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Post by liebkartoffel on Jul 21, 2022 14:11:22 GMT -5
A thread for the ranking of things--be they objects, flora, fauna, persons, locations, or concepts--and discussion thereof. For instance, here is a scientific ranking of Jelly Belly flavors, as determined via double elimination tournament bracket:
1. Strawberry Cheesecake
2. Dr Pepper
3. Buttered Popcorn
4. Coconut
5. Licorice
6. French Vanilla
7. Cappuccino
8. Strawberry Daiquiri
9. Orange Sherbet
10. Cinnamon
11. Lemon Lime
12. Pina Colada
13. Mango
14. A&W Root Beer
15. Strawberry Jam
16. Sunkist Lime
17. Sunkist Orange
18. Sunkist Lemon
19. A&W Cream Soda
20. Crushed Pineapple
21. Caramel Corn
22. Sunkist Tangerine
23. Sour Cherry
24. Tutti-Fruitti
25. Mixed Berry Smoothie
26. Raspberry
27. Island Punch
28. Pomegranate
29. Blueberry
30. Margarita
31. Kiwi
32. Sizzling Cinnamon
33. Chocolate Pudding
34. Toasted Marshmallow
35. Bubble Gum
36. Berry Blue
37. Lemon Drop
38. Very Cherry
39. Pink Grapefruit
40. Red Apple
41. Wild Blackberry
42. Green Apple
43. Peach
44. Plum
45. Cantaloupe
46. Watermelon
47. Cotton Candy
48. Top Banana
49. Juicy Pear
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Jul 25, 2022 17:26:59 GMT -5
Ranking of animals:
1. Belonging to the emperor
2. Embalmed
3. Tame
4. Suckling pigs
5. Sirens
6. Fabulous
7. Stray dogs
8. Included in the present classification
9. Frenzied
10. Innumerable
11. Drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
12. Et cetera
13. Having just broken the water pitcher
14. That from a long way off look like flies
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Post by LazBro on Aug 1, 2022 10:46:20 GMT -5
A ranking of "classic" Reese's products. Here I define classic as the most established of Reese's candy aisle products, so excluding things like puddings, brownie mixes, peanut butter, etc. List will not include products I haven't tried, which because Reese's has gone apeshit in the last 5 years or so, is most of them.
- Reese's Easter Egg holiday cup. Simply the perfect proportion of peanut butter filling to chocolate, with no hard ridge.
- Reese's Easter Egg holiday cup (white chocolate)
All of the other holiday cups: Christmas trees, Halloween pumpkins, Valentine's hearts, Superbowl footballs, etc. Taste as good as the Easter version, but I think the proportions on Easter are just that little bit better.
- All of the other holiday cups (white chocolate)
- Big Cups. More peanut butter is better.
- Big Cups (white chocolate)
- Half-pound cups. Though they're a bit of a stunt product, they deliver big peanut butter and so rank high on my list. But the requisite amount of additional chocolate is boring to get through.
- Reese's Crunch Peanut Bar
- Reese's Nutrageous
- The original Reese's peanut butter cup.
- Original Reese's cup (white chocolate)
- Reese's Pieces
- Reese's Fast Break
- Reese's Peanut Butter Egg, these are the ones that are actually egg shaped, like Cadbury eggs, distinct from the Easter eggs cups ranked #1
- Reese's Take Five, a real disappointment considering how good regular Take Fives are
- Reese's Sticks
- Reese's miniature cups, like these are not worth the effort to unwrap, and it's almost impossible to eat one without getting chocolate on your fingers
- Reese's miniature cups (white chocolate)
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 1, 2022 11:52:41 GMT -5
Dog Days of Summer:
1. August 2
2. August 19
3. August 4
4. August 10
All the rest can go screw.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 1, 2022 15:14:13 GMT -5
Ranking of the Sex Pistols’ Studio Albums
1. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 1, 2022 20:23:04 GMT -5
Ranking Joe vs. The Volcano
1. Joe
2. The Volcano
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Post by Trurl on Aug 5, 2022 7:43:48 GMT -5
1. Ranking Roger
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666. Rankin/Bass
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Aug 5, 2022 10:07:22 GMT -5
All the *good* Pokemons. 1. Clefairy 2. Pinsir 3. Kadabra 4. Dragonair 5. Venonat ... 147. Metapod 148. Golem 149. Spearow 150. Machop 151. Machoke Full list. Thank you, internet, for this applet. |
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Aug 5, 2022 19:49:29 GMT -5
Ranking of Dutch composers by best name (exhaustive)
1. Unico Wilhelm Graaf van Wassenaer
2. Quirinus van Blanckenburg
3. Theo Loevendie
4. Johannes Bernardus van Bree
5. Ton de Leeuw
6. Cornelius Conradus
7. Alphons Diepenbrock
8. Jan Peterszoon Sweelinck
9. Guus Janssen
10. Benedictus Buns
11. Cornelis Schuyt
12. Willem Pijper
13. Carolus Hacquart
14. Constantijn Huygens
15. Jan van Vjlimen
16. Johan Willems Wilms
17. Christiaan Ernst Graaf
18. Willem de Fesch
19. Wim Laman
20. Jan Brandts Buys
21. Theodoor Verhey
22. Anthon van der Horst
23. Kees van Baaren
24. Bernard Zweers
25. Daniël Ruyneman
26. Jan van Gilse
27. Anthon van der Horst
28. Julius Röntgen
29. Peter-Jans Wagemans
30. Johan Wagenaar
31. Mathias Mercker
32. Johan Nicolaas Lentz
33. Matthijs Vermeulen
34. Pieter Hellendall
35. Johannes Verhelst
36. Carel Rosier
37. Rudolph Escher
38. Jean Gabriel Meder
39. Hendrik Andriessen
40. Otto Ketting
41. Louis Andriessen
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Post by Desert Dweller on Aug 6, 2022 11:00:37 GMT -5
Ranking of Dutch composers by best name (exhaustive) 8. Jan Peterszoon Sweelinck
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelink
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Aug 6, 2022 17:55:19 GMT -5
Aww man and he’s probably the most important one, musically! (Huygens the most important one generally.)
