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Falwell pointed out that the male Tinky Winky carries a handbag not unlike the big purses carried by grandmothers nationwide.
And worse, he said, Tinky is ‘purple – the gay-pride color.” Falwell continued: ‘And his antenna is shaped like a triangle – the gay-pride symbol.”
They're turning the freaking triangles gay now too? 😭
So basically, the Nazis used pink triangles to mark homosexual (male) prisoners in conceration camps. (often prisoners would have symbols on their uniform that would tell you why they were there, such as the infamous yellow star) Later it was reclaimed as a queer symbol by gay men.
Percussive maintenance
Depending on where you cut the line I'm either one of the youngest millennials or oldest gen-z and I at least get it.
I am gen z and understand it. How dare you hurt a Teletubby?
seriously I could never
It was acting up mate 🤷
Maybe it was hungry and wanted some Tubby Custard®
We literally had a TV where you had to do this. It was a black and white set and it was ancient even when I was a kid. My parents refused to buy a new one though so we had this thing until the mid eighties. They had bought it some time in the sixties. Sometimes the picture went away and you had to hit it in a certain place to bring it back.
That's usually just a pin making bad contact with the socket due to oxidation. Reseating all of the tubes usually fixes it. If not, then it's probably a cracked solder joint.
Thanks for telling me. Only 40 years too late ;)
I'm so old one of my first jobs growing up was fixing tube televisions and VCRs. Banging on things was a legitimate diagnosis and repair technique. Favorite part was touring around the state in the summertime, picking up the broken ones from far away schoola and repairing them before the fall.
"percussive debugging"
As an Oregon Trail millennial, I sure as Hell don't want that creepy abomination. Gen Z can fucking have it!
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One thing I've noticed is that at some point they stopped making TV shows and movies set in the past and went to making everything science fiction and fantasy.
I didn't learn about vaudeville or butter churns or knights in school, I saw them in media.
There's still a ton of historical media too. From my past three months of watching:
- Gladiator II
- John Adams
- Taboo
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Beneath Hill 60
- When Evil Lurks
- Life is Beautiful
- A Haunting in Venice
- Wolf Hall
- The Terror
Gonna add The Last Kingdom to this list. Super cool show about the Viking invasion of England in the ~~11th~~ 9th century, it's got like 5 seasons and a movie to cap it off. Highly recommended.
Edit: I'm a dummy 🤪
At the risk of being cliché, I recommend the original books by Bernard Cornwell!
I didn't say there was none, I said that it had gone from being ubiquitous to being rare.
Also, none of that is aimed at children.
This is a silly argument, but:
at some point they stopped making TV shows and movies set in the past and went to making everything science fiction
Reminds me of https://archive.org/details/banned-cartoons
It could be that making kids' content with historical settings could be too fraught to bother with: either you include the problematic stuff and people get mad at you for exposing kids to it, or you exclude it and people get mad at you for whitewashing history.
Or (perhaps more likely) such shows are still being made and you just haven't noticed. "Peabody's Improbable History" may no longer be around, but kids today have "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum" instead, for instance.
Uh-oh.
Anecdotally, yes.
Just checked in with one of my own brood.
Reminds me of "Spash". When Tom Hanks is in that little boat with some guy, trying to get to Ellis Isle. The engine quit running, and the guy said that he can fix it. Proceeds to hit the flywheel with a hammer. It of course doesn't work. The the guy jumps out of the boat after saying that he needs to get "the little boat". They could have shook hands sitting aft and stern in the "big" boat.