The Saturday 6-Pack

ribbons · 09-24-2020, 03:01 AM

1. Do you believe in anything supernatural?
I believe in reincarnation.

2. Have you ever been in an awkward third wheel situation?
Yes, as a teenager hanging around with my eldest sister and her inappropriate then-husband.

3. If you had to choose an animal companion (as in a familiar or the daemons in His Dark Materials) what would it be?
a dove

4. How do you feel about horses?
I think they’re noble and beautiful creatures.

5. What is your favourite piece of clothing of all the clothes that you own? (bonus points for pictures)
I’m not really a clothes horse – I like to wear boots and have a vintage dark tartan suit I'm fond of wearing to work.

6. If you had to choose an epitaph for yourself, what would it be?
“Don’t Be Afraid, The Clown’s Afraid Too”

ribbons · 09-24-2020, 03:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

My daughter will be signing off on her first home this week, so I'm excited about that. Fun times ahead for my little family.

Wishing her all the best in her first home!

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I'm happy that I have a job that allows me to work from home during the pandemic, but I'd prefer to be working in the office.

Hi, Janszoon – nice to see you here again. I’m grateful that my job permits me to work remotely, but I never want to go back to the office! Much prefer to be at home.

Plankton · 09-24-2020, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I'm happy that I have a job that allows me to work from home during the pandemic, but I'd prefer to be working in the office.

I was the same way. I need the regimen of the daily grind since that's what I'm used to. Change hurts.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Admit it, you thought you could slacken off now that grindy is not around, but as I learned to my cost recently, Batlord is like grindy on steroids

I'm too am like Grindy on steroids, but with a twist of adrenochrome.

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Originally Posted by ribbons

Wishing her all the best in her first home!

Thank you ribbons!

**Marie Monday** · 09-24-2020, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ribbons

I’m not really a clothes horse – I like to wear boots and have a vintage dark tartan suit I'm fond of wearing to work.

Cool! I usually wear boots too. They make me feel a bit tougher than I am

ribbons · 09-24-2020, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

Cool! I usually wear boots too. They make me feel a bit tougher that I am

Me too! I need all the tough I can get.

**Janszoon** · 09-24-2020, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

Change hurts.

So does sitting at my dining room table all day every day.

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Originally Posted by ribbons

Hi, Janszoon – nice to see you here again. I’m grateful that my job permits me to work remotely, but I never want to go back to the office! Much prefer to be at home.

Nice to see you too! I'm definitely happy to be farther away from some of my coworkers, but the trade off is I never get a break from my annoying neighbors.

SGR · 09-26-2020, 04:42 PM

*cues up Tchami's "Afterlife"* I've got questions, I've got questions, spiritual questions...

1. How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed your life for the better? How about for the worse?

2. To what degree do you use social media? If you do use it, do you consider a net positive to your life?

3. What is one problem you foresee being solved in the next 50 years?

4. You are forced to go into armed combat with an intelligent orangutan that knows jiu-jitsu - you can bring one weapon (or object) that is not a firearm - what do you bring?

5. You're going to a party with all the cool kids - you want to show them how cool you are - what beverage do you bring to the party to share?

6. Have you ever read a book that changed your life? If so, what book was it?

Saturday's not over yet folks, not til you answer the 6-pack!

**Marie Monday** · 09-26-2020, 05:06 PM

1. How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed your life for the better? How about for the worse?
The only way in which it has improved my life is that I have more time for reading and cooking. The bad influences could be summed up as increased social anxiety and more depressed feelings
2. To what degree do you use social media? If you do use it, do you consider a net positive to your life?
I only have a facebook account which I never used until some friends decided they preferred facebook messenger to whatsapp (why?) so now I use it as a messenger platform. I avoid it for anything else still
3. What is one problem you foresee being solved in the next 50 years?
If bikes in the future will have tires that don't go flat every time some ******* leaves broken glass on the road that would be great
4. You are forced to go into armed combat with an intelligent orangutan that knows jiu-jitsu - you can bring one weapon (or object) that is not a firearm - what do you bring?
A boombox blasting Animal by Ke$ha
5. You're going to a party with all the cool kids - you want to show them how cool you are - what beverage do you bring to the party to share?
Whisky. No idea how cool that really is but it started to be my beverage of choice as a teenager just to rebel against the over-sweet cocktails girls around me were drinking and I felt very cool about it then
6. Have you ever read a book that changed your life? If so, what book was it?
lmao I don't think I need to give my answer to this (there are many such books actually)

**Frownland** · 09-26-2020, 06:32 PM

1. How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed your life for the better? How about for the worse?

Hard to know the scope of it yet. It's been a time of personal growth but also a lot of financial stress and I miss my friends, so it's a negative in the grand scheme of things.

2. To what degree do you use social media? If you do use it, do you consider a net positive to your life?

Facebook every day, mainly for messaging. It's a toxic time sink. I also moderate a music forum and it's alright I guess.

3. What is one problem you foresee being solved in the next 50 years?

Well, Donald Trump will definitely be dead.

4. You are forced to go into armed combat with an intelligent orangutan that knows jiu-jitsu - you can bring one weapon (or object) that is not a firearm - what do you bring?

Befriend him with a banana and then we both go after whoever is forcing us to fight each other. It would not only save us, but potentially thousands of injuries and deaths down the line.

However, if being a violent lackey is the only thing that the orangutan knows, would I have unknowingly ruined their life by attempting to save them? Maybe using the orangutan in my plot to kill their former master would put them in the mindset that I am now their new master, ready to pit them against anyone. The orangutan's thirst for violence may not end when the commands to attack stop. I could begin to send the orangutan to murder more people or deprive it of its true nature. Even if I did give it an outlet for violence, at what point would a new opponent wield the banana just as I did and cause my own death? It would only be a matter of time. It would be better to take on these opponents myself to provide the orangutan with violence by proxy. Though if nonviolence was my goal all along, would it really be worth it?

