Random thought of the day
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I was thinking that Cardi B is the newest Nicki Minaj.
Then I realized that at the time, I thought Nicki Minaj was the newest Lil' Kim.
I'm old.
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Who are those people?
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Who are those people?
Rappers who are all pretty profane (I repeat myself).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil'_Kim
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@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Who are those people?
Rappers who are all pretty profane (I repeat myself).
I mean, Lady Marmalade was pretty good, I guess. Don't remember anything else.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Who are those people?
Rappers who are all pretty profane (I repeat myself).
I mean, Lady Marmalade was pretty good, I guess. Don't remember anything else.
So you are saying all black people look alike?
The Everything is racist thread is
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@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Who are those people?
Rappers who are all pretty profane (I repeat myself).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil'_Kim
Each one is like a budget version of the previous one.
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@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
So you are saying all black people look alike?
Wait... are they black?
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What do the initials stand for in the name H.R. Pufnstuf?
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@da-Doctah Wikipedia to the rescue!
Marty Krofft has said the initials H.R. actually stand for "Royal Highness" backwards.[23][24]
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah Wikipedia to the rescue!
Marty Krofft has said the initials H.R. actually stand for "Royal Highness" backwards.[23][24]
Yabbut the Kroffts also insisted that there were no drug references in either Pufnstuf or Lidsville....
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@da-Doctah it's the closest you'll ever get to a definitive answer. Take it or leave it.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
So you are saying all black people look alike?
Wait... are they black?
More or less black, mixed with a bit of latin-american. Most female pop-singers are, I think.
Britney Spears was an exception.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah it's the closest you'll ever get to a definitive answer. Take it or leave it.
I'm the guy who spent decades wondering what Clark Kent's middle name was before they finally published a "definitive answer". (Well, two definitive answers. It's either Jerome, in honor of Siegel, or Joseph, in honor of Shuster.)
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah it's the closest you'll ever get to a definitive answer. Take it or leave it.
I'm the guy who spent decades wondering what Clark Kent's middle name was before they finally published a "definitive answer". (Well, two definitive answers. It's either Jerome, in honor of Siegel, or Joseph, in honor of Shuster.)
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@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
So you are saying all black people look alike?
Wait... are they black?
More or less black, mixed with a bit of latin-american. Most female pop-singers are, I think.
Britney Spears was an exception.
Nicki is from Trinidad and Tobago
and Cardi (I looked this up):
Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar was born on October 11, 1992, in Washington Heights, Manhattan.[4][5] The daughter of a Dominican father and Trinidadian mother,[4][6][7] she was raised in the Highbridge neighborhood of the South Bronx,[8][9][10] and spent much time at her paternal grandmother's home in Washington Heights, which she credits with giving her "such a thick accent."[11] Almánzar developed the stage name "Cardi B" as a derivation of Bacardi, a rum brand that was formerly her nickname.[12] She has said she was a gang member with the Bloods in her youth, since the age of 16.[13][14]
Heh, she was born in my neighborhood.
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@Karla We won't hold that against you.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
That article includes a picture with a PCB-mounted 200F capacitor. ()
That's not 200 Farad, that's 200 Fahrenheit (i.e. the temperature when it will explode).
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla We won't hold that against you.
"You may make fun of me for being a ColdFusion developer, but you need to understand that I spent my youth in a bad neighborhood. At least I didn't grew up to be a pop-singer, like one of my former neighbors."
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla We won't hold that against you.
"You may make fun of me for being a ColdFusion developer, but you need to understand that I spent my youth in a bad neighborhood. At least I didn't grew up to be a pop-singer, like one of my former neighbors."
I grew up in upstate NY, not a bad neighborhood, but a HS that was a bit rough.
I currently live in Washington Heights. That probably makes it worse.
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@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
More or less black, mixed with a bit of latin-american. Most female pop-singers are, I think.
Britney Spears was an exception.Was? Did she become black and Latin-American? Or did she cease to be female and/or a pop-singer?
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@HardwareGeek
For entertainment value and my ears I choose "All of the above"
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek
For entertainment value and my ears I choose "All of the above"Politifact says: Mostly True.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
I'm the guy who spent decades wondering what Clark Kent's middle name was before they finally published a "definitive answer". (Well, two definitive answers. It's either Jerome, in honor of Siegel, or Joseph, in honor of Shuster.)
