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Hungryalists and Krittibas

There is a misconception that the Hungryalists and the Krittibas group were the same and that the KRITTIBAS magazine was a Hungryalist platform. This is incorrect. KRITTIBAS was a group from the fifties. The Hungryalist movement was a sixties decade phenomenon. Krittibas magazine in its editorial had openly declared that they have no relations with the movement and that they do not approve of the philosophy of the movement. Hungryalist platforms were ZEBRA, CHINHO, PRATIDWANDI, UNMARGO and WASTE PAPER.

fire-rated aeroplane components I have melted (bernard snowy), Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link

One of his poems, 'Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes', is now a poem studied at GCSE level in England and Wales, as part of the collection of poems in the AQA Anthology.

fire-rated aeroplane components I have melted (bernard snowy), Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner_(Pet_Shop_Boys_song)

Reception

"Winner" received generally well reception.

undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link

not really details so much as the page's existence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_universe

get you ass to mahs (abanana), Saturday, 11 August 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link

This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may only interest a specific audience. (March 2012)

"Pffft" --buddha (silby), Saturday, 11 August 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link

fuck u wikipedia

"Pffft" --buddha (silby), Saturday, 11 August 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link

I didn't know until just now how much I wanted to know about the duck verse

"Pffft" --buddha (silby), Saturday, 11 August 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaltern_(postcolonialism)

See also
* Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), directed by J. Lee Thompson
* Subaltern studies
* Post-colonialism
* Post-colonial literature

s.clover, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link

In the lyrics, the singer asks listeners if they have "been close to tragedy" necessitating "a strength most don't possess". The singer says while he has not faced such a daunting situation himself, he "know(s) someone who has" and makes the understatement that he is "sure it isn't good." The singer also expresses doubts about his own mettle and wonders how he would perform in such a situation himself. While stating "I like to think that if I was I would pass" he confesses "I'm afraid of what I might find out."

The opening line of the chorus states "I never had to knock on wood," and it may be more accurately rendered as "I never had to...(knock on wood)" referring to something that the singer has never had to do (i.e. face a huge crisis) and utilizing the superstitious phrase "knock on wood" which is said in the hopes that a good thing will continue to occur after it has been acknowledged.

Similarly, the mid-chorus lyrics "It makes me wonder if I never had to knock on wood" are more easily understood with the insertion of ellipsis and other punctuation, i.e. "it makes me wonder if I...? Never had to... (knock on wood)."

The lyrics have been interpreted by some to be in reference to AIDS, and the anticipation of blood results, but the group's official website denies this.

if i had a goat's cheese tostada i might cream myself a little (stevie), Thursday, 16 August 2012 11:11 (eleven years ago) link

Similarly, the mid-chorus lyrics "It makes me wonder if I never had to knock on wood" are more easily understood with the insertion of ellipsis and other punctuation, i.e. "it makes me wonder if I...? Never had to... (knock on wood)."

Similarly the song is more easily heard with the violent insertion of a screwdriver into both ears.

ledge, Thursday, 16 August 2012 11:15 (eleven years ago) link

awww... it's one of the few 3rd gen ska-punk songs i actually like. give it some slack.

Yes please, I'll have a pint, and another one for this asshole here (dog latin), Thursday, 16 August 2012 11:22 (eleven years ago) link

more a comment on the strange opinion expressed re: punctuation tbh.

ledge, Thursday, 16 August 2012 11:30 (eleven years ago) link

They should have had the drummer hit a wood block on three beats after he says that, like that Tony Orlando song kinda.

pplains, Thursday, 16 August 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link

The album contained the Dr. Dre diss track "Real Muthaphuckkin G's". Eazy-E released music videos for "Any Last Werdz" and "Real Muthaphuckkin G's". It went multi-platinum and became one of Eazy-E's most popular recordings. Eazy-E was originally intending to release a follow up to Eazy-Duz-It named Temporary Insanity. However, after the several insults Dr. Dre made in The Chronic, Eazy-E decided to release this album. Dr. Dre is mentioned on every track except "Gimmie That Nutt" and "Boyz N Tha Hood (G-Mix)".The album went success and was in the charts for 500 weeks.

some dude, Saturday, 18 August 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link

hahahaha

the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Sunday, 19 August 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk

Another significant and popular addition to the marketplace has been flavored milks – for example, as mentioned above, Farmers Union Iced Coffee outsells Coca-Cola in South Australia.

