Please please PLEASE watch this Christmas spot we got in Spain
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[video description:
View of a town skyline at dusk in the winter, with the J&B Blended Scotch Whiskey logo superimposed on the picture. A flock of sheep walks from left to right, making baaa sounds, their bells jangling. Some Christmas lights with a star are strung along some telephone poles on the left side of the frame.
Cut to the inside of a house where an older man with white hair is sitting in an armchair reading a paper. His wife comes in and puts her handbag on the side table. She’s on the phone, and quickly moves into another room. A lipstick rolls out of the bag. The older man surreptitiously picks up the lipstick, then sneaks into the bathroom, locks the door, and attempts to apply the lipstick. He is not pleased with the results. He wipes off the lipstick and hides it in a small makeup bag on top of the bathroom mirror cabinet.
Elvis Costello’s song “She” begins to play when the wife walks in, and it plays throughout the video. The first line of the song is “She may be the face I can’t forget,” and as the video goes on we learn why this song is significant to the story being told by the ad.
The older man goes to a small store and buys more makeup. The female shopkeeper gives him an unfriendly glare when he pays for his purchase.
The old man looks at a magazine in his home. He tears out a page about makeup and goes back into the bathroom to experiment with the eyeshadow he bought earlier. He tries the lipstick again and adds some rouge. The result is better, but he’s not quite satisfied.
The man goes to a bus stop. Inside the bus shelter, he minutely examines the eye makeup on the model in an ad on the shelter wall. He jumps away from the ad when another man enters the shelter and sits down. The other man doesn’t seem to have noticed what the older man was doing.
Back in the bathroom, the man experiments with mascara. He likes the result. He puts the lipstick on again, and likes this too. Someone knocks on the door, so he hurriedly wipes off the makeup and hides the makeup bag again.
Scene cuts to the living room, where the man sits in his chair reading the newspaper. He looks over at some family photos. One of them shows the man with his arm around a teenager with short, dark hair.
Scene then cuts to the man’s bedroom. It’s nighttime, and he’s in bed with his sleeping wife. The man sneaks out of bed and back into the bathroom. He puts on all the kinds of makeup he bought: lipstick, rouge, mascara, eyeshadow. He looks at himself in the mirror, all made up, and smiles. Now he’s got it right.
The next day, the man is in his living room, where he hears a car honk outside. He goes and looks out the window. Outside is a group of people greeting each other in the driveway; they are an extended family, and apparently have just arrived at the older man’s house. One of the family members is a young man with short, dark hair. Text superimposed on the screen reads “Alvaro, 26 años,” indicating the name and age of the young man. The scene cuts back inside, where the older man comes away from the window, looking thoughtful.
The family sets the table for Christmas dinner, putting out plates and silverware and lighting candles. The older man goes to Alvaro and gestures with his head. “Come with me.” They go into the bathroom. The older man locks the door, then proceeds to put the makeup on Alvaro with much love and tenderness. The older man is happy with the way Alvaro looks. Alvaro is pleased, too.
Cut back to the dining room, where the rest of the family is laughing and talking together. Conversation suddenly stops and people look up, surprised. The grandfather ushers his grandchild out of the bathroom. She stands nervously in front of her family, her face beautifully done. The family pause, then start to smile. The camera goes close on a man with greying hair and beard. He seems overcome with happy emotion, and seems to be the grandchild’s father.
The camera goes back close on the grandchild, who looks shyly at her family. The name and age superimposed now read “Ana, 26 años.”
A woman with greying short hair stands up and goes to Ana. This apparently is Ana’s mom. She gives Ana a big hug. The mom is crying with happiness and love, and smiles at the grandfather through her tears. The grandfather blinks and seems shy but pleased.
The camera pulls back to show everyone at the table again. The grandfather is standing and leading a toast. Superimposed text reads “La magia no solo está en la Navidad. También está en nosotros.” (The magic isn’t only in Christmas. It’s also in us.)
A series of short close shots. Ana happily raises her glass with everyone else. The grandfather takes his wife’s hand and kisses it. Ana’s dad takes a sip of his whiskey, then Ana’s grandmother goes over and gives Ana a big hug.
There’s a brief shot of a bottle of J&B whiskey, which is on the table with the other dinner things, then the scene cuts to show the grandfather looking at Ana and raising his glass to her, smiling. Ana raises her glass to her grandfather and smiles at him.
Final shot is the J&B logo on a black background with the text “de celebrarnos” (to celebrate us).
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I cannot actually believe we now live in a world where a whisky company thinks it’s commercially viable to make this ad, and to make it about a grandfather who makes Christmas dinner with a family of very “ordinary looking people into a happy, loving affair, by doing this.
I do not know how to explain how fucking impossible that would have seemed to me twenty years ago when I just realized that possibly, maybe, I wasn’t straight. I cannot explain to you how amazing this is, and how beautiful it is.
This did not just happen, and yes there are people everywhere fighting to take it away but I cannot explain you the change in the overall culture of everything, everywhere that makes this possible.
