sorry; had to
― imago, Saturday, 13 September 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
(struggles to rise above it all)
(does not succeed)
― Aimless, Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
False modesty
― Twist of Caliphate (Bob Six), Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
honestly, it was done with reluctant duty rather than vindictive glee
― imago, Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
ask yourself who is really holding the selfie stick
- you or the phone?
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, October 1, 2014 12:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
this thread needs more (relevant) posts
― ∞, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
get cracking!
― Aimless, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/Screenshot%202014-10-05%2020.22.46.png
― lool at the herrlich (wins), Sunday, 5 October 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
(A poll about modern life)
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Sunday, 5 October 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
the couple are in different continents and the only way they can keep in touch with each other is via the internet, score one for technology
― Chimp Arsons, Sunday, 5 October 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
^ ungrammatical conclusion
― Aimless, Sunday, 5 October 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
nah they are taking a photo of a projection of both their screens imo
― lool at the herrlich (wins), Sunday, 5 October 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
[77 content]
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
wd have posted that here myself if it wasn't 77 ;)
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
I think willingness to marry a conservative guy is probably the red flag there, not decision to get married.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gif
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
The most pejorative word in my lexicon is 'dickcheney'.― Momus (Momus), Monday, February 10, 2003 2:06 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
From a vintage thread called "dickhead as pejorative"
― Treeship, Sunday, 19 October 2014 04:39 (nine years ago) link
one of the scarier things about the internet is it allows people to grow up in an environment where actions don't have consequences
― ciderpress, Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:21 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 October 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
i aspire to have all my posts pasted to this thread and similar ones
― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 October 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
(that one can probably go to posts very much in character)
― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 October 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
http://mashable.com/2014/10/27/death-of-a-conversation-photography/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link
Romero says he is not entirely averse to technology, however, thinks "people are starting to derive more pleasure from their 'computer cuddles' than from their person to person interactions."
― well-behaved wingmen really hate Mystery (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 10:25 (nine years ago) link
I'll be so happy when we evolve beyond physical interactions so people will quit bemoaning the inevitable death of it and just accept their fate.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 10:59 (nine years ago) link
OK let's entertain for entertainment the fact that her "Music should not be free" stern balled editorial wasn't corporate shilling and just the regular blazayblah opinion probably most people on the street might have if you pressed them on this subject of i.p rights and internet downloads that they don't often think about and have never dl'd a song for free in their life. Let's also ignore, for the moment, the fact she's from a rich family a stock broker father and Merril Lynch financial wealth management adviser of millions of dollars. Let's also ignore, for a second, that generation of her grandfathers are banking presidents. Let's also put aside the fact Taylor's parents have been shaping and controlling and market managing her pop career since she was 14, setting up merchendising companies in her name, alienating people with that alleged arrogance and 'pay as little as possible and treat people like shit' attitude.
Let's put all that aside for a brief moment and reconsider her assertion: "It's my opinion that music should not be free".
And remind ourselves: She's only worth $200 million, guys. She only made $120 million on her last tour. We shouldn't forget that. She's only 24. People at 24 with only hundreds of millions in the bank and millions of adoring merchandise wearing fans can only be asked to give so much. I mean come on, her New York penthouse was only bought for $20 million, how do you expect her to keep up this lifestyle? Music should not be free. Music should not be free. It is my opinion that music should not be free.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, November 5, 2014 4:30 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
Never Coming to a Cinema Near You - Arthouse Cinema 2014 [Started by Frederik B in February 2014, last updated 1 minute ago by Frederik B] 1 new answerInterstellar: Nolan, McConaughey [Started by That's So (Eazy) in May 2014, last updated 6 minutes ago by da croupier] 68 new answers
― imago, Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
NSFW
― GYBE ALFOTHAD download from mediafire - Type: .rar Size: 53.25 MB (unregistered), Sunday, 16 November 2014 01:57 (nine years ago) link
Hey, Tom - do you mean "written tics" outside of obvious grammatical errors and poor spelling? (I loved those 3rd-grade-level e-mails I used to get asking if I was selling Dave Matthews Band tickets. I felt like I was in a hi-tech version of Fast Times - "No, I DON'T have any Blue Oyster Cult!")
I've always chafed against constant use of those damn emoticons. You know - ;), :), :P, %). Once in a while, okey dokey. Fifteen times in the same "conversation", I'm about to go alkdjfalkj.
