Re: Breaking learning thread

[cosmictanya]

Seriously? I'm the other way round - I didn't know who Charlie Sheen was until his diagnosis was all over the news.

[Fangirl Three]

I know who he is on account of having gone to see Platoon in the cinema on my 16th birthday.

[Butterfield]

British motorbike stuntman Eddie Kidd had a (evidently unsuccessful) pop career between 1977 and 1988!


From this:




To this:

[Butterfield]

I wasn't sure if I wanted to hear this. I now wish I hadn't.

[Nightjar]

I saw that Eddie Kidd movie at the cinema.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

It sounds to me like we need to do a running commentary on an Eddie Kidd album.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Pink Floyd had a compilation album called A Nice Pair.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

That's not a title that screams, "Pink Floyd," at me.

[Nightjar]

Pink Floyd had a compilation album called A Nice Pair.

I own it.

It's not a compilation album.

It's their first two albums, Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets presented as a sort of double album in an admittedly pretty cool gatefold album cover, with the inner sleeves bearing the covers of each respective album.

I think it was released after the success of Dark Side of the Moon in order to drum up more interest and sales for the earlier less well known stuff.

[Guest]

Pink Floyd had a compilation album called A Nice Pair.

There's a Pair/Pear joke on the cover of the compilation album.

Spoiler:

[Butterfield]

I saw that Eddie Kidd movie at the cinema.

I remember him occasionally being on TV (pre-accident) as a stunt bike rider but I didn't realise he'd had this side career of many doings. And upon searching for images of his singles I ended up seeing lots of shirtless pictures of him, a gay magazine photoshoot and a borderline s*ft p*rn photoshoot with a woman. I simply could not stop looking.

[Nightjar]

It would appear that there is not an Eddie Kidd album playlist on Youtube.

[Guest]

At then end of the 14th Century Lithuania was the largest country in Europe.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

[Nightjar]

Something something Lithualienia.

[cosmictanya]

It's a Zionist conspiracy. The moon is just on a projector beamed into the night sky from a semi in Golders Green.

[cosmictanya]

I did actually know that about Lithuania. Now largely Poland, Ukraine, Belarus.

I found it more of a headf*ck to find that when modern Greece was created, there was argument about where it should be. A country that involved coastal Bulgaria and Romania plus Constantinople and Odessa, was considered far more logical than where the Greece we know ended up being.

[cosmictanya]

Those not turfed out Turks are just Albanian usurpers really. Something my ex husband found to be an unfair response to his view that England is the barbaric refuge of perfidious backstabbers who'd still live in provincial Germany if we weren't so difficult to live with that an isolated island containment zone had been required.



A more positive view...

[Guest]

The New Order fans who are apparently called the Vikings have their own Fac number!



Oh, dear…

[Guest]

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