next you'll resort to scientifically-proven facts and peer-reviewed studies
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
Exactly, it’s obvious where this is going.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQAXEpfcYAq-tip’s too severe, kickin’ mad flava in ya ear
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
stick my dick in your ear and fuck what you heard
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
lol breastcrawl
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
pour a Belgian quad in yr ear. might not help but it's a cool way to drink it
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
i had a wax buildup problem after shoving sony earbuds in my ears for years. i went to the ear doctor to get it removed because it got so bad. i have only recently realized that you can do exactly what they did at home with debrox and an ear douche. you squirt the debrox in and let it bubble while laying on your side for 15 minutes then shoot warm water into your ear canal with the douche. the debrox feels like pop rocks tickling your brain and then you get to shoot the little asteroid of wax out of your ear with the douche. the whole process is immensely satisfying.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
that the ingredients of Greek Fire is still a military state secret that went to the grave with the Byzantine Empire. Not that it couldn't be recreated, just that still nobody knows really what ingredients they used back then.
― calzino, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
that Meshuggah re-recorded the guitars and drums from 2002's Nothing album. using 8 strings that weren't available when originally recorded.
I have long lost my old 2002 copy of Nothing but I'm sure I could a/b test it on youtube as someone's bound to have it.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
Greece only legalized cremation last year, and there's currently only one place in Greece you can get it done. Greeks who wanted to be cremated have had to arrange to have their remains sent abroad.
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
wow, that's...nuts.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
found out last year that there are only a handful of places around Ireland that cremate. A frioend's brother died then had to be shipped down country to be cremated. Always just assume its just an alternative in ways to be treated after death not that its so rare i places. Think there was something like 7 places across Ireland cremating.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
xxp when I was a young adult I got tired of having to resort extreme measures to get wax build-up out of my ears. I learned that if I ran water into my ears during my shower at least once or twice a week and then afterwards used q-tips to gently run along the insides of my external auditory canals (being VERY careful not to go too far in), I could avoid that.
not sure I recommend this to everyone, but my whole family uses this technique and have had no problem with it. I think the key is running water into your ears first. I had to get a feel for it. It seems like the wax tends to express itself over time to the outer margins of the EACs and if you clean them regularly there isn’t a problem
― Dan S, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
debrox and an ear douche. you squirt the debrox in and let it bubble while laying on your side for 15 minutes then shoot warm water into your ear canal with the douche
This concept seems so horrifying to me I am getting PTSD from the thought.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 3 September 2020 03:57 (three years ago) link
you can also listen to Metal Machine Music two times in succession, usually gets rid of most wax
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 3 September 2020 04:08 (three years ago) link
Powdered (confectioners) sugar is just regular granulated sugar, ground up. If you are ever out of powdered sugar, you can just pulse granulated sugar until you get the same powdered sugar consistency.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 September 2020 13:50 (three years ago) link
doesn't it usually have cornstarch in it?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 September 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
Tracer - yes, for moisture control in storage.
― Jaq, Thursday, 3 September 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
ahhh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 September 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
had an astonishing conversation with a food photographer who's worked on a load of big recipe books - don't want to say which but you'd have heard of them - who told me something fascinating about prawns— LRB Bookshop (@LRBbookshop) September 3, 2020
thread finally confirms what I have long suspected
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 3 September 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
full color food photos for cookbooks departed from this reality long before I was born and ever since have been evolving within their own separate universe having no point of connection with this one
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 3 September 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
wut
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 3 September 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
Meanwhile crustacean SJWs are like, "oh, so you're saying we ALL LOOK ALIKE?"
― tater totalitarian (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 3 September 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
ok that one had me going for a few minutes
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 September 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
lol could've tried a bit harder with that tbh"patently the same" had me chuckling tho
― kinder, Thursday, 3 September 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
lrb bookshop might be a better follow than I’d assumed. You’d never know from the emails
― Gab C. Nebsit (wins), Thursday, 3 September 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
Dave & Ansel Collins weren't brothers.Dave is a solo singer with teh surname Crooks who worked with instrumentalist Ansel Collins.So it's like'Dave'& Ansel Collins
gosh how revelatory. ONly known the song Double Barrel since my preteens and only just found that out
― Stevolende, Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:02 (three years ago) link
A loofah is a plant. The plant is dried and then used as a sponge.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
that the main actress in When a Stranger Calls and the landlord from Kimmy Schmidt are both Carol Kane
― Neanderthal, Monday, 7 September 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
she's in The Muppet Movie too which is awesome
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
my husband recognised her in Annie Hall (as being Lillian from Kimmy Schmidt), which is probably his best "spotting" yet, although doesn't beat me spotting Silverthorn from The Girl From Tomorrow in Mad Max Fury Road; he'll have a long way to go to beat that, not that I like to go on about it.
― kinder, Monday, 7 September 2020 08:20 (three years ago) link
She's Latka Gravitz's other half in Taxi too and the 100 year old woman in Princess bride, wife of the Billy Crystal character.THink she's been in quite a few things and I think I recognise her when she appears.
― Stevolende, Monday, 7 September 2020 08:49 (three years ago) link
Did not know this. Used to think simlarly about Rufus and Chaka Khan: thought they were a married couple.
― fetter, Monday, 7 September 2020 09:11 (three years ago) link
Dave is much better known as Dave Barker, he made quite a lot of good records under that name.
― Tim, Monday, 7 September 2020 09:21 (three years ago) link
I thought his surname was crooks but probably not one he'd want to use as a stage name?
― Stevolende, Monday, 7 September 2020 10:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah I've no idea why or when he started using the name Barker.
― Tim, Monday, 7 September 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link
He was an early toaster.Does that make him a 'barker'? I think it's a term people used for sideshow hustlers etc, the guy who got people to enter the tent and stuff.
― Stevolende, Monday, 7 September 2020 12:33 (three years ago) link
Spice shelves in supermarkets are sorted alphabetically
― Øystein, Monday, 7 September 2020 12:35 (three years ago) link
xp Wikipedia says he started as a singer but Lee Perry gave him the name Barker and also started him toasting, so you might very well be right, though the workings of Perry's mind even back then were not necessarily transparent.
― Tim, Monday, 7 September 2020 12:45 (three years ago) link
― Øystein, Monday, September 7, 2020 8:35 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
as they should be at home as well, you barbarian!
Seriously though I just learned about the "pin tab" feature on my desktop and whoa
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 7 September 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link
― fetter, Monday, September 7, 2020 10:11 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Rufus had largely been the American Breed during the 60s.Found that odd since I had one of their pop-rock lps in the 80s. & the denim shirt covered Rufus lp on cd in the 90s
― Stevolende, Monday, 7 September 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
The word loveseat denotes a 2 seater chair like a small couch not just the s shaped legs in opposite directions thing I was introduced to. Not sure exactly when I was introduced to the joined seat with people facing different directions version. Must have been when I was very young. It's what I've always pictured by the term. So been wondering why the Trump family liked them so much in Mary Trump's book.Seems to just be a smaller subset of the group though.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 13 September 2020 08:26 (three years ago) link
the single version of Do Nothing is different from the album version.
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnC3GmfRrw
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
There are only two presidents buried in Arlington National Cemetery: JFK and ... Taft.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
Terry Hall's changed.
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
That this piece of music has a title; that that title is "Entrance of the Gladiators"; and that the composer intended it to be played for soldiers as they marched off to glory in war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
I am reminded of William Gibson's quote "The street finds its own uses for things."
serious lols at that
― visiting, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
I can't be the only person to read the composer's name as 'Julius Fuck', right?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link