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The Dollop is the worst one of these that I've dipped into

this is violence

I've struggled with The Dollop, too. It comes down to when you first 'join' a podcast, innit, and how invested in their own mythos the presenters are. If you join a podcast late and there's a whole associated idiolect and extended periods of self-congratulatory banter it quickly becomes unbearable.

can become unbearable even if you've followed it from the beginning (side-eye to the greatest generation).

oh the dollop! yes, that was fucking unbearable and easily my worst 14 minutes of last year

I listened to the most recent episode of UYD and they're funny but I think I'm just too late to the party. I know a lot of ppl who venerate it but since it's been going for 13 years it's 90% in-jokes at this point

The only podcast i can regularly listen to is 99% Invisible.

There are a couple of others I like but the episodes are sooooooo long. 45 minutes should be the max for any podcast.

The Dollop isn't quite as good as it used to be. I feel like they're maybe running out of good material. Some of the classic episodes are among the funniest things I've ever heard though.

But I feel like almost any comedy podcast requires a lot of time investment to get the most out of it. Pretty much all of them have a whole bunch of intricate long-running in-jokes. I don't know if there's any way around this, in-jokes are basically 90% of all humour.

i've listened to a good amount of the dollop because some of the stories they dig up are legitimately interesting. kind of in spite of the comedy, which more often than not is too intrusive, obnoxious, and not funny imo.

im inventing “podcastify zing” app in which u drop in a permalink frrom a thread, and a rapid version of robot voice of your choice/accent recites “(poster display name) sed (recite post). If there’s only a pic it says “(pdn) left a link.”

There will be presets to link thread order— by date, or by search term, like band or song name, or by most common posters in thread.

In robot recitation of thread, initial post will have a month/year, then dates will only be referred to of theres a gap of more than a month. When you get to within a month of now it’ll just announce “this month pdn sed” for the first one. At any time if you look at the screen the complete thread name and entire post being recited will be displayed.

then you can vacuum the ouse.

im inventing “podcastify zing” app in which u drop in a permalink frrom a thread, and a rapid version of robot voice of your choice/accent recites (poster display name) sed (recite post).” If there’s only a pic it says “(pdn) left a link.”

There will be presets to link thread order— by date, or by search term, like band or song name, or by most common posters in thread.

In robot recitation of thread, initial post will have a month/year, then dates will only be referred to of theres a gap of more than a month. When you get to within a month of now it’ll just announce “this month pdn sed” for the first one. At any time if you look at the screen the complete thread name and entire post being recited will be displayed.

then you can vacuum the ouse.

dupe is from my other app, “post terrible boring joekz twice.”

i feel like you should get together with karl malone on this, it's got potential. an alternative would be to set it up as a Clock of the Long Now style installation where it just starts slowly reading the entirety of ILX out loud, in order, for years to come.

Fleabag isgood without a doubt, but also irritating in that there is a certain element of ‘posh’/class privilege in how we are invited to indulge the main character.

I got heavily into podcasts and out of new music a few years ago. Now I'm back at the opposite, unsubscribed from most podcasts I liked, now find them really corny. There is hope.

I listen to lots of podcasts and still find time for music - it's a brave new world! i realise this doesn't give me the jouissance of being able to say 'I'm on the wrong side of history' but it's a brave new world all the same. (Double winky face emoticon.)

maffew otm, some popular veins of podcasting are beginning to stale already

my braindead job does help me keep up with the subscriptions I have. This has probably helped me get back to new music on my own time.

There's a controversial opinion brewing here. I'll find it yet.

I mean if you don't have a good "radio voice" or whatever, you should probably write instead of podcast, or just yak with your friends, idk

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all the alan partridge stuff written by those two brothers is bad
twin peaks the return is bad
autumn is not a good season

catch in the rye is a good book which can be read and enjoyed in adulthood

the eagles are good. hating the eagles is played out. don't care if you legitimately really dislike them, you sound like a dang sheep

i dont think its enough

for purposes of thread like

to just be wrong

some of these opinions are just like, can't you just bullshit with your irl friends? it doesn't really translate online

the eagles are good. hating the eagles is played out. don't care if you legitimately really dislike them, you sound like a dang sheep

the eagles are good. hating the eagles is played out. don't care if you legitimately really dislike them, you sound like a dang sheep

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the eagles are good. hating the eagles is played out.

the eagles were and are somewhat listenable hook-laden pop, except they got overexposed, or to put the same idea differently "played out", so that now the people who like the eagles are those who have not been endlessly subjected to their hits and can still find some freshness in it.

"i can't tell you why" is a good song

this is not a controversial opinion

Gary Leeds has the best songs on Nite Flights

Fully agree about catcher in the rye

some of these opinions are just like, can't you just bullshit with your irl friends? it doesn't really translate online

― brimstead, Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:14 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As if your posts itt are really scintillating

Or strikeout itt

i haven't read catcher in the rye since i was in high school but i feel like it would hold up as well as any of the other books i read in 10th grade english, like gatsby, maggie girl of the streets, things they carried.

i'm bored and i want to start a fight, but i don't follow politics closely so i can only start a meta-fight

the american presidential primary campaign is just a damn reality show, this is a bad thing, and anybody who actually cares about the primaries at this point is actively making the world a worse place by doing so

that's not a very good argument starter i admit, i will probably just get a halfhearted snide dismissal

catch in the rye is a good book which can be read and enjoyed in adulthood

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, March 27, 2019 4:29 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm!!!

how did i miss that one

otfm!

the american presidential primary campaign is just a damn reality show, this is a bad thing, and anybody who actually cares about the primaries at this point is actively making the world a worse place by doing so

that's not a very good argument starter i admit, i will probably just get a halfhearted snide dismissal

― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Friday, April 5, 2019 8:26 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean there's certainly some meat on your assertion but then there's like the alternate of eg letting the party nominate Hubert Humphrey with no popular mandate and effectively handing the election to Nixon.

the worst part of caring about something like the dem primaries is its thorough and complete unsexiness

damn i hated catcher, "what a posing fuckin spoiled a-hole" was my angle, even though my personality type sorta typically tracks his. i should probably re-read it, but he truly pissed me off in junior high so ughh.

Agreed that Holden is an asshole, but not sure why that makes it a bad book, rather that's the whole point of it - he's arrogant and spoiled and horrible to everyone, but ultimately he's just a fucked up lonely kid who doesn't know how to be any different. Think a lot of hate for the book might be people seeing a bit too much of their teenage selves in him.

feel like literature teachers in general do a pretty poor job of putting stuff in context, ie here's why this was important/groundbreaking/etc

I haven't read Catcher in the Rye since high school, but it seems like maybe the appeal was that he was an asshole but also that he was an asshole you could relate to

yup, definitely and that's what tempts me back a little. part of me wonders if some of salinger's styles were incorporated into all post-catcher fiction that i was dealing with and i couldn't see it as a remarkable novel in itself. i just got wrapped up in the implications of some of characters. or maybe it was that i was 14 and immature not really well-read.

I should've related to him but didn't. Raskolnikov on the other hand...

and sorry that definitely was xpost to CAL xpost again

I mean "posing fuckin spoiled a-hole" is a somewhat accurate description of probably myself as a teenager and a lot of other teenagers I knew at the time. It's just part of growing up.