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npr tote bags

― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Tuesday, February 6, 2018 4:05 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

itt chinese things

infinity (∞), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:17 (eight years ago)

weird old dudes that call their wife "mother"
super big gulps

Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 10 February 2018 11:10 (eight years ago)

fat kids

trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:26 (eight years ago)

Ahistorical nonsense disproven by the most cursory of searches

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17355779/

El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:34 (eight years ago)

That appalling "podcast voice"

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:24 (eight years ago)

you're going to need to narrow that down

Haribo Hancock (sic), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:44 (eight years ago)

the mind goes first to Sarah Koenig or Ira Glass but then a soft whisper "oh no, it gets worse" then you remember Jad Abumrad

trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:03 (eight years ago)

.....all American podcast voices are the same and i cannot listen to American podcasts as a consequence

Dead serious

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 23:42 (eight years ago)

i struggle tbh

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 02:51 (eight years ago)

Jews

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:52 (eight years ago)

Ice water

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:52 (eight years ago)

Kraft singles

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:53 (eight years ago)

the mind goes first to Sarah Koenig or Ira Glass but then a soft whisper "oh no, it gets worse" then you remember Jad Abumrad

― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, February 10, 2018 5:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The fact that Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, Peter Sagal are (1) not all the same person and (2) all have jobs in fucking RADIO often boggles my mind

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:57 (eight years ago)

It’s not like we ban Jews from the radio just for sounding Jewish!

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:40 (eight years ago)

I for one find the nasally-inflected tones of my co-religionists from Ashkenaz quite soothing

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:42 (eight years ago)

melted butter as a dip for steaks

startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:52 (eight years ago)

PBJ
BLT
fluffernutter
frosting
cookie dough

startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:53 (eight years ago)

red turning indicators on cars
nine inch plastic bumpers
stick shift on the steering column

startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:55 (eight years ago)

malt liquor
crack

startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:56 (eight years ago)

What color are rear turn signals in other countries?!

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:57 (eight years ago)

http://historygarage.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/left1.jpg
... most of the world

startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:01 (eight years ago)

also, specifying race on registration forms etc. And statistics broken down by race.

startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:02 (eight years ago)

I’ll read this tomorrow

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/811115

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:08 (eight years ago)

The wrong amount of tax being deducted from your pay check throughout the year, then getting some back or being asked for more at the end of the year.

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:39 (eight years ago)

Saying 'how funny' with dead eyes

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:39 (eight years ago)

81. S'mores

Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:44 (eight years ago)

#3

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:56 (eight years ago)

81.5. “sock” as a verb

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 07:58 (eight years ago)

d'oh, buried in the fold on zing

Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 09:18 (eight years ago)

81. just pouring any old fuckin' amount of booze into a drink at a bar

Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 09:19 (eight years ago)

83. “thank you for your service”

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 09:28 (eight years ago)

Jesus yeah

And making service staff grovelsmile

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:03 (eight years ago)

85. pretty darn good craft beer!
86. pretty darn good cheeseburgers!

Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:13 (eight years ago)

83.5 the fucking loop of audio running all night and day at LAX announcing that they appreciate your service so you can get a free shower and nap if you're a returned serviceperson is absolutely my worst American experience (while waiting from 1am to 8am to be able to leave or shower or nap myself)

Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:18 (eight years ago)

even above that time a federal employee threatened to shoot me for looking at a piece of public art 1 min after entering the country

Haribo Hancock (sic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:19 (eight years ago)

root beer
raccoons
rollerskates

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:23 (eight years ago)

90. TSA agents are so terribly friendly (they'll even erotically touch me without having to buy a drink.)

Shitpost in Opposition (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:24 (eight years ago)

91. Chewing gum
92. Chewing tobacco
93. Chex mix.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:27 (eight years ago)

90. TSA agents are so terribly friendly (they'll even erotically touch me without having to buy a drink.)

america’s the only country i’ve ever been to that insists on picking my locks

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:35 (eight years ago)

and i’ve been to fucking china

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:36 (eight years ago)

94: gold medallist snowboarder red gerrard, on the olympics:

"I honestly don’t know what the Olympics is. Clearly it’s big, everyone is here."

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:36 (eight years ago)

even above that time a federal employee threatened to shoot me for looking at a piece of public art 1 min after entering the country

this is turkish armed forces level of batshit crazy

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:37 (eight years ago)

95. Fantasy football.
96. Fantasy Island.
97. Fantasy by Britney Spears.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:38 (eight years ago)

Red Gerrard otm

"oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:40 (eight years ago)

98. Patriot Missile.
99. Patriot Act.
100. Patriot, Indiana.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:47 (eight years ago)

Town motto: "The FIRST Refuge of Scoundrels"

"oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 February 2018 12:12 (eight years ago)

It’s not like we ban Jews from the radio just for sounding Jewish!

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 06:40 (seven hours ago) Permalink

jad abumrad is lebanese fwiw. Interestingly, so is stereotypically Jewy reality tv star/business guy Marcus Lemonis. Maybe they're a lost tribe.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 11 February 2018 14:34 (eight years ago)

Saying 'how funny' with dead eyes

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, February 11, 2018 1:39 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I believe it's "funny how"

pplains, Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:02 (eight years ago)

I welcome solidarity with all high-voiced Levantine nerds xp

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:03 (eight years ago)

in texas at least I heard more "how fun" (with dead eyes) than "how funny" but yeah

droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:28 (eight years ago)


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