some of us had to buy new clothes because we got fat during the pandemic, mind
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, October 14, 2021 3:54 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yes.
The bigger thing though is that although I still have some positively ancient t-shirts still in circulation, many newer articles of clothing have already hit the skids because everything is increasingly (and intentionally) made like shit (see also the thing where I'm currently wearing a sturdy-ass pair of glasses from twenty years ago because every single pair of glasses I've owned since has broken from just like regular wear).
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 October 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
i have had numerous pairs of jeans rip after like only 3 months worth of wear. i've learned to uhhh buy more reliable brands, cos boy is that not something fun when it happens in public
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 October 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
I have an SST "Blasting Concept" t-shirt that came with the cassette comp (which vanished years ago) as a package deal, probably from 1986 or so? I don't wear it often but it gets to guest star once in awhile.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 October 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
Buying more expensive and better made jeans is a real thing. I had a pair of jeans I wore every day for 1.5 years during which they saw riots, stints in jail, hopping freight trains across the country, and living in a squat— I spent $120 bucks on them. When they fell apart, I immediately went out and bought another pair
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
I have some shirts from pre-2010 but they are few and far between, mostly because of an incident with a incontinent cat in 2012 where half of my wardrobe was ruined.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
This is why I only buy jeans in thrift stores, so I can can buy the expensive brands.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
The bigger thing though is that although I still have some positively ancient t-shirts still in circulation, many newer articles of clothing have already hit the skids because everything is increasingly (and intentionally) made like shit
The idea of dsiposability was always undermined by the diffculty of actually permanently disposing of things that wasn't detrimental to the environment. It just lead to a load of landfill and broken things being around in the environment without further usage.
I almost never buy new clothing for those reasons. Maybe once every couple of years I'll buy something expensive and timeless that will last years, maybe decades (I still wear clothes I had in high school, possibly even middle school). I really prefer to buy old clothes, but nothing too hipster. Years ago I thought "when was the last time I had a pair of jeans that wasn't made like shit?" and since then I've only bought jeans made in the 1980s. Thrift stores here mostly sell 'fast fashion' junk- I can't be bothered.
Actually I don't really buy anything brand new in general, I've been buying secondhand products primarily most of my life. There are a few exceptions, and they tend to be minor purchases, like underwear and razor blades.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 17 October 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
My favorite sweater that I wear all the time I've had since I think she 9 or 10 (it was too big on me when I got it)
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 17 October 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
*she = age, obv
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 17 October 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
Anthony Michael Hall's real name is Michael Anthony Hall
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 18 October 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
did he change it so he wouldn't be confused with Michael Anthony of Van Halen fame?
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 18 October 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
I thought it was so he wouldn't be confused for the dormitory named after Michael Anthony of Van Halen fame
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 18 October 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
Durag not do-rag.
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 October 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
In 2000, Nikki Sixx formed a band called 58 with writer/producer Dave Darling, his former father-in-law. I just learned that this is not the same David Darling who played cello, recorded for ECM and died earlier this year.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 October 2021 01:03 (two years ago) link
Rocinante, the mount of Don Quixote, is a male horse. Always seemed more like a mare's name to me.
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
Never knew that either, despite being near the end of Season Two of The Expanse.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
lol James same reaction from me
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
Same lol, but I also haven't read Quixote...since 2002? Something like that.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 25 October 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
(And we're toward the end of season 3, totally addicted)
I learned only the other day that people only really started eating tomatoes in the 1880s. I'd always assumed that Spanish and Italian people had been incorporating them into their cuisine for long before then. But for around two centuries they'd been considered deadly poisonous because the acids in the tomatoes would soak up lead from pewter plates and kill people.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 29 October 2021 08:45 (two years ago) link
I'm doing a bit more online searching and apparently this might not be strictly true after all as there are records of people putting tomatoes into recipes dating before then, but I think it was around 1880 that tomato-mania exploded with the popularity of the Napolonean pizza
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 29 October 2021 08:48 (two years ago) link
by 'people' I assume you mean "European people'
― Number None, Friday, 29 October 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
I don't know how I didn't know but: a VIP remix isn't done by some extremely prolific dude (or collective) who did thousands and thousands of remixes in the most diverse genres, for decades now.
