Biodegraded

You mean Life of Bwian ?

Certainly not the funniest line, but the one I find myself quoting most often is, "There's no pleasing some people."

Ended up watching Bing Crosby's Holiday Inn & White Christmas at parents this year, and not Wonderful Life like most years...strange year ;)

Don't bet on it. It hasn't worked for me yet. Not sure my life expectancy is sufficient for that.

I'm a couple behind you on the first, but about equal on the second ... sigh

"Differently abled" is big here in India. As a person with, ahem, hearing impairment, I detest it. Doesn't make any of my other senses more abled, and the only thing that helps is...

... Being recognised as being a bit deaf and treated accordingly. Let me know you're speaking to me and do so clearly. That's simple respect , rather than a euphemism that makes other people feel better

I know someone with useless legs. He is, literally, differently abled. Has to be. But he isn't keen on the label either.

It does @Armaegis. It is also referred to as "acoustic ceiling."

shag carpet on the floor ok makes sense, shag carpet on the walls might make sense, not being Spider-Man what is the shag carpet on the ceiling supposed to be for?

@Azimuth you tell me "acoustic ceiling" and I'm thinking drop ceiling/tiles with actual STC rating and absorption coefficients. You tell me popcorn ceiling and I'm thinking drywall with chunky stucco/plaster/gold glitter sprayed on it. Or maybe they spray on something soft and squishy in your neck of the woods?

~40 of my posts are missing according to my profile. Sad part is I don't even know where they were... And I definitely didn't post that many times in the time window that got deleted.

I thought Marv restored a backup...we shouldn't have lost whole threads?

One time, I knocked hard on the window of an S.U.V. and yelled at the driver, "If you honk at my wife again, I'll break your fuckin' head!" Oh, he yelled back at me plenty—but he didn't *dare* honk.

100% hate the fact that it's impossible to simply buy normal looking, good keycaps on demand. Instead you have to wait 18 months and get a set that would be normal except the ESC key is purple and the function keys are replaced by anime flowers.

@Garns - I think kbdfans is pretty good about having cheapish keycaps in stock. here is one set

https://kbdfans.com/collections/keycaps/products/cherry-profile-wob-bow-pbt-doubleshot-keycaps

Haha, thanks, that's where I bought from in the end (this was last year). Still exhausting though... "These ones look good! Oh, they're in Russian". Finally ended up just buying blanks to avoid having to scroll through any more pages.

LOL

Under his eye.

Sometimes we like to play whack-a-mole

Sometimes recognizing stupid and doing something about it is a good thing

I usually follow my own advice and stay away from that thread. Usually damnit.

I only know the novel, Foucault's pendulum. Enjoyed it centuries ago, don't know if I would still, now that I am so much younger.

*insert dumb rhetorical joke question about why we can't feed wild animals due to dependency but gov will "feed" people free stuff and programs*

For serious now - was there a problem with people feeding animals harmful stuff or was this on a whim?

I would imagine this is part of the draw of a park with sea lions...

Yep, there are (or were - there was a cull) coyotes in Stanley Park that started chasing and biting people after becoming used to being fed. But the sealion bit was more about recent posts in a certain thread.

@Merrick have you heard this? https://tinyurl.com/5veee64e . Was playing in a store I was in a few days back. Some good versions, some, er, not so good.

I have not! If it’s streaming I will give it a whirl

NY Dolls!

Never knew this was a thing.
https://blog.discogs.com/en/true-colors-black-or-colored-vinyl/

Searched for which actress but only found this
https://celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/celebrities-in-their-underwear/65d917cd-ac87-4153-a51d-7bafa92ae9ca

I just get a blank page. Must be all clear styles ;)

Today I learned "krautrock" is a real word...

In this town the virus conspiracists are led by a flat-earther. Yet these bloody people still crowd my local beach to watch the sunset.

The worst part is that the micro chip goes up your butt. And it makes it so easy for the Jews to zap you with space lasers.

@penguins "Junk Conspiracy" as it is sometimes called, is an incredibly effective and widely used social tool, for multiple reasons. It helps gain favour with the average person, who will throw out all conspiracy due to the "Junk Conspiracy" and it also helps suck in sometimes up to half the conspiracy field, sowing disinformation and discord amongst those who are interested.

It’s a cry for attention and an ill-conceived lawsuit. IANYL, I’m just a wolf on the Internutz.

Seems rather stupid. Seems a whole lot less stupid to say that he ought to get a good fee for the pic.

This is the least exciting FUD I have read to date. I guess not many DHT guitar amps, so maybe I can be safe for a few more years?

Two things come to mind: 1, we have lots of tubes already in the market and 2, someone will satisfy demand.

Yeah, the story did make me suspect wishful thinking on the tube mfrs part - looking wistfully at the chip market and hoping hoping for a similar price-rise-justifying supply crunch or demand surge.

Is this some evolution of the Reverend Horton Heat?

You'd find RHH fans there for sure. Though it seems more to be a celebration of current independent bands who remember The Cramps, The Meteors, etc.

Damn, the Meteors sound awesome. Light bulb moment.