Yeah, Bend it Like Beckham did this much better.
Given the choice of hot exotic lesbians or heebie's Grandma as discussion topics, people are opting for the latter. Truly we live in a fallen world.
Perhaps I could liven up this thread by noting my dismay at the NYT's use of "viola da gambas" as the plural of "viola da gamba".
Have a couple of gins and tonics, and you'll calm right down.
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re: The cheap Detroit houses from a few days back, take a look at the pics here. (via hilzoy)
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Have a couple of gins and tonics
I don't know, LB. Gin just isn't the same experience as whine.
Not all of us own multiple violae das gambos, JMCQ.
I've come to the conclusion that straight male fascination with lesbians is, ironically, driven by homophobia.
No, you're driven by homophobia.
7: No, its because lesbian love is pure and natural, like herbal tea! And they communicate so well! And aren't afraid of commitment! And have four boobs between them!
Greek women, perhaps, but not English ladies!
9: The 4 boobs thing doesn't really do it for me. When I imagine a girl with a surplus pair of boobs, or when I imagine a busty girl making out with a guy who has manboobs, I find it hard to get really excited.
4: Hilarious. ND is America's pheasant capital.
Lesbians are the lowest risk for HIV, so you really want to score one.
Oddly, my mother's best friend is a viol de gamba smuggler.
Bend it like Beckham did not contain any lesbians or girls-making-out. The two girls that people thought were lesbians, but weren't, were in love with the same guy, remember?
Since players of the viola da gamba sometimes call it simply "the gamba", it's natural that "gambas" is a plural. Maybe "viola da gambas" was an editor's failed attempt to make simply "gambas" more formally correct.
14: One doesn't come across such people very often.
12, 13, 15, 16, 17: Or so the mullahs would have you believe.
15: The two girls that people thought were lesbians, but weren't
Maybe in *your* version.
22: presumably they would at some point, if you were right.
If you're looking for one, Jesus, I'm sure I could hook you up.
Maybe "viola da gambas" was an editor's failed attempt to make simply "gambas" more formally correct.
Or maybe it really was an alto fiddle owned by Hispanic prawns.
Finally, a new euphemism. "Violas de gamba" is much less judgmental than "old maids".
Free trade or no, violi de gambi remain behind a the protectionist wall. people underestimate the power of the luthiers' guild.
At least it keep's JM's mom's friend employed/
She was doing international viol smuggling. The Iron Curtain was involved. Totally ridiculous, of course, but then she hates paying for anything and is working in a completely marginal industry.
is working in a completely marginal industry.
To wit, viol smuggling.
The smuggling was incidental to the underground viol dealing.
The story of the "blood violi" remains untold. When listening to "early music" with "authentic instruments", do you ask how many people died to give you your unique experience?
I didn't mean to open old wounds, JM.
31. Five dead and sixteen injured, since you ask. And you?
I always ask whether violi are being used before I decide to go to a concert.
You know what's pretty weird? Nobody's done an album of string quartet Nugent covers called "Viola-Ted".
It would just be too brutal, Sifu. Even for the Nugent audience. Nugent stays away from the violi.
You could call the group "The Bow Hunters".
They could perform all bare-chested and sweaty, even the chicks, with bandoliers. Dynamite.
Nobody's done an album of string quartet Nugent covers called "Viola-Ted"
I'm surprised that these people haven't gotten around to doing a Nuge cover album. Not that that would be a good thing; I have the Black Sabbath one, and it's not very good (compared to the early music Black Sabbath tribute, it blows).
Maybe the Finnish contrabass ensemble can do Nugent. He's sort of a Yooper, and many Yoopers are Finns.
40: yeah a lot of string quartet tributes are ass. I really like the Balanescu Quartet's Kraftwerk covers, though.
9: It's really annoying when other people tell me how wholesome and herb-tea lesbian relationships are.
43: the 4 boobs thing's totally true, though.
the choice of hot exotic lesbians or heebie's Grandma
False dichotomy. Or at least not necessarily true.
43: I was just trying to counter one dumb stereotype with another.
43, 46 reminds me of my only endogenous stereotype: "Lesbians are cranky". Hasn't really caught on.
48: Well, 43 helps. Will Jesu be our new bitchphd?
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Shorter tonight's Andy Rooney: the War on Christmas is now a War on Thanksgiving.
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Rob is a lifetime student of lesbians. I'm inclined to trust his judgment.
Will Jesu be our new bitchphd?
Each is the joy of man's desiring.
Shorter tonight's Andy Rooney: the War on Christmas is now a War on Thanksgiving.
You know, I don't even want to know.
The story of the "blood violi" remains untold. When listening to "early music" with "authentic instruments", do you ask how many people died to give you your unique experience?
Ah, someone else has been reading Philip Gourevitch's new book, Murder Most Viol.
Shorter tonight's Andy Rooney: the War on Christmas is now a War on Thanksgiving.
I would fully support a war on Thanksgiving if fundamentalist Thanksgivingists too fucking lazy to celebrate their own fucking holiday continue to insist on making stores say "Happy Thanksgiving" for them.
This seems a good thread to ask if this site is known to the Unfoggedtariat.
I thought I mentioned that the above may be NSFW, but obviously not.