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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Tvtyrant
I think all US citizens grow up on the Red Green Show. We watched it after Dinosaurs reruns.
It was broadcast in the San Francisco bay area about 15 to 20 years ago, but all I remember is that "Red" had a nephew (I think) that wore glasses
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Tvtyrant
It is where I learned you can fix a car with duct tape :)
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
Legitimately have seen someone do that. And Mythbusters showed that you can make a car out of ducktape and it's like, workable.
Duct tape isn't even that good on ducts, why would I use it for cars?
For reals, though, anything you might want duct tape for, a quality gaffer's tape will probably do better.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
2D8HP
It was broadcast in the San Francisco bay area about 15 to 20 years ago, but all I remember is that "Red" had a nephew (I think) that wore glasses
I think that is the same time it broadcast in Oregon, maybe a few years earlier? My memories of it and Tool Time get mixed up somewhat.
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
Duct tape isn't even that good on ducts, why would I use it for cars?
For reals, though, anything you might want duct tape for, a quality gaffer's tape will probably do better.
One of the shows' jokes is that you can fix anything given sufficient duct tape. This meant the things taped together got more elaborate over time.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
Absolutely do. Season 2 is alright from what I've seen, but season 1 from beginning to end is a hilarious sort of brick joke that I really like. The Good Place is still my favorite sitcom (if you can even call it that) but truth be told that's such a high bar that it's not even fair.
Unfortunately, despite being Canadian, this is literally the only part of the conversation I can respond to at all. (And, possibly ironically, I only saw the first season while visiting friends in the States.) Can agree, that it is good. Really enjoyed what I saw of it. Although,
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unfortunately, it kinda got half-ruined for me. One of my friends who was also visiting was complaining about it not being that good, so the one who'd seen it mentioned that the ending makes it all worth it, and that knowing the twist makes it even better. So they went and spoiled themselves and enjoyed it... but even not knowing what the spoiler was, knowing that there was a twist made even oblivious me figure things out halfway through the season. Which was disappointing. I really love those "it changes everything" moments.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
Unfortunately, despite being Canadian, this is literally the only part of the conversation I can respond to at all. (And, possibly ironically, I only saw the first season while visiting friends in the States.)
You should turn in your hockey stick and beer at the next Mountie station you pass. In both English and French.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
You should turn in your hockey stick and beer at the next Mountie station you pass. In both English and French.
Good news. I don't own a hockey stick, and I hate alcohol. So, done. Also, that would have been easier before I moved away from walking distance of an RCMP station. :smalltongue:
Pretty much the only Canadian stereotype I do meet is the politeness aspect.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Sermil
Given that America invented Rock and Roll, I'm not sure that the British can complain about a few TV shows going the other way.
Given that England invented Heavy Metal twice, I think the US could stand to be more original.
Like, I can only think of one UK remake of a US show, and considering how ours tend to average one episode a year I'm shocked we haven't done it more.
At any rate I'd love to see a US remake of The Archers. It's the most popular soap opera in the country, and all without a single murderer (there was a dramatic fire, about sixty years ago), with plots being more centered on stuff like 'the local nativity play is having some troubles, but we're working through them.
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SZbNAhL
Wait, Americans aren't the enemy? :smallconfused:
I was talking about the traditional enemy, the one we've been fighting for a titans years or more. Sometimes in the battlefield, sometimes without clothes under the covers.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Heavy metal music, you say? Have you ever tried bypassing the "vibrating air" part of hearing entirely, and just connecting a generator directly to your auditory nerve?
I'm guessing, if so, that there wasn't enough sadness or anger in what it sounded like... but surely it had the loud, painful, and death-related parts!
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
*slams directly into the floor*
Threw up for ten minuuuutes. No work today. Want To Die *Thumbs up*
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
I'm sorry, I didn't think I was that contagious.
its a computer virus!
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
The ginger ale likely being referred to is only a colloquial name. The correct name is Canadian Dry. At least that's what it is up here, I believe America has... Schwarps or something?
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
There's also Verners, or Buffalo Rock, or anyone else who makes ginger ale. Verners is pretty great, but Canada Dry is the only one I'll actually buy myself. The Buffalo Rock brand claims to be ginger ale but is in reality some sort of treated sewage sold for consumption for some reason.
Peelee, are you suggesting La Zodi to drink Canada dry? Because that is just MEAN! Do you know how much water there is up there??
Also, Verners rocks!
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
Unfortunately, despite being Canadian, this is literally the only part of the conversation I can respond to at all. (And, possibly ironically, I only saw the first season while visiting friends in the States.) Can agree, that it is good. Really enjoyed what I saw of it. Although,
Spoiler
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unfortunately, it kinda got half-ruined for me. One of my friends who was also visiting was complaining about it not being that good, so the one who'd seen it mentioned that the ending makes it all worth it, and that knowing the twist makes it even better. So they went and spoiled themselves and enjoyed it... but even not knowing what the spoiler was, knowing that there was a twist made even oblivious me figure things out halfway through the season. Which was disappointing. I really love those "it changes everything" moments.
... it really says something about me that I cannot tell, literally, if you mean Dan for Mayor or The Good Place.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
Good news. I don't own a hockey stick, and I hate alcohol. So, done. Also, that would have been easier before I moved away from walking distance of an RCMP station. :smalltongue:
Pretty much the only Canadian stereotype I do meet is the politeness aspect.
