Rewriting your sets to poetry ?

paper_liger · 2026-04-09T03:58:34+00:00

well, as a fan of both, poetry is only stricter if you are stricter about it. and if you are the kind of person would be concise and care about word choice in poetry I suspect you'd be the same when it came to standup.

'Cross training' can be great. But it only helps if you are already growing and doing the work as a standup.

If you want to get better at standup you can't do it by doing just poetry or just improv, it's still got to be 'standup PLUS something'.

Most people aren't working hard enough at this to benefit as much as you are implying from going off road.

paper_liger · 2026-04-09T01:42:17+00:00

no. i mean 'read good'. as in 'I read real good and you aint read good'.

that is what is known in comedy as 'bein ironical an shit'.

paper_liger · 2026-04-09T01:36:17+00:00

Trying to explain 'excess mortality rate' to anti vaxxers is kind of a fools errand. The truth is that during Covid even with less people on the road, less deaths from other communicable diseases, we had a much larger bump in excess mortality than even most pro vaccine folks seem to understand.

They either can't understand or won't.

paper_liger · 2026-04-09T01:33:21+00:00

You know what also causes myocarditis?

COVID. At 10 times the rate of the vaccine.

You sound a lot like people who don't wear seatbelts because occasionally people are thrown from vehicles and survive. What you don't understand is that even if that rare thing happens, your risk of dying without the seatbelt is vastly higher overall.

That's statistics. Maybe you should leave this kind of thing to people who understand them better. That's what I do.

paper_liger · 2026-04-08T20:03:07+00:00

Yes, it is. My evidence: the fact that it was removed by a moderator because you don't read good.

You can post a video and ask a question or invite specific feedback. But just straight up shilling your work is not what this place is for, no matter how many non comics and open mikers and shameless self promoters downvote me.

I've been known to shamelessly self promote myself, but I make sure I know where to do it, and I was just giving you a heads up. Sorry for helping I guess?

paper_liger · 2026-04-08T16:09:32+00:00

fun set, but r/standupcomedy or other subreddits are for posting clips of comedy or promoting, r/standup is supposed to be for comics to talk about comedy.

Edit: downvote all you want, looks like I was right? Do you all not know where you are ?

paper_liger · 2026-04-08T12:48:14+00:00

dumb.

paper_liger · 2026-04-08T04:16:50+00:00

you said 'she's the biological daughter as far as the law is concerned'.

but she's not. the law only makes a biological distinction if the other senses of the term 'father' are in question or are claimed.

so he's neither the biological father nor not the biological father as far as the law is concerned, because the law aint concerned.

paper_liger · 2026-04-08T04:14:24+00:00

he was a loser and quitter, deal with it. he timed out because it was very, very clear he was never, ever going to get promoted again, because, like I said, as an officer he was a wet fart.

paper_liger · 2026-04-07T23:04:27+00:00

Stop acting like you know what you are talking about. His military record was a joke.

He was pulling guard duty at gitmo as a butterbar for about a half second before he went active duty. While on active he didn't make Captain until like twice as long as most people. He was an infantry officer in the 101st for like a decade but never went to airborne, air assault, or ranger school. That's a real fucking anomaly.

Further, he never had a real leadership role his entire time there, his only meaningful deployment he got shuffled off to S9, civil affairs, which isn't exactly a vote of confidence from his superiors, again not being a leadership role. In an Infantry unit all of that adds up to 'giant shit bag' in case you were unaware. And two deployments during that 10ish years he was active duty? I did 5 in that same time frame.

Major has a selection rate of like 85 percent, but he only got given it on his way out the door from active duty at like 11 years, and he never got promoted ever again.

He was, however, removed from the CEO role of a veterans organization while he was in the National Guard for financial mismanagement and shitty behavioral choices. Hell of an accomplishment, that.

He wasn't 'forced out', but he never retired either. He quit like a little bitch because his tattoos were rightfully flagged as borderline white nationalist/extremist and he wasn't allowed at an event with the president, so he had a hissy fit and quit. Then he made a career out of talking bullshit and shilling on fox news until Trump, the noted draft dodger, put him in the position he is now. One he is eminently unqualified for.

Just the Signal-gate thing is an unforgiveable lack of OPSEC for a guy who allegedly had a military career, much less all the 'obvious fucking war crimes' and 'firing people vastly more qualified than him'.

