Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

Hrdina wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:

Dave’s not here, man.

No, man, I'm Dave, man.

Who is it?

Grenn wrote:
Hrdina wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:

Dave’s not here, man.

No, man, I'm Dave, man.

Who is it?

C'mon, man, it's Dave! I got the stuff! I got it right here!

It was a good idea to open the front door. Lovely cool breeze.

Higgledy wrote:

It was a good idea to open the front door. Lovely cool breeze.

Get in the sea. High of 106F (41C) here today.

BadKen wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

It was a good idea to open the front door. Lovely cool breeze.

Get in the sea. High of 106F (41C) here today.

I got in the lake yesterday. I had to wear a wetsuit to make it comfortable.

Hmmm probably the closest reasonable body of water here is the duckpond at Nantwich. It is a spacious duckpond though.

Today I started watching an older anime that takes place in the post-apocalyptic future of 2021. Doesn’t seem far off.

Edit: Forgot to mention that in it humanity has been reduced to a handful of cities due to a parasitic infection. But I'll take the chance to add that a couple episodes in it introduces an extreme prejudice against the children born to infected mothers, going so far as the police picking one girl up and driving to a warehouse to murder her.

Which anime?

Black Bullet. It’s mostly an action series, but I just can’t help but see parallels in current events.

So, on a whim I watched V for Vendetta again today. The last time I watched it was probably over 10 years ago. Regardless of opinions around source material and/or the movie adaption, given recent events in the U.S., all I can say is "OOF!" followed by "DAMN...".

I read the comic. I thought the movie was nearly identical to it. Love that we never see his face.

Bob Mortimer was being questioned on ‘Would I lie to you’ about events in his childhood. To start off he warned that he might not remember details. “ You’re a bit hazy?” one of his questioners asked. “I can remember bits,” Bob explained, “but it’s like picking pollen off a mouse’s handkerchief.”

Fingerprints on an abandoned handrail.

WILTY is genuinely one of my favorite shows, along with "Taskmaster," which I recently discovered.

Honestly, why does EVERY COUNTRY do better game shows/panel shows than the U.S.?

Prederick wrote:

Honestly, why does EVERY COUNTRY do better game shows/panel shows than the U.S.?

TV producers always pick the wrong panelists.

Yo I'm gonna let you finish but 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown is my jam in these trying times. It's like if Wheel Of Fortune got taken over by an assortment of alt-comics who made it big.

This one is colloquially known as "the whelk episode":

Prederick wrote:

Honestly, why does EVERY COUNTRY do better game shows/panel shows than the U.S.?

Because in other countries, game shows and panel shows are comedy entertainment; in the US, they're competitions. We want our shows to have clear winners and losers determined by some kind of superior skill or knowledge. It seems like other countries just use those shows as an excuse for funny people to do and say funny things.

There's just no comparison to the wealth of great British panel shows. My parents used to watch Have I Got News For You, Nevermind the Buzzc*cks and others in the nineties, it's where I learned English next to videogames. WILTY, Mock the Week, 8 out of 10 Cats, QI of course, ...

Maybe the US focuses to much on having winners instead of letting comedians do their thing, like Clocky says, as the US might be one of the only other countries besides the UK with enough quirky or alt-comics to actually fill the roster. Flanders does not.

It also helps that Rob, David and Lee are actually good friends outside of WILTY. It's a blast to see them enjoy one of the others taking the piss at their expense.

Can't speak for everywhere, but the UK and Japan both have tons of these shows and I reckon it's partly a reflection of the industry behind them - that there's a crowd of "light entertainers" represented by a handful of talent agencies specializing in having people for shows like this. JP has a very similar setup (the entertainers being called "talento".)

Not sure that exists in the US - an agency you could call up and get three sort-of-famous funny people on short notice. Though now that I think of it Netflix could probably make it happen, if they pulled together their stable of people doing standup specials.

No idea why YouTube recommended this to me, but the top comment is "Horny and screaming. I feel you." and I have been cackling for a solid 10 minutes.

I grew up watching US panel shows, and they were awesome. To Tell The Truth, What’s My Line, Hollywood Squares, Match Game (never much of a game, just an excuse to let a bunch of comics make Standards & Practices sweat with ribald ribbing). Then one day they all vanished.

Now the only thing I have left is Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me on NPR.

Yeah I just randomly caught the first Uncle Arthur episode of Bewitched on TV this week. Then I spent a few minutes reading about Paul Lynde, and his career after the show, where he was permanent center square on Hollywood Squares. 700+episodes, carried the show in the 70s.

Before my time but maybe I remember some of those classic episodes when they started Game Show Network in the mid-90s?

Related, I'm glad ABC has been doing Pyramid and Press Your Luck episodes again the last year or two.

Tried sewing for the first time. Stuck myself twice. Had to look on youtube on how to get the thread out.

Started looking up instruction buy said screw it and winged it. First attempt was a total failure, it was like I didn't use any thread at all. All I did there was go in one side and out the other and repeat.

Second attempt worked perfectly. This time I created loops and when I came back to the loop I went through it and pulled the thread tight so the loop would hold the thread down. Repeated this for a few rows and now the loops on my pants are fixed. A few broke because they couldn't hold all this sexy back.

Now I am a master sewer. I will now use my powers to sew distrust and fear into the shirts of my enemies. Mu ha ha ha.

I was having a productive evening until I finally watched my first Game Grumps video and have basically wasted the last two hours.

I got a new toaster. This is a very, very minor thing, but having a perfectly toasted bagel and a cup of coffee this morning has really brightened my day. Of course, I am very weak, and I also smoked a cigarette after breakfast. But man, I loved every puff. This marks the who only knows I've lost count time that I have failed to quit and become weak and bought a pack, but I've decided not to beat myself up over it. I keep reminding myself that I smoked a pack a day for 20 years. Any reduction is good. I went 12 weeks without cigarettes, and now I've had about a dozen cigarettes in 5 days. That ain't bad. Maybe this pack will be the last pack. There's only 8 cigarettes left in there. I can do this.

ThatGuy42 wrote:

I got a new toaster. This is a very, very minor thing, but having a perfectly toasted bagel and a cup of coffee this morning has really brightened my day. Of course, I am very weak, and I also smoked a cigarette after breakfast. But man, I loved every puff. This marks the who only knows I've lost count time that I have failed to quit and become weak and bought a pack, but I've decided not to beat myself up over it. I keep reminding myself that I smoked a pack a day for 20 years. Any reduction is good. I went 12 weeks without cigarettes, and now I've had about a dozen cigarettes in 5 days. That ain't bad. Maybe this pack will be the last pack. There's only 8 cigarettes left in there. I can do this.

Toss that pack, dude.

You can do it.

Conversation during a D&D session last night:

Player A: [casual reference to "Rule 34 of the internet"]
Player B:
Me: it's a meme, basically it claims that porn exists of every fictional character, no matter how obscure
B: Every character?
Me: Yeah, people on the internet take it very seriously.
B: Does this rule include.... Strahd von Zarovich?
Me: . . . . ...absolutely. Guaranteed. Bet you anything, search for it and see.

It turns out I'm apparently a liar. WTF internet?

Nope. You are not a liar. You just need to strengthen your google-fu...

I'll take your word for it. But thank goodness!