2 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

I just found it amusing that that video was brought to you by Fox News.

They wanted the gotcha of "don't be biased against Christians!".

2 minutes ago, Beefy said:

They wanted the gotcha of "don't be biased against Christians!".

Yup…or that “Dems can be prone to bias, too”.

Normal-sized manatees looking like sweet potatoes while eating sweet potatoes.

Paging Dr. Wood.

I bet I know the Bible better than any of you!

And I'm not even religious. 

 

Very cool table from the Census data that got released today.

I assumed Maine was White, but I thought it would be due to snow! Wow!

I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man.

 

M'rawr?

 

 

 

Next Daft Punk right there.

 

It was literally thunderstorming that night, so this hit close to home.

Battery Park Beach, 1977. Totally surreal.

 

 

Taken from https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf

Peak 80s right here.

 

That's ~$1.5M.

 

Never have I been so personally attacked.

 

#ImagesYouCanHear

 

You're actually happier if you don't get this one.

 

This post will not make much sense.  There's a regular in my group of gaming friends who goes by Redeko.  Naturally, I always refer to him as "Dorko," usually in the same intonation as David Lee Roth saying "Sit down, Waldo."  One of the many idiot behaviors I get up to with said gaming group is making memes that are so many layers of in-jokes even the subjects themselves don't entirely understand them.  Redeko works at a sandwich shop, owns an RE-20 microphone, and recently bought a new car and a 4K webcam (because those are a thing now.)  I memes I usually represent him as a sandwich, because of his job:

 

One of the other MicS members has been harping on the fact that Redeko IRL looks like a SoundCloud rapper named Yung Gravy and I should use him instead of a sandwich to represent Dorko:

 

After completing the above two 'Shops, I made the mistaking of listening to a Yung Gravy song.  The track that made him famous, in fact:

 

It's not just that I'm old.  Your music is BAD.  I had to dig up one of my favorite hip hop songs of all time just to feel okay again.

I am biased by having been exactly at the right age in 1991, but this is an entire genre and subculture peaking in one track.

Yes....Yung gravy is bad.....

Yung Wu (aka The Feelies), however, was very good. 

 

Knowing someone with a bird (sorry, I forget what kind) that was also very social and loved people, I definitely appreciated the truth to this story:

 

My Aunt Molly and her husband Ken owned an African Grey parrot. It used to speak in Ken's voice - so when Ken died, it was kind of freaky to hear this bird speaking in dead Ken's voice.

It is apparently a real problem; often a bereaved person cannot cope with a bird talking in their dead partner's voice and have to sell the bird.

An African Grey can live up to 80 years. About 10 years ago a reporter for our current affairs radio channel (Radio 4) tracked down Churchill's ancient African Grey, which had ended up owned by a garden center. It must have been a slow news day:

"Does it speak in Churchill's voice?","Well, not really. It's very old and doesn't say much at all", "OK - but Churchill was famous for swearing - does the parrot swear?", "Never head it swear".

Basically summarizing the story - Churchill's parrot fails to talk.

Churchill's parrot was a macaw, not an African Grey (or a Norwegian Blue). Here's an article about the bird, who was 114 years old a few years ago https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/having-chat-churchills-parrot-114-13642592

A nice Blue and Gold Macaw.  My Oscar (see profile photo) is a youngster, only 34 years old. 😁

"Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage! "

In the words of the late, great Bill Hicks does anyone not know where this is going?