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a soundtrack is always a big part of any tv series, so which are your favourites? my list, in no particular order; mad men i've discovered so many great artists from this show, as well as many great songs from artists i was already familiar w/. the '60s music which makes up most of the...

should OldSchoolerSimpsons make a proper drunk boarding thread (while drunk)

my dad was 42 and my mum was 38. you guys?

which is it?

thought this would be a fun idea. i may use some of the best for a thing on twitter tartle - forgetting someone's name (scottish) tsundoku - buying a book but never reading it (japanese) latah - saying embarrassing things when you are startled (indonesian) vetullhënë - having eyebrows like the...

what songs remind you of specific events in your life, and bring you back to these events every time you listen to them? nirvana-lithium: on the day that an old friend died, i just stayed in bed all day, listening to this song. i can never listen to it without remembering that day kanye...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/07/mario-soares-former-prime-minister-of-portugal-dies-aged-92 rip. one of the fathers of democracy and socialism in europe, and an enemy of fascists everywhere. he will be sadly missed

do you guys like twitter? i recently remembered about my old twitter account, and i've been having some fun with it. which are the best accounts to follow? any good recs? oh and if anyone wants to follow me: https://twitter.com/Nilbog_of_NHC

talk about teachers you've had in the past. the crazier the better. one science teacher i had when i was 13/14 was just fucking bizarre. he shaved his hair super short, like kanye west (but he was 100% white, and irish, i think.) i learned next to nothing about science from him, because most of...

i know that we already have a ''what are you currently reading?'' thread, but basically, here is a thread to list the best books you read this year, and make recommendations based on other's lists. here's my top 10: 1.jonathon coe - what a carve up! 2.kurt vonnegut - slaughterhouse 5 3.barbara...

https://www.politicalcompass.org/test this is kinda fun. see where you are on a political compass. it seems p accurate for me after taking the test, click on the certificate section for a cool chart. here's mine: https://www.politicalcompass.org/certificate?pname=Nilbog&ec=-6.13&soc=-6.36...

in no particular order: tokyo moscow tehran paris pyongyang

the proust questionnare is a personality test which is often wrongly attributed to the french author marcel proust (mostly due to the fact that it is, for some reason, named after him). there are a number of different versions, but this is my personal favourite. i thought it would be a fun thing...

when i first heard the term self-depreciating, i thought that it was self-decapitating, and it referred to people cutting their own heads off (i was about 8) when i first heard of self-esteem, i thought that it was self-einstein, and referred to having an unusually high intelligence

mark rothko joeseph heller stanley kubrick frank zappa karl marx martin luther king che guevara nelson mandela stephen fry larry david leon trotsky captain beefheart andy warhol alfred hitchcock al gore

so uh this is a p vauge thread but basically, apart from school/work, what do you guys do? so uh, ''talk about your hobbies and interests''. the book thread isn't really being updated on a regular basis that much any more, but literature has really been doing it for me lately. already this year...

how long can you guys keep friends for? i moved house when i was 6, and i don't keep in contact with anyone from before then (i think i have like 2 or 3 of my friends from then on facebook, but i never talk to them, so it doesn't really count). i've known one of my best friends since i was 6...

what the title says. name some great albums that artists released during periods when they were mainly making terrible stuff: '80s neil young is really hit and miss, but everybody's rockin' is so much fun, and trans is one of the most awesome things he's ever made. quite a controversial one: by...

What is the NHC's opinion on canned laughter and sitcom live audiences? I think that some great sitcoms in the past had canned laughter (Seinfeld, Fawlty Towers, Cheers etc). But great sitcoms such as The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Malcolm in the Middle have shown that there is no need for...

Just a random ''hey guys how's it going'' thread. Today's been p good for me. I went on a walk in the forest for what felt like 1/2 hour, but it turned out to be 2 hours. Whoa! I read the first 100 pages of A Confederacy of Dunces today, and I'm usually a very slow reader. Plus, I discovered...