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He looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection. --from Jingo by Terry Pratchett

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. -from Jingo by Terry Pratchett

JINGO reported Resolution of Model Problem with VTuber “filian”
JINGO melaporkan Penyelesaian Masalah Model dengan VTuber "filian"
JINGO informa de la resolución de un problema de modelo con VTuber "filian"
#JINGO #filian #IndieVTuber #MythicTalent #ENVTuber #VTuberEN #VTuber
https://progress-official.jp/en/jingo-reported-resolution-of-model-problem-with-vtuber-filian/

ジンゴ (JINGO) さんがVTuber「filian」との間で発生したモデル問題の解決を報告
#ジンゴ #フィリアン #個人VTuber #ミシックタレント
 #JINGO #filian #IndieVTuber #MythicTalent #ENVTuber #VTuberEN #VTuber
https://progress-official.jp/jingo-reported-resolution-of-model-problem-with-vtuber-filian/

Sometimes I get a #word stuck in my head so I have to go look it up

Today's is "#Jingoism"

It's #etymology is facinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism

It originated in a song sang by the #British during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877

> We don't want to fight but by #Jingo if we do
> We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too

It came to symbolize national chauvanism

The phrase "by jingo" is a "minced oath" to avoid saying "by god", so jingoism shares that with "bigot"

Remember, these are UK/IE, so you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account!

🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Continent

Jingo:
🎵 Fever

#Jingo

https://strut.bandcamp.com/track/fever

https://open.spotify.com/track/7zAYf0sGKp4ep3UMM3cHSx

🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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Back in January, there was a bundle deal on a bunch of Terry Pratchett books, so I bought them.1 Some of these are duplicates of books in our library, some are replacements, and some are books I’m not terribly likely to read. (I bounced off Tiffany Aching way back when; not sure why.)

Many are books that we never owned. Around the turn of the century, when Pratchett was coming out in hardcover in the US, we’d take turns buying the books with another couple and pass the copy around. I think the same thing happened with mass markets, though I don’t remember as clearly. Earlier than that, I read some from the college SF club’s collection.2 The first Discworld book I read was a public library copy of The Colour of Magic back in the mid-’80s. (They didn’t have The Light Fantastic—it’s possible it hadn’t come out yet—so for a number of years I had Pratchett categorized as funny but not terribly satisfying.) Still, I was intrigued, and I knew Ankh-Morpork was spoofing something without having yet encountered the thing it was spoofing, so I reverse engineered Lankhmar while in elementary school.

Having acquired a trove of e-books, I thought maybe I’d read one, and ended up starting with Guards! Guards! I have always liked the Guards books, but have long been of the opinion that one should start with the second installment of any of the main Discworld subseries, on the basis that the first tends to be spoofy and they pick up more meat going on.

On my reread, I felt more charitable toward the first book, like the “spoof” descriptor should in fact be “high concept.” The last book, Snuff, still feels weak and suffers more from spoofing syndrome.3 Placing the characters in an Austen novel (sometimes) isn’t fully successful, and it’s also not necessary. They already have a developed setting, and while discomfiting a character by making them a fish out of water is a tried and true technique, this book also leans very hard on existing (rather than new) character development. The books between Guards! Guards! and Snuff make for a long, creamy middle.

This is the first time I’ve done a straight-through read of these books; usually years would pass between reading one and the next. As a unit, the Guards book hold up surprisingly well, especially considering they were written serially over the course of twenty-two years. Normally, I expect series might require a little judicious retconning, just due to the vagaries of creativity, author memory, and publishing schedule, but that wasn’t an issue.

While I had no problem reading and enjoying police procedurals while many volumes were coming out, that is no longer the case. I have noted that I have an easier time giving a pass to protagonist cops when a) the system’s imperfections are noted and b) it is not a real-world setting. The Guards books meet those criteria, and also get a blanket exception for being written by Pratchett. He was an aggressively humane author, whose work evolved in the right direction, and the world is a poorer place for his absence.

