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It turns out the skyscraper that I've always thought was the Empire State Building... ...is actually the Chrysler Building. In my defense, I've been to Manhattan only once in my life. I think my misconception came from extremely low-res skyscraper models in early versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator that I played as a kid (New York was as good as my native Chicago for slaloming a plane around between buildings), and also from an assumption that the building pictured on the commercial bumpers on Saturday Night Live must be the really big and famous one.
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Powered Descent posted:(New York was as good as my native Chicago for slaloming a plane around between buildings), Haven’t seen anyone gently caress up slaloming Chicago
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Sep 28, 2023 03:37
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Oh slaloming. I thought it read "slamming"
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Sep 28, 2023 07:31
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The Chrysler Building is way cooler than the Empire State Building. It’s K2 to ESB’s Everest.
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Sep 28, 2023 08:53
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Interiors better too
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Sep 28, 2023 09:58
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Powered Descent posted:It turns out the skyscraper that I've always thought was the Empire State Building... In Men In Black 3 agent J uses the Chrysler building to time jump and on his return to the top of the building Empire State of Mind ft Alicia Keys starts playing. This further confuses people, I'm sure.
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Sep 28, 2023 12:33
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"Empire State" is a nickname for the entirety of New York.
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Sep 28, 2023 13:14
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And the "Evil Empire" is a nickname for the entire country 
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Sep 28, 2023 13:34
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When I was a young kid, I heard it as "Umpire State Building" and I assumed it was named for baseball umpires.
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Sep 28, 2023 13:35
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That's why it's so tall, so they can see all the fields in the city
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The word umpire is derived from the old french word nonper/nomper, literally "not part of a pair", meaning "arbiter" since they were not one of the two parties in the conflict. Pretty cool imo
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Given my age, I've listened to Return to the 36 Chambers by ODB and Storybots hundreds of times. It only just dawned on me the Shimmy Shimmy Ya line in the Storybots Velociraptor song happens after a line about Velociraptors liking their meals raw. How I missed that the first 100 times of hearing it I don't know. Maybe because it sounds more like Beastie Boys.
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Oct 1, 2023 11:08
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Agatha Christie only died in the 70s
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Oct 1, 2023 11:32
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It's Vampire's Taint Building
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Oct 1, 2023 11:53
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Captain Splendid posted:Agatha Christie only died in the 70s Agatha Christie's Poirot only started in 1989. I was sure it would've been like 84 or 85. The Brett Sherlock Holmes did start in 1984 though. e: I guess it's really really hard to tell with British historical programmes, as the wardrobe and sets are always impeccable, unlike American productions. I just feel like I spent most of my childhood wathing Poirot. But I didn't! 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 16:02 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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That Disturbed song that begins with monkey sounds ("Oohh ahh! ahh! ahh! ahh!") is not supposed to be monkey sounds. I'd not heard the actual song, which I have been calling "that song skinny white guys sing at karaoke that begin with monkey sounds." It's huge at karaoke. Like, get your bingo cards out, young college guys are gonna knock this song and Under the Bridge within the first five songs, and the way everyone begins is by making, what to me, sounds like monkey sounds. I finally just listened to the song and it's not really monkey sounds, it's just sounds. But seriously, go to karaoke, wait for a skinny white 21 year-old to get up on stage and if you didn't know it, you'd think he was beginning a song by making monkey sounds. This came about because I got into an argument with my neighbor who said they weren't monkey sounds. Seriously, listen to anyone sing this other than the original. Monkey sounds.
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Oct 3, 2023 21:08
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Agatha Christie's Poirot only started in 1989. lol, I've just found out that David Suchet played Japp in one of the Ustinov films.
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Captain Splendid posted:lol, I've just found out that David Suchet played Japp in one of the Ustinov films. Yeah I didn't really appreciate the dark and gritty "buddy cop" version of Poirot and Japp  
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Oct 3, 2023 21:26
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Also David is John's younger brother.