.... Turn in your poutine and apologize? Actually, scratch that, just mail the poutine to me, I'll take care of it.
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Originally Posted by
Anonymouswizard
Given that England invented Heavy Metal twice, I think the US could stand to be more original.
If England invented the same thing twice, it seems like they're the ones who need originality.:smalltongue:
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
If England invented the same thing twice, it seems like they're the ones who need originality.:smalltongue:
That's what I was thinking, but I decided to mock heavy metal itself instead of the unoriginality.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
.... Turn in your poutine and apologize? Actually, scratch that, just mail the poutine to me, I'll take care of it.
If England invented the same thing twice, it seems like they're the ones who need originality.:smalltongue:
We're talking about the nation that managed to forget the cure for scurvy, like, three times. So I wouldn't put it past them.
Grey Wolf
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
An exchange I just had with my sister;
My Sister: When I'm doing your nails if you feel like I'm hurting you tell me
Me: I don' think pain should be involved when you're painting nails. at all.
My Sister: oh right I forgot
I'm like... what???? YOU FORGOT??? FORGOT WHAT???
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
An exchange I just had with my sister;
My Sister: When I'm doing your nails if you feel like I'm hurting you tell me
Me: I don' think pain should be involved when you're painting nails. at all.
My Sister: oh right I forgot
I'm like... what???? YOU FORGOT??? FORGOT WHAT???
I've had pain from my fingernails being barely touched (such as in painting them) before, but usually that's because they'd been slammed in something a few weeks prior to that point.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
enderlord99
That's what I was thinking, but I decided to mock heavy metal itself instead of the unoriginality.
Iron Maiden can't be fought.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Anonymouswizard
Given that England invented Heavy Metal twice, I think the US could stand to be more original.
I mean, the Brits may have gotten the ball rolling on heavy metal, but we definitely perfected it.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
I'm like... what???? YOU FORGOT??? FORGOT WHAT???
I'm guessing here but, "forgot I was only painting and not cutting, shaping, removing of excess cuticle and all other potentially painful parts of a full nail job"
Grey Wolf
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
enderlord99
I've had pain from my fingernails being barely touched (such as in painting them) before, but usually that's because they'd been slammed in something a few weeks prior to that point.
Yeah that isn't what she's talking about at all.
EDIT for Grey Wolf: I... I can't be sure that's true, but we'll see.
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Peelee
Iron Maiden can't be fought.
Steppenwolf, 1968, Born to be Wild, the first Heavy Metal Song. Canadian-American band.
Sorry, beat you to it :smalltongue:
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Grey_Wolf_c
We're talking about the nation that managed to
forget the cure for scurvy, like, three times. So I wouldn't put it past them.
Grey Wolf
Look, we're good ah inventing things, but the idea of organisation passed us by. We keep forgetting where we put stuff.
I mean, withe the number of sports we've invented you think we'd be better at one of them, but honestly we're not quite sure where the rulebooks got to.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Anonymouswizard
At any rate I'd love to see a US remake of The Archers. It's the most popular soap opera in the country, and all without a single murderer.
What about that time Helen Spoiler
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stabbed Rob? I mean, sure, he didn't die, but she was damn well trying to.
But yes, more people should listen to The Archers. It's a brilliant insight into what the people in the studio down the road from my old flat in Birmingham think the countryside's like.
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I was talking about the traditional enemy, the one we've been fighting for a titans years or more. Sometimes in the battlefield, sometimes without clothes under the covers.
Ah, the Welsh.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Comrade
I mean, the Brits may have gotten the ball rolling on heavy metal, but we definitely perfected it.
Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, vs.... metallica. We full-on dropped the ball on it.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, vs.... metallica. We full-on dropped the ball on it.
Likely missed me saying it, but the first actual heavy metal band was Steppenwolf, a Canadian-American band :smallwink:
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
Likely missed me saying it, but the first actual heavy metal band was Steppenwolf, a Canadian-American band :smallwink:
I saw. I was comparing the biggest. Which, for the brits, is effectively interchangeable with "best," but is certainly not the case for us.:smalltongue:
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, vs.... metallica. We full-on dropped the ball on it.
When it comes to metal, I'm more of a death metal kinda guy. Judas Priest is pretty rad though.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
I saw. I was comparing the biggest. Which, for the brits, is effectively interchangeable with "best," but is certainly not the case for us.:smalltongue:
"Bigger is better" seems more like an American mentality, but fair. I just think if we're talking about who started it, it's us is all.
Not that I care music is music, man.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
Steppenwolf
I've tried so hard to forget that movie exists.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
"Bigger is better" seems more like an American mentality
Sounds like someone needs to watch This Is Spinal Tap.:smallwink:
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
Sounds like someone needs to watch This Is Spinal Tap.:smallwink:
If you give me $2000, I could customise an amp to go to 12.
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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Originally Posted by
Rawhide
I've tried so hard to forget that movie exists.
That's Steppenwolfe, because poor literacy is a good way of stepping around copyright laws.
Also same, truthfully.
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Peelee
Sounds like someone needs to watch This Is Spinal Tap.:smallwink:
Probably yeah.