Last post wins!!!!!

[perfect_pitch]

It's a shame that Trump is so incompetent, that the news is focusing on him.

Scott Morrison however could be Trumps successor in ineptitude.

[ahinton]

It's a shame that Trump is so incompetent, that the news is focusing on him.

Scott Morrison however could be Trumps successor in ineptitude.

Not so much a successor as a contemporary, but otherwise I agree - and then there's the egregious Mr Johnson...

Best,

Alistair

[j_tour]

It's a shame that Trump is so incompetent, that the news is focusing on him.

Scott Morrison however could be Trumps successor in ineptitude.

Yeah, well, actually it's effing great some TV show person is in the hot seat in the USA:  his vice-president is closer to some jackass bible-thumper. 

I mean, Mike effing Pence is some corn-shucking piece of crap bible-class POS.

I'd rather have effing Trump for another four years than some cornholing piece of garbage like that bible-thumper in office.

At least Trump doesn't give a ess.  Everyone knows:  like in an electrical diagram, just add an inverter or shift some bubbles around and (oh...OK, a "bubble" would be a shortcut in diagrams for inverting a signal from, say, high to low, or on to off).

But some maniac.  Trump is easy:  just break the bar and flip the sign.  At least he's a heathen.

/* ETA More like that a**hole is that "special little guy" in a workplace about whom nobody thinks or talks.  A little indigo child.  Flame-on Oz or Pence are far more dangerous, since they pretend to be literate, despite their heretical, turncoat ways.*/

/*EETA No, I'm not defending that Teabagging piece of trash, just that the enemy one knows is easier to predict and, ultimately, control.  In the US, the true enemy are the anglophiles, with their bizarre sects brought over from some of the islands north of Europe.  The lowest point in the history of the North American colonies was not Cortés, but rather the anglo Colonialists' defeat of New France.*/

//Forgot to be a gentleman

With you always, and always with my best, best regards,

j_t

[perfect_pitch]

You know what... you're right. Just when I think we have it bad - the US always has some bone-fide dumbarse screwing things over far worse than the Aussies ever could.

[j_tour]

You know what... you're right. Just when I think we have it bad - the US always has some bone-fide dumbarse screwing things over far worse than the Aussies ever could.

Well, I wouldn't go that far.  i'd say you all managed to survive being on an island, but there are some problems there.

Canada and the US have had some serious problems, what with the English and all. 

Lots of hockey and so forth. 

Loathing in NA,

j_t

[Bob]

*Bob wanders back in but doesn't know what's going on.*

[j_tour]

*Bob wanders back in but doesn't know what's going on.*

I would not worry about it

Here, do a cat thing about this:

 

[perfect_pitch]

Imagine posting that - thinking that only your friends and family will see it...

Oh how the internet is wild.

[j_tour]

Imagine posting that - thinking that only your friends and family will see it...

Oh how the internet is wild.

Yeah.  I'm starting to think some netizens have a combination of pathological impulsiveness and some form of dementia.

But I wouldn't know anything about that.

Salutations, oh, eff it, I'm not signing jack ess anymore.  It could be evidence used against me by my many enemies, but more likely, it's just stupid and boring.

Not that there's anything wrong with it.

Besides everything.

[perfect_pitch]

Salutations, oh, eff it, I'm not signing jack ess anymore.  It could be evidence used against me by my many enemies, but more likely, it's just stupid and boring.

I did not see you what didn't sign your post.  How's a supposed to know it be from you and yourn?

I ought a come learn you some things about manners, boy.

Supposed to be a civilized thread and such like, what with the fancy talk and musical goings on.



 

[j_tour]

I did not see you what didn't sign your post.  How's a supposed to know it be from you and yourn?

I'm just going to leave that there and see if you can work out where you went wrong.

[perfect_pitch]

I love the irony of this, because... this:

I did not see you what didn't sign your post.  How's a supposed to know it be from you and yourn?

Was from YOUR post almost a month ago:

I did not see you what didn't sign your post.  How's a supposed to know it be from you and yourn?

Also is that a potato head figure supposed to be my wife? 

I ought a come learn you some things about manners, boy.

Supposed to be a civilized thread and such like, what with the fancy talk and musical goings on. 

You're right... see if you can figure out where you went wrong.



Ahhhh... it feels so good.

[j_tour]

I love the irony of this, because... this:

Was from YOUR post almost a month ago

Well, you can just tuck that neck back in, mister man.

I didn't see a signature on that post. 

Who will be the 11000th poster in this thread? 

Exactly.

[Bob]

I would not worry about it

Here, do a cat thing about this:

 

*Bob is confused for a second.  Bob is in low power mode here lately.*

But I still win... :p


And here.  I found it.

[perfect_pitch]

Who will be the 11000th poster in this thread? 

Not you... that's for sure. And anyway, who cares about who is 11,000th.

11K is a rather crappy number. Holding the 10Kth feels pretty damn good... and I'll make sure I take the 20Kth post as well in years to come.

[j_tour]

11K is a rather crappy number. Holding the 10Kth feels pretty damn good... and I'll make sure I take the 20Kth post as well in years to come.

