The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post

[Beefy]

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!".

[Dusty Chalk]

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”.

[Dusty Chalk]

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

[Hopstretch]

Paging Dr. Wood.

[swt61]

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

And I'm not even religious. 

[mikeymad]

 

[TMoney]

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

[swt61]

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

[Knuckledragger]

I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man.

 

M'rawr?

 

 

 

Next Daft Punk right there.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

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

[Craig Sawyers]

Battery Park Beach, 1977. Totally surreal.

[Knuckledragger]

 

[Craig Sawyers]

 

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

[Knuckledragger]

[Knuckledragger]

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.

 

[Torpedo]

[Dusty Chalk]

[Knuckledragger]

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.

[skullguise]

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

[Voltron]

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

 

[Dusty Chalk]

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:

 

[Craig Sawyers]

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.

[Craig Sawyers]

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

[guzziguy]

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

[Knuckledragger]

"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?