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sancarlos wrote: Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:33 pm
Rex wrote: Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:25 pm OK so I've heard this music, though I didn't know who did it. What does EDM stand for? I just think of this as FIFA menu screen music.
Electronic dance music. That's all I know about it. I also don't know why every song is song by a different, uncredited singer.
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P.D.X. wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:11 am Apu
My very unscientific survey of my friend whose parents are from India tells me that this is an overreaction. I'll check with my Sikh neighbours later to widen the scope of the survey.
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Pruitt wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:43 am
P.D.X. wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:11 am Apu
My very unscientific survey of my friend whose parents are from India tells me that this is an overreaction. I'll check with my Sikh neighbours later to widen the scope of the survey.
It's rooted in this. He made an impassioned argument.
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I know - just trying to be obnoxious.

Hari Kondabolu is pretty funny. He's a semi-regular on "the Bugle" podcast.
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Pruitt wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:37 pm I know - just trying to be obnoxious.

Hari Kondabolu is pretty funny. He's a semi-regular on "the Bugle" podcast.
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govmentchedda wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:37 pm
Pruitt wrote: Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:37 pm I know - just trying to be obnoxious.

Hari Kondabolu is pretty funny. He's a semi-regular on "the Bugle" podcast.
Does Oliver come back at all any more?
No, not for over a year. It's very inconsistent as a result - some co-hosts like Nish kumar are great, others veer towards stridency, and Andy Zaltsman really feeds off the co-hosts, so if the first 5 minutes aren't funny, they tend to peter out to "meh" pretty quickly.
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Thanks for the tip. I'll add it back into the rotation, but cut bait if it doesn't start well.
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bfj wrote: Mon May 14, 2018 1:14 pm Margot Kidder
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I actually thought of her yesterday. I was flipping through and saw Terms of Endearment was on. Being the H-Town fanboy I am, I tuned in for a second and it was a Debra Winger scene which reminded me I thought Debra Winger was Margot Kidder for a very long time.
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Alan Bean...4th man on the moon and captain 2nd flight to Skylab
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 7:17 am Alan Bean...4th man on the moon and captain 2nd flight to Skylab
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/28/1740 ... t-obituary
Shame he wasn't as well known as his British cousin.
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 7:17 am Alan Bean...4th man on the moon and captain 2nd flight to Skylab
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/28/1740 ... t-obituary
Wow, I had no idea there were only 4 moon walkers left alive
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Baloney wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 8:38 am
wlu_lax6 wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 7:17 am Alan Bean...4th man on the moon and captain 2nd flight to Skylab
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/28/1740 ... t-obituary
Wow, I had no idea there were only 4 moon walkers left alive
When you say moon walkers, my brain goes to this
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Stewart Lupton. Influential NYC musician, dead at 43.
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brian wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 2:37 pm Stewart Lupton. Influential NYC musician, dead at 43.
Had literally never heard of that guy.
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Giff wrote: Mon Jun 04, 2018 2:44 pm
brian wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 2:37 pm Stewart Lupton. Influential NYC musician, dead at 43.
Had literally never heard of that guy.
You should really read the book Meet Me In The Bathroom. If nothing else as a catalog of the extensive and prodigious drug use from early 2000s NYC bands like Interpol, The Strokes et al.
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brian wrote: Mon Jun 04, 2018 3:02 pm
Giff wrote: Mon Jun 04, 2018 2:44 pm
brian wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 2:37 pm Stewart Lupton. Influential NYC musician, dead at 43.
Had literally never heard of that guy.
You should really read the book Meet Me In The Bathroom. If nothing else as a catalog of the extensive and prodigious drug use from early 2000s NYC bands like Interpol, The Strokes et al.
Loved that book.
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Will check it out.
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Giff wrote: Mon Jun 04, 2018 4:08 pm Will check it out.
WHat a spicy double entendre!
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Jackson Odell, a child actor who was on the Goldbergs and a couple of other things.

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He was my sister's nephew. (My brother-in-law's sister's kid.) My sister was there when the mom found out and immediately called in total freakout mode. It was horrible.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Tue Jun 12, 2018 10:06 am Jackson Odell, a child actor who was on the Goldbergs and a couple of other things.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ja ... fb826b09af

He was my sister's nephew. (My brother-in-law's sister's kid.) My sister was there when the mom found out and immediately called in total freakout mode. It was horrible.
Jeez, that's horrible. Sorry for your family's loss, Steve.
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Sorry, that's horrible.
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Wasn't there a big piece on him recently re:child support or something?
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govmentchedda wrote: Mon Jun 18, 2018 7:05 pm Wasn't there a big piece on him recently re:child support or something?
Domestic abuse, among other things:
Two years later, after the pair had been dating for five months, Ayala would come forward and accuse Onfroy of the unrelenting, torturous domestic abuse that would send him to jail, to house arrest, and to jail again, then launch him meteorically into the spotlight.

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Later that day, Ayala says, Onfroy hit her again. "I was really lightheaded, because the slap was so hard," she recalls. "It was one of those slaps where you hear ringing." She sat for a second in a daze. Onfroy told her to wait and then left the room. He returned holding a long-handled barbecue fork and a wire barbecue brush. "He was like, 'Which one do you want me to use?'"

Ayala was confused. "Like, use for what?" In a deposition given seven months later, she recounts to a prosecutor: "He told me to pick between the two, because he was going to put one of them up my vagina." She chose the fork. Then, Onfroy began pulling up her black-and-white striped dress. He lightly dragged the fork against the skin of her thigh. Ayala passed out.
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I know I'm getting old I guess because I've literally never heard of the guy,
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He was decidedly NOT worthy of mention.
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brian wrote: Tue Jun 19, 2018 11:57 am I know I'm getting old I guess because I've literally never heard of the guy,
Unlike you, I read Pruitt's post in the Twitter thread before this one, so I knew about this guy for a solid 5 minutes.

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Now Travis Smart........Jimmy Wopo the Pittsburgh Rapper shot. Only posted because of the time relation to XXXtension
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:28 am Now Travis Smart........Jimmy Wopo the Pittsburgh Rapper shot. Only posted because of the time relation to XXXtension
Please tell me there's a a "Philadelphia rapper" named Jimmy Wawa.
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