BoneDaddy Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 I guess I might just have to listen to it with fresh ears, mid 90s Allanis saturation was overwhelming. I liked it just fine, but it was no better than just fine I thought. the weird part is the kid I are copacetic on music, there’s very little I like that he doesn’t and vice versa, aside from him not caring for some jazz I like, or Tool. But from the Flaming Lips to Pharaoh Monch to Stevie Wonder to Blue Oyster Cult to Siouxsee and the Banshees, we generally agree. it’s not a tragedy or anything, it was just weird for Jagged Little Pill to be on his list next to Jar of Flies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Jar Of Flies is awesomesauce. BoneDaddy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 I can understand the appreciation for Jagged Little Pill. I don't share it, but I can understand it. BoneDaddy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 4, 2021 Report Share Posted October 4, 2021 For as long as I've been a college instructor I have told parents: You cannot tell. You cannot control. Do not delude yourself into thinking anything else. Just watch in wonder. This is the version of the story as I told it in the late 1990s, speaking to parents of incoming freshmen one summer about 24 years after I graduated from high school. Quote My best friend in high school and I went to undergrad together. We were roommates for a couple of quarters, before he got a girlfriend and moved off into a single room. When we went off to college, he was determined be a drama tech major. Set designs, lighting patterns, sound boards, and so on. He set to it with enthusiasm and determination. He had an ambition to build a sweeping ballroom staircase on a set someday. Because you have to, he took classes outside his major as well. And ... his interests shifted. He still liked drama tech, but he found something else that gripped him more and he was good at, unsurprisingly, because he's a smart guy. He changed majors, went to grad school, got married (I was there for that last), ... He's now acting chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering at New Mexico State. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 7, 2021 Report Share Posted October 7, 2021 "No amount of washing of hands or attention to hygiene is gonna protect you from an asteroid strike." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 15, 2021 Report Share Posted October 15, 2021 "It's the ghost of the ghost!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 "It's always the vowel words that get me." "Stop thinking in consonants." "I can't! I think consonant clusters." "You're the cumin woman." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 26, 2021 Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 "You are the only person I know who can read the minds of microwaves!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 27, 2021 Report Share Posted October 27, 2021 "You can't change the past, but you can dwell on it until you're old and alone." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 23, 2021 Report Share Posted November 23, 2021 "When I dunk an Oreo in milk, I think of you ... and I hold it under until the bubbles stop." Tjack and tkdguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 1, 2021 Report Share Posted December 1, 2021 They're like the Nazgul, if the Nazgul worked for the Catholic Church. L. Marcus and Tjack 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 1, 2021 Report Share Posted December 1, 2021 "People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it—ignorance is when you choose not to understand something." ~ Sarah McLachlan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 4, 2021 Report Share Posted December 4, 2021 *scuff* *scuff* *scuff* *scuff* *scuff* bonk CLANG "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! F--k! Ow! Ow!" *scuff* *scuff* *scuff* *scuff* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 18, 2021 Report Share Posted December 18, 2021 "Welcome to the You Died Show." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 19, 2021 Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 "Zeta, you're a whore." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 "If you're not at least capable of extreme and overwhelming violence, you're not really a pacifist. You're just harmless." ~mishy.me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 "Sauron is trying to make a baby with a female vampire." Yes, you read that right. The LOTRO chat took a very strange turn that night. I did NOT make that post, although I had to add "Isn't Sauron with Shelob?" in reference to the Shadow of War video game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 11, 2022 Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 LOTR Books: Boromir dies after being struck with over twenty arrows. LOTR Movies: Boromir dies after being struck with three arrows. Me: Come on Jackson, Boromir had way more hit points than that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 12, 2022 Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 The cinematic version suffered a really good roll on a C Crit for that last arrow. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 12, 2022 Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 3 hours ago, L. Marcus said: The cinematic version suffered a really good roll on a C Crit for that last arrow. A natural 90 or 100? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 12, 2022 Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 Prob'ly a straight oh-oh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 12, 2022 Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 "I recently decided that I'm a morning person because people haven't disappointed me yet". ~Mary Katherine Backstrom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 Quote I am obliged to change the time of my regular office hours on Tuesdays so that they will start at 10AM, not 11AM. I have developed a new set of recurring meetings at 11AM Tuesdays, which makes recurring meetings sound like an infectious disease, and that analogy is strongly compelling. Nevertheless, ... Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 I mentioned that we went out of town and ate supper last night. Well, the kids and I went out of town and met my wife in a different town, though technically, she was coming back into town on her way home from just beyond a third town. (Like I told you, Chris: not only is travel _not_ a big production for us, it's just a normal part of life. ) The wife beat us there, mostly because she wasn't riding herd on kids. we arrive, order, and wait patiently for the fishing vessel to dock, unload, sell its catch, the buyer to haul them to market, etc- it takes a but of time to get your order on a plate and on your table. This is fin3, though, because I tend to go ther3 for the half-acre salad bar-- that thing is amazing! anyway, the kids and are are picking at other, the wife is laughing, and a great tim3 is being had by all (because we havent see a bill yet). Hammerhead said something- some reply to a zinger someone else had gotten off on him; I dont remember what it was, but I know it was something that made no sense, given my age, and I said as much: "Boy, I am sixty-one years old-!" at this point, the waiter- a thin young man I estimated to be about nineteen- spoke up before he caught himself- you know how it goes: something surprises you and the mouth just forgets to stay shut for half a second. "Really?!" I glanced his way and saw the regret all over his face, so to let him know I wasnt bothered in the least by his participation, I replied directly to him "Yep. I could be your granddaddy." "I'm sorry, it's just that you don't sound or act like an old person- oh; I'm sorry-!" my life just lost it. "Jeez, Dad! I cant take you anywhere!" "Nice try. He's not blind." she stops laughing and the kids start. "No, you really just don't talk like I am used to from peoole your age." the kids are beaming: 'look at us! We've got the cool dad!' Well, we cant be havin' that, now, can we? I open my eyes big in my most genuinely appreciative expression, and my fingers splay as I press their tips against my heart in my most church-lady sincere posturing of thanks and in my best "bless his heart" warm voice I just coo "Awww.. That's so epic yeet sus, Fam..." He suddenly recoils like I had spit on the floor, my wife starts laughing, then he bursts into laughter and I glwnce at the kids and find a crime scene: they had definitely been murdered. Multiple stab wounds completely through the pride, it seemed. it's hard work, being a parent. You have to traumatize them,exactly the right way if you want them to grow up to be funny.... Pariah and Chris Goodwin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 ... and that's funny in the desired sense of "funny". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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