Well, just when you thought facebook sucked enough, zucky found a way to make it a dozen times worse.
:hatred: :hatred: :hatred: :hatred: :hatred:
Care to post what this is about?
I care about the Resurrection!!!
Well I care about posting posts that NOBODY cares about!
Oh yeah, I forgot to insert a comma into the title of this thread.....
Silly me......
Google is trying to confuse me over which one is John C Pemberton & which one is John Stith Pemberton, and which one invented Coca-Cola...........
there are THREE bunnies on my lawn right now, yay!
Hemorrhoids: When your butt gets a lump in its throat.
Quote from: chefzombie on July 01, 2020, 01:24:48 AM
there are THREE bunnies on my lawn right now, yay!
Two ran in front of me across the road in front of my house when I was driving my tractor back from the store Sunday! :thumbup:
The title of this thread- I thought it was about random thoughts about the Resurrection!
Ya know- like Jesus! :lookingup:
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 30, 2020, 06:28:44 PM
Well, just when you thought facebook sucked enough, zucky found a way to make it a dozen times worse.
:hatred: :hatred: :hatred: :hatred: :hatred:
So why are you still there? :question:
If you dislike him so much- quit making him money! :buggedout:
(https://i.imgur.com/hnj3wrg.gif) (http://lunapic.com)
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 01, 2020, 09:23:33 AM
The title of this thread- I thought it was about random thoughts about the Resurrection!
Ya know- like Jesus! :lookingup:
I thought that, too, at first, then I realized what he was trying to do.
Didn't stop me from making a joke about it, though.
Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was random thoughts or a religious thread myself.
A few years ago, it was a Saturday Night Live sketch, now there's serious talk about getting rid of Batman & defunding the Gotham City Police Department!
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 01, 2020, 08:41:05 AM
Quote from: chefzombie on July 01, 2020, 01:24:48 AM
there are THREE bunnies on my lawn right now, yay!
Two ran in front of me across the road in front of my house when I was driving my tractor back from the store Sunday! :thumbup:
my husband and my cat love to watch the bunnies together, it's hilarious! they sit together in the window chair and watch them play while strangely does the "K-K-K-K" cat noise , lol! :thumbup:
Quote from: chefzombie on July 01, 2020, 01:24:48 AM
there are THREE bunnies on my lawn right now, yay!
Our firm is literally surrounded by wild rabbits. Makes sense as there is mostly fields and woods nearby. Just last week riding my bycicle to work for night shift a rabbit was running in front of me half the way to work.
Watch out for rabbits! :buggedout:
http://youtu.be/aGns_QEUPTw (http://youtu.be/aGns_QEUPTw)
The local golf course has a plot by the road it hardly ever keeps up.
When the grass gets as high as one may stand, the rabbit start to get brave, & wonder out to see what's up......
Then somebody comes along with the bush hog & bring the roughage down to ankle height, & y' don't see the rabbit's for quite a while...
Buddleja davidii butterfly bush truly is a remarquable plant, able to start from a seed as fine as a human hair, less than a centimeter long, able to grow into something taller than a person.............
Yesterday I had not one, not two, but THREE roadrunners in my yard!
And not an ACME product in sight!
MAN!
If I were a man of means....
With a job, or a volunteer position, with my own designated workspace.....
And really hated my coworkers!
https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/867680058 (https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/867680058)
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 06, 2020, 06:42:58 AM
MAN!
If I were a man of means....
With a job, or a volunteer position, with my own designated workspace.....
And really hated my coworkers!
https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/867680058 (https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/867680058)
"Musical Jolly Chimp"? Jolly is not the word I would use- try " Psychotic"! :bouncegiggle:
RIP Charlie Daniels
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 06, 2020, 02:16:04 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 06, 2020, 02:03:54 PM
RIP Charlie Daniels
Oh s**t! :bluesad:
Three in one day, two of them, master music makers.... :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad:
Ah, figured out how to switch facebook back to the way it was!
The UFO episode of Unsolved Mysteries is so on point
Naya Rivera went missing at a lake in California.......
So, like, I just turned 50, & I've been wondering; Should I, like, get a different bank account or join the AARP or something?
I am enjoying the heck out of DINOHUNTERS.
I used Tiana's new deep fryer today. Made the best fried chicken ever. Soaked it in salt water all night. I used pancake mix and Drakes, and added my own spice. Best chicken I ever made.
My son Jed and his wife Tonya, and my grandson Aiden are coming over! To cook on the grill!
I get lonesome- Tiana works from 2 in the afternoon until 12 at night.
My wife and I are back on the Whole30 diet this summer, and man some of that food is GOOD!
Taco salad with creamy avocado dressing for lunch, and for supper baked sweet potatoes stuffed with ground turkey, onions, and garlic topped with a tahini sauce. YUM!
(And I have lost 12 pounds over the last 40 days!)
Maybe not the most original idea, but I think it'd be cool to to make a movie that starts with US Troops finding one of these things at the end of WW2........
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/874146563 (https://www.gunbroker.com/item/874146563)
2020 has been such a crazy year, that it's already being made into a Bad Movie!
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/2020themovie-is-movie-we-never-knew-we-wanted-but-we-all-need-right-now?fbclid=IwAR35-H3Hsak9cfHkvcYb-AAzD8G8Mz5Ek-j4Qu67PCCpNQRr5-718Q8OnMA (https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/2020themovie-is-movie-we-never-knew-we-wanted-but-we-all-need-right-now?fbclid=IwAR35-H3Hsak9cfHkvcYb-AAzD8G8Mz5Ek-j4Qu67PCCpNQRr5-718Q8OnMA)
Hmmm... Helping somebody out on facebook, it occurs to me that Andrew did a review of The Horror of Party Beach (1964), but not The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965).............
And a Google search seems to think they're the same movie................
BBQ at my sister's we had Hungarian/ gypsy bacon cook on a grill, among other things.
Is anybody else getting a dozen calls a day from Marcie regarding new lower health insurance rates?
the first episode of I am a Killer was traumatizing
I finally got a stopwatch in the mail that I ordered Back around end of winter...
The seller in Russia got kicked off eBay Earlier this month because people weren't getting their stuff...
I think I'm going bald! :buggedout:
the song NIB by Black Sabbath. NIB stands for 'Nativity In Black'.
This has almost nothing to do with it- except it's Sabbath!
http://youtu.be/K3b6SGoN6dA (http://youtu.be/K3b6SGoN6dA)
Oh fnck them.
Working on a new short story today!
Is The AV Club any good?
I ordered fennel seeds.... Now because of the Chinese Mystery Seed Scare (I'm Assuming), the post office is sending them back...
🤔Wondering...🤔
Last month i turned fifty....
Last October, I had a minor stroke & started having problems from an old back injury...
🤔So, is there some way I could tack that on to my SSDI, possibly making my disability checks worth a wee tad more...🤔
🤔Not to mention, giving me a slightly better standing with employment assistance & disabled employee representation...🤔
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 28, 2020, 12:56:55 PM
🤔Wondering...🤔
Last month i turned fifty....
Last October, I had a minor stroke & started having problems from an old back injury...
🤔So, is there some way I could tack that on to my SSDI, possibly making my disability checks worth a wee tad more...🤔
No. It doesn't matter if your more ill or less. It stays the same. I get $1,230 a month, and that's about the average amount.
how many of the rioters are also cyclists? its springtime for annoying people in the US
My dad took my eight-year-old flying today, and bought her a DQ Blizzard first. He should have bought it for her after the flight. You're never too old to live and learn.
Welcome back ER. :cheers:
RIP Herman Cain
I think I might try vlogging again soon...
I've got a few under developed ideas for comedy sketches on a sliver of paper in my pocket....
I came up with an idea for an Evil Bartender, but the people I wanted to share it with closed up shop, but now I think I have an idea that might make him an adequate stand alone character....
RIP Alan Parker
tubis archive of Conan rip off movies alone is insane
I really wish LinkedIn would quit sending me job alerts for crap in the medical industry.
My experience is in factories & warehouses and radio.
The closest I've ever come to the medical industry, was when I did waste product disposal for a medical supply warehouse.
Quote from: LilCerberus on August 07, 2020, 03:31:59 PM
I really wish LinkedIn would quit sending me job alerts for crap in the medical industry.
My experience is in factories & warehouses and radio.
The closest I've ever come to the medical industry, was when I did waste product disposal for a medical supply warehouse.
I bet they need people to do just that! I mean, give it a shot! It's gotta be more productive then sitting around wishing. I donna know!
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 07, 2020, 03:36:07 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on August 07, 2020, 03:31:59 PM
I really wish LinkedIn would quit sending me job alerts for crap in the medical industry.
My experience is in factories & warehouses and radio.
The closest I've ever come to the medical industry, was when I did waste product disposal for a medical supply warehouse.
I bet they need people to do just that! I mean, give it a shot! It's gotta be more productive then sitting around wishing.
I'd need to go back to school & study nursing, speech pathology, & physical rehab, which I not only can't afford, but would also take a few years.
Quote from: LilCerberus on August 07, 2020, 03:39:58 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 07, 2020, 03:36:07 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on August 07, 2020, 03:31:59 PM
I really wish LinkedIn would quit sending me job alerts for crap in the medical industry.
My experience is in factories & warehouses and radio.
The closest I've ever come to the medical industry, was when I did waste product disposal for a medical supply warehouse.
I bet they need people to do just that! I mean, give it a shot! It's gotta be more productive then sitting around wishing.
I'd need to go back to school & study nursing, speech pathology, & physical rehab, which I not only can't afford, but would also take a few years.
No, I mean working doing anything. At all. I left home in 1979, I never graduated school.
I busted my ass, my parents were zero. But I worked at a place for 30 years. A canning factory.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 07, 2020, 03:46:05 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on August 07, 2020, 03:39:58 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 07, 2020, 03:36:07 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on August 07, 2020, 03:31:59 PM
I really wish LinkedIn would quit sending me job alerts for crap in the medical industry.
My experience is in factories & warehouses and radio.
The closest I've ever come to the medical industry, was when I did waste product disposal for a medical supply warehouse.
I bet they need people to do just that! I mean, give it a shot! It's gotta be more productive then sitting around wishing.
I'd need to go back to school & study nursing, speech pathology, & physical rehab, which I not only can't afford, but would also take a few years.
No, I mean working doing anything. At all. I left home in 1979, I never graduated school.
I busted my ass, my parents were zero. But I worked at a place for 30 years. A canning factory.
If I I could get somebody to hire me.
Looking over an old Mustek PVR-A1 (The poor mans version of the old i-Pod)...
Hoping to use it with either the old Quasar VK100 or the VK105QE (it's been so long, I forget which one works & which one doesn't)...
Quote from: LilCerberus on August 07, 2020, 05:00:18 PM
Looking over an old Mustek PVR-A1 (The poor mans version of the old i-Pod)...
Hoping to use it with either the old Quasar VK100 or the VK105QE (it's been so long, I forget which one works & which one doesn't)...
Marginal success.....
Need to replace just one cable with frayed wiring & consider better lighting & an auxiliary audio source...
http://youtu.be/fXCO9g-O-Jc (http://youtu.be/fXCO9g-O-Jc)
Another thing I managed to accomplish today, I managed to re pot all my buddleja davidii butterfly weed sprouts before they wound up choking each other out...
^ Is that like weed or something? :question:
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 07, 2020, 10:54:08 PM
^ Is that like weed or something? :question:
No, it's just a bust that grows weird looking purple flowers that butterflies like,,,,,
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 07, 2020, 10:54:08 PM
^ Is that like weed or something? :question:
I did try growing Rabbit Tobacco one year, but no luck...
I think I may grow weed in back of the shed next year.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 08, 2020, 12:13:51 AM
I think I may grow weed in back of the shed next year.
A lot of people are for it these days....
While considering lighting, I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do next with an antique video camera & outdated PVR...
my car is looking like a "Mad Max car" nowadays lol :wink: :thumbup:
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/cd2369e6b75349290d4addcb3594ded8/tumblr_o65vn3GVtF1t517axo1_500.gif)
Well, after an odd thirty years or so, I finally figured out who Roxanne Kernohan is....
My wife got her toe hung in our laundry basket Saturday, fell, and broke her arm!
Quote from: indianasmith on August 10, 2020, 12:34:14 PM
My wife got her toe hung in our laundry basket Saturday, fell, and broke her arm!
Poor thing! Tell her a badmovie friend wishes her a speedy recovery.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on August 11, 2020, 02:50:22 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on August 10, 2020, 12:34:14 PM
My wife got her toe hung in our laundry basket Saturday, fell, and broke her arm!
Poor thing! Tell her a badmovie friend wishes her a speedy recovery.
Will do!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfLDmqUWkAEbaJ9?format=jpg&name=small)
healthy low cal breakfast offerings at El Chalan in East Boston
^ Are you wearing a mask while you are eating at places, Lester? I reckon you can't eat with a mask on. Are you being safe? I hope you are.
I hope every biker in Sturgis dies! ! Morons. I know thats a rude statement, because I usta hang out with lotsa bikers. Nice guys, but they're morons. I don't really hope they die, I just wish ...they will get sick so they will realize this is a real thing.
Nah-I hope they f**king die! Morons!
(https://i.imgur.com/hpM7WxL.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
Did you ever hear a cat walk on a piano? So cool!
many years ago we had an old upright piano that my siamese cat, hellion, loved to" play". preferably at 3am, lol! she was a tiny thing and learned to jump on the keys to make them louder, it was hilarious to watch. :cheers:
I intend so determinedly to avoid watching the democrat convention, that I just might watch some schlock by Timothy Hines!
Saw a shirt online that said, "Dear NASA, your mom thought I was big enough. -The Moon"
I thought that was funny.
11 years ago today I was in Italy. And these two guys were pretty irritated that I was wasting space on my SD card photographing them.
(https://www.picturesfromitaly.com/uploads/2/5/1/0/25107996/editor/statues-of-castor-and-pollux-piazza-del-campidoglio-rome.jpg)
Ever been p**sed off at both your husband and your friend, and so you're sitting downstairs peacefully posting a bunch of stuff on some message board, and you look up and a spider the size and consistency of a dust mop is on the ceiling right over your head. Any guesses as to whether I have? :smile:
Couldn't get to sleep last night for the longest time, then woke up early to let our dogs out, and walked outdoors into the most beautiful, quiet, fogscape I'd seen in a very long time. Pine trees became cathedral towers half-hidden in earthbound clouds, the moist air swirled around like a cloak narrowing the world to the distance of a tennis serve, and when the sun finally rose it pierced all this like it was going through stained glass, setting off diamond prisms in a million droplets of water clinging to tree branches, adorning every tree with necklaces of crystal. Being out there to see this wonder more than made up for any grogginess I might feel later today.
this friday i get my first lesson in handling a bat'leth!
Quote from: chefzombie on August 18, 2020, 04:36:58 PM
this friday i get my first lesson in handling a bat'leth!
Pretty cool. I've seen some impressive specimens. Me, I prefer that Earth invention, the g'hun.
Caught on the border between the magical land of "Thought I Knew What I Was Doing" & the intersection of "What the Hell was I Thinking"..............
Ever been looking up at the summer sky and a raindrop hits you in the eye and what's even stranger is how warm rain can sometimes feel? Warmer than a tear as it runs down your cheek.
How many third parties are on the ballot this year? :question:
^ Here's a list-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election
Kanye's is the Birthday Party. No joke.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 19, 2020, 11:24:46 AM
^ Here's a list-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election
Kanye's is the Birthday Party. No joke.
Wow! That's a lot of idiots & watered down votes!
And Kanye almost ruined Release The Bats for me!
If I reach 9,999 posts, I think I will stop.
