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The Gleek Clique, we gleek on your food and ain't buy replacements
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Captain Splendid posted:The violin family has a contoured waist so you can bow without hitting anything. The upright bass is not part of the violin family, it's actually a bass viol.
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Dec 17, 2022 00:25
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This one's a twofer, imo. Thanks to working retail during the holidays, I have to hear an incredibly repetitive Pandora mix of Xmas songs for 8 hours a day. One song that drives me particularly nuts is "Little Saint Nick" by the Beach Boys. Having heard this song over 100 times in the last few weeks, I finally paid attention to the lyrics, and this repeated line made me snap: "Christmas comes this time each year" Wow did you just figure that out?! That the holiday that falls on a specific day every loving year, it comes this time each year? That's amazing, you geniuses! It is perhaps the stupidest lyric I have ever heard. So the Beach Boys figured out how calendars work, and I figured out reason #352 why I can't stand them.
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Dec 17, 2022 03:40
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JacquelineDempsey posted:"Christmas comes this time each year" That's such a weird line. I was gonna chalk it up to lazy rhyming, but then I went back to listen again and it's just an interjection, it doesn't even rhyme with anything. It's even lazier, just hitting the right number of syllables!
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Dec 17, 2022 03:50
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RFC2324 posted:Lmao you are right. oh lol i thought you were doing a bit
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Sometimes a song just needs words to fill space  I guess it would've been better if they'd just said "yeah" a bunch
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Captain Hygiene posted:That's such a weird line. I was gonna chalk it up to lazy rhyming, but then I went back to listen again and it's just an interjection, it doesn't even rhyme with anything. It's even lazier, just hitting the right number of syllables! Brian Wilson is an absolute genius with harmony and he had an incredible talent for how to use each member's voice to compliment each other, but he's always been a lousy lyricist and Mike Love is a complete hack all around. There's some really incredible Beach Boys stuff out there but don't bother looking for inspiration in the lyrics.
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Dec 17, 2022 05:41
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JacquelineDempsey posted:"Christmas comes this time each year" It's also sung it with the most downtrodden, lazy-eyed, drunken intonation right at the start of the song. This has been a running joke with my girlfriend for years now. Hey! Did you know? It's at this time... Christmas comes each year. *EACH* year. This year? You betcha. EACH year.
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Dec 17, 2022 05:45
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The intro to good vibrations is incredible music. It’s the same poo poo that every rock band in the 80s did where they have like a minute of musical genius and then it just full transitions into the blandest crap possible. van halen syndrome.
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Dec 17, 2022 05:48
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Carol Kaye is responsible for the best part of Good Vibrations.
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Dec 17, 2022 05:59
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They were so loving high its a miracle they wrote anything at all.
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Dec 17, 2022 11:14
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Baron von Eevl posted:The upright bass is not part of the violin family, it's actually a bass viol. Right? What weirdo would tune in fourths?
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Dec 17, 2022 12:37
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impossiboobs posted:FO-yurr is American English and fo-YAY is how it's pronounced in Canada. Similar to how "niche" in America is nitch and in Canada is neesh. Canada tends to lean further into French pronunciation for obvious reasons. I grew up near the Canadian border. I figured out that I pronounce 'sorry' like a Canadian when I moved downstate. Lots of other stuff too probably. I blame Mr Dressup (RIP my brother).
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Dec 18, 2022 03:17
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EasilyConfused posted:For some reason I sometimes pronounce it nitch and sometimes pronounce it neesh. Me too, probably code switching
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Dec 18, 2022 03:18
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nitch as a noun, neesh as an adjective
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JacquelineDempsey posted:This one's a twofer, imo.
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You have to pronounce it “nitch” so that you can make one particular bad joke.
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InediblePenguin posted:nitch as a noun, neesh as an adjective Nitch in the streets, neesh in the sheets
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Dec 18, 2022 06:06
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Saying someone should "touch grass" means they need to go outside/get off the internet. I thought it was telling someone to die/kys and was surprised how often the mods here let people say it to each other. I think I might have conflated it with "pushing daisies". vvv Yeah something like that! run on sentience has a new favorite as of 01:50 on Dec 20, 2022 |
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touch grass... from underneath 
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George Romero and John Romero aren't even loving related
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Dec 21, 2022 18:19
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It took me way too long to figure out that John Carmack is not related to Adrian Carmack, another founder of id Software.
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Dec 21, 2022 18:23
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Dip Viscous posted:It took me way too long to figure out that John Carmack is not related to Adrian Carmack, another founder of id Software. What I My world has shattered
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Dec 21, 2022 19:39
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I also thought they were related.
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And John Carmack and John Romero aren't related either. I mean, there's no reason for them to be, I just wanted to participate. I swear I remember reading an interview ~20 years ago with someone from iD, and a comment about how John and Adrian aren't related, and then the interviewer asked if John and John were related, and the answer was something "Aren't people usually related by their last names? 🙄"
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Dec 21, 2022 22:16
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just realising I don't actually know if RZA and GZA from the Wu-Tang Clan are related
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rollick posted:just realising I don't actually know if RZA and GZA from the Wu-Tang Clan are related they are both in the same clan, so obviously.
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Dec 21, 2022 22:32
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rollick posted:just realising I don't actually know if RZA and GZA from the Wu-Tang Clan are related They're cousins, as was ODB.
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Dec 21, 2022 22:43
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Henchman of Santa posted:They're cousins, as was ODB. Yeah, but you'll never guess what I heard about his parents.
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Dec 21, 2022 22:54
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Here's a really minor one but the lyrics in The Pogues' Fairytale Of New York aren't "Got on a lucky one, came in at ten-to-one" but "Came in eighteen-to-one" That even luckier!
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Dec 25, 2022 06:11
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Killing Joke are British
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here's a really minor one but the lyrics in The Pogues' Fairytale Of New York aren't "Got on a lucky one, came in at ten-to-one" but "Came in eighteen-to-one" One of my favorite songs of all time. I can’t believe people use that song as a feel-good Christmas song lol
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Dec 25, 2022 14:33
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Captain Splendid posted:Killing Joke are British Extremely British.
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Captain Splendid posted:Killing Joke are British Also some of the fans haven’t figured out there isn’t a connection to the comics. A friend saw them live a few years ago and there were multiple guys in Joker makeup.
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Shifty Nipples posted:"Cah rib ian" is the cruise line and "care ah be in" is the place If "care ah be in" is good enough for Billy Ocean and Bob Marley, then it's good enough for me.
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Dec 26, 2022 06:00
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Every step of American healthcare is setup and designed to be miserable. From finding a provider to getting treatment, and that's assuming you even have insurance and can afford it
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Twenty Four posted:A kid telling his friends at school about their uncle that worked at Nintendo, way back like 80 years ago. No one believes his story, despite how much he insists it's true.
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Dec 26, 2022 14:04
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It's extra hard to believe because that photo of Nintendo HQ from 1889 looks like it was taken in 1970. Koi-Koi is super fun btw.
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Dec 26, 2022 14:43
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I learned that earlier this year and went to see if there were any older video game studios. it turns out that the oldest one by some metrics is the US Army (fixed 1776)
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