Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[The General]

last night i was jamming a bit with my friend.  he plays bass, 'tis me on the drums.  yeah, i fuck up from time to time and i know i'm not perfect.  i do fancy myself a bit of a drummer, though.  it's just something i do for fun.  nothing serious.  the first one is a tune my friend wrote.  the second is us attempting to play some zeppelin.

Nice work!  It's tight.

[MV/Liberace!]

Nice work!  It's tight.

thank you, sir.  it's no street food, though.

[timpate]

Why must so many browsers sucks? What is the best browser in your opinion? I have used them all for the most part. Right Now I am using Chrome. Anyone?

[The General]

thank you, sir.  it's no street food, though.

Aw shucks, thanks!

[MV/Liberace!]

dave foley hasn't aged well.

[Sardondi]

dave foley hasn't aged well.....

One day some group of scientists is going to announce that "passive anal sex destroys your body's ability to rejuvenate"....and we'll understand why so many movie people look destroyed in real life. 

[The General]

dave foley hasn't aged well.

Poor guy.  He looks like if Donald Trump and Elton John had a gay son.

[stevesh]

dave foley hasn't aged well.

Are you sure that isn't Shirley Jones sans makeup ?

[Eddie Coyle]

dave foley hasn't aged well.

         He looks like he's ready to be center square on the next Hollywood Squares revival.

[onan]

First, I don't think Dave Foley is gay. Second, he ain't the first guy or woman to age less than gracefully. He was on Mark Maron's podcast some time ago. Seems to be in some financial probs in his country of Canada due to unpaid child support. At first I thought, fuck what a jerk, then I learned his child support payments are almost 11 grand a month. Nuts in anyone's language.

[MV/Liberace!]

...his child support payments are almost 11 grand a month.

Holy Christ. That's insanity.

[The General]

First, I don't think Dave Foley is gay. Second, he ain't the first guy or woman to age less than gracefully. He was on Mark Maron's podcast some time ago. Seems to be in some financial probs in his country of Canada due to unpaid child support. At first I thought, fuck what a jerk, then I learned his child support payments are almost 11 grand a month. Nuts in anyone's language.

Maybe he has 22 children


I always liked Dave.  One of the funniest guys from Canada.

[MV/Liberace!]

Maybe he has 22 children


I always liked Dave.  One of the funniest guys from Canada.

i like him too, but when i followed him on twitter and started getting a flood of cliched hollywood'ish leftist non-thinking propaganda tweets from him, that was the end of that.


edit:  and sorry... didn't mean to bring politics into the conversation... but that's what happened.

[Treading Water]

edit:  and sorry... didn't mean to bring politics into the conversation... but that's what happened.

Isn't that why this is called Random something something something?   

[MV/Liberace!]

Isn't that why this is called Random something something something?   

yeah, but i'm always barking at people to keep politics out of the non politics boards, so it's a bit douchey when i turn around and do the same thing i'm bitching about.

[MV/Liberace!]

jeeze... 203 registered users have been to the forum in the last 24 hours.


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[Sardondi]

jeeze... 203 registered users have been to the forum in the last 24 hours....

And 20,000 posts in the Compendium was blown through so fast (what, something like 5-6 pages ago?) there wasn't even time to commemorate it. Place is blowing up.

[ziznak]

I just noticed the alert that was sent out too!! I'm sure that's got a lot to do with many users that maybe havent been here in a while... not to mention people that signed up drunk and forgot.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
          Ten years ago today was the Columbia disaster. Is it me, or does it seem totally forgotten/overlooked? In a morbid society that fixates on death and destruction, this is one event that doesn't register all that much overall. Especially compared to the Challenger.

[Marc.Knight]

yeah, but i'm always barking at people to keep politics out of the non politics boards, so it's a bit douchey when i turn around and do the same thing i'm bitching about.

Why segregate 'politics' from any discourse?  Why not segregate religion or debate about laws? 


Just my humble opinion, but politics simply means the attempted influence of someone's beliefs.  The word "politics" can be applied to any topic, e.g., "the politics of what makes a great radio show".  In reality, the question is the type of political discourse that is being segregated.  Obama, liberalism, vs whatever.


