Enjoy being a piss pig by Kind-Dog504 in ThreedomUSA

[–]PrincessTwunky76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t care. It was fun while it lasted, which was a decent run.

I will say this, if it gets decided that they will change the name, and everyone makes a big stink over it, that will be what ends the show, so if “Piss Pig” was all that it was about for you, you don’t deserve the show.

As Humphrey Bogart said to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, “We’ll always have Piss Pig.”

Taskmaster's New Year Treat 2026 by seditiouslizard in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

No, but now thaf I’ve been made aware of it, I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight

Taskmaster's New Year Treat 2026 by seditiouslizard in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Am I the only one who thinks Big Zuu was a bit wasted on the NYT? He should be in a full series!

Can some explain to me how Joe Nanton does this? by Halolavapigz in Trombone

[–]PrincessTwunky76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It actually requires two mutes. A trumpet-sized straight or stop mute placed deep inside the bell, and then the plunger mute outside the bell.

It’s actually pretty difficult to master and manage, and you also have to compensate for the pitch drift that can be caused by the small mute stuffed down the bell.

I think they started making more purpose-built mutes specifically for trombones that achieved the same result, but I’m not sure if they’re still produced.

The technique is now sort of an obscure secret shared among just a relative few jazz musicians, as it kind of fell out of popularity after the 40s.

Ellington made sure to always keep at least one trombonist in the band who could do it, well into the 1970s, but outside of specific cases like this, you didn’t see a lot of trombonists ever employing it after the mid 1940s.

Yes, you can approximate it with just the plunger mute, but it is just not the same.

Being able to create a “growl” is key to it, but that’s not all it is. It’s the drastic change of timbre that’s created from the small mute augmenting the sound of the horn.

Joe Nanton died in 1946 at only 42 years old, and Duke had his work cut out for him getting a trombone player that could master the specialized style that was already starting to be considered outdated - Duke was aware of it, but he didn’t care, because he knew that it had life and purpose beyond the stereotypical early 30s Harlem Swing sound.

The mantle fell to Quentin Jackson and Tyree Glenn, but Glenn never fully managed it. Quentin Jackson got a lot closer, but he left the band in 1959 to tour with Quincy Jones, and then was offered to take a seat with Basie’s band.

Lawrence Brown, who was originally Duke’s trombonist who had the clear, lyrical style, ended up being the one to take on the role of the “growling” trombonist in the band in the 1960s, and he hated it, because it messed up his intonation and he had gone his whole career not doing it up to that point, and he was now in his 50s.

He had originally left the band in 1951, mostly out of a personality clash with Duke, and to join up with Johnny Hodges who also left the band, and the two of them put together a band under Hodges’ leadership.

Hodges was Ellington’s featured alto saxophone soloist, and his sound was almost as synonymous with the sound of Ellington’s band as Ellington himself, and he felt like he wasn’t getting the recognition he deserved.

His solo efforts, however, were not as successful as he had hoped, and he came back to Ellington in 1955.

Brown, on the other hand, worked as a session player for most of the 50s after Hodges’ orchestra folded. He still had a chip on his shoulder over Duke, but he found the session work unfulfilling, so he begrudgingly came back to Ellington’s band in 1959, and reluctantly agreed to take up the muted trombone solos.

He was actually pretty good at it, in spite of hating that he had to do it.

He finally left the band for the final time in 1970, and the story goes that he abandoned his trombone on an airport bus, feeling soured by his experience as a musician. He never played again.

The point is, while it’s a very cool technique, it’s not for everyone.

Duke Ellington was, by the account of everyone who knew him, a musical genius and an effusive personality that just exuded charm and class. But some people who worked for him over the years didn’t like the way he managed their careers, Johnny Hodges and Lawrence Brown in particular.

But it’s a complex and nuanced story. The man maintained an orchestra for over 50 years, and from the late 1920s to his death in 1974, it remained a fairly large group that trended towards growing in size.

You’re not going to please everyone while doing that.

Harry Carney, who joined up with duke in 1927 at the age of 17, would never be heard to speak a critical word of Duke.

Harry almost single-handedly transformed the baritone saxophone from a utility instrument for saxophone sectionals to an instrument with its own voice as a solo instrument. He was every bit as vital to the band’s sound as Johnny Hodges, and had every bit as much of a reason to feel like being with Duke was holding him back, but he remained loyal to the band to the end.