I basically only buy DRMed ebooks if they’re on sale in some fashion, because I simply think of them as single-use items. I’ve lost plenty of books in my life, and only a small percentage of those have been due to being unable to access purchases. But those have been the most annoying losses. ↩︎
When Good Omens came out, it was really amusing to see who picked it up because of Terry Pratchett, and who picked it up because of Sandman. Needless to say, it resulted in a lot of folks discovering a new author to follow. ↩︎
Since it’s a late book, there’s also a chance it suffers as a result of Pratchett’s illness, time pressures, or other editorial concerns. But “doesn’t work for me as well as other books” can have many less dire explanations. ↩︎

https://aphowell.com/2024/07/16/revisiting-ankh-morporks-guards/

#books #discworld #fantasy #feetOfClay #guardsGuards_ #jingo #menAtArms #nightWatch #snuff #terryPratchett #theFifthElephant #thud_

Finally got to finish #Jingo today. It took a long time coz of the library membership running out but I enjoyed the book. It wasn't one of the better ones I think but it'll be on the reread pile at some stage.

(Reading order👇)
29: Wintersmith
30: Interesting Times
31: Going Postal
32: Witches Abroad
33: Hogfather
34: Jingo
35: The Last Hero

(Re-reads 👇)
1: Lords & Ladies
2: Sourcery
3: Reaper Man
4: Guards Guards
5: Equal Rites

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #Pratchett #TheLastHero

Jingo (“Va-t-en-guerre” in French) finished! 😀

Not my favorite Discworld, but still great fun to read.

There's a Lovecraft reference that made me laugh out loud 😂

And I'm now halfway through Discworld! (still 20 volumes to go)

#Jingo #Discworld #DisqueMonde #TerryPratchett

Learned a new #word today thanks to the #jowordle game. It seems extremely relevant to current politics. Like the term for #maga before it was maga. Stupid #jingo fuckers !

Screenshot of dictionary entries defining the term "jingo" as a derogatory term for a person who is a vociferous supporter of policy favoring war, especially in the name of patriotism.

To continue my thread:

I didn't get to finish #Jingo before my library membership ended, so it got returned by #Borrowbox.
Sooooo, I started some re-reads, coz ya never take it all in on the 1st read, do ya 😁

(Reading order👇)
29: Wintersmith
30: Interesting Times
31: Going Postal
32: Witches Abroad
33: Hogfather
34: Jingo (½)

(Re-reads 👇)
1: Lords & Ladies
2: Sourcery
3: Reaper Man
4: Guards Guards
5: Equal Rites (starting now)

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #Pratchett #EqualRites

I finished #TheHogfather. Really enjoyed that. I still haven't re-watched the film but from what i remember, it was pretty close to the book. I love Death 😁
Next up is #Jingo. There can't be too many left now 🙁

(Reading order👇)
27: Pyramids
28: The Wee Free Men
29: Wintersmith
30: Interesting Times
31: Going Postal
32: Witches Abroad
33: Hogfather
34: Jingo

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #HogFather #Pratchett

New year, new book!

#Jingo #TerryPratchett #Discworld #CityWatch #Reading #Book #Books

@kim_harding

"If the enemy has an impregnable stronghold, see he stays there."
--#Jingo, Terry Pratchett

Cut the hardlines, demolish the satellite dishes, and fill in the bunker doorways with concrete. Let them live in the bunker for the rest of their lives, if they want, while the rest of us live in peace.

#TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #Pterry #SpeakHisName #Billionaires #LetThemRot

#discworld fans: I just bought #jingo and I'm going to continue on finishing the City Watch story line. When I finish the City Watch books, where should I go next? I still haven't read #smallgods or any of the #aching ones.

The Patrician is always right
#Discworld #Jingo #pratchett #sayhisname

"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands".

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)
#GNUTerryPratchett #Discworld #terrryPratchett #jingo

“Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.”
- Sir Terry #Pratchett, #Jingo, #Discworld #quote #ThursdayThought

#Jingo

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