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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Did you think one was a character that was played by the other, like Steve Coogan and Alan Partridge? No, just someone (apparently two people) that I'm vaguely aware of. I think I saw the Roseanne sitcom as a kid.
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Apr 18, 2018 03:17
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hawowanlawow posted:I thought I smelled weed at work earlier, but it turns out it was my own fart Cut down on the edibles, dude.
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Apr 19, 2018 00:18
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hawowanlawow posted:I thought I smelled weed at work earlier, but it turns out it was my own fart  also possibly  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUy735iXit8&t=900s Also I literally just found that video yesterday your timing is impeccable.
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Apr 19, 2018 00:25
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Garrand posted:
Todd's One Hit Wonderland series is pretty interesting. I had no idea that singing Mickey is like the least of Toni Basil's accomplishments, for instance.
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Apr 19, 2018 00:36
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Randaconda posted:Todd's One Hit Wonderland series is pretty interesting. I had no idea that singing Mickey is like the least of Toni Basil's accomplishments, for instance. Been working my way through his videos and they're all pretty good but the One Hit Wonderland ones are really cool and informative.
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Apr 19, 2018 00:37
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Garrand posted:Been working my way through his videos and they're all pretty good but the One Hit Wonderland ones are really cool and informative. It's funny how the first OHW he did started with him breaking his own rule, since A-Ha was extremely successful for a long period of time.
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And nobody in the US knows any of their songs except Take On Me and maybe The Sun Always Shines on TV. I'm kind of curious what bands had a long successful career in the US and are regarded as a one-hit wonder elsewhere—I can't think of any off the top of my head. Maybe Frank Zappa with Bobby Brown in some parts of Europe? Rollersnake has a new favorite as of 02:58 on Apr 19, 2018 |
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Apr 19, 2018 02:56
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Rollersnake posted:And nobody in the US knows any of their songs except Take On Me and maybe The Sun Always Shines on TV. Let’s say no one has heard any songs on the radio other than those two. I bought every A Ha album released in the US when they came out (including the recently released, and very awesome, Unplugged album)
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Apr 19, 2018 05:19
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Garrand posted:Been working my way through his videos and they're all pretty good but the One Hit Wonderland ones are really cool and informative. I started watching his channel after I was randomly linked to one of his videos in GBS. Good stuff, I learned a lot. I realized I knew almost all of the one-hit songs, but in many cases I didn't know the name of the artist. Now I'm going through the Rap Critic's videos. @Rollersnake: probably most country acts that had an unlikely international hit. I'm thinking of that one song Tim McGraw did featuring Nelly. I have no idea whether or not that's actually a good example, but that's the only context in which I've heard of him. Phlegmish has a new favorite as of 07:38 on Apr 19, 2018 |
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Apr 19, 2018 07:18
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Apr 19, 2018 11:52
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Randaconda posted:It's funny how the first OHW he did started with him breaking his own rule, since A-Ha was extremely successful for a long period of time. Well, here's me posting stuff I didn't know. I'm old enough to remember when the "take on me" video first aired on MTV, but had no idea they weren't a one hit wonder. Can't say I know a single other song by them, and I used to be a manager for a used CD store. 
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Apr 19, 2018 18:37
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Well, here's me posting stuff I didn't know. I'm old enough to remember when the "take on me" video first aired on MTV, but had no idea they weren't a one hit wonder. Can't say I know a single other song by them, and I used to be a manager for a used CD store. Well, they're arguably a one hit wonder in the US, but they were/are huge stars in their native Norway.
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Apr 19, 2018 18:55
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Rollersnake posted:And nobody in the US knows any of their songs except Take On Me and maybe The Sun Always Shines on TV. Rage Against the Machine? (which I only know because a UK fan tried to get Todd to do whatever song was a hit over there)
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Rollersnake posted:I'm kind of curious what bands had a long successful career in the US and are regarded as a one-hit wonder elsewhere—I can't think of any off the top of my head. Maybe Frank Zappa with Bobby Brown in some parts of Europe? A whole lot of lovely hair metal bands like Motley Crue or Kiss Sweevo has a new favorite as of 19:30 on Apr 19, 2018 |
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Randaconda posted:Well, they're arguably a one hit wonder in the US, but they were/are huge stars in their native Norway. Hunting High and Low was moderately big in the old country.
