Watch your step, Puffin.
― pplains, Saturday, 15 September 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
would be cool if 'take it easy' incited more litigation than any other song ever
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 15 September 2018 04:17 (six years ago) link
I'm frankly a little surprised the Eagles didn't market the shit out of themselves a la Kiss. Trying to imagine what their ultra-crass, Kiss Kasket-esque product would be. Like maybe a line of Peaceful Easy Feeling lethal injection drugs for prisons.
― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Saturday, 15 September 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
surely they would have just opened a chain of Hotel Californias.
― know-it-some (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
surely the gamble was to not merchandise in that way, in order to maintain huge catalog record sales as being "all about the music, man." plus t-shirts.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
I think you might be overestimating the fun and ease of being financially responsible for a large chain of hotels.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
Did a Marriott commit suicide or is that a fake fact I just invented?
― faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
Seemingly I made that up but it’s a good fake fact. “A member of the Marriott family killed himself from the stress of running the multinational hotel chain.”
― faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
(me a few years from now telling that story)
"yeah i know i heard that somewhere...)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
jw about marriotts
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 15 September 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
Elon Musk™ cologne
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Friday, 21 September 2018 00:49 (six years ago) link
*perfume
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Friday, 21 September 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link
a game about being on the internet called "lads" except it's really just like uno, and the uno card is called "lads"
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 September 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
Ubertow. A towing company that's also a car service. Like, you'd tow cars, but you'd let people ride in the cars you're towing, instead of leaving them empty.
― I've moped on a moped and cooed with a coed (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 September 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/17605636-1917-42a3-9491-28d3aefa9556
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 21 September 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
An 'I love Quakers' board where nobody posts anything except occasionally when the spirit finds them
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 September 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
― I've moped on a moped and cooed with a coed (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, September 21, 2018 10:24 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is a good terrible idea because you'd basically have to wait until both your location and your destination were somewhere in the path of a tow truck's trip between the scene of an accident and a garage or between an illegally parked car and a tow yard.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 23 September 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Homonym: a service for people with dark pasts and unique government names. if you're the only Neil Chumberton in the world and the first google hit for your name is your 2003 arrest for cocaine possession, Homonym will hire a bunch of people to change their names to Neil Chumberton and go on crime sprees. eventually your offense will be overshadowed by a slew of murders and robberies and racist tweets perpetrated by Neil Chumbertons who obviously have nothing to do with you.
on the other hand, if your archenemy is a man named Viborg Willisau who got a lot of publicity for saving a family of five from a fire, Homonym can hire people to save the whales and cure cancer and reverse climate change under his government name, overshadowing his good deed in the same fashion.
Homonym's rates will vary depending upon the number people hired and the severity of the deeds committed. getting 100 Neil Chumbertons to blow up 100 courthouses might cost you a few billion dollars, whereas getting 5 Neil Chumbertons to write 5 TERF screeds on medium.com might only cost you a few thousand.
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
Would definitely use. I'd hire someone to do shitty things in the name of my archenemy so I could truthfully write about them at length on the internet.The second use doesn't make sense though, Viborg would just look more awesome?
― kinder, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
I had a dream the other night about a Roku-esque device dedicated exclusively to tailor-made boilerplate middle-age 'comedy' movies. It had little ports where you insert cartridges for which actors, plots, holidays, etc. you want featured in your movie of choice. As far as I could tell, 'Diane Keaton' was a default setting that you couldn't turn off (but the target market didn't seem to mind). So now I'm wondering if it's too late for me to get to the patent office today.
― Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
18-years-too-late Metallica/Napster parody called “Cease and Desist” (based on “Seek and Destroy”)
― latebloomer, Saturday, 29 September 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
A cooking show (like Chopped, Top Chef, etc.) But with Crock-Pots.
"Okay, you only have seven hours. Clock starts NOW!"
And it's filmed and broadcast in real time, like one of those Warhol movies that's just five reels of someone sleeping.
