Us old dudes have been getting 8% for ages. It's all going to crash one day, and it's not going to be pretty.

The French don't often get their act together, but when they do they're generally the best in the world at whatever they want. Unfortunately, they usually want to do philosophy, pure math and love-triangle films.

Abd Al Malik has an album called 'Dante'. He used Jacques Brel's pianist as accompaniment. For a long time that was the only 'hip-hop' I knew, so I really thought of the genre as an overwhelmingly sophisticated re-imagining of white music (so to speak).

Then I discovered the 'nigga-nigga-bitch-y'all' hip-hop which... you know... has its charms too.

Unfortunately, French music is heavily bound-up with lyrics. Basically, the best lyricist in English, be it Dylan or Prine, is basically average in French. French music, though is a little monomaniacal.

But falling into the web of the French lyrics to a song is so comfortable...

Uh... tell me you're from Canada without telling me?

Platinum Blonde's first album is legit great, probably one of the best new-wave albums in history, and it still gets an emotional reaction out of me forty (!) years later.

I saw them a few times at big open-air concerts -- not the best for their sound.

The first Big Country album is phenomenal. They were a 'one hit wonder' with the song that everybody knows, but the rest of the album is so well-written and crafted.

It's also one of those racism-demolished albums. I bought it back in 1985, listened to it a million times, and only in 2021 did I realize that the bassist is not just black, but blackity-black. No one cared back then.

If you're in a Scottish mood, Simple Minds are way, way cooler than you think they are (unless you're a fan).

I think you've mentioned dabbling in French, right? I was introduced to "Sinnerman" via the song "Gibraltar" by Abd Al Malik. Absolutely fantastic if you have a few minutes. His French is so clear and seductive.

Of course... these days the politics of the song is.. well, maybe not important.

The Furs' "Book of Days" is a masterpiece!

So is Billy Joel's ex-wife, I guess.

I mean... if you put that $250 in the market, it's probably worth about 1200 now...

I wonder what that vote would look like now, since all of the illegal hispanics are apparently allowed to vote?

(cries in Canada...)

Well, he probably means 'ethno-nationalism', which is undoubtedly the best way to found a government.

I wonder if this is a difference between anime/manga? I've only read the manga, and so anything superhuman about Ran is about 1-2 panels. I guess that in the anime they have to extend the fight scenes.

Ran is a karate prodigy, but it really only comes up at the very end of a mystery when the villain tries to escape and she kicks him. It's basically played for laughs.

nyaa.si -- then search Literature-English-translated. It's all there up to volume 103. Vol 104 is there too, but it doesn't seem to work.

I'm surprised that you're one of the only (few?) people in this thread making this point:

If Germany had done it but won...totally justified

As we saw with covid -- giving untested vaccines to 3yr olds -- 'ethics' mean absolutely nothing to the globalists.

Germany's an odd case -- they had developed Sarin, then the most potent nerve gas in history, but of course, being honourable, didn't use it on their enemies... This despite the countless lives it could have saved!!!

They also didn't use it during the holofrost for, you know, reasons.

Dude, you sound like one of those midwit atheists. I guess your username gives it away.

Lenny Kravitz, Lisa Bonet and Ben Harper are all fairly prominent black jews. I've met others.

National Socialists were anti-communists. Communists are anti-humanity.

Many of us have seen her shirtless -- lingerie would be a step up.

Sorry to be all 'well akshully'... but NFL players are about 1SD IQ higher, on average, than their respective races. It's a highly cognitively demanding sport.

... I'd be way too embarrassed to dispute a $15 charge to 'kittenvagina69' or whatever. There's a reason that Playboy used to come in a discrete brown paper packaging.

... their bank accounts?

On the other hand, the tall black cop (who goes gay) is now -- in real life -- in jail for brutally beating (murdering?) his wife.

Victory!!!

Nah, the main thing is that the NatSocs did not exterminate people.

The 'numbers' are just amusing. Like at Madjenek!

I didn't know this. Thanks.