Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

Mex wrote:

I like impressions like this guy, anyone got anything better? John Malkovich seems easy to do but he nails it

Angry Harrison Ford wasn't bad either

I liked his Kevin Spacey - very well done.

You might like this, too:

I'm beginning to wonder if the driver of the local ice cream van is actually selling ice cream. The van just drove down our street. It's almost Thanksgiving (little late for the ice cream van). The current temperature is 60 F. The sun is setting, and it's dark enough that the street lights have turned on.

MeatMan wrote:

I'm beginning to wonder if the driver of the local ice cream van is actually selling ice cream. The van just drove down our street. It's almost Thanksgiving (little late for the ice cream van). The current temperature is 60 F. The sun is setting, and it's dark enough that the street lights have turned on.

He might be using the van to transport goods other than ice cream. And by that I mean actual goods - not children.

My boss: "Do you have a few minutes to talk? I have an HR thing to review with you."
OH NOOOOOOO

Turns out it was just some routine administrative stuff. I wasted a perfectly good panic attack for nothing.

Cold bananas are really gross for some reason.

Nicholaas wrote:

Cold bananas are really gross for some reason.

True, if you're eating them cold.

But frozen bananas that have been thawed out again are awesome when making banana bread. I cut the top of the banana off with scissors and then squeeze out the banana from the closed end. It looks like a big poop, and that makes me laugh like the five year old I apparently am.

(I'm giggling just thinking about it)

Oh, I'm totally trying that this week. That's hilarious.

On the topic of food, does anyone else have that weird feeling of dread after they eat a ton of sushi? Like an uneasiness from down below, as if your colon was saying, "hang on with both hands, dude, it's gonna get bumpy".

Just wondering.

My company stopped blocking Facebook and YouTube on our corporate network today.

Goodbye productivity!

Chumpy_McChump wrote:

Kevin Spacey, Jason Statham and Brad Pitt were particularly good.

Matthew McConaughey voice was good. His Gary Busey was poor. Not enough crazy.

Nicholaas wrote:

On the topic of food, does anyone else have that weird feeling of dread after they eat a ton of sushi? Like an uneasiness from down below, as if your colon was saying, "hang on with both hands, dude, it's gonna get bumpy".

Just wondering.

Nope. Just you.

Unless by "dread", you mean "amazing feeling of wellbeing and and sense that all is right with the world", that is.

Although to be fair, I do sometime have righteous poop-water about 3 hours after a mountain of sushi, but it's relatively pleasant, for a poop-water experience.

Jonman wrote:
Nicholaas wrote:

On the topic of food, does anyone else have that weird feeling of dread after they eat a ton of sushi? Like an uneasiness from down below, as if your colon was saying, "hang on with both hands, dude, it's gonna get bumpy".

Just wondering.

Nope. Just you.

Unless by "dread", you mean "amazing feeling of wellbeing and and sense that all is right with the world", that is.

Although to be fair, I do sometime have righteous poop-water about 3 hours after a mountain of sushi, but it's relatively pleasant, for a poop-water experience.

Thick soups/stews tend to do that to me. Not pleasant, though.

Nm

Mimble wrote:

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Morgan Freeman

Mex wrote:

Morgan Freeman :shock:

You should check out his reading of The Night Before Christmas, too. His Robin Williams is perfect.

Aww, the Totally Rad Show is closing up shop

I've been at the office for twenty minutes and I've already finished everything I need to do today.
Now what?

Minecraft and/or FTL.

I came here to post something random I thought of, but watched impressions for twenty minutes and forgot what I was going to say.

At pub trivia, one of the questions was to name the two names of a male turkey and the name of a female turkey. Well we wrote down "tom" and "hen" but could not come to a satisfying answer for a second male turkey name - we decided to go with "jive".

My friend, who had suggested "c*ck", said as we were bringing up answer card: "Well I still like c*ck."

As we were all laughing, I turned to his wife and said, "You must've had your suspicions."

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Well I still like c*ck.

NSMike wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

Well I still like c*ck.

Hmm. Well, I like my own. Does that count?

I plan to play the Walking Dead game only once.

The second time will be on the big TV with my wife playing.

oilypenguin loaned me his DVD set of Carnivale about nine months ago or so, and they have been sitting on my shelf, unwatched. I recently fired up my PS3 after it sat idle for about the same amount of time. It had become my default DVD player, since the upscaling was so good, and it was also my blu-ray player, so it just kind-of fell into that role. I decided I would give Carnivale a go.

So, I'm watching intently for about a half hour before I decide the show was just too frustratingly difficult to watch. I turned it off, largely exhausted by the experience. I told people in the GWJ IRC, and my roommates, that it was an odd show, and I didn't like just how much attention it demanded from you. I even said in IRC, asking someone who had watched it, "Is the whole series like this?" and they answered, "Yep."

Fast forward to last night, when I decide to throw in the extended cut of Fellowship of the Ring. Now, I've watched this movie at least once a year since I got the DVDs. So you can imagine my surprise when I put the movie on and there's no spoken dialogue. Suddenly, my brain explodes.

You see, I had never seen Carnivale before. It had a dramatically distinctive aesthetic, and some very odd, unique events in the first few minutes. oilypenguin had praised the show as good and unique. I thought the lack of spoken dialogue in the show was strange at first, but the style and approach was enough to convince me that perhaps this was an artistic choice. Mind you, music, sound effects, and everything else came through just fine. Just the dialogue was missing. My experience in IRC, when I asked if the whole show was "like that," did nothing to dissuade me from this notion.

I have a fairly nice home theater system that I had my PS3 hooked up to, but it's downstairs, in the living room of the house, not up in my own room, where this TV and my PS3 were. The PS3 was configured to output audio in 5.1 format, but the TV was only 2 channel stereo. In 5.1, the dialogue is sent only through the center channel. So I heard everything else that would've come through the left and right speakers, but no spoken dialogue.

After relating this story to my roommates, who were laughing quite hard at this already, I told them, "Remember when I said it really demanded your attention? That's because I was trying to read their f*cking lips."

lol

<3 you, Mike. Give it another shot =) I was actually going to ask you if you've watched it yet. I love talking about it.

You can have the rest of my points for the week

That's so awesome.

There is some really weird stuff on the internet. And not the perverse stuff. (Well, yes, that too.) But just weird.

Not in the things you just learned thread because it isn't new or a surprise but really, really weird.

Miashara wrote:

There is some really weird stuff on the internet. And not the perverse stuff. (Well, yes, that too.) But just weird.

Not in the things you just learned thread because it isn't new or a surprise but really, really weird.

Garsh darn it. Now I wanna know what this latest batch of weird is. Also, your avatar fits your post perfectly.

Someone used up the last of my Cholula and diidn't buy any more. How am I supposed to have breakfast without Cholula?

What's Cholula?