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I'm posting this from the toilet.
Getting hammered tonight. Will drunk post later if I'm out of the poker game.
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Okay here's my drunk post as promised.
Autocorrect makes me sound almost sober.
Meh. A real drunk post is taking off your pants and putting them in a jiffy bag/envelope and posting them to Cambodia or something, and then wandering around the street asking if anyone has seen your pants?
Quote from: Trollheart on Apr 16, 2023, 01:00 PMMeh. A real drunk post is taking off your pants and putting them in a jiffy bag/envelope and posting them to Cambodia or something, and then wandering around the street asking if anyone has seen your pants?
I came real close to walking outside naked with 30mg of 5-Meo-DMT up my nose once. It was a close one.
What's the worst shit you've done when drunk then?
I've pissed myself numerous times (broke a couple of phones that were in my pocket), broke my hand, chatted a lot of rubbish. Pierced my ears. Vomited over someone in a bar.
@Toy Revolver @Jwb I reckon you two would have some decent posts for this.
Honestly I'm not too bad with alcohol. I have a few puke stories but I'm not too bad. The worst thing I've done drunk is stare at a sorta coworker's cleavage.
Quote from: robhr on Apr 17, 2023, 12:56 AMHonestly I'm not too bad with alcohol. I have a few puke stories but I'm not too bad. The worst thing I've done drunk is stare at a sorta coworker's cleavage.
Puking is worse than that. Most men stare at a cleavage about 50 times a day (not me BTW. Not into boobs.)
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 17, 2023, 01:00 AMQuote from: robhr on Apr 17, 2023, 12:56 AMHonestly I'm not too bad with alcohol. I have a few puke stories but I'm not too bad. The worst thing I've done drunk is stare at a sorta coworker's cleavage.
Puking is worse than that. Most men stare at a cleavage about 50 times a day (not me BTW. Not into boobs.)
I could tell I made her uncomfortable. This happened at the same wedding social as one of my puke stories. I was busy that night.
I puked all over a bathroom stall. But I cleaned it all up with toilet paper.
You're a good guy tbh I wouldn't clean a public bathroom if I had vomited in it.
Definitely vomited at a few parties. There was one where I drank lots of beer AND lots of red wine, which is such a bad combination. Still remember the disgusting taste in my mouth after puking it all out. Preferred white wine ever since
When I was 16 or so a friend convinced me that we bike god knows where in the middle of the night and I ended up falling over and breaking an arm.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 17, 2023, 12:52 AMWhat's the worst shit you've done when drunk then?
I've pissed myself numerous times (broke a couple of phones that were in my pocket), broke my hand, chatted a lot of rubbish. Pierced my ears. Vomited over someone in a bar.
@Toy Revolver @Jwb I reckon you two would have some decent posts for this.
i was a very self-destructive drinker and drank at volumes that would've killed most people
typical pattern in my late forties:
home from work at 4 drink 7-10 drinks topped off with a xany and maybe 4 bong hits - pass out - wake up at around midnight- grab my whiskey and weed and take a bath and read while again drinking and the others - my rule for work nights was to stop at three in the morning- often i'd be driving to work with a lortab or whatever i had kicking in
i usually pissed and shit myself while passed out
i was sick
i had some good times drinking and all that but on the whole asking me (no offense taken btw) about my alcoholic hijinx makes about as much sense as asking someone what kind of craziness did you get into during chemo
i suffered and fought hard for my sobriety
being an addict is miserable - it's not romantic or fun it's misery and despair
i'm only proud that i finally went to AA and said omg help me i'm sick i'm dying
i tried so hard to get mental health care
i went to private practices in person and said i need help - i thought about suicide everyday
sorry for being so unfun about it but it's like that for me
AA and NA is free and all over the place - if you're broke and desperate and addicted go there
Yeah it's a whole different thing, being drunk and being an alcoholic. I know Karen went close to the edge a few times: how she didn't get killed or raped I don't know. That kind of shit really fucks you up. Me, I never got drunk in my life except twice, and there was nothing special about it, though I never wanted to do it again. But I think people here can differentiate between the "OMG I'm so pissed I have to have that traffic cone" or whatever and "OMG I'm so pissed I think I'm gonna die." I doubt anyone is laughing at that, or saying that's cool. Like Waits said, "cut out that shit." Fair play to you for getting clean. Takes a lot of guts. If it hadn't been for MS Karen would either be dead now or in rehab.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 17, 2023, 12:52 AMWhat's the worst shit you've done when drunk then?
I've pissed myself numerous times (broke a couple of phones that were in my pocket), broke my hand, chatted a lot of rubbish. Pierced my ears. Vomited over someone in a bar.
@Toy Revolver @Jwb I reckon you two would have some decent posts for this.
one time i was driving and i was coming down off dxm and had been drinking(i would use booze to come down) and i accidently rear ended somebody while getting off the highway. I was looking to see if anyone was coming from the street we were entering and there wasnt but the dude in front of me just stopped anyway. I slammed the brakes and barely tapped him. I agreed to follow him into a nearby patking lot.
We looked at the cars and there was honestly no noticeable sign of any damage. I told him that it was my fault so it was up to him what he wanted to do. I was just sorta banking on him hopefully saying it was no big deal and letting it slide.
Instead, he was like "Well, ya know I'm a retired deputy so I'd like to get the city out here just in case."
I agreed, and went back to my car, saying i was going to get my information. I was parked behind him, with both cars facing away from the road. The parking lot was connected to the parking lot of a gas station to our left, which also had 2 exits onto the road.
Since my car was behind his, and he was still standing by his car on the phone with the police, he had never had an opportunity to get my tag or any other identifiable information. I turned on my car, waited to see if he noticed. Then i very slowly turned my wheels all the way to the left and put it in drive. He was sorta looking in my direction and still on the phone but he didn't seem to notice or react.
So i hit the gas and peeled out through the gas station parking lot. I felt like kinda a pos when some dad with his kids put his arm out to hold them back like he was scared i was gonna hit them as i sped by them, but i was in fight or flight mode. All i was thinking is i have to go so fast he can't get my plates.
Not to mention the road i had to use to escape is busy as fuck and usually packed with cars in that area and there is a busy intersection right there which my luck was at a red light, which i felt i had to take the chance and run it, once i saw an opening. Them i sped off and at one point sorta ran off the road in a panick and had to back up and get back on the road. It was a sharp left curve i tried to go around too fast and i ended up sliding into some grass, luckily with out hitting anything.
Even though i was pretty buzzed at the beginning of the story when the accident happened, after i fled like that the adrenaline was so intense it sobered me right up. I was paranoid af for a lil while that he either got my plates or that the gas station had cameras. But nothing ever came of it.
@Toy Revolver the shitting yourself thing is interesting. I've never done that. Maybe a result of mixing with other drugs? I can understand it happening in the days after a heavy session when your stomach is really sensitive though. Fuck knows. Never happened to me.
@Jwb :laughing: brilliant how long ago was this? Funny as fuck, you should post more stories like this. Not implying it isn't true, I mean you've probably got more funny shit to tell us. Would have liked to see the cop's face as you sped off :laughing:
I've never been that far gone on alcohol, but when I was in my speedhead days I would make a lot of terrible late-night decisions like impulse purchases, overeating, and making absolute nonsense posts on Twitter and Reddit that I woke up and promptly deleted. I got a lot worse at socializing and would frequently interrupt others.
Thankfully I don't have any specific horror stories.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Apr 17, 2023, 03:00 PMI've never been that far gone on alcohol, but when I was in my speedhead days I would make a lot of terrible late-night decisions like impulse purchases, overeating, and making absolute nonsense posts on Twitter and Reddit that I woke up and promptly deleted. I got a lot worse at socializing and would frequently interrupt others.
Thankfully I don't have any specific horror stories.
:laughing:
Quotedxm
that story on your blog where you were super high on that stuff and got lost outside when it was really cold really impressed me
i found it so relatable and frightening
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 17, 2023, 02:47 PM@Toy Revolver the shitting yourself thing is interesting. I've never done that. Maybe a result of mixing with other drugs? I can understand it happening in the days after a heavy session when your stomach is really sensitive though. Fuck knows. Never happened to me.
@Jwb :laughing: brilliant how long ago was this? Funny as fuck, you should post more stories like this. Not implying it isn't true, I mean you've probably got more funny shit to tell us. Would have liked to see the cop's face as you sped off :laughing:
it was about 2012 or so. I know i was going to community College at the time and that i "didn't want to mess things up." Fucking retard logic lol.
I do have a few other notable stories that come to mind but i feel like I've told them before as well. The next worst one is probably the incident where i got myself fired from the Deli in Winn Dixie. Do you remember that one?
Quote from: Toy Revolver on Apr 17, 2023, 03:17 PMQuotedxm
that story on your blog where you were super high on that stuff and got lost outside when it was really cold really impressed me
i found it so relatable and frightening
that was the first time i got kicked out of the homeless shelter. For drinking. That was a miserable night. Nothing special even happened i was just drugged out and felt like i could sense this malevolent force sort of closing in on me.
The second time i got kicked out i ended up getting myself jumped by a couple of kids that looked maybe 17 or 18 years old.
@Jwb no post it, keep the comedy coming! 8)
I mean thanks lol. The funny part is the first story i told isn't funny to me at all. I was telling it more from the pov of how wreckless it was and how horribly things could have gone. It was a pretty terrifying experience to me. I'm glad you found some humor in it though. I guess it is kind of funny how stupid that slack jawed deputy was to not walk behind my car and get my plates right away. But you never know if he was embellishing his past as well.
Honestly, speaking from a pov of what's the actual worst stuff.i did under the influence. I would have to include the 3 cars of mine i totalled over the years. 2 on dxm and one on booze.
None of them involved anyone else, thankfully. I did take out someones porch though. Somehow, through years of driving under the influence on basically a daily basis, i have 0 duis. I really should not be allowed back on the road if this world had any justice in it, but here we are.
I will either find the deli story on mb to repost or I'll type it up here in a few. That one was not so much wreckless as it was just humiliating.
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Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 17, 2023, 02:47 PM@Toy Revolver the shitting yourself thing is interesting. I've never done that. Maybe a result of mixing with other drugs? I can understand it happening in the days after a heavy session when your stomach is really sensitive though. Fuck knows. Never happened to me.
drug combo
bad diet
i think alcohol did permanent damage to my digestive system and bladder
i know it's your liver that kills most people but i don't know
but i think a lot of alcoholics shit and piss the bed
i drank with a fierceness intent on obliterating reality
no drug i ever found can completely destroy a day better than alcohol
i think of those kind if drunks as mini-suicides
QuoteIt was a pretty terrifying experience to me
i get it
Quotethat was the first time i got kicked out of the homeless shelter. For drinking. That was a miserable night. Nothing special even happened i was just drugged out and felt like i could sense this malevolent force sort of closing in on me.
man that's some bad stuff to live through
Quotespeedhead
i think i almost died snorting meth
i don't know how close i came but omg my dick shriveled up so much i was so scared and i didn't come down pr stop grinding my teeth for 48 hours at least
how people come back for more of that drug is beyond me
i hate wake up drugs
i want OUT
but speedfreaks are definitely a unique kind of creepy not saying you were one but YIKES
a good habit to beat
(maybe we should move this to secret)
Quote from: Jwb on Apr 17, 2023, 10:38 PM....
Nobody is topping this one!
Duplicate post?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 17, 2023, 09:31 PM@Jwb no post it, keep the comedy coming! 8)
So this one happened when i was 19. At this point in my life i was actually fairly straight edge. I had drank a handful of times and smoked pot a few times but nothing that could be considered a habit. So i really had no tolerance to alcohol. I was a lightweight.
I worked at a deli in winn dixie, which is a shitty grocery store that exists in Florida and i think a few other southern states. It's like the kmart of grocery stores down there. Dumpy looking, bad customer service and still the prices are just as high. And everyone steals. All the workers i mean.
So i had taken to stealing the occasional bottle of wine and sipping on it in the walk in fridge behind the deli. The first couple if times i did this i didn't drink that much so i just got tipsy, not completely blasted.
Well, one day i came in to work and the other workers from the deli had all called out. It was usually 2 or 3 of us that would close the deli, and today it was going to be just me. I resented my friends for calling out not only cause of the extra work but because now i was stuck alone with nobody to fuck with so it was looking like a miserable day.
I picked the big bottle of merlot (1.5 liter?) and brought it back to the walk in fridge to start my day. One of my biggest mistakes as a rookie drinker was not eating anything before hand so i was basically drinking on an empty stomach.
At first it wasn't so bad, but as i continued to drink i quickly went from just tipsy to actually drunk. I dropped a ham i was about to cut right in front of a customer, then picked it up and started washing it off lol. He angrily stormed off.
Then, one of the cashiers i knew asked me to get her something to drink. I took a water off the shelf and tore the plastic label off and handed it to her. I was like "Here, it's damaged." I thought that was badass lmao. Still gives me the fuckin douche chills.
Apparently one of the managers saw this encounter. Short little balding hispanic guy named Mario. I had walked back to the deli and he met me up there and confronted me about stealing the water. I told him i didn't steal it, and he just looked at my hand which still had the fuckin label in it. I just laughed at that point.
Mario told me to go home and come back on Monday to talk to the general manager about it. After he walked away, i went back to the walk in fridge, where about half of the bottle was still left. That's about a full normal sized bottle of wine, and i was already quite drunk.
I didn't want to pour it down the drain. In my drunken logic that seemed like a waste. So i drank the rest of it. I basically chugged it. Then i hid the bottle in one of the trash bags.
Then i went back to the break room and i saw this girl Ashley that i had been interested in. I dunno if she ever liked me in reality or if she was just very flirtatious but she had a boyfriend who wasn't really in her league at all yet she had started coming over to me and showing interest. But I'm pretty sure it was only a casual interest if anything, and whatever interest there was i eventually scared off by basically becoming infatuated too quickly.
Like i was impressed by dumb shit like the fact that she was pretty and that she liked Mobb Deep. Which I'm still not even sure if she really did or if the broad just looked at my ipod once but yeah, that was the kinda superficial "connection" that was so significant to me at the time.
In any case i saw her in the break room and basically told her everything that had just happened. That's the last thing i actually remember. Everything after that point is pieced together by what other people have told me.
So after i told her what was going on i think her and her boyfriend were trying to get me to go home and i stopped on the way out and apparently sat down against the wall of the deli.
I started screaming shit out such as "Fuck you Mario" and "I'm going to fucking kill you Mario." In retrospect j feel like some of this anger was misplaced lol.
I ended up puking up impressive volumes of red wine into a bucket in the deli, and they had to call the cops and the emt.
Apparently i was not particularly cooperative with the first responders in the verbal sense, though i seemingly never posed any physical threat.
According to witnesses i kept calling them cunts and i told the emt i was allergic to peanuts. The first part makes sense, but the peanuts thing i couldn't even speculate why i would've thought that was funny.
Also when i was in the back by the dishes, at some point, that other cashier from before told me she liked me. I apparently responded with "why are you telling me this now?" And indeed i didn't remember being told. It was recounted back to me by the other girl Ashley the next day.
I didn't get arrested. A friend of mine named Joe got in contact with my dad, who sent his friend to pick me up. Apparently after i got home i tried to piss on my dad's recliner, drunkenly thinking it was the toilet. My dad being a recovering alcoholic, obviously he was far from thrilled with the situation.
After i got fired i ended up moving to Rhode Island a few weeks later. It was basically a sort of cataclysmic end to what i term the Winn Dixie era of my life.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 17, 2023, 11:54 PMQuote from: Jwb on Apr 17, 2023, 10:38 PM....
Nobody is topping this one!
Duplicate post?
i stupidly pressed post after i had only typed the first 2 paragraphs.
that winn dixie story is fabulous
Great story. When I worked at a carpet warehouse I'd be left one in the offices for long periods of time and there were always bottles of wine in there. I couldn't get served at this point cos I was about 15 but I remember every day being desperate to steal one. I never did though.
You're quite lucky you only slightly messed up and didn't do anything really bad.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 17, 2023, 11:54 PMQuote from: Jwb on Apr 17, 2023, 10:38 PM....
Nobody is topping this one!
Duplicate post?
No that's the one where he was so drunk he doesn't remember what happened.
^lol try again
@Jwb I tried it three times and fuck it, it can just stay as it is. I can't be bothered.
As an example of weird things that can happen even if you're completely stone cold sober, ie me: a few weeks ago I was sitting in my bedroom watching the telly. Nobody lives in the house only Karen and me, and as you all know she's confined to bed 24/7. We don't even have any cats any more. So why was it, I felt this incredibly powerful sense of someone on the landing? I mean, I could hear the floorboards creaking and I just knew, I KNEW, as my heart dropped into my shoes, that someone was reaching to try my door. It really put the wind up me. I imagined maybe burgulars, though anyone breaking in here would be more likely to leave a donation than take any of our meagre stuff.
Anyway, out I went to see what was going on, fully expecting, against all logic, that someone would be out there. Of course, there was nothing. I wrenched open all bedroom doors and the one to the bathroom, in case he (!) had ducked in there, I walked down the stairs to the hall, nothing.
Then I stood on the landing and listened.
And I realised it was just a bunch of sounds the house was making - the heating had just come on, the cistern was emptying, the house settling, the usual stuff you hear at night - and it no longer sounded like a presence, but I could hear, now that the sounds were broken up, how they could come together to make it sound like a living person being outside.
It's crazy how that can happen. It's hard to get across to you guys the absolute certainty I had that someone was outside, quickly followed by the realisation there could not be anyone out there, and the almost amazement, plus relief, when I realised what it was.
I was hoping that story was going to end with you finding your sister inexplicably standing in the hallway. That would have been some scary shit.
Literally. When you're on your own, and you know there's only you there, and yet you KNOW there's something out there, well, let's just say it might be a quick trip to, as we say, the jacks, as you say, the john. :laughing:
Another interesting one: she called me at night years ago (when she still could call me) and told me in terror that there was a vampire outside. Now, she had just finished watching Salem's Lot, so give her a break. But she told me she could hear it scraping its long fingernails across the window, squeak squeak squeak. Terrified.
So I went outside into the dark, sort of half-expecting something really bizarre to be there.
Very cold it was, and I snapped on the outside light as I approached the window while she imagined all sorts as she lay in bed.
Suddenly, a dog howled in the distance.
Maybe.
I'm not sure.
Probably just using that to intensify the suspense.
Anyway, I crept around the side of the house towards the window, trying to be brave and logical.
Couldn't be anything out there.
Certainly not a vampire.
Vampires don't exist.
And then I heard it.
SQUEEEEAKKK!
SKREEKK!
SKREE-EEEK!
I approached the window. My heart was hammering. I told it to put down the hammer and get back in my chest, this was no time for DIY. Picked my jaw up off the ground and reattached it. I was sure I felt something brush against me.
The outside light threw a faint illumination on the window.
Far off down the road, some bastards in a stolen car screeched around a corner.
My palms seemed sweaty.
There's no such thing as vampires.
There's no such thing as vampires.
I leaned towards the window.
And then I saw it.
(Tune in tomorrow for the revelation...)
Oh my, the suspense! Will tune in tomorrow 😊
I just came here to share this cool pic of Tori Amos and Andrew Eldritch.
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buy a pair and we give a pair to someone in need
me:
i need the other pair too ffs
Congrats on hitting 1000 posts!
Willie Nelson is 90 years old today! Legend!
Quote from: Trollheart on Apr 22, 2023, 07:41 PMCongrats on hitting 1000 posts!
i hate posts counters
it's embarrassing
Fuck you then. :laughing:
america should have a beat the fucking shit out of doctors day
Quote from: Toy Revolver on May 03, 2023, 12:07 AMamerica should have a beat the fucking shit out of doctors day
That was last Sunday, apparently...
Florida dentist with 'light touch' busted for savagely beating doctor with club at golf course (https://nypost.com/2023/05/02/florida-dentist-busted-for-beating-doctor-with-golf-club/)
Is the Discord link on here to the same server as the MB one?
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Saw this on tumblr. It is a bit interesting to think about a connection between trans women and synths. I suppose it's been a thing since the 60s, Wendy Carlos being the classic example.
Shout out to the trans sisters who love transistors.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 04, 2023, 04:59 PMIs the Discord link on here to the same server as the MB one?
Yep, it is :) At least at the moment.
Thanks. Not gonna join then.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 04, 2023, 11:05 PMThanks. Not gonna join then.
We can start our own discord. With booze and strippers!
It's been suggested before actually, but then we'd need someone to manage it.
We'd need a chat room curator. If someone feels the calling, check out our Looking for CURATORS (https://scd.community/index.php?topic=52.0) thread :)
And
@Key , we're also looking for a curator for the Games forum. Nudge, wink, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, nudge, etc.
I did most of the work on the MB Discord server BTW. Did a really good job with it.
Quote from: Qwerty Sanchez on May 04, 2023, 11:35 PMWe can start our own discord. With booze and strippers!
In fact, forget the discord!
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 04, 2023, 11:54 PMI did most of the work on the MB Discord server BTW. Did a really good job with it.
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Thanks for your support, Big T.
That's Lord T! :laughing:
I don't like timewasters and I don't like shmoozers, and I don't like excuses, but you, my friend, have what it takes to succeed.
If you're up for it,
@jimmy jazz , then you have my support as well :)
Maybe we could have a poll and go with the majority. If the demand for a server for SCD is there then I don't mind doing the rest.
He did do a great job outside of the noticeable lack of booze and strippers.
Quote from: Qwerty Sanchez on May 05, 2023, 01:16 AMHe did do a great job outside of the noticeable lack of booze and strippers.
So what you're saying is that you want a channel for feet pics on the SCD server?
Quote from: Guybrush on May 04, 2023, 11:49 PMAnd @Key , we're also looking for a curator for the Games forum. Nudge, wink, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, nudge, etc.
I'm not saying i'll take it but i'm not saying I won't take it.
Sure i'm down! Curate me away!
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 05, 2023, 01:57 AMSo what you're saying is that you want a channel for feet pics on the SCD server?
My lawyer has advised me not to comment at this time.
Quote from: Qwerty Sanchez on May 05, 2023, 02:09 AMMy lawyer has advised me not to comment at this time.
*whispers something secret in ear*
I'm pretty sure one of the first pics I posted on either here or MB was a pic of me in open toed heels, bring it on.
Quote from: Key on May 05, 2023, 02:03 AMI'm not saying i'll take it but i'm not saying I won't take it.
Sure i'm down! Curate me away!
What do you think this is? Some kinda game?? :laughing:
God Save the King
Da fascism ting
They made you a moron
Potential H-bomb
Very surprised to see English (apparently) people with slogans on their t-shirts like "Who elected him?" and "#NotMyKing" - never thought I'd see that. And I believe there's a big anti-monarchy rally tonight?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 05, 2023, 08:48 PMGod Save the King
Da fascism ting
They made you a moron
Potential H-bomb
just fyi it's the fascist REGIME unless that's something i'm not getting
Quote from: Toy Revolver on May 05, 2023, 10:03 PMjust fyi it's the fascist REGIME unless that's something i'm not getting
That was when the Queen was in da house. I remixed it for the King.
Quote from: Trollheart on May 05, 2023, 09:10 PMVery surprised to see English (apparently) people with slogans on their t-shirts like "Who elected him?" and "#NotMyKing" - never thought I'd see that. And I believe there's a big anti-monarchy rally tonight?
Its not surprising tbh if you're under the age of about 40 you are more likely to oppose the monarchy. Especially in the big cities. I don't have a source I'm basing this on my experience as an English person, in England, over three decades.
