Things you will endlessly lecture on if given the chance (aka woe to anyone who asks me about muppets when I'm drunk)

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Also, that article I just read in, was it the Atlantic or Harpers? I forget. I didn't like it when I read it but I've been thinking a lot about it lately.

Casuistry, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Tennyson.

Kids I teach, and teaching them.

Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link

- Any tangent that involves being devil's advocate in the current conversation

ha this is me

wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link

- triathlons
- the joys of junk food
- shitty parents
- shitty hipster music fans
- sex
- magazines, newspapers, and books
- why large organizations are doomed to fail
- the music business

Dandy Don Weiner, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link

i don't really speak unless i'm drinking

mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

I dare you to find a more Muppety beat than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUJyX62HTxc

Which is the victory song from their Gamecube game

Dig that bass!

Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Thursday, 16 August 2012 05:52 (eleven years ago) link

six years pass...

public sector pension schemes and the variant strands thereof and the considerable differences between each

topical mlady (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link

Public sector recruitment policy and the role played by public sector unions in determining said policy. And Robespierre.

Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:47 (five years ago) link

and the link, presumably

topical mlady (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link

Would that a link existed.

Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:54 (five years ago) link

the public service loan forgiveness program

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 01:24 (five years ago) link

...and marble madness

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 01:25 (five years ago) link

hamlet

difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link

why bands in the local music scene aren't successful

(ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 04:51 (five years ago) link

-Whiskey
-Silent and early sound films

Tha Threadkilla Strikes Again (j.lu), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link

* alex trebek
* linguistics
* how much i hate andrew jackson
* whatever the hell i just read about on wikipedia (usually "on this day")
* jazz musicians nobody else has heard of

Sigur Ros or Pomplamoose type shit (rushomancy), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link

-pro-wrestling.

hourspass, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 09:25 (five years ago) link

Yakuza games
The noise Morrissey makes in Rubber Ring pretending to be a lift
Whatever weird internet thing that I would never talk about normally

gyac, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 09:41 (five years ago) link

american wites

topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 09:48 (five years ago) link

photography

“I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link

kraftwerk

“I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link

2001: a space odyssey

“I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link

this is why no-one invites me to parties

“I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link

multilingualism and minority languages

xp wkiw

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:12 (five years ago) link

full solidarity with fellow 2001 obsessives

gyac, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:28 (five years ago) link

ILX

pomenitul, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:33 (five years ago) link

I was really drunk on Saturday and I think the cab driver got a full hour on English history, Celts -> Normans w/ the occasional Brexit digression.

woof, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:40 (five years ago) link

Virginia Woolf
Mid-career Elvis Costello
Lawns, why they are stupid
Local history
Cahokia
Patronizing sports bars while not even remotely liking sports
Stonewall Jackson's flank march at the battle of Chancellorsville
X-linked intellectual disability
Post-impressionist painting
Erotic thrillers
Eggs Benedict

Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:45 (five years ago) link

Any topic about which I know slightly more than the listener(s) (thus exploiting my relative breadth of knowledge/interests without exposing its correlative lack of depth, what up my fellow mega-dilettantes)

E Pluripubis Unum (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link

Patronizing sports bars while not even remotely liking sports

opposite

topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 11:42 (five years ago) link

dance dance revolution
babies, sorry

kinder, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 11:44 (five years ago) link

Haneke

nathom, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link


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