― Romantic koolmoedee (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 September 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
Would produce
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 30 September 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
I'm kind of picturing it being seven hours of "tension" shots, like closeups on people's intense faces/eyes, going back and forth between judges and contestants, etc.
"Clock is ticking, people! Just two and a half more hours!"
I am torn about using some of the cooking time would for human-interest background montages and motivational trash-talk.
"I'm from Brooklyn, so my stews keep it REAL."
"I'm not here to make friends - I'm here to bring serious Tuscan-style braises."
"My garlicky boeuf-en-daube is gonna wow the judges, because my secret ingredient is pizzazz."
"The other cheftestants better watch their backs, because me and my cumin are comin'... for YOU."
― Romantic koolmoedee (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 September 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
"Sorry, Timothy. You've been CROCKED. Pack your ladles and go."
― Romantic koolmoedee (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 September 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
Do it with glass-topped slow cookers, use overhead cams and split screen so you can see all of the dishes in progress, and just make it like Norwegian Slow TV. Every time a competitor comes over to open up and stir it’ll be like WHOA LOOK IT’S A DIFFERENT SHADE OF BROWN
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
back it with some kinda acoustic pickin shit that’s all in different meters playing off each other like if Steve Reich had a folk period
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
Macrozoom shot of the steamy lid
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 30 September 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
Overnight, the channel is all about marinades.
― Romantic koolmoedee (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 September 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
The spinoff that gets canceled halfway through the season - scrubbing a crockpot: live
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
also, in addition to the marinating show, the channel is also all about making your own seasoning powders starting from raw seeds
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
what was that old NPR late night / early morning show that was all about ambient and new age synthesizer shit? dig all that up. I would love this channel
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
heehee
― kinder, Sunday, 30 September 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
yeah
Also. This isn't a terrible idea. I've seen worse. There were neckbeard guys racing drones on a sports channel earlier. I didn't know that was a thing.
― kraudive, Sunday, 30 September 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
I've been in bed and wondered how my marinade looked.
― kraudive, Sunday, 30 September 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
what channel were the drone races on.
― pplains, Sunday, 30 September 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
One of the Sky Sports channels
― kraudive, Monday, 1 October 2018 08:24 (six years ago) link
i've seen it on a freeview channel, the very bottom one, which was called something like transworld sport. i even set a series pass for it but ended up with the same episode repeated about 10 times...
ah, might've been this, https://www.freesports.tv/ click on wednesday...
― koogs, Monday, 1 October 2018 09:05 (six years ago) link
which is also the place to go for all your Polish speedway needs
― koogs, Monday, 1 October 2018 09:07 (six years ago) link
ended up with the same episode repeated about 10 times...
Works for me.
― pplains, Monday, 1 October 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
Sleeping cook wakes, goes straight to pot, adds a pinch of salt, goes back to sleep again.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 1 October 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
(i've set the pvr for the drone racing and the polish speedway)
there's another freeview channel, 273 Sports Channel Network, which is a pay channel for connected tvs only (ie not mine) and that's showing about 6 hours of something called 'Drone GP' between 10pm and 6am tonight.
big on sky too apparently - https://www.skysports.com/more-sports/other-sports/news/35625/11489542/drone-racing-on-sky-sports
― koogs, Monday, 1 October 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
I was going to point out that Charles Aznavour's middle name it quite peculiar but this isn't the time (and the R.I.P. thread isn't the place)
(Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian)
― StanM, Monday, 1 October 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
(it -> is)
An anti dating website for couples that lets you each build a profile and then tells you how compatible you are.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Saturday, 13 October 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
Persuade Grimes or Radiohead to name their next LP "Classic or Dud"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 13 October 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
a song about being an iPhone called "I Refuse To Stop Being Just A Telephone"it has some really catchy hooks in my head, though
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 13 October 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Compilation project wherein a bunch of noise or skronky type artists are commissioned to do abrasive versions of trad.arr. standards, entitled we tortured some folk
― coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 20 October 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
https://i.gifer.com/Aqvz.gif
― Extra Shprankles (Old Lunch), Saturday, 20 October 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link