Random Thoughts XI: Listen to the Whispers

[amadeus]

My two cents but if you have a Herman Munster-shaped head, you shouldn’t get a Herman Munster-style haircut.

Although, I don’t know if they even ran The Munsters in this country. I did see Bewitched on every blue moon but that was years ago.

 

[BenitoChavez]

I used to think "meme" was pronounced "me me".

 

[amadeus]

We have the internet.
We have "software as a service."
And now we have the "internet of things."

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[Sofista]

Yesterday, I thought of starting my own Daft Punk tribute band...



Nah, actually that's my hospital ENT exam.

 

[The_J]

Well, I hope you don't have to do it one more time...

 

[choxorn]

Well, I hope you don't have to do it one more time...

That's the hope, but you don't always get lucky enough to avoid technologic issues.

 

[Snerk]

That's the hope, but you don't always get lucky enough to avoid technologic issues.

You can avoid that by doing it harder, better, faster, stronger.

 

[amadeus]

It’s weird to think some people who were complicit in the Holocaust are still alive to this day. The engineers, the propagandists, the planners, they were all born before the advent of the airplane or the radio, before the Bolshevik revolution, a time when the kings of Europe were absolutists of the same family line... all that past that seems so distant, but their “work” lives on, so to speak.

 

[Gelion]

Yesterday, I thought of starting my own Daft Punk tribute band...



Nah, actually that's my hospital ENT exam.

Nice Lotometrics set

 

[The_J]

It’s weird to think some people who were complicit in the Holocaust are still alive to this day. The engineers, the propagandists, the planners, they were all born before the advent of the airplane or the radio, before the Bolshevik revolution, a time when the kings of Europe were absolutists of the same family line... all that past that seems so distant, but their “work” lives on, so to speak.

That can only be a handful.
According to destatis, there were roughly 20.000 people older than 100 in Germany last year, https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2021/08/PE21_N049_12.html .
(okay, will be more than a literal handful, but just wait another 5 years...)

 

[amadeus]

Germans, French, Ukrainians, Balts... more than just that one country had its share of functionaries, opportunists, or just plain sympathizers. Sure, a handful now and maybe none in ten years.

But I just mean, our links to what seem like the distant past are really maybe a little shorter than we’d think of them as.

Random thoughts vary in quality as well as the contents themselves.

 

[The_J]

The adjective for metal is metallic.
But not so with iron... which is ironic.

So... this reminds me again: The Swiss watch maker Swatch has a stainless steel watch series called "irony".
I've never figured out if someone speaking German (Swiss company after all) was bad at naming this, or if this is somehow intentional .

 

[Takhisis]

You can avoid that by doing it harder, better, faster, stronger.

Try reversing polarity.

 

[amadeus]

Is it really bohemianism if you’re paying $12 for coffee?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Is it really bohemianism if you’re paying $12 for coffee?

The word I'd use is "insanity."

Or maybe "entitlement." There was one of the MPs in the Canadian Parliament who lost her cabinet seat due in part to ordering a $16 glass of orange juice for breakfast at a swanky hotel she checked into after deciding the usual place where cabinet ministers stayed in London just wasn't good enough for her.

 

[amadeus]

London?! I didn’t know the dominion was still run from England.

 

[amadeus]

On my way back from the store, I saw a woman who looked just like Kenny Rogers.

 

[BenitoChavez]

Professional sports leagues should implement "anti-playoffs" where the teams with the lowest records in the regular season get put into a bracket. Only instead of the winner of the series moving on to the next round, the loser would move on. The losers would battle it out until only one is left to see who is the ultimate loser. You know those teams would fight tooth and nail to avoid the embarrassment of being the worst. Think about the fan interest it would generate via the schadenfreude effect. Think about the revenue from all those additional games. I just made you an extra $1 billion Roger Goodell. You're welcome.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

London?! I didn’t know the dominion was still run from England.

Canada is a Commonwealth country. There are plenty of reasons why Canadian politicians travel there, including diplomatic, economic, and other sorts of conferences.

 

[Farm Boy]

Germans, French, Ukrainians, Balts... more than just that one country had its share of functionaries, opportunists, or just plain sympathizers. Sure, a handful now and maybe none in ten years.

But I just mean, our links to what seem like the distant past are really maybe a little shorter than we’d think of them as.

Random thoughts vary in quality as well as the contents themselves.

Much shorter. I was raised in significant part in my young formative years by a man born in 1905. On a sharecropping farm, that was the steam age. He was helped raised in his young formative years by men and women in thier 30s when the Civil War kicked off.

It's not been that long at all. People just die regularly and it makes it seem longer.