Yeah our accent is a trip. I’ve got to suppress it when talking to people online because no one can understand me lmao

Newfoundland, or shortened as NFLD, is an island on the east coast of Canada. It’s also where I’m from. We have a very distinct identity and culture both as people who live on an island as well as people who have an insanely distinct dialect/culture. I heard an Irish comedian describe us as an island full of “that weird Irish uncle everyone has”. It’s not totally wrong. Certain songs also heavily trigger the Newfie pride. One of those songs is called Heave Away, often called a Newfie Anthem. There are a couple of others, such as Rant and Roar, but this one gets brought up the most.

This is Heave Away as performed by The Fables, a Newfie Celtic band - https://youtu.be/mlimZYGsT-o

This is Rant and Roar as performed by Great Big Sea, another Newfie Celtic band - https://youtu.be/4KCOTtYPRfY

And then a bonus song of Excursion Around The Bay, a traditional Newfie song, also performed by Great Big Sea. Includes a very short interview about the song too - https://youtu.be/Kqz6mLRYHj4

Both of those songs are VERY indicative of everything about Newfoundland. Music means a lot to us.

How?

Thanks <3 After working in comedy for years, I’ve had some time to think about that answer. Definitely not the first time I’ve heard the question.

But the rest don’t

Richard Pryor laid himself completely bare on stage, talking about his own personal trauma, racial injustice, addiction and America itself.

Dave Chappelle (as much as he’s a dick) went hard into racism making you both laugh and sort of flinch at the same time.

Bill Hicks would deliver basically full on sermons against capitalism, consumerism and conformity with the same passion as a street preacher.

Hannah Gadsby and Daniel Sloss both turn their inner hell and struggles into stand up acts that make you cry from empathy and laughter.

Bo Burnham rips apart every section of culture he can get his little twink hands on.

Norm MacDonald often turned jokes into full on thought experiments where you’re suddenly contemplating death and futility while he’s staring at you with zen-like calm and a smile on his face. James Acaster isn’t too different, you’re just replacing the Zen-like calm with excitable energy and a goofy grin.

Frankie Boyle gets dismissed as being nothing but crass humor but is EXCEPTIONALLY sharp at taking apart inequality, classism and politics in general.

Sarah Silverman has been pissing on social norms for decades and pointing out how ridiculous they are.

Tig Notaro could also be arguably classed in the Daniel Sloss/Hannah Gadsby one but has a different type of hell and as personally a big fan I wanted to just call her out on her own.

Lewis Black uses screaming indignant rage to lash out at bureaucratic idiocy, corruption, the death of common sense and the sliding of society.

Louis CK, however you feel about him, also tends to line up a lot of his comedy with the second guy considering how big of a fan he was. Louis spoke, with this dudes families permission, at a ceremony honoring said man and has tried (and failed in a lot of ways, succeeded in some others) to carry the torch of…

George Carlin who was less of a comedian than a prophet with a punchline. Dude deconstructed language, religion, social constructs, politics, capitalism, and every ounce of hypocrisy he could find. He was doing stand up and talking about aging and death from when he had a full head of hair until he was shuffling around in slippers. Shuffling around and STILL BEING HYSTERICALLY SHARP might I add. Man used comedy as a weapon against anything he found distasteful to humanity. If Plato had a sense of humor and access to HBO, he’d have sounded like George Carlin.

As much as douchebros like to abuse the statement, the statement does have truth. You don’t have philosophers who sit down and wax about the world anymore, at least none that are given much attention on the whole. Comedians bridge that gap. They make you laugh, sure, but to laugh you’ve got to think. A joke requires you to make a mental leap at some point, it’s just one you weren’t expecting. A good comedian can make that leap not just funny but also mean something.

And I didn’t downvote you, nor do I think people should. It’s a valid question. The answers are not always obvious. Not everyone is going to know everything or see everything from a certain point of view.

To some minor degree of success but I couldn’t ever get control of my anxiety

Edit: Sorry I was on my way out the door to an appointment.

I did it for a few years and wasn’t outright hated. Did fairly well for myself but relatively minor all things considered. Was on TV here in Canada a couple times. There are clips out there floating around of me doing stand up and it’s always a mixed reaction, like any comedy. Some people like it and some people don’t which isn’t helped by the fact that my style was kind of a cross-over of Robin Williams, Dylan Moran and Lewis Black. Fast, surreal and angry. If I was able to afford therapy and get some medication then I’d probably still be doing it. But, then again, trauma seems to be a prerequesite for being a comic.

And hell no I’m not finding a clip.

Have they made any of them into movies?

The head admin of your instance permanently banned me a year ago for no reason. I only just found out yesterday and messaged them asking what gives. They had no idea either, couldn’t remember and unbanned me. Everyone else on basically any other instance had no issue. More info on what happened.

Bro. The amount of harassment I get is fucking unreal, it just happens to usually be from admins more than anyone else. But me and Picard have both had to deal with our fair share of lunatics users. Hell, I’ve got a straight up stalker who won’t stop harassing me with new accounts and shit. We just both kept posting and ignored the douchebags. Now we get regularly pinged by people saying thanks or some other compliment my autistic ass has no idea how to process. Things change.

I can think of a few off hand but the best to come to mind is the dude who did the Astartes videos.

Here’s the thing though. The monitor is only close if I want it. It’s in a heavy duty arm and gets moved around a lot. The TV is further away by a significant margin because I can’t afford a TV stand atm considering I also can’t afford food. But I will just switch between TV and monitor for no rhyme or reason. Sometimes during the same session. Start on one, end on another

Not really. Sometimes it’s also just what mood I’m in. The left monitor is actually a much bigger TV with higher resolution but lower refresh rate. The right one is on an arm, curved, 165hz and hdr always works instead of some of the time but only 30 inches or so

I just… Change them whenever. No real reason

… I switch it up depending on the game.

An Are You Afraid of the Dark reference? In my Lemmy?

I think I love you

Well fuck. I tried…

Bitch, I would settle for a slime mold named Jartholomew at this point. I got nothing. Not even lightning wants to touch me

Wholesome fun and Aziz Ansari

I wanted to like the show so much but I hate that little man so much

Still are. I got a phone book delivered a week ago, I shit thee not. Granted I’m on a small island and the book is small too. But like, you can pay to have your number removed from the book. Can you have it removed from this? Not to mention all the 2FA stuff that can be connected to the phone number. Someone clones your number or takes it and suddenly they’ve got access to a whole lot of your login stuff.