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Schadenfreude for all of you Boomer haters:

Some of the artists of the 60's are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate aging baby boomers.

They include:
Herman's Hermits --- Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker.
Ringo Starr --- I Get By With a Little Help From Depends
The Bee Gees --- How Can You Mend a Broken Hip.
Bobby Darin --- Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' a Flash.
Roberta Flack--- The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face.
Johnny Nash --- I Can't See Clearly Now.
Paul Simon--- Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver
The Commodores --- Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom.
Marvin Gaye --- Heard It Through the Grape Nuts.
Procol Harem--- A Whiter Shade of Hair.
Leo Sayer --- You Make Me Feel Like Napping.
The Temptations --- Papa's Got a Kidney Stone.
Abba--- Denture Queen.
Tony Orlando --- Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You Hear Me Fall.
Helen Reddy --- I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore.
Leslie Gore--- It's My Procedure, and I'll Cry If I Want To.

Willie Nelson --- On the Commode Again

HunterTits says

Today, all those movies fit on a 32 GB SD Card stored in 1080p - that cost about $12.

I don't remember what a blank VHS tape cost back 30 years ago, but I think it was at least $2.50 It's shocking how cheap everything is.

HunterTits says

Isn't that a "I support the blue' (cops) flag? Why would that mean you can steal the gas?

zzyzzx says

Bwahaha

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

I hope this isn't a Real Doll replacement part.

gabbar says

Not saying the dude isn’t justified in not wanting to work mandatory overtime, but if your commute is an hour you need to move or find a new job.

The Race

If that didn't make you smile you have no heart.

Sucker and co-dependent without proper boundaries is a bit more pithy.

HunterTits says

The one turned backwards, or doesn't have a label, or is labelled something boring like "Trip to the Badlands '76" is almost guaranteed to be... Porn.

pudil says

gabbar says

Not saying the dude isn’t justified in not wanting to work mandatory overtime, but if your commute is an hour you need to move or find a new job.

Not sure if this is real or not, but I had an hour plus commute, each way, for over a decade.

Here's some obvious gaps in logic...

Unless your working 7 days a week you have days off to attend to the "other things" (running errands, taking care of house, etc.)

Why not wake up at 530? You can't wake, shower, shave and let the dogs out in 30 min? I'm not a morning person, so much so that I'll shower and lay out my stuff the night before so I can get an extra 15 or 20 minutes of shut eye.

How long is this mandatory overtime for? If it's a week to get over a hump or meet a deadline, suck it up buttercup.

If it's the new normal, or the company has a history of working employees to the bone, that's a different story.

Why waste time typing up a memo? Talk to your supervisor first. Explain the situation one on one. If you need something in writing after the fact to CYA, fine. To start with a memo comes across as passive aggressive.

Shrubby

“Shrubby”? They also used to call him “Smirk.” Yeah, he was one of our funnier presidents. Very special kind of multi-layered humor. I think at least half of those “Bushisms” were done on purpose. He knew what he was saying. He was just playing the fool, laughing at us laughing at him. My favorite was when he said in his criticism of the economy of France that the French don’t have a word for entrepreneur. When I first heard that I thought what an ignoramus! Now I think what a genius!

https://notthebee.com/article/someone-tracked-everything-john-daly-ingested-during-the-first-round-of-the-pga-and-its-the-stuff-of-legends

Someone tracked everything John Daly ingested during the first round of the PGA Championship and it's the stuff of legends ...

Kinda nice that a plebe can be a world-class golfer.

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DooDahMan says

I have yet to hear any moderately joyful Finnish music

Scandinavian music in general seems like a dysphoric, Baltic hebephrenia. I have learned to like it a bit more for some reason, it must all be related to gray skies and long, harsh winters.
The Finns do have something called 'Finnish Forest Funk' which is a little more lively. They have some YouTube vids of them wagging their bottoms to it. My wife and I have watched a few Finnish detective shows on Netflix to escape the woke pablum. They are pretty good. Their SWAT teams look absolutely formidable and ferocious. They also have that love hate thing with Russia, but the shows seem to indicate that the roads between St. Petersburg have mostly token border crossings.

DooDahMan says

The facial expressions go right along with the traditional music - my mother was from Finland. Nice people more or less but the music and such is hard to deal with.

I have yet to hear any moderately joyful Finnish music - my Mother loved slavic music - anything but the creations from her homeland.

Finns are OCD as a nation, and cheerfulness is rare there - I've visited a couple of times. They need to drink heavily in order to be able to communicate with other humans.
The OCD part means that if they decide to do something, it is done correctly and efficiently (like killing Russians in 1939-40).

About music, Säkkijärven polkka is semi-cheerful in music but not lyrics and has interesting historic connotations, Another one of their folk songs is Ievan Polkka (Lumberjack version is fully).

And lets not forget the worst music video in history of mankind...Armi & Danny - I Wanna Love You Tender - they are also Finnish.

Ukraine instagram:

DooDahMan says

I always like the Lockhorns, it was the only Comic my Dad would read in "the Funny Papers" before handing it off to the one of us kids.
I can't believe that as of 2021 the cartoon is still going. The guy must be in his 90's. Or at least his cartoons even back then seemed to be of middle aged content.
That was over 45 years ago.

DooDahMan says

Religion has many good aspects: belonging, meaning, a set of ethical rules, most of which are good.

To completely throw out religion is misguided imho. It's throwing out the baby with the bathwater.