Jash Dholani on Bruegel

You're looking at a 464 year old painting - это он про Нидерландские пословицы, они же фламандские пословицы, картина также известна под названием "Мир вверх дном" или "Синий плащ".

интересно, что Jash про первую же пословицу пишет In the center a woman puts a blue cloak on her husband - a Danish proverb meaning to deceive someone - парень хотел сказать Dutch proverb, ясное дело.

вообще его пояснения - в очень даже забавно современном стиле, например You can't make a man understand something that his job requires him to misunderstand - это он про To cast roses before swine.

хороший комментарий к картине по-русски вот: Питер Брейгель Старший. Фламандские пословицы

To piss against the moon

Это Брейгель. Weekly proverb of the past: “To piss against the moon”

Whatever I do, I do not repent, I keep pissing against the moon.

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не подумайте плохого

Honi soit qui mal y pense

...a maxim in the Anglo-Norman language, a dialect of Old Norman French spoken by the medieval ruling class in England, meaning "shamed be whoever thinks ill of it"... In current French usage, the phrase may be used ironically to imply the presence of a hidden agenda or a conflict of interest.

...
King Edward III was dancing with Joan of Kent, his first cousin and daughter-in-law, at a ball held in Calais to celebrate the fall of the city after the Battle of Crécy. Her garter slipped down to her ankle, causing those around her to laugh at her humiliation. Edward placed the garter around his own leg, saying: "Honi soit qui mal y pense. Tel qui s'en rit aujourd'hui, s'honorera de la porter"

яйца мешают

 A girl who can’t dance says the band can’t play.

Yiddish proverb

first school dance

фотограф Tracey Moffatt, фото называется Mothers reply, 1976, from the series Scarred for life II

подпись к фото: "On the night of her first school dance, she asked her mother what she thought. She replied: you don't dress a pig up unless you're gonna eat it".

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more allegations

The #MeToo age takes no prisoners. In June, more allegations surfaced: that Bailey, while teaching creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia from 2010 to 2016, had sexually harassed four women there, including a fellow professor who said he had jumped into a hot tub and fondled her while she was sitting naked there with other male faculty members on a faculty retreat (Old Dominion is currently investigating the claimed assaults).

-- Twilight of the Satyrs

ну не знаю, ребята

вся статья довольно забавная, в стиле Quilette

Peyton was a month away from her wedding, but she agreed to meet him and then accompanied him to “the place where he was staying,” where she “really didn’t expect anything would happen,” as she wrote in an essay of her own for Slate.

...

One of the things all those young women had in common was that their mothers had apparently never told them that when a man invites you to be alone with him in his hotel room, he has only one thing in mind.

no chuppah, no shtuppah

...Zipperstein is currently working on his own Roth biography. - это говорящая фамилия такая?

As for the girlfriends, the photo album full of them and more, I asked my husband why a man would feel compelled to have sex with quite so many different women. He answered, “Women have no idea how attractive they are to men.”

ну что ж, по существу.

proverbs

• A nice wife and a back door, do often make a rich man poor.
• The postern door makes thief and whore.

- World of Proverbs
- A collection of English proverbs

китайская поговорка

A fool must be handled as frying a small fish, very carefully.

американские поговорки

Behind every successful rancher is a wife who works in town.

If your time ain’t come yet, not even a doctor can kill you.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

русская поговорка

A good lawyer knows the law, but a great lawyer knows the judge.

и американский афоризм

Everything before the word "but" is horse shit.

also

A jury consists of 12 persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Maxwell

all work

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"