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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 4, 2024 12:33:40 GMT -5
OK, but whence cometh the word "cis"? Is it short for something, or is it an acronym or what? Apparently it's from this: the Romans used to divide Gaul into cisalpine and transalpine regions, which appears to be a really weak joke on "trans", undoubtedly from some wanker on the far right. Well, that's...obscure.
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Post by Deeky on Feb 4, 2024 18:48:30 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it originated in the trans community.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 5, 2024 10:06:58 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it originated in the trans community. A really weak joke on "trans" from some wanker in the trans community. I stand corrected.
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Post by El Santo on Feb 5, 2024 12:30:36 GMT -5
Apparently it's from this: the Romans used to divide Gaul into cisalpine and transalpine regions, which appears to be a really weak joke on "trans", undoubtedly from some wanker on the far right. Well, that's...obscure. Okay, one more time... It isn't an acronym or a joke or any other sort of play on words. It's barely even an abbreviation. "Cis-" is just a Latin prefix that has the opposite meaning from the prefix "trans-". Which is to say, it means "on this side of" rather than "on that side of." We do this shit all the time in English-- stick a Latin or Greek prefix on the front of an existing word with Latin or Greek roots in order to create a new word that sounds Officially Sciency, and then decide some time (possibly decades!) later that it would be helpful to use the opposite prefix to create another new Officially Sciency word with the opposite meaning. For instance... We build a plane that can fly faster than the speed of sound-- it's supersonic! Wait-- I guess that means everything slower than that is subsonic now? Sure. Why not? We figure out how to make technological use of sonic frequencies higher than anything we can hear, but "supersonic" is already taken. No problem-- they're ultrasonic! "Beyond sound" instead of "above sound." But there are also pitch ranges too low for the human ear to detect. The opposite of "ultra-" is "infra-", so are those frequencies infrasonic? Sure. Why not? And now we have a word to describe how elephants talk to each other over long distances. Pioneering psychiatrists decide that we ought to have a word for people who prefer to fuck members of their own sex that's more clinical and less implicitly pejorative than "sodomite." "Sex" comes from Latin via French, so the most correct term is probably "idemsexual," making a prefix out of the Latin word for "same." That sounds fuck-awful in English, though, doesn't it? Fine-- then we'll mix roots and go Greek instead: sodomites are now "homosexuals!" Wait, though-- wouldn't that imply that people who prefer opposite-sex partners are heterosexual, since "hetero-" ("different" or "mixed") is the opposite of "homo-" ("same" or "uniform")? Sure. Why not? And to bring this back around to where we started, some people have or develop gender identities contrary to the one proclaimed by the sex organs they were born with-- they're transsexual! Or maybe transgender! Or maybe both! Whatever-- we'll figure out the nuances eventually. But wait-- doesn't that mean we need a word for people whose gender identity does match the sex organs they were born with? Okay, so what Latin prefix means the opposite of "trans-"? It's "cis-"? Right, then-- "cisgender" or "cissexual" it is! And just "cis" for short, since we're already doing that with "trans" as a shorthand for "transsexual" or "transgender."
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Post by Deeky on Feb 5, 2024 22:43:06 GMT -5
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Feb 24, 2024 5:48:16 GMT -5
Should I succumb and make a Facebook page for Weebles Wobble? Mark "Only Looking Slightly Better Because Musk Has Turned Out to Be Such an Unbelievable Fuckwit" Zuckerberg kind of already has my information because I'm on Instagram, but I'm wondering if I would get more bombarded with shit if I went onto FB. Also, I largely loathe social media and really don't want to, but I'd also really like some people to hear the new EP (and the old one, for that matter) and I wonder if that would make any difference whatsoever. (There are also a few people that it would be easier to reconnect with through FB, so that's also a bonus.)
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Post by Mayzshon on Feb 26, 2024 12:59:50 GMT -5
Should I succumb and make a Facebook page for Weebles Wobble? Mark "Only Looking Slightly Better Because Musk Has Turned Out to Be Such an Unbelievable Fuckwit" Zuckerberg kind of already has my information because I'm on Instagram, but I'm wondering if I would get more bombarded with shit if I went onto FB. Also, I largely loathe social media and really don't want to, but I'd also really like some people to hear the new EP (and the old one, for that matter) and I wonder if that would make any difference whatsoever. (There are also a few people that it would be easier to reconnect with through FB, so that's also a bonus.) It's free, probably wouldn't take long to set up, so I don't think it would hurt. I don't know if it would help, but it probably wouldn't hurt.
