I’ve only ever known about this phrase in its vulgar sense and I was surprised to learn today (thanks Google) that it was a signature move of the wrestler John Cena.
That’s hilarious. I think, but I can’t be sure, there are “wrestling” websites where the 5 Knuckle Shuflfle will be mandatory! Maybe there’s mud or oil involved again I’m not sure. I am fairly certain that in traditional TV for the general public wrestling the 5 Knuckle Shuffle move will be illegal, there’s kids and grannies watching! 3 falls or a submission!! I actually can’t stop laughing.
I'll just keep nit-picking then: a socialist would be very conservative by today's standards.
Under socialism, sexual deviancy and anything classified as mental illness or bourgeois counter-revolutionary leanings (all kinds of identity politics f.e.) would put the citizen in re-education, institution or labour camp, possibly lobotomised to boot.
Hardly the epitome of liberal progressivism under any defintion.
But (never start a sentence with a but, my english teacher said to much sniggering) today's "socialists" are about as much socialists as something that really isn't itself any longer (and no, it's not the ship of Theseus-fallacy so popular to use for an excuse to call a spade a club).
Egad, that sentence had more parenthetical content than actual sentence. I'm seem to be getting worse.
Kind of fitting then, that today's "men" and "women" to an increasing degree and rate seem to think sex is like a box of chocolates from IKEA.
Pornography is like cookbooks; it might give you some ideas, but it does nothing to fill your need.
PS: About the Communist Manifesto since I brought it up last post - it's not very long a text. Maybe 100 A4-sized pages or so. You can easily find a pdf of it online. Das Kapital, the complete version, is the whopper: close to 3 000 pages. DS
The Communist Manifesto was required reading in my Honors English class in college. Like most of the required reading, I read as little of it as possible to be able to pass the class. AND, always remember, and never forget, a D's passing. 🤗
However, since I've spent years teaching pol-sci and social science, I have had to know not just someone else's summary of some source, but what the actual thing itself is.
Which means having to read 'The Republic' or 'Communist Manifesto' or 'Das Kapital' or 'Mein Kampf' or the Quoran and so on.
A huge part of the problem of the humanities and social sciences in universities all over the Occidental civilisation is that from around the 1980s or so, students were no longer required to read the actual source material, just summaries of it. So instead of having students of econmics actually reading Keynes (f.e.), they got to read a summary of Keyne's research and arguments - and a summary is always biased, often subtly so, making the student think they know the subject when they really don't.
A modern parallel would be listening to some CDC/FDA-drone telling you to "mask up" with an N95 instead of reading the packaging, reading up on respiratory viruses and so on. Small wonder so many complied unthinkingly when "higher education" for almost 50 years now have been about telling people "how things are" instead of "read insert titel here to find out how X thought of Y".
I think our erstwhile professor Rigger has seen the same thing in his field: students only wanting to know how to do it, rather than understanding what they are doing.
(We used a different system for grades back then: Pass, Pass with distinction and Pass with exemplary distinction.)
Just finished Linklater's 'The Men of Ness' - wonderful use of the english language, and the stark landscape of the Orkney islands is a haunting setting bar none.
When I take stock of my past relationships these last 40 years , I come to the conclusion that I am 87% lesbian and 13% heterosexual. But here's where it gets tricky for me; my first long term relationship partner was a woman, but 'became' a man a few years after we broke up. My third long term relationship partner also 'became' a man about a decade after we broke up. My fifth long term relationship partner was and is a man, but he does like to wear dresses after some whiskey. He also did me the enormous favor of pre-screening many porn flicks and finding 'the best ones' to watch with me. What a guy, eh? [Yes all porn is boring imo] Anyway, my main dilemma is whether I should count the relationships with women who 'became' men in any different way, or the fact the the guy was a bit cross dressing. I guess I am soooo sexy that I influenced a few women to become men!! The whole assessment of 'my sexuality' becomes a bit complicated, but luckily it doesn't really matter much to me. It's just a funny story when I write it down. Best
What on earth are you doing to these people Jacquelyn? 😆
Perhaps best not to answer that.
I sometimes wonder that we're not far too obsessed with *thinking* about who we are, rather than just being who we are (from day to day - because I think the "are" is not at all fixed when it comes to personality).
We're attracted to who we're attracted to, and like what we like - and provided none of that causes harm to anyone else, then that's about it, really.
Differences in slang UK vs USA. I worked with Brits for many years so I got to learn a bit about what certain words meant. A great learning experience. Learned a few Cockney rhymes too. British humor and sarcasm is in a league of its own. That is just one of the reasons I enjoy your writings Rudolph. You have a unique way of taking all this bullshit and making me laugh.
One can’t control attraction, one shouldn’t always seek to gratify it, and it’s always seemed to me one of those private things that is nobody’s business (with the exception of what I would ideally want to be a person’s permanent life partner or spouse who should care very much about one’s satisfaction with the relationship in all respects.) There seems to be a strange chunk of society who thinks we should all just be going at it like bonobos whether it is with a man, woman, surgically altered version of one of those, or inanimate object— hey, love is love, right?