You might feel better just letting the gate stay wide open and let the chips fall as they may.  People need to suck it up.

[McPhallus]

          Ten years ago today was the Columbia disaster. Is it me, or does it seem totally forgotten/overlooked? In a morbid society that fixates on death and destruction, this is one event that doesn't register all that much overall. Especially compared to the Challenger.

I honestly had to look it up as I don't remember it happening.  I don't recall it being a big deal at the time, either.


Challenger was a whole different ball game in terms of perception.  It resulted in a dramatic explosion before even leaving Earth.  It was one of those defining moments for those of us growing up in the 70s.  Shit like that wasn't supposed to happen.  I still remember that  TV interview with Asimov after the incident.

[McPhallus]

And 20,000 posts in the Compendium was blown through so fast (what, something like 5-6 pages ago?) there wasn't even time to commemorate it. Place is blowing up.

[McPhallus]

He somehow morphed into his lesbian grandma.

dave foley hasn't aged well.

[Eddie Coyle]

I honestly had to look it up as I don't remember it happening.  I don't recall it being a big deal at the time, either.


Challenger was a whole different ball game in terms of perception.  It resulted in a dramatic explosion before even leaving Earth.  It was one of those defining moments for those of us growing up in the 70s.  Shit like that wasn't supposed to happen.  I still remember that  TV interview with Asimov after the incident.

The Columbia disaster was big news that weekend(it happened around 9:30AM on a Saturday), but Feb, 2003 was basically the last part of the run up to the Iraq Invasion, and Colin Powell's speech at the UN on 2/5/03 pushed the Columbia out of the headlines.


       I'm guessing most people over 35 remember where they were for the Challenger. And you make a good point about it occurring during immediately after liftoff, making the impact all the much greater for viewers. And I hate to invoke 9/11...but I remember a lot of my co-workers shrugging their shoulders at the Columbia disaster on the day it happened, with an attitude of "it's not 9/11", as if that was now the scale to judge catastrophes.


      And I wish this was me having a bit of fun...but I actually had multiple patriotarded co-workers blame Osama or Saddam for it.

[HorrorRetro]

         


      And I wish this was me having a bit of fun...but I actually had multiple patriotarded co-workers blame Osama or Saddam for it.

And the fact that most of the debris landed in and around Palestine, TX, only gave the conspiracy nutters more to run with.   :

[Eddie Coyle]

And the fact that most of the debris landed in and around Palestine, TX, only gave the conspiracy nutters more to run with.   :

Yes, indeed. And the IDF member astronaut on board, who hit Saddam's reactor in June,1981, only adding more "proof".

[PB the Deplorable]

I honestly had to look it up as I don't remember it happening....

Same here.  I tend to read about and remember events that fall under 'politics', 'economics' or 'sports', but not fires, floods, and other disasters as much.  Maybe that stuff is too real and sad when it happens for me to really focus on it.

[Rachael Nexusei]

I do not mean to make light by drawing the conversation away from a sad and serious event, but something crossed my mind while reading a section in the book 'Our Glorious Century'.  It stated that  in Orson Welles original broadcast of 'War of the Worlds', he did announce at the beginning that it was an adaptation of H.G.Wells story.  Apparently, being aired at the same time on another station was the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy which the book cites many people were most likely listening to instead of Welles' broadcast, so when they did tune in, only heard the dance music interrupted by the 'news flash', so panic ensued.
Okay, so I thought about this...a ventriloquist on the radio? How would you know if his lips were moving? Wouldn't that be sort of like a mime on the radio with a commentator (or not, and just an hour of silence)?
That was my random stupid thought of the evening.
It's a great book, though.  Really chock-full of interesting (and some not so much) stuff.

[ggseattle]

dave foley hasn't aged well.

Oh, wow.  And with a boil on his turkey neck to boot.  This is making me a)sad and b)feel old.

[stevesh]

I was thinking that UFO disclosure would, at the very least, make for a much more interesting Miss Universe pagent.