Yeah, if you read the link in my other comment there, it is… A lot. It goes into quite extensive detail of one guy’s experiences in there, and there is some more (politicized) discussion in the comments on the blog post…
Frankly, it sounds like literal torture. Which, given the BDSM theme, is probably the actual idea…
Though in that guy’s case, his companions literally took his phone off him, so it gets even worse than the sticker bit, lol…
Australia’s largest nightclub (Home, in Sydney) also used to (temporarily) take away your phone at the door, but to my knowledge they haven’t done that in decades, and it also doesn’t have the reputation for… Degeneracy that this one does, obviously.
I’ve been to a couple of “gay/fetish clubs” before, with women. They enjoyed it well enough, but I hated it the entire time, lol. So I can’t imagine I would be able to tolerate this one at all…
Ok, I undersold it a bit. This is a blog post of a Yelp review of some straight dude who had the misfortune of ending up in the extra degenerate part of the "club":
There's no photos, but you'll probably want mental eyebleach after reading it, lol.
The comments, however, are entertaining.
Fuck, I can't believe that they recommend this place to tourists, of all things...
Freaks.
Ok, I looked up Miku and this whole vocaloid thing…
All I can say is that I feel old. Old, and very… Over, this sort of thing.
When it stops raining where I am I think I need to go touch grass.
I just… Don’t see the appeal, frankly.
But… Different strokes, and that.
At least one of the “Australian” Mikus I saw was kind of cute, I guess. But yeah, this is really just… Not my cuppa, I suppose.
If it wasn’t the end of Winter (and absolutely shit weather), I would go get a tan myself, lol.
Lol, so for those of you who watched this through (I couldn’t watch it all - the very male voice coming out of the female avatar was a bit too much for me), the Danish Miku seems to be a reference to football (soccer) fans, which, from experience from visiting there, seems appropriate because they are absolutely nuts, lol.
I also note that the Mikus for the two Carolinas are fairly damn derogatory towards those places (unless you actually find those characteristics endearing, I guess), so really, I think most of these artists just hate whitey, full stop.
Side note, what exactly is this Miku, anyway?
Something something WW2. But I think there may have been some before that, too.
See also: Peru, where they hold not insubstantial political power (one notable former President there was Japanese, for example)…
I think there may be some in Bolivia, too, but don’t quote me on that, lol.
I’ve dated two Brazilian women. One, I would describe as “latte-coloured” (lighter than most Indians, etc). The other was very white. Much, much paler than me.
Her ancestry was mostly Italian. But they had lived in Brazil for three generations or so, and she only spoke Portuguese fluently.
I also know some German-Brazilians. They’re very, very white, and honestly, they have about as little to do with Pele as I do with, I dunno, Cathy Freeman or something.
But I guess I should inform all of these individuals that, according to Anglosphere Twitter, they are no longer considered white, lol.
Man, what a fucking joke…
It is very odd how much the whole Covid panic and vax apartheid + gestapo lockdowns has been swept under the rug…
Even people I know really, really don’t want to talk about it…
I didn’t notice this in Sweden so much (where, admittedly, authorities behaved much more rationally), but since I’ve been back in Straya, I’ve really noticed just how hush hush everyone is about all that happened…
Which is interesting to observe. And worries me for the next time something like this happens (Monkeypox lockdowns, anyone? Or EEE or whatever it was in Massachusetts?).
It honestly feels like most people here haven’t learnt a thing, from any of it.
Side note: of all the raving loonies I met in Sweden, the two who were most obsessed with Covid were both Australian. Also three of the five or so “non-binaries” I met during that time. With all five of those coming from the Anglosphere…
We can laugh and point all we want at continental Europe, but much of this shit is extremely Anglosphere-dominated, for all that is worth…
This is a riff on "The Narcissist's Prayer", in case anyone was wondering.
Seemed appropriate to this situation.
Nando’s is Portuguese, at least in Australia…
I assume it’s probably the same chain/brand.
“That never happened, and if it did happen you can’t prove it. And even if you can somehow prove it, it would be a good thing. You just don’t know what’s best for you.” - pretty much this…
Giulia Gwinn? It’s worth watching Germany play for her and a couple of the others in tight shorts alone. “Quality” of the game be damned…
But for the most part, in regards to say, the US, Canada or Australian teams, sure (even if I do watch it).
I don’t think the NSW NPL1 Women's has ever been known for its viewing figures or attendances, however…
Depends on the province. Eastern bits? Yeah, they’re mostly ok. But Sumatra is as scary as almost any other Muslim region in that region… And Java (or parts thereof) sometimes breaks into periods of mass murder in the name of “the prophet”, too
I don’t know enough to know exactly *why, but as I said in another comment, I think it’s at least partly to do with pre-existing cultures on those particular islands, and how late Islam actually reached these places, etc…
Getting a bit historically dubious here, but at least part of this is because Albania, Bosnia, Indo, etc., were on the very fringes of the Islamic world, thus they were never as “radicalized” as the various shitholes closer to Arabia…
This is also why Iran was (historically) much less radical than say, Saudi, and same with Morocco and the Moors that reached Spain.
