Holy crap. There’s a video of the incident, although not at this link. I don’t know why, but this guy just yeeted himself out of the stands and fell 20+ feet. I hope he recovers.
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Wow. Here’s Godfrey’s take on this situation:
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A blue eyed devil, maybe! 
That Black father angle is an interesting line of thought… I mean, is there a reason why DS9 gets less attention than other legacy trek series, with a Black lead, who is playing a single father raising a son?
Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) has said that Avery Brooks has been blacklisted from hollywood because he was “anti-white”… Which… what? If you’re pro-Black, you’re anti-white? Seems like pure project by racists to me.
Their relationship is one of my favorite things about the series, honestly. It’s so sweet…
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Not only that, but it’s also multi-generational when we consider Captain Sisko’s father.
Seeing the two and three of them interact were some of my favorite parts of the series, too.
Yup. Racism and sexism too often boils down to a zero-sum game worldview. Even in fiction, seeing anyone in authority who does not look like them is perceived as a threat. If “the others” are having a good time, that diminishes their fun / ruins their mood. In the end, they want those they consider to be “lesser than” to be worse off, suffering, powerless, and joyless - because it makes them feel better about themselves.
That’s why the NFL (never gonna forget the alternative meaning of that acronym) wants stories about players overcoming personal problems as a PR tool. I’m still pissed about Michael Oher’s experiences vs. how he was portrayed in “The Blind Side.”
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Now Lil Bill is weighing in on the class angle at play…
I’m FD Signifier and I have alopecia…
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I prefer turf races. The horses are classy, and the turf’s easier on their limbs, as well as our eyes!
Exciting finish!
Another great finish!
Loved that “There are six across the track here! It could go any way!”
We love watching the fillies and mares, too!
What a lovely winner! Such a pretty star on her forehead XD
It appears the once-ubiquitous white bridle is at long last falling out of fashion, thank Gawd. They’re so ugly, and make their wearers’ heads look coarse.
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To be fair, some recipes do call for a lemon slice or three - depending on the drinkers’/recipe posters’ tastes, and of course the size of the Trinkgeschirr what’s being used.
This recipe, whence camèth th’ illustration above, calls for sugarcubes
This one suggests a lime wedge, which your humble narrator prefers to lemon
This one recommends coconut palm sugar (for a caramel-y-tasting simple syrup), and an optional few drops of bitters
This recipe uses ginger ale ('steada bourbon) and simple syrup in a 2-to-1 ratio, and suggests lemon wedges and maraschino cherries on top.
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Just ‘Glas’ will do nicely. Trinkgeschirr isn’t technically wrong, but not in the Wörterbuch1) as such. People will know what you mean, but it’ll blow your cover. Think getting on the bus in The Great Escape, but in a restaurant. Or a Haushaltswarengeschäft.
Trinkgefäß if we want to fail at pretending being posh or maybe write something legally binding or official or whatever.
Trinkglas to avoid any confusion with Fensterglas, but usually this should be clear in any context. At least any context I can think of right now!
A porcelain cup or mug is Geschirr2) as in ‘part of a Geschirrservice’.3) 4) Glassware isn’t usually referred to as Geschirr; it’s just Gläser & Geschirr.
However, Eßgeschirr is a thing. And if it’s intended for camping etc or issued as military kit it includes whatever thingy is used as a drinking vessel.5) Because those usually6) aren’t made from porcelain.
Either way, if it’s not spülmaschinenfest (per DIN 128757)) or spülmaschinengeeignet (marketing blurb) I won’t have it! Or put it in the Mühle8) anyway and see what happens.
While we’re at it, nobody uses Stein. I had to look it up, in fact - it’s from The Student Prince in Heidelberg. The 1924 light opera (and 1954 film 9) 10)), not Meyer-Förster’s 1901 play (or the 1927 Singspiel based on it).
1) Bünting, Deutsches Wörterbuch, Isis Verlag AG, Chur/Schweiz, 1996. Including the effing Neue Rechtschreibung. Go on, ask me about Flußschiffahrt, I dare you.
2) Those little soup bowls with two handles are a borderline case. An exception to the rule, if you will. While they are intended for food and not for drink, the food is liquid and you are allowed to sip the last bit of the soup, the soupcon right at the bottom you can’t get out with the spoon, handling it like a cup.*) But it’s one sip only and woe betide you should you commit the foxtrot faux pas of clutching both handles in your clumsy little mitts! People who make their living selling upmarket tableware**) know about stuff like this. And they will tell you about it, at length, at the slightest provocation. Even if they are friends you meet at a dinner party - they will do this to you. It’s plain indoctrination. And it obviously works, on the weak-minded anyway.
3) Not as in ‘part of a horse harness’.
4) For a while I was under the misapprehension that The Owl Service was about some kind of secret intelligence service operated by, well, secretive owls. Not a bad premise for another story, though. I’d read/watch that.
5) I wonder, would it be cromulent to refer to a RN ship (or boat) as a drinking vessel, in contrast to, say an USN ship (or boat)?
6) I wouldn’t be surprised at all if there were porcelain versions for glamping.
7) Because of course there is one. How could anyone seriously expect there wouldn’t be one. There always is at least one, if not several.
8) Family idiom. Our first dishwasher in the late 1960ies was a battleship grey monster by Miele that ran on 480V/32A three-phase current and sounded like it was grinding down the cutlery and crockery into fine dust instead of cleaning it. Opening the door and finding everything still intact always felt like a pleasant little surprise.
9) I didn’t check the 1915 version by John Emerson with Wallace Reid and Dorothy Gish or the 1927 version by Ernst Lubitsch and John Stahl with Ramon Navarro and Norma Shearer. They were both silent, maybe they had it on the inter-title cards. Where is a film historian when you need one? Extemporising on Jean-Luc Godard and the Nouvelle Vague, I shouldn’t wonder. But I digress.
The 1959 version by Ernst Marischka with Sabine Sinjen, Christian Wolff and Gert Fröbe (as private tutor Jüttner, not, alas, as the prince) doesn’t enter into it.
Anyway, now I wish Mel Brooks had made his own version, silent or not.
10) Nothing wrong with liking Mario Lanza, though. The man could sing. Maybe not everybody’s favourite kind of song, but he had the talent and put in the work.
*) I can only surmise that ‘don’t waste food’ got the better of ‘proper table manners’ in this instance.
**) Not the usual ‘Only they know who them are…’ conundrum, though. They are very easy to spot. It’s the ones who check the maker’s mark under the plates and on the cutlery. Or whether the pepper mill has a Peugeot grinder. Them. You’ve seen them.
It’s okay, though. They usually know good food and where to find it and/or make it. But they will insist that it’s impossible to prepare dish X without kitchen utensil Y and try to sell you one.
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Damn, footnotes and everything!
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This wins the prize for most footnotes of any post. Even the footnotes have footnotes!
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I wanted to use “drinkware” because ridiculous descriptions of glasses and cups for sale on various websites. In exchange, I got
A World Heritage Post!
Thank you!
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Significant for being the only top league club which is not affiliated with a male club.
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I’m still pissed off about Doncaster Belles being thrown out of the WSL because they weren’t well known enough to people who didn’t follow women’s football.
I hold a grudge for a long time.
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Yeah, it kind of reminds me of formal legal writings, where the footnotes are often longer than the paper itself. It really is impressive. @FGD135 you should be an attorney.
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