The Queen definitely had a lot of support but that's over now.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 05, 2023, 12:21 AMMaybe we could have a poll and go with the majority. If the demand for a server for SCD is there then I don't mind doing the rest.
We might even have one 🤔 maybe we can reset it.
Edit: Yeah, just replied without reading the tons of replies. I might move the discussion to our designated thread.
What % of your guys' posts would you say are written while on the toilet? I have to be running at 90% or higher right now. Similar ratio when I frequented MB.
Zero. It's too difficult balancing my desktop and all the attached external drives and the monitor on my lap.
Quote from: Trollheart on May 06, 2023, 09:10 PMZero. It's too difficult balancing my desktop and all the attached external drives and the monitor on my lap.
Amateur...that is what buckets are for.
Quote from: Trollheart on May 06, 2023, 09:10 PMZero. It's too difficult balancing my desktop and all the attached external drives and the monitor on my lap.
You don't post from your phone? Bet you still watch VHS :laughing:
About 1% of mine are shitposts BTW. I read a lot but not post. I've got small hands and typing one handed is difficult (other hand holds my cock away from the toilet seat rim and keeps it out of the water).
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 05, 2023, 10:17 PMIts not surprising tbh if you're under the age of about 40 you are more likely to oppose the monarchy. Especially in the big cities. I don't have a source I'm basing this on my experience as an English person, in England, over three decades.
The Queen definitely had a lot of support but that's over now.
yeah none of the English people around me like the monarchy either
they can sting you multiple times and remember you
you'll be walking the same path in the future and it'll be back with a posse
Quote from: Toy Revolver on May 07, 2023, 04:26 AMthey can sting you multiple times and remember you
you'll be walking the same path in the future and it'll be back with a posse
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Quote from: Toy Revolver on May 07, 2023, 04:26 AMthey can sting you multiple times and remember you
you'll be walking the same path in the future and it'll be back with a posse
You ever get stung in Japan? These things are terrifying.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 07, 2023, 10:33 AMYou ever get stung in Japan? These things are terrifying.
no, thank god
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 06, 2023, 10:14 PMYou don't post from your phone? Bet you still watch VHS :laughing:
About 1% of mine are shitposts BTW. I read a lot but not post. I've got small hands and typing one handed is difficult (other hand holds my cock away from the toilet seat rim and keeps it out of the water).
Sorry let me just turn off the 8-track here and adjust the rabbit's ears on my CRT TV. :laughing:
No, I seldom if ever post on my phone. MB made it a nightmare and even though Tore has made it much smoother to do so here, it's not something I do. I prefer sitting in front of my PC with a keyboard and mouse, able to jump to tabs for GIFs, Wiki or Google or YouTube etc and I don't find that easy on a phone. Although I can say in one way I'm from the mobile phone generation (I remember when phones didn't even have cameras!) it's never been the way I like to use the internet.
I personally hate typing on a touchscreen, especially having to deal with autocorrect. I check SCD from my phone a lot but unless it's gonna be super short I usually post from my laptop.
My first cell phone was this baby that I got for my 17th birthday, the keypad on that thing was so much easier to use than the touchscreen on an Iphone.
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Quoteautocorrect
i turned it off about a year ago i think
it's liberating, seriously
i still have predictive text but it doesn't override me - i have to click on it
it also underlines words that look wromg (like that)
i really recommend it
Quote from: Toy Revolver on May 07, 2023, 01:46 PMi turned it off about a year ago i think
it's liberating, seriously
i still have predictive text but it doesn't override me - i have to click on it
it also underlines words that look wromg (like that)
i really recommend it
I've tried turning it off but I fat-finger so many misspellings without noticing that it is actually handy when it guesses correctly. It takes more time to manually correct my mistakes, but I'm glad it works for you!
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on May 07, 2023, 01:58 PMI've tried turning it off but I fat-finger so many misspellings without noticing that it is actually handy when it guesses correctly. It takes more time to manually correct my mistakes, but I'm glad it works for you!
having an iq of 1000 helps
helps me get laid, too
Some of the first phones I had as I can't remember the literal first phone.
This one was the first phone to have an FM radio:
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I got this one for my 12th birthday. I used it to prank call a friend in class and the teacher took it off me. It still winds me up that it was a Friday and I went without it over the weekend. Should have just took it back off him ffs.
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This one I had after. I remember thinking it was so sexy and smooth because it didn't have an aerial poking out the top 8)
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In the early days of mobile phones, Nokia was the daddy and all the spoilt brats had the 3210 and later the 3310. They were expensive so your boy Jimmy never had one until the 3410 which I got in 2003. The Nokia craze had died down a bit by then but I still loved it and thought it was stylish.
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My mom wouldn't let me have a phone until I was 17. Every time I had to contact anyone I had to use a friend's or ask at the school office to use theirs. :(
My mom is a bit of a technophobe, even to this day.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on May 07, 2023, 02:42 PMMy mom wouldn't let me have a phone until I was 17. Every time I had to contact anyone I had to use a friend's or ask at the school office to use theirs. :(
My mom is a bit of a technophobe, even to this day.
If I had no credit, which was basically all the time, I'd use the public phone boxes. There used to be fucking loads of them and now hardly any. They stank of piss BTW.
Used to use them for drugs also. Ring him up and name a pub to collect it at 8)
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 07, 2023, 02:45 PMIf I had no credit, which was basically all the time, I'd use the public phone boxes. There used to be fucking loads of them and now hardly any. They stank of piss BTW.
Used to use them for drugs also. Ring him up and name a pub to collect it at 8)
Yeah, I definitely used payphones as well, there was a row of them in the lobby of my local movie theater that I used very frequently. I don't think I've seen one in over a decade.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on May 07, 2023, 02:50 PMYeah, I definitely used payphones as well, there was a row of them in the lobby of my local movie theater that I used very frequently. I don't think I've seen one in over a decade.
it's a problem
if you're stuck with no phone you're fucked
No payphones are an inconvenience if you don't have a cell phone. Of course, most of us do these days, but I was slow to get on the bandwagon. Can't say that was fun.
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I saw this and I've never felt more called out.
My fiancé texted me this while I was on my work shift yesterday and I laughed so much I got banned from using my phone at the cash register. I'm not even mad.
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Here he goes...
In the old days, even having a landline in your house (it was like a mobile, kids, except, well, not mobile) was a big thing. I remember you could see the payphone at the corner from my bedroom and I would watch the queue outside it till it had gone down to one or two people and then leg it down, so that I wouldn't be waiting ages. Course, with my luck the cunt inside it would be on for an hour wittering to his girlfriend. They weren't great places to be - anyone who used one ever felt completely trapped? Like, if someone took it into their head to hammer the door shut you were fucked. Couldn't even break out: that glass was braced with wood panels all over, very hard to smash and even then how would that help?
Then we got our very own landline and we were the cat's pajamas. Everyone of course then called up to use it. No we never charged. I knew I had arrived the day I got a second line in the house just for me, up in my bedroom (cost loads, but the privacy was worth it, and of course I needed it for the internet: back then, you could be connected and if someone picked up the phone downstairs you were gone!) and then at work we started first using pagers and then finally the budget coughed up enough for mobiles, shitty Nokia somethings, hadn't even got a camera or any ringtones. But we were like gangsters with our mobiles. Our favourite: ring someone up and say "guess where I'm calling from?" We had not got a clue.
Yesterday, I walked by a woman on the sidewalk who was talking on her cell phone. As I passed, this is the entirety of what I heard her say: "It's one thing to smell it, but to see it? I had to get up. I had to get off the bus."
I don't know if it's better or worse that I'll never know the context.
Reckon someone pooped on the bus. Has to be.
Quote from: Trollheart on May 10, 2023, 06:41 PMHere he goes...
In the old days, even having a landline in your house (it was like a mobile, kids, except, well, not mobile) was a big thing. I remember you could see the payphone at the corner from my bedroom and I would watch the queue outside it till it had gone down to one or two people and then leg it down, so that I wouldn't be waiting ages. Course, with my luck the cunt inside it would be on for an hour wittering to his girlfriend. They weren't great places to be - anyone who used one ever felt completely trapped? Like, if someone took it into their head to hammer the door shut you were fucked. Couldn't even break out: that glass was braced with wood panels all over, very hard to smash and even then how would that help?
Then we got our very own landline and we were the cat's pajamas. Everyone of course then called up to use it. No we never charged. I knew I had arrived the day I got a second line in the house just for me, up in my bedroom (cost loads, but the privacy was worth it, and of course I needed it for the internet: back then, you could be connected and if someone picked up the phone downstairs you were gone!) and then at work we started first using pagers and then finally the budget coughed up enough for mobiles, shitty Nokia somethings, hadn't even got a camera or any ringtones. But we were like gangsters with our mobiles. Our favourite: ring someone up and say "guess where I'm calling from?" We had not got a clue.
are you from ireland or the congo
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 10, 2023, 07:39 PMReckon someone pooped on the bus. Has to be.
Definitely a top three contender in my estimation.
I was once on the subway in the wee hours of the morning and thought it smelled unusually gross. When I got up to exit through the doors I had been sitting next to, I realized why: someone had puked all over the inside of them. I hadn't noticed because I entered through a different set of doors. So it could have been something like that. Or maybe she was talking about smelling urine (the most common scenario on public transit) versus actually watching someone piss in front of you on the bus.
Quote from: Rubber Soul on May 07, 2023, 03:16 PMNo payphones are an inconvenience if you don't have a cell phone. Of course, mostof us do these days, but I was slow to get on the bandwagon. Can't say that was fun.
lol @ the "bandwagon"
I feel like anyone who is stubborn enough to still not have a smart phone in this day and age has more than earned the inconvenience of being stranded without a phone. Pulling out a flip phone is like the modern equivalent of being amish.
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Mindy, you should do a thread just on Jeopardy questions. :D
Quote from: Rubber Soul on May 20, 2023, 01:31 PMMindy, you should do a thread just on Jeopardy questions. :D
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having diabetes fucking sucks
So... I tend to wake up and check my phone in the middle of the night occasionally. I almost always get right back to sleep but this morning I woke up at 3 AM, checked SCD and noticed that the most recently joined member's username was "Carlton Parrot". Carlton is my fiance's middle name (sorry, dear!), so I was a bit taken by surprise and wondered if he had decided to join the forum. I'm sure that's not the case, but I was so surprised that now I can't get back to sleep, haha.
And to Carlton Parrot, welcome to the forum!
lexi you love your husband so much idk if i'm happy for you, afraid for you, or both
Quote from: Toy Revolver on May 24, 2023, 12:12 PMlexi you love your husband so much idk if i'm happy for you, afraid for you, or both
I know I do come off as lovey-dovey and maybe a bit clingy. It's just kind of the way I am honestly. I like to cherish our time together in this relationship, I do get very enthusiastic about it so I understand how others may see it as a bit much.
I appreciate that you're looking out for me.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on May 24, 2023, 10:45 AMSo... I tend to wake up and check my phone in the middle of the night occasionally. I almost always get right back to sleep but this morning I woke up at 3 AM, checked SCD and noticed that the most recently joined member's username was "Carlton Parrot". Carlton is my fiance's middle name (sorry, dear!), so I was a bit taken by surprise and wondered if he had decided to join the forum. I'm sure that's not the case, but I was so surprised that now I can't get back to sleep, haha.
And to Carlton Parrot, welcome to the forum!
Maybe it's actually Alfonso Ribeiro.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on May 24, 2023, 12:41 PMI know I do come off as lovey-dovey and maybe a bit clingy. It's just kind of the way I am honestly. I like to cherish our time together in this relationship, I do get very enthusiastic about it so I understand how others may see it as a bit much.
I appreciate that you're looking out for me.
it's never wrong to love deeply
it just makes you so vulnerable
but that's the way life is
i'm afraid to love my new dog as much as may last one because i know how it ends but how can i be too cowardly to love
Mrs. Waffles has such a pure heart.
Quote from: Toy Revolver on May 24, 2023, 12:12 PMlexi you love your husband so much idk if i'm happy for you, afraid for you, or both
Funny related story: I was texting my sister this morning and according to her I talked so much about my man that my sister "gave me an F and a 'see me after class' on the Bechdel test" which is such an incredibly perfect roast that I had to share it, haha.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on May 25, 2023, 04:33 PMFunny related story: I was texting my sister this morning and according to her I talked so much about my man that my sister "gave me an F and a 'see me after class' on the Bechdel test" which is such an incredibly perfect roast that I had to share it, haha.
only semi-related but i think something we have in common finding pleasure in and embracing domesticity
when i prepare food for the week for my wife and myself it feels like the most meaningful work i've ever done
and as usual i'll ramble on a bit but one thing i enjoy about restaurant work over teaching is the undeniable end product
same as preparing meals at home
our big bottom shelf freezer is about to be lined with healthy smoothies
the tangible result is rewarding compared to an abstract like teaching and i guess that's ironic because teaching is supposed to be so rewarding
there are moments when teaching is very rewarding
one time a girl that i knew came from a very poor family was not on pace to graduate on time and her mother had cancer and she told me how much she wanted her mother to see her graduate because she was dying - i used my planning period everyday for two months to see to it that she earned the credits she needed using "course recovery" on the last day of school when she said "thank you" it was a great moment for me - another kid gave me his ICP hat on the last day of school and said i was the only teacher that was ever nice to him - other kids said that too
restaurant work can't compete with that but those things are so far and few between they don't keep your morale up as much as making a huge batch of perfect crab cakes everyday
weird, i know
Quote from: Toy Revolver on May 25, 2023, 05:29 PMonly semi-related but i think something we have in common finding pleasure in and embracing domesticity
when i prepare food for the week for my wife and myself it feels like the most meaningful work i've ever done
Oh, we definitely have that in common. My sister and I helped my mom in the kitchen and around the house in general when we were kids, and that's kinda where I built up those domestic skills. But having a nice house and a person who appreciates me that I can put a lot of myself into supporting at home, that's something that really inspires me and it's what helped me really fall in love with being a good homemaker and hostess.
If I were able I'd quit my job and be a stay-at-home like my mom, but ultimately I think my current situation of part time work, being able to bring in some money and keep up with work experience, is a good safe compromise.
Quoteand as usual i'll ramble on a bit but one thing i enjoy about restaurant work over teaching is the undeniable end product
same as preparing meals at home
our big bottom shelf freezer is about to be lined with healthy smoothies
the tangible result is rewarding compared to an abstract like teaching and i guess that's ironic because teaching is supposed to be so rewarding
there are moments when teaching is very rewarding
one time a girl that i knew came from a very poor family was not on pace to graduate on time and her mother had cancer and she told me how much she wanted her mother to see her graduate because she was dying - i used my planning period everyday for two months to see to it that she earned the credits she needed using "course recovery" on the last day of school when she said "thank you" it was a great moment for me - another kid gave me his ICP hat on the last day of school and said i was the only teacher that was ever nice to him - other kids said that too
restaurant work can't compete with that but those things are so far and few between they don't keep your morale up as much as making a huge batch of perfect crab cakes everyday
weird, i know
I totally get you. For me the fulfilling and rewarding moments are when I'm working hard to make our home, our relationship and our lives as comfortable as I can, and bringing both of us that comfort, that inspires me to keep doing it. So I'm totally with you. My actual job is kinda whatever, it's there to pay the bills. But doing work for us, work I can really put all of myself into, that's the most rewarding work for me.
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Well done mate.
You use a $5 coupon, but save 6.7?! What is this trickery?
Quote from: Guybrush on Jun 11, 2023, 08:07 AMYou use a $5 coupon, but save 6.7?! What is this trickery?
Some items at the store already came with a discount on the item so they added up another $1.70 added onto the $5 off.
It was tough finding things I need to buy because you have to spend $25 to get the $5 off the total. So I just bought a bunch of drinks and rice lol
I read a comical proposed defense for Trump today which read, "The documents were planted, but if they weren't - they are his. And he declassified them. With his mind. Except for when he told that person on tape that he didn't declassify them. And when he told another person they were secret. Except he was kidding. And Biden and Hillary did the exact same thing, but that doesn't matter because Jack Smith's wife made political donations once. And did you know George Soros funds prosecutors?"
That's when I learned of The Gish gallop - a rhetorical technique that involves overwhelming your opponent with as many arguments as possible, with no regard for the accuracy, validity, or relevance of those arguments. Basically burying critics in an avalanche of nonsense.
I got absolutely roasted by a coworker friend the other day, she said "did you remember to change your husband's litterbox today?"
I guess that's what I get, I can only talk about how much I pamper him so many times before people start to get funny with it, haha. I literally snorted laughing, it was such a great roast.
One of my friends works in some government job in the USA.
On one of the applications someone answered the question 'what language do you speak?' with 'American' :laughing: :-\
I speak fluent American too. Don't touch our guns.
I would like to wish all my American friends a very happy cheeseburgers and guns day.
Be American! Be free! Speak American and have XXXXL burgers for breakfast with a gallon of coke.
@Toy Revolver hope you celebrate with a really good chili (that means going out for one).
Wasn't sure if this belongs in the your day thread, my relationship thread or wherever, but I'll just put it here.
The mister approached me this morning and told me he thinks I'm swearing too much on here, which when verbally spoken is against our rules. He's extending that to my posts as well, and to help, he said he's working on a custom word filter similar to my website blocker that will work like autocorrect and give me suggestions on more polite alternatives to such vulgar words.
I'm so lucky to have a guy who cares so much about me being the best version of myself I can be. Between this and the new pager system, he's been putting so much work into making my life and my duties run so much smoother. <3
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jul 04, 2023, 03:19 PMI would like to wish all my American friends a very happy cheeseburgers and guns day.
Be American! Be free! Speak American and have XXXXL burgers for breakfast with a gallon of coke.
We went to a Mexican restaurant.
Quote from: Janszoon on Jul 05, 2023, 05:38 AMWe went to a Mexican restaurant.
Proper American food, none of that foreign muck.
(https://i.imgur.com/KKDLd5p.png) Up the RA!
Quote from: Mindy on Jul 15, 2023, 04:13 AM(https://i.imgur.com/KKDLd5p.png) Up the RA!
Had a drink have we? ::)
Just seen what your avatar is. You ought to be embarrassed.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jul 15, 2023, 08:51 AMHad a drink have we? ::)
Just seen what your avatar is. You ought to be embarrassed.
no drinking here 8)
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BTW, you can Plug on the Rave app. It's not exactly the same as Plug used to be but it's very close.
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Welp, capitalism has officially poisoned my brain. I just asked my partner if he wanted some "Chicken McNoodle" soup and didn't realize what I'd said until he laughed and pointed it out. :laughing:
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Aug 09, 2023, 05:17 AMWelp, capitalism has officially poisoned my brain. I just asked my partner if he wanted some "Chicken McNoodle" soup and didn't realize what I'd said until he laughed and pointed it out. :laughing:
What's the problem? You sound like a good God fearing McMurican to me.
I still remember when I was a kid and on vacation with my parents and brothers to Copenhagen. They had a McDonald's there and it was amazing 😄
I also remember they had little hot apple pies which I loved. Don't think I've seen those exact apple pies since then.
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Quote3. Women's farts smell worse than men's. As hard as it is to believe, it's true. Although women and men produce the same amount of flatulence, a study conducted by Dr. Levitt found that women's farts consistently contain significantly greater concentrations of hydrogen sulfide — the stuff that makes them smell.
😂
Eminem is as old now as Michael Jackson was when he died.
That's mad.
This morning I accidentally dropped a baked chip down into my dress, it slid down into my bra and I had to fish it out in the middle of a busy mall.
I think talking about and listening about dreams is one of the most boring things.
But, I had a dream the other night and after it stopped, awhile later a different one started with a new place, new atmosphere, and new people and I sat and described the previous dream to them. I'm still thinking about it days later.
I can't sleep. Just checking this site out for a bit.
@Thelonious Monkey why do you lurk but not post?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Sep 29, 2023, 09:29 PM@Thelonious Monkey why do you lurk but not post?
Trying to call him out? Lol let him lurk.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Sep 30, 2023, 01:03 AMTrying to call him out? Lol let him lurk.
No we are mates I just wondered why he exploded onto the forum then hasn't spoken since.
I'm up late tonight.
@Mr. Waffles has the day off tomorrow and he's requested my presence at his side while he tries to beat Tears of the Kingdom.
Been a while since I've felt like a creature of the darkness.
For those of you who have been wondering what our good friend
@Thelonious Monkey has been getting up to recently and why he hasn't been able to post:
https://twitter.com/SabjiHunter/status/1712434953579901198
Get well soon!
Twitter is blocked on my devices, but I will echo the sentiment, sending well wishes to
@Thelonious Monkey !
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Oct 19, 2023, 02:47 PMTwitter is blocked on my devices, but I will echo the sentiment, sending well wishes to @Thelonious Monkey !
I wish you could see what it is :laughing:
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Oct 19, 2023, 04:59 PMI wish you could see what it is :laughing:
Haha, now I'm very curious. I'll ask the mister to show it to me when he gets home.
Or if you don't mind reposting it on the forum...
Got a friend in Wisconsin.
Showed me photos from his street and I said what are those houses made of mate and he goes drywood and some vinyl on the outside.
I said what the fuck! If you hit a baseball against one of those it'd actually do damage. They look like I could headbutt through them.
I then said how much do they cost, they'd better be cheap.
$250-500k average.
I'm shocked lol.
I told my cat Vinny to "Stop licking that ham package" and my husband said it sounds like some kind of disgusting slang. :laughing:
Tomorrow.
:love::love::love:
Quote from: Hope on Nov 03, 2023, 09:42 AMI told my cat Vinny to "Stop licking that ham package" and my husband said it sounds like some kind of disgusting slang. :laughing:
It does. :laughing:
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Nov 04, 2023, 04:30 AMTomorrow.
:love::love::love:
"
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow, you're only a daaay awaay" ♫ ♪ ♬
Whatever tomorrow brings, looks like you expect something really good and I'm happy for you!
As for my tomorrow, I have a first brunch date I'm nervous about and now I can't sleep, so of course will be tired and even more nervous. ???
Hey
@Mrs. Waffles .. whatcha got cooking? 🙂
And nice,
@ribbons ! 🙂 Excuse my nosiness. I don't mean to pry, etc. etc. but tell us about your hot brunch date!
@ribbons @Guybrush Let's just say I'm about to officially become the syrup to a certain man's waffles, haha.
Thank you so much for all the love and support. <3
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Nov 04, 2023, 10:56 AM@ribbons @Guybrush
Let's just say I'm about to officially become the syrup to a certain man's waffles, haha.
Thank you so much for all the love and support. <3
Woop Woop!! Congratulations to you both!! ❤️❤️❤️🤟🤩💪
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Nov 04, 2023, 10:56 AM@ribbons @Guybrush
Let's just say I'm about to officially become the syrup to a certain man's waffles, haha.
Thank you so much for all the love and support. <3
Congrats Mrs. Waffles!
Quote from: Guybrush on Nov 04, 2023, 10:34 AMHey @Mrs. Waffles .. whatcha got cooking? 🙂
And nice, @ribbons ! 🙂 Excuse my nosiness. I don't mean to pry, etc. etc. but tell us about your hot brunch date!
I think it's a little too soon to find out. The brunch date hasn't happened yet.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Nov 04, 2023, 10:56 AM@ribbons @Guybrush
Let's just say I'm about to officially become the syrup to a certain man's waffles, haha.
