Amentep Posted November 9, 2020 Posted November 9, 2020 Old thread: Last post: On 11/8/2020 at 1:00 PM, Raithe said: I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Azdeus Posted November 10, 2020 Posted November 10, 2020 @ComradeMaster Bro, are you even trying? 2 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Malcador Posted November 10, 2020 Posted November 10, 2020 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
ComradeYellow Posted November 11, 2020 Posted November 11, 2020 17 hours ago, Azdeus said: @ComradeMaster Bro, are you even trying? I got a whole bunch of these comrade.
algroth Posted November 13, 2020 Posted November 13, 2020 New list! Starting off a new decade with my favorite albums of 1980: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/algroth_89/top-25-1980/ My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden
LadyCrimson Posted November 13, 2020 Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) Apparently Rick Astley is "back" - eg, he's posting stuff on YouTube. Always nice to see artists from my past still around doing things. He seems to have become a bit more of a baritone (?) in his age. His cover of this song isn't bad, not bad at all. The funny/adorable thing to me tho is that if you watch his dance arm movements, at times you can see a certain meme-dance wanting to come out... Edited November 13, 2020 by LadyCrimson 1 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Gromnir Posted November 13, 2020 Posted November 13, 2020 306 "landslide" HA! Good Fun! 4 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Orogun01 Posted November 15, 2020 Posted November 15, 2020 This is the greatest song that has the lyric "Her placenta falls to the floor" in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJ4O-nSveg I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you.
Gromnir Posted November 17, 2020 Posted November 17, 2020 peer gynt is the unapologetic narcissist and liar who follows the advice o' the troll king, wisdom which actual belonged to shakespeare by way o' polonius-- "to thine own self be true." keep in mind, polonius were not advising self-reflection and moral integrity. to read thus is a modern perversion o' the original meaning. in this one instance, trolls, and the modern day equivalent sitting behind the resolute desk, better understand polonius than do modern audiences. look out for number one. regardless, in the hall of the mountain king is the music we hear when we reflect on 2020. ... and the line rider bit is kinda nifty too. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Azdeus Posted November 17, 2020 Posted November 17, 2020 It's weird how well this works! 1 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Malcador Posted November 17, 2020 Posted November 17, 2020 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Chilloutman Posted November 18, 2020 Posted November 18, 2020 i got weird friends who supply me with those things I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"
Malcador Posted November 18, 2020 Posted November 18, 2020 Need a war to cull the chavs. 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Bartimaeus Posted November 18, 2020 Posted November 18, 2020 Catchy song, though I could barely hear it in the movie. Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
LadyCrimson Posted November 19, 2020 Posted November 19, 2020 I'm posting these largely to comment that: I never liked this song all that much, but after YouTubing-around, I've discovered I like it a lot better when one, it's sung by a male, and two, in any language that's not English. My fave is full Japanese tho (2nd video), I've had it on background-repeat all day - maybe I've watched too many anime. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Raithe Posted November 19, 2020 Posted November 19, 2020 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
algroth Posted November 23, 2020 Posted November 23, 2020 New list is here! My top albums of 1981: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/algroth_89/top-25-1981/ My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden
Malcador Posted November 24, 2020 Posted November 24, 2020 Surprised Trump isn't using this in ads. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
ComradeYellow Posted November 25, 2020 Posted November 25, 2020 (edited) Crime City Nights - Cyberpunk / Dark Synthwave - YouTube Beautiful. Perhaps the retrograde theme of Cyberpunk could develop into a psychotically niche fanbase after all, regardless of the inflated hype surrounding it. It's one of those win-win scenarios. The game is overhyped and bound to let down quite a few people but at the same time it's bound to pick up quite a few followers and fanatics post-release. I think we're living in the age of greatness-in-irony. Edited November 25, 2020 by ComradeMaster
Gorth Posted November 26, 2020 Posted November 26, 2020 Just some teenage memories resurfacing... “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Gorth Posted November 27, 2020 Posted November 27, 2020 Double post... a Norwegian/Danish/German band playing something... not sure what. Instruments used from the wiki: drums, including one with horse skin painted with human blood, two drums with deerskin and a drum with goatskin bones, including a human forearm bone and deer bones a buffalo horn rattle a clay rattle with human ashes a Hindu ritual bell antiques from temples a reconstructed silver cup from the Viking Age a ravanahatha (an ancient Indian instrument) other rattles, whistles and percussive instruments Time for some northern European culture Edit to add a second video: “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Gromnir Posted November 29, 2020 Posted November 29, 2020 given the string o' gop court losses... the game were a curious album for queen. this may be apocryphal, but is our understanding that michael jackson convinced freddie mercury and his bandmates that a record that people could dance to is what were needed to take queen to the next level. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
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