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Randy Rainbow.

PureX

PureX

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Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Bob the Unbeliever said:
I quit eating there back in the '90s, long before their ugly political stance became public.

I really only ever went there for the waffle fries, which were novel enough. My memory wasn't good enough to remember how ... ordinary their sandwiches were, and how overpriced.

Finally, enough inedible chicken later, I learned to never go there in the first place.

When their ugly politics came forward? I had long since boycotted them due to poor quality "food".
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I've never lived near one and have only had them once many years ago.
 
fantome profane

fantome profane

Anti-Woke = Anti-Justice
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PureX said:
As my ole Daddy used to say ... "small minds are easily amused".
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Subduction Zone said:
Your ole Daddy probably lacked a sense of humor as well. It is actually the opposite:


There are quite a few articles on how a sense of humor and intelligence are related to each other. I have not seen any to the contrary.
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Yes, a sense of humour is a sign of intelligence. And so is a love of music.

So an appreciation of musical humour is a sign of Genius. :cool:
 
PureX

PureX

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Shadow Wolf said:
Niel Degrasse Tyson likes the show Tosh.0. He's definitely got a way bigger brain than you and your daddy combined (and most others).
How about not using prudery as an excuse to look down on others?
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I'm very disappointed in NDT these days. He used to be an excellent source for info on scientific issues, but these days he's just a guffawing internet clown whenever I see him on YouTube. Another victim of his own online popularity, I guess.

My friend Mike used to say, "Anyone can be a hero when he's got nothing to lose. If you really want to see what someone is made of, give him massive success." I think NDT is a victim of his own success.
 
Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
tytlyf said:
A thread void of RW comments. Interesting. Think they agree with Randy or don't want to get a ban? I bet the urge to post their opinions is boiling over. If it weren't for those stinkin rules!
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That's because I watch this guy. To each their own.

 
PureX

PureX

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fantome profane said:
Yes, a sense of humour is a sign of intelligence. And so is a love of music.

So an appreciation of musical humour is a sign of Genius. :cool:
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Check out "Diner" from Billie Eilish's new album. Now that song actually had me laughing out loud.

As you can imagine, she has had her share of crazy obsessed stalkers over the years, so she wrote this song from their point of view.

 
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Pogo

Pogo

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PureX said:
Check out "Diner" from Billie Eilish's new album. Now that song actually had me laughing out loud.

As you can imagine, she has had her share of crazy obsessed stalkers over the years, so she made wrote song from their point of view.

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;Dare I ask what you found funny about it?
 
PureX

PureX

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Pogo said:
;Dare I ask what you found funny about it?
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The music itself, for one. It reminded me of a popular song from back when I was a kid called "Elephant Walk". That had a similar funky, "lumbering" sort of syncopated rhythm like some big clumsy animal's gait. And also weirdly reminiscent of eastern European Jewish folk music. Though, how that might relate is beyond me.

Then the lyrics are wonderfully cryptic so that you don't realize who is speaking and what they're really saying at first. The true level of their 'crazy' only gets revealed a little more as each line gets delivered. Until you realize the speaker is completely out of their mind.

The part that made me laugh out loud was when the stalker reveals his fantasy about "you could be my wife, we could get into a fight, I would say "OK, you're right", and then you'd would kiss me goodnight. Exactly the kind of insane detail that I imagine those stalkers really do sit around and fantasize about.

There's also the wild juxtaposition of having the stalker's mind being delivered to us via Billie Eilish's voice. The whole song is gloriously absurd, and yet very 'catchy' and well done at the same time. And if you call that phone number at the very end of the sing, you actually get a recording of Billie answering the phone.

This whole album is an incredibly sophisticated musical odyssey through the mind and emotions of Billie Eilish, and as I was listening to it I was reminded of the Abbey Road album of the Beatles where many of the songs would morph and transition into the next song and the next, to keep the odyssey going. And yet suddenly there was "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" written by Ringo. A little bizarre 'bop' just thrown in for the fun of it. I kept thinking that "Diner" on the Billie Eilish album was like Ringo's Maxwell's Silver Hammer song on the Abbey Road album. I remember laughing out loud the first time I heard that song. too.

Ringo didn't get enough credit for those fun, funky songs he contributed to the Beatles discography.
 
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Subduction Zone

Subduction Zone

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PureX said:
Check out "Diner" from Billie Eilish's new album. Now that song actually had me laughing out loud.

As you can imagine, she has had her share of crazy obsessed stalkers over the years, so she wrote this song from their point of view.

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I like the song. I was unaware that she had those sorts of problems, but I am not surprised. That people Like Eilish have to get extra security that the rest of us do not need is rather sad. Without the knowledge of her stalker problems that song would be more creepy than humorous. And I hope that the number at the end was some sort of fake one. We do not need another "567-8309" issue.
EDIT: Not to worry. It is a number that she owns, now at least. Perhaps it was a stalker's at one point:

uproxx.com

What Is The Phone Number Billie Eilish Reads On ’The Diner?’

Her songwriting is raw and vulnerable, but she still finds a way to keep people guessing.
uproxx.com uproxx.com
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
PureX said:
I'm very disappointed in NDT these days. He used to be an excellent source for info on scientific issues, but these days he's just a guffawing internet clown whenever I see him on YouTube. Another victim of his own online popularity, I guess.

My friend Mike used to say, "Anyone can be a hero when he's got nothing to lose. If you really want to see what someone is made of, give him massive success." I think NDT is a victim of his own success.
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That doesn't address my point. I'm legit high IQ and I love humor that is vulgar, bawdy, dark, obscene and low brow. Things that people much like you think you have to low IQ idiot to enjoy. Tyson is way smarter than me and it turns out he likes a show that's so low brow it's got lots of puke and crude jokes.
By the way, high culture Shakespeare was way low brow for his time with the violence, raunchiness and characters that are drama queens over everything. But humans are funny and just because his stuff was written when English was different today we consider high class. Amd we do it despite the fact his plays tend to have more in common with prowrestling than opera. (and historically it's only recently thespians haven't occupied the lowest rungs of society).
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
PureX said:
Check out "Diner" from Billie Eilish's new album. Now that song actually had me laughing out loud.

As you can imagine, she has had her share of crazy obsessed stalkers over the years, so she wrote this song from their point of view.

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Ultra processed pop culture rubbish.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Subduction Zone said:
Your ole Daddy probably lacked a sense of humor as well. It is actually the opposite:


There are quite a few articles on how a sense of humor and intelligence are related to each other. I have not seen any to the contrary.
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I also like how it turns out research found high iq and cussing go together despite the flippant, holier than thou bull****ery saying it's for dumb people.
www.sciencealert.com

Swearing Is Actually a Sign of More Intelligence - Not Less - Say Scientists

The use of obscene or taboo language - or swearing, as it’s more commonly known - is often seen as a sign that the speaker lacks vocabulary, cannot express themselves in a less offensive way, or even lacks intelligence.
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