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Post by tzarine on Nov 11, 2023 15:27:37 GMT -5
a friend sent me this
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 11, 2023 17:13:18 GMT -5
That is THE MOST HILARIOUS video. pero found it a couple of years ago and we watch it from time to time in amazement; he remembered the song from when he lived in Italy
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Post by Queen on Nov 12, 2023 2:56:18 GMT -5
Randy is back with an interview!
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Post by psw on Nov 12, 2023 10:27:42 GMT -5
I saw "Randy Rainbow for President" a couple of weeks go - non-stop hilarity! Go-go-go if he'll be anywhere near you!!!
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Post by Queen on Nov 12, 2023 13:43:47 GMT -5
I saw "Randy Rainbow for President" a couple of weeks go - non-stop hilarity! Go-go-go if he'll be anywhere near you!!! he's not likely to be anywhere near me... I should start a letter campaign to Netflix
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Post by Webs on Nov 12, 2023 21:59:54 GMT -5
I had no idea this was the band that performed this song. I somehow imagined some very constumed white folks. Thank you for this. Anyhow - I'm watching the Goes Wrong Show... I'm laughing so I think hurt something.
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Post by sprite on Nov 13, 2023 5:21:26 GMT -5
Comments on a news article. Long story short, there's a special type of bus route near Cambridge (UK), and regular cars will eventually get stuck if they try to drive in it. So there are tons of signs telling people not to turn into the bus route. And yet, they do.
There's a comment from a local who is 73 saying it's harder for older people to see the road signs. It's an old rail track. It was never available for driving. It was a massive news story for the years while they were building it. Perhaps, anyone local and around for all that who still goes on it, shouldn't be driving at all?
The council has built a car trap in the worst bit, basically a large pothole. The number of comments suggesting someone will die driving into it, or complaining that they couldn't see any of the 3-5 signs telling them not to drive into what is a very not-a-public-road-at-all space...
It's funny but also depressing.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 13, 2023 6:19:29 GMT -5
Not all people aged 73 are stupid!
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 13, 2023 6:53:59 GMT -5
I think sprite was commenting on their age because of the length of time that they've had to understand that they're not supposed to drive on this road and yet obtusely insisting on being confused about it anyway, not so much the age itself.
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Post by sprite on Nov 13, 2023 9:19:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I was thinking that age shouldn't be linked to one's ability to read a sign that's in front of you, but also, it was illogical for the situation. If it had been a case where a certain road had been a certain way for 50 years, it would be completely expected that older, long term residents of that area would make mistakes.
But if they're making mistakes on a new thing, they either aren't paying attention or have eyesight too poor for driving. Sadly, there are often people on social media here who will argue that 'old' people shouldn't be forced to give up their cars if they live in difficult areas, even if they physically cannot drive safely. I do wonder how many of those people would be happy to be run over...
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 13, 2023 10:22:12 GMT -5
Part of the problem of course is that public transport infrastructure has been replaced with car infrastructure, so these folks might not have access to another way of getting around, and so losing a vehicle severely impedes freedom to do things independently
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Post by sprite on Nov 13, 2023 11:26:23 GMT -5
Sometimes yes, and also sometimes they were originally farmers out in the countryside, but quite often it's people who moved out to the far away villages in their 40s for that country life vibe and in their 80s don't want to face the hassle of selling up to move somewhere with public transport/affordable taxis. And I get that it's hard to say good bye to a house you've been in for 40-50 years and a many of the treasures within, but I don't see why I should have to take my life in my hands each time I'm out in public because they are fond of a large object.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 13, 2023 11:32:32 GMT -5
I absolutely get it sprite
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 13, 2023 15:57:29 GMT -5
Here a lot of them get electric scooters, which have no licensing system, and become a bigger menace, because they think rules don’t apply to them.
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Post by kneazle on Nov 14, 2023 17:18:52 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 14, 2023 17:47:17 GMT -5
Ah yes, John Oliver's campaign was successful. The Pūteketeke is a cool bird! It looks like a grebe of some sort.