Thank you so much for all the love and support. <3
@Mrs. Waffles and
@Mr. Waffles, I am so happy and excited for both of you! Congratulations, and I wish you every happiness in your new life together! :love: :love:
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Quote from: ribbons on Nov 05, 2023, 02:52 PM@Mrs. Waffles and @Mr. Waffles, I am so happy and excited for both of you! Congratulations, and I wish you every happiness in your new life together! :love: :love:
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Ahhh, thank you so much! I'm so glad we got to have it in November, to the best of our memory we officially started dating in November 2019, so this time of year seemed very fitting.
I wrote up a play by play of the whole ceremony in my relationship journal, if you want to check that out.
Thank you once again, I really treasure your friendship. <3
Just stopping by to say hello and thank you guys for the congratulations. I'm hungover so idk what else I can say but thank you for being so nice and supportive of us.
Love u babe.
Very happy for you both,
@Mr. Waffles!
And for that hangover, may I suggest some nice waffles and syrup in the morning? :love:
Quote from: Guybrush on Nov 04, 2023, 10:34 AMAnd nice, @ribbons ! 🙂 Excuse my nosiness. I don't mean to pry, etc. etc. but tell us about your hot brunch date!
Not at all, Tore - thank you for asking. :) I had pumpkin pancakes which were delicious (and hot :))). I had a very nice time, and today was a spontaneous date part two with a visit to a lavender farm and walk through the fields (which smelled lovely), then early dinner. It got dark out so early! Anyway, it was a nice weekend and I felt very comfortable. Back to the grind tomorrow!
Quote from: ribbons on Nov 06, 2023, 05:55 AMNot at all, Tore - thank you for asking. :) I had pumpkin pancakes which were delicious (and hot :))). I had a very nice time, and today was a spontaneous date part two with a visit to a lavender farm and walk through the fields (which smelled lovely), then early dinner. It got dark out so early! Anyway, it was a nice weekend and I felt very comfortable. Back to the grind tomorrow!
Nice,
@ribbons ! That sounds lovely 🙂 so is he relationship material? 😉
Quote from: ribbons on Nov 06, 2023, 05:55 AMNot at all, Tore - thank you for asking. :) I had pumpkin pancakes which were delicious (and hot :))). I had a very nice time, and today was a spontaneous date part two with a visit to a lavender farm and walk through the fields (which smelled lovely), then early dinner. It got dark out so early! Anyway, it was a nice weekend and I felt very comfortable. Back to the grind tomorrow!
Ooh, pumpkin pancakes sound so good! And what a lovely and unique place for a date. I'm glad you had a great weekend, wishing you all the happiness in your love life and life in general.
:love: :love: :love: :love:
Congratulations Mrs. Waffles and Mr. Waffles !! I hope you had a day that you will remember fondly for years to come. Well done!
Quote from: Guybrush on Nov 06, 2023, 08:20 AMNice, @ribbons ! That sounds lovely 🙂 so is he relationship material? 😉
:laughing: Yep, love is clearly in the air, in the US, on SCD or both. I hope things develop the way you want them to, ribbons, and that this man treats you with the kindness you deserve.
:love: :love: :love: :love:
Guys there's this spam message in MB that I kept because it's too good to delete but it's hidden in an obscure intro thread so I'm bumping it here because you gotta see this:
https://www.musicbanter.com/introductions/100061-i-am-new-guy.html
The Combined Realm is brilliant :laughing:
Quote from: Guybrush on Nov 06, 2023, 08:20 AMNice, @ribbons ! That sounds lovely 🙂 so is he relationship material?
Thanks, Tore. We have known each other as acquaintances for a while, and the people we know in common have always spoken highly of him.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Nov 06, 2023, 10:01 AMOoh, pumpkin pancakes sound so good! And what a lovely and unique place for a date. I'm glad you had a great weekend, wishing you all the happiness in your love life and life in general.
Thanks for your warm wishes as always, Mrs. Waffles – and speaking of warm, those pumpkin pancakes were delicious! The restaurant said they were made with pumpkin puree from a can (the real puree, not the pie filling kind) and spiced tea leaves ground to a powder were in the mix. Toasted semi-ground pumpkin seeds sprinkled on top.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Nov 06, 2023, 01:20 PMI hope things develop the way you want them to, ribbons, and that this man treats you with the kindness you deserve.
Thank you so much, Lisna. If he proves half as kind as
you are, I'll consider myself very fortunate.
Quote from: Marie Monday on Nov 06, 2023, 04:00 PMGuys there's this spam message in MB that I kept because it's too good to delete but it's hidden in an obscure intro thread so I'm bumping it here because you gotta see this:
https://www.musicbanter.com/introductions/100061-i-am-new-guy.html (https://www.musicbanter.com/introductions/100061-i-am-new-guy.html)
:laughing: Just read it and spotted at least a dozen Freudian slips in that post.
Come on baby, do the locomotion ♫♪ to a strong-arm cassino.
i call this one "banana in front of a microwave"
this next one is called "banana in front of a refrigerator"
I don't get the joke.
It's a Zen art mindfulness meditation on the banana (is that right, Key? :D).
(Or: it's a reminder to us all not to microwave or refrigerate bananas)
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 06, 2023, 10:33 PMI don't get the joke.
What joke? It's just a banana in front of s microwave / refrigerator
^ There's one in every bunch. :)
This community is cool.
Love
^ Love back to you, aurora - and welcome! :)
Quote from: ribbons on Nov 10, 2023, 11:59 PM^ Love back to you, aurora - and welcome! :)
Thx
I want a bald cat.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 20, 2023, 06:06 PMI want a bald cat.
I feel like they are expensive because you constantly have to buy them pet clothes since they have no fur and make sure they have plenty of heated pads around.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Nov 21, 2023, 12:11 PMI feel like they are expensive because you constantly have to buy them pet clothes since they have no fur and make sure they have plenty of heated pads around.
Glad you replied.
I have a friend who is looking to get into the foot industry. I said I'd ask you what site you use and then let her know.
I have seen her feet and I believe she has potential. She asked me for some coaching and some advice as to what her customers might like. I have discussed this and she will be providing samples of her work for me to give constructive feetback.
So which site should she consider using?
If I may add, I also have some interest in "photo selling" websites as a side hustle, coincidentally I was talking with my husband last night. If
@DJChameleon or anyone has any advice about selling "photos" (not feet though in my case) I'd love to discuss it via PM.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 21, 2023, 01:54 PMGlad you replied.
I have a friend who is looking to get into the foot industry. I said I'd ask you what site you use and then let her know.
I have seen her feet and I believe she has potential. She asked me for some coaching and some advice as to what her customers might like. I have discussed this and she will be providing samples of her work for me to give constructive feetback.
So which site should she consider using?
DM sent
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Nov 21, 2023, 02:26 PMIf I may add, I also have some interest in "photo selling" websites as a side hustle, coincidentally I was talking with my husband last night. If @DJChameleon or anyone has any advice about selling "photos" (not feet though in my case) I'd love to discuss it via PM.
I'm not sure for like regular photos but I might take a look around and get back to you on that front.
Excited to shave my head later as it's bristly and I can't wait to get it smooth again.
Boom.
Bought 16 packets of beef jerky but there were actually 17 in the box.
Boom.
Woman I have a thing with is OK with me licking her feet.
Pow.
I'm not into feet really but wifey won't even let me touch hers to give her a foot massage.
It's related to a trauma event so of course I will respect her wishes but she's definitely missing out on a moment we could bond and be intimate while watching a movie or tv show.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Nov 24, 2023, 06:24 PMI'm not into feet really but wifey won't even let me touch hers to give her a foot massage.
It's related to a trauma event so of course I will respect her wishes but she's definitely missing out on a moment we could bond and be intimate while watching a movie or tv show.
Damn sorry to hear (for her and for you).
Quote from: DJChameleon on Nov 24, 2023, 06:24 PMI'm not into feet really but wifey won't even let me touch hers to give her a foot massage.
It's related to a trauma event so of course I will respect her wishes but she's definitely missing out on a moment we could bond and be intimate while watching a movie or tv show.
I can certainly relate, from both sides of that situation. It can certainly be a bit of a bummer.
In situations like that I like to try my best to come up with ideas for compromise in the form of possible solutions that can keep both of us happy, even if it isn't the ideal. Is the trauma related to feet specifically? If so, maybe try to think of other little things like that that don't involve feet that you could do together that would be ways of creating those intimate moments and see if she would be open to those.
Random Website Generator (https://randomgenerate.io/random-website-generator)
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Seeing that small cd binder reminds me that I need to get a new large one. The old one that I had my cat absolutely destroyed. He loved scratching the faux leather on the outside.
Man, back when I first started making music circa 2000 I actually used a Yak Bak to sample sound effects from video games and other sounds. I never knew if anyone else had those, nobody I knew as a kid did.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Dec 17, 2023, 12:59 PMMan, back when I first started making music circa 2000 I actually used a Yak Bak to sample sound effects from video games and other sounds. I never knew if anyone else had those, nobody I knew as a kid did.
Yak Bak's only existed in commercials for all I knew. I had never seen one in real life.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Dec 18, 2023, 06:11 PMYak Bak's only existed in commercials for all I knew. I had never seen one in real life.
Makes sense! I don't remember even seeing commercials; I'm pretty sure my dad got it for me as a gift circa 1995-96.
Was a pretty handy little gizmo though; my music making software was more or less rooted to my desktop computer with a crappy microphone plugged into it, and our TVs were all chonky CRTs rooted to their spot, so the only way I could figure out to get samples from the TV to the computer was to use the Yak Bak as a middleman.
12 year old me was truly a tech MacGyver. :laughing:
Cost of Living in 2023 is so bad. (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/cost-of-living-in-2023-is-so-bad-this-tiktoker-says-she-brings-home-nearly-100k-year-but-claims-she-was-better-off-in-2012-earning-minimum-wage-3-simple-ways-deflate-your-budget/ar-AA1lWqSw?ocid=msedgntp&pc=SCOOBE&cvid=a054429cb33c4b609105e878d8f28380&ei=20)
These articles and tiktoks always make me laugh about how people are making 100k and still struggling and living paycheck to paycheck. These idiots need to work on their budgets. I agree mo' money mo' problems like you have more expenses generally but there is NO WAY in hell you should be living paycheck to paycheck making 100k a year. You are doing life wrong.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Dec 24, 2023, 12:20 PMCost of Living in 2023 is so bad. (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/cost-of-living-in-2023-is-so-bad-this-tiktoker-says-she-brings-home-nearly-100k-year-but-claims-she-was-better-off-in-2012-earning-minimum-wage-3-simple-ways-deflate-your-budget/ar-AA1lWqSw?ocid=msedgntp&pc=SCOOBE&cvid=a054429cb33c4b609105e878d8f28380&ei=20)
These articles and tiktoks always make me laugh about how people are making 100k and still struggling and living paycheck to paycheck. These idiots need to work on their budgets. I agree mo' money mo' problems like you have more expenses generally but there is NO WAY in hell you should be living paycheck to paycheck making 100k a year. You are doing life wrong.
When I see stories about people making 6 figure salaries and whining about not having enough money, I can't even be bothered to play a sad, weepy little song for them on my little violin.
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Just seen a muzzled XL Bully walking down the street with its owner
@SGRThought about that meme you posted of the brave pit bull who ran back into a burning building to bite one more child and started laughing to myself :laughing:
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jan 03, 2024, 04:39 PMJust seen a muzzled XL Bully walking down the street with its owner @SGR
Thought about that meme you posted of the brave pit bull who ran back into a burning building to bite one more child and started laughing to myself :laughing:
You ever played Pokemon?
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Lol na but that is funny.
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"Run free babys" :laughing:
Facebook >>>
Makes me laugh every single time. The two dog ones and pops at the wedding got me laughing the hardest.
Something
Quote from: tristan_geoff on Jan 18, 2024, 10:42 PMSomething
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I can't stand this. There's a clip of him goading a dad in front of his two kids and insulting them too.
Brocoli haircut bastard. I know he looks like a child but he is actually in his 20s.
Sad!
Taylor Swift is cute. Like a kitten sort of cute.
Got some OK tunes too.
This is my first post on a forum from my phone. Last time I was on a forum smart phones barely existed. This is a bit weird, but if I can get used to it I can be around more.
You'll get used to it.
99% of my posts are from mobile.
I don't think I've made one from a PC yet.
don't llook at this post
Quote from: Hope on Jan 23, 2024, 04:55 PMThis is my first post on a forum from my phone. Last time I was on a forum smart phones barely existed. This is a bit weird, but if I can get used to it I can be around more.
Like for
@jimmy jazz , this is basically the only way I post. You get used to it and the forum is also compatible with most smart phone emojis 👍
Try the dark theme if you haven't 🙂 I'm hoping it helps to not keep me up if I'm foruming in bed at night.
Quote from: Guybrush on Jan 24, 2024, 08:06 AMLike for @jimmy jazzthe forum is also compatible with most smart phone emojis 👍
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everyone looking @ that post on here: "wow I didn't know Tristan was such a frickin' ZOOMER"
Quote from: tristan_geoff on Jan 24, 2024, 05:38 PMeveryone looking @ that post on here: "wow I didn't know Tristan was such a frickin' ZOOMER"
I enjoyed it.
I'm pro-zoomer humor. I don't always get it, but I'm sure I'm not always supposed to.
And it's not like us millennials didn't have our own absurd internet humor, we were the generation that grew up on YTMNDs and YouTube poops lol.
"Us millenials".
Gen X get's everything. We were around when the internet was birthed. :love:
Quote from: Hope on Jan 24, 2024, 07:15 PM"Us millenials".
Gen X get's everything. We were around when the internet was birthed. :love:
True. Though I've been using the internet since around 1997 (I was 8 years old) thanks to my programmer dad raising me on computers, so in terms of internet age I'm not that far behind some of the later gen Xers/early millennials.
My husband is three years older than me and he didn't start using the internet until around 2006 when he was 20. And even nowadays it feels like 90% of his internet use is just scrolling TikToks.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Jan 24, 2024, 07:25 PMMy husband is three years older than me and he didn't start using the internet until around 2006 when he was 20. And even nowadays it feels like 90% of his internet use is just scrolling TikToks.
I still can't get into TikTok. I started an account and saved some "interest" feeds, but I pretty much never went back. I'm not knocking him, but I just can't get into it.
Quote from: Hope on Jan 24, 2024, 07:31 PMI still can't get into TikTok. I started an account and saved some "interest" feeds, but I pretty much never went back. I'm not knocking him, but I just can't get into it.
Oh, believe me, I'm right there with you. I sometimes give him a little sass about it myself. There's the odd funny thing and trend on there, but the users on it have a habit of running anything mildly funny into the ground. And you hear those same trendy meme songs over and over, always the exact same part of the song, and just, ugh.
I'm happy my guy gets something out of it at least.
The shit that seems to become popular is the miming dancing and film quotes and shit like that. Same tunes over and over again.
Its better than what I was doing at that age but it is strange.
I also don't get 'influencer' boxing. I get that we now have a new form of media in the same way TV was different to radio, films are different to music and so on and these influencers are the stars of that but why would you want to watch them box? Just watch actual boxing?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jan 24, 2024, 10:01 PMThe shit that seems to become popular is the miming dancing and film quotes and shit like that. Same tunes over and over again.
Its better than what I was doing at that age but it is strange.
I also don't get 'influencer' boxing. I get that we now have a new form of media in the same way TV was different to radio, films are different to music and so on and these influencers are the stars of that but why would you want to watch them box? Just watch actual boxing?
I wasn't aware this was going on. And it's interesting to think of what I was like at the TikTok age.
Quote from: Hope on Jan 24, 2024, 10:11 PMI wasn't aware this was going on. And it's interesting to think of what I was like at the TikTok age.
They sell out entire arenas and make millions in PPVs.
Its literally just Youtubers fighting each other. The fans get really into it and treat it like elite sport. Forensic breakdowns of each fighter's styles and who wins.
The guy who started it is also the same guy who start Prime so that should give you an idea of what the demographic is like.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20306797/son-woke-me-sunrise-buy-prime-hydration-drink/
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jan 24, 2024, 10:29 PMThey sell out entire arenas and make millions in PPVs.
Its literally just Youtubers fighting each other. The fans get really into it and treat it like elite sport. Forensic breakdowns of each fighter's styles and who wins.
The guy who started it is also the same guy who start Prime so that should give you an idea of what the demographic is like.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20306797/son-woke-me-sunrise-buy-prime-hydration-drink/
Wow.
I still love this speech from Riley to this day. I miss Boondocks so much. I wish new episodes could be made.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jan 24, 2024, 10:29 PMThey sell out entire arenas and make millions in PPVs.
Its literally just Youtubers fighting each other. The fans get really into it and treat it like elite sport. Forensic breakdowns of each fighter's styles and who wins.
The guy who started it is also the same guy who start Prime so that should give you an idea of what the demographic is like.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20306797/son-woke-me-sunrise-buy-prime-hydration-drink/
You don't like watching Amateurs box? I feel like the appeal is to watch Amateur over professional. Professional boxing is boring to most people so if they are already invested in the person from a different medium. They love to see them box over the drama of it all and the back story. I love influencer boxing. By them selling out all the time it shows how much influence they truly have with their audience base.
Older people like to look down on influencers when they find out that they are one but they have the audience to back up their title for the most part and can control sales and even introduce their audience to music they wouldn't have heard otherwise.
The main reason I love TikTok nowadays is finding music through it. People love to mock the dancing but honestly I love to see average people pulling off full choreographed dances that otherwise wouldn't have had the platform to do it. I don't have the courage to jump in on some of these dance trends because I feel like they are super complicated or I'm just not confident enough in my dancing skills but it is encouraging to see people of all generations jump on certain dance trends.
MomTok, BookTok and all the other like sub groups within TikToks atmosphere is great too. Older people(aka you guys in this thread hating on TikTok) just don't like new things when it comes to social media that you don't understand. Once you dive into it. Tiktok can be super informative. There are so many groups outside of just the humor stuff you see and the dance trends.
You might not guess if you just watched me go about my day, but I'm picky about how I spend my time and f.ex. I don't want to have more reasons to sit and play with my phone.
My wife had tiktok before her work made her delete it (due to potential Chinese spying) and a few things seemed off to me about it. The first was getting content just served by an algorithm. It seems so pacifying. I want to have to pick out things I watch. I want to choose. Second are the repeating sound bytes that I find annoying. The last is the short format of the videos.
It's like it's a perfectly made dopamine injector made to erode your attention span and turn you into a zombie that just digests whatever the algorithm serves.
I know I'm old and cranky, but I find it kinda vulgar and off-putting.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Jan 25, 2024, 06:38 AMYou don't like watching Amateurs box? I feel like the appeal is to watch Amateur over professional. Professional boxing is boring to most people so if they are already invested in the person from a different medium. They love to see them box over the drama of it all and the back story. I love influencer boxing. By them selling out all the time it shows how much influence they truly have with their audience base.
Amateur boxing isn't the same as influencer boxing, might sound pedantic but the current world heavyweight champ (Oleksandr Usyk) has had 350 fights as an amateur, the point being amateur can still be incredibly skilled. I get the back story thing but that applies to legitimate boxing as well.
QuoteMomTok, BookTok and all the other like sub groups within TikToks atmosphere is great too. Older people(aka you guys in this thread hating on TikTok) just don't like new things when it comes to social media that you don't understand. Once you dive into it. Tiktok can be super informative. There are so many groups outside of just the humor stuff you see and the dance trends.
The miming and funny faces is what goes viral on there though. That's why we shit on TikTok.
Is this still the most watched TikTok? It was for a long time:
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jan 26, 2024, 01:31 AM
Does anyone know where to find the video of that but faceswapped with Jesus and 4 other famous figures in all the corners
saw it years ago and can't re-find it
Quote from: Guybrush on Jan 26, 2024, 12:14 AMYou might not guess if you just watched me go about my day, but I'm picky about how I spend my time and f.ex. I don't want to have more reasons to sit and play with my phone.
My wife had tiktok before her work made her delete it (due to potential Chinese spying) and a few things seemed off to me about it. The first was getting content just served by an algorithm. It seems so pacifying. I want to have to pick out things I watch. I want to choose. Second are the repeating sound bytes that I find annoying. The last is the short format of the videos.
It's like it's a perfectly made dopamine injector made to erode your attention span and turn you into a zombie that just digests whatever the algorithm serves.
I know I'm old and cranky, but I find it kinda vulgar and off-putting.
Before Tik Tok existed there was Vine. Tik Tok just perfected the formula that Vine started off with. If you hate Tik Tok you would have hated Vine. It was 6 second videos, not enough time to get a full joke in but some how Vine stars pulled it off.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jan 26, 2024, 01:31 AMAmateur boxing isn't the same as influencer boxing, might sound pedantic but the current world heavyweight champ (Oleksandr Usyk) has had 350 fights as an amateur, the point being amateur can still be incredibly skilled. I get the back story thing but that applies to legitimate boxing as well.
Understood.
Amateur has it's okay technical bracket of fights. I was just using the word amateur to refer to not being professional and kind of one off bouts not the whole amateur boxing scene you are referring to.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jan 26, 2024, 01:31 AMThe miming and funny faces is what goes viral on there though. That's why we shit on TikTok.
Is this still the most watched TikTok? It was for a long time:
No clue but TikTok is way more than just it's silly viral videos. There are different communities there but I see why it's easy fir old people to just write off TikTok like it's an annoyance.
I'll have a look for other communities then 😏
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jan 26, 2024, 09:22 PMI'll have a look for other communities then 😏
Maybe there's a pedicure one that you'd enjoy 😉
Quote from: Guybrush on Jan 27, 2024, 09:03 AMMaybe there's a pedicure one that you'd enjoy 😉
There is, idk if it's a community per say but Foottok exists and I'm sure if you type in pedicures into the search bar more will pop up. You have to train the algo to show you what you like on your for you page.
Bizarre foods would be a good one for me. But even if I wanted to try it, I'm not allowed to tik-tok by my employer on account of my access to critical infrastructure.
Quote from: Guybrush on Jan 27, 2024, 09:26 AMBizarre foods would be a good one for me. But even if I wanted to try it, I'm not allowed to tik-tok by my employer on account of my access to critical infrastructure.
Yeah they have that restriction here in the states too for government jobs. You can't have TikTok on government phones.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Jan 27, 2024, 09:15 AMThere is, idk if it's a community per say but Foottok exists and I'm sure if you type in pedicures into the search bar more will pop up. You have to train the algo to show you what you like on your for you page.
Instagram is like that.
My feed is full of bodybuilding and perfectly pedicured podia.
Thanks for the suggestions 😎
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I want these frames.
I have a big head and it's tougher to find sunglasses and readers in styles I like that fit me. :(
Unfortunately my favorite heart-shaped sunglasses broke about a month ago. :(
I ate the McSpicy from McDonald's last night.
Not eating one again.
Feel like I want to get a hose, insert it into my arse and cleanse my insides with cold water.
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Feb 02, 2024, 12:29 PMI have a big head and it's tougher to find sunglasses and readers in styles I like that fit me. :(
Unfortunately my favorite heart-shaped sunglasses broke about a month ago. :(
With you having a big head those frames are perfect. The bigger the head the bigger the frames. If you like cute smaller frames then that's not gonna look right go for bigger frames like the one in that picture.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Feb 16, 2024, 11:10 PMI ate the McSpicy from McDonald's last night.
Not eating one again.
Feel like I want to get a hose, insert it into my arse and cleanse my insides with cold water.
Was it too spicy for you?
Quote from: DJChameleon on Feb 17, 2024, 03:46 PMWas it too spicy for you?
Eating it was fine. It was the next day that was the problem.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Feb 17, 2024, 04:17 PMEating it was fine. It was the next day that was the problem.
