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Title: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 12, 2020, 01:40:43 PM
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on February 12, 2020, 02:11:55 PM
http://youtu.be/BX3bN5YeiQs (http://youtu.be/BX3bN5YeiQs)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on February 12, 2020, 02:37:36 PM
I need to find someone who wants to sell me a set of 1st to 3rd edition Skaven for Blood Bowl for a price that doesn't involve the national debt of a central American country.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on February 12, 2020, 03:54:30 PM
because the old one just wasn't random enough these days......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on February 12, 2020, 04:10:17 PM
What to watch tonight? The new Charlies Angels movie or 80's relic Airwolf?

EDIT: Settled on the new Terminator movie. I like bad movies, I am just not sure I am ready for another Elizabeth Banks level bad film. Someone ought to let her know that it isn't just men avoiding her female led action movie...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 12, 2020, 05:00:08 PM
It'd be scary to be a raindrop.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on February 12, 2020, 06:22:04 PM
It'd be scary to be a raindrop.
That's what happens to snowflakes.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on February 12, 2020, 07:01:00 PM
I wish my 91-year-old invalid mother in law would not wait till I am six bites into my supper before announcing she needs to go to the bathroom.
Nothing ruins a meal like having to deal with another person's s***.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 12, 2020, 10:16:28 PM
^  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Gabriel Knight on February 13, 2020, 06:37:19 AM
Two more days for my crappy week of vacations, all right!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on February 13, 2020, 06:49:13 AM
The lady that teaches across the hall from me has a hermit crab for a class pet.
The kids made the crab an Instagram page.
Stupid crab has more followers than I do!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Gabriel Knight on February 13, 2020, 06:56:48 AM
Well, to be fair, crabs are awesome.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 13, 2020, 10:54:54 AM
I been watching Dracula on Netflix, and I got to thinking, if I was a powerful vampire stuck on a ship full of people in the middle of the ocean, I'd turn a few passing sharks into vampires, then throw people overboard to see what a vampire shark feeding would look like. I bet that would be really, realllly interesting.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on February 13, 2020, 11:56:18 PM
"Undress me with your words," she said.
I whispered in her ear: "There's a spider in your bra."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 14, 2020, 08:11:29 AM
"Undress me with your words," she said.
I whispered in her ear: "There's a spider in your bra."

 :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on February 14, 2020, 11:58:39 AM
I just now realized I haven't used a plate in weeks. Food in a bowl seems more convenient, at least to me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 14, 2020, 03:28:22 PM
i have had too much dark chocolate it's making me paranoid and i keep thinking deep red thoughts like what if gary busey played buddy holly so well because he actually is buddy holly and he acts crazy because of a head injury from that plane crash and i think it's creepy that drinking tea is drinking plant blood so maybe we're vampires and I think it's so eerie the cia is in suburban virginia of all places and why do dogs love bad people and i think how odd it was programmers used to get us to watch hours of commercials on afternoon tv in the '80s because that's all kids' tv was half-hour toy commercials pretending to be real actual series and then they'd be interrupted by more commercials so we were literally watching constant commercials and how they did that to us made my generation's DNA damaged and i was thinking crying is a truly strange thing and it weirds me out that the cia is in virginia and why does leopard urine smell like popcorn and does it hurt to get pop rocks in your eye plus  i was also wondering what if kevin spacey is murdering his enemies and how if sasha sagan says 'my dad taught me' one more time in this book i am going to stop reading it and i wonder if bees have a concept similar to politeness and would my foot arouse a fetishist and does popeye have girls in every port and would i be able to shoot one of my children to save the other two if some psycho said i had to or he was going to throw all three off a tall building and when i die and go to heaven is the first person i look up there going to slam his door in my face and is the air inside a mall really dirty and why is science fiction so bad these days and does my seven year old really have a boyfriend and why is the cia is in virginia and why does music make us dance and why does singing make english people sound american and i'm also deeply suspicious that ee cummings is trying to possess me


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: WingedSerpent on February 14, 2020, 06:00:47 PM
Maybe the reason Waldo was so hard to find is because he just wanted some peace and quite and privacy.  Maybe we were ruining everything for him by constantly looking for him.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on February 14, 2020, 06:16:07 PM
I don't know why I feel so tired.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on February 15, 2020, 01:57:38 AM
So with the new post limit per thread does that mean that there'll be a new birthday thread?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on February 15, 2020, 06:53:28 AM
What really happened in Dyatlov Pass on that fateful night in 1959?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 16, 2020, 04:03:50 PM
What really happened in Dyatlov Pass on that fateful night in 1959?

I've often wondered that too. I truly do think that has KGB all over it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 19, 2020, 01:30:59 PM
Can you guys tell I don't have a lot else going on today?  :drink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on February 19, 2020, 01:50:56 PM
What really happened in Dyatlov Pass on that fateful night in 1959?

I've often wondered that too. I truly do think that has KGB all over it.


I did read a book re entry that put it down to subsonic noises generated by the unusual shape of the nearby mountain. Such noises can cause feelings of intense fear in the listener, even though they are not consciously aware of the sounds. I have no idea if those noises can be generated artificially or not, but it was an interesting read about an unsolved mystery.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on February 19, 2020, 01:54:06 PM
So with the new post limit per thread does that mean that there'll be a new birthday thread?

Probably should be. I'm taking them as they come.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on February 24, 2020, 12:15:38 AM
I think I am going to watch enough movies this week to do me for the next few months.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on February 24, 2020, 07:06:26 AM
Life without love is meaningless.

Love without life however is necrophilia.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 24, 2020, 11:25:20 AM
When the day comes I leave this site, I will wonder whatever became of you all in your lives.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 25, 2020, 04:54:08 PM
I've spent my adult life starving in order to keep my weight in the 120s. Maybe it's time I consciously let go and got fat. A purple cow with two scoops of strawberry ice cream might be a good starting place.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on February 25, 2020, 05:31:51 PM
I wonder if the Catholic church does anti-porn magazines with titles like Repenthouse?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 25, 2020, 07:59:20 PM
I wonder if the Catholic church does anti-porn magazines with titles like Repenthouse?

Almost that bad, though it's usually not from the church itself. There is a Catholic company called TAN that infamously puts out both prose tracts and little pocket-sized graphic novels with lurid cautionary tales that sometimes have names that are puns. Usually the tales progress through an A, B, C plot. Virtuous person is shown enjoying the fruits of a good life, then temptation arises and is yielded to and terrible things result. They're...... kinda fun to read.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on February 25, 2020, 08:26:33 PM
Hmm I wonder if Mike Bloomberg will get destroyed in the dem debate tonight... again???

last week was brutal...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on February 25, 2020, 08:29:37 PM
I wonder if the Catholic church does anti-porn magazines with titles like Repenthouse?

Almost that bad, though it's usually not from the church itself. There is a Catholic company called TAN that infamously puts out both prose tracts and little pocket-sized graphic novels with lurid cautionary tales that sometimes have names that are puns. Usually the tales progress through an A, B, C plot. Virtuous person is shown enjoying the fruits of a good life, then temptation arises and is yielded to and terrible things result. They're...... kinda fun to read.

I am going to guess those don't sell well in the Japanese market.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Gabriel Knight on February 26, 2020, 07:47:40 AM
I watched SLEEPAWAY CAMP last weekend and the ending scared me s**tless.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on February 26, 2020, 10:34:19 AM
I wonder if one of Andy from Toy Story's toys died would he know, or would he just keep playing with its corpse?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on February 26, 2020, 02:43:16 PM
ouch! lmao  :twirl:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 26, 2020, 04:07:06 PM
I'm standing outside in that dangerous kind of snow that drifts down in fat fluffy flakes that are beautiful to see but they instantly melt on contact and leave you almost as soaked as rain, and in cold weather too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Gabriel Knight on February 27, 2020, 06:56:28 AM
Oh my, a teather in my city is showing the following movies next month:

NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
FRIDAY THE 13TH
HALLOWEEN
IT
CARRIE
THE EXORCIST
ALIEN
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on February 27, 2020, 11:32:53 AM
THAT would be so freaking awesome to see The Return of the Living Dead (1985) on the big screen!!!  :thumbup:

(https://68.media.tumblr.com/d96baa4a137593d2bb2a44a19c966d95/tumblr_n1mtguFmhB1rpc5kho1_500.gif)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on February 27, 2020, 11:43:21 AM
^ I saw it on Long Island- at a drive in and at an indoor theater back in the day!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on February 27, 2020, 12:37:31 PM
^ Me too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on February 27, 2020, 12:39:11 PM
RC I bet it was awesome...

I can only remember far back to watching in theater Return of the Jedi in 1983 I was 10

(http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/29/hugo_chavez_caption_contest/Return-of-the-Jedi-ending.gif.CROP.original-original.gif)

I had the Star Wars Burger King cups and all lol


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 27, 2020, 03:48:33 PM
I was watching a video about chiropractic treatment, and the doctor said he needed to internally adjust his patient's facial bones, so he took flat little balloons, stuck them up her nostrils, and used a device to rapidly inflate and deflate the balloons.

God help me, I'd like to try that....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 28, 2020, 06:53:51 AM
Trigger warnings outrage me because they're so stupid, meaning I would like a trigger warning warning me when a trigger warning is coming.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on February 28, 2020, 07:30:54 AM
Hello snow. You're two months late but thanks for finally showing up and sticking around.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on February 28, 2020, 01:29:12 PM
Everyone has their own personal demons. I decided to deal with mine. Turns out they aren't bad guys. Having them round for a game of poker next Wednesday.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on February 29, 2020, 11:42:26 PM
make sure you supply the cards and remember, demons can still find a way to cheat. :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 12, 2020, 07:07:30 PM
Holy $#!^, the stock market.

Also, Make A Random Statement About Something Nobody Should Care About (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,146628.msg560010.html#msg560010 (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,146628.msg560010.html#msg560010)) should be posted here from now on.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 12, 2020, 07:09:59 PM
^ I can't make heads or tails of the stock market. I failed economics class twice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 12, 2020, 07:11:41 PM
^ I can't make heads or tails of the stock market. I failed economics class twice.

It's all tails now: as in, tailspin.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 12, 2020, 07:14:41 PM
 ^ I'm poor as dirt anyway. I'm used to it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 13, 2020, 12:51:32 PM
sci movies should come with a statement explaining which twilight zone episode the plot is a retread of


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 13, 2020, 01:21:36 PM
My eleven-year-old is staying with my cousin and the mother of his child these last days before the baby is born, and the expectant one is having slight Braxton-Hicks contractions, and I said to my daughter, "Kylie will be okay, she's having a boy for her first child, and for whatever reason boys are just easier to have."

And my daughter said, "You're never gonna let me live that down, are you?"

 :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 13, 2020, 01:53:26 PM
My eleven-year-old is staying with my cousin and....the impending mother of his child, these last days before the baby is born, and the mom-to-be- is having slight Braxton-Hicks contractions, and I said to my daughter, "Kylie will be okay, she's having a boy for her first child, and for whatever reason boys are just easier to have."

And my daughter said, "You're never gonna let me live that down, are you?"

 :teddyr:

The appropriate answer would be "Hell no."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 13, 2020, 09:45:17 PM
My Viking ancestors believed that laughing at danger brought good luck, as it was literally a form of prayer to taunt life's hazards.

I been giving that a try by chortling and telling the pandemic it is a weakling, fit only to lie carnally with its own grandmother while warriors who will still stride proudly when it is but a joke in memory belittle its feeble efforts, worthy only of culling the soft ones from the herd.

So far so good.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 13, 2020, 11:09:45 PM
All right, goodnight, everybody, I hope you survive the damn plague!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on March 14, 2020, 12:01:56 AM
 :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 15, 2020, 12:04:02 PM
It occurs to me, the libtards & the fake nooz should be happie with the hype over the Corona Flu, because it's also shut down the gun shows, something no law has been able to do so far................................


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 15, 2020, 02:23:23 PM
It occurs to me, the libtards & the fake nooz should be happie with the hype over the Corona Flu, because it's also shut down the gun shows, something no law has been able to do so far................................

I'd imagine they are all too aware that there are too many f**kwits out there already with too many guns for that to make any difference.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 15, 2020, 03:18:57 PM
In a weird way, corona flu makes this a great time for a reboot of Will Forte's tv show on FOX, The Last Man On Earth...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on March 16, 2020, 01:40:16 PM
It occurs to me, the libtards & the fake nooz should be happie with the hype over the Corona Flu, because it's also shut down the gun shows, something no law has been able to do so far................................

I'd imagine they are all too aware that there are too many f**kwits out there already with too many guns for that to make any difference.

this "libtard" does know that, alex, and she is NOT happy with this crisis, period.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on March 16, 2020, 07:50:40 PM
The ongoing politicization of this crisis by both sides is truly depressing.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 16, 2020, 09:23:42 PM
The ongoing politicization of this crisis by both sides is truly depressing.

It shows how sadly divided our country is that even amid our universal need to overcome a mindless, indiscriminate, dangerous virus we cannot unite, that in the midst of a disaster we somehow find ways to more deeply polarize ourselves while we contract still further into divisive rhetoric and tribal identities. Depressing is a mild word for it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on March 16, 2020, 09:45:28 PM
Of course, the nutjobs that follow "QAnon" are saying that the whole virus thing is simply code language for all the indictments and arrests taking place as Trump brings down the Satanic cult that is running America, and that the virus doesn't exist at all.

Lord spare us.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on March 16, 2020, 09:46:44 PM
there IS light under the bushels of BS though. an example is my niece's "moms" group on FB. they have created a spread sheet to share/trade things they need and have extras of in order to help as many as they can. i can't even express how proud i am of these young women, and the older ones too who have" grandkid" leftovers, they're truly a blessing to me right now. they give me back my faith in humankind.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 17, 2020, 03:09:18 AM
Insomnia...
ADHD...
In a weird way, I think the first rider of the apocalypse is gonna be a Daisy Red Rider...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 18, 2020, 10:12:05 AM
I tried to rate all the things in my house by expiration date, and in the final round water ended up beating bullets in straight sets.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 18, 2020, 10:55:19 AM
Utah was hit by an earthquake this morning and is set to be hit by a winter storm tonight. Not sure if we have anyone on here from there, but hope things get less dramatic for you.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on March 18, 2020, 06:43:23 PM
is the fam okay???


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 19, 2020, 03:11:39 AM
They appear to be although Utah has now had 99 earthquakes (including aftershocks), in the past 24 hours. Assuming this isn't Yellowstone about to blow, I'd say they are just a bit.... shaken up (geddit?).


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on March 19, 2020, 06:18:57 PM
GGRROOOAANNNN!!!! :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 19, 2020, 08:25:56 PM
really dissapointed with netflix instant. I was embarassed it took me so long to go to direct from DVDs it didn't occur to me there would be less movies available on it. almost nothing i really want to see as far as horror movies


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on March 19, 2020, 10:33:46 PM
I went up to school today to attend a staff meeting regarding our moving to purely online instruction for the balance of the school year.
I miss my students like crazy . . . I hate the thought that I might not see most of them till next fall.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on March 20, 2020, 12:39:21 AM
18 year old "women" in your area are eager to chat. They are Young & Wild. From ads I get when I visit badmovies.org
Are these young & wild 18 year old women in quarantine? Sexploitation during the corona crisis, let's hook up and infect one another.

Get with the program you ad people  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 20, 2020, 08:22:07 AM
It's our tenth wedding anniversary today.... and we're just staying inside, lol.  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 20, 2020, 08:33:10 AM
Congratulations and may you both enjoy many more together.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 20, 2020, 08:45:26 AM
It feels really weird--but good--to exchange friendly emails with directors (admittedly low-budget ones) whose works I saw in my 20s.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on March 20, 2020, 09:19:53 AM
It's our tenth wedding anniversary today.... and we're just staying inside, lol.  :cheers:

Happy anniversary to you and Landon!

Make some happy memories.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 20, 2020, 12:27:39 PM
Just something to point out that things are not yet truly desperate.

Kristi went out shopping today and found that many shelves were indeed bare of any produce. However the vegetarian/vegan section was entirely untouched. As long as no one is reduced to shopping for them, things can't be that bad.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on March 20, 2020, 07:05:42 PM
happy anniversary, ER&MR.ER! :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 21, 2020, 12:57:47 PM
Thank you!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 21, 2020, 01:23:53 PM
I'd have liked to have seen Mr Perfect & Kurt Angle both wrestle each other at their peak.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 21, 2020, 01:34:04 PM
It's our tenth wedding anniversary today.... and we're just staying inside, lol.  :cheers:

Happy 10th! I never got to 10 years with anyone.   :bluesad:
I'm getting there with Tiana.   :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 21, 2020, 01:41:13 PM
Is the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act a good thing or a bad thing?

Or does it depend on what state you live in?

Heard a rumor, as you cam probably guess...........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 21, 2020, 01:57:01 PM
Is the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act a good thing or a bad thing?

Or does it depend on what state you live in?

Heard a rumor, as you cam probably guess...........

I don't know much about it. Rumors? Like, what? I really don't know.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on March 21, 2020, 01:57:49 PM
I wonder why the movie All Ladies Do It (1992) by Tinto Brass is so popular at IMDb. It's always listed pretty high (for months now) when I look up IMDb's most viewed movie pages.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 21, 2020, 02:02:47 PM
Is the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act a good thing or a bad thing?

Or does it depend on what state you live in?

Heard a rumor, as you cam probably guess...........

I don't know much about it. Rumors? Like, what? I really don't know.

Rumor, well more like somebody reposted a very blurry photo Facebook of a sign in a window that I had to ask him what it was.
He told me parts of it said the president was enacting The Stafford Act.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 21, 2020, 02:25:23 PM
Is the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act a good thing or a bad thing?

Or does it depend on what state you live in?

Heard a rumor, as you cam probably guess...........


I don't know much about it. Rumors? Like, what? I really don't know.


Rumor, well more like somebody reposted a very blurry photo Facebook of a sign in a window that I had to ask him what it was.
He told me parts of it said the president was enacting The Stafford Act.


Ok. I looked it up.
Don't look like a rumor.

http://youtu.be/HX0Y3mzlUA8 (http://youtu.be/HX0Y3mzlUA8)

http://youtu.be/HX0Y3mzlUA8 (http://youtu.be/HX0Y3mzlUA8)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 21, 2020, 02:37:06 PM
Is the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act a good thing or a bad thing?

Or does it depend on what state you live in?

Heard a rumor, as you cam probably guess...........


I don't know much about it. Rumors? Like, what? I really don't know.


Rumor, well more like somebody reposted a very blurry photo Facebook of a sign in a window that I had to ask him what it was.
He told me parts of it said the president was enacting The Stafford Act.


Ok. I looked it up.
Don't look like a rumor.

[url]http://youtu.be/HX0Y3mzlUA8[/url] ([url]http://youtu.be/HX0Y3mzlUA8[/url])

[url]http://youtu.be/HX0Y3mzlUA8[/url] ([url]http://youtu.be/HX0Y3mzlUA8[/url])


It's a good thing. It frees up emergency funding and resources from the Federal government to the states.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 21, 2020, 04:27:37 PM
It's our tenth wedding anniversary today.... and we're just staying inside, lol.  :cheers:

Happy 10th! I never got to 10 years with anyone.   :bluesad:
I'm getting there with Tiana.   :smile:

Thanks! And best wishes on your forthcoming tenth too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 21, 2020, 07:36:36 PM
claws- maybe because is about ass f**king?


Theres a hill I spotted and today I bombed it (on my skateboard). it isn't super steep but it's very long. long story short: I ate s**t. tried to steer my board onto grass but the grass was damp, I flew through the air and landed on my head. It was brutal but I lived


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on March 21, 2020, 11:14:48 PM
well, you ARE a hard headed little bugger, lester, lol!  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on March 21, 2020, 11:42:41 PM
claws- maybe because is about ass f**king?

Well, could be. Usually it shows movies that are looked up the most at the moment commonly new releases or due to current happenings like Contagion (2011) or Outbreak (1995) are listed higher than usual for obvious reason.
There are plenty of adult european movies but that Tinto Brass one has been showing up for months. A DVD was released in 2003 followed by a blu-ray in 2013 so technically its not a new release. The original title is Così fan tutte which is the same name as Mozart's opera. Maybe there's a connection there, or maybe it is for the ass f**king after all lol.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 22, 2020, 12:21:59 PM
You know, looking back to college I was a straight, white, blond, thin PE minor from the reddest part of red state among left-wing east coast lesbians from the bluest parts of a blue state taking the PE classes with me. Do you think I was right in sensing something sinister in them trying to talk me into playing full-contact jungle ball with them after they taped up their hands and downed energy drinks and traded punches with one another while screaming, "We killas, muthafuggerz!"?

I kinda do.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on March 22, 2020, 04:04:55 PM
i am taking great joy in reporting price gougers on ebay. if you're willing to risk your ability to sell there just to rip people off for toilet paper or hand sanitizer or stuff that we all NEED now,  so be it. you're going down, mofo!  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 22, 2020, 07:15:34 PM
On days like these in times like this, I can't help but wonder who Holiday In Cambodia was really written for...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 22, 2020, 08:04:36 PM
I keep watching Batwoman on CW....

I keep wondering when Alice will get around to Jabberwocky............


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 22, 2020, 08:14:39 PM
On days like these in times like this, I can't help but wonder who Holiday In Cambodia was really written for...


http://youtu.be/Qr6NOsluHYg (http://youtu.be/Qr6NOsluHYg)



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 22, 2020, 08:28:18 PM
On days like these in times like this, I can't help but wonder who Holiday In Cambodia was really written for...


[url]http://youtu.be/Qr6NOsluHYg[/url] ([url]http://youtu.be/Qr6NOsluHYg[/url])




I keep thinking it was written for these "woke" so called democrat-socialists....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 22, 2020, 08:47:55 PM
On days like these in times like this, I can't help but wonder who Holiday In Cambodia was really written for...


[url]http://youtu.be/Qr6NOsluHYg[/url] ([url]http://youtu.be/Qr6NOsluHYg[/url])




I keep thinking it was written for these "woke" so called democrat-socialists....


I really don't know what that means.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 22, 2020, 09:16:36 PM
On days like these in times like this, I can't help but wonder who Holiday In Cambodia was really written for...


[url]http://youtu.be/Qr6NOsluHYg[/url] ([url]http://youtu.be/Qr6NOsluHYg[/url])




I keep thinking it was written for these "woke" so called democrat-socialists....


I really don't know what that means.


So, you've been to school
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinking you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl

Playing ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five-grand stereo
Braggin' that you know
How the n****rs feel cold
And the slum's got so much soul

It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear
Brace yourself, my dear

It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough, kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife

You're a star-belly snitch
You suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you b***h
So you can get rich
While your boss gets richer off you

Well, you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

Now you can go where the people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son...
What you need, my son...

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people are dressed in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot

It's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul
Pol Pot


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 22, 2020, 09:28:09 PM
I know the lyrics. I don't know what a "woke" person is.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 22, 2020, 09:42:05 PM
I know the lyrics. I don't know what a "woke" person is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on March 23, 2020, 09:55:37 PM
cerb, that's the trumplicans, not people with a  working brain.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 23, 2020, 10:11:30 PM
The more I sample Public Image Ltd., the less I can see how they ever lasted, unless they based their entire career on doing bad soudtracks for bad movies, of which I know the did at least one or two...........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 24, 2020, 01:06:17 AM
cerb, that's the trumplicans, not people with a  working brain.

No, I think I know what Cerb is talking about.
My take on the song is that it is Jello is mocking rich liberal kids who think they know it all about being poor by just observing it, not by actually having been in that situation. So Jello says- "Go live in Vietnam, brat, if you want to know what it's all about!"
Of course Jello mocked everything in his songs, from MTV to Reagan, to then Gov. Jerry Brown, to skinheads.
But I don't think it's just liberals, or "libtards" as Cerb likes to say, but all political know it all's who claim to be a ' man of the people'. Trump claims to be for poor working class white folks, but has he ever worked one day in his life? No- he's a rich Daddy's boy who's swindling the poor blue collar white folks he says he represents.
The thing with folks like Jello and me and Cerb are that we like to b***h about politics on both sides of the spectrum, but don't really have any answers or solutions on fixing it.
Trump wanted to be President just for the prestige and power, despite not knowing WTF he is doing or gives a flying f**k about anyone. Trump needs a 'Holiday in Cambodia'.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 24, 2020, 10:55:25 AM
If you think the most disliked and frequently proven wrong person to have ever lurked around this place, sounds like he knows what he is talking about, then you haven't done yourself any favours.

But it did give me a good laugh.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on March 24, 2020, 11:01:31 AM
i'm with you on trump, ronny. :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 24, 2020, 11:30:04 AM
Facebook jail

I just found out part of the reason the shelves aren’t getting restocked, is because the governor shut down the rest stops, which the truckers are required to crash after a number of hours on the road.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 24, 2020, 02:25:47 PM
Have to say, that's the funniest reason I've ever gotten bad karma!  Oh, me. Thanks for calling my attention to that.  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 24, 2020, 02:30:02 PM
No problem. I think we have an early contender for the funniest comment of the year right there.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 24, 2020, 03:39:01 PM
No problem. I think we have an early contender for the funniest comment of the year right there.

Did I miss something?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 24, 2020, 03:50:10 PM
Have a look at the karma stats RC. Just make sure that you are sitting down and you aren't drinking anything at the time 'cos you might just cough it all over your screen.

My first thought was why be thought of as a fool when you can open your mouth and remove all doubt.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 24, 2020, 04:00:21 PM
^ Why'd he do that? What a shmuck!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 24, 2020, 04:02:12 PM
Well, we are talking about the guy who accused ER of being a democrat and a fascist, two pretty diametrically opposed beliefs.

As I recall he got mocked for that a fair bit and disappeared from posting for a while and this has been his grand return.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 24, 2020, 04:03:33 PM
Yeah, he's a mo-mo, alright.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: AoTFan on March 24, 2020, 09:05:24 PM
I sometimes have this crazy thought that a lot (if not most) of the physical aliments that plague me could be easily taken care of/explained if I just had the right test or spoke to the right doctor.

Does anyone else ever get that?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 24, 2020, 09:10:51 PM
Finally got started on an antibiotic today...

Facebook jail is kinda weird, considering....

Made my first Kitsplit rental today, should earn about fifty bucks.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 24, 2020, 11:29:00 PM
I think Africa has too many countries. I bet I could compassionately condense it into about ten zones and then like put up walls to discourage ethnic cleansing. Think about it, ten nations in Africa and a million miles of walls. Why did European colonizers in the 1800s and 1900s make something so simple so hard? Duh. Follow the rivers and hills and game trails.

