The Return of the Ramblings

I've decided to start my own personality cult. If stupid, unlikeable world leaders can have them, why can't I?

You may be asking "why would clousems, an individual who isn't particularly ambitious, want a personality cult?" Well, I can assure you that it's purely practical.

The first reason is to obtain free stuff. I'd have my little flunkies build a giant ziggurat in a nice part of a nice city when nobody is looking. Next, I would claim it was a place of significance for the cult, for tax and property reasons. I'd move into the ziggurat, set up a casino in the bottom part, and set up living quarters in the top part. I would then have free housing and a casino in a nice part of a big city. I'd also have the flunkies run errands for me, and would pay them in sound bytes.

The second reason is movies. With my flunkies, I'd start a protest against Disney surrounding their recent inability to make decent original movies. I'd force Disney to give me some creative input in their operations, or to give me a Disney spin-off company (I stole this move from Jerry Bruckheimer). I'd then use this company to make good movies.

Finally, my cult of personality would function as an anti-cult cult, because other cults of personality are still somehow much dumber. I'd use my cult to call them names, and would offer incentive packages for cult converts. We would then TP the houses of other cult leaders, because that would be fun as hell

Obtained a copy of Starcrash.
Muahahahahahahhah

@clousems said in #42:

Obtained a copy of Starcrash.
Muahahahahahahhah

I like the idea of a personality cult around someone who says "Muahahahahahah" or something like that. You would benefit from some sort of sonic attack that will turn people into zombies who say "must.... worship.... clousems...." Also a solid special effects budget would be nice.

Cheers @clousems

I'm not dead, just vacationing.

Cheers, @Edgy1

Is it cultural appropriation if a non-Southerner says "y'all", or is it just really cringey?

@clousems said in #46:

Is it cultural appropriation if a non-Southerner says "y'all", or is it just really cringey?

Other languages have a plural "you," just as other languages have an informal "you" -- Spanish, for instance, has "ustedes" (or "vosotros") and "tu." English-speakers have had to make do with impromptu variations on "you," including "y'all" and "you all," and they eliminated the informal "you" ("thou") during the English Revolution when the Quakers were over-using it. You will still see the informal "thou," then, in Shakespeare and other pre-English Revolution texts.

@clousems going with more variables needed to make a subjective judgement call.
Lol Cheers, you are my favorite character ️

My opposition is not to the use of the tense, just the contraction (and misuse).

As a resident of Southern Kentucky for the better part of my life, the use of "y'all" is natural to me. But when I hear fake Southerners (I'm looking at YOU, Marylanders!) try to use it, they overemphasize it or pronounce it wrong. Call me a little pedantic, but I feel that my typical reaction of Wing Chun chain punching these posers in the face for about 30 minutes with a railroad spike in my hand is warranted. It's educational, after all.

@clousems when I think of Kentucky I think whiskey, rifles, and foot hills y'all call mountains ;-)