Sitting down to watch season 5 of Lucifer.
i love my aussie reno shows. my new " word of the day" is daggy. :cheers:
Lost Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, X'ers, Millennials, Gen-Z. Trying to stereotype an entire generation makes less sense than astrology.
Quote from: ER on August 27, 2020, 10:36:14 AM
Lost Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, X'ers, Millennials, Gen-Z. Trying to stereotype an entire generation makes less sense than astrology.
I'd get involved, but I am Generation X and all the emotional involvement I can muster only gets a "meh."
As an X-ennial, Alex, I feel outrage at that reply from a white male, but because of my parents my life is such a mess I can't think of protesting you right now.
Quote from: ER on August 27, 2020, 10:36:14 AM
Lost Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, X'ers, Millennials, Gen-Z. Trying to stereotype an entire generation makes less sense than astrology.
I agree with that.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 27, 2020, 11:12:15 AM
Quote from: ER on August 27, 2020, 10:36:14 AM
Lost Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, X'ers, Millennials, Gen-Z. Trying to stereotype an entire generation makes less sense than astrology.
I agree with that.
After a dozen years you agree with one of my posts? RC, you're scaring me. :cheers:
I'm confused...
Am I the generation named after a 70s punk rock group, or am I Bomb Culture?
Quote from: ER on August 27, 2020, 11:14:20 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 27, 2020, 11:12:15 AM
Quote from: ER on August 27, 2020, 10:36:14 AM
Lost Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, X'ers, Millennials, Gen-Z. Trying to stereotype an entire generation makes less sense than astrology.
I agree with that.
After a dozen years you agree with one of my posts? RC, you're scaring me. :cheers:
I have actually agreed with you on lotsa things. You just focus on what we don't agree on.
I used to have a friend in Austin who said if he took a nap in the afternoon he was almost guaranteed of having a sleep paralysis episode that night (complete with the Old Hag kneeling on his chest). I've never been able to pinpoint any triggers for my own incidents of night terrors but I have the strongest feeling I'm going to have one tonight, so I think I'll go up and say goodnight and then sleep downstairs.
I love deli mustard
If you want to see REAL racism, it's how the fake nooz & big tech is treating Black People who speak out against the Systematic Racism Narrative being promoted by AntiFa & the BLM...
It's racist when a black person has a social media account suspended or deleted because they believe they've never encountered a racist cop, because they've never talked back at a cop...
Heck, it's racist how the major networks cut away for commentary EVERY TIME Black People spoke at The Republican National Convention last week!
Isn't the rock group Weezer from Kenosha?
Have they said anything about the riots?
Lots of butterflies around my butterfly bush today.....
Almost wasn't expecting any this year...
This site still has an option for AIM, but AIM shut down more than a year ago...
And apparently Yahoo Messenger is also gone. :bluesad:
And there are alternate servers for AIM.
I totally remember aol aim lol :thumbup:
wow its been along time
Yup, Still got my MSN, AOL & Yahoo accounts, & they all work But I don't think those old messenger services still exist....
Truth is, I always hated IM services anyway...
Quote from: LilCerberus on August 31, 2020, 11:57:32 AM
Isn't the rock group Weezer from Kenosha?
Have they said anything about the riots?
Weezer hasn't said anything in
years about anything. Are they broke up? I liked the song about the hash pipe! :thumbup:
They played with Green Day? And Fall Out Boys! I wouldn't pay 5 cents to see that concert. That would be aural torture!
^Agree & Agree^
We missed out at watching lightning bugs in my nieces garden this summer. Such a bummer.
Okay Verbal, but the second greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making fire-engine red tights look like a valid fashion statement.
I met a woman so ignorant she argued with me that the flag of Scotland was "another form of Confederate flag." I even tried to show her online and she said, "I don't need to look at your misinformation."
Quote from: ER on September 03, 2020, 01:46:43 PM
I met a woman so ignorant she argued with me that the flag of Scotland was "another form of Confederate flag." I even tried to show her online and she said, "I don't need to look at your misinformation."
I am not even going to start on taking that one appart, as easy as it would be.
Quote from: Alex on September 03, 2020, 02:02:41 PM
Quote from: ER on September 03, 2020, 01:46:43 PM
I met a woman so ignorant she argued with me that the flag of Scotland was "another form of Confederate flag." I even tried to show her online and she said, "I don't need to look at your misinformation."
I am not even going to start on taking that one appart, as easy as it would be.
There are some dumb, dumb, dumb people in this world.
Could've told her it date back to the 1500s, well before America existed, well technically....
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51g%2BzNwinJL._AC_SY355_.jpg)
It's probably even earlier than that, isn't it? People blame the US for Columbus, too, yet the US wouldn't exist for another three-hundred years and Columbus never set foot here. Like I said, lot of dumb, dumb, dumb people out there.
Quote from: ER on September 03, 2020, 02:37:37 PM
It's probably even earlier than that, isn't it? People blame the US for Columbus, too, yet the US wouldn't exist for another three-hundred years and Columbus never set foot here. Like I said, lot of dumb, dumb, dumb people out there.
Yes, we were named after some guy named Amerigo Vespucci...
Well, Kenye West is no longer on the ballot in The Commonwealth Of Virginia...........
Quote from: LilCerberus on September 03, 2020, 04:03:19 PM
Well, Kenye West is no longer on the ballot in The Commonwealth Of Virginia...........
Good or bad news?
Quote from: Alex on September 03, 2020, 04:17:55 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on September 03, 2020, 04:03:19 PM
Well, Kenye West is no longer on the ballot in The Commonwealth Of Virginia...........
Good or bad news?
Don't know, don't care, don't matter....
Only once have I been tempted to buy a bumper sticker. it said CAUSAL. And I thought that was great. Just that one word: CAUSAL.
CAUSAL. I need one too. :drink:
Sick again.....
I hate my life.....
Watching Night Of The Lepus on Svenghoulie...
Still not sure why this was in the one scene in The Matrix...
I stepped in some old grey/ green dog s**t yesterday and had to scrap it out with a flathead screwdriver the bottom of my boot treads.
For no apparent reason I think I'll make lasagna & garlic bread for dinner, the scary part, for me at least, is that I decided on this after reading RC's last post.
How come on TV they can say, "Don't prick your finger" but they can't say that sentence in reverse order?
Every time I see someone eating a hamburger I'm disgusted to wonder just how many different dead cows are ground up together in that thing. It's really a sick concept to me. Ground-up dead cow bodies smoothed together.
Quote from: ER on September 19, 2020, 01:11:55 AM
Every time I see someone eating a hamburger I'm disgusted to wonder just how many different dead cows are ground up together in that thing. It's really a sick concept to me. Ground-up dead cow bodies smoothed together.
You've just made me want a burger for breakfast.
Then I shall not have lived in vain.
So far this year we've had the covid 19 pandemic, and here in California, the wildfires, also I seem be spending a good part of the weekends working on cost estimates for various projects just to catch up on my Monday thru Friday job. Last night I was watching TV with my wife and feeling sorry for myself, at about 11:30 PM there was a 4.6 earthquake, the epicenter was about 2 miles from my home. I'm going to take that as a subtle hint that things can always get worse, covid 19 will pass, the wildfires will be put out, and I'm fortunate in these times to to have a job that I can do from home. All in all I'm pretty well off.
Quote from: ER on September 19, 2020, 01:11:55 AM
Every time I see someone eating a hamburger I'm disgusted to wonder just how many different dead cows are ground up together in that thing. It's really a sick concept to me. Ground-up dead cow bodies smoothed together.
That's why I never understood food fights.
Quote from: ER on September 19, 2020, 01:11:55 AM
Every time I see someone eating a hamburger I'm disgusted to wonder just how many different dead cows are ground up together in that thing. It's really a sick concept to me. Ground-up dead cow bodies smoothed together.
Think of it in video game terms: When you eat a burger, you collect more souls than from eating a steak, because you are killing several cows at once!
Quote from: indianasmith on September 19, 2020, 02:25:46 PM
Quote from: ER on September 19, 2020, 01:11:55 AM
Every time I see someone eating a hamburger I'm disgusted to wonder just how many different dead cows are ground up together in that thing. It's really a sick concept to me. Ground-up dead cow bodies smoothed together.
Think of it in video game terms: When you eat a burger, you collect more souls than from eating a steak, because you are killing several cows at once!
Been wandering lately what someone would do with the soul of another, say if somebody were to make a deal with the devil to collect the souls of others.....
You can use them to level up, or to buy items at the Firelink Shrine.
Quote from: indianasmith on September 19, 2020, 07:08:22 PM
You can use them to level up, or to buy items at the Firelink Shrine.
I was gonna use them to play with, in a little box, when I go to Hell............
I want to go to Evermore, in Utah.
Hmm...
The Mulberry tree & lilac that are closest to my garage don't look well at all...
Won't really know until next Spring...
Still, If they "are" kaput, I could buy a PC projector module & use that wall for a screen.........
I like Candy Corn!
There, I said it!
Thinkin'.......
Used t' be, you could get a thermal union suit or a set o' thermals in shorts & sleeveless, or with short sleeves........
Nowadays, if y' want 'em like that, y' hafta cut off the arms & legs...
& unless y' find 'em used, they're not cheap...
Daylight savings, & I had bad insomnia.....
God, I love to complain!
Wow, those trump2020 statements are suddenly looking very out of touch.
Quote from: Alex on November 07, 2020, 03:13:34 PM
Wow, those trump2020 statements are suddenly looking very out of touch.
When have they haven't? :drink:
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 07, 2020, 03:16:02 PM
Quote from: Alex on November 07, 2020, 03:13:34 PM
Wow, those trump2020 statements are suddenly looking very out of touch.
When have they haven't? :question:
Not as bad as Jimmy Kimball describing Trump voters.
Boy, did
"he" come across as an absolute space cadet!
Jimmy Kimmel? He was on MTV once. I don't watch Jimmy Kimmel or any talking head. I kinda sort facts in my head, you know, my brain- and things come out processed in my brain!
Jimmy Kimmel is not going to process my Brain. Even if I'm on a plate!
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Quote from: RCMerchant on November 07, 2020, 03:46:52 PM
Jimmy Kimmel? He was on MTV once. I don't watch Jimmy Kimmel or any talking head. I kinda sort facts in my head, you know, my brain- and things come out processed in my brain!
Jimmy Kimmel is not going to process my Brain. Even if I'm on a plate!
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Or a boat or a plane!
Sam I am!
I DO like green eggs and ham!
Not such a bad movie...
Rewatching Them! (1954) on Svenghoulie...
Awful lot of Wilhelm screams....
^ I have that in a clamshell vhs box. For over 20 years. :cheers:
I watched it a lot, way back when!
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 07, 2020, 10:10:16 PM
^ I have that in a clamshell vhs box. For over 20 years. :cheers:
I watched it a lot, way back when!
THEM! is a good movie!
I just saw a commercial that said " Pepsi is Made for Football!"
I thought it was made to drink?
http://youtu.be/f6aCuVkEA-0 (http://youtu.be/f6aCuVkEA-0)
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 07, 2020, 10:39:54 PM
I just saw a commercial that said " Pepsi is Made for Football!"
I thought it was made to drink?
http://youtu.be/f6aCuVkEA-0 (http://youtu.be/f6aCuVkEA-0)
According to Wikipedia-
'The Dwarves are an American punk rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois, United States, as The Suburban Nightmare, in the mid-1980s. They are currently based in San Francisco, California.[1] Formed as a garage punk band, their career subsequently saw them move in a hardcore direction before settling into an eclectic punk rock sound emphasizing intentionally shocking lyrics. They have been described as "one of the last true bastions of punk rock ideology in the contemporary musical age" '
Of course its wikipedia. It may be a plan to f**k up our precious bodily fluids!
I am tired.
RIP Bert Belasco
Jeez! That new ad for Tropical Smoothie Cafe wants me to put their entire marketing division against the wall!!! >:( :hatred: :hatred: :hatred: :hatred: :hatred:
Opened the cooler this morning to grab a cherry Coke. When I opened the bottle, I realized something was wrong. Looked at the label; it's a cinnamon Coke. :bluesad:
Making a big pot of chili for supper tonight!
Quote from: pacman000 on December 01, 2020, 10:33:09 AM
Opened the cooler this morning to grab a cherry Coke. When I opened the bottle, I realized something was wrong. Looked at the label; it's a cinnamon Coke. :bluesad:
We get those every x-mas season over here. I like the taste of it.
Found a Centipede arcade game by the road yesterday morning, but I could not lift it into my truck. Someone offered to help, but if even if we'd gotten it into the truck, I would'nt have had anyone to help get it out. Got someone to help lift, & went back after work to see if we could get the Centipede cabinet. It was gone. Yesterday was trash day, so there may be one fewer Centipede machine in the world.
Then again, the machine's back & top panel had come off, & they were still sitting by the road. I'd think the trash men would've picked those up, so maybe there's hope? I would've at least liked the bevel. (Top label.) Most of the other cabinet graphics had worn off. There was a tag hanging on the back of the monitor which said it had new caps, but I don't know how old that was. The folks who owned the business said it froze. The monitor had burn-in from a Pac-Man or Ms. Pacman game, visible even with the game off.
So, yeah, not in good condition. But still sad. :bluesad:
RIP Walter E Williams
RIP Chuck Yeager
Sigh . . . three co-workers out sick; one's son has COVID, two others are pending COVID tests. Two of my students tested positive, and three more are home sick pending tests.
I feel like a duck in a shooting gallery, with viral particles splattering all around me.
My turn's bound to come up soon.
I hope not, Indy. I hope not.
It occurs to me, those toy Mandolorian Blasters on eBay look something like the Bergmann 1896 autopistol, which in a way, would be keeping with tradition...............
^ speaking of which I'm featured on the waltham Skatepark instagram today https://www.instagram.com/p/CIlItHxAwHa/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/CIlItHxAwHa/) 50 50 too fakie a couple summers ago
Quote from: lester1/2jr on December 09, 2020, 11:35:21 PM
^ speaking of which I'm featured on the waltham Skatepark instagram today https://www.instagram.com/p/CIlItHxAwHa/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/CIlItHxAwHa/) 50 50 too fakie a couple summers ago
OH! Wipe out!
Better than I could ever do, for sure! Kudos, man! :thumbup:
I put on roller skates and fall down just trying to stand up straight.
I was no fun at the roller rink. I just went to see the pretty girls and hang out with my freinds.
" I just went to see the pretty girls and hang out with my freinds." I before e except after c
The lack of any logical relationship between the text of Amazon reviews and the star ratings people give them p**ses me off way more than it should.
Here's a couple for the same movie:
"The dvd was in good condition, and was sooooo worth it! Can't wait to watch it and see how bad it is! :D" Rating: 5 stars, even though she hasn't seen it yet and expects it to be bad.
"3 of my campy horror movie night pals watched this with me... they said I couldn't give it away for free!!!! They all hated it as well. I'm going to see if it burns better than it plays..." Rating: 3 stars.
Quote from: lester1/2jr on December 10, 2020, 02:43:33 PM
" I just went to see the pretty girls and hang out with my freinds." I before e except after c
Thanks, les, I Kneeded that spelling lesson from yu.
Can yu teach me mor?
Maybe I should use capitals? Ya know the BIG letters that begin a sentence?
Oh yeah, I do. Try it sometime.
Dragon fire, Quagsire, Ducks in a Row
What? You said post something random, right?
My son Eddie is coming over in a little while. :thumbup:
I aint seen him in about a month!
My kid's and Tiana are my best friends. Everyone else is dead or gone.
I a'm grateful for what I have.
I hope every one has a peaceful Christmas.
RIP Charley Pride
Bought SIZE @ 109.87.
Sold SIZE @ 111.02.