I wonder if I could build so many walls the Chinese would be jealous? They get a BIG wall but I get lots and lots of little walls for more area.

Thing of it is, the walls would not only be free, they'd pay for themselves through billboards and corporate sponsorship.

"Next fifty feet of wall courtesy of Viper's Vape Shop of Venice Beach!"

"Next fifty miles of wall courtesy of Nike!"

(From each according to his abilities, see?)

The advantage would be to US schoolkids who were taking tests that asked them to fill in the names of the African countries, when there are so many now, what fifth grader can do that? (Hint, mine had to do that today with an open-book online test and it was a headache.)

I'm trying to make things easier before my next kid has to take that test. Oh, but also improving the lives of Africans, I swear! Fewer nations, more walls, less ethnic violence? Win-win-win!

I may even hold lotteries to name the new nations. Buy a ticket, name the new intra-Congo region after your dog, it's cool by me.

Now what can I do for Australia? I think it wastes too much space. Maybe condense it somehow? Shrink it?

Yes, that'll work.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on March 25, 2020, 12:34:48 AM
I fold-rolled all my t-shirts army style yesterday and put them in a plastic storage box with a two-part hinged lid for easy access. It fits 31 rolled shirts nicely.  :smile:
I do have a closet but it is in our small laundry room. Having my shirts in a storage box in my room is much more convenient.

I have two stackable storage boxes left so today I'll try to fold-roll all my boxer shorts.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 25, 2020, 11:41:56 AM
My parents took me to the doctor for a second opinion yesterday.

On the way home, I noticed a line outside the gun store.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 25, 2020, 12:35:10 PM
So, I'm finding out the truckers are having hard time, because democratic governors in democratic states are shutting down all the REST AREAS "and" all the TRUCK STOPS, and that's why the grocery store shelves are going empty!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 25, 2020, 12:35:19 PM
My parents took me to the doctor for a second opinion yesterday.

On the way home, I noticed a line outside the gun store.

Really? That's crazy as hell. That's all we need. Paranoid folks with guns. Yippie skippy!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 25, 2020, 12:41:25 PM
So, I'm finding out the truckers are having hard time, because democratic governors in democratic states are shutting down all the REST AREAS "and" all the TRUCK STOPS, and that's why the grocery store shelves are going empty!
Cerb- it's not a Democratic crisis. For crying out loud. I have refarined from saying anything about your mindset about 'us and' them' for a long time, because your my freind. But you  to live your life by lately by political borders.  You blame your hard life on outside forces. You seem to need to blame bad things that happen to you on everyone else. It don't work that way. I love you, man. I feel for you.
And I'm a 'snowflake'.
TRUMP and both house's have shut EVERYTHING down.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on March 25, 2020, 02:34:38 PM
thank you ronny. MY democratic governor in MY RED state has done no such thing. in fact, she has asked food truck operators to go to rest stops to feed the truckers since they can't go through drivthrus. and far too many places won't allow them or anyone else to walk through instead.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 25, 2020, 05:54:21 PM
"I don't know how to make any choices anymore.
 I mean, Who do I vote for?
I get the feeling that as soon as Something appears in the paper it ceases to be true"

T Bone Burnett


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 25, 2020, 10:38:48 PM
Six more days in March, twenty-one more days until planting season...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 26, 2020, 03:44:47 PM
RIP Curly Neal


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 26, 2020, 06:33:59 PM
I just discovered what a NAGINATA is.

I definitely want one for around the yard!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on March 28, 2020, 09:45:24 AM
I'm wondering if those doomsday / fallout shelter nuts are actually using them now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 28, 2020, 09:47:09 AM
Just went outside to the bin. The rain is falling as sleet. Little bit colder and we shall have snow.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on March 28, 2020, 11:51:27 AM
Nero killed his aunt by having her force fed laxatives


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 28, 2020, 12:03:10 PM
I'm wondering if those doomsday / fallout shelter nuts are actually using them now.
I would hope so! At least to admire the decor!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 28, 2020, 02:59:24 PM
Out of curiosity, has anyone ever met anyone with a doomsday shelter, or better yet had one of their own? I only ask because I've never encountered a private one.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on March 28, 2020, 05:21:00 PM
sort of. in kansas we call them" the toot cellar", lol! but seriously, yes, i have, and been in it too. my old neighbor at the old house had one in his backyard that his dad built in the late 40's, and it had a tunnel in the wall that connected to the basement of my house, a former coal cellar. the tunnel was cemented closed, but don took us down there and showed it to us and gave us a door key to use it a tornado shelter.
thankfully that never happened, it was a CREEPY place, very cold.. and i'm claustrophobic. i couldn't stay in there more than 5 minutes. curtis used it as a"shout" room when we still had the studio.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 28, 2020, 06:07:55 PM
I just thought of some scary s**t.  :buggedout:
What if this corona virus mutates?  :question: Like in a science fiction movie?
And it ends like the LAST MAN ON EARTH ?

(https://i.imgur.com/yYNx5zP.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on March 29, 2020, 02:27:33 AM
Quote
Doomsday preppers may have been on to something: Those who built nuclear shelters are now using them to ride out the coronavirus pandemic

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-pandemic-people-using-doomsday-bunkers-2020-3?r=DE&IR=T (https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-pandemic-people-using-doomsday-bunkers-2020-3?r=DE&IR=T)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 29, 2020, 03:12:39 AM
I just thought of some scary s**t.  :buggedout:
What if this corona virus mutates?  :question: Like in a science fiction movie?
And it ends like the LAST MAN ON EARTH ?

(https://i.imgur.com/yYNx5zP.gif) (https://lunapic.com)

It could also mutate into a less dangerous form. I could be wrong here, but didn't that happen with SARS?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 31, 2020, 09:57:56 PM
Tomorrow is April Fool's Day.....

That will look VERY curious in these troubled times...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 31, 2020, 10:17:08 PM
Tomorrow is April Fool's Day.....

That will look VERY curious in these troubled times...

Nah-! Whoopee Cushins and Rubber Sh!t still works!  :thumbup:



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 31, 2020, 10:21:03 PM
Tomorrow is April Fool's Day.....

That will look VERY curious in these troubled times...

Nah-! Whoopee Cushins and Rubber Sh!t still works!  :thumbup:



I can see the whole swimming pool scenario from Caddyshack (1980) already!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on April 01, 2020, 12:56:32 AM
lol, we are officially in hiding for a week, due to april,period!  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on April 01, 2020, 03:30:48 PM
Heard that The Last Witch Hunter is getting a sequel. That would surprise me if it is true. The post was three weeks old, so I am assuming it isn't an April Fools either.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: AoTFan on April 01, 2020, 04:04:05 PM

I've always wondered if drinking a bunch of OJ would turn your pee an orange color....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on April 01, 2020, 04:07:45 PM

I've always wondered if drinking a bunch of OJ would turn your pee an orange color....

I believe Sunny-D has that effect.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on April 02, 2020, 11:04:42 AM

I've always wondered if drinking a bunch of OJ would turn your pee an orange color....

Not sure about the color. I drank Coconut Tea only for two weeks and my pee smelled like Coconuts.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on April 02, 2020, 11:36:08 AM

I've always wondered if drinking a bunch of OJ would turn your pee an orange color....

I don't know...but drinking grape soda will turn your poop bright green!  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on April 03, 2020, 01:15:11 AM
I wonder if DENIAL is typically followed by BLAMING. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on April 03, 2020, 04:48:14 AM
I wonder if DENIAL is typically followed by BLAMING. 

That does often seem to be the case.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on April 03, 2020, 09:44:58 AM
I didn't know "Salt Bae" was a thing until today. I mean, I have seen people doing it many times in cooking videos and I always thought it was annoying, but I didn't know it was based on a 2017 viral video and that this "technique" of salting had a name. As always, social media is so desperate at making silly random things a thing.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on April 03, 2020, 02:07:09 PM
his restaurant in NYC was tanking even before the virus shut it down, TERRIBLE reviews.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on April 03, 2020, 02:19:07 PM
his restaurant in NYC was tanking even before the virus shut it down, TERRIBLE reviews.

Whose restaurant is that?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on April 03, 2020, 05:18:01 PM
https://gothamist.com/food/salt-bae-burger-worst-restaurant-nyc-right-now

this guy who "invented" the seasoning method, he's a turkish butcher and treats his employees abominably from the the food service underground has to say.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 04, 2020, 01:22:12 PM
Right now, I'm wondering if It's karma; if everyone is feeling what I'm always putting up with & I'm feeling their pain, to have to forgo your dreams & goals & every ounce of hope in your soul in exchange for some pathetic semblance of security because people tell you your not good enough, or when people doing way better than this say you're way better where you are than trying to do better, or when you just get snubbed with no explanation, because the people you ask think you don't need to worry about it, or that you're not smart enough to handle the answer, or they think it might hurt your feelings, when nobody can see that you that you truly can't keep living in the place you're in, when everyone in the world is just too damned aloof to see that everything you've ever done wasn't just for self amusement or to keep busy, but that this whole time you were looking for a way out of wherever the world decided to stick you.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 04, 2020, 01:33:53 PM
Right now, I'm wondering if It's karma; if everyone is feeling what I'm always putting up with & I'm feeling their pain, to have to forgo your dreams & goals & every ounce of hope in your soul in exchange for some pathetic semblance of security because people tell you your not good enough, or when people doing way better than this say you're way better where you are than trying to do better, or when you just get snubbed with no explanation, because the people you ask think you don't need to worry about it, or that you're not smart enough to handle the answer, or they think it might hurt your feelings, when nobody can see that you that you truly can't keep living in the place you're in, when everyone in the world is just too damned aloof to see that everything you've ever done wasn't just for self amusement or to keep busy, but that this whole time you were looking for a way out of wherever the world decided to stick you.

That's pretty heavy, man. Hope you find a way to deal with those feelings. I was clinically depressed years ago. Now, ten years later, I'm somehow happier and more satisfied with life than I was since my 20s. Some of it was medication, although I quit that years ago; some of it was learning to accept my failings and accept that everyone else had similar weaknesses and struggles, and to forgive them for their small wrongs and annoyances. Much of it was learning to appreciate truly good booze. And strippers.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on April 04, 2020, 05:52:53 PM
I've been watching a show on TV involving a gay redneck cowboy. Despite what South Park told me though, there appears to be no one eating any pudding.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on April 05, 2020, 12:10:18 AM
the trump cakes in season one of" nailed it" are ...eerie....NOW.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 05, 2020, 02:54:03 PM
One needs hope and goals. That requires Capital, skills, & occupation.. 

Without the second three, one has no goals, & without goals, hope isn't always present.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 05, 2020, 08:14:44 PM
In a weird way, I want a Paterson tool, even though I really wouldn't  want a Colt, I'd want an Adams or a Starr or something...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 06, 2020, 09:33:19 AM
I wonder if there's some way to engrave a brief motivational statement into your eyeglasses..........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 06, 2020, 03:16:56 PM
RIP Honor Blackman


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Bushma on April 08, 2020, 08:31:35 AM
Some Canadians I play games with online shared a link about using a 3D printer to make masks.  I showed it to my wife who got excited so we ordered a 3D printer.  They aren't nearly as expensive as I thought!  Now I've got a new toy, to play with!  For the record, we have printed 2 mask bases but not the part to put the filter material in.  My wife has found other more important  :lookingup: things to print.  Toothpaste tube squeezers, chip clips, a cutter for the soap she makes.  Oh well, eventually I'll get to make myself some toys.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 08, 2020, 02:20:15 PM
Passover begins at sundown, under a full moon fever, Pink Moon they call it, because it's the first full moon in spring.....

Passover....

 Makes me wonder if that's how most Americans are feeling right now, under this full moon fever...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on April 08, 2020, 03:25:35 PM
Well, since the President gave orders for Americans to wear masks in public, I have worn my plague doctor mask to go grocery shopping, gas up my car, pick up prescriptions, and go to the post office and the bank!

I think I've been training for this moment my whole life . . .


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on April 08, 2020, 04:52:16 PM
i have a rainhat with a plastic shield affixed to the brim that keeps my glasses dry, i dug that out to wear, since i'm far too claustrophobic for face masks,and it fits curtis too!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 08, 2020, 05:45:01 PM
Desk chair finally bit the dust a few minutes ago. Now in a wrought iron  patio chair. Oh, and my keyboard just went bad, so it's Microsoft virtual keyboard.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: AoTFan on April 08, 2020, 06:31:08 PM

I've always wondered if drinking a bunch of OJ would turn your pee an orange color....

Not sure about the color. I drank Coconut Tea only for two weeks and my pee smelled like Coconuts.

If this were reddit, I'm pretty sure someone would post this in reply...

(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/762/616/d60.gif)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on April 09, 2020, 02:41:30 PM
Somebody on Facebook posted this as 'worst possible double feature'

(https://images3.static-bluray.com/movies/covers/169931_large.jpg?t=1498118458)(https://images2.static-bluray.com/movies/covers/205269_large.jpg?t=1535639826)

Now, this isn't about the quality of the movies, the guy who posted this is all about wordplay. I googled "Logan Lucky" and all I got was Steven Soderbergh's acclaimed movie Logan Lucky (2017). Is there a meaning behind 'Logan Lucky' or is this just a brainfart of a bored mind  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on April 09, 2020, 02:48:00 PM
It was 65F' yesterday-it was snowing for about 2 minutes today- and the sun is shining!
It's the end times, I tell ya!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on April 09, 2020, 05:57:50 PM
nah, ronny, it's just michigan.  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 09, 2020, 09:55:46 PM
Won a couple items on eBay, then didn't here anything from the sellers...

After a week of pestering, one of them replied Today, saying They're "Trying to stay at home as much as possible", blaming the Wuhan Virus I assume...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on April 10, 2020, 10:34:26 AM
Somewhere out there I bet Covid-18 is feeling like a real loser these days.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on April 10, 2020, 10:49:23 AM
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IUMCyAR6U0#)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on April 10, 2020, 04:23:27 PM
First time watching videos about flat earthers today. They can't prove the earth is flat but dismiss evidence that the world is round as ... lies.

Flat earthers must be the worst kind of conspiracy nuts out there  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 11, 2020, 03:21:13 PM
For some reason, I find myself wondering how the flywheel in a pocket watch would work in zero gravity...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on April 11, 2020, 04:29:23 PM
For some reason, I find myself wondering how the flywheel in a pocket watch would work in zero gravity...

When I was going through phase II (technical) training I asked one of my instructors how a mercury switch would work in a 0 gee dive, which to this day I have still be unable to get an answer to.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 11, 2020, 07:01:09 PM
It's taken me weeks to figure out what that ad for Xfinity was, because I've been WAY too distracted by that overbearingly over-folkified version of Dire Straits' "Walk Of Life" they got playing in the background!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on April 11, 2020, 07:04:10 PM
Ever notice that people who call themselves "Truthers" seem willing to embrace any ridiculous conspiracy theory, as long as it's NOT the truth???


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 11, 2020, 07:08:07 PM
Ever notice that people who call themselves "Truthers" seem willing to embrace any ridiculous conspiracy theory, as long as it's NOT the truth???


http://youtu.be/xc6tmYYhOUU (http://youtu.be/xc6tmYYhOUU)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on April 12, 2020, 03:45:55 PM
as a matter of fact, i have, indy!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 15, 2020, 03:17:16 PM
First day of planting season, & it's cold...
A week till Earth day....
Eight days till Ramadan...
Nine days till Arbor day..
Happie Autism Awareness Month!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on April 15, 2020, 10:06:52 PM
First day of planting season, & it's cold...


It snowed in Lawton last night!  :buggedout:

If the fruit tress started budding- which I reckon they did,(my roses did), the farmers and canning factory workers around here are f**ked.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 16, 2020, 12:20:52 PM
RIP BRIAN DENNEHY


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on April 18, 2020, 07:32:07 AM
I wonder if there is already a porn parody of Tiger King, with a character no doubt called Joe Erotic?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on April 18, 2020, 10:04:33 AM
I wonder if there is already a porn parody of Tiger King, with a character no doubt called Joe Erotic?

With real big pvssy...cats!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on April 20, 2020, 05:10:25 PM
You can't have everything.

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/F5ErMolRE8M/hqdefault.jpg)

Where would you put it?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 21, 2020, 09:28:03 PM
Many turkey buzzards between my home & the grocery store this evening...
Not a good sign, I don't think...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 24, 2020, 10:40:55 AM
 :teddyr: HAPPIE ARBOR DAY! :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on April 25, 2020, 04:30:15 AM
Rumour (and I stress that it is just a rumour) has it that Kim Jong Un has died and his even bat s**t crazier sister will be taking over the reins of power.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on April 25, 2020, 05:18:57 AM
Rumour (and I stress that it is just a rumour) has it that Kim Jong Il has died and his even bat s**t crazier sister will be taking over the reins of power.

In a perfect world...wait...what...?  :question:

Ahhhh... I feel dizzy...


(https://i.imgur.com/FBR7j6I.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 26, 2020, 08:40:38 PM
Okay, looking over the BKA 217 by Denix of Spain, I often find myself wondering if the tactical rail on a prop Schofield could be used to take it from steam punk to atom punk, sort of like when they used a Mauser to create the DL44 blaster............


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on April 30, 2020, 01:22:24 PM
Why is it called a Rube Goldberg contraption when Goldberg is a Jewish name and there has never existed a Jewish rube in all of history? If a dude named Goldberg were to invent something, it'd probably be worth patenting and investing your last penny in.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 03, 2020, 09:42:11 PM
Facebook has taken down a picture of Joe Biden with Tara Reade, claiming it's "partially false" because Joe Biden claims he doesn't remember Tara Reade, even though it already said that ON the picture...

So, does that mean the information was, in fact, NOT "partially false", or does it mean that the fact checkers were wasting their time in telling everyone what it already said on the picture?

Somebody's gotta do something about these "fact" checkers, because they truly don't know what they're doing!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on May 03, 2020, 10:43:15 PM
I wonder if my cat ever secretly thinks that she is a lungfish?   :question: :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on May 05, 2020, 01:09:08 PM
I started watching a movie called Delirium. It was a little corny at first, but I thought maybe it will get better. Walking through his house ,he finds a secret door and goes behind the walls where there are little holes that can be removed to spy into the room. what is this scooby doo? I turned it off. maybe I'll try again sometime but it seemed like an insult to my intelligence


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 05, 2020, 05:03:10 PM
I wonder how many news people have lost their jobs because of the Wuhan virus...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on May 05, 2020, 05:58:46 PM
This is my 8,000th surviving post.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on May 06, 2020, 01:18:19 PM
Where I am right now it sounds like it's raining from a blue sky but it's this multitude of whirlybirds (water maple seed pods) falling onto the roof and into the water. It's so pleasant I'm about to go full-on Zen. Namaste, y'all, namaste....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on May 06, 2020, 08:33:40 PM
Tonight we saw our first lightning bug of the season. The Zen just continues here!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 07, 2020, 05:45:03 AM
My new favourite word is 'Lalocheia'.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on May 07, 2020, 05:54:57 AM
I'm home for the next 28 days. What to do?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on May 07, 2020, 09:16:39 AM
I know there's a small child involved in this marital breakup but I still can't begin to tell how relieved I was to hear about the Gaiman-Palmer split. The long nightmare of her Yoko-ing his work is finally ending.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 07, 2020, 10:08:37 AM
I wonder if people who refer to Covid-19 as the Wuhan Flu will start referring to the Spanish Flu with the country where the first case was confirmed?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on May 07, 2020, 10:39:03 AM
I wonder if people who refer to Covid-19 as the Wuhan Flu will start referring to the Spanish Flu with the country where the first case was confirmed?

If so- then it would be the Kansas Flu! On a military base no less!

Maybe an early form of germ warfare being tested? By Green Moon Men?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 07, 2020, 10:52:21 AM
I wonder if people who refer to Covid-19 as the Wuhan Flu will start referring to the Spanish Flu with the country where the first case was confirmed?

If so- then it would be the Kansas Flu! On a military base no less!

Maybe an early form of germ warfare being tested? By Green Moon Men?

Really? I was always told it started in France.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 07, 2020, 10:57:25 AM
I wonder if people who refer to Covid-19 as the Wuhan Flu will start referring to the Spanish Flu with the country where the first case was confirmed?

If so- then it would be the Kansas Flu! On a military base no less!

Maybe an early form of germ warfare being tested? By Green Moon Men?

Really? I was always told it started in France.

Guess what, you were always told wrong. While they aren't 100% on what country it started in, there is however no doubt which country was responsible for spreading it across the world. Conspiracy theorists claim that it was called the Spanish Flu to avoid the US taking the blame for spreading it, others say it was because Spain was the first country to accurately report on the casualties suffered from it, but it does seem to have spread from American military bases starting in Kansas.

I've been thinking that China should bear responsibility for paying the world wide costs of dealing with this virus, but if they were to then should any country that a disease first appears in then have to bear financial responsibility for the consequences. Given that the Kansas Flu killed around 50 million people compared to the (currently) slightly over 250,000 deaths Covid-19 has caused, I think that is a heavy financial burden that someone should bear. I mean if you are going to blame countries for these outbreaks then lets take this to its logical conclusion. Once we have sorted that one out we can start on claims over the Black Death.

After all, where there is blame, there is a claim and in this case, we have a clear blame.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 07, 2020, 11:14:39 AM
I wonder if people who refer to Covid-19 as the Wuhan Flu will start referring to the Spanish Flu with the country where the first case was confirmed?

If so- then it would be the Kansas Flu! On a military base no less!

Maybe an early form of germ warfare being tested? By Green Moon Men?

Really? I was always told it started in France.

Guess what, you were always told wrong. While they aren't 100% on what country it started in, there is however no doubt which country was responsible for spreading it across the world. Conspiracy theorists claim that it was called the Spanish Flu to avoid the US taking the blame for spreading it, others say it was because Spain was the first country to accurately report on the casualties suffered from it, but it does seem to have spread from American military bases starting in Kansas.

I've been thinking that China should bear responsibility for paying the world wide costs of dealing with this virus, but if they were to then should any country that a disease first appears in then have to bear financial responsibility for the consequences. Given that the Kansas Flu killed around 50 million people compared to the (currently) slightly over 250,000 deaths Covid-19 has caused, I think that is a heavy financial burden that someone should bear. I mean if you are going to blame countries for these outbreaks then lets take this to its logical conclusion. Once we have sorted that one out we can start on claims over the Black Death.

After all, where there is blame, there is a claim and in this case, we have a clear blame.

Well, I did he from my favorite right wing talk show host that New York construction worker were hit hard by something doctors couldn't identify back in November.........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on May 07, 2020, 04:49:19 PM
now come on guys, yes, kansas is an awesome state, even if most of the legislature is RED, but we AREN'T a country on our own, nor do we wish to be. we leave that stupidity to the reds in texas, lol! ( no offense to my texan friends)
  but yeah, most of my very military family believes that it did start on the bases here, and our boys spread it to the rest of the world. i'm gonna believe them first, our granddads and uncles and cousins were there then. and our family was hit hard, both here in kansas and in missouri, but not as bad as other states were. farmers are naturals at social distancing.
seriously,cerb, why do you believe any of those idiots? left or right, extremists are just that, and THEY are the ones who encourage what should be considered terrorism, with armed protests just because they want a friggin haircut and are too stupid to protect their own, much less anyone else.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on May 07, 2020, 05:04:05 PM
^ What she said.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on May 07, 2020, 06:24:20 PM
And now the anti-vaxxers have jumped in with a "documentary" called PLANDEMIC, explaining that COVID-19 is just a plot from the vaccine industry to make us all sick and dependent . . .


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 07, 2020, 07:40:54 PM
I wonder if people who refer to Covid-19 as the Wuhan Flu will start referring to the Spanish Flu with the country where the first case was confirmed?

I'm personally wondering when Trump will start referring to Murder Hornets as "the Japanese hornet"?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: bob on May 07, 2020, 08:06:20 PM
I wonder if people who refer to Covid-19 as the Wuhan Flu will start referring to the Spanish Flu with the country where the first case was confirmed?

I'm personally wondering when Trump will start referring to Murder Hornets as "the Japanese hornet"?

A week tops.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 08, 2020, 11:53:07 AM
Funny thing...
I just clipped my toenails...
I noticed the toenails on my right foot were longer & thicker than the ones on my left foot...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 08, 2020, 06:55:00 PM
 :question: :question: :question: :question: :question:
Verizon Prepaid...
Should I upgrade top the Samsung Galaxy A10E, or the Motorola Moto G7 Play?
 :question: :question: :question: :question: :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on May 09, 2020, 09:14:36 AM
Funny thing...
I just clipped my toenails...
I noticed the toenails on my right foot were longer & thicker than the ones on my left foot...

Could be circulation. Walk.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on May 09, 2020, 10:49:23 AM
If I were to leave this place, I would miss it.
Which is addiction.
Addiction is weakness.
Weakness needs to be conquered.
Therefore: goodbye.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 09, 2020, 11:01:48 AM
If I were to leave this place, I would miss it.
Which is addiction.
Addiction is weakness.
Weakness needs to be conquered.
Therefore: goodbye.

So how about breathing?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on May 09, 2020, 11:12:12 AM
If I were to leave this place, I would miss it.
Which is addiction.
Addiction is weakness.
Weakness needs to be conquered.
Therefore: goodbye.

So how about breathing?
Ff**k! Where's a plastic bag?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on May 09, 2020, 04:51:30 PM
Affection is not addiction.
it's just liking a place, or a website, or maybe even a group of people . . .


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 09, 2020, 08:52:45 PM
RIP Roy Horn


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 10, 2020, 05:49:28 PM
I just bought a TF memory card off eBay...

As some people have been pestering me to do, my search criteria included both a US vendor, AND a US manufacturer...

The PayPal receipt came back in Asian Characters...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 10, 2020, 09:45:20 PM
When they first came out with traffic cams, people started stealing them...

Now they're putting out robots to make sure people don't hang out in public too much...

I wonder how long before those robots start turning up in back alleys for parts...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on May 10, 2020, 09:54:23 PM
When they first came out with traffic cams, people started stealing them...

Now they're putting out robots to make sure people don't hang out in public too much...

I wonder how long before those robots start turning up in back alleys for parts...

...or when they go on a killing rampage!

(https://i.imgur.com/IxN3qB7.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 11, 2020, 12:44:43 PM
When they first came out with traffic cams, people started stealing them...

Now they're putting out robots to make sure people don't hang out in public too much...

I wonder how long before those robots start turning up in back alleys for parts...

...or when they go on a killing rampage!

