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Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

yeah I eat rear end posted:

take it up with whoever bought these cat avatars. Every time I try to bring back my cute duck one someone just buys this one again

It’s better than a porn butt so there’s that

E: moveable full sized sentries is by far the worst change that ever happened to tf2

Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 09:08 on Dec 28, 2018

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Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

yeah I eat rear end posted:

Michelle Branch should have been more popular than almost any of her peers, including Avril. She's just better and didn't make that stupid hello kitty song.

I've heard she was really screwed over by record company politics. People wanted her to be more like Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry or Taylor Swift at various stages in her career and the consequence was that she didn't get an album out for 14 years, by which point she'd been forgotten.

My opinion is that Taylor Swift is medium talent at best.

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
I've heard of Michelle Branch only because of her cover of 'A Horse With No Name' used in Bojack Horseman and yeah, she awesome and deserves the good bits of stardom way more than our other young pretty lady pop stars.

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/RamonVillalobos/status/1078272245921808386

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Compelling thread

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

lol at Robby Krieger jamming with Creed in an Undertaker shirt

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Since Woodstock was brought up my PHUO is Jimi Hendrix's version of the Star Spangled Banner sucks.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

Solice Kirsk posted:

Since Woodstock was brought up my PHUO is Jimi Hendrix's version of the Star Spangled Banner sucks.

This but all versions.

The music is bad, and unsingable by most people, which would be meaningful if anyone in the country knew what the gently caress any of it meant.

Plus it’s all about the dumbest war of them all. (No, canadians did not burn down the white house. Brits did. From Britain. The soldiers and officers were all from Britain. Also the war didn’t start because the US wanted to conquer Canada. Everything about this dumbass war is my PHUO)

Aramek
Dec 22, 2007

Cutest tumor in all of Oncology!
The single best version of our national anthem ever recorded was the 2009 Orange bowl. If I remember correctly it was Arturo Sandoval with a trumpet and that's it.

It was a miracle.

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
I like Hendrix's version because it makes me think of The Lone Gunmen. Boy, it's too bad they killed them off, it'd be amazing to see them react to modern day happenings, even under Dubya, let alone Obama or Trump.
Lol, the entire most recent season would be Mulder trying to convince them that Trump is the president and all of them thinking that he paid off every single news source to gaslight them.

PHUO: When singing along to rap or hip-hop while not passing for black, you should replace possessive instances of the n-word with "good sir" and non-possessive with "person," the cadence works great and you don't run the risk of making beating your rear end a karmically-positive act.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
Your motives are good but no one who isn’t acting in a period piece should EVER say “good sir”

Goon sire is sometimes ok

Vandar
Sep 14, 2007

Isn't That Right, Chairman?



My issue with the Star Spangled Banner is that it’s meant to be a quick and preppy song, but everyone in the drat country that performs it just has to drag it out to about 1/16th of what it should be.

Pick up the pace and get the drat song over with, thanks.

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
The best national anthem is "Ireland's Call".

At least it would be if it was the national anthem.

As it is, it's just a rugby song.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

Wheat Loaf posted:

The best national anthem is "Ireland's Call".

At least it would be if it was the national anthem.

As it is, it's just a rugby song.

I have no place commenting on the politics but Amhrán na bhFiann/The Soldier’s Song is by far my favourite anthem in terms of the song. drat if it doesn’t hype you up to fight for freedom against someone.

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I have no place commenting on the politics but Amhrán na bhFiann/The Soldier’s Song is by far my favourite anthem in terms of the song. drat if it doesn’t hype you up to fight for freedom against someone.

Some of the Irish republicans used to boast that they were the most conservative revolutionaries ever to put through a successful revolution and honestly, they were probably right. I remember one dramatisation of it (curiously enough, in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, but I know enough actual history to say that it was reasonably accurate) where Sean O'Casey is angrily declaring that he won't be involved with the Easter Rising because, "I believe in a socialist Ireland, not an Ireland run by Catholic priests," which is what they ended up saddled with for the next few decades.

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Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

The Star Spangled Banner is terrible. It's got no melody, no beat, the lyrics suck rear end. There are four loving verses, and nobody has ever heard verses 2-4 because as a society we all just instinctively agreed to stop after the first verse. One verse, that's more than enough, we don't have to carry on about foul footstep's pollution or heav'n rescued land

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

We should have a referendum to choose a new national anthem, and everybody has to choose from these four classic American songs;

-This Land is Your Land
-Big Rock Candy Mountain
-Subterranean Homesick Blues
-Protect Ya Neck

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
Big Rock Candy Mountain.

Gripweed posted:

The Star Spangled Banner is terrible. It's got no melody, no beat, the lyrics suck rear end. There are four loving verses, and nobody has ever heard verses 2-4 because as a society we all just instinctively agreed to stop after the first verse. One verse, that's more than enough, we don't have to carry on about foul footstep's pollution or heav'n rescued land

No disagreement, but what pop stars and wannabes do to it is even worse, dragging out the last verse for the length of more than one verse, changing registers multiple times. Ought to be considered a warcrime, though Americans cannot be charged with such if they possess any celebrity or fame.

