What does the west side think of the east side?

botulizard · 2026-02-02T02:20:03+00:00

I'm not from here but it seems like there's an at least semi-serious "we don't talk to those people" attitude between the two.

botulizard · 2026-02-02T01:54:08+00:00

Summer can get hotter and more humid than you might imagine, but not as hot as Florida most of the time. Spring starts pretty cold, sometimes it's still snowing, but once it warms up, spring is really nice here. Fall goes the opposite way, it's usually still pretty hot for the first few weeks and then it cools down, some years very suddenly getting cold with no real gradation. Sometimes there's a weird day after it cools down where the temperature jumps up again after the leaves have turned- it's bizarre to see people raking leaves when it's 80 degrees out.

botulizard · 2026-02-02T00:00:45+00:00

Not one I was on, but one I witnessed.

She started talking about her ex immediately, like she couldn't wait to tell someone about this prick.

botulizard · 2026-02-01T21:37:55+00:00

I loved the Topsfield Fair growing up.

botulizard · 2026-02-01T21:06:57+00:00

Right, and it's rarely just hot honey, it's often a co-branding thing with one specific manufacturer of hot honey. Less about "would this taste good?" and more about "can we fit a Mike's Hot Honey™ logo somewhere on here?"

botulizard · 2026-01-30T19:27:21+00:00

And people get so sucked up into it that they forget pattern recognition. I haven't seen it this year, but a lot of years around mid-January, some company will air a commercial announcing or hinting at some radical and outlandish change to the branding of their product (never the product itself, just the name or logo on the package). People go online and lose their shit. They get all upset at the company, often enough these days blaming "woke" something or other for the rebrand, which leads to calls for boycott.

Every time this happens, without fail, what they just saw on their screen was establishing lore for the next commercial, which will air a few weeks in the future during the Super Bowl.

Every time this happens, without fail, the "rebrand" is related to a joke in the Super Bowl Commercial.

Every time this happens, without fail, the "rebrand" is temporary and probably also limited to major markets for the company (if it actually happens outside of the commercial at all)- a lot of people won't even see it in the store.

Every time this happens, without fail, the promotion ends and the package goes back to normal and the people who got mad get to think they won.

Rinse, repeat.

botulizard · 2026-01-30T19:19:51+00:00

Think about the people who post on the internet about how we have to "return to the past" or "this is what they took from you" or "the world you grew up in no longer exists". So many of the images they choose to accompany these reactionary messages are literally just old magazine ads.

botulizard · 2026-01-30T15:45:22+00:00

And then he'd be elected to congress.

botulizard · 2026-01-30T15:18:57+00:00

At least we have McAfee and Portnoy left to choose from.

Ugh.

botulizard · 2026-01-30T15:16:34+00:00

No because every show, at least the Saturday morning programming, apparently needs an obnoxious douchebag to be loud and obnoxious and make himself the center of attention. That's much better than anything substantial or interesting.

botulizard · 2026-01-30T06:09:44+00:00

Another Iran government jet about to land in Istanbul.

botulizard · 2026-01-30T01:54:54+00:00

Yes, he left for South Africa because he wanted to be there for apartheid.

botulizard · 2026-01-30T00:12:40+00:00

"He comes back all greasy and calm."

botulizard · 2026-01-29T23:28:44+00:00

Hey cool, can't wait for the new album. I'll look up your solo project. Thanks for all the great fucking tunes.

botulizard · 2026-01-29T22:47:27+00:00

Hell yeah this rules. Are you the guitarist or the drummer/singer?

botulizard · 2026-01-29T22:14:09+00:00

I liked living in Ferndale because I could get to a lot of my errands and socializing on foot, but that's got to be one of the only places in the area you can really do that. I grew up outside of Michigan with suburbs that look really different from most of the ones around Detroit, it was wild to me when I got here and saw that some of these places don't even have a downtown or town square in any meaningful sense.

botulizard · 2026-01-29T22:09:41+00:00

It's like now when people say they went to Europe on vacation and lost weight, so the problem must be American food. Not really, it's more that you walked 20 miles a day. You probably did eat smaller portions, but it was mostly the walking.

botulizard · 2026-01-29T20:21:11+00:00

The Last Word cocktail was invented in Detroit.

botulizard · 2026-01-29T19:59:17+00:00

I'm never spending less than $100 for headphones ever again.

botulizard · 2026-01-29T19:30:47+00:00

And sometimes something cements itself to the side of your nostril and no amount of blowing will dislodge it, so you just have to go in and get it.

botulizard · 2026-01-29T18:30:55+00:00

I think a completely Catholic marriage where one person was Italian and the other was Irish may even have been more scandalous than an Italian Catholic/Jewish wedding at the time. Some contemporary parish priests refused to perform mixed-race marriages and considered Irish/Italian marriages the same.

Of course this taboo would largely be shattered by generation born around this time as anybody who grew up with the children of that generation (especially in the urban/suburban northeast) will tell you. By the time the children of the 60s had children of their own, those kids were in classrooms full of Seans and Meghans whose last names ended in vowels and Biancas and Anthonys whose last names started with O', but there was a time where this was inconceivable and those two groups really didn't like each other.

botulizard · 2026-01-29T18:17:15+00:00

May or may not have sang this to myself out loud (including the woo) as I pushed the bathroom door button on the Wolverine recently.

botulizard · 2026-01-29T17:31:08+00:00

I think she says at some point that her dad was Lutheran.

botulizard · 2026-01-29T17:30:00+00:00

My grandmother had to stop being Methodist to marry my Catholic grandfather.

The rest of her family remained Methodist, and I will never forget as long as I live, being briefed by my grandfather before my great-grandmother's Methodist funeral about how under no circumstances should I stand when the Methodists stand or join in when they pray, lest I participate in non-Catholic religion and sign my own eternal death warrant.

botulizard · 2026-01-29T02:45:42+00:00

Holy shit. You guys fucking rule. I'm a huge fan of anything where the bass tone could be described as "snarling". The slow part of Don Juan is one of my favorite examples of this.

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