My digestion system has a problem with Capsaicin, so I feel ya. It's usually not the
entering of spicy food into the system that's the problem.
Yup. Basically the minute I hit my 30s I started having to worry a lot more about what happens on the way out.
And
@DJChameleon for sure, it's just hard to find frames that are both large enough and cute enough.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Feb 17, 2024, 04:17 PMEating it was fine. It was the next day that was the problem.
I used to be that way but now my spicyness tolerance doesn't bother me on the way out anymore.
this website has been getting a lot of guests lately
I only found this out somewhat recently (past few years) but Bayern Munich used to have the Nazi swastika on their crest during the years 1939-1945.
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It nearly blew my head off when I found out. For our American forumistas who might not understand the significance of this it would be like the Yankees or Lakers changing their logo to a swastika.
Doing some reading the club claims they were forced otherwise they'd not be allowed to exist but I think that's nonsense.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, you can't find anything on their official website about this.
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https://medium.com/@thericefield/why-women-are-not-allowed-in-thai-temple-during-periods-fb05855661ec#:~:text=Some%20said%20women%20in%20periods,women%20during%20their%20periods%20either.
I found out recently that women on their period aren't allowed into thai temples. They view the act of shedding the uterine lining as impure.
In a particular moment, I meant to send you a PM
@degrassi.knoll but I can't remember if I sent it. I definitely typed it out. If you just haven't had the time to respond I understand obviously.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 07, 2024, 01:07 AMIn a particular moment, I meant to send you a PM @degrassi.knoll but I can't remember if I sent it. I definitely typed it out. If you just haven't had the time to respond I understand obviously.
I've just responded!
🙏🙏🙏
This isn't an annoying thing people say, so it wasn't right for that thread - but something that annoys the absolute fucking shit out of me is the loud abrupt 'chirp' alarm sound smoke detectors make when they're out of battery. It is quite possibly the most annoying sound in the entire fucking universe and I very well might prefer to risk myself dying by burning to death in a fire than hear that infuriating fucking sound another time in my fucking life. And of course it always happens at fucking night when you're trying to sleep - and of course it always happens when you you're fresh out of 9V batteries. Fuck me!
:banghead:
Quote from: SGR on Mar 12, 2024, 04:10 AMThis isn't an annoying thing people say, so it wasn't right for that thread - but something that annoys the absolute fucking shit out of me is the loud abrupt 'chirp' alarm sound smoke detectors make when they're out of battery. It is quite possibly the most annoying sound in the entire fucking universe and I very well might prefer to risk myself dying by burning to death in a fire than hear that infuriating fucking sound another time in my fucking life. And of course it always happens at fucking night when you're trying to sleep - and of course it always happens when you you're fresh out of 9V batteries. Fuck me!
:banghead:
Yes, they've done a good job finding that infuriating pitch that cuts through anything and is impossible to ignore. They did their job, I guess 😄
Our alarms should last for 10 years and we're only halfway into that (nest protect alarms).
Quote from: Guybrush on Mar 12, 2024, 08:10 AMYes, they've done a good job finding that infuriating pitch that cuts through anything and is impossible to ignore. They did their job, I guess 😄
Our alarms should last for 10 years and we're only halfway into that (nest protect alarms).
I don't think it's impossible to ignore. You know how many houses I have visited and people just let it chirp away like it is nothing. I always bring it up. Hey maybe change your battery but they don't.
Quote from: SGR on Mar 12, 2024, 04:10 AMThis isn't an annoying thing people say, so it wasn't right for that thread - but something that annoys the absolute fucking shit out of me is the loud abrupt 'chirp' alarm sound smoke detectors make when they're out of battery. It is quite possibly the most annoying sound in the entire fucking universe and I very well might prefer to risk myself dying by burning to death in a fire than hear that infuriating fucking sound another time in my fucking life. And of course it always happens at fucking night when you're trying to sleep - and of course it always happens when you you're fresh out of 9V batteries. Fuck me!
:banghead:
Really good post and point.
Is it in your building?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 12, 2024, 09:25 AMReally good post and point.
Is it in your building?
It was in my apartment. Specifically in my bedroom where my wife was trying to sleep after a rough day. So I took that battery out and replaced it with a battery from one of our other smoke detectors. Then I found a 9V battery in our junk drawer - but it must've been a dead one because the damn thing kept chirping. I ended up playing musical smoke alarm batteries until the one that didn't have a battery was the one furthest from our bedroom so I had a chance of fucking sleeping.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Mar 12, 2024, 09:11 AMI don't think it's impossible to ignore. You know how many houses I have visited and people just let it chirp away like it is nothing. I always bring it up. Hey maybe change your battery but they don't.
I'd say it's impossible to ignore if it's near where you sleep though. If it's like, in your basement or something, then yeah, you could let it chirp for a bit. But otherwise, I think you'd have to be a psychopath to live with it for an extended period of time.
Quote from: Guybrush on Mar 12, 2024, 08:10 AMYes, they've done a good job finding that infuriating pitch that cuts through anything and is impossible to ignore. They did their job, I guess 😄
Our alarms should last for 10 years and we're only halfway into that (nest protect alarms).
Yeah, it did it's job alright. :rage:
Quote from: SGR on Mar 12, 2024, 06:06 PMI'd say it's impossible to ignore if it's near where you sleep though. If it's like, in your basement or something, then yeah, you could let it chirp for a bit. But otherwise, I think you'd have to be a psychopath to live with it for an extended period of time.
In my apartment building, there is one in the hallway outside of the upstairs neighbor apartment door and they never change it. They just let it chirp away. It's annoying enough that I hear it in my apartment so I know they can hear it in theirs but they won't change it.
Two of the Spice Girls are in their 50s.
The other three are 49, 48 and 48.
Where does the time go?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 13, 2024, 11:58 PMTwo of the Spice Girls are in their 50s.
The other three are 49, 48 and 48.
Where does the time go?
It is pretty surreal realizing that the mid-90s, years I have concrete memories of living through, were around three decades ago and almost everyone who was famous or publicly known at the time is at least in their mid 40s.
My formative years are probably being talked about in history textbooks.
Oh god.
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 14, 2024, 12:25 AMIt is pretty surreal realizing that the mid-90s, years I have concrete memories of living through, were around three decades ago and almost everyone who was famous or publicly known at the time is at least in their mid 40s.
My formative years are probably being talked about in history textbooks.
Oh god.
I figure 9/11 and Obama being the first black president is being taught in textbooks but I wonder what else
Eminem is older now than MJ was when he died.
MJ was always old to me and of a previous generation. Now Eminem, someone who was young when I was growing up, is older than him.
That's crazy.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 15, 2024, 11:54 PMEminem is older now than MJ was when he died.
MJ was always old to me and of a previous generation. Now Eminem, someone who was young when I was growing up, is older than him.
That's crazy.
Seeing how old Hallie Jade is nowadays is what I always think about.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Mar 16, 2024, 03:45 PMSeeing how old Hallie Jade is nowadays is what I always think about.
Paris Jackson is 25. Prince Jackson is 27.
Blanket is 22!
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Saw one of the hardcore MJ fan accounts on Instagram earlier splicing photos of Prince and Paris together with MJ and saying they look so alike :laughing:
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 16, 2024, 07:19 PMParis Jackson is 25. Prince Jackson is 27.
Blanket is 22!
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Saw one of the hardcore MJ fan accounts on Instagram earlier splicing photos of Prince and Paris together with MJ and saying they look so alike :laughing:
Whoa I didn't realize Hallie Jade is 28
Wow blanket is 22?
Blanket? What, are these Bob Geldof's kids?
I'm in a pub and the barman is EXACTLY what I've always imagined OccultHawk is like and I can't 😂😂😂
Quote from: Marie Monday on Mar 28, 2024, 07:01 PMI'm in a pub and the barman is EXACTLY what I've always imagined OccultHawk is like and I can't 😂😂😂
:laughing:
Is he talking to himself angrily?
Quote from: Marie Monday on Mar 28, 2024, 07:01 PMI'm in a pub and the barman is EXACTLY what I've always imagined OccultHawk is like and I can't 😂😂😂
I miss The Hawk.
same
Quote from: Janszoon on Mar 28, 2024, 07:07 PM:laughing:
Is he talking to himself angrily?
no lol but he was scuttering around and looked like a mix between a gnome, a pirate, and a skeleton with dreads
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@Toy Revolver
Quote from: Marie Monday on Mar 28, 2024, 09:17 PMsameno lol but he was scuttering around and looked like a mix between a gnome, a pirate, and a skeleton with dreads
That's definitely not how I pictured him. 😂
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@Toy Revolver
I've gone out like this 😅
Though with less hair.
Also, there were a couple of these guys in the local chess club who actually came to play dressed like this.
It's like they're smart with chess, but not with remembering what year it is or how to put on clothes in the morning.
Quote from: Guybrush on Mar 30, 2024, 09:31 AMI've gone out like this 😅
Though with less hair.
Also, there were a couple of these guys in the local chess club who actually came to play dressed like this.
It's like they're smart with chess, but not with remembering what year it is or how to put on clothes in the morning.
Were those guys Eastern Europeans? This is pretty typical dress for some of my ex-soviet comrades.
Quote from: grindy on Mar 30, 2024, 10:59 AMWere those guys Eastern Europeans? This is pretty typical dress for some of my ex-soviet comrades.
😂
I posted an Eastern European starter pack meme. It also had a knife, a bottle of vodka and some cigarettes. Hawk said he has the tracksuit and the shoes. I said please tell me you don't wear them together and he said 'I do yes' 😂
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 28, 2024, 09:28 PM(https://www.readysleek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/comb-over-balding-man-deposit-photos-768x487.jpeg)
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@Toy Revolver
:laughing:
But seriously, the only part of the US where you'll find people like that is New York or New Jersey.
Quote from: Janszoon on Mar 30, 2024, 07:39 PM:laughing:
But seriously, the only part of the US where you'll find people like that is New York or New Jersey.
Yeah North New Jersey and certain areas of Brooklyn. :laughing:
Speaking of NJ. This is a breakdown of NJ so like the North East part not the hill people part lol.
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When they say "diversity" they mean East Indians lol.
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^ :laughing:
George Fucking Washington.
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A medieval knight would not know a single one of those words and you know it.
Memes about social engineering trumping computer security certs? jeez Mindy, you're really digging deep here. :laughing:
Quote from: SGR on Apr 11, 2024, 08:30 PMMemes about social engineering trumping computer security certs? jeez Mindy, you're really digging deep here. :laughing:
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Sometimes I write a post out then think, na fuck this I haven't got anything interesting to say.
*deletes*
This made me laugh, repeatedly <3
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 22, 2024, 12:33 AMSometimes I write a post out then think, na fuck this I haven't got anything interesting to say.
*deletes*
I do the same thing, so I got a challenge for you. I suggest we make it a general personal policy to post these uninteresting, poor quality posts. Perhaps we can also tag them with an emoji, like a wine glass 🍷 What say ye?
Quote from: Guybrush on Apr 23, 2024, 08:54 PMI do the same thing, so I got a challenge for you. I suggest we make it a general personal policy to post these uninteresting, poor quality posts. Perhaps we can also tag them with an emoji, like a wine glass 🍷 What say ye?
OK next time I'll post it 👍
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 23, 2024, 06:30 PM
That's pretty long. Are the invisible people cops?
Quote from: Janszoon on Apr 23, 2024, 09:03 PMThat's pretty long. Are the invisible people cops?
Na vigilante paedo hunters.
Think Chris Hansen but with no money and no permission to do this.
There's loads.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 23, 2024, 09:19 PMNa vigilante paedo hunters.
Think Chris Hansen but with no money and no permission to do this.
There's loads.
You ever watch Alex Rosen/Predator Poachers?
Quote from: SGR on Apr 23, 2024, 09:35 PMYou ever watch Alex Rosen/Predator Poachers?
No why? Are they good?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 23, 2024, 09:47 PMNo why? Are they good?
Yes, Alex is extremely good at getting pedos to incriminate themselves, and he always turns it in to law enforcement (most of the time, they show up at the end of the scene). He was involved with catching/exposing EDP a couple years back.
https://rumble.com/c/PredatorPoachers
I used to watch quite a few different catchers, but many of them unfortunately got banned from Youtube - CC Unit, DAP (Dads Against Predators), POP Squad, etc.
Quote from: SGR on Apr 23, 2024, 10:33 PMYes, Alex is extremely good at getting pedos to incriminate themselves, and he always turns it in to law enforcement (most of the time, they show up at the end of the scene). He was involved with catching/exposing EDP a couple years back.
https://rumble.com/c/PredatorPoachers
I used to watch quite a few different catchers, but many of them unfortunately got banned from Youtube - CC Unit, DAP (Dads Against Predators), POP Squad, etc.
I'll have a look later mate.
I do like TCAP. Every now and then I look at the nonce stings that have been uploaded and wonder if I'll see anyone I know.
None yet.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/may/04/youre-going-to-call-me-a-holocaust-denier-now-are-you-george-monbiot-comes-face-to-face-with-his-local-conspiracy-theorist
QuoteI am a conspiracy theorist. I believe that groups of people conspire secretly against our interests to line their pockets, cover their backs or achieve political goals. By this definition I suspect you are, too. We see evidence of these conspiracies every day. We see them in the Horizon scandal, in which the Post Office kept prosecuting innocent operators. We see them in the government's use of a "VIP" lane for procuring PPE from friends and donors at extortionate prices. We see them in the Windrush scandal, in which people were denied their legal rights and unlawfully deported by the UK government. In the Cambridge Analytica scandal: a secretive micro-targeting campaign likely to have influenced the Brexit vote. In the Panama Papers and the Pandora Papers, showing how the ultra-rich hide their money from taxes and legal scrutiny...
A video from Thailand: I haven't seen anything like this before:
Quote from: Lisnaholic on May 11, 2024, 12:44 AMA video from Thailand: I haven't seen anything like this before:
That's a lot of monkeys! Finally someone figured out they could scare them out of the street by approaching them and using the car horn 😄
https://twitter.com/SolProduced/status/1789204255548817735
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Jesus :laughing:
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 11, 2024, 08:58 PMhttps://twitter.com/SolProduced/status/1789204255548817735
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They say 9 out of 11 people in Dublin have problems with fractions
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The Robots have taken me. Please send help.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 11, 2024, 08:58 PMhttps://twitter.com/SolProduced/status/1789204255548817735
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Wow, that's pretty obnoxious.
I was listening to Cyndi Lauper, time after time.
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Quote from: Mindy on May 18, 2024, 06:43 PMI made these all recently lol
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I bought 3 pairs of black socks in an impulse aisle last week.
They felt soft.
So I have a situation where now these are both the best and worst socks I've ever owned.
The softness and quality are unmatched, unfortunately so is the amount of black fluff all over my house now from my feet.
Quote from: Hope on May 24, 2024, 01:30 PMThe softness and quality are unmatched, unfortunately so is the amount of black fluff all over my house now from my feet.
I only own black socks. That way, the trouble of matching socks is kept at a minimum.
I ordered an Arturia Microfreak synth yesterday:
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Our piano has a midi out, so this'll let me get more fun out of it 🙂 really looking forward to its arrival!
Quote from: Guybrush on May 24, 2024, 08:34 PMI only own black socks. That way, the trouble of matching socks is kept at a minimum.
I ordered an Arturia Microfreak synth yesterday:
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Our piano has a midi out, so this'll let me get more fun out of it 🙂 really looking forward to its arrival!
Nice! I've never used one of those, but the touchplate keys seem like a bit of a hurdle, so controlling it over MIDI seems ideal for sure.
Quote from: Lexi Darling on May 24, 2024, 08:56 PMNice! I've never used one of those, but the touchplate keys seem like a bit of a hurdle, so controlling it over MIDI seems ideal for sure.
Yes, I was actually looking for something even smaller and without a keyboard, but this looked really cool for its relatively small price tag and people seem to love it 🙂
Put this on your banner. I read this and thought it reminded me of the old days.
https://x.com/DiscordianKitty/status/1795484830760620543?s=19
The guy who dropped $400 to tell a new poster to get fucked is top tier forum activity.
Question: why do some men (quite a few) insist on making stupid caveman noises when they shower? Instead of just washing themselves in peace they'll go 'HRNNG! UH! PRRAH!'. I've never heard a woman do this. Do they think it's manly? Is it a primitive urge to manifest their presence? Is it sexual or supposed to be sexy? It only sounds ridiculous and a bit repulsive and you'd think their mum/wife/someone should have told them
Quote from: Marie Monday on May 29, 2024, 11:27 AMQuestion: why do some men (quite a few) insist on making stupid caveman noises when they shower? Instead of just washing themselves in peace they'll go 'HRNNG! UH! PRRAH!'. I've never heard a woman do this. Do they think it's manly? Is it a primitive urge to manifest their presence? Is it sexual or supposed to be sexy? It only sounds ridiculous and a bit repulsive and you'd think their mum/wife/someone should have told them
Lol.
Not sure I ever did or heard this.
I sometimes quietly moan or sigh to myself a bit when a shower after a long day is especially pleasant, as do some women I know, but don't think it's what you describe.
Where did you encounter this? Maybe they are taking cold showers?
In public bathrooms on campsites or with some male housemates, maybe it's a cold shower thing but I don't think that many people do that?
I also haven't noticed any grunting, nor do I think of myself as guilty of this..
Maybe it's Dutch guys? 😄
Quote from: Marie Monday on May 29, 2024, 11:27 AMQuestion: why do some men (quite a few) insist on making stupid caveman noises when they shower? Instead of just washing themselves in peace they'll go 'HRNNG! UH! PRRAH!'. I've never heard a woman do this. Do they think it's manly? Is it a primitive urge to manifest their presence? Is it sexual or supposed to be sexy? It only sounds ridiculous and a bit repulsive and you'd think their mum/wife/someone should have told them
I do this when my bladder is really full and I start to piss.
Which I
sometimes do in the shower! :laughing:
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Never heard of shower grunting. Could be a cold water thing but then why are your housemates showering with cold water? Strange.
One of my close friends is a girl and it's a real eye opener.
One of my favourite things I have learned is that women get hair trapped in their arse cracks when showering and have to remove it by hand.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 29, 2024, 08:04 PMNever heard of shower grunting. Could be a cold water thing but then why are your housemates showering with cold water? Strange.
One of my close friends is a girl and it's a real eye opener.
One of my favourite things I have learned is that women get hair trapped in their arse cracks when showering and have to remove it by hand.
Living with a woman, I can attest, you'll find their hair not only in arse cracks, but everywhere else too. It's how they mark their territory.
Quote from: SGR on May 29, 2024, 08:07 PMLiving with a woman, I can attest, you'll find their hair not only in arse cracks, but everywhere else too. It's how they mark their territory.
Oh I know, but specifically in the arse crack. I wouldn't have guessed that.
Quote from: SGR on May 29, 2024, 07:37 PMI do this when my bladder is really full and I start to piss.
Which I sometimes do in the shower! :laughing:
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into the corner of shame you go dude.
Interesting that it's not generally recognised, maybe I've been unlucky with my shower encounters
Quote from: Marie Monday on May 29, 2024, 09:56 PMinto the corner of shame you go dude.
Fine, but I'm taking my club with me!
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Quote from: SGR on May 29, 2024, 10:40 PMFine, but I'm taking my club with me!
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Does your wife have baths in there?
If so does she know you're pissing in there?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 29, 2024, 10:43 PMDoes your wife have baths in there?
If so does she know you're pissing in there?
:laughing:
No she does not take baths. But she does know I'm pissing in there (she does it too)
I can confirm that the male member of this household does not grunt in the shower and I've never known of that phenomenon. Admittedly I have a small sample size though.
And both of us also piss in the shower, but in our old place the shower and bathtub were actually separate so it wasn't as big of an issue. :laughing:
Nothing wrong with pissing in the shower. I don't do it in other people's showers though, feels wrong and disrespectful.
actually baffled by how many people piss in the shower. I had a conversation about this irl recently, in full innocent expectation that other people shared my views on this, and it turned into me being alone on my argumentative hill because apparently everyone else pissed in the shower and thought it was normal?? Shocking tbh. I've been unknowingly surrounded by barbarians. I thought it might just be a british thing lol but this thread proves me wrong
Quote from: Marie Monday on May 29, 2024, 11:21 PMactually baffled by how many people piss in the shower. I had a conversation about this irl recently, in full innocent expectation that other people shared my views on this, and it turned into me being alone on my argumentative hill because apparently everyone else pissed in the shower and thought it was normal?? Shocking tbh. I've been unknowingly surrounded by barbarians. I thought it might just be a british thing lol but this thread proves me wrong
You're not wrong that it's disgusting. Especially if it's that dehydrated piss as well 😭
You have permission to shower at Jazz Towers should you ever need to.
I'm guilty of the shower consonant breathing, but specifically the post-shower drying off stage. To dry the back, one rolls the towel loosely in a rope fashion and moves it diagonally behind oneself, and at that precise moment a couple of restrained Hntschh noises are made. It's hard to not do it.
I might say I don't piss in the shower. Really, I tend not to.
Has it happened perhaps within the last one or two years? I can't remember specifically, but I'd assume so, yes.
We've got sweat, pubes, dead skin, etc falling off in our showers every time we shower and some of you puritans are baffled by also releasing a little salt and water from our bladder which is immediately drained down? ::)
It's not like we're waffle-stomping over here. And of course, when I'm showering with my wife, I refrain from peeing...we're just not into that. :laughing:
It doesn't matter about the science. It's just not nice mate.
If I came round to your house and scratched my balls with your cutlery or farted on your dinner plates, you wouldn't catch anything but you wouldn't want to eat with them afterward, would you?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 29, 2024, 11:56 PMIt doesn't matter about the science. It's just not nice mate.
If I came round to your house and scratched my balls with your cutlery or farted on your dinner plates, you wouldn't catch anything but you wouldn't want to eat with them afterward, would you?
I don't know about you, but I'm not preparing my food in the bathtub. :laughing:
And I don't pee in other people's showers, only my own. That's just common courtesy.
Quote from: SGR on May 29, 2024, 11:59 PMI don't know about you, but I'm not preparing my food in the bathtub. :laughing:
And I don't pee in other people's showers, only my own. That's just common courtesy.
Might let you shower at mine then.
Quote from: SGR on May 29, 2024, 11:44 PMWe've got sweat, pubes, dead skin, etc falling off in our showers every time we shower and some of you puritans are baffled by also releasing a little salt and water from our bladder which is immediately drained down? ::)
It's not like we're waffle-stomping over here. And of course, when I'm showering with my wife, I refrain from peeing...we're just not into that. :laughing:
dead skin is less gross than urine, so is sweat and even pubes. Another difference is that the dead skin and sweat are just unavoidable; I actually make a point of rinsing down the pubes. And more importantly, if you piss in the shower it'll do more splattering than your sweat being rinsed down, so it'll get on the walls etc. and the shower water spraying around may not catch it all. All in all, piss is also rinsed down the toilet bowl immediately, but you wouldn't step in there either
QuoteI actually make a point of rinsing down the pubes.