Origin of such things (i.e. "Two words:", "Can you say...") - television. Bane of our existance. Glass tit. Sweet oblivion.
― David Raposa, Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:00 AM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
okey dokey
― soref, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
David Raposa was an absolutely classic poster and I shall hear no ill spoken of him
― 龜, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah it's pretty standard from-the-vaults type stuff & I was was only gonna include the last paragraph as the tsc part but stuff like "okey dokey" adds so much to the experience, also hints of cunty spelling & grammar nazism followed swiftly by "those blasted emoticons" followed by "existance" is just like, take a bow whoever you are
xp I'm sure you're right
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
it was a different time
― mattresslessness, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ZDyMWHj.png
― 龜, Saturday, 13 December 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
I don't know if I can make it through this article
― 龜, Saturday, 13 December 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kL6umQG.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 13 December 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
Elite Daily
― tweet deems ur mad f this (wins), Saturday, 13 December 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
unconvinced that any mode of meeting people is inherently more ~real than any other, real is what u make of it
― lex pretend, Monday, December 15, 2014 11:56 AM (5 hours ago)
― Mordy, Monday, 15 December 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
so annoying
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Monday, 15 December 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
~ next time
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 15 December 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
lol matt
― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Monday, 15 December 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
Sure, I get that about automation and fragility and buying parts - but the espresso people are less "buy a receiver at the pawn shop" and more "my diamond-encrusted cable really allows me to HEAR this section of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' for the first time."
Mostly no. The difference between the espresso you get out of a top-quality commercial machine like a La Marzocco and out of a substandard quality home machine is enormous. There are pricey but not insanely pricey home machines where you can get pretty close to the Marzocco quality with the right technique. And certain factors in making espresso are pretty well-established -- pressure, temperature, grind, tamping (not to speak of the beans themselves). The best machines are simply able to produce the appropriate pressure and temperature consistently, which is surprisingly difficult. Other bells and whistles can make a difference -- the bottomless portafilter, for example, but there's a pretty commonsense reason for that one -- in a normal portafilter oils from the coffee build up and are hard to clean away. The bottomless portafilter simply eliminates that problem.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:35 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
meanwhile
http://www.unicefusa.org/press/releases/unicef-too-many-children-dying-malnutrition/8259
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:48 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― max, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
tbf that "meanwhile" could've linked to a local news story about a flatulent dog and the contrast would not have been lost
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
lol just came here to post that
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
dog might have been flatulent due to inefficiently made coffee tho
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
a new use for the tamper really
― It's strange to me too. But we're talking about praxis, man. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
"I don't like mayonnaise on my sandwiches, only mustard"
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
oy amateurist
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
going to post that link after every amateurist film crit post
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
should be forced to change dn to that link
― It's strange to me too. But we're talking about praxis, man. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
So the idea is that if someone is derisively called "politically correct" presumably because they are unnecessarily touchy about things. This displays a lack of self-awareness because if you are upset about someone being PC then you are being unnecessarily touchy imo.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, February 13, 2015 2:02 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
― Mordy, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
http://djconnectiontulsa.com/imgUL/doublestuff2007.jpg
― mattresslessness, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
As grotesque as fox news is, they are not the root of any of the issues we face
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship),
Actually, they are. Manufactured Consent. Chomsky. Get into it ya'll.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:19 AM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link
I also feel like it follows a formula I see a lot on Twitter where you take something that is already bad (antivaxers, hatred of or misunderstanding toward autism) and extrapolate an even more extreme conclusion that doesn’t actually follow. Like “White America’s apathy toward police killings of black men just proves they would like to see every black person in America dead” or “Global warming inaction demonstrates how much our politicians hate our children.”
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 8 July 2021 05:05 (two years ago) link
Hmm
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 8 July 2021 07:33 (two years ago) link
I was following up to the examples and then hmm
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
it’s not far fetched at all there is a massive overlap between anti-vaxxers and autism parents. and neither of those other examples seem massively out there to me either
they might not necessarily be part of a conscious linear thought process but what is
― Left, Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
anti-vaxxers generally question the efficacy of the vaccines. so it is a stretch to say that they would rather their children dead than autistic. this kind of thing is usually an emotional response, often from someone with autism themselves (or close to people with autism), so is a bit more understandable in that context
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
man alive is technically correct; more accurate statements would be "White America’s apathy toward police killings of Black men just proves they don't give a shit about the treatment of Black people" and “Global warming inaction demonstrates how much our politicians don't care about the existence of the world past their lifetimes.”
