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teen witch: Oct 9, 2012

Froghammer posted:

Anderson and Sophie, at Tanagra.

Anderson and Sophie, when the walls fell.

pissed I can�t make this the title

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teen witch: Oct 9, 2012

shout out to Prop though I think the brioche BTB fans also need roses, so to say

Also this episode lead me to a terrifying possibility with this strange new post Trump era: the pact of forgetting . Neither victors nor vanquished let�s just move on and move forward. and yeah the Spanish civil war you can both sides some things but Francoist Spain absolutely loving not.

I hold to the belief that history doesn�t repeat, it rhymes. I also dread when it is true.

On a lighter note yes you should see Guernica (the piece) irl because it is enormous and how I learned about the Spanish Civil War in the first place! It pushed then teen teen witch further into leftism that 8th grade Madrid school trip. I never realized how much that trip was v �coming of age� it was until this two parter.

# ? Jan 28, 2021 22:34

DivineCoffeeBinge: Mar 3, 2011; Spider-Man's Amazing Construction Company

Robert, if you ever get around to that lengthy exploration of Civil War-era Spain I would absolutely pay money for it. Just FYI.

I would even buy products and services. I'm just sayin'.

# ? Jan 29, 2021 06:55

Mr. Fix It: Oct 26, 2000; 💀ayyy💀

DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

Robert, if you ever get around to that lengthy exploration of Civil War-era Spain I would absolutely pay money for it. Just FYI.

I would even buy products and services. I'm just sayin'.

Bob's gonna get his corporate overlords to pay for it.

# ? Jan 29, 2021 09:01

Bust Rodd: Oct 21, 2008; by VideoGames

I took an entire class in college called �Papal Indescretion� and it was about all the most hosed up popes and all the insane bacchanalia that they got up to.

Popes would molest nuns and then raise the babies as nuns and then officiate their own weddings to their own secret daughters that they raised in secret convents.

They hosted a grand ball and the Pope would assign high ranking Cardinal positions to the priest who busted the most nuts with all of Romes most expensive escorts.

My favorite was, I believe, Boniface the 8th, who was a steward of the Pope, and convinced the sitting pope that he was too old to be Pope and needed help. After the sitting Pope, John the 16th or whatever, gave him some of his papal authority, Old Boner Face immediately decreed the previous Pope a heretic and had him locked up in a tower and made himself full Pope. And the imprisoned Pope, a 78 year old man at the time, escaped from the tower and made it all the way to France before they found him and improsoned him again (and he escaped again, lol)

What I�m saying is there are probably 2-3 popes who could EASILY, easily, fill up an episode, and their crimes range from the comically absurd to Heironymous Bosch levels of hell and darkness.

# ? Jan 29, 2021 17:36

Dapper_Swindler: Feb 14, 2012; Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

GunFondler42069 posted:

next two episodes are on "the fascists that failed", so we're talking Feb 6 1934 in Paris and then the Business Plot.

there are a bunch more i could've done but the series has to end at some point so we can talk about grifters again and give people a break.

and also give me a break. the spanish civil war episodes were hard.

do whatever works for you, man, whatever it will be its amazing.

# ? Jan 29, 2021 17:58

AceOfFlames: Oct 9, 2012

Bust Rodd posted:

I took an entire class in college called “Papal Indescretion” and it was about all the most hosed up popes and all the insane bacchanalia that they got up to.

Popes would molest nuns and then raise the babies as nuns and then officiate their own weddings to their own secret daughters that they raised in secret convents.

They hosted a grand ball and the Pope would assign high ranking Cardinal positions to the priest who busted the most nuts with all of Romes most expensive escorts.

My favorite was, I believe, Boniface the 8th, who was a steward of the Pope, and convinced the sitting pope that he was too old to be Pope and needed help. After the sitting Pope, John the 16th or whatever, gave him some of his papal authority, Old Boner Face immediately decreed the previous Pope a heretic and had him locked up in a tower and made himself full Pope. And the imprisoned Pope, a 78 year old man at the time, escaped from the tower and made it all the way to France before they found him and improsoned him again (and he escaped again, lol)

What I’m saying is there are probably 2-3 popes who could EASILY, easily, fill up an episode, and their crimes range from the comically absurd to Heironymous Bosch levels of hell and darkness.

And of course there's good old Alexander VI AKA Rodrigo Borgia AKA the guy you fist fight at the end of Assassin's Creed II.

# ? Jan 29, 2021 18:58

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.

Bust Rodd posted:

I took an entire class in college called �Papal Indescretion� and it was about all the most hosed up popes and all the insane bacchanalia that they got up to.

Popes would molest nuns and then raise the babies as nuns and then officiate their own weddings to their own secret daughters that they raised in secret convents.

They hosted a grand ball and the Pope would assign high ranking Cardinal positions to the priest who busted the most nuts with all of Romes most expensive escorts.

