Beep boop - this is a robot. A new show has been posted to TWiT…
What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!
I had trouble getting ChatGPT to actually output the drawing, so it wasn’t available until hours after the show finished, but anyway, here it is for what it’s worth
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That’s gross looking. I’m gonna throw up (not genuinely. it’s ok)
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Just mulling over the “Mickey Mouse glove” change, thinking how cartoons accidentally preserved a long gone concept (mostly pre-WWI I think), that to be correctly dressed you had to be wearing gloves - kid leather for the moneyed classes, white cotton for everyone else. Especially if providing a service to the moneyed class, hence the term “White Glove Service”.
Japanese cartoons and games have kept the image alive by perpetuating it from western cartoons like Mickey Mouse and others, so you have the (to me) slightly odd image of a pair of plumbers like Mario & Luigi in white gloves and overalls.
No real thought here, just fascinated by how something like that can linger after the original habit died out nearly a century ago or so.
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