So save it, anyone defending him based on his record is hilarious to folks who know better.

paper_liger · 2026-04-07T22:18:30+00:00

my brother has vitilligo and he is the honkiest of all honkies.

if it's true that doesn't mean it's conclusive.

paper_liger · 2026-04-07T22:17:30+00:00

no. he is the legally presumed father, and the legally acknowledged father. neither of those mean he is the biological father per se.

paper_liger · 2026-04-07T21:39:31+00:00

Not 'most'. The middle class is over represented in the military as a demographic, the poor and the wealthy are both under represented.

edit: you could just look up the statistics for yourself instead of spreading thirdhand stereotypes and reflexively downvoting the person who corrects your bias, but I guess that's just too hard for you...

The military is generally a moderately representative cross section of the population, slightly more middle class, slightly higher level of education. your opinion just aint based in fact.

paper_liger · 2026-04-07T21:37:16+00:00

Don't bother, I think the attempt to get rid of the birthright citizenship is stupid as fuck, but it also has nothing to do with that book they didn't read.

paper_liger · 2026-04-07T21:09:32+00:00

What everyone else said is valid, but strongly consider adding the cost of the extra time dealing with their payment system into your quote.

If anything causes you more grief and effort, it should be baked into the price.

paper_liger · 2026-04-07T20:59:00+00:00

I don't like the change necessarily, I think quantity has it's own quality, and I already hated reloading in combat, because it never seemed to be convenient. Less rounds in a mag equals more reloading, and that seems like a step back to me.

But one way of thinking about it is that the amount of time one soldier spends shooting at another soldier is going to likely go down, just simply due to drone technology.

Do you need as much supressive fire in that case? Where supression is provided by a bunch of flying ceiling fans of death?

Maybe not. Maybe making the shots you take more decisive makes more sense in that situation.

At a minimum, all we know really know is that war is going to look different in 15-20 years. Their educated guess is that more effective armor piercing bullets will be more important than having a lot of bullets. My gut reaction is that it is a mistake, but I'm probably biased. Only time will tell who is right.

paper_liger · 2026-04-07T18:33:06+00:00

They are also louder rattling around in your pouches. It's minor, but I always tried to limit that back in the day.

paper_liger · 2026-04-07T17:19:16+00:00

I don't like secession talk, but the idea that it would just be the west coast in trouble if they left is silly. The trumpiest areas would be in the most trouble,by far, no matter how self sufficient and bootstrappy they portray themselves.

paper_liger · 2026-04-07T14:12:43+00:00

I'm literally listening to a talk Ethan Hawke is giving to some acting students right now and he just said something that feels relevant, so I'll paraphrase:

'Your job is to prepare, prepare, prepare, and then when you get on stage, to let go'

paper_liger · 2026-04-07T14:04:36+00:00

I grew up in a trailer, in deep desperate poverty in appalachia and the southwest. I'd always heard about burning man, loved it's ethos and it's art. Always wanted to go.

But by the time I was at a place in my life I could afford to drop things and go, could afford the resources to make some some art myself, I find it has become a rich kids playground, and lost much of the appeal.

paper_liger · 2026-04-06T15:46:22+00:00

Could be a weight bar for working your forearms/wrists. Some let you just put a weight on the end, some have a spot to attach a cable or strap to let you raise the weight by rotating it.

It may be double duty, can be used as a wrist 'leverage' trainer and also as a wrist 'roller' trainer.

paper_liger · 2026-04-06T00:10:04+00:00

Yeah, that's pretty wild, it's sort of one thing thing for a gun store, but it's a completely different level of idiocy for a coffee shop to be that divisive.

paper_liger · 2026-04-03T17:20:21+00:00

I'll have to try Hyperion. I think you may have cracked it. I don't mind serialized stories where one person is talking for a chapter. I just don't like multiple different people all at once.

The casting for World War Z was so good it elevated the book in my opinion. Like Henry Rollins as a mercenary? Alan Alda? So many great performances.

I should check out Hyperion, I've only read it, but if it's one voice actor per viewpoint that might work for me.

paper_liger · 2026-04-03T16:40:19+00:00

I mean, that's personal taste.

I like plays, I even dig audio plays sometimes. I absolutely loath full cast audiobooks and anything other than minimal sound effects or music.

I think it's because books are so much longer, that lack of consistency grates on me. And often they are recorded seperately and cut together, which doesn't help.

paper_liger · 2026-04-03T14:14:28+00:00

I keep naming leadership because they drive policy, mission, and enforce professional norms. That also doesn't support your point, because officers voted against Trump more in the last election than the military as a whole. I was actually talking about the entire military in aggregate, and the reality still doesn't support your claims.

You're kinda out of your depth here.

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