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cazzyf1 · 10 days

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pls tell me everything you know about the 1982 drivers strike i think about it often

Right I about to go into as much detail as possible about the driver's strike while hopefully keeping it comprehensible.

*cracks knuckles*

Let's go.

So to give some overall context to the situation, Bernie Ecclestone was doing some meddling. He had control over the Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA) which meant he could negotiate contracts between teams, track owners, television rights, etc. Realising the sort of power Bernie Ecclestone was getting, the Federation Internationale de I'Automobile (FIA) put Jean-Marie Balestre in charge. There was a big power struggle between these two however both Ecclestone and Balestre united against the drivers in 1982.

At the start of the 1982 season, a new license called a 'super license' was put forward for the drivers to sign. This license was based on other sports, like football's transfer systems, meaning the drivers had fewer rights - their team owners essentially owned them. For example, the super licence meant a team could keep drivers to one team for up to three years, even if the drivers wanted to leave. This happened after, in 1981, Alain Prost was racing for McLaren, and he became convinced that the car wasn't safe. He refused to drive for the team, though he had a contract. He said if necessary, he would walk away from the sport altogether. Then Renault approached Alain Prost, and he joined them. A new license was created to prevent this situation from happening again.

1982 was also the season that (at the time) 2x World Champion Niki Lauda decided to come out of retirement. In 1979 he had been racing for Bernie Ecclestone's team 'Brabham', but halfway through the season, he walked away, finding no more interest in the sport. Eventually Ron Dennis, who ran the team 'Mclaren' tempted Niki back into the sport.

Niki was sent the super license a few days before the start of the season to sign, and being a stickler for detail he made sure to read through all of it. In reading it, Niki realised the control the team owners would have over the drivers and did not approve of it. Quickly, he rang up Didier Pironi who was head of the drivers association, to talk him through what he had found. Didier agreed that these licenses were bad and then called all the other drivers, telling them not to sign the licence. They had been late though, as 24 had technically already signed as they hadn't properly read the licence. The only ones that hadn't were Lauda, Pironi, Villeneuve who had seen something similar in ice hockey and didn't like it, Arnoux, Giacomelli and de Cesaris.

In South Africa, Kyalami the track was prepared for the drivers to start practising, and the drivers were arriving in their normal cars. But before they could get out on track, a bus pulled up with Niki Lauda and Pironi in it. Without their knowledge, Niki and Didier had managed to borrow a bus from Trevor Rowe and were ready to take the drivers back to their hotel at the Kyalami Ranch. They rounded up all the drivers and told them of their plans, and while they were hesitant, eventually, most of them were convinced to get onto the bus. Only two didn't. Jochen Mass, who was late (He's always late, someone said) and Jacky Ickx.

The team owner of March, John McDonald, caught wind of what was happening and tried to prevent the bus from leaving by parking a van in front of the bus. Jacques Laffite got out of the bus to move the van, accidentally stalled it, but eventually got it out of the way. The bus then set off, taking the scenic route back to the Sunnyside Park Hotel while every news van and car chased after the bus, getting clips of Niki Lauda looking out the back of the bus and waving at them.

Eventually, they arrived, and all of them strutted past the journalists and went into the hotel. Thus ensued a fun time for the drivers relaxing around by the pool for the day. However, things back at the track were not shaping up well.

Bernie Ecclestone and Jean-Marie Balestre were pissed. The race organisers threatened to impound the cars, Bernie Ecclestone threatened to sue the drivers, and Balestre announced if the drivers didn't come back, then they would all be fired. Bernie Ecclestone had already fired the drivers from his team, Nelson Piquet and Riccardo Patrese. The mechanics put signs out joking advertising for new drivers. Didier Pironi was doing the main negotiations for the drivers at the track and reporting back to Niki Lauda at the hotel on how it was progressing. During the evening, when dinner was being served, the driver's wives and girlfriends, who were still at the track, started throwing bread rolls at Balestre.

Didier Pironi arrived at the hotel and explained that if they didn't return and drive immediately, they risked life bans. Niki Lauda realised that this strike would last the night, and he knew that if all the drivers returned to their own rooms, the team principles would easily be able to convince them to abandon the strike. They needed to stay united, which meant literally sticking together. He arranged to take over the conference room in the hotel and have all the spare mattresses brought into the room.

All the drivers moved into this one big room, and soon, the entertainment started. Many of the younger drivers felt quite panicked about the whole situation, worried that they would be fired for going on strike, which would have ended any career in motorsports, so they went to the older drivers like Niki for reassurance. Niki tried to lighten up the atmosphere by telling dirty jokes. Bruno Giacomelli, who was quite passionate about machine guns, got his hands on a chart and gave a presentation on how to take a gun to bits. There was also a piano in the room, and driver Elio de Angelis, trained to play the piano, performed for all the drivers. Everyone there said it was the most beautiful playing they had ever heard. Gilles Villeneuve also had a go playing a few joyful pieces.

The team owners and journalists had by now discovered that all the drivers were hiding out in this one big room, and they were trying to get in. At first, Niki gave an interview by the door, but he ensured no one would leave the room. One of the team principles, Mo Nunn of Ensign, had brought the driver, Guerrero's girlfriend, along as a bargaining trip. Niki made sure to accompany Guerrero to see his girlfriend. He said that the situation could have brought a tear to your eye. Eventually, they got the girlfriend away from the team principal and into the room. Team principal Jean Sage of Renault tried to get to Prost and Arnoux but was beaten off.

At this point, the team principals grew frustrated and decided to break into the room, so the drivers had to use the piano to barricade the door.

Then night came, and it was time for the drivers to get even closer. There were not enough mattresses for one each, meaning all the drivers had to bunk up. Many funny photographs have come from this event. Alain Prost and Giles Villeneuve shared a mattress, which led to Patrick Tambay saying if a child came from this, all the others might as well give up.

There was a problem with the toilet as there was only one and it wasn't in the room. There was a key to the toilet and so the drivers agreed to leave it in the middle of the room so they would know if someone left to the toilet and didn't come back. One driver, Fabi, ended up going to the toilet but did not come back.

During the night, Carlos Reuntemann or Keke Rosberg snored so loudly that Gilles Villeneuve threw a blanket over them to cover the sound.

In the morning, all the drivers got up, trying hard not to sniff the odour of the room and got ready to head to the track as Didier Pironi had been able to successfully negotiate a licence they were happy with. No drivers were fired, Nelson Piquet and Riccardo Paterese were rehired, and the race was successful. There were fears that the drivers could be arrested at the airport, but thankfully, that didn't happen. Instead, they were fined for taking part in the strike, which, while it didn't affect some drivers who already had plenty of money, it wasn't ideal for the drivers who were just getting started.

This is as much as I am able to remember; if you know anything more or if there is something wrong in this let me know in the comments below! Hope you enjoyed the read :)

#classic f1 #f1 #formula one #formula 1 #vintage f1 #1982 drivers strike #niki lauda #alain prost #didier pironi #gilles villeneuve #elio de angelis

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kuri-crocus · 3 months

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Results: Good Omens season 3 wish polls

I collected some wishes I've seen fans have for season 3 and made polls out of it. Thanks to everyone for voting diligently! Making the (33!) polls, reading comments were a lot of fun to me! Here is my summary of the results. The bold answer is the most voted one. We will wait and see if some wishes come true ... As soon as season 3 is out I plan to come back for a check! I leave it to future me to make what actually happens in season 3 italic!