Pureed Moods (Trayce), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link

I find that hard to believe tbqh

Pureed Moods (Trayce), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link

sales down since RIP Richard Marsland

ʘ (sic), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:16 (eleven years ago) link

citation needed

pop, singular (electricsound), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link

White Americans of all European backgrounds are present in all areas of the state. Those of English and Irish ancestry are present in large numbers in all the urban/suburban areas across the state. Native white Floridians, especially those who have descended from long-time Florida families, affectionately refer to themselves as "Florida crackers". Like whites in most of the other Southern states, they descend mainly from English and Scots-Irish settlers, as well as some other British settlers.[87]

the same dope water as you (how's life), Monday, 20 August 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link

There is another remix featuring Los Angeles Lakers player-rapper Kobe Bryant.

johnny crunch, Monday, 20 August 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_regional_nicknames

cF: Brighton, Forest of Dean, Gillingham, Guernsey, Ipswich, Manchester

Here's that tenner I owe you, asshole (dog latin), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:03 (eleven years ago) link

One chain e-mail claimed incorrectly that President Obama's middle name is Mohammed or Muhammed. His actual middle name is Hussein.[20][21]

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link

"Le Bracelet" was also sampled by worshipped producer J Dilla for a beat named "Dammit I Know That Sample" from one of his beat tapes.

Lenny (Crabbits), Sunday, 26 August 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link

everyone samples fantastic planet

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 26 August 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link

It was the word WORSHIPPED
with two p's no less

Lenny (Crabbits), Sunday, 26 August 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_regional_nicknames

cF: Brighton, Forest of Dean, Gillingham, Guernsey, Ipswich, Manchester

― Here's that tenner I owe you, asshole (dog latin), Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:03 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the 12 toes are what you have up north in norfolk, due to inbreeding afaict. as someone born in ipswich i can vouch for this, but as i have 12 fingers i can't do the necessary wiki amendments.

For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Sunday, 26 August 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link

Self-deprecation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For self-defecation, see Fecal incontinence.

crütis what we aim for (unregistered), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link

POST DUBSTEP. What in the feck.

frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatality)

no need to look at the page, i just like the url.

tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Dando

The band toured successfully in 1997 and played a final gig at the Reading Festival, after which Dando promptly disappeared from view—due in no small part to his addiction to Mountain Dew.

Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link

from the article about "suicide blonde":

Ferguson Darling is heard singing the title of this song on the Clarissa Explains It All episode Clarissa News Network.

the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link

wat.

frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 09:27 (eleven years ago) link

Jamais vu is more commonly explained as when a person momentarily does not recognise a word, person, or place that he or she already knows.[1]

The phenomenon is often grouped with déjà vu and presque vu.

...

Jamais vu can be caused by MIKE.

frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:37 (eleven years ago) link

The Lemonheads then toured throughout 1994; Dando famously befriended Oasis and appeared at the band's live shows. He also spent time "hanging out" with Courtney Love.

fit and working again, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link

At this stage they played punk rock, and were briefly known as the Whelps, until a name change in 1987 led to the birth of the Lemonheads, after a candy which Dando noted was sweet on the outside, and sour on the inside, possibly a metaphor for the band's sound.

fit and working again, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link

lol @ MIKE

I'm glad there's a name for that feeling. My only explanation for when it happens to me is that it's being caused by STROKE.

pplains, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link

Judith Miller (born 1941) is a French philosopher, and the daughter of Jacques Lacan — radical psychoanalyst, and wife to prominent Lacanian Jacques-Alain Miller. As a Maoist philosophy lecturer at Vincennes in Paris, her radicalism was used as a reason for her philosophy department to be decertified.[1] This occurred after she handed out course credit to someone she met on a bus

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 30 August 2012 08:12 (eleven years ago) link

Never marry someone who studies your dad imo

"Pffft" --buddha (silby), Thursday, 30 August 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link

The album's cover artwork features a photo of Donald Fagen as a deejay wearing a collared shirt and tie, speaking into a microphone (an RCA 77DX). Before him lies a turntable (16 inch '50s model, with a Para-Flux A-16 tonearm), an ashtray, and a pack of Chesterfield King cigarettes. Visible on the table with the record player, is the cover of the 1958 jazz album Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders (also credited in the liner notes). On the wall behind Fagen is a large clock, indicating that the time is 4:09.

fit and working again, Sunday, 2 September 2012 05:27 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/d6Tjo.png

Einstürzende Joebarton (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link

no wonder Spain declined

"Pffft" --buddha (silby), Sunday, 9 September 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/AzJeQRECEAEo3aw.jpg

s.clover, Monday, 10 September 2012 12:44 (eleven years ago) link

The caption now reads: "Lord Uxbridge's leg, shown here attached to Lord Uxbridge."

s.clover, Monday, 10 September 2012 12:44 (eleven years ago) link

Uxbridge all together

"Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, 10 September 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link

whats funny abt charles ii

the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link


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