I survived a full semester of teaching over 100 little germ-spewing fountains of pestilence (by which I mean teenagers) without contracting COVID!!
Rev - whats your opinion on AMC
A feel good story!
Blowing up Trump Casino!
http://youtu.be/YUCqSFPGrXw (http://youtu.be/YUCqSFPGrXw)
Quote from: lester1/2jr on December 18, 2020, 11:40:11 PM
Rev - whats your opinion on AMC
I don't have a real one, sorry. I would be tempted to gamble on buying them low thinking the industry will recover soon, but that's a complete uneducated guess with absolutely nothing to support it.
My stock-picking strategy is to follow some other guy's strategy. And I almost always trade ETFs rather than individual stocks.
yeah I'm thinking of buying some purely speculative shares
Quote from: lester1/2jr on December 19, 2020, 03:01:08 PM
yeah I'm thinking of buying some purely speculative shares
It's fine as long as you think of it as gambling, and you have the extra money to spare.
I'm rich from hundreds of skate clip views
I went to the dentist today to see about getting a broken tooth pulled...
The dentist took some x-rays & said I need to get an additional six pulled...
The next appointment isn't until January 5, so I'm going to show my x-rays to my Step-Dad, a retired dentist.
I'm missing about 8 teeth... and I'm 58. Sounds about right.
I almost forgot, it's Festivus!
May your poles be high in tensile strength, may your feats of strength be mighty, and may your grievances be aired without future malice!
I'm tired of websites which rely on client-side scripting.
Finally broke down & ordered a new microphone capsule for my Zoom H5 recorder today...
Now that I've blown the money, I'll probably accidentally find the old one after eight or nine months of looking........ :lookingup:
2020 ends with full moon fever.........
I think i will try and get an apartment. I can't stand to be around Tiana talking to her online boyfreind. It hurts. I'm done.
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 31, 2020, 11:01:57 AM
I think i will try and get an apartment. I can't stand to be around Tiana talking to her online boyfreind. It hurts. I'm done.
Yeah, apparently those online things really make spouses upset.
whine wring hands complain
whine wring hands complain
me me me me me ...
In American Psycho the book Patrick Batemen repeatedly RENTS Body Double. The notion of actually buying a VHS video was so absurd that even a guy who's rich wouldn't think to do it
My scrotum is currenlt bruised and swollen and frightening to look at. :buggedout:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 08, 2021, 02:54:24 PM
My scrotum is currenlt bruised and swollen and frightening to look at. :buggedout:
Rev, I told you,
gently break up with that soccer player.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 08, 2021, 02:54:24 PM
My scrotum is currenlt bruised and swollen and frightening to look at. :buggedout:
Rev, I told you, witch doctors give terrible vasectomies.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 08, 2021, 02:54:24 PM
My scrotum is currenlt bruised and swollen and frightening to look at. :buggedout:
Rev, I told you, approach the goat carefully when milking her for the first time.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 08, 2021, 02:54:24 PM
My scrotum is currenlt bruised and swollen and frightening to look at. :buggedout:
Rev, I told you to explain to the new French guy in the office that "breaking your balls" only means to tease you.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 08, 2021, 02:54:24 PM
My scrotum is currenlt bruised and swollen and frightening to look at. :buggedout:
Rev, I told you, start slowly in learning to throw a boomerang.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 08, 2021, 02:54:24 PM
My scrotum is currenlt bruised and swollen and frightening to look at. :buggedout:
Rev, I told you drinking vodka with a 300-pound babooshka would lead to trouble.
Moving on....
How's the weather? It's sunny but cool here.
Karma is indeed a b***h.
Honolulu baby, where'd ya get those eyes?
I read about Facebook algorithm and I still don't know what it means. There's mention of "organic reach" and I'm like, ok.
Algorithm without Facebook seems complicated enough. We didn't learn about that in school.
Quote from: claws on January 15, 2021, 03:21:41 AM
I read about Facebook algorithm and I still don't know what it means. There's mention of "organic reach" and I'm like, ok.
Algorithm without Facebook seems complicated enough. We didn't learn about that in school.
There isn't a single "Facebook algorithm." There's one algorithm for determining which friends to suggest, one for which ads to display, etc. The algorithms themselves are too complicated for lay people to understand, all you need to know is that a computer program makes decisions about what to display to you based on its analysis of what you click on.
I wish StompTokyo still had a working list of reviews. :bluesad:
We need to bring back the word "ye" & only use "you" when referring to an individual person, not a group.
No propane for two days.
That means no heat, no hot water, and no stove to cook on.
I'M COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sorry; our house is on natural gas, but we sell bottles of propane @ work. It's hard to get them right now; companies have been holding back shipments because we're in a red zone. (If memory serves.) We did get some in before Xmas.
Quote from: pacman000 on January 15, 2021, 06:41:56 PM
I'm sorry; our house is on natural gas, but we sell bottles of propane @ work. It's hard to get them right now; companies have been holding back shipments because we're in a red zone. (If memory serves.) We did get some in before Xmas.
Wait, is this you?
(https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/48828563.jpg)
:bouncegiggle: No; we sell hardware. Propane bottles are a relatively recent addition.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 15, 2021, 08:56:48 AM
Quote from: claws on January 15, 2021, 03:21:41 AM
I read about Facebook algorithm and I still don't know what it means. There's mention of "organic reach" and I'm like, ok.
Algorithm without Facebook seems complicated enough. We didn't learn about that in school.
There isn't a single "Facebook algorithm." There's one algorithm for determining which friends to suggest, one for which ads to display, etc. The algorithms themselves are too complicated for lay people to understand, all you need to know is that a computer program makes decisions about what to display to you based on its analysis of what you click on.
I'd figured as much. Either way, the "Facebook Algorithm" got it mostly wrong with the stuff they are recommending and showing me on Facebook. For some reason they think I'm a gamer who likes east european women and enjoy streaming. I don't do any of that and I have never clicked on such things.
NorthernLight, the late 90's search engine, still exists in a limited capacity: https://millie.northernlight.com/dashboardfolder.php
I'm getting Adolf Hitler book recommendations in ads here. RC needs to tone down his Hitler admiration :bouncegiggle:
Usually ads are based on your browsing history. What other sites do you go to?
Quote from: claws on January 16, 2021, 11:20:41 AM
I'm getting Adolf Hitler book recommendations in ads here. RC needs to tone down his Hitler admiration :bouncegiggle:
Huh? I admire Hitler? News to me!
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Quote from: pacman000 on January 16, 2021, 12:44:41 PM
Usually ads are based on your browsing history. What other sites do you go to?
Lots, but this is the only forum I visit that is full of Hitler gifs and whatnot :buggedout:
Still no propane. A friend loaned us a couple of electric heaters, but damn, I'm cold.
The mass exodus from Twitter & FaceBook has been pretty explosive......
speaking of badmovies...the slo mo effect I attempted failed and it uploaded into not widescreen which obscured all the stuff on the sides https://www.instagram.com/p/CKN2H9Mhdss/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/CKN2H9Mhdss/) I'm the Ed Wood of skateboarding
Quote from: lester1/2jr on January 19, 2021, 10:57:13 PM
speaking of badmovies...the slo mo effect I attempted failed and it uploaded into not widescreen which obscured all the stuff on the sides https://www.instagram.com/p/CKN2H9Mhdss/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/CKN2H9Mhdss/) I'm the Ed Wood of skateboarding
You're a better skater than I lester1/2jr
At least you
can...http://youtu.be/Y5KsCmWdhSo (http://youtu.be/Y5KsCmWdhSo)
thank you! that thing was big and slippery and not exactly easy to skate but I did try
Whenever I see this thread pop up now, I always seem to read it as "Random Statements About Something NOBODY Cares About, the insurrection."
Star Insurrection would be a good title for a Star W....um...A Space Opera, not related to any property owned by The Walt Disney Company. :wink:
Wonder if he'll see these?
Ten pieces of advice I wish I could give my younger self:
1. Let go of the racquet when you dive.
2. Take out a big life insurance on him.
3. Accept that your mother is even crazier than you.
4. Let the a***ole deal with his own f**king grief.
5. Don't worry so much!
6. Bring your dog to college with you.
7. Begin reading graphic novels earlier in life.
8. Don't set foot in England.
9. Nevermind what Jackie would've thought about it.
10. Memorize the lottery numbers I am sending you.
Cult of Trump!
Cult of Trump!
Cult of Trump!
We're called CONSERVATIVES, and we existed long before Trump, we existed long before talk radio, and we'll exist for a long time to come!
Look, I'm 57 years old.
I was a Reagan conservative.
TRUMPISM is NOT conservatism. It's fiscally irresponsible, isolationist, hateful, and authoritarian to the point of quasi-fascism.
Trumpism is so at odds with the conservatism I embraced as a young man that it has driven me from the Republican Party in shame.
No one seems to care about Meisho Amusement Machines. Sure, most of their rides were clones of other manufactures' rides, but they did make the first roller coaster taller than 200'.
Why do you suppose Bender would want someone to bite his shiny metal ass? Does he not feel pain? For that matter would Red Foreman truly want to put his foot up someone's ass? Up it? The mindset of TV characters in relation to asses can be puzzling.
There's a lot of different forms of conservatism. Depending on your view, Trump could either be a Paleoconservative or a Right-Wing Populist. Regan might be a Movement Conservative or Neoconservative. (This is just from skimming some articles on Wikipedia, linked below.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoconservatism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_populism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_conservatism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_conservatism
A paleo conservative wouldn't have hired john bolton to run foreign policy
He's a nationalist mostly the rest of the stuff is window dressing. an American Hugo Chavez!
I don't think Trump has any philosophy or convictions, just egotism and knee jerk reactions. He didn't even bother to create a platform for his second term. I think his supporters project their own beliefs and desires onto him.
Quote from: pacman000 on January 25, 2021, 02:35:50 PM
There's a lot of different forms of conservatism. Depending on your view, Trump could either be a Paleoconservative or a Right-Wing Populist. Regan might be a Movement Conservative or Neoconservative. (This is just from skimming some articles on Wikipedia, linked below.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoconservatism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_populism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_conservatism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_conservatism
Those are interesting.
I wish I could find a political label I'd be comfortable claiming so I could self-identify with something and feel like I fit in, but so far I've never found it.
I place great value on free expression, and I do have libertarian tendencies, mostly based on "leave it alone/leave me alone" but I see a lot of selfishness in libertarians I can't admire.
I do admire much of what is described in your links above as "traditional conservatism" though I don't always embody that because I am simply not a conformist at heart. (Neo-conservatism makes my skin crawl.)
Of all philosophies the one I seem most at odds with at this stage of my life is that of the far left, which strikes me as the cradle of intolerance.
All in all I'm not a deeply political person at all.
But, hey, good read up there with those links, pac!
I'm finding westerns are relaxing to watch in the winter, those deserts looking so warm & cozy on these short, cool days...
Covid-19 has totally ruined the tradition of crashing the buffet at a bris after-party.
Ever noticed Bolivia and Columbia are shaped a lot alike?
It's as if the aliens who run the matrix we all live in ran out of ideas and went, "Ah, use the same country twice. It's South America. No one will notice."
Kinda like how they recycled Africa by turning it sideways and shrinking it to make Australia.
I bet if I kept looking I'd find other examples....
Turn the UK sideways to the left 90 degrees and then look at Europe.
Quote from: Alex on January 30, 2021, 11:21:48 AM
Turn the UK sideways to the left 90 degrees and then look at Europe.
Definitely another clue....
Every time I see Family Feud in the TV listings, I can't help wondering if you put an "R" in there.....
Then it would be Family Freud...
Boy, would that be a weird game show......
Where does one turn, when the 12mm socket is too small, & the 13mm socket is too big? :question: :question: :question:
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 06, 2021, 03:29:23 PM
Where does one turn, when the 12mm socket is too small, & the 13mm socket is too big? :question: :question: :question:
To.... the makers of 12.5 mm tools, mayhaps?
Quote from: ER on February 06, 2021, 03:42:03 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 06, 2021, 03:29:23 PM
Where does one turn, when the 12mm socket is too small, & the 13mm socket is too big? :question: :question: :question:
To.... the makers of 12.5 mm tools, mayhaps?
In terms of bolts & millimeters, I'm not sure any such animal exists.......
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 06, 2021, 04:59:44 PM
Quote from: ER on February 06, 2021, 03:42:03 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 06, 2021, 03:29:23 PM
Where does one turn, when the 12mm socket is too small, & the 13mm socket is too big? :question: :question: :question:
To.... the makers of 12.5 mm tools, mayhaps?
In terms of bolts & millimeters, I'm not sure any such animal exists.......
This set includes a 12.5mm. https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1BXSuKFXXXXbNXpXXq6xXFXXXb/R-DEER-chromium-vanadium-steel-20pcs-72T-1-2-12-5mm-ratchet-spanner-socket-set-NO.jpg (https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1BXSuKFXXXXbNXpXXq6xXFXXXb/R-DEER-chromium-vanadium-steel-20pcs-72T-1-2-12-5mm-ratchet-spanner-socket-set-NO.jpg)
Maybe I'll just use pre-drilled holes & a set of channel locks...........
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 06, 2021, 03:29:23 PM
Where does one turn, when the 12mm socket is too small, & the 13mm socket is too big? :question: :question: :question:
Vice grips.
The acronym GOAT is overused in sports, but when it comes to Tom Brady, it just might apply . . .
I think I watched a western last night....
I'm not entirely sure because it was directed by Peter Fonda...
:lookingup: :lookingup: :lookingup: :lookingup: :lookingup:
I still can't figure out who these addicts are in the new twelve step group, Q Anonymous.,....
What are they, a group to deprogram fans of actor John de Lancie, or rabid fans of actor Desmond Llewelyn?
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 10, 2021, 09:14:33 PM
I still can't figure out who these addicts are in the new twelve step group, Q Anonymous.,....
What are they, a group to deprogram fans of actor John de Lancie, or rabid fans of actor Desmond Llewelyn?
Former Quetzalcoatl worshipers?
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSLh2c9kLnuG3uVSzPzFqWV2C1YHF49gucXS0p37NecOWgdRHlA)
^Oh yeah, that would be a pretty terrible addiction!^
I dunno 'bout that; the stop-mo looks pretty good in the clips I've seen.
There's just something miserably self-deprecating about having a thought and assuming nobody cares about it. I admit I've known people who could be shouting, "I'm on fire! I'm on fire!" and nobody would look their way, but fug-sakes, I mean as a rule surely somebody somewhere is likely to give two shakes about what you're randomly thinking.
Now granted I'm coming at this from an angle of being somebody who has commanded a bit of attention in her life, but I can't imagine the degree of self-loathing necessary to truly believe that something a person has to say is utterly beyond the pale of any shred of shared interest. Sure, I've posted here quite a bit in this thread, but more because it's here than out of a core belief that no one cares about what I'm thinking. What must it be like to consider oneself and conclude all personal cogitation to be beyond a pity-listen? Even the class-nerds we all dealt with in college, the sorts who'd hold up the instructor to tell a story the nerd hoped would demonstrate a personal appreciation for the subject on hand, got some feedback based on the input.
There's something so masochistically bleak about the concept behind this thread that has always made me feel like sending over chocolate and preference-appropriate pornography to anyone posting here who actually does think nobody cares. So if you're one such person.....I care. Yes. I care.....
Don't approach me or PM me for an elbow bump or try to claim that aforementioned chocolate and wank-material, and don't think it makes us soul mates or cycle buddies or entitles you to be buried in my cemetery plot, or assume I am going to name my next pet after your favorite movie hero, but....I care.
Yes, I care. I do. I do care.
And to prove that I will think about considering giving positive karma to someone who posts here in the doldrums of low self-confidence at some future date. I may not...but I may. May.