Biden said he’d give $2,000 stimulus checks. Instead he gave only 1400 and means tested it to be given to people making under a certain amount based on pre-Covid income.
Biden said he’d forgive student debt. Instead he backed Betsy Devos and her campaign against loan forgiveness and while he did cancel 3 billion, he allowed the national Student Debt to increase by another ~40 billion.
He said he’d he raise the minimum wage to $15. Instead, he secretly told his colleagues that he was not trying to and scapegoated the parliamentarian, someone who can be ignored and fired.
Biden said he would lower the Medicare for all eligibility and create a public option. Instead he has blocked any attempt on Medicare expansion in spite of raging pandemic.
Biden promised that he would listen to experts to defeat Covid. He meant economic experts apparently as his strategy is nearly identical to Trump in spite of Vaccines.
Speaking of which, Biden said that he would make sure no parents would get in the way of distributing the vaccine worldwide.
Instead he has coddled the patents and prevented exports of the vaccines to developing nations. This allowed Big Pharma to extort developing nations.
But I am not finished lol.
Biden said he’d cure cancer if elected. Not only he didn’t cure cancer, his sanctions have prevented cancer patients from receiving treatment.
Biden promised he’d decriminalize Marijuana and expunge the records of those convicted of the possession of the drug.
He fired his own staffer for past use after tricking them into revealing that info and has sent the ones that Trump pardoned back to Prison.
Biden promised to remove the racist mandatory minimum drug sentencing that he instilled in the first place with assistance from a segregationist.
He is expanding on Trump’s expansion of them.
Biden promise to end Trump’s racist Muslim Ban. He has continued them instead.
But I am still not finished.
I’ve been talking about this for awhile now but liberals have been moving goal posts on this particular issue.
Biden promised to halt deportations. Instead he expanded on them, increased ICE’s funding, and doubled the amount of migrants in concentration camps.
Biden promised to end the practice of putting children in cages.
Biden just renamed them, and opened more for profit detention facilities while tripling the amount of children in cages with the added quality of denying them masks and other basic amenities like food, medicine, and clothes.
Biden promised to end family separation. He didn’t end family separation.
Biden promised to end the construction of the Border Wall. He stalled when he was perfectly capable of doing something about it and continued to seize property from families in order to continue the construction of the border wall.
To be continued
Biden promised to believe in Climate Science and fight the climate crisis. Instead, he increased the oil drilling, defended the pipelines, and placed fossil fuel executives in his administration.
Biden pledged that he’d stop supporting the genocide in Yemen by US ally, Saudi Arabia.
He gave them more weapons and support.
Biden promised that he’d rejoin the Iran Deal and improve relations with Iran.
He refused their offer, and chose to bomb Iranian forces illegally, seize their lands, and kill their citizens with sanctions.
Biden promised to improve US relations with Cuba. I am starting to think that Biden thinks sanctions and blockades are not acts of war and oppression, but how we make allies.
Can’t stop. Won’t stop.
This is the quick version of the Twitter thread I posted earlier
You right. Here is the thread.
A lot of these I posted and spoke about on separate instances. You can check my Joe Biden tag like I posted about the double detainees literally yesterday. One of the journalists I follow retweeted your thread. Sorry if I didn’t give you credit, bro.
So, who beat feet and got the vote out for Bernie? Anyone? Did you stop the DNC from torpedoing him? You want Trump back? Another attack on the Capitol is planned for 9/13. These fuckheaded culties really believe that they will become the Trump SS when he overthrows the government. You know perfectly well that left wing economic populism will only work in the US if it’s paired up with racism. These benefits would be delivered in a heartbeat if the one drop rule was brought back, and immigrants were excluded.
One of the first
school districts in the country to reopen its doors during the
coronavirus pandemic did not even make it a day before being forced to
grapple with the issue facing every system actively trying to get
students into classrooms: What happens when someone comes to school
infected?
Just hours into the first
day of classes on Thursday, a call from the county health department
notified Greenfield Central Junior High School in Indiana that a student
who had walked the halls and sat in various classrooms had tested
positive for the coronavirus.
Administrators
began an emergency protocol, isolating the student and ordering
everyone who had come into close contact with the person, including
other students, to quarantine for 14 days. It is unclear whether the
student infected anyone else.
“We
knew it was a when, not if,” said Harold E. Olin, superintendent of the
Greenfield-Central Community School Corporation, but were “very shocked
it was on Day 1.”
I think finding out that Hitler was inspired by how throughly Andrew Jackson committed genocide against the Natives would shatter or at least destabilize the ethos of the Founding Fathers & America for a lot of people
Big chunks of the American legal system and history inspired the nazi’s in their organisation of the Holocaust.
Welp
That is why you cannot talk about Nazism in The Americas without talking about antiblackness and anti native racism. All that does is absolve the U.S. of the policies it supported (and enforced) by pretending it was purely a foreign invention that they actively tried to resist.