I also realized that, since I just took the names from a ten-disc box set I was listening through, I actually forgot the one, contemporary Dutch composer I kind of know. Fit Rutger Zuyderveldt in there between Christiaan Ernst Graaf and Willem de Fesch.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Aug 7, 2022 18:13:44 GMT -5
Aww man and he’s probably the most important one, musically! (Huygens the most important one generally.)
I think he's the only one of these whose music I've actually performed. That is probably the only way I would have known the correct spelling without looking it up, tbh.
Also, I remember his name because I, too, thought it was really fun.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Aug 8, 2022 13:37:19 GMT -5
Desert Dweller In the NL now he’s probably been surpassed by last-place-winner Louis Andriessen who is (very roughly) kind of a Boulez figure there. Julius Röntgen, who’s kind of their big romantic, still gets played. I don’t know how much Rudolph Escher is performed but he’s probably my favorite of all of them, sort of a next step after Ravel kind of guy.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Aug 10, 2022 0:48:00 GMT -5
Desert Dweller In the NL now he’s probably been surpassed by last-place-winner Louis Andriessen who is (very roughly) kind of a Boulez figure there. Julius Röntgen, who’s kind of their big romantic, still gets played. I don’t know how much Rudolph Escher is performed but he’s probably my favorite of all of them, sort of a next step after Ravel kind of guy.
Andriessen is one of the only other ones whose music I know pretty well. I actually listened to his opera La Commedia last year. I'm fairly anti-serialism, so he's not someone I listen to often. But for some reason I do actually try to give a listen to a lot of works of major 20th C composers even though I do not find much of it to be aesthetically pleasing to me.
I don't think I've ever heard Escher, so I'll look him up. I've heard a couple pieces by Rontgen, but I don't remember them too well. Obviously, vocal composers I am going to be more familiar with because I will have performed their music. And I have simply sung a LOT of Renaissance music, so composers from that period are often better known to me than ones of the 19th C.
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Post by Nudeviking on Aug 10, 2022 2:08:03 GMT -5
1. Pooping at Home
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2. Pooping at Work
3. Pooping in the Wilds
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 13, 2022 11:55:16 GMT -5
1. Tina
2. Chris
3. David
4. Jerry
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Post by liebkartoffel on Aug 16, 2022 11:29:33 GMT -5
Months
1. June
2. December
3. July
4. October
5. November
6. August
7. September
8. May
9. January
10. April
11. March
12. February
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 17, 2022 7:31:22 GMT -5
Songs about telling someone not to lose a number.
2. Don’t Lose My Number by Phil Collins
1. Rikki Don’t Lose That Number by Steely Dan
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Post by Prole Hole on Aug 17, 2022 15:21:10 GMT -5
Songs about telling someone not to lose a number. 2. Don’t Lose My Number by Phil Collins 1. Rikki Don’t Lose That Number by Steely Dan 1 Number One by the Rutles 2 Numbers by Kraftwerk 3 Rickki Don't Lose That Number by Steely Dan 4 The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden ... 6598498498981498498419841654168461541654165416541654168716541687416541654165419641 Don't Lose My Number by Phil Collins |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Aug 17, 2022 23:05:43 GMT -5
Songs where you are repeatedly told to "jump on it"
1. Ginuwine, "Pony" (stone cold classic that will fart along until the heat death of the universe)
2. Mark Ronson, "Uptown Funk" (dumb fun)
3. Sugarhill Gang, "Apache" (racist dumb fun)
Dishonorable mention: Sir Mix-A-Lot, "Apache" (just dumb)
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Post by liebkartoffel on Aug 27, 2022 8:29:21 GMT -5
A ranking of measuring spoons, by order of usage:
1. teaspoon
2. tablespoon
3. half-teaspoon (when I want to be slightly more precise than just filling the teaspoon half-way)
4. half-tablespoon (when the tablespoon is dirty and I'm too lazy to clean it)
5. quarter-teaspoon (it's just a couple of big pinches - why bother?)