Great thread 😂
Quote from: Marie Monday on May 30, 2024, 12:28 AMdead skin is less gross than urine, so is sweat and even pubes. Another difference is that the dead skin and sweat are just unavoidable; I actually make a point of rinsing down the pubes. And more importantly, if you piss in the shower it'll do more splattering than your sweat being rinsed down, so it'll get on the walls etc. and the shower water spraying around may not catch it all. All in all, piss is also rinsed down the toilet bowl immediately, but you wouldn't step in there either
As a guy, I must say, this doesn't happen to me. Not to be too explicit, but just explaining generally, I point my junk right where the shower stream is coming down, in the direction of the drain. No splattering, no mess. Then, my next step, make my obligatory caveman grunts, and then it all goes where it needs to and gets washed away. And you're right, I don't step in toilets, but that's because, beyond the fact that it's not a place that has any useful purpose to step in, I also shit in there, and on very rare occasions, barf in there. :laughing:
Quote from: Marie Monday on May 29, 2024, 11:21 PM...Shocking tbh. I've been unknowingly surrounded by barbarians. I thought it might just be a british thing lol ...
Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 29, 2024, 11:56 PMIf I came round to your house and scratched my balls with your cutlery or farted on your dinner plates, you wouldn't catch anything but you wouldn't want to eat with them afterward, would you?
:yikes: Please, jimmy jazz !! Marie already has a bad enough impression of the British.
Quote from: SGR on May 30, 2024, 01:02 AMAs a guy, I must say, this doesn't happen to me. Not to be too explicit, but just explaining generally, I point my junk right where the shower stream is coming down, in the direction of the drain. No splattering, no mess. Then, my next step, make my obligatory caveman grunts, and then it all goes where it needs to and gets washed away. And you're right, I don't step in toilets, but that's because, beyond the fact that it's not a place that has any useful purpose to step in, I also shit in there, and on very rare occasions, barf in there. :laughing:
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the grunt sound waves push the piss towards the drain with echokinesis? Are you perhaps the lovechild of Matilda and a bat?
Quote from: Marie Monday on May 30, 2024, 01:40 AM:laughing:
the grunt sound waves push the piss towards the drain with echokinesis? Are you perhaps the lovechild of Matilda and a bat?
Exactly! (but don't mention bats anymore, besides grasshoppers, that's the only other animal that terrifies me)
And it's funny you mention Matilda :laughing: - as a young boy, I was rather obsessed with that movie. I watched it over, and over, and over again on VHS tape. Zoomers today won't understand "Be kind, and rewind!".
Peeing in the shower is a little gross, but I definitely rank it as harmless and, as long as you're alone, a victimless crime.
Once when I was a kid in school, we had gym and I badly needed to pee and did so in the shower after. I tried to be discreet, but to my horror it was noticed by someone else 😅
So I got teased a bit about that and never did it again. Well, at least not in that kind of setting.
Is Nafo NATO only run by dogs?
Space is terrifying.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UY_Scuti
Apparently space has a smell a bit like bacon or burnt meat.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jun 05, 2024, 09:52 PMApparently space has a smell a bit like bacon or burnt meat.
I've heard astronauts say that, but I'm not convinced of the veracity of it. Who am I to question astronauts, but you technically can't smell anything in space without oxygen right? Makes me wonder how the entire experience of being in space affects the brain and neurological functions.
I'm suspicious of that claim too because space is just very empty. What would there be to smell?
Quote from: SGR on Jun 05, 2024, 05:59 PMSpace is terrifying.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UY_Scuti
Made me think of this:
The universe's largest black holes. Them and their quazars of old are just mind boggling.. as well as neutron stars and magnetars and everything else. Also, I love Kurzgesagt.
I also read the bacon smell thing and was sceptical for the same reason
@Marie Monday mentions, but I think I watched a video where that Chris astronaut answers questions about being an astronaut etc. and I think he confirmed that one.
Edit:
Found the video! He starts talking about it just before a couple of minutes in.
Quote from: Guybrush on Jun 06, 2024, 12:01 AMI also read the bacon smell thing and was sceptical for the same reason @Marie Monday mentions, but I think I watched a video where that Chris astronaut answers questions about being an astronaut etc. and I think he confirmed that one.
Edit:
Found the video! He starts talking about it just before a couple of minutes in.
^ Thanks for the research, Guybrush, but strictly speaking, doesn't he end up debunking the myth?! He says that's how the outside of the space vehicle would smell, if we could exist in the vacuum of space.
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Yeah, all that stuff about the universe is mind boggling: its age, its size, and all the weird things in it.
Even the sizes and distances in the Solar System are difficult to grasp. I imagine most of us have seen one of those football-field scale model simulations on YouTube, but here's something I thought was quite cool: a permanent model in Melbourne:-
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rate my setup
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rate my setup
no but actually that would be the dream, egyptian tombs have amazing atmosphere.
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I could live in here
Any of you guys aware of the Feeding Steven Instagram page?
Some guy who has made friends with a seagull who visits his loft bedroom and gets fed. He eats like a king too. Sometimes gets fresh salmon and gulps it down in one, fat fuck.
Love it. Sometimes he brings his friends along (other seagulls) and they eat too.
He's recently started to try and hold Steven and it's going well.
Love shit like this.
@Marie Monday @Guybrush @Hope
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jun 26, 2024, 02:40 AMAny of you guys aware of the Feeding Steven Instagram page?
Some guy who has made friends with a seagull who visits his loft bedroom and gets fed. He eats like a king too. Sometimes gets fresh salmon and gulps it down in one, fat fuck.
Love it. Sometimes he brings his friends along (other seagulls) and they eat too.
He's recently started to try and hold Steven and it's going well.
Love shit like this.
@Marie Monday @Guybrush @Hope
Nice! Checked it out and it looks fun and wholesome 😄 Subscribed!
Thanks for the tip, Big J 👌❤️
I don't mind the washer's manic spin cycle. Being terrified of my household appliances makes me feel alive.
American states ranked by their names.
Because this occurred to me when planning my US travels, obviously. Place names are very important and Proust was very right to be obsessed with them and I relate to everything he says on the subject. Here we go:
Ohio - as if someone condensed as much beauty into as short a word as possible. The japanese word for good morning is about identical; the sound is a universal delight across cultural and linguistic barriers
Oklahoma - delightful rhythm and cadence punctuated by a beautiful vowel sequence, rolls of the tongue delightfully, almost has the word 'home' in it.
Mississippi - speaks for itself really. Funnest word ever.
Colorado - also great sound and rhythm and I suspect I'm partial to words that make good use of the o and a vowels. Has the word color in it.
Alaska - a smooth beautiful sound with a perfect staccato ending to set it off. Contains the word alas.
Arizona - another sequence of beautiful vowel sound spiced up by the z in the middle
Minnesota - not quite as fun as Mississippi, but more varied.
Virginia - great name, it sounds beautiful and I associate it with Virginia Woolf. Why they gave some states women's names I don't know but I'm a fan.
Louisiana - like someone took the name louis/Louise and decided to make it swing
Idaho - very satisfying rhythm for such a short word, mainly thanks to the way it ends in ho which is brilliant
Nebraska - not as beautiful as Alaska, but the r gives it extra spice in a similar way to Arizona
Montana - sounds like mountain, but beautiful
Pennsylvania - sound like a mix between pencil and Transylvania, which is great. Is it derived from the Latin word for wood? If not, the association is still there.
Wyoming - great sequence of sounds and very fun to say.
Kentucky - sounds ticklish and fresh
Alabama - like someone took the principle of the word Mississippi and made a version that's optimally suited to a southern accent
Nevada - a pretty word like Nebraska, but a bit plainer
North Dakota - Dakota is a gorgeous word and this would have been near the top if it weren't for the north bit.
South Dakota - the word north combines better here
Georgia - Great name but not quite Virginia
West Virginia - like north/south Dakota
Florida - the most beautiful state name according to Elizabeth Bishop. It is beautiful and the flower association is great too, but it's not quite up there for me
Texas - the vowels are plain, the consonants are brilliant
Maryland - sounds a bit silly to just call a place that, but for reasons relating to my own name I'm a fan
California - great word but not a standout
Massachusetts - like Mississippi except for the vowels so it doesn't quite have the same charm
Indiana - also pretty sounding but not a standout
Michigan - good rhythm but not the prettiest of state names
Iowa - just not quite Ohio
Missouri - it's a very good name really, but a bit disappointing after Mississippi
Hawaii - fun but too cutesy and slight
Tennessee - good word but sounds like tennis
Wisconsin - a solid word that doesn't stand out
Arkansas - not the best sound but fun to say and gets bonus points for the weird pronunciation
Oregon - sounds a bit like a name tolkien would come up with but it lacks the beauty of most other state names
Illinois - fun to say and has the word ill in it. Looks like a french word and I'm tempted to pronounce it that way.
Utah - a nice name I guess
North Carolina - the last charming women's name among the states
South Carolina - see south Dakota
Connecticut - sounds a bit awkward like a tongue twister but it has some charm to it
Kansas - just sounds like canvas
Vermont - for some reason I associate it with the name Vernon which doesn't work in it's favour
Maine - a bit plain innit
Washington - I don't like that a state is named after a president but it is objectively a good word and contains the word washing
Delaware - eh
New Mexico - come up with a new name. Highest ranked among the unoriginal names because Mexico is a fantastic word
New York - I'm also a fan of the word York because it's so silly
New Hampshire - whatever
Rhode Island - whatever X2
New Jersey - sounds like a new clothing item. Ridiculous.
@Marie Monday Nice list. :laughing:
For the record, Pennsylvania is named after the state's founder, William Penn. The name means "Penn's woods".
nice, yesterday I also learned (by complete coincidence actually) that the Rhode in Rhode island is just an Anglification of the Dutch word for red (rood, the Dutch oo is as the o in bone) in the stupidest way imaginable. It sounds like a four year old child's idea of translating something, I'm glad I put it so low on the list :laughing:
Quote from: Marie Monday on Jul 01, 2024, 08:13 PMnice, yesterday I also learned (by complete coincidence actually) that the Rhode in Rhode island is just an Anglification of the Dutch word for red (rood, the Dutch oo is as the o in bone) in the stupidest way imaginable. It sounds like a four year old child's idea of translating something, I'm glad I put it so low on the list :laughing:
That's one of the possibilities but not an undisputed etymology.
Pardon my less-than-original idea, but, inspired by Marie's post and the many wonderful names in my home state that non-Wisconsinites have a hard time pronouncing, I am pleased to present...
The Official Lexi Darling Wisconsin City Names Top 10 List!
10. Manitowoc
No complaints here, though nothing I'd call truly exceptional by the metric of Wisconsinocity.
9. Wauwatosa
A very solid name, Wisconsin through and through, but a little too easy to guess the pronunciation.
8. Prarie du Chien
My mom moved to Wisconsin from New York City in 1969 and as a fluent French speaker, she was in for a rude surprise when she discovered that this city's name was not pronunced as the French would. Delightfully devilish.
7. Sheboygan
Easily the most fun name on the list to say, though it loses points for the pronunciation being probably more self-explanatory.
6. Muskego
I love how nasty this one sounds just to say. I like it more than the similarly named Muskegon, Michigan, because somehow the N makes it feel more like a more common, pedestrian place name.
5. Waukesha
There was a popular rap song a few years ago called "Wockesha" which is pronounced completely differently than the city, which I'd imagine has made this even more confusing. My stepmom is from here, so bonus points.
4. Menomonie
Underrated one, major points for being able to be sung to the tune of "Mahna Mahna".
3. Weyauwega
I dig this one; it almost feels a bit too silly on my tongue, but of all of these it's second only to my number 1 on amount of people I've seen mispronounce it throughout my life. And that deserves respect.
2. Oconomowoc
The most aesthetically pleasing name of a city in my great home state. Five Os, all equidistant from each other. Perfectly balanced and one of the most confusing ones to tourists to boot.
1. Ashwaubenon
Perfect, chef's kiss, 10/10 Wisconsin name. That this is (IIRC) the smallest town on the list is a travesty. The more people in my life have reason to say 'Ashwaubenon' more frequently, the better.
^no that's great, the more the better (including dissenting state name opinions). Those are some fantastic names. The fact that there exists a place that's basically named Wow Kesha is making my day.
I wonder if you Americans realise how blessed you are with your place names. In Holland everything is just called something like Gorinchem (pronounced Gorkum with the harsh throaty g) and all English towns are called Upper Snodsbury or such nonsense
Quote from: grindy on Jul 01, 2024, 09:46 PMThat's one of the possibilities but not an undisputed etymology.
ooh the internet has deceived me then
Quote from: Marie Monday on Jul 01, 2024, 11:06 PM^no that's great, the more the better (including dissenting state name opinions). Those are some fantastic names. The fact that there exists a place that's basically named Wow Kesha is making my day.
I wonder if you Americans realise how blessed you are with your place names. In Holland everything is just called something like Gorinchem (pronounced Gorkum with the harsh throaty g) and all English towns are called Upper Snodsbury or such nonsenseooh the internet has deceived me then
Thanks! Next time I talk to my stepmom about her hometown I'm absolutely going to call it "Wow Kesha", I love that so much haha.
In Norway, place names are mostly old-timey words for just topographic features. A large part of my old town is called Sanden (the sand) because it was so sandy. Back in the 1800s, a locally famous historical character started an initiative to plant pine to hold the sand down, so that forest is called Furulunden (pine grove). The other side of the river is called Malmø - iron ore island - I assume due to the color of some ancient sand.
Our street is called Wide Marsh (or bog? Swamp?) Hill.
Norwegians haven't been particularly creative 🙂
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Jul 01, 2024, 10:06 PMPardon my less-than-original idea, but, inspired by Marie's post and the many wonderful names in my home state that non-Wisconsinites have a hard time pronouncing, I am pleased to present...
The Official Lexi Darling Wisconsin City Names Top 10 List!
I'm personally a big fan of Fond du Lac and Minocqua as well. They're both just fun to say.
Quote from: Guybrush on Jul 02, 2024, 07:56 AMIn Norway, place names are mostly old-timey words for just topographic features. A large part of my old town is called Sanden (the sand) because it was so sandy. Back in the 1800s, a locally famous historical character started an initiative to plant pine to hold the sand down, so that forest is called Furulunden (pine grove). The other side of the river is called Malmø - iron ore island - I assume due to the color of some ancient sand.
Our street is called Wide Marsh (or bog? Swamp?) Hill.
Norwegians haven't been particularly creative 🙂
The names in the US aren't particularly creative either. Some are just transplanted names of places in Europe, like New York, and some of the native names are just descriptive, like Chicago, which is the English interpretation of the French interpretation of a local Algonquian word meaning "place of the wild onion", because apparently back in the day there were a lot of wild onions to be found in what is now the city of Chicago.
Quote from: Marie Monday on Jul 01, 2024, 11:06 PMI wonder if you Americans realise how blessed you are with your place names. In Holland everything is just called something like Gorinchem (pronounced Gorkum with the harsh throaty g) and all English towns are called Upper Snodsbury or such nonsense
^ :laughing: I hope you'll excuse me if I disagree, Marie !
Here are a couple of guys who shine a light on the joys of British place names:-
Quote from: Guybrush on Jul 02, 2024, 07:56 AMIn Norway, place names are mostly old-timey words for just topographic features. A large part of my old town is called Sanden (the sand) because it was so sandy. Back in the 1800s, a locally famous historical character started an initiative to plant pine to hold the sand down, so that forest is called Furulunden (pine grove). The other side of the river is called Malmø - iron ore island - I assume due to the color of some ancient sand.
Our street is called Wide Marsh (or bog? Swamp?) Hill.
Norwegians haven't been particularly creative 🙂
^ It is unimaginative, I suppose, but the naming of places after obvious physical features doesn't bother me at all. In Britain, for example:-
1. there has often been a linguistic change that makes the name more cryptic
2. the original outstanding feature may no longer be evident, so learning the origin of the name gives a moment of historical insight,
"Oh, so that's what the place was originally famous for."Case study:
Spoiler
This sprawling city is called Guildford:-
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It is built on both sides of a river, but not obvious unless you walk a mile out of town is that there's a low cliff of unusual colour on one side of the river:
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No longer used, no longer visible, but this cliff is significant: it's where the Pilgrim's Way, made famous by Chaucer, crossed the river, and that's how Guildford got its name: it was the point of the Golden Ford.
Ok, here are t
he 10 best US place names according to me. It's pretty Pennsylvania heavy because I've lived here for a long time and Pennsylvania has a lot of weird place names.
- Zzyzx (California)—Sounds like an insect planet from an old comic.
- Ojai (California)—I like the way this combination of letters looks, and the fact that it's pronounced like "oh, hi" makes it seem friendly.
- King of Prussia (Pennsylvania)—It may just be a town of intersecting highways, corporate HQs, and malls, but I appreciate the grandiose name.
- Intercourse (Pennsylvania)—What's not to like?
- Braintree (Massachusetts)—I grew up near this town and the name always made me laugh as a child. Is it a tree with brains for fruit? Is it a tree growing out of a brain? Who knows?
- Chattanooga (Tennessee)—An attractive looking word that's fun to pronounce.
- Hell (Michigan)—I feel like this name choice was a way to ensure that people would visit with low expectations and end up pleasantly surprised.
- Okeechobee (Florida)—Another one that's just fun to say.
- Forty Fort (Pennsylvania)—It sounds like it was named by a four year old.
- Pillow (Pennsylvania)—I've never been, but it sounds relaxing.
I love names like Intercourse and Hell too, haha. Boring, Oregon is another good one. And from my own home state, Embarrass, Wisconsin.
There's also a town not far from where i went to college called Gotham, and (back then at least) they did indeed have a bar called The Batcave. :laughing:
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Jul 03, 2024, 06:06 PMI love names like Intercourse and Hell too, haha. Boring, Oregon is another good one. And from my own home state, Embarrass, Wisconsin.
There's also a town not far from where i went to college called Gotham, and (back then at least) they did indeed have a bar called The Batcave. :laughing:
lol. PA also has Normalville and Panic as well.
Today I learned that the English surname Murgatroid exists. Sounds like some villain from a cheesy 60s sci-fi film. I love it.
Quote from: grindy on Jul 04, 2024, 07:03 PMToday I learned that the English surname Murgatroid exists. Sounds like some villain from a cheesy 60s sci-fi film. I love it.
It still blows my mind that Farquhar is a Scottish surname instead of being from somewhere in the Middle East.
Quote from: Janszoon on Jul 04, 2024, 07:43 PMIt still blows my mind that Farquhar is a Scottish surname instead of being from somewhere in the Middle East.
I've actually had that exact same experience.
I like a bit of punk music.
I joined the Reddit punk subreddit to discover and learn more.
There is actually very little music discussed. It's largely about politics, image and that sort of thing.
People asking can you be right wing and be punk. My word who fucking cares?
Do you like the music or not? My views and music taste are separate. It seems letting your opinions choose your music taste is quite a punk thing to do.
I understand Elph more since being in the subreddit.
No offence if you're lurking x
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jul 14, 2024, 04:00 PMI like a bit of punk music.
I joined the Reddit punk subreddit to discover and learn more.
There is actually very little music discussed. It's largely about politics, image and that sort of thing.
People asking can you be right wing and be punk. My word who fucking cares?
Do you like the music or not? My views and music taste are separate. It seems letting your opinions choose your music taste is quite a punk thing to do.
I understand Elph more since being in the subreddit.
No offence if you're lurking x
I feel you.
Punk, at least a lot of it, has always been intertwined with speaking out on social and political issues, so I'm not surprised, but I do relate. A lot of spaces for my hobbies devolve into political talk these days, I think the internet as a whole has just gotten more politicized and less concerned with politeness and having the restraint to table some topics so more practical hobby discussion can be done rather than turning everything into an ideological debate.
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Half hour meetings that end up running for an additional hour are annoying.
Quote from: Janszoon on Jul 19, 2024, 06:19 PMHalf hour meetings that end up running for an additional hour are annoying.
Yeah, that's why you have to schedule fake outlook meetings following those meetings, so you have an excuse to leave on time.
Quote from: grindy on Jul 19, 2024, 06:50 PMYeah, that's why you have to schedule fake outlook meetings following those meetings, so you have an excuse to leave on time.
This is genius. How have I never thought of this before?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jul 14, 2024, 04:00 PMPeople asking can you be right wing and be punk. My word who fucking cares?
Isn't this a weird question? There's been so much right wing punk. There's a reason Dead Kennedys made Nazi Punks Fuck Off.
Quote from: Guybrush on Jul 19, 2024, 08:49 PMIsn't this a weird question? There's been so much right wing punk. There's a reason Dead Kennedys made Nazi Punks Fuck Off.
Well on the reddit sub it seems a constant topic of discussion. There's loads of that skinhead stuff. It's OK. I enjoy a bit of it. I prefer the more well known stuff. I only care about how it sounds tbh.
My favourites are still NMTB and London Calling. I like the Ramones a lot too. They seem better and more aggressive live though.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Jul 19, 2024, 09:43 PMWell on the reddit sub it seems a constant topic of discussion. There's loads of that skinhead stuff. It's OK. I enjoy a bit of it. I prefer the more well known stuff. I only care about how it sounds tbh.
My favourites are still NMTB and London Calling. I like the Ramones a lot too. They seem better and more aggressive live though.
Absolutely, the Ramones live in the 70s were so dope, and there's a lot of good footage of them too. I don't think anyone else was playing that fast and energetic in the mid 70s.
Quote from: Guybrush on Jul 19, 2024, 08:49 PMIsn't this a weird question? There's been so much right wing punk. There's a reason Dead Kennedys made Nazi Punks Fuck Off.
you can still ask why it exists, regardless of how much there is. It's a somewhat valid question because right-wing politics clash with what punk stands for, but qualms like that have never stopped people before in developing a worldview, so ultimately it is a silly question to dwell on
Quote from: Guybrush on Jul 19, 2024, 08:49 PMIsn't this a weird question? There's been so much right wing punk. There's a reason Dead Kennedys made Nazi Punks Fuck Off.
It even goes back to the Ramones. Johnny was a right wing jackass.
I just love it when a simple misspelling changes the entire meaning of a word!
FOR BEARS & SHORT HAIR: Recommended for all hair & beard types. Ideal for shorter head hair, groomed beard hair, goatees, mustaches & more. Use for brushing thin, fine or thick hair.
Unless we're talking teddy bears, know anyone tough enough (or stupid enough) to go try comb and style a bear?? :laughing: :laughing:
Reminds me of a similar error, when an etiquette book advised people "It is considered impolite to tear pieces of one's beard off and put them in one's soup." Well, yeah, I imagine it would be painful too! :laughing:
Quote from: Trollheart on Jul 20, 2024, 09:08 PMI just love it when a simple misspelling changes the entire meaning of a word!
FOR BEARS & SHORT HAIR: Recommended for all hair & beard types. Ideal for shorter head hair, groomed beard hair, goatees, mustaches & more. Use for brushing thin, fine or thick hair.
Unless we're talking teddy bears, know anyone tough enough (or stupid enough) to go try comb and style a bear?? :laughing: :laughing:
Reminds me of a similar error, when an etiquette book advised people "It is considered impolite to tear pieces of one's beard off and put them in one's soup." Well, yeah, I imagine it would be painful too! :laughing:
Clearly about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(gay_culture) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(gay_culture))
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I thought this was slightly interesting:
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I'm surprised Costa Rica is number two. My job involves working with a Costa Rican team every day, and working with them has taught me that (a) Costa Rica has better labor protections than the US and (b) Costa Rica has a lot of holidays.
Facts:
- Rhythm is a dancer.
- Rhythm is going to get you.
Today I received a temporary ban from Reddit for inciting violence. My offending comment? The US didn't tolerate Nazis during WW2.
Quote from: Janszoon on Jul 30, 2024, 06:29 PMToday I received a temporary ban from Reddit for inciting violence. My offending comment? The US didn't tolerate Nazis during WW2.