11 is a mo&^%&ing PRIME number, mo&^^*@er! 

10?  10 is nothing.  10 is the base of a useless logarithmic function.  10 is the number of fingers most women have.  All real men have fewer complete digits, explained by injuries caused by fighting cats of prey, or firing into the jungle while battling communism.

[perfect_pitch]

10 is almost the entire basis on which our world revolves around - it is the base for our ability to count, our currency, measuring volume length and time.

You don't like the Decimal system? Tough. You're just pissed because you weren't the 10011100010000th poster.

And I will claim the 100111000100000th post as well. Don't you worry.

[j_tour]

10 is almost the entire basis on which our world revolves around - it is the base for our ability to count, our currency, measuring volume length and time.

Is it? 

What about the harmonic series, or pints of ale?

Some avant-garde British composers probably disliked both those as much as you.

Common factor:

Respect for the imperial Crown of the motherland.

Best,

j_pommie

[perfect_pitch]

What about the harmonic series, or pints of ale?

Who the bloody hell uses the imperial system of measurement nowadays??? (I mean, apart from the weirdo Americans).

The world has moved on from inches, ounces and pints.

[ahinton]

Who the bloody hell uses the imperial system of measurement nowadays??? (I mean, apart from the weirdo Americans).

No one, to my knowledge.

The world has moved on from inches, ounces and pints.

It has indeed, a long time ago, and we should be thankful for that; I'm not sure that I ever did figure out how many inches in a quart or ounces in a kilometre but then many years ago when I first attended school in Scotland we were taught metric measurements first (which seemed eminently sensible as they're so much simpler and accord to the Arabic numerical system) before moving on reluctantly to Imperial which always struck me as a complete waste of time. What has arguably hampered the much needed transition from Imperial to metric in UK has been some people's seeming determination to try to "convert" the one to the other, for no useful reason known to man or woman.

Best,

Alistair

[j_tour]

Therefore, one has an ambiguous self-loathing directed at the idea of the British, affects continental manners, and abstains from alcohol.

So, avant garde, experimental in nature, and reserved in expression.

These characteristics resemble those expressed by certain composers.

Would that they fully embraced what's implied by a pedantic adherence to decimalization:  namely, a microtonal system.

Which is fantastic:  one could write a whole long set of studies based on that idea.  But one should not, and has not done that.

Why is that, anyway?

[perfect_pitch]

I'm sorry... I'm still on the aforementioned pints of ale...

I'll be with you when I sober up.   

[j_tour]

I'm sorry... I'm still on the aforementioned pints of ale...

I'll be with you when I sober up.   

Exactly.

And I continue to sip from this Amontillado from the continent.  Finger five extended.  Three decilitres and no more, I should have said!  It is the gentleman's limit.

Your crude beverage offends me! 

Cigar ash and crumpled-up horse betting slips. 

Just the sort of thing we were hoping to avoid in the wilds.  Shocking, really, in this age.  Such manners.

Best,

j_pommie

[perfect_pitch]

Three decilitres and no more, I should have said!

That's barely over a single glass... it's hot over here in Australia - I demand MORE ALE!!!

[j_tour]

That's barely over a single glass... it's hot over here in Australia - I demand MORE ALE!!!

Well, you could pour it into some ape-fist quantity like a pint glass.

But that would be cheating.

All right, I've had enough of this game.  I also would like some MOAR BEER!!!!!  But I'm going to get it by the pint tomorrow morning, at 0900, at the local bar.

Like a gentleman.

Best,

jt

[perfect_pitch]

All right, I've had enough of this game.  I also would like some MOAR BEER!!!!!  But I'm going to get it by the pint tomorrow morning, at 0900, at the local bar.

I can't believe it - you are more than welcome to have some Moar beer...



I thought maybe you were illiterate... I guess I was wrong.

[j_tour]

I can't believe it - you are more than welcome to have some Moar beer...

Indeed.

[perfect_pitch]

Didn't I just win about 15 mins ago???

[j_tour]

Didn't I just win about 15 mins ago???

Charlie Sheen, of screen and stage renown, objects:  he claims he is winning.  All the time.

[perfect_pitch]

Well - he has millions of dollars, fame and is known across the internet.

I'd say that is Winning... just like me; right now.   

[Bob]

Listen at your own risk.  I think perfect_pitch will get the most out of this..... mwuah... haha.....

Darnit.  This won't work.    Click to 15:45 min.

[perfect_pitch]

Ahhh... Good o' Stephen Colbert. He makes politics fun to listen to...

[j_tour]

No good deed goes unpunished. 

Y'all ain't got no winning spirit, so you alls point spread goes down to nothing, check it out.

Winning again.

[ahinton]

Therefore, one has an ambiguous self-loathing directed at the idea of the British, affects continental manners, and abstains from alcohol.

So, avant garde, experimental in nature, and reserved in expression.

These characteristics resemble those expressed by certain composers.

Would that they fully embraced what's implied by a pedantic adherence to decimalization:  namely, a microtonal system.

Which is fantastic:  one could write a whole long set of studies based on that idea.  But one should not, and has not done that.

Why is that, anyway?

