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Helen Mirren: Isn't it sad that Kurt Cobain never used satnav
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@floppyplopper imagine acclaimed actor and certified national treasure Helen Mirren sidling up to you, pointing excitedly at the blue dot on google maps and then tearing up, "it's such a shame Kurt Cobain never lived to see this" @stavvers @stavvers Dame Helen walking down the street, phone in hand, accosting strangers: "Oh, just look at my little blue dot! Isn't it just the loveliest? I so do wish Kurt Cobain were here to see it!" @stavvers this is delightfully unhinged. I aspire to this level of random at her age. @stavvers The wild part is she does, tho. She mentions Kurt Cobain and the technologies he never used ALL THE TIME @stavvers "always say" is a UK thing - it just means something like "of the opinion", or "I somethimes think". This just in: Helen Mirren really does always say that she's sad Kurt Cobain missed out on various technology. @Nickiquote @stavvers so many 90s heroes lost to the road atlas, Kurt Cobain, Jeff Buckley, River Phoenix... @stavvers How was he meant to come as he was when he didn’t know where to do? It’s a problem. It reads as though Mirren is a paid spokes person for GPS navigation. Ever watch an interview and the starring guest goes on some tangent and name drops a brand name ? Liquor, car, cleaning product, and such? They get paid each time it happens. Is she still tapping into some Tom Tom cash? Garmin Benjamins? @stavvers it's going to turn out that Kobain was secretly her longtime pen-pal, and they shared a deep love for consumer technology. The letters (lovingly preserved by Mirren) will be found by her executor and auctioned off to a reclusive Australian billionaire. The story will be sold to Netflix, who will make it into a mini-series that inexplicably will have 3 seasons. @stavvers His GPS device was found in a driving wheel, but his body never was found @stavvers I think she made a movie about it https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2057392/ but that might have been more about blowing up the little blue dots instead of admiring them. @stavvers weird and not even necessarily true - Garmin’s first handheld GPS device was released in 1991. @stavvers Was this AI Helen Mirren? Sure sounds like AI Helen Mirren. AI Dead Kurt Cobain also recently mused that it's too bad Helen Mirren lived too long to avoid AI Helen Mirren. @stavvers Sounds like an excerpt from an eight minute digression at a Trump rally. @stavvers i find myself doing this a bit with Carl Sagan, like, wouldn't he be so excited about Enceladus, or the Huygens probe (and soon Clipper) on Titan, or, wow, everything we're still learning about Mars, and... Exoplanets! We found them! They're everywhere! him stepping onto Neil deGrasse Tyson's Ship of the imagination, looking around and saying “You've redecorated... I don't like it." (Doctor Who reference) … the mass bamboozlement of the US is getting pretty bad though… @stavvers I think she has a point. I feel sort of the same way whenever I see someone riding a Onewheel. The pace of worldwide enshittification is accelerating an alarming rate, but there are people zooping around on those things. It is, IMO, the foremost argument against suicide. Who knows what you might miss? @stavvers I am sad Kurt never had Google Ads target him with all the things he might want. It's just amazing how they know. @stavvers@masto.ai Isn't it said that people looking on the little blue spot on their smartphones think that they do "navigation" and have never spend a thought about the foundation, for example the longitude problem that took a long time to be solved? This is just the emotional inverse of "[fill in the blank] must be rolling in [his/her/their] grave . . ." People also used to say "If Elvis were alive today . . ." and put words in his mouth, too. |
the "always say" is sending me