Just to show I care.
About you.
And your random thoughts.
You are valued and loved. From a distance. A great, great distance. Far from me.
Which I hope makes you feel warm and safe somewhere inside.
That's kind.
Deep down I still suspect that when one reaches kraken here a special kraken-only forum opens up where the really cool kids hang out, and krakens get invitations for secret movie screenings, and chat-times with famous actors and directors.
Plus a key to the hidden kraken restroom.
Quote from: ER on February 15, 2021, 12:02:35 PM
Deep down I still suspect that when one reaches kraken here a special kraken-only forum opens up where the really cool kids hang out, and krakens get invitations for secret movie screenings, and chat-times with famous actors and directors.
Plus a key to the hidden kraken restroom.
Not so cool. We just stand around and smoke pot.
Actually- that is pretty cool. Unless were trading make-up tips. That's always exciting.
I filed my taxes this morning.
I wonder if anyone here has ever posted while in the bathroom.
^That would be difficult- unless I s**t my pants while in my computer room.
RIP Rush Hudson Limbaugh III
You awakened so many.
f**k Rush Limbaugh.
If anyone was awakened, someone had the volume on their radio LOUD. :thumbdown: :smile:
Ugh!!!
As much as I despise the current administration, an what they've managed to accomplish so far (if you can call it accomplished), every time somebody says the word "impeach", I have to point to the line of succession....
^ It's been a month! :buggedout:
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Quote from: RCMerchant on February 21, 2021, 04:53:36 AM
^ It's been a month! :buggedout:
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Yeah, and a pretty crazy one, no matter which side of the aisle yer on!
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
When I listen to metal,
MY NEIGHBORS DO TOO! :drink:
http://youtu.be/cbyswHABG3Q (http://youtu.be/cbyswHABG3Q)
(I'm still and always a metal head in heart! It never goes away!) :thumbup:
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 21, 2021, 12:16:43 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 21, 2021, 04:53:36 AM
^ It's been a month! :buggedout:
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Yeah, and a pretty crazy one, no matter which side of the aisle yer on!
Cerb, my friend, it's a crazy month for every day of most of our lives.
It's a cesspool off s**t- and were the beans and corn. We're all going down the same s**tter.
So just enjoy yourself when you can. You only get one life. Please don't be angry.
Just do what gets you high! I been in jail over 30 times and worked at a canning company as a machine operator for 30 years. I had to quit 6 years ago, after I had 4 heart surgeries. Me sweetie is gonna move in with her internet boyfriend soon. I been with her for 9 years.
Nothing is easy- and putting your faith in politics? Some rich f**kers you don't know?
I'd rather just go about trying to figure out how to balance the bills, and hang out with my kids, when I get the chance. Just go day by day, as they say in AA.
Fretting about politics, no matter which side your on...just seems bad . It's not helping your mental health.
I hope you find peace.
http://youtu.be/ncMYyadNXJw (http://youtu.be/ncMYyadNXJw)
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 20, 2021, 10:56:04 PM
Ugh!!!
As much as I despise the current administration, an what they've managed to accomplish so far (if you can call it accomplished), every time somebody says the word "impeach", I have to point to the line of succession....
It's the irony that gets me....
I mean, back when Obama was pres, he committed some impeachable offences (which I don't feel like looking up because it's a mute point), but the republicans were afraid to act on them because nobody wanted Biden to take over or for Pelosi to move up....
Now Biden
IS president, and I have to keep reminding my fellow conservatives, They don't want Harris taking over for Biden, they don't want Pelosi taking over for Harris, they don't want Leahy taking over for Pelosi...
There's, like, twenty people we conservatives don't want moving up the food chain, kinda like in that nursery rhyme about the old woman who swallowed a fly...............
It doesn't make me mad, I just find it ironic...........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
"Pelosi taking over for Harris"???
HAVE YOU NEVER READ THE CONSTITUTION?
The ONLY way the Speaker of the House succeeds to the Presidency is if the VP and President both die, or get removed from office, SIMULTANEOUSLY. The Speaker would NEVER succeed to the Vice Presidency. If the VP dies, resigns, or is removed, the President appoints a new VP who has to be approved by both houses of Congress. If the VP succeeds to the Presidency, his first job is to appoint a new VP (as Ford did with Nelson Rockefeller). The Speaker plays no role in that selection.
And besides, no Speaker of the House would ever give up that incredibly powerful role for the powerless and thankless job of Vice President. The Speaker makes and shapes policy every day, the VP only does those things that the President assigns him to do. Other than that, his or her constitutional functions are to preside over the Senate and cast the tie breaking vote.
^Something they didn't teach us in civics class...^
^Thank you, that's very enlightening.^
The title of this thread is..... "Random statements about something nobody cares about..."
It doesn't say, as far as I can tell, "Let's start another divisive, board-killing political thread."
Back to the thread:
Nice is different than good.
Quote from: Zapranoth on February 22, 2021, 11:42:03 PM
The title of this thread is..... "Random statements about something nobody cares about..."
It doesn't say, as far as I can tell, "Let's start another divisive, board-killing political thread."
Well, the reason I posted it here was because I assumed nobody would care...... :smile:
My water just came back on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :drink: :drink: :drink: :cheers:
Quote from: indianasmith on February 23, 2021, 07:30:16 AM
My water just came back on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :drink: :drink: :drink: :cheers:
Congrats.
Quote from: Alex on February 23, 2021, 08:00:32 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on February 23, 2021, 07:30:16 AM
My water just came back on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :drink: :drink: :drink: :cheers:
Congrats.
Off topic: I care about that. :smile:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 23, 2021, 08:41:41 AM
Quote from: Alex on February 23, 2021, 08:00:32 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on February 23, 2021, 07:30:16 AM
My water just came back on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :drink: :drink: :drink: :cheers:
Congrats.
Off topic: I care about that. :smile:
I second that emotion! :thumbup:
Quote from: indianasmith on February 23, 2021, 07:30:16 AM
My water just came back on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :drink: :drink: :drink: :cheers:
:cheers: :cheers:
congrads man
Glad to hear it Indy. :thumbup:
The Commonwealth Of Virginia will legalize marihuana...........................
....................................................................In January, 2024!
GOOGLE it!
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 28, 2021, 07:17:10 PM
The Commonwealth Of Virginia will legalize marihuana...........................
....................................................................In January, 2024!
GOOGLE it!
I'd rather smoke it, but whatever works for you, man.
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 28, 2021, 07:17:10 PM
The Commonwealth Of Virginia will legalize marihuana...........................
....................................................................In January, 2024!
GOOGLE it!
Are you for it? Against it?
Quote from: El Misfit on February 28, 2021, 09:48:47 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 28, 2021, 07:17:10 PM
The Commonwealth Of Virginia will legalize marihuana...........................
....................................................................In January, 2024!
GOOGLE it!
Are you for it? Against it?
I've never really been convinced it should be illegal, even as a kid, even as a radical right winger.....
But, 2024? REALLY??????
Irony being, It's actually been legal in Virginia since 1970, but like most laws pushed through by the people & not the government, it was paid lip service & quickly forgotten...........
We have legalized weed here in MA. really no difference than before
Just tests. You?
And to Think I Can No Longer Walk Down Mulberry Street...
I have an evil booger dog that won't die and has quit going outside to poop, a 92 year old mother in law who is seemingly immortal, and a bank account that seems to be chronically short of funds.
But hey, I'll always have BMDO.
At least until the server crashes beyond repair.
^ Hey Indy. Look on the bright side!
Your an immortal blood drinking being who shall live forever by sapping the life fluid of this puny, otherwise useless cattle!
Well, that's the way I look at it...
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"School is Hell, love is Heaven, we're the Class of '97!"
(I hadn't said that in years....)
I just got back from the dentist...
I had to have two teeth pulled...
I keep trying to open my mouth to see the difference, but the left side of my face is so full of Novocain, all I can do is make this really cool Elvis Presley lip curl!!!!
There's no truth to the rumor that I was born with three nines on my head.
Nearly on 8,000 posts.
I like Depeche Mode.
There, I said it.
My mom used to drive me to school, no bus service, ibid, and she'd listen to 97X "The Rock of the '90s....Now!" and Depeche Mode was half the station's playlist, some mornings. Them, The Cure, U2, the Cocteau Twins, Concrete Blonde, they all take me back to that station and those mornings, back when life was simple and my legs were blocks of ice all winter from having to wear the short plaid skirts of the school uniform. (Never understood why Catholic schools of all places made us wear the most lust-inducing outfit known to humankind, go figger.)
Anyway, Depeche Mode not only kindles the past in my heart, I like their unabashed coked-out '80s dance floor energy and still play them sometimes to this day.
Allow me to demonstrate what musical energy sounds like:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTKJ_itifQg#)
Quote from: Alex on March 05, 2021, 07:43:20 AM
Nearly on 8,000 posts.
Crossed it by 18 now! Congrats!
I've concluded I like people who like movies, more than I like movies.
Quote from: ER on March 13, 2021, 05:05:19 PM
I've concluded I like people who like movies, more than I like movies.
Yeah, I like people too. :cheers:
I get crazy and scream, like everybody on planet earth, but I have been trying to chill in my old age.
http://youtu.be/6NXnxTNIWkc (http://youtu.be/6NXnxTNIWkc)
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 13, 2021, 06:30:50 PM
...I get crazy and scream, like everybody on planet earth, but I have been trying to chill in my old age...
Really? :question: Ya think? :teddyr: :lookingup: :smile: :drink:
Heard that Allan J. McDonald passed away about a week ago...
Apparently, he was the one guy at NASA that said it wasn't safe to launch the Challenger....
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 13, 2021, 10:48:50 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 13, 2021, 06:30:50 PM
...I get crazy and scream, like everybody on planet earth, but I have been trying to chill in my old age...
Really? :question: Ya think? :teddyr: :lookingup: :smile: :drink:
Sometimes. Sometimes I think I am more insane. Who the f**k knows.
Why has this place been so dead the last couple days? Everyone suddenly start hanging out with the cool kids?
Quote from: ER on March 16, 2021, 10:50:10 AM
Why has this place been so dead the last couple days? Everyone suddenly start hanging out with the cool kids?
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :bouncegiggle:
If everyone in the world pulled a wooden popsicle stick through their teeth at exactly the same second, would all the resultant shivering from 7,000,000,000 people heebie-jeebying mess up the planet's rotation?
I almost died skating today https://www.instagram.com/p/CMscI2HgXRG/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/CMscI2HgXRG/)
Quote from: lester1/2jr on March 21, 2021, 08:04:16 PM
I almost died skating today https://www.instagram.com/p/CMscI2HgXRG/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/CMscI2HgXRG/)
If that was you in that video that's awful and I do hope you are all right.
Quote from: ER on March 22, 2021, 12:44:10 PM
Quote from: lester1/2jr on March 21, 2021, 08:04:16 PM
I almost died skating today https://www.instagram.com/p/CMscI2HgXRG/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/CMscI2HgXRG/)
If that was you in that video that's awful and I do hope you are all right.
See, I thought it was funny, because he survived. And he slams his torso into a concrete block, then complains about his butt hurting. Of course, if it turns out Lester has internal injuries, I'll feel bad.
the initial fall was onto my butt on the coping (metal pipe) of the big ramp and that took the most damage. the rest wasn't that bad, but thank you for the concern.
Quote from: lester1/2jr on March 22, 2021, 01:55:53 PM
the initial fall was onto my butt on the coping (metal pipe) of the big ramp and that took the most damage. the rest wasn't that bad, but thank you for the concern.
You did say you were fine and gave a thumbs up or I might have been more concerned. :thumbup:
I think I'd be too afraid of getting hurt skating to enjoy it. Actually that goes for a lot of physical undertakings. Rock climbing, whitewater rafting, skydiving.... Even mountain biking weighs badly on the risk/reward scale. I think I've saved my bravery for other things.
RIP Beverly Cleary
Went to the store today for the 2nd time this year on my tractor. It was 53F., so it was nice out.
Bought bread, pierogis, Shake and Bake (for pork), tobacco and papers, whiskey, and some mac and cheese and chicken from the deli for Tiana's lunch before she goes to work today.
Quote from: LilCerberus on March 16, 2021, 01:11:24 PM
Quote from: ER on March 16, 2021, 10:50:10 AM
Why has this place been so dead the last couple days? Everyone suddenly start hanging out with the cool kids?
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :bouncegiggle:
I was looking threw this thread...just reading because it's fun when your jamming on music.
And I finally get this reference. :bouncegiggle:
I can remember the first horror movie I ever seen at 5 years old, but can't remember what we were talking about a few weeks ago. I think it's called "short term memory loss".
I get that a lot. :lookingup: :wink:
My boss is a wonderful, kind-hearted, altogether decent man and a fine Christian as well.
But his soft, droning voice hits me like a tranquilizer dart during faculty meetings . . . .
I think I drooled on the agenda.
We lost a prince & a rapper today..................
Dang my family is sleeping late today. I been waiting downstairs to surprise them that I'm home but I been waiting for 3 1/2 hours now and it's getting anticlimactic. :bluesad:
I made loaded brownies today. I threw all kind of chopped chocolate bars on the still warm chocolate glaze on the brownies. Should be yum once the glaze cools.
Quote from: claws on April 10, 2021, 06:48:35 AM
I made loaded brownies today. I threw all kind of chopped chocolate bars on the still warm chocolate glaze on the brownies. Should be yum once the glaze cools.
I want to lose two pounds, so I am not going to think about this post at all.
So now that the nooz is interviewing everyone online these days, I keep hearing some sort of alert noise that sounds like the intro to Fish Heads by Barnes & Barnes....
Anybody else notice that???
Watching The Crawling Eye on Svengoolie...
Without my glasses.....
The irony hit me during the opening credits; All those arrows, pointing at things, in different directions....
I'm teaching a small class at my work and there is this guy in there from a south-Asian country, and I do not believe I have ever once seen this person blink, plus he maintains the most intense eye contact of anyone I have maybe ever seen. I'm ready to ask him what that's about. Based on past experience I don't think it's strictly cultural, it's just him.
^ He's an android!
RIP Les McKeown of The Bay City Rollers
Not been able to find anything in the news, but I've been curious about if there were riots after the guilty verdict on the police officer who killed George Floyd was announced?
Quote from: Alex on April 22, 2021, 02:21:03 PM
Not been able to find anything in the news, but I've been curious about if there were riots after the guilty verdict on the police officer who killed George Floyd was announced?
Press is saying it's all rainbows & unicorns, now...........
Quote from: Alex on April 22, 2021, 02:21:03 PM
Not been able to find anything in the news, but I've been curious about if there were riots after the guilty verdict on the police officer who killed George Floyd was announced?
No.
RIP Gregory Edward Jacobs, AKA Shock G
RIP Tawny Kitaen
Quote from: LilCerberus on April 22, 2021, 02:23:18 PM
Quote from: Alex on April 22, 2021, 02:21:03 PM
Not been able to find anything in the news, but I've been curious about if there were riots after the guilty verdict on the police officer who killed George Floyd was announced?
Press is saying it's all rainbows & unicorns, now...........
Well, if all you look at is
Rainbow Brite...
Evidence suggests that dentistry was being practised as long ago as 13,000 years prior to the present.
Bub the zombie from Day of the Dead also appears in Land of the Dead and is still wearing his collar.
RIP Charles Grodin
Why does drinking grape or red pop turn poop green? :question:
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Quote from: RCMerchant on May 22, 2021, 10:51:27 PM
Why does drinking grape or red pop turn poop green? :question:
(https://i.imgur.com/3kidePo.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
I think it's the spinach that goes so well with soda pop.
