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Variety headlines (and illustrations if need be) that are silly to those of us not in the 'biz

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  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    oh my god the actual article is somehow amusing to me too

    I don't usually give a shit about the kudos season so I don't tend to read this stuff but the way this is written hammers home how insular Hollywood is
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Normal talk makes producers walk, you might as well speak Greek
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I do wonder how convincing my article on Fox airing 101 was

    I mean I did use "skein"
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    You seem to have the handle on buzzspeak in your articles, except when you're being purposefully silly.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    but how can we use this to thinkfluence the zeitgeist?

    those words are in italics because they are in a foreign language.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    that's not slanguage though
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen in my 20 1/2 years as a human on this planet.

    "crix"

    I just

    I want to cry.

    This is not organic slang, this is the "we're gonna make a SECRET CODE LANGUAGE" mentality that like 4th graders have, but in adult men who should know better.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    Magic Jane said:

    This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen in my 20 1/2 years as a human on this planet.


    "crix"

    I just

    I want to cry.

    This is not organic slang, this is the "we're gonna make a SECRET CODE LANGUAGE" mentality that like 4th graders have, but in adult men who should know better.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    Mouse (also Mouse House) — the Walt Disney Co. or any division thereof, a reference to the company’s most famous animated character, Mickey Mouse; “The Mouse’s music division is reuniting with talent manager Alan Smithee on a joint-venture label.”

    Fuck everyone involved in writing this paragraph.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I don't think I've ever seen "crix" in its intended context. "Skein," yes. "Web," yes.

    Also, "adult men who should know better" just about sums up the higher echelons of showbiz society
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    You know i often got the feeling, when seeing articles about showbiz, that the articles were somehow not written 'for me', like they were intended to go above my head.

    i thought i was being silly, but this slanguage page reads like a confirmation of that.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    there does seem to be a certain feeling of superiority around Hollywood, yes
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    it's why watching NBC can be so annoying at times

    "HEY GUYS, DID YOU KNOW THAT NEW YORK CITY"
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Is that the American equivalent of Britain Is Only London?
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    No, it's NBC being the most showbizzy of the major networks

    The network loves to play up that it is based in New York
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    Yes.

    Other eastcoasters specifically tend to resent New York because there's a lot more to this part of the country but no one cares about it. Even Philadelphia gets the short end of the stick in comparison, much less cities that aren't as widely known, like say, Baltimore.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    But other cities get that as well, don't they?  Like, lots of people seem to make a big deal out of, say, Paris (the one in France), or LA.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    Yes, I'm speaking only for fellow northeasterners.

    On the west coast you have either LA or San Francisco (which are indistinguishable in most peoples' eyes), down south you have Dallas, and very rarely New Orleans.

    That's about the sum of America to most folks.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    How are LA and SF indistinguishable?

    Like, LA has Hollywood and SF doesn't and I hear it's more expensive to live there
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Truthfully, San Francisco has always seemed far cooler to me than LA anyway
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Dallas has never formed a big impression on me, but LA and San Francisco seem quite distinct from one another...
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    also as for down south how about Atlanta, the one-time preferred stomping grounds of my idol Ted Turner
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Again, it's a famous city, but it never struck me as LA or New York tier...

    As i'm not American, this probably doesn't mean much, though.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Atlanta: Southern Gothic mostly

    Dallas: In texas. Maybe less fat people than Houston? I know someone in college there.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    Atlanta really only matters to music fans I've found.
  • PatchAwfulPatchAwful
    The Mysterious Ballerina and her Tree Stump Ghosts
    I only ever heard about Atlanta from relevance to music, until I found out I knew someone who was from near there

    So I guess there's some truth in that
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    If the slanguage article is to be believed, Variety are responsible for 'deejay' and 'emcee'.

    And they actually seem to be proud of this.
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    22:42:52 < dril> [a6] CELEB: Love that Moolah baby
    22:42:52 < dril> ME: Did u see that shit. Did u see that shit. He called it moolah instead of money. God damn! Only in hollywood

  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    Tachyon said:

    If the slanguage article is to be believed, Variety are responsible for 'deejay' and 'emcee'.

    And they actually seem to be proud of this.

    Jamaica is responsible for "deejay".

    Surprise! There's also an element of either ignorance or racism in this too, whoulda thunkit.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i didn't know that.  Sorry, then.

    It's something that's irritated me a lot, because i was always like, 'Do you not know what DJ means?'  i thought people were writing it out because they didn't know the acronym, or because they were too 'sophisticated' to use acronyms.

    But if it's part of another dialect then i guess i shouldn't object.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    Tachyon said:

    i didn't know that.  Sorry, then.

    It's something that's irritated me a lot, because i was always like, 'Do you not know what DJ means?'  i thought people were writing it out because they didn't know the acronym, or because they were too 'sophisticated' to use acronyms.

    But if it's part of another dialect then i guess i shouldn't object.

    There's nothing to apologize for, it's just another reason to add to the "Why Variety is Bullshit" list.

    Yeah my assumption is that when the term was brought over from America people didn't realize it was an acronym so just wrote it out as "deejay". Nowadays, that generally refers to reggae vocalists (a role we'd call "MC" in hip-hop).
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Most of the times i've seen it has been in British or American writing, and the surrounding dialect has not been Jamaican... that's when it's irritated me.  'Emcee' even more so, since 'Master of Ceremonies' is a much older expression.

    i didn't know that reggae vocalists were called deejays.
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    And their disc jockeys are called selecters.
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    image

  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    (be warned, they do have a metered paywall)
  • TreTre
    edited 2015-06-12 08:17:59
    image
    I was considering giving either Tiny or the Radio a slanguage-based method of speech in that Tiny and Big fanfic I was thinking about writing but then I figured it would seem like I'd be shoehorning it in for quirkiness's sake so I decided against it.

    (I might come back to the idea for something else later on, though. It just seems like the perfect dialect for a character who wants to sound cool but doesn't pull it off, just like Variety itself.)
  • TreTre
    image
    also, fun fact: Passion Pit (that one band with the dude with the high voice) named themselves after the slanguage term passion pit (that being a drive-in theater, supposedly a place where teenage couples made out passionately in their heyday).

    Probably the best thing to come out of the slanguage phenomenon, right there.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    what is slanguage other than the name of the worst cafe of all time
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Planet Jane said:

    what is slanguage other than the name of the worst cafe of all time

    hollywood bullshit slang, i think anonus linked a thing about it earlier in the thread
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Anonus said:

    that's not slanguage though

    this stuff

    the stuff that made you want to cry
  • TreTre
    image
    That'd be the version of English printed in the pages of Variety Magazine.

    I like to think of it as the old, crusty precursor to the methods of speech seen in Adventure Time, though that's probably just me.
  • TreTre
    image
    (Except, of course, for the fact that Adventure Time pulls its quirky slang off because it fits the context. I don't know if any other show could have given us shmowzow, honestly.)
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I haven't watched much of AT but my first thought was of Daws Butler's deliberate mangling of English in the old H-B shorts
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