Reading about top selling UK singles, and 'Mull of Kintyre' by Wings is up there. Sold more than 'She Loves You', more than 'Hey Jude', more than 'Let it Be' or 'Yesterday', you get the idea.
2 million copies in the UK and I have heard no one talking about this song, despite living here. It's crazy.
Any similar stories? Songs that sold like crazy and then disappeared without a trace?
Student loans? Seriously? That's why they're criminals?
First off, duh, people get into crime because they're in financial trouble. Second, that is either a very disingenious or an uninformed argument. The only two characters that we know even went to college are Neenah and Eli.
> The developers say that Saints Rowβs focus is, at least early in the game, going to focus on the material concerns of its young crew. These disaffected millennials turn to crime to, for instance, put food on their table, feel part of a community and pay off their student loans.
Even within this very interview are not only two other motivations given, but they are also very clearly listed as examples of motivations. You might also bunch putting food on their table and paying off student loans together as economic pressure. It's the year 2021 and some of the most pressing political concerns Americans have right now are the stagnation of wages in the face of inflation and the ever increasing prices of real estate and rent. People are indebted for life with hundreds of thousands of dollars just to go to college to have a chance at actually getting a good job, and then they still end up working minimum wage. Nothing is more topical than young people disillusioned with the system and fucked over by it. And since this is an open world crime sandbox video game, they turn to crime.
Eli looks like Steve Urkel, not like a Gangster
Yeah, I agree, his character model has some clear deficiencies. His character, however, does not. From the little we see of him in the Welcome to Santo Ileso trailer, he is not some goofy, nerdy dork. Rather he is a serious, but sarcastic, criminal businessman.
They censored the game! Look what they did to Freckle Bitch's and Rim Jobs!
First off, the developers were always split on the name Freckle Bitch's because there was absolutely nothing clever about it. (Source, about half an hour in) Also, changing your image and marketing to something simplistic and short is very much something real companies do. Like, I could easily see Burger King changing their logo to just have BK on it.
Secondly, Jim Rob's is literally the same joke as Rim Jobs. It takes no effort or imagination to figure it out. Maybe you need jokes spelled out to you, I don't know, but it is very much still
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but on the other hand it's real fucking hot and i'm way too horny so it's hard to say
also whoever's transforming me into a succubus could you be there faster it's taking forever
/uj really it's taking forever
(Hesiod also had an additional fifth non-metal age between "Iron" and "Bronze" but that doesn't affect the question so please don't inform me of that)
I was reading about the wild men dance of a town in Bavaria that can be dated back to Celtic times. Jumping around, I saw that there is a Swiss myth about peasant farmers capturing wild men to get their knowledge which echos Roman stories also.
It makes intuitive sense that if there stories are shared across European folklore, it dates back to a common point in time when agricultural people moving in, settling, and coming into contact with βwild peopleβ with deep knowledge of the land.
Humans have an amazing ability to tell stories and remember events from the far far past, one of our greatest strengths I would say. However do any non Stone Age peoples (ie those who go not currently nor recently used stone or bones as the primary material for the creation of tools and objects) have a cultural memory of the Neo or Paleolithic? Are there any cultural memories of the time before we discovered how to farm?
I'm making this post in order to inquire about and perhaps to generate wider interest in a cultural phenomenon I've noted but which doesn't seem to have a name, thus leading me to dub it the 'fossilized cultural memory' phenomenon, of which I've uncovered two examples so far.
Basically, there seems to be a phenomenon in which a culture, typically a small and oral one, will have a legend about an animal or a people that might have existed a very, very long time ago in the ancient past, but which following said, animal or people's extinction, take on a legendary status, being somewhat 'fantasticalized'.
I have two examples:
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The Inuit tell of a race of giants called the Tuniit. They were supposedly much taller and stronger than the Inuit but who were very shy. Archeological evidence has pointed to these legendary figures as actually being the Dorset culture, the poorly understood arctic people who inhabited the area before the Thule (who themselves became the Inuit). The Dorset culture existed between 500 BCE and 1000 or 1500 CE.
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The bunyip is a legendary Australian creature (a cryptid, really) purported to exist by many Australian aboriginal peoples. Descriptions of its appearance vary, but sometimes it as described as being a large, black, seal-like dog creature and other times like a long-bodied, tusked creature with a long neck and small head. There is a theory that the origin of the Bunyip might be an ancient cultural memory of one of the species of Australian megafauna that have gone extinct, such as Diprotodon, Zygomaturus, and Nototherium. The Diprotodon died out 44,000 years ago, and Aboriginal Australians have inhabited their lands for 50,000 years.
Anyways, what do you think? I find this to be really interesting.
Hello all. I recently visited Indonesiaβs Aceh province, where the memory of the 2004 tsunami is everywhere. I realized that I wasnβt really sure what an equivalent would be for my country, and that got me curious about other countries. Half the countries in /r/askAsia would probably reply with the same thing, so I thought Iβd ask what this very non-oceanic region thought of when prompted.
To complicate things, letβs not include anything political like a massacre or a war. It doesnβt need to be a natural disaster per se (it could be something like a human stampede), but Iβm more interested in hearing about spontaneous tragedy than calculated political violence.
Thank you for your thoughts, hopefully this isnβt too obnoxious a question.
Iβm basically wondering if the ghosts of the commune haunted the early third republic in the years immediately following?
Although the Lionheart was, apparently, known to be a pretty good warrior, he seems to have been a pretty terrible King, spending almost no time actually in England, and much more concerned with the Crusades or goings-on in France. The main contribution he seems to have made to England as King was draining the treasury to pay for his ransom.
Yet he is a romanticized figure beyond any other medieval King of England, and perhaps beyond any King regardless of time period. Why did this come about!?
Where does "booi aha" fall in the spectrum of forced labor/slavery? I don't understand. Let me know if this needs to be more than one thread. If you have suggestions for books about Chinese slavery, that would be good. I read about booi aha in a book that compared them to European serfs but the authors don't read Chinese.
- Author: Aleida Assmann
- ISBN: 9780521764377 or ISBN: 9780521165877
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Recently read Pierre Nora's "Between History and Memory: Les Lieux de Memoire" and I'm looking for more texts that examine memory, specifically nostalgia for the past. Really broad topic I know, but I would appreciate any recommendations!
I'm talking about events that happened before recorded history, but that were passed down in oral history and legend in some form, and can be reasonably correlated. The existence of animals like mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers that co-existed with humans wouldn't qualify, but the "Great Mammoth Plague of 14329 BCE" would.
