#rhett will occasionally compliment link's appearance

[asherlockstudy]

Seriously what can I say about Friday’s GMMore. The foreign language compliments were clearly designated to be plainly gay and then also Link throwing a “you don’t love your wife” to Rhett in his typical antagonistic to Jessie fashion but then Rhett no-homo-ing it up so hard…

So I won’t bother, I will just say thanks to Link for appreciating the harmony of the Greek language despite butchering it as much as the rest!

Wild Greek theory follows, I acknowledge that it is wild and there’s not enough evidence for it but I thought about it and I am just dumping it here.

I have said it before, I have noticed Link has a feel for several things Greek (very superficially of course), minus the cuisine obviously, he has mentioned famous ancient Greeks, some other facts about Greek history, Ithaca island (!), he consistently pronounces Greek much better than Rhett and… I have a theory about it, because knowing even very few details for a foreign nation he’s never been to is quite out of character for him. So… I think… I dare say… the loose boundaries and conceptualisations between friendship and romance that are known to have occasionally existed in Ancient Greece might or might not have something to do with his interest…….

On the contrary, I have said before how Rhett used to appear off when Greeks were mentioned in the past. He also has a habit of being consistently wrong about almost anything Greek-related he has discussed. Rhett would also always misidentify Greek as Latin with a very strange maddening confidence. I remember that time a Greek word was mentioned and he was like “who do you think I am, I know my Latin hahaha” and it was such a big facepalm. Even today, he guessed Greek was Portuguese (a Romantic language) and was so strangely stubborn that looked at Stevie in disbelief when she said it was Greek 😂 Rhett, my dude, you can’t even pronounce gyro, how much do you think you know about Greek in order to master disbelief?! My theory about this one and his general off attitude especially in the past is that he has some deep engraved beliefs regarding Greeks due to his church teachings, the very fanatic Protestants accuse the Greek Orthodox of being pagans allowing ancient practices to survive rather than true Christians etc etc And I think this slips out of him still a little and he probably has minimised the contribution of the Greeks to Christianity or believed in false stereotypes too much…

Anyway I KNOW this is not necessarily true because there is not enough evidence at all, it is just a feel and something I have fun exploring, that’s all…

[bleakcreek]

It's interesting how not only does Link hate giving Rhett actual compliments but man he be pretty harsh sometimes. He's always teasing him about Jessie crazy to marry him, how he parents his kids, his looks, etc.

it’s definitely interesting. i think it’s a combination of link doing it for comedy, link not wanting to give rhett the satisfaction of it (because obviously rhett knows that’s not how link really feels), and link just feeling self-conscious about it in general where his relationship with rhett is concerned. i think part of it is that it’s just part of the way link shows his affection though. rhett knows link is lying, and rhett has done the same thing in the past (though he’s less prone to it now), so i think it’s like -- almost a way of acknowledging how he feels without the embarrassment of actually being genuine. 

hell, there have been a ton of times when link has been trying to insult rhett and has accidentally complimented him instead. remember in one of the earlier seasons when he was trying to mock rhett and accidentally said he loved him instead?

during times when they’re less “on” though, they’re a lot more likely to compliment one another, especially in reference to something they’ve done creatively together. 

[loulougoingsolo]

Spot the big bird

I woke up this morning around 6 a.m. to the sound of a pheasant rooster screaming toot-toot under my window. After that, there was wing flapping, as the bird hopped to another spot. He kept making noise all morning, making it impossible for me to sleep. I don’t normally wake up at 6 a.m. on a Saturday, so the rest of my day has been more or less foggy. But I think I get 50 points for spotting a big bird, right?

In this week’s vlog, Rhett and Link go biking by the L.A. river. I know we are currently mostly making jokes about Rhett’s hair going wild, but can I just say that Link looks a bit like an older lady who has just removed the curlers from their hair after the night and forgot to do the final swoop through the curls, in the beginning of the video? (I admit I occasionally have that hair-do, too, even without the curlers. But I feel I had to mention his hair.)

I’m a simple girl living in the country side, and for me, the idea of a river turned into a concrete ditch is a bit odd - even though I know my brother living in a more urban environment, often goes biking by a similar “constructed” river. Not knowing anything about the L.A., I went on to google the bicycle route the guys are taking in this video, and was glad to find out it has its own Wiki page, in case you’re interested!

