Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by keiferski on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:07PM
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That's a quote from Fight Club and more of a joke than anything, IIRC.
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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by dragonwriter on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:16PM
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Fight Club, though, was just fancying up and decontextualizing the first sentence of Milton (EDIT: John Maynard, nor Milton) Keynes famous quote: "In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if, in tempestuous seasons, they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again."
I would be very surprised if a financial news outlet choosing the Fight Club quote did so at random and not specifically because of its predecessor.
Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by keiferski on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:19PM
(#24900106)
Well, if we're going to play the X is really just modified Y game, we might as well go back to the original.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
- Ecclesiastes, 300 B.C.E.
Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by aesclepius on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:34PM
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King James Version truly is the worst translation you can find of the bible.
Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by wmwmwm on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:29PM
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Milton Keynes? :)
Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by dragonwriter on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:36PM
(#24900335)
Yeah, that was a great brain-o
Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by olivermarks on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:10PM
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Most of the articles are written by 'Tyler Durden', part of the 'fight club' philosophy joke.
Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by keiferski on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:11PM
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Right, so I think looking for a deeper philosophy in the choice of name and tagline is a bit futile. "Tyler Durden" used to be the cool pseudonym to use online circa 2005.
Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
by Dylan16807 on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:51PM
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Nobody said it was deep. Just that it reflects their attitude.