Prepare for a long post under the cut!

1. Do you want Aziraphale to perform the apology dance (in present day)? -765 votes-

52.5% Yes

31.6% No

15.8 % Neutral

2. Do you want Aziraphale and Crowley to end up mortal? -1046 votes-

87.7% No

9.8% Neutral

2.5% Yes

3. Do you want that Aziraphale saves Crowley at some point in season 3? -598 votes-

78.4% Yes

1.1% Neutral

4.5% No

4. Do you like God to narrate season 3 again? -529 votes-

50.3% Yes

35% Neutral

14.7% No

5. Do you like the Ineffable husbands to take custody of a (human) child? -553 votes-

54.4% No

26.9% Neutral

18.6% Yes

6. Do you want Crowley's angel name to be revealed? -1729 votes-

48.7% No

26.2% Yes

25.1% Neutral

7. What do you prefer to be Crowley's initial situation at the beginning of season 3? -432 votes-

77.3% Crowley is on his own

12.7% new leader of hell

7.2% something else. (I've read him beeing on vaction or hanging out with Nina, Maggie and Muriel)

2.8% works for hell again

8. Who makes the first step for a second kiss? -877 votes-

64.4% initiated by Aziraphale

30.9% initiated by both

2.5% no more kissing

2.2% initiated by Crowley

9. More of Angel!Crowley (without fall story) -406 votes-

51.5% Yes

26.1% Neutral

22.4% No

10. Where should the final scence with Aziraphale and Crowley take place? -527 votes-

77.4% South Down Cottage

7% The Ritz

5.1 % The Bookshop

3.4% St. James Park

3.2% Alpha Centauri

3.2 % Another location (rooftop was mentioned at least twice)

0.6% The Bentley

11. Should Aziraphale's diary have a bigger part in the plot? -307 votes-

53.1% Yes

34.2% Neutral

12.7% No

12. Would you like to see a conversation between Crowley and God? -602 votes-

49.3% Yes

27.6% No

23.1% Neutral

13. Would you like to see new angel and demon characters in season 3? -260 votes-

47.3% Yes

38.1% Neutral

14.6% No

14. Would you like it if there are more Angel x Demon couples? -359 votes-

44% Yes

28.4% Neutral

27.6% No

15. Would you like to see Crowley with long hair (present day)? -910 votes-

77% Yes

12.7% Neutral

10.2% No

16. Would you like to see Aziraphale with a beard? -359 votes-

49% No

32.6% Yes

18.4% Neutral

17. Would you like to have cameos of David's and/or Michael's family members? -318 votes-

39% Yes

34% Neutral

27% No

18. Should the historical scenes have a bigger or rather small part in the plot? -275 votes-

38.2% Neutral/anything is ok

37.1% Bigger/more like season 2

24.7% Rather small/more like season 1

19. Do you want to see the story of the great war and the fall? -287 votes-

69% Yes

17.8% No

13.2% Neutral

20. Do you want Saraquel to be an ally to Aziraphale and Crowley? -408 votes -

53.9% Yes

40.2% Neutral

5.9% No

21. Are you ready for 1941 Part 3? -713 votes-

80.8% Yes! All good things come in threes!

9.7% No, I don't need this scence to continue

9.5% Neutral

22. What is your opinion on the Ineffable Wives? -595 votes-

64.7 % Give me Fem!Azi and Fem!Crowley

25% Neutral

10.3% I don't want female presenting Azi and Crowley

23. More Bildad the Shuhite? -788 votes-

45.9% Yes

28.8% Neutral

25.3% No

24. Aziraphale takes off Crowley's sun glasses? -203 votes-

80.3% Yes

11.8% Neutral

7.9% No

25. Would you like it if Aziraphale calls Crowley "my demon" -291 votes-

43.6% Yes

30.9% No

25.4% Neutral

26. Muriel should be... -135 votes-

52.6% more prominent as in s2

43.7% as prominent as in s2

3% less prominent as in s2

0.7 % not appearing at all

27. In season 3 Muriel will wear... -151 votes-

90.1% a new earth outfit

5.3% the clothes they wear in heaven

4.6% the inspector constable costume

28. Do you want Muriel to take over the bookshop permanently? -153 votes-

51% No

30.7% Neutral

18.3% Yes

29. More wall slamming in season 3? -190 votes-

62.6% Yes AND Aziraphale also slamming Crowley against a wall

25.3% Yes! Slam that angel against the wall!

6.3% Neutral

5.8% No more wall slamming

30. Would you like to see Aziraphale with purple eyes? -547 votes-

39.7% No

34.4% Yes

26% Neutral

31. Would you like it if Crowley calls Aziraphale "my angel"? -310 votes-

83.2% Yes

10.3% Neutral

6.5% No

32. I'd like Anathema Device and Newt Pulsifer to... -182 votes-

30.8% Every option is fine by me

29.7% only have a cameo

28.6% appear again

11% not appear at all

33. Would you like it if Aziraphale calls Crowley "Anthony"? -408 votes-

38.7% No

31.1% Neutral

30.1% Yes

#good omens #go3 wishes #ineffable husbands #aziraphale x crowley #aziraphale #crowley #david tennant #michael sheen #bildad the shuhite #good omens muriel #quelin sepulveda #good omens saraqael #liz carr #anathema device #newt pulsifer

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wendytestabrat · 4 months

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season 24 of south park but it’s just the kyman moments PT. 1

this is prob the biggest kyman season we’ve had since s20

#south park #kyman #DUMBASSCOMPILATIONS

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koreanstudyjunkie · 2 years

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MASTERLIST

(Korean-Learning Content)

Here Is A List Of Most Of The Content I Have Made So Far. (you can only add 100 links per post, so I have to make a second part I guess🤡. I'll link to it in this post whenever I finish doing that.)

