(But the foid obviously does)Based? Yay or Nay?
>>25227480https://x.com/profsunnysingh/status/2046484581973402029?s=46
>>25227480I don’t understand how that’s a play on Jane Austen. It’s very similar but no way it could be a guaranteed reference
>>25227482Wrong link niggerhttps://xcancel.com/profsunnysingh/status/2046484581973402029?s=46>>25227480Yes, the rick steves documentary confirmed for me the meme the iranians are very well read, more so than their western, even european, counterparts. Kudos to them. Dropkick all women.
>>25227517> confirmed for me the meme the iranians are very well read, more so than their western, even european, counterpartsWhat man reads Jane Austen let alone quotes it?
>>25227480>It's a truth universally acknowledged that a single country in possession of a large Civilisation, will Not negotiate under Threat and Force.It's not even the slightest bit obscure. Before I had ever read Pride and Prejudice, I still knew of the opening line. The dude's a fucking retard. OI BLIMEY I STILL DON'T QUITE GET IT
>>25227556Why make a reference to Austen at all though? It doesn't carry any of the irony of the original
>>25227556>>25227566Yeah i have to agree I don't see any meaningful rationale
>>25227517My impression of (some) Iranians is that they have a chip on their shoulder about appearing more cultured than other islamic peoples. Don't know how factual this is, but they do seem to have a more elevated pretension to culture than say Morocco or Turkey
>>25227595> Turkey>t. Anon knows nothing about turkey Sire the ottoman empire was totally devoid of culture right?
>>25227595>appearing more cultured than other islamic peoplesBecause they're not islamic. people, they're persian. As in Darius' Persepolis, Elamite Susa right next to Mesopotamian Babylon. It's the lesser known cradle of civilization, it's zoroaster before Mohammed existed. They think they're better than arabs because they are. The arab peoples were various shitty desert tribes for thousands of years while ancient Iran had civilizations. I will say it reflects poorly on them they fell for the third leg of the jewish religion.
>>25227553A man of taste. You wouldn't know.
>>25227609Everything I've ever learned about Turkey has been against my will. When I think of Turks I think of the most chauvinistic grubby little cretins this side of the Mediterranean. That said, I was referring more to contemporary-ish culture. Cinema for instance. Iran seems to produce more Euro-style arthouse, while when I think of Turkey all I can think of are GoT ripoffs and telenovelas.
>>25227615And what about Iraq then?And unfortunately iran was conquered by arab crypto jewsand forcibly converted
>>25227480It's Sky News. A real BBC'ian would obviously get it.
>>25227480>Men are expected to read Jane AustenGaaaaaaaaay
>>25227638Why are you here? This kind of post is sub-discord.
>>25227553>not reading Jane Austen as a manJaneA is comfy and her characters are cute
>>25227669To revitalize intellectualism with the male spirit you faggot troon.
>>25227480Leftist women should go live in Iran.
>>25227595Very true, they call other Arabs lizard munchers kek
>>25227480IRGC thread
When did Jane Austen become a supposed pillar of the western canon? She wrote pot boilers. Surely it's part of the recent push to feminise us. If I'm wrong and serious critics in the 19th century put her in the pantheon, please let me know.
>>25228307Jane Austen is not part of the western canon. This is just more leftist bullshit.
>>25228307>>25228331I'm sure they were just desperate to include a woman or two. Do you have a better one?
What exactly are we expecting him to say then? "Sick reference bro"?
>>25227619god bless this board
>>25228429George Eliot, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Djuna Barnes, Clarice Lispector. I hate her guts, but Virginia Woolf could write a good sentence. All better than fucking Austen.
>>25228671>George Eliot, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Djuna Barnes, Clarice Lispector. I hate her guts, but Virginia Woolf could write a good sentence.You have garbage taste.
>>25228681NTA. Who do you propose is a better woman writer? Legit the only unqualifiedly good woman prose writer is Eliot. You'll probably give some mumbo jumbo 20th century pomo writer, meh.