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Post by groo on Nov 15, 2023 21:05:06 GMT -5
Not all people aged 73 are stupid! They're only bloody kids! They'll learn.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 15, 2023 23:35:08 GMT -5
I am feeling rather bemused by the comments about Boney M - Rasputin was a number 1 hit in Australia, and the original video (not the concert one shared) is still shown quite frequently on Rage on a Saturday morning.
Was it not a thing in the US?
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Post by sprite on Nov 16, 2023 5:25:57 GMT -5
Dunno about the USAnians, but I don't recall ever seeing a video, or even an album cover. But then I didn't have a TV. I think that was a song that was just old enough that the mainstream video audience wasn't interested in the video, so it was radio only.
Today I am laughing at all the neighbourhood cats snooping through our garden but not wanting to get their paws damp in the grass.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 16, 2023 6:59:41 GMT -5
No, I swear I had zero knowledge of the existence of "Rasputin" until pero played it for me. It's funny because I was working in a record store with a huge disco section in the year it came out, so you'd think I'd remember it, but nope.
He now tells me that I remembered it wrong, he didn't actually hear it at the time but read something about it recently, which caused him to dig up the video. It wasn't a thing here, as you can see from tzarine sharing the video like "look at this crazy thing"
ps oh boy now pero is very deep into the rabbit hole of when it charted in which various countries and is reading me the wikipedia and it's 7:00 in the morning
I just don't think that he actually was Russia's greatest love machine
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Post by sprite on Nov 16, 2023 9:15:09 GMT -5
gosh darn these historically inaccurate pop songs. I'm laughing at the idea of Pero reading wikipedia at 7am.
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Post by riverhorse on Nov 16, 2023 11:02:25 GMT -5
And in a little bit of linguistic trivia - normally in English, you'd pronounce the name in the song title "Rass - PYOO - t'n" but because the person who faked the vocals for Bobby Farrell in Boney M was German, their producer Frank Farian, in the song he pronounces the name the way Germans would say it which is "RUSS - poo TEEN".
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Post by sprite on Nov 16, 2023 12:40:33 GMT -5
I did not know that any vocals were faked!
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Post by Queen on Nov 16, 2023 14:06:12 GMT -5
Watching "Final Table" on Netflix with people from all sorts of countries, they subtitled the people speaking Spanish... plus the Scottish guy.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 16, 2023 20:00:08 GMT -5
And in a little bit of linguistic trivia - normally in English, you'd pronounce the name in the song title "Rass - PYOO - t'n" but because the person who faked the vocals for Bobby Farrell in Boney M was German, their producer Frank Farian, in the song he pronounces the name the way Germans would say it which is "RUSS - poo TEEN". Aha now I understand the context for pero mentioning Milli Vanilli this morning
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Post by sprite on Nov 17, 2023 8:46:42 GMT -5
standing in the back yard, chatting with my neighbour... two grey streaks shoot in front of us. New grey tabby being chased by established grey Burmese. They seemed vaguely aware of us, but too busy working out who was boss.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 17, 2023 15:56:30 GMT -5
Pero saying that he thinks I don’t have ADHD when I’ve lost the past 30 minutes thinking about the stupid names of brands of canned tuna
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 17, 2023 19:31:22 GMT -5
My adopted son and his nephews are part of the opening ceremony for the South Pacific games. They are part of a band called the Lau Pirates. So his nephew has been sending me lots of photos of the pirates. Just when I’m looking like a pirate!
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 18, 2023 16:18:05 GMT -5
We have five different options for Mexican food in this house right now: flour tortillas for quesadillas, tamales, empanadas, some frozen enchiladas that I bought, and some unfrozen enchiladas that he bought.
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Post by psw on Nov 18, 2023 16:44:16 GMT -5
Not too much Mexican around here and most of it is generic Tex-Mex. I nuked some Trader Joe's empanadas for lunch which were OK. There used to be a wonderful Argentine steak house for south-of-the-border fine dining but it did not survive the pandemic. They did great empanadas, too.
I think that closer to Boston there's a better selection of Mexican and other Latin American restaurants - Peruvian, Brazilian - but that's an expedition for me, a major event, not a quick meal.
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