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Tack said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Tack said:

That's the last movement of the New World Symphony. It's also in the Thief and the Cobbler.

It's one of the perennial copyright-free pieces that John Williams rips off for inspiration.

 Have you cared to search how clearly James Horner is influenced by Profokiev? 

Composers interpolate. Sometimes it works. Other times not.

There's no originallity in music, everyone copies everyone else.

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Ryan McAvoy said:

Tack said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Tack said:

That's the last movement of the New World Symphony. It's also in the Thief and the Cobbler.

It's one of the perennial copyright-free pieces that John Williams rips off for inspiration.

 Have you cared to search how clearly James Horner is influenced by Profokiev? 

Composers interpolate. Sometimes it works. Other times not.

There's no originallity in music, everyone copies everyone else.

 Hey, that's what I said!

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Shit I find in my beard:

  1. food crumbs
  2. soap flakes
  3. dandruff (or what looks like it)

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I don't like growing a beard for the simple reason that my slight OCD makes it impossible for me not to start cutting and/or tugging away at it when it starts coming in in uneven patches.

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It's been hard for me. My beard gets knots, they are very irritating. I comb it.

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My brother got me this...

...best Christmas card ever!

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There is a professional cuddling shop in Oregon where you can pay $60 an hour just to cuddle with somebody.  What the fuck?

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Is it really any stranger than paying someone to give you a massage? ;)

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It's a little stranger.  Cuddling doesn't typically relieve muscle knots.

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Yeah, massages at least have some practical benefits.  Not that I would ever get one.  But cuddling?  For money?  That's just weird.  The fact that they have to put in their advertisements that they do not offer upgrades is proof of how weird it is.

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The decades of cinema, from my top favourite to least favourite, are:

  • 1980s
  • 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, and 1920s (tie)
  • 1970s
  • 1960s
  • 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s (tie)
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
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There was actually a local smoke/liquor shop around me that would offer a(n optional) free hug with the purchase of any tobacco or alcohol product.  It was rather odd, and it didn't last very long...

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I'm frankly shocked and appalled that this forum does not have a 3 word story thread.  That I could find anyway.  Almost every forum has one.  Yet I'm not brave enough to make one.

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I can't remember how his name is spelled but I just read that on state TV the leader of North Korea claimed that he doesn't have to use the toilet????

Is it just me or does that seem like one of the strangest things a person can say about themselves?

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Kim Jong Un is a strange person. Most dictators usually are. The guy looks like an evil Pugsley Addams to begin with. Only Pugsley had a better haircut.

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SilverWook said:

Kim Jong Un is a strange person. Most dictators usually are. The guy looks like an evil Pugsley Addams to begin with. Only Pugsley had a better haircut.

 Wow!  Can't believe I never noticed that before.

He looks like he is just a spoiled kid and he could be bought off with some G.I.Joes or something like that.

Still That has to be the strangest thing I have ever heard anyone claim. I mean is he afraid people will see him in a negative light if they think he has to use the toilet like the rest of us? Because I for one don't care what his bathroom habits are.

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Madder and madder.  Him and Putin sound like they're right out of a Monty Python sketch. One of those written by Cleese and Chapman, to be specific.

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Problem is he plays with real life soldiers already. ;)

The whole regime depends on people viewing him as practically a god. Gods do not use the loo. When reality eventually crashes in on NK, some of it's people are in for a nasty psychological wake up call.

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Oh, I looked into this. It's one of the myths perpetrated by their propaganda.

Many North Koreans believe that Kim Jong-il did not use the toilet.

True or False?: True

North Korea engages in a "cult of personality"—the Kim family's members have been elevated to the level of deities. To reinforce this status, official North Korean media attributes incredible feats to the family. For example, there's the oft-cited anecdote that Kim Jong-il never used the bathroom. And as insane as that sounds, this was a well-established "fact" in North Korea, and multiple defectors have corroborated this story.

Jang Jin-sung, a defector who was once a propaganda poet for Kim Jong-il, admitted in interviews that he believed the bathroom story into adulthood. It was only when he met Kim Jong-il, face-to-face, that he realized it was not true.

source: http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/12/crazy-stories-about-north-korea-kim-jong-un/bathroom

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Leonardo said:

Madder and madder.  Him and Putin sound like they're right out of a Monty Python sketch. One of those written by Cleese and Chapman, to be specific.

 Putin invited him over recently. Who knows if he'll accept? Not sure who's the master or the apprentice in that scenario. ;)

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SilverWook said:

Leonardo said:

Madder and madder.  Him and Putin sound like they're right out of a Monty Python sketch. One of those written by Cleese and Chapman, to be specific.

 Putin invited him over recently. Who knows if he'll accept? Not sure who's the master or the apprentice in that scenario. ;)

 Can we get some good comedy writers together to write a movie about that visit?  It sounds like it could be the most entertainingly insane thing put on film since The Room.

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Possessed said:

I'm frankly shocked and appalled that this forum does not have a 3 word story thread.  That I could find anyway.  Almost every forum has one.  Yet I'm not brave enough to make one.

 It does actually. I'd dig it up for you if I weren't so lazy.