Personal Top Lists & Rankings

These songs totally turned my mood around
and kept me from grabbing a heavy baseball bat
covered in rusty nails to go settle some scores::2up:

Pavement: Carrot Rope
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Good Enough Six pack: Silver Glider
Cake: Sheeps Go To Heaven
Fun Lovin Criminals: Scooby Snacks

Wooo hooo ... I'm doing just fine now 😬 👋

My top 3 animals

1. spicy salami
2. the salami's little sister
3. honey-glazed ham

Minnie said:Some killer tracks just put me in a great mood
enough to stop me from grabbing a heavy wooden bat
covered in rusty nails and going on a rampage::2up:

Pavement: Carrot Rope
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Six Pack: Silver Flyer
Cake: She's Going to Heaven
Fun Lovin' Criminals: Scooby Snacks

wooo hooo ... I'm okay now 😬 👋

hey hey, don't go bringing up those rusty nails—it’s a lost cause

spider said:TOP 3 ANIMALS AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO, A QUICK LIST:
3. CAPYBARAS

they're pretty great creatures, I guess. 😍

but since yesterday, nutria have actually become my favorite—even more than the snow leopard. mostly just because they're so fuzzy, I suppose. 😍

Top 1 most bizarre thing that happened today on my drive from Miami to Atlanta:

1. I had to take the long way through Savannah - Augusta - Savannah because every single hotel on the interstate was booked solid two days in advance. So, seven hours of pure bumpy driving. And now comes the extra weird part: the guy sitting in front of me looked like he was auditioning for a patriotic fever dream. He was wearing a police cap, a varsity jacket, a yellow armband with "Security" scribbled on it in Sharpie, a white T-shirt featuring an American map, a massive wooden cross over his chest, and a tiny American flag pinned to his pocket. On top of all that, he had these wild bushy mustaches and huge ashtrays for ears. From Miami to Savannah—about four and a half hours—he sang nothing but national anthems, "God Bless America," and various old-school patriotic ballads at the top of his lungs! In between songs, he’d yell stuff like: "Man, if only those old-school leaders were still around, what times those were!" and "We are Americans, we've been here since the beginning, and thank God we still are!" He even went on about how he’s 37 years old, finished high school, worked ten years, served five in the military, and he's seen enough! He kept shouting about how certain political legends are souls of men, while claiming only specific past presidents were the real deal! "We have America! We don't need anyone else! Let them judge me in court, I'm ready! Everything for the US! July 14th and 15th are big anniversaries! I'm heading to DC to celebrate with all my patriots!" and so on.
The whole experience was seasoned with constant saluting, throwing up both hands in some intense patriotic gesture, flashing peace signs, and wearing the most innocent, sincere smile I have ever seen in my life. At first, I wanted to lose it, but by the end, I actually felt bad for him. Seriously. Beyond bizarre.

So, I hit the highway around 6 PM and had four empty seats on my bus (plus the one right next to me, too :krme:). It wasn't exactly a madhouse.

Adam Moore said:That one song by Tomson about heading out to the heart of the Heartland with pride.

Are you beautiful? 🙂

Adam Moore said:that one song by Tomson—the one about the plowed fields or whatever...

hm, I sort of felt the urge to write out the song titles once I realized Nicholas Perez33 had already done it... now I'm not sure who's influencing whom 🤔... though I have a hunch, considering we all know who was born in that last little holdout of the old regime back in the US 😎

USA, is the field plowed? My John ☕

gentlepuma20 said:My John

Man, whenever I hear that track, I’m immediately back in the middle of a 5 AM bender—just some wild night with the local favorites and a bunch of skinheads in full swing (ideally with a beautiful woman on each shoulder).😱 🤣

I actually witnessed something quite peculiar on the subway last night; there was this guy just doing squats right there in the aisle while singing "Open the gates, woman." 🙏

Mina said:cyndi lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough

Wheeeeeeeee 👋
Anyone actually watched the movie lately?

My journal titles, in order:
1. Back in Black
2. mali princ
3. narcis
4. Deep
5. tabula rasa 😉
6. Luna
7. An actor working on himself
8. Retro recycling
9. Disco punk
10. My so-called diary

THE ULTIMATE LIST OF THINGS THAT CAN ABSOLUTELY RUIN MY DAY:

3. A mountain of mind-numbing busywork
2. People who just won't shut up

1. The freaking weather

Ronald Gray96 said:I saw some guy on the subway last night doing squats while singing "Open the Gates, Woman" at the top of his lungs... just total madness... 🙏

🤣 I've got a feeling I know exactly who we're talking about here...

My top list of things I actually loved about Russia:
Ruskinja 2. Rus 😍 🙂
Russians (not that they're bad people—I mean, they’re alright, they just love a good drink and messing around)...
Third tier food (except for potatoes, which are absolute garbage—honestly, I was at this dinner party the other night where the guest list included names like Putin, Chirac... Mesić, and Kučan...)
4. booze (vodka is classic perfection, and honestly, the beers were surprisingly killer too)...

My top list of things I absolutely hated about Russia:
Man, it’s actually insane how dirty everything really is...
The way people drive around here... honestly, there's only one word for it: yikes...
Man, prices at the stations and airports these days are getting absolutely ridiculous... I mean, seriously, eight bucks for half a liter of draft beer??? That's just straight-up robbery... 😠

My top three finds from today:

Husker Du - Placa

Valerian - comic book

A donut—strawberry and vanilla 😍

The absolute peak of anti-fascism today

Just sitting outside a philosophy department and grabbing some beers from a local pub

Drew Adams58 said:Peak anti-fascism right here.

Just sitting outside a philosophy department sipping beer from a local pub.

Same thing, just with coffee instead... ☕

Top 10 ways people compensate in relationships, totally random order:

1. youth
2. experience
3. insecurity
4. friendship
5. wisdom
6. tenderness
7. caring (pure altruism, right?)
8. money
9. faith
10. something else

Notice how love didn't even make the list (for good reason).

Totally random, Carol Jackson45!

hollowseal33 said:totally random, dark!

Thanks 😘

Man, I am totally done with everyone's "top 1" song to wake up to.

STRIPPED-DEPECHE moda Come with me Into The trees We'll Lay on The grass and let The Hours pass taka my hand Come Back to The Land Let's get away Just for One day let me see you Stripped down to The bon let me see you Stripped down to The bon metropolis Has nothing on this you're breathing in fumes i tast When WE Kiss taka my hand Come Back to The Land Where everything's ours for a few Hours let me see you Stripped down to The bon let me see you Stripped down to The bon let me hear you make decisions without Your Television let me hear you speaking Just for me let me see you Stripped down to The bon let me hear you speaking Just for me let me see you Stripped down to The bon let me hear you crying Just for me

Come with me
Into the trees
We'll lay on the grass
And let the hours pass

Take my hand
Come back to the land
Let's get away
Just for one day

Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone

Metropolis
Has nothing on this
You're breathing in fumes
I taste when we kiss

Take my hand
Come back to the land
Where everything's ours
For a few hours

Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone

Let me hear you
Make decisions
Without your television
Let me hear you speaking
Just for me

Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone

Let me hear you speaking
Just for me

Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone

Let me hear you crying
Just for me

🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

My #1 favorite verb I picked up yesterday:

to spill (like having diarrhea) 🤣 (thanks, Pete)

And the absolute best emoji I just stumbled upon by total accident:



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