I am Napoleon

[luckynumbah7]

You are wishing luck to the oracle of Delphi?

Well, there are emotions of frustrated amusement flagrantly laced with resignation at the ambient levels of future floating stupidity to endure during the whole ...'process'. Bit o'luck would be in order, if only to reduce the impending migraine.

But how often does introspection happen, really.

(Besides, I've always preferred Tiresias)

 

[belamyi]

Well, there are emotions of frustrated amusement flagrantly laced with resignation at the ambient levels of future floating stupidity to endure during the whole ...'process'. Bit o'luck would be in order, if only to reduce the impending migraine.

But how often does introspection happen, really.

(Besides, I've always preferred Tiresias)

You mean someone is feeling a bit pissed? Y?

Is that stupidity absorbed or reflected?

 

[belamyi]

(Besides, I've always preferred Tiresias)

Hm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breasts_of_Tiresias

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[luckynumbah7]

^^^^Oooo, I'll be watching that later, hadn't heard of it. I wonder how they deal with the inevitable 'Norah Vincent' issue (she had a bit of a mental breakdown during/after shifting genders, which she did for information's sake - undercover journalism). Such things rarely work out mentally in the long-term when your reasons conflict with your experience.

Whereas I am doing just peachy and Oh! I'm apparently up a nickel in my funds. And while I've always appreciated offers of assistance, the yanking of a football would withstand. So even though I've no need I'd still have to decline on the obvious grounds.

 

[belamyi]

^ It was not an offer... it was a suggestion

Again, 'll elaborate on the rest later in the day.

Oh, I just had the time to look up that Norah, and it seems that her experience amounted, basically, to discover that there are brainless jerks with vaginas.

 

[luckynumbah7]

^ It was not an offer... it was a suggestion

Again, 'll elaborate on the rest later in the day.

Oh, I just had the time to look up that Norah, and it seems that her experience amounted, basically, to discover that there are brainless jerks with vaginas.

Mmhm. I think one of her novels definitely suffered from bias. All she managed to get out of the experience was mental anguish and the knowledge that jerkdom isn't related to genitalia - and really, that should've been figured out in an elementary school age-range. She also seems to have difficulty separating gendered expectations from overall social privilege, which isn't good when you're an investigative journalist. And in this case I'd consider it doubly damning as the experiences she relates are bound to be hued & exacerbated by the misgendered stress she put herself under. Not a bad writer though, and she does have some strong points.

 

[luckynumbah7]

You mean someone is feeling a bit pissed? Y?

Is that stupidity absorbed or reflected?

Mm, irascibly resigned. As for reflected or absorbed, I'd go with neither. An itchy fog of depressing probability acknowledged.

Or so I imagine.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I gained some moments of happiness with dear Greta in a harried time—

 

[pat grimshaw]

Do you think Greta Garbo is prettier than myself?

 

[belamyi]

^ I hope so. I always thought you were a man but... don't tell me you're that sort of Australian...

 

[Essex Boy]

Do you think Greta Garbo is prettier than myself?

Napoleon died of stomach cancer so he would’ve lost weight but beyond that, this death mask is way more representative of what he looked like versus what a painting would represent him as. The artists were well-known at the time for embellishing in a positive manner how very powerful and rich people looked in paintings.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/death-mask-napoleon-bonaparte-1821/

 

[pat grimshaw]

@ post #70


That sort is trash.

Brainless, hopeless trash.


We have a new city mayor which allows and encourages hopeless trash like this to beg on EVERY city corner.


https://www.google.com/search?q=beg...0IzhAhXKso8KHZcrBr8Q_AUIDigB&biw=1364&bih=814

 

[belamyi]

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BONUS

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I think it is a way of highlighting the ridiculousness of self proclaimed gender

so, as I suspected, this is an unprovoked attack on trans. troll on my good fellows.

 

[belamyi]

^ Right, like 'self-proclaimed gender' was a new, "liberal" thing

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Gender was never such a big issue, until there came people asking some people to "behave like men" and some other to "behave like women"... the sort of people who nowadays complain all that silly fuss about being male and female being led to the end from the point from which they started it off.

 

[pat grimshaw]

The important question is: do you feel like a man? Napoleon was hardly a 'real' French, but he is said to have been a man...

Are you saying I'm manly but insufficiently French?

Je me sens français donc je suis français.

 

[belamyi]

^ No, I'm saying that Mr. Bone Apart was real in what he was...

 

[pat grimshaw]

What about this outfit?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Joseph-Bonaparte.jpg

Knee-length and lots of ermine.

 

[Essex Boy]

^
Full marks for effort there Boney, but Henry Cyril Paget, fifth Marquess of Anglesey, is still the one to beat.

 

[Essex Boy]

^
P.S. I just spotted this.

At the time of his early death in 1905, just short of reaching his 30th birthday, The Bystander fulminated: ‘His example will remain one of the strongest arguments against our hereditary system that the most ardent revolutionist would wish for,’ and then drew the cruel comparison with his illustrious grandfather, the 1st Marquess, a gallant cavalry leader who had carried on at the Battle of Waterloo despite losing his leg.

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp67764/henry-cyril-paget-5th-marquess-of-anglesey

They don't make 'em like that any more.