Make A Random Statement About Something Nobody Should Care About

[indianasmith]

I have now watched all 3 seasons of STRANGER THINGS.
What a great show!

[ER]

I knew someone who described his new apartment as "sounding like ketchup." Just been thinking about that this morning.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Should we care? Maybe not, but they are almost here, so let the streaming wars begin.

Apple
It has already claimed its 1st casualty. Earlier, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger could avoid the upcoming conflict between Apple TV+ and Disney+, but as it gets closer to Apple TV+'s launch on November 1, that was no longer possible, so he has resigned from his position on Apple's board.

Apple TV+ is priced at $4.99 per month or the cheapest of all the streaming services, but, if you are buy an Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Mac, the serving stream is free for an year. Thus, Apple is willing to take a loss on the streaming service to make a profit on its hardware.

And unlike Disney and ATandT, Apple has no back catalog, so everything on its streaming service will be original, and the cost of its programming is not cheap. For example, See with Jason (Aquaman) Momoa is billed at $15M an episode with no guarantee that people will watch.

ATandT
With its transforming from a communcation company into an entertainment company with its HBO+, it is meeting some resistance from some of its shareholders, so the start of HBO+, which is scheduled for early next year may be pushed back to later in the year, while ATandT circles the wagons and tries to fend off the hostiles.

Disney
The old animated TV series Gargoyles is coming to Disney+. Sometime after mid-November, when the streaming service 1st rolls out. There is actually quite a connection between Star Trek and Gargoyles. There are almost a dozen actors who appeared on both shows.

It is expected that by 2024, there will be 84M subscribers. Whether this is only for the U.S. or worldwide--who knows? As the Disney+ app is already up and running in the Netherlands.

Netflix
With the newer streaming services priced so low, this may work to Netflix's advantage, because if you see another streaming service you want, then you may have it and Netflix, too.

[ER]

Nice sunny breezy day, not a tornado in sight, so I spontaneously decided to take the interns on  a noontime field trip, so we went up the road to the cemetery I actually have a key to get into (uh don't tell anybody) and made rubbings of old tombstones, some for people born in the 1700s.

It was going well until suddenly the constabulary showed up ("We need you to set down what you're holding and step back into the driveway.") then threatened to write us a whomping fat ticket for what we were doing.

I knew it was best to handle it professionally and politely and so I said to this one cop I knew who came along, "Hey, Brad, how about I bribe you to f**k off back to the station and leave true artists alone?"

Two interns literally gasped, but Brad the cop laughed and said, "How about I take you in for attempting to bribe a peace officer?"

They ended up being nicer than it at first seemed they were going to be and let us finish the rubbings we were working on and let us go with promises we wouldn't do that again, which since I promised I won't, I won't, but:

A. Who narc'd us out?
 
And B. WTH is so bad about making wax and chalk on paper rubbings of tombstones anyway? I been doing that all my life. The rain and sun and wind are more damaging than a piece of paper set on a slab of rock with a crayon run over it.

Sure, I laughed it off but it was annoying, as run-ins with buttinsky police always are, so no "contribution" to their community chest drive will be coming this Christmas.

[LilCerberus]

Cokie Roberts is dead.

[RCMerchant]

I don't feel like cooking today. Or doing anything else. (Like I do much to begin with  )
I'm gonna order subs from Jaspare's Pizza.

[ER]

Cokie Roberts is dead.

Her first name came from the Finnish meaning "to feel empowered by Andean nose candy."  Her last name was Scottish for " Roberts. "

[ER]

Flowers.

[LilCerberus]

Flowers.

Fennel.

[LilCerberus]

I wonder what the scene would look like if a group of men with coffee cups were standing at a table, pensively glaring at a box labelled "TRULY HORRIBLE DONUTS"

[ER]

Capping on Sven made the half-hour I had to kill up here fly by!  Night....

[LilCerberus]

Sometimes I wonder how Willy Wonka's Exploding Candy For Your Enemies would work...
I mean...

Would a bully really fall for that?

Or would a bully beat a kid up, steal his candy, and then, Instant Karma?

Or would a kid open up his lunchbox at lunch time, mutter to himself, "my candy's gone!", the produce a satisfied smirk as he heard an explosion somewhere in the room?

Or would some grumpy old man pass it out on Halloween?

[Svengoolie 3]

Capping on Sven made the half-hour I had to kill up here fly by!  Night....

And if peolel here weren't such hypocrites theycd slam on you for it yoiu completely useless negative troll.

[LilCerberus]

Capping on Sven made the half-hour I had to kill up here fly by!  Night....

And if peolel here weren't such hypocrites theycd slam on you for it yoiu completely useless negative troll.

Sven, You really need to start checking your spelling.

[indianasmith]

He'd rather go on an angry tirade about how unfair it is of us to demand that he type actual English words.