32. Tandem CPAP

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Topics:

• 4:10 All clothes hangers should be made of wood rather than wire or plastic.
• 8:32 How do you feel about food mascots shaped like the food you're about to eat?
  • Will Graham discovers Hannibal's love for sweetbreads at ~3:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbcI6h1_bHg
• 12:31 I could put any liquid in my CPAP humidifier.
• 18:21 Mallow asks: "Sliding doors. Are people in favor? Opposed? Terrified of them? Feels like in the US we've converged on a kind of door that just isn't that great."
• 23:48 If there was one silly skill you could acquire with no effort, like being good at karaoke, what would it be?
  • https://platypusegg.bandcamp.com/
• 34:08 People in different eras interpreting subtleties in media differently--for example, people not "getting" all of Shakespeare's jokes, interpreting the ending of The Wicker Man differently, etc.
  • https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/615235424343998464/patricia-von-arundel-friendlytroll
• 45:07 Multi-Mario races.
  • World record Mario 1862 run in 37h57m. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/588944589
  • https://iggmarathon.com/

Microtopics:

• The comfort of a Discord voice channel where everyone is muted.
• A Discord voice channel where you go to poop.
• Perceiving a pun and wanting to forget it.
• Being in total agreement as to whether we should discuss topics.
• The hidden cost of plastic coat hangers.
• Contemplating the luxury of your collection of fancy wooden coat hangers.
• Never having purchased coat hangers in your life but still ending up with a bunch of them.
• Accruing heavier and heavier clothing as you age.
• Not needing coat hangers because you just drape all your clothes over the back of a folding chair.
• A barbecue joint where the mascot is a sapient pig that is super thrilled that you're about to eat him.
• Alienation from the food production process.
• The weird zone where pigs are slaughtered in an alternate dimension outside our ken.
• Chuck E. Cheese's real name.
• The sweetest meat you'll ever eat.
• Sweetmeats vs. sweetbreads.
• A restaurant with the slogan "the sweetest bread you'll ever eat" and the mascot is a talking Thymus gland.
• Thymus glands just being in you someplace.
• Putting soup in your humidifier and saving yourself the trouble of making breakfast.
• Accidentally blasting yourself with mold all night.
• Sharing a CPAP machine with your life partner, like a tandem bike.
• Adding a splash of bleach to your soup so it won't grow mold in your humidifier overnight.
• Taking action to ensure huge amounts of water enters your body because otherwise the water will probably just sit there.
• Every sliding glass door having a big colorful sticker on it because once someone ran into it and broke their nose or crashed through or both.
• The worst-designed lateral thinking puzzle exacerbating your fear of heights.
• All the rollers in the sliding glass door being crushed so you're just dragging a huge pane of glass along the ground.
• Sliding glass doors being perfectly safe because they cannot break; they can only become windows.
• Increasing the amount of natural light in your home via strategic placement of mirrors.
• Holding a mirror and pointing the sun at your face.
• Everyone loving your ukulele cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit, but only the first time they hear it.
• Knowing how to play a bunch of instruments but they all weigh 300 pounds.
• Making a xylophone out PVC pipes you found in a dumpster and playing Ode to Joy on it.
• Solving this portable xylophone problem once and for all by googling "portable xylophone."
• A gigantic marimba that is built into the room it's in like a supercomputer of sound.
• Wanting to go on a weird xylophone tour.
• Being good enough to impress people who don't know anything about that particular skill.
• Wanting to play an instrument that leaves your mouth free to have a jolly conversation.
• Combining our powers to identify the hexagonal pirate accordion.
• Circus jazz.
• Scottish peasants swaying together like kindergarteners singing a jolly pagan song as the flames approach.
• Fifty years ago, being horrified when pagans burn the character representing cops and religious authority alive, but nowadays everybody owns a guillotine and worships Alan Moore's snake god.
• Whether the Nicholas Cage Wicker Man being hilarious at release was inspired by the 1970s Wicker Man being hilarious in a modern context.
• Jokes that modern audiences don't have the context to understand.
• Works written in 17th or 18th century English needing localization as much as works in a foreign language.
• Not linking to an edifying Tumblr thread because Tumblr's threading is the worst.
• People in the 1940s just talking like that actually.
• Movie actors finally learning to act sometime around 1950.
• Staying awake for 38 hours to get every star, moon and shine in the 3D Mario series.
• Our failings as adult humans.
• Doing game jams where you actually sleep.
• Scoping your game development project to allow sleep during development.
• Romanticizing the idea of staying up all night doing something fun because now you're an adult with adult responsibilities and shirt resilience.
• Not being able to justify doing something for fun so you tack on a charity drive.
• The shifting sense of what's important and what's moral that defines the human experience over time.
• Whether or not you could pay us to play World of Warcraft.
• Your guild leader getting in fistfights all the time and eventually going up jail and appointing you temporary guild leader because he doesn't realize you're a woman.
• Training your brain to be okay playing just one video game for a while.
• A hat that is so ugly you had to give it to a friend.
• Giving your goth dog friend pastel outfits to wear on Bunny Day.
• Lamenting that there is no other place or time to discuss topics.