Hugo de Thermidor

🇬🇧/🇺🇸 A genuinely delightful conversationalist. Musings on literature, philosophy and film. flâneurmaxxing

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@boriskarkov @alyosha_317 They do look alike now that you mention it lol

Did you delete the post in anticipation of the dorky hordes

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@alyosha_317 @boriskarkov Thanks! It’s one of my favorite pictures of Wittgenstein.

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@damiankelleher Very easy to hate provincialist bias in literature while Australian

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@davewingrave 95% of people dunking on British food have never been anywhere in Britain, the other 5% went to Piccadilly Circus once

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@Bossman69429 @SivaPrasad92540 @smurflegend1234 @QuantK22 You have to keep in mind that FIFA are greedy evil bastards. They would never allow World Cup matches at St James Park mate

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@margehlas @nfxelfer @goballoutski @danceyrselfdean A school right next to a naval base. In order to prove it is a war crime you would need to prove that it was bombed with criminal recklessness and gross negligence, and its proximity to a legitimate military target makes that quite difficult. Anything else?

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@fossymossy1 @MKULTRAMISH Maybe they’re conflating it with Marxist-Leninists who would object to the D in DSA

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@margehlas @nfxelfer @goballoutski @danceyrselfdean You have no idea what war crimes are

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@kennyboyfox92 @SpectreUK7 @DeutschWatamate @BillTheKid1603 It wouldn’t be anywhere close to erased if you would bother to learn it in school

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@dieworkwear @PDG887 @beidelu1 For sure, I think my points are constrained by word count as well. I do agree that people from very humble backgrounds can dress great of course. Any critique I’m making, I hope it’s clear that it’s in good faith.

P.S. thanks for putting me onto Berg & Berg. They rock.

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@dieworkwear @PDG887 @beidelu1 Dressing well is either money or time. Both of those are more readily available to the well-to-do. The working class also doesn’t (usually) have time nor will to read about silhouette and drape.

You are right though that my point is most apt with respect to suiting, for sure

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@dieworkwear @PDG887 @beidelu1 (In the sense that while you may be correct in both cases, it generally falls into a “rich people understand, poor people don’t” dichotomy.

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@dieworkwear @PDG887 @beidelu1 Sadly, I think that definition is fairly widespread as relativism of taste is in vogue. I personally don’t have a problem with laughing at an idiot like Hegseth’s ugly suits, my point is that doing so isn’t much different from laughing at someone’s ungrammatical English, etc.

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@dieworkwear @PDG887 @beidelu1 The question for me then, is how to make clear to the average person that they can’t just walk into any store and buy a wardrobe.

Making fun of people’s incoherent social language, whether they deserve it or not, I think can be seen as a form of cultural elitism, is all.

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@dieworkwear @PDG887 @beidelu1 He could’ve also learned from Yohji Yamamoto or Thom Browne. But the average person of middle or lower class doesn’t care about any of these things—they just buy the sales at Nordstrom. You could argue that this archetypal buyer has become its own ugly subculture/language

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@footyinsider247 Imagine if Haaland chose England, would’ve been such a good option when resting Kane