They really should have arranged it so his middle initial would be L, to go with all the people in his life with double-L names (Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor, Lori Lemaris, Lyla Lerrol, Linda Lee, plus the ones where the two L's aren't initials like james barthoLomew oLsen and non-names like daiLy pLanet and smaLLviLLe). And to reflect his real family name.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
More or less black, mixed with a bit of latin-american. Most female pop-singers are, I think.
Britney Spears was an exception.Was? Did she become black and Latin-American? Or did she cease to be female and/or a pop-singer?
Yes. No. Possibly; I wouldn't know, since I haven't checked. And yes.
In that order.
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@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
So you are saying all black people look alike?
Wait... are they black?
More or less black, mixed with a bit of latin-american. Most female pop-singers are, I think.
Britney Spears was an exception.
Nicki is from Trinidad and Tobago
"Trinidad"... looks Wikipedia article
As of the 2011 Trinidad and Tobago Census, the population was 35.43% East Indian, 34.22% African, 7.66% mixed African and East Indian, and 15.16% other mixed.
So... you're agreeing?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
They really should have arranged it so his middle initial would be L, to go with all the people in his life with double-L names (Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor, Lori Lemaris, Lyla Lerrol, Linda Lee, plus the ones where the two L's aren't initials like james barthoLomew oLsen and non-names like daiLy pLanet and smaLLviLLe). And to reflect his real family name.
Isn't the screenshot referring to Homer Jay Simpson though?
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@Zecc
How dare you interrupt a fanboys rant with logic? Shame on you!
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@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
So you are saying all black people look alike?
Wait... are they black?
More or less black, mixed with a bit of latin-american. Most female pop-singers are, I think.
Britney Spears was an exception.
Nicki is from Trinidad and Tobago
"Trinidad"... looks Wikipedia article
As of the 2011 Trinidad and Tobago Census, the population was 35.43% East Indian, 34.22% African, 7.66% mixed African and East Indian, and 15.16% other mixed.
Wait, why are there so many Indians in a Caribbean shithole?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
So you are saying all black people look alike?
Wait... are they black?
More or less black, mixed with a bit of latin-american. Most female pop-singers are, I think.
Britney Spears was an exception.
Nicki is from Trinidad and Tobago
"Trinidad"... looks Wikipedia article
As of the 2011 Trinidad and Tobago Census, the population was 35.43% East Indian, 34.22% African, 7.66% mixed African and East Indian, and 15.16% other mixed.
Wait, why are there so many Indians in a Caribbean shithole?
Do you remember the East-India Trading Company from Pirates of the Caribbean? Turns out that it's a real thing that was.
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@acrow AFAIK East India Company didn't employ any East Indians?
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@Gąska No, I don't believe any were in the employee manifest. Now, cargo manifest on the other hand...
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
So you are saying all black people look alike?
Wait... are they black?
More or less black, mixed with a bit of latin-american. Most female pop-singers are, I think.
Britney Spears was an exception.
Nicki is from Trinidad and Tobago
"Trinidad"... looks Wikipedia article
As of the 2011 Trinidad and Tobago Census, the population was 35.43% East Indian, 34.22% African, 7.66% mixed African and East Indian, and 15.16% other mixed.
Wait, why are there so many Indians in a Caribbean shithole?
Caribbean in general is extraordinary mixed. I have a Jamaican friend and she is part East Asian with an East Asian last name.
I have a Trini friend who has black, white, Asian heritage.
I've known an East Indian who was from Guyana.
There are Chinese all over Central and South American.
I've known Dominican/Chinese and Cuban/Chinese heritage. I've known an ethnically Chinese who was nationally Argentinian.
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TIL the name of the "H" in S&H Green Stamps was Shelley Byron Hutchinson. What, they couldn't work a Keats into the name somewhere?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
TIL the name of the "H" in S&H Green Stamps was Shelley Byron Hutchinson. What, they couldn't work a Keats into the name somewhere?