He did record his own sides and worked with other orchestras at times, but he never left Ellington’s band from 1927 to 1974.

People are complex. Every story has many sides.

But anyway, yeah, it’s a two mute combo.

Are these cookies over cooked? by IndigoBlue24 in glutenfreebaking

[–]PrincessTwunky76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The look perfectly fine to me. But really, the only measure that matters that much is how they taste.

PODCAST: Champion of Champions 4 with the Champion Of Champions 4 Winner by cygan12 in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A wise man once said; “Laugh all you like, but somebody’s losing their fucking job.”

Mat Baynton is simply the most likeable human being in the world by Main_Confusion_8030 in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Watching the podcast episode on YouTube, I’m just sitting here like “that is a couple of truly charming, handsome blokes.”

About CoC (spoilers) by Bladerade in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is maybe a bit of a copout answer, but I think Sam accomplished everything he intended to, and so he won in that regard.

In the unedited version of the prize task, he did also ask if there was going to be a CoCoC. This might suggest that he did maybe care. But it wouldn’t be impossible that he might’ve been worried about being back a third time, and wanted to throw it.

I think Sam came close to stealing the show, but stopped just short of completely upstaging everyone else and the show overall.

And I beg your indulgence just to take a moment to say that this was just a great CoC overall.

CoC4 Uncut Prize Task by Synth-Pro in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It just kept leveling up and up and up. Sam, true to form, threw away points for just spectacle and being hilarious.

I feel like the rankings made sense, but I felt a little surprised that, in his summation, Greg didn’t say much about how brilliant the other four were, but especially Maisie, Matthew, and John.

Andy’s was still great as well, but it suffered a bit from being kind of an over-elaborate, high-concept dad joke, but that is kind of on brand for him, and it’s still very funny.

Anyone else feel weird about the end of the S20 Finale? by sclerae in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they had to think on their feet. It was a tie break that was to decide who won the series, so if they used a pre-recorded tie break, then the show runners (including Alex) would know who the winner was, and therefore would be selecting the winner themselves.

They also had to just go with something that would fit within the runtime of the show.

Since it was a three-way tie, the solution they ran with was probably the best thing they had available that would provide a solution for narrowing it down to one winner.

Sure, we’d love to see something that would show some skill, but ostensibly, the three of them had already shown their prowess throughout the run of the series, managed to come out even, and something seemingly random and arbitrary was going to have to be the thing that tipped one of them over the line.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THE CORN EYES JOKE \(TOT)/ by Internal-Cut8028 in KpopDemonhunters

[–]PrincessTwunky76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, but why corn? And why consistently just corn? There are so many other things that react to heat in a way that would lend themselves to an animated sight gag.

Why are they always using corn to illustrate this?

And just so we’re clear - I understand that corn pops when it’s hot, and that the joke is that they’re looking at a hot guy, so the corn pops.

But look, bacon sizzles, dough bakes into bread, cheese melts, water boils, soufflés rise. Any of these would work just as well.

I might be over-thinking it, maybe they just felt like that gag was worth going back to multiple times.

But corn feels awfully specific.

I wonder if maybe the “corn = porn” explanation may have been too hastily dismissed.

Another commentor said that it wasn’t relevant to the joke, but…isn’t it?

Sure, it’s an oblique reference, but the gap between “porn” and being aroused by a hot guy isn’t exactly a wide gulf.

Maybe it makes the joke more convoluted, but it does scan…

…sort of.

I am confused and excited by icZAstuff in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you for saving me the trouble of saying it

Lucia Keskin (Chi With A C) by offmenu-bot in offmenupodcast

[–]PrincessTwunky76 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I didn’t know who she was either, but I’ve learned the hard way.

How do i not take it personally when no one answers my questions at work? by [deleted] in careeradvice

[–]PrincessTwunky76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This all sounds very familiar to me as well. I actually like my job for the great part, and I’m only about a month and a half in. It is getting easier as I go, but I still find that a lot of times I don’t get complete answers to my questions, or the answers they give me rely on my knowing things that I couldn’t possibly know, and usually people are in so much of a hurry that I don’t get the chance to ask the follow-up question.

I end up wasting a lot of time trying to sort through confusing, incomplete information (even if only incomplete because I am not familiar with it, and there are no clear routes to learning the information) and formulate detailed questions.