Note: these are in no particular order. It's kind of all over the place, but it should still help you out😂

Beginner Topics

1. Seasons in Korean

2. Months In Korean

3. Vowels Hangul Short Quiz

4. Beginners Vocab Short Quiz

5. Days Of The Week

6. Tell Date In Korean

7. What's Next After Learning Hangul?

Korean Grammar

아니요 vs 아니에요 vs 아니라

는데, 은데, 인데 Lesson | All Usages

Masterlist Of Beginner Korean Grammar

좋다 vs 좋아하다

기 때문에 & 아/어/해서 & (으)니까

-안 vs -지 않다

How To Say "IF" In Korean

How To Ask Questions In Korean

(으)러 가다, (으)려고 하다, 기로 하다 Lesson

(으)ㄴ지 Lesson

Korean Dialogues & Conversations

1. Mini-Korean Conversation | Topic : Coffee | #1

2. Intermediate Korean Convo | Topic : Amusement Park | #2

3. Korean Conversation - Grammar-Focused | Topic : Haircut | #3

4. Low-Intermediate Korean Convo | Topic : Meeting For The First Time | #4

5. Grammar-Focused (ㄹ때, 지 말라고, & 어/아야 겠다) | Topic: Kids On Their Phones | #5

6. Beginner Korean Conversation + Lots Of Beginner Grammar Covered | Topic : Deciding Where To Eat | #6

7. Beginner Korean Conversation | Topic : Drawing

8. Korean Convo | Topic : Karaoke | #8

9. Intermediate Korean Dialogue | Topic : School-Related | #9

10. Beginner Korean Dialogue | Topic: Birthday presents

11. Short Beginner Dialogue | Topic : meet up

12. Beginner Korean Conversation | Topic : Taking Pictures

13. Intermediate Korean Dialogue | Topic : The Best Way to Make Ramen

14. On The Phone With My Girlfriend

15. Sending A Text To The Wrong Person

Reading Practices & Stories

Reading Comprehension Test | Topic: small talk

Story About Friend Moving Away

Listening Practice

Beginner Listening Practice #1

Korean Listening Practice #2

Korean Listening Practice #3

Vocabulary Lists

1. Jobs & Occupations List In Korean

2. School Vocabulary

3. Korean Homonyms | Part 1

4. Night-Themed Vocabulary List

5. Korean Homonyms | Part 2

6. Word Of The Day ~ 거북이

7. Mini-Vocabulary List - Weather

8. Common Korean Verbs > Short Video

9. Mini-Vocabulary List - Nature

10. Language Learning Vocabulary

11. Korean Homonyms | Part 3

12. Word Of The Day ~ 불

13. Word Of The Day ~ 약간

14. Health & Medical Terms

15. List Of Adverbs

House Vocabulary

16. Commonly Confused Korean Words 1

17. Commonly Confused Korean Words 2

18. Commonly Confused Korean Words 3

19. Korean Fruit Names

20. Korean Homonyms

21. Flower Vocabulary Words

22. Korean Love Words | words & phrases w/ 사랑

23. 지금 vs 이제

24. 알아듣다 vs 이해하다

25. Korean Synonyms

26. Korean Filler Words

27. Korean & Japanese Words

28. Korean & Japanese Words (part 2)

29. Hair Vocabulary

30. Shapes In Korean

31. Korean ROOT Words

Korean Numbers

1. How To Count From 1 to 1000 using Sino-Korean Numbers

2. The Difference Between Sino & Native Korean Numbers

3. Korean Numbers Quiz > 1 to 100

4. Korean Numbers Quiz > 100 to 1000

Idioms & Phrases

1. Korean Proverbs

2. 김새다 = Ruin The Fun | Idiomatic Expression #1

3. 어쩔 수 없다 = It Can't Be Helped | #2

4. How To Say Ignorance Is Bliss | #3

5. 쓸모가 없다 = It's Useless | #4

6. 기가 막히다 ~ "to be at a loss for words" | #5

7. 기가 죽다 ~ lose confidence/less energy and feel depressed | #6

8. How To Say I Don't Care | #7

9. 말도 안돼요

10. Motivational Korean Quotes

11. Idioms That Are Too Relatable

12. Korean Break-Up Lines & Quotes

13. Funny Korean Expressions

14. Non-Basic Korean Phrases

Tongue Twisters

1. Mokdong Royal | Short Tongue Twister | #1

2. 경찰청 ~ Police Headquarters | #2

3. Longest Korean Tongue Twister + Breakdown | #3

4. 3 Short & Fun Korean Tongue Twisters

5. Short Korean Tongue Twister: Moon

6. Giraffe Tongue Twister

Korean Culture

1. List Of Korean Holidays

2. Difference Between North & South Korea

3. Tropes Seen In Kdramas

Interesting Random Topics

1. 3 Ways To Say 'Heart' In Korean

2. Korean Text Slang

3. Korean Combination Words

4. Korean Study Materials

#한국어 #korean langblr #korean language #korean lesson #study korean #koreanmasterlist #masterlist #한국어 공부 #learning korean

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wouldnt-youliketoknow-weatherboy · 9 months

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#south park #eric cartman #kenny mccormick #kyle broflovski #stan marsh #butters stotch

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n0ncooll2 · 3 months

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time for the episode “cartmans silly hate crime 2000”

now in this episode it starts out as a normal day in South Park all the school boys sled racing and cartman being called fat but then cartman warns them if they call him fat once more he’s gonna throw a rock at them so Kyle calls him fat but cartman thinks it’s Tolkien and he gets sent for jail for a “hate crime” it definitely wasn’t because cartman didn’t turn racist till chef died in season 10 so now the girls want to use the sleds but ofc the boys start ripping on them as it’s their natural response but the girls rip on the boys too so I’m not gonna make a big deal out of that but then in prison we see cartmans cellmate and I’m pretty sure the first thing they say is that they’re gonna do something to him (not completely sure) but back to the kids at school the reason cartmans group always won the sled races was because cartmans extra weight at the back so they decide they need the second fastest kid at the back to win the race and then BUTTERS says I think Clyde’s the second fatest so everyone believes him and guess what happens they go right back to ripping on the “fat” kid calling him fatass and shit but then Clyde starts making excuses like cartman and soon even starts to sound like cartman so when he’s back Clyde hugs cartman and thanks him for coming back so now I feel like we all know the reason cartmans not a scholar if he gets ripped on 24/7 when Clyde could barely handle it for a day but before cartman gets out we see him crying in the prison and you really can’t blame him and we see romper stomper his cellmate bust him out of prison and even makes a sacrifice and after cartman wins the race he doesn’t even forget about romper stomper which is Probaly what most people would expect from him and he goes back to the prison to make his dream come true then at the end of the episode they we will never take cartmans ass for granted again which is not true and cartman says I’ll never take my friends for granted again which may be kinda true I say that solely because of the pangolin moment but yeah turns out at the school whoever’s the fatest gets ripped on and some people can’t handle it like Clyde

#south park #sp #sp eric cartman #south park cartman #i wanted to do this for a week but I was lazy

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fatehbaz · 2 years

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Headline, image, and caption published by: Tompkins Conservation. “In One of Planet’s Most Threatened Forests, Red-Footed Tortoises Return With a Job To Do.” Rewilding Institute. 30 May 2022.

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40 red-footed tortoises are being released into El Impenetrable national park in Argentina in the coming weeks after being rescued from the illegal pet trade in Paraguay and transported to Argentina. One of the larger tortoises in South America, the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius) was once found throughout three provinces of Argentina. But the last live tortoise spotted in the country was in the north-eastern province of Formosa in 2002. A shell was found in the same province, 40 miles (60km) from El Impenetrable, in 2016.

“In other parts of the Gran Chaco, in Paraguay and Bolivia, for example, it’s still a relatively common species,” says Sebastián Di Martino, conservation director of Rewilding Argentina. [...] “The widespread destruction of the Chaco forest, their habitat, is another cause. In fact, the last known population in Argentina lived in Formosa, where the forest was razed to plant soya beans.”