It seems there is a bit of a power play going on between the guys, as the drive to the start of their path. Rhett is driving this time, but Link is more familiar with the biking route, so who is in charge? I don’t quite know how a bike trip could be turned into a commune living arrangement type of a situation, or how a commune could suddenly turn into a sex cult, but evidently, whoever tells the others they can only have sex with the one in charge, but not with each other, is the leader. So...how does this apply to biking? Also which is it, if there is always a leader? And how the heck did we get to sex cults this early in the video?

I just love how self-concious Rhett is feeling about wearing the bicycle helmet. And, he actually asked for Link’s opinion about which helmet he should wear. I think it’s very adorable, really, and I just love how Link always finds new, innovative ways to compliment Rhett’s mane. This is the first time I’ve heard the word asinine, but Link says it in the most loving way possible, and to be quite honest, he isn’t wrong. But thankfully, Rhett fixes his lopsided hair, and everything works out just fine.

I have to say, bicycle helmets make me feel very self-concious, too. I actually have a helmet that is almost identical to the one Link has - solid black and practical. Why do we need to feel stupid when wearing something that can literally save our lives? (But since helmets do look kinda stupid, at least solid black goes with everything.) And here’s a Grandson of Anarchy, Rhett McLaughlin, for y’all to enjoy, in his full glory:

We have more lakes than rivers around where I live, and most bicycle routes here are basically dirt roads surrounded by rural landscape, but I think I prefer it that way. The scenery around the L.A. river is too open, too loud and way too constructed for my liking, but there is something very grandiose about the river. Rhett also looks pretty grandiose next to Link. I should be used to their size difference by now, but Link looks so tiny, again. He’s small enough to fit in Rhett’s pocket.

I wasn’t getting at all bored by watching the guys on their bikes, but I admit, the idea of a scavenger hunt is pretty appealing, even if the guys probably won’t find people with old money in the river. But there might have been someone rich there, since who in their right mind throws away a fairly functional looking stroller? Don’t they cost a fortune?

I don’t think the river cleaning crew was joking about finding dead bodies in the river. I know in the nearest bigger city in my area, which has a rapid with dams running across the centre, they empty the river of all water every now and then (usually in the spring), and bodies have been found more than once. (Which reminds me, one time I was on a bicycle ride with my mom, and we took a short cut through the woods, and found a dead goat there. It was horrible. It smelled so bad. There were flies everywhere. And now I’ve given everyone reading this nightmares. Sorry.)

I just realized that the L.A. river was probably where they filmed that one chase scene in Terminator 2. Am I right? I knew those concrete slopes looked somehow familiar. No wonder I had an unpleasant feeling about that river. I saw T2 way too young - they should never have allowed me into the theater at the age of 12. But never mind about that.

There is a lot of junk in that river, and it does make me kinda mad, too, just like Rhett. I once found a whole VCR  in the place I like to go pick mushrooms, so a VHS tape in a river isn’t surprising. One thing good about the digital age is that there aren’t quite that many old VHS or mix tapes lying around. The mix tape of 2020 is a Spotify playlist, I guess.

Since I clearly have nothing better to do, I ended up doing an internet search on different cross symbols, to find the one carved in the tree stump Rhett and Link find. It appears to be a cross potent. No idea why one would be in L.A. river, unless it’s just a very complicated way to make the tree stump rot quicker.

I think my new favourite thing is seeing Link just give up and start laughing, after trying to get Rhett talk about littering without threatening to kill someone. I think it’s only fair to talk trash about people who throw their trash in nature, and a message coming from an angry biker is probably a good idea. But I just love hearing Link snort and giggle.

After the rat chase vlog, and today’s episode, I think there soon is enough material for a full Rhett and Link horror movie. I would love to hear what the people, who asked if everything was okay with the guys, were thinking. One day, the title of these vlogs is going to be “The One Where They Get Arrested”.

I’m not a qualified gif maker, so I can’t capture all the pelvic thrusts of this vlog in their full glory. As enjoyable as it was to see the guys do their solo acts, some things just are more fun when done together. My only excuse for the edit below is that if they have the audacity to film something like this without even moving the camera between takes, they are asking to be edited together. It took me less than 5 minutes to do the edit, which, yes, is pretty crappy, but I just couldn’t miss the opportunity, when it was served to me on a silver platter.