(https://i.imgur.com/IxN3qB7.gif) (https://lunapic.com)

Somebody's gonna start stealing those things too.
Just watch.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 11, 2020, 03:53:23 PM
For about 30 seconds I considered starting a twitter account. I clicked on a link to look at it and it suggested following Katie Hopkins.

I decided no,


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 11, 2020, 04:29:32 PM
If one can be Diagnosed, can one be Verticosed, or Horizonted?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on May 13, 2020, 05:09:15 PM
They should rename Facebook to Deathbook. The flow of news about deceased people just won't stop, it's depressing. Time to take a break from FB.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 13, 2020, 05:14:00 PM
Looking a screenshot from El Topo, I was first thinking his gun was a Schofield, but I'm kinda starting to think it might've been a Hopkins & Allen...........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 14, 2020, 07:34:53 AM
It has been said that that Robert Pattison's Batman will be "very raw" and "unsanitised"

Yeah, cos what the world needs right now is more bloody, raw, unsanitised bat.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on May 14, 2020, 12:37:19 PM
I'm watching Like Normal People in 20 minute increments its all I can take


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 15, 2020, 03:02:23 PM
My favourite ever Staler and Waldorf quote:

Quote
Statler: Waldorf, you old fool! We're heroes! We saved the pig and the frog.

Waldorf:Well, it was too late to save the movie.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 15, 2020, 03:50:52 PM
Do "Super-Dooper Missiles" come in boxes with ACME stencilled on the side?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 16, 2020, 02:17:50 AM
Becca Scott is cute and all, but she is no Wil Wheaton.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on May 16, 2020, 03:52:08 AM
 :question:

because she's a woman?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 16, 2020, 05:20:31 AM
No, she doesn't lose every single game and in any game where there is a random traitor, it doesn't always end up being her.

Plus saying "Shut up Wesley" doesn't work on her.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on May 16, 2020, 10:33:20 AM
I watched a show on Netflix about how 'cool' LSD is.
Are they f**king nuts? LSD is crazy stupid s**t!  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on May 16, 2020, 01:02:20 PM
cereberus - good question but also I thought it said "if one can be doggoned.."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 16, 2020, 01:06:24 PM
Becca Scott is cute and all, but she is no Wil Wheaton.
:question:
Who?
 :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 16, 2020, 01:10:40 PM
cereberus - good question but also I thought it said "if one can be doggoned.."
Yes, I believe that case one goes from Doggoned to Catastrophic, though what lies between the two is above my paygrade...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 16, 2020, 01:19:19 PM
I set up an eBay alert for one of These;
(https://www.rokon.com/sites/default/files/styles/product_full/public/motortractor-2.jpg?itok=57e3nYQy)

Instead, I keep getting alerts for some stupid Pokemon character! :hatred:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 16, 2020, 09:17:20 PM
RIP Fred Willard


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on May 16, 2020, 11:29:49 PM
i missed going to thrift stores alot. to the point that today's jaunt, which netted NOTHING on my list, but DID yield a few unexpected treasures, did NOT frustrate me in the least. that's odd for me. :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on May 17, 2020, 11:42:57 PM
One day I might wake up one morning and find out my life was all a dream, and then I'll have to live it all over again.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 18, 2020, 12:49:01 PM
One day I might wake up one morning and find out my life was all a dream, and then I'll have to live it all over again.

On the one hand, that might suck, on the other hand, you might think if if as a learning experience.......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 18, 2020, 12:59:46 PM
Y' ever wonder how many people chose the blue pill over the red one?

Y' ever wonder what would happen if y' tried to take both?

Y' ever wonder what would happen if y' did take neither one of 'em?
That y' either bought into th' notion you were going crazy, or y' thought this dude sittin' in front o' you had already slipped y' somethin' & he was trying to get y' hooked?
Or maybe y' just wanted to think about for a bit, or instead of deciding, y' really wanted t' sit back & see how this whole thing played out while everybody else did all the crazy stuff?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 18, 2020, 02:34:13 PM
RIP Ken Osmond


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 19, 2020, 06:21:08 PM
I keep forgetting how lucky I've been in this recession...

Pretty much every night, there's been some story about somebody who lost there job because of the Wuhan flu, and they can't get unemployment because the state's tried going automated to avoid social contact.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Gabriel Knight on May 19, 2020, 08:14:01 PM
I just watched the MST3K version of SAMSON VS THE VAMPIRE WOMEN, which is the last one featuring Tv's Frank. It was a really nice farewell to the character, I wish they paid the same amount of attention to Joel's departure, which seemed bland and cold.

Cool movie by the way, the effects of the vampires burning were actually nicely done for such a cheap production, and the female vampires were absurdly hot.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on May 20, 2020, 11:57:11 PM
Is it just me, or does all manga and anime art look like talentless s**t?
The big eyes, the spiky hair, the stillted, jerky animation- ugh! It makes Hanna Barbara's worst look good (well, almost.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on May 21, 2020, 12:51:17 AM
I have no fond memories of Scooby Doo or Josie and the p***ycats. I hated those cartoons as a kid, and I still find no artistic value or even stupid kid value in them; even when I was a stupid kid.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Gabriel Knight on May 21, 2020, 07:31:16 AM
I have no fond memories of Scooby Doo or Josie and the p***ycats. I hated those cartoons as a kid, and I still find no artistic value or even stupid kid value in them; even when I was a stupid kid.

I remember hating anything Hanna-Barbera related. I mean, with WarnerBros around, why would you waste your time with garbage like Scooby Doo or Tom & Jerry?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 21, 2020, 02:01:41 PM
^ Tom & Jerry were occasionally funny.  And mean


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Gabriel Knight on May 22, 2020, 07:35:12 PM
After watching the MST3K episode NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST, I can say without a doubt that Mary Jo Pehl is the most unfunny person ever.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on May 23, 2020, 10:30:05 AM
After watching the MST3K episode NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST, I can say without a doubt that Mary Jo Pehl is the most unfunny person ever.

She was terrible in Season 7, but she was excellent in Seasons 8-10.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 25, 2020, 03:40:59 PM
If I had thought about it, then "I would do honey, but I am trying to balance a sock on my ear." would be amongst the things I would never, ever have thought I'd have a reason to say.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on May 26, 2020, 09:45:21 PM
i find it simply amazing that I'M  the one who went to facebook jail for telling a troll that i'm a straight female who has been married longer than he's been alive and will probably still be married and alive when he isn't. go figure, lol! this was after me bein told i'm gay, iranian, a communist, etc...:D


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on May 28, 2020, 11:33:55 AM
 About ten years ago, I was one my way to work one day, and I walked by a bunch of little kids waiting for the school bus. A little girl turned to her friend, pointed at me and said " I told you he was a widget!"
 :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 29, 2020, 11:29:17 AM
Stupid people are rarely funny... intentionally. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on May 30, 2020, 06:33:32 AM
Why is my FB feed full of Weathering with You posts, like, since March or something. Go away, you're annoying me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on May 31, 2020, 06:35:23 PM
My wife and I have been watching STAR TREK: DISCOVERY at night lately, and really enjoying it. However, I often abbreviate things in my journal, and today I realized that future generations might not understand what I meant when I wrote: "Watched an episode of STD before bed tonight."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: AoTFan on June 05, 2020, 06:54:08 PM
I'd love to see Spoony make a triumphant return to reviewing things like he did in the old days, but, sadly, I just don't think that's ever going to happen.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Gabriel Knight on June 05, 2020, 07:21:57 PM
I always hated Spoony but I feel similar to James Rolfe. I wish he stopped doing those awful videos with his boring and ugly friends and just made the classic videos with only him in front of a camera talking about random stuff, it doesn't get any better than that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: WingedSerpent on June 06, 2020, 12:56:46 PM
Apparently, the whole Florida Man thing is a bit of a misunderstanding.  Its not that Florida is necessarily crazier than other states.  Its that the state's laws make it easier to report on it when it does happen.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on June 09, 2020, 04:22:58 PM
It just occurred to me that I have never put 'Lobster Man From Mars' on for Kristi to watch.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on June 13, 2020, 01:26:03 PM
I wonder if Annabelle & Chuckie will ever get a crossover movie?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on June 14, 2020, 04:15:40 PM
In a weird way, I'm starting to feel like we're all in a bad movie, one in which the well intentioned but stern tyrant becomes the thing they fear & hate, ultimately destroying what they set out to protect...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 15, 2020, 12:47:58 AM
^ Yeah- that's a bad movie alright. I don't think we are all in a bad movie. I think you think were are in a  bad movie. And you said it in your first sentence -"In a weird way-", " I'm starting to feel like-".
Yeah that is a real weird way to look at life. Seems like your obsessed with something- you know, besides guns.


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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 15, 2020, 01:02:04 AM
one in which the well intentioned but stern tyrant becomes the thing they fear & hate, ultimately destroying what they set out to protect...

Oh- I love that one!  :bouncegiggle: This is  a fantasy movie, right? Or maybe science fiction?
I think it's fantasy- because the only part that resembles reality in that statement was "TYRANT".

" -well intentioned but stern tyrant-"
Sounds like a S&M session! That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one!
Oh!!! You kill me, man!  :drink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on June 15, 2020, 08:33:56 AM
I'm going digging for artifacts in Central Texas tomorrow.
Treasures await!!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on June 15, 2020, 09:13:50 PM
^ Yeah- that's a bad movie alright. I don't think we are all in a bad movie. I think you think were are in a  bad movie. And you said it in your first sentence -"In a weird way-", " I'm starting to feel like-".
Yeah that is a real weird way to look at life. Seems like your obsessed with something- you know, besides guns.


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Jeez, RC, is absolutely NOTHING going on in you town, or do you stay just loaded enough to not care?

Seriously, $#!ts getting Orwellian!
Heresy of heresies was common sense.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 16, 2020, 12:59:38 AM
 ^Just a random thought!
 And to answer your questions-Nope. Nothing going on. Dead as a doornail. And yep- smokin' like a fiend and drinking like a fish.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on June 17, 2020, 08:18:09 AM
There was a conversation going on at work that I was half paying attention to. Someone said “Why would you have people you don’t like as friends on Facebook?”

I joined in at this point and said “Well, you all added me and I didn’t want to seem rude.”

When I saw the expressions on their faces I thought “Ooh, you didn’t realise...”


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on June 17, 2020, 02:47:27 PM
I don't understand why I like Aqua's Barbie Girl (90's Hell song) over Mickey (what I consider to be the 80's Hell song)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: AoTFan on June 17, 2020, 04:49:57 PM
Been watching a lot of Youtube videos on Orangutans lately.  Man, they're such fascinating creatures!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: bob on June 17, 2020, 05:44:34 PM
I think I'm a little nuts.

Since the pandemic started and I've been unable to work so I've been at home most of the time.

I started doing professional development courses offered by the school district I sub in for something productive to do with my free time.

My file on the professional development website says that for the 2019-20 school year I've completed 106 professional development courses.

:buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on June 17, 2020, 06:31:34 PM
i TOLD you you're a smart guy, bob.  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Gabriel Knight on June 18, 2020, 07:27:23 AM
I don't know who invented the shaky camera effect in movies, but I hope he's rotting in Hell right now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 20, 2020, 04:21:24 PM
My life style has not changed one bit since this virus thing, and no matter who is President. I been sitting home since 2014, after my 4th heart surgery.
Oh- I wear a mask when I go into a store.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 22, 2020, 07:39:56 PM
I didn't realize they were on Generation Z already. I totally missed Generation Y. Wonder if they'll start again at "A" or they'll just start thinking up meaningful names instead.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on June 22, 2020, 08:26:29 PM
IMDB.................

Should I really go to the bother of trying to tell them how it's impossible for Superman to straiten the leaning tower of Piza, or just how wrong "The Colt" frome the tv show Supernatural really is?

I already tried telling them that Colts don't spin counter clockwise in The Quick & The Dead..............


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on June 22, 2020, 10:43:54 PM
I didn't realize they were on Generation Z already. I totally missed Generation Y. Wonder if they'll start again at "A" or they'll just start thinking up meaningful names instead.
Supposedly it'll be called Gen Alpha


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 24, 2020, 11:26:11 AM
I keep seeing "cauliflower crust pizza." This can't possibly actually contain cauliflower, can it? If so, why would anyone eat it?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 24, 2020, 11:41:12 AM
^ I like cauliflower, but yeah- it shouldn't be within 6 feet of a pizza.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on June 24, 2020, 04:45:30 PM
My wife made that for us once, and to my enormous surprise, it did not suck.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 25, 2020, 05:25:43 AM
I mowed the lawn today and I was followed by birds eating the bugs that I stirred up.
Somehow that seems meaningful- but I have no clue as why. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 25, 2020, 05:32:40 AM
I didn't realize they were on Generation Z already. I totally missed Generation Y. Wonder if they'll start again at "A" or they'll just start thinking up meaningful names instead.
Supposedly it'll be called Gen Alpha

Why not Gen Alpha-Bits?

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 25, 2020, 05:40:09 AM
I have an idea! Call them old people, middle-age people, young people, teens, kids, and babies!
Oh yeah-most important of all- dead people!

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When did the naming of generations start anyhow? Maybe the 60's? No, Because the 20's were called he Roaring 20's by the late 30's. And the Gay 90's. (no, it meant "carefree" back then)- which seems like a nostalgic term. The Wild West is also an old term. The X,Z,Alpha thing... I dunno. The title for this generation should be Generation Cellphone.
By the way- I'm a "Baby Boomer." Which is the kids of folks who fVcked and s**t us out in the late 40's- early 60's.
It all just seems so stupid.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on June 25, 2020, 07:29:51 PM
it is. and at least on my local news feeds, those labels are used as insults, and calls for" boomers" like us to" just die already!" , it makes me cry.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on June 25, 2020, 07:37:40 PM
it is. and at least on my local news feeds, those labels are used as insults, and calls for" boomers" like us to" just die already!" , it makes me cry.

And people say I'm being paranoid...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 25, 2020, 08:15:07 PM
it is. and at least on my local news feeds, those labels are used as insults, and calls for" boomers" like us to" just die already!" , it makes me cry.

And people say I'm being paranoid...

I think we all are.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on June 25, 2020, 08:40:13 PM
Sadly, I have heard this virus called "Boomer Remover."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 25, 2020, 08:42:14 PM
I'll tell you what's real crazy, my friend. What's real crazy is that this plague s**t is killing ALL of us.
It don't give a f**k. And if you wan't to be in denial- well- I don't know what to tell you.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 25, 2020, 08:45:21 PM
Sadly, I have heard this virus called "Boomer Remover."

Eh. Morons trying to be witty.
I seen sharper wit in a Bowery Boys movie.  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on June 26, 2020, 09:45:51 AM
Hearing that police in Glasgow have had to shoot and kill a man who stabbed several people killing three.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on June 26, 2020, 06:50:39 PM
After watching the reaction of many people to the whole Covid thing and especially wearing masks I am never going to be able to watch a horror film and say "No one would ever be stupid enough to do that!" because people have turned out to be exactly that damn stupid.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on June 29, 2020, 04:30:00 PM
My Facebook feed is turning into a mask-fashion show. Why people feel the need to express themselves and / or make statements with masks I just don't understand.
Just wearing a simple plain mask is oh so boring I guess.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 29, 2020, 06:15:20 PM
My Facebook feed is turning into a mask-fashion show. Why people feel the need to express themselves and / or make statements with masks I just don't understand.
Just wearing a simple plain mask is oh so boring I guess.

If making a fashion statement convinces them to wear a mask, I'm all for it. Hell, I even support "MAGA" or "Trump 2020" masks if that's the only way you could get people to wear them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on June 29, 2020, 08:02:09 PM
Perhaps El Topo's gun was a Harrington & Richardson, not a Hopkins & Allen like I thought..... They both look a lot alike...

Of course, for years, the poor quality of VHS had me thinking it was an Enfield or a Webley with a chrome job....

I still don't think it's a Schofield, because it's missing a telltale bulge under the barrel in front of the hinge, & I'm not too sure about the top latch.....

Makes me want to resurrect the Random Statement Nobody Should Care About thread...........................


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on June 30, 2020, 02:39:37 AM
My Facebook feed is turning into a mask-fashion show. Why people feel the need to express themselves and / or make statements with masks I just don't understand.
Just wearing a simple plain mask is oh so boring I guess.

If making a fashion statement convinces them to wear a mask, I'm all for it. Hell, I even support "MAGA" or "Trump 2020" masks if that's the only way you could get people to wear them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they are wearing masks and I'm all for wearing a mask. When I go shopping I don't stop, read and admire whatever little message or statement people have printed on their masks. Most people I know on Facebook wore masks right from the beginning, which is good. But after a few weeks they started to get experimental from being bored I guess. Now they just want to stand out from the rest, posing for selfies with their latest mask creation on a daily basis.
By the time this pandemic is over (if ever) I assume they'll have thousands of "witty" masks stored in the basement.

I just think it is weird that people always have to turn some things into a "thing" regardless the situation.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 30, 2020, 04:03:43 PM
I have so many spreadsheets going right now, I need to make a spreadsheet to organize them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on June 30, 2020, 06:25:33 PM
Facebook ha-

That's it, I'm resurrecting the Random Statement About something NOBODY Cares About thread......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on June 30, 2020, 09:20:12 PM
The more I think about it, the more I believe Triumph Of The Will is riffable............


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on July 05, 2020, 01:58:13 PM
People said anyone but trump.

Kayne West (backed by Elon Musk) has apparently said "Well alright then."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 05, 2020, 06:04:02 PM
With all that's been going on, it makes me wonder if Megaforce (1982) is gonna get banned because of Michael Beck's character......................................


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on July 06, 2020, 12:40:54 PM
I joined a paranormal facebook group yesterday. Terms of agreement was not to post conspiracy theories.
Imagine if that was part of the rules here at badmovies.org  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on July 06, 2020, 12:55:31 PM
The post 9/11 military style police vibe has to go. bring back C.H.I.P.'s and TJ Hooker type cops


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 08, 2020, 09:22:25 PM
A bunch of PC snowflakes are tying to take the word "master out of everything because... Well, I'm not entirely sure why after thinking about it......

So, if we get rid of that word, how do we address or describe those who have achieved a certain level of accomplishment in education, gaming, athletics, etc.?

What's to become of chess masters?
Or master craftsmen?
What are you supposed to pursue if you can no longer get a masters degree?

And what about Kung Fu movies? How will students address their instructors?
Or Doctor Who's Archnemesis?

And Master Bating? There's absolutely nothing about it which is either dominant nor submissive, it's merely something one can only do to one's self!

To imagine that the word master could be removed from NewSpeak is maddeningly outlandish!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 08, 2020, 11:01:10 PM
I one were to ask rhetorically, "Has the world gone mad?", I would be obliged to casually & politely reply, "Yes, I believe it has."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: WingedSerpent on July 10, 2020, 07:13:12 PM
What if mutant super powers are real, but they require such specific situations that nobody realizes they have them?

A person from Nebraska could have the ability to mentally control one certain type of crab that's only found at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Another person could be able to fly but it only works if they launch themselves off the third tallest tree in all of Poland.

Maybe someone gains the power to shape shift, but it only works on the first Tuesday of the year, and only between the times of 3:37 a.m to 3:48. a.m


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 10, 2020, 07:30:34 PM
What if mutant super powers are real, but they require such specific situations that nobody realizes they have them?

A person from Nebraska could have the ability to mentally control one certain type of crab that's only found at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Another person could be able to fly but it only works if they launch themselves off the third tallest tree in all of Poland.

Maybe someone gains the power to shape shift, but it only works on the first Tuesday of the year, and only between the times of 3:37 a.m to 3:48. a.m

I used to have dreams in which my ability to fly was only a few inches off the ground, and only for a few feat at a time, kinda like somebody on a hoverboard with a five year old battery.......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on July 10, 2020, 11:21:30 PM
cheez n crackers ona cross... :hatred:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on July 11, 2020, 11:21:21 AM
Facebook ha-

That's it, I'm resurrecting the Random Statement About something NOBODY Cares About thread......

So quit! So simple.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 11, 2020, 11:55:48 AM
I one were to ask rhetorically, "Has the world gone mad?", I would be obliged to casually & politely reply, "Yes, I believe it has."

The world has always been mad, you're just noticing now.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on July 11, 2020, 12:37:54 PM
Do race car drivers listen to the radio when racing?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 11, 2020, 09:31:32 PM


A piece o' wood & a piece o' pipe...



Whoever started Parris Toys was a genius.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on July 12, 2020, 12:41:59 AM
what do motorcycle gangs do when it rains?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on July 12, 2020, 01:18:39 AM
Hero Wars ad has been aggressively following me for two weeks now  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on July 12, 2020, 01:57:48 AM
what do motorcycle gangs do when it rains?

Our leathers get wet.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 12, 2020, 10:22:09 AM
what do motorcycle gangs do when it rains?

Our leathers get wet.

Two types, those who find a roadhouse that serves coffee, or an underpass, and those who face the seering sting of raindrops slamming into their faces at eighty miles an hour!

Or they cold just go to the nearest hunting & fishing store & buy a rainsuit to have on hand............


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on July 12, 2020, 11:16:01 AM
what do motorcycle gangs do when it rains?

Our leathers get wet.

Two types, those who find a roadhouse that serves coffee, or an underpass, and those who face the seering sting of raindrops slamming into their faces at eighty miles an hour!

Or they cold just go to the nearest hunting & fishing store & buy a rainsuit to have on hand............

All the ones I know avoid that problem by simply sticking a helmet on.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 12, 2020, 09:41:45 PM
what do motorcycle gangs do when it rains?

Our leathers get wet.

Two types, those who find a roadhouse that serves coffee, or an underpass, and those who face the seering sting of raindrops slamming into their faces at eighty miles an hour!

Or they cold just go to the nearest hunting & fishing store & buy a rainsuit to have on hand............

All the ones I know avoid that problem by simply sticking a helmet on.

But not all helmets have visors.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 12, 2020, 09:42:10 PM
A Colt and a Griswold & Gunnison look the same, but they're "not" the same!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on July 13, 2020, 02:13:56 AM
what do motorcycle gangs do when it rains?

Our leathers get wet.

Two types, those who find a roadhouse that serves coffee, or an underpass, and those who face the seering sting of raindrops slamming into their faces at eighty miles an hour!

Or they cold just go to the nearest hunting & fishing store & buy a rainsuit to have on hand............

All the ones I know avoid that problem by simply sticking a helmet on.

But not all helmets have visors.

I don't know any bikers stupid enough to go riding in the rain without one. Hell, even Bally, who will take to the narrow winding country roads around here, doing wheelies and speeding wouldn't do that. A lot of his body is held together with pins from the accidents he has had. He's seen what most of his leg bones look like from them sticking outside of his skin and he still rides the same way, and he always insists on wearing a full face.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on July 13, 2020, 06:38:28 PM
[Continued from [url]http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,117466.0.html[/url] ([url]http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,117466.0.html[/url])]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.....


I thought so. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on July 14, 2020, 06:01:27 AM
I appear to have upset a group of people by pointing out that not only do I put the toilet roll on the holder the opposite way round from them, but I also only do it because it upsets folks and that I view it as a first world problem anyway. 😂


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 14, 2020, 08:11:14 AM
I wonder what would happen if I started putting fennel seed in my bird feeders......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on July 14, 2020, 10:48:32 AM
Should trump lose this years election, will someone call him into an office and say “You’re fired!”?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 14, 2020, 11:07:56 AM
Should trump lose this years election, will someone call him into an office and say “You’re fired!”?

Biden just quoted Mao by saying, "Women hold up half the sky."
Are people gonna look at Mao different?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 15, 2020, 02:11:51 PM
Just read a review that began with "I did not much like this movie" and ended with "Highly recommended." Leave it to the professionals, guys.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on July 16, 2020, 12:15:55 PM
When people are bored and have too much time on their hand they usually post thread titles that end with "..."

Just an observation.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on July 16, 2020, 03:32:32 PM
" Don't pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

Bruce Lee


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on July 17, 2020, 12:22:38 PM
(https://cdn.motivationgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Bruce-Lee-Quote-Be-like-Water.jpg)

I have so many Bruce Lee posters on my wall!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on July 17, 2020, 01:13:14 PM
Bruce is the Man!  :thumbup:

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on July 20, 2020, 09:35:42 AM
That's two things.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on July 20, 2020, 04:53:46 PM
^ Huh? I wish you wouldn't be so esoteric of what your talking about. Because it really makes no sense.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on July 20, 2020, 09:07:49 PM
The complete quote:
|
"Carl, what is wrong with you?"
"Well, I kill people and I eat hands.  That's two things!"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on July 20, 2020, 10:00:28 PM
If Bruce Lee had lived he would have absolutely dominated 80's action cinema. JCVD chuck norris etc were all watered down crappy versions of bruce and neither  jackie chan or jet li had his presence



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 24, 2020, 06:55:08 PM
If Freddy Kruger met The Cenobites, I wonder if they'd get in a fight or of they'd have fun together...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on July 25, 2020, 11:21:08 PM
I wonder what it would look like if James Bond had a hoarding problem.....
He'd probably need an airplane hanger big enough to hold a couple of Boeng 777s...

Maybe that's why he was told to leave the Beretta behind in the first movie...

I'll bet he still has that briefcase from the second movie, & still pulls it out & plays with it every now & then...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 01, 2020, 12:42:11 PM
I think when ancient documents were translated into modern languages a mistake was made and it was, in fact, vegans that were sacrificed to the gods.

Also, 2020 is because we stopped sacrificing them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 07, 2020, 11:21:00 AM
I believe in America, I just don't like people & I hate my life...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on August 07, 2020, 08:02:29 PM
I cant get traction in 1st gear...



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on August 08, 2020, 05:00:19 AM
I wonder if a conspiracy theory ever turned out to be true.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 08, 2020, 10:12:21 AM
Did Schrodinger have an open or closed casket funeral? I would imagine if it was the latter, then there would be a high degree of confusion.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 08, 2020, 11:38:37 AM
Did Schrodinger have an open or closed casket funeral? I would imagine if it was the latter, then there would be a high degree of confusion.

No, in order for there to be a funeral, somebody would've had to have seen the cat in the first place..........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on August 09, 2020, 01:19:47 AM
Most people I know who own a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses report them lost or missing after some time. Just the other day my nephew's been searching for his Ray Ban and can't find them anymore. My sister "lost" her Ray Ban last month.