5. You're going to a party with all the cool kids - you want to show them how cool you are - what beverage do you bring to the party to share?

Koolaid because for one it's a pun and for two it's poisoned

6. Have you ever read a book that changed your life? If so, what book was it?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas made me want to become a journalist and sparked that pursuit until the reality of the modern news industry was too disillusioning. John Cage's Silence: Lectures and Writings was a paradigm shift on the way I understood music and reality. More recently, The Medium is the Massage blew my mind and opened me up to a new aspect of criticism.

OccultHawk · 09-26-2020, 06:35 PM

1. How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed your life for the better? How about for the worse?

Our response has amplified my hatred for America to where it should be. That’s good and bad.

2. To what degree do you use social media? If you do use it, do you consider a net positive to your life?

Only MB. 50/50

3. What is one problem you foresee being solved in the next 50 years?

My ****ing miserable existence will be over.

4. You are forced to go into armed combat with an intelligent orangutan that knows jiu-jitsu - you can bring one weapon (or object) that is not a firearm - what do you bring?

Nude Batlord with a surgically attached orangutan vagina.

5. You're going to a party with all the cool kids - you want to show them how cool you are - what beverage do you bring to the party to share?

Milk

6. Have you ever read a book that changed your life? If so, what book was it?

The Road to Los Angeles

09-26-2020, 04:42 PM	#9537 (permalink)
SGR No Ice In My Bourbon Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: /dev/null Posts: 4,327	cues up Tchami's "Afterlife" I've got questions, I've got questions, spiritual questions... 1. How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed your life for the better? How about for the worse? 2. To what degree do you use social media? If you do use it, do you consider a net positive to your life? 3. What is one problem you foresee being solved in the next 50 years? 4. You are forced to go into armed combat with an intelligent orangutan that knows jiu-jitsu - you can bring one weapon (or object) that is not a firearm - what do you bring? 5. You're going to a party with all the cool kids - you want to show them how cool you are - what beverage do you bring to the party to share? 6. Have you ever read a book that changed your life? If so, what book was it? Saturday's not over yet folks, not til you answer the 6-pack! Last edited by SGR; 09-26-2020 at 04:59 PM.

09-26-2020, 06:32 PM	#9539 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	1. How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed your life for the better? How about for the worse? Hard to know the scope of it yet. It's been a time of personal growth but also a lot of financial stress and I miss my friends, so it's a negative in the grand scheme of things. 2. To what degree do you use social media? If you do use it, do you consider a net positive to your life? Facebook every day, mainly for messaging. It's a toxic time sink. I also moderate a music forum and it's alright I guess. 3. What is one problem you foresee being solved in the next 50 years? Well, Donald Trump will definitely be dead. 4. You are forced to go into armed combat with an intelligent orangutan that knows jiu-jitsu - you can bring one weapon (or object) that is not a firearm - what do you bring? Befriend him with a banana and then we both go after whoever is forcing us to fight each other. It would not only save us, but potentially thousands of injuries and deaths down the line. However, if being a violent lackey is the only thing that the orangutan knows, would I have unknowingly ruined their life by attempting to save them? Maybe using the orangutan in my plot to kill their former master would put them in the mindset that I am now their new master, ready to pit them against anyone. The orangutan's thirst for violence may not end when the commands to attack stop. I could begin to send the orangutan to murder more people or deprive it of its true nature. Even if I did give it an outlet for violence, at what point would a new opponent wield the banana just as I did and cause my own death? It would only be a matter of time. It would be better to take on these opponents myself to provide the orangutan with violence by proxy. Though if nonviolence was my goal all along, would it really be worth it? 5. You're going to a party with all the cool kids - you want to show them how cool you are - what beverage do you bring to the party to share? Koolaid because for one it's a pun and for two it's poisoned 6. Have you ever read a book that changed your life? If so, what book was it? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas made me want to become a journalist and sparked that pursuit until the reality of the modern news industry was too disillusioning. John Cage's Silence: Lectures and Writings was a paradigm shift on the way I understood music and reality. More recently, The Medium is the Massage blew my mind and opened me up to a new aspect of criticism. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

09-26-2020, 06:35 PM	#9540 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	1. How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed your life for the better? How about for the worse? Our response has amplified my hatred for America to where it should be. That’s good and bad. 2. To what degree do you use social media? If you do use it, do you consider a net positive to your life? Only MB. 50/50 3. What is one problem you foresee being solved in the next 50 years? My **ing miserable existence will be over. 4. You are forced to go into armed combat with an intelligent orangutan that knows jiu-jitsu - you can bring one weapon (or object) that is not a firearm - what do you bring? Nude Batlord with a surgically attached orangutan vagina. 5. You're going to a party with all the cool kids - you want to show them how cool you are - what beverage do you bring to the party to share? Milk 6. Have you ever read a book that changed your life? If so, what book was it?** The Road to Los Angeles __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

09-24-2020, 03:01 AM	#9531 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	1. Do you believe in anything supernatural? I believe in reincarnation. 2. Have you ever been in an awkward third wheel situation? Yes, as a teenager hanging around with my eldest sister and her inappropriate then-husband. 3. If you had to choose an animal companion (as in a familiar or the daemons in His Dark Materials) what would it be? a dove 4. How do you feel about horses? I think they’re noble and beautiful creatures. 5. What is your favourite piece of clothing of all the clothes that you own? (bonus points for pictures) I’m not really a clothes horse – I like to wear boots and have a vintage dark tartan suit I'm fond of wearing to work. 6. If you had to choose an epitaph for yourself, what would it be? “Don’t Be Afraid, The Clown’s Afraid Too”