lolling over these from that Herald article
She has a job, college plans, but also a peculiar passion for a 16-year-old: She’s a vinyl junkie.That’s right, analog
...her delicate hand on diamond-tipped stylus to spin from the dusty stash of records she found in the basement of her grandfather — yes, grandfather
"SAY WHAAA-?" (spits out coffee)
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 25 March 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
that's right, analog. and yes -- grandfather.
― omar little, Friday, 25 March 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lmbo
xpost
analog? SERIOUSLY?her grandfather? YOU DON'T SAY
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 25 March 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
(exaggerated record scratch)
― frogbs, Friday, 25 March 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
has the same tone as an NPR story, all wide eyed about what 'the kids' are doing these days
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 25 March 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.parade.com/news/backpage-OLD/mitch-albom/100418-take-in-a-real-game.html
Mitch Albom wrote an awful column on the "evil of fantasy baseball" that's way worse -
Spring is here, and throughout the land, baseball fans don their caps and root, root, root in the glowing warmth of......their computers?
...their computers?
Cliche...cliche...whaaaa?? **record scratch**
It's as if you took the best lines from Shakespeare and formed your own play. Or took rock's best guitar solos and strung them into "your" song. Fantasy baseball uses the talents but loses the stage. And in so doing, it loses much more.
The whole article is based on the completely ridiculous premise that fantasy players use it as a substitute for real baseball, which is something that absolutely no one does.
"Maybe people do it to feel like they're in charge of a real team. But it's nothing like a real team, believe me. A real team has personal problems, injuries, the long grind of the season. You plug in fantasy players, it's like robots. You're missing the human pulse."
The human pulse. Exactly. If you program a computer correctly, it can play an entire fantasy season without you. Try winning a real game without a human being on the mound.
You can practically see the smirk on his face right now!! "Yeah! You try winning a real game with a bunch of...of...robots!!"
I worry for this growing fantasy-sports world, not for what its followers are experiencing, but for what they're not. If you're so busy computing stats, you miss the real-life drama, you miss the physical artistry, you miss the electricity of a stadium and the unity of your neighbors cheering alongside you. Remember, no one does the wave alone in his basement.
Even if his premise was plausable at all, are we to accept the reason why you need to break out of your robot filled fantasy world is the wave"???
Baseball minus such things is just math. And let's be honest. Wasn't math class when we snuck the earphone from the transistor radio and enjoyed our original fantasies about the game?
*head explodes*
― frogbs, Friday, 25 March 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost I'm irrationally annoyed by Americans referring to vinyl records as "vinyls".
― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Friday, 25 March 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
That's right, "vinyls".
― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Friday, 25 March 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't realise this was a US thing, if it is, but yeah fucking stop it
(loosely related: someone tried to clown me a couple of days ago for saying that 'records', as in, say, "I have a big record collection" or "I can't wait for the new Linkin Park record to come out" could legitimately be used to refer to music releases in general, not just vinyl, as he asserted. Am I dumb and/or weird for using it this way for the last 15 years or so?)
― I only use this style of type when I choose it (DJ Mencap), Friday, 25 March 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
it should be ok. we say "album" still and you can't really say "CDs" anymore so it should be fine
― frogbs, Friday, 25 March 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20110324/tod-man-goes-on-shooting-spree-over-burr-045b8e8.html
― Bryan, Friday, 25 March 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.newburyportnews.com/lifestyle/x1527122058/Port-teen-joins-Aspergers-comedy-troupe
― goole, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
omg
― I'm totally kidding. Congrats strangers. (Matt P), Friday, 25 March 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
This is not what a feminist looks like. Feminists are not shirts.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 25 March 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
"New Michael"
― buzza, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Trump Sends Investigators to Hawaii, Gains in GOP Presidential Primary Poll
― Oink Administrator (gr8080), Friday, 8 April 2011 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
baaaaaaaaaaaaarf
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/printer/article.asp?c=196690
Dr. Laura says people should not have sex before they marry. The reason for this is that sex is the number one cause of pregnancy, and pregnancy is the number one cause of babies.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I ran the boards for the Dr. Laura Show for my local station for three years and I still hate the Pointer Sisters.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Joe Queenan on the Frank Gehry Glut
― conrad, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/us/20rapture.html?_r=2&hp
― hated old moniker, too tired to think of a clever new one (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 May 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
The three teenagers have been struggling to make sense of their shifting world, which started changing nearly two years ago when their mother, Abby Haddad Carson, left her job as a nurse to “sound the trumpet” on mission trips with her husband, Robert, handing out tracts. They stopped working on their house and saving for college.Last weekend, the family traveled to New York, the parents dragging their reluctant children through a Manhattan street fair in a final effort to spread the word.“My mom has told me directly that I’m not going to get into heaven,” Grace Haddad, 16, said. “At first it was really upsetting, but it’s what she honestly believes.”