The fact that you even knew of the existence of S&H Green Stamps means you have a large collection of s. According to Wikipedia they were "popular" until the late 80's (and according to another search result, they can still be redeemed), but I don't remember them being offered since maybe the early 70's (?). Certainly they lost popularity, at least where I lived, well before I reached adulthood, and I'm not sure they were ever as popular there as their competitor Blue Chip Stamps, although that may have simply been that my parents shopped at stores that gave them out. (TIL they were a loyalty program, so stores gave one or the other, or possibly another competitor, never more than one.) I (somewhat vaguely) remember both.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
TIL the name of the "H" in S&H Green Stamps was Shelley Byron Hutchinson. What, they couldn't work a Keats into the name somewhere?
The fact that you even knew of the existence of S&H Green Stamps means you have a large collection of s. According to Wikipedia they were "popular" until the late 80's (and according to another search result, they can still be redeemed), but I don't remember them being offered since maybe the early 70's (?). Certainly they lost popularity, at least where I lived, well before I reached adulthood, and I'm not sure they were ever as popular there as their competitor Blue Chip Stamps, although that may have simply been that my parents shopped at stores that gave them out. (TIL they were a loyalty program, so stores gave one or the other, or possibly another competitor, never more than one.) I (somewhat vaguely) remember both.
In the '80s I remember stumbling across people on eBay selling the collection of Green Stamp books they found in grandma's condo kitchen drawer, usually with a note saying "these are still good, right?" In the sixties we used to buy Disneyland tickets with them, but that may have been because we and our redemption center were in SoCal.
About 25 years ago I got to wondering and tracked them down as a web-only presence now called Greenpoints. If you go there now, you'll find that it's been further renamed as Freshpoints, and exists only in New York and New Jersey. And that unlike the books in grandma's kitchen drawer, the points expire after a year.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
S&H Green Stamps
I grew up in NJ and remember my parents pasting the stickers (actually us kids did!) into books. I don't remember Blue Chip Stamps.
Certainly they lost popularity, at least where I lived, well before I reached adulthood
Yeah. I don't remember seeing them after I was maybe 10 or 12.
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Managing your account through automated customer service phone line is basically dial up internet with a few extra steps.
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When you're Chinese, no matter where you are in the world, you can buy local
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Being good with computers means knowing when it's okay to click a button twice.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Being good with computers means knowing when it's okay to click a button twice.
Being godly with computers means knowing why it's important to not click the button twice.
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@Tsaukpaetra "you don't want to get charged twice" isn't exactly rocket science.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra "you don't want to get charged twice" isn't exactly rocket science.
You'd be surprised...
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The thing I miss most with these social-distanced holidays is that there's no leftover turkey to make sandwiches out of tomorrow.
Plus the places I used to be able to get turkey and cranberry sausages for a deconstructed Thanksgiving feast.
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I was thinking about a good way of talking about the two new Xboxes together, and realized that "S&X" is technically an anagram of "sext".
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@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
Nicki is from Trinidad and Tobago
and Cardi (I looked this up):
Trinidadian mother,[
More proof that Nicki Minaj and Cardi B are actually the same person.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
TIL the name of the "H" in S&H Green Stamps was Shelley Byron Hutchinson. What, they couldn't work a Keats into the name somewhere?
The fact that you even knew of the existence of S&H Green Stamps means you have a large collection of s.
Where I grew up we had a variation of S&H called "Eagle Stamps". Same concept, just a different brand name.
We would paste them into these small books and a filled book was worth 3 dollars, which seems like a lot of money when you're a kid in the 1960s.
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A friend of mine is a professional musician and with the current plague going on he can't go out and perform so he's making YouTube videos almost every day, which consists of random noodling on various guitars that he gets paid to promote.
Recently, he was playing his favorite country Chicken Pickin' and someone commented
"Oh No. Not this ragtime wanker again"
Needless to say, Ragtime Wanker has become our new favorite phrase.
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@El_Heffe said in Random thought of the day:
A friend of mine is a professional musician and with the current plague going on he can't go out and perform so he's making YouTube videos almost every day, which consists of random noodling on various guitars that he gets paid to promote.
Recently, he was playing his favorite country Chicken Pickin' and someone commented
"Oh No. Not this ragtime wanker again"
Needless to say, Ragtime Wanker has become our new favorite phrase.
Anagrams of "Ragtime Wanker":
- Wet Earmarking
- Gamer Knitwear
- Wring a Meerkat
- Awaken Mr Tiger
- Mr Antiwar Geek
- Raw Trek Enigma
- Taken Mr Earwig
- German War Kite