― an eco-conscious Music Box (DJP), Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
however, anyone capable of parsing sentiment should be able to understand what those original examples are driving at so it really is just splitting semantics for the sake of splitting semantics
― an eco-conscious Music Box (DJP), Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
hmm
fair
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
DJP has parsed those the same way as I did. Apathy becomes indistinguishable from directed harm when it’s unyielding
some philosophers may say differently, etc etc
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
and also indistinguishable from tacitly condoning
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
to the outside observer, you are just a guy staring blankly as it happens
Just a guy who thinks we shouldn’t do something to make these things not happen
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
Apathy becomes indistinguishable from directed harm when it’s unyielding
brb, getting this as a tattoo
― an eco-conscious Music Box (DJP), Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
Sure, but there are many evils in the world at a given time. You can't be said to be actively supporting anything you aren't actively opposing, it wouldn't even be possible to actively oppose everything.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
Or, you can say it's bad on facebook, check a box, and you're no longer complicit?
man alive did you get vaccinated against covid-19
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 8 July 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
? of course
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 8 July 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
I guess going back to the original thing, my experience with antivaxxers is that their reasoning is a few steps removed from reality, and usually includes believing that their kids won't actually get those diseases for whatever reasons ("natural immunity," use of homeopathic immunity boosters etc). I guess it's possible that the grossly twisted thinking of an antivaxxer sometimes grows out of struggles with having a severely autistic child, even though it tends to take a life of its own from there.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 8 July 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
been a banner 24hrs for this thread imo
― imago, Monday, 16 August 2021 12:26 (two years ago) link
tbf being trench about this stuff was a formative experience for many of us I'm sure
― rob, Monday, 16 August 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
not to mention that everyone I agree with is otm
― rob, Monday, 16 August 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
Benmont Trench
― subpoena colada (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 August 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
Found a book, this is gonna be great pic.twitter.com/78BDQ2Sqas— Kiki Rosecrans (@KikiRosecrans) September 10, 2021
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 September 2021 05:47 (two years ago) link
truth is now .. an opinion— Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) November 25, 2016
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 15 October 2021 07:04 (two years ago) link
don't look up don't look up amirite
― imago, Monday, 27 December 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
if you look up, the ruling classes do a shit on you. is that about the gist of it?
― peace, man, Monday, 27 December 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
i skimmed that thread and chaki had the best responses
― sarahell, Monday, 27 December 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Back in the 90's, The Simpsons made fun of America and the world. Did things that were out there because it's seem to fit the animated world.Now 33 years later, the world is becoming to like The Simpsons pic.twitter.com/jvkDeriG6C— Out of Context Simpsons Couch Gags (@OOCCouchGags) January 20, 2022
― mh, Friday, 21 January 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
The real March Madness is taking place in Ukraine at the hands of Putin aggression.— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 20, 2022
― mookieproof, Sunday, 20 March 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
oof
― na (NA), Monday, 21 March 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link
i was gonna say that the modern world is starting to make trenchant feel simply accurate but that's a great example of how this is still a thing
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 March 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2022/oct/04/david-squires-on-going-to-the-match-2022-ls-lowry
my god, it's full of trench
― saigo no ice cream (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 11:34 (one year ago) link
I assume Telsa will eventually use the subscription model for braking
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 October 2022 17:15 (nine minutes ago) link
the typo really makes it
― na (NA), Monday, 24 October 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
A new British song (genre: folk) pic.twitter.com/L6KSuhNlPO— Jonathan Coe (@jonathancoe) April 12, 2023
― soref, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:27 (one year ago) link
I'm no expert but this doesn't read as very folky to me, if I imagine this set to music it's more like some kind of poor man's Instant Sunshine or something
― soref, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:28 (one year ago) link
That has made me a gbnews/fascist minion meme guy
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:39 (one year ago) link
this guy gets it
https://i.imgur.com/GoEsOb8.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 28 May 2023 10:05 (one year ago) link
it's smaller than i imagined
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 May 2023 10:07 (one year ago) link
love that
― imago, Sunday, 28 May 2023 10:31 (one year ago) link
Kids these days reserve their solemnity for Tiktok reels
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 18 December 2023 20:04 (sixteen minutes ago) link
― na (NA), Monday, 18 December 2023 20:21 (five months ago) link