Just get a pair of no-name sunglasses. They won't ever get "lost."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on August 09, 2020, 06:00:43 PM
oakley's too, at least for my family of boater/snowmobilers, lol!  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 09, 2020, 06:03:08 PM
I had a pair of Gargoyles once.
Probably seven or eight years before I broke 'em...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 10, 2020, 10:46:13 AM
It's not always JOBS people hate, most of the time, it's BOSSES & ALARM CLOCKS...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on August 10, 2020, 04:56:09 PM
It's not always JOBS people hate, most of the time, it's BOSSES & ALARM CLOCKS...

wow! that's so true....  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on August 10, 2020, 10:36:44 PM
Toxic bosses/managers can turn employees away. So glad I can have work banter with one of my managers.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 12, 2020, 10:44:59 AM
I wonder what it would sound like if the late Sam Kinison did a cover of The Trololo Song.....




And, What was up with Plastic Man's sun glasses?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 14, 2020, 10:27:39 AM
All right, everyone, til we met again, be well, be chipper, be healthy and be safe, happy trails, adios, always eat your vegetables and wash behind your ears, don't run with spoons, and always be nice to your moms.

TTYW

--LE


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 14, 2020, 01:45:54 PM
I been listening to a lot of Noam Chomsky lately...is that weird?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 14, 2020, 02:20:29 PM
I been listening to a lot of Noam Chomsky lately...is that weird?  :question:
I don't know a whole lot about him, RC, beyond a few facts. Is he good?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 14, 2020, 04:55:45 PM
I think the required number of posts for Kraken should definitely be set at 8081, and should come with a tasteful gift basket.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 14, 2020, 07:26:29 PM
I been listening to a lot of Noam Chomsky lately...is that weird?  :question:
I don't know a whole lot about him, RC, beyond a few facts. Is he good?

Yes-! He is. I don't know if he's your cup of tea, dear. Very liberal in his views on politics, I'm afraid.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 15, 2020, 04:02:51 PM
I'm beginning to wonder if people are selling their Honda Rebels because the name is politically incorrect.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 16, 2020, 02:47:07 PM
Do I have this right? Martin Sheen replaced Harvey Keitel in Apocalypse Now, and Eric Stoltz was replaced by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future? Hard to think of anyone else in those roles.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on August 16, 2020, 07:51:10 PM
passenger from Shanghai:  her family came she brought them to the Sam Adams Brewery here. dad was infatuated with the regular Sam Adams beer, not any of the different beers in the tour, the one you buy at the store.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on August 16, 2020, 11:32:38 PM
Do I have this right? Martin Sheen replaced Harvey Keitel in Apocalypse Now, and Eric Stoltz was replaced by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future? Hard to think of anyone else in those roles.
Y'mean HARVEY...?  ERIC...? 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 18, 2020, 12:11:47 PM
Just me or when you hear the stomping in We Will Rock You, you think the words "Puff-Puff-Pass" fit that rhythm?

Puff-Puff-Pass!
Puff-Puff-Pass!
Puff-Puff-Pass!
Puff-Puff-Pass!
We will, we will rock you....
Puff-Puff-Pass.

(I can't unhear that.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on August 18, 2020, 04:45:04 PM
it's just you. that's way too fast for a decent hit before passing. :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 18, 2020, 06:19:33 PM
it's just you. that's way too fast for a decent hit before passing. :cheers:

Nooooo, not to smoke to the song, just the monosyllabic stomp-stomp-clap sounds like the words to me. Careful, it's infectious.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 18, 2020, 10:55:22 PM
Goodnight, everyone. May you wake up with all your toes.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 19, 2020, 07:50:35 PM
Surgical masks as a fashion statement...

Michael Jackson was just a wee bit ahead of his time...
He really missed out on this one!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on August 21, 2020, 05:44:00 PM
Here in Germany one can buy any cut of chicken at the supermarket but no boneless chicken thighs.  This is very frustrating.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on August 21, 2020, 07:44:56 PM
There is no tired like Friday evening after the first week of teaching in five months tired!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 21, 2020, 08:01:41 PM
Sometimes I write horoscopes for my children. Tonight's for my youngest was:

Aries: You will soon encounter the tastiest cheddar cheese ball you’ve ever eaten.

I try to be encouraging like that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 22, 2020, 04:38:17 AM
If I have learned only one thing from watching trump in power, it is this. If the bible is true and all the stuff in the book of Revelations comes true, when the antichrist rises, people will not only wear his mark on their forehead but will do so gladly, gleefully running to embrace it and shouting about how it is a good thing.

Funny though that the exact same people who would do this will scream, cry and stamp their feet in a full-on toddler type tantrum if asked to wear a mask.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on August 22, 2020, 10:10:11 AM
Three straight days back in the classroom, and I've dropped five pounds!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 22, 2020, 11:03:15 AM
If I have learned only one thing from watching trump in power, it is this. If the bible is true and all the stuff in the book of Revelations comes true, when the antichrist rises, people will not only wear his mark on their forehead but will do so gladly, gleefully running to embrace it and shouting about how it is a good thing.

Funny though that the exact same people who would do this will scream, cry and stamp their feet in a full-on toddler type tantrum if asked to wear a mask.

"How absurd, said the gnat to the gnu,
 To spell your queer name as you do!
For the matter of that, Said the gnu to the gnat,
 That’s just as I feel about you." - Oliver Herford

"I like you just the way you are." - Fred Rogers


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 22, 2020, 12:52:22 PM
If I have learned only one thing from watching trump in power, it is this. If the bible is true and all the stuff in the book of Revelations comes true, when the antichrist rises, people will not only wear his mark on their forehead but will do so gladly, gleefully running to embrace it and shouting about how it is a good thing.

Funny though that the exact same people who would do this will scream, cry and stamp their feet in a full-on toddler type tantrum if asked to wear a mask.

"How absurd, said the gnat to the gnu,
 To spell your queer name as you do!
For the matter of that, Said the gnu to the gnat,
 That’s just as I feel about you." - Oliver Herford

"I like you just the way you are." - Fred Rogers

So you are saying I'd refuse to wear the mark of the antichrist. Thanks for the support. :)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: chefzombie on August 26, 2020, 02:05:26 PM
claws, my issue is bone in/skin on chicken breasts. i can only get them from my butcher, and with no car, and no delivery from them, it's a long hot bus trip across town lugging my insulated bag and ice bricks. peeves me NO END.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 30, 2020, 06:32:58 PM
In a weird way, I'm beginning to understand why that TV show Grimm was set in Portland.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 30, 2020, 06:33:29 PM
Suddenly, things are starting to remind me or this SNL sketch, wherein Bruce Wayne is passing out ThanksGiving bags to the poor, and the poor are all complaining about how big of a problem Batman is to their community.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 30, 2020, 10:05:52 PM
^
"Where's all the blacks when you need one?"

(https://i.imgur.com/SvIzkYS.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 31, 2020, 02:18:18 PM
Given that governments were quite late to the party in getting people to wear masks, wouldn't it make more sense as a conspiracy theory that those in power don't actually want you to wear them as it messes with facial recognition technology? They couldn't sit back and publically do nothing in the face of mounting scientific evidence and casualties, so reluctantly they brought in rules on wearing them, but also secretly started up an anti-mask campaign to encourage the public not to wear them so they can track us better.

Makes about as much sense as most of the conspiracy theories I hear these days.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on September 01, 2020, 05:46:56 AM
My rule of thumb

second week of September - Autumn decoration
second week of October - remove Autumn decoration
second week of October - Halloween decoration
last week of November - remove Halloween decoration
first week of December - Christmas decoration
second week of January - remove Christmas decoration


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 02, 2020, 06:25:44 PM
It seems Michael Aquino, my favorite Satanist in US intelligence services, has died at seventy-four.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on September 05, 2020, 08:03:54 PM
I'm happy to see that stupid politics thread removed!  :thumbup:

now lets get back to BAD movies!

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HiddenFickleBrontosaurus-max-1mb.gif)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 05, 2020, 08:22:02 PM
By Andrew yet!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on September 05, 2020, 08:26:23 PM
Yep :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 05, 2020, 08:31:42 PM
What was that Martha Stewart said?

" It's a good thing."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 05, 2020, 08:55:30 PM
We should argue more if it brings Andrew back!  :tongueout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 05, 2020, 08:58:47 PM
I had this dream the other night the The Joker wasn't too happy about rioters & looters hitting Gotham, particularly this one guy who "claimed" places by urinating in public streets....

So the Joker stole a trolley, filled it with some chemical I couldn't pronounce (even though it was "my" dream, though I'm assuming he meant the same kind of acid that turned him into a pale skinned freak with Sardonicus), and at that point the dream changed over to some thing else...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on September 05, 2020, 09:01:50 PM
(https://img.ifunny.co/images/c3769a87a05bf1b6ac258d7ed7af115e9553e4cfced91d59be640deeddede4f3_1.jpg)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 05, 2020, 09:06:38 PM
^  Twilight? That's enuff to drive me bats!

(https://i.imgur.com/GxSmo8A.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on September 05, 2020, 09:07:15 PM
(https://anotheraurora.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/funny-pictures-auto-spudcomics-dracula-387557.png)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 05, 2020, 09:08:23 PM
I'm happy to see that stupid politics thread removed!  :thumbup:

now lets get back to BAD movies!

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HiddenFickleBrontosaurus-max-1mb.gif)

Me too. I hated it but I didn't feel like I could go against the wishes of the rest of the board.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 05, 2020, 09:13:56 PM
I had this dream the other night the The Joker wasn't too happy about rioters & looters hitting Gotham, particularly this one guy who "claimed" places by urinating in public streets....

So the Joker stole a trolley, filled it with some chemical I couldn't pronounce (even though it was "my" dream, though I'm assuming he meant the same kind of acid that turned him into a pale skinned freak with Sardonicus), and at that point the dream changed over to some thing else...

You dream about rioters? I usually dream about finding money or sex... :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on September 05, 2020, 09:15:10 PM
^ lmao!

(https://i1.wp.com/universalmonstersuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/68843a6866f0a7e56a783467b8feadc3.jpg)

random funny pictures and bad movie talk...
MUCH more fun then politics lol


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 05, 2020, 09:21:39 PM
^ I know this is corny- but it fits.



http://youtu.be/L6svOHFSAH8 (http://youtu.be/L6svOHFSAH8)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 05, 2020, 10:09:23 PM
I had this dream the other night the The Joker wasn't too happy about rioters & looters hitting Gotham, particularly this one guy who "claimed" places by urinating in public streets....

So the Joker stole a trolley, filled it with some chemical I couldn't pronounce (even though it was "my" dream, though I'm assuming he meant the same kind of acid that turned him into a pale skinned freak with Sardonicus), and at that point the dream changed over to some thing else...

You dream about rioters? I usually dream about finding money or sex... :wink:

Yeah, well, sometimes I can't help dreaming about performing unspeakable acts on people I don't like....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 05, 2020, 10:20:29 PM
^ I dream about going into an old house and finding old comic books.
Or antiques (I'm a weird collector of old garbage.) Mostly old monster magazines, comic books, and junk furniture that looks like it's been in a barn since 1930, which it has.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on September 05, 2020, 10:34:19 PM
What happened at the political thread that warranted its removal? 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 05, 2020, 10:39:19 PM
 ^ I guess Andrew didn't like it. And it's his site- so he can do whatever he wants!  :drink:
To tell you the truth, I don't think it should have been taken down. I don't like censorship. In movies or in real life.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on September 05, 2020, 10:54:11 PM
There's a reason most movie forums don't allow political discussion. Politics brings out the ugly in people.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on September 05, 2020, 11:00:33 PM
There's a reason most movie forums don't allow political discussion. Politics brings out the ugly in people.
There have been long-lived political threads on this forum before.  Andrew always tolerated a lot, and I had not seen anything particularly hot unless it happened last night.  I know I posted a link the Atlantic Monthly story which paints an unflattering picture of the President.  I saw a couple of responses, but nothing at all out of line.  I am surprised that thread was removed. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 05, 2020, 11:09:41 PM
^ Nothing outrageous happened. It just got pulled.
You know this won't stop anything, right? It just will pop up in another thread, like it did in the 'confessional' thread.
Myself, I'm glad it's gone.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: zelmo73 on September 05, 2020, 11:20:46 PM
There's a reason most movie forums don't allow political discussion. Politics brings out the ugly in people.
There have been long-lived political threads on this forum before.  Andrew always tolerated a lot, and I had not seen anything particularly hot unless it happened last night.  I know I posted a link the Atlantic Monthly story which paints an unflattering picture of the President.  I saw a couple of responses, but nothing at all out of line.  I am surprised that thread was removed. 

It was nothing that you said that got it removed. Somebody else got fed up with the whole concept of how the 1st Amendment is supposed to work and handed in their ultimatum. Andrew obviously didn’t like where the topic was going and yanked the whole thing.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on September 05, 2020, 11:59:52 PM
There's a reason most movie forums don't allow political discussion. Politics brings out the ugly in people.
There have been long-lived political threads on this forum before.  Andrew always tolerated a lot, and I had not seen anything particularly hot unless it happened last night.  I know I posted a link the Atlantic Monthly story which paints an unflattering picture of the President.  I saw a couple of responses, but nothing at all out of line.  I am surprised that thread was removed. 

It was nothing that you said that got it removed. Somebody else got fed up with the whole concept of how the 1st Amendment is supposed to work and handed in their ultimatum. Andrew obviously didn’t like where the topic was going and yanked the whole thing.
Thanks.  That's odd.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 06, 2020, 12:09:24 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/cavOzzv.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: zelmo73 on September 06, 2020, 12:16:58 AM
There's a reason most movie forums don't allow political discussion. Politics brings out the ugly in people.
There have been long-lived political threads on this forum before.  Andrew always tolerated a lot, and I had not seen anything particularly hot unless it happened last night.  I know I posted a link the Atlantic Monthly story which paints an unflattering picture of the President.  I saw a couple of responses, but nothing at all out of line.  I am surprised that thread was removed. 

It was nothing that you said that got it removed. Somebody else got fed up with the whole concept of how the 1st Amendment is supposed to work and handed in their ultimatum. Andrew obviously didn’t like where the topic was going and yanked the whole thing.
Thanks.  That's odd.

I may have been a little too vague. Somebody else threatened to leave because they didn’t like the fact that there are two sides to every heated debate, so Andrew put the whole fire out.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 06, 2020, 12:26:47 AM
^ and you know all of this how?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: zelmo73 on September 06, 2020, 12:31:38 AM
^ and you know all of this how?

Because before I left town earlier today to go on a country drive with my wife, so far as I could tell, I was the last person to post in that topic. When we came back earlier this evening, I saw that Andrew had moved the topic.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 06, 2020, 12:35:00 AM
And because you went on a drive that proves all that you said? Interesting!
 But why he pulled it ,and his reasons for doing so, I don't think that's for anybody to say. Except Andrew.
Not you.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: zelmo73 on September 06, 2020, 01:23:37 AM
And because you went on a drive that proves all that you said? Interesting!
 But why he pulled it ,and his reasons for doing so, I don't think that's for anybody to say. Except Andrew.
Not you.

Except that I read the post that was right before mine in that topic. I know about the ultimatum that was handed down and who said it. You don’t. I only mentioned the drive because I wanted you to know that I had more important things to do today then live on this forum like you do. So not only am I partial to inside information that you don’t possess, but I also lead a happy life outside of this forum. Oh, and my wife also has darker skin than Tiana does too. Isn’t that ironic? Don’t that just beat all?  :teddyr: #TRUMP2020


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 06, 2020, 10:01:05 AM
My cousin's daughter is living in South Korea and there is currently a major typhoon heading at where she is. Strangely she seems more excited than daunted.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 06, 2020, 10:03:55 AM
^ I hope she stays safe.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 06, 2020, 10:08:15 AM
Thanks, Ronny!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: WingedSerpent on September 06, 2020, 04:00:04 PM
There are over 8 billion people on the planet.

Even with all the @%&#  2020 has been giving us -statistically speaking   somebody somewhere is having the best year of their life.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on September 06, 2020, 07:34:18 PM
ok well I got the rear done, new brakes, rotors and drag springs...
not easy! I guess if its nice tomorrow I'll do the fronts!

(http://cdn.lowgif.com/small/df2f504bc785833d-general-lee-jumping-gif-free-here.gif)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 08, 2020, 08:41:56 PM
I guarantee you that someday 2020 will be the good old days.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 08, 2020, 10:12:53 PM
I guarantee you that someday 2020 will be the good old days.


I think your right. When dinosaurs rule the Earth!



http://youtu.be/fYTAhMEXZ3o (http://youtu.be/fYTAhMEXZ3o)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on September 09, 2020, 12:18:49 PM
Quote
Have you ever wondered why the widths of cars are standardized to the dimensions they are? Perhaps it is apocryphal, but the story goes something like this: Car widths are what they are because early car makers used wagon undercarriages as the basis for car bodies, and that's how wide wagons were. Why? Because the wheels were spaced in such a way that they would fit the ruts of European roads, and that's how far apart the ruts were. Why? Because many of the roads in Europe were built on top of Roman military roads that dated from the time of Julius Caesar, and that's how wide they were. Why? Because (and here, we finally get to the real answer), that's how wide a Roman chariot needed to be, in order to accommodate the width of the war horses pulling it. So, in some sense, the width of cars is not only an artifact of the way that things had always been, but is also an extension of the tyranny of Caesar. Remember that the next time you go pick up some groceries.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on September 10, 2020, 06:08:51 AM
Chipotle open two restaurants in Germany in 2018. According to TripAdvisor reviews the staff doesn't speak German, which is unusual. Quality of the food has been declining in less than six months. Apparently they now use bagged chips instead of homemade, and some sort of pre-made meat, and they have reduced the bean option down to one and drastically reduced the overall portions. Never been there because they are too far away but this doesn't sound ecouraging.

Five Guys Germany doesn't seem to fare much better even though they are planning to expand throughout Germany in the next few years. People are complaining about the food being insanely overpriced and the burgers tasting average at best.

Beside the omni-present McDonalds and Burger King, KFC appears to be the strongest runner up amongst popular US fast food chains in Germany, with Subway and Dominos not too far behind. We used to have Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks but they closed shops in my area a few years ago.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on September 10, 2020, 06:42:17 AM
Chipotle open two restaurants in Germany in 2018. According to TripAdvisor reviews the staff doesn't speak German, which is unusual. Quality of the food has been declining in less than six months. Apparently they now use bagged chips instead of homemade, and some sort of pre-made meat, and they have reduced the bean option down to one and drastically reduced the overall portions. Never been there because they are too far away but this doesn't sound ecouraging.

Five Guys Germany doesn't seem to fare much better even though they are planning to expand throughout Germany in the next few years. People are complaining about the food being insanely overpriced and the burgers tasting average at best.

Beside the omni-present McDonalds and Burger King, KFC is the third runner up amongst popular US fast food places in Germany, with Domino pizza at fourth. We used to have Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks but they closed shops in my area a few years ago.

I liked 5 Guys when we visited them in the states. They opened up in Glasgow and we went along. I have to agree about them being insanely overpriced and the food average. We could have had a full steak meal elsewhere for what they charged for a burger and a shared box of fries.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on September 11, 2020, 12:54:36 AM
Rather disappointed that the horror movie 'Baskin', does not involve the woman from Tiger King.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on September 11, 2020, 07:45:35 AM
My religious mother in law said she'd be voting for trump based purely on the whole abortion thing and for no other reason.

Because I've seen this a lot and out of curiosity I went and looked up the number of abortions per year in the US at the moment. Then I noticed something about the years, so I then started comparing the number of abortions in the US per year, all the way back to about 1980 and compared it to who the president was at the time. Some interesting result there.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on September 12, 2020, 07:55:36 PM
Higher fiber foods like broccoli and cauliflower isn't keeping me feeling full for some reason. Beans as well.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 13, 2020, 08:20:26 PM
Mused about this before in one form or another, but it's funny how the rich always tell you how you can save money by doing things you can't afford to do...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 14, 2020, 09:12:41 AM
If I was Jewish I'd like to think I'd have been born in Australian in a brown house on a small street in the suburbs of Melbourne, to a mother who was allergic to cats and had a weight problem, and a father who cussed under his breath but never aloud, and who liked to throw things away.

I'd have had an older brother with a fixation on bathing, and a grandmother who lived with us and gave us lots of money.

One day as I was studying very hard for the right college, maybe age ten or so (because I'd be like so smart) I'd take a break and be walking my poodle in the park and come across a dead teenager hanging in the woods, and my parents would get me lots of counseling, but in fact I'd kind of like to tell lurid exaggerations about the body in the park.

I'd finish high school a year early and get into the second-best college on my list, and then I'd go bad because I'd fall in with this domineering lesbian who would screw my mind up about men while we smoked a lot of hashish. Finally, being three years older than me, she'd admit to me it was all a stage she was going through and she wasn't a lesbian and did not hate men, and she'd say sorry for being a bad influence, now don't go join a death cut in the Outback, will you not, Bec, honey?

I hated her after that and was only partly sad when seven years later she got crippled in a plane crash.

My last year at university would be a mix of anger and vulnerability, and I'd think I was pregnant for most of a semester, but would have no idea why I thought so, and finally I'd graduate with honors and get a job where I was making a whole lot of money, and then I'd move to Sydney and suddenly have this incredible life with awesome friends, and I'd be very happy til my brother visited one day and pointed out didn't you ever notice, Bec, that your friends are all like actor-slash types, and lay-about poets, and they're hanging out with you cuz you always pick up the tab when you're out for  drinks and noshing?

That's not true, Brad is also sleeping with me, so there, I'd shoot back, which would make my brother raise his eyebrows and say something apt but crude, and later I'd realize he'd been right, it was my money and generous nature my so-called friends took to, not me!

That was a painfully hard realization, so I quit hanging with my friends and went into therapy, took a vacation in southern India one year, Israel another, got involved with a man from Pakistan who'd always tell me his family could never find out he was dating a Jewish girl, and after some bad relationship choices I ended up living with this Welsh dude who had a daughter back in Cardiff he never saw but I'd always try to talk him into having her come visit.

Finally on my thirtieth birthday I would decide I had spent my whole life investing in other people's happiness, and I'd marry a man I met at group therapy, and one day I'd wake up and be fifty, and I'd silently scream inside because my G-d my life was mostly done and how had I been so wrapped up in marriage and my daughters that I was entering the homestretch of life, and dear Lord above, I needed to do something worthwhile, and quick!

So I'd quit my job and open a bookstore art gallery poetry coffee shop, and go broke but by the time I was sixty and discovered a lump in my breast I'd feel I did something worthwhile with my time, and wouldn't mind so much the cancer that I instinctively sensed was going to kill me.

But I'm not Jewish.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on September 14, 2020, 11:30:44 AM
When you are studying the hunting habits of, and best ways to fight off a crocodile to make a D&D fight realistic, you are overthinking it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 16, 2020, 03:45:23 PM
"OK l like the other night when I was up real late smoking Northern Lights, I saw this weird documentary on YouTube about how Sharon Tate actually didn't die in the Manson family attacks because this dog like saved her when its owner sicced her on that Tex dude's man parts? I want to know, was what I saw a reenactment....or like...security footage, maybe? It was really good security footage if it was. But like does Roman Polanski still believe she's dead, you think? Has she been in anything else since then? IMDB says no but I didn't look at her Wikipedia page."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 17, 2020, 10:16:15 PM
I think somebody on this forum brought this up before, but I was thinking, instead of remakes, the "Nightmare On Elm Street" series should have a series of prequels......

Maybe figure out made him crazy in life, maybe delve into his desire to drag his victims into his fantasy world...

There was some teasing at his origins in "The Dream Child", whereas "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" was way too in your face by depicting him as a psychotic youngster, exacerbated by abusive father, and the rather pretentious coping mechanism he develops as a teenager...

There should be at least one movie about the life & times that created the monster turned demon named Freddy Krueger!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on September 18, 2020, 06:29:25 AM
I hit a new low weight this morning:  228.8 pounds!!!
Woo hoo!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 18, 2020, 11:27:14 AM
I hit a new low weight this morning:  228.8 pounds!!!
Woo hoo!

Well here's to there being less of you to admire!  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 19, 2020, 01:09:18 AM
Lying here with my phone battery down to 39-percent and I'm too unmotivated to cross this room and get my charger.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 19, 2020, 02:08:09 PM
Tree fell clear across Castlewood Rd yesterday, blocking traffic & knocking out power to my block for just over seven hours.....




For the life of me, I don't know why, but I figured that would be the perfect excuse to get up off my @$$ & do some grocery shopping.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 19, 2020, 07:30:03 PM
If an Australian of the Yiddish persuasion made a certain well known exclamation, would they mean "'Oy!", or would they mean "Oi!"
And how would anyone other than an Australian or someone of the Yiddish persuasion be able to tell?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 21, 2020, 07:03:54 PM
I wonder if Freddy Krueger got the idea for his glove from The Creature With The Blue Hand.............


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 22, 2020, 07:27:41 AM
My adolescence was nothing like the kids have on Skins but then again I don't think anyone's was.  Well except for getting hit by a bus. Or rather a bus once got hit by me. I was talking to someone and walked right into a parked bus. So I had a run-in with a bus but also a borderline eating disorder, and a crazy mother, so does that make me more sympathetic to Tony or Cassie or Nips?

Okay, well you try being in a motel for two weeks watching '00s British TV and see if it doesn't get into your head.  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on September 22, 2020, 07:41:32 AM
My adolescence was nothing like the kids have on Skins but then again I don't think anyone's was.  Well except for getting hit by a bus. Or rather a bus once got hit by me. I was talking to someone and walked right into a parked bus. So I had a run-in with a bus but also a borderline eating disorder, and a crazy mother, so does that make me more sympathetic to Tony or Cassie or Nips?

Okay, well you try being in a motel for two weeks watching '00s British TV and see if it doesn't get into your head.  :smile:

Try 'Blacks Books' and 'Spaced' instead.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 22, 2020, 07:45:04 AM
I'll seek them out. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 22, 2020, 07:48:21 AM
I sometimes wonder if even though it was a misbegotten conflict, the Vietnam War may ultimately have saved American lives in the long run because it discouraged future US leaders from entering into even more costly wars.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on September 22, 2020, 01:18:05 PM
10 grams margarine and 10 grams grape jelly on each side of a sliced open Kaiser roll, plus one cup of Coffee is all i need for breakfast. Who knew? I certainly forgot how less can be more than enough.

10 grams = about 1 teaspoon I think.  


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on September 22, 2020, 03:55:21 PM
I just changed out my front strut springs...
it was very difficult, spring compressors... very scary lol


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 22, 2020, 05:29:09 PM
Slightly disconcerting ironic that the country of origin for coronavirus also makes so many of the facemasks we now wear.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 22, 2020, 06:27:31 PM
Slightly disconcerting ironic that the country of origin for coronavirus also makes so many of the facemasks we now wear.

