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Memento posted:Animals (an album I absolutely love btw) is about "oh no is there no more to life than just being a successful wage earner? Are we really all just sheep? Are the government pigs?!?" Fifty years ago this was a little more wild and out there.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Not to mention She also plays the flaming red head Irish peasant who drowns with her children in ‘Titanic’.
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Captain Monkey posted:Kalimoxto/calimocho has been a popular cocktail for ages in Spain. Cocktail seems a fancy word for what (as I remember) kids mix up and drink sitting around a fountain in the nearby plaça.
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Aug 29, 2020 10:45
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Rowan Atkinson was in Not The Nine O’Clock News and Blackadder, very popular in the UK.
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Sep 7, 2020 21:17
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I can walk my shiba inu past a firework party with no issue, he doesn’t give a single gently caress about them. This is the same animal that jumps six feet in the air if the wind blows a paper bag round a corner in front of him.
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Oct 31, 2020 23:48
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:What if british english adopted kanji to make things clearer How have you seen my handwriting.
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Nov 2, 2020 09:25
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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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Failed Imagineer posted:Back in the 90s yeah, if I listened to them now I would probably only listen to their 80s stuff. And I saw them a couple of years ago because my buddy bought me a ticket and they absolutely sucked rear end. Still, weird to act like they weren't the biggest metal band of all time... Similar. You literally couldn’t escape the Black Album in the early 90’s, but I haven’t listened to it in 25 years, or anything they did after it. Still listen to MoP and AJFA occasionally though.
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Nov 22, 2020 17:06
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mng posted:Lucifina Teufel? Satanica Diablo.
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Nov 25, 2020 21:49
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MariusLecter posted:People talk about Galileo being persecuted by the Church but he got poo poo from other scientists too that wasn't based on religious objections. Ignaz Semmelweis reduced instances of puerperal fever to a level almost equal to modern hospitals around two centuries ago by having everyone in his natal hospital wash their hands properly. Unfortunately, although he knew and could prove people died less in his hospital, he had no idea why, because germ theory hadn’t been invented yet. This failure of intellectual rigour caused the mainstream medical profession of the day to completely ignore his work, which allegedly was the cause of his mental breakdown and subsequent death in a mental hospital. (I recalled all this because it cropped up in my research into Céline’s ties to Nazism; it transpired that his doctoral thesis was on Semmelweis, who turned out to be a far more interesting person than Céline).
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Nov 26, 2020 18:39
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Here's the Wikipedia article for Semmelweis, should anybody else be curious, because I looked him up after reading your post and am so distressed over the way this person's life panned out. Jesus. It’s like one of those Cassandra-type movies where the hero knows exactly what’s going to happen but can’t convince anyone of the incoming doom. 
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Nov 26, 2020 20:55
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Tunicate posted:that's basically a myth, in the same way that columbus discovering the earth was round is a myth - in both cases these are people who believed something that was obviously false, who in have been mythologized and assigned modern beliefs instead of the ones the actually held, then treated as matyrs. Ack, someone needs to update his wikipedia page!
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Nov 27, 2020 15:16
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RoboRodent posted:In English, it gets kind of awkward to say a word that begins with the same sound the last word ended with. And Priminister.
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Dec 3, 2020 21:30
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cyberia posted:It's more like "shoog" as in the first syllable of sugar. And not ‘Shuggy’, like I always thought.
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Milo and POTUS posted:They're clapping to emphasize. Yes it would be obnoxious. No, nobody really does it in real life Not more than once. anyway.
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Jan 7, 2021 12:26
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In fact they easily eat people, according to multiple gangster legends.
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Feb 10, 2021 18:23
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DrBouvenstein posted:WTF? That was, like, the one little "fun" thing about going to church as a kid, feeling you're sticking it to "the man" by having a sip of wine. Sike! It was actually blood.
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Hyperlynx posted:Sadly we'll never know for sure, out here, because that vid is blocked in Australia. A vacuum of humour and charisma, you’re not missing anything.
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May 6, 2021 11:08
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Down By Law is essential if you like to see Waits acting.
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May 28, 2021 15:34
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Ma’am is a shibboleth. Pronouncing it ‘marm’ marks you as clueless to anyone on the far right hand side of the class bell curve, in the UK anyway.
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Sep 21, 2021 17:12
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Cat Hassler posted:It’s very good! Watched it again the other night. Only downside is it isn’t fun to watch Kevin Spacey anymore It’s so irritating that he’s good in it, the stupid prick.
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Sep 28, 2021 13:19
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Rascar Capac posted:There's also the Miami Vice version: If memory serves he played three different dudes in Miami Vice.
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Oct 16, 2021 16:45
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packetmantis posted:Panther cowboys??? Cowboys From Hell in fact.
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Oct 17, 2021 08:45
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packetmantis posted:
A lot of the world’s problems can be explained by the way his train of thought works. “I don’t know” is sufficient, dude. Maybe add something like “maybe one day someone smarter than me will figure it out”.
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Oct 28, 2021 09:36
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This is funny in an "almost there dude!" sort of way.
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Captain DIEgiene posted:Usually it's the other way around 
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Oct 31, 2021 19:33
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Sydney Greenstreet was 62 years old, diabetic, and 300lbs when he debuted in The Maltese Falcon.
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Nov 28, 2021 21:41
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exquisite tea posted:Guinea was commonly used as a slur against Italians from Southern Italy + Sicily, who often had a darker complexion than people from the North (hence they were "black"). “Now if that’s a fact, tell me: am I lying?”
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The Mighty Moltres posted:gently caress the law, and gently caress any jury who would convict you. Aggressive animal detected.
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Jan 31, 2022 10:01
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Aren’t those to help visually impaired people not walk into traffic?
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Feb 28, 2022 10:09
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I’m sure I’m not the only person that considers Ska Sucks by Propagandhi to be the only barely acceptable ska song.
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Mar 7, 2022 14:01
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You’ll be telling me Elvis should play ska next!
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Mar 7, 2022 19:55
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Weird name for the Shah of Iran.
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Captain Splendid posted:All I remember from Matlock is the cable car and how the train to get there was a single carriage. The only way I remember the name is from (I want to say) a DFS advert from the 70’s which listed Matlock as one of its locations (along with Darley Dale, Measham, Droitwich, Cannock and Fenton).
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It might have been Allied Carpets though.
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Mar 30, 2022 14:21
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Apart from Prisoner Cell Block H.
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Platystemon posted:“Forecastle Atheist” is a good username. There are no atheists in forecastles.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Oh I just got that Thank you, one person 
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credburn posted:I'm oversharing about my mom itt The Microwave Defence.
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May 23, 2022 08:06
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also people who went to the effort of checking the data found that the number of disappearances in the area wasn't proportionally higher than any other part of the ocean and many of the reported stories were unverified or incomplete or just plain invented. It's always been a complete beat up. Simplest way of popping a believer’s bubble is to tell them that insurance companies don’t charge extra for travelling through it.
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Having just checked their Wikipedia pages, neither of them are bears.
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