Re: The Bots are Back in Town

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I've had friends go into hipster dive bars and do this:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dpwa7w/i-played-the-boys-are-back-in-town-on-a-bar-jukebox-until-i-got-kicked-out-832

Only gotten the jukebox unplugged.


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 1:34 PM
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Wikipedia informs me that Thin Lizzy was an Irish band. That's kind of surprising, because "The Boys are Back in Town" always struck me as dumb in a distinctly American way somehow.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 1:35 PM
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1: I've wanted to try it with Meatloaf. Save money because the songs are much longer.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 1:37 PM
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2: My understanding is that the particular dumbness in that song works well there, too. In some ways it makes even more sense, given how many émigrés Ireland has produced, especially to Britain.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 1:47 PM
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what about Lucille Botz


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 1:49 PM
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what about Lucille Botz


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 1:49 PM
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That was odd. My first attempt to post took me to the preview page, so I thought I'd accidentally pressed preview instead of post.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 1:51 PM
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4: Based on my extensive viewing of two seasons of Hinterland, the tone is all wrong for Wales.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 1:57 PM
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I like the other "boys are back in town" too (from the 48 hours soundtrack)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltFdS0SJ41s


Posted by: lemmy caution | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 2:41 PM
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I don't see where, exactly, the russians' nickel is in it with continuing to be virtual soldiers in the pepe army. I mean, they've got trump elected and I don't know that it's doing them a whole lot of good. but even if we grant that it is, is his domestic hand actually strengthened in any way by having right-wing conspiracy theorists become more unified and powerful? by having young men on the edge go from gamergaters to actual nazis? these people are all quite pro-russian due to back-formation from the perceived anti-russian views held by "elites" (who dislike having the russians throw american elections due to their latte-sipping snobbery, I guess) so is that it? is that enough to make up evil shit about charlottesville and smear it all over the walls of the internet? is russia in it for the lulz in some fundamental way?


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 5:25 PM
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for you moby, presuming you range so far afield from wales: grittiness.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 5:28 PM
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is russia in it for the lulz in some fundamental way?

Maybe they're just trying to sow chaos without any particular preferred outcome.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 5:33 PM
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I think the answer to the question posed in 10 above is revenge.


Posted by: Roger the cabin boy | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 5:33 PM
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10: I'll take a shot - Putin and the Kremlin want to see Russia's relative power in the world rise as close to Soviet era levels as possible, and since Russia's economy, military, and population are themselves failing they've identified the best way forward as destabilizing the United States and Europe. I would say that they're right to think that increasing the clout of the far right is the best way to accomplish that.


Posted by: Psychoceramicist | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 5:52 PM
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11: Thank you. The guy in the middle probably won't make it past the first season.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 5:54 PM
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14: Also, they want to discourage countries near Russia from seeking to join NATO.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 5:57 PM
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10: We had thread about this.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 7:03 PM
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I am ignorant of thread. much shame ensue.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 7:09 PM
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Good.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 7:18 PM
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1 I used to do that with "King of the Road"


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 7:41 PM
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20 Yeah, I was that asshole.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 7:41 PM
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Like,20 times in a row.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 7:41 PM
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Like,20 times in a row.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 7:41 PM
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Keep going!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 7:43 PM
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More than twice that is.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 7:44 PM
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In Putin's Russia, thread has you.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 7:45 PM
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Ha!


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 7:45 PM
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26: noice.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 8:02 PM
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14: pretty much, yes.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08-29-17 11:23 PM
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The fact that Phil Lynott was black presumably doesn't distress the Nazis


Posted by: NW | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 1:02 AM
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30. People like that don't care about the fucking bass player. Lead solos or nothing. (I wonder what they make of Whiskey in the Jar?


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 2:55 AM
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10. Answers to date are all good as far as they go, but pussy footing around the possibility that the old KGB man is actually looking for a knock out. If the Russians can destabilise the US to the point where its allies in the west are scurrying around looking for alternative arrangements, economic and military, they win, nicht wahr?


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 3:00 AM
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Destabilizing the west is potentially an attainable goal. Establishing a transnational white supremacist authoritarian coalition is the shoot-the-moon goal.


Posted by: (gensym) | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 6:59 AM
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32: I don't think even Putin reckons he can get western Europe to join some sort of racist Russian version of NATO. All the most worryingly authoritarian NATO nations are also, for good reason, very anti-Russia. But he could hope to destroy NATO and the EU and then intimidate Europe and the Middle East one country at a time. (We kind of missed it but last November he tried to assassinate the prime minister of a NATO member state and set up a massacre of pro-Russian protesters.)


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 7:16 AM
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I certainly missed it. But massacre of pro-Russian protesters? Typo, or some kind of complicated plan?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 7:21 AM
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To make it look as though the Montenegrin government was responsible, thus serving as a pretext for a pro-Russian coup.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 7:48 AM
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The murders were to have been committed by coup supporters in police uniforms firing from inside the parliament building.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 7:49 AM
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Sorry, October not November.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 7:52 AM
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O.K. So did the massacre fail to happen too?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 7:53 AM
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It looks like Trump is on track to be the first president since FDR to lose Guam.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 8:15 AM
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40. ¿Como?


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 9:11 AM
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Los japoneses invadieron Guam justo después de Pearl Harbor.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 9:38 AM
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Si, claro. ¿Pero que pasa Allá ahora?


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 9:54 AM
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Trump va a empezar y perder una guerra con Corea del Norte.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 9:57 AM
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Ah, vale.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 10:19 AM
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Isn't Hamilton 68 the same bunch that listed a bunch of Progressive sites like Consortium News and Ian Welch and Avedon Carol as outlets of Russian propoganda? Largely for questioning the evidence so far presented for "Russia-gate"?


Posted by: DMC | Link to this comment | 08-30-17 10:54 AM
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