6. eighth-teaspoon (for fuck's sake just shake in a bit of whatever spice - has anyone ever actually used a 1/8 teaspoon?)
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Post by LazBro on Aug 29, 2022 7:34:21 GMT -5
A ranking of measuring spoons, by order of usage: 1. teaspoon 2. tablespoon 3. half-teaspoon (when I want to be slightly more precise than just filling the teaspoon half-way) 4. half-tablespoon (when the tablespoon is dirty and I'm too lazy to clean it) 5. quarter-teaspoon (it's just a couple of big pinches - why bother?) 6. eighth-teaspoon (for fuck's sake just shake in a bit of whatever spice - has anyone ever actually used a 1/8 teaspoon?) Few years ago for Christmas I got a set of measuring cups and spoons that had a bunch of unusual sizes, including a 1/16 teaspoon, a 2 cup and a 1.5 cup. The larger cups are cool, I guess, but the 1/16 teaspoon has gotta be a gag. |
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Post by ganews on Sept 6, 2022 13:16:34 GMT -5
Train systems
4. Netherlands: on strike, platform requires a ticket, stations close at night
3. Switzerland: friggin expensive, no mercy from conductors, good app
2. Germany: less expensive but less on time, good app, summer 2022 cheap ticket deal but better not get the regional/IC confused
1. Belgium: always on time, no conductors in sight, good app, multi-lingual announcements, open stations, cheap 2-for-1 tickets all summer
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Sept 12, 2022 13:23:49 GMT -5
ganews I’d agree with this ranking (I was definitely at risk of being stranded in Leiden or the Hague a couple of times) but I had a terrible experience with Belgium’s Antwerp-Ghent line. Fifty minutes late, carriages from the early sixties (which were mostly fine except being a bit dirty, which I feel was independent of their age; I’m not surprised they were probably replaced) and just everything off the main line to Paris just seemed a bit dingy to me. The Antwerp station, though, was super-impressive.
It’s unfortunate I couldn’t find (in five seconds’ googling) any pictures from the bottom-up.
I really regret not taking the ICE down to Switzerland—I was only headed off on a day trip to Germany so it wasn’t really feasible, and I’m glad I decided the places I did on time off, but I was definitely tempted to just stay on the train the whole way there (especially since Düsseldorf ended up both unproductive and boring, without great food; might have been next to Krafwerk’s Florian Schneider at a urinal, though I wasn’t really looking). |
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Post by Prole Hole on Sept 12, 2022 16:55:00 GMT -5
ganews I’d agree with this ranking (I was definitely at risk of being stranded in Leiden or the Hague a couple of times) but I had a terrible experience with Belgium’s Antwerp-Ghent line. Fifty minutes late, carriages from the early sixties (which were mostly fine except being a bit dirty, which I feel was independent of their age; I’m not surprised they were probably replaced) and just everything off the main line to Paris just seemed a bit dingy to me. The Antwerp station, though, was super-impressive.
It’s unfortunate I couldn’t find (in five seconds’ googling) any pictures from the bottom-up.
I really regret not taking the ICE down to Switzerland—I was only headed off on a day trip to Germany so it wasn’t really feasible, and I’m glad I decided the places I did on time off, but I was definitely tempted to just stay on the train the whole way there (especially since Düsseldorf ended up both unproductive and boring, without great food; might have been next to Krafwerk’s Florian Schneider at a urinal, though I wasn’t really looking). Can confirm: Antwerp station is absolutely incredible. Which is as well, because Antwerp itself very much isn't. |
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Post by ganews on Sept 12, 2022 21:31:20 GMT -5
Places I would care to live in Belgium
5. Liege
4. Bruges
3. Ghent
2. Antwerp
1. Brussels
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jul 22, 2023 8:35:02 GMT -5
Songs about taking trains to Georgia:
3. Georgia on a Fast Train
2. Midnight Train to Georgia
1. Can't You See?
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Jul 24, 2023 18:04:48 GMT -5
Places I would care to live in Belgium 5. Liege 4. Bruges 3. Ghent 2. Antwerp 1. Brussels Correction: number one is “nowhere in Belgium” |
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