The Off Topic Topic

[Threviel]

I've heard over the years innuendos that Lennon was a wifebeater. What's the deal with that?

[Savonarola]

I've heard over the years innuendos that Lennon was a wifebeater. What's the deal with that?

John admitted to being hitting women in the Playboy interview published right before he died:

"I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically... any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself, and I hit."

Edit:  Paul actually wrote "Fixing a Hole," though John wrote the catchy wife murder number "Run for your Life."

[Barrister]

I've heard over the years innuendos that Lennon was a wifebeater. What's the deal with that?

Pretty sure he was abusive to his first wife (Julian's mom).  Google seems to confirm.

[The Larch]

- Lennon I think I'll also leave behind. As I mentioned, by the time he died, even though he was a world class celebrity, he was not a prominent artist anymore. His last solo record were inane corvers of old rock n roll songs, and his work with Yoko Ono is nothing to write home about. Besides, he might be a more powerful figure in death than alive, so he stays beyond.

Double Fantasy had some cute songs. He'd taken a hiatus to take care of his son, I think calling him washed is a bit premature.

Woman? Starting Over? I'd say they're quite minor in comparison with his prior output. Imagine, they're not. 

[celedhring]

Watching the Wheels   

[Valmy]

I've heard over the years innuendos that Lennon was a wifebeater. What's the deal with that?

John admitted to being hitting women in the Playboy interview published right before he died:

"I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically... any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself, and I hit."

Well I guess I am glad he learned the error of his ways.

Damn. That was really a different time.

[The Larch]

Watching the Wheels   

Funny that you chose a song about enjoying being away from the limelight. 

[celedhring]

Watching the Wheels   

Funny that you chose a song about enjoying being away from the limelight. 

That was the joke. Nonetheless it's a nice little ditty, I lowkey think it's the best track in the album. 

Double Fantasy isn't great, but it does have nice songs in it. The album is pretty sappy but people like to rag on Ono when the Plastic Ono Band stuff was fucking great, so it's not like she was creative kryptonite. I think there's an alternate reality where Lennon isn't killed and still does great stuff in the 1980s once he get his parental urges out of the system, eventually runs for president/becomes the first man to land on Mars.

[HVC]

I've heard over the years innuendos that Lennon was a wifebeater. What's the deal with that?

He was crappy to his first son too

[Jacob]

Was out in front of my house doing some yard work.

Some fellow comes walking along down the block, singing La Marseillaise. He stops across the road from me to pet the neighbours cat (Oliver), continuing singing all along. He even does the bit where he waves one finger around like a conductor's baton.

After a little while he says "salut, mon chat" and carries on his way, still singing.

So now I have La Marseillaise stuck in my head.

[Syt]

Why is Valmy in your area?

[KRonn]

Was out in front of my house doing some yard work.

Some fellow comes walking along down the block, singing La Marseillaise. He stops across the road from me to pet the neighbours cat (Oliver), continuing singing all along. He even does the bit where he waves one finger around like a conductor's baton.

After a little while he says "salut, mon chat" and carries on his way, still singing.

So now I have La Marseillaise stuck in my head.

Kinda odd but cool, and La Marseillaise is one of my favorite anthems. 

When I was a youngster working as a plumber, I was at a job at a posh Cape Cod home and a fellow at a neighboring home would come out, march around his back yard while playing the bagpipes. 

[DGuller]

I spent all of today playing poker in Atlantic City.  The day was frankly going awful for me, one of my worst ever, so I wasn't in a good mood.  Even worse, the guy next to me was very bad at following the action, and pretty much every hand the dealer had to remind him to play his hand.  If you played poker live, you know how annoying that can be.  I must've been so annoyed that I was shaking my head, and unlike the poker action, that wasn't missed by my neighbor.

Neighbor:  "You can shake your hand all you want, but at least I'm up.  You're not up, are you?  You had a lot more stacks before, and now you don't.  You look tilted, I guess because you're not up?"
Me: " I'm tilted because you can't follow the action and you waste everyone's time."
Neighbor: "At least I'm up.  You're down, way down.  You had a lot more stacks when I started than you do now."
Me: 

I brushed him off, but immediately I started dreaming of a scenario where we get all-in, I take his chips, and then I'll go "You're not up now, are you?"  Half an hour later, I get two aces, and we get it all-in pre-flop.  He had two tens, so it was a pretty bad play by him to wind up all-in with so much money against my two aces.  He didn't get lucky, so I take almost all of his chips.

Neighbor: "Good hand!  Very well played.  Really good hand.  Congratulations, you earned it. *fist bump*"

The situation I dreamed of came about, but now this guy is being a perfect gentleman, and giving me kudos for a hand well-played.  It would be a real dick move for me to taunt him now.  So I go: "You're not up now, are you?  "

[Admiral Yi]

 

[The Brain]

The FSB must maintain an air of menace.