posts very much in character

Boy you lot really hate this electro-swing genre that I’ve never heard of.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 29 October 2023 10:14 (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he resembles an amphibian of some sort, hard to pin down

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 6:58 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

easy: frog

― frogbs, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 9:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol

I've cracked the top 100 in the Vulture Movie Fantasy League.

― jaymc, Thursday, January 11, 2024 3:27 PM

1. Mad Men

― clemenza, Friday, January 12, 2024 2:55 PM (yesterday)

I'm not sure why I'd take any of this seriously, but it's how I roll.

The 'thing' is unspecified. Based on my reading of the text, the breaking of his heart is not the 'thing' itself, but rather the effect it has on him. First she does the 'thing', then it breaks his heart. He understands she is unaware of the effect the 'thing' has on him, so the effect is incidental rather than intended.

While the specific 'thing' is left to the imagination of the audience, the set of realistic interpretations will cluster around her being cute, lovable and mildly flirtatious, without seriously considering the narrator as suitable for an amorous relationship. It is the first of these attributes of the 'thing' that make it hard to forget her, but it is the last of these attributes that causes him heartbreak/heartache, which is why he singles it out as the required remedy for his heartbreak in the later stanzas.

All of the foregoing amply proves that a careful dissection of the rhetorical constructs of this lyric is overblown silliness.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, February 2, 2024 2:18 PM

fuck this country

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, February 5, 2024 5:19 AM (fifteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think stacy cay said it best: "pineapple on pizza is like penises on girls - it's actually really good but a lot of people are huge bitches about it"

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, February 11, 2024 8:17 PM (one hour ago)

<3

amazing

fuck yeah, i've finally made it

Can you get an abridged version that stops in 1972?

― clemenza, Thursday, 15 February 2024 04:25 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

True enough--my basic attitude towards the world.

lol

no it rhymes with frog

― frogbs, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 11:01 PM (twenty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

So it's not pro grok?

lowest it's been in chicago the past 10 years is $1.61 in winter 2015/2016. it broke $2 (just) in march 2020. https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek)

I wonder why Joe Biden doesn’t just lower global gasoline prices

wrong thread!

too lazy to actually do it, but I'd like to see a string of posts in the vein of all the times Ned said "flounces off" or Alfred said "rescreened," but for table is the table and "genocidaire."

Well, I'm gonna flounce off to rescreen that genocidaire."

On a related note, do you still keep contact with your "film critic friend" these days, jay?

lol i haven't seen him in a few years but he is now managing editor of R0g3rEb3rt.c0m.

Nice!

too lazy to actually do it, but I'd like to see a string of posts in the vein of all the times Ned said "flounces off" or Alfred said "rescreened," but for table is the table and "genocidaire."

preemptive post here that every random ilm thread bump i do over the next six months is going to be 'i played this at the gay club it was fun'

<3

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― bae (sic), Thursday, July 18, 2024 3:00 PM (three minutes ago)

the brand is strong

u.f.o.f. towers over most of this

― ufo, Friday, July 19, 2024 3:57 PM (seven minutes ago)

from the month's USpol thread

As a few people have pointed out, that seems irrelevant. Trump won't be running against himself four years ago, he'll be running against Biden today.

This really resonated with me earlier today (from Goethe's Elective Affinities, which Sam Wasson's Coppola book and One from the Heart led me to):

'After Fallows departed in 1979, Hertzberg became Carter's chief speechwriter. Hertzberg was an author of President Jimmy Carter's July 15, 1979, speech on energy conservation, widely known as the "Malaise Speech"...'

(I'm with Dorothea in 20th Century Women--I like the Malaise Speech. But maybe not ideal for galvanizing support, so glad it wasn't Fallows.)

Ditto Mickey Mantle--why he said he never bothered taking care of himself.

I read that Matthew Yglesias column that was posted yesterday. I'm learning about fluid intelligence vs. crystallized intelligence--he mentioned it, and so did a doctor CNN had on yesterday. Fluid intelligence is the one that fades: your ability to respond to new information and think on your feet (as opposed to learned skills/information). I think I have a bigger problem with crystallized intelligence, which is why I sit there staring at my silly daily baseball game for 10 minutes trying to remember some backup catcher on the Cubs 50 years ago.

"Creepy Harry, creepy Harry" rhymes with "Creepy Carrie, creepy Carrie."

Love the mound conference analogy. Eventually, the home plate umpire wanders out and breaks it up--who will be the home plate umpire here?

Here, no idea, there are so many things to factor in, and it's right between two bizarre weeks and the RNC. Makes me think of Andy Warhol's reaction to the JFK assassination as described in the PBS documentary: he returns home, sits on a couch, and keeps repeating "What does this mean?

I don't think I've ever heard or seen DNC chair Jaime Harrison till right now (being interviewed on MSNBC). He's a dead ringer for Tony Gwynn six ways to Sunday (especially his voice)...need to see him with a bat in his hand.

Supposedly, Trump's going to talk about how some higher being caused him to turn his head at just the right moment. I'd listen to the wording carefully, he may end up plagiarising Samuel Jackson's speech at the end of Pulp Fiction.

We're still pretty upset about the whole Shohei Ohtani thing up here--you might want to consider it.

One thing made me laugh in yesterday's coverage: besides being furious with Pelosi, Biden is now supposedly convinced that Obama is the "puppet-master" behind all that's going on. I suppose I'm being naive, but Obama never really struck me as very Corleone-ish.

"So hear me when I say: (pause) I know Donald Trump's type" is a great line--reminds me of Naughty by Nature's "Yeah, you know me" except it's "Yeah, I know you."

Yeah, I know him.

irl tee hee

Harris will be the shortest major party nominee since Stephen Douglas, and if she wins, she'll tie James Madison as the shortest president. (All are/were 5'4".) (Hillary is 5'5".)

― jaymc, Wednesday, July 24, 2024 10:17 PM

https://i.imgur.com/dnUSJJT.jpeg

my man is never not there for ween (and soul coughing)