As new homes go, El Impenetrable, in northern Argentina, is spacious; it contains 128,000 hectares (317,00 acres) of protected reserve with dense native forest, grasslands and wetlands. [...] “They’re called the gardeners of the forest because, like other tortoises, the red-footed tortoises consume great amounts of native fruit and then disperse the seeds, contributing to the regeneration of forests and the dispersion of many plant species, which maintains genetic variability. We’ve already observed that the specimens in quarantine are voracious consumers of different native plants.” [...] The project is already off to an unexpectedly positive start, with news that two females have laid eggs in their enclosures, digging nests in the ground and laying at least four each. The eggs take three to seven months to hatch, which is expected to happen between September and November, with the arrival of the first rains after the dry season.

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Headline, images, captions, and text by: Graeme Green. “Green light for return of red-footed tortoises to Argentina.” The Guardian. 24 May 2022.

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findroleplay · 3 months

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hey guys! im searching for new rps!! 24, she/her. i work full time and don't expect instant responses so pls don't expect that of me. what i do hope for is third-person, literate responses, as I have 10+ years writing experience. im not asking for a novel as a response, it can be as long as you need so long as you can be descriptive and help move the narrative along nicely. 21+ only!!

List of fandoms && ships:

-attack on titan (eremin + jeanmin specifically but I'm open to other ships if you want!)

-south park (open to a lot of ships in this show too just ask!)

-succession (I just finished season one so I'm open to most anything!)

-fullmetal alchemist (either series. I'm open to most ships but I'd love to try ed x envy)

-homestuck (Johnkat, davejohn, any ship I eat it up )

just private message me on here if you're interested! @pinkfr0ggle

#rp #roleplay #homestuck rp #fullmetal alchemist rp #succession rp #south park rp #attack on titan rp

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fatsillykewn · 3 months

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HEYY EVERYNAN

I’m kinda lost on what to post on this account so I’ve decided I wanted to share my South Park favorites list. These are my favorite episodes so far in my re-run of the tv show! ENJOY 😽

Best episodes are in the chronological order of the tv show: Starts with season one at the bottom, ends with the current season I am on at the top. The episodes listed are my personal favorites out of each season. The numbered list has no relation to favoritism!

(The entire show of South Park + banned episodes) for reference:

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1_bCeYxekGm4CG1np1occgxPGnjizbR00

1. S20-

2. S19E7 Naughty Ninjas

3. S19E6 Tweek X Craig

4. S19E4 You’re Not Yelping

5. S19E1 Stunning And Brave

6. S18E10 #HappyHolograms

7. S18E9 #Rehash

8. S18E8 Cock Magic

9. S18E7 Grounded Vindaloop

10. S18E3 The Cissy

11. S17E6 Ginger Cow

12. S17E5 Taming Strange

13. S17E2 Informative Murder Porn

14. S16E10 Insecurity

15. S16E8 Sarcastaball

16. S16E7 Cartman Finds Love

17. S16E6 I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining

18. S16E4 Jewpacabra

19. S16E3 Faith Hilling

20. S15E12 1%

21. S15E9 The Last Of The Meheecans

22. S15E8 Ass Burgers

23. S15E5 Crack Baby Athletic Association

24. S15E1 HUMANCENTiPAD

25. S14E14 Crème Fraiche

26. S14E13 Coon vs. Coon & Friends

27. S14E12 Mysterion Rises

28. S14E9 It’s A Jersey Thing

29. S14E8 Poor and Stupid

30. S14E4 You Have 0 Friends

31. S13E14 Pee

32. S13E11 Whale Whores

33. S13E8 Dead Celebrities

34. S13E7 Fatbeard

35. S13E5 Fishsticks

36. S12E13 Elementary School Musical

37. S12E11 Pandemic (2)

38. S12E10 Pandemic (1)

39. S12E9 Breast Cancer Show Ever

40. S12E3 Major Boobage

41. S12E1 Tonsil Trouble

42. S11E14 The List

43. S11E12 Imaginationland (3)

44. S11E11 Imaginationland (2)

45. S11E10 Imaginationland (1)

46. S11E7 Night Of The Living Homeless

47. S10E10 Miss Teacher Bangs A Boy

48. S10E7 Tsst

49. S10E2 Smug Alert!

50. S9E11 Ginger Kids

51. S9E10 Follow That Egg

52. S9E9 Marjorine

53. S9E1 Mr Garrison’s Fancy New Vagina

54. S8E14 Woodland Critter Christmas

55. S8E6 The Jeffersons

56. S8E5 AWESOM-O

57. S8E1 Good Times With Weapons

58. S7E11 Casa Bonita

59. S7E8 South Park Is Gay!

60. S7E2 Krazy Kripples

61. S6E7 Simpsons Already Did It

62. S6E6 Professor Chaos

63. S5E14 Butters’ Very Own Episode

64. S5E13 Kenny Dies

65. S5E10 How To Eat With Your Butt

66. S5E6 Cartmanland

67. S4E15 Fat Camp

68. S4E6 Cherokee Hair Tampons

69. S3E9 Jewbilee (3)

70. S3E8 Two Guys Naked In A Hot Tub (2)

71. S3E7 Cat Orgy (1)

72. S3E5 Tweek vs. Craig

73. S2E17 Gnomes

74. S2E15 Spooky Fish

75. S2E10 Chickenpox

76. S1E8 Starvin’ Marvin

#south park #south park fandom #sp fandom

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skinnyscottishbloke · 5 months

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Some housekeeping of shows I want to watch over the winter. More below the cut.

SHOWS TO FINISH

1. Black Sails (2/4)

2. Peaky Blinders (5/6)

3. Brooklyn 99 (5/8)

4. The Mentalist (4/7)

5. Justified (3/6)

6. The West Wing (3/7)

7. Sex Education (3/4)

8. Cold Case (4/7)

9. OUAT (6/7)

10. MI-5/Spooks (4/10)

11. ANTM (22/24)

12. Outlander (6/8)

13. Grace and Frankie (5/7)

SHOWS TO WATCH FOR THE FIRST TIME

1. Ted Lasso

2. Our Flag Means Death

3. Foundation

4. Staged

5. Young Royals

6. *continue DT’s filmography*

7. Love Victor

SHOWS I’VE STARTED BUT WILL (PROBABLY) NEVER FINISH

1. Reign

2. Agents of Shield

3. The 100

4. Friends

5. House

6. Arrow

7. Queer As Folk (US)

8. Weeds

9. How to Get Away with Murder

10. Attack on Titan

SHOWS I’M CURRENTLY WATCHING/ RE-WATCHING

1. Buffy (via reaction)

2. Leverage (w/ Rowan)

3. Fellow Travelers (currently airing)

4. Good Omens (via reaction)

5. DW (13’s seasons)

6. catching up on Taskmaster (s08-11, s13-16)

7. catching up on Drag Race (Mexico s01, Brazil s01, UK s05, Germany s01)

