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DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 5:33 pm

rass wrote:
A_B wrote:Pretty fucking sick of whipping and nae naeing.
Really? My favorite part of the DC47 postgame locker room celebration was when he taught the old white guy who owns his team how to whip and nae nae.

I got one thousand dances but that ain't one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbRiM26hyms

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:26 pm

I have a friend who is friends with Boy George. She wants me to go to Boston with her on Sunday to a Culture Club concert which would include hanging out and having dinner before with Boy, VIP seats, backstage, perhaps partying with band after, etc. Is that something I have to do? I told her I was all set but my friend told me I was nuts.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:27 pm

Jerloma wrote:I have a friend who is friends with Boy George. She wants me to go to Boston with her on Sunday to a Culture Club concert which would include hanging out and having dinner before with Boy, VIP seats, backstage, perhaps partying with band after, etc. Is that something I have to do? I told her I was all set but my friend told me I was nuts.

I'm not a fan of Culture Club, but I'd do it, for sure. He had got to be an interesting character, and you might get some good stories from the evening.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:48 pm

You're so fucking jaded. Man...

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:56 pm

sancarlos wrote:
Jerloma wrote:I have a friend who is friends with Boy George. She wants me to go to Boston with her on Sunday to a Culture Club concert which would include hanging out and having dinner before with Boy, VIP seats, backstage, perhaps partying with band after, etc. Is that something I have to do? I told her I was all set but my friend told me I was nuts.
I'm not a fan of Culture Club, but I'd do it, for sure. He had got to be an interesting character, and you might get some good stories from the evening.

Most definitely. I guess I just feel like something like that should be reserved for someone that has more fucks to give about Boy George than me.

Plus, I'd have to miss wiffle ball.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 1:03 pm

I think you could get that Best Western piano gig if I'm seeing things all the way to end properly.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 1:04 pm

It would be an interesting evening, but "Karma Chameleon?"

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 1:08 pm

Ryan wrote:I think you could get that Best Western piano gig if I'm seeing things all the way to end properly.

In Keene? The piano is gone now. Their loss.

ETA: But taking Boy George to the most rednecky event ever would be awesome.

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 4:31 pm

I may be getting soft, but I think it is kinda sweet that Wilmer Flores cried.

(And hell yes you have to go hang with Boy George! Dude took a Brenda Lee tune and made it his own, and arguably better (The Crying Game.))

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 5:34 pm

Jerloma wrote:I have a friend who is friends with Boy George. She wants me to go to Boston with her on Sunday to a Culture Club concert which would include hanging out and having dinner before with Boy, VIP seats, backstage, perhaps partying with band after, etc. Is that something I have to do? I told her I was all set but my friend told me I was nuts.

This is a question? Make sure you've really got the chords down to the hits so you can just relax and go for it during the jams. Figure out in advance the songs where you are comfortable singing lead. Also, it would be polite to bring your own amyl nitrate.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:03 pm

The Swamp still surprises me sometimes. I would have bet a million dollars that you guys would affirm my apathy for me.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:20 pm

We're a bunch of starfuckers.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:25 pm

rass wrote:We're a bunch of starfuckers.

"Elitist starfuckers."

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:21 pm

Maybe 20 years ago, I was talking to some girl at a bar and I asked her what she did for a living. Without even a trace of sarcasm, she says "I waitress at Legal Seafoods. We set the standard for fish." I just backed away slowly and disappeared. To this day, I have no idea how to respond to that.

That's what I get for pretending to be a normal person attempting to engage in small talk for 5 minutes.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:53 pm

Don't try to change the subject.

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:00 pm

Jerloma wrote:…she says "I waitress at Legal Seafoods. We set the standard for fish." I just backed away slowly and disappeared. To this day, I have no idea how to respond to that.

You say, "It's what plants crave! It's got electrolytes!"

(Now you know why he built that bomb)

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:20 pm

mister d wrote:Don't try to change the subject.

Don't even tell me you're endorsing Boy George over wiffle ball.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:03 am

So, Kazakhstan was up for the Winter Olympics. Who knew?

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:18 am

A_B wrote:So, Kazakhstan was up for the Winter Olympics. Who knew?

Azerbaijan did the same thing a few years ago. Basically a no-shot bid designed to get them a little bit of international recognition and show that they were organized enough to put something together.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:39 am

Kazakhstan is doing a ton of mining so they probably have some new money. I know they are pouring a ton of it into their capital city.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:39 am

Beijing is the first city to host a Summer and Winter Olympics.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:11 am

Jerloma wrote:Maybe 20 years ago, I was talking to some girl at a bar and I asked her what she did for a living. Without even a trace of sarcasm, she says "I waitress at Legal Seafoods. We set the standard for fish." I just backed away slowly and disappeared. To this day, I have no idea how to respond to that.

