Correct! For example the Jewish musical tradition is extensively minor, even the happiest of songs. Think of Hava Nagila. Musically, that's as minor as it gets - but it literally translates to "Let's Celebrate" and it's traditionally a party song sung by large groups at weddings.

Besides Jewish music, there is also a lot of other Balkan / Eastern European music that has this "reversed" rule and uses minor in ways that aren't meant to imply anything negative emotionally.

Based on the comments sounds like he had some awful experiences. At the same time I don’t understand how everyone ignores that he is terrible at acting. He was very attractive, and got roles for that reason, but watch some of those old movies with him and it doesn’t take long to see he is a really really bad actor. I think his nice guy persona and the fact that he got fat makes people think he is good at his craft and I don’t get it.

Do you know who it was?

It's mostly just conditioning. Major sounds happy and minor sounds sad to you, because that's the association you've heard again thousands of times over your whole lifetime listening to (I'm guessing) typical Western music.

But that association isn't universal at all! There are whole non-western musical traditions (eg Jewish, Balkan, Eastern European) where a ton of it is minor but not sad. Think of like Hava Nagila - that's 100% minor key and it's a party song sung at weddings that literally translates to "Let's Celebrate".

Heck, even in popular Western music there are plenty of examples of dark songs in a major key (Pumped up Kicks, Boy in the Bubble...) and happy songs in a minor key (Yeah - Usher; SexyBack - Timberlake; Just Dance - Lady Gaga...).

Basically, if you grew up listening to typical Western music, your brain assumes major = happy and minor = sad because based on your previous experience that's more likely true than the reverse. But there are many exceptions in Western music, and other non-Western types of music where it's not a good assumption to begin with.

Some of the fluctuations are from the arctic jet stream in the north wobbling and the gulf trade winds from the warm caribbean sea and warm winds of off the pacific coast from the continued elninia weather patterns. The jet stream is fluctuating due to the warming of the Atlantic Ocean and the melting glaciers around the poles mixed with the solar radiation from the sun. It really is climate change, whatever the cause I'm not gonna argue that, but it is climate changing due to warming surface temperatures. We don't notice the changes in the summer time as much unless a cold front creates thunder storms and potentially tornadoes.

I’m so happy to see him making a return, I don’t know the guy personally but he seems like such an awesome person. He’s also looking really good these days too, seems to be losing weight etc!

He was sexually assaulted by a higher up in the industry and blackballed as a result of speaking up about it (which no one wanted to hear because 'lol that doesn't happen to men') He also took some serious physical injuries due to the mummy 3, which resulted in picking up some weight as you do when injury impairs your physicality. Unsurprisingly his mental state took a pounding, and between the shadow banning and constant gossip rag articles saying he was fat and washed up he eventually became convinced he wasn't actually a good actor, but got famous simply for being eye candy, which fucked even harder with his mental state.

All this has now been exposed as a lie - he is a good actor, a fucking great one and people in a kinder age listen to his story and know what happened to him was wrong and he was done a horrendous misjustice.

I really feel for the guy, no one deserves any of that.

Well that depends on where you are. Places where they have “winter” like Minnesota the weather is much much less volatile. Places where they don’t have a “winter” like California. I believe their weather is more raining in the winter because cold air collides with warm ocean air more often. I’m sure some will have a better answer

Great comment.

"Held together by bandages," you say? Sus.

>Because for like 99.9999% of evolutionary history, calories were scarce and unpredictable. You were WAY more likely to die of starvation (due to sickness, drought, winter, injury) than somehow finding so many calories that you got fat. So we all evolved the strategy: "when you do find a high-cal food source, eat as much as possible!!" And in those calorie-scarce times, (aka essentially all of human history!) that was a great strategy to have. It kept your ancestors alive.

Also we have the "turn those excess calories into fat, you might need it later!" strategy - hence we get fat.

Because for 100s of thousands of years our ancestors died of all kinds of other causes before they could get fat in addition to having a calorie deficient diet.

It was actually the third Mummy movie he's cited as having damaged him physically the most. He describes being held together by bandages and painkillers for most of that shoot.

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The major third is slightly more consonant with the root note than the minor third. Consonance is sonically simpler.

I didn’t think this cut it as a top level answer, but for OP or anyone else curious, there is a term you can google, “hyperpalatable”. These are foods which are engineered to get you to eat way more of than you need, and to be addictive in a way. Everything at an Applebees is hyperpalatable. Doritos are hyperpalatable. Etc.

Because you've been told it is that way. You've likely heard sad songs in major keys and happy songs in minor keys. Not to mention the fact that a lot of music pieces change keys multiple times (a lot of chord progressions in pop music are inspired by key progressions in more elaborate music).

Fraser was effectively blacklisted from Hollywood for a while after accusing a high-up person in the industry of sexually assaulting him. This was before the Me Too movement when accusations like that were not taken seriously and folks were shunned for talking about it. Additionally, he was injured after the Mummy 2 which made stunt-heavy action movies difficult, and he also went through a rough divorce. Took him a while to recover from all that, but I'm glad he's back in the spotlight!

"Unhealthy" foods are generally very high in fat, sugar, and starches. In other words, they are full of energy. That's not necessarily great when you eat a lot of that food and don't exercise much. But in the past, energy-rich food was scarce and very valuable to survival. So our bodies crave it and get a big rush of happy brain chemicals when we eat it. Evolutionarily, "unhealthy" food was actually really healthy food if you could get your hands on it - again, because it was usually in small amounts and really gave you a survival benefit.

To add some extra context, it was specifically a high ranking member of the Hollywood Foreign Press, which is the organization that runs the Golden Globes, which is why Brendan refused to attend even though he was nominated in that award show.

Ah, a r/boneappletea

Plenty of healthy food is delicious. The unhealthy food is just relies on a trio of inexpensive macronutrients: Sugar, Fat, Salt.

So hypothetically, one could own a share of a share of a company depending on the contract?

> Sugar, salt and fats taste good

and are in themselves not "unhealthy", too much i.e. more than you need is unhealthy

all the openings sealed and case glued together. Used to be snapped and screwed together

TL;DR he was sexually assaulted by someone high up in the industry and he reported it and got blackballed til now.