The Off Topic Topic

[HVC]

so Kap gave you the old in and out, and you didn't like it, huh?

[Barrister]

so Kap gave you the old in and out, and you didn't like it, huh?

Meh - it was fine. 

[garbon]

I really wanted to like Whataburger, after hearing all the hype from Texans.  Nothing bad about it, but I just don't get the hype.

That was like trying In-n-Out at KAPapalooza in Vegas many years ago.  KAP and some others raved about it and I was like "meh - it's fine".

You are dead to me.

That's why I couldn't see you in Wyoming, I'm a ghost.

I'd go further and say eww don't give me that nasty In-n-Out. Half the reason for fast food is the fries and that shit they be calling fries is nasty.

[Josquius]

Rewatching the office and I just learned Cracked was an American magazine this is a surprise. I always thought it was purely a website.

[Tonitrus]

As a kid, I always thought of it as Mad magazine's weaker, crappier brother.

[Barrister]

Rewatching the office and I just learned Cracked was an American magazine this is a surprise. I always thought it was purely a website.

Yeah - Cracked was always the poor-man's Mad Magazine.

Which (to people of a certain age) makes the current situation quite funny - Mad Magazine is all but dead, with a website that appears to exist to only try and sell magazines, whereas Cracked has transformed into a modestly successful humour website.

[Eddie Teach]

I usually get the BBQ chicken sandwich on toast myself.

Those are really good.

[celedhring]

New favorite twitter account: https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals

Love the pictures of soviet magazines/posters, and the everyday life snapshots. There's some gear also, like this ass shot of a typhoon: https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/1284057755599302656/photo/1

[Duque de Bragança]

So... In Italy they have two police. The police police and military police. Fair enough....
But they have two phone numbers.
I wonder how people decide which to call.

Possibly three with the pan-European 112 emergency number, though the direct number to the police or carabinieri may be preferable.

[merithyn]

My puppy turns three today*.


*Random date selected by the shelter based on his assumed age but I'm going with it.

[Syt]

[celedhring]

I'm not sure one should drink off Socrates' bottle...

[Maladict]

I'm not sure one should drink off Socrates' bottle...

He's a lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed

[mongers]

Loved this anecdote from this bbc news item about the photographer Terry O'Neill:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-53476319

Faye Dunaway, the morning after her Oscar win, March 1976

"I was asked by one of the magazines to take a photo of the winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress. Faye Dunaway was the odds-on favourite to win an Oscar for her performance in Network.
"I didn't want to take the photo everyone else would take: you know, the one right after - where they look surprised, happy - holding up their shiny new Oscar.
"I wanted to capture something different. I wanted to capture the morning after.
"I explained the idea to Faye and told her, 'listen, if you win, meet me by the pool at dawn. And bring the Oscar'.
"She was staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel and I knew the guy who worked the pool. I asked him to let us in for a few minutes and then arranged the papers and the breakfast tray. I had it all set when she suddenly appeared, in her dressing gown, Oscar in hand.
"This photo was just us. There was no stylists or PR, no lighting or assistants. And it only took a few moments.
"A few years later, I married her. A few years after that, we divorced."

[derspiess]

As a kid, I always thought of it as Mad magazine's weaker, crappier brother.

It was, but I bought a lot of them when I was a kid.  Mad was better most months, but Cracked had some good stuff on occasion.