My favorite was, I believe, Boniface the 8th, who was a steward of the Pope, and convinced the sitting pope that he was too old to be Pope and needed help. After the sitting Pope, John the 16th or whatever, gave him some of his papal authority, Old Boner Face immediately decreed the previous Pope a heretic and had him locked up in a tower and made himself full Pope. And the imprisoned Pope, a 78 year old man at the time, escaped from the tower and made it all the way to France before they found him and improsoned him again (and he escaped again, lol)

What I�m saying is there are probably 2-3 popes who could EASILY, easily, fill up an episode, and their crimes range from the comically absurd to Heironymous Bosch levels of hell and darkness.

Not that I think that Rob and the gang couldn't do a good job, but there is the podcast Pontifacts who are leading up to these popes.

# ? Jan 29, 2021 20:39

neongrey: Feb 28, 2007; Plaguing your posts with incidental music.

Samovar posted:

Not that I think that Rob and the gang couldn't do a good job, but there is the podcast Pontifacts who are leading up to these popes.

someone just got a new podcast for bedtime listening

# ? Jan 29, 2021 21:59

DC Murderverse: Nov 10, 2016; "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

https://twitter.com/newyorker/status/1355361138398154755?s=21

I never saw this posted in here when it was written last March but the New Yorker wrote an article about All-Star Bastards guest Jamie Loftus and her adventures in MENSA

# ? Jan 30, 2021 21:57

Chairman Capone: Dec 17, 2008

Considering that Scott Adams used to write a lot about being in MENSA, that doesn't surprise me at all.

# ? Jan 30, 2021 22:26

teen witch: Oct 9, 2012

Chairman Capone posted:

Considering that Scott Adams used to write a lot about being in MENSA, that doesn't surprise me at all.

God when is that assholes episode? Like he isn�t a bastard but gently caress, just the worst. The absolute worst. �Behind, ugh, this rear end in a top hat�

# ? Jan 30, 2021 23:17

Bust Rodd: Oct 21, 2008; by VideoGames

I listened to jamie's MENSA podcast and the first 3 episodes of her Lolita podcast and she's very weird and very smart. I think she has a great nose for stories and is really talented journalist but she is also a very particular kind of person and certainly an "acquired taste" IMO, and I had to stop listening to the Bechdel cast after a couple of years because it just got extremely samey.

I would 100% recommend "My Year in MENSA", it's an awesome expose on their lovely club, but honestly Lolita is kind of slog. I'm not a true crime/SVU kind of person, so consuming multiple hours of media about pedofilia is extremely mood dependent and I haven't finished it yet so i'll hold off on recommending it.

# ? Jan 30, 2021 23:28

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK: Sep 11, 2008; Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola
-Cheap Trick; Nap Ghost

teen witch posted:

God when is that assholes episode? Like he isn’t a bastard but gently caress, just the worst. The absolute worst. “Behind, ugh, this rear end in a top hat”

Theres a qanon anonynous episode about him but it really isnt anything major from what I remember

just a libertarian rear end in a top hat who got lucky in the 90s and has more or less coasted off of that fame and job for the past 30 years

he had a few stupid inventions/concepts he funded, wrote some generic business books, and had a bout with some neurological condition that stripped him of his ability to talk

I think he also divorced his wife and married someone half his age but his new wife was in her late 20s so it's more old rich dude creepy than anything

# ? Jan 31, 2021 20:15

echomadman: Aug 24, 2004; Nap Ghost

Some sad news from Robert on reddit.

# ? Feb 2, 2021 15:21

Jordan7hm: Feb 17, 2011; Lipstick Apathy

That�s terrible. My condolences Robert.

# ? Feb 2, 2021 15:26

blunt for century: Jul 4, 2008; I've got a bone to pick.

Ah gently caress. Pancreatic cancer is a real bad one. Take care of yourself, Robert, I know this is gonna be rough

# ? Feb 2, 2021 15:29

neongrey: Feb 28, 2007; Plaguing your posts with incidental music.

Ah, gently caress, that's rough. I'm so sorry to hear that.

# ? Feb 2, 2021 16:28

Bust Rodd: Oct 21, 2008; by VideoGames

Best wishes for your family

# ? Feb 2, 2021 16:29

teen witch: Oct 9, 2012

condolences and please take it easy.

# ? Feb 2, 2021 16:54

B33rChiller: Aug 18, 2011

teen witch posted:

condolences and please take it easy.

^This.
We're thinking of you. Take all the time you need. Your audience and readership will be there when you're ready.

# ? Feb 2, 2021 17:58

DivineCoffeeBinge: Mar 3, 2011; Spider-Man's Amazing Construction Company

ah gently caress. I'm sorry to hear that, Robert, you do what you've gotta. The audience'll be here when you get back, don't rush poo poo. Take care, man.

# ? Feb 2, 2021 18:06

Dapper_Swindler: Feb 14, 2012; Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

echomadman posted:

Some sad news from Robert on reddit.

jesus Christ rob, condolences. you do whatever you need to do. we will be supporting you guys no matter what. take it easy and do what you need too.

