I am told that there was an old woman who totally like LIVED in a shoe. I hope it was roomy.
― Minivan Morrison (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 16 March 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
It was pretty cramped until she beat her kids and sent them to bed.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 16 March 2023 00:29 (one year ago) link
Roomy *is* good, I guess, but there are a few things you want straight before *roomy* is a consideration.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 16 March 2023 08:17 (one year ago) link
can’t think of the best place for it, but this youtube video for a local punk record and clothing shop made me absolutely lose my fucking mind laughing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMMAO8uH5wk
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
reminded me that I still need a vinyl copy of My War which is inexplicably expensive in the UK, damn you Ginnnnnnnn!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link
Talk about horribly formed!
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/11yyvfs/
(It doesn't help much to know the sign is in French)
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 23 March 2023 04:46 (one year ago) link
Passed by a caribbean/jamaican outdoor food stall over the weekend: Jerkin' It
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 20:58 (eleven months ago) link
every other day I walk past this restaurant and think "fucking hell, don't call your restaurant that, have some self respect, jesus christ"http://jenikya.com/blog/eggslut7.jpgthen just now looking for a picture I find that it's not a weird london business but a chain?! from los angeles?!
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 21:12 (eleven months ago) link
let's try that againhttps://i.postimg.cc/pTHsydLT/eggslut7.jpg
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 21:13 (eleven months ago) link
Yes, wildly popular here, but I think only a couple locations, which keeps the lines long.
― nickn, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 21:29 (eleven months ago) link
In Brevard county, there's a public transportation company called Space Coast Area Transit.
But, as I learned this weekend, they're referred to everywhere by their acronym which is
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 12:55 (seven months ago) link
I have the same feelings about Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 13:16 (seven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kMZhCFR.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 13:20 (seven months ago) link
For a brief, but entertaining, time there was, up in Canada, the Conservative Reform Alliance Party ...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 13:42 (seven months ago) link
SCAT is a well-formed acronym for a transportation system because it means to go away quickly.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:10 (seven months ago) link
it also means
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:17 (seven months ago) link
SKEDADDLE
― andrew m., Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:21 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MutYIgL4Gbk
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 14:22 (seven months ago) link
Compare MC Skat Kat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweiQukBM_k
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 15:02 (seven months ago) link
can't decide if this is good or bad
This is my favourite post punk bakery. This and Siouxsie and the Bunshees. pic.twitter.com/wNefYYOeGe— Jemaine Clement (@AJemaineClement) August 23, 2023
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:52 (seven months ago) link
Ditto this...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR8Pu2UXIAACxrE.jpg
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:05 (seven months ago) link
Gonna start a restaurant called Mission of Shawarma. You could order a That's When I Reach for My Falafel with a side of Tahini Fight Song.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:22 (seven months ago) link
Instant Korma, Surrealistic Pilau etc
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:28 (seven months ago) link
Gang of Flour
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 24 August 2023 02:24 (seven months ago) link
Boule in the Heather
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Thursday, 24 August 2023 03:03 (seven months ago) link
Lol @ tabes
Bun-known Pleasures
Tom Tom Club Sandwich
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 August 2023 03:08 (seven months ago) link
This Yeast
― budo jeru, Thursday, 24 August 2023 06:16 (seven months ago) link
This is an obscure one, but I furiously cackled when I saw a Sydney vegetarian restaurant called Lentil As Anything
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 August 2023 06:24 (seven months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/dL6wKJq/Screenshot-2023-08-24-at-09-50-57.png
Chai GPT, Hyderabad, India
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 24 August 2023 07:53 (seven months ago) link
Tropical fish store "The Wet Spot" in Portland.
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 24 September 2023 00:50 (six months ago) link
Little Red Roaster
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 October 2023 17:06 (five months ago) link
Midnightreats
Bugs me because you can read it as Midnigh Treats or Midnight Reats.
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 28 October 2023 15:09 (five months ago) link
thinking maybe Cook Children's Healthcare System might have sought out a different naming convention.
esp given how many people that refer to it and leave off the 'apostrophe S'
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 November 2023 15:58 (four months ago) link
(yes I'm aware Cook is the county)
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 November 2023 15:59 (four months ago) link
I don't have a real-world example at hand, but I hate it when people can't come up with a company name and instead just cram the first few letters of the 2 founder's names together:
Davric Plumbing SupplyRobmar Consultants
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 10 November 2023 01:06 (four months ago) link
https://www.its-behind-you.com/images/10Dartford_large.jpg
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 10 November 2023 07:34 (four months ago) link
Desilu Productions (/ˈdɛsiluː/) was an American television production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.
― visiting, Friday, 10 November 2023 08:09 (four months ago) link
Davlav combines the name and the business.
― koogs, Friday, 10 November 2023 09:00 (four months ago) link
And out of the recesses of my M*A*S*H-ed mind floats the answer to what "B.J." stands for in B.J. Hunnicut.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 10 November 2023 11:47 (four months ago) link
Pieseas Chippy, Harwich.
― Tim, Saturday, 11 November 2023 09:58 (four months ago) link
If we can extend the thread concept to podcasts, I just learnt that right wing journo Katy Balls has a podcast named Women with Balls
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 11 November 2023 23:55 (four months ago) link
Not local to me, but:https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tr723ZTDJYs/maxresdefault.jpg
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 23 November 2023 22:26 (four months ago) link
Barber Streisand is bad.
― plax (ico), Thursday, 23 November 2023 22:55 (four months ago) link
Book Pasaage is actually kind of clever as these things go
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 24 November 2023 00:43 (four months ago) link
idgi
― budo jeru, Friday, 24 November 2023 16:08 (four months ago) link
Ditto.
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Friday, 24 November 2023 16:09 (four months ago) link
like you are going to "book passage" on a ship, but also a book is something you read that has passages in it?
― budo jeru, Friday, 24 November 2023 16:11 (four months ago) link
looking at the local area on google maps recently i came across (googleproofing it) 'Naz-1sh alterations', guess what I read it as :/
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 24 November 2023 16:35 (four months ago) link
xp my immediate thought was "back passage".
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 24 November 2023 16:52 (four months ago) link
Yeah, back passage = arsehole
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 26 November 2023 20:54 (four months ago) link