Terra Incognita

I'll use this thread to narrate some typologically interesting scenes i witnessed or was part of. Stuff that happened at work, stuff i witnessed in the streets or in public transports, etc.


Work In Progress (this will take several posts and won't be finished today) :

So let's start with this :

Today's training session was, roughly speaking, about art history and took place in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

During the first part of the morning, our (probably) SiFe guide walked about 20 teachers through a dozen of paintings and sculptures cherry picked among all the treasures of the museum.
At the end of that retardedly fast paced visit, our (mostly delta) “trainers” asked us to split into groups of 4. Then we had to decide together which was the “greatest masterpiece” among the ones we had seen, and to give them 3 criteria for our choice.

Before i even had the time to finish thinking something starting with "Oh God...", one of the delta took upon himself to rephrase the instructions. He gave us a nice immersive roleplaying game synopsis to help us : “you're in charge of the communication of the museum and you will be sending VIP invitations for a special event celebrating that very special piece. Think about what you could write down on the invitation card”

I was already sitting next to a SeTi colleague from my highschool and soon enough another pair of beta duals joined us. A Feni and a TiSe.

Here we were. Four barbarians in a delta sanctum sanctorum.

Our TiSe spoke first.
Kind of.
“Who is going to talk for the group at the end ?” he asked.
Both FeNi and SeTi said “i will”, in a single beta voice.
But somehow, everybody knew SeTi had “won” this already. He would be our fearless leader, and thus, our spokeperson.

Then... i'm still not quite sure how it happened exactly but the other threes made up their mind VERY quickly.

They decided that “obviously” the “greatest masterpiece” of the twelve was Gustave Courbet's “un enterrement à Ornans”



I suggested a few alternatives, convincing a different tribesman everytime, sometimes two, but never the three of them at the same time. So I bowed down to the majority.

The Burial it would be.
And now we had to talk about criteria.

I daydreamed for a second about replying :
1) that painting is a dare
2) that painting is a dare
3) that painting is a dare

and then I noticed TiSe had already vanished out of sight.

Tbcd.

Sorry i dropped the ball on this one. I'll try to finish it over the week end.

But in the meantime and as some kind of musical interlude...

This morning my NeFi supervisor ("inspecteur d'académie") was briefing us about today's exam session.
We were all listening to him religiously when his phone ringed. Vincent verb form Loudly.

I wasn't even done thinking "well, that ringtone is delta as fuck" when he said "Hmm, the Empire is calling, i have to take this".

About one year ago, my oldest sister, who never loses an opportunity to use Lucile as a pretext to torture me, gifted us some tickets to Disneyland Paris.

Yesterday those tickets were about to expire, and Alice had a day off, so we went there in the morning.

And well... the Fe candy overdose was pretty much what i expected.

What i didn't quite expect was.. .
-that pretty much everybody there was white
-the sheer amount of 30yo-ish NeTis/NeFes with barely 20 girlfriends. Turns out Disneyland might actually be the best place to observe the mating behavior of the type in the Wild.
-the almost complete absence of Evil, including Disney Evil.
As Lucile herself pointed out toward the end, villains were nowhere to be found.

With a notable exception : . the recorded voice of the Queen of Heart, screaming "off with their heads !" in a loop, ad vitam aeternam...

Vincent wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:27 am About one year ago, my oldest sister, who never loses an opportunity to use Lucile as a pretext to torture me, gifted us some tickets to Disneyland Paris.

Apparently Disneyland Paris was built in 1992 but I am from another era and it sounds like an oxymoron to me.