Paul McCartney and 21 Pilots, both at Bonnaroo 2013.

21 Pilots were getting popular, but this was still a year before Blurryface came out, so they were on one of the smaller stages during the daytime. Even so, their energy was amazing.

Paul McCartney just had this presence about him. It also helps if you have multiple hours of hit songs that are completely cemented in popular culture. His two hour set lasted four hours, he came back out for four encores, and I don’t think a single person left early.

And since you didn’t say musical performances: comedian Emo Philips! Saw him at a comedy club and it was probably the funniest thing I’ve ever been to.

Heard this one as a “spooky ghost story” around the campfire at a summer camp when I was 11 and it was the funniest thing I had ever heard.

His voice is fantastic. He did a cover of Everlong by the Foo Fighters a while ago which is definitely worth a listen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C5oeWHngDS4

In the song Brown Eyed Girl:

Whatever happened

to Tuesday and so slow

Gun down the old man with a

transistor radio

I was picturing someone holding out a radio in front of them, brandishing it at the old man like how you’d wave a cross at a vampire. The old man doesn’t like that newfangled rock and roll music, so they’re shooting the sound waves at him to scare him off.

(It’s “going down the old mine with a transistor radio,” but whatever.)

Some kind of “empathy score.” Not sure what the formula would be, but it would reflect how readily they feel empathy for another person, and how many other people they can care about.

A narcissist would have a 0 – they can only care about themself. Someone with very limited empathy would have a small number – say, they can only care about their immediate family, and they need to really get to know someone before they care about that person. People who naturally care about others, even if they don’t know the other person, would have high numbers.

This number would sometimes just flat out tell you that certain people should be avoided, or certain conversations are pointless with that person. Or if you do need to try to convince them of something, the number may show you how to frame the conversation. E.g., show how it’s in their own interest if they have a low number.

He’s alive because he manipulated Lindsay Graham into taking his place in hell, for now, using some kind of underworld parliamentarian loophole that he learned when he clerked for Satan.

Only Murders in the Building features the HOA. It’s a TV show, and also I haven’t finished it yet, so it doesn’t quite fit your question. But it’s also a good show.

Pfft, the only “hoarding problem” is that storage is expensive these days!

High level racquetball is incredibly boring to watch. They need to tweak the game so that each rally goes for more than two hits.

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUhnIY3oRM

Otis Redding - Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C-VscEQugk

Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuanwn3v-2I

You bet! Knowing that you want someone to tell you what you want to hear is a perfect example of self-actualization. You’ve combined your own desire for group interaction with the confidence of an individualist — and that’s the game right there. Personal, but not pretentious; informed, but wanting input. And we’re only going up from here.

Might have been!

I had a friend in elementary school that was a little slow sometimes. One day we were walking home from school, and out of nowhere, he asks, “Why don’t they just make the Playstation 9?”

It took me a minute to figure out what he even meant by that. The Playstation 2 had just came out. Did he think that companies already have the schematics for all of their products decades into the future, but they’re just rolling them out one at a time anyway? Does he think that they already know what the PS 3 through 8 are going to be, and they can just…decide to skip those?

It was only about a year ago, right here in a fedi thread, that someone shared this PS2 commercial and I had a giant AH-HAH! moment that was decades in the making.

Oh, interesting. I’d go with Memory Alpha too, then. But yeah, definitely a pivot point in the series, and the first one that really took the post-war setting seriously.

I think you mean episode 18, that one is the second-to-last of the season.

And that is exactly the episode I was thinking of, too. I didn’t know which episode number it was, I just remember when I was watching DS9, there was an episode with the filing clerk, and I thought, “Oh, this show is actually going to be great if it stays like this.” I just looked it up on IMDB, and it’s S1 E18.

Jelly on top, absolutely. In all sandwiches, ingredients must go from least dense at the top to most dense at the bottom. This is part of the sandwich bitelaws.

IMO the existence of soup in a bread bowl shows that tacos and soup are even closer to each other, evolutionarily, than most scientists think.

CMV: pasta is an unleavened bread

Yes. A few weeks ago, some coworkers and I mapped out the entire sandwich taxonomy. You attain sandwich nirvana once you derive these definitions:

1. Hot dog is a taco.
2. Taco is a subcategory of sandwich.
3. If the sandwich contains an additional piece of bread inside of it, it is now a lasagna.
4. Lasagna is a subcategory of sandwich. 🤯

Now it all makes sense. Be at peace.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Thank you for reminding me of that one. It’s one of those movies that I mentally put on my “to watch” list when it came out, and I just realized that somehow I never got around to it.

edit: Oh dang, I never watched Her either. That is like, the most relevant movie of all time right now, lol. Need to get on that.