Until fairly recently I thought "elevator pitch" was called that because it was taking the pitch to the next level
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 25 January 2024 12:56 (three months ago) link
shake's about to eat five euros
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 25 January 2024 14:49 (three months ago) link
I too have been struck by that "eat more gyros poster" on that truck near the entrance of that farmer's market. She does not look like she eats a lot of gyros, and also she must be 53 now.
― bendy, Thursday, 25 January 2024 15:32 (three months ago) link
Who used that font first, Kronos Gyros or Black Flag?
― Josefa, Thursday, 25 January 2024 16:20 (three months ago) link
bendy, I was visiting a pal, and had just gotten a new phone— it was one of the first photos I took on the device, I am haunted by the Gyro. (Eat more Gyros)
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 25 January 2024 17:11 (three months ago) link
small world! for food trucks and eighties font choices!
― bendy, Thursday, 25 January 2024 18:06 (three months ago) link
It bothers me that with one bite into that gyro those tomato wedges are going flying.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 25 January 2024 18:40 (three months ago) link
Most gyros seem designed to fall apart at the first bite.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 25 January 2024 18:41 (three months ago) link
The real smart thing to do would be for Kronos Gyros to mockup their logo in that font, then make four “bars” ala the Black Flag logo, but out of gyros. they could sell a lot of teeshirts
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 26 January 2024 02:12 (three months ago) link
....that Limahl was part of Kajagoogoo
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2024 03:54 (three months ago) link
oh no i think i’m about to learn he still has a career in showbiz- cuz thats the only way i know of him
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Monday, 29 January 2024 04:01 (three months ago) link
You'd definitely have known that if you'd grown up in 80s UK...
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 29 January 2024 04:04 (three months ago) link
I mean, he's literally there in the "Too Shy" video singing the song, but ok lol. xp
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 29 January 2024 04:05 (three months ago) link
In fact now I'm trying to recall any Kaja songs with that other singer they had... someone begbie wasnt it? My Smash Hits gossip knowledge is fading ...
I just never paid close attention to the video or the voice. obviously I knew "The Neverending Story" but never connected 2 + 2
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2024 04:07 (three months ago) link
xp Nick Beggs, their bass player.
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 29 January 2024 04:08 (three months ago) link
Yeah that was it. I see he became a Chapman stick-weidling prog fucker later on, who knew.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 29 January 2024 04:10 (three months ago) link
read this as I became a Chapman stick-weidling prog fucker later on
which would be incredible
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 January 2024 04:42 (three months ago) link
is a prog fucker someone that waits by the stage door to surprise Fish
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2024 04:52 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYO5GXkepXA
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 January 2024 05:38 (three months ago) link
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/986b139e-85c5-4273-b53c-1b0a919884f1.jpg
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 29 January 2024 09:42 (three months ago) link
I had no idea that Limahl had any sort of career after "Too Shy," which, tbf, is a great song. No idea he sang "The Neverending Story."
Also, "Limahl" is an anagram of "Hamill," his actual last name.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 29 January 2024 15:23 (three months ago) link
I saw Limahl live by accident once
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 29 January 2024 15:55 (three months ago) link
Avoided the oncoming streetsweeper, did he?
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:14 (three months ago) link
There's a car parked round the corner from us with the numberplate 2 SHAH, and I have decided it must be Limahl's car. Or possibly the second car of a man named Shah. But probably Limahl.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:24 (three months ago) link
I love the idea of only admitting to seeing an artist by accident because hes presumably that dire.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 00:26 (three months ago) link
I was shockingly old when I learnt last week that Bhangra music originates from the UK, not Punjab. Although there is a Punjabban folk dance known as bhangra, Bhangra music was developed in Britain
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:07 (three months ago) link
There's a car parked round the corner from us with the numberplate 2 SHAH
Kirsty MacColl song title
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:14 (three months ago) link
xxp lol I had been out shopping in Covent Garden with a friend, this was in about 2000, we went for a drink in a random pub. there was a guy setting up on a stage in the corner, I said to my friend - "that bloke looks like Limahl". some time later he starts singing "Too Shy"
I think given the time of day it was probably his soundcheck. we didn't hang around
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 09:42 (three months ago) link
"I made my excuses and left"
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 10:01 (three months ago) link
"but sir, you haven't settled your tab""Invoice me - time is of the essence"
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 14:43 (three months ago) link
The full lyrics to the theme from "Cheers" (1982) features a line supporting trans customers:
And your husband wants to be a girlBe glad, there's one place in the world
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 18:17 (three months ago) link
Supporting? The lyrics are a list of bad things, with Cheers being the one good thing.