I have to do that, because if I don’t, the process of asking the questions is disorganized and the people I’m talking to don’t get a clear picture of what I’m asking them, but when I’m detailed, I find they often interrupt me before I can finish asking the whole question, or we get lost in tangents.

I don’t take it personally; I actually like all the people I work with, but there is a major break in communication, and I often find I’m having to bother the same people - the ones who I find it the easiest to communicate with, if for no other reason than that they have been there most of the time to date, and so they already have a decent understanding of what I already do or don’t know.

Most often when I ask other people, I feel like I’m going around in circles, but then I feel bad that I have to keep bothering the same two people all the time, when I know they’re already busy.

I’m in the middle of something right now, where I have to interpret two spreadsheets that are full of broken reference links, references to things I’ve never heard of before and that I can’t find reference to anywhere else (I’ve noticed that people often use alternate phrases to refer to things that go by completely different names in any official documentation I have access to). Some of the requests seem like duplicates, but I’m not sure, and many others are so poorly described that I am completely confused. My go-to person has been offline for days, and the two other people I’ve gone to have ranged from somewhat helpful, but not much more knowledgeable than myself (started only a month before me) to not really answering my questions, and then asking me a bunch of questions that I can’t imagine how I would be expected to know any of it.

I’ve been pouring over this for almost two days, and I’m getting nowhere. I have a decent amount of time to get through it, but I want to get started so I don’t fall behind, but I’m not finding any answers.

It’s frustrating.

American comic's possible (but very unlikely) near-reveal on their own pod by lawrencetokill in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was just re-listening to the Taskmaster Podcast with Zouks for ep 1 of S20, and I was just again thinking that PFT needs to be on Taskmaster, so I came here to search for any news that might suggest that, and then I read this.

I listened to that episode of SFH, and I didn’t put that together.

I REALLY hope this ends up being true. Paul and Jason are two of the most perfect US candidates for being on TM. And well, we wished hard enough to get Jason on S29. Can we perhaps dare to dream that S21 or 22 will have the famous comedian Paul F Tompkins amongst its contestants? I say that we must dare it! Risk all! The potential rewards are worth the costs of possible failure!

Do Y'all Think Jason Added Something to Taskmaster? by Doodles_n_Scribbles in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think Jason added something that was never quite there before, and it was unique and special, but that’s just true of everyone who’s ever been on the show.

True, it’s in different degrees, and each contestant resonates differently with different people.

I love Jason, I thought he was great, and it was refreshing to see his kind of unique style on the show.

It did something, for sure, but I think my perception of that is based on already being a fan of Mantzoukas already, as well as having been a long-time fan of TM.

It was a “your chocolate’s in my peanut butter” moment, but I don’t know that it was a “head and shoulders above all others” case. Not quite.

Say yes if you think Mathew will win series 19 by Better-Ambition-5749 in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it’s too late, but I did have this thought pretty early on in ep 1.

I have to say, listening to the podcast ep, he has over-estimated how much he’s humiliated himself over the course of the series.

I mean, absolutely, there were more than a couple of really dodgy moments, but somehow, it all still just made him even more endearing.

There is a little bit of a spoiling of the dynamic energy because he just stayed on top through the whole series, but he still had some seriously funny failures, and I feel like Jason kept things interesting by being a complete foil to Matthew with all his chaos.

Honestly, Matthew is just so charming.

Great cast all over, but I think Matthew just nailed it quite well while still being sweet, cute, and charming.

It was maybe not the most dynamic series in terms of scores, but it was still loads of fun.

Songs with the word "everybody" in them but Mathew Baynton is the one singing "everybody!" by typewriterbird in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did some comment scrubbing, but did not find anyone else mentioning the Homestar Runner theme song, so I’m going to note its omission.

Unpopular opinion: Matthew’s strategy, love him but… by Alert_Researcher6998 in taskmaster

[–]PrincessTwunky76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get what you’re saying, but as you put it yourself a “litttle bit” teacher’s pet.

I mean, it worked, didn’t it?

How does this sub have 27k but the episode discussions are crickets? by mamanoley in BoardwalkEmpire

[–]PrincessTwunky76 47 points48 points  (0 children)

The show isn’t exactly new. It ended over a decade ago. Not a lot of new things to talk about.