The
Buzzfeed article was titled “This Man Invited People To A “BBQ Not
Orgy” On Grindr And It Was Surprisingly Heartwarming.” It’s about how
Chris Bowman, a 61 year old man from Apex, North Carolina has been hosting an
annual summer BBQ. He advertises this BBQ through the gay dating/hookup app,
Grindr. It’s about how the event is surprisingly sweet and Bowman, who is a
recovered alcoholic, wants to give back to the community and bring people
together.
TL;DR
Chris is a registered sex offender with a history of pedophilia and preying on
young people. His ‘not an orgy’ and community talk is a gaslighting tactic to
groom young people into having sex with him. Buzzfeed, Vice, and other social
media outlets giving his event a platform endangers LGBT youth.
A
group of four of us (J, M, S, and A) attended the BBQ in the summer of 2017. J received
an invite similar to the one shown in the Buzzfeed article over Grindr, and we’re
young and dumb so we decided what the hell, let’s go. We rolled up and saw a fire
truck and ambulance already there. He’d invited the local fire department and
EMS to attend the BBQ. The food was admittedly very good, and the crowd was a
strange mix of after-church and from Grindr. Most of the other folks at the BBQ
seemed fine and kind. Buzzfeed got that right. Here is what they left out:
More
information about his charges & appeal: Click Here
1997:
Chris is giving Daniel, a 14 yo boy, a golf lesson. He locks the doors to the
store and turns off the lights. He comes up behind Daniel under the impression
of adjusting the child’s technique. He reaches down into Daniel’s underwear and
molests him.
1998:
Chris’s daughter has two friends over for a slumber party. They are sisters.
When everyone is asleep, Jessica, a 15 yo girl, is walking down the stairs of
his multi-level house. Chris approaches, pulls down her shorts, and performs
oral sex on her. He stops when Jessica’s sister stumbles upon the scene.
2005:
Chris provides his house as a location for two friends, a 24 yo and 18 yo, to
have sex with their underage girlfriends, 14 yo and 15 yo.
He
appealed his 2005 convictions that testimony from 1997 & 98 was inadmissible
in the determination of guilt phase of his trial.
THE BBQ
Chris
knew who we were and immediately inserted himself into our group. We figured,
yeah we’ll talk with him a while—he gave us all this food, so we kind of have
to (!!THIS IS HIS STRATEGY!!). Anyway, we listened to him talk about orgies,
sex, golf, and drugs in Europe for about an hour. Topics he hit:
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Orgies he’d attended in downtown Paris where you
circled the arc de triumph in your car until forming a chain of other searching
cars that would eventually peel off into a warehouse or somewhere to initiate
the orgy. It’s cool you, should totally try it sometime! OKAY.
-
He talked a lot about how his favorite drug to use was
Black Beauty
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He talked a lot about how good the golfing was in
Scotland (He molested a 14 yo boy in 1997 while teaching a golf lesson!)
-
He spent a lot of time trying to convince us to
attend the “BBQ After Dark”
The
heat was incredible that day and we were starting to get tired of his weird sex
talk. Chris saw this and asked J what was wrong. J told him it was just kind of
hot. Chris followed up by inviting J to go on and take his shirt off. J said
no, he was fine. Chris said, “Oh no, come on! Take your shirt off! I’ll take my
shirt off!” J ignored it. We were all uncomfortable. Throughout the ENTIRE
event, Chris constantly reminded us about the after dark portion of the BBQ,
which we were all very invited to. We had no plans of going, but kept our
refusals soft and polite out of respect, because again, the BBQ is a tactic to
make you treat him kinder and feel bad about thinking he’s creepy.
THE NEXT DAY
This
was when the solicitations started. For the next year and a half until J
deleted his Grindr last fall, Chris continued to send J messages trying to move
things forward. He also tried to pick up A and S through J’s Grindr. He’s
talked about how he’s really excited about the buzz the event has been getting
and how he’s hoping the event will grow and grow. J hasn’t responded to the
messages that have kept coming for over a year. Attached are a few screenshots.
CONCLUSION
We
tried to contact Buzzfeed after the article was first published about how they
had misrepresented the nature of the event. When they didn’t respond, we didn’t
think it mattered too much. Maybe we were being too critical? The food was good…
However, now that we are aware of Chris’s history of pedophilia, we want to
make sure anyone who decides to attend knows what to expect.
I really would like anyone who’s reblogged the original version of the post to reblog this one. The original one (with over 300k notes) has too many variations of this story. NO ONE should attend this man’s bbq. He’s a pedophile that grooms young boys on grindr and at his “Pure” BBQ. The evidence is all here.
“if goofy is a dog and pluto is a dog why is one a pet” is the cartoon equivalent of “if man evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys”
The implication that Goofy is just a more advanced stage in canine evolution is oddly terrifying somehow
theres no such thing as ‘more advance’ in evolution. a dogman isnt more evolved than a dog, just as you are no more evolved than an seagull or coral, they are just fitted for different environments and have evolved as such
Goofy is not more evolved the Pluto, Goofy just fills a different ecological niche. While Pluto is just a scavenger and Goofy is an apex predator both play important roles in the ecosystem.