>>25228671>Emily BronteThis is the only one of the group I've read and I much preferred Austen. Why do you say Bronte is better?
>>25227480>chick lit reference?
>>25227609turkish culture is the gay ring
>>25227609>Sire the ottoman empire was totally devoid of culture right?Yes lol. If you disagree name your favorite Ottoman philosophers, scientists, novelists, composers, go ahead I'll wait.
>>25227480>hubris and ignorancelmao talk about overreacting. Maybe not everyone's obsessed with reference-dropping like some bearded mullah kiddiediddler that wants to come across as cultured but is only able to essentially imitate a meme format, not really getting the point and irony of the original.
i’d be curious to know what great wisdom you anglos have gathered from all these boudoir novels
>>25228836This isn't a "boudoir novel" you fucking retard. In regards to what I learned it shows a lot about how Victorian England operated and what a civilized society actually looks like.For instance if you wanted to, oh I don't know, fix the fucking fertility problem you could look into what they did.
>>25228838It’s top 10 boudoir mediocrity>fertility problemcase in point
>>25228849Oh are you fucking Vladimir Nabokov? I didn't realize. Your pithy little quotes are just fantastic and add so much.
>>25228851says the dumdum learning history from Jane Austen. You’d be better off fighting the fertility crisis with Ronsard: that’s how fking retarded your take is.ps- i dont rate vladdy
>>25227480for my sins i actually watch sky news and that male presenter is a bit dumb. he can read aloud, which is his job, but he cannot think and is very poor on his feet when interviewing people. i haven't watched the clip and don't know what it is referencing but the man presenter is a bit shit.
>>25228861plus he is gay
>>25227480If this is symptomatic of anything, it's that Britain has been deracinated and stripped of its culture. The presenter is a victim of living in a soulless globalised husk of what was once a country.
>>25228869>soulless globalised huskshould have thought of that before making a global empire i guess
Tf were the news anchors supposed to do? Pause the program, clap and do 30 backflips while praising him how much of a big boi he was for “referencing” one of the most famous sentences in English-language literature? Should they have baked him a tray of cookies while at it?
>>25228878Jewish and black nobility financiers invaded and took over with either cromwell or william of orange.
>>25228429No but they shouldn't be trying to shoehorn a woman in because of their rampant sexism.
>>25227925Not a good enough reason I’m afraid.
>>25228307>>25227553British soldiers in WWI read Austen in the trenches.
Austen is a pretty good writer, comfy too. Other than that, I couldn’t really get into her or her characters; Darcy was pretty cool though.She seems to be the go to author for women who want to claim that they read classic literature to shut up the litbro chuddies.
>>25228838>Victorian EnglandGeorgian
>>25227480What is he even meant to do in that situation? "Yup that's a reference to the opening line of P&P by Jane Austen." ???
>>25228971well he could have at least not said "duh i had no idea lol"
isn't it wild that we're on the verge of ww3 and the belligerents are tweeting ironic tweets at each other? if only dfw had lived to see this!
>>25228976>Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.
>>25228982oh shit never heard that one, what a banger
>>25227480/lit/ became a considerably worse board with the mass-introduction of brown women.
>>25228994X needs to work faster on the region blocking feature. Why should anyone be subjected to viewing posts from someone like Sunny Singh?
>>25228998Truly. Other demographic too. Muting every woman and faggot is tiresome but necessary.
>>25228253Based Tate appreciator
>>25228307Dostoevsky, Dumas amd Jack London wrote pot boilers, but I don't think Austen did
>>25228429Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights are the best novels by women in English literature, but Austen is still a good writer, especially Mansfield Park which Nabokov likes much more than P&P
I agree that the reference is kind of senseless. Ok sure you read that book, how is that related to your relations with the US?
>>25227480All bullshit aside, I do truly wish that people in the West truly engaged in their own history and culture, and actually took pride in it.
>>25228883Yes.
>>25228883No, but it would have been classy to quote the original passage, and then move the segment along.
>>25229069But why? How is the reference meaningful?
