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3D Megadoodoo posted:They sell "Finnish Salami" in Russia. (It's not Finnish.)
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22-ish years ago I was riding in a car with some other teens and a parent was driving. This song I'd never heard before came on, and I expressed my opinion that it was a stupid song. After we got out, the parent took me off to the side and said that it isn't nice to call things people like 'stupid', and I was chastened. Every time I hear the song I remember the embarrassed feeling I felt at the time and I cringe. The song was "Werewolves of London". Today I realized that it is absolutely a stupid song and that it's meant to be.
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# ? Nov 4, 2020 05:12 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qae25976UgA I see.
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# ? Nov 4, 2020 05:57 |
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That song owns, gently caress you.
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# ? Nov 6, 2020 00:30 |
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packetmantis posted:That song owns, gently caress you. I was 14. I really like the song now which is why I hate the memories attached to it.
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# ? Nov 6, 2020 00:39 |
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Beachcomber posted:22-ish years ago I was riding in a car with some other teens and a parent was driving. This song I'd never heard before came on, and I expressed my opinion that it was a stupid song. Yeah, it was written in about 15 minutes by LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, and Warren Zevon after Phil Everly had watched the old 30s movie Werewolf of London and made a joke to Zevon about making a song with the title and then Jackson Browne started playing it in concerts, and then T Bone Burnett started playing it as part of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. Then when Zevon was releasing his album Excitable Boy the record company picked that as the single instead of either of the ones Zevon wanted and there you go. quote:Zevon later said of the song, "I don't know why that became such a hit. We didn't think it was suitable to be played on the radio. It didn't become an albatross. It's better that I bring something to mind than nothing. There are times when I prefer that it was "Bridge Over Troubled Water", but I don't think bad about the song. I still think it's funny."[11] He also described "Werewolves of London" as a novelty song, "[but] not a novelty the way, say, Steve Martin's "King Tut" is a novelty."[2]
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# ? Nov 6, 2020 00:42 |
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Werewolves of London rules just as much as La Union’s Lobo hombre en Paris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnOpwOMHgk But both pale in comparisons to Svengoolie’s version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVAWeIyYf5A ruddiger has a new favorite as of 01:07 on Nov 6, 2020 |
# ? Nov 6, 2020 01:01 |
None hold a candle to werewolf bar mitzvah https://youtu.be/A6V2oCX3Hn4
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# ? Nov 6, 2020 02:22 |
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TK-42-1 posted:None hold a candle to werewolf bar mitzvah Co-written/performed by Childish Gambino!
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# ? Nov 6, 2020 06:38 |
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I feel like "stupid" is much more of a value judgement than "silly".
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# ? Nov 6, 2020 10:01 |
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Hyperlynx posted:Thank you for that, that's all very interesting. Yeah, tefillin aren't really phylacteries, it's just an English word that describes their appearance I guess. They aren't charms or something; we don't wear them for protection or capture spirits in them. They are just our prayer boxes.
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# ? Nov 6, 2020 11:41 |
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I prefer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07C96xMYFFw
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# ? Nov 6, 2020 17:22 |
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WrenP-Complete posted:Yeah, tefillin aren't really phylacteries, it's just an English word that describes their appearance I guess. They aren't charms or something; we don't wear them for protection or capture spirits in them. They are just our prayer boxes. You're like a jillion pages behind, friend.
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# ? Nov 7, 2020 04:01 |
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Hyperlynx posted:You're like a jillion pages behind, friend. Well yeah, they're necro-posting
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# ? Nov 7, 2020 04:53 |
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just looking for someone tefillin this person on the last few days of content
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# ? Nov 7, 2020 04:58 |
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Why? it won’t stick.
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# ? Nov 7, 2020 05:00 |
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About eighteen months ago, a guy I used to be friends years ago with who drifted into pseudoscience hit me up on Steam with some questions. He was asking why the sun doesn't affect tides as much as the moon. I talked to him about the relative difference between the effect of the moon's gravity on one side of the planet compared to the other, and how the sun affects tides with king tides and neap tides, and he asked about why our bodies don't get tides because we're mostly water as well, and again, the relative difference in gravity between two points less than 2m apart is negligible etc etc. It occurred to me today that I may have dug him out of a Flat Earth-shaped hole before he fell all the way into it.
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 09:32 |
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Memento posted:About eighteen months ago, a guy I used to be friends years ago with who drifted into pseudoscience hit me up on Steam with some questions. He was asking why the sun doesn't affect tides as much as the moon. I talked to him about the relative difference between the effect of the moon's gravity on one side of the planet compared to the other, and how the sun affects tides with king tides and neap tides, and he asked about why our bodies don't get tides because we're mostly water as well, and again, the relative difference in gravity between two points less than 2m apart is negligible etc etc. You're doing Sol's work
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 09:36 |
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Memento posted:. Not to minimise your good work, but I would say that your friend dug himself out of the hole, you were just kind enough to provide the shovel
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 09:42 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Not to minimise your good work, but I would say that your friend dug himself out of the hole, you were just kind enough to provide the shovel This is the best way to do it. Teach a man to fish etc.