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Oct 3, 2023 21:46
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credburn posted:That Disturbed song that begins with monkey sounds ("Oohh ahh! ahh! ahh! ahh!") is not supposed to be monkey sounds. Yeah in the original song those noises are simultaneously high pitched but also really guttural and young college guys always underestimate their ability to hit either range, and if you sing them right in the middle or without the guttural element they become monkey noises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99deLmqCoo0
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Oct 3, 2023 23:07
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Learn how to sing songs to different backing tracks and ruin karaoke for everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PeeDCnoG3k
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Wasabi the J posted:Learn how to sing songs to different backing tracks and ruin karaoke for everyone!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiEycVMKoJo&t=95s
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I just kinda assumed Stevie Wonder would've been dead by now, but how about that.
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Pneub posted:I just kinda assumed Stevie Wonder would've been dead by now, but how about that. You're probably like me and think he's way older than he is. "Superstition" was from his 15th album, and came out in 1972, when Stevie was 22
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Pookah posted:You're probably like me and think he's way older than he is. He was signed to Motown Records at age 11 and put out his first two LPS the year after. On his first LP he played piano, organ, harmonica, drums and bongos. He had his first hit single at age 13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQRBzZCtD4o
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I loved diving into Stevie's discography a few years back. I still haven't even heard a huge chunk of it from the super-Motown days, or the 80s-and-up, but his 70s run was a legendary career in its own right. Feels like the rest is just icing. His last single (to date) back during the 2020 election season was pretty fire too. The rap features do suffer a bit from what I'd describe as "very NPR" production. But it's also kind of a funny fake out, because you think Busta is going to be the one who earns the Explicit tag, but he isn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgdfxeh0WtE
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:He was signed to Motown Records at age 11 and put out his first two LPS the year after. On his first LP he played piano, organ, harmonica, drums and bongos. He had his first hit single at age 13: I was just learning this from Wikipedia today. I knew he was a hugely talented person, but I had no idea he'd started so young. I was amazed by how mature the sound of "Superstition" was for such a young musician, but yeah, by that point he was already an extremely accomplished artist.
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Oct 5, 2023 20:04
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The Dark Souls 3 cover is not an armored dude giving you a Fonzi-esque thumbs up.
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Bullshit
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It clearly is.
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Well that's photoshopped to be more thumbs-up-like, but if we look at the original: Ok, yeah, still a thumbs-up.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Well that's photoshopped to be more thumbs-up-like, but if we look at the original: I always thought it was the dust of time trickling from his hand? or is it 
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I always thought it was the dust of time trickling from his hand? Perhaps it’s both
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Eeyyyy
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One Punch Man (the guy in yellow) started out as a parody of the classic 1970s Japanese superhero Anpanman (the guy in red).  One Punch Man's name in Japanese is Wanpanman which makes it even more obvious
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I always thought when people refer to "hoverboards" they were talking about those weird magnetic skateboards that are on rails, but no, they're referring to any self-balancing wheeled thing, like a Segway. Just really sort of annoys me in that way that language changes faster than I am comfortable with. Back in my day, if it used wheels, it meant it didn't hover.
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credburn posted:I always thought when people refer to "hoverboards" they were talking about those weird magnetic skateboards that are on rails, but no, they're referring to any self-balancing wheeled thing, like a Segway. They are NOT self balancing like a Segway
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For years I was vaguely puzzled by the word "Diaspora", because while it is widely used in english, it does not sound English at all. (I now know its from a Greek word, meaning "to scatter") I somehow got it into my head that it was a loan word derived from the Irish word "Díospóireacht", which sounds kind of the same in the first half and means "debate". Like, there were these international debates over the cause and effect of populations getting displaced and scattered. Pookah has a new favorite as of 18:59 on Oct 11, 2023 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:One Punch Man (the guy in yellow) started out as a parody of the classic 1970s Japanese superhero Anpanman (the guy in red). Japanese is not a language, it's actually a series of loosely connected puns. That millions of people are able to use it to communicate with each other is merely a coincidence.
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