Thread for things that dont deserve threads

[Low D]

I got all excited yesterday when Amazon sent me an email to say they were dispatching Here Comes Everybody - I assumed the publication date for James's book had suddenly been moved forward. Then I remembered it was a book of the same name about social media by Clay Shirky ...

I got an email yesterday from Spin CDs that my copy of the new Popes CD was dispatched.

[Frances]

You got 6 right!
PG is a tea, isn't it? Trick question.

I got 6 too and I live here.

Random question. Do you actually say jacket potato? Just sounds weird.

[firehazard]

Random question. Do you actually say jacket potato?

All the time. We live off a diet of spuds over here.

[philipchevron]

Random question. Do you actually say jacket potato?

All the time. We live off a diet of spuds over here.

But it is important the potatoes are appropriately dressed.

[Frances]

Random question. Do you actually say jacket potato?

All the time. We live off a diet of spuds over here.

I would buy them at the Wendy's around Piccadilly but always felt idiotic saying jacket potato. Now it's gone. Que Sera.


It raises my hackles when people ask me You all right there? in Dublin, too. My problem. They're just asking if I need assistance, I realize.

[NewJerseyRich]

{sigh}

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/12-extremely-disappointing-facts-about-popular-mus

[Low D]

:? {sigh}

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/12-extremely-disappointing-facts-about-popular-mus

Not that this changes any of that disappointing information, but i thought it was interesting to learn that, when the Beatles catalogue was launched on iTunes, the #1 seller was neither a Lennon/McCartney rocker, nor one of the big ballads. It was in fact the George Harrison's acoustic "Here Comes the Sun".

[Frances]

It was in fact the George Harrison's acoustic "Here Comes the Sun".

I know teachers buy that song a lot.
One pores over iTunes looking for classic, self-esteem building songs like Big Yellow Taxi, Kodachrome, Sweet Baby James, Jambalaya, Sing, It's Not Easy Being Green, Rainbow Connection, Wide Open Spaces, The 59th Street Bridge Song, Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard and their ilk. Though Sweet Baby James mentions beer. Once.

The kids still have fever though.

[O'Blivion]

Nike is apologizing for a new St. Patrick's Day-themed sneaker that offended many in the buildup to its release.



The SB Dunk Low "Black and Tan" trainers, which launch in the U.S. this week, were ostensibly named after the famous drink combining a dark beer -- usually Guinness -- with a lighter lager.

But "Black and Tan," which is the sneaker's "unofficial" name, has a darker connotation for many Irish people: it's also the name of a British paramilitary unit sent to quell Irish rebellion against British rule in the 1920s, a strike that led to many attacks on civilians.

"Black and Tan" or "Tan" is still a pejorative term for the British in Ireland. As the LA Times notes, "it would be akin, in some circles, to naming a sneaker the Taliban or the Nazi."

After a period of silence, Nike has apologized, as a spokesperson said in a statement to the Telegraph:

"This month Nike is scheduled to release a version of the Nike SB Dunk Low that has been unofficially named by some using a phrase that can be viewed as inappropriate and insensitive. We apologise. No offence was intended."
As far as we can tell, though, the shoe isn't been pulled or subjected to a name change.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/1 ... ref=topbar

[georgecat]

And in more insulting news...there is Urban Outfitters.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... ogans.html

Really? Seriously?

[philipchevron]

And in more insulting news...there is Urban Outfitters.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... ogans.html

Really? Seriously?

Hey look! It's George and Georgecat!

[georgecat]

Hi Philip!!!
I've been a bit MIA for a while. Job changes and what not. It was hard for me to sneak online without the boss seeing, but found a super great job now so all it good!

[Low D]

And in more insulting news...there is Urban Outfitters.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... ogans.html

Really? Seriously?

I just wanna go on record as saying the "i'm a f*cking leprechaun" is pretty funny. the rest are rubbish, and Urban Outfitters don't have much excuse in 2012.

[RoddyRuddy]

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[NewJerseyRich]

And in more insulting news...there is Urban Outfitters.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... ogans.html

Really? Seriously?

I just wanna go on record as saying the "i'm a f*cking leprechaun" is pretty funny. the rest are rubbish, and Urban Outfitters don't have much excuse in 2012.

I find Urban Outfitters stores and consumers to often be pretentious douchebags