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 09:52 |
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https://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/1325551971110166534 God loving dammit.
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 11:22 |
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Josef bugman posted:https://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/1325551971110166534 It's always great when the penny drops.
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 11:58 |
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I love that she's just a head. I wish Orpheus was too, but I guess you can only do that joke once.
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 12:07 |
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Memento posted:It occurred to me today that I may have dug him out of a Flat Earth-shaped hole before he fell all the way into it. He got lucky there. I would have been all uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 13:59 |
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Memento posted:About eighteen months ago, a guy I used to be friends years ago with who drifted into pseudoscience hit me up on Steam with some questions. He was asking why the sun doesn't affect tides as much as the moon. I talked to him about the relative difference between the effect of the moon's gravity on one side of the planet compared to the other, and how the sun affects tides with king tides and neap tides, and he asked about why our bodies don't get tides because we're mostly water as well, and again, the relative difference in gravity between two points less than 2m apart is negligible etc etc. Do you still talk to him? If you don't then most likely he didn't listen to any of it and was in Pennsylvania, Georgia or Arizona praying over ballots.
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 17:06 |
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Facebook memories decided to remind me it's the anniversary of me finding out that the gate guard in The Wizard of Oz is just the wizard wearing a fake mustache.
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 18:19 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Not to minimise your good work, but I would say that your friend dug himself out of the hole, you were just kind enough to provide the shovel
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 18:46 |
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I get the joke, but you could dig sideways-up to get out. That's more an IMM, though.
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# ? Nov 9, 2020 18:58 |
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i had no idea the song from the title theme of Ocarina of Time has the whistle sound from Super Mario Bros 3
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# ? Nov 10, 2020 08:14 |
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It's because the whistle sound from Super Mario Bros 3 is from Zelda.
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# ? Nov 10, 2020 08:24 |
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Dip Viscous posted:It's because the whistle sound from Super Mario Bros 3 is from Zelda. Lemme tell you somesing I can't believe I just figured that out
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# ? Nov 10, 2020 16:54 |
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OK, you know how one of the big attacks on 'SJW, PC Police, Woke etc.' types is that they are humourless? I think I figured out why, Why people use that to attack them, and why to their minds it is a valid attack. Humour, at it's core is about not taking things seriously. And being an 'SJW', to use their term, is at it's core about caring about things. "Don't say n*gger, that word dehumanizes people and hurts their feelings. This is important.", "Indigenous people were here first, we should give them the acknowledgement, respect and support they deserve and weren't given in the past. This is important.", "Trans people are people, and deserve the rights and respect that is currently afforded to cis people. This is important." etc. The reason the conservative arseholes call the SJWs humourless is because they DON'T think that this stuff is important. They DON'T care. And as such see the humour coming from not these serious things lightly. And mocking those that do think these things are important. I suppose the same thin, but opposite politically, is us on the left making fun of how outraged the right got when Colin Kapaernick kneeled. i.e. We don't care or think it is important that football man kneeled, but they do care deeply and to our minds disproportionately. Thus its funny. Anyway, yeah. I had always thought they were just being dicks. But now I think they have, (in their own minds), a somewhat cogent argument.
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# ? Nov 12, 2020 23:55 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:OK, you know how one of the big attacks on 'SJW, PC Police, Woke etc.' types is that they are humourless? I think I figured out why, Why people use that to attack them, and why to their minds it is a valid attack. Yep. But they also know on some level that they're being assholes, a great way to call them out is to go "I don't get the joke, can you explain it to me?" and then watch them flail as they try to explain their lovely opinion out loud.
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# ? Nov 13, 2020 01:49 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yep. But they also know on some level that they're being assholes, a great way to call them out is to go "I don't get the joke, can you explain it to me?" and then watch them flail as they try to explain their lovely opinion out loud. this tactic really hasn’t failed me. best way to put it over is to ask with all the naivete of a newborn babe
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# ? Nov 13, 2020 01:49 |
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Something I just noticed: the music video for Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun went through the "Star Wars Special Edition" process at some point and they redid a bunch of the effects and also added some new effects and even an entire new person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg Original here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1gyn
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# ? Nov 13, 2020 02:34 |
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Josef bugman posted:https://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/1325551971110166534 I love stupid puns like this. It reminds me of the fight club side quest in Witcher 3. You go around beating up a bunch of people for money, and one of them is an elven tailor named Durden.
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# ? Nov 13, 2020 02:55 |
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Leftist humor punches up, conservative humor punches down. Only one of those is funny to most people.
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# ? Nov 13, 2020 04:04 |
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Beachcomber posted:Leftist humor punches up, conservative humor punches down. Centrist humour punches themselves
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# ? Nov 13, 2020 04:28 |
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Inceltown posted:Centrist humour punches themselves "Centrists" are conservatives in denial.
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# ? Nov 13, 2020 04:38 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Something I just noticed: the music video for Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun went through the "Star Wars Special Edition" process at some point and they redid a bunch of the effects and also added some new effects and even an entire new person: I never made the connection that Twin Peaks BOB is just there hanging out with some chick (Not actual Frank Silva, but a dude with the same vibe)
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