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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 4m

This is a very funny answer to "do you ever do pub trivia incognito" (also Ken has a very funny Reddit username)

Like a card counter who's banned from casino blackjack? Honestly, it's not worth getting my ass kicked for $20 in drink coupons.

When my older kid was in middle school, he and his friends used to play pub trivia in a local place that did trivia night in its all-ages cafe section. They would lose badly, every single week, because they were a bunch of middle schoolers. Last place "prize" was "pity hugs from the bartender Cody" and they hated getting pity hugs from Cody. So my son started lobbying me to come be their ringer once, "just for fun, like a joke."

Finally he pre-emptively told his friends I was going to join, and I agreed to do it ONCE. But I warned them we still weren't a lock to win, it depended on the categories, etc. Unfortunately we blew everyone out of the water and my son learned all the wrong lessons about life.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 3h

French!

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 3h

If you're a Canadian who doesn't want to be clocked as American abroad, my advice:

- go to French Immersion, learn French with a slight Quebecois accent from your Quebecois teachers (but not TOO fluent)
- go to France
- the bartender will give you a free shot just because he finds your accent funny

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 3h

I have never been clocked as a Canadian more in my life than in France. I'll get two words out of my mouth and the bartender will say "what part of Canada are you from"

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 5h

I know he has to say this shit as part of the PR circuit, but what an insane thing to say. "Serial killers are bad, but the only thing WORSE than serial killers are the vultures at Netflix who darken the American soul with tawdry true-crime filth. Please check me out in 'Monster' on Netflix."

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 5h

"Was the real monster Ed Gein, or is the real monster the filmmakers that made sensationalized horror movies based off the life of Ed Gein" ???

CHARLIE.

YOU MADE A SENSATIONALIZED HORROR MOVIE ABOUT ED GEIN, that is literally why you are talking to Entertainment Weekly right now

And, he hopes that means viewers are left looking inward after watching. “Is it Ed Gein who was abused and left in isolation and suffering from undiagnosed mental illness and...that manifested in some pretty horrendous ways? Or was the monster the legion of filmmakers that took inspiration from his life and sensationalized it to make entertainment and darken the American psyche in the process?” he told the outlet. "Is Ed Gein the monster of this show, or is Hitchcock the monster of the show? Or are we the monster of the show because we’re watching it?”

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 5h

I can't believe woke culture tried to cancel Ed Gein just for making a belt out of human nipples, instead of thinking about the REAL monster of this story... American Society 🤔

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 5h

Gonna take a shot in the dark and guess that it's the guy who made furniture out of skin?

Entertainment Weekly @ew.com · 13h

Charlie Hunnam hopes that after viewers watch 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story,' they're left questioning who the real monsters are.

Charlie Hunnam defends 'The Ed Gein Story,' hopes viewers question who the real monster is after watching

Charlie Hunnam hopes that after viewers watch 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story,' they're left questioning who the real monsters are.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 6h

Tolkien seems like a guy who died sometime around 1920, it doesn't make sense in my mind that he was alive at the same time Elton John released "Crocodile Rock"

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 6h

The story "J.R.R. Tolkien rejected a potential Stanley Kubrick adaptation of the Lord Of The Rings starring The Beatles" remains insane just because, in my mind, Tolkien, Kubrick and the Beatles all inhabit completely different eras of history

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 19h

The funniest part is that everything else was going fine as a standard little Czech beer-drinking ditty, and then the guy who plays the "rubbing a rug through a vase in a fart-y honk" instrument stood up, like Will Ferrell in the cowbell sketch, said "we gotta have more fanfrnoch"

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 19h

I've found the song here (doot-doots start around 10 seconds) if you'd like to hear the instrument that made me chuckle uncontrollably in a Belgian museum
open.spotify.com/track/6yoB6K...

Fanfrnochova

open.spotify.com

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 23h

Seriously, if you ever go to the Museum of Musical Instruments in Brussels, please click "80" on your audio guide and listen to this wet-rug-in-vase "instrument". I BURST into laughing. Even thinking of the sound right now makes me giggle.

Kristie @knairn.bsky.social · 23h

The Musical Instrument Museum
Is so good - the audio guide plays examples of almost every instrument in the collection.

This is called a Fanfrnoch and I’ve never laughed harder in a museum than when I heard what this sounded like. 12/10

A Fanfrnoch, which is a type of “friction percussion” instrument

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 23h

Absolutely. A light plaid's always a sub-hoodie but I've got a nice thick Roots flannel that easily goes overtop of a thinner hoodie

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 23h

LISA SIMPSON: I know, I heard it too. Here's some music.

LISA SIMPSON LISTENING TO WHEAT KINGS BY THE HIP: Sun down in the Paris of the Prairies. Wheat Kings have all treasures buried

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

I Townie on a lot of these chilly casual fall days but sometimes I like to Bayman as a treat

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 1d

Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I wear a hoodie with a flannel shirt, I think about this illustration I saw in Newfoundland showing the difference between a "Townie" (someone from St John's who wears the hoodie over the flannel) and a "Bayman" (someone from a small village who wears the flannel over the hoodie)

TOWNIE BAYMAN is a fun illustration celebrating two aspects of Newfoundland culture. All in good fun, this piece was not scientifically researched, none of the info is based on anything other than Jud Haynes' personal take on it all. It is not meant to appear as Townie “VS” Baymen, but more celebrates how much we're all the same. Most people feel they fall somewhere in the middle. Its good for a laugh, just something fun to hang on the wall.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

Here's some Quebecois French baseball vocabulary, many of which were invented/popularized by Expos commentators Jacques Doucet & Claude Raymond:

UN SABOTAGE: A blown save
LA BALLE PAPILLON (lit. Butterfly ball): knuckleball
L'AMORTI (lit. to die): bunt
SOURICIÉRE (lit. mousetrap): rundown

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

I struggled a bit with "prendre son élan" which I translated as "getting in Go Mode" very loosely, "élan" is one of those concepts that's hard to translate but easy to understand

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

You got it! Here's my crack at a translation

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 2d

So Hulk Hogan, why are you a great candidate for the Administrative Assistant position?

Hulk Hogan:

An app icon of a printer/scanner combo and the app name "brother iPrint&Scan"

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

The EU parliament is such a fascinating rabbit hole to go down, it's like "the bill failed to pass due to the collapse of the tenuous coalition between Bosnian socialists, Swedish software pirates and the Cypriot tiktok pranksters", it's like Eurovision for politics

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

Visited the EU Parliament to extend my personal thanks for making Apple cave and adopt USB-C. A million couples traveling with a tangle of three different charging cable formats are forever in your debt

The EU parliament building, Brussels Belgium. Modernist, swooping, glassy

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 2d

I hope he wastes a lot of his own and his friends' money to finish a distant 8th again

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