at age 5
― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I also think I might adopt this because HILARIOUS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 03:30 (sixteen years ago) link
- Any tangent that involves being devil's advocate in the current conversation - Why the crap liquor you think is awesome really isn't - Hunter S. Thompson, how he is misinterpreted by idiots - The use of liquor and drug to detach, or alternatively interpret, social politics - Combination of last two topics - What a scam fossil fuels, biofuels, and processed food are, yet how I work for a company involved with the latter two - Differences in computer technologies and how people can't design a usable interface
― mh, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link
(wiki article leaves out the part where the rig crew got stuck drilling at 1250 feet - after pulling out the drill, it started hopping up and down at heights of five to ten feet - said drill weighed 40 tons btw - and only AN HOUR LATER did they abandon the rig after noticing it was listing a bit to one side. from shore, said crew then watched entire oil rig disappear into a lake which had up until that morning been about 6-7 feet deep)
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 03:33 (sixteen years ago) link
mh and I would either get along real well over some dranks or we'd kill each other
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe both! My normal conversations are usually seen as 'arguments' by some because I think that if things are worth talking about, they're worth picking apart! Oddly enough, I do this less the more I drink and just start thinking everything is pretty great.
― mh, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
The historical importance of Highcross Street in Leicester.
I have had two people LITERALLY kill themselves in front of me while I went on and on about this to them recently. Never go out for a drink with me.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link
^WAHT
literally?????
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 09:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, it was horrific. I had just started on the later part of the nineteenth, when, as I'm sure you will be aware, the streets importance began to seriously decline with the loss of the county jail.
When I say "killed themselves" it was more like a murder/suicide.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:01 (sixteen years ago) link
My ability to lecture people about Leicester will surely result in only more carnage, I should seek help really.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Also "Why parts of Norfolk and Suffolk should be left to fall into the sea - and not the parts everyone thinks, either..."
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:03 (sixteen years ago) link
- The Wire - Galaxies, astrophysics (but not cosmology or quantum mechanics or other bong-hit pop sci, which is the only bit of my job anyone actually wants to talk about at parties) - Why satsumas are the best citrus fruit and how people who confuse them with mandarins or (especially) clementines are worse than paedophiles - If you or I were in a film, who would play us? - The film Shadowlands
There is a great McSweeney's list about this called something like "Topics my father will talk about at great length if mentioned". I will copy it out when I get home.
― caek, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Hang on, forgot three.
- The history of the state of California - The history of Sydney, Australia - Teddy Roosevelt
― caek, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link
- neko case - johnny cash - water resources law and property rights to water in australia - sustainability policy and/or the triple bottom line - the australian labor party - our abominable local 'newspaper' (the west australian) - the bell litigation - the merits of harm minimisation in dealing with alcohol and other substance use problems - corporate governance and corporate social responsibility
― gem, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
also - driver errors/behaviour
two of the topics in my list formed the subject of two separate honours theses. Pity my friends. Astonishing they still speak to me at all really.
― gem, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Just remembered:
- The Evils of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism
― Heave Ho, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Twin Peaks Sociolinguistics Why we are all going to die and my apocolyptic nightmares that I hope never come true Dresses British magazine journalism 1980 - present day. If I am very drunk: how wonderful you are and why I don't appreciate you enough.
― Anna, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
- good nutrition & the state of food politics in contemporary north america (sometimes with added "phenomenology of food and what can heidegger tell us about how we eat" bonus) <--- guaranteed party-clearer
i got way too high last night and did this lecture basically in full in front of a few ppl i dont know that well and i think they dont ever want to talk to me again
― max, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i actually went to my room to get "the question concerning technology" to read bits of it to them
― max, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i must also drink with Kate and learn how in the hell she does it! I MUST KNOPW!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Marvel Comics 1972-1978 Frank Zappa
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
- ethanol/hydrogen fuel
― kenan, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i only lecture to audiences of more than 6 people
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i have these other things called conversations tho
this thread makes me want to have sooo many conversations, or be a lecture audience. where do y'all live again?
― Maria, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Swedish film Spanish film Mystical philosophy German film
― remy bean, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
haha rrrobyn congratulations on your fancy "social skills"
― max, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
where do y'all live again? http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v150/103/125/36910239/n36910239_35469211_4596.jpg
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Hrotsvitha.
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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
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
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 gamesThe noise Morrissey makes in Rubber Ring pretending to be a liftWhatever 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