Damn, that's kinda nuts. Depending on the subreddit, mods can be really obnoxious and biased on there but a sitewide ban for a comment like that is bullshit. I'm thinking it might be some disgruntled far righters mass reporting your post and the moderation might not have even been human, but I'm not sure how Reddit handles stuff like that.
If there's any way to appeal the ban I would try that, because that is ridiculous.
Quote from: Janszoon on Jul 30, 2024, 06:29 PMToday I received a temporary ban from Reddit for inciting violence. My offending comment? The US didn't tolerate Nazis during WW2.
reddit is a public company now too, their mods get paid so maybe the word nazi was just AI filtered and not even a human read it. idk
but damn that sucks :-[
Quote from: Shhon on Jul 30, 2024, 07:42 PMreddit is a public company now too, their mods get paid so maybe the word nazi was just AI filtered and not even a human read it. idk
but damn that sucks :-[
Maybe they're Nazis? :laughing:
Made a chili and thought of
@Toy RevolverWas definitely better than your one.
You just know that that sick-ass mouth trumpet totally made that lady think about his juicy mango.
Quote from: grindy on Aug 07, 2024, 08:38 PMYou just know that that sick-ass mouth trumpet totally made that lady think about his juicy mango.
Wow, who's this guy? Good voice and great delivery plus that lip trumpet is better than what most players achieve with a real trumpet 👍
Quote from: Guybrush on Aug 10, 2024, 08:58 AMWow, who's this guy? Good voice and great delivery plus that lip trumpet is better than what most players achieve with a real trumpet 👍
Yeah, behind the silliness dude's just talented af
Maybe this is common knowledge and I've just been oblivious, but I just found out that the actor who plays Porkins in Star Wars is also the "top men" guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Gordon in the Tim Burton Batman.
https://x.com/SeanUlidia/status/1823428047917531393
Quote from: Janszoon on Aug 16, 2024, 10:52 PMMaybe this is common knowledge and I've just been oblivious, but I just found out that the actor who plays Porkins in Star Wars is also the "top men" guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Gordon in the Tim Burton Batman.
It took me until this year to realize that the grandpa from The Princess Bride and Columbo were played by the same guy, haha.
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https://x.com/WORLDSTAR/status/1824459558825107634?
https://x.com/thematrixwizard/status/1825161054273573074
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Aug 18, 2024, 02:20 PMhttps://x.com/WORLDSTAR/status/1824459558825107634?
What's the strategy here? Did he not foresee the guy pointing his phone at him and likely recording him putting him on blast on the internet and his wife finding out anyways?
Quote from: SGR on Aug 18, 2024, 06:21 PMWhat's the strategy here? Did he not foresee the guy pointing his phone at him and likely recording him putting him on blast on the internet and his wife finding out anyways?
Yeah I wouldn't do it.
Well not if a man ordered me to.
Guess he really put his foot in it!
Yeah yeah, I know where the door is. Same place as always, right?
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What? I didn't get that one.
Quote from: Guybrush on Aug 30, 2024, 06:50 PMWhat? I didn't get that one.
its all good sir
i just deleted that one, i can pick up your negative vibes towards it from your reply
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😂😂😂
I wasn't offended, but let me guess.. YOU'RE the one making these memes,
@Shhon, and you're using US as your test audience / guinea pigs. Am I right?
If so, I'd like an explanation of the worship music one. I'm still confused by it. It was an anatomy chart showing a cross section of a human head with lots of arrows pointing to the mouth and tongue and then a caption that any music can be worship music 🤔 I mean, how does it connect and what's the message? I'm intrigued now.
Quote from: Guybrush on Aug 31, 2024, 10:57 AMI wasn't offended, but let me guess.. YOU'RE the one making these memes, @Shhon, and you're using US as your test audience / guinea pigs. Am I right?
If so, I'd like an explanation of the worship music one. I'm still confused by it. It was an anatomy chart showing a cross section of a human head with lots of arrows pointing to the mouth and tongue and then a caption that any music can be worship music 🤔 I mean, how does it connect and what's the message? I'm intrigued now.
nah i suck at making memes
https://x.com/bluegrizzlysnus/status/1829607813402017986
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https://x.com/synth3ticc/status/1829260525085270134
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randoms I've liked on twitter/X lately^
I have a trillion of the motivational ones but mainly the discord fams see those every day or so lol
i do put my favs on my meme instagram channel :)
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I have never owned a saddle.
A true story.
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Been thinking of making a tune and posting it.
The only thing I can do is vocal grime beats.
So it'd be that. I've done it a fair bit but never posted anything to the forums.
I'll think about it.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Oct 11, 2024, 05:57 PMBeen thinking of making a tune and posting it.
The only thing I can do is vocal grime beats.
So it'd be that. I've done it a fair bit but never posted anything to the forums.
I'll think about it.
Ooo do it! And if you need help mixing or mastering, I might be able to help 🙂
Also, I've no idea what a grime beat is.
Quote from: Guybrush on Oct 11, 2024, 06:09 PMOoo do it! And if you need help mixing or mastering, I might be able to help 🙂
Also, I've no idea what a grime beat is.
Cheers mate.
Its just a style of music.
It's got good energy 😄 I like it 👍
Hello SCD
this is Shhon on a new account
Stephanie messaged me and asked why I deleted my account
nothing wrong, it was something personal
I am back on this name now though
welcome back shhon!
Welcome back, you crazy inspiration meme machine you!
Quote from: QuantumSync on Oct 12, 2024, 12:50 AMHello SCD
this is Shhon on a new account
Stephanie messaged me and asked why I deleted my account
nothing wrong, it was something personal
I am back on this name now though
Hi shhon I hope u live forever :)
Quote from: QuantumSync on Oct 12, 2024, 12:50 AMHello SCD
this is Shhon on a new account
Stephanie messaged me and asked why I deleted my account
nothing wrong, it was something personal
I am back on this name now though
Welcome back 🙂
Do you want me to try and re-attach you to your old posts do you get your post count etc. back?
Thanks frens
and nah its all good
@Guybrush about the post count. I'll just keep this new one
Welcome back Shhon V 2.0!
I must say to everyone though, I'm disappointed in the engagement in this thread. A thread for nothing,and nobody has posted nothing? Can none of you really find the time to post nothing in this thread? Surely you can spare a moment. It's easy: look.
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You can even use other versions of nothing, that's allowed.
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Mitsubishi ZERO
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NILs Lofgren
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ZIP codes
Of course, there's always music...
"NOTHING compares 2 U" - Sinead O'Connor
"NOTHING's Gonna Stop Us Now" - Starship
"Ain't NOTHIN' Going On But the Rent" - Gwen Guthrie
"Non, je ne regrette RIEN" - Edith Piaf
See? It's not so hard. So come on, do your duty and post nothing in this thread. You can easily find nothing on the internet and it doesn't take long. We need you to post nothing.
Thank you.
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Is there a doppelganger thread on SCD? (If there isn't then Trollheart would probably be the best person to start it.) How about Mark Hollis of Talk Talk and Sir Ian McGeechan, former head coach of Scotland rugby. Jeez.
Sir Ian McGeechan:
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@DJChameleonDo your parents/grandparents/anyone in your family (Caribbean family) of the older generations go by their middle names rather than their first names?
There is a reason I'm asking BTW.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Oct 29, 2024, 08:49 PM@DJChameleon
Do your parents/grandparents/anyone in your family (Caribbean family) of the older generations go by their middle names rather than their first names?
There is a reason I'm asking BTW.
I'm the only one that does but what's the reason for asking?
Quote from: DJChameleon on Oct 30, 2024, 05:20 AMI'm the only one that does but what's the reason for asking?
At my mom's funeral my aunt said in her speech that in the days when my mom was born, Caribbean moms (my nan was from there) did strange things like using middle names instead of first names then made a joke anout how my nan did one better with my mom because she went by another name completely for all of her life, it wasn't on her birth certificate. Then recently I just found that my nan went by her middle name and I learned what her actual first name was. (I didn't know that the name we all knew my mom by wasn't part of her name at all until I was in my early 20s).
I've asked a couple of Jamaicans and they said its very common, said they're called garden names. So I thought I'd ask you as well.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Oct 30, 2024, 08:09 AMAt my mom's funeral my aunt said in her speech that in the days when my mom was born, Caribbean moms (my nan was from there) did strange things like using middle names instead of first names then made a joke anout how my nan did one better with my mom because she went by another name completely for all of her life, it wasn't on her birth certificate. Then recently I just found that my nan went by her middle name and I learned what her actual first name was. (I didn't know that the name we all knew my mom by wasn't part of her name at all until I was in my early 20s).
I've asked a couple of Jamaicans and they said its very common, said they're called garden names. So I thought I'd ask you as well.
That's new to me and maybe only specific to Jamaicans. I'm gonna ask my cousin and aunt if they have heard about that. Maybe I'm just out of the loop.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Oct 30, 2024, 11:22 AMThat's new to me and maybe only specific to Jamaicans. I'm gonna ask my cousin and aunt if they have heard about that. Maybe I'm just out of the loop.
Well my nan wasn't from Jamaica so I doubt it. Let me know what you hear Big D.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Oct 30, 2024, 04:31 PMWell my nan wasn't from Jamaica so I doubt it. Let me know what you hear Big D.
Okay so my cousin didn't know but he's around my age but my aunt that's a few years older says yes that's a common thing that happens in the West Indies.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Oct 31, 2024, 12:31 AMOkay so my cousin didn't know but he's around my age but my aunt that's a few years older says yes that's a common thing that happens in the West Indies.
Cheers, did think it was an older gen thing.
Nice one.
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Do your parents/grandparents/anyone in your family (Caribbean family) of the older generations go by their middle names rather than their first names?
There is a reason I'm asking BTW.
My waste of skin father's name was Kevin Anthony, but my mam always called him Tony. His sisters though called him Kevin. I call him cunt. Sorry sorry, my mistake: dead cunt.
One of my uncles' name was Brendan, but he called himself Bob, as did everyone else, because his name was Brendan O'Byrne = BOB. True story.
Note: for clarification, neither were Jamaican.
Quote from: Trollheart on Nov 01, 2024, 04:09 AMMy waste of skin father's name was Kevin Anthony, but my mam always called him Tony. His sisters though called him Kevin. I call him cunt. Sorry sorry, my mistake: dead cunt.
One of my uncles' name was Brendan, but he called himself Bob, as did everyone else, because his name was Brendan O'Byrne = BOB. True story.
Note: for clarification, neither were Jamaican.
One of my granddads was from Waterford. I've never met him. But I know that he was an absolutely massive cunt. A drunk, abusive piece of shit. I daren't ask any family about him for fear of upsetting anyone.
Noticing a bit of a trend here 🤐
To be perfectly fair to the arsehole, he wasn't a drunk. In fact, he was a tee-totaller, or as we call them here, a Pioneer (?). Didn't stop him being an abusive cunt though. I suppose had he been a drunk there might have been some mitigation in that case (not really) but no, a self-professed Holy Joe who went to Mass on Sundays, beat his breast and then went home and beat his wife. Scumbag. May he rot in Hell, if it exists.
Listening to Funhouse by The Stooges.
Reminds me of
@Toy RevolverMate come back, all is forgiven. We don't care about your shit chili just come back x
Yes, I also miss our wild card troublemaker. Come back,
@Toy Revolver!
So a mate at the office said he's read a poll in the news where randos were asked if they thought it was okay to have friends of the opposite sex. He said most females said yes and most males said no. Then he asked us guys sitting there, I think we were like five guys, if we have any female friends who we could visit or do stuff with. I'm like.. of course! I have female friends and often prefer the company of women.
I was surprised to find I was the only guy out of that group who had female friends.
It's so weird to me. Why would it be like this?
Quote from: Guybrush on Nov 05, 2024, 10:44 AMSo a mate at the office said he's read a poll in the news where randos were asked if they thought it was okay to have friends of the opposite sex. He said most females said yes and most males said no. Then he asked us guys sitting there, I think we were like five guys, if we have any female friends who we could visit or do stuff with. I'm like.. of course! I have female friends and often prefer the company of women.
I was surprised to find I was the only guy out of that group who had female friends.
It's so weird to me. Why would it be like this?
Depends on if they are in a relationship or not I think. Some women feel threatened by their partners having female friends while obviously others don't care and trust their partners.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Nov 05, 2024, 04:02 PMDepends on if they are in a relationship or not I think. Some women feel threatened by their partners having female friends while obviously others don't care and trust their partners.
I hate the idea that everything a guy and a girl does together should be considered a date. I also realize there's a reason people think like this, but I love a good Elaine & Jerry dynamic.
There's a female colleague who loves horror movies (we have so much in common) so I wanted to ask her if she'd like to see Smile 2 at the cinema. Is that weird, then? I'm not physically attracted to her. I just like her. I'll just tell her to bring her BF 🙂
I have some male IRL friends, though most of my IRL friends are some form of LGBTQIA+, in alternative relationship communities, are neurodivergent or otherwise break from the paradigm of traditional cishet romantic monogamy, so I'm not entirely sure if something like that even applies to very many of us. But even with cishet friends of mine, a lot of people I know are married or in long term relationships and I often become equally friendly with both members of a couple. I really don't even think about the gender of my friends in such an analytical way.
As far as the issue of trust in my relationship goes, having a partner who is bisexual probably influences my feelings on this, if I felt threatened by him spending time with his friends, I'd have to feel threatened by literally everyone he's friends with regardless of gender, lol. His partner before me was a man, for example. So it's not something I feel is worth not trusting him over.
Most of my friends are women. My best friend from school was a woman. Well a girl, she's a woman now.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Nov 05, 2024, 04:02 PMDepends on if they are in a relationship or not I think. Some women feel threatened by their partners having female friends while obviously others don't care and trust their partners.
the fact that it's the man voting no points at least as much towards them feeling threatened. Anyway it's obviously ridiculous. I think my own friends are pretty 50/50 male female
When I was younger, my male and female friends were different. I had different relationships with them.
The lads I'd go round their houses more and have them come round mine and I'd just have a different type of bond with them. Computer games and playing sport, that sort of thing.
I had two or three girls I was close to who I'd stop at theirs or they'd stop at mine and then lots of friends outside of that group. People often accused me of doing sexual things with them but it wasn't like that. Just talking shit and drinking. BTW I'm not gay.
If I'm feeling emotional or need to discuss something like that I'll go to a woman. I'm not sure why just initially I'd feel more comfortable with that.
Men are becoming more understanding in this regard I think and I do have a few lads I'd confide in.
Old women nearly always have the exact same haircut.
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Quote from: Guybrush on Nov 05, 2024, 04:12 PMI hate the idea that everything a guy and a girl does together should be considered a date. I also realize there's a reason people think like this, but I love a good Elaine & Jerry dynamic.
There's a female colleague who loves horror movies (we have so much in common) so I wanted to ask her if she'd like to see Smile 2 at the cinema. Is that weird, then? I'm not physically attracted to her. I just like her. I'll just tell her to bring her BF 🙂
Just go to the movies with her. If she feels uncomfortable about it and needs to bring her BF then that's fine too.
I went to a Halloween hayride with a female friend of mines and it wasn't a date. I have 80% female friends and 20% male friends. I feel like I hang out and do outside activities equally with both genders. It's not a big deal to have a platonic friend of the opposite gender.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Nov 05, 2024, 08:19 PMJust go to the movies with her. If she feels uncomfortable about it and needs to bring her BF then that's fine too.
I went to a Halloween hayride with a female friend of mines and it wasn't a date. I have 80% female friends and 20% male friends. I feel like I hang out and do outside activities equally with both genders. It's not a big deal to have a platonic friend of the opposite gender.
I mean, speaking as a trans person I actually more or less agree that there are two genders. I think a lot of people conflate different ways of expressing gender identity as there being a large amount of genders.
A nonbinary person can correct me if I'm wrong, but to me, a lot of the time nonbinary identities seem like different ways of gendered expression that are still ultimately rooted in being a combination of various masculine/feminine identifiers, rather than some unique third/fourth/etc gender completely separate from male and female. There are men and women, some NB people identify as both (e. genderfluid), some as neither (e. agender) but I question whether such NB identities are genders unto themselves.
I know there is a contingent of people who insist that there are 70 million different genders, but I really don't think they have nearly as much influence or pull on the academic or cultural fields of gender.
So no Jimmy, you're not in trouble, not with me anyway lol
I am vaguely aware that I must be very ignorant on the topic of gender. From my academic background, I know a lot about biological sexes identified by either small or large gametes. I have a decent grasp on why there would be two types for most kinds of organisms. It's clearly defined and convincingly explained by theory. I also know of some curious cases where organisms don't have sexes (isogamy), but have mating types instead 🍄
But gender is a word I feel is more tied with identity.. based in something abstract and ever-changing. It makes sense to me that gender would reflect sexes, but I also realize it's influenced by all these wishes and idealism and has room for ideas that come out of a struggle that I don't know enough about. So I tend to be humble with my opinions and I don't have any strong ones either way.
So it's like one of those I know something about and for the other, I just try not to mess up too bad.
By the way, thanks for sharing, guys 🙂 I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who can have regular ass friends of the opposite sex.
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Nov 05, 2024, 09:31 PMI mean, speaking as a trans person I actually more or less agree that there are two genders. I think a lot of people conflate different ways of expressing gender identity as there being a large amount of genders.
A nonbinary person can correct me if I'm wrong, but to me, a lot of the time nonbinary identities seem like different ways of gendered expression that are still ultimately rooted in being a combination of various masculine/feminine identifiers, rather than some unique third/fourth/etc gender completely separate from male and female. There are men and women, some NB people identify as both (e. genderfluid), some as neither (e. agender) but I question whether such NB identities are genders unto themselves.
I know there is a contingent of people who insist that there are 70 million different genders, but I really don't think they have nearly as much influence or pull on the academic or cultural fields of gender.
So no Jimmy, you're not in trouble, not with me anyway lol
Its OK I'm only pulling his leg anyway 😎
I'd be happy with any friends of either sex. Or none. Even amoebas hate me, single-cell-dividing bastards. :(
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Isn't Bill Burr Trump's former AG, or is that another one? A "Burr" under the saddle of the president-elect? :laughing:
Quote from: Trollheart on Nov 06, 2024, 08:50 PMIsn't Bill Burr Trump's former AG, or is that another one? A "Burr" under the saddle of the president-elect? :laughing:
William Barr
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My sleep for the part week has been terrible. I can't sleep for longer than an hour or so.
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Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 10, 2024, 07:09 AMMy sleep for the part week has been terrible. I can't sleep for longer than an hour or so.
Sndjdjfjfjddjdjdjd aaaaaa
Put it on repeat and brew yourself some chamomile tea.
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Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 10, 2024, 07:09 AMMy sleep for the part week has been terrible. I can't sleep for longer than an hour or so.
Sndjdjfjfjddjdjdjd aaaaaa
Don't know if you listen to music at night, but I always found it helps me fall asleep, as I try to stay awake to hear the next song and in doing so end up falling asleep.
You might also be experiencing stress due to your recent loss. Have you tried herbal remedies like Kalms, or Rescue Remedy? They used to help Karen. Also, if you're into it, maybe install a dreamcatcher in your bedroom? No, not the creepy guy out of
Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang!
Quote from: Trollheart on Nov 10, 2024, 04:48 PMDon't know if you listen to music at night, but I always found it helps me fall asleep, as I try to stay awake to hear the next song and in doing so end up falling asleep.
You might also be experiencing stress due to your recent loss. Have you tried herbal remedies like Kalms, or Rescue Remedy? They used to help Karen. Also, if you're into it, maybe install a dreamcatcher in your bedroom? No, not the creepy guy out of Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang!
Could do. I am stressed at the moment but I don't think it's because of that. I am upset a lot but I've got other things causing a lot of stress too.
I'll give your advice a go. I've been listening to podcasts a lot recently but I think it might be too stimulating when you're trying to switch off.
I'll try the Trolls method.
Cheers Big T.
Poor you, insomnia is horrible. Definitely sounds like being stressed/upset might have something to do with it :( It certainly does for me, my last long stretch of insomnia was when I felt depressed, I've never found a way to really do anything about it myself though, but I know relaxing rituals before sleep work for some people (some nice herbal tea, a bath, etc.) and obviously fresh air and exercise but you do that anyway. My mom used to play whale song or ocean sounds for me to help me sleep when I was little, that's less stimulating than music or podcasts. Oh and melatonin is another thing you can try
Quote from: Marie Monday on Nov 10, 2024, 09:12 PMPoor you, insomnia is horrible. Definitely sounds like being stressed/upset might have something to do with it :( It certainly does for me, my last long stretch of insomnia was when I felt depressed, I've never found a way to really do anything about it myself though, but I know relaxing rituals before sleep work for some people (some nice herbal tea, a bath, etc.) and obviously fresh air and exercise but you do that anyway. My mom used to play whale song or ocean sounds for me to help me sleep when I was little, that's less stimulating than music or podcasts. Oh and melatonin is another thing you can try
Thank you.
Melatonin is prescription only here and my GP won't prescribe me anything. Even when I said my mom just died I can't sleep, they wouldn't give me anything.
I'm doing as much as I can to fix this.
I'll try some music and shit tonight.
Ah fucking British GPs and their refusal to just give people their medicine,that's ridiculous even by their standards. Melatonin is quite harmless too. Why on earth does it exist of not for a case like this.
That's quite strange. Doctors here are reluctant to prescribe sleeping pills, sure, but if you demonstrate your need for them they will. Karen could never get to sleep without her pills, and later her one a night was increased to two, but before it was, I remember her trying to cadge an extra one off me for the afternoon (when she would try to sleep too) and me telling her she only had a finite amount, and if I gave her one in the afternoon she'd soon run out of the night time ones. I used to have to go cap in hand to the doctor looking for her tablets early, but that didn't work as they just ran out sooner. Luckily, my pharmacist was very helpful and used to give us a week's supply early, but I'd then have to go to the doctor and get a new prescription. Then they really tightened up the rules, and he couldn't risk it any more. Soon after her dosage was increased and she never really had a problem after that.
One thing I do know, JJ, is that the human body cannot stay awake indefinitely, so, as I used to say to her, when she would fear she would never sleep again after having been awake for several nights, eventually your body just takes over, gives in and your eyes put up the CLOSED sign, and off you go. But the herbal sleeping tablets do seem to work. Another thing that worked her her, initially anyway, was brandy in warm milk. Seemed to help her. If you have a telly in your room, trying to stay awake watching it also worked for me. I think the more you try to stay awake, the easier it is to fall asleep. Don't know if that makes any sense.
Hey, if all else fails, try reading my journals! That'll send you to sleep! :laughing:
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 10, 2024, 10:03 PMThank you.
Melatonin is prescription only here and my GP won't prescribe me anything. Even when I said my mom just died I can't sleep, they wouldn't give me anything.
I'm doing as much as I can to fix this.
I'll try some music and shit tonight.
Thats so strange because I feel like there are so many Melatonin over the counter products available. I guess it's different in your neck of the woods but in the states we can just hop down to the nearest pharmacy and buy some sleep pills or the liquid like Zzzquil.
How would you live your life if you farted extremely loudly every five minutes?
Loudly.
And malodorously.
Quote from: Janszoon on Nov 11, 2024, 07:25 AMHow would you live your life if you farted extremely loudly every five minutes?
In some ways, it could be a superpower. Start a youtube channel. Record yourself farting in public places (movie theatres, cafes, etc) and going up to random people asking them to pull your finger. Easy money. Farts will never be unfunny. I'd be a national hero.
Quote from: SGR on Nov 11, 2024, 05:29 PMIn some ways, it could be a superpower. Start a youtube channel. Record yourself farting in public places (movie theatres, cafes, etc) and going up to random people asking them to pull your finger. Easy money. Farts will never be unfunny. I'd be a national hero.