**************





No, not gonna say it!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 24, 2020, 11:02:36 AM
Every time I hear that radio ad for Ruff Greens dog food, I half expect it to continue into a cover of Close To The Edit by The Art Of Noise.....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 25, 2020, 02:55:40 PM
I can only imagine the state the house is going to be in when I get home.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 26, 2020, 08:22:57 AM
When their father watches them for a few weeks, my children turn into incredibly late sleepers. I drove all night to get here, it's now 9:20 and I'm still waiting for them to wake up and see I'm home. At least my dogs were on-hand at dawn to say hi. Wait, is that the sound of stirring up above? Would it be rude to sneak up and pretend I'm a ghost?

(Been up since 4-something Friday and I really need sleep.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on September 26, 2020, 08:36:35 PM
Getting drunk off of Chartreuse is an experience.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on September 29, 2020, 07:22:48 PM
presidential debate tonight 9pm... should be fun to watch...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 29, 2020, 08:52:32 PM

If I were a youngster & a drunk, I'd say Jo Jorgensen/Jeremy F. “Spike” Cohen (Libertarian) is starting to look good........


But I'm neither!


presidential debate tonight 9pm... should be fun to watch...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 29, 2020, 09:50:14 PM
The debates were like watching three angry drunks arguing amongst one another!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on September 29, 2020, 11:11:21 PM
The debates were like watching three angry drunks arguing amongst one another!
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/487268006079102987/760712967389315152/FB_IMG_1601438485660.jpg)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 30, 2020, 02:33:00 PM
I have 3 mousetraps and haven't had a mouse in 3 months! I think I got them all!
I killed 22 mice! I am like Galactus to them!

(https://i.imgur.com/VsXcFTG.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on September 30, 2020, 06:39:37 PM
Mark Hamill won the internet for today with this tweet:

"That debate was the worst thing I have ever seen, and I was IN the STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL!"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: AoTFan on September 30, 2020, 08:38:37 PM
I have 3 mousetraps and haven't had a mouse in 3 months! I think I got them all!
I killed 22 mice! I am like Galactus to them!

(https://i.imgur.com/VsXcFTG.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

Dang, that's a lot of mice!  What period of time are we talking here?

Do you live in a rural area?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: AoTFan on September 30, 2020, 08:42:15 PM
I haven't played Among Us, but I think I could probably wing it from just all the info I've gotten reading the deluge of memes that have appeared about it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 30, 2020, 09:11:27 PM
I have 3 mousetraps and haven't had a mouse in 3 months! I think I got them all!
I killed 22 mice! I am like Galactus to them!

(https://i.imgur.com/VsXcFTG.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

Dang, that's a lot of mice!  What period of time are we talking here?

Do you live in a rural area?

Yes- it is! And yes, I do! Our house was built in 1940. They come up from the fruit cellar from a sink pipe.
This was in the space of 5 years!
So thats less then 5 a year


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Dennis on October 01, 2020, 11:39:19 AM
The wife & I watched President Bartlet debate Governor Ritchie, the debate at times was heated, but there were no interruptions and no one told any one else to shut up, also there was a lot more coverage of the what the presidential staff was doing behind the scenes at the debate. There was also a bit about a speech writer and a congressman who suffered a fatal heart attack during his re-election campaign. We found this to be more intelligent, informative, and entertaining than whatever else was on network TV.
 
Our house here in San Gabriel was built in 1932, when we moved in 35 years ago there was a problem with rats, our cats, Poogie & Doodle cleared that up in about 5 weeks or so.

I just found out that my phone can talk, it happened when I asked my daughter Kari whether she and Ryan (son in law) would prefer grilled chicken or pork chops and the phone lit up and said "I'm sorry, I didn't understand the question" I think that a phone that talks to you is a little bit creepy.      


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on October 02, 2020, 05:57:50 AM
I miss channel G4 / TechTV


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on October 02, 2020, 04:58:29 PM
With all this isolation in the nation, it hasn't affected me at all. I've been in my house and yard since I retired some 7 years ago.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: VenomX73 on October 03, 2020, 10:32:35 AM
I HATE cutting grass...
my neighbors LOVE cutting grass...

oh well  :bouncegiggle:

(https://www.awesomegifs.com/wp-content/uploads/mowing-the-yard-fail.gif)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on October 05, 2020, 11:36:03 AM
Tomorrow is Tiana's birthday. She'll be 36.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on October 05, 2020, 12:50:41 PM
Tomorrow is Tiana's birthday. She'll be 36.


Happy birthday to her!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 06, 2020, 08:09:19 AM
Just checked prices for new TVs out of curiosity. They range from a $89.99 special at Best Buy to this one, on sale for a mere $59,997.99 (marked down from $99,997.99):

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/samsung-98-inch-tv-2020-qled-8k-ultra-hd-hdr10-smart-tv-q900-series-qn98q900rbfxza/apd/ab168598/tv-home-theater?gacd=9694607-1003-5761040-266790354-0&dgc=st&&gclid=CjwKCAjwq_D7BRADEiwAVMDdHs2LJ32_tqBL-KQvd20pIZL9o3QksWhJHmrYYm6YMrY6XG1EZ5VbCBoCxqoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/samsung-98-inch-tv-2020-qled-8k-ultra-hd-hdr10-smart-tv-q900-series-qn98q900rbfxza/apd/ab168598/tv-home-theater?gacd=9694607-1003-5761040-266790354-0&dgc=st&&gclid=CjwKCAjwq_D7BRADEiwAVMDdHs2LJ32_tqBL-KQvd20pIZL9o3QksWhJHmrYYm6YMrY6XG1EZ5VbCBoCxqoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)

I can't really afford to spend $60,000 on a TV but when you consider you're saving $40K, it's hard to pass up!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on October 06, 2020, 01:09:04 PM
^ I'm looking for a cheap portable TV for the kitchen... ^
^ I can't afford one... ^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on October 09, 2020, 11:59:07 AM
WTF?

I love Michigan. I DON'T Love militia scumbags.
Folks are pushed by Trump to be afraid of Mexicans and Muslims- I think we better watch out for stupid rednecks.
WTF is going on?

http://youtu.be/76j5CTEpXkU (http://youtu.be/76j5CTEpXkU)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on October 09, 2020, 11:56:14 PM
Being jellyfish have survived for  65 f**kin  million years  without out a brain gives me hope.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on October 13, 2020, 09:58:41 PM
I just occurred to me (ADHD), that the agents & Smith from The Matrix are a lot like the makers from the episode OD Feelin from HBO's The Hitch Hiker series..........

Of course, this might not be the only case of men in suits & really dark sun glasses who speak very slowly & deliberately with big obsequious grins, it's just the only one I can think of right now.........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on October 13, 2020, 10:08:49 PM
Working for 10 hours without a break isn't fun.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on October 14, 2020, 06:42:40 AM
Inralp reezilminorp.  Chumble spuzz!!!!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on October 18, 2020, 08:03:40 PM
Gotta say, I've always noticed a few unlikeable patterns with the kinds of people who drive cars that run on diesel & own modular sectional furniture......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on October 18, 2020, 08:56:43 PM
WHAT IF we had accommodations & assistance in community colleges & trade schools for the disabled AND PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on October 23, 2020, 01:04:39 AM
After spending five weeks at the hospital I was discharged yesterday, FINALLY. And I'll be on sick leave for at least five more months. My biggest complaint about staying at the hospital was not being able to get a single night of decent sleep because I need white noise to sleep plus the other patient in the room was constantly freezing even though it wasn't cold. He had the heater turned all the way up  :bluesad: I can't sleep with a heater on. My window is open almost every night when I sleep at home.

If anything, I found a new appreciation for less-is-more breakfast they served at the hospital. Coffee, kaiser roll with a bit of butter, jam and one or two slices of cheese is really all I need in the morning. Except now that I'm home again I can make me some porridge as well  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on October 29, 2020, 03:50:54 PM
Just occurred to me......

What's the "REAL" difference between an MP3 album with the playlist randomizer turned on, and an old 8 track player?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on October 31, 2020, 12:16:22 PM
I wonder what would happen if the schools taught kids investing instead of algebra...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on November 08, 2020, 05:16:02 PM
Funny that two celebrities often portrayed in the same Will Ferrell & Darrell Hammond skit would die a week apart.........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on November 08, 2020, 05:21:31 PM
I wonder what would happen if the schools taught kids investing instead of algebra...
I’d go with economics or finance over investing, but either way I think kids would need at least basic algebra to understand some of the concepts.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on November 08, 2020, 05:38:05 PM
I wonder what would happen if the schools taught kids investing instead of algebra...
I’d go with economics or finance over investing, but either way I think kids would need at least basic algebra to understand some of the concepts.

I was taught consumer math WAY too early...
By the time I'd gotten around to algebra, I'd forgotten it all, & then they kept trying to drill that into my head year after year with no reasonable explanation why anybody would need to know it......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on November 09, 2020, 11:57:00 PM
I haven't heard from my best friend in 3 days and I'm a bit worried . . .


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on November 16, 2020, 01:42:21 PM
I don't think its cool to smite others (unless its an obvious troll) when you have your own getting smite option disabled  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on November 16, 2020, 01:50:02 PM
I don't think its cool to smite others (unless its an obvious troll) when you have your own getting smite option disabled  :lookingup:

The only one I smite is Zelmo, because, well, he's an obvious troll.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on December 02, 2020, 04:22:44 PM
RIP Dr Walter E Williams... :bluesad:

His principle of how many people it took to import one shipload of bananas into the US really helped me put into perspective the arguments against minimum wage...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on December 02, 2020, 05:45:31 PM
Sad. Enjoyed reading some of his stuff. https://www.wsj.com/articles/walter-williams-r-i-p-11606934313 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/walter-williams-r-i-p-11606934313)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on December 07, 2020, 12:45:17 PM
Seen on Twitter: "Mario Lopez stars as Colonel Sanders in a Lifetime Original mini-movie called A Recipe for Seduction." Apparently not a joke?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on December 08, 2020, 10:36:12 PM
Between Pearl Harbor day & the murder of John Lennon, I'm getting a clearer picture of why nobody ever heard of Darby Crash, at least at the time...

That, & he was a poser, a bad one........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on December 08, 2020, 11:08:51 PM
342


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on December 23, 2020, 01:30:44 PM
Just had a fascinating phone conversation with Nico B, the guy who rediscovered and re-released DEATH BED: THE BED THAT EATS.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on December 31, 2020, 11:59:48 AM
If you want to draw Australia, just turn Africa sideways.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on January 18, 2021, 05:19:38 PM
Checking the karma page is something right now, just mostly x's.
Also, first random thought post in 2021, so there's that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on January 21, 2021, 01:59:27 PM
One chip challenge+orange juice= a reduction in agony.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on January 21, 2021, 04:35:40 PM
A list of "Sons of the Desert" "tents" (Laurel & Hardy fan clubs) from 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190908125557/http://www.wayoutwest.org/tents/usa.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20190908125557/http://www.wayoutwest.org/tents/usa.html)

The organization still exists, but they took the list of clubs offline last year.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 21, 2021, 04:52:05 PM
I was on an old online forum called In the Balcony which had members of that-.
snarky a***oles.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 21, 2021, 05:23:18 PM
Between Pearl Harbor day & the murder of John Lennon, I'm getting a clearer picture of why nobody ever heard of Darby Crash, at least at the time...

That, & he was a poser, a bad one........


Darby was alright! He did what he wanted to do and burned out. f**k it.

http://youtu.be/3vuveZtlkKw (http://youtu.be/3vuveZtlkKw)

He was no poser- he was the real deal Lucille.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on January 21, 2021, 05:48:48 PM
I was on an old online forum called In the Balcony which had members of that-.
snarky a***oles.
This one? http://www.inthebalcony.com/ (http://www.inthebalcony.com/)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 21, 2021, 06:04:59 PM
I was on an old online forum called In the Balcony which had members of that-.
snarky a***oles.
This one? [url]http://www.inthebalcony.com/[/url] ([url]http://www.inthebalcony.com/[/url])


It had a forum in 2005 or 06.
I didn't like the snarky old movie nerds.
They were saying bad things about movies I liked.
Oh- and Laurel and Hardy were Gods. When i said I thought the 3 Stooges were funnier- I got jumped on like flys on s**t.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on January 23, 2021, 05:10:08 PM
They still do, but it's based on Tapatalk, which I find too bloated & slow to be of any use. Your posts? https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/in_the_balcony/rcmerchant-t24.html (https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/in_the_balcony/rcmerchant-t24.html)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 23, 2021, 09:13:36 PM
They still do, but it's based on Tapatalk, which I find too bloated & slow to be of any use. Your posts? https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/in_the_balcony/rcmerchant-t24.html (https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/in_the_balcony/rcmerchant-t24.html)
Yeh- back in 2006!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on January 23, 2021, 09:33:15 PM
Somebody at another forum just said he is 73 years old. We always thought he was 40 or something  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on January 24, 2021, 12:05:46 PM
Is hating bigots a form of bigotry?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on January 24, 2021, 03:16:15 PM
Is hating bigots a form of bigotry?

It depends on whether or not one bases their bigotry on the same uninformed set of assumptions upon which they are placing said bigotry.......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 24, 2021, 03:17:41 PM
^ Come again?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 24, 2021, 03:37:40 PM
Is hating bigots a form of bigotry?
Is hating Nazi's or the KKK a form of bigotry?
What kind of question is that?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on January 24, 2021, 03:40:42 PM
Is hating bigots a form of bigotry?
Is hating Nazi's or the KKK is a form of bigotry?
What kind of question is that?  :question:

Case In Point.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 24, 2021, 03:42:26 PM
^Please try explaining what you are trying to say in over 3 cryptic words.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on January 24, 2021, 03:52:02 PM
^Please try explaining what you are trying to say in over 3 cryptic words.

No.
Already tried explaining I'm neither of these things.
Nobody here will let it go.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 24, 2021, 04:04:32 PM
 :question: Huh?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on January 24, 2021, 04:10:50 PM
Is hating bigots a form of bigotry?

It depends on whether or not one bases their bigotry on the same uninformed set of assumptions upon which they are placing said bigotry.......

That's like saying Hitler wasn't that bad of a guy because he fed stray cats.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 24, 2021, 04:13:10 PM
Is hating bigots a form of bigotry?

It depends on whether or not one bases their bigotry on the same uninformed set of assumptions upon which they are placing said bigotry.......

That's like saying Hitler wasn't that bad of a guy because he fed stray cats.

I'm glad you figured it out, Claws- because I couldn't make heads or tails of it.
Maybe cats heads or cat tails!

Yeah- I'm lost too.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 24, 2021, 04:35:20 PM
Is hating bigots a form of bigotry?

No. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on January 24, 2021, 04:49:34 PM
So....
Does that make it okay to hate Biden for his history of bigotry, racism & racial gaffes?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on January 24, 2021, 05:31:16 PM
Inside my house it sounded like we were having a wind storm. Outside it’s perfectly calm.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on January 24, 2021, 05:35:33 PM
Inside my house it sounded like we were having a wind storm. Outside it’s perfectly calm.

Poltergeist, dude.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on January 24, 2021, 05:43:09 PM
Don’t know, but it is creepy!  :buggedout:  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 24, 2021, 06:34:23 PM
Inside my house it sounded like we were having a wind storm. Outside it’s perfectly calm.

Poltergeist, dude.

Or forced hot air heat. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 24, 2021, 06:35:28 PM
So....
Does that make it okay to hate Biden for his history of bigotry, racism & racial gaffes?

If that were true, I'd hate him too. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on January 24, 2021, 06:49:38 PM
So....
Does that make it okay to hate Biden for his history of bigotry, racism & racial gaffes?

If that were true, I'd hate him too. 

It "IS" true. Google it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on January 24, 2021, 07:09:11 PM
Once I wandered the Land of Metaphor...

I came to a city. A great crowd had gathered, listening to a speaker. He said terrible things about men in the city who wore white robes with gold trim. I left there, taking a mountain pass to the next city. On that road there was a cliff. I saw a man wearing white robes with gold trim hanging off the cliff. The speaker was there, & he offered the man his hand. “No,” said the man in the gold-trimmed robe. “I would rather die than be helped by you.”


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 24, 2021, 07:53:52 PM
So....
Does that make it okay to hate Biden for his history of bigotry, racism & racial gaffes?
If that were true, I'd hate him too. 
It "IS" true. Google it.

Why don't you calm down?  I simply stated IF.  And no, I don't believe your assertion.  It's self-serving aside from stupid.  To the point, it's another example of WHATABOUTISM.  More to the point, I was responding to ER's question.  Not you. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on January 24, 2021, 08:03:52 PM
How about this: Hate bigotry.  Pity bigots.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on January 24, 2021, 08:28:21 PM
I am calm...
And, this was a statement of fact, not a belief on my part, which is why I suggested you Google it.

Conservatives have been called "bigots" for several decades, and we learned to brush it off for just how silly of an accusation it was.
Then, after 2016, we began to realize just how seriously people believed it when they made these obscene statements.
And now, all of a sudden, the new language states that conservatism is some sort of "cult".

The language is growing increasingly dangerous, and this is why I take issue with the question being an absolute or a relative.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 24, 2021, 09:16:00 PM
...The language is growing increasingly dangerous, and this is why I take issue with the question being an absolute or a relative.
Yeh, genius?  I see BIGOTRY as an absolute.  Does that mean we agree? 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on January 24, 2021, 09:29:32 PM
...The language is growing increasingly dangerous, and this is why I take issue with the question being an absolute or a relative.
Yeh, genius?  I see BIGOTRY as an absolute.  Does that mean we agree? 

Well, for for example, ever since I came back to this town from TX 30yrs ago, I occasionally tend to encounter people who will speak only with glowing praise & love for people that I personally knew only for their wickedness....

Will I speak out & tell them they are wrong?
No.
I'll simply sit back & respect that knew a different side of them than I did......
Dissent shouldn't be shut down as it has been lately, but rather, room needs to be made for enlightenment.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 24, 2021, 10:33:29 PM
...The language is growing increasingly dangerous, and this is why I take issue with the question being an absolute or a relative.
Yeh, genius?  I see BIGOTRY as an absolute.  Does that mean we agree?  

Well, for for example, ever since I came back to this town from TX 30yrs ago, I occasionally tend to encounter people who will speak only with glowing praise & love for people that I personally knew only for their wickedness....

Will I speak out & tell them they are wrong?
No.
I'll simply sit back & respect that knew a different side of them than I did......
Dissent shouldn't be shut down as it has been lately, but rather, room needs to be made for enlightenment.
It was a yes or no question.  
I think you are a fool.  Not because of your political opinions, but because I thought we were friends.  I think it is foolish to trash friendship.  I do not think trashing friendship is enlightened. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 25, 2021, 12:50:50 PM
...The language is growing increasingly dangerous, and this is why I take issue with the question being an absolute or a relative.
Yeh, genius?  I see BIGOTRY as an absolute.  Does that mean we agree?  

Well, for for example, ever since I came back to this town from TX 30yrs ago, I occasionally tend to encounter people who will speak only with glowing praise & love for people that I personally knew only for their wickedness....

Will I speak out & tell them they are wrong?
No.
I'll simply sit back & respect that knew a different side of them than I did......
Dissent shouldn't be shut down as it has been lately, but rather, room needs to be made for enlightenment.

You don't do it in public? Just on the intenet, then!

Because you scream "fake nooz" at anyone who disagrees with you.
Scream in ALL CAPS!  :bluesad:
Mellow out, man. Life goes on.  Unless you have a stroke by being so p**sed all the time.

Remember when you used to write about BAD movies? Remember that?  :bluesad:
Here's enlightenment-
Take it easy! It's a new day. It's a new world.
Live today- because tomorrow we die!
And I think that's from a movie.
A No-Prize for anyone who can tell me which one. Because I ain't sure.  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on January 25, 2021, 01:52:49 PM
The Bible, roughly: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%208%3A15&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%208%3A15&version=NKJV)

Quote
Ecclesiastes 8:15
New King James Version

15 So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

To avoid taking the above too much out-of-context:

Quote
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+12%3A13-14&version=NKJV

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
New King James Version
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:

Fear God and keep His commandments,
For this is man’s all.
14 For God will bring every work into judgment,
Including every secret thing,
Whether good or evil.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on January 25, 2021, 04:31:37 PM
...The language is growing increasingly dangerous, and this is why I take issue with the question being an absolute or a relative.
Yeh, genius?  I see BIGOTRY as an absolute.  Does that mean we agree? 

Well, for for example, ever since I came back to this town from TX 30yrs ago, I occasionally tend to encounter people who will speak only with glowing praise & love for people that I personally knew only for their wickedness....

Will I speak out & tell them they are wrong?
No.
I'll simply sit back & respect that knew a different side of them than I did......
Dissent shouldn't be shut down as it has been lately, but rather, room needs to be made for enlightenment.

You don't do it in public? Just on the intenet, then!

Because you scream "fake nooz" at anyone who disagrees with you.
Scream in ALL CAPS!  :bluesad:
Mellow out, man. Life goes on.  Unless you have a stroke by being so p**sed all the time.

Remember when you used to write about BAD movies? Remember that?  :bluesad:
Here's enlightenment-
Take it easy! It's a new day. It's a new world.
Live today- because tomorrow we die!
And I think that's from a movie.
A No-Prize for anyone who can tell me which one. Because I ain't sure.  :question:


The people I was talking about respecting were in reference to adults I knew as a child... These other people were adults at the time... Very long story... Spoon River, two sides to every coin, & so on & so forth....

And there was a time once when the people who spoke to me this way would do so online, but wouldn't do so in person, and it was mutual....
This changed in late 2017, when I was asked to volunteer at WRWK...
I was board opping for two angry talk show hosts who literally had NO IDEA what they were talking about, and after a short time, found myself having to pipe up...

One quickly realized she was in over her head & dropped out... The other realized she had to start reading up on what she was talking about, and quickly earned my respect, in spite of our opposing political views.
I even learned quite a few things that were wrong with the KeyStone Pipeline that the environmental crowd & the lamestream nooz didn't think were worth bothering with...
Point being, yes, I can be this way In public if necessary, and if necessary, I am willing to engage those I find unreasonable.
BUT, if a reasonable counterpoint is presented in a reasonable way, then I'm open to it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 26, 2021, 10:34:06 AM
^ as long as they agree with you.
Cerb- I think your a good guy, and your heart is in the right place, but I think you were hoodwinked by a pro con artist.
And don't believe all the bulls**t you read on internet chat rooms.
This is the age of Bulls**t. I stay off social media (except here and my Tumblr blog-shamless plug  :lookingup:)
I try to think for myself. Background noise don't help.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on January 26, 2021, 10:54:50 AM
^I'll just say, calling me names doesn't work.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 26, 2021, 11:05:02 AM
Today is TONY WILLIAMS birthday - Raffine


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 26, 2021, 11:18:48 AM
Today is TONY WILLIAMS birthday - Raffine.  

I know.  :bluesad:
He would have been almost a year older than me. I met him on the Classic Horror Film Board before I even joined this one. A very good man, and a fellow Monster Kid.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 26, 2021, 09:34:51 PM
Well, my AMC trade worked out a little better than I thought


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on January 26, 2021, 11:21:23 PM
Did you buy stocks or get a new car?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 27, 2021, 03:24:45 PM
the former


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on January 28, 2021, 07:13:04 PM
Crazy 4 Wednesdays this year: Jan 6 was the insurrection, Jan 13 was the impeachment, Jan 20 was the inauguration, and now Jan 27 was the common folk/Reddit taking on Wall Street.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on January 28, 2021, 07:25:32 PM
Fun Fact! Frozen dog poop hidden under three inches of snow can be amazingly sharp when you slide into it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on January 29, 2021, 01:19:35 PM
Talked to my mom today, she's sixty, and she said she's been getting eye-strain lately from reading off her phone at night, and I said, "Gee, Mom, sounds like you're finally feeling your thirties, huh?"

The woman's ability not to age just ain't natural. She'd never have survived a Puritan witch hunt.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on January 29, 2021, 02:30:27 PM
Fun Fact! Frozen dog poop hidden under three inches of snow can be amazingly sharp when you slide into it.
That’s not a fun fact; it’s more of a disgusting fact.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on January 30, 2021, 09:37:21 AM
Fun Fact! Frozen dog poop hidden under three inches of snow can be amazingly sharp when you slide into it.
That’s not a fun fact; it’s more of a disgusting fact.

It'd be fun to see Hitler sliding into it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on January 30, 2021, 02:57:43 PM
I volunteer at a food bank and I have to say, we're seeing more and more suburban middle-class families than ever coming in for help. Lately the need seems to have exploded.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on January 31, 2021, 01:21:44 PM
I volunteer at a food bank and I have to say, we're seeing more and more suburban middle-class families than ever coming in for help. Lately the need seems to have exploded.

It is amazing, isn't it?  I realize I'm fortunate.  I'm not hungry. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on January 31, 2021, 01:56:40 PM
I always have a stash of pinto  beans and rice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 06, 2021, 03:14:27 PM
Today is International "Have Ice Cream For Breakfast Day," and all I can say is, God bless whatever philanthrope thought that up!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 10, 2021, 09:00:37 PM
To my astonishment, McDonald's spicy nugget sauce actually is pretty hot.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 11, 2021, 04:58:33 PM
On the heels of him defining the theretofore unknown concept of a "brojob" for me last month, my twenty-one-year-old second cousin today explained to me what a demisexual is, which is something I find interesting. (It is basically someone who claims he or she must feel emotionally bonded with another person before sexual attraction can exist.) Is it usual to have someone half your age as your go-to person to inform you of what sexual terms mean?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on February 11, 2021, 07:59:18 PM
https://zombo.com/ is still online!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on February 11, 2021, 10:28:05 PM
Today at work I wanted to punch the main deli guy in the face......Did I say that work at a grocery store yet? Been there nearly a year.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 13, 2021, 10:56:28 AM
I was pondering something and even mentioned when I woke up this morning. If thinking about food can make you hungry, and thinking about sexual things can arouse you, and thinking about something funny can make you laugh, and thinking about something frightening can scare you, I wonder if anyone has ever done a study in which someone thinks intensely about exercise, and then measured to see if that has any effect on the subject’s metabolism and physique?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on February 14, 2021, 12:10:22 AM
"I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be ....you're gonna give your blood to me"

- vampire Buddy Holly


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 15, 2021, 11:57:47 AM
I hope everyone had a grand Valentine's Day, spent with your beloved squeeze, or at least your favorite b-movie sweetheart. We didn't go anywhere, wasn't feasible for a lot of reasons, plus I didn't want to, I'm away too often anyway, so I guess our old '00s tradition of going to the Hyatt Regency in Chicago for the holiday is just a memory, but it was still a sweet day spent with my family, waiting for the snow to fall, and I enjoyed it.