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Unfortunately it is very politics-related, but my opinion is that Northern Ireland should continue to have some sort of devolved government if we become part of the Republic in the future.

Mu Zeta
Oct 17, 2002

Me crush ass to dust

So you basically hate black people and accuse them of war crimes

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

yeah I eat rear end posted:

So far I haven't worked for a company that provides the coffee. In the past with pots it was always one person who bought the coffee/filters and then it was an honor system of putting 10 cents or whatever it was in whenever you took a cup, or my last one would have a tally sheet and at the end of the month you pay a lump sum based on #yourcups/#totalcups * cost. In defense of my current job, there is somebody that is "stocking" the keurig with free kcups, but they are decaf and therefore pointless garbage that nobody wants.

It was actually nice in my current job to have free coffee & stocked snacks again. Last job was a little local MSP & by the time I left almost 2 years ago, they were doing so bad financially that nobody got a raise, they axed the snack budget (that nobody paid into) & got rid of our coffee budget. We had 2 offices & the one an hour away stopped snacks & coffee altogether, but our office still did our own thing & kept buying snacks for people on our own dime. The other office would periodically visit ours & we had to start locking up our snacks because they'd stuff their pockets, purses & lunch boxes with food they never pitched in for. Then they'd bitch to our bosses & we'd point out that we bought our own stuff, if they'd actually pitch in, we'd still have a snack budget for both offices. Glad I left that place when I did, they got bought out by a larger MSP last year & axed about half of the < 100 person staff.

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Mu Zeta posted:

So you basically hate black people and accuse them of war crimes

I didn't think my opinion would be that controversial. :(

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
Please educate a dumb yank on the politics of black people in Ireland, the UK?

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

Wheat Loaf posted:

Unfortunately it is very politics-related, but my opinion is that Northern Ireland should continue to have some sort of devolved government if we become part of the Republic in the future.

Is that unpopular in Ireland? It just kind of makes sense to me. More than a century of living (with devolved government for a bunch of it) outside of Ireland and also loads of people who call it home but aren’t necessarily irish or catholic.

Then again I’m pro-devolved government in general (which is unpopular because it makes me sound like a neoconfederate or a québec nationalist depending on language)

spit on my clit
Jul 19, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Gripweed posted:

We should have a referendum to choose a new national anthem, and everybody has to choose from these four classic American songs;

-This Land is Your Land
-Big Rock Candy Mountain
-Subterranean Homesick Blues
-Protect Ya Neck

the national anthem should be Black Betty


Mu Zeta posted:

So you basically hate black people and accuse them of war crimes

this is why we don't politics, because it always immediately turns into D&D

shut the gently caress up about politics

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar
I think we need a more modern, more abrasive national anthem, like this maybe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt84J7U75e0

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

spit on my clit posted:

the national anthem should be Black Betty

The Tom Jones version.

Mu Zeta
Oct 17, 2002

Me crush ass to dust

What, it's a joke. It's ok to not like the way people sing the national anthem.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

Mu Zeta posted:

What, it's a joke. It's ok to not like the way people sing the national anthem.

Are you sure about that... MEIN TOVARISHCH?

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

spit on my clit posted:

this is why we don't politics, because it always immediately turns into D&D

we should try to aim towards C-SPAM then


turmp

lavaca
Jun 11, 2010

Tubgoat posted:

Please educate a dumb yank on the politics of black people in Ireland, the UK?

Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud.

spit on my clit
Jul 19, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Gripweed posted:

we should try to aim towards C-SPAM then


turmp

i think your av was meant for guy goodbody

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

lavaca posted:

Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud.

Rednecks and southsiders need not apply.

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

spit on my clit posted:

i think your av was meant for guy goodbody

yeah it's hosed up

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

lavaca posted:

Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud.

As a honkey-passing Yank, I am not about to publicly identify as black lest I, charitably, justifiably get my rear end beat for detracting from the struggles that my more melanin-rich brothers and sisters face every minute of every hour of every day, especially living not three miles from where Philando Castille was murdered in cold blood by a motherfucking pig who got off scot(:haw:)-free. :commissar:

spit on my clit
Jul 19, 2015

by Cyrano4747
gas this loving thread already, please

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
PHUO: Forums user 'spit on my clit' oughtta go walk his cat now.

spit on my clit
Jul 19, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Tubgoat posted:

PHUO: Forums user 'spit on my clit' oughtta go walk his cat now.

i just did!!! god, get off my rear end, mom

Mu Zeta
Oct 17, 2002

Me crush ass to dust

In conclusion, all the preamble to sportsball like singing the national anthem and standing up and putting your hand over your heart is dumb as hell. God doesn't care if you throw the ball real good. I rather watch movie trailers before the game.

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Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

Mu Zeta posted:

In conclusion, all the preamble to sportsball like singing the national anthem and standing up and putting your hand over your heart is dumb as hell. God doesn't care if you throw the ball real good. I rather watch movie trailers before the game.
PHUO: That person waaaaay upthread whining about people using words like 'crotchling' and 'sportsball' needs a swirly.

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