You might be better off starting an OF and monetizing your farts that way.
Quote from: Guybrush on Nov 13, 2024, 12:03 AMAnd if any of you want to come here, we'll take you in ❤️
You seem like a fun guy to live with BTW.
Take me in.
As payment I'll coach you and we can train together. Can you imagine it? Two bald, brick shithouses getting sweaty and hot together.
Would be amazing.
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Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 13, 2024, 12:59 AMYou seem like a fun guy to live with BTW.
Take me in.
As payment I'll coach you and we can train together. Can you imagine it? Two bald, brick shithouses getting sweaty and hot together.
Would be amazing.
Haha, thanks mate 😄
Absolutely I'd take you in! We could get more patty on our beefcakes together 👌
But I don't wanna give up the guest room, so you might have to share a room with my wife.
Quote from: Guybrush on Nov 13, 2024, 08:26 AMHaha, thanks mate 😄
Absolutely I'd take you in! We could get more patty on our beefcakes together 👌
But I don't wanna give up the guest room, so you might have to share a room with my wife.
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Bots can't sign up. It's a serious problem.
Wifi on Jupiter sucks man, due to the Great Red Spot. Neptune is where it's at.
I've noticed that in this country, if an older man (40+) is losing his hair and doesn't shave his head, he's probably a Tory.
Not foolproof but I've noticed it.
Look at the MPs next time you see PMQs or whatever.
Guessing the Tories don't want to look like the great unwashed or hooligans by having shaved heads.
Michael Fabricant - Tory
Mick Lynch - Not a Tory
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Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 18, 2024, 10:37 PMI've noticed that in this country, if an older man (40+) is losing his hair and doesn't shave his head, he's probably a Tory.
Not foolproof but I've noticed it.
Look at the MPs next time you see PMQs or whatever.
Guessing the Tories don't want to look like the great unwashed or hooligans by having shaved heads.
Michael Fabricant - Tory
Mick Lynch - Not a Tory
Haha, that's not a bad observation lol :laughing: And I support the hypothesis that you're more likely to see a comb-over in a right wing MP than a left wing MP. (Arthur Scargill has a great receding haircut, but he was a different era.)
And Mindy you've been posting some nice messages recently. "
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path". I'm starting a part time job next week teaching English to high school students in France, and there's going to be a huge difference between what I learned in training vs. delivering the classes. A bit like rally driving where I proved to be a trusty co-pilot, but now I'm being told to drive the car!
Yes, some of Quantum's quotes are very good. I liked this one:-
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Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 18, 2024, 10:37 PMI've noticed that in this country, if an older man (40+) is losing his hair and doesn't shave his head, he's probably a Tory.
Not foolproof but I've noticed it.
Look at the MPs next time you see PMQs or whatever.
Guessing the Tories don't want to look like the great unwashed or hooligans by having shaved heads.
Michael Fabricant - Tory
Mick Lynch - Not a Tory
^ Haha! I was going to post a photo of Eno to prove you wrong, then realised that a photo of Eno would prove you right :( :
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Quote from: Saulaac on Nov 20, 2024, 12:23 AMAnd Mindy you've been posting some nice messages recently. "There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path". I'm starting a part time job next week teaching English to high school students in France, and there's going to be a huge difference between what I learned in training vs. delivering the classes. A bit like rally driving where I proved to be a trusty co-pilot, but now I'm being told to drive the car!
Good luck with the teaching job, Saulaac. I hope your classes will be small and decently behaved: that makes the difference between Heaven and Hell imo. Let me know if you have any questions that you imagine I could help you with, ok?
Thanks lads! Give it a go next time you watch the news. Doesn't have to be an MP either. For example I've just seen Lord Lloyd Webber talking about the farmers. Should shave his head.
The baldometer is rarely wrong.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Nov 20, 2024, 12:55 AMGood luck with the teaching job, Saulaac. I hope your classes will be small and decently behaved: that makes the difference between Heaven and Hell imo. Let me know if you have any questions that you imagine I could help you with, ok?
Thanks Lisna, appreciated! :love: I hope I can deal with it and if I can't then you'll be hearing about it in the next couple of weeks on here.
Class sizes are about 25 to 30 students, so I should be fine (he said). The 18 yr olds are studying lit. such as Pride & Prejudice, but the younger ones are still coming to terms with basic English such as conjunctions, vocab and irregular verbs. So that is my challenge. How to motivate them to fall in love with basic English grammar so that they can express themselves in an easy going way. I'd love to introduce them to some MB or SCD banter but it is probably a tad too soon for that.
Lesson preparation is key apparently, and the other teachers said they would help me with that.
I seem to remember you're teaching university students in Mexico? Keep going with that! We'll make it rocky, and funky!
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 20, 2024, 01:04 AMThanks lads! Give it a go next time you watch the news. Doesn't have to be an MP either. For example I've just seen Lord Lloyd Webber talking about the farmers. Should shave his head.
The baldometer is rarely wrong.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 20, 2024, 01:04 AMThanks lads! Give it a go next time you watch the news. Doesn't have to be an MP either. For example I've just seen Lord Lloyd Webber talking about the farmers. Should shave his head.
The baldometer is rarely wrong.
Need to catch up on this beef between Lloyd Webber and farmers. Lloyd Webber is probably a theathrical sort. Farmers somewhat less. Baldometer engaged :checkmark: ;) .
Quote from: Saulaac on Nov 20, 2024, 02:14 AMNeed to catch up on this beef between Lloyd Webber and farmers. Lloyd Webber is probably a theathrical sort. Farmers somewhat less. Baldometer engaged :checkmark: ;) .
Sorry I might have worded it wrong, he's not beefing them he's defending them, he was at the protest. He has 5,000 acres of farms, but he wasn't there for himself, apparently.
- Wealthy land owner
- Tory donor
- Needs to shave his head
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Nov 20, 2024, 02:39 AMSorry I might have worded it wrong, he's not beefing them he's defending them, he was at the protest. He has 5,000 acres of farms, but he wasn't there for himself, apparently.
- Wealthy land owner
- Tory donor
- Needs to shave his head
I completely misunderstood your post JJ, sorry about that.
English/British farmers descending on Westminster to protest about inheritance, whilst French farmers block motorways and spray muck on town halls to protest EU import regulations. They pretty much have the same gripe. An erosion of assets which they have tried to build up over a couple of/ a few generations, and now these assets are being gnawed away at by the government of the day.
On the one hand, they have probably worked hard for it. On the other hand (and this is the scary bit) why is the government of the day going after this group of local people at this time?
Well, my two cents is that that the UK govt. can't really go after the really rich investors who have paid a lot into the UK and French economies, because a lot of them are based in other countries such as Russia and China and have complex investment packages protected by lawyers and bankers. If the govt. really did put their foot down then these rich foreign investors would try to pull out, or if they can't, they would sow discontent through whatever power they have in the media.
So the UK govt. is picking on the rural rich to try and balance the coffers. I say rich, most of them are in debt to the banks as they have a lot of equipment and land taxes to pay off. They probably still drive a Land Rover and wear a sports jacket, but I don't think that automatically means they are rich. (Do they have sufficient means to eat relatively well for the next couple of years?; well, defo).
That's how I see it at the mo.
I don't doubt some are asset rich and not necessarily cash rich, but why should they be exempt from paying a tax everyone else has to? The deal on the table is already very generous. Paying half of what everyone else pays and over a ten year period.
Cough up, imo.
Well I think you're right. They should pay the same proprotiate amount that other Britons are taxed upon.
But there's a whole other level of guys from elsewhere who sign up to investment programmes which are exempt from UK tax, but they still benefit from growth in the UK economy. This is globalism. How far should national economies continue to welcome legitimate and shady investments?
Friend sent me a pic of their poo in the toilet.
She is a character.
Quote from: Saulaac on Nov 20, 2024, 01:54 AMThanks Lisna, appreciated! :love: I hope I can deal with it and if I can't then you'll be hearing about it in the next couple of weeks on here.
Class sizes are about 25 to 30 students, so I should be fine (he said). The 18 yr olds are studying lit. such as Pride & Prejudice, but the younger ones are still coming to terms with basic English such as conjunctions, vocab and irregular verbs. So that is my challenge. How to motivate them to fall in love with basic English grammar so that they can express themselves in an easy going way. I'd love to introduce them to some MB or SCD banter but it is probably a tad too soon for that.
Lesson preparation is key apparently, and the other teachers said they would help me with that.
I seem to remember you're teaching university students in Mexico? Keep going with that! We'll make it rocky, and funky!
Well, 25 to 30 is pretty big, but manageable if they are decently behaved. Yes, thorough prep is essential so that you are not caught out with the whole class looking at you and you don't know what to do next. If you are in the job for the long run, the good news is that you can use this term's class prep over and over again.
My basic tips would be:
i) start with a non-essential in-pairs activity which allows for students to drift in late.
ii) project video stuff, even if it's just an electronic version of the text book, as students pay attention to those things more
iii) divide the class as often as possible into small groups to do activities together as this takes pressure off you
iv) like at the start of the class, close with an activity that's as conversational as possible, again in small groups, and that is flexible in terms of its running time
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Dec 04, 2024, 12:07 AMWell, 25 to 30 is pretty big, but manageable if they are decently behaved. Yes, thorough prep is essential so that you are not caught out with the whole class looking at you and you don't know what to do next. If you are in the job for the long run, the good news is that you can use this term's class prep over and over again.
My basic tips would be:
i) start with a non-essential in-pairs activity which allows for students to drift in late.
ii) project video stuff, even if it's just an electronic version of the text book, as students pay attention to those things more
iii) divide the class as often as possible into small groups to do activities together as this takes pressure off you
iv) like at the start of the class, close with an activity that's as conversational as possible, again in small groups, and that is flexible in terms of its running time
Lisna, thanks so much for your advice and tips :) I started with a one-week training, and I must say I was impressed by their behaviour. Sure they are a lively bunch and have a lot to chat about, but if I can get them to focus on what is going on at the front of the classroom then that is a victory in itself.
Classes are typically 50 minutes long, so great idea to have them working in pairs or small groups. And I agree that foreign students need to get used to talking English out loud in front of other people as much as possible, so I'll always be encouraging that. :)
Just to note that I am currently teaching in the private sector in south west France. This is a little different from the state sector on the outskirts of Paris for example. Yes, teachers seem to be getting threatened more in the Parisian suburbs. Perhaps I should head up north to Paris to obtain my proper teacher training!
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Dec 03, 2024, 09:19 PMFriend sent me a pic of their poo in the toilet.
She is a character.
Wow. That's an interesting way to flirt..
Is it working? 😲
Quote from: Guybrush on Dec 04, 2024, 11:16 PMWow. That's an interesting way to flirt..
Is it working? 😲
Not at all.
There's nothing sexy going on whatsoever.
Oh, poo on her then.
That's a shit way to communicate etc.
Quote from: Trollheart on Dec 05, 2024, 06:58 PMOh, poo on her then.
That's a shit way to communicate etc.
She's hot BTW.
You'd defo eat her shit.
You're such an lick-arse, JJ. :laughing:
I love it when you call me señorita
I wish that you would let me lick your feeta
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Just found out about 'splitting the G'.
What a load of bollocks.
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Not seeing the problem here. Beatboxing is a legit love language.
Meh I don't know. Looks like it's on its last legs. Bit of a dying art.
A girl said to me last night:
"I once sent you a titty pic in the Villa shirt you got me to test the waters and all you responded with was UP THE VILLA. It was a very indirect but polite rejection."
😂😂😂
Everybody please be kind to
@Thelonious Monkey as he has had a tough week at work this week:
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Dec 20, 2024, 09:45 PMEverybody please be kind to @Thelonious Monkey as he has had a tough week at work this week:
Oh man, that's pathetic 😂
Are you brits usually this cruel with your buddies? Although it does kinda remind me of my friends in the 90s, but just a little bit.
Quote from: Guybrush on Dec 21, 2024, 07:27 AMOh man, that's pathetic 😂
Are you brits usually this cruel with your buddies? Although it does kinda remind me of my friends in the 90s, but just a little bit.
The pub lads are. I haven't done that myself but I know plenty of people like it.
Ffs! These pullups are about as clean as
@Toy Revolver's underwear.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Dec 23, 2024, 05:37 PM
Ffs! These pullups are about as clean as @Toy Revolver's underwear.
Gods. How did he agree to this? Must be a sketch 😅 I hope it's a sketch.
Me when Americans expect me to tip:
Anyone wanna buy me one of these?
https://www.watches-of-switzerland.co.uk/Vacheron-Constantin-Overseas-4500V/110R+B705/p/17510350
That is a hell of a sales pitch, JJ. I would get it for you if I had the cash!
Narrator sounds like a guy who is consolidating his Swiss-Austro-Hungarian roots judging by that accent. And why not.
But in the words of Hall & Oates, for the moment I "no can do".
Quote from: Saulaac on Dec 27, 2024, 04:13 AMThat is a hell of a sales pitch, JJ. I would get it for you if I had the cash!
Narrator sounds like a guy who is consolidating his Swiss-Austro-Hungarian roots judging by that accent. And why not.
But in the words of Hall & Oates, for the moment I "no can do".
Thank you mate.
They are beautiful aren't they?
It is my life goal.
To own a top tier Swiss watch.
If I have one of those I will have truly made it.
Will need to move location though, no chance I'd wear something like that round here. They'll cut my hands off to get it.
Lolz, Birmingham isn't that bad is it? I mean in my day there was the odd knife scuffle in Manchester but we never heard of machetes and the like. What the fook?
Vacheron watches are very nice, JJ. And thanks for bringing them up on SCD.
May you be in the position to own one of them! Keep fighting for what you believe in.
When was the last time you spent a decent length of time in England? It's probably not the same place you left. My immediate area isn't the worst and there have been multiple stabbings in the past few years just on the roads by my house.
You would absolutely get robbed and probably stabbed if you resisted, in most of the core cities.
There was a machete fight on the road next to this one recently - https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/10/thug-in-helmet-wields-machete-in-street-brawl-between-moped-drivers-18259319/
If you do a search you'll see more.
The stabbings happen all the time.
So I'd definitely not wear a Swiss watch outside.
Indian Americans own about half of all motels in the United States. Of them, 70% have the last name Patel. (Life Behind the Lobby)
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I have 35mm film coming today and will be getting 36 shots. It will interesting to not be able to see the photo I get snapped after taking it like on a phone. I'll be taking to walgreens or walmart to develop them but not sure what the fuck I'm going to do with physical photos lol This camera is from the 1950s also
Last night I was looking in the mirror and I saw a very thick beard hair, like three or four times the thickness of a normal one. I touched it and I was absolutely amazed.
It pulled out easily and I've got it in some tissue with a normal beard hair for scale. It's like a tarantula leg.
Already sent pics to a few friends and they are "disgusted and impressed". Another one said "yeah she thicc".
I can't wait to show my sister!
I haven't posted a pic because it may not to be some of your tastes.
That's some David Cronenberg going-ons, Big J. Hope you don't turn into a brundlefly 😄
quality content
I drank too much tea too quickly and now my stomach sloshes when I walk
Quote from: Marie Monday on Feb 02, 2025, 07:55 PMI drank too much tea too quickly and now my stomach sloshes when I walk
Did this with beer on holiday and vomited over a girl's legs.
Mouth and eyes started watering and I knew it was coming.
I still feel bad when I think about it.
Tried to leave as fast as I could but :(
oh nooo :coldsweat:
happy to report that just going to the loo has resolved the sloshing condition here
I am once again ~60% water, the way god intended
https://x.com/GothamChief/status/1886478594500616279?t=QBLqLUC7iohFgyBV5GCa4A&s=19
I can tell
@Trollheart did the su forums.
QuoteHip-Hop, Rap and Urban Music
Get yo gangsta on!
😂😂😂😂😂
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random music opinion dump: people comparing the Strokes to the Velvet Underground (makes no sense) when they're actually the natural heirs to the Ramones
Who's comparing the Strokes to the Velvet Underground?
music critics? I don't even remember but it's a thing I've read on multiple occasions
Quote from: Marie Monday on Feb 18, 2025, 11:14 PMmusic critics? I don't even remember but it's a thing I've read on multiple occasions
Huh...I'd agree with you, they probably sound more like the Ramones than the Velvet Underground to me, but the comparison still isn't perfect.
oh obviously
Quote from: Marie Monday on Feb 19, 2025, 12:29 AMoh obviously
This woman is a true hero.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Oversteegen
I'm sure you know of her.
Just found out about this.
I hope she got honoured some way by the royals or whoever does that sort of thing.
I didn't know of her actually! Hero for sure. Fun fact: my grandma was also a part of the Dutch anti-nazi resistance, less prominent than this but she also hid people and mostly did illegal journalistic work, passing on information
Quote from: Marie Monday on Feb 20, 2025, 07:32 PMI didn't know of her actually! Hero for sure. Fun fact: my grandma was also a part of the Dutch anti-nazi resistance, less prominent than this but she also hid people and mostly did illegal journalistic work, passing on information
God bless her.
I was listening to a Noiser podcast about the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler. There was an interesting bit about three German students called the White Rose or something like that. They distributed leaflets opposing the war and got executed by the Nazis. Very sad. But very brave.
I heard that there are little metal remembrance bricks in the streets all over Europe, as in one brick for each victim with their name on it, especially Germany and the Netherlands. How often do you see them?
I have never noticed them at all! gosh there is still so much about history which I have no idea about
Quote from: Marie Monday on Feb 20, 2025, 10:46 PMI have never noticed them at all! gosh there is still so much about history which I have no idea about
Article here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein
@Marie Monday(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkpce1wWwAACfmy?format=jpg&name=large)
This true?
Neuken in de keuken is true yes
The other one is technically not wrong but no one would say it like that. It would be equivalent to saying 'give me a slap daddy'. People just use the word spank, or else they would say sla me I suppose (meaning hit me)
Anyway Dutch is certainly not a serious language, that much is true
Quote from: Marie Monday on Feb 26, 2025, 09:13 PMNeuken in de keuken is true yes
The other one is technically not wrong but no one would say it like that. It would be equivalent to saying 'give me a slap daddy'. People just use the word spank, or else they would say sla me I suppose (meaning hit me)
Anyway Dutch is certainly not a serious language, that much is true
Can you speak German?
And was English easy for you?
I can speak a little bit of German but that doesn't come automatically with speaking Dutch. English is certainly the easiest language to learn for a Dutch person if you don't count Afrikaans or perhaps Frysian (German probably sounds closer to Dutch than English but is grammatically more complex), and conversely Dutch is probably the closest language to English too if you don't count dialects etc. But I didn't find learning French or German much harder. In my experience the difference really only starts to become significant if you're dealing with languages with completely different roots. It is also harder to judge because learning a foreign language makes learning other foreign languages easier too, so you can't always separate it: learning one European language contributes to learning all the others, unless maybe it's a super funky one like Finnish but that's the different roots problem again
Cheers pal x
I can pick out bits of Portuguese now based on my Spanish. Feels good. German just looks similar to Dutch for me which is why I asked. I did hear Dutch is the easiest to learn for English people.
STERKTE!
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Americans say:
- Paydro (for Pedro)
- Posta (for Pasta)
- Tockos (for Tacos)
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 03, 2025, 07:49 PMAmericans say:
- Paydro (for Pedro)
- Posta (for Pasta)
- Tockos (for Tacos)
Don't get me started on the Brits:
adding A's and R's where none exist (Laarger)
dropping aitches where they do exist
adding redundant leading questions to the end of statements (isn't it?) most noticeable with BBC reporters.
I'm weary already just thinking about it.
Quote from: Buck_Mulligan on Mar 03, 2025, 10:06 PMDon't get me started on the Brits:
adding A's and R's where none exist (Laarger)
dropping aitches where they do exist
adding redundant leading questions to the end of statements (isn't it?) most noticeable with BBC reporters.
I'm weary already just thinking about it.
Ever heard a brit say "watermelon"?
Quote from: Buck_Mulligan on Mar 03, 2025, 10:17 PMNo, do tell!
Wah err melon.
It's like Utahns saying "mountain" they don't pronounce the T.
Edit: It's actually more like Wah uh melon.
Quote from: Buck_Mulligan on Mar 03, 2025, 10:06 PMDon't get me started on the Brits:
adding A's and R's where none exist (Laarger)
dropping aitches where they do exist
adding redundant leading questions to the end of statements (isn't it?) most noticeable with BBC reporters.
I'm weary already just thinking about it.
I get it but it is our language.
Quote from: Lucem Ferre on Mar 03, 2025, 10:20 PMWah err melon.
It's like Utahns saying "mountain" they don't pronounce the T.
Edit: It's actually more like Wah uh melon.
That's mainly Londoners who do that.
- Worla bollel (Water bottle)
Yeah, that's the cockney accent.
- Glaz-gow (like cow 🐄) (Glasgow)
- Mirror (meer)
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been launching meme collections a lot still
collection #62
https://www.instagram.com/shhons_meme_agency
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Of the two I'd be more concerned with the former. If I'm buying a battery or something with one I'd certainly make my decision based on whether or not it would blow up in my face, despite the length of time it might last!
It's explosive? Oh yeah, but it's durable too.
Oh. Great.
But, you know, it
is explosive?
Oh yeah.
But durable.
Right.
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Did I do this right?
I don't understand any of this. Explain, please, to an angry old man.
And me.
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 04, 2025, 01:12 AMOf the two I'd be more concerned with the former. If I'm buying a battery or something with one I'd certainly make my decision based on whether or not it would blow up in my face, despite the length of time it might last!
It's explosive? Oh yeah, but it's durable too.
Oh. Great.
But, you know, it is explosive?
Oh yeah.
But durable.
Right.
Yeah. :laughing:
I was looking into buying a drone and that was one of the features listed for one of them.
I decided to look elsewhere.
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Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 03, 2025, 07:49 PMAmericans say:
- Paydro (for Pedro)
- Posta (for Pasta)
- Tockos (for Tacos)
First one is correct. That's closer to the Spanish pronunciation.
I say "pahsta". I think that's the most common American pronunciation.
I also say "tahkose", which is how most Americans pronounce it and also close to the Spanish.
Quote from: Janszoon on Mar 06, 2025, 03:53 AMFirst one is correct. That's closer to the Spanish pronunciation.
I say "pahsta". I think that's the most common American pronunciation.
I also say "tahkose", which is how most Americans pronounce it and also close to the Spanish.
Never heard it pronounced it like that. Always been Pedro like an egg.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 06, 2025, 05:16 PMNever heard it pronounced it like that. Always been Pedro like an egg.
I'm having a hard time imagining how that would sound.
Quote from: Janszoon on Mar 06, 2025, 05:21 PMI'm having a hard time imagining how that would sound.
I think he's saying he's heard it said like "Peh-dro" instead of "Pay-dro". I think that's how native spanish speakers pronounce the name.
Quote from: Janszoon on Mar 06, 2025, 05:21 PMI'm having a hard time imagining how that would sound.
Pedro 👍😎
Quote from: SGR on Mar 06, 2025, 05:28 PMI think he's saying he's heard it said like "Peh-dro" instead of "Pay-dro"
How do you pronounce the words I listed?
Also can you pronounce Leicestershire?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 06, 2025, 05:29 PMHow do you pronounce the words I listed?
Also can you pronounce Leicestershire?
I pronounce them the same way that Jansz described.
I took my best guess on how to pronounce Leicestershire, then looked it up. I was wrong. Figures it's pronounced like worcestershire (which I also struggle with anyways lol)
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 06, 2025, 05:29 PMHow do you pronounce the words I listed?