SHOWS I HAVE SEEN ALL OF THAT ARE DONE

1. The Tudors (4/4)

2. The White Queen/The White Princess/The Spanish Queen/The Serpent Queen (all 1/1)

3. Buffy (7/7)

4. Angel (5/5)

5. Pillars of the Earth (1/1)

6. HIMYM (9/9)

7. Psych (8/8 + movies)

8. Bones (11/11)

9. Broadchurch (3/3)

10. North and South (1/1)

11. BBC Merlin (5/5)

12. BBC Robin Hood (3/3)

13. Downton Abbey (6/6 + movies)

14. Sense8 (2/2 + special)

15. Jessica Jones (2/2)

16. Daredevil (3/3)

17. The Defenders (1/1)

18. Luke Cage (2/2)

19. Iron Fist (2/2)

20. Game of Thrones (8/8)

21. BBC Sherlock (yes it’s done LOL) (4/4)

22. ATLA (3/3)

23. LOK (5/5)

24. Vicar of Dibley (3/3)

25. OG Gossip Girl (6/6)

26. Leverage (5/5)

27. Versailles (3/3)

28. Veronica Mars (3/3 + movie + reboot)

29. Firefly (1/1 + movie)

30. Castle (8/8)

31. 1995 P&P (1/1)

32. Glee (6/6)

33. Agent Carter (2/2)

SHOWS I’M CURRENT ON BUT ARE STILL ONGOING

1. Heartstopper (2/?)

2. Good Omens (2/ prob 3)

3. Wheel of Time (2/?)

4. Rings of Power (1/?)

5. Drag Race US (15/?)

6. Drag Race All Stars (8/?)

7. Leverage: Redemption (2/?)

8. Queer Eye (7/?)

SHOWS I’VE HEARD OF BUT NEVER WATCHED MORE THAN AN EP OR 2 (AND PROBABLY WON’T)

1. Supernatural

2. any of the Star Treks

3. Breaking Bad

4. NCIS

5. JAG

6. Dexter

7. Chuck

8. Grey’s Anatomy

9. Community

10. The Office (UK or US)

11. Parks and Rec

12. Orange is the New Black

13. Black Mirror

14. Sons of Anarchy

15. One Piece

16. Dragon Ball Z

17. Full Metal Alchemist

18. The Vampire Diaries

19. The OC

20. Dawson’s Creek

21. Gilmore Girls

22. Teen Wolf

23. 24

24. Emily in Paris

25. CSI

26. 911 or any spin offs

27. Scrubs

28. Family Guy

29. The Simpsons

#gratuitous text post #tv #damn that is a fuckton of things to catch up on #and a fuckton of things I’ve watched #what’s bad is I’ve done multiple rewatches of bones and buffy and sense8 and good omens and heartstopper #when what I really should be doing is finishing shows!!!

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How is brand Harry & Meghan faring in the US? Not good | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Is America finally getting bored of Harry and Meghan? It’s starting to look that way. Only a few months ago the pair were media darlings in the US; now they have become a bit of a joke. The animated sitcom South Park gave the first big blow to their stateside brand a couple of weeks ago with an episode featuring a couple bearing an uncanny similarity to the Sussexes. In the episode, titled The Worldwide Privacy Tour, the pair travel the globe with placards saying: “Stop looking at us!” and chanting: “We want privacy!” Harry’s memoir, Spare, is parodied as “Waaaagh”. The couple also get advice from a PR expert who tells them to portray themselves as victims. Not terribly flattering stuff.

Now the comedian Chris Rock has taken aim at the couple in his new Netflix special, Selective Outrage. He dismissed Meghan’s claims about racism in the royal family, saying: “Some of that shit she went through was not racism”, but “in-law” behaviour. He also joked about how it was odd Meghan seemed surprised by the fact the royal family might harbour archaic views. “It’s the royal family! They’re the original racists. They invented colonialism,” Rock said.

Polls also reflect a shift in US-based attitudes towards the pair: their approval ratings have plummeted since the South Park episode. According to polling commissioned for Newsweek, Harry’s popularity has dropped 48 points since December and Meghan’s is down 40. Now Prince Andrew, the guy who palled around with a convicted sex offender, has higher US approval ratings than the Sussexes. Though, to be fair, that seems to be because fewer people in the US know about Andrew’s tawdry dealings than they do in the UK. Because Andrew isn’t parading himself on the US media 24/7 like Harry and Meghan, it’s easier for someone stateside to forget who he is. If only we all had that luxury.

How are Harry and Meghan responding to this seeming shift in attitudes? Well, let’s just say they haven’t exactly put out a statement saying they think Rock and South Park are hilarious and they love nothing more than laughing at themselves, ha ha ha. On the contrary, there were rumours that they were so upset by the South Park episode that they were considering legal action. While they’re certainly fans of calling their lawyers, a representative for the couple told the Guardian that reports the pair might sue were “baseless” and “boring”.

I’ll tell you what’s really boring: the neverending pity-me-please performance the two are foisting upon us. As a staunch anti-royalist I was sympathetic to the couple to begin with – my enemy’s enemy is my friend and all that – but the constant oversharing has jumped the shark. Particularly since it becomes more obvious by the day that their grievances are less to do with systemic inequality and more to do with feeling they didn’t get a big enough slice of the born-with-privilege pie. I mean, come on, you can’t go around complaining about how backwards the royals are while insisting that we plebs refer to you as Duke and Duchess. You want some credibility?

Give up your stupid titles.

Another unsolicited piece of advice for Duke and Duchess: read the socioeconomic room! You may have noticed that “eat the rich” storylines are a big theme on TV at the moment. From the latest season of Netflix’s You to the White Lotus to Succession, there are more rich-people-are-awful-sociopaths storylines on the telly than you can shake a silver spoon at. This isn’t a weird coincidence. It’s been noted that storylines about rich people tend to vary depending on the economic climate: in good times onscreen obscene wealth can be enjoyable escapism; in bad times it’s more of a hate-watch. And, I don’t need to tell you, the world is currently going through “you need to take out a second mortgage to buy eggs” sort of times.

Finally, Harry: I know you weren’t exactly the most committed student, but maybe pick up a history book. The US has something of a reputation for losing patience with British aristocrats.

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist

#revenge #tom bower #strip the sussex titles #worldwide privacy tour #megxit #frogxit #fraud and fraudess #spare us #like a spare

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Quotes about the 1982 Drivers Strike that I found funny/interesting (from a pdf of a book I accidentally downloaded)

So, if you haven't seen from my Twitter stream this morning when trying to research something about Niki Lauda for a friend, I came across a pdf link. Thinking it would just be a small article potentially with the answer I was looking for, I downloaded it. I did not notice the fact that it was 154 pages... to my surprise; it turned out to be a whole book about the 1982 season, specifically focusing on Keke Rosberg.

I've read through the chapter about the driver's strike and taken down some quotes that I found interesting. There isn't a lot of detail into what they all got up to that isn't already known, but there is a lot of useful information. Hope you enjoy :)

'You might imagine all this was just like every season, but 1982 was already very different. The Rat, you see, had smelt a rat.'

'Herr Andres Nikolaus Lauda of Vienna had furtive eyes which didn't miss much and a suspicious mind. On 24th December 1981, he sniffed the form from Paris the postman had just delivered and didn't like it at all.'

