Fun fact: you’d think you could easily type capital à, è, é, ì, ò, ù on an Italian keyboard. Wrong. There’s no way you can do that, unless you have a Macbook. Italians are just forced to type A’, E’, I’, O’, U’ instead. But you know what we CAN type? Ç and ç. That’s right, a letter we don’t even have in our alphabet.
actually Ç is very useful because we have that letter in the albanian alphabet. so don’t assume keyboards are only for certain languages.
well the italian keyboard was in fact designed for the italian language, my guy
I have an Italian keyboard on my Chromebook, which I’m using right now, and I can type à è é ì ò ù as well as ç just fine.
I was talking about typing those… but CAPITAL
All I can think of is that post talking about how the reading comprehension on this site is piss poor, and someone responds with “how dare you say we piss on the poor”
to be fair, i was about to say “how dare you piss on the poor” but you lampshaded it
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! Hewrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
A few weeks ago, we exhibited at Emerald City Comicon. Typically when we attend conventions, we try to create some spectacle that captures people’s attention and sells games. Like the time we brought a marching band to PAX Australia.
At ECCC, we set up a “Pay What You Want” booth and encouraged people to give us any amount of money in exchange for our games. We put games on a table, set up some signs, stood off to the side, and waited to see what would happen.
We brought 2000 games. Before the convention began, we took bets on what would happen:
Tom thought we’d sell out in a few hours.
Alex thought we’d run out on the of the second day of the con.
Trin thought that we would not run out of games because we are no longer cool or relevant.
Jenn got a fever and didn’t know what was happening.
We were all wrong.
The doors opened, and attendees swarmed the booth. Within five minutes attendees realized they could just take games and walk away. A small group grabbed armfuls of free games and left, but most people paid something. Within an hour, the booth looked like this:
We ran out of games in 51 minutes.and made $8042.48, or 18.7% of the games’ retail value. In other words, we lost $685.44 per minute.
Attendees put lots of other stuff in the payment box too.
the weird thing about mbmbam for me is that im listening to episodes in a random order so? sometimes ill just stumble upon a popular bit like justin’s spotify history or amelie or glass shark that ive seen in animatics and stuff
and its this strange moment of knowing the joke but still feeling happy listening to it because even though ive heard it before i havent heard it in context and and i know its gonna be funny
basically, like, it’s familiar? but not too familiar. but not too n
Anonymous → What exactly do we know about the relationship of Chris and Roy Mustang?
((I’m having way too much fun with this~
Alright, the Madame is first shown shortly after the team all get separated from Mustang and Roy’s just had his little talk with Bradley. He goes into a bar, what we can assume is just typical ‘Mustang behavior’.
I’d also like to point out the hinted Royai in this panel when Madame asks if Roy should just ‘go play with Elizabeth’. This is after we learn that it’s Riza’s codename. This being in code shows that even the Madame knows about their code system and their relationship. Roy responds that ‘Elizabeth was taken by another man’, showing that Riza is no longer by his side which proceeds to worry the Madame. One of the girls then asks for a date and at this point, the first time readers have no idea about the informants.
It becomes all too clear here that this is more than just a leisure visit. Not only that, it solidifies the connection between the Madame and Grumman.
After all of this, Madame Christmas begins to collect information on Selim Bradley, discovering that he’s not even human and just how long he’s been on record as ‘living’.
During this time, everything is escalating and Roy is being watched. Still ever vigilant, Roy is one step ahead of them. It’s during this that we find out that…
Roy is not, in fact, going to the bar just for a good time and his connection with the Madame and the girls runs far deeper than a playboy and his favorite brothel. Roy’s a mamma’s boy, but these two discovered that a little too late and Roy blows up the bar as they go to enter it.
He was sure to have the Madame and the girls safe and not tracked for helping him out and didn’t want them in danger. Like Olivier Armstrong did by sending her family to another country, Roy took the closest thing that he had to a family besides his team and hid them from the higher ups.
Overall, the Madame seems to have always supported Roy and raised him well and ‘expects good things from him’ in the future. He loves her and cares for her as if she were his birth mother and she respects him and does all she can to help.))
shes probably half the reason he had his coupe in an ice cream truck
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