Andy Ryan

Her: Who's your favourite literary vampire? Me: The one in Sesame Street Her: He doesn't count Me: I can assure you that he does

@DonarWodenson10 @Davis_TheMann @ksorbs Ancient Greek pottery had a very limited color palette (red, black, grey and white) given the technology and material being used. Women were generally portrayed in white. Doesn't mean they were pale.

@Davis_TheMann @ksorbs Not everyone looked like the Minoan women mosaics on southern Crete (who were pale white with black hair, sort of like Lucy Lawless). Kevin Sorbo as a Greek hero? Not the stretch you think.

The DEI is one thing, Nolan is desecrating Greece the country as well. This is the beach in Greece, vs the movie. Gross.

@bdavidwh @transgendererer No, they're seeing some people say "asterix". As in, instead of asterisk.

@transgendererer Are you saying you’ve met people who say “axterix”?

everyone makes fun of "ax you a question" but pronouncing it "asterix" goes unquestioned. lets confront our biases here.

@BitPaine Was one of Mulan's parents a God? No. Look up Dunning-Kruger - because that applies to you calling me, someone smarter than you, stupid. *Mutes*

@ItsAndyRyan So there would be absolutely no backlash from you or anyone else if the *fictional character* Mulan was played by a white actress in a major Hollywood film? Give me a break you low iq fuckwit.

Completely pathetic how these low tier intellect tankies gish gallop around the point. Yes, there is an obvious double standard where historically white characters can be race-swapped, but the obverse creates a moral panic. Everyone knows this. Denying it with some poorly argued sloppery about Helen’s race not being central to the story while Pocahontas’ is absolutely besides the obvious and indisputable point being made. People are making hay about Helen being black - for absolutely no reason by the way - despite being depicted as white for *literally* the entire history of western literature because we have all lived through the last insufferable decade of gayrace communist wokeslop harridans screeching about every insufficiently melanated casting decision. People hate double standards. And we’re done tolerating them. Either every role - from Martin Luther King to Helen of Troy - can be played by anyone of any race, or they can’t. So unless you’re prepared to give up crying about whatever insignificant nonsense comprises the microaggression of the week, you’re getting the opprobrium right back ten times harder.

@CharlesSteadman @C_3C_3 Because homogenous countries are boring, right.

@C_3C_3 Umm because no one wants to go to the other countries?

If White people are a 8% global minority why is diversity pushed in only predominantly White Countries? Weird.

@scoorgemcdubl @JamesSurowiecki No-one's seen The Odyssey.

@JamesSurowiecki Like 25 people saw that movie. None of them right wingers

Were RWers this hysterical when Joel Coen cast Denzel as Macbeth?

@aestheticist_ @JamesSurowiecki No-one said that their choices then were luck. They're saying it's just luck to be born into wealth in a wealthy country - a situation you yourself played no part in manifesting.

@JamesSurowiecki Americas ancestors weren’t playing the lottery though. they were engaged in a project that took hard work with reasonably foreseeable outcomes and clear goals. it was more like starting a business than gambling.

"It's not 'luck' that you won the lottery. You intentionally chose to go to the QwikMart at that time, and you intentionally chose those numbers - or had the machine generate those numbers for you."

@AndrewDettmer @BitPaine Yes

@ItsAndyRyan @BitPaine And in order to seduce Helen’s mother, Zeus transformed into a swan. And what color are swan’s skin, quite famously? Black

@skrying4poetry It was a reply to someone saying they were surprised by the accent of the American potato eater.

@ItsAndyRyan Because you didn’t identify what you were less surprised by?

This is my most controversial tweet.

@LilXicao @oengusthenerd @romanhelmetguy That is kind of the point of the story, yes. If it was direct it wouldn't have taken a decade and the film would be ten minutes long.

@oengusthenerd @romanhelmetguy Ireland? Odysseus doing everything except returning home

Map of where the cast members in Nolan's Odyssey are from (shown in gray).

@DaCullahBlurple @Midknigh777 @KeeperofReal16 @bendreyfuss What's Elliott's height got to do with it? We're talking about the description of Achilles in The Iliad, right? Achilles is dead in The Odyssey, just a spirit. And I don't believe Page is playing Achilles anyway.

@ItsAndyRyan @Midknigh777 @KeeperofReal16 @bendreyfuss Please tell me more about how tall and Greek Elliot Paige is.

My feed is now 100% about Helen of Troy has to be white because she is Greek and I just think that ultimately the funniest part is that Americans didn’t even consider Greeks white until about a couple generations ago! Haha

@stillnotking75 @bendreyfuss The idea that Nolan's motivation when casting a $200m film is to rage bait racists on twitter is pure main character syndrome.

@bendreyfuss The funniest part is all the people pretending that casting an SSA as Helen of Troy wasn't deliberate rage bait... and that tweets like this aren't Whom are you guys even trying to kid anymore

@DaCullahBlurple @Midknigh777 @KeeperofReal16 @bendreyfuss Pitt isn't even 6 foot tall. Hardly massive towering stature. And he's not Greek.

@Midknigh777 @KeeperofReal16 @bendreyfuss

@BlaiseInKC Stop Perry from writing that Christina song where she boasts about how beautiful she is, too.

If I had a Time Machine one of the first things I’d do is try to go back and prevent that What’s Going On song by Four Non Blondes from being recorded.

@RoombaRaiderCat @CaryKelly11 @kristine_ruff You think thousands of people covered their songs due to marketing? Kids listen to them today because of marketing? Ok dude

@CaryKelly11 @kristine_ruff I got one word. Marketing.

The Beatles were a glorified pop boy band and they really weren't that great, IMO. I wouldn't pay money for their music or to go their concert. Give me the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin.

@olgakeogh I was genuinely surprised as I was sure it was something Americans made fun of Brits for eating. Turns out it's just the tuna filling (and beans) they find odd.

@ItsAndyRyan You and your constant trolling

@Ontarianram @govt_corrupt Have you actually been to Calcutta though?

@govt_corrupt Yep. We went on a recent trip to Alberta and it was shocking. Cochrane, Banff, Jasper, all the hotspots. It might as well have been Calcutta. Yes, that's right, I said Calcutta.

I was in lake louse 10 years ago. A beautiful place. 10 years later and it’s been invaded by Indians. Canada has completely transformed into a 3rd world shithole.

@winmod1886 @downr_rock @DocStrangelove2 But homicides are way lower in Britain than the US.

@downr_rock @DocStrangelove2 England has had very strict gun laws since 1921 and it never stopped the IRA from getting guns and explosives into England. Now they have strict knife laws and it doesn't stop machete attacks. Seems to be a theme there they can't put their finger on.

What if I told you that an anti-gun org actually filmed out this very scenario and it's just as stupid as you are possibly imagining.

@p4rrotpolly @xspotsdamark It means that Sorbo is a massive hypocrite. And you're saying "it's about race" when Sorbo isn't racially Greek and doesn't look Greek. Have a good day.

@ItsAndyRyan @xspotsdamark I don't see how this has anything to do with what I described, and btw, I didn't watch this shity series.

You ain’t Greek either. Why did you play Hercules?

@americans10794 @jesss_mp3 How come this version isn't as good, then?

@jesss_mp3 Brits have been inferior musicians since the 80s. Cope.