Better be able to get him on something else he can't pardon Obstruction of the last couple of weeks should be bad enough. & he had been criminģ when he's not been golfing so surely there must be something not covered. has he combined the 2 at any point. Surely he'll be back to criming as soon as he's left office too. Will he be able to project a pardon forward.
― Stevolende, Friday, 27 November 2020 07:43 (three years ago) link
Christmas Island isn't in the middle of the Pacific somewhere, but a bit south of Java.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
Imagine how much more the concentration camps would cost the taxpayer if they were that far away. You really didn't think it through.
― huge rant (sic), Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
Fair I guess (Nauru though?)
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 28 November 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
That 'send them to coventry' is an actual English idiom and not just the title of Pa Salieu's mixtape.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
yeah, not bad town. I think it got heavily bombed in WWII but there you go.my half sister went to University there too.Close to BirminghamI think the phrase must go back further than WWII.HOme of 2 Tone too
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
folk etymology of "send them to Coventry" dates it to the Civil War but i dunno if that's really really true
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
yeah, not bad town.
Who told you that?
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
'Sending someone to Coventry' is proper cancelling.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
Saw some good gigs in the town.Forgot I'm not entitled to have been anywhere in the UK without certain people's permission , gosh how insufferably smug
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
Coventry's fine ffs, it's just your usual snobbery about the Midlands
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
usual?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
I've never been to the midlands
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
OK this is probably diagnostic of something: I had a dream last night in which I was amazed to find out that railway crossings were unlike road intersections, because the train never has to stop, only the cars have to stop when a train is passing. In my waking hours I know this as a matter of course, but in my dream I somehow didn't and needed to share this insight. So I thought, in my dream, I must post this to the "things I was shockingly old" thread on ILX. I find this a little disturbing.
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
😬
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
lol, i love that
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
That Johnny Cash recorded a theme song for Thunderball with lyrics a bit on the nose. It was rejected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx-x-sGk9oI
― Alba, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
Sounds a little too much like the "Underdog" theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1fH0SvGPg
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
Ah yes!
Here's a version with it overlaid on the title sequence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-AN5mJF13A:
― Alba, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
that rules, what a weird hybrid of Cash's style at the time with still-forming "Bond theme" tropes.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
I can see why that was rejected but I love it
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
MatthewK, I have definitely had dreams that involved my posting to ILX.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
ah yes, I've had several where I started a flamewar online and then everybody came to my city trying to find me and pummel me
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
Dream or premonition, who can be certain
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 3 December 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
just know if one of you motherfuckers breaks into my house, i have a nativity scene i can beat ur ass to death with
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 December 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
*complex emotions*
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 3 December 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link
the doors are actually pretty good if you limit yourself to one (short) song at a time
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 December 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
just catching up on this thread - so we’re sending people to the city of Coventry to break into neanderthal’s house, but luckily for him the doors are actually pretty good.did I get that right or was it, like, all a dream?
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Friday, 4 December 2020 10:29 (three years ago) link
and you were there, and salt n pepa were there and heavy d was there
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
Mark Moore out of S-Express is the half-brother of the late actor Stephen Moore (maybe best known as Adrian Mole's dad).
― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Friday, 4 December 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
Oooh, interesting.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 December 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
I literally JUST realized that the "Fitz-" prefix on English names like Fitzroy, Fitzgerald, etc. is a cognate of French fils.
"Fitz-" names only appear after the Norman conquest, when the nobility spoke, DUH, French.
And you'd think "Fitzroy" would be enough of a clue because it literally means "son of the king."
― that is how it crumbles cookiewise (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 6 December 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
Bastard son, iirc.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 December 2020 00:42 (three years ago) link
wow, that never occurred to me
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Sunday, 6 December 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
Bastard son, iirc
Yes in practice but it really does just mean "son of," etymological speaking.
I am reading a history of Scotland in which the MacMalcolms (pre-conquest) become FitzMalcolms to align with Norman power brokers, and that led me down this rabbit hole.
― that is how it crumbles cookiewise (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 6 December 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
Huh, I had no idea.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
The Normans were invited into Scotland, by King David, they didn't conquer it, right?
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
Kings were often quite fond of their bastard sons, iirc.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link
Having a few spare sons around is always useful.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
especially when one or two die a tragic diarrhea death
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:07 (three years ago) link
It happens to the best of us.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
Tom: Normans didn't conquer Scotland but also didn't feel they needed to. In 1072, Malcolm Canmore (under threat of the sword) acknowledged William's overlordship, and became a vassal / client kingdom.
― that is how it crumbles cookiewise (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
how to properly pronounce Dunedin. sorry estela! i was saying "DUNN-uh-den", but i think it's more like do-NEE-den
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 6 December 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
for a long time i thought it was just dune-din
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Sunday, 6 December 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
its more like duh-NEE-den
― just sayin, Sunday, 6 December 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
Done Eden
― nickn, Sunday, 6 December 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXn7t5iLAbc
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 6 December 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
My entire family loves Brussels sprouts, including my more veggie averse kid, which I always found surprising, given their reputation ("eat your Brussels sprouts!"). And then I learned that in the 1990s a Dutch scientist identified the chemicals that make Brussels sprouts bitter and cross-bred out the bitterness with a high-yield variety, and after that their popularity skyrocketed.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
You'd think the Belgians would be the ones to step up.
Or maybe they should be called Amsterdam sprouts
― that is how it crumbles cookiewise (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
Nether Sprouts.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 December 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link