>>25228994What’s up with these zoomers and alphas man? I hear though the grapevine they take steroids and everything at age 13
>>25227609>Sire the ottoman empire was totally devoid of culture right?It was though. Just like the Arab/early Islamic Caliphates (and the Mongols) they produced literally nothing of note until they expanded into+conquered areas with actually civilized peoples. The Turks did fuck all but herd sheep, murder and migrate until they took Anatolia and the Balkans. Everything "they" produced was by non-Turks in the empire.
>>25229070Be more specific with your questions because I cannot answer you.
>>25229069>to pee or not to pee, that is the question! At least one facing restaurant guests after the introduction of toilet fees!>this, ladies and gentlemen, is of course a reference to the famous theatre play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, in which the main character starts a speech about life and death with "to be or not to be"! The more you know, am I right?!
>>25229097Perfect.
>>25227669nta but austen's works (and most of the "canonical" victorian novelists' fictions) are not only wildly uninteresting in their narratives but frankly prosaically dull. "gay" is pretty apt, i find
>>25229019>>25228998I just want to protect my mom from scammers.
>>25228994I disagree completely, any brown women who are offended by his post I will provide you with consolation
>>25229057He's finding common ground during a time of war/ conflict?
>>25227566The reference works on three levels. Foreign diplomacy requires that you familiarize yourself with cultures different from your own. Iran's leadership has clearly demonstrated that here. Their familiarity with Western literature is perfectly juxtaposed by the backgrounds of Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who are both businessmen (and Israeli assets), neither of whom can even spark Farsi. The slight modification of the quote is meant to ridicule the lack of subtlety and sensitivity of language and familiarity with their (US leadership) own culture.
>>25229444Oh, and as someone who's bothered to read into it knows, authoritarian regimes thrive on initializing language and promoting illiteracy. So this reference actually works on four levels. The Iranians are indirectly calling the US leadership authoritarians.
>>25229463Infantilizing*
>>25229466Just delete your post and try again if you care that much, replying to fix typos is so self important.
>>25229489I'm not trying to be arrogant if that's how you take it to be.
>>25229444What I got is that persians are indeed a bunch of faggot fairyboys, always have been, and always will be.
>>25227480I haven't read anything by Austen, and why would I? If I quoted GK Chesterton literally 99% of the planet would not get it.
>>25227480Arent most diplomats well read and higher class by the nature of their position? why would some some stupid yokle newscaster who mostly talks about cats being saved from trees and the flavor of the month hysteria be on the same level?
>>25227517You would think such a well read people would have less of a fucked political system. With a lack of jurisprudence and a paramilitary.
>>25229527>If I quoted GK Chesterton literally 99% of the planet would not get it.Thats the point. GKC makes me sound like a genius, at times.
>>25229536What exactly is wrong with their political system? They don't allow gay marriage?
>>25228994This was actually painful to watch. How in the hell was his ribcage still whole enough for him to stand up? Glad no real damage was done i guess
>>25228994>all you, bro
>>25229536>>25229583No, see, they still can't flagrantly whore themselves out. Iranian women are better educated than Iranian men, and western women for that matter, going by statistics on higher education, and have been for years, but that's not the point.It's a backward nation unless they can prance around in leggings and start an onlyfans and twerk for st floyd when the hivemind demands it.
>>25229525>I'm gonna be aggressively ignorant and anti intellectual in your literature board and you better put up with it!
>>25229640Iran sucks. This thread is off topic. You are gay.
>>25229601> no real damage was doneBrother he has multiple rib fractures maybe a disconnected sternum if any bone piece pokes his innards or lungs he could die (presumably they didn’t since they posted the vid).
>>25229444Disagree because 1. Those reasons are ancillary to the particular reference chosen, 2. Austen simply isn't American culture, 3. the yanks being ignorant is a symptom of their superiority, not the other way around.
>>25228927men in prison do too. I'd read the the third trimester and what to expect to escape the tedium of standing in a muddy trench and getting shelled 24/7
