#Jingo

[akboro]

#gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #discworld #quotes #jingo

[amygdalae]

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#Terry..... #this is cracking me up rn #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #Jingo

[paradises-library]

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads, they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.

Jingo, Terry Pratchett

#jingo #terry pratchett #quotes #gnu terry pratchett #discworld

[blackboard-monitor]

y'all ever think about how in jingo pterry took two seemingly silly concepts, the trousers of time and the dis-organiser, and then gave us the absolutely bone-chilling passages of sam vimes listening to his friends and subordinates die one after the other

#jingo #discworld #mine

[pratchettquotes]

"We saw the fire--" Carrot began, running up. "Is it all over?"

"Mr. Vimes saved the day!" said Sergeant Colon excitedly. "Just went straight in and saved everyone, in the finest tradition of the Watch!"

"Fred?" said Vimes, wearily.

"Yessir?"

"Fred, the finest tradition of the Watch is having a quiet smoke somewhere out of the wind at three a.m. Let's not get carried away, eh?"

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#carrot ironfoundersson #sam vimes #samuel vimes #fred colon #jingo #discworld #terry pratchett #the watch #law enforcement #tradition #expectations #realism #smoking #dramatic moment #he saved the day #the finest tradition of the watch

[dimity-lawn]

Vimes on the Crimes.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #meme #discworld meme #created by yours truly #hogswatch #elf on the shelf meme #the watch #jingo #vimes #sam vimes #holiday #seasonal

[tabbbbyyyy]

Sweeney todd reference in jingo

#discworld #terry pratchett #jingo #sam vimes #sweeney todd

[p4nishers]

#I SUPPOSE AT THE END OF THE DAY WE ARE ALL SOMEONE'S DOG ??? #AEE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME #vetvimes #sam vimes #havelock vetinari #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #jingo #night watch #dog motif

[aeshnacyanea2000]

If the Patrician was anything, he was the political equivalent of the old lady who saves bits of string because you never know when they might come in handy.

-- Terry Pratchett - Jingo

#Terry Pratchett #discworld quotes #GNU Terry Pratchett #quotes #Jingo #Havelock Vetinari

[discworldquotes]

Does Mr Vimes know you’re doing this?’ ‘He sort of knows, yes. I said I’d like to start a club for the street kids and he said it was fine provided I took them camping on the edge of some really sheer cliff somewhere in a high wind. But he always says things like that. And I’m sure we wouldn’t have him any other way.’

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#Discworld #Terry Pratchett #Jingo #Captain Carrot #Constable Shoe #Reg Shoe #Constable Reg Shoe #Carrot Ironfoundersson

[vegetarianmorpork]

when Sergeant Colon said the quiet part out loud

Terry Pratchett was so real for this.

It would have been so easy to keep the racism implied, with the justification that this is a fantasy novel and that Discworld isn't Earth.

Leave it as xenophobia, ignoring racism. Leaving racism as metaphorical, towards dwarfs and trolls and zombies and orcs, never mentioning it occurring between humans.

Give the readers that comfortable degree of separation.

But Pratchett didn't take the easy way out. He went there. And Jingo was better for it.

Because you can't call something out if you don't say what it is. You have to say the quiet part out loud.

#discworld #jingo #sergeant colon #nobby nobbs #ankh morpork

[skyofdarkmatter42]

He's the coolest man on the disk and he's so lame

#discworld #jingo #vetinari #havelock vetinari #gnu pterry #terry pratchett

[paradises-library]

After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

Jingo, Terry Pratchett

#gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #discworld #jingo #quotes

[sithbelle]

Jingo has been crossed off the list! I vaguely remembered the island, but little else about the story, which made it all the more entertaining!

I didn't realize this is where the Pavlovian response blurb came from, or the Us vs Them passage, both of which I've seen making the rounds on here and elsewhere online for years.

It's also sad to see the equivalent of Islamophobia being reflected in a pre-9/11 work. As someone who was rather young when this was published (and grew up ridiculously sheltered), I naïvely thought that sentiment was something that didn't become prevalent until after the attack (not condoning it by any means, just a point of observation).

I love how Pratchett went out of his way to essentially say, "hey, cultural differences do exist, but at the end of the day, we're all just people. It's actually the power hungry bastards at the top who are the real problem, and the common folk who are so easily misguided into hatred are excellent tools for their end".

Next up, we return to the adventures of Rincewind with The Last Continent!

#gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #discworld #jingo

[pratchettquotes]

Ankh-Morpork no longer had a fire brigade. The citizens had a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking at times, and it did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped after Charcoal Tuesday.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#ankh morpork #jingo #discworld #terry pratchett #fire brigade #public service #cause and effect #human nature #incentives #money #charcoal tuesday #a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking

[substitious-bastard]

im thinking about the time divergent imps in jingo. i'm thinking about captain vimes hearing the death toll but most importantly i'm thinking about vimes lying on the cobbles in ank morpork hearing a strained bingley bingley beep and then- 'vetinari negotiates peace' and 'carrot organises football'. i'm thinking of all the bodies around him as this happens.

#i am having emotions #jesus christ i love these books #jingo #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #the watch #sam vimes