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Okay, so sorta like things you noticed or thought, and if we don't write them down here you'll have forgotten in a week or so. I heard it described as Nethermoments in a book I'm reading. The inconsequential things that make up life.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, so today I was in the park, and there were kids being coached football...but today instead of being referees their were 4 guys in their 30's just showing of their football skills by playing against 8 or 9 year old kids. At one stage a rather heavy looking guy decided to slide tackle a kid, which I didn't think was very fair at all.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i realised this morning that although i've probably used toothpaste every day of my life, but have no idea what its made of. went to look at my toothpaste tube, but there was no list of ingredients. wondered why this was so.

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"TOOTHPASTE IS MADE OF SOYLENT GREEN!!!"

― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought a bit today about ice cream, and why I always go for the same flavour, unless they don't have it and then I reluctantly try something else. I don't really know it's my favourite, because I have hardly tried any others. I thought the same thing about soups today too. And I wondered why it makes me happy to eat ice-cream with other people, and sad sometimes to eat it on my own.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

wondered why this was so.

Well, it's not food. They usually list the "active ingredients", though. Here's some info: http://www.saveyoursmile.com/toothpaste/toothpaste-c.html

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never taken advantage of the free burger offers on the back of my bus tickets.

― Bumfluff, Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I have noticed when I'm eating that if I hold the food in one hand I feel like I'm a person but if I use two hands I feel more like a parrot or a squirrel.

― estela (estela), Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Due to labels and seams, clothes are often more comfortable worn inside out.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Pumpkin guts feel really cool when squished between your fingers.
Dog shit does not generate the same gleefulness when stepped upon barefooted.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Cathy OTM.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 31 October 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, it feels nice to have an OTM banal observation.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 31 October 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Today I thought about walking. Did people in the 18 and 19 hundreds walk faster than people today? In Jane Austen novels they are always walking around all over the place. Do I walk faster than most people because I don't have a car, and my parents never had a car when I was growing up? And that to get anywhere you had to walk fast or get a train/bus.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 31 October 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never taken advantage of the free burger offers on the back of my bus tickets.

On Wednesday, I had a free burger offer on the back of a parking ticket. However, as I was at work, I handed it in to the accounts department for expenses. Later, I realised that I'd have saved money by keeping the ticket and getting the burger.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 31 October 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i got "brideshead revisted" for free at a library giveaway yesterday and i was really excited to read it because i've heard evelyn waugh mentioned often and really thought i might find her work interesting.

turns out "evelyn" is male.

for some reason i am kind of disappointed.

― j c (j c), Sunday, 31 October 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Minced pork is very white when cooked.

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 31 October 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's probabally on the box instead.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Sunday, 31 October 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Contains: Sodium Methyl Hydroxybenzoate, Sodium Propyl Hydroxybenzoate, Saccharin Sodium.
NO MACLEANS TOOTHPASTE CONTAINS SUGAR

There you go.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 31 October 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Titties are awesome

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Sunday, 31 October 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes just before i sneeze i feel like i am going to throw up. no one else i have ever mentioned this to has ever had this sensation.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 1 November 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence' - is there some optical support for this claim from the refraction of light over horizontal distances?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 1 November 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. From an angle the mud beneath is less visible, due to the nature of blades of grass standing vertically and amassed in tight clumps. From directly above, the grass grows toward you in synchronous alignment, thereby making the mud beneath up to 350% more visible.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 1 November 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, interesting.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 1 November 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, interesting.

Did I derail the thread? I'm sorry.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 1 November 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

women = be shopping

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 1 November 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no one outside today. Yes it is raining, but normally students are flocking, milling, grouping. Where is everyone? Is there a secret I don't know about?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 1 November 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess this is pretty banal:

I got an iPod as a gift recently, and I also realized that my iPod holds 5000 songs, but that one MP3 CD holds 500. At that rate, you'd only need an MP3 CD player and 10 CDs to equal the storage of an iPod at what I assume would be a lower cost, and yet it seems the iPod will triumph sheerly because of its marketing and design.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 1 November 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I've taken to checking Paul Lynde's "Bewitched" dialogue for double entendre. He just threatened to turn Endora into a half-pint of sour cream for no reason(other than that they were arguing). Inconclusive.

― tremendoid, Monday, 1 November 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurting OTM - fuck iPods man.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Last week I realized that you can sing the lyrics of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song to the tune of "Gypsys, Tramps, and Thieves" by Cher.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I can walk much faster when the sun has set. I think it has something to do with gravity.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine is kinda like otherNick's, but it was the observation that you can do the chorus from Dizzee's "Hype Talk" over parts of Lightning Bolt's "Dracula Mountain". I can't wait til I get some mashuping software.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurting not OTM.

As I just stated in another thread, I have a thing for food which satiates you after you eat it. That's slightly better than food that tastes good but doesn't fill you up.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ilx.p3r.net/searchresults.php?board=1&mode=questions&q=&titlepart=let%27s+talk+about&name=&email=&username=&dateafter=&datebefore=&catid=all

The Let's Talk About selection

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurting OTM - fuck iPods man.

he does have a point but mp3 cd's DO NOT hold 500 tracks. abouy a hundred is closer to the mark.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"about"

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Unless they're AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED tracks.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

he does have a point but mp3 cd's DO NOT hold 500 tracks. abouy a hundred is closer to the mark.

Yes, but you can buy as many cds as you want and they're as cheap as chips.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Then you'd have to carry 50 CDs with you. Come on.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Touching my penis feels good. Yeah, I'm an excellent driver.

― Seedy poops in the woods (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Then you'd have to carry 50 CDs with you. Come on.

You can fit on average 7 albums on a CD-R. I don't think I need to take 350 records with me on the train to work every day somehow. Three or four CD-Rs worth of music is probably more than enough for even the longest journey.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I just ate a box of jujyfruits - trick or treat size - they were ALL red ones. It's going to be a great day.

(Good because red ones are yummy, not because red represents republicans, which it doesn't.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

The protest took place on Unity Day, a national holiday established in 2005 to replace commemorations of the Bolshevik revolution. Many demonstrators carried Russian imperial flags. One group displayed a banner reading "Young People Against Tolerance".

'Young People Against Tolerance' would make a good name for a band, or some sort of activist group, if it hadn't already been claimed by the Russian far-right.

― also known as Princess Chunk and Captain Chunk, real name: Powder (soref), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:38 (twelve years ago)

Some websites have translated it as 'Youth Against Tolerance'.

― also known as Princess Chunk and Captain Chunk, real name: Powder (soref), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:39 (twelve years ago)

Barenaked Ladies have two albums that show up on spotify as having been released in 1900.

― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:48 (twelve years ago)

Dominic Sandbrook looks like a balding Adam Buxton.

― a band called 'Affairs'. They play instruments (soref), Friday, 15 November 2013 20:31 (twelve years ago)

noteworthy estela post itt (a banal observation)

― imago, Friday, 15 November 2013 20:51 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

a lot of Big Train sketches are reminiscent of cutaway jokes on Family Guy, in premise at least.

― soref, Monday, 10 February 2014 20:51 (twelve years ago)

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