Random Thoughts

[onlinebiker]

Can we PLEASE stop screwing around and just frost the whole goddamed Pop-Tart?  We have the technology.

Boru

I always thought the first Pop Tart was Cyndi Lauper.

[Rev. Rye]

Just remembered something about I Know Who Killed Me that I somehow failed to point out when I reviewed it a few weeks ago: in his attempt at ruining Aubrey’s life, the killer applies dry ice to her right hand, forcing it to be amputated when the cops find her. The obvious issues of why the killer didn’t just, you know, kill her aside, the thing is, HE KILLED THE WRONG HAND! If he was going to torture a pianist by damaging one of her hands beyond repair, it should have been the left. Why?





It turns out there is actually a surprisingly large repertoire of piano pieces for players who can only use one hand. And this episode of MASH explains why:





And, of course, since then, famous pianists like Leon Fleischer and Joao Carlos Martins managed to lose the use of their right hands (somehow, the left is never the compromised hand) and grew the repertoire a bit. So, once again, I have to ask:

[Sal]

Zulu was an interesting movie.

[The Valkyrie]

So, apparently, punching someone you hate in the face doesn’t get excused as “muscle memory”.

Fucking cops!

[Amarok]

3 of the worst arguments in favor of capitalism I have ever heard 

1. Capitalism built this innovation thus capitalism is good 

No capitalism does not innovate . Workers who's labor is stolen innovate . Capitalism's only contribution is  driving a desire a wasteful and needless culture of consumerism . But even if we granted this point it would not make capitalism good

2.Capitalism has decreased poverty 

Actually it has not and even if it did in most cases it's traded poverty for subjugation

3. Competition is Capitalism and it is good 

Markets can exist in socialism and no in Capitalism competition generally leads to the most ruthless winning not the best

[Rev. Rye]

Just discovered this meme on Twitter:



And it turns out that this tweet showcases the big drawback of Twitter. A question like this requires a lot of explanation and rewording to not just look like a joke. I legitimately don’t think he could have condensed it into 280 characters without A) sacrificing crucial information, or B) making this as baffling as it is. To be fair, the dude’s Tweets and Replies reveals this concern makes a hell of a lot more sense (although why he used this to question assault rifle bans when his pig massacre only used a .270 hunting rifle that most likely wouldn’t have been affected by any proposed gun ban anyway is a mystery for the ages.)

[Little lunch]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but every time I go over a dip, the guy behind me flicks on the high beams at me.
And it must be something really obvious cause if there's two or three cars behind me they all fucking do it, one after the other.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Old, stale, re-warmed coffee is better than no coffee at all.

Boru

[Little lunch]

That is so true, but you can't rewarm it twice.

[onlinebiker]

Just discovered this meme on Twitter:



And it turns out that this tweet showcases the big drawback of Twitter. A question like this requires a lot of explanation and rewording to not just look like a joke. I legitimately don’t think he could have condensed it into 280 characters without A) sacrificing crucial information, or B) making this as baffling as it is. To be fair, the dude’s Tweets and Replies reveals this concern makes a hell of a lot more sense (although why he used this to question assault rifle bans when his pig massacre only used a .270 hunting rifle that most likely wouldn’t have been affected by any proposed gun ban anyway is a mystery for the ages.)

I knew a Bill McNabb in the service - in Radioman's school... Goofy kid. Likeable enuf. He once said - "guys -PLEASE don't embarrass me in front of the women". The girls arrived just then - and Bowers said - "OK buttplug".

Henceforth McNabb was called Buttplug.