Last weekend, the family traveled to New York, the parents dragging their reluctant children through a Manhattan street fair in a final effort to spread the word.
“My mom has told me directly that I’m not going to get into heaven,” Grace Haddad, 16, said. “At first it was really upsetting, but it’s what she honestly believes.”
this just depresses me
― peter in montreal, Friday, 20 May 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/p4CFW.png
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 20 May 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
dammit
http://i55.tinypic.com/dac0m.jpg
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 20 May 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.indystar.com/article/20110603/NEWS02/110603006/Man-calls-police-after-kitten-bites-him
― StanM, Friday, 3 June 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/03/us-athletics-diamond-idUSTRE6622I420100703
― some dude, Thursday, 9 June 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://onionlike.tumblr.com/
― kinder, Saturday, 11 June 2011 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a fine line happening here.
http://www.scottdizzle.com/uploads2/01091907best-of-jay-leno.gif
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 11 June 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://madisonrecord.com/news/contentview.asp?c=148217
― british sb power (dayo), Saturday, 11 June 2011 07:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/israel-and-palestinians/Israel-Approves-Jerusalem-Museum-Project-Despite-Muslim-Objections-125499758.html
I mean, the museum people may be right in the end that gravesites aren't normally given any special respect by muslim builders, but still -- Israel to build tolerance museum on muslim gravesite -- seems to fit this thread.
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2011/07/19/206814.htm
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
“He slipped because it was slippery,” said a sobbing Hick.
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/07/reformed_nazi_twin_singers_renounce_racism_credit.php
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Monday, 1 August 2011 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Boys believe discussing problems is a waste of time and weird, says study
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Rebel Discovers Qaddafi Passport, Real Spelling of Leader's Name
― Alba, Thursday, 25 August 2011 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
love that the image for that article is this:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/international/assets_c/2011/08/qaddafi%20passport%20p-thumb-600x300-61429.jpg
― peter in montreal, Thursday, 25 August 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
They even mention how similar this is to a specific Onion article inside.
Al Qaeda slams Iran for peddling 9/11 conspiracy theories
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
"The Iranian government has professed on the tongue of its president Ahmadinejad that it does not believe that al Qaeda was behind 9/11 but rather, the U.S. government," an article in Inspire's latest issue argued, according to ABC News' Lee Ferrin. "So we may ask the question: why would Iran ascribe to such a ridiculous belief that stands in the face of all logic and evidence?"
On cnn.com right now:
http://oi43.tinypic.com/v82dfr.jpg
― sktsh, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
loll
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Ha there was something that rolled by the CNN news ticker this morning that said something like "COMMUNISM MORE POPULAR THAN CONGRESS AMONG US PUBLIC"
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/time-to-admit-it-the-church-has-always-been-right-on-birth-control-2012-2?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
Michael Brendan Dougherty Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
― buzza, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://static7.businessinsider.com/image/4edfdcba6bb3f7c75a000002-195/michael-brendan-dougherty.jpg
Before joining Business Insider, Michael Brendan Dougherty was Associate Editor of The American Conservative.
― buzza, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
great headline
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098652/Shop-fitter-died-falling-giant-bucket-mayonnaise-stabbing-heart-electric-drill.html
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 10 February 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
I xposted that to SEO hall of fame
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Friday, 10 February 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/sun-will-finally-shine-in-viganella-during-winter/
― Evan, Thursday, 23 February 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
If they hate it so much, why build the town there. It's like building a town at the bottom of a lake and complaining about the lack of oxygen.
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Thursday, 23 February 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link