Random Rants XLVIII: Worst. Thread Title. Ever!

[ReindeerThistle]

Clearly I need to poast moar songs by countries that defeated the Soviet Union, and hate Sweden. FInland, here we come.

#1 - I have NO love for Sweden. I was just trying to annoy you!
#2 - I am half Finn, so bring it on.
#3 - The USSR defeated itself -- see some of my Ask a Red posts.

Finland, you say? Feast your ears on the yoiking master, Wimme Saari:

Link to video.

Sent via mobile... from the Arctic Circle. Just me and my Reindeer, Thistle...

 

[Peck of Arabia]

Yeah. I don't mind Ace of Bass at all. But they are generally considered low grade stuff. Europop, if you like.

RANTS: Royal Mail to be nationalized in October. Government declares that plain wrapping on cigarette packets must wait till the Australians have run the experiment - meanwhile 200,000 young people take the habit up every year, and 100,000 people die prematurely from smoking related illnesses each year. Government refuses minimum pricing on alcohol in England and Wales. Government declares qat illegal, despite advice from various expert bodies on the subject of its health effects.

Waitwaitwaitwait, this is a rant? This is the best u-turn this government's made in the three years it's been in office- and there's been a lot of u-turns to choose from!


Royal Mail privatisation's definitely a rant, though- they're trying to sell it to the employees with shares (in total worth 5% of the company. Wow.) but I haven't heard this much bunkum on the issue since, well, since they "liberalised" the postal service in 2006 allowing competitors into the market who could just cherry-pick all the lucrative business post, leaving Royal Mail with the single-letter-to-the-outer-Hebrides type obligations. Then they wondered why it started making a loss.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

In the US, they made the Postal Service -- which also survives with NO taxpayer outlay -- fund their pension plan 75 years in advance! NO OTHER COMPANY DOES, OR IS FORCED TO DO THAT!

Sent via US Mail... For 44 cents! 44 cents, man! I love America.

@Peck: ABBA is pretty low grade stuff, too.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

I saw the first five minutes of Mamma Mia once; without a shadow of a doubt it was five minutes too many. It might even have been 10 mins!

Having said that, I don't mind ABBA, in fact as I type this I'm whistling an amalgamation of Dancing Queen, Does your mother know, and, I think, Fernando.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I friggin' hate my total inability to create a good photoshop of an image. No matter how well I do it or try to do it, it still looks like goddamn crap!

 

[azzaman333]

What are you trying to shoop?

 

[Loppan Torkel]

#1 - I have NO love for Sweden. I was just trying to annoy you!
#2 - I am half Finn, so bring it on.

On behalf of Sweden, I apologize for all your hockey defeats

 

[ReindeerThistle]

On behalf of Sweden, I apologize for all your hockey defeats

Oooooo... had to bring that up, didn't you? My Saku Koivu action figure spent the rest of 2002 in the bottom of my underwear drawer...

Still, 1998 Nagano, beat Canada for the bronze. Gotta love it.



Sent via mobile.... Still awaiting apologies from Sweden for ABBA, not finding that Russian sub in 1982 and Dolph Lundgren -- the latter of which could be offset by Birgitte Nielson pics.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

What are you trying to shoop?

Sci-fi type stuff. In this case, photos I take of sunsets, trying to turn them into depictions of sunsets on circumbinary worlds. It's the second sun that always looks cartoony, not to mention the ridiculously difficult difficulty of the lighting effects on the atmosphere and reflections off clouds and shiny surfaces on the ground.

Sure, I might be aiming too high, but working on planetary textures for the Celestia space program, and editing screenshots reveal just how much I truly suck at it, especially considering I've been working with images for nearly ten freaking years with little to show for it.

 

[bhsup]

WTH Youtube?! The song is Alabama's Song of the South. Yeah, real hateful stuff in it...

Spoiler :

Chorus
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind.
There ain't nobody looking back again.

Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch.
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich.
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat.
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that.

Sing it...
Chorus

Well somebody told us Wall Street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell.
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But Mr. Roosevelt's a gonna save us all.

Well momma got sick and daddy got down.
The county got the farm and they moved to town.
Pappa got a job with the TVA
He bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet.

Sing it...
Chorus

Play it...

Sing it...
Chorus

Song, song of the south...
Gone, gone with the wind...

Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.

Sing it...
Chorus 2X

 

[JohannaK]

Gosh, this is really amusing, albeit somewhat annoying. I spent the last two hours sleeping on the living room sofa after getting home, instead of going upstairs and to bed. Also my friends tried to drag me into a gay club, and they almost managed to, but I do not like clubs in general, and I really felt like going back home.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

WTH Youtube?! The song is Alabama's Song of the South. Yeah, real hateful stuff in it...

Spoiler :

Chorus
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind.
There ain't nobody looking back again.

Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch.
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich.
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat.
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that.

Sing it...
Chorus

Well somebody told us Wall Street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell.
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But Mr. Roosevelt's a gonna save us all.

Well momma got sick and daddy got down.
The county got the farm and they moved to town.
Pappa got a job with the TVA
He bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet.

Sing it...
Chorus

Play it...

Sing it...
Chorus

Song, song of the south...
Gone, gone with the wind...

Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.

Sing it...
Chorus 2X

Pretty subversive stuff, VRWCAgent. Why, if people knew family farmers had to struggle to make ends meet, the whole country would be up in arms!

Sent via mobile...don't bite the hand that feeds you....

Rant: DLing UbuntoStudio live DVD and the effin connection crashes on me before the iso finishes DLing. 1.7 gigs wasted on my data plan. Harumph! Firefox thinks it got the whole thing - well it didn't!

 

[JohannaK]

Nobody likes me!

 

[Arakhor]

Nobody likes me!

You should have gone into that gay club!

 

[The_J]

Seems you can't book any youth hostels in Spain without a credit card. WTH o_O?

 

[Camikaze]

I booked a couple with a debit card a few weeks ago. I think hostelworld also lets you PayPal?

 

[JohannaK]

Yo, tell me if you're coming to Barcelona one of these days or something, yo.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

My puppy pissed into my shoe, completely soaking it whilst not getting a single drop on the carpet.

I would almost be proud of his aim if this wasn't still an everyday occurrence.

 

[Takhisis]

On behalf of Sweden, I apologize for all your hockey defeats

Your apology is heartfelt. If you hadn't abandoned the Österlanders and part of the Norrlanders to the Russian oppressors, Finland could enjoy today the glory of being good at hockey.
Don't ever let my Finnish teacher read or hear about that.

Nobody likes me!

That's not true.

Seems you can't book any youth hostels in Spain without a credit card. WTH o_O?

I booked a couple with a debit card a few weeks ago. I think hostelworld also lets you PayPal?

Those… people don't know about cash?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Those… people don't know about cash?

Hotels want credit or debit cards to charge you for damages or to charge you if you book a room and don't show up. You can usually still pay your bill in cash but they will still want a card on file when you check in. Some hotels will let you stay without a card on file if you pay an upfront deposit (usually a couple hundred bucks) that you get back on check out if you don't destroy the room.