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Post by Mayzshon on Feb 26, 2024 13:09:33 GMT -5
I just listened to Aimee Mann talking about "Alone again, Naturally" and the juxtaposition of a bouncy tune and really, really depressing lyrics. I can think of several songs with happy music and downer words, but has the opposite ever occurred? Really joyful lyrics with a dirge like tune? Imagine Pharrell's "Happy" in a minor key.
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Post by Deeky on Feb 26, 2024 14:03:24 GMT -5
This?
edit: not as dirgey as i remember.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Feb 27, 2024 5:52:00 GMT -5
Should I succumb and make a Facebook page for Weebles Wobble? Mark "Only Looking Slightly Better Because Musk Has Turned Out to Be Such an Unbelievable Fuckwit" Zuckerberg kind of already has my information because I'm on Instagram, but I'm wondering if I would get more bombarded with shit if I went onto FB. Also, I largely loathe social media and really don't want to, but I'd also really like some people to hear the new EP (and the old one, for that matter) and I wonder if that would make any difference whatsoever. (There are also a few people that it would be easier to reconnect with through FB, so that's also a bonus.) It's free, probably wouldn't take long to set up, so I don't think it would hurt. I don't know if it would help, but it probably wouldn't hurt. Yes, but my soul, Mayz! MY SOUL!!!
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Post by Mayzshon on Feb 27, 2024 12:26:09 GMT -5
It's free, probably wouldn't take long to set up, so I don't think it would hurt. I don't know if it would help, but it probably wouldn't hurt. Yes, but my soul, Mayz! MY SOUL!!! Please, do you think anyone who's been on the internet for more than a year still has a soul to speak of?
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Feb 28, 2024 5:40:28 GMT -5
Brother, you're at ZAQB, a.k.a. Soul Central.
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Post by El Santo on Feb 28, 2024 22:12:08 GMT -5
Should I succumb and make a Facebook page for Weebles Wobble? Mark "Only Looking Slightly Better Because Musk Has Turned Out to Be Such an Unbelievable Fuckwit" Zuckerberg kind of already has my information because I'm on Instagram, but I'm wondering if I would get more bombarded with shit if I went onto FB. Also, I largely loathe social media and really don't want to, but I'd also really like some people to hear the new EP (and the old one, for that matter) and I wonder if that would make any difference whatsoever. (There are also a few people that it would be easier to reconnect with through FB, so that's also a bonus.) There is absolutely no fucking point in making a Facebook page for a band anymore. Or at any rate, not unless you're turning enough profit through other channels that you can afford to feed the Payola Maw in order to make sure that the people supposedly following your posts actually see any of them.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 29, 2024 10:54:15 GMT -5
What about MySpace?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 5, 2024 11:50:17 GMT -5
Anybody hear any good humpback whale jokes, lately?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 5, 2024 16:53:10 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 1, 2024 10:52:05 GMT -5
Does anyone else go to the movies still? I ask because I like to now and then and I'm surprised at how there is always some Christian movie playing at our local theater. Shit that gets no mention in any media beyond church bulletins always gets shown down here. It'd be cool if it was something like "If Footmen Tire You, etc", but these are all new crap from some well-funded alt-Hollywood hellscape.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 1, 2024 13:16:39 GMT -5
Does anyone else go to the movies still? I ask because I like to now and then and I'm surprised at how there is always some Christian movie playing at our local theater. Shit that gets no mention in any media beyond church bulletins always gets shown down here. It'd be cool if it was something like "If Footmen Tire You, etc", but these are all new crap from some well-funded alt-Hollywood hellscape. I rarely go, but of course I dropped everything to see. GODZILLA MINUS ONE!
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Post by Deeky on Apr 1, 2024 14:00:37 GMT -5
Does anyone else go to the movies still? I recently went to see Dune Part 2.
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Post by El Santo on Apr 1, 2024 15:06:09 GMT -5
Does anyone else go to the movies still? Juniper and I spent Holy Saturday evening watching Immaculate, which is like a cross between Rosemary's Baby and The Boys from Brazil, but with the scabrously anticlerical attitude of a 1970's Naughty Nun movie. Instead of sexually exploiting and torturing the novices under their control, the leaders of this crooked convent want to forcibly impregnate one of them with a clone of Jesus made from DNA scraped off of a nail from the True Cross. It's the exploitation horror movie the modern Roman Catholic Church deserves! And then a couple weeks before that, we also saw Dune, Part Two, and a friend of mine and I caught a revival screening of Delicatessen at one of Baltimore's artier theaters. (So now I guess you know what roughly half of the reviews I post on my site three weeks from now are going to be, huh?)
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