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Oddly enough, the best and simplest summary of what the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are about is contained in this extremely sweary Phil Jupitus cartoon. People have been asking me to summarize. This does the job.
(Can someone do the alt text?) I'll do it as a picture and as a link.
[ID: A twelve panel webcomic posted by Phil Jupitus @/phillipjupitus7276 on Instagram.
The first panel reads "Mark Ruffalo and his Sweary Buffalo" in bubble writing with an angry cartoon buffalo saying "Monkey Cock". All the ensuing panels are a conversation between Ruffalo and the buffalo on a red background with speech bubbles.
Ruffalo: Oh blimey! The Screen Actors Guild have called a strike! And me about to pay for speech therapy for my sweary buffalo!
Buffalo: Shit the bed!
(Ruffalo is now wearing a black shirt that says "Hell no, we won't appear on your show" and holding a black sign that reads SAG AFTRA WGA STRIKE.)
Ruffalo: As much as I would like to curtail my ungulate's potty mouth, the strike has to take precedence
Buffalo: Great big sweaty bollocks
(Ruffalo's shirt now says "Mark Smash")
Ruffalo: What the industry fails to address is the changing way the consumer is granted access to the labour of both actors and writers
Buffalo: Knob cheese
(Ruffalo's shirt now says "Act Up!")
Ruffalo: The fact that the payment model for residuals has not been properly adjusted to take into consideration the way that viewers now access content is a major issue
Buffalo: TIt wank tit wank tit wank
(Ruffalo's shirt now says "Actor-vist")
Ruffalo: Also the implications of AI and ownership of the image of an individual requires clarification
Buffalo: Buggery fucktwat
(Ruffalo's shirt now says "Unionize")
Ruffalo: Another sticking point is that streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney Plus will not share viewing figures...
Buffalo: Shit prick turd balls
(Ruffalo's shirt now says "Fuck the algorithm")
Ruffalo: One industry organisation actually proposed scanning actors and owning their very likenesses for future projects without consent or compensation.
Buffalo: Fucksticks
Ruffalo: The issues are complex at least. But producers and studios need to recognise that a proper debate must take place with the unions.
Buffalo: Management are CUNTS
/End ID]
Thank you for spreading the message, Neil! As a fellow screenwriter (non-WGA but still supporting), this is important and a great comic.
hey folks,,,,,... glad 2 b here on tubblr . here's a little self-portrait of me,, a human male
on my way to work at the job factory :) lets get this bread !, and by bre,d i mean human money dollars haha. dont even like bred
feeding the ducks
(disclaimer: i do Not live in thi,s pond. i live in a home House.)
ah . allow me to introduce my two lovely childen . Child and Baby . :) they are both just regular Men just like their old man(me)
cc: @petermorwood
It never ceases to amuse / amaze me how similar Calvin is to what I was - and still am, at least where having a Mind Attic instead of a Mind Palace is concerned.
My Mum spotted it within a couple of pages of picking up her first ever C & H book.
I suspect @dduane knew from the start; certainly there's been very little in the past 36+ years to make her change her mind... ;->
poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the "reblog things forever" website
Guys we gotta up our game the Georgians said fuck more than us
Having looked through historic googlebooks many a time and been frustrated by how difficult it is to search in this time period, this chart is most certainly due to the algorithm not properly picking up the "Long S" which was an f-like character used in place of an s especially in 17th and 18th century printing.
The rules of when the short and long s's are used are somewhat complicated to modern people, but they are almost always at the beginning of words, never at the end, and if there is a double s sometimes they are combined and sometimes not:
99% of the time the word actually being used is "suck" or "sucking." It actually shows up a lot as a word used to describe babies who were still nursing. In texts from this period the word "suck" will almost always read as "fuck." This makes some of these auto-transcriptions absolutely brilliant in hindsight:
If you search for the word "fuck" in googlebooks within this time frame, you get hundreds of pages of entries like this. For example, this Shakespeare anthology:
This is not to say that people in the 18th century didn't find this hilarious, I'm sure they did, but f-bombs were not being dropped in classic literature at the time. If they do show up, like in this 1785 slang dictionary: it is almost always bleeped out:
The other 1% of the fucks in 18th century books are, of course, not bleeped out because they are in Ye Olde Porn, of which there is a surprising amount on googlebooks.
I should also note if it wasn't clear that the immense dropoff just after 1800 is when the long s stopped being used in print, and the reemergence was in the mid-late 20th century when people DID start dropping f-bombs in literature
