Australia had been producing some absolutely killer punk and pub rock bands over the past while. Some of my favorites are The Chats, Amyl and the Sniffers, Ratsalad., The Gutter Girls, Mod Con, and Flangipanis.

From Japan: Otoboke Beaver.

From the Philippines: Tiger Pussy.

From Ireland: An Slua, Sprints, Gurriers, Nerves, Bucket, and some classic punk bands like Stiff Little Fingers, and The Radiators.

From Scotland: Cowboy Hunters, and Soapbox.

From France: Camera Silens, Rixe, Syndrome 81, Zone Infinie, and Tchernobyl.

Truth.

I just really wish someone would come out with a search engine that works like Google worked around 2004. There was a brief beautiful window of time where it seemed like no matter how obscure something was, if it existed on a publicly indexable website, and you knew the tricks for tweaking your search query, you could find it with Google. But I think I started noticing it going downhill not too long after they killed Google Video and acquired YouTube. Definitely after they also became a phone company.

It just seems crazy to me that we figured out how to do it over 20 years ago and then stopped almost immediately. And in all the time since then nobody has stepped up to fill the gap. Like, DuckDuckGo is better than Google now, but it’s only because Google became terrible, not because DDG got better.

If the handful of veterans that I know are anything to go by, military nicknames are often directly related to the dumbest mistake they made during their enlistment.

It’s been a long time since I’ve watched it, but I think think they did Ally Sheedy’s character dirty. The other characters got some kind of deep revelation about life, the universe, and everything, and pretty much all Ally Sheedy got was a new shade of lipstick. Her whole story arc basically boiled down to: just change everything about yourself and maybe the star football player will pay attention to you, because that’s what really matters in life.

Back during his first term there was a story on the Risk podcast where an Asian guy told the story of going home after some time away at college and visiting the family that adopted him when he was a baby; and how, when he said he didn’t support Trump, that family almost beat him to death right there in the living room. It was one of the most heartbreaking stories I’ve ever heard in my entire life. I think about that shit a lot.

Thanks for linking to an actual journalistic news outlet. All the other posts I’ve seen relating to this were for trash rags like TMZ, the NY Post, and the Daily Mail.

I feel like there should be a picture of Gir in between the hair dye and the Pick of Destiny.

It’s a common problem on farms which don’t provide adequate bathroom facilities for their laborers and/or don’t allow a reasonable amount of time to use those facilities. Or to put it a different way: if your boss screams at you for being lazy and threatens your job every time you leave the field to use the toilet, you tend to just start shitting in the field.

Not just the Republican Party, the Wyoming Republican Party. The state who got famous for beating and torturing a gay kid to death, and was perfectly happy to keep that reputation.

This guy could be the poster child for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.

I wasn’t alive in the 70s, but I remember seeing them a bunch when I was a kid in the 80s. A lot of the time they were in cans labeled “peanut brittle,” which I always thought was weird because to this day I have never once seen actual peanut brittle packaged in a can.

I’m sure only good things will come of this.

Is he still married? Then yes.

It’s the still being married that’s the defining factor, not the amount of time elapsed.

It’ll always be the Taco Bell water cup to me.

Yeah. There are a bunch of different brands that make them, and they come in a lot more colors than red, but that type of disposable plastic cup has been pretty ubiquitous since the 1990s. There are also clear plastic disposable cups that are just as common, but you tend to see those at more adult functions because they give off less of a high school kegger/kids birthday party vibe.

I think Hollywood uses the red ones so much because it’s an easy visual shorthand to express to the viewer exactly what kind of party is going on. They’re also are opaque, so they can just hand everyone an empty cup and not have to worry about liquid levels and visual continuity, which probably makes things a lot easier on set.

I think that all suburban street layouts are designed by a secret society of men whose sole unifying principle is a fierce all-consuming hatred of pizza delivery drivers.

It’s kind of hilarious hearing Jones’ story about “sneaking” into Bohemian Grove told from the point of view of the other people who went there with him. It’s such a great insight into how absolutely contrived all his content is.

The real thing was that at one point there was so much plastic pollution in certain parts of the environment that some of the endocrine disrupting chemicals in it, like BPA (which mimics estrogen) and certain pthalates, were leaching into to water in large enough concentrations to make noticeable changes in the bodies and sex organs of animals that are extra sensitive to those things, like frogs and other amphibians. Mutations in male frogs where they displayed female traits, etc. It’s a big part of the reason that 15 or 20 years ago everyone started switching to metal water bottles, and the plastic ones all advertise that they’re BPA-free now. Alex Jones took that and spun it up into some grand conspiracy about the government intentionally putting chemicals in your water to feminize you and make you docile so, I dunno, you won’t put up a fight when they come to round you up and put you in FEMA camps or whatever, I guess. At least that’s the basic gist as I remember it. I never really paid an enormous amount of attention to Jones, so I might not be 100% on the details.

I don’t think it’s going to make much, if any, difference with synthetic fibers. It won’t hurt anything to try it and see what happens, but I’m pretty sure the idea of wearing wet clothes until they dry to get a better fit is a holdover from the days before pre-shrunk jeans were the norm. You used to have to buy jeans in a larger size with the expectation that they would shrink down to your size over the course of several washes. People used to put them on wet and wear them until they dried so that when that shrinkage happened it would conform to their body shape.

If you want your leggings to remain as stretchy as possible for as long as possible probably the best thing would be to hang-dry them rather than putting them in the dryer. The heat from the dryer can cause elastic to wear out prematurely.

I hate that I understand that reference, and I hate you for reminding me of it.

They were a feature on typewriter keyboards back before personal computers were even a thing, so I think it’s probably just that Sony didn’t bother to put them on that specific keyboard.