I don't I knew until I was maybe in my last year of college - and despite spending a very small part of my childhood in New Orleans - that there was a religious component to Mardi Gras.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2018 03:14 (six years ago) link
Well given all the titties and whatnot, one could be somewhat excused there :)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 12 February 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
Election Day and Mardi Gras, two Tuesday hiolidays that really should be moved to the weekend,
― pplains, Monday, 12 February 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
(Funny enough, Louisiana does hold its state elections on Saturdays.)
― pplains, Monday, 12 February 2018 04:55 (six years ago) link
Weekend? Do it the australian way mate, holiday on a friday or monday so you can have a 3 day weekend.
Or heck having it on a tues is fine, everyone'd just take monday off anyway.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 12 February 2018 09:14 (six years ago) link
Samedi Gras
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 12 February 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
Americans don't get a day off to vote, btw. That would make it much harder to disenfranchise voters.
― Nonsense Ape Debones His Foot (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 February 2018 13:10 (six years ago) link
I guess they only get a day off in Australia cause voting is compulsory there. Would be a bit much to fine people for not voting if they were at work all day.
― Alba, Monday, 12 February 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
There you go. Make voting mandatory like in Australia, and then you can fine all the people who have to work/don't have proper ID/convicted of a felony, etc.
― pplains, Monday, 12 February 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link
I was probably well into high school before I learned that the phrase was "reckless driving" and not "wreckless driving." I couldn't understand how driving that resulted in accidents was "wreckless."
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Monday, 12 February 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
I don't think I knew that Ringo Starr is left-handed. Maybe I heard a long time ago and forgot, or didn't recognize the implications.
― I'm walking on Sondheim (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 12 February 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
Can we just have one thread called “Voting: Down Under Vs. Everywhere Else, Especially USA” and not do this on every thread on ILE
― El Tomboto, Monday, 12 February 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
we've moved on Tom
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 February 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
I was shockingly old when I learned how irritated Tombot was by digressive discussions of national voting customs.
― Nonsense Ape Debones His Foot (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 February 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
don't remember where i wasi realized life was a gamethe more seriously i took thingsthe harder the rules became
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 February 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
Learned this in Lewisohn's (most recent) awesome book. I guess like a lot of lefties it was sort of beat out of him by teachers, which yeah definitely affects his playing style.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
Well this throws off one of my big points about Paul being dead.
― pplains, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
Unless Ringo is dead too... Hang on, this changes everything...
― pplains, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
Suicide pact.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
Or 'cack-handed" as Quincy Jones puts it.
― Alba, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
I think that in India, election days are holidays even though voting is not compulsory.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 12 February 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
Well into adulthood, I thought 'post-nasal drip' simply referred to stuffiness, i.e. the point in time after your nose had stopped dripping.
― You dishonor your ancestors with your emoji abstention (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 February 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
after the nasal drip, sounds right
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
ah, the subtleties of hyphen placement! post-nasal drip vs post nasal-drip
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
pee... is stored in the balls
― ian, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/308/928/7ea.jpg
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
OR... does it mean that girls have balls???
― ian, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
Until a couple years ago I thought No Woman No Cry meant that if you don't have a woman then you don't have any problems and won't be sad/cry. One day I it came on the radio and I actually listened to the words and realized that it was BM telling a lady not to cry.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 12 February 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
~BM~
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 12 February 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
Commas save lives. It should be called "No, Woman, No Cry."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
Prithee m'lady, cry not
― Moodles, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
I mean it's also clear from the rest of the lyrics but I guess I just never paid attention.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 12 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
You have only just disabused me of this notion, ENBB.
― Alba, Monday, 12 February 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
Same. Thankfully, I've never lectured on it without realizing this.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 12 February 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
I guess they only get a day off in Australia cause voting is compulsory there
Sorry, this isnt correct. We dont get the day off, they just do voting on Saturdays.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
can you imagine if voting were compulsory in America.
people would be holding angry marches for the freedom to not vote.
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
cos that's the shit we protest here.
― Alba, Monday, February 12, 2018 4:49 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link
thought this was = mo money mo problems construction
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
i was shockingly old when i learned so many otherwise intelligent people thought the great bob marley had written an anti-woman chorus on a par with "if you want to be happy" by jimmy soul!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
I thought he was just heartbroken and temporarily embittered
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:44 (six years ago) link
bob was never heartbroken for long iirc
― mh, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
he never let them fool himor even try to school him
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 02:00 (six years ago) link
OK, I feel better now knowing I'm not alone in this.
lol TH I never really thought of it as anti-woman more just like a love sucks and isn't worth the effort type thing. If you want to be happy on the other hand. It's a shame though because it's a damn catchy song and even the spoken ugly wife bits are fun. :(
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
also we can vote, at fewer locations, for a couple of weeks before the official voting day
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
So with all the Billy Joel talk that goes on around these parts, and after hearing him on Spotify this morning, I remembered that I was well into my 20s before I learned that Long Island was not one of the boroughs of NYC.
Also Long Island-related, that the "Amityville Horror" house was not some isolated place far from its neighbors, but is right in the middle of a bustling suburb.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
lmao that is amazing
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
I grew up on Long Island and two of my closest HS friends were from near Amityville so we used to drive by the house all the time. And while you're right that it isn't a borough of NYC, Queens and Brooklyn are both technically on Long Island so it's not the craziest thing in the world for you to have thought that. God I hate Billy Joel.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
Oh we also drove by Joey Buttafuoco's house all the time which wasn't too far from the horror house lol.
Also Long Island-related, that the "Amityville Horror" house was not some isolated place far from its neighbors, but is right in the middle of a bustling suburb.it’s sad day when you realise stonehenge is just some fairly underwhelming rocks sat right up against the junction of two busy highways
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link