08-24-2013, 06:58 AM | #1776 |
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My knowledge of British PM's is Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, and the current guy is... David Cameron? So don't feel bad about not knowing presidents, haha.
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>Obama
Although he's known as the 44th, there has actually been 42 different presidents of the US, as explained in this video.
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08-24-2013, 08:28 AM | #1778 | |
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Yeah but American schooling is internationally notorious for being stupidly America-centric. I'm surprised you can name that many (although I'd bet that one of the main things you've been told about Churchill is that his mother was American).
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08-24-2013, 10:02 AM | #1779 |
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Never heard that about Churchill.
Can add to phoopes's list John Major, Benjamin Disraeli, and Neville Chamberlain, but yeah, not that familiar with British PMs. (And w/o looking it up, wasn't Oliver Cromwell PM? Or was he just a different sort of statesman?)
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08-24-2013, 10:11 AM | #1780 | |
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I am amused that neither of you got Gordon Brown, and disappointed but not surprised that neither of you got Clement Atlee (took over in 1945, his government created the welfare state including amongst other things the NHS, generally up there with Thatcher and Churchill as the top three in most attempts at ranking PM's). Given he ran the government that created one of the most successful welfare states/system of socialised healtcare in the world I'd be surprised if he gets any mention in a country so apparently hellbent against those kind of things :p
Cromwells official title was "Lord Protector" - he was pretty much monarch in all but name, and his son succeeded him.
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So when I was about to check my mail, I came across one of those typical shock murder stories. I usually don't pay attention to them, because I would just be feeding the ratings for those kinds of stories, but something about this one caught my attention. It was this picture of a "mourning" family member. When I saw that picture, I laughed. Oh my fucking god I laughed. I think she's supposed to be crying over her dead family, but to me she looks like she's disappointed after dropping her cake. More of these shock murder stories should have pictures like that.
Actually, I have a great idea for funerals. If I were a dead body man, I would put a huge grin on the dead bodies for the funerals (open eyes of course). I think it would liven up the occasion. Kids would be all "It's so sad that grandma died.", and the parent would go "Don't be sad. Look at how happy she is!" |
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Fun French fact: Undertakers, in the old days (say when european folks started living in America), they were nicknamed "croque-morts" (literally means "dead-biters"), because legend say biting a body's ear or toe was how they verify if a person was really dead. The real reason though is since their job is to bury the bodies and such, it gave the impression they would make the bodies dissapear, as if they ate them (as in biting = chewing, eating).
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08-25-2013, 01:57 PM | #1793 |
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brb crying
Nah, I got a good chuckle out of that. I like puns, and it's good to laugh at yourself every once and awhile.
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My phoopes-related goal in life is to find a relevant situation for a significant number of phoopes puns I have set aside.
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08-26-2013, 07:38 AM | #1796 |
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Horrible Histories was glorious. Had the entire set up until I left secondary school, then I donated them all the the school library because I felt I'd outgrown them. Made me sad, but it was the right choice.
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Japanese Beyoncé - Watanabe Naomi, the video advertises.
But it's kind of hard to claim that you're a Japanese Beyoncé when every video I find of your performances on YouTube has you clearly lip synching her songs. ^^; Here's Number 2, for example. Clearly just lip synching, not even trying to hide it. And here's Number 3. (What's really embarrassing about this one is that the host asks the audience to give her a big round of applause, but then -- utter silence. ^^; The sound seems to sort of go unnaturally quiet there, though, so I'm thinking that the video is just missing the sound there. But if not ... daaaaayum, what a cold reception. ^^;; ) So where are the bonafide impressions you do? Or do you only do lip synching? And when it's not videos of your performances, apparently it's videos of interviewers finding your stash of eromanga magazines and you then doing impressions of family restaurant employees with vibrating dildos stuck up their ******s. ^^;
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08-27-2013, 02:46 PM | #1798 | |
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A great rule of thumb here; if you have to describe yourself as "the [nationality] [person]" or "[time period] [group]" - Japanese Beyonce, 2010's answer to the Beatles, whatever - you're almost certainly massively inferior to them. If you weren't, wannabes would be describing themselves as the [x] version of you.
I don't even like Beyonce much, but this girl .
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08-28-2013, 01:12 AM | #1799 |
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She is much thinner and less comically over-sized in the porno raid video. That said, I think most of the appeal is she's the embodiment of physical comedy. From Talon's description I had an inkling she was lip-synching her own songs...but then I listened to the video.
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This was precisely the context I found her in. I was watching one of the "No Laughing" New Year specials of Gaki no Tsukai's and at one point the men are placed before a stage and told that American celebrities will be showing up. First is Naomi -- a fat Japanese Beyoncé impersonator -- and second was some other quite overweight woman who was dressed like Madonna and was probably meant to be an oversized Madonna impersonator. Several times, the men comment on how much weight Naomi has put on; and each time she does one of her pelvic thrust marathons, they lose control and start laughing. It's hard to tell how much of it is them laughing at the outrageousness of her on-stage humor -- the "physical comedy", as you put it -- and how much of it is them laughing at a fat chick trying to be sexy. But it's hard to think that there isn't at least some of the latter given how they mentioned her weight gain. Might they have burst out laughing had Beyoncé Knowles started thrusting her hips like a jackhammer? Maybe. But I dunno. I get the feeling that her weight gain was a calculated decision by her and/or her agent(s) to try and play up her comic appeal. Anyway, I'm just disappointed that they call her a Japanese Beyoncé when all she is is some ordinary person who is lip synching to Beyoncé's songs. As a comedy act, I don't really find it funny; and as a musical act, well, it isn't one, is it?
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