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I think this was my favorite Smallop since the Flying Pinto
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# ? Jun 14, 2024 12:42 |
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I've found that smallops are very hit or miss but yeah this oen was great
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PantsOptional posted:Today's Dollop is pretty great if you're at all familiar with Marblehead, which is only marginally less lovely now than it was during the time of this Dollop. Their police log is rather telling on this front, as a number of the calls to the police can be boiled down to "I saw a brown person, please help." A friend of mine is a dispatcher there - they refer to their job as the "complaint department". You are on the money about the police blotter, it's a riot, especially compared to Salem and Lynn which are right down the road.
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I really enjoy these more modern-set Dollops. I was losing it during the muffler incident. I knew about Charles Harrelson, but I didn't know how weird the story got.
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I liked how confused Gary was by charity.
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Finally caught up to this show, I just wanted to say that the episode on nude swimming was loving hilarious because there's a weird niche fetish called "clothed female nude male" which is fairly self-explanatory and naked swimming stories are a huge part of that. So at the end when they talk about reading stories of men who grew up in that era being "traumatized" at swimming naked around girls they were basically reading a bunch of jerkoff material and taking it uncritically as fact ![]()
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I'm thinking of submitting a couple of episode ideas. What's the deal, just send a link to wiki with a note "check out this sick poo poo", or do a proper effort mail? Wasn't it a Goon submission for the ep about the trans car designer scammer?
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TheFallenEvincar posted:I liked how confused Gary was by charity. He was confused by how they were phrasing it. It's not really an auction if nothing is being sold, it's a charity fundraiser or something. Gary was just being very... Literal about word choice.
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rotinaj posted:He was confused by how they were phrasing it. It's not really an auction if nothing is being sold, it's a charity fundraiser or something. Gary was just being very... Literal about word choice. To be fair, it's an incredibly roundabout way to do a fundraiser that only makes sense when you remember America used to be on some real Alice in Wonderland poo poo
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:To be fair, it's an incredibly roundabout way to do a fundraiser that only makes sense when you remember America used to be on some real Alice in Wonderland poo poo Yeah, there's a reason so much of the dollop episodes center on 1800s America. It was completely hosed mentally and would be alien to a modern American before world war 1. (Not that we're any better now, just different)
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no, we're better we don't literally own people any more and by and large don't treat abrahamic text as history, not to mention sophistication in medical practices and hygiene
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Toxxupation posted:no, we're better Debt slavery, for-profit prison systems, police brutality, sovereign citizens, megachurches, anti-vaxxers, homeopathy. America has always been hosed up, will always be hosed up. The specifics will change, but America has issues and always will.
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rotinaj posted:Debt slavery, for-profit prison systems, police brutality, sovereign citizens, megachurches, anti-vaxxers, homeopathy. These were all problems in the 1800s besides arguably vaxxers, and I'm sure there were people arguing against any medical treatment as against gods plan oh wait yes there was since they literally just did that smallpox smollop Seriously arguing that we are not better now than the years in which it was legal to send your ten year old to work in the coal mines for twelve hours a day for literal pennies on the dollar is absurd It's an absurd nonsense argument rooted in an irrational cynicism
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Yeah, just because we're terrible now doesn't mean we weren't worse before.
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Toxxupation posted:These were all problems in the 1800s besides arguably vaxxers, and I'm sure there were people arguing against any medical treatment as against gods plan oh wait yes there was since they literally just did that smallpox smollop Found the problem.
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Calm down and enjoy a nice lighthearted dollop about syphilis
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I'm glad Dave knows some of us would support him living next to a hobo fire though.
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BeigeJacket posted:I'm thinking of submitting a couple of episode ideas. What's the deal, just send a link to wiki with a note "check out this sick poo poo", or do a proper effort mail? Yeah, I emailed them at thedolloppodcast@gmail.com with a blurb about the Dale and a link to a Jalopnik story. Took them about a month to get back to me (just a quick thank-you note), and the story ran shortly thereafter.
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rotinaj posted:Debt slavery, for-profit prison systems, police brutality, sovereign citizens, megachurches, anti-vaxxers, homeopathy. At least it's not China.
