If it were real facts we’d just call them facts.
If it were real medicine we’d just call it medicine.
If it were real news we’d just call it news.
I think Tim Minchin, in his prime coined the saying: Alternative medicine is either:
- Medicine that has not been proven to work Or
- Medicine that has been proven not to work You know what they call alternative medicine that’s proven to work? “Medicine”
Came here to make the Minchin comparison.
Bullshit für Deutschland
yup it works
me and my doppelganger
“Shoot him! I’m the real Kolanaki!”
Gets shot
“How did you know?”
“If they were the real Kolanaki, they would have just said Kolanaki.”
“OK LOOK for the last time I am not Alternativating you!!!”
Alternative rock is fine.
In my language, ‘alternative’ is somewhat synonymous with ‘progressive’ (though we still have the bullshit meaning of ‘alternative facts’, ‘alternative medicine’). Is that not a thing in English, too? We rarely have an original thought when it comes to words like this.
That’s a good point about alternative rock. I changed the title from usually to sometimes, maybe usually was too much.
I’ve never thought about the word alternative being synonymous with progressive, I tend of think of as meaning against the grain or against the mainstream but in practice sometimes it just means bullshit like in the title. For example RT calls themselves “alternative media” but they’re really just propaganda slop.
Similar things could be said about things like “real” and “official.”
Control bullshit delete
you had to take a shower to come up with this?
Linux the alternative os to Windows?
windows the bullshit os to linux
but chevelle is not bullshit :(
