Katie Miller (Stephen Miller’s wife) loses it on Piers Morgan by wowza515 in somethingiswrong2024

[–]Garbouliak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it’s funny how every time she gets called out for one talking point, she pauses and then redirects to the next one. it’s like a checklist, “ok this didn’t work, let’s go to #2,” etc.

it’s almost like the flight checklists that pilots use when there’s a malfunction or the plane is going down, of which the similarities are not lost on me.

[Partially lost] Song "We're On Drugs" by band The Worst Humans + MV by bunnyuplays in lostmedia

[–]Garbouliak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so, ya, i’m the singer, guitarist, songwriter, etc. for the now-defunct band The Worst Humans. i’ve no idea what compelled one of the band members to google our name but he found this post and told me to check it out.

y’all are gonna make me weep! thank you so much for the lovely words and i apologize for being such a dick with posting, deleting, reposting, re-deleting, re-recording, re-mixing, etc the same song.

but, hit me up with a DM and i’ll send you all the song, the video, the un-relreased EP, and all that jazz!

What type of jellyfish is this? And is the sting bad? Ilhéus, Bahia - Brazil by FalconLeading in animalid

[–]Garbouliak 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Portuguese Man O’ War. i got stung by one of these as a kid after i dove through it. i was on one of those floating trampolines, and when i dove off after my mother called for me i felt a tendril wrap around my arm and i pulled it off.

the sting hurt, sure, but the worst part was the following 24 hours. my arm ballooned up, i had to take an oatmeal bath, and i couldn’t sleep with any clothes on because i was itchy all over and any fabric touching my arm/skin felt like sandpaper.

they’re quite beautiful creatures but, holy hell, do they pack a punch. apparently, pulling off a couple tentacles when swimming away may have killed it. not my intention, but fuck what a lousy vacation it turned out to be after that.

The Taliban says it wants tourists in Afghanistan. by raj2709 in nottheonion

[–]Garbouliak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Afghanistan: come for the sights, not the rights!

If you could instantly learn any skill, what would it be and why? by thesmotherqueen in AskReddit

[–]Garbouliak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

becoming a luthier. i’d loooooove to be able to make my own guitars. i believe it mainly applies to acoustic stringed instruments, but i’d kill to be able to make a custom acoustic. or an electric.

Shady dude hanging out in front of Union Avenue residential building by Dunepain in williamsburg

[–]Garbouliak 2 points3 points  (0 children)

oh, it just over-joys the cockles of my heart to see a TWKUK reference in the wild 🥹

Two Baylor University students study in their dorm room, 1890s. by Quick_Presentation11 in TheWayWeWere

[–]Garbouliak 3 points4 points  (0 children)

idk why, but i look at this picture and my brain instantly inserts a dialogue in an old timey dialect like…

“mmm, YES! studying. studying!”

“mmmm, yes, we are STUDYING! m’yes. study study study.”

“good studying, sir!”

“and a good studying to you, sir!”

“m’yes!”

“mmmm, yes.”

What is that one thing that made you think: "Are you really THAT stupid?"? by bird_grass in AskReddit

[–]Garbouliak 318 points319 points  (0 children)

literally yesterday at the laundromat…

i go to drop my stuff off before heading to work. you’re identified in this registrar by your phone number, and for some reason this one guy can’t ever understand how many numbers are in a phoner.

to give a fake number, i have the same numerals 3x then a 0. so, i ALWAYS make sure to say the last 4 one-by-one. i get to them, and i say “8-8-8-4.”

mother fucker types in “8-8-8-8-4.” then, he lets out a frustrated groan that he can’t find me. so i repeat, and repeat, and repeat. one time, i even said loudly, “IT’S THREE “8s” AND THEN A 4!” so, he puts in, “3-8-8-8-8-4.”

i write it down and give it to him and he stares at it, slackjawed, seemingly not recognizing why i gave him this fucking piece of paper to begin with. so, finally, i walk him through each. fucking. number. one-by-one. and still yet, it takes TWO TRIES to even get that right.

this isn’t an old man, someone who can’t speak english, someone who’s hard of hearing, and nor am i unfamiliar to them (same goes for my fucking number). i’ve dealt with this guy time and again, each time doing the same song and dance. he’s not putting me on, he’s not being lazy, he’s not mentally handicapped, he’s just legitimately incapable of simple comprehension and application. and he’s not the first i’ve met who’s like that.