I just found out I can do a pretty good imitation of this guy in the movie EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL.
(https://i.imgur.com/POU1NcM.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
:bouncegiggle:
All the ghosts or figments of Jack's imagination in The Shining (1980) never blink their eyes.
:buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: You know things are getting weird when BLM is protesting the death of someone named Winston Smith!!!!! :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:
No, Really, Google it!!!!!
If you had a coin between a nickel and a dime, would it be a dickel?
And if you had a coin that was between a dime and a quarter- would it be a quime?
Would a coin between a penny and a nickle be called a pickle? :question:
When you clean the vacuum cleaner, you become a vacuum cleaner cleaner.
So, all week long (except for Friday, Saturday & today), there have been all sorts of reminders that June 6 is D Day...
Yesterday, I learned that June 4 is the anniversary of the day that Marvin Heemeyer trashed Granby, Colorado with a home made tank, only to be overshadowed the following day by the death of Ronald Reagan on June 5.....
I'll never look at this weekend the same way ever again.......
I love my parents, but they are every bad "Old people can't use computers'" cliche in the book.
"I am celluloid, not steel, Oh God of the machine, have mercy, I front dangers whenever I travel the whirling wheels of the mechanism. Over the sprocket wheels, held tight by the idlers, I am forced by the motor's might. If a careless hand misthreads me, I have no alternative but to go to my death. If the pull on the take-up reel is too violent, I am torn to shreds. If dirt collects in the aperture my film of beauty is streaked and marred, and I must face my beholders-A thing shamed and be spoiled. I travel many miles in tin cans, I am tossed on heavy trucks, sideways and upside down. See that I don't become bruised and wounded beyond the power to heal. I am a delicate ribbon of film - misuse me and I disappoint thousands; cherish me, and I delight and instruct the world."
Written by A.P. Hollis, a film distributor for home movies, in 1920.
I hate it when I loose my hat!
And I just had it this morning! :hatred:
Good thing I had more than one hat! :thumbup:
Or else I'd never find peace until I found my hat.
I should study electrolysis for rust removal.....
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" ― Isaac Asimov
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 14, 2021, 08:43:51 PM
I should study electrolysis for rust removal.....
Try using a lump of sacrificial metal that will 'donate' particles to other metals to prevent corrosion in the first place. Can't remember which metals protect which other ones, but I wouldn't imagine it will be hard to find out.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 16, 2021, 09:15:48 AM
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" ― Isaac Asimov
Explains a lot..............
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 16, 2021, 12:07:13 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 16, 2021, 09:15:48 AM
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" ― Isaac Asimov
Explains a lot..............
Go ask Alice, my friend.
Funny how the anniversary of the first national convention of The Republican Party was the same day that General Order No. 3 issued by Union Army General Gordon Granger While stationed in Galveston, TX became recognized as a national holiday......
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 19, 2021, 01:30:07 PM
Funny how the anniversary of the first national convention of The Republican Party was the same day that General Order No. 3 issued by Union Army General Gordon Granger While stationed in Galveston, TX became recognized as a national holiday......
It makes perfect sense to me. Juneteenth commemorates the delivery of the Emancipation Proclamation that unofficially began the Republican Party policy of freeing the slaves from their Democrat Party masters. :cheers:
^Yeah, I suppose, it just sorta makes it seem like a last minute thing in a lot of ways, especially when it turns out to be another thing that Trump tried to get done that democrats were opposed to, then pull a one-eighty on it to make Biden look good.....^
^ I'm so happy you 2 fellas are happy about Juneteenth! :thumbup:
^That's another thing... They coulda' come up with a better name for it, like Order #3 Day or 4G day (for General Gordon Granger from Galveston).... Even the people who refuse to call it Independence Day still call it July 4th..... A name like Juneteenth just leaves me scratching my head.......^
Order 3 Day...yeah. That sounds cool. 4G Day sounds even cooler. ( by the way- this ain't about Gen. Granger- it's about black folks-you gotta take one of the only black holidays- and make it about a white guy?)
And if you say " Why arn't there all white holidays?"- There are. It's called Independence Day. Because that only applied to white males. :lookingup:
I'm scratching my head wondering why you even give a f**k what it's called.
You say your hero Trump wanted it- now you got it!
Do a little dance! Make a little love! Get down tonight! :drink:
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 19, 2021, 06:44:25 PM
^That's another thing... They coulda' come up with a better name for it, like Order #3 Day or 4G day (for General Gordon Granger from Galveston).... Even the people who refuse to call it Independence Day still call it July 4th..... A name like Juneteenth just leaves me scratching my head.......^
I wonder if the Empire or the Jedi ever observed Order 66 day? :question:
The Jedi? :question:
I'm so glad your based in the real world. :thumbup:
Gives me faith in the human race!
Gotta stop that evil Empire, ya know!
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Quote from: zelmo73 on June 19, 2021, 07:22:35 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 19, 2021, 06:44:25 PM
^That's another thing... They coulda' come up with a better name for it, like Order #3 Day or 4G day (for General Gordon Granger from Galveston).... Even the people who refuse to call it Independence Day still call it July 4th..... A name like Juneteenth just leaves me scratching my head.......^
I wonder if the Empire or the Jedi ever observed Order 66 day? :question:
Eh, the Empire probably either celebrated the day Jar Jar Binks gave Palpatine emergency powers in episode 2, or the day Palpatine changed the name to The Empire in episode 3.....
My Ma once hit a guy with her car in downtown Manhattan.
Some moron stood in front of her car and demanded her to stop. She stepped on the gas.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 19, 2021, 07:26:54 PM
The Jedi? :question:
I'm so glad your based in the real world. :thumbup:
Gives me faith in the human race!
Gotta stop that evil Empire, ya know!
(https://i.imgur.com/Iv2OrUy.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
There's something that you should know, RC: Art often imitates life. :cheers:
QuoteWithout Michael Moore and "Fahrenheit 9/11" at the Cannes Film Festival this time, it was left to George Lucas and "Star Wars" to pique European ire over the state of world relations and the United States' role in it.
Lucas' themes of democracy on the skids and a ruler preaching war to preserve the peace predate "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith" by almost 30 years. Yet viewers Sunday — and Lucas himself — noted similarities between the final chapter of his sci-fi saga and our own troubled times.
Cannes audiences made blunt comparisons between "Revenge of the Sith," the story of Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side and the rise of an emperor through warmongering, to President Bush's war on terrorism and the invasion of Iraq.
Two lines from the movie especially resonated:
"This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause," bemoans Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) as the galactic Senate cheers dictator-in-waiting Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) while he announces a crusade against the Jedi.
"If you're not with me, then you're my enemy," Hayden Christensen's Anakin (soon to become villain Darth Vader) tells former mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). The line echoes Mr. Bush's international ultimatum after the Sept. 11 attacks, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
...
Lucas said he patterned his story after historical transformations from freedom to fascism, never figuring when he started his prequel trilogy in the late 1990s that current events might parallel his space fantasy.
"As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things," Lucas said at a Cannes news conference. "I hope this doesn't come true in our country.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sith-invites-bush-comparisons/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sith-invites-bush-comparisons/)
^ Well, thank you Zelmo for that insightful political commentary!
What that has to do with Juneteenth I have no clue.... :lookingup:
WAIT! I see the light! It's like an orgasm! Like Putin quoting Tolstoy!
Obama was Skelator and He-Man is Trump! It's all falling into place!
It's like an epiphany! Or waking up a small sleeping child by dumping a bucket of ice water on him! I can walk again! I am healed!
Or something!
http://youtu.be/32FB-gYr49Y (http://youtu.be/32FB-gYr49Y)
Okay!
Juneteenth is over!
Today we celebrate the acquittal of Lizzie Borden, the murder of Bugsy Siegel, and the release of Jaws.....
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 20, 2021, 11:31:10 AM
Okay!
Juneteenth is over!
Today we celebrate the acquittal of Lizzie Borden, the murder of Bugsy Siegel, and the release of Jaws.....
Oh!
On this day in African American history, Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating selective service laws....
^And he did it with convictions. Trump skirted it by faking being injured.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/ (https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/)
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 20, 2021, 11:36:30 AM
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 20, 2021, 11:31:10 AM
Okay!
Juneteenth is over!
Today we celebrate the acquittal of Lizzie Borden, the murder of Bugsy Siegel, and the release of Jaws.....
Oh!
On this day in African American history, Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating selective service laws....
That conviction is a shameful date in American history. Resisting the draft was Muhammad Ali's greatest achievement and the reason why he is a great person, not just a great athlete. With his money and celebrity he could have easily gotten a deferment or gone to another country. He was willing to give up the best years of his athletic career, and his freedom, to make a conscientious stand against the Vietnam War. And the Supreme Court eventually agreed with him.
No need to point out all the others who took the easy way out. Almost all rich people took the easy way out. As much as I admire Ali for his stand, I fear if I had been of draft age then and had the money, I would have taken the easy way out.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 20, 2021, 02:47:51 AM
...WAIT! I see the light! It's like an orgasm! Like Putin quoting Tolstoy!
Obama was Skelator and He-Man is Trump! It's all falling into place!
It's like an epiphany! Or waking up a small sleeping child by dumping a bucket of ice water on him! I can walk again! I am healed!
Or something...!
Nah... You're just all wet.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 20, 2021, 12:38:50 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 20, 2021, 11:36:30 AM
...Oh! On this day in African American history, Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating selective service laws....
That conviction is a shameful date in American history. Resisting the draft was Muhammad Ali's greatest achievement and the reason why he is a great person, not just a great athlete. With his money and celebrity he could have easily gotten a deferment or gone to another country. He was willing to give up the best years of his athletic career, and his freedom, to make a conscientious stand against the Vietnam War. And the Supreme Court eventually agreed with him...
Brings to mind the whole point of Juneteenth. I wonder how "easily" a black man could have gotten a deferment. Pvt Bone Spurs had no problem.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 20, 2021, 12:38:50 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 20, 2021, 11:36:30 AM
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 20, 2021, 11:31:10 AM
Okay!
Juneteenth is over!
Today we celebrate the acquittal of Lizzie Borden, the murder of Bugsy Siegel, and the release of Jaws.....
Oh!
On this day in African American history, Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating selective service laws....
That conviction is a shameful date in American history. Resisting the draft was Muhammad Ali's greatest achievement and the reason why he is a great person, not just a great athlete. With his money and celebrity he could have easily gotten a deferment or gone to another country. He was willing to give up the best years of his athletic career, and his freedom, to make a conscientious stand against the Vietnam War. And the Supreme Court eventually agreed with him.
No need to point out all the others who took the easy way out. Almost all rich people took the easy way out. As much as I admire Ali for his stand, I fear if I had been of draft age then and had the money, I would have taken the easy way out.
Yes, that was kinda my point.
Thanks Rev.
^ What point? We were talking about what to call Juneteenth.
So what was your problem with Juneteenth?
You had a deal with the name? :bluesad:
This is getting WAY too predictable.
Juneteenth was already a holiday in Texas. The name was well-known, with celebrations across the state. Most folks probably don't know the exact details, but they know it was the day the slaves were freed.
Changing the name would just cause confusion, even if "Order 3 Day" sounds cooler. (I like Juneteenth better, but I'm used to it.)
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 20, 2021, 11:47:10 AM
^And he did it with convictions. Trump skirted it by faking being injured.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/ (https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/)
You actually believe Michael Cohen? Why? Cohen is a liar and a criminal.
Quote from: zelmo73 on June 21, 2021, 02:32:39 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 20, 2021, 11:47:10 AM
^And he did it with convictions. Trump skirted it by faking being injured.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/ (https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/)
You actually believe Michael Cohen? Why? Cohen is a liar and a criminal.
He was Trump's primary legal advisor and "fixer" for nearly 20 years. He's in a position to know. And frankly, he's in a position where telling the truth about his former boss will benefit him more than making stuff up.
Quote from: zelmo73 on June 21, 2021, 02:32:39 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 20, 2021, 11:47:10 AM
^And he did it with convictions. Trump skirted it by faking being injured.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/ (https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/)
You actually believe Michael Cohen? Why? Cohen is a liar and a criminal.
So is his ex-boss.
Ah, jeez!!!
I bring up an African American athlete that deserves to be celebrated, and somebody has to make this about Trump!!!
I'm beginning to think the real "Cult Of Trump" is on the left.........
I agree that everyone, right, left, and middle, needs to move on from Trump--especially on these boards.
Quote from: indianasmith on June 21, 2021, 06:56:38 AM
Quote from: zelmo73 on June 21, 2021, 02:32:39 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 20, 2021, 11:47:10 AM
^And he did it with convictions. Trump skirted it by faking being injured.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/ (https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/)
You actually believe Michael Cohen? Why? Cohen is a liar and a criminal.
He was Trump's primary legal advisor and "fixer" for nearly 20 years. He's in a position to know. And frankly, he's in a position where telling the truth about his former boss will benefit him more than making stuff up.
He's also in a position to lie and say whatever he can to get his prison sentence reduced and to sell more copies of his book. True, Trump isn't Gandhi, but neither is this Cohen scumbag. You
do know that Michael Cohen was a lawyer, right? That should be your very first red flag. :cheers:
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 21, 2021, 11:04:15 AM
Ah, jeez!!!
I bring up an African American athlete that deserves to be celebrated, and somebody has to make this about Trump!!!...
Y'mean this? :
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 20, 2021, 11:36:30 AM
...Oh!
On this day in African American history, Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating selective service laws....
Tap dancing? You can't play both sides against the middle. Really? Celebratory? You're going to pretend that your statement wasn't at all provocative?
^Eh, you're not p**sed off at the statement, you're p**sed off about who it was that said it.^
Iran and Israel both elect "hardliners" so that should be good for the prospect of peace in that region
We had severe thunderstorms last night and Sunday night. Trees down all over. Big ones. We got lucky. Our property is surronded by very large trees. All over town, large trees were down. The house I lived in with Tara down the road has a good sized tree on it's roof.
80 years ago today Operation Barbarossa was launched.
Today, the GI bill turns 77.
The blue octopus married the green octopus to create teal and turquoise octopi.
I can't find the quote thread- but-
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
— Frank Zappa
One of the scripts for Nightmare on Elm Street 3 featured Charles Manson as having been the real child killer while Freddy Krueger had been framed before his murder.
Quote from: Alex on June 23, 2021, 06:58:18 AM
One of the scripts for Nightmare on Elm Street 3 featured Charles Manson as having been the real child killer while Freddy Krueger had been framed before his murder.
If it had been Albert Fish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish) - I can see it.
Manson wasn't a child killer . He was a meglomaniac. He wasn't out to kill for a sex kick- he had other's kill for him because it made him feel like a God. He declared himself Christ and Satan a number of times.
Quote from: Alex on June 22, 2021, 02:32:15 PM
80 years ago today Operation Barbarossa was launched.
That was the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany. The Soviet Union technically defeated Nazi Germany for us. There was just no stopping the Red Army.
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 22, 2021, 12:22:22 PM
^Eh, you're not p**sed off at the statement, you're p**sed off about who it was that said it.^
Nope. Not angry at all, but bemused. You know you were not celebrating that particular person, and it so does not matter, a house of cards.
^Actually, I was, and that's the last I'm going to say... As I said before, this has gotten way too predictable.^
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 20, 2021, 11:36:30 AM
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 20, 2021, 11:31:10 AM
Okay! Juneteenth is over!
Today we celebrate the acquittal of Lizzie Borden, the murder of Bugsy Siegel, and the release of Jaws.....
Oh! On this day in African American history, Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating selective service laws....
Yeh! Honorarium!