― nickn, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:10 (three months ago) link
Discussion here: Best CHEERS character
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:14 (three months ago) link
xpost I guess that's true, I honestly heard just that line played as a bumper in an NPR piece about an alcohol-free bar called "Same's Place."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:29 (three months ago) link
Sam's Place
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:30 (three months ago) link
You don't wanna go where everybody knows your name. You wanna go where everybody knows your drink.
Many many years ago, I frequented a cafe so often that the server put some creamers on the table then stopped, turned, and said "Oh, yeah, you don't take cream," and I felt so very IN.
Years later I frequented a bar so often that they would see me walking in and start pouring a bourbon & ginger. I felt so very seen.
I doubt anyone in those places knew my name.
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 February 2024 19:38 (three months ago) link
Maybe from running your credit card, lol.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:39 (three months ago) link
Lol, true now, but this would have been pre-credit card for me (late 80s)
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 February 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link
On my most recent visit after five years away, i walked into one of my favorite bars in Oakland— I had been going there since it opened, and had missed it so— and my favorite bartender was behind the counter, and he insisted we drink good Mezcal and that I get all my drinks comped for the night. We also talked for 20 minutes while he made the barback do pours for him. I felt like royalty
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:53 (two months ago) link
Years and years ago while I was going through the chemotherapy, I started going to this little deli place.
First time I was there, I asked the waitress for no ice. "You don't want it cold?" she asked. Nah, room temperature's fine. Heck, I'd even take it a little warm.
Second time, she remembered me! And brought over warm water with my sandwich. Third time, fourth time! I never explained why, and she never asked.
Chemotherapy ends. I start feeling normal again. Some time had gone by, but I went to the deli. Same waitress. Same warm glass of water, except, well, now I wouldn't mind a few cubes in there.
Of course, I never said anything. Just drank the warm water. It tasted just as good anyway, knowing what kind of friendly person had poured it.
― pplains, Saturday, 3 February 2024 04:10 (two months ago) link
Coming up next on "All Things Considered"...
― pplains, Saturday, 3 February 2024 04:11 (two months ago) link
<3
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 February 2024 04:35 (two months ago) link
Lol but personally I have always been okay with room temperature. Ice and straws and bubbles are sensorally unpleasant for me. I will totally drink flat room-temp soda or room-temp white wine.
Professional tasters (which is, of course, a thing) actively prefer room temperature (RT).
And in blind taste tests, even some wine experts were unable to distinguish red wine vs. White wine when they were at the same temperature.
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 3 February 2024 14:29 (two months ago) link
pplains was this because you had cold neuropathy? i had that when i was going through chemo and sometimes i couldn’t drink anything but tea and warm water for like a week at a time, it made me feel insane.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 4 February 2024 12:20 (two months ago) link
My fingers and toes were not only numb, but even touching anything cold gave me a jolting shock.
Same thing with tongue and throat. Cold water tasted like sand in my mouth and then felt like a toothpick lodged in my throat.
It was all very unpleasant. Made me think on many days, Well, just how bad can death really be?
― pplains, Sunday, 4 February 2024 15:31 (two months ago) link
I now hope that I'm shockingly old when I learn the answer to that question!
― pplains, Sunday, 4 February 2024 15:32 (two months ago) link
I didn’t have it as bad in the feet or hands but the throat was just awful, felt like what I imagine swallowing glass to feel like. To many more years for us both!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 5 February 2024 00:19 (two months ago) link
was listening to the radio while driving earlier today and they happened to be taking about the Grammys and it suddenly occurred to me that "Grammy" comes from "gramophone"
― silverfish, Monday, 5 February 2024 02:16 (two months ago) link
what did you think it came from?!
― kinder, Monday, 5 February 2024 11:45 (two months ago) link