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Maladict

#71205
July 12, 2019, 04:46:20 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 11, 2019, 08:33:45 PM

'enthusiastic'

Wrong forum, mongers.  :P

celedhring

#71206
July 12, 2019, 07:14:57 AM
Got tickets for King Crimson tomorrow. :)

I checked the setlist online, and unlike last time they came to Barcelona in the 1990s, this time they do have a fanservice-ish setlist.

Maladict

#71207
July 12, 2019, 07:38:22 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 12, 2019, 07:14:57 AM
Got tickets for King Crimson tomorrow. :)

I checked the setlist online, and unlike last time they came to Barcelona in the 1990s, this time they do have a fanservice-ish setlist.

Nice  :cool:

Valmy

#71208
July 12, 2019, 07:46:31 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on July 12, 2019, 03:46:21 AM
Quote from: Tyr on July 12, 2019, 03:29:18 AM
Surely the only appropriate tone is one of despair whether we will ever get back to where we were 50 years ago.

You forgot the now ubiquitous moon landing hoaxer claiming it was all part of a conspiracy.

Oh there was plenty of that going on 50 years ago as well.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Valmy

#71209
July 12, 2019, 07:48:14 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 11, 2019, 08:33:45 PM
Anyone going to start a 50th anniversary of the Moon landing thread?

I don't think I can strike the right tone, and it was be nice to see an 'enthusiastic' American start it.   :bowler:

Well I think in retrospect that landing was a bit ahead of its time and only done for Cold War purposes. It is pretty amazing we were able to do that at the time. It just goes to show what humans can do with enough resource allocation.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

garbon

#71210
July 12, 2019, 07:56:45 AM
:X

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/12/belle-delphine-gamer-girl-instagram-selling-bath-wate

QuoteWho is paying $30 for 'gamer girl' Belle Delphine's bath water?

Belle Delphine, the social media star and so-called "gamer girl", made headlines this week for selling her used bath water online.

Delphine, 19, who has a global following (4.2 million on Instagram), announced she would be selling $30 bottles of "bath water for all you thirsty gamer boys" in an Instagram post that garnered more than 500,000 likes.

Although the sale was widely mocked, the bottles of bath water sold out immediately. But who's buying it?

"She's the type of girl who's fun and outgoing and has a sense of humor whilst also being really pretty," one fan told the Guardian via Instagram DM. "I can't really explain the bath water. I think it's more of a talking piece. For the vast majority I think it's just merchandise."

But although her stunt received much media attention, the idea was inspired by a running joke among her fans.

Delphine told the Guardian: "Lots of people would comment on my photos saying they would drink my bath water. I was thinking of ideas one day, and it just popped into my head. What if I actually bottled and sold my bath water?"

The bath water sale comes in the wake of an array of strange stunts. Delphine has stuck googly eyes on a dead octopus, eaten photographs of her followers and other internet personalities, and filmed herself eating raw eggs.

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"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

The Brain

#71211
July 12, 2019, 07:57:19 AM
Quote from: Valmy on July 12, 2019, 07:48:14 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 11, 2019, 08:33:45 PM
Anyone going to start a 50th anniversary of the Moon landing thread?

I don't think I can strike the right tone, and it was be nice to see an 'enthusiastic' American start it.   :bowler:

Well I think in retrospect that landing was a bit ahead of its time and only done for Cold War purposes. It is pretty amazing we were able to do that at the time. It just goes to show what humans can do with enough resource allocation.

The Patriarchy sent men to the Moon in a phallic rocket. Kennedy was very clear that they would put a "man" on the Moon. He didn't say human. He didn't say American. No what was important to Kennedy was the dangly bits.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Syt

#71212
July 12, 2019, 07:59:43 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Duque de Bragança

#71213
July 12, 2019, 08:36:10 AM
Quote from: Valmy on July 12, 2019, 07:46:31 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on July 12, 2019, 03:46:21 AM
Quote from: Tyr on July 12, 2019, 03:29:18 AM
Surely the only appropriate tone is one of despair whether we will ever get back to where we were 50 years ago.

You forgot the now ubiquitous moon landing hoaxer claiming it was all part of a conspiracy.

Oh there was plenty of that going on 50 years ago as well.

Plenty of incredulity or politically-motivated downplaying maybe but the conspiracy theory thinking got a shot in the arm with the interwebs. I'll concede though that the only conspiracy theory I had somewhat heard of before the Internet age was the "moon landing conspiracy". Reptilians were just a myth found in Conan the Barbarian or V.

HVC

#71214
July 12, 2019, 09:06:26 AM
Quote from: garbon on July 12, 2019, 07:56:45 AM
:X

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/12/belle-delphine-gamer-girl-instagram-selling-bath-wate


the irony of it is that any guy willing to by her bathwater lives in a basement and doesn't bathe.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Habbaku

#71215
July 12, 2019, 09:39:51 AM
That's not true. Some of us are buying it speculatively to flip it to others who don't bathe.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Valmy

#71216
July 12, 2019, 09:40:18 AM
I mean I think most of them buying it are in on the joke?

I don't know. The extent that some people identify with and worship those internet celebrities can get pretty extreme, o maybe some of them are actually baptizing themselves using the holy gamer girl water.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Valmy

#71217
July 12, 2019, 09:40:55 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on July 12, 2019, 09:39:51 AM
That's not true. Some of us are buying it speculatively to flip it to others who don't bathe.

:lol:

Obscure internet celebrity merch will be a booming collectibles industry someday.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Habbaku

#71218
July 12, 2019, 09:45:28 AM
I think the girl's a trolling genius, though. That she's making money off of thirsty douchebags (or just people who are in on the joke, which is possibly even weirder a reason to buy $30 water?) is bonus.

Her PornHub channel is pretty hilarious.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Valmy

#71219
July 12, 2019, 10:07:50 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on July 12, 2019, 09:45:28 AM
I think the girl's a trolling genius, though. That she's making money off of thirsty douchebags (or just people who are in on the joke, which is possibly even weirder a reason to buy $30 water?) is bonus.

Her PornHub channel is pretty hilarious.

I don't know if it is genius. There are plenty of these kinds of *wink wink* pretty lady channels out there. She is certainly taking it to creative new levels though.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."
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