Fraser McQueen

Turned up to a lecture theatre this AM to find it was locked. Waited in the rain with 90 students for 10 minutes. Estates got there and opened the door, which was apparently unlocked after all, very easily. A story that sums up my general hapless vibe perhaps better than any other.

Me, someone's mean teacher: you will never amount to anything

(Internally: I certainly hope I won't be proven wrong about this)

Yeah the 'beurette' trope def seems relevant! Nacira Guénif's distinction between beurette/française voilée too (in La République mise à nu par son immigration, 2006)

Unpacking nontarget majority consumers’ responses to modest fashion: how market controversy perpetuates marketplace exclusion Combining trends in style and form with religious considerations, modest fashion has grown worldwide despite a series of intense controversies in Western countries from the mid-2010s. Building on t...

Just did a v basic search (on my phone while resting between sets at the gym like a proper bro) - is something like this any good? Or maybe modest fashion itself is already quite bourgeois coded?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ah right! No idea on tracksuits - nothing from the top of my head on the hijab as a fashion item as opposed to the usual laïcité femonationalism etc (can keep thinking, not on my computer just now), but might publications on e.g. burkini, sports hijabs etc be similar?

Like comparing the tracksuit and the hijab? Or about girls wearing hijabs with a tracksuit? Tbh nothing comes to mind but could have a think!

Heartbreaking when you do an online shop and they send you the green bananas

WHY YOU NEED A HUMAN TRANSLATOR 🚨

DeepL is able to correctly identify that Spongebob's French name is Bob l'éponge. What it can't do is tell you that Squidward's name, for some reason, is Carlo. Do you want your readers to think you're SOME KIND OF MORON who doesn't know about Carlo Tentacule?

I'll be thinking about this weeks from now 🫠

Just sent an email to about 100 people only to immediately notice I'd included the words 'further details' twice in the same sentence. Nightmarish. Awful. Why do bad things happen to good people

ITS SO GOOD

Big entering middle age moment today as i'm absolutely buzzing to have got a dyson

43-YEAR-OLD CRAIG GORDON ♥️

Accidentally clicked laugh react on a very routine email from someone I don't really know. Why do bad things happen to good people

Again, I'm not well informed on this, so don't mean to suggest that anti-American imperialism necessarily equates to being 'one of the goodies'. Ffs though, consent manufacturing machine go brrrrrr

I'm not well informed on Venezuela tbh but can't get my head around how much of a total fucking rube anyone vaguely familiar with the history of US intervention in Latin America would need to be to think that yes, everything they've heard about Maduro is surely unambiguously accurate.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Oh no

Imagine needing to live in nine towns/cities, and three countries, only to realise 16 years after moving out that the most beautiful place you're ever likely to visit is your hometown 🤯

tonight isn’t the end—it’s a new year

It does seem some of the media coverage of her passing is reflecting some of this. I don't suppose I'm suggesting her death should immediately be followed by blanket vilification, but the tone of some of the 'iconic French actress' stuff is already pretty nauseating.

Was married to a former advisor of Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Explicitly called for people to vote for Marine.

During the MeToo movement, described women actresses who spoke up about sexual abuse as 'hypocrites'.

Described camp gay people as 'fairground freaks'.

Some of Brigitte Bardot's greatest hits:

Convicted of incitement to racial hatred on six separate occasions.

Referred to the population of La Réunion as 'savages'.

Described Muslims in metropolitan France as 'invaders'.

Argued against 'the mixing of genes' through interracial relationships.

we're at the stage of christmas when i'm planning on being the one to make everyone uncomfortable by sharing conspiracy theories (a debut outing for 'squidward is a real guy')

gettin really concerned about mr bean. he needs to stop acting like that

Merry Christmas everyone 👀

'Grandad is taking us to Home Bargains to get some last minute presents. Uncle Fraser, what's your favourite kind of chocolate?' My niece is a master of cunning

[Paul mccartney having a disappointing Christmas time] the moon is wrong 🙁

I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.