When I was in Catholic high school they used to tell us every year not to forget Valentine's Day began as a commemoration of when the Romans shot Saint Valentine full of arrows for....I dunno, not renouncing Christ or some such, and not to forget that when we celebrated the day, but that killjoy attitude always reminded me that religious celibates were sour-graping the rest of us who stood a chance of getting a romantic kiss on February 14th. (Something I was destined not to get til I was mid-way through their tyrannical hold anyway.)

So, may we all have the Valentine's Day we desire next year, in sweeter times.  :cheers:



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on February 17, 2021, 04:34:46 AM
I wonder what the correct term for the exact opposite of Renaissance man would be?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 17, 2021, 08:58:45 AM
I wonder what the correct term for the exact opposite of Renaissance man would be?
A "Dark Age Dude"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on February 17, 2021, 11:21:06 AM
I wonder why people don't spontaneous combust anymore. Is it because of junk food?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on February 17, 2021, 11:53:49 AM
I wonder why people don't spontaneous combust anymore. Is it because of junk food?

In December 2010, the death of Michael Faherty, a 76-year-old man in County Galway, Ireland, was recorded as "spontaneous combustion" by the coroner. The doctor, Ciaran McLoughlin, made this statement at the inquiry into the death: "This fire was thoroughly investigated and I'm left with the conclusion that this fits into the category of spontaneous human combustion, for which there is no adequate explanation."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on February 17, 2021, 12:02:06 PM
I wonder why people don't spontaneous combust anymore. Is it because of junk food?

In December 2010, the death of Michael Faherty, a 76-year-old man in County Galway, Ireland, was recorded as "spontaneous combustion" by the coroner. The doctor, Ciaran McLoughlin, made this statement at the inquiry into the death: "This fire was thoroughly investigated and I'm left with the conclusion that this fits into the category of spontaneous human combustion, for which there is no adequate explanation."

Ah ok. It just seems like this sort of thing doesn't happen as much anymore.

-edit to add-

Quote
Benjamin Radford, science writer and deputy editor of the science magazine Skeptical Inquirer, contends, "Faherty's case may not be as mysterious as it looks. There was, after all, an open fire close to his burned body. It seems likely that a spark or ember might have popped from the fire onto his clothing, and caught his clothing on fire. It's not clear why the coroner conclusively ruled this explanation out." Radford also casts doubt on the plausibility of spontaneous human combustion, "If SHC is a real phenomenon (and not the result of an elderly or infirm person being too close to a flame source), why doesn't it happen more often?"



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 17, 2021, 03:34:24 PM
In college I read a Skeptical Inquirer article that shot holes in the idea of spontaneous human combustion. I'm not saying TSI is the last word in every topic but I do think the researchers provided more reassuring theories than the unsettling idea that any of us could at any time erupt from the inside out in flames.

I agree though, SHC isn't something you heard about much anymore.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on February 17, 2021, 03:38:29 PM
It's not something happens every day. It happened then just as often as it does now, I reckon. How many times has this been reported to happen in the last 200 years?  I'm sure some sorry soul exploded into flames for some reason we don't understand. Charles Fort started documenting it in the 1920's.
My opinion on it? I have no clue why someone would burst into flames. One theory is it only happens to drunks.
I hope not! :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on February 17, 2021, 03:50:36 PM
It's not something happens every day. It happened then just as often as it does now, I reckon. How many times has this been reported to happen in the last 200 years?  I'm sure some sorry soul exploded into flames for some reason we don't understand. Charles Fort started documenting it in the 1920's.
My opinion on it? I have no clue why someone would burst into flames. One theory is it only happens to drunks.
I hope not! :buggedout:

Ha!!!!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on February 17, 2021, 09:44:29 PM
Been a crazy week in Texas.  Ice storm last Thursday shut down schools and roads for 2 days, then a snowstorm rolled in Saturday and Sunday, and another one last night - we're getting an unscheduled winter break!

Of course, having no running water at the house sucks, and being on intermittent power blackouts isn't much better.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on February 17, 2021, 09:51:26 PM
^ you folks ain't used to that , I reckon!
Ain't it groovy?  :cheers:

Put heat tape on your pipes. Buy lots of candles and blankets. That's what I do.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on February 18, 2021, 10:20:06 AM
My friend Joe Badon is getting harassed on Twitter by people who think he's Joe Biden.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on February 20, 2021, 02:23:04 PM
I been dog sick for the last 2 days. Sneezing, with a fever. I hadn't eaten or drank anything but water .  I feel better today.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 01, 2021, 01:21:34 PM
I think opinionated people suck.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 01, 2021, 01:24:11 PM
I think opinionated people suck.

I bet you give a good BJ then... :tongueout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 01, 2021, 04:04:10 PM
I think opinionated people suck.

I bet you give a good BJ then... :tongueout:
Aww, thanks, RC, but I'm sure you got good at it in prison yourself. :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 02, 2021, 05:29:45 AM
I noticed that our newest member is Massagetherapist. No sh1t! Now there's a sneaky scammer name!


PS. ER, my dear- I never been in prison.
County Jail- waaaay too many times. Just wanted to clarify that.  :drink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 02, 2021, 09:48:02 AM
Oh, sorry, RC.  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 02, 2021, 10:41:55 AM
County jail sucks for one main reason- the food is awful. They got a thing called meatloaf that is some type of mystery meat that would make a vending machine sandwhich look good. And that's the best part of it. Not butter. Even with oatmeal. We never got butter. Or real meat.Except when we got hot dogs. No mustard or ketchup. Just a hot dog and and bread. I am not joking. Jail sucks. Jail food is horrifying.
That is why I eat lunch meat and peanut butter to this day. You could buy a jar of peanut butter from commissary. I used it on everything, just to make it edible.
I swear to any God that may or may not exist this is true.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 03, 2021, 11:56:05 AM
Ever had one of those weeks where you want to tell your employer to shove the job and ride their grandma into town while they're at it? Yeah. Trouble is, my employer is tetchy about a lack of enthusiasm and I'm close to a graceful permanent exit. But what a week it's been.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 03, 2021, 12:02:35 PM
ER- It will be ok. I did tell my boss "f**k you!" because he said I couldn't have the afternoon off on Saturday- I was working overtime! I had a date! With a girl! So I walked out. I came in Monday and asked if I still had a job. They said yes. I was good at running f**king machines.
The point of this comment is- tell them 'f**k YOU'.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 03, 2021, 12:49:08 PM
Pretty sure when I reach the point where I know I can quit my job and get my pension all it will take is one bad day, and I'll be quitting. 28 months left until I reach it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 03, 2021, 05:41:28 PM
ER- It will be ok. I did tell my boss "f**k you!" because he said I couldn't have the afternoon off on Saturday- I was working overtime! I had a date! With a girl! So I walked out. I came in Monday and asked if I still had a job. They said yes. I was good at running f**king machines.
The point of this comment is- tell them 'f**k YOU'.

Thanks, RC!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 03, 2021, 05:43:06 PM
Pretty sure when I reach the point where I know I can quit my job and get my pension all it will take is one bad day, and I'll be quitting. 28 months left until I reach it.

Hang in there. You're so close you can almost see them in your rear view mirror.....



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on March 03, 2021, 08:24:28 PM
I'm just fortunate to have a job that I love so much I've never really wanted to tell them to stuff it!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 03, 2021, 10:41:03 PM
I like what I do lately, which is a whole lot of nothing. It's gets so boring I forget what day it is sometimes.

I used to drink a lot. I mean a real lot. Now that I'm retired, I smoke a lot of pot. Being as it's legal in Michigan, the price went way down, the quality went waaaay up.
I will smoke a couple of bowls and drink a milk glass of whiskey.
If they legalized weed in the 80's, I wouldn't be the shattered wreck of a man you see now!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 03, 2021, 10:49:21 PM
When I retire this summer,  I think I'll have another baby. How many women can make that statement, eh?  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 03, 2021, 10:57:38 PM
^ I dunno- I think a lot of people can get pregnant. :question:
Is this some kind of mysterious cabal s**t?

Joking ER- hey-go for it if that's where your heart takes you. :thumbup:

 EDIT: I just got  f**ked with. :bluesad: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 03, 2021, 11:00:53 PM
^ I dunno- I think a lot of people can get pregnant. :question:
Is this some kind of mysterious cabal s**t?

Joking ER- hey-go for it if that's where your heart takes you. :thumbup:
;-)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 03, 2021, 11:06:13 PM
Hardee har har!  :drink:

(https://i.imgur.com/RK91yc1.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 03, 2021, 11:16:39 PM
This morning I came home, mad at my employers, and took my kids shopping at this really, really big store. Big. Huge. As in you could fit airplane hangers inside this place and still have room for the cast of Riverdance to do a show for the assembled population of a small Canadian city.

I said to my kids, let's see what the weirdest thing we can buy here is. We passed by Turkish hookahs and frozen goat testicles, and rattlesnake jerky, and gluten-free lingenberry pop-tarts, and finally decided the weirdest thing in the store was butter made from Siberian reindeer milk. (Um, cream. Not milk.)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 03, 2021, 11:26:37 PM
^ that all sounds absolutly disgusting! Did you get some ice cream afterwards at least to wash it down?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 03, 2021, 11:51:40 PM
^ that all sounds absolutly disgusting! Did you get some ice cream afterwards at least to wash it down?  :question:

Actually, yeah, if shamrock shakes count.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 04, 2021, 12:03:10 AM
^ sounds better than goat nuts!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 04, 2021, 12:05:33 AM
^ sounds better than goat nuts!

No, no, no, we saw the goat-bits there but didn't buy them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 04, 2021, 12:16:02 AM
 We got a thing out here called mountain oysters. Pig balls.f**king insane. Why would I eat pig balls if I could just have a f**king peanut butter sandwhich?
Yes I know this is all babbling bulls**t... :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on March 04, 2021, 12:40:39 AM
How big was this store? Airplane hangers come in a variety of sizes.

Biggest store I’ve been in is probably an old Walmart Supercenter, one which they originally called Hypermart USA. Had a cool barrel arch from the entrances to the back of the store, going by memory.

Was it bigger than that? More than 250,000 sqft?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 04, 2021, 09:59:19 AM
How big was this store? Airplane hangers come in a variety of sizes.

Biggest store I’ve been in is probably an old Walmart Supercenter, one which they originally called Hypermart USA. Had a cool barrel arch from the entrances to the back of the store, going by memory.

Was it bigger than that? More than 250,000 sqft?

On the commercials they used to say, "....our sixteen acre wonderland..." However many square feet that works out to be, though it seems even bigger inside because it's labyrinthine.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 04, 2021, 10:03:41 AM
This morning I came home, mad at my employers, and took my kids shopping at this really, really big store. Big. Huge. As in you could fit airplane hangers inside this place and still have room for the cast of Riverdance to do a show for the assembled population of a small Canadian city.

I said to my kids, let's see what the weirdest thing we can buy here is. We passed by Turkish hookahs and frozen goat testicles, and rattlesnake jerky, and gluten-free lingenberry pop-tarts, and finally decided the weirdest thing in the store was butter made from Siberian reindeer milk. (Um, cream. Not milk.)

Was it Jungle Jim's?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 04, 2021, 10:16:00 AM
This morning I came home, mad at my employers, and took my kids shopping at this really, really big store. Big. Huge. As in you could fit airplane hangers inside this place and still have room for the cast of Riverdance to do a show for the assembled population of a small Canadian city.

I said to my kids, let's see what the weirdest thing we can buy here is. We passed by Turkish hookahs and frozen goat testicles, and rattlesnake jerky, and gluten-free lingenberry pop-tarts, and finally decided the weirdest thing in the store was butter made from Siberian reindeer milk. (Um, cream. Not milk.)

Was it Jungle Jim's?

T'was at that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 04, 2021, 10:32:37 AM
This morning I came home, mad at my employers, and took my kids shopping at this really, really big store. Big. Huge. As in you could fit airplane hangers inside this place and still have room for the cast of Riverdance to do a show for the assembled population of a small Canadian city.

I said to my kids, let's see what the weirdest thing we can buy here is. We passed by Turkish hookahs and frozen goat testicles, and rattlesnake jerky, and gluten-free lingenberry pop-tarts, and finally decided the weirdest thing in the store was butter made from Siberian reindeer milk. (Um, cream. Not milk.)

Was it Jungle Jim's?


T'was at that.

That place is legendary. I've never been but if I'm ever up that way I'm going to make it a point to stop in for goat testicles.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on March 04, 2021, 11:35:13 AM
16 acres is 696960sq ft, according to Bing.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 04, 2021, 02:42:56 PM
16 acres is 696960sq ft, according to Bing.
Math wiz as well as a fine crooner. Gotta love that in an icon.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 07, 2021, 12:07:02 AM
I'm a little tipsy right now. I rarely get tipsy anymore. It's nice.  :cheers:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on March 07, 2021, 11:50:09 AM
It seems like every Tuesday before work I shotgun two Alieves for my knee to not feel like it'll overstretch.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 07, 2021, 12:10:00 PM
It seems like every Tuesday before work I shotgun two Alieves for my knee to not feel like it'll overstretch.

I started taking MSM & Hyaluronic acid for mine.......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on March 08, 2021, 09:46:43 PM
I've been working at my store for nearly a year and I've been given a raise twice.  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 11, 2021, 11:36:54 PM
It's almost the Ides of March. I think I will go alone to his old apartment then and confront the waiting demon think about the past.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 13, 2021, 08:29:34 AM
My maternal grandmother has prayed so many rosaries in her long lifetime off by the ocean that she's worn calluses between her finger and thumb, and when I was little I used to ask if I could feel them, and she'd usually let me. I think she was proud of her calluses because she saw them as well-earned and  a sign of holiness.

Well last night I met my friend in her car for a minute because she wanted to give me something that came for me while I was away for a few days last week, and I touched her hand and she had this rough place on her right thumb which I asked about because I'd never noticed it, and she said lately she's developed a habit of stroking her thumb with her index finger and doing it so long that she's made a little line of rough skin on her thumb.

I asked her why she did that and she said maybe it was a nervous thing.

I said what, you? You're high-energy but what do you have to be nervous about?

She goes, "The welfare of other people."

Well, I guess I get that but still wearing your thumb hard by rubbing it is not helping anyone that much.

Then she said she worried about me all the time and said I have been a challenging friend to know but she loved me anyway, and I thought about that all night, she loves me but worries about me so much that I'm part of why she's begun a nervous habit that's rubbed her skin rough?

Is that sweet or troublesome?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 13, 2021, 08:36:24 AM
My thumb and forefinger of my right hand have deep yellow stains because I smoke too many cigarettes.
I'm a scary looking little bastard.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 14, 2021, 02:20:33 PM
I've concluded there's only one way I'll make kraken before the end of this year: bribe the hell out of Reverend Powell.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 15, 2021, 09:50:37 AM
Happy Ides of March, everyone! This is by far my favorite Ides of the whole year. Ayup.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 16, 2021, 12:45:25 PM
I totally did not encounter a single ghost alone yesterday at Brian's haunted apartment, and did not get demon possessed whatsoever, but I did keep Bob Larson's number on speed dial, just in case.

Everybody who knows I recently rented that place for a year just because he used to live there thinks I'm morbid, but it's not that, I just have a lot of good memories about it.

It didn't get spooky there at first, weeks back, when I first got it, and I wasn't thinking it would, it wasn't supposed to, but the last two times I was there before yesterday it felt like.....

I don't know what to say. It felt like it was not a good place for me to go. Truthfully it felt malevolent. I am sure if his sister went there with me she wouldn't feel that at all, which is just her happy nature but whether what I have felt there is in my head or something outside it, I have felt very uneasy there at times. Like: stand up, walk out fast, do not look behind you, do not ever go back. This is not a good place for you, and something is using that.

Yeah, it was like that.

Life is strange and some places don't seem to play by everyday rules.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 17, 2021, 06:39:13 AM
I stepped on many cracks, I never broke my Mama's back Or any one else's for that matter.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 17, 2021, 06:57:04 AM

Life is strange and some places don't seem to play by everyday rules.

That I will agree with. I seen ufos, I had poltergeist activity when I lived in that old shack in back of the Welch's factory.  It usta be a migrant house in the early 1900's. It had an outhouse out back. (we had plumbing inside.)
Everything on top of my fridge just went flying off. Cereal boxes. A mouse trap. A can of Ajax. Everything.
Sometimes in the middle of the night we (Me, Jed, Eddie, Leroy, and Corky) would wake up because it sounded like someone dropped a truck onto the roof. It shook the house. I loved that place. Big yard- acres of woods in the back. No neighbors breathing up your ass. But it had a habit of going on spooky binges once in a while.
I have no clue what to make of this kinda madness.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on March 17, 2021, 11:33:46 AM
it's been one year since I started working at the store I'm currently at, and there's very few people left that started that day to now that's still there.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on March 17, 2021, 11:55:10 AM
My doc gave me plant based sleeping pills to help me sleep. Took two last night and I slept 50% more than I usually do. Bonus: I've been sleep-drunkish with a I-don't-give-a-s**t attitude all day.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 17, 2021, 01:23:38 PM
^ I got plant based sleeping medicine! It's called pot and booze!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on March 17, 2021, 01:38:20 PM
^ I got plant based sleeping medicine! It's called pot and booze!
:bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 17, 2021, 02:07:57 PM
^ I got plant based sleeping medicine! It's called pot and booze!
:bouncegiggle:

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 17, 2021, 02:31:57 PM
I don't understand not embracing insomnia as part of existence, like getting kicked in the shins a certain number of allotted times before death. Sleep and I have ben quarreling for my whole life.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 17, 2021, 02:46:34 PM
^You need to take a nap man.
Nothing wrong with it.
Death is part of existence too, but I ain't eager to embrace it.

Taking a nap is part of existence too. It won't kill you. If you sleep very well, birds are chirping, you feel like mowing the lawn and cooking outside! :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 17, 2021, 02:48:18 PM
I never cared for Adric as a companion, but they did give him an awesome death scene that almost made him seem cool.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 17, 2021, 03:22:34 PM
^You need to take a nap man.
Nothing wrong with it.
Death is part of existence too, but I ain't eager to embrace it.

Taking a nap is part of existence too. It won't kill you. If you sleep very well, birds are chirping, you feel like mowing the lawn and cooking outside! :thumbup:

I just make insomnia work for me by doing things like flitting around the dark windows under a sheet, seeing if the neighbors come over to report a ghost.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 17, 2021, 05:29:55 PM
I never cared for Adric as a companion, but they did give him an awesome death scene that almost made him seem cool.

Adric's end was a gasper, absolutely. As a kid watching the show on PBS with my dad I was also gobsmacked when Peri died, but of course later that was explained away as an illusion, which was more a copout than a relief, I thought. Thinking she got killed after enduring all the bad stuff they did to her in that final episode made me go lie on my bed and stare at the ceiling a while.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on March 17, 2021, 09:39:25 PM
I don't understand not embracing insomnia as part of existence, like getting kicked in the shins a certain number of allotted times before death...

The only one whoever kicked me in my shin was myself. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 17, 2021, 10:24:07 PM
only good thing about insomnia, you eventually figure out where to find the best sandwich at four in the morning...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 17, 2021, 10:35:32 PM
Well, when I say embrace it, I mean lean into it. If it's there just get up and use the time. It happens to me a lot, oddly, when I'm the most tired, and I've gotten quite a few things done in my sleepless hours. Insomnia always sucks at least a little though. At least in my case it's more than being unable to sleep, insomnia has a definite feel to it. A tone. Like a brain disturbance.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 18, 2021, 12:29:22 AM
^ I get it. I have had a brain disturbance every other day of my life.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on March 18, 2021, 08:49:35 AM
^ I got plant based sleeping medicine! It's called pot and booze!

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Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 18, 2021, 11:22:44 AM
I'm not really sure how I feel about insomnia. I'll have to sleep on it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 23, 2021, 09:15:54 PM
Hard day today. I drove five hours each way to visit a former co-worker who was recently in a very bad aviation accident. He was handling it well on the surface, evincing that military toughness that seems part of the job, but he is lucky to be alive and has a long road of ahead of him, including more surgeries on top of several he's already had. In fact he's been in a VA facility for about five weeks and will be til summer, with a lot of physical therapy coming.

His take? "Yeah, it f**ked up my day, but at least I got a third Purple Heart out of the deal."

It was very hard seeing him in a wheelchair, but, hey, he was still himself and will live on.

And I'm glad I went.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 24, 2021, 12:29:13 PM
Got my tractor running for the first time this year! Put some fresh gas and dry gas in, got some starter fluid, charged the battery- pop! Just like new!  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 25, 2021, 06:40:22 PM
An Uber driver just thanked me for a tip I gave him almost a year ago.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on March 26, 2021, 06:02:58 AM
An Uber driver just thanked me for a tip I gave him almost a year ago.

Lester?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on March 26, 2021, 06:09:31 AM
Depression sucks.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 26, 2021, 07:50:10 AM
Depression sucks.  :bluesad:

Indeed. I thought you saw a doctor and got a prescription? Or am I remembering wrongly?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 26, 2021, 11:47:30 AM
Depression sucks.  :bluesad:

I know.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on March 26, 2021, 03:16:43 PM
Depression sucks.  :bluesad:

Indeed. I thought you saw a doctor and got a prescription? Or am I remembering wrongly?

I did, thanks Rev.

I am on three types of meds daily and the usual scenario pops up: the meds help for a while and then they start making me feel sicker than I was before I started taking them.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on March 26, 2021, 07:16:58 PM
Depression sucks.  :bluesad:

Indeed. I thought you saw a doctor and got a prescription? Or am I remembering wrongly?

I did, thanks Rev.

I am on three types of meds daily and the usual scenario pops up: the meds help for a while and then they start making me feel sicker than I was before I started taking them.  :bluesad:

An adjustment may be needed. Stay strong.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on March 27, 2021, 10:10:25 PM
Sprites are hard to draw...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 29, 2021, 01:00:29 PM
Sprites are hard to draw...

Other soda pops too, it looks like!

(https://i.imgur.com/mllmrx3.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on March 29, 2021, 10:15:41 PM
Mondays are my longest day of the week - I teach a full school day and then a night class, leaving home at 6:30- 7 AM and getting home around 9 PM.
But tonight I had a check in the mail from some settlement with Wells Fargo bank I'd never heard of.
$124 out of the blue!!  Gotta love "pennies from heaven!"


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on March 29, 2021, 10:56:01 PM
Is an 8x8 grid of tiles enough for a video game screen?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on March 30, 2021, 09:02:37 AM
My grandmother likes to mention something she calls "the dignity of silence."
Hmm.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on March 30, 2021, 10:50:51 PM
Hello all!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on March 31, 2021, 11:52:14 AM
Hello all!

Howdy, there!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on March 31, 2021, 12:00:38 PM
How you been doing, man?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on April 10, 2021, 06:06:20 AM
Ever notice on sit-coms nobody ever walks into an occupied room til exactly the second the conversation going on there wraps up?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 10, 2021, 01:37:20 PM
Ever notice on sit-coms nobody ever walks into an occupied room til exactly the second the conversation going on there wraps up?
Always wondered why I've never been able to have a well balanced & thoughtfully structured conversation with other people....

Y' ever notice whoever lives on the left side of the set lives in a brightly painted, well lit shoebox, while the people on the right side of the set live live in a rustic luxury suite, even though it's always the same building, on the same floor?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on April 11, 2021, 02:24:53 AM
So at this other forum I hang out a long time member passed away recently. Apparently he had been hospitalized since February, and from my understanding had covid and pneumonia. He posted a few updates on the forum about his condition up until two weeks before his passing in mid-March. He was only 33 years old.
I never had a conversation with him on the forum but he was well liked by those who did.
I don't know why but this is the kind of thing that shocks me more than any celebrity death. R.I.P.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on April 12, 2021, 12:36:44 PM
I just saw a junk email that read: A man can last 2.5 hours in bed doing this!

And I thought...um, sleep?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on April 12, 2021, 12:50:02 PM
Girl on id channel is stringing an old guy along, manipulates some other guy to kill him so she can get his money. All to feed her addiction to...bingo?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on April 16, 2021, 09:15:58 AM
Today is National Atheist Day.
It really is.
Every other day is people preaching to you it's something else.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on April 16, 2021, 11:04:12 AM
Is it really? Well Happy Atheist Day! I have met a few real atheists, but mostly "atheists" seem to be people who hate God, not disbelieve in God.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on April 19, 2021, 07:58:24 AM
If the '80s were the '50s reinvented, when do we get to re-do the '90s?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 19, 2021, 08:18:59 AM
...mostly "atheists" seem to be people who hate God, not disbelieve in God.

I've never encountered anyone who meets that description and I don't think it makes any sense. Now, a lot of atheists hate Christians, and maybe that even has something to do with them becoming atheists, but believing in God and hating him? I can't wrap my head around that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on April 19, 2021, 08:19:35 AM
If the '80s were the '50s reinvented, when do we get to re-do the '90s?
Today.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on April 19, 2021, 09:09:18 AM
Is it really? Well Happy Atheist Day! I have met a few real atheists, but mostly "atheists" seem to be people who hate God, not disbelieve in God.

No- I disbelieve in God.
I don't hate someone who doesn't exist.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on April 19, 2021, 10:48:00 AM
Is it really? Well Happy Atheist Day! I have met a few real atheists, but mostly "atheists" seem to be people who hate God, not disbelieve in God.

No- I disbelieve in God.
I don't hate someone who doesn't exist.

Then that makes you an atheist, RC. But I know a lot of people who say they are, who don't come off as atheists. In fact, let me say more in a second....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on April 19, 2021, 10:49:05 AM
...mostly "atheists" seem to be people who hate God, not disbelieve in God.

I've never encountered anyone who meets that description and I don't think it makes any sense. Now, a lot of atheists hate Christians, and maybe that even has something to do with them becoming atheists, but believing in God and hating him? I can't wrap my head around that.

I know RC thinks I never let ten words do when a few hundred might work as well,  :wink:  but what the heck, like eye color and addiction, it’s in my DNA…

I agree with you that atheism precludes a dislike of something a person is convinced isn’t there, Rev, but you really have never encountered the phenomenon of people who say they’re atheists but seem absolutely obsessed with hating God? That surprises me, because I have seen that a lot.

Oh, I get hating some Christians, I spent a lot of my younger days unfairly lumping a couple billion people in with the book burning Moral Majority sorts. I also understand anger toward God, and think it takes strong intellectual muscles to even subscribe to the idea an unseen God could possibly exist in a world so full of pain.

The concept of so many atheists hating God clicked with me long ago when I heard a George Orwell quote:

“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him….”

