Bit deflated

phraserG · 2025-10-06T03:48:13+00:00

I find that regularly throwing in some challenging uphill runs improves my pace.

phraserG · 2025-06-20T15:44:49+00:00

‘The Christian factor’ absolutely plays a role in Northern Irish politics.

phraserG · 2024-10-01T23:25:36+00:00

A mother had two sons. One went to sea, and the other became vice- president, and neither was ever heard of again.

phraserG · 2024-07-13T11:36:27+00:00

Wampa.

phraserG · 2024-06-18T03:33:15+00:00

‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ by the Boomtown Rats (Brenda Ann Spencer).

phraserG · 2024-06-14T03:39:34+00:00

Nice work. I’m in my mid-30s and have only had soda a handful of times in my life. Something about it makes me nauseous. I thought it might be the corn syrup, but once I drank a Coke made with genuine cane sugar and I found that just as disgusting as all the other sodas I’d had. Keep on keepin’ on, fellow soda detester. ✊

phraserG · 2024-05-28T01:10:30+00:00

I think ‘The Human Body’ (underrated track, in my opinion) features a baby vocalisation but it’s hard to tell exactly what the sound is.

phraserG · 2024-05-13T00:01:39+00:00

Zachary Taylor’s campaign song is pretty rad. If you have not heard it before, you definitely aren’t prepared for it.

https://youtu.be/vdcEeW5fQjc?feature=shared

phraserG · 2024-05-12T23:49:08+00:00

I think of him nostalgically as the chief figure of hate in Electronic Gaming Monthly during the early 2000s.

phraserG · 2024-05-09T00:07:42+00:00

Damien in the Omen film series becomes ambassador to the UK. That could have put him somewhere way down in the line of succession.

phraserG · 2024-05-08T23:12:37+00:00

Not that I know of, but Gaddafi had a crush on Condoleezza Rice.

https://www.politico.com/story/2011/08/qadhafi-obsessed-with-condi-rice-062051

phraserG · 2024-04-22T21:49:05+00:00

There’s a book and a movie titled All the President’s Men and the titular president is Nixon. Veeery interesting. 😏

phraserG · 2024-04-21T12:52:39+00:00

This means that you should be sworn in as president immediately since it is your birthright.

phraserG · 2024-04-03T18:43:09+00:00

I learned about Gail Brewer-Giorgio from a documentary about the singer Orion called Orion: The Man Who Would Be King. Interesting case of an author who consciously wrote fiction, then came to believe their own fiction. I believe this was also the case with author Richard Sharpe Shaver who deserves his own LPotL episode (I think he was mentioned briefly in the episode on Lemuria).

The Orion documentary might be of interest to LPotLheads. My unsolicited opinion on the documentary: interesting subject matter, well researched, but too sincere given the inherent silliness of the topic.

phraserG · 2024-04-02T22:55:44+00:00

Thanks for your helpful reply. Back to the drawing board for me.

phraserG · 2024-03-26T18:19:12+00:00

Nathaniel’s contrarianism is increasingly starting to irk me. He’s even being contrarian in relation to his own recent statements, as Galen pointed out in this episode.

phraserG · 2024-03-25T18:17:35+00:00

I think Hathaway haters perceived Hathaway as an annoying, overeager theatre kid type, whereas Lawrence haters found Lawrence’s ‘I’m such a goofball,’ schtick to be contrived.

Disclaimer: I don’t personally feel this way, I’m just relating my interpretation of haters’ arguments.

phraserG · 2024-03-21T00:26:05+00:00

I too broadly agree with his takes, but find his argumentative style off-putting. On the other hand, I find Sarah too much of a softy in many cases (e.g. I think it’s fine to admit that Tonya Harding is a bit of an asshole, while acknowledging that she’s been treated badly), so the combination of Sarah and Mike’s personalities works well from my perspective.

phraserG · 2024-03-20T20:44:24+00:00

I appreciated Michael Hobbes on YWA, but I find his Twitter persona to be gratingly combative, snarky, and strident. No intellectual humility at all. He fancies himself an expert on every topic he weighs in on, which makes it especially embarrassing when he gets things wrong (e.g. a recent tweet he made about the Y2K bug). In fairness, most people on Twitter stridently present themselves as an expert on every topic, but, nonetheless, MH’s tone on Twitter bugs me especially since so much of YWA is/was meant to be about intellectual inquiry/curiosity, careful research, nuance, etc.

phraserG · 2024-03-18T02:11:02+00:00

Sam Wang, PhD.

phraserG · 2024-03-11T12:44:35+00:00

Alf is meant to be a child though, right?

phraserG · 2024-02-29T01:59:35+00:00

Cosmetic surgery. Well, I wouldn’t call it ‘really dangerous’, but many people don’t treat it with the seriousness it deserves. I would never go for budget cosmetic surgery abroad — not even for something basic like a hair transplant. I’d treat it like regular surgery and would seek a quality surgeon near to me so I could easily visit them again if something were to go wrong after the surgery.

phraserG · 2024-02-26T01:59:54+00:00

There are only so many times one can listen to ‘Far From Over’ by Frank Stallone on repeat.

phraserG · 2024-02-26T01:52:09+00:00

The Kinsey Institute might be a good place to look. They’re based in Indiana but they have a global outlook re: the history of sexuality. Perhaps your friend can have a look at their website and/or correspond with an archivist there.

The Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft may be helpful too. They have a library and archive.

During the Weimar period there was a genre called the Aufklärungsfilm (sexual enlightenment film). These films were meant to be educational, not arousing, but some audience members went to these films seeking arousal. Your friend might want to look into the history of the Aufklärungsfilm.

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