Issue 2140
Happy Monday!
For some reason, this has felt like a very long week. Not in any sort of bad or good way, it just feels like the last time I wrote the newsletter was months ago as opposed to just one week. Anyways, on Friday I went on a little day adventure with my boyfriend to a town called Frome (pronounced as though it rhymes with broom but in my head I had been pronouncing it as if it rhymes with dome. Oops.) I one hundred percent went just to eat at a restaurant I saw on Instagram and it was well worth it! Otherwise, Frome is your basic cutesy English town, the center has cobbled streets and lots of artisanal local shops and it was very fun to walk around. Anyways, here are my random collected thoughts.
- Last week I wrote a bit about naming or not naming something and fear. I just remembered how the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Arden, vowed to never say the name of the Christchurch shooter. That was a brilliant move in my mind. There is no need to sensationalize spree murderers and have their names taking up brain space. What is even cooler to me is that this wasn’t a decree to the media, yet lots of media outlets followed her lead and also did not name him. I hope this becomes a trend.
- Have you heard of the Gambler’s Fallacy? In a simple example, if you’ve flipped a coin and got heads four times in a row, one might be inclined to think there’s a higher likelihood of the next result being tails because it is ‘due’. Of course, the likelihood is fifty-fifty regardless of past results. Belief in the Gambler’s Fallacy is so strong that casinos use it to their advantage by showing gamblers historic results at the roulette tables 😬.
- Fun with emojis! My phone keyboard toggles between French and English and I thought it might be fun to share what French emojis pop up when I’m typing in English.
- Ours 🐻 (ours = bear)
- But 🥅 (but = goal)
- 22 👮♀️(22 v’la les flics! = slang to signify cops are coming kinda like 5-0 in English)
- I have not seen a television series I really liked in soooo long. Does anybody else feel this? I feel like TV in the late 90s/early 00s sucked. Sucked so hard that at the beginning of high school, I made the executive decision to quit watching during the academic school year. It was around that time HBO started getting into the tv series game which I think changed the quality of tv programming because we got shows like The Wire. We got to see quality writing not influenced by advertisers and prime-time viewership ratings. We also got original Netflix where we could retroactively binge watch series personally recommended to us at which point I feel like there was a mini golden age of great shows. Now with all the streaming services competing to produce content, quantity has become more important than quality and we are once again back in the times of sucky shows. Is it just me? All that ranting to say that I finally watched something good for the first time in a long time, Kevin Can Eff Himself which is on Amazon Prime. It’s a dark twist on the classic laugh track, dopey man, long suffering wife sitcom. It’s so meta and so good!
That is all for this week! Btw, thanks so much for the email replies! I love them so much! 🥰
See you soon!
Mandy Fifi
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