Currently on a rewatch of Friends, of all things (don't judge! it's really tightly written! young Lisa Kudrow is astoundingly beautiful!), and reminded of how it taught an entire generation how to be "funny" like, especially, Chandler. Yuh-huh! Talk to the hand! An entire vocabulary of snark and banter, from verbal intonation to physical gesture, just landed in a single package, like a gift from the gods. Before that - you younger people may not believe me, but it's true - the only way anybody had to be funny was to recite Monty Python skits at each other. And that was a totally different style of being funny, centred on silly voices and absurd scenarios with a latent dimension of class resentment.yes, of course, you pick up every tone from somewhere. some from books some from television some from your peers
This is true, I see people doing this around me all the timeyou can find yourself in a conversation, here say, where suddenly you realise you need to pull your face into focus, and the language into line with that because someone clever has just turned up and is using language in a more careful precise way to express more subtle and precise thoughts. you can feel the skin around your eyes tighten.
im sure this is true. another thing that happens is that people will put pressure on each other, will use tone, diction, accent etc as part of a way to impose or agree a set or ratio of values. this much seriousness, this much cynicism, etc. so youre always moderating and making interventions etc https://www.dissensus.com/index.php?threads/15834/This is true, I see people doing this around me all the time
this is so true, it was like a whole new vocabulary for articulating all these twenty something urban neurotic relationship memes arrived with "friends", and so inevitably that must have affected how people built relationships and lived their lives, especially as the telly was our main window on the world previous to facebook and this place - both started the year friends finishedCurrently on a rewatch of Friends, of all things (don't judge! it's really tightly written! young Lisa Kudrow is astoundingly beautiful!), and reminded of how it taught an entire generation how to be "funny" like, especially, Chandler. Yuh-huh! Talk to the hand! An entire vocabulary of snark and banter, from verbal intonation to physical gesture, just landed in a single package, like a gift from the gods. Before that - you younger people may not believe me, but it's true - the only way anybody had to be funny was to recite Monty Python skits at each other. And that was a totally different style of being funny, centred on silly voices and absurd scenarios with a latent dimension of class resentment.
yeah there was a lot of resistance to being like friends, a lot of disparaging, but the influence was powerful and insidious,I mean this is a chaos magic thing, isn't it. Be careful what you manifest, even if you think you're only playing at it. Even a throwaway quip can become prophetic. When you put on the Friends comedic-repertoire, to do bants with your IRL friends, you also enter into its psychic universe. There's a shadow that slips in, unnoticed.
we just need corpsey's law now and it will become a legendary threadno idea what happened with this thread but i'm glad you all seem to be having fun
I love the way you always explain things using examples we can all easily relate to.A bit like the bit at the end of a really hectic BSDM porn video where the performers talk about how it was all really consensual and fulfilling and they'd totally do it again, especially the bit with the foreskin clamps, my god, so hot.