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car talk is the best place to go for answers to your 98 tercel because HE DEAD AND IT'S ALL FUCKIN RERUNS
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Re: tacos. lol, you don't even get real Tex-Mex tacos.
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Spatula City posted:jesus, it's like you all are attacking my childhood here. My mom's been listening to Prairie Home Companion and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me forever, and I kinda just acquired the taste for it eventually. I guess I get why people find it boring - it's like a food either you eat in childhood and grow to like, or never like. It's pretty low key, the aural equivalent of Sunday morning legacy comic strips in the newspaper, but that means it's relaxing and reassuring. I think what annoys me most about NPR is the problem I have with the rest of the media. They're becoming increasingly less watched while becoming more and more relevant since almost all news filters down from them. They seem unable to call Trump reprehensible for his racism and misogyny, incompetent for his total lack of vision or policies, dangerous because he's mentally unfit or a liar because he lies at an astounding rate. Hillary isn't the greatest, but she's competent. You know what you're getting from her. No one has any idea what a Trump presidency would look like. Probably not even Trump. The media refuses to take any sides and has totally ceded their credibility because they can't take a position that isn't somewhere in the middle. So people who aren't political junkies look at the news and don't know what to think because you have an anchor asking questions of two people with differing opinions and lately those opinions have been increasingly awful, then the media at large tries to find an opinion between either one or two awful opinions. And all that lies between the spectrum of two awful opinions is that the "truth" is awful too because they're taking that bullshit seriously, but in the middle of course. Also PHC is pretty good. Never listened to a full one all the way through unless by accident, but whatever. If it's on it's on the rest of the night for me.
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Where are the USPOL tote bags, OP
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Sep 2, 2016 03:16
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And then like 10 minutes later on another segment of the same show Cornell Belcher straight up called the dude Uncle Ruckus, and Joy Reid lost her poo poo laughing as she tried to wrap the show up.
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Sep 2, 2016 03:16
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So, how about that Splendid Table?
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If you think this thread is bad now, just imagine what we'll be like next year at this time!  Fun bit from Robert Costa et al. at WaPo about the backstory behind Trump changing nothing on immigration. My major takeaway is that the Trump showrunners are very much high on their own supply, and apparently think the two speeches yesterday "won him the election." I always find it fascinating when it's not just the PR flaks who get run out to proclaim the party line, but the entire apparatus that's existing apart from objective reality. I'm looking forward to the confusion of their team on election night.
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visceril posted:So, how about that Splendid Table? Guillotine.
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sean10mm posted:Guillotine. Trying to start a circumcision derail, are we?
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Main Paineframe posted:So much for Trump's halfassed attempts to draw in disaffected Bernie supporters. He's still running against a woman though?
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N00ba the Hutt posted:If you think this thread is bad now, just imagine what we'll be like next year at this time! Wait, they think the crazy hitler speech is an election winner? Why the hell did they do the last two weeks before it, then?
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William F Cuckley posted:
Duluth really needs some good Mexican food. Can I talk to Soros to let me vote twice?
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Spatula City posted:I used to love This American Life, but now they have programs that do the same thing, better, with no Ira Glass. like, Snap Judgment, Radiolab, and the Moth Radio Hour. See I'm the opposite. This American Life is alright but I can't stand any of those three shows you mentioned. Radiolab would almost be good if it wasn't for the *breaking glass* *glug glug glug glug* over production -tion -tion -tion iospace posted:you shut your whore mouth right now. Go, do it. It's more like Classic Peanuts. I appreciate Car Talk for what it is, but it's time to move on and find a replacement. Otherwise, at some point it's gonna be 2040 when a tenth of all cars are electric and 50% are hybrids and I'll still be hearing about someone's broken 1989 Toyota Corolla. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Ice Phisherman posted:I think what annoys me most about NPR is the problem I have with the rest of the media. They're becoming increasingly less watched while becoming more and more relevant since almost all news filters down from them. They seem unable to call Trump reprehensible for his racism and misogyny, incompetent for his total lack of vision or policies, dangerous because he's mentally unfit or a liar because he lies at an astounding rate. Hillary isn't the greatest, but she's competent. You know what you're getting from her. No one has any idea what a Trump presidency would look like. Probably not even Trump. The media refuses to take any sides and has totally ceded their credibility because they can't take a position that isn't somewhere in the middle. So people who aren't political junkies look at the news and don't know what to think because you have an anchor asking questions of two people with differing opinions and lately those opinions have been increasingly awful, then the media at large tries to find an opinion between either one or two awful opinions. And all that lies between the spectrum of two awful opinions is that the "truth" is awful too because they're taking that bullshit seriously, but in the middle of course. NPR is in a tough spot. GOP controlled congress threatens to pull the plug from time to time, so it's sadly a feature, not a bug. Also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR_controversies#Ronald_Schiller
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WampaLord posted:Oh my god, NPR derail, food derail, and now the start of a tipping derail? Would Donald Trump tip his Lyft driver?