That's what I get for pretending to be a normal person attempting to engage in small talk for 5 minutes.

I'm going to start using a variation of that line - that is awesome.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:26 am

Count me in the "you should go see and meet Boy George" camp.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:29 am

"I'm Boy George. I set the standard for androgynous 80's pop frontmen."

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:35 am

rass wrote:"I'm Boy George. I set the standard for androgynous 80's pop frontmen."

The key is to use a noun as a verb. So it would be "I Boy George at various locations worldwide. I set the standard for androgynous 80's pop frontmen."

e: Also for what it's worth, if that girl had said her line sarcastically, I would have instantly liked her twice as much.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:36 am

bfj wrote:Beijing is the first city to host a Summer and Winter Olympics.

Time again to recommend "Beijing Welcomes You", by Tom Scocca, about the preparations by China for the 2008 games. Great book.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 2:30 pm

You're a friend removed from Boy George and you never told us, but you'll brag about some random tennis player sleeping on your couch? That's dumb.

Also, "I'm in the U.S. Air Force. We set the standard for AIR POWER."

Post by **brian** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 2:32 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote:
bfj wrote:Beijing is the first city to host a Summer and Winter Olympics.
Time again to recommend "Beijing Welcomes You", by Tom Scocca, about the preparations by China for the 2008 games. Great book.

Paraphrasing a Tweet I saw today. So in 2022, the World Cup will be held in winter and the Winter Olympics will be held in a city with no snow.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 2:37 pm

I'm beginning to think I'll be dead before seeing another live unspoiled Olympic event in these stupid non-American countries.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 2:49 pm

Johnnie wrote:You're a friend removed from Boy George and you never told us, but you'll brag about some random tennis player sleeping on your couch? That's dumb.

Well, she actually only met him a couple of times. Sat with him at a wedding and then another time. The good friend is this guy, PK, who is his manager and he's also Pele's manager who their company sponsors. PK sets that all up. She doesn't know Boy well enough to just call him out of the blue.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:02 pm

I've just started reading the new McCullough about the Wright Brothers. The GF last night asked me about it, and I started saying how they started out with a print shop, then started with bicycles, and then were building and testing gliders. She then asked "when did they get into music?".

I was puzzled, until we figured out that she misheard me and thought I was reading a book about The Righteous Brothers...

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:07 pm

brian wrote:
DaveInSeattle wrote:
bfj wrote:Beijing is the first city to host a Summer and Winter Olympics.
Time again to recommend "Beijing Welcomes You", by Tom Scocca, about the preparations by China for the 2008 games. Great book.
Paraphrasing a Tweet I saw today. So in 2022, the World Cup will be held in winter and the Winter Olympics will be held in a city with no snow.

It snows in Beijing. It's not what I'd think of as a winter sports location, but it does snow. Gray. It snows gray for the first 30 minutes or so, apparently.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:13 pm

Shirley wrote:
brian wrote:
DaveInSeattle wrote:
bfj wrote:Beijing is the first city to host a Summer and Winter Olympics.
Time again to recommend "Beijing Welcomes You", by Tom Scocca, about the preparations by China for the 2008 games. Great book.
Paraphrasing a Tweet I saw today. So in 2022, the World Cup will be held in winter and the Winter Olympics will be held in a city with no snow.
It snows in Beijing. It's not what I'd think of as a winter sports location, but it does snow. Gray. It snows gray for the first 30 minutes or so, apparently.

An average of 5 inches every February, when the average high temp is 41. The outdoor events are being held like 3 hours away.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:16 pm

(And I totally knew all that before this morning!!!!)

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:20 pm

Also, that city where the actual mountains are is called Zhangjiakou. It has 4.5 million people. I've never heard of it. China.

Post by **brian** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 2:49 pm

Midtown Manhattan and the Las Vegas Strip have to be the two capitals of morons walking around aimlessly not paying attention and I doubt whatever #3 is isn't even close.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 12:35 am

I'd suspect a mile radius around the Eiffel Tower is #3

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 6:14 am

Rush2112 wrote:I'd suspect a mile radius around the Eiffel Tower is #3

Yeah - pretty much anywhere that is full of tourists. I'll throw the Bario Gotic in Barcelona out there. And that beautiful area now has the added touch of having segueway riding jackasses added to the mix.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:29 am

Just bought a pair of tickets to the Canada-Belize World Cup qualifier during the Labour Day weekend.

2 tickets at the special discounted rate (for members of the Canadian Soccer Team fab group) of $20 each works out to $54.

Thanks Ticketmaster!

Post by **Sabo** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 10:30 am

brian wrote:Midtown Manhattan and the Las Vegas Strip have to be the two capitals of morons walking around aimlessly not paying attention and I doubt whatever #3 is isn't even close.

I'd place Waikiki Beach as number three, almost exclusively because of the Japanese tourists.