As a Scot, I suppose that I am a sort "British composer" (at least for the time being), though by no means an avant-gardist one. You can keep the ale; I wouldn't touch a drop of it any more than any other kind of beery substance regardless of its country of origin, because I cannot abide any of it. - but I'm no teetotaller.

I've written no microtonal music but, although I've always adhered to the semitonal one, that doesn't make me a fan of the clumsy, awkward and antediluvian "imperial" system of measurements.

Best,

Alistair

[perfect_pitch]

No good deed goes unpunished. 

Y'all ain't got no winning spirit

I had the win for 5 days while you forgot about this thread.

You ain't a winner.

[j_tour]

I had the win for 5 days while you forgot about this thread.

You ain't a winner.

Yeah. well at least I don't sign my posts.

Five days indeed.

Just been counting up all those days and nights spent losing.

Don't feel too bad:

My mother told me long ago I've got nothing to be ashamed of. 

[perfect_pitch]

You just recently stopped signing your posts... why you started I'll never know.

I did it once and felt dirty just doing it.

Also, sorry about you losing sleep over those nights losing...

I've got plenty more to add to your counter.

[j_tour]

You just recently stopped signing your posts... why you started I'll never know.

I did it once and felt dirty just doing it.

Also, sorry about you losing sleep over those nights losing...

I've got plenty more to add to your counter.

Wait...it wasn't my mother, it was....oh.  Bleeding hell, what's the difference.

Bunch of islanders.

Cheers,

j_jagoff



ETA And, yes, I think it's priobable that future archeologists will see this thread and remark, "These primitives were barely capable!  And yet, j_tour seems to have won!  Remarkable chap!"

[perfect_pitch]

And yet, j_tour seems to have won!

Why would they think that?!?

Also, that sheet music doesn't even have a double bar line, OR a time signature. What piss-poor amateur arrangement is that?!?   

[j_tour]

Why would they think that?!?

Also, that sheet music doesn't even have a double bar line, OR a time signature. What piss-poor amateur arrangement is that?!?   

All right, special needs.  Fine.  Now it's perfect. 

[perfect_pitch]

Sure... perfect. Congratulations - you have managed to make it worse... far worse than it was before. That is an accomplishment.

When did you get out of rehab, and how long have you been jonesing for???

[j_tour]

Sure... perfect. Congratulations - you have managed to make it worse... far worse than it was before. That is an accomplishment.

When did you get out of rehab, and how long have you been jonesing for???

No it was not difficult at all.  One might say it wasn't much of an accomplishment at all. One might even say it was the opposite of any of the meritorious qualities of perfection or success, but I wouldn't know about that.

"But I will not tell to you, as you very blatantly said to me, that your arguments are pointless."  I swear it, some of the utterances lately are almost legendary in their quotability.  I'm thinking there's some meme stuff coming up, as in, "all your base are belong to us" and so forth.

Lot of people being way too serious, at least for my tastes, so the solution is, in my view, just outright mockery of whatever.  It's all in good fun.

Plus, I'm too busy winning for all that rehab sh*^! 

Best regards and a fine bunch of wishes for the upcoming season, and in fine, I salute all the children of the empire with my very enduring gratitude, and remain your loyal servant,

j_t

[perfect_pitch]

I have too much pride to know who the hell that is.

[j_tour]

I have too much pride to know who the hell that is.

Oh, come on.  Amy Winehouse, while surely a troubled person, was a rather traditional singer in popular music.  She had a rare set of pipes, and while her taste was not always the most mature, that can be excused given her age,

Is pop music, even though in a conservative or retro style as balls-out as Mozart?  No, not quite as good, but it's still impressive technically, I find, even though the musical setting is not very sophisticated in AW's case. Which is unfortunate, given that there are certainly ways to elevate the tone within the form. 

But, nobody can have done everything, so, it's just the way it is.

Oh, probably her best known recording among the general public is, "Rehab."

[perfect_pitch]

Is pop music, even though in a conservative or retro style as balls-out as Mozart?  No, not quite as good, but it's still impressive technically

Really??? You're comparing Mozart...



...to THIS?!? People who usually now have no vocal talent whatsoever, relying on auto-tune and lip-synching; who aren't even singing but look hot in a leotard, twerking for the camera???

I thought 'Rehab' was her favourite holiday destination.     

[j_tour]

Really??? You're comparing Mozart...

Well, yes I compared disfavorably Amy WInehouse's art specifically to Patricia Petitbon's performance of "Der Hölle Rache."  Can't really argue with that.

About the costumes and the festooneries, I have no opinion.  Some kind of deranged attempt at Gesamtkunstwerk for children, I suppose.

[perfect_pitch]

I can only assume Nicki Minaj was trying to dress up like Barbie then, given her outfit.

Seems fitting since she's got very few thoughts running through her head and looks mainly plastic.

[outin]

There used to be pretty pictures in this thread, I am very disappointed in you!

I must again make it better I guess...

[perfect_pitch]

There used to be pretty pictures in this thread

This...

...is pretty???

Sure... let's go along the same lines. Here's a pretty picture:

[outin]

I am sure our friend j_tourette will appreciate this one