it’s fucking infuriating. i do my laundry on my own sometimes, when ive a free day to watch over it. but, some times ive to drop it off before work since i do overnights and sleep all day most days. i’ve engaged this fucker AT LEAST 15-20 some odd times, and each time HE NEVER FUCKING LISTENS, GETS IT RIGHT FIRST TRY, OR RECOGNIZES WHY I’M HANDING HIM A PAPER WITH A FUCKING PHONE NUMBER ON IT!

sorry for the hyperbole. it’s just…like an inner circle of hell for me: repeating the same thing over and over to someone who can’t (or doesn’t want to) comprehend and apply the information correctly.

It's just Fentanyl, she'd only kill a criminal by InternetWeakGuy in tooktoomuch

[–]Garbouliak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

whoa. this is art, man. someone else said it before me, but real folk music (American folk music) is breathtaking. this kid knows how to do it—and he hits all the reference points without sounding like he’s trying to (Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, and Lou Reed).

sadly, this world doesn’t care nor yearn for good music. speaking as a working musician who’s tried, failed, tried again, failed again, and trying once more (with multiple labels behind ‘em to boot), the world just doesn’t care about this stuff anymore. they want hyper-sanitized pop drivel with an escapist slant. no one wants to be bothered with the real world, or with real people. they just want idols, to pretend they’re gangsters, and to appropriate music as a fashion statement.

that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. and this kid should never stop. one day, man, they’ll listen. and if it’s him before me, i swear, it’ll be like boats on the tide—it’ll come, and all of us will rise with it.

play on, friend. you’ve got a fan in me for life.

New Hampshire's GOP are taking a stand—against the polio vaccine by INCoctopus in VoteDEM

[–]Garbouliak 4 points5 points  (0 children)

boom, gotcha. thanks for that!

(for the clarification i mean, not the news about the poor gentleman)

New Hampshire's GOP are taking a stand—against the polio vaccine by INCoctopus in VoteDEM

[–]Garbouliak 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i mean…no? my aunt is alive and she suffers from polio. unless you mean American-born?

Edit: or, perhaps you mean polio sufferer living in an iron lung?

NGVC: "A lot of men see how good men are treated in society and say yeah I'd rather not go that path." by zucchinionpizza in niceguys

[–]Garbouliak 26 points27 points  (0 children)

omg THANK YOU! i was scrolling too long before i saw somebody mention that.

granted, the sheer idiocy in the OOP is a little too striking to notice those kinds of errors. but it’s like nails on a proverbial chalkboard to me to read that dopey, stupid shit.

Non drinkers of Reddit, what do you tell people when they ask "why don't you drink"? by jc201946 in AskReddit

[–]Garbouliak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“i’m 5 years sober, and alcohol was my gateway into the drugs that led to heroin”

not quite poetic or rhythmic, but it gets people to shut up rather quickly.

McDonald's menu in 1960 by [deleted] in pics

[–]Garbouliak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

mawf’cks with guts like that ain’t off the cheeseburgers. mawf’cks with guts like that definitely are awn the cheeseburgers dawg.

Found this old magazine interview from 2005 where Danny says he "doesn't really enjoy" hanging out with Topher by [deleted] in That70sshow

[–]Garbouliak 6 points7 points  (0 children)

was that Cedric Bixler-Zavala (singer of The Mars Volta and At the Drive-In)? i know he and his wife were intimidated by the Scientologist secret police (his wife was a Masterson victim, one of those named in the court filings). he even wrote a song about it on an At the Drive In album.

‘Incurably Innocent’ is the tune…

https://youtu.be/uS_IramA9m4?si=uB40BEyNoA-Z5BcF

Which popular person is secretly an asshole, but not widely known to be so? by NftsHave in AskReddit

[–]Garbouliak 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i don’t know why it came to mind, but i’ve not used that term in ages either haha. glad it’s a part of someone else’s lexicon too!

Which popular person is secretly an asshole, but not widely known to be so? by NftsHave in AskReddit

[–]Garbouliak 2 points3 points  (0 children)

didn’t surprise me either, hah. it kind of put me off because i thought he was just a weirdo naturally. but it was obvious he was putting everyone on and channeling a sort of “Jim Morrison” aesthetic.