And that's just page one!
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oh ffs. This book is about our livingroom. It's The Devil Wears Prada all over again.
If within the next five pages the author mentions a DUPLO cow I will read anything the Europeans podcast will ever recommend.
Edit: and for the sake of completion. We have neither a full copy of the New Yorker nor a rare first edition of a Kraftwerk LP. To compensate though.. A framed front page of the New Yorker (view on the world) and some 'rare' bits of actual Space Shuttle (scrapped after STS-82).
@Pepijn Ah, another fellow Europeans' book club enjoyer!
Not gonna lie, I had to google almost all the plants named in the first chapter -
"An egg became more famous than the pope."
I've been on the internet since the late 1990s. I'm absolutely "in" with memes and shit.
That said. I don't remember this at all (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram_egg). That makes me wonder how much it spread outside the app based entertainment websites like Instagram etc.
Before this post, did you hear of the 2019 world record egg?
@Pepijn Wikipedia page written by egg photo producer?
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"An egg became more famous than the pope."
I've been on the internet since the late 1990s. I'm absolutely "in" with memes and shit.
That said. I don't remember this at all (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram_egg). That makes me wonder how much it spread outside the app based entertainment websites like Instagram etc.
Before this post, did you hear of the 2019 world record egg?
@Pepijn totally passed me by. Reading the description though, it is a great example of the vapidness of social media activism.
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"An egg became more famous than the pope."
I've been on the internet since the late 1990s. I'm absolutely "in" with memes and shit.
That said. I don't remember this at all (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram_egg). That makes me wonder how much it spread outside the app based entertainment websites like Instagram etc.
Before this post, did you hear of the 2019 world record egg?
Been building internet sites & data since '93-94! never tried Instagram's, tick-tock's or many of the other profitable "control by mad people pass times" many waste their lives on!
The grandchildren worry me & how life, their life is now!BTW, I even have a 'snatcher button' on my TV remote there I get either muted people telling me all about cheapo cremations, smelly people sniffing laundry (obviously not into gardening?) and dancing and covered in food or mud, 15 mins an hour lost?
Or a different channel!Bring back pubs & clubs & sports, face to face talking like we used to do?
Possibly that might stop much of the Americanisation of our young?Those of our young bought up on shoot out, stabbing, killing & mad car destruction games that make so much money & all for their don't care creators & company owners, this has seemingly changed once safe streets to danger zones.
It's time for more coffee.....
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"An egg became more famous than the pope."
I've been on the internet since the late 1990s. I'm absolutely "in" with memes and shit.
That said. I don't remember this at all (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram_egg). That makes me wonder how much it spread outside the app based entertainment websites like Instagram etc.
Before this post, did you hear of the 2019 world record egg?
@Pepijn I only found the egg after it was already famous. I was very active on Instagram in 2019.
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"An egg became more famous than the pope."
I've been on the internet since the late 1990s. I'm absolutely "in" with memes and shit.
That said. I don't remember this at all (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram_egg). That makes me wonder how much it spread outside the app based entertainment websites like Instagram etc.
Before this post, did you hear of the 2019 world record egg?
@Pepijn I'm not and have never been on Instagram and Facebook. Never caught a whiff of this and I'm extremely online.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspodcast/116436437832351065
And that's just page one!
Anyway. I've now started reading the [quote] 'hit novel' [/] ‘Perfection’ by Vincenzo Latronico.
I'll stick any additional observations I have to this thread (as I suspect there's some, and as I suspect most people are actively not interested in my observations: please don't kick me out of the #bookclub).
@Pepijn Standing by for your thoughts on page 2
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"An egg became more famous than the pope."
I've been on the internet since the late 1990s. I'm absolutely "in" with memes and shit.
That said. I don't remember this at all (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram_egg). That makes me wonder how much it spread outside the app based entertainment websites like Instagram etc.
Before this post, did you hear of the 2019 world record egg?
@Pepijn The what now, you say?
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"An egg became more famous than the pope."
I've been on the internet since the late 1990s. I'm absolutely "in" with memes and shit.
That said. I don't remember this at all (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram_egg). That makes me wonder how much it spread outside the app based entertainment websites like Instagram etc.
Before this post, did you hear of the 2019 world record egg?
Here's my review of Perfection. I'm looking forward to learning what other @europeanspodcast listeners think of the book.
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Here's my review of Perfection. I'm looking forward to learning what other @europeanspodcast listeners think of the book.
"In 1780 Anna and Tom would be Dutch expats (Anna’s dad being a Dutch VOC captain) living a safe middle class adventure as small time nutmeg traders in the Saint-Germain neighbourhood of Paris."
See, that book I would like to read. I think it'd probably be impossible to make it not a little bit interesting.
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Here's my review of Perfection. I'm looking forward to learning what other @europeanspodcast listeners think of the book.
@Pepijn
You might enjoy this show on the history of Nordic design:https://www.dr.dk/drtv/serie/nordisk-design-_-en-kaerlighedshistorie_543339
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