'The form was the product of events in 1981 when Prost, making his debut in Grand Prix racing with Mclaren, became convinced the car was not safe and refused to drive for the team again regardless of the fact he had a contract to do so. Prost told Teddy Mayer that, if necessary, he would simply walk away from motor sport altogether. Renault approached Prost, he joined them, and Mayer (by training a lawyer) discovered how problematic the law was if you tried to prevent someone from gaining their livelihood. The super licence form represented an attempt to prevent such situation recurring.'

'Lauda claims Pironi made phone calls and was able to prevent 'most of the other drivers' from signing, but in fact 24 did, leaving six refuseniks: Pironi himself, Lauda of course, Villeneuve - who had seen something similar in Canadian ice hockey and didn't like it - Arnoux, Giacomelli, and de Cesaris'

'I was just listening because Didier Pironi did all the talking,' Lauda would say. 'Didier completely unemotional. The important thing was to keep on talking.'

'At 7:00 on the Thursday morning a bus, arranged by GPDA secretary Trevor Rowe, drew up not far from the paddock entrance with Pironi and Lauda in it. Most of the drivers stayed at the nearby Kyalami Ranch Hotel and they'd be arriving early for a GPDA meeting before the hour-long practice session at 10:20. As each arrived they were invited to park their cars and get onto the bus. Mass didn't show up (He's always late' someone said) and Ickx refused. In fact, Mass had been staying with friends of his South African-born wife and so had been out of touch. He knew nothing about the bus but it wouldn't have made any difference.'

'The drivers were, as Lauda recounts is, going for a drive. With Lauda hanging out of the back waving, the bus set off, but as it left the bottom gate of the circuit John McDonald of the March team tried to block it. Laffite and some other drivers got out and pushed McDonald's car clear. Then the bus proceeded to the scenic route to Johannesburg some 15 miles away pursued by 'a whole convoy' of TV cameras, journalists and photographers. The bus went to the Sunnyside Park Hotel in the suburbs. It offered full amenities including a swimming pool.'

'At 10:19 the track opened for practice. The race organisers threatened to impound the cars if the race didn't happen and Ecclestone threatened the drivers that they would be sued for recompense if the cars were impounded. Throughout, Ecclestone adopted a hard line and at one point, in a remarkable interview questioned the value of drivers, "Nobody came up to me at Kyalami and asked where Jones or Andretti were. Already they're not missed. Why should any of the rest of them be missed? If it had suited Carlos not to come back, he wouldn't have given a stuff about F1 now, or whether the crowds came now or didn't. He couldn't give a dam if it suited him not to turn up. In the same way it suited Niki to walk out in the middle of a race. I think he said at the time 'I'm leaving because of policies, I just want to be a racing driver.' If you analyse it, the drivers just don't make any sense."'

'Pironi arrived from the circuit and explained that if they didn't return and drive immediately, they faced life bans. There seems to have been a distinctive mood at the hotel with very real concerns about what they were doing 'camouflaged by high jinks and laughter.' Lauda knew that the older drivers understood what the consequences might be. Ecclestone had already fired Piquet and Patrese. Lauda realised how difficult it was for the young drivers, facing the reaction of their sponsors. Lauda concluded that maintaining solidarity was crucial. Each driver had a great deal to lose.'

'At the Kyalami Ranch, during dinner, drivers' wives and girlfriends threw bread rolls and plates at Balestre.'

'The drivers in Hannesburg inhabited the conference room. "We ended up barricaded in it" Warwick says, "You know what was fantastic? I got to know my colleagues for the first time because, being a non-qualifier at the back of the grid, you don't get a chance to speak to the guys at the front. That was good. The other things that were massive when we were in that compound - we were there for 24 hours - was Bruno Giacomelli standing with a chart and dissecting an AK47 machine gun. He drew these magnificent drawings of how to take the gun to bits and so on. It was very, very funny because in the normal Bruno Giacomelli way he was very, very funny anyway. I think it was a big shock for everybody in authority because they thought they could control the drivers but, to be quite honest, I don't know that half of them in the room knew what we were striking for." Lauda kept their spirits up by telling jokes and, a piano brought, Villeneuve played light music and de Angelis classical pieces. "What really blew me away," Warwick says, "was that we had a piano in the room and Elio de Angelis started playing it. Apparently, he could have been a concert pianist and it astonished me - the other talents that some of these guys had. Then Gilles played Scott Joplin.'

'Many remember the performance by de Angelis. "Believe it or not," Derek Daly says, "the most vivid memory I have of being stuck in the hotel was Elio de Angelis playing the piano like a concert pianist. Remarkable. Definitely, definitely that was a gift, a talent of his.' Jarier points out that "it was a big room and Elio de Angelis played classical music and Gilles played. Very sympa. In that era virtually all the drivers stayed in the same hotels - Kyalami Ranch in South America, the Glen Motorhome in Watkins Glen and so on. A formula one team was 15, 20 people. There were far few journalists, far fewer television people and everybody knew each other." In other words, many of the drivers in the big room were not strangers to each other, however much those at the back of the grid had to be. Alex Hawkridge arrived to try and reach Fabi and Warwick. Fabi was easy to reach because, as it seems, he was already staying in the hotel and had his own room. "Teo we didn't threaten as such, we told him he was contracted to drive. He came out and I was able to speak to him. We reminded him he had signed a contract to drive, and the idea of solidarity wouldn't help him if he was without a drive and think where his best interest lay. Elio was playing the piano - astonishing - and I could hear him. He was a proper concert pianist.'

'The room was barricaded. An associate of mine pushed the door open and shouted their names, "Come and talk to us and we'll resolve this" Of course, as happens when you do that, someone pushed the other way and there was a bit of a pushing and shoving session - by a friend of mine called Douglas Norden, who is known to be a little aggressive when challenged. He was nothing to do with the team, just a friend along trying to help and it turned into a bit of a scuffle, the the door shut." Niki and the others saw it as a further restriction on the drivers' power and they wanted to stop it, and that is always the difficulty with change, isn't it? We were to have another example at Imola when the FOCA went on strike against the FIA. Through the history of human struggle there have been instances involving union. Lauda made sure the piano blocked the door so there would be no further scuffles, giving the police reason to enter. Mo Nunn at the Ensign tried to get Guerrero to come out by taking his girlfriend. When they saw each other they dissolved into tears and Lauda allowed him out to see her providing he - Lauda - came too. Jean Sage of Renault tried to get Prost and Arnoux but was beaten off.'

