matthewpb.bsky.social
Publisher, Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social. The best new Irish writing for young readers.
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I wouldn’t disagree with that!
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I’m not sure any of our principle racist agitators are men of deep faith
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I think the suggestion, which I’ve seen lots of people making, that non-Caucasians can’t be racist is the most racist of all
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Also a worrying spread of American style evangelicalism. They used to hang around a cafe near me in skater clothes asking solitary men about their relationship with Jesus.
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Protestant erasure
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I think they should simply try appointing a proven elite manager at the top of his game, while they still might be able to attract one. Never been done!
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It remains hard to say no to I think. If you’re an ambitious elite football manager you have to give it a crack, cos making Man United work again would be one of the biggest achievements you could have. That and the money.
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Seriously. Didn’t know how good we had it.
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Maybe they could find the hottest talent in the Hungarian league next
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Manchester United stop being a fascinating case study in group psychology and institutional dysfunction challenge
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Manchester United stop being owned my billionaires challenge
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Who could have thought repeatedly appointing managers from second rate leagues to the most high profile job in club football wouldn’t work
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It has the feeling of a decision made for the sake of keeping going for a few more seasons. But it changes the meaning of the show in an interesting way.
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Holy moly
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Heaney wrote a great essay about reclaiming the radicalness of Wordsworth
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The title of the short story Ken gets published in the first season is a pitch perfect for a mid-century urban office worker’s fictional fantasy of real rural American life. Thing is, Ken is perfectly content with the humdrum office life cos he has this outlet. But others are furious about it.
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New translations?
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Uh oh if you’re still watching it I may have dropped a big spoiler in my previous reply
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One of the things that fascinates me about the show is that for a long time the engine that drives it is Don’s secret identity fear of being found out, and then it comes out and the show just carries on. I’d love to know if that was planned from the outset.
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I’m rewatching it now. He’s an amazing character really.
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One difference is that Whitman was a big conscious influence on the 60s counterculture.
(Wordsworth was I would say an unconscious influence on the same thing.)
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MM is so interesting cos Don escapes the cruelties of Whitman’s rural America and flees into the world of suburban life and office work, which we’re used to seeing characters longing to escape. I guess “Draper” is a reference to how he’s veiled himself in that identity.
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Whitman being an icon of free, unconfined, self-inventing, protean, (not to mention queer) American manhood, the name actually seems like a cruel joke at the characters’ expense.
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I’m sure there’s a whole thesis to be written, if it hasn’t already, about the figure of the 00s–10s prestige TV protagonist: an isolated middle-aged man, a bit bewildered, a bit out of time, trapped in an unheroic world and trying to kick against the confines, one of whom is his lovely wife.
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They are mostly positive, with the usual, eh, dissenters
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They’re gonna be so confused when trans men start following the rules and they get complaints to security about the guy with the beard in the ladies
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I’ve always thought that Dick Whitman also contains a little echo of Dick Whittington.
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In BB this fact makes for a crucial plot point at the end.
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OK I’ll do it now, see QT above!
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Not what I’m thinking of but that’s a good one
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I’ll reveal it tomorrow… if I remember
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Not to do with them being changed names no
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It’s actually a little deeper than that!
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Very much so, the red hair helps!
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Like, being soft on Nazism isn’t some conservative, anti-liberal, anti-socialist or edgy position!! It’s the position of not being fully opposed to the industrialised, planned extermination of millions of people in death camps. That’s what you’re endorsing if you do the salute!!!!
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I think it’s important we don’t forget that your reactionary conservative grandfather hated the Nazis. Everyone hated Nazis. Until just a few minutes ago.
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His fiddling with the strap is very endearing
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Haha, absolutely
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Last thing he says means “I love my music box” 😭