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Apr 19, 2018 19:35
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Sweevo posted:
loving fight me irl motley crue owned
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Apr 19, 2018 19:35
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Sweevo posted:hair metal bands like Kiss Kiss long predates hair metal my man
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Apr 19, 2018 19:37
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kiss is even lamer than hair metal
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Henchman of Santa posted:Kiss long predates hair metal my man I'd say Kiss was the first hair metal band tbh at least the first one that made a big splash.
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purple death ray posted:I'd say Kiss was the first hair metal band tbh at least the first one that made a big splash. Their early albums are straight glam rock and hard rock. Like if you removed all the subtlety from T. Rex and added a lot more muscle.
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Apr 19, 2018 20:15
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Randaconda posted:Rage Against the Machine? (which I only know because a UK fan tried to get Todd to do whatever song was a hit over there) Killing In The Name is the one they always play on the radio, despite it not being their best song by a long shot.
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Apr 19, 2018 21:42
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Phlegmish posted:Killing In The Name is the one they always play on the radio, despite it not being their best song by a long shot. Greatest Christmas song of all time
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Apr 19, 2018 21:57
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iajanus posted:Greatest Christmas song of all time They raised a ton of money for charity, pissed off Simon Cowell and got a Guinness world record for 'Fastest-selling digital track (UK)' at the same time. A true Christmas miracle. 
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Apr 20, 2018 00:31
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hawowanlawow posted:kiss is even lamer than hair metal
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:They raised a ton of money for charity, pissed off Simon Cowell and got a Guinness world record for 'Fastest-selling digital track (UK)' at the same time. A true Christmas miracle. Couldn't be more happy about it
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Apr 27, 2018 07:15
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I went on a school trip 15 years ago when I was in high school, and some people on the trip kept singing Show Me the Way to Go Home, including a version where all the lyrics are replaced with the most longwinded words possible (which I now see is included in that wiki page, but bear with me). I've had it stuck in my head on and off since then, literally for 15 years, and I've always thought it was a bit odd that the first line was "indicate the way to my boat" since boat isn't a formal word for home. I've just been humming it to myself again and finally realised after over a decade of humming this song to myself that it was and always has been "abode".
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Apr 29, 2018 13:05
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"Sometimes I Don't Mind" by the Suicide Machines is a love song about a dog. It's pretty dang cute :3
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May 2, 2018 02:36
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Similarly, Martha My Dear by The Beatles, though that's pretty well-known. Actress/boob-haver Jane Russell did not die tragically young, and apparently I've been combining her and Jayne Mansfield into one person.
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General relativity says gravity is the result of matter bending spacetime. Like putting a bowling ball on a trampoline makes the trampoline sag, and if you roll a tennis ball across the trampoline, it will curve towards the bowling ball. I just realised that "matter bending spacetime" means that it must distort time too. I don't know what the implications of that are, but that's a real "holy poo poo!" moment.
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Hyperlynx posted:General relativity says gravity is the result of matter bending spacetime. Like putting a bowling ball on a trampoline makes the trampoline sag, and if you roll a tennis ball across the trampoline, it will curve towards the bowling ball. If I remember correctly time does slow down relative to earth in orbit, so anyone up in the ISS is aging ever so slightly slower. This theoretically can be taken to the extreme in that orbiting a black hole would cause you to age considerably slower, basically making time travel possible, but only in one direction. We're talking orbiting at like the event horizon, so good luck with that.
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Hyperlynx posted:General relativity says gravity is the result of matter bending spacetime. Like putting a bowling ball on a trampoline makes the trampoline sag, and if you roll a tennis ball across the trampoline, it will curve towards the bowling ball. E=MC^2 means it's hard to get up to relativistic velocities and the harder you push the more energy you need and it ends up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox Why are we so lonely? Is it because we suck? No, clearly it is the aliens who are wrong.
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swordfish duelist posted:If I remember correctly time does slow down relative to earth in orbit, so anyone up in the ISS is aging ever so slightly slower.
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It's something like 7milliseconds fast because of height, and 45ms slow because of speed for a net loss of 38ms/day that GPS sats have to be adjusted for.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Chillbro Baggins posted:It's something like 7milliseconds fast because of height, and 45ms slow because of speed for a net loss of 38ms/day that GPS sats have to be adjusted for. you're off by an order of magnitude there. gps satellites are faster than us by 38700 nanoseconds, which would be 0.0387 milliseconds.
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I'm just amazed that I remembered the numbers (seperately -- after I typed them I did the math and it checked out) from when it came up months ago in the space thread. Edit: yeah, it's microseconds. Oops. What's the abbreviation for micro? Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 15:57 on May 4, 2018 |
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Micro is a mu.
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