nothing I or anyone else can add can make it funnier that some movie production company announced a movie named ‘They/Them’ on twitter like it’s a mcu movie
I’m very concerned considering this company makes horror movies (that can be really hit or miss sometimes) so I’m worried about where they’re going with this…….
Things about this movie that made me progressively more excited as I read about them:
The premise is “serial killer at a conversion camp”
The camp is run by Kevin Bacon
The director and a good portion of the people involved in making this are queer and want to portray queer people positively
The title is pronounced “They Slash Them”
i cant wait for it to come out so we can slap “down with cis” onto screenshots
the name tyler sounds like it was first used post-ww2 like maybe 1960 until you find out it literally meant “guy who lays tile” (tile-er) 11th century england to refer to people that built houses. and then you read it as tile -er for the rest of yourlife
does piper mean guy who lays pipe
I know this is a sex joke, but… do people genuinely not know that a lot of surnames stem from professions? Tiler/Tyler became the surname for somebody who laid tile. Piper became a surname for somebody who played the pipes. Archer, Brewer, Butler, Carpenter, Clerk/Clark, Dexter, Farmer, Fisher, Mason, Miller, Potter, Sawyer, Sheppard/Shepherd, Smith, Tanner, Taylor/Tailor, Weaver…
People later started to give old family surnames as first names, and then over time, many of those became popular as first names in their own right. Is… is this not known?
a fun fact: germanic jews were forced en masse to adopt last names only a couple centuries ago, for tax reasons. before then it was just ‘dude son of guy’. so mostly the rabbis made everyone’s last names up themselves because they were the logical guy to do the census paperwork.
so that’s why ‘jewish names’ are so like that. goldstein (gold rock), goldfarb (gold colored), goldshmidt (goldsmith). three or four hundred years ago some tired rabbi ran out of ideas. you get tons of jews who are just something-thal because -thal means valley and that’s where they were when they got named. my favorite traditional jewish surname is just klein, small, because three hundred years ago some rabbi looked at a local guy and wrote down ‘shorty’.
i cant believe tyler suffers the same issues as the tiffany problem. give me a medieval movie about some folks named tyler and tiffany fighting an evil king or some shit.
I want to nail this to the collective psyche like Martin Luther
People apologize for taking a day or two to respond to non urgent messages and every time I’m like, why? This is creating a high stress environment for everyone without reason.
I don’t want to worry that I’m some kind of asshole for not immediately responding to texts either. Who does? Whats the point?
much like the way the Italians exported pizza and the Americans ruined/perfected it for the Italians to import it back again and then re-export the “authentic” product back to America, so the British took tea from Asia and ruined/perfected it by adding milk and sugar then Asia took that and ruined/perfected it by adding tapioca bubbles and even more sugar and exported it back again.
So what you’re saying is, food is a conversation between cultures.
