oh yeah, agreed that season 6 was a mess. i do think that it was the only season since the first one that made jack seem like a person that people would actually follow.
― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
Canadians wanting to claim Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone as ours are more ridiculous than Americans who want to do the same, insofar as i) he was born in Scotland and lived in the UK into his early 20s, getting his education there ii) there was no such thing as Canadian citizenship in the 1870s iii) he spent most of the year in the US at the time of the invention and iv) he first patented it in the US.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 6 July 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
I hope no-one in Scotland gets to hear of this.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 July 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
There is nothing surprising about the fact that Nirvana's Nevermind is older now than the Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show appearance was when it was released or whatever similar evidence of the passage of time.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 6 July 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
I'm sure they're both subject to the Mandela effect.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
Ha
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 6 July 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
Kidding aside, I'm with you, re: AGB, but I think I've been brainwashed into making the association anyway due to the ubiquitousness of Bell Canada, as though one couldn't exist without the other.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHYROtxdL90
― Number None, Monday, 8 July 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
so what IS the argument for a Canadian Bell?
― francisF, Monday, 22 July 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
I'd say it boils to 'we'll take whatever/whoever we can get'.
― pomenitul, Monday, 22 July 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
the canadian claim basically amounts to "he lived a lot of the time in his later life on an estate in nova scotia where he died".
in scotland competing claims to bell are basically unheard of, alas i think that in favour of the american case he was an american citizen living in america when he made the invention?
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 July 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
whit’s this pish noo get tae fuck canada
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 22 July 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
Gie them a break, they need all the interesting people they can get over there.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Monday, 22 July 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
they’ve got alanis, what more do they need
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 22 July 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
My favourite argument, repeated straight-faced by respected journalists, is that he got the idea for the telephone when looking at the currents in an Ontario river.
He did live in Canada for a year before moving to the US and still spent his summers here. Iirc, he was not yet a U.S. citizen at the time of the invention so, as a British subject living in North America, he was arguably as Canadian as anyone else was in the 1870s? It's not a v strong claim, though.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Monday, 22 July 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
in favour of the scottish claim: he summered in basically the most scottish place in north america
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 July 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
LA delis > NYC delis
― Josefa, Saturday, 27 July 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
Russell Brand is one of the UK's better public figures and is, on balance, a force for good.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 28 July 2019 10:04 (four years ago) link
jesus christ no
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 July 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
too controversial, I mean fucking hell he's obv one of Murdoch's evil minions - he almost made me vote Con in 2015.
― calzino, Sunday, 28 July 2019 10:21 (four years ago) link
the correct response to 95% of the things the internet is complaining about on any given day is either a shrug or a "pity about ye" and to carry on with your day
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 July 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
Just bought a box of 15 Secret Seven books for a pound in a charity shop, so I have to repeat m childhood opinions - Secret Seven are much better than the Famous Five. Firstly, there's more of them. And if you want to solve mysteries being secret is much more advantageous than being famous.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
And the Secret Seven are all people, though that might count against them. Why isn’t Scamper included?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
seven is just a better number than five or indeed eight
(but this isn't at all controversial)
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
Sisters, Samurai and Dwarves.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link
also
― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
pixies_monkey_gone_to_heaven.wav
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
seven is a very fine number but it is no nine which is one of the most sacred numbers in the world. I always feel like the universe god is looking favourably at me when my total at the shop is made of individual numbers that add up to units of 9 - like 9.27 or 15.30.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
five - quincunx, pentagram, THE QUINTESSENCE
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
All of the significant numbers in my life are 9s or resolve to 9 - a vision I once had during a psychotic break was of a world ‘breathing’ in 9s. It was very odd.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
I've had a lifelong obsession with 9 myself and do all sorts of daft superstitious rituals based around it.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
five is bad and ledge shd feel bad
nine is better than eight but it is no seven
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
used to be a seven partisan but i seem to have moved to nine
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
it's true five is kind of a garbage number
11 is tight though
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
hmm
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
11 is just two ones, who gives a shit
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
the letter k = 11, which is why crowley spelled magick like that
I would think twice before making fun of a number like 11
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
xi
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
1132 guys, 11=eternal return and 32=feet per sec per sec
― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
Menninger’s Number Words and Number Symbols is U&K.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
i remember liking the number 7 a lot as a child, being glad to turn 7 - this was partially because aesthetically i liked 7s, i definitely found 6s very bland.
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
3 is the best number
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
490
― sarahell, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
No one actually cares about when Bernie Sanders conceded in 2016. 100% of the people who blame him for hurting Hillary Clinton's chances would still blame him if he had withdrawn three months earlier.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 25 August 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
yep
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 25 August 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
For all the criticisms of Bernie, that one was always the most toothless
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Sunday, 25 August 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
If he'd withdrawn three months earlier it would have been before the Russian Bear infiltrated the DNC, which means no leaks during the convention. So no, I think insiders really do care when he conceded. That it miiiiiight be unfair to think Sanders should have thought of Russian ratfuckers in his planning is another thing.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
Iow, it's scapegoating, but the trauma is real
― Frederik B, Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
To Fred B
Thanx for Danesplaining
Sincerely yours,
Julie Newmar
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
Hi Neanderthal
We have twitter in Denmark, and I probably follow more neoliberal Dem insider scum than you do
Sincerely yours
Someone in the 21st Century
― Frederik B, Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link