That’s hilarious. I think, but I can’t be sure, there are “wrestling” websites where the 5 Knuckle Shuflfle will be mandatory! Maybe there’s mud or oil involved again I’m not sure. I am fairly certain that in traditional TV for the general public wrestling the 5 Knuckle Shuffle move will be illegal, there’s kids and grannies watching! 3 falls or a submission!! I actually can’t stop laughing.
I'll just keep nit-picking then: a socialist would be very conservative by today's standards.
Under socialism, sexual deviancy and anything classified as mental illness or bourgeois counter-revolutionary leanings (all kinds of identity politics f.e.) would put the citizen in re-education, institution or labour camp, possibly lobotomised to boot.
Hardly the epitome of liberal progressivism under any defintion.
But (never start a sentence with a but, my english teacher said to much sniggering) today's "socialists" are about as much socialists as something that really isn't itself any longer (and no, it's not the ship of Theseus-fallacy so popular to use for an excuse to call a spade a club).
Egad, that sentence had more parenthetical content than actual sentence. I'm seem to be getting worse.
Kind of fitting then, that today's "men" and "women" to an increasing degree and rate seem to think sex is like a box of chocolates from IKEA.
Pornography is like cookbooks; it might give you some ideas, but it does nothing to fill your need.
PS: About the Communist Manifesto since I brought it up last post - it's not very long a text. Maybe 100 A4-sized pages or so. You can easily find a pdf of it online. Das Kapital, the complete version, is the whopper: close to 3 000 pages. DS
The Communist Manifesto was required reading in my Honors English class in college. Like most of the required reading, I read as little of it as possible to be able to pass the class. AND, always remember, and never forget, a D's passing. 🤗
I understand the sentiment, believe me.
However, since I've spent years teaching pol-sci and social science, I have had to know not just someone else's summary of some source, but what the actual thing itself is.
Which means having to read 'The Republic' or 'Communist Manifesto' or 'Das Kapital' or 'Mein Kampf' or the Quoran and so on.
A huge part of the problem of the humanities and social sciences in universities all over the Occidental civilisation is that from around the 1980s or so, students were no longer required to read the actual source material, just summaries of it. So instead of having students of econmics actually reading Keynes (f.e.), they got to read a summary of Keyne's research and arguments - and a summary is always biased, often subtly so, making the student think they know the subject when they really don't.
A modern parallel would be listening to some CDC/FDA-drone telling you to "mask up" with an N95 instead of reading the packaging, reading up on respiratory viruses and so on. Small wonder so many complied unthinkingly when "higher education" for almost 50 years now have been about telling people "how things are" instead of "read insert titel here to find out how X thought of Y".
I think our erstwhile professor Rigger has seen the same thing in his field: students only wanting to know how to do it, rather than understanding what they are doing.
(We used a different system for grades back then: Pass, Pass with distinction and Pass with exemplary distinction.)
😆
No worries, or perhaps I should say Ingen ko på isen
Keep picking those nits Rikard - I love your comments. They're much appreciated.
Do IKEA chocolates need to be assembled before eating?
Ingen ko på isen - wonderful idiom, isn't it?
And thank you.
Just finished Linklater's 'The Men of Ness' - wonderful use of the english language, and the stark landscape of the Orkney islands is a haunting setting bar none.
When I take stock of my past relationships these last 40 years , I come to the conclusion that I am 87% lesbian and 13% heterosexual. But here's where it gets tricky for me; my first long term relationship partner was a woman, but 'became' a man a few years after we broke up. My third long term relationship partner also 'became' a man about a decade after we broke up. My fifth long term relationship partner was and is a man, but he does like to wear dresses after some whiskey. He also did me the enormous favor of pre-screening many porn flicks and finding 'the best ones' to watch with me. What a guy, eh? [Yes all porn is boring imo] Anyway, my main dilemma is whether I should count the relationships with women who 'became' men in any different way, or the fact the the guy was a bit cross dressing. I guess I am soooo sexy that I influenced a few women to become men!! The whole assessment of 'my sexuality' becomes a bit complicated, but luckily it doesn't really matter much to me. It's just a funny story when I write it down. Best
What on earth are you doing to these people Jacquelyn? 😆
Perhaps best not to answer that.
I sometimes wonder that we're not far too obsessed with *thinking* about who we are, rather than just being who we are (from day to day - because I think the "are" is not at all fixed when it comes to personality).
We're attracted to who we're attracted to, and like what we like - and provided none of that causes harm to anyone else, then that's about it, really.
Differences in slang UK vs USA. I worked with Brits for many years so I got to learn a bit about what certain words meant. A great learning experience. Learned a few Cockney rhymes too. British humor and sarcasm is in a league of its own. That is just one of the reasons I enjoy your writings Rudolph. You have a unique way of taking all this bullshit and making me laugh.
One can’t control attraction, one shouldn’t always seek to gratify it, and it’s always seemed to me one of those private things that is nobody’s business (with the exception of what I would ideally want to be a person’s permanent life partner or spouse who should care very much about one’s satisfaction with the relationship in all respects.) There seems to be a strange chunk of society who thinks we should all just be going at it like bonobos whether it is with a man, woman, surgically altered version of one of those, or inanimate object— hey, love is love, right?
I don't think even bonobos go at it like bonobos most of the time 😆