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Re: tacos. It depends on how sketchy looking the truck is. The more sketchy, the better the taco.
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Internet Webguy posted:Really nailed his tone there. Seriously, I would donate to the Trump campaign to hear him read that.
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iospace posted:NPR is in a tough spot. GOP controlled congress threatens to pull the plug from time to time, so it's sadly a feature, not a bug. Isn't it only around 5% of their funding now?
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Ice Phisherman posted:Isn't it only around 5% of their funding now? Only if you look at the top line. If you start digging into the public media foundations and individual stations that help comprise the other top-level line items, you find out it's a bit bigger. I think it's somewhere around 35-40% if you look at both direct and indirect government funding, but it's been a while since I ran the numbers. EDIT: Found it. The national arm of NPR gets about 20% of its funding, directly or indirectly, from the Feds. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Sep 2, 2016 03:39
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Shillary posted:Wow, the head of Latinos for Trump just said on national TV that the reconquista is real and inevitable, and without Donald Trump there will be "taco trucks on every corner". La Revolución will be tasty. 
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Bad Moon posted:It depends on how sketchy looking the truck is. The more sketchy, the better the taco. Correct.
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TheScott2K posted:Remember when Lindsay Lohan ended up outing herself as illiterate when he died? What's the story behind this?
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Bad Moon posted:It depends on how sketchy looking the truck is. The more sketchy, the better the taco. best burrito i ever had was out of some dudes pick-up truck in the parking lot of a grocery store in new mexico
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Car Talk sucks. Their fake sponsors bit was good for a chuckle if you hadn't heard it in a while though.
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Phone posted:What's the story behind this? Some Hollywood guy died. She had worked with him and strung together a bunch of words in an attempt expressing her condolences to the grieving family.
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mandatory lesbian posted:best burrito i ever had was out of some dudes pick-up truck in the parking lot of a grocery store in new mexico Before social media, to get tamales you had to live in the bad part of town and wait for an abuelita to knock on your door or go to the Walmart parking lot. Kids have it easy these days.
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Sep 2, 2016 03:48
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Re: tacos. The gently caress kind of bizarro universe taco trucks do you have slinging old el paso bullshit?
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https://twitter.com/LucyALloyd/status/771516437131300864
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Rotating menus? What kind of effete bullshit is this?
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Bad Moon posted:Rotating menus? What kind of effete bullshit is this? Using the word effete is effete in of itself.
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At best the NY Post published revenge porn that includes in it a child, at worst the paper, editor and reporter should all be bankrupted
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nutranurse posted:Using the word effete is effete in of itself. 
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Look lady, it's a truck that sells tacos, I'm not sure what's being rotated here
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Epic High Five posted:Look lady, it's a truck that sells tacos, I'm not sure what's being rotated here Ideally the wheels at some point.
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Sep 2, 2016 04:10
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Otherwise that might just be a group of enterprising homeless migrants who set up shop in an abandoned vehicle.
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Epic High Five posted:Look lady, it's a truck that sells tacos, I'm not sure what's being rotated here i guess it could have different meat depending on what was cheapest that day
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FIRST TIME posted:Before social media, to get tamales you had to live in the bad part of town and wait for an abuelita to knock on your door or go to the Walmart parking lot. this is still true where I live and they are fantastic. 4 different types of tamales, $.75 a pop
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nutranurse posted:Ideally the wheels at some point. The local taco truck in my neck of the woods is an old school bus they stripped the paint from, ripped out all the seats and replaced with bar stool seating, and looks like it's a couple welded spikes from appearing on the set of the next Mad Max movie. The tires are purely decorative. I love that place dearly.
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mandatory lesbian posted:i guess it could have different meat depending on what was cheapest that day There's one on every corner just walk a bit further and you'll find the taco you desire.
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Trabisnikof posted:At best the NY Post published revenge porn that includes in it a child, at worst the paper, editor and reporter should all be bankrupted Surely Peter Thiel, staunch defender of ethics in journalism, will jump to the defense of former Democratic congressmen Anthony Wiener.
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