'The drivers ordered a room big enough to put 30 mattresses onto the carpet - that provoked prolonged ribaldry. At 11:00 pm they moved from the conference room to this dormitory and settled down for the night, having worked out an elaborate way of getting to the toilet across the hallway. It was conducted on the honour system with a key on a plate in the middle of the room. Lauda would remember, "I was sharing a bed with Patrese, someone next to Rosberg was snoring until Villeneuve put a blanket over him in the middle of the night, but all the time we stood together." Warwick would remember, "The drivers spent time with me and we spent a lot of time together - I was sleeping with them, exactly, yes! I haven't slept on the same mattress as Carlos Reutemann ever since, mind you..." To which Derek Daly says, "The funny thing is think I was on the other side because I have a picture of me beside Reutemann. I don't know if he snored. I do think he was still dressed in his driver's suit." Pironi said at the time, "We will see it through, FISA had too much to lose to let the Grand Prix be called off. I'm confident they will relent." "We'd had a lot of pressure because you had people like Jackie Oliver and Alex Hawkridge coming to the hotel," Warwick says, "We were threatened with our jobs if you don't get back there and that, of course, if why Fabi crawled out of the toilet window. He was the only one who broke ranks. He did the dirty on me. Everybody said they understood if I had to go back, I was explaining to people like Lauda, 'It's okay for you guys, you're going to have a job , you're some of the best drivers around but I'm the new kid on the block, my team mate's just jumped ship and I am very vulnerable' and every one of them said, 'We guarantee you will not be fired' In other words, if one is fired everyone goes. That gave me a little bit more confidence to stay there."'

'"It wasn't the strike which made me say, I don't want Formula One," Tambay says, "I enjoyed the strike! It was the best time I ever had with all my friends, although it was a very costly reunion with them. WHat I didn't like was Teo Fabi sneaking out behind our backs to try and get back into the car, and what I didn't like was that I knew we had been screwed - they (Balestre & co) had said "Come back out to the circuit and everything's going to be all right" and I knew we were all screwed"'

'And there, grinning broadly (he usually did), stood the strong, square figure of Brian Henton - available for selection as of this second, Jackie Oliver gave Henton the Tambay drive, but that morning, Henton became embroiled in a tug-of-war between the arrows management and Herr Lauda. Arrows 'were bollocking me saying "Get in the car" and all the rest of it' Henton remembers, 'And I am just about to go out for practice and they needed my signature on their petition. I'd got the team shouting in one ear "Get in that car and get out there" and, just as I am sitting Niki Lauda - who been massaging me all the time and I'd been saying "No, no, no" - rushes up with this petition, he 'hit' me at the right time, "Just sign this, sign it, sign it" I thought I only want to get out onto the track.'

'Lauda records how, throughout the weekend, there had been rumours that once the drivers reached the airport to fly home they would be arrested, although on what grounds it is difficult to say, what happened was quite different. During the race the stewards issued a statement given to each team, saying the drivers Super Licences were being suspended. Three drivers, Fabi, Mass and Henton - were spared: Fabi because he'd gone to the track prepared to drive, Mass because he had driven, and Henton because he got the Arrows drive after Tambay withdrew following the strike. Francis Tucker, steward of the South African Grand Prix, said, "For the purpose of running a race, a temporary truce, was called in the disagreement between the drivers and the officials. The truce lasted until the end of the race. At the end of the race, the truce agreement position was terminated. This means that the position which existed prior to the agreement is effectively reinstated.' The drivers were suspended immediately and each paid 300 Rand to appeal the decision. Fisa said they supported the suspensions and Executive Committee would meet in Paris on the following Thursday, January 27.'

And that is all that I took down about the Driver's Strike of 1982. I hope that it was an enjoyable read for everyone!

I feel a bit bad that I accidentally got a free copy of this book, given that the author I've read other books from and it one that I like a lot, and that when looking the book up, it is rather expensive. But these things accidentally happen, and anyone could accidentally look up this exact search on google: Niki Lauda "snored" - and then see the first link that is a pdf of 154 pages titled 1982, which then they could click and get the full copy of the book. These accidents happen. And it is always good to have a virus scanner to check any file you download just in case, my phone seems safe but it's better safe than sorry.

Enjoy :)

#classic f1 #f1 #formula one #formula 1 #vintage f1 #1982 drivers strike

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The World Is My Oyster

Literary Journalism By Jenny Park

As a citizen of South Korea, Korean Pop music has always played an enormously influential role in my upbringing. It was the 26th of May in the year 2023 when I had been compelled by my sense of admiration. As the season of change comes to a close and the humidity of summer slowly rises, I found “change” within myself when I came across a documentary video of the, back then, one-year-old KPop girl group called LE SSERAFIM under the company Source Music. Originally, all that I had known back then was that they were a six-member group turned 5 and that three of their oldest members had come from a KPop survival show called Produce48 — a brutal reality competition show wherein numerous trainees from Japanese girl group AKB48 and others from a variety of companies are sent to compete in singing, dancing, and rapping to showcase their skills and last until the end of the show through the votes of the judges as well as the viewers — but what had caught my eye was the title of the YouTube documentary; The World Is My Oyster.

A total of 4 videos, 20 minutes each, and the gut-wrenching reality behind the adversities of these girls working like dogs to achieve their lifelong dreams. That was what I had understood right then and there. The documentary itself reveals the triumphs and hardships the girls had to go through to prepare to meet the world as LE SSERAFIM.

Episode 01. The beginning. Just like staring at an empty canvas, the beginning, the start, and the forefront is always the most difficult. When the group first came together, the girls had all been contacted by HYBE Labels underscoring a similar statement of “I want you to join the team.” With fluttering feelings of both nervousness and excitement, each of the girls — Sakura, Kim Chaewon, and Huh Yunjin — return from where they once were to become a member of a team of possible strangers. “It’s a bit of a pressure to be carrying the name Miyawaki Sakura,” “I want to show a side of me that’s new and better than when I was in IZ*ONE,” “It felt strange. Other companies have contacted me but I was just going to go back to school. I thought that I had nothing left to do with KPop.” Once again, starting the training process with singing, dancing, media training, and language training, their lives were flipped upside down when one of the trainees — Haruka — was announced to be eliminated from the team. The brutal truth is that even though you have trained together, ate together, and spent nearly 24/7 together, in the end, you may end up in entirely different directions. The cold reality here is that reasons as simple as not fitting the aesthetic or vision of the team can get you removed. As the remaining three were left in a dark place, not knowing when they would debut or if they would even get to debut together, a bright light from the Netherlands has given them hope. Nakamura Kazuha, a girl who had been lost, found a new sense of interest in none other than KPop. A simple dream, yet so far away. From learning an entirely new language, being far away from family and from what you were used to, and doing a 180 from ballet to hip hop, waacking, and more. Not even three days later, the final member Hong Eunchae, born in 2006, entered the room.

Episode 02. The narrative of LE SSERAFIM. With the diverse backgrounds of each of the members — Sakura who has been an idol for over 10 years, coming back with her third debut, Chaewon who is reclaiming her identity and showing the world a new version of herself, Yunjin who had initially given up on her dream to simply live her life as a normal girl in New York, Kazuha who wanted to find a new passion within herself, and Eunchae who had been waiting for what felt like years to achieve the dream she has had since she was a little girl — the story they are trying to tell is towards the people talking about the past, they say that they do not need the past because “We are stepping into the future fearlessly. We won’t let the past hold us back.” To tell the audience that this is who they are, this is their story, and this is what they have been through. From going to work at 9:30 in the morning, having one-on-one lessons, meeting with the rest of the team to dance for up to at least seven hours a day, to going home at dawn. That vicious cycle of being in the South Korean media industry had just gotten even more difficult. With everyone’s eyes on you and all that you give to satisfy them, all you get in return is “you’re a bad singer,” which only further instills the insecurity and fear of entering the recording booth and wanting fewer and fewer parts in a song that tells your story. However, even when the girls’ debut becomes delayed, practices get tougher, and even when one’s health deteriorates, they have each other. Five girls who had been strangers not long ago, become a true team — a family — as they spend every second, minute, and hour of their days with one another and another piece of data enters the memory card.

