The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[Apache]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

That was one of her best.
Apache

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Apache

That was one of her best.
Apache

The Carol Burnett Show was one of my favorites. I miss the good old days when comedy was funny.

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The Carol Burnett Show was one of my favorites. I miss the good old days when comedy was funny.

I agree, they've got sketches that still hold up to this day, such as this:

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I miss the good old days when comedy was funny.

Luxury. In my day we gathered around a hollow box and watched the roaches inside scramble about.

[nana77]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Luxury. In my day we gathered around a hollow box and watched the roaches inside scramble about.

Imho this one, despite being more recent (I wasn't to know the earliest shots were made in 1986), has its own nice mood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_and_Cigarettes

Spoiler:

Just not to feel always on OT, thinking at something appropriate at the topic, do you think schools will ever adopt ereaders, instead charging kids whitin 15/20 Kg of backpacks?
Last year a guy on work experience, after having made a season on a kitchen, bought 300$ of books for the next school's year, the professor said him the list wasn't done correctly the past year, and he has to buy others books (omg).

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Luxury. In my day we gathered around a hollow box and watched the roaches inside scramble about.

That's similar to how Pokémon came about. When growing up the creator of Pokémon saw kids playing with giant beetles and having them fight each other.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by nana77

Imho this one, despite being more recent (I wasn't to know the earliest shots were made in 1986), has its own nice mood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_and_Cigarettes

Spoiler:

Just not to feel always on OT, thinking at something appropriate at the topic, do you think schools will ever adopt ereaders, instead charging kids whitin 15/20 Kg of backpacks?
Last year a guy on work experience, after having made a season on a kitchen, bought 300$ of books for the next school's year, the professor said him the list wasn't done correctly the past year, and he has to buy others books (omg).

There are schools with no books. We have some in Limerick. Sadly they use iPads which the parents have to buy. The pupils/students never get to keep the books. Admittedly most cheap (not all) Android tablets are not suitable.

Other schools (often in USA) use Chromebooks.

The Kindle DX/DXG was initially aimed at 3rd level education. It was a failure and Amazon sold them off cheap.

I don't believe any eink reader is suitable. Also there is the problem of DRM and the fact that textbooks are usually PDF.

It's a reasonable goal.

[ownedbycats]

Read a book with a 'quirky' protagonist that gave me definite 'neurotypical author writing neurodivergent character in the most stereotypical manner possible' vibes but never stating it outright. I'm on the spectrum, and it left feeling inauthentic and a bit gross.