself, helping out a lot of people, and talking a lot about food he thinks is delicious. So good for him. There’s worse things in the world.
I have always and will always love guy.
he’s such a big goof…what’s not to love…Y'all Guy is wonderful. He got his start on Next Food Network Star and I remember that season very vividly. I saw it as a kid. He just wants people to have fun while they eat. That’s literally his only goal. There was a challenge where they had to make cupcakes for 5 year olds and everyone made these boring ass cupcakes like ‘Oh they’re decorated like the 4 seasons see its educational’ and they were criminally dull. The only thing that was changed was the frosting. And Guy comes up and starts making all these crazily shaped sushi cupcakes. Like cutting them into goofy shapes, making them bite sized, modeling them after dragons and stuff, it was so cool and the kids were EXCITED. He gets what makes thing fun on a fundamental, basic level. He’s not a douchebag frat boy. He’s that crazy uncle you were always excited to see at family gatherings.
Go watch Guy’s Grocery Games. Its on Hulu. He’s so goofy and fun and he’s just as excited for the winners as the winners themselves. The show really makes me happy to watch.
Y’all I joke on Guy Fieri but he geninely is an amazing motherfucker.
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Oct 13, 2017
You know what I love about A Knight’s Tale?
The director, during the director’s commentary, makes a point of informing the audience that the female blacksmith character is historically accurate, and that widows of blacksmiths did in fact take over their late husbands’ blacksmithing businesses in medieval Europe and it was one of the relatively rare circumstances wherein women were permitted to legally run their own businesses in medieval Europe.
This is literally the only historically accurate detail in the entire movie.
I am 300% behind this EXCEPT it’s actually not the only historically accurate detail! A Knight’s Tale is, in addition to being anachronistically soundtracked and costumed, a really fabulous example of the medieval tradition of Courtly Love. The exact language isn’t all the same obviously (the nobles would have been speaking French, probably, and our boys would definitely have been speaking in Middle English most of the time) but the dynamic between Jocelyn and William is spot on. Courtly Love is the root of where we get most of our modern ideas of romance, and is a tradition nebulously started in France, that spread as French culture spread. It’s intimately tied to the notion of Chivalry, which applied more specifically to knights, and became pervasive more or less concurrently. By the 1400s it was well entrenched in all aspects of English noble society, and dictated the way nobles related to each other, to commoners, to knights, and to royals. In particular, all courting rituals were dictated pretty strictly by the rules of Courtly Love. The Lover would fall in love with a Lady (usually) of higher rank, often married or otherwise unavailable. He would then employ wit, charm, and creativity to gain her attention. He would be expected to think of nothing else, prioritize her above all else, waste away for want of her gaze, obey her every whim… He would write poetry, songs, elaborate letters. He would yearn for a token of her affection. He would be transfixed by her gaze, so that if she looked at him he could not physically look away (seriously, look up some of the stories about Lancelot fighting three knights behind his back because he was caught by Guinevere’s eyes, and to look away from her would be fatal).
William falls for Jocelyn before he ever speaks with her. They then engage in witty banter, wherein she refuses to give him her name, and proves herself both smarter and more genteel than he is. This is par for the course with Courtly Love. She doesn’t give him her name until he’s proved himself a bit. She then makes him prove himself further, “I want you to lose,” and he does it, even though it means both personal embarrassment and physical pain. In the meantime, they engage in more love-talk, both in person and via letters. I actually can’t think of a better film example of Courtly Love. It’s well-interpreted for a modern audience, but it sticks to the form like glue. It’s amazing and every time I watch it I fall more and more in love with that movie.
Also, the jousting is pretty accurate. They use real jousting rules, and the portrayal of it as a huge spectator sport is obviously played up, but more or less true.
TL;DR: A Knight’s Tale is a fabulous example of a very well-researched movie adapted for a modern audience. It preserves all the important bits of Courtly Love, Chivalry, and Jousting, as well as details like women being blacksmiths, and nobody wanting to joust royalty.
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Oct 13, 2017
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Oct 13, 2017
social anxiety isn’t just quiet people who are shy!!! i may be talking a lot but internally i’m panicking and punching myself in the face for every word that comes out of my mouth thank u
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Oct 13, 2017
Fun fact: cats don’t just wiggle their butts before they pounce out of excitement - they’re also making tiny adjustments to the position of their feet in order to more precisely aim the ensuing lunge.
Or, in other words: your cat is calibrating.
Loading pounce.exe
Initiating…
Analyzing target coordinates
Trajectory adjustments required, initiate calibration protocol wigglebutt.exe
Wiggling…
Wiggling…
Calibration complete. Initiating pounce in 3…
2…
1…
Pounce initiated
Results: Slammed head first into wall. Please debug wigglebutt.exe
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Oct 13, 2017
Intentional misspellings and unusual handling of words is one of my favorite “minor” memes tbh I love it so much. Here are some of my all time favorites:
▪ Replacing “ck” with “cc” (ie. succ, thicc)
▪ Replacing “t” with “d” and vice-versa (ie. gotdamn,shid,blocket)
▪ Just… every kind of weird variation you can do with the word “fuck” (ie. fuckening, fucky)
▪ Weird jumbling of curse words that somewhat resemble something coherent (ie. mother fuck of a shit, shut the hell your mouth)
▪ Replacing a vowel in a word with another (ie. borger)
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Oct 13, 2017
1) they expensive bruh 2) none of us kno the dif btwn a fucking diamond and some fancy ass glass ur capitalist rock hierarchy has no control over us
3) mostly mined with slave labor
4) we get excited when our date buys us an appetizer, we don’t even comprehend people buying us rocks that would force us into debt for ten years
5) They aren’t actually that rare and the price is artificially inflated.
Pro tip from a former Jared’s salesperson: You want a sparkly white rock that will look like a diamond to the untrained eye and will literally cost the price of a nice dinner for two? Created white sapphire. They’re lab grown and cost *pennies* to make, so you can get a 1 or 2 carat white sapphire for like… $30-80 probably. You can get one as huge as you like, perfectly clear, perfectly flawless. And no one will ever be able to tell the difference except a professional appraiser. Also, sapphires are the second-hardest gemstone (right after diamonds) so they are very durable! Very unlikely that they’ll chip or crack. Get that bitch set in sterling silver and you are GOOD TO GO. Whole thing should cost you less than $200 unless you get a fancy band with a lot of extra stones. Of course, created sapphires come in every color of the rainbow, so if you want something more exciting than plain white, you TOTALLY CAN.
Created sapphires and silver: The poor Millennial’s engagement ring.
THANK YOU EX-JARED’S BASED GOD.
engagement rings: HACKED
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Oct 13, 2017
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Oct 13, 2017
First contribution to the p5 fandom and I’m already displaying how salty I am that i can’t date any of mA B O I S
Oct 13, 2017
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Oct 9, 2017
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