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I just started listening to this podcast after being linked to it from somewhere. I've been going from the newest one back, but that one about the FedEx Flight. ![]()
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DemonTrigger posted:I just started listening to this podcast after being linked to it from somewhere. I've been going from the newest one back, but that one about the FedEx Flight. You have got some amazing poo poo ahead of you, friendo.
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Like most sane people, I've entertained the idea of what it'd be like going back in time to the 1800s. I no longer wonder about that thanks to the Dollop. The whole century sounds absolutely loving terrifying. Actually, the 1700s and the 1900s do too. Everything is bad. Don't brush your teeth with gravel and don't use loving radioactive paste! Jesus! The Dollop, a fun podcast that'll make you sad and horrified. Thanks for introducing me to it, thread. Attack on Princess fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Apr 18, 2016 |
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Donnerberg posted:Like most sane people, I've entertained the idea of what it'd be like going back in time to the 1800s. I no longer wonder about that thanks to the Dollop. The whole century sounds absolutely loving terrifying. Actually, the 1700s and the 1900s do too. Everything is bad. Don't brush your teeth with gravel and don't use loving radioactive paste! Jesus! It makes you wonder how insane we will seem two hundred years from now.
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And More posted:It makes you wonder how insane we will seem two hundred years from now. Actually from listening to the dollop I just learned how predictably terrible people are.
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Compared to how history is usually taught, listening to most of The Dollop really gives a better idea of what life was actually like. Sure most of the topics are chosen because they seem crazy by modern standards, but it also covers things in ways that most other histories don't. There seems like a lot more focus on the early lives of the subject, rather than mostly focusing on when they became famous/notorious, and also contemporary public accounts and information from others personally involved in the story. History as it's usually taught generally seems to focus narrowly on events and accomplishments. You may learn about some national shame like the Trail of Tears, but you tend to miss out on the mundane awfulness, chaos, ignorance, etc. of everyday life before modernity that the Dollop conveys. It really dispels the notion that living at any time in the distant past would be anything but horrible.
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is this a good ep cuz it feels like whenever they're live they just get way too tryhard and have even more flubbed joke attempts
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TheFallenEvincar posted:is this a good ep cuz it feels like whenever they're live they just get way too tryhard and have even more flubbed joke attempts Yes. I'm sad they didn't have a live guest. Maybe they will have one lined up for the Chicago shows.
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Mr Hootington posted:Yes. I'm sad they didn't have a live guest. Maybe they will have one lined up for the Chicago shows. They had a live guest. He had some good lines. The episode was funny, but the audience was pretty bad, and shouted a lot of poo poo at the stage.
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Mr Hootington posted:Yes. I'm sad they didn't have a live guest. Maybe they will have one lined up for the Chicago shows. The one from last night at Lincoln Hall was Patton.
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rotinaj posted:They had a live guest. He had some good lines. The episode was funny, but the audience was pretty bad, and shouted a lot of poo poo at the stage. to be fair this was all down to one hilariously wasted woman
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abraham linksys posted:to be fair this was all down to one hilariously wasted woman I thought the audience interactions in this episode were funny. Unlike the Australian episode where Dave sounds like he wants to beat the poo poo out of a guy.
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abraham linksys posted:to be fair this was all down to one hilariously wasted woman It was two actually, I know because I was standing right next to them. Great show. (It was actually, despite them!) Did anybody go to the second show? What was the topic?
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DemonTrigger posted:I just started listening to this podcast after being linked to it from somewhere. I've been going from the newest one back, but that one about the FedEx Fight. Fixed that for you.
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Apparently Dave is shutting down his Facebook account for a while, and there's going to be a slow down in new episodes. Is this because Patton Oswalt's wife passed away?
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oh dope posted:Apparently Dave is shutting down his Facebook account for a while, and there's going to be a slow down in new episodes. Is this because Patton Oswalt's wife passed away? That was the first thing that came to my mind.
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He said on Twitter he can't look at the pictures. Totally understandable I think.
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GlenMR posted:He said on Twitter he can't look at the pictures. Totally understandable I think. What pictures?
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Riptor posted:What pictures? Pictures of Patton Oswalt's late wife, I guess.
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Drunkboxer posted:Pictures of Patton Oswalt's late wife, I guess. oh duh i'm stupid. disregard
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# ? Jun 14, 2024 12:42 |
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I just discovered this show today and got absolutely no work done because I was too busy laughing at New York's sanitation history.
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