#Iwatched my favourite western movie Young Guns II again last night. As is customary I did some Wikipedia reading on the Regulators of the Lincoln county war afterwards.
And so I learned that the first film about Billy the Kid, a silent movie made in 1911, depicted Billy as a girl brought up as a cowboy and later impersonating a boy. Sounds like an interesting twist to me. Unfortunately the 1911 film is considered lost.
@elaterite Yes, that clip is from the beginning of Young Guns II. (You don't need to have seen the first one btw.)
I never heard of Old Henry but I'm looking into it now. Thanks!
Hey, your joke used some words that another famous joke also used, so I'm going to reply to yours with it because you reminded me of words and also to low-key imply you stole your joke.
@StefanThinks Just noticing that a lot of joke posters seem to be doing what you just did there: Not replying to a specific post but complaining in a separate slightly generalized post about replies they got before.
I guess it decreases the chance of having to interact with/validate an offender while still serving to let off steam, create some content, collect sympathy points etc.
To me it always smells a bit fishy tbh because I don't know what actually happened and I only get one side.
Der Kampf für eine emanzipatorische Sprache ist nicht erfolgreich. Die Debatte ist zu akademisch und geht an den Menschen vorbei, um die es geht. http://www.taz.de/!6006317/
@tazgetroete Die "Erkenntnis, dass wir allesamt rassistisch oder sexistisch sozialisiert sind, bedarf großer emotionaler und intellektueller Ressourcen. Sie ist für Leute aus akademischen Milieus deutlich leichter als für DHL-Lieferantinnen."
Ihr checkt es einfach nicht, dass euch diese akademische Herablassung um die Ohren fliegt. Ihr glaubt immer noch die DHL-Lieferanten müssten euch eigentlich dankbar sein, dass ihr so gut für sie vorgedacht habt. Unfassbar.
@wahadeem@tazgetroete Die Prämisse des Artikels ist: Frauen lehnen mehrheitlich "geschlechtergerechte" Sprache ab und Migranten lehnen Political Correctness ab. Die Gründe sucht der Autor bei den Rechtspopulisten, dem fehlenden Intellekt der DHL-Lieferanten und in einer leicht falschen Taktik der Kulturkämpfer. Die Möglichkeit jedoch, dass diese Menschen vielleicht selbst am besten wissen, was sie wollen und brauchen, wird nie in Betracht gezogen. Das ist herablassend und bevormundend.
“She dies from never having experienced a love of her own volition.”
German writer Margarete Böhme was born #OTD in 1867.
She is best known for her controversial and highly successful novel, "Tagebuch einer Verlorenen", first published in 1905. It purportedly tells the true story of Thymian, a young woman forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution. A movie was made based on this book (Tabea, stehe auf! 1922).
#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Katherine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.
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During her run, the race manager Jock Semple assaulted Switzer, trying to grab her bib number and thereby remove her from official competition. After knocking down Switzer's trainer and fellow runner, Arnie Briggs, when he tried to protect her, Semple was shoved to the ground by Switzer's boyfriend, Thomas Miller, who was running with her, and she completed the race.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathrine_Switzer#:~:text=During%20her%20run,completed%20the%20race.
@fedithom@CarveHerName It's also notable that she and Jock Semple eventually became close friends after he changed his mind in regard to women in sports.
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Switzer wasn't the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon. She wasn't even the only woman in the 1967 run. Bobbi Gibb was in fact an hour faster than Switzer. And she had completed the same Marathon before. Gibb however ran as an unregistered runner without a number both times. http://runningpast.com/gibb_story.htm