# ? Feb 2, 2021 18:32

GunFondler42069: Jan 28, 2020

thanks everybody

it's going to suck, obviously, but we're not in the worst position. my parents are teachers so my mom has healthcare. they are financially stable. so at least we're not dealing with bankruptcy and death

# ? Feb 2, 2021 21:25

teen witch: Oct 9, 2012

Relating to today�s episode, two things

- Fran�ois Coty? If you�re a makeup nerd like myself, it is indeed this Coty! Though now it�s merely by name.

- Dreyfus, is more related to Julia Louis than of Richard.

# ? Feb 2, 2021 22:10

DC Murderverse: Nov 10, 2016; "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

GunFondler42069 posted:

thanks everybody

it's going to suck, obviously, but we're not in the worst position. my parents are teachers so my mom has healthcare. they are financially stable. so at least we're not dealing with bankruptcy and death

I'm glad you won't have to worry about that. I hope this it goes as easily as this very hard thing can go.

# ? Feb 2, 2021 23:44

lonelylikezoidberg: Dec 19, 2007

Hey Robert, condolences man. That sucks, wish you the best.

# ? Feb 3, 2021 00:26

Marsupial Ape: Dec 15, 2020; the mod team violated the sancity of my avatar

GunFondler42069 posted:

thanks everybody

it's going to suck, obviously, but we're not in the worst position. my parents are teachers so my mom has healthcare. they are financially stable. so at least we're not dealing with bankruptcy and death

I�m glad your parents are in a favorable position to deal with your mom�s illness. You�re a good man for putting your life on hold to to help your mom out. I�m sure you mom is a strong lady.

If you need the time, just give the show over to Sophie and Jamie Loftus talk poo poo about whoever in history they want. I�d honestly pay for that.

# ? Feb 3, 2021 00:29

DC Murderverse: Nov 10, 2016; "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

We goons should crowdsource an episode about the bastards of Something Awful to fill time. Everyone on the forums still can record one word of the script, it�ll be ~~terrifying~~ wonderful

# ? Feb 3, 2021 01:18

Lobster God: Nov 5, 2008

GunFondler42069 posted:

thanks everybody

it's going to suck, obviously, but we're not in the worst position. my parents are teachers so my mom has healthcare. they are financially stable. so at least we're not dealing with bankruptcy and death

Really sorry to hear about that mate, best wishes to you and yours.

# ? Feb 3, 2021 01:29

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK: Sep 11, 2008; Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola
-Cheap Trick; Nap Ghost

GunFondler42069 posted:

thanks everybody

it's going to suck, obviously, but we're not in the worst position. my parents are teachers so my mom has healthcare. they are financially stable. so at least we're not dealing with bankruptcy and death

that's good but really best of luck with the situation

# ? Feb 3, 2021 01:46

Froghammer: Sep 8, 2012; Khajit has wares
if you have coin

Condolences, losing a parent is one of the toughest things a person can go though. Your audience understands the need for you to take care of yourself and will be here when you come out on the other side

# ? Feb 3, 2021 02:46

AceOfFlames: Oct 9, 2012

My condolences Robert. Take all the time you need.

# ? Feb 3, 2021 07:59

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.

Condolences, Rob.

# ? Feb 3, 2021 09:03

Mr. Fix It: Oct 26, 2000; 💀ayyy💀

loving hell bobert, that sucks

# ? Feb 3, 2021 14:19

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

GunFondler42069 posted:

thanks everybody

it's going to suck, obviously, but we're not in the worst position. my parents are teachers so my mom has healthcare. they are financially stable. so at least we're not dealing with bankruptcy and death

Having just lost a parent to cancer/covid, it indeed is going to suck. I hope it sucks as little as it can. I'm sure you got people but if you have questions best answered by a total internet stranger feel free to hit me up. I've gone through this recently enough I haven't forgotten anything yet.

# ? Feb 3, 2021 19:21

Bored As Fuck: Jan 1, 2006; Fun Shoe

I'm sorry Robert. That's horrible.

# ? Feb 3, 2021 19:33

poly and open-minded: Nov 22, 2006; In BOD we trust

Jumping in to also wish you and your family the best, Robert. Take care of yourself and vent your feelings in healthy ways or ones that involve cool guns or something.

# ? Feb 5, 2021 02:40

Mr. Fix It: Oct 26, 2000; 💀ayyy💀

i want a smedley butler biopic

also i can see why the business plot fascists thought he might be a fascist:

I wonder if the casting of the fascist-coup-leading general from Homeland was inspired by him. Robert Knepper could def pull off Smedley.

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# ? May 29, 2024 17:47

Dapper_Swindler: Feb 14, 2012; Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Mr. Fix It posted:

i want a smedley butler biopic

also i can see why the business plot fascists thought he might be a fascist:

I wonder if the casting of the fascist-coup-leading general from Homeland was inspired by him. Robert Knepper could def pull off Smedley.

my gfs step dad comes from an old money family and one of his direct ancestors was Smedley Butler and he loves to tell the jackson arm story. also he was college friends with Max Landis who he got his family cat from. dudes weird.

# ? Feb 5, 2021 23:43

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