All of those places had a strong cultural identity even before Islam reached them, and so Islam itself wasn’t able to become the all-conquering ideology it did elsewhere.
In general also: less sandy places = less extreme Islam, lol…
It’s not quite as simple as that.
For example, if you look at Turks in Germany (second/third generation), they are usually much more conservative than, say, Gen Y Turks from Istanbul or Ankara or wherever.
Or the Central Asian Muslim countries, most of which are, thanks to being part of the USSR, mostly only nominally Muslim (particularly Uzbekistan).
Also Kurds tend to be much less religious than other Arabs.
Or Crimea, which is still full of Tatars, who are also very secularized Muslims.
It’s just… Not quite that simple. But yeah, in general, Albania, Crimea, Azerbaijan, Bosnia et al., are much, much less Islamofascist than the MENA countries, lol.
I feel like I aged 5 years just by reading this…
As a fellow (to sushi girl) Australian, this is all just so damn tiresome…
But also, he looks just like I expect he would, even in his “posed” picture, lol…
Windows 11 is so incredibly shit it’s barely usable, lol…
And I’ve largely had that experience across different hardware sets, so I blame the OS, at this point.
Unfortunately “going back” to Windows 10 isn’t really an option, on my current set-up, so I’m largely stuck with it.
It’s very frustrating, to say the least…
Hahaha that’s brilliant. Not sure if it’s intentional (Lion King 1 was mostly in Zulu, after all), but nonetheless.
Doing God’s work, there.
I think he’s English, but yeah, it’s usually like… Washed-up posh guy who’s barely even trying, lol.
Then again, I haven’t seen him in anything much since Eragon, if you remember that abomination…
I loved that book, and have even met the author, so going into it I was like, “Wait what? What is this?”
He really phoned that one in, lol.
Gladiator is (like the Lion King) mostly not his work, though he does deserve credit for it. Same with Pirates, of which the most well-known bits were composed by other people.
So I do agree that they are great, but all three of these were collabs that he has mostly taken all the credit for, lol…
Well, they even gave it a baby, so that it “could be a parent”…
Yeah, I’m really not joking. The Australian media absolutely loved this shit…
“Sphen”. shivers…
Most worrying part of that judgement? The precedent that, “on its ordinary meaning sex is changeable”.
Fuck, even the trannies themselves mostly didn’t argue that, a decade ago… And this is a judge!
Pretty sure “Roxanne Tickle” is “pre-op”, too, which makes that judgement even more dubious…
What an insane time to be alive.
If I was the defendant, I would take this to the High Court, if possible. Make the Feds say this shit out loud, if indeed they truly believe it…
Nah, I didn't really get that vibe from the trailer (we mostly just see them as cubs and as juveniles/teenagers, though) - more like, "Mufasa was the usurper all along, and the throne was rightfully Taka/Scar's to take!"
Which is an odd flex for them to go with, but anyway.
They also made them unrelated by blood (which contradicts canon), and made them look... Pretty much the same. Which I suppose makes sense (i.e. lions in real life don't look like Scar in the animated film), but just makes the whole thing a bit... Off.
As I said, this seems like what "Wicked" is to the "Wizard of Oz", or as "Maleficent" is to "Sleeping Beauty" - a spinoff that largely contradicts the original story, and uses the same characters, but with entirely different characteristics, motivations, etc...
Oh, I know there’s snow in some mountains down there - specifically the Drakenburg, which I used as a convo starter with a Saff’s girl once, lol. And I guess Lesotho might get snow, too.
But as I recall that’s fairly irregular, vs this trailer which looked like the ducking avalanche scene from Mulan, or something, lol…
I don’t think anywhere in Africa ever gets that much snow, even Morocco or Kili.
But then again this is a movie about talking lions, so… Yeah.
I think Scar also has an American accent in this, so they clearly don’t give a shit about continuity or logic at this point…
Honestly, watching the trailer, I really can’t square how this story follows into the Lion King, lol. Though apparently it is only canon for the “live action” version, not the original animated one, so… Eh.
But yeah, making Scar the hero of this prequel (and seemingly the rightful heir to the throne) is… An odd choice, to say the least.
Your explanation is as good as any I can give, lol.
I mean, it’s almost certainly exaggerated for effect, but everything I’ve read suggests this is fairly “on par” with the reputation of the place…
It is, however, recommended on many “tourist” lists. Which seems odd, all things considered.
Then again, Berlin is known as a party town, so I suppose it fits that “mould”.
From my understanding of it, the guy either stumbled into the BDSM-fag section of the club (see the Wiki page), or on one of the nights where that section takes over the main hall.
I honestly hate to think, though…