Topic Lords

58. Sparkles On Top Of The Brain

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      • Topics:

      • What's the youngest age at which you can become the kind of old person you want to be
      • Reborrowings: https://starkeycomics.com/2020/06/06/reborrowings/
        • https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/624028907162566657/724080214128197672/etymologies-_1.png
        • https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0"
        • I made pork katsu for dinner and Winston pronounced it "pork costume" and I'm pretty sure that's it, that's peak dad experience and it's all downhill from here
        • Stephen asks "Textual dialects. Range of timbre and tools available in punctuation, capitalization, emphasis and emojis. Apparently periods come off as assertive/rude to younger folks."
        • The tone deafness test
          • https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/td

            • Microtopics:

            • Whether complice is the opposite of accomplice.
            • Intending to clean the fridge.
            • A short but sweet plug that you manage to drag out of your guest.
            • Thinking an early access game is dead when the developer is right there in your kitchen streaming making breakfast.
            • Feeling too young to just go around handing out Werther's Originals.
            • Whether at some age all your teeth fall out or whether they just decided once, in the 1950s maybe, that it's time to pull everyone's teeth.
            • Whether the lady with twenty cats accrued the cats over the course of your life or just adopted twenty cats at once.
            • Learning to regrow your teeth so you can change your teeth style every few months, like you can your hair.
            • Transhuman augmentation of the teeth.
            • Being sure that a pop culture concept doesn't exist in Japan because you didn't see it in that one Yakuza game you played.
            • Sharpening your teeth to look like a cat.
            • The world record for most permanent transformations to look like an animal.
            • Whether dead people can still be the fastest person in the world.
            • The world record for most permanent transformations to look like something other than an animal.
            • How Stalking Cat decided to become a cat.
            • Wanting to be more like a tiger and having your ears transplanted to the top of your head.
            • Getting a job as a programmer to fund your body modification plans so you can be the old person you dream about being.
            • Running plastic tubes from the fake ears on top of your head down to the place your ears used to be.
            • The major themes of Stalking Cat's LiveJournal.
            • Seeing someone's LiveJournal post saying just "I start shooting today" and wondering if you should be worried.
            • Getting back to being old.
            • Cultivating the witchy vibe when you're not really a witch.
            • Not having any enormous flowing skirts any more because you moved across the country and they all caught the wind and flew out of the back of the car.
            • Making a skirt out of chainmail and refusing to twirl it because a four year old lives in your house.
            • Asking the manufacturer of your favorite towel whether they make bathrobes and they send back a one word email saying "no."
            • Wanting to look like a dapper old man but hating fashion norms.
            • Appropriating the parts of fashion that you like while subverting the idea that you're participating in the fashion hierarchy.
            • Wanting to eventually look like a dapper old man and starting by buying one dapper sock.
            • Codpieces.
            • Wearing full plate armor to church or to court.
            • Stalking Cat's profile page on wikifur.com
            • The Romans enslaving so many Slavs that Slav becomes their word for it.
            • All the different times that nature has evolved a tree.
            • Palm trees not really being trees and just being weird grass.
            • A plant deciding to get tall where the sun is and reinventing wood.
            • Languages borrowing words from other languages and then giving them back after completely changing the meaning.
            • Whether Italy has any Pizza Huts.
            • Trying to cover a song by a singer with a weird accent and discovering that you need that weird accent for the song to work and deciding if you're willing to adopt the weird accent for your cover.
            • English poetry that is too old.
            • A two year old pronouncing pork katsu as "pork costume."
            • Dressing your two year old in pork for Halloween like the tiny ham he is.
            • Really giving somebody the pork costume.
            • Realizing your best work is behind you when you haven't done anything notable.
            • An entirely sideways mouth that has fallen off your face.
            • Chekov's Book.
            • A throne but you can poop in it.
            • Hiding a piece of matzo somewhere in your house on Passover and eventually your house fills up with matzo.
            • Yelling at your coworker for only using the "slight smile" emoji because they weren't happy enough.
            • Image searching for the Unicode character "slight smile" and seeing a field of smiley faces that are just the classic yellow smiley, but then there's one that's this smirking douchebag.
            • How autocorrect ought to be able to code switch based on who you're talking to and what you're talking about.
            • Walking around the house and discovering that you can't use the word "okay" in the kitchen.
            • Putting the sparkles on top of the brain.
            • Trying to talk about bringing your head below something and autocorrect is like "did you mean: fucking"
            • Youtube's automatic captioning now censoring swear words.
            • Censoring swear words by replacing the word "shit" with a picture of shit.
            • Whether the eggplant emoji would ejaculate from the stem end or the bulb end.
            • Squeezing mayonnaise out of the stem end of an eggplant emoji squeeze bottle.
            • The tone deaf and the tone hearing.
            • Being surprised to meet people who can't sing at all, even though you just met someone like that a couple days ago.
            • Hearing a pitch and having no idea whether it's higher or lower than what you're singing.
            • Not letting anyone into your painting club who can't distinguish red and green.
            • Greyie Pie.
            • Applying a deuteranopic filter to a My Little Pony episode and instantly being incredibly depressed.
            • Not knowing the right answer but the person in your head heckling you does.

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