It's gonna thunderstorm hear for the next 2 weeks. :buggedout:
https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/d971de41bc7c71c76204318995252314687b9e71b87af47e80e9bff4dfbf1b0f
I just heard that the corpse of Winston Churchill rose from the grave and a TV reporter asked him if their was life after death. He said "No".
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Happy PTSD Awareness Day.....
Bill Cosby just got out of prison on some really unusual sounding technicality.....
bill cosby belongs in prison
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 30, 2021, 12:52:22 PM
Bill Cosby just got out of prison on some really unusual sounding technicality.....
I was curious why it was overturned, too.
Skimming the decision, it appears that one DA offered Cosby immunity from criminal prosecution if he would testify at civil trial. He accepted the deal. Then she retired, and a future DA not only brought criminal charges against Cosby, but used his civil testimony against him. It's pretty damn likely he never would have testified in the first place if they hadn't promised not to bring charges.
Not a fan of Cosby (and he does "deserve" prison, in the moral sense), but this reasoning for overturning the conviction isn't clearly a miscarriage of justice. (It was close, basically a 4-3 decision.)
Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 30, 2021, 02:30:52 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 30, 2021, 12:52:22 PM
Bill Cosby just got out of prison on some really unusual sounding technicality.....
...Skimming the decision, it appears that one DA offered Cosby immunity from criminal prosecution if he would testify at civil trial. He accepted the deal. Then she retired, and a future DA not only brought criminal charges against Cosby, but used his civil testimony against him. It's pretty damn likely he never would have testified in the first place if they hadn't promised not to bring charges.
Not a fan of Cosby (and he does "deserve" prison, in the moral sense), but this reasoning for overturning the conviction isn't clearly a miscarriage of justice. (It was close, basically a 4-3 decision.)
The problem of course is the use of the term "miscarriage of justice". I am reminded of everyone "knowing" OJsimpson was guilty, yet he was acquitted...
The fact that cosby has been released on a "technicality" can seem a miscarriage of justice, but in fact is merely a correction.
The fact that the specific crime was tried and the perpetrator convicted of the crime, jailed and freed, is the miscarriage of justice. Freed or incarcerated; either way is a miscarriage of justice.
Nonetheless cosby's reputation is trash.
Oh, and I just found out Allison Mack was convicted of doing whatever it was she was doing for that sex cult leader....
As of today, it's legal to possess an ounce of weed in the commonwealth of Virginia, albeit, the laws having to do with use, sales, & growing, etc. are still a bit convoluted..........
cereberus- Nicki Clyne is trying to create a post NXIVM persona as this woman who "doesn't see herself as a victim" and its just sad. She may never come to terms with the whole sordidness of what happened
I just found out Nicolas Cage is married. Googling his wife's name provided this interesting tidbit:
How old is Riko Shibata?
227 Years
Nicolas's age is approx 56 years and also married for the fourth time. Recently Riko made the media news headlines, where both are announced their wedding date.
...
Riko Shibata Wiki, Husband, Bio, Parents, Net Worth, Nicolas Cage Wife.
Real Name Riko Shibata
Age 227 Years
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 02, 2021, 09:42:45 AM
I just found out Nicolas Cage is married. Googling his wife's name provided this interesting tidbit:
How old is Riko Shibata?
227 Years
Nicolas's age is approx 56 years and also married for the fourth time. Recently Riko made the media news headlines, where both are announced their wedding date.
...
Riko Shibata Wiki, Husband, Bio, Parents, Net Worth, Nicolas Cage Wife.
Real Name Riko Shibata
Age 227 Years
227 years is fine, so long as she doesn't come with any bees :wink:
Hey- he IS over 100 years old!
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Quote from: lester1/2jr on July 01, 2021, 11:45:14 PM
cereberus- Nicki Clyne is trying to create a post NXIVM persona as this woman who "doesn't see herself as a victim" and its just sad. She may never come to terms with the whole sordidness of what happened
That "is" sad......
It's been months, & I still have one last potted cabbage I have no Idea what to do with.....
I didn't put them all in one place, I planted them in different places around the yard.... I even have one out in the middle of the lawn where I had to uproot a dead lilac....
Back in the spring, I though my liatris had all died, so I mowed them down & planted a catnip plant in their place.... Then the liatris came back with a vengeance, & while the catnip plant is still growing, it's not getting any light & the bugs keep eating the leaves off of it....
Funny thing about my liatris.... In all the pictures I see, the stalks are supposed to bloom all at once, but mine never do....
Mine always bloom at the top, then start working their way down, while dying at the top.....
It's kinda like watching a firecracker or a sparkler burning off on ultra slow motion.....
Here's the bread. You can't borrow the bread. You have to buy it.
Kevin Bacon is 63. For some reason this makes me feel old.
William Smith passed away on Monday.....
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810342/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810342/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm)
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 10, 2021, 01:44:06 PM
William Smith passed away on Monday.....
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810342/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810342/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm)
WILLIAM SMITH is a favorite of mine and stars in one of my favorite cheezee 70s horrors. Good night
WILLIAM, we loved you!
Did you know that a herd of giraffes are called a journey of giraffes?
^hmm, cool^
been watching documentaries about the Kowloon Walled City. honestly it looks like every Chinatown I've ever seen
Long, strange weekend....
President of Haiti murdered....
In Virginia, what was supposed to be the removal of a couple of Confederate statues turns into the surprise removal of multiple historical statues.....
Delegates in Texas head for the hills.
There's marching in Cuba...
There's rioting in South Africa....;
It's like somebody out there wants there to be mass bad karma.....
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 12, 2021, 08:26:50 PM
In Virginia, what was supposed to be the removal of a couple of Confederate statues turns into the surprise removal of multiple historical statues.....
Insulting that they tore down the Sacagewea statue because her scouting stance was seen as "subservient" to the Lewis & Clark "white" statues, which were also torn down by the order of the city council. You know, there are not many Native American monuments to begin with, and I find it ironic that the far left who cries the most about minority culture is also the same far left that is most responsible for erasing Native Americans out of pop culture completely just for the sake of being "woke". :lookingup:
Quote from: zelmo73 on July 13, 2021, 04:44:46 AM
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 12, 2021, 08:26:50 PM
In Virginia, what was supposed to be the removal of a couple of Confederate statues turns into the surprise removal of multiple historical statues.....
Insulting that they tore down the Sacagewea statue because her scouting stance was seen as "subservient" to the Lewis & Clark "white" statues, which were also torn down by the order of the city council. You know, there are not many Native American monuments to begin with, and I find it ironic that the far left who cries the most about minority culture is also the same far left that is most responsible for erasing Native Americans out of pop culture completely just for the sake of being "woke". :lookingup:
For once I agree with Zelmo- knocking down or destroying old statues is moronic.
It doesn't change history or anything else.
^We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.^
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 13, 2021, 07:10:05 AM
Quote from: zelmo73 on July 13, 2021, 04:44:46 AM
...Insulting that they tore down the Sacagewea statue because her scouting stance was seen as "subservient" to the Lewis & Clark "white" statues, which were also torn down by the order of the city council. You know, there are not many Native American monuments to begin with, and I find it ironic that the far left who cries the most about minority culture is also the same far left that is most responsible for erasing Native Americans out of pop culture completely just for the sake of being "woke". :lookingup:
For once I agree with Zelmo- knocking down or destroying old statues is moronic.
Is doesn't change history or anything else.
I agree with
Zelmo too, and it's not my first time. I cannot understand the removal of a Sacajawea statue. It is perplexing.
^it started with calls to take down a statue of George Rogers Clark arranging a parlay with Native Americans in order to build a coalition, which somebody started this lie that caught on, that it actually depicts Clark attacking & massacring the Natives...^
^the BLM movement also has this new line, that "These lands were not only taken from the Native Americans, they were also taken from black people!"^
Not makin' this up..........
^Just because I agree that tearing down statues is stupid, doesn't mean I'm gonna crawl down some political rabbit hole with you.
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^Just statin' the facts^
Groovy, man. Whatever blows your hair back. :thumbup:
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My son Jed, who is 29 now, asked me if life was going to get any better. I said "No. Just different." He laughed his ass off! :bouncegiggle:
My pitch when selling chainsaws: This one's not better; this one's not worse. They're just different, & you pick the one which best suits your needs.
I wonder what Ridley Scott thought of Aliens (1986). I've googled but seem not to find any Scott comments on Cameron's sequel.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 13, 2021, 04:46:18 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 13, 2021, 07:10:05 AM
Quote from: zelmo73 on July 13, 2021, 04:44:46 AM
...Insulting that they tore down the Sacagewea statue because her scouting stance was seen as "subservient" to the Lewis & Clark "white" statues, which were also torn down by the order of the city council. You know, there are not many Native American monuments to begin with, and I find it ironic that the far left who cries the most about minority culture is also the same far left that is most responsible for erasing Native Americans out of pop culture completely just for the sake of being "woke". :lookingup:
For once I agree with Zelmo- knocking down or destroying old statues is moronic.
Is doesn't change history or anything else.
I agree with Zelmo too, and it's not my first time. I cannot understand the removal of a Sacajawea statue. It is perplexing.
Some of my friends and family laughed at me last year because I was so ticked off about it, but what really got me started on this whole Native American erasure thing that is methodically going on now was the removal of the Land Lakes Butter lady. It was such a nonoffensive logo; even if you are offended by such things as the Atlanta Braves or Washington Redskins (now Washington Football Team) there was nothing offensive about it at all. Yes, I know that Land Lakes is the private sector and all that and they can do whatever they want with their business, but watching them cave to such light political pressure just to appear "woke" is just a damned shame. I mean really now...
this offended people?
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Quote from: RCMerchant on July 13, 2021, 06:46:17 PM
My son Jed, who is 29 now, asked me if life was going to get any better. I said "No. Just different." He laughed his ass off! :bouncegiggle:
"As you get older, your joints get more sore and stiffer, and you have to pee more often. Other than that, you're still the same punk kid that you were at 21." That's what I'm going to tell my little boy when he pops that question at me someday. :cheers:
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 13, 2021, 06:00:14 PM
^Just because I agree that tearing down statues is stupid, doesn't mean I'm gonna crawl down some political rabbit hole with you.
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:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: THANK YOU!
Quote from: claws on July 14, 2021, 01:44:33 AM
I wonder what Ridley Scott thought of Aliens (1986). I've googled but seem not to find any Scott comments on Cameron's sequel.
One thing's for sure, the original is superior to all of its sequels and most Scifi/Horror films. :thumbup: :teddyr:
Quote from: zelmo73 on July 14, 2021, 04:29:35 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 13, 2021, 06:46:17 PM
My son Jed, who is 29 now, asked me if life was going to get any better. I said "No. Just different." He laughed his ass off! :bouncegiggle:
"As you get older, your joints get more sore and stiffer, and you have to pee more often. Other than that, you're still the same punk kid that you were at 21." That's what I'm going to tell my little boy when he pops that question at me someday. :cheers:
Well, I don't go to jail no more! (knock on wood).
I don't take a crowbar to my car because it won't start. I've mellowed out. Plus I can't even walk down the street. I have a bad heart. I take a f**king tractor. I can't afford a car. But I live in an area wear I can drive a tractor to the store. Very small town.
I been living around here since 1970.
The best advice my publisher ever gave me: Always carry copies of your books wherever you go.
Since I got my copies of PRESIDENT HAMILTON a week ago, I've sold books at the bank, the insurance company, my school, and now at the grocery store!
Am I the only person who likes the Marmaduke comic strip/panel?
Quote from: pacman000 on July 15, 2021, 12:12:36 PM
Am I the only person who likes the Marmaduke comic strip/panel?
I'd rather watch that movie instead of the
mini-Clifford The Sorta Big Red Dog movie that is coming out soon.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 14, 2021, 04:57:52 PM
Quote from: claws on July 14, 2021, 01:44:33 AM
I wonder what Ridley Scott thought of Aliens (1986). I've googled but seem not to find any Scott comments on Cameron's sequel.
One thing's for sure, the original is superior to all of its sequels and most Scifi/Horror films. :thumbup: :teddyr:
I let my then-3 year old son watch it one night, thinking that the movie's slow pace in the first act would put him to sleep. Instead he stayed up and watched intently the entire 2 hours of the movie, then had me keep rewinding all of the Alien's "gotcha" scenes so he could watch them again. He has seen the movie countless times now and it is one of his all-time favorites. I think I'm raising him quite well. :cheers:
Quote from: pacman000 on July 15, 2021, 12:12:36 PM
Am I the only person who likes the Marmaduke comic strip/panel?
I haven't bought a newspaper in years, but I used to enjoy them.....
Today, everyplace on the internet has been saying Virginia is the best place for businesses......
Meanwhile, the local nooz this afternoon said it was Georgia.....
Tiana investigated an old f**ked up house when she was at her girlfriends in Cass County.
Last week.
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Looks like it would have been a one room school house. That hole is for a stove pipe.
^These places are always cool.^
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 16, 2021, 01:33:07 AM
Tiana investigated an old f**ked up house when she was at her girlfriends in Cass County.
Last week.
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Looks like it would have been a one room school house. That hole is for a stove pipe.
Did she run into any ghosts there? Alaska has a few hundred of these kinds of places.
Danny Trejo knew Charles Manson in prison and was hypnotised by him on at least one occasion.
Every time I see news footage of Cyber Ninjas using those odd looking turn tables for checking ballots, it makes me think of that video of Winny Puh, the one with the drummers hanging on the wall.......................................................................
ON weekends I put on movies I wouldn't normally watch instead of CNBC. some of them are good enough that I will try to eventually watch them for real, like The Texas dynamite robbery. i'm watching drew Barrymore in Doppelganger now. Poison Ivy was a much better use of her talents
Quote from: lester1/2jr on July 18, 2021, 02:43:40 PM
ON weekends I put on movies I wouldn't normally watch instead of CNBC. some of them are good enough that I will try to eventually watch them for real, like The Texas dynamite robbery. i'm watching drew Barrymore in Doppelganger now. Poison Ivy was a much better use of her talents
I recall that DOPPELGANGER was somewhat notorious for Drew's shower scene, which would be cut out on broadcast TV.
You see her post breast reduction surgery but still very nice boobs covered in bloody shower water. I went to the bathroom, and when I came back the movie had gone wildly off the rails
Quote from: Alex on July 17, 2021, 03:03:56 AM
Danny Trejo knew Charles Manson in prison and was hypnotised by him on at least one occasion.
Whoah! Wait a minute?
Danny Trejo?
I don't think Charlie would have the balls to f**k with Danny.
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Quote from: RCMerchant on July 19, 2021, 12:28:51 PM
Quote from: Alex on July 17, 2021, 03:03:56 AM
Danny Trejo knew Charles Manson in prison and was hypnotised by him on at least one occasion.
Whoah! Wait a minute? Danny Trejo?
I don't think Charlie would have the balls to f**k with Danny.
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I'll see if I can find the link. Basically, he convinced him he could give him a spiritual high and convinced him he was feeling as if he'd just injected heroin. When they first met Trejo thought he was just some skinny guy who needed protecting in prison.
There you go RC.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/danny-trejo-charles-manson-prison-b1880585.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/danny-trejo-charles-manson-prison-b1880585.html)
^ That's insane, man! :buggedout:
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^Well, that's creepy. :buggedout:
RIP Dusty Hill
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 28, 2021, 02:36:32 PM
RIP Dusty Hill
:thumbdown:
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Been a down and up day here in Texas.
I woke up at 6 and fell down the stairs - not all the way down, but down the last 4 steps or so, enough to leave me bruised and sore for the rest of the day.