And when I heard that, I thought….Orwell was right, there are those sorts of atheists. And when I realized that, I noticed most people I knew who said they were atheists seemed to spend a lot of time hating this God they claimed wasn’t even there.

Like Penn Jillette (whom I like very much in general, by the way) he will take almost any chance to tell you there is no God, yet he also gleefully calls this being he doesn’t believe in a “prick” and some other things I probably shouldn’t type here. That’s anger.

Or the insightful XTC song Dear God, it concludes by saying “I don’t believe in you” only after addressing this supposedly non-existent personage and indicting it with a multitude of crimes. How can you indict “nothing” with “something”?

You can’t call yourself an atheist and have it both ways, maintaining God doesn’t exist, yet making God a legitimate target of anger. That’s like me blaming Santa for not bringing me that hair crimper when I was nine.

I do believe atheists exist and know some, usually get along fine with them, but I know a lot more angry sorts who do seem to hate God and then manifest that hatred in saying they don’t believe in God. (I also notice those types seem to be under a certain age, to be honest, and evolve away from that when they’re older. Go figure, eh?)

Slightly off topic but I married a man who is so apathetic about the question of God’s existence he genuinely does not care about the topic enough to try to define the word that best describes how he feels about God. He’ll go to church with his mom if she asks him for a special reason, and then walk out and not be able to tell you what the church service was about. But that’s another sort of person altogether, neither believer, nor agnostic, nor atheist. (I sometimes envy him….)

Lot of shades of color in white light.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on April 19, 2021, 10:59:58 AM
...mostly "atheists" seem to be people who hate God, not disbelieve in God.

I've never encountered anyone who meets that description and I don't think it makes any sense. Now, a lot of atheists hate Christians, and maybe that even has something to do with them becoming atheists, but believing in God and hating him? I can't wrap my head around that.

Don't know if this will help explain it or not, but this is my take on things. I have mentioned on other threads that I don't believe in god, but if I did, then I would hate him. When we lost Lilly-Beth we hadn't done anything wrong that caused that, it wasn't some incompatible genetics between myself and Kristi. It was just one of those things that unfortunately happen. If I were to believe in god, then there would be a reason that she'd died. It would be because he (or she or it or they or whatever) had decided it was going to happen. If I believed in god, then I'd have to accept that he murdered my child and there is no way I could respond to that with anything but hatred. Now generally the first responses I get to that line of thinking is that we just aren't capable of understanding a being as powerful as a god and that he has his reasons for these actions. Doesn't matter to me. If he exists, then it was his choice to create us that way and I am dealing with the limitations he gave us the best I can and I am responding the way I would to anything committing what I'd perceive as an evil act be they animal, man or god.

Anyway, hopefully, that gives you a view on a different perspective. Writing it has got me thinking on a tangent about how if our understanding of good and evil is imperfect, then what was the big deal about eating the apple anyway, but that's another topic.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on April 19, 2021, 11:15:20 AM
Alex, it may be as some people say that God has a plan and the loss of children fits into it. I don't know. I do suspect if one of my children died (the most horrible thing I can think of) I would feel hate for God.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 19, 2021, 11:38:02 AM
...mostly "atheists" seem to be people who hate God, not disbelieve in God.

I've never encountered anyone who meets that description and I don't think it makes any sense. Now, a lot of atheists hate Christians, and maybe that even has something to do with them becoming atheists, but believing in God and hating him? I can't wrap my head around that.

I know RC thinks I never let ten words do when a few hundred might work as well,  :wink:  but what the heck, like eye color and addiction, it’s in my DNA…

I agree with you that atheism precludes a dislike of something a person is convinced isn’t there, Rev, but you really have never encountered the phenomenon of people who say they’re atheists but seem absolutely obsessed with hating God? That surprises me, because I have seen that a lot.

Oh, I get hating some Christians, I spent a lot of my younger days unfairly lumping a couple billion people in with the book burning Moral Majority sorts. I also understand anger toward God, and think it takes strong intellectual muscles to even subscribe to the idea an unseen God could possibly exist in a world so full of pain.

The concept of so many atheists hating God clicked with me long ago when I heard a George Orwell quote:

“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him….”

And when I heard that, I thought….Orwell was right, there are those sorts of atheists. And when I realized that, I noticed most people I knew who said they were atheists seemed to spend a lot of time hating this God they claimed wasn’t even there.

Like Penn Jillette (whom I like very much in general, by the way) he will take almost any chance to tell you there is no God, yet he also gleefully calls this being he doesn’t believe in a “prick” and some other things I probably shouldn’t type here. That’s anger.

Or the insightful XTC song Dear God, it concludes by saying “I don’t believe in you” only after addressing this supposedly non-existent personage and indicting it with a multitude of crimes. How can you indict “nothing” with “something”?

You can’t call yourself an atheist and have it both ways, maintaining God doesn’t exist, yet making God a legitimate target of anger. That’s like me blaming Santa for not bringing me that hair crimper when I was nine.

I do believe atheists exist and know some, usually get along fine with them, but I know a lot more angry sorts who do seem to hate God and then manifest that hatred in saying they don’t believe in God. (I also notice those types seem to be under a certain age, to be honest, and evolve away from that when they’re older. Go figure, eh?)

Slightly off topic but I married a man who is so apathetic about the question of God’s existence he genuinely does not care about the topic enough to try to define the word that best describes how he feels about God. He’ll go to church with his mom if she asks him for a special reason, and then walk out and not be able to tell you what the church service was about. But that’s another sort of person altogether, neither believer, nor agnostic, nor atheist. (I sometimes envy him….)

Lot of shades of color in white light.


No, I can't say I've personally ever encountered the phenomenon Orwell is talking about, though of course some people would meet that definition. I've never seen Penn Gillette as angry at God, though I don't really follow him. I don't interpret the XTC song as being angry at God, either. It's a reductio ad absurdum on the problem of evil: let's hypothetically accept that God exists. If so, he endorses killing babies and mass starvation and all sorts of suffering. Therefore, I don't believe in him.

My high school girlfriend once insisted that I believed in God despite me telling her I didn't. I believe she was probably threatened by the possibility that everyone didn't deep down believe in God. Therefore, she needed to believe I was just in denial about my own belief. Of course, I can't know her mind.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on April 19, 2021, 01:55:05 PM
...I know RC thinks I never let ten words do when a few hundred might work as well…

He ain't the only one.  


I agree with you that atheism precludes a dislike of something a person is convinced isn’t there, Rev, but you really have never encountered the phenomenon of people who say they’re atheists but seem absolutely obsessed with hating God? That surprises me, because I have seen that a lot.

Oh, I get hating some Christians, I spent a lot of my younger days unfairly lumping a couple billion people in with the book burning Moral Majority sorts. I also understand anger toward God, and think it takes strong intellectual muscles to even subscribe to the idea an unseen God could possibly exist in a world so full of pain.

The concept of so many atheists hating God clicked with me long ago when I heard a George Orwell quote:

“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him….”

And when I heard that, I thought….Orwell was right, there are those sorts of atheists. And when I realized that, I noticed most people I knew who said they were atheists seemed to spend a lot of time hating this God they claimed wasn’t even there.
 
 :question: If that's an ORWELL quote about whom was he speaking?  Himself?


Like Penn Jillette (whom I like very much in general, by the way) he will take almost any chance to tell you there is no God, yet he also gleefully calls this being he doesn’t believe in a “prick” and some other things I probably shouldn’t type here. That’s anger.

Or the insightful XTC song Dear God, it concludes by saying “I don’t believe in you” only after addressing this supposedly non-existent personage and indicting it with a multitude of crimes. How can you indict “nothing” with “something”?

You can’t call yourself an atheist and have it both ways, maintaining God doesn’t exist, yet making God a legitimate target of anger. That’s like me blaming Santa for not bringing me that hair crimper when I was nine.

I do believe atheists exist and know some, usually get along fine with them, but I know a lot more angry sorts who do seem to hate God and then manifest that hatred in saying they don’t believe in God...
 

You undermine your own argument when you suggest "intellectual muscles" are necessary.  Hell yes.  


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on April 19, 2021, 04:41:37 PM
Sometimes an Atheist is an atheist because they hates God. Sometimes it's because they read the Bible. Sometimes it's because they see the Church turn people into a cult (a la Televangelists). Sometimes a priest turns someone in need away. And sometimes it's because the people in their family claims to be Christian/Catholic/whatever and goes against what they either believe in or go against what they read.Bottom line is that not every Atheist hates God, sometimes it's the surroundings/people that does.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on April 19, 2021, 04:44:39 PM
...I know RC thinks I never let ten words do when a few hundred might work as well…

He ain't the only one.  


I agree with you that atheism precludes a dislike of something a person is convinced isn’t there, Rev, but you really have never encountered the phenomenon of people who say they’re atheists but seem absolutely obsessed with hating God? That surprises me, because I have seen that a lot.

Oh, I get hating some Christians, I spent a lot of my younger days unfairly lumping a couple billion people in with the book burning Moral Majority sorts. I also understand anger toward God, and think it takes strong intellectual muscles to even subscribe to the idea an unseen God could possibly exist in a world so full of pain.

The concept of so many atheists hating God clicked with me long ago when I heard a George Orwell quote:

“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him….”

And when I heard that, I thought….Orwell was right, there are those sorts of atheists. And when I realized that, I noticed most people I knew who said they were atheists seemed to spend a lot of time hating this God they claimed wasn’t even there.
 
 :question: If that's an ORWELL quote about whom was he speaking?  Himself?


Like Penn Jillette (whom I like very much in general, by the way) he will take almost any chance to tell you there is no God, yet he also gleefully calls this being he doesn’t believe in a “prick” and some other things I probably shouldn’t type here. That’s anger.

Or the insightful XTC song Dear God, it concludes by saying “I don’t believe in you” only after addressing this supposedly non-existent personage and indicting it with a multitude of crimes. How can you indict “nothing” with “something”?

You can’t call yourself an atheist and have it both ways, maintaining God doesn’t exist, yet making God a legitimate target of anger. That’s like me blaming Santa for not bringing me that hair crimper when I was nine.

I do believe atheists exist and know some, usually get along fine with them, but I know a lot more angry sorts who do seem to hate God and then manifest that hatred in saying they don’t believe in God...
 

You undermine your own argument when you suggest "intellectual muscles" are necessary.  Hell yes.  


And yet you still read everything I write, John.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on April 19, 2021, 05:38:32 PM
...And yet you still read everything I write, John.  :bouncegiggle:
Of course, your writing can be interesting. 
Now can you respond to my ORWELL question? 
And perhaps you see no value in my pointing out what you presumably know: considering the supernatural takes some mental gymnastics. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on April 19, 2021, 06:03:55 PM
Source for that quote: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00000527 (https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00000527)

Comes from one of Orwell’s novels; if anyone can find a copy we can have the context & make a guess about who he refers to.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on April 19, 2021, 08:29:27 PM
Source for that quote: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00000527 (https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00000527)

Comes from one of Orwell’s novels; if anyone can find a copy we can have the context & make a guess about who he refers to.
Thank you; I construed as much.  I am not interested in an answer.  I am interested in her answer.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 20, 2021, 03:30:14 PM
IMDB reviewers crack me up. xbxfrk calls IN THE EARTH "Genuinely the worst movie I've ever seen." Rates it 2/10.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on April 27, 2021, 12:23:42 PM
The train just passed threw Lawton. I love that sound.  :smile:
 It's 1:15 in the afternoon. Smells like rain. Everything is quite, it's 72 F., and the train horn is blowing.
It's good to be alive.



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on April 28, 2021, 04:14:19 AM
Just left a Facebook Disco group that rejected my submission of Gloria by Laura Braningan. They said it is not disco.
Well, its not disco in a classic 1970s way but it is still disco. It's the most disco sounding song released in 1982 and already sounded "disco-dated" back then. It's a cover of a 1979 Italian disco song. It uses the same arrangements and beats, only the lyrics were changed to English.
Branigan's version is not even Post-Disco. It's just a 1:1 cover of the 1979 original that happen to be released in 1982.

But ok, fine, whatever.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on April 28, 2021, 08:51:31 AM
^I feel the same way about Blondie... Everybody else says they're punk, but I think they're disco^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on April 30, 2021, 05:15:50 PM
Some guy named Larry Kudlow is warning us about "plant based beer" on Fox news-

"So get ready: You can throw back a plant-based beer with your grilled Brussels sprouts and wave your American flag. Call it July 4 green," Kudlow said.

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9og9f44skiE#)

Yeah. As opposed to meat based beer?
ALL beer is plant based , moron!  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Bushma on May 04, 2021, 07:00:34 PM
Just had to share this.

I was talking with my daughter and she said "We should watch the good Troll movie."
I asked "Which one?"
She said "The good one."
I asked "Which one?"
She said "The good one.  The one with the witch?"
I asked "Troll 2?"
She said "I guess so."

I'm so proud!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on May 05, 2021, 12:25:13 PM
Some loser called me on the phone trying to pull a medicare scam on me. I told him I was Bela Lugosi. And was doing a Lugosi imitation. He started calling me Mr.Bela! I continued f**king with him- he was asking me where I was born- (I told him "I am from Hungary- but NOW I am American!"  :bouncegiggle:
, and even when I got tired of it and said to him , when he asked if he could call me back, I told him to ask for Count Dracula.
He had no clue what I was talking about.  :bouncegiggle:
"Dracula?"
" Yeeees."
"Mr. Dracula-"
...and I bust out laughing and hung up!
Made my day!  :twirl:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on May 11, 2021, 07:02:20 PM
It is 02:00 am and it is raining and a bit chilly. Heading to bed soon to enjoy it better  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 12, 2021, 11:23:17 PM
There tends to be a new song every now & then about "The Writing On The Wall", as well as songs about the need to read it, or or the need to learn "how" to read & understand it, etc., yet, the only song I really know about the author of said writing, is by The Coasters, which is about a justifiably unappreciated high school miscreant who won't accept responsibility for his behavior....................


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on May 13, 2021, 01:05:17 AM
youtube blocked a music video for me in Europe because the video is owned by a European record company. Makes sense.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on May 13, 2021, 05:02:53 PM
There tends to be a new song every now & then about "The Writing On The Wall", as well as songs about the need to read it, or or the need to learn "how" to read & understand it, etc., yet, the only song I really know about the author of said writing, is by The Coasters, which is about a justifiably unappreciated high school miscreant who won't accept responsibility for his behavior....................

You do know that the phrase "the writing on the wall" comes from the Biblical book of Daniel, right?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 13, 2021, 06:15:59 PM
^Another thing they don't teach you in school^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on May 13, 2021, 09:51:05 PM
^Another thing they don't teach you in school^

My students know.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 13, 2021, 10:02:07 PM
^Yeah, but you teach college.^
^BTW, can you name any other popular rock songs about said author, or am I to assume Charlie Brown by The Coasters is really about The Book Of Daniel?^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on May 17, 2021, 01:38:23 PM
I think it is funny that Italian Chefs are not familiar with cheddar cheese. They are suspicious of the orange color.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on May 17, 2021, 02:30:01 PM
I think it is funny that Italian Chefs are not familiar with cheddar cheese. They are suspicious of the orange color.

If it's not Parmesan, it wouldn't be Italian...........
Or Mozzarella........
I think it depends on whether they come from the North of Italy or the South of Italy.............................


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on May 17, 2021, 05:52:39 PM
I just bought a concert ticket to a metal concert in October. Freaking excited to go.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on May 17, 2021, 08:40:59 PM
Been a nice few days.

Watched our senior class graduate Friday night; always a poignant moment as my young Eagles leave the nest!
Went to the river Saturday and found one of my favorite spots with no footprints since the last rise; came home with a hatful of fossils and arrowheads;  then went to an end-of-the-school-year picnic and jamboree and got to hang with my students and their families for a couple of hours, eating burgers and brats and playing various games.  Slept like a log Saturday night, church Sunday was nice, went out to eat and got an extra appetizer for free after the waitress made a mistake on our order.  Came home, had some snuggle time with the wife, shredded a couple of boss fights on DS3, and watched the season finale of THE NEVERS, a TV show that really turned out to be quite amazing.  Today was my last full day of school, and tonight I went and watched my sweet little 8th graders graduate and become high schoolers.

Sometimes, life is pretty sweet.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on May 18, 2021, 02:33:44 AM
I mowed the lawn the other day for he first time this year.  :thumbup:

Nothing makes an old man happier than driving a tractor around the yard.  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 18, 2021, 06:21:08 AM
I just bought a concert ticket to a metal concert in October. Freaking excited to go.

Who are you going to see? Decided to take a chance and pick up tickets for Alestorm, Gloryhammer and Aether Realm when they go on tour in December in the hope that covid doesn't cause them to get cancelled.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on May 18, 2021, 09:23:36 AM
I think it is funny that Italian Chefs are not familiar with cheddar cheese. They are suspicious of the orange color.

That's probably why my pizza slice tasted funny when I was there in 2002  :tongueout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on May 18, 2021, 02:17:29 PM
I just bought a concert ticket to a metal concert in October. Freaking excited to go.

Who are you going to see? Decided to take a chance and pick up tickets for Alestorm, Gloryhammer and Aether Realm when they go on tour in December in the hope that covid doesn't cause them to get cancelled.
Gojira, Knocked Loose, and Alien Weaponry.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on May 28, 2021, 01:26:54 PM
I think my D&D group are going to end up executing one of their number.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on June 07, 2021, 05:31:07 PM
If Dirty Harry encountered some friendly neighborhood vigilante who runs out onto his front lawn wit a Magnum Research BFR .45-70, Harry tells him to go back inside & mr vigilante does, I wonder if he'd spend the rest of the movie wondering around with pistol envy......

Bet it would've made an interesting episode of Sledge Hammer! (1986-1988)..........


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on June 08, 2021, 08:21:24 PM
Perhaps, somewhere on this vast plane of imagination, within someone’s personal library of books & movies, Winston Smith & Travis Bickle may have an encounter…
Maybe they’d exchange diaries, read each other’s novels, and watch each other’s movies….

But what if they tried to sneak into each other’s stories?
I can imagine each having something the other desires, yet having a lot in common…
I could certainly picture Travis disguising himself a as the Thought Police so he could sneaking into the Ministry of Love so he could watch Winston & Julia upstairs from the curio shop…
And then, maybe through some editing mistake, or perhaps Travis makes a wrong turn getting leaving Winston’s story, the big .44 magnum Travis drops in his own story ends up in the stairwell of Winston’s apartment……  Then what?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on June 10, 2021, 10:33:25 PM
I wonder if it would be possible to bring back the Western...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on June 10, 2021, 11:58:27 PM
Trying to imagine a scenario where AMC's stock price actually makes sense:
hackers attacked all streaming services
all pro athletes got some new form of covid

so the only thing we could do to entertain ourselves was... go to movies


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on June 11, 2021, 12:06:56 PM
^Funny how it was the other way around....^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 14, 2021, 12:50:20 PM
Dam, it's dead around here, lately!

(https://i.imgur.com/WgqErkP.gif) (https://lunapic.com)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on June 14, 2021, 01:21:35 PM
Do you know what cartoon that's from?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on June 14, 2021, 02:38:25 PM
Do you know what cartoon that's from?


http://youtu.be/OipRhmy38TA (http://youtu.be/OipRhmy38TA)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on June 15, 2021, 12:05:46 PM
The name Claude keeps messing me up with how it rhymes with both Maude and road.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 15, 2021, 12:23:37 PM
On another forum, someone was literally arguing that one brand of table salt tasted better than another brand.  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 21, 2021, 03:17:20 PM
I've seen 3 out of 4 movies Screamin' Jay Hawkins appeared in.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on June 28, 2021, 08:41:25 PM
My mind feels like mush.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on June 28, 2021, 10:21:40 PM
The name Claude keeps messing me up with how it rhymes with both Maude and road.

Claude ryhmes with road? Toad, choad, mode, but Claude?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 01, 2021, 06:46:00 PM
Had to look it up, double check, but.......




It just occurred to me; All of the lunar landings occurred during the Nixon Administration.................


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 01, 2021, 06:54:35 PM
Well, everyone during the 70's was spaced out, man!

(https://i.imgur.com/vLMFJMY.gif) (https://lunapic.com)

A free old 1960's monster magazine to whoever guesses what this gif is from!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 02, 2021, 01:57:40 AM
Space: 1999, the second season. Got every episode on DVD.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on August 02, 2021, 09:29:37 PM
I can get used to waking up and looking out at the Gulf of Mexico.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 03, 2021, 08:04:58 AM
Space: 1999, the second season. Got every episode on DVD.

Yes it is! Send me your address, and I'm mail you out an old monster mag!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 03, 2021, 08:06:08 AM
I can get used to waking up and looking out at the Gulf of Mexico.

Unless, of course, it's hurricane season.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on August 03, 2021, 10:20:00 AM
I can get used to waking up and looking out at the Gulf of Mexico.

Unless, of course, it's hurricane season.
I'm used to dealing with hurricanes. Cat 1 and cat 2 hurricanes don't bother me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 03, 2021, 11:19:39 AM
Tiana told me she had a dream about animals attacking humans- including- dig this- turkey skeletons!  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on August 03, 2021, 11:32:38 AM
Well, everyone during the 70's was spaced out, man!

(https://i.imgur.com/vLMFJMY.gif) (https://lunapic.com)

A free old 1960's monster magazine to whoever guesses what this gif is from!

I'll never forget that one Space 1999 episode with the horrible monster in the door  :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 03, 2021, 11:38:04 AM
I watched it every week in the 70's. Cushing and Lee co- starred!  :thumbup:
I loved that show.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 06, 2021, 12:50:24 PM
I've heard people worrying about computers being able to design better computers themselves (and I guess this includes robots) and they worry that this is one of the things that would eventually lead to some sort of Terminator-esque future where we get wiped out.

I wonder what would happen if instead, they were designing better biological beings instead?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on August 06, 2021, 01:51:22 PM
I've heard people worrying about computers being able to design better computers themselves (and I guess this includes robots) and they worry that this is one of the things that would eventually lead to some sort of Terminator-esque future where we get wiped out.

I wonder what would happen if instead, they were designing better biological beings instead?
Scientists have suggested that we should make computers based on DNA or other biological chemicals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_computing


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on August 07, 2021, 09:21:53 PM
I tried a hot sauce made with Carolina Reaper peppers
My tongue feels burnt.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on August 11, 2021, 10:20:51 PM
It always cracks me up when Incels post "most attractive female anime/cartoon character" threads on message boards. How desperate are you?  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 11, 2021, 10:51:02 PM
It always cracks me up when Incels post "most attractive female anime/cartoon character" threads on message boards. How desperate are you?  :bouncegiggle:


http://youtu.be/N74k6Eu1guU (http://youtu.be/N74k6Eu1guU)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 12, 2021, 12:04:32 AM
Gee- I could get a blow job from some crackhead whore in an ally in any city in the USA .
I don't do it, because I don't have to.
Even if I couldn't have sex with another person-I would not jerk off to a cartoon. Ever. Uless it was Bugs Bunny dressed like a girl Bugs Bunny. Yes I would hit that.
Otherwise I will not jerk off to a f**king cartoon.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on August 12, 2021, 12:26:34 AM
It always cracks me up when Incels post "most attractive female anime/cartoon character" threads on message boards. How desperate are you?  :bouncegiggle:

I assume a video? I don't have adobe flash player Installed anymore so all I get is an empty space.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 12, 2021, 04:22:20 PM
Hearing that there has been a mass shooting in Plymouth. I know some people from there (and they all seem to be fine). I believe the gunman has been shot. Fortunately, such events are rare in the U.K. and my thoughts are with those who have lost someone during this.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on August 13, 2021, 04:13:16 AM
Gee- I could get a blow job from some crackhead whore in an ally in any city in the USA .
I don't do it, because I don't have to.
Even if I couldn't have sex with another person-I would not jerk off to a cartoon. Ever. Uless it was Bugs Bunny dressed like a girl Bugs Bunny. Yes I would hit that.
Otherwise I will not jerk off to a f**king cartoon.


 :buggedout: :buggedout: +  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 13, 2021, 06:52:24 PM
Plain m&ms: why?  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 13, 2021, 07:13:32 PM
Plain m&ms: why?  :question:

Candy doesn't have to have a point!  :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on August 14, 2021, 09:15:39 AM
Plain m&ms: why?  :question:
People in the Spanish Civil War wanted chocolate, but it would melt. So someone decided to coat it in melted sugar. That worked.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 14, 2021, 06:21:38 PM
Plain m&ms: why?  :question:

Candy doesn't have to have a point!  :teddyr: :teddyr:

If it did that would be cool! Because if someone attacked you while you're eating candy you could stab them with it!

The best part would be while they're life force is leaking all over the place, you can lap up the blood like an animal!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 14, 2021, 06:47:40 PM
Plain m&ms: why?  :question:

Candy doesn't have to have a point!  :teddyr: :teddyr:

If it did that would be cool! Because if someone attacked you while you're eating candy you could stab them with it!

The best part would be while they're life force is leaking all over the place, you can lap up the blood like an animal!  :thumbup:

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on August 14, 2021, 09:24:45 PM
Looking out the window at 04:00 am seeing an Ambulance slowly driving by made me curios enough to walk to the next room's window to see where the Ambulance was heading. They made a turn into another street. Damn I'm so nosy.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on August 16, 2021, 11:31:33 AM
With a time machine, I might try to keep a search engine monopoly from forming. Convince excite to buy Google. That way Google would've been shut down when excite@Home went bankrupt, & we'd...have a search engine monopoly owned by Inktomi.

Rats.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 18, 2021, 01:00:30 PM
Tiana's Ma just died.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 18, 2021, 01:20:06 PM
With a time machine, I might try to keep a search engine monopoly from forming. Convince excite to buy Google. That way Google would've been shut down when excite@Home went bankrupt, & we'd...have a search engine monopoly owned by Inktomi.

Rats.

Steal google's code and form a company before they do. If ya can't beat them, take their idea.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 18, 2021, 01:21:11 PM
Tiana's Ma just died.

Sorry to hear that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on August 18, 2021, 01:21:34 PM
Tiana's Ma just died.

My Condolences  :bluesad:



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on August 18, 2021, 01:43:07 PM
I never understood the "Promo Only" on some music videos in the 1980s. They made music videos to promote the artist and their music, right? For example, White Lion's music video for "Wait" had a "Promo Only" disclaimer, yet the single was available everywhere for purchase. So what was the point?



Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on August 18, 2021, 02:52:02 PM
I never understood the "Promo Only" on some music videos in the 1980s. They made music videos to promote the artist and their music, right? For example, White Lion's music video for "Wait" had a "Promo Only" disclaimer, yet the single was available everywhere for purchase. So what was the point?