Episode 03. The process of transformation. From wanting to show a new side of themselves and the overbearing thoughts of “If I had just lived a normal life and did not become a trainee, then would I have been freer? Was it right to give that life up?,” to the thoughts of wanting to do more, to experience and experiment further, to create pieces that are their very own right from their fingertips to the pen and papers laying on the mattress of the bed as the guitar lays taught on Huh Yunjin’s hands as a means of consolation and fascination. Every one of those girls has led what they had considered normal lives, and yet here they were doubting themselves and finding ways to overcome that intimidation and fear of being the most experienced and having shown the world who they once were, of being different, of choosing an entirely new path, and even that of being the youngest and constantly pushing yourself to catch up to the rest. Yet, each one of them shows that their hard work paved through until the end.

Episode 04. I am Fearless. The birth of LE SSERAFIM to the rest of the world finally arrived on the 2nd of May 2022. Fearless, is a befitting song title for the group who truly showed that they were brave throughout their pre-debut journey. Likewise, the name LE SSERAFIM is an anagram for the words I’M FEARLESS, marking the beginning of their success as a group that has now become akin to family. But before the group had been fully exposed to the idol industry, I could feel the buzz of their excitement through the screen of my phone as their album preparations had finished, their schedules were filled with different variety shows and live singing programs for idols, and their debut showcase was merely weeks away. However, when times get easy, it also gets rough. Since their debut was not far from approaching, they had to get stricter with each step, each stretch of the arm, facial expressions, their appearances, and their conditions. Fixing what they were lacking with the limited time they had was not an easy feat. As each one of them came together and polished endlessly at what they were given, the girl group became the talk of the town as news got out that they were debuting. Numerous articles in the South Korean media stating “HYBE’s First Girl Group Debut Countdown,” “First Reveal of LE SSERAFIM’s Visuals,” and “FEARLESS Showcase with Over 100,000 Concurrent Visitors” appeared as the group set their foot on stage for the first time as a team. Their team name plastered all around the big stage as they prepared to show their faces and their skills to those who had been eagerly waiting. Just as the LED stage cover slid up, the roar of the fans’ cheers filled the stadium to the brim with passion and enthusiasm as the members were slowly revealed to the world. The sea of white lights and banners printed with the team logo had spread chills all over me even just as a simple audience of this documentary and it was right there where I told myself that they belonged on the stage, they should not be separated from performing because that is what makes them feel alive. “I’m an idol because it makes me happy,” “My driving force is being on stage,” “I don’t have any regrets,” “We worked so hard and I want to show them that.”

The journey of LE SSERAFIM from their beginnings to their debut as a cohesive group is a testament to their unwavering determination and passion for their craft. Through the challenges of training, self-doubt, and the pressures of the industry, they have emerged as a courageous and united team. Their story is one of resilience, friendship, and the pursuit of their dreams. As they step into the spotlight, they carry with them the message that they are not bound by their pasts, but instead, they are boldly embracing the future. LE SSERAFIM’s debut marks not only the beginning of their music careers but also the start of a new chapter filled with endless possibilities and achievements because they are FEARLESS.

#kpop #kpop gg #kpopidol #girl group #le sserafim #fearless #the world is my oyster #literature #poetry #creative writing #creative nonfiction

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wendytestabrat · 4 months

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season 24 of south park but it’s just the kyman moments PT. 3

#south park #kyman #DUMBASSCOMPILATIONS

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bieups · 11 months

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6월 - June

A new month means I'm that much closer to summer vacation~

What's going on this month?

6일 - 현충일: Memorial Day; a day to remember those who died for their country (this is a "red day"/public holiday)

6일 - 망종: barley harvest season (one of the 24 seasonal divisions)

10일 - 6.10민주항쟁기념일: Anniversary of the June 10th Democracy Movement; this was a period of nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations that lasted from June 10~29th, 1987.

A Brief Overview of the June Democratic Struggle [CW: police brutality, death] January 14th, 1987 - 21 year old SNU student Park Jong-Cheol was tortured to death by police because he refused to give up information about fellow activists. (The Korean CIA ran the "Anti Communist Investigative Office" where many activists were tortured.) May 18th - the Catholic Priest Association for Justice revealed that the government had been covering up the details of Park's death. In response, a nationwide protest in his honor was planned for June 10th. June 9th - as more people started protesting, Yonsei student Lee Han-Yeol was hit in the head by a tear gas grenade during a protest at Yonsei Uni. He became another symbol of the pro-democracy movement. Lee died from his injuries on July 5th and over 1 million people attended his funeral. June 10th - over 200,000 people attended nationwide demonstrations against the government's use & concealment of torture. On the same day, President Chun Doo-hwan (responsible for the Gwangju Massacre in 1980) announced the nomination of his ally Roh Tae-Woo as the candidate for the ruling Democratic Justice Party (essentially naming him as the next president). During the next three weeks, over a million people took to the streets to fight for democracy. June 29th - Roh Tae-Woo issued the June 29th Declaration (6.29 선언), where he promised democratic reforms such as direct presidential elections and freedom of the press. He ended up being elected as president at the end of the year, leading to the Sixth Republic (the current government). (The movie 1987: When the Day Comes is based on the events leading up to June 10th and is worth checking out)

21일 - 하지: the summer solstice (one of the 24 seasonal divisions)

22일 - 단오: the 5th day of the 5th lunar month; this used to be celebrated with traditional games & wrestling (씨름) and women washed their hair with sweet flag (the plant) water...probably some people still observe this day, but it's not a public holiday

25일 - 6.25 한국전쟁일: Day of the Korean War ("육이오 전쟁")

The Korean War was/is a war between South Korea & North Korea. It's also sometimes seen as a kind of proxy war between the US & China/the Soviet Union. It officially began on June 25th, 1950 with North Korean forces invading the South, and it "ended" when an armistice agreement (not a peace treaty) was signed on July 27th, 1953. So technically, the two countries are still at war and this fact influences the politics & culture of South Korea today. (For example, yesterday at 6:41 am the Seoul gov. sent out a "wartime alert" and sirens were blaring telling people to take shelter. Plenty of people just silenced their phones and ignored it due to being desensitized to news about NK missiles or whatever, but others worried we were truly about to be bombed. Then 30 min later another alert came out to say "sorry, false alarm" and life just went on as usual.) I know war is quite a complicated topic, but I recommend learning at least the main events along the timeline of Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945 up to the war and the ceasefire. People often mention how Korea developed into a capitalist hell Joseon 1st world country so quickly, but learning about the impact of the war and the conditions people endured really helps put into perspective just how amazing it is. I think this video is a good introduction/summary.

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