Then I checked out my YouTube channel and saw in the comments of my latest video that someone from China had just read PRESIDENT HAMILTON and left me a short review. Someone in China read my book - how cool is that?
curio du jour
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/movies/silence-of-the-wolves-the-werewolf-1913/article_45d8f1bc-419f-11e7-8c02-6f592742efc8.html?fbclid=IwAR3UQ_xWxmFPtyQHsMU56vIWC-yn7Xx2a_dtIVYL0WpA3nO56zJwq5OqNwI (https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/movies/silence-of-the-wolves-the-werewolf-1913/article_45d8f1bc-419f-11e7-8c02-6f592742efc8.html?fbclid=IwAR3UQ_xWxmFPtyQHsMU56vIWC-yn7Xx2a_dtIVYL0WpA3nO56zJwq5OqNwI)
Might have mentioned this before, but St. Michael's Church in Mondsee has five skeletons on display in the main altar.
(https://reliquariandotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/abbot-konrad-ii.jpg)
That was the wedding church in the Sound of Music. If I can resume my world travels now I wanna see that church for myself.
I just got this T-shirt in the mail! Groovy!
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WTF is "yeet"? :question:
And if I hear that from anyone else I will punch myself in the face.
google it :teddyr:
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 11, 2021, 05:27:46 AM
WTF is "yeet"? :question:
And if I hear that from anyone else I will punch myself in the face.
That word (I think) means an expression of joy or something like that, or someone jumping out of their skin when they get scared, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOT6phfbofE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOT6phfbofE)
The one at 0:32 exactly :teddyr:
First day of in-service training; four more days of meeting and preparation to go, and then I get to see my kids again!
I've also now got EIGHT book signing events scheduled in the next six weekends; I'll be working with NO days off for a while.
It's a great life if you don't weaken!
RIP Nanci Griffith
So, I just found out the Mayfair Withes Trilogy will be getting a series on AMC....
I've only read one of the books, it was, eh, pretty strong for adaptation to the screen......
RIP Charlie Watts
RIP Ed Asner
I keep thinking I should buy a cheap second hand copy of The Tao Of Steve (2000), but it keep occurring to me, I haven't sat down & watched any of the movies I've bought this year..............
"You're welcome-uh!"
You're supposed to THANK people for not blocking the box apparently
RIP, George Frayne, aka Commander Cody
https://youtu.be/k5ZycJC-pmo
Life without Tiana is strange. She came to visit last Friday.
Quote from: indianasmith on July 28, 2021, 10:47:09 PM
Been a down and up day here in Texas.
I woke up at 6 and fell down the stairs - not all the way down, but down the last 4 steps or so, enough to leave me bruised and sore for the rest of the day.
Then I checked out my YouTube channel and saw in the comments of my latest video that someone from China had just read PRESIDENT HAMILTON and left me a short review. Someone in China read my book - how cool is that?
I wish that book - and your others - were available for purchase here.
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 05, 2021, 12:46:35 PM
Life without Tiana is strange. She came to visit last Friday.
How are you? How is she doing?
^ I'm, ok. She's fine too.
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 05, 2021, 04:04:01 PM
^ I'm, ok. She's fine too.
Glad to know it. :thumbup: Be well.
For some reason I want to use computer backup tapes to create a new VCR format. Utterly impractical, for a variety of reasons, but the idea is still bugging me.
I miss news stands. :bluesad:
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 06, 2021, 10:37:28 AM
I miss news stands. :bluesad:
When I came to South Africa in 1987, there were a lot of them in the Pretoria city centre. One of them had a sign up saying "This isn't a library: buy before you read".
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 06, 2021, 10:37:28 AM
I miss news stands. :bluesad:
I miss the public bulletin board at the grocery store.....
^They still got one here...
I was watching a millennial reacting to An American Werewolf in London. She has never heard of or seen the movie before.
Her reaction to David and Jack
(https://gbhbl.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/an-american-werewolf-in-london-david-jack.jpg)
Why do they look like band members of The Beatles?
made me laugh. I never realized, but she has a point :bouncegiggle:
My arm hurts from my flu shot. But it's a good hurt. Get your shots!
RIP Colin Powell
He had multiple myeloma, but the press is saying he died of covid...
Quote from: LilCerberus on October 18, 2021, 11:53:08 AM
RIP Colin Powell
He had multiple myeloma, but the press is saying he died of covid...
So the press is lying?
^In his case, he would've been in the high risk category (even with the jab), just that the press is leaving that part out...^
The press I saw said he had died from complications from Covid. Also mentions his multiple myeloma.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58957273 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58957273)
Also mentions it here: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/colin-powell-secretary-state-dies-covid-19-complications/story?id=80639725 (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/colin-powell-secretary-state-dies-covid-19-complications/story?id=80639725), here, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/colin-powell-secretary-state-dies-covid-19-complications/story?id=80639725 (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/colin-powell-secretary-state-dies-covid-19-complications/story?id=80639725), here https://news.yahoo.com/colin-powell-dies-covid-19-george-bush-130335972.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMsmF6_G9brmRm7XQur_4gzk2vODT96CntEqo3a025PvLvb7QoeXw1di3-exscbsvjI2vTJImlsOYusUcoO-b70nsQHT22JsZYcVrZJvtPbTiA2OVFLhKKFehYx7h5DpX5G0SOJ0WZCjET6h9g2nRpYlzN5po-2G1QMD0aBZk9pv (https://news.yahoo.com/colin-powell-dies-covid-19-george-bush-130335972.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMsmF6_G9brmRm7XQur_4gzk2vODT96CntEqo3a025PvLvb7QoeXw1di3-exscbsvjI2vTJImlsOYusUcoO-b70nsQHT22JsZYcVrZJvtPbTiA2OVFLhKKFehYx7h5DpX5G0SOJ0WZCjET6h9g2nRpYlzN5po-2G1QMD0aBZk9pv), here https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/colin-powell-dead-secretary-of-state_n_616d6211e4b01f6f7e4bc9a1 (https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/colin-powell-dead-secretary-of-state_n_616d6211e4b01f6f7e4bc9a1), and here https://www.kfyrtv.com/2021/10/18/colin-powell-dies-reports-say/ (https://www.kfyrtv.com/2021/10/18/colin-powell-dies-reports-say/)
Sad news either way: RIP.
Quote from: LilCerberus on October 18, 2021, 11:53:08 AM
RIP Colin Powell
He had multiple myeloma, but the press is saying he died of covid...
I'm hearing he also had Prostate Cancer & Parkinson's Disease...
He was a good man, & I'm sure he's in a better place....
COVID is a finisher. If you're cancerous or sickly or immunocompromised, it will eat you alive.
Secretary Powell was a great American with an inspiring story; may he rest in peace.
I ran into people in the last month-at the store and such- who say "Hey, Ronny!" and start talking to me. I have no clue to who they are.
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 18, 2021, 11:02:29 PM
I ran into people in the last month-at the store and such- who say "Hey, Ronny!" and start talking to me. I have no clue to who they are.
I get this all the time. Someone yesterday said "Hi Ronny" to me (there was a comedian who was big in the 70s and 80s who I share my second name with, so I got stuck with it as a nickname.
Quote from: Alex on October 19, 2021, 06:39:40 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 18, 2021, 11:02:29 PM
I ran into people in the last month-at the store and such- who say "Hey, Ronny!" and start talking to me. I have no clue to who they are.
I get this all the time. Someone yesterday said "Hi Ronny" to me (there was a comedian who was big in the 70s and 80s who I share my second name with, so I got stuck with it as a nickname.
Ronny Barker or Ronnie Corbett? :wink:
Quote from: Trevor on October 19, 2021, 10:15:11 AM
Quote from: Alex on October 19, 2021, 06:39:40 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 18, 2021, 11:02:29 PM
I ran into people in the last month-at the store and such- who say "Hey, Ronny!" and start talking to me. I have no clue to who they are.
I get this all the time. Someone yesterday said "Hi Ronny" to me (there was a comedian who was big in the 70s and 80s who I share my second name with, so I got stuck with it as a nickname.
Ronny Barker or Ronnie Corbett? :wink:
Are you telling me you don't already know the answer to that one from Facebook? :twirl:
Ssssooooooo................
DC comics was bought out by AT&T, MEANING DC will be joining Marvel in march of wokeness....
Among the changes;
Most noted, Superman's son is now bi....
Pretty much all the villainesses in BatMan are now going to be gay, even the ones that were former lovers of Bruce Wayne...
And for an image nobody wanted, Wonder Woman will no longer be a woman, she and all the Amazons will now be trans!!!!
Lately, I've been thinking about how those creepy watch chimes from FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE sound a lot like the theme song from Warner Cartoons' Minah Bird with the limp from Merry Melodies......
Tonight, I leaned that theme song is Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave) by Mendelssohn............
Boy, hangin' out in a hilly park all day & holding a sound pole takes a lot more out of you than you'd think.......
the whole Trump Russia thing has now and finally been totally debunked. What a shameful episode in our country's history.
All because Hillary couldn't bring herself to apologize to Bernie Sanders over the revelations in the DNC leaks. Good thing she didn't become president and certainly never will
Quote from: lester1/2jr on November 07, 2021, 11:25:45 PM
the whole Trump Russia thing has now and finally been totally debunked. What a shameful episode in our country's history.
All because Hillary couldn't bring herself to apologize to Bernie Sanders over the revelations in the DNC leaks. Good thing she didn't become president and certainly never will
DEBUNKED? Eight of his campaign staffers were indicted and convicted for illegal contact with Russian assets; Russia fed Wikileaks the Hillary Clinton emails THE DAY AFTER the disastrous Access Hollywood tapes that should have sunk Trump as a candidate forever, every single intelligence agency agrees that Russia flooded U.S. social media with pro-Trump propaganda because they recognized what a destabilizing influence he would be on our country (and BOY were they right!!!), not to mention the Mueller report made it clear that Trump had obstructed justice to prevent them from finding the truth.
The only "shameful episode" here is that a man as utterly vile, mean-spirited, and ignorant as Trump should ever have served as President of the USA.
Yes, a lot of innocent people's lives were destroyed in order to vindicate DC dimocrat's vile, mean-spirited ignorance, as well as the bamster's childish attempt to cripple the incoming administration.
Most of these people were entrapped, and the charges based on dossiers that has been debunked several times, now having criminal charges being brought against the people who created them.
The Law is turning back around on the dims.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/igor-danchenko-arrested-steele-dossier.amp.html (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/igor-danchenko-arrested-steele-dossier.amp.html)
Indy -wrong on all counts. DNC leaks were leaked by a rightfully angry source inside the DNC. Mueller report said no collusion. It was all fairy tales for people who couldn't accept America choosing Trump over Hillary
Quote from: lester1/2jr on November 09, 2021, 01:39:42 AM
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/igor-danchenko-arrested-steele-dossier.amp.html (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/igor-danchenko-arrested-steele-dossier.amp.html)
Indy -wrong on all counts. DNC leaks were leaked by a rightfully angry source inside the DNC. Mueller report said no collusion. It was all fairy tales for people who couldn't accept America choosing Trump over Hillary
I said nothing about DNC leaks. The Mueller report said that it could not conclusively prove or disprove collusion, because of the obstruction of justice involved; and Clinton's personal emails were fed to Wikileaks by a Russian source.
yes you did you said "Russia fed Wikileaks the Hillary Clinton emails THE DAY AFTER the disastrous Access Hollywood tape" the hillary clintons emails were the DNC leaks.
and why were they so negative? because of what was written on them by HILLLARY AND THE DNC about how they screwed over Bernies campaign
'every single intelligence agency agrees that Russia flooded"
yeah like they all agreed Iraq had WMD they were gonna give to al queda and Afghanistan wasnt gonna fall to the Taliban in 2 seconds.
Alex- negative karma isn't for mild disagreements. No one voted for Trump because of russia and he was never beholden to them in any way. Russia is a foe from decades ago who have nothing to do with anything the whole thing was laughable
The negative karma is for repeating something that was already proven false in a previous conversation. The report did not clear trump.
no you're the one lying, thats the whole point. the mueller report in fact found no collusion, however you want to spin it. He is not in jail
and more to the point: Russia never had any sort of hold on trump. He bombed Syria and sanctioned numerous Russian officials. Why would he do that if they were going to release a "pee tape" about him?
Trump did plenty of things in plain sight that anyone can criticize with actual facts
We went over this ground before. The Mueller report specifically stated that it did not exonerate the president. It also said that due to obstruction it was unable to prove there hadn't been collusion (or had been). In no way did it prove him innocent. If you don't believe me, go read it, or just look up the previous argument where parts of it were quoted that prove your position wrong.
Everyone who has ever been cleared of anything may have actually done their crime. If they couldn't prove it and the person is innocent I don't know if you're American that's how it works here
And where does the report state that it clears him? I mean, I agree with you that if something is cleared then they are cleared, but the report specifically states it does not clear him.
So what did Trump do? I don't understand. The case against him was that there was blackmail material the form of tapes that would be used against him when he was in office or that Russia and he were working behind the scenes together for him to steal the election. In the end all they found were procedural things relating to the case itself.
Again read the report.
Due to the obstructions Mueller experienced, he wrote he was unable to determine what trump had, or hadn't done. The report did not condemn him, but neither did it clear him. It very specifically stated it did not exonerate him of anything criminal. Since it was an investigation, not a trial I would imagine it would have only provided evidence towards a trial that could have then cleared him, but you'd have an ask someone who is more of an expert in US law. I know in the U.K. if we had a similar investigation, it would then pass the information onto the Crown Prosecution Service, who would then be the ones to decide if there was enough evidence to go to trial (that doesn't say they are guilty or not, merely that there is enough evidence for a trial to determine such).
Personally, I would say obstructing such an investigation is suspicious on its own and points to something to hide, but that is just my view.
Okay I'll give you that it was an investigation not a trial but it didn't lead to a trial did it?
What do you think you did? That's what I want to know I don't understand
Quote from: lester1/2jr on November 09, 2021, 05:53:49 PM
Okay I'll give you that it was an investigation not a trial but it didn't lead to a trial did it?
What do you think you did? That's what I want to know I don't understand
What do I think I did? I don't think I understand your question.
The point of The Steele Dossier, was that EVERBODY who got their slimy little paws on it KNEW it was fake, but they picked it up & went with it anyway!!!!!!
And it ruined a lot of people's lives, not just Trumps'!!!
It's been debunked & disproven a dozen times over, and yet it was STILL being talked about as if it were fact well into the final days of the 2020 election by haughty noozhounds!!!!
It's high time Igor Danchenko went to jail for this!!!
^...and yet Trump and pals are still claiming he won the 2020 election! :lookingup:
Gimme a break, man.
Yes, and the left is calling black people who voted for Winsome Sears "Black White Supremacists"........
Alex - do you think he was colluding with Russia to win the 2016 election? Was Obama? Because Obama beat her in 2012 too . she's uniquely unlikable.
Did he defer to them on anything? we were still knee deep in Syria he had sanctions on Russian officials.
What was the original crime? in other words
In the most basic way what was the crime with Trump and Russia
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 09, 2021, 06:38:57 PM
Yes, and the left is calling black people who voted for Winsome Sears "Black White Supremacists"........
Who? What?
Where did you hear this nonsense? :question:
And whats it have to do with the price of eggs in China?
(https://i.imgur.com/1ib7VNm.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
Any chance we can cool the political talk down? :bluesad: :thumbdown:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 09, 2021, 06:54:11 PM
Any chance we can cool the political talk down? :bluesad: :thumbdown:
Well, I keep making random statements about other stuff, but nobody cares about it.....
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 09, 2021, 06:54:11 PM
Any chance we can cool the political talk down? :bluesad: :thumbdown:
Sounds cool to me.
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 09, 2021, 06:59:21 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 09, 2021, 06:54:11 PM
Any chance we can cool the political talk down? :bluesad: :thumbdown:
Well, I keep making random statements about other stuff, but nobody cares about it.....
