The Satirical Rogue

Artist. Pragmatic optimist. Functional perfectionist. Accidental poet.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

@unitedsolo @OkayAfrica @damoladurosomo And the award for Best International Show at the 2019 United Solo Theatre Festival goes to ... 54 SILHOUETTES!!! Raaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

Cometh the hour, cometh the tweet.

https://t.co/XmJtBqvHKg

[Ebelenna Tobenna Esomnofu @EsomnofuEbelen2]

Most writers don't write realistic dialogue.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

@Ezu_nig @Ezu_esq Elite.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

There's a positive version of this that I never see highlighted coz of a misunderstanding of what theatre is. For example, Steven Spielberg is a notably theatre-styled director because of how his approach to blocking and camera movement.

[relo @shawnvsflair]

directors that treat films like stage plays<<<<

[𝙴𝚣𝚞🇳🇬™ @Ezu_nig]

Quick question: If an attacker/10 put up these numbers for a decade, would you consider them world class?

24⚽6🎯
30⚽18🎯
46⚽11🎯
23⚽8🎯
23⚽9🎯
23⚽12🎯
30⚽12🎯
23⚽10🎯
26⚽13🎯
23⚽9🎯

Please RT to get as many responses as possible.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

On that HOUSE issue, something the critique missed or doesn't realize is that the display of skill in formulaic TV was how deftly the show could freshen the format while still staying within its parameters. In that regard, HOUSE is one of the best there's ever been.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

With each passing day the limitations of auteur theory move more into the light.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

the idea that every prestige movie has to be have a writer-director is disastrous imho. there's like four directors who are good screenwriters and two screenwriters who are good directors.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

@hashtagtweets @Emmyvic_ E dey think say Maresca go be business as usual.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

@keirburrows @LukeBarnett True. Taste is a choice, and choice can only be made from knowledge.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

@keirburrows @LukeBarnett I love the description of taste as "complex aesthetics".

You don't think an appreciation for that, even a deep one, can be innate? A sensibility consciously and subconsciously developed across a variety of life experieces that then clicks when one engages a certain work.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

José Mourinho and Roman Abramovich, June 2004.

[OB @CFC_OBED]

Which player transfer do you think started this inflated football market ?

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

@Ezu_nig He and his team have displayed several forms of gross naivety that indicate they are not honest with themselves about how his limitations as a player affect his market options.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

@D_Enigma07 @Appahcinno It's not wrong. "More" indicates that they are all skillful but some show things in their skillset that standsout from the other(s).

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

Good dribbling has to alsp account for variations as beating the man isn't always a direct action. Messi is the most efficient dribbler but 'Dinho, Neymar and Hazard are better when it comes to variety of dribbles pulled off and flair.

[Motolani Alake @OneMotolani]

People don’t know what dribbling means. They often confuse flashy skills with dribbling.

Dribbling is beating people, not any of that flashy nonsense. Messi is the best dribbler of all time. De Lima is next. Neymar, Suarez and Hazard are the next tier.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

Madrid, Barca, and Atleti must all be doing crack this window, coz what the hell?

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

@Appahcinno We can only judge based on what we saw them do on the pitch.

"More skillful" makes my point for me.

You are also describing efficiency, again making my point.q

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

@Appahcinno I prefer "efficient" because it clearly inidcates end result as the metric while "better" is more open in meaning. Things like entertainment value, creative solutions, instinct, are also part of dribbling and he isn't better at that than those names.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

If you know your Nigerian anthropology, you'll know several ways that the roots of this go all the way back to traditional communication practices. Avoidance, indirectness, fear of confrontation, deflection, etc.—they trace all the way back to behaviour passed down from ages ago.

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

You can mock Nigerian girls all you want for lacking communication skills, but the truth is that Nigerian society is generally hostile to honest conversation.

The more Nigerians you deal with, the more you notice a pattern: people avoid saying things directly. They deflect, suppress, and sidestep difficult discussions until, seemingly out of nowhere, there's an emotional outburst.

Many of our siblings, parents, lecturers, bosses, and peers exhibit this trait to varying degrees: avoid, deflect, avoid—then suddenly, get mad.

[The Satirical Rogue @Pensage]

@iamnotnightowl All of them.