Also can you pronounce Leicestershire?
Is it "Lester-sheer"?
Quote from: SGR on Mar 06, 2025, 05:28 PMI think he's saying he's heard it said like "Peh-dro" instead of "Pay-dro". I think that's how native spanish speakers pronounce the name.
E is pronounced like an English long A, so I think "Pay-dro" is closer to the Spanish pronunciation.
@Lisnaholic we need your expertise!
Quote from: Janszoon on Mar 06, 2025, 07:11 PMIs it "Lester-sheer"?
Yes.
Well done.
You don't have to put as much stress on the shire part. Could just say Lestersha.
But yes.
Quote from: Janszoon on Mar 06, 2025, 07:14 PME is pronounced like an English long A, so I think "Pay-dro" is closer to the Spanish pronunciation.
@Lisnaholic we need your expertise!
It is definitely pronounced like egg in Spain. I'm speaking to someone now and they've confirmed it. Mexican Spanish, fuck knows could be different. I know there are differences with Rioplatense pronunciation and Spanish pronunciation.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 06, 2025, 07:18 PMIt is definitely pronounced like egg in Spain. I'm speaking to someone now and they've confirmed it. Mexican Spanish, fuck knows could be different. I know there are differences with Rioplatense pronunciation and Spanish pronunciation.
I really don't understand the egg connection here. Are you saying the e is like the first e in pedestal?
Quote from: Janszoon on Mar 07, 2025, 01:36 AMI really don't understand the egg connection here. Are you saying the e is like the first e in pedestal?
Yes 😎
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 07, 2025, 01:44 AMYes 😎
I can definitely imagine a person from the UK pronouncing it that way. I don't recall hearing anyone in Spain pronouncing Es like that though.
Quote from: SGR on Mar 06, 2025, 05:28 PMI think he's saying he's heard it said like "Peh-dro" instead of "Pay-dro". I think that's how native spanish speakers pronounce the name.
Spaniards visiting the US will tell you they can't understand Latam Spanish.
Quote from: Buck_Mulligan on Mar 07, 2025, 02:23 AMSpaniards visiting the US will tell you they can't understand Latam Spanish.
European snobbery about the languages they exported is hilarious to me.
https://x.com/AFpost/status/1897725174289776860
A comment from Joe Biden's Wikifeet page:
Came here to worship Prez's salacious soles, was met with a disappointingly empty gallery. Do better, wikifeet community! SAD!
😂😂😂
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 10, 2025, 07:06 PMA comment from Joe Biden's Wikifeet page:
Came here to worship Prez's salacious soles, was met with a disappointingly empty gallery. Do better, wikifeet community! SAD!
😂😂😂
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Spring is giving me a headache
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Quote from: Buck_Mulligan on Mar 07, 2025, 02:23 AMSpaniards visiting the US will tell you they can't understand Latam Spanish.
Yup. I learned this because my husband has family of Spanish origin and they speak it with Spanish pronunciation. He learned to speak it from his mom, and while he can definitely communicate with Spanish speakers here the difference in his pronunciation is apparently very obvious to everyone.
Article on the glans of the penis:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glans_penis
QuoteThe glans is more commonly known as the "head" or the "tip" of the penis, and colloquially referred to in British English and Irish English as the "bellend".
😂😂😂
Jeez JJ, you're such a knob! :laughing:
@QuantumSyncMy nipples are sore and sensitive.
Help me.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 18, 2025, 07:18 PM@QuantumSync
My nipples are sore and sensitive.
Help me.
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Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 18, 2025, 07:18 PM@QuantumSync
My nipples are sore and sensitive.
Help me.
I did a 13 mile run today but was hurting bad lol That 13th mile was kicking my ass. Complete humbling experience because I was wanting to go for 15-17 miles : /
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my nipples are fine, a little roughed up but not bleeding lol
Hope yours get better mate
https://x.com/thematrixwizard/status/1901888713421967600
Quote from: QuantumSync on Mar 20, 2025, 03:02 PMhttps://x.com/thematrixwizard/status/1901888713421967600
Since I categorically refuse to use Musk's mouthpiece, if you're posting comments from there can you at least give us an idea what it's about? This means nothing to me, unless I click on it, and as Pink Floyd memorably wrote, isn't this where we came in? Or in your own language GOTO RETURN or something.
Just press play on the video?
I'm not playing a video on X as that still brings me too close to Musk. Plus, I prefer to know what a video is about before I play it. I've been caught before.
It can't be too hard to throw in a quick one line description. How do I know if I want to play the video and be dragged into Muskworld? Is it worth it for me? We'll tell you when we come back, but first, a word from our sponsors.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 20, 2025, 11:02 PMJust press play on the video?
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 20, 2025, 11:01 PMI categorically refuse to use Musk's mouthpiece
Or just don't press play on the video and don't engage with Twitter content others post. Otherwise, one could use something like this if you really cared.
https://screenapp.io/features/twitter-transcript-ai-notetaker
Can't expect others to transcribe video content (or spend time writing summaries) from hosting platforms just because you're personally refusing to use it in protest.
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 20, 2025, 11:23 PMIt can't be too hard to throw in a quick one line description. How do I know if I want to play the video and be dragged into Muskworld? Is it worth it for me?
Wait, I thought you categorically refused to use it? :laughing:
Nothing on Twitter is ever 'worth it'. You're watching it because you're fuckin bored and have nothing better to do.
If you have access to the internet you always have something better to do. Let's be honest.
I like turtles.
Quote from: Lucem Ferre on Mar 21, 2025, 01:27 AMIf you have access to the internet you always have something better to do. Let's be honest.
wisdom right here
Nipple update: rubbed some Jamaican black castor oil (lemon and lime) into my sensitive nipples after showering. Really seems to have helped.
@QuantumSync
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 21, 2025, 03:56 PMNipple update: rubbed some Jamaican black castor oil (lemon and lime) into my sensitive nipples after showering. Really seems to have helped.
@QuantumSync
Congrats on them getting better. How did it happen you think?
I think mine might have been from not washing the that one white shirt I wore that day and ran. I think maybe if it was washed before or something
Quote from: QuantumSync on Mar 21, 2025, 04:02 PMCongrats on them getting better. How did it happen you think?
I think mine might have been from not washing the that one white shirt I wore that day and ran. I think maybe if it was washed before or something
Dunno. Wasn't from running or sweating.
Was it your shirt that says Florida in it, that your sister got from Florida?
Quote from: QuantumSync on Mar 21, 2025, 07:33 AMwisdom right here
It's more like a heroin addict telling you heroin is bad as they put the needle in.
I don't think I can call that wise on my part.
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Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 21, 2025, 04:05 PMDunno. Wasn't from running or sweating.
Was it your shirt that says Florida in it, that your sister got from Florida?
you remembering some long time ago stuff mate lol
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i got rid of that shirt thou, it was turning colors lol
Quote from: Lucem Ferre on Mar 21, 2025, 08:46 PMIt's more like a heroin addict telling you heroin is bad as they put the needle in.
I don't think I can call that wise on my part.
but what if I am really stupid and it seems really wise to me...
it may be common sense to you... but for me...astonishing wisdom
Quote from: QuantumSync on Mar 21, 2025, 11:14 PMyou remembering some long time ago stuff mate lol
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i got rid of that shirt thou, it was turning colors lol
lol tbh I can remember a lot of really fucking pointless stuff and yet forget very important stuff.
The Florida shirt made me laugh though, that's why I remembered it.
Quote from: QuantumSync on Mar 21, 2025, 11:17 PMbut what if I am really stupid and it seems really wise to me...
it may be common sense to you... but for me...astonishing wisdom
I wouldn't say you're really stupid. I'm just saying that I'm not a wise person because I don't heed what I've learned.
Because we don't have a "Name That Tune" thread, afaik, I thought I'd ask here:
does anyone know the song (probably US country/rock) that includes a line, "something...something...miles from Gila Bend"
I've been trying to think of the song since seeing Gila Bend on a map yesterday. :banghead:
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Mar 22, 2025, 02:45 AMBecause we don't have a "Name That Tune" thread, afaik, I thought I'd ask here:
does anyone know the song (probably US country/rock) that includes a line, "something...something...miles from Gila Bend"
I've been trying to think of the song since seeing Gila Bend on a map yesterday. :banghead:
maybe? lol
Quote from: Lucem Ferre on Mar 21, 2025, 11:41 PMI wouldn't say you're really stupid.
thank you fren
Quote from: QuantumSync on Mar 22, 2025, 03:29 AM
maybe? lol
^ Nice song that totally fits the few clues I gave: thanks - but in fact that's not the song I have nagging in my head. :(
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Mar 22, 2025, 05:38 AM^ Nice song that totally fits the few clues I gave: thanks - but in fact that's not the song I have nagging in my head. :(
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^ Thanks for that cool song which is new to me, SGR. Like Quantum's, it fits my description perfectly, but is still not the one I had in mind.
You and Quantum prompted me to think a bit harder, and I finally cracked it !
John Cale, at 1:30 mins: "
Close as I am to you now, I'm closer to Gila Bend", so none of my clues were very accurate. But it's a catchy song, and has apparently been somewhere in the back of my mind for years.
The Road To Gila Bend and
Twenty Miles To Gila Bend are both more worthy candidates than mine with its one-line reference to G B.
Who'd a thought that Gila Bend featured in so many songs ?!
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The only reason I think we don't have a Name That Tune thread is because back on MB, this was what attracted Pandas (eats, shoots and leaves) ;) , real fly-by-night one-posters who used the forum just to get what they wanted out of it and then fucked off without often even saying thanks.
Just like us men, I guess. :laughing:
But generally speaking, the kind of people who posted there weren't interested in hanging around, just getting the answer to their question and never contributing after that. In fairness, one or two people did show their gratitude, but even then they didn't stay. So I think encouraging that sort of poster would be a mistake.
If the general consensus is otherwise, let me know and we can set one up. But be ready for the floodgates to open! And who's going to close them after these people have all swarmed through, without, mind you, wiping their muddy boots? That's what I want to know! We've just got the place the way we like it now; do we want uncouth one-poster pandas clumping all over our nice clean floors?
:shycouch:
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The only reason I think we don't have a Name That Tune thread is because back on MB, this was what attracted Pandas (eats, shoots and leaves) ;) , real fly-by-night one-posters who used the forum just to get what they wanted out of it and then fucked off without often even saying thanks.
Just like us men, I guess. :laughing:
But generally speaking, the kind of people who posted there weren't interested in hanging around, just getting the answer to their question and never contributing after that. In fairness, one or two people did show their gratitude, but even then they didn't stay. So I think encouraging that sort of poster would be a mistake.
If the general consensus is otherwise, let me know and we can set one up. But be ready for the floodgates to open! And who's going to close them after these people have all swarmed through, without, mind you, wiping their muddy boots? That's what I want to know! We've just got the place the way we like it now; do we want uncouth one-poster pandas clumping all over our nice clean floors?
:shycouch:
i be really lookin for them pandas yo :laughing:
MB gets a lot of eyes on it at all times. I never really thought about that until the switch to this website where it's starting all over and no connection to the almighty Advameg
at any time over there, MB has 2000-8000 people lurkin
edit: just checked, its at Active Users: 6624 (30 members and 6594 guests) right now
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 22, 2025, 03:23 PMThe only reason I think we don't have a Name That Tune thread is because back on MB, this was what attracted Pandas (eats, shoots and leaves) ;)
I am quite tired right now, and it took me way too long to understand this :laughing:
Ah, the Oxford comma, eh? ;)
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The only reason I think we don't have a Name That Tune thread is because back on MB, this was what attracted Pandas (eats, shoots and leaves) ;) , real fly-by-night one-posters who used the forum just to get what they wanted out of it and then fucked off without often even saying thanks.
^ :laughing:
Yeah, I wasn't making some snarky comment about no "Name That Tune" thread, TH. Good description of how it used to be on MB, so probably not worth having it here, unless people like the idea of watching pandas run about all over the house.
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 22, 2025, 05:51 PMAh, the Oxford comma, eh? ;)
The stopping trains, to Oxford Comma, are now leaving, from Platforms 3, 4, and 5.
https://x.com/kemmy_H1/status/1903611547097936210
I asked AI to make a song about the forum.
https://suno.com/song/30a528ac-292b-4c39-b4e3-256acc813838
Lyrics:
Quote[Verse]
In the glow of that pixel-perfect light,
The music pulsed through keys all night.
Trollheart scrawled strange journals deep,
A new one posted ten times a week.
[Verse 2]
Jimmy Jazz, making friends and foes
Fixing his gaze on numerous toes
His affection spoke louder than words,
Dancing shadows, melodies heard.
[Chorus]
Oh, echoes, echoes in the forum hall,
Where secrets linger, where whispers call.
The tunes may change, the faces fade,
But there's a memory in every shade.
[Verse 3]
Chula spilled tales nobody had asked,
Baring his soul, unmasked, so fast
Batlord hummed tunes of distant lands,
Trolling so much he ended up banned.
[Verse 4]
OccultHawk prowled with a devious grin,
A scent of trouble would always begin.
His hygiene forgotten, desires unclean,
The strangest old hawk that I've ever seen.
[Verse 5]
The workout thread was full of young men
DJ and Tore setting records again
Eazy and Mindy changing their lives
And Jimmy was posing and flexing his bi's
[Verse 6]
Jadis had left as he got the hump
Lexi and Trollheart were dreaming of Trump
Everybody's a Nazi, it's all rather odd
JWB, intellectual God
[Verse 7]
Oasis were worshipped lots more than Pulp
Marie Monday swallowing fish with one gulp
Be careful with what you may type
Or beware, her banhammer may strike
[Bridge]
Then there's Steph, with a gaze of fire,
In her presence, all would conspire.
A feminist icon, coy yet severe,
Love and power merged crystal clear.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 26, 2025, 08:20 PMOasis were worshipped lots more than Pulp
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Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 27, 2025, 04:39 PM
I think I've said it before, but I love Pulp too. Jarvis has the best voice in britpop.
For me it goes:
Oasis > Pulp > Blur > Suede
@SGR why are you an agitator on here? You're not an agitator at all. You're a lovely lad. I've never seen you wind anyone up.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 27, 2025, 10:25 PM@SGR why are you an agitator on here? You're not an agitator at all. You're a lovely lad. I've never seen you wind anyone up.
Good question. Honestly, all the group icons/group memberships are a little lacking, I chose that one at some point - I don't remember if it was tied to the Abyss subforum or the unmoderated subforum, but I haven't yet bothered to change it. Much like my avatar or my little profile quote (which has been the same since MB), I don't often make changes - too lazy. If there was a group membership I liked more or spoke to my poor little heart more deeply, I would. :laughing:
Quote from: SGR on Mar 27, 2025, 10:36 PMGood question. Honestly, all the group icons/group memberships are a little lacking, I chose that one at some point - I don't remember if it was tied to the Abyss subforum or the unmoderated subforum, but I haven't yet bothered to change it. Much like my avatar or my little profile quote (which has been the same since MB), I don't often make changes - too lazy. If there was a group membership I liked more or spoke to my poor little heart more deeply, I would. :laughing:
Do you want to build some muscle? You can join us meatheads in the workout thread. Then you can change it to the swollen member icon 8)
See ya later, agitator!
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Quote from: QuantumSync on Mar 28, 2025, 04:15 AM(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gm0TaEaWoAAc5KH?format=jpg&name=medium)
lol
The guy who started that is a massive clown.
Juicing his tits off as well.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 28, 2025, 11:13 AMlol
The guy who started that is a massive clown.
Juicing his tits off as well.
I don't get it. Sparkling water and bananas?
Quote from: SGR on Mar 28, 2025, 02:52 PMI don't get it. Sparkling water and bananas?
This is the original:
Quote from: QuantumSync on Mar 28, 2025, 02:59 PMI thought it was funny asf how boxden posters the other day were serious about "locking in" and it only took a meme/joke post about water and bananas lol
my normal is some peoples "locked in".... my "locked in" is what I call "obsession mode" lol
What's locking in mate?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 28, 2025, 03:15 PMWhat's locking in mate?
staying busy, being extremely productive towards your weekly, month, year goals. Working very hard and not focusing on anything else
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 28, 2025, 03:14 PMThis is the original:
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Synagoggles:
(https://i.ibb.co/QF0s6CQL/Screenshot-20240121-142002.jpg)
Fingerprince:
(https://i.ibb.co/QFBXLzW6/Screenshot-20240110-210131.jpg)
The Moaner Lisa:
(https://i.ibb.co/cKjy73bV/Screenshot-20231121-023403-edit-426271389906868.jpg)
@Trollheart
None of those images work, JJ...
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 28, 2025, 08:19 PMNone of those images work, JJ...
You sayin' all of JJ's images are on the dole or something? ???
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 28, 2025, 08:19 PMNone of those images work, JJ...
Try now. It won't let me upload my spicier ones. This is so annoying.
I think of stupid shit in my head and then I make stupid shit on an app on my phone.
It won't let me upload Rubik's Pubes or the Milksheikh.
Quote from: SGR on Mar 28, 2025, 08:23 PMYou sayin' all of JJ's images are on the dole or something? ???
Yeah, bunch of scroungers. Spell in the army would do them no harm at all. Even without the witches.
Edit: they're working now. About time.
Quote from: SGR on Mar 27, 2025, 04:51 PMFor me it goes:
Oasis > Pulp > Blur > Suede
Supergrass > Blur > Pulp > Suede > Oasis
Quote from: Guybrush on Mar 29, 2025, 12:22 AMSupergrass > Blur > Pulp > Suede > Oasis
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Supergrass' debut album is the best album of that entire genre 😲
Although it went platinum, it seems weirdly underrated and forgotten today.
Blur > Oasis > Pulp > Supergrass > Suede
Where do I rank on a scale of heathen to 10
You're all wrong.
Cradle of Filth > anything
Don't @ me
Turtles > Lizards > Dragons > Dinosaurs
Cats >
X infinty
Insane Clown Posse >
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 29, 2025, 01:05 AMBlur > Oasis > Pulp > Supergrass > Suede
Where do I rank on a scale of heathen to 10
Its an OK ranking but Oasis should be last.
Blur are obviously much better so you got that right.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 29, 2025, 03:20 AMIts an OK ranking but Oasis should be last.
Blur are obviously much better so you got that right.
It's times like these I wish we had a dislike button on this site. ;)
I'm not a fan of like buttons.
Some people take them way too seriously.
Quote from: SGR on Mar 29, 2025, 04:22 AMIt's times like these I wish we had a dislike button on this site. ;)
Quiet, Zuckerturd
Pulp>Blur>suede>>>supergrass>oasis
Battle of the Britpop bands does sound like a potential thread idea 🤔
Edit:
Although you'd really have to define what Britpop means.. so that Radiohead doesn't just obviously win it.
Quote from: Key on Mar 29, 2025, 05:00 AMQuiet, Zuckerturd
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Quote from: Guybrush on Mar 29, 2025, 05:51 PMBattle of the Britpop bands does sound like a potential thread idea 🤔
Edit:
Although you'd really have to define what Britpop means.. so that Radiohead doesn't just obviously win it.
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Radiohead >
/thread
Quote from: Key on Mar 29, 2025, 07:04 PMRadiohead >
/thread
I'd sooner vote for Blur than I would see Radiohead win a Battle of Britpop thread.
Manic Street Preachers would have more business being in that discussion than Radiohead would.
Radiothread
Quote from: SGR on Mar 29, 2025, 07:19 PMI'd sooner vote for Blur than I would see Radiohead win a Battle of Britpop thread.
Manic Street Preachers would have more business being in that discussion than Radiohead would.
Can't disagree there. I'm mostly being facetious with the Radiohead fanfare but I do like Blur quite a bit. I haven't heard enough of MSP to form an opinion so maybe I don't fully agree. But that's more due to ignorance than anything else.
I don't consider Radiohead part of that Britpop wave as I kinda felt like they were a little on the outside of that scene, but others might disagree.. and I also don't really know if any fair criteria to omit them by.
Quote from: Guybrush on Mar 29, 2025, 08:25 PMI don't consider Radiohead part of that Britpop wave as I kinda felt like they were a little on the outside of that scene, but others might disagree.. and I also don't really know if any fair criteria to omit them by.
This feels like it could devolve into somewhat of a philosophical discussion. Does britpop (as its name would imply) need to first be 'pop' music? If so, could Radiohead fairly be described as 'pop' music? Is pop music defined more by how 'popular' it is, or by its adherence to conventional song structures meant for mass consumption?
Britpop is more of a cultural thing imo.
A certain group of British bands during the 90s. They may sound very different but they were all part of the same scene. Plenty of the same fans, who dressed in a certain way.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 29, 2025, 10:26 PMBritpop is more of a cultural thing imo.
A certain group of British bands during the 90s. They may sound very different but they were all part of the same scene. Plenty of the same fans, who dressed in a certain way.
So basically the British analogue to US '90s "grunge"?
Quote from: SGR on Mar 29, 2025, 10:29 PMSo basically the British analogue to US '90s "grunge"?
Sounds about right to me.
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 29, 2025, 10:37 PMSounds about right to me.
If only US bands took more cues from Britpop than Grunge, we'd have gotten more songs like this:
And less songs like this:
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 29, 2025, 10:26 PMBritpop is more of a cultural thing imo.
A certain group of British bands during the 90s. They may sound very different but they were all part of the same scene. Plenty of the same fans, who dressed in a certain way.
Britpop did feel like a cultural movement which experienced a peak in the mid-nineties (but which had roots in the indie rock of the late '80s with Inspiral Carpets, Charlatans, Boo Radleys, Paul Weller etc, and stretched well into the 2000s with bands like Franz Ferdinand).
Other Britpop-type memories which come to mind are:
- Happy and patriotic songs on subjects of everday life
- Glastonbury headline acts
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Presenters like Mark Lamarr and Denise Van Outen
- Sideburns. Guys in polo shirts with the top button done up and their hair brushed forwards as if they had just walked through a hedge backwards
- Skinner, Baddiel and Lightning Seeds with their "Three Lions on a Shirt"
- Satire directed at the royal family
- Football. Blur's "Song 2" track on FIFA (playstation)
- Radio 1 shows which would play 90% British bands all day long.
The bands cited in the Britpop thread poll are probably the most appropriate (I mean I'm not an expert in the genre anyway), but somehow it felt that other bands were very close.
Song 2 was on FIFA 98. I played that game to death mate. Guessing you did too ;D
Great summary and I would also add Euro 96. The polo shirts were Fred Perry BTW. Probably with Adidas Originals trainers.
What about films? I know there are some but I can't think of any.
Also you can include the Spice Girls. I realised this recently. People say Oasis were so good because they defined that era. Well so did the Spice Girls. Maybe even more so. Oasis are the Spice Girls for British men aged 35 - 50 who drink beer imo.
Spice Girls 😎
Also remember those shit bands like Travis and Keane that seemed to pop up towards the end 😁
I liked Keane! I was keen for Keane.
Can't think of any quintissential Britpop films at the moment. Austin Powers maybe.
Around that time, lots of people seemed to watch Eastenders. Characters like Rickkaayyy! and Biancah. Pat Butcher's death stare should really have been broadcast after the watershed tbh.
Important question guys.
Why do women get to the age of about 65 and then decide to have this haircut?
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They all have short hair like that.
Any theories?
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Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 31, 2025, 11:38 PMAny theories?
I think most women feel a pressure to be beautiful and, after decades in pursuit of it, this final expression is the natural conclusion or culmination of that search.
Raawr!! 🔥