VIP means Variation In Production and it's a remix done by the original performer of the track.
― StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
me = head asplode gif
if you are into d&b then surely you would know this already? or if you aren't then surprised you know about VIP mixes.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 October 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
Oh! is it especially D&B? I thought it was way more ubiquitous, somehow.
― StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
it's definitely in other genres too, and I never realized this either. I thought it just meant like this is a special exclusive mix.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 29 October 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
thinking about it the first time I was really aware of it was this, which isn't even d&bhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvIWnh8dNOw
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 October 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Every day before today is dim and gray in retrospect, because on all of those days, I did not know this:
Things I Did Not Know: After their defeat and loss at Copenhagen in 1807, the Danes responded by planting 90,000 oak trees toward the Navy’s rebirth. The Danish Nature Agency, successor to the royal forester, informed the Defense Ministry in 2007 that their trees were ready. pic.twitter.com/R2L2hrMn1k— aniemyer (@aniemyer) November 1, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
Good time for them to challenge Spain, then
― gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
That reminds me of a story in the old The Whole Earth Catalog about some Cambridge students who noticed that some ancient oak beam in some ancient hall was showing signs of bug infestation. And then the campus forester reminded everyone that some replacement oaks had been planted in 1640-whatever as replacements, and they were ready to be harvested. We don't think in those terms anymore.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 1 November 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
(xxp) It's good stuff but it really doesn't belong in this particular thread tbh.
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
It is pretty cool tho. Most major Japanese temples and shrines have nearby forests of carefully maintained trees timed to mature when the structure needs renewal, Ise being the most famous example because it’s entirely dismantled and rebuilt every 20 years. Transferring the kami is the key part.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
Things I Learned Today
― visiting, Monday, 1 November 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
That I can resize this Add a Post text box area woooo
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Thursday, 4 November 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
That Cybill Shepherd dated Elvis!
some truly mind-popping quotes about it here
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 4 November 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
ew
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 November 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
That there is an apostrophe in Jack Daniel's. I thought it was Jack Daniels. Only realized while reading this article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-police-lodge-jack-daniels-committee-investigation/2021/11/04/e035a92a-3377-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html
― peace, man, Friday, 5 November 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
Everyone knows how Jack Daniel and Evan William used to hang out together.
― pplains, Friday, 5 November 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
stop off with kroger for groceries or mcdonald for fast food
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 November 2021 06:10 (two years ago) link
That "Chopsticks" was written by someone and didn't just emerge out of the public domain ether.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
You can be too tall to serve in the US Armed Forces. Can't be over 6'6" in the Army and Marines, or over 6'8" in the Navy.
― Josefa, Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
this was an issue for David Robinson:
At the time the Naval Academy had a height restriction of 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) for all midshipmen, and in the autumn when the new academic year began Robinson had grown to 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m). Assuming that he was unlikely to grow much more, the academy's superintendent readily granted him a waiver. However Robinson continued growing, and by the start of his second year at the academy he had nearly reached his adult height of 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m), which later prevented him from serving on any U.S. naval ships.
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
And yet that military discipline he learned no doubt helped him when called upon to assemble in Precise Modern Lovers Order.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
This is a mistake. Overly tall servicemen & servicewomen should be transferred to a unit of other really tall soldiers/sailors, as sort of a psy-ops cadre designed to strike terror in the hearts of enemy forces; modern day bezerkers, if you will.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
Candlebox's "Far Behind" is about Andrew Wood. Originally the chorus was "Aaaaaaaannnddddy, I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad", and he changed "Andy" to "maybe"
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 01:36 (two years ago) link
It makes sense now but I never knew until I read a Kevin Martin interview
Mother Love Bone is pretty awful
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
Is that just a statement or just recently learned
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
I had a 12" years ago - not an album - and I remember trying to get into it, and then just deciding it was terrible. Like thirty years ago
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link