I used to deal quite a bit with record companies here in the early 1990s and a lot of the vinyls and tapes we got had PROMO ONLY labels on them: I asked about them and was told they were not for sale and were slightly different to the release versions, leaving me more confused than normal.  :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on August 18, 2021, 03:41:56 PM
I never understood the "Promo Only" on some music videos in the 1980s. They made music videos to promote the artist and their music, right? For example, White Lion's music video for "Wait" had a "Promo Only" disclaimer, yet the single was available everywhere for purchase. So what was the point?



I used to deal quite a bit with record companies here in the early 1990s and a lot of the vinyls and tapes we got had PROMO ONLY labels on them: I asked about them and was told they were not for sale and were slightly different to the release versions, leaving me more confused than normal.  :question:

I used to have Imported "Promo Only" 12-Inch vinyls from the U.S. They didn't differ from the regular or album versions. Beside vinyls I know record labels in America served radio stations "Promo Only" cassette tapes including 3-5 songs from an Album. Radio DJs would give each song a 15 second listen and then decide which one to play. That sort of made sense.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 18, 2021, 05:16:31 PM
I never understood the "Promo Only" on some music videos in the 1980s. They made music videos to promote the artist and their music, right? For example, White Lion's music video for "Wait" had a "Promo Only" disclaimer, yet the single was available everywhere for purchase. So what was the point?



I used to deal quite a bit with record companies here in the early 1990s and a lot of the vinyls and tapes we got had PROMO ONLY labels on them: I asked about them and was told they were not for sale and were slightly different to the release versions, leaving me more confused than normal.  :question:

I used to have Imported "Promo Only" 12-Inch vinyls from the U.S. They didn't differ from the regular or album versions. Beside vinyls I know record labels in America served radio stations "Promo Only" cassette tapes including 3-5 songs from an Album. Radio DJs would give each song a 15 second listen and then decide which one to play. That sort of made sense.

Maybe it's so the people who get the promotional copies won't resell them for a profit. Like how all the screeners I get from studios are watermarked and contain notices saying things like "for review only."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on August 18, 2021, 05:22:15 PM
Tiana's Ma just died.
Sorry. Will pray for y’all.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on August 18, 2021, 05:28:01 PM
With a time machine, I might try to keep a search engine monopoly from forming. Convince excite to buy Google. That way Google would've been shut down when excite@Home went bankrupt, & we'd...have a search engine monopoly owned by Inktomi.

Rats.


Steal google's code and form a company before they do. If ya can't beat them, take their idea.
No need to steal it; they posted their page-rank algorithm online: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html)

They didn’t even own it; they developed it as a project for graduate school, & till a few years ago ther were still paying Stanford royalties.

Of course you can’t just take the original paper, implement it, & have your own Google; they’ve got about 20 years of development on you.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 19, 2021, 01:28:12 AM
With a time machine, I might try to keep a search engine monopoly from forming. Convince excite to buy Google. That way Google would've been shut down when excite@Home went bankrupt, & we'd...have a search engine monopoly owned by Inktomi.

Rats.


Steal google's code and form a company before they do. If ya can't beat them, take their idea.
No need to steal it; they posted their page-rank algorithm online: [url]http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html[/url] ([url]http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html[/url])

They didn’t even own it; they developed it as a project for graduate school, & till a few years ago ther were still paying Stanford royalties.

Of course you can’t just take the original paper, implement it, & have your own Google; they’ve got about 20 years of development on you.


Did you forget about your time machine? You'd be using it before they'd even started.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on August 19, 2021, 07:57:36 AM
^ :bouncegiggle:

True... True...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 19, 2021, 09:40:34 AM
If you started referring to anti-vaxxers and Antiva, you'd cause some serious confusion.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 20, 2021, 09:14:41 PM
Hoo boy.  :bluesad:
I think Claws quit because I don't like the Menendez brothers?

He asked opinions. I gave one- he got p**sed and quit? WTF?

I'm sorry I p**sed you off, Claws.
Why would you quit over 2 rich guys who shot there parents?
They were not children when they shot them. They were adults.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 20, 2021, 10:13:50 PM
^Not going to go into one of my tangents as to why, just gonna say it always has been a pretty convoluted issue...^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on August 20, 2021, 10:26:38 PM
...Maybe it's so the people who get the promotional copies won't resell them for a profit. Like how all the screeners I get from studios are watermarked and contain notices saying things like "for review only."

That is definitely correct. 


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 21, 2021, 08:31:05 AM
Hoo boy.  :bluesad:
I think Claws quit because I don't like the Menendez brothers?

He asked opinions. I gave one- he got p**sed and quit? WTF?

I'm sorry I p**sed you off, Claws.
Why would you quit over 2 rich guys who shot there parents?
They were not children when they shot them. They were adults.

I hope he comes back.  :bluesad: I think he's quit before and come back.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 21, 2021, 06:32:12 PM
If there was, like, all these guys who wear there baseball caps backwards, what d' y' suppose they'd do, if all the makers of baseball caps decided overnight to only make deerstalker caps????????????

 :question: :question: :question: :question: :question:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: pacman000 on August 21, 2021, 06:56:55 PM
Wear their caps sideways.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on August 24, 2021, 03:18:55 PM
Someone wrote how the real miracle of Jesus was that he was able to keep in touch with 12 close friends in his 30's.

The first answer to it was "Well, 11."


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 24, 2021, 05:03:22 PM
If Jesus were on earth today, I don't think he would eat M&M's.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 25, 2021, 01:18:27 PM
Is there a specific word for when someone runs film forward, then backward, then forward again to make someone appear like they're dancing?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on August 26, 2021, 12:05:24 AM
Is there a specific word for when someone runs film forward, then backward, then forward again to make someone appear like they're dancing?

Trevoreditor  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on August 26, 2021, 07:07:25 PM
PRESIDENT HAMILTON got its first one star review today.
Can't please everybody, I guess.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:40:40 AM
Because it rhymes with elephant.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:41:17 AM
The novelization of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is very enjoyable, about on a level with good fan fiction, and slightly irritating in that Tarantino chose to emphasize some aspects of the onscreen story and the backstories of the characters, while completely skipping past huge onscreen moments, including the main event at the end. Why?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:41:53 AM
Earlier in the summer I wanted to get a closer view of some baby herons at a riverside nesting site, so instead of taking a path to get close to them and risk disturbing the parents, I scaled down a pretty decent size cliff, and when I was mid-way to the bottom I realized what a bad idea that was. I made it but I don’t think I will be doing that twice.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:42:57 AM
For most of the year my son and I (mostly just us) have been building a solstice-sunrise aligned thirteen-stone henge in a clearing in our woods. I hope we confuse the heck out of future archaeologists.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:43:32 AM
The bad part about cooking Indian food is no matter what you do you smell the spices on your hands for a couple days after. That’s also the best part.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:44:56 AM
Wanna hear something odd? (If your answer is no, then stop reading.) I used to be friends, and then later….well, not friends, sadly, with this woman across the country at whose house I used to stay sometimes, and I found out she died a couple months ago at age forty-three, and---here is the weird part---the medical examiners were unable to make a ruling on how she died. They ruled out a lot of things, but in the end, even in this day and age, her cause of death was listed as undetermined, which rarely happens in the United States in the 21st century. Her niece said it best: “It’s like life just suddenly left her body.”


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:45:36 AM
I went to an outdoor concert the other night, first I’ve been to in….gee lemme think….uh, since 2020? And you know what I figured out? It’s sometimes more fun to watch the bats overhead chase moths in the lights than it is to stare at the performers on-stage bashing at their guitars.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:46:30 AM
I have a theory that George R.R. Martin truly is a sadist (for supporting evidence consider the material he writes into his books), and is getting his ultimate sadist jollies by making the world wait so long on the next ASOFAI novel.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:47:06 AM
I was in Washington DC last month, and bought a Marine I was with a sno-cone. On other occasions that week I’d tried to buy him nacho fries, pizza, and an off-duty beer, but he always said, “No thank you, ma’am.” I know it was a hot evening but I wonder why a sno-cone was what finally changed his mind?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:47:50 AM
I used to know a man who lived on the Gulf coast of Mississippi, and in the 2000s a hurricane hit his home town hard, but you know what he said? “A small price to pay for living in paradise.” Good outlook, that. Shame his girlfriend later killed him.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:49:11 AM
I think Worf is my favorite Star Trek character of all time because what he doesn't have figured out, he doesn't worry about unless he needs to. Pretty Zen for a Klingon.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on August 30, 2021, 10:49:38 AM
Mea maxima culpa, I was tired of being just under 9,000 posts.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on August 30, 2021, 11:40:57 AM
I think Worf is my favorite Star Trek character of all time because what he doesn't have figured out, he doesn't worry about unless he needs to. Pretty Zen for a Klingon.


My fave scene with Worf is where he meets Dahar Master Kor who, aside from a few bumps on his forehead and the rest of his face, is pretty much still the same Kor from Errand of Mercy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kbAYULa20I&t=74s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kbAYULa20I&t=74s) :teddyr: :teddyr:





Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on August 30, 2021, 11:49:47 AM
Welcome back, ER!  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on August 30, 2021, 05:09:59 PM
Every time someone posts a satellite image of Hurricane Ida, I can't help thinking about this '80s morning dj song "I'm gonna get me a Neil Frank haircut".....

Particularly, the line "Please don't explain hurr-i-canes, Just tell me when will it rain!"

Wish I could find that song......


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 02, 2021, 07:10:08 AM
Life is like a bowl of Halloween candy.
Sometimes you end up with a Tootsie Roll, or maybe a carmel corn ball.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 02, 2021, 08:54:15 AM
Life is like a bowl of Halloween candy.
Sometimes you end up with a Tootsie Roll, or maybe a carmel corn ball.

And sometimes you end up with an apple with a razor inside.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on September 02, 2021, 07:49:04 PM
In all my years of arrowhead collecting, I've only had one point stolen from me.  It was a gem, too - a 5 1/8" spearhead I found in 1990 on the North Sulphur River.  I've kept my eyes out for it now for 25 years, ever since a drug addict stole it from my house in 1996.  Today it popped up on my FB feed - a Texas collector had just purchased it for $2000.  Puts us both in an awkward position; I want it back but don't have that kind of $$$ to shell out, while he wants me to have it but can't afford to eat a $2000 loss!  But, I know where it is, he's not planning on selling it, and if my fortunes improve I'll be able to get it back at some point in the future.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on September 02, 2021, 11:09:26 PM
The song "Camouflage" is incredibly haunting.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on September 02, 2021, 11:12:33 PM
In all my years of arrowhead collecting, I've only had one point stolen from me.  It was a gem, too - a 5 1/8" spearhead I found in 1990 on the North Sulphur River.  I've kept my eyes out for it now for 25 years, ever since a drug addict stole it from my house in 1996.  Today it popped up on my FB feed - a Texas collector had just purchased it for $2000.  Puts us both in an awkward position; I want it back but don't have that kind of $$$ to shell out, while he wants me to have it but can't afford to eat a $2000 loss!  But, I know where it is, he's not planning on selling it, and if my fortunes improve I'll be able to get it back at some point in the future.

I win the Lotto: that point is yours.  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on September 02, 2021, 11:31:29 PM
Biden should meet with world leaders in the hallway from "Saved By the Bell" instead of Camp David




Rev - did you know there has never actually been a substantiated case of someone putting a razorblade in Halloween candy? It's an urban legend. Why would someone do that knowing it could easily be traced to their house?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 03, 2021, 08:04:21 AM

Rev - did you know there has never actually been a substantiated case of someone putting a razorblade in Halloween candy? It's an urban legend. Why would someone do that knowing it could easily be traced to their house?

Yes, I did know that. You probably can't make razor-blade apple pie either.

https://youtu.be/11ep5ogPBjg


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on September 10, 2021, 07:53:45 PM
Is it a stretch to say that Eric Clapton was the second best guitarist for the 60's and 70's? Because you have Jimi Hendrix for the 60's and Eddie Van Halen for the 70's.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 10, 2021, 08:50:53 PM
^Well, there was some empty space between Hendrix & Van Halen, & I don't think Van Halen really gained appreciation until the '80s, whereas Clapton was alive all three decades....^


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on September 11, 2021, 03:10:42 AM
Always thought Clapton was overrated, although he has his fair share of people who would disagree with that.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on September 11, 2021, 04:59:53 AM
Read this story about the filming of Dokken's song 'Dream Warriors' for Nightmare on Elm Street 3.

Quote
Lynch says, “They built this elaborate horror set for us for the video. And we were in the trailers, you know they had production trailers. We’re suppose to be getting ready, and Freddy was all in make-up. So he looks like – he looks in ‘Nightmare on Elm Street”. Which was kind of bizarre to be sitting there talking to a guy that looks like that you know. He had the gloves with the blades on and we were doing coke (cocaine). So, he’s using his blade fingers, to serve up coke to everybody. With the knife hand thing. It was kind of surreal. I mean hey, that is a long time ago, that is what everyone was doing back in the day sorry, but it’s a true story.”


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on September 11, 2021, 04:21:45 PM
I watched an overview on the Elan "school" in Poland, Maine, and am angry that the "school" was around until 2011. For those who don't know it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_School (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_School)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on September 14, 2021, 11:51:04 AM
I think Betty White and William Shatner should do a movie together.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on September 14, 2021, 12:07:06 PM
*Sigh* Some clients can really be difficult.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: lester1/2jr on September 14, 2021, 01:52:22 PM
I started watching Racquet starring Bert Convy on tubi. I don't think I'm going to get through it.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on September 15, 2021, 03:08:49 AM
It's kind of weird when you read RIP threads of deceased celebrities you've never heard of. Even after looking them up and are familiar with their work but still don't know who they are.
Just shows you that some people are flying under your radar all the time.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 18, 2021, 01:23:03 PM
I think the Russians are geniuses at naming TV shows. I know I tuned in to see what was going on when Netflix put on the Russian series Fartsa.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 18, 2021, 01:46:35 PM
Last week I puked hardcore clear liquid. Like 3 times in a row. My dog sniffed it to see if it was edible. It was just booze. I felt better after I puked!  :thumbup:

Howdy, ER!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on September 18, 2021, 04:00:16 PM
I think the Russians are geniuses at naming TV shows. I know I tuned in to see what was going on when Netflix put on the Russian series Fartsa.

That's not a Russian show: that is the description of how people let one go in South Africa  :wink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 20, 2021, 09:56:12 AM
Something I asked my mom when I was little: “Do children actually GET candy when a guy in a van abducts them?”


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 20, 2021, 12:16:00 PM
My neighbor's kids are little mutts. He's got his sister in law and her kids that the government gives her money to  feed once in awhile. And they walked into my yard in broad daylight and pushed our lawnmower into their garage.
I went to where it was parked, and started yelling "Mother f**ker!!!!" when the little girl who lived their said "It's in the garage." So I walked over there. And looked in the garage (door was wide open) and yup! There's my lawnmower!
Then this hillbilly woman runs out of the house- tells me one of her mutant interbreds is medically stupid. Like I didn't know this.
I took my mower and went home.
Buck tooth cross eyed mutts.  :hatred:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Allhallowsday on September 20, 2021, 01:39:18 PM
 "Yes.  Yes.  KONG's mine now."   


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EBWmPNQUYAAwg5H.jpg)


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on September 20, 2021, 02:25:19 PM
My neighbor's kids are little mutts. He's got his sister in law and her kids that the government gives her money to  feed once in awhile. And they walked into my yard in broad daylight and pushed our lawnmower into their garage.
I went to where it was parked, and started yelling "Mother f**ker!!!!" when the little girl who lived their said "It's in the garage." So I walked over there. And looked in the garage (door was wide open) and yup! There's my lawnmower!
Then this hillbilly woman runs out of the house- tells me one of her mutant interbreds is medically stupid. Like I didn't know this.
I took my mower and went home.
Buck tooth cross eyed mutts.  :hatred:

And I thought I had hassles with my neighbor!  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on September 20, 2021, 03:27:18 PM
My neighbor's kids are little mutts. He's got his sister in law and her kids that the government gives her money to  feed once in awhile. And they walked into my yard in broad daylight and pushed our lawnmower into their garage.
I went to where it was parked, and started yelling "Mother f**ker!!!!" when the little girl who lived their said "It's in the garage." So I walked over there. And looked in the garage (door was wide open) and yup! There's my lawnmower!
Then this hillbilly woman runs out of the house- tells me one of her mutant interbreds is medically stupid. Like I didn't know this.
I took my mower and went home.
Buck tooth cross eyed mutts.  :hatred:

When I grew up there used to be a girl with down syndrome living next street. The girl would randomly appear in other people's houses (back then doors where mostly unlocked) or garden, always causing a bit of commotion. One time some friends and me where camping in our backyard. We went inside the house to get things. When we got back the girl was in our tent, rolling around and laughing with joy. We didn't know what to do and eventually told her to leave. She did, but grabbed one of our sleeping bags and made a run for it. I told my mom and she went over the girl's house to get the sleeping bag back. The girl's mom apologized and had a hard time getting the sleeping bag back from her. The girl was crying and my mom felt sorry for her. She let her keep the sleeping bag.

If it had been a lawnmower it would have been a different situation I guess  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 20, 2021, 09:57:05 PM
I used to know a Scientologist who told me L. Ron Hubbard said people could come back as robots, and I asked if the TV show Robot Wars was mean then, and she thought a second and said it was, unless the robots fought from their own free will. I don’t think she was joking.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on September 21, 2021, 11:05:12 AM
I used to know a Scientologist who told me L. Ron Hubbard said people could come back as robots, and I asked if the TV show Robot Wars was mean then, and she thought a second and said it was, unless the robots fought from their own free will. I don’t think she was joking.

I always had an interest in Scientology - especially the self help part of it - but then I saw the movie Going Clear and I went  :buggedout: :buggedout: not for me, thanks. Interesting to note that when LRH fled the USA on tax evasion, one of the places he landed up in was Johannesburg.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 21, 2021, 11:29:21 AM
Homeopathy shows how strong the placebo effect is, and the placebo effect hints that God gave us a greater degree of personal control over the Matrix than we might realize.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 21, 2021, 11:54:19 AM
I once had a copy of Dianetics, but couldn't make heads or tails of it....

How To Win Friends And Influence people by Dale Carnegie, and the 12x12 for Emotions Anonymous are far superior....


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 22, 2021, 10:23:17 AM
My neighbor cut down a beautiful pine tree I have seen all my life. I bet it was over a century old, and absolutely wonderful. I asked why he did it, and he said, “I was tired of looking at it.” I will never understand people. I just won’t.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 22, 2021, 02:37:58 PM
I wonder if it's traumatic for the dog if it is left to eat the body of it's dead owner. Because the dog ain't ate in a week. I'll bet it is.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 24, 2021, 02:05:34 PM
One of my former co-workers was recently buried at sea.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 25, 2021, 10:42:33 AM
I just found out Larry Flynt died about six months ago. Huh. Figured I would've heard about that before now. I never met Larry Flynt, but his brother Jimmy used to run the Hustler store downtown in the ‘90s, maybe still does, I don’t know, but I’d walk past the place when I got off a bus, and he would often be standing outside the store, smoking, talking to people, and he'd sometimes say hey to me as I passed by, gave me his card once, ha, and he struck me as an affable perv who was still half Kentucky country boy at heart. But one thing I will say about him, pornographer or not, the man was good at blowing smoke rings. He could puff one out after the other, like it was his trademark.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 26, 2021, 07:45:16 AM
I have this theory that Hell lies at the bottom of all that is in existence, and when we or any ensouled being from any planet or physical plane dies, our soul or souls are expelled from our physical body, and this energy keeps falling through a spiritual plane until a deity from an “afterlife” grabs it. (Possibly this descent may take a very long time by human standards.) If you spend your life worshipping a particular deity or pantheon of deities, then hopefully that being or its chosen minions or peers will receive your falling soul and carry you back to the plane where it resides, the one you’ve aimed for all your life, but if you have no deity, you fall and fall toward increasingly bleak and bad places until you are either randomly grabbed by something that finds you appealing (maybe as a slave), or if no one wants you, you land at the bottom of everything, which is Hell, and every bit as undesirable as we’ve always heard it to be.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on September 26, 2021, 08:47:51 AM
I have this theory that Hell lies at the bottom of all that is in existence, and when we or any ensouled being from any planet or physical plane dies, our soul or souls are expelled from our physical body, and this energy keeps falling through a spiritual plane until a deity from an “afterlife” grabs it. (Possibly this descent may take a very long time by human standards.) If you spend your life worshipping a particular deity or pantheon of deities, then hopefully that being or its chosen minions or peers will receive your falling soul and carry you back to the plane where it resides, the one you’ve aimed for all your life, but if you have no deity, you fall and fall toward increasingly bleak and bad places until you are either randomly grabbed by something that finds you appealing (maybe as a slave), or if no one wants you, you land at the bottom of everything, which is Hell, and every bit as undesirable as we’ve always heard it to be.

I wonder what types of cheese they'd have in hell. I bet they only have Brie.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 26, 2021, 09:26:18 AM
I have this theory that Hell lies at the bottom of all that is in existence, and when we or any ensouled being from any planet or physical plane dies, our soul or souls are expelled from our physical body, and this energy keeps falling through a spiritual plane until a deity from an “afterlife” grabs it. (Possibly this descent may take a very long time by human standards.) If you spend your life worshipping a particular deity or pantheon of deities, then hopefully that being or its chosen minions or peers will receive your falling soul and carry you back to the plane where it resides, the one you’ve aimed for all your life, but if you have no deity, you fall and fall toward increasingly bleak and bad places until you are either randomly grabbed by something that finds you appealing (maybe as a slave), or if no one wants you, you land at the bottom of everything, which is Hell, and every bit as undesirable as we’ve always heard it to be.

I wonder what types of cheese they'd have in hell. I bet they only have Brie.

^Gotta be blue cheese.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 26, 2021, 09:34:20 AM
I have this theory that Hell lies at the bottom of all that is in existence, and when we or any ensouled being from any planet or physical plane dies, our soul or souls are expelled from our physical body, and this energy keeps falling through a spiritual plane until a deity from an “afterlife” grabs it. (Possibly this descent may take a very long time by human standards.) If you spend your life worshipping a particular deity or pantheon of deities, then hopefully that being or its chosen minions or peers will receive your falling soul and carry you back to the plane where it resides, the one you’ve aimed for all your life, but if you have no deity, you fall and fall toward increasingly bleak and bad places until you are either randomly grabbed by something that finds you appealing (maybe as a slave), or if no one wants you, you land at the bottom of everything, which is Hell, and every bit as undesirable as we’ve always heard it to be.

I wonder what types of cheese they'd have in hell. I bet they only have Brie.

^Gotta be blue cheese.

You're thinking of heaven, my friend.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on September 26, 2021, 10:38:02 AM
^ If Heaven smells like dirty sweat socks, I don't wanna go!


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on September 26, 2021, 12:31:26 PM
I finally tried Miller Lite. It's something I guess.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on September 26, 2021, 08:47:52 PM
It's 03:45 am, I'm drinking coffee and listening to the rain through the open window next to me. We had a warning for severe storms this morning for tonight so I'm a bit disappointed we only got rain. But its better than nothing.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: indianasmith on September 27, 2021, 06:25:00 AM
I have my annual 7th grade fossil hunting field trip scheduled for Thursday, and it's  supposed to rain . . .   :bluesad:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on September 27, 2021, 09:10:56 AM
I finally tried Miller Lite. It's something I guess.

South Africa's answer to that is Castle Lite: mix it with a lemonade or Sprite and it's all good.  :drink:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 27, 2021, 09:57:11 AM
If I were Elena Ceaușescu I’d have flipped off the firing squad, because what have you got to lose at that point?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on September 27, 2021, 11:34:50 AM
If I were Elena Ceaușescu I’d have flipped off the firing squad, because what have you got to lose at that point?

I've always thought of a picture of her husband on a balcony seeing the protests (and the fear etched on his face), as being the defining picture of the fall of the eastern bloc for me.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on September 27, 2021, 12:05:32 PM
I have my annual 7th grade fossil hunting field trip scheduled for Thursday, and it's  supposed to rain . . .   :bluesad:

Will keep my fingers crossed for you to get better weather and find something cool.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: LilCerberus on September 27, 2021, 12:14:18 PM
If I were Elena Ceaușescu I’d have flipped off the firing squad, because what have you got to lose at that point?

I've always thought of a picture of her husband on a balcony seeing the protests (and the fear etched on his face), as being the defining picture of the fall of the eastern bloc for me.

The Ceaușescus had their hands tied behind their backs....
I've seen the noozreelz on PBS....

An actor friend of mine once went on a tour of Ceaușescu's palace... Said it took several hours & he still didn't even see the whole thing... One of the things he remembered was that the guy had giant portraits of himself....
Subject came up when we were reading a play about how the secret police were desperately trying to recruit snitches right before the collapse...


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Trevor on September 27, 2021, 12:52:52 PM
I think it's number 2 time.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 28, 2021, 08:05:46 AM
Know what’s a disturbing thought? You began life in someone’s testicle.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on September 28, 2021, 08:16:24 AM
Know what’s a disturbing thought? You began life in someone’s testicle.

https://youtu.be/fUspLVStPbk


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: ER on September 29, 2021, 09:16:52 AM
If our bodies replace our cells every seven years, does that mean we have a built-in CONTROL/ ALT/ DELETE setting?


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: El Misfit on September 30, 2021, 09:14:44 PM
I don't know why but reading up on nuclear/radiation mishaps/failures as well as industrial disasters is both interesting and horrifying to me, yet I want to learn more about them.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on October 20, 2021, 10:12:38 PM
Woke up to wind rattling my half closed window blinds and rain pelting on my windows at 03:00 am. A rare autumn storm that's been lasting now for two hours.  :smile:


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 24, 2021, 09:19:40 PM
So I saw PJ Soles (HALLOWEEN, ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL) today and didn't even know it until after she was already passed me by. I thought it was just some older lady.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: RCMerchant on October 25, 2021, 09:08:46 AM
^ She also had her car jacked by Sid Haig in the DEVIL'S REJECTS.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: Alex on October 26, 2021, 05:39:22 AM
Inbetween Tchaikovsky adding an artillery section to the orchestra with the 1812 Overture and AC/DC with 'For Those About To Rock', I cannot think of anyone else who added big guns to their musical performance.


Title: Re: Random Thought Thread: The Sequel
Post by: claws on October 26, 2021, 06:24:34 AM
I was making american beef stew from an classic recipe yesterday and realized if I had added curry powder, fishsauce and coconut milk and swapped parsley with cilantro it would have been the usual indian curry I always make. Almost the same Ingredients.