trenchant social commentary 2

Elite Daily

unconvinced that any mode of meeting people is inherently more ~real than any other, real is what u make of it

― lex pretend, Monday, December 15, 2014 11:56 AM (5 hours ago)

so annoying

~ next time

lol matt

Sure, I get that about automation and fragility and buying parts - but the espresso people are less "buy a receiver at the pawn shop" and more "my diamond-encrusted cable really allows me to HEAR this section of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' for the first time."

Mostly no. The difference between the espresso you get out of a top-quality commercial machine like a La Marzocco and out of a substandard quality home machine is enormous. There are pricey but not insanely pricey home machines where you can get pretty close to the Marzocco quality with the right technique. And certain factors in making espresso are pretty well-established -- pressure, temperature, grind, tamping (not to speak of the beans themselves). The best machines are simply able to produce the appropriate pressure and temperature consistently, which is surprisingly difficult. Other bells and whistles can make a difference -- the bottomless portafilter, for example, but there's a pretty commonsense reason for that one -- in a normal portafilter oils from the coffee build up and are hard to clean away. The bottomless portafilter simply eliminates that problem.

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:35 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

meanwhile

http://www.unicefusa.org/press/releases/unicef-too-many-children-dying-malnutrition/8259

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:48 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf that "meanwhile" could've linked to a local news story about a flatulent dog and the contrast would not have been lost

lol just came here to post that

dog might have been flatulent due to inefficiently made coffee tho

a new use for the tamper really

"I don't like mayonnaise on my sandwiches, only mustard"

meanwhile

http://www.unicefusa.org/press/releases/unicef-too-many-children-dying-malnutrition/8259

oy amateurist

going to post that link after every amateurist film crit post

should be forced to change dn to that link

So the idea is that if someone is derisively called "politically correct" presumably because they are unnecessarily touchy about things. This displays a lack of self-awareness because if you are upset about someone being PC then you are being unnecessarily touchy imo.

― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, February 13, 2015 2:02 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

http://djconnectiontulsa.com/imgUL/doublestuff2007.jpg

As grotesque as fox news is, they are not the root of any of the issues we face

― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship),

Actually, they are. Manufactured Consent. Chomsky. Get into it ya'll.

― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:19 AM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark

i want to believe

probably safe to just credit every American song ever written to "anonymous black guy"

― Οὖτις, Friday, April 10, 2015 12:48 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

anonymous black guy's early stuff was better imo

http://i.imgur.com/bzLN9bL.jpg

Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

Sports writing is and always will be terrible, because sports contests are extremely rule-bound and essentially near duplicates of one another in everything but the outcome of each contest. All the possible stories have been written hundreds of thousands of times. Consequently, sports writers are stuck in horrible dead end jobs they often become wretched unhappy people.

― Aimless, Thursday, May 7, 2015 10:01 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"No more unreleased material in the archives, folks, but here's a vintage recording of John Lennon laying down a shit on his toilet at Tittenhurst Park circa 1971"

"*gasps* Oh my god, such genius! What a musical colon! BEST BAND EVAAAAAAA! MUSIC HAS NOT BEEN IMPROVED SINCE THE '70s!!!11!!"

― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 3:49 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They just need to dig up the Bible verse where Jesus says it's ok to hate people and mess up your home if there's money in it.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, June 29, 2015 3:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That would require actually reading the Bible, it's way easier just to not read it and carry on being human garbage.

― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, June 29, 2015 3:31 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

let's be real here: fuck 'merit'.

― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins),

BB otm, 'distinction' or gtfo

yay!

I remember
when we used to sit
in the government yard in trenchanttown
oba-oba-serving the hypocrites
as they would mingle with the good people we meet

If a thing happens and isn't shared, did it really happen?

― calstars, Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that is a st. vincent lyric tbf

http://i.imgur.com/Qeuajx0.jpg

the dumbest philosophical thought made even dumber

wat if someone comes later in the wodds & the tree is lieing on ground

This thread is for reposts, not originals

Is that on a koozie?

http://i.imgur.com/vCblGIh.jpg

cool tablet w the headboard going thru the middle of it

you wdn't really need bedside lamps with the illumination coming off that thing

*wakes up*

xpost yes it's quite similar to st. vincent lyrics, saw her pull it off live recently but it's not good reading material. arcade fire's worse though imo:

We're so connected
but are we even friends?
We fell in love when I was 19
and now we're staring at a screen

sounds like a fucking parish priest sermon circa 1990 except it was instant coffee he was bemoaning - "there is no instant faith!"

No glare for the guy who's trying to sleep, looks good.

http://i.imgur.com/i8LURjg.jpg

that is almost awe-inspiringly bad

dayo's next wdyll a bathroom selfie w/ carrots obv

more hott chix w fresh produce pls

what are the odds you look like david wolfe but with glasses

http://i.imgur.com/PJA1X0Q.jpg

no tablets, unreaistic.

Can someone help me figure out which mental illness these shooters suffer from?

I think 'America' might be the answer you're looking for.

― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Thursday, August 27, 2015 2:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

zing! Ouch!!!

Gen Z doesn't drink much at all?

Don’t get defens’ about being called on your trench’, brims’

past expiry but a good one

https://i.ibb.co/FBTByQy/D2-Tt-VQUWk-AAx-LAq.jpg

why are there so many songs about nae nae

Actual lols at that

hahaha