I like the term sealioning, but the thing is everyone on twitter does it, and accuses everyone else of doing it, and you do start to think to yourself 'well sometimes you do need to ask questions, and isn't it best to ask in a polite manner?' and then you realise you're sealioning yourself :)
Regarding the ballpoint pen thing: I've been reading a set of about 5 Perry Mason novels re-released in Kindle form as a tie-in with the recent HBO series. Most of them were written in the late 40s and early 50s, and some of them have amusing explanations about such innovations are drive-it-yourself rental cars, refrigerators that don't require ice, and even ballpoint pens. The latter was even a clue for one of them; dealing with the color and quality of the inscription, and the fact that one of the suspects had or didn't have a ballpoint pen.
They're short and fun; not particularly great writing but good enough. Wait for them to go on sale for $1.99 like I did.
"The Case of the Lonely Heiress", page 118: (only after a lot of descriptions of how another character always had a (non-ballpoint) fountain pen in his pocket):
"“Naturally not,” Lorraine Parsons said. “That was written with an entirely different pen. Kindly don’t try to confuse the issues, Mr. Mason.” Mason smiled affably. “That’s the very point I was getting at, Mrs. Parsons. This note must have been written with a ball-point fountain pen. Otherwise so clear a carbon copy would have been impossible.”
I like the term sealioning, but the thing is everyone on twitter does it, and accuses everyone else of doing it, and you do start to think to yourself 'well sometimes you do need to ask questions, and isn't it best to ask in a polite manner?' and then you realise you're sealioning yourself :)
Both enthralled and repelled by the Bannon story.
Like his disgraced idol, neither Bannon nor the other guy appear to be in good health. Nature may take its course within 5 years to one or both.
"The bad faith brigade" isn't all bad.
https://twitter.com/NGruen1/status/1536590029832609792?s=20&t=MUJqaGYTBdzPhIZ7kFaOeQ
Main Character
https://twitter.com/maplecocaine/status/1080665226410889217?lang=en
Regarding the ballpoint pen thing: I've been reading a set of about 5 Perry Mason novels re-released in Kindle form as a tie-in with the recent HBO series. Most of them were written in the late 40s and early 50s, and some of them have amusing explanations about such innovations are drive-it-yourself rental cars, refrigerators that don't require ice, and even ballpoint pens. The latter was even a clue for one of them; dealing with the color and quality of the inscription, and the fact that one of the suspects had or didn't have a ballpoint pen.
They're short and fun; not particularly great writing but good enough. Wait for them to go on sale for $1.99 like I did.
"The Case of the Lonely Heiress", page 118: (only after a lot of descriptions of how another character always had a (non-ballpoint) fountain pen in his pocket):
"“Naturally not,” Lorraine Parsons said. “That was written with an entirely different pen. Kindly don’t try to confuse the issues, Mr. Mason.” Mason smiled affably. “That’s the very point I was getting at, Mrs. Parsons. This note must have been written with a ball-point fountain pen. Otherwise so clear a carbon copy would have been impossible.”