"I've got the conch"
"Oh yeah, well I've got the saxophone"
*plays hot licks*
Roland Kirk has both,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXYAcVPDD4
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
these guys can really play to conch
― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
I was gonna post a Steve Swell vid. If Steve Swell survives the apocalypse, I don't think I'm gonna get the conch gig.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
"no no stop stop!""not my conch tempo""again! 5,6,7,8"
― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
all of my conservative beliefs are the cool ones
― goole, Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
black is chic
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
stalinism is a best-case scenario for marxism in practice
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
keep reading this as "revel in your uncool conservative beliefs here"
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 18 August 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
that's how I treat the thread
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 August 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
sometimes (not always) it's probably best to kill them
otm
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 18 August 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
i love gluten
― estela, Thursday, 18 August 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
i love money
― bagging area (map), Thursday, 18 August 2016 22:24 (eight years ago) link
God yes to both
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 August 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DurOayiRDk4
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 August 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
i love having money and i hate not having enough
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 August 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
but if yr saying that u just find dollar bills to be aesthetically pleasing i cannot agree
no i'm saying what you're saying. also spending it on consumer products i want, for me.
― bagging area (map), Thursday, 18 August 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
it's not cool to be a craven apolitical consumer lifestyle gay but i think i am more of one at this point in my life. i get a lot of satisfaction out of buying things i want. and that's ok.
― bagging area (map), Thursday, 18 August 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
I want lots of money but my life choices have not pointed me in that direction whatsoever and i don't see that changing soon. im not so much interested in buying things, but am interested in vacationing, eating out (well), and attending events all of which require $$$
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 August 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
that gluten comment reminded me that i really like the smell of baker's yeast
sorry this probably belongs in a 'weird smells you secretly love' thread
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 18 August 2016 22:47 (eight years ago) link
xp yeah i chose my profession based on vaguely altruistic aspirations which i'm totally over and now i have a shit ton of debt and a low income range so my spending capacity will probably just become more limited in the mid-term, buying things has turned into my way of not dealing with it well. i also want to travel so bad.
― bagging area (map), Thursday, 18 August 2016 22:50 (eight years ago) link
Money is good when you can travel, buy drinks for friends, and think of nice places to eat lunch.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 August 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link
Is there such a thread? I would like that. Though probably I'd find out that all the 'weird' smells I love are totally normcore and boring.
― emil.y, Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:25 (eight years ago) link
haha probably applies to me as well
i searched for it but couldn't find anything really relevant
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:27 (eight years ago) link
there's a sickly sweet smell of wood that the table at my summer camp made when i scraped/filed it w/ the broad side of my pencil. also that chlorine'y indoor swimming pool smell.
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:31 (eight years ago) link
I vote "strange scent wafting out of the a/c vent"
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:31 (eight years ago) link
I think it's a shame that not all schools are teaching cursive writing anymore.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 18 August 2016 23:51 (eight years ago) link
I have a limited range of small-c conservative beliefs but the ones that tend to cause the most arguments are:
The interests of teachers and teaching unions don't always overlap with the interests of learners.
Defamation and privacy laws need to be fit for purpose and resistant to obvious abuse but should be robust enough to provide a genuine check on a 'free press'.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 19 August 2016 07:16 (eight years ago) link
weirdly i think all of my conservative beliefs are really leftist beliefs in disguise?
like, nature is indifferent, nobody deserves or is owed anything, not freedom, not safety, not a future, not care nor consideration -- there are no rights, history has no moral arc. that these things exist in the present is the result of long struggle, easily reversed.
― goole, Friday, 19 August 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
humans are totally depraved, by their nature
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 19 August 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
that's not really conservative though? hobbes is a foundational thinker in liberal thought?
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 August 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
it's a conservative belief cf. Lakoff
― bamcquern, Friday, 19 August 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
My most conservative belief is probably that deep down I'm pretty glad/relieved to live under the protection of the world's most powerful military.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 19 August 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
I like Uber a lot.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:32 (eight years ago) link
I like Airbnb a lot and ppl are always equating the two. Is there a difference? *wanders out*
― imago, Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
i love airbnb
― marcos, Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
i have an almost physical revulsion to public shaming -- even in cases where the person did something "bad," i feel there is something unseemly about reveling in how bad and awful they are and how they are a "perfect example" of some larger social formation that is ultimately outside their control
― Treeship, Friday, 26 August 2016 11:31 (eight years ago) link
People who use Uber and AirBnB and all these services should dispense with any pretense that those they are paying are equals, when they are functionally "the help" and should be treated accordingly and dress the part.
― The Flash API from the officially deprecated "youtube" site (sarahell), Friday, 26 August 2016 14:14 (eight years ago) link
i get mildly annoyed by the use of "latinx" instead of latino, it is just cumbersome and i am skeptical of the notion that grammatical gender is oppressive
― marcos, Friday, 26 August 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
sarahell's posts itt
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2012/12/friday-damn.gif
― flopson, Friday, 26 August 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
Twenty One Pilots is a good band
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 29 August 2016 02:48 (eight years ago) link
― marcos, Friday, August 26, 2016 4:39 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'll go one further and say that i think the notion that grammatical gender is oppressive is deeply anglocentric, as many languages -- including spanish -- can't do away with gendering things as easily as english can
― Treeship, Monday, 29 August 2016 03:32 (eight years ago) link
except "latino" and "latina" are words used in an english language context in the first place. it is a political designation in the US to describe people whose national/ethnic heritage traces to latin american countries. the term itself is already anglocentric. making it gender neutral in writing is p cool, though kind of a bear to vocalize. la-TIN-ex? la-TINKS? la-TIN-equis?
(also language is def oppressive tho obv using the right pronouns alone is not justice, etc.)
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:03 (eight years ago) link
throws conservative 2 cents in: polyamory is a fool's errand
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:07 (eight years ago) link
I wouldn't call it a belief but when an acquaintance or internet stranger goes on about their life being out of control, my reaction is sometimes "why not just have your life not be a nightmare train wreck" as if they chose it
This is the most uncool thing I'm aware of about myself.
Being roughly aligned with J Street as far as I/P issues makes me a conservative by some standards and a self-hating Jew by others so I don't count that.
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
I really don't enjoy people who use FB as the place to air all thir woes
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:22 (eight years ago) link
*their
you shouldn't be able to graduate college without passing a class called Shutting the Fuck Up About Things Most of the Time
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:25 (eight years ago) link
bureaucracy is good
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:27 (eight years ago) link
― 6 god none the richer (m bison)
for straights
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2016 10:27 (eight years ago) link