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Celery Man

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  1. I'm trying to remember the exact wreathe origin - Dr Drunkenstein? Who I think was big into vaccines causing autism, and made a post about dying of cancer, and then there was talk of sending a card or maybe a wreathe and then it turned out that he was lying about the cancer, and so then concern over what should be done with the wreathe fund?
  2. I think PM Derka was a prank to get new users to ask Derka for help with any questions they have about the board, but mostly about how to get access to NSAA/no sex at all, the earlier incarnation of I'd Pee in her Butthole. I wish we still had some of the archives. I think the MS Paint Sex Stories thread invented the term "angry dolphin" to describe the reaction to accidental anal and I've gotten some mileage out of that term. I'm trying to remember the two picture ranking methodologies - JT vs Mitch?
  3. I think I can take credit or blame for "Is HEB open". And I feel like this one is pretty anticlimactic, although maybe I'm just still wrong after 15 years. Origin of that is that I started a thread with a title "Is HEB open", the body of the thread may have simply been "today?", the day in question was probably the 4th of July. I think it was a patriotic holiday, 4th of July feels right. The consensus from Shaggy was that it was a ridiculous thread to start when one could simply call HEB to find a definitive answer, but also I did get a definitive answer within a few minutes without having to look up a number or talk to a person on the phone. It was open (on that day).
  4. Went to the Rilo Kiley concert last night here in Raleigh at the Red Hat Ampitheater. Direct support from The Mountain Goats, who I was also excited to see again. The Mountain Goats mix was really bad, which is a bummer but I guess not that surprising - it seems like this tour has had a rotating cast of support artists based on region. I assume The Moutain Goats ae supporting this stretch of dates because John Darnielle lives in Durham. Would have loved to see one of the shows with Waxahatchee opening. Anyways, it would be weird to complain about the sound not being perfect on a Mountain Goats song. Good set. They've put out so many albums, the only ones I really know front to back are probably Sunset Tree and Tallahassee. They played a couple from each of those - This Year, Dance Music, No Children. I didn't recognize anything from All Hail West Texas. Anyways, short set, good set, but I dig the whole John Darnielle thing. I know it's songwriting work ethic rather than instrumental proficiency that is his thing, but it is interesting how ham fisted he seems as a guitar player. The concert overall was a fun experience - short of maybe my own band's reunion show earlier this year, this was the most "gathering of the middle aged millennials" moment I've had. I really wish I was going to this concert - I am certain I would run into somebody I know and haven't seen for 15 years every few seconds. Rilo Kiley was great. They clearly put a lot of work into prepping for the show - I don't think they had played together for 15 years. But they were tight, the arrangements were well done, everything sounded really good. I don't think I ever sat with "Under the Blacklight", but I listened to their other albums a lot during my high school and college years and this was one of those shows for me where I was excited to recognize the beginning of almost every song. I might have to go rewatch The OC or something.
  5. Hmm makes you wonder what kind of messaging could be used now to make Christians be receptive to Jesus’ message.
  6. Pretty bad showing for a Dallas shooter
  7. just one of those guys who popped up in the algorithm who I've been exploring a bit. very prine-ish, and of course from the Wikipedia, he's a Prine guy who did Prine things with Prine on the Prine label. BJ Barham (American Aquarium) is running for office in his Raleigh exurb https://www.wunc.org/wunc-music/2025-09-23/american-aquariums-bj-barham-running-office-wendell-wake-local-elections
  8. not heavy, quite light. i can pop it on the scale later if you're really curious but it's light for its size
  9. Wife bought this pan. Putting this here as a timestamp to see how long it keeps its (actually pretty good) nonstick properties and also how long it takes my wife to absolutely ruin it by putting it empty on a burner cranked to high and walking away it’s supposed to be noncoated nonstick, carbon steel with aluminum sandwiched in. Seems nice, although I’m just having a good time cooking on my lodge comal with a bit of butter
  10. home sick today. trapped
  11. I often watch movies without knowing anything about them - it's kinda nice IMO to just go in with a general sense of what genre it is. I knew that this was Stephen King and the general premise and that it is one of his earlier books (first maybe?). DIdn't know it was Hoffman's kid. I enjoyed it, I'm not sure if I took much from it but I don't know how important that is anyways. Not sure I loved the ending, it felt kinda flat. Agree with the criticism of Charlie - his lack of struggle stuck out to me. Maybe that was part of the point of his character (and of course you get to see some more about his background), but generally just being a good guy who is helping everyone else out and not at a breaking point over several hundred miles of walking without rest made him feel less real as a character. And yeah man, gory.
  12. curious if anyone has tried the Apple live translation yet. I saw the feature pop up the first time I paired my airpods with my phone after updating to iOS 26 but haven't had the chance to try it yet
  13. I don’t watch late night tv - have any of those guys been making fun of Trump for raping children?
  14. The founding fathers never imagined how fragile Americans might be
  15. PM South Austin’s mom.
  16. I’m giving myself time to work past the normal ā€œunfamiliar = badā€ feelings. I generally trust that Apple knows what they are doing. I think that this is fine, some of the changes with the icons feel funny to me. Fuzzy, cartoonish, less crisp, which feels like the opposite direction that Apple tends to go.
  17. I love love love documentaries like this and this is one of the best ones. I think about those three all the time. Heartbreaking really all around, and it’s amazing how much you start to care about them given how incredibly shitty they are as the thing opens up. very different subjects, but Michael Apted’s Up series (starting with 7 Up) is the next best thing. Another episode is coming out soon. Curious if it will be the last, as he has died. Any other docs like this that follow people through their lives, I am absolutely interested in.
  18. 1 if I can figure out how to put a guitar into an IRA
  19. i sold off a 16 year position in AAPL yesterday so just a heads up, regardless of what this ios looks like the stock is going to take off
  20. if i was fat, if I had an accent, if I didn't look like a "leader", if I wasn't raised in an environment that trained me to be adept at navigating conversations and interactions with Very Important White People. Shit, if I didn't have hair?
  21. He's not autistic but he has a trains roommate
  22. Lets "agree to disagree" that we have no actual knowledge about his beliefs - I think that Charlie Kirk himself is a perfectly good source to determine what his beliefs are and I don't have a hard time sussing out how I feel about them. Is it your opinion that getting shot in the neck in front of his wife and kids* should change our opinion about his beliefs? *did that happen? Were his kids there? I'm curious if that's true, not that I think it's relevant to whether he or his beliefs were shitty. It would be another piece of sadness to this whole thing if it was true, obviously.
  23. this relates to a thing that I'm curious about, if it's cultural or a broadly human thing or whatever. But there's the idea that a) there is an objective measurement of "more or less qualified" and b) only technical skill/talent/effort should or could matter regarding that measurement. Like, if someone believes that there is a measurement that indicates that they have the most knowledge and skill as a javascript developer, then there is no valid rationale to hire another person over them or even give some other person oversight responsibility to them or their work. Probably choosing sw devs as an example is bad because that's such a type, but I think it's widespread and maybe particularly among males this belief that there is an objectively correct choice or ranking in that type of scenario and that there is a specific kind of merit that is the only thing that can count. And that thing is such fertile ground for breeding misogyny and racism, which of course is why it is used to do that. It's the same thing as... asserting that Yngwie Malmsteen or some other technically proficient instrumentalist that makes niche music for fans of instrumentalism is a better musician than (obvious example) Taylor Swift when almost any metric you might use to meaningfully determine that (pointless and meaningless) distinction would give you the opposite conclusion.
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