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11 years ago @ The Toast - Dirtbag Teddy Roosevelt · 0 replies · +110 points

i've always loved the 'how the teddy bear got its name' story:

THIS IS A VERY POORLY LOOKING BEAR YOU HAVE BROUGHT ME
THIS BEAR IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME TO SHOOT
IT WOULD NOT BE SPORTING AT ALL
that's very kind of you, teddy roosevelt
ISN'T IT JUST
how good of you to care about the welfare of the bear
IT'S A MATTER OF SIMPLE DIGNITY, MY MAN
so should we... set it free?
HEAVENS NO
TAKE IT ROUND THE BACK AND HAVE THE BEATERS SHOOT IT, THERE'S A GOOD CHAP

11 years ago @ octopus pie - #704 + 705 - good bye · 2 replies · +4 points

oh HANNA

11 years ago @ The Toast - Watching The New Krist... · 0 replies · +6 points

Petition for the video for Jamelia's "See it in a boy's eyes" to be remade with Kristen Stewart as the love interest.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Femslash Friday: M... · 1 reply · +27 points

it is ALWAYS acceptable to skate along on your a basic common-catchphrase understanding! Mean Girls stands up to the passage of time and is a fun watch in and of itself, but please don't feel judged for not having seen it. "The canon" is just as bullshit a way of thinking when it's enforced on pop culture as when it's telling you to read dead white dude western literature.

Catching up with this kind of film actually sometimes ends up in disappointment not because of the film itself but because you realise that things people around you said that you thought were super-funny were actually quotes, and your friends are significantly less sponteneously witty than you had prevously assumed. :/

11 years ago @ The Toast - Not a Giggly Girl: Cau... · 1 reply · +10 points

i went to a school with a significant Jewish population, where a set of hair straighteners was known as a "Daniel". I kept my hair short and so never worked out why, but I guess it was the name of the premium brand? (you'd hear "yeah, she's got a Daniel, but it's not, like, a real Daniel"). Once I went away for a week on a drama thing with six other girls from school. After the first shower we realised that the group had, between us, brought six Daniels and not one hair dryer.

11 years ago @ The Toast - The Best Kinds of Poem... · 2 replies · +26 points

other best types of poem include Catullus being a petulant manchild about EVERYTHING: http://dressthesavage.tumblr.com/post/86230179412...

11 years ago @ The Toast - Don't Worry So Much: H... · 1 reply · +177 points

but also... until I read the review I had no idea that ~mocking men~ could have been construed as her aim in writing poems! The idea that the sexts series is some grand misandrist project of skewering male desire, rather than rising from the cultural world that we all, male and female and otherwise, live in -- it absolutely had not occurred to me! What is this weird manchild paranoia that assumes that Lockwood's poetry must necessarily all be an attack on men and male sexuality and masculinity? Why does it not occur to this dude that maybe, just maybe, it isn't about him?

12 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup: Response... · 3 replies · +9 points

this bit of Simmons' response stuck out to me:
But even now, it’s hard for me to accept that Dr. V’s transgender status wasn’t part of this story. Caleb couldn’t find out anything about her pre-2001 background for a very specific reason. Let’s say we omitted that reason or wrote around it, then that reason emerged after we posted the piece. What then?

What then? Then they could have said something like "our writer wrote around this because it would have been unethical to out her", and maybe a few people would have suggested on twitter and in comment boxes that they were lying and hadn't known, but that would have been it. But somehow that situation is, even now, unthinkable for Simmons. The fear of potentially looking like they'd missed something still seems more real, as a motivating factor, than the fear of doing damage to someone's life.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup: Response... · 1 reply · +5 points

Grantland have their responses up:

A letter from the Editor.
What Grantland got wrong, by Christina Kahrl.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +1 points

"the former Norwich defender Gary Doherty looking frightened and confused by a ball bouncing in front of him, freezing as mediocre Burnley forward Andy Gray races past, lurching after Gray before tripping over, rugby-tackling Gray as he fell, begging not to be sent off and then holding his head in agony on his dismissal, as if any other outcome had been possible,"

i totally love this bit - how the experience of sports fandom is just as much about how sublime its disappointments and bathos are. (this Emma John piece on cricinfo from last year covers some of the same ground, and is also excellent.)

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