Yeah, people are more likely to engage with stuff that makes them angry. Facebook and Twitter depend on that psychology for their business models.
okay. can you calmly tell me what you think Trump did Alex
Since people want less politics here, I'll PM you later today.
K-Mart closed it's last Michigan store yesterday.
If I ever buy a granola cereal again I will hit myself in the head with a big rock.
I saw "Heart Healthy!" and it had dried strawberries in it. Like eating tree bark with strawberry flavored cardboard. :bluesad:
Quote from: Alex on November 10, 2021, 04:26:59 AM
Since people want less politics here, I'll PM you later today.
I love the idea of taking it to PMs after a while. Clears the board and allows you guys to continue talking about what you want to. :thumbup:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 10, 2021, 09:47:05 AM
Quote from: Alex on November 10, 2021, 04:26:59 AM
Since people want less politics here, I'll PM you later today.
I love the idea of taking it to PMs after a while. Clears the board and allows you guys to continue talking about what you want to. :thumbup:
I actually washed a pair or two of my undies today. No jokes, yes.*
*TREVOR HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY A POD PERSON so everything's OK now * :wink:
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 10, 2021, 08:56:47 AM
K-Mart closed it's last Michigan store yesterday.
That's sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_i34dtTm34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_i34dtTm34)
^ There are a lot of empty stores around here.
There ain't been anything going on here since-who knows when.
The whole state seems to be just turning into a ghost town.
I'm waiting for insane rabid people or zombies to do something!
This picture has nothing to do with anything-but it makes me happy.
(https://i.imgur.com/smtUdyY.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 10, 2021, 01:51:33 PM
^ There are a lot of empty stores around here.
There ain't been anything going on here since-who knows when.
The whole state seems to be just turning into a ghost town.
I'm waiting for insane rabid people or zombies to do something!
This picture has nothing to do with anything-but it makes me happy.
(https://i.imgur.com/smtUdyY.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Those headsets remind me I need to buy another pair soon. :wink:
Happy Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Day.
Why is it pronounced "tames" instead of "Thames?"
Quote from: pacman000 on November 11, 2021, 02:51:52 PM
Why is it pronounced "tames" instead of "Thames?"
It's actually pronounced "tems." English is terrible at not pronouncing things the way they are spelled.
Here's an explanation: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Thames-pronounced-the-way-it-is (https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Thames-pronounced-the-way-it-is)
I keep tuning into Tales Of The Wells Fargo after the nooz every night....
I keep thinking Dale Robertson would've made a good Superman, or at least he had the right hair for it.....
Libs everywhere are demanding a mistrial in the Kyle Rittenhouse case after the Judges phone goes off in court....
They insist it's God Bless The USA by Lee Greenwood, but I could swear it sounds nothing like that....
It sounds more like Mainstreet by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band....
Trying to figure out how LinkedIn would list Sound Pole Operator, which isn't listed.....
In the industry, I'd be a Boom Operator, which crosses several industries, mostly construction.....
I'm having a difficult time finding any new information on how the secessions from Oregon, Northern California & Southeast Washington to Idaho went last week......
Anybody heard anything about that????
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 12, 2021, 02:34:55 PM
I'm having a difficult time finding any new information on how the secessions from Oregon, Northern California & Southeast Washington to Idaho went last week......
Anybody heard anything about that????
Never heard of it, sounds like total crankery. Remapping the states would require Federal/Congressional action. I'm not even sure where in the Constitution it's addressed, to my knowledge it's never happened before in US history (except for maybe the creation of West Virginia?) It's not gonna happen, don't worry about it.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 12, 2021, 02:59:32 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 12, 2021, 02:34:55 PM
I'm having a difficult time finding any new information on how the secessions from Oregon, Northern California & Southeast Washington to Idaho went last week......
Anybody heard anything about that????
Never heard of it, sounds like total crankery. Remapping the states would require Federal/Congressional action. I'm not even sure where in the Constitution it's addressed, to my knowledge it's never happened before in US history (except for maybe the creation of West Virginia?) It's not gonna happen, don't worry about it.
It was a big deal earlier this year when three quarters of Oregon decided to put secession to Idaho on the November ballot...
A number of counties in Northern California & two in southeast Washington decided to follow...
The day after the elections, I found news stories saying a number of Oregon counties bordering Idaho had voted to secede (eight in total), but I haven't been able to find as much news about it as there was in the summer....
The Republican victory here in Virginia has turned into a bigger news story, which somehow only makes sense to the people who live here....
I just "tried" to create an account on snagajob...........
Damn! Talk about weird!
Not political, just funny... Laura Ingram's show accidentally does a real-life version of "Who's on First" when a guest brings up the Netflix show "you."
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Laura%20Ingraham%22&src=trend_click&pt=1460636795297693707&vertical=trends
Been working on a parody of Moon Shadow by Cat Stevens about my experience holding a sound pole for film projects....
The voice I was using got me singing along with a Pete Seeger song this afternoon....
Kinda got me singing again, albeit not in my normal voice lot I was hoping, but still.......
"Sound guy is casting a Boom Shadow, Boom Shadow in frame
Yes the sound guy is casting a Boom Shadow, in frame in my film..."
Had a great time at my book signing today! Wound up selling sixteen copies of PRESIDENT HAMILTON.
Two more signings to go before Christmas!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 16, 2021, 01:12:01 PM
Not political, just funny... Laura Ingram's show accidentally does a real-life version of "Who's on First" when a guest brings up the Netflix show "you."
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Laura%20Ingraham%22&src=trend_click&pt=1460636795297693707&vertical=trends
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
I admit, I had measles once :wink:
My stepson Jim (Tara Sue's boy) died of a heart attack in the Phillipines yesterday. He was 35.
Post 7k
:teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:
Sorry to hear that RC.
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 21, 2021, 11:33:48 AM
My stepson Jim (Tara Sue's boy) died of a heart attack in the Phillipines yesterday. He was 35.
Dang, that is awfully young. I am so sorry.
Everytime someone says omicron, I can't help thinking about some short film some local kids made spoofing Omikron The Nomad Soul.....
I woke up Friday morning, smoked a cigarette while still lying in bed. And I felt a fart coming on. But I farted anyway, and let out a wet one. And then when I stood up, I s**t my pants. I took a shower, put on clean drawers, and went to feed the dog. When I bent over to pick up her bowl- I did it again! :buggedout:
Lesbian vampires are just like regular vampires except they prefer they're victims be on their periods.
(https://i.imgur.com/MugsMQ5.jpg) (http://lunapic.com)
( I was gonna post this on 'Bad Jokes' but I couldn't find it.)
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 28, 2021, 12:57:17 AM
I woke up Friday morning, smoked a cigarette while still lying in bed. And I felt a fart coming on. But I farted anyway, and let out a wet one. And then when I stood up, I s**t my pants. I took a shower, put on clean drawers, and went to feed the dog. When I bent over to pick up her bowl- I did it again! :buggedout:
My long lost brother! :wink:
Sssso....
Nazi symbolism is the hot new trend in K-Pop.........
1200 posts until krakenhood. I wonder how many years it would take me to write that many?
Quote from: Alex on December 02, 2021, 10:44:41 AM
1200 posts until krakenhood. I wonder how many years it would take me to write that many?
I think it took me about five years writing about four or five posts daily.
I used to contribute about 20 posts a day when we could still access Internet at work through cables and not wifi.
Quote from: Trevor on December 02, 2021, 10:55:19 AM
Quote from: Alex on December 02, 2021, 10:44:41 AM
1200 posts until krakenhood. I wonder how many years it would take me to write that many?
I think it took me about five years writing about four or five posts daily.
I used to contribute about 20 posts a day when we could still access Internet at work through cables and not wifi.
Well, I've been here around 7 years now lol although I only average around 3 1/3 posts per day.
Quote from: Alex on December 02, 2021, 11:38:24 AM
Quote from: Trevor on December 02, 2021, 10:55:19 AM
Quote from: Alex on December 02, 2021, 10:44:41 AM
1200 posts until krakenhood. I wonder how many years it would take me to write that many?
I think it took me about five years writing about four or five posts daily.
I used to contribute about 20 posts a day when we could still access Internet at work through cables and not wifi.
Well, I've been here around 7 years now lol although I only average around 3 1/3 posts per day.
Remember, at 10,000 posts you're still a Kraken, with or without the initiation rites. You dont have to get in the car with them when the Rev and Trevor show up at your house holding duct tape and a blindfold.
Quote from: ER on December 02, 2021, 04:42:20 PM
Quote from: Alex on December 02, 2021, 11:38:24 AM
Quote from: Trevor on December 02, 2021, 10:55:19 AM
Quote from: Alex on December 02, 2021, 10:44:41 AM
1200 posts until krakenhood. I wonder how many years it would take me to write that many?
I think it took me about five years writing about four or five posts daily.
I used to contribute about 20 posts a day when we could still access Internet at work through cables and not wifi.
Well, I've been here around 7 years now lol although I only average around 3 1/3 posts per day.
Remember, at 10,000 posts you're still a Kraken, with or without the initiation rites. You dont have to get in the car with them when the Rev and Trevor show up at your house holding duct tape and a blindfold.
You can ignore me all you want, but I highly recommend doing whatever Trevor asks. You do not want him to "loose the underpants."
Quote from: ER on December 02, 2021, 04:42:20 PM
Remember, at 10,000 posts you're still a Kraken, with or without the initiation rites. You dont have to get in the car with them when the Rev and Trevor show up at your house holding duct tape and a blindfold.
:teddyr: :teddyr:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 02, 2021, 05:31:42 PM
You can ignore me all you want, but I highly recommend doing whatever Trevor asks. You do not want him to "loose the underpants."
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Underpants really don't work all that well with a union suit.....
I've actually had men try to tell me a male getting thunked in the testicles hurts worse than childbirth does for women. Not to diminish y'all's pain but I just can't think that's possible.
RIP Michael Nesmith
Oliver Stone's Nixon was really awesome I need to see it again.
Quote from: ER on December 10, 2021, 12:29:40 PM
I've actually had men try to tell me a male getting thunked in the testicles hurts worse than childbirth does for women. Not to diminish y'all's pain but I just can't think that's possible.
It's hard to measure a short-lived intense pain against an extended pain. I will say that absolutely no man in the world would agree to be kicked in the nuts for hours on end if they knew they'd get a son or daughter out of it when it was all over.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 15, 2021, 08:49:45 AM
Quote from: ER on December 10, 2021, 12:29:40 PM
I've actually had men try to tell me a male getting thunked in the testicles hurts worse than childbirth does for women. Not to diminish y'all's pain but I just can't think that's possible.
It's hard to measure a short-lived intense pain against an extended pain. I will say that absolutely no man in the world would agree to be kicked in the nuts for hours on end if they knew they'd get a son or daughter out of it when it was all over.
There was a question posed here about what if humans had a mating season (good question) and I asked someone not long ago about the consequences of sexual reproduction being a painful act. (Supposedly it is for some species, like female cats.) I think life would not be able to thrive if this were the case. I had a class called Biology of Reproduction and honestly, the way new generations are brought into being is varied and complex, and some species have a gender whose entire purpose is simply to be the breeder of future members of the species. (The queen among a colony of ants and bees comes to mind but there are others.) Even aside from the fact that it's the study of, well, mostly sex, reproduction as a subject is strangely sci-fi and compelling to read about because is can be such a complex process, with species existing who carry out fertilization and gestation orally, and some others who asexally clone themselves by mitosis. It's crazy.
Quote from: lester1/2jr on December 15, 2021, 12:31:02 AM
Oliver Stone's Nixon was really awesome I need to see it again.
Agreed: Sir Anthony Hopkins made Richard Nixon human, especially what he said to JFK's portrait: "They look at you, they see what they wanna be, they look at me, they see what they are."
^yes I love that line
Kanye West changed his name to ' Ye.'
"Ye"? :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
What a has been dope.
http://youtu.be/ZZ5LpwO-An4 (http://youtu.be/ZZ5LpwO-An4)
I was shocked to find Paris was the most litter-free capital city I'd ever visited. The French are selective neat freaks, scorning litter but not always being tidy when it comes to themselves. A train in Paris smells like tobacco and heavy perfumes and colognes, and here and there an unwashed scent hanging around a person, even the well-dressed, yet the trains are almost antiseptically clean.
London was dirty almost everywhere but I loved it anyway. I was once there in the company of a local, and as I watched person after person walk along and toss down their empty wrappers and drink cans, I asked him why people did that, and he seemed surprised I'd ask, and said, "They just do."
Washington DC was very mixed, clean one neighborhood, dirty another. The dirtiest parts were not always the poorest.
Nassau was a facade that hid its real nature, looking good on the surface, but someone there told me about a dead homeless man left in the street off the tourist section for a whole day, lying there, getting stepped around, no one caring to get him off the sidewalk, and that was probably the real Nassau.
Wellington, New Zealand was decently clean, Ottawa was cleaner than DC, Brasilia surprised me by being tidier than I'd figured it'd be, but in Brazil all the public services seemed to operate on bribes.
Ankara was amazing. Well-scrubbed and filled with polite locals who seemed personally honor-bound to be as nice as possible to a guest in their nation. Turkey was not at all what I was expecting.
Dublin though was always a litter-strewn s**thole when I'd slip across there every summer with my grandfather and see the wonderful museums. The trash that lay all over Dublin, especially north of the river, that bore out all the scorn my west country grandmother ever heaped on it.
I'll not speak of other the other capital I visited because if I put a name to it, few would believe I'd truly been there.
I remember being very impressed with how clean and neat Tokyo was. The Japanese don't like litterbugs at all.
Malroux, an art critic, is I think the one who made sure Paris stayed clean via constitutional type order.
I always get a little depressed on the winter solstice, because it means days are getting longer.
I like night.
TV's not just playing reruns, it's playing the same reruns.....
Makes me wonder how my step dad's doing.,..
He had to go into the hospital yesterday, & I'm now wondering how he's handling hospital TV....
His son lost his father in law last week, so I'm sure things, uh...
I'm at a loss for words.....
I'm hungry & I gotta go real bad, & I just spent the last hour watching a live video of some fat broad chipping the solder off a one-hundred & forty year old lead box......
So far, a few books & some envelopes with water damage..........
^ So- you been on the toilet eating and s**tting for an hour watching someone opening a box? :question:
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 22, 2021, 04:30:13 PM
^ So- you been on the toilet eating and s**tting for an hour watching someone opening a box? :question:
No, I was waiting for the woman to open the damned box so I could get up & do those two things.......
The press kept saying there was gonna be some fancy s**t in that box, but it was just some water damaged books......
Well, that sucks. :bluesad:
Every time one my conservative friends posts LGB (for "Let's Go Brandon"), II can't help wondering what they did with the TQ, y'know, for LGBTQ..........
I wonder if my conservative friends know that...........
^ Why do you even care about all this? :question:
Is it in anyway affecting your life? Your mind-sure. But your actual life?
Has anything really changed in the last 8 years- for you?
Obama, Trump, Biden- are you not where you were 10 years ago- no matter what party was in power?
^It's just that LGB meant something else for ten years, and I'm REALLY bored!^
^ When I'm really bored, I read old comic books or paperbacks or monster magazines.
I made some model kits!
(https://i.imgur.com/8x3BdBr.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
It's fun, it keeps you busy, and looks cool on your bookshelf!
(https://i.imgur.com/5l2kbHY.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 25, 2021, 03:10:10 AM
^ When I'm really bored, I read old comic books or paperbacks or monster magazines.
I made some model kits!
(https://i.imgur.com/8x3BdBr.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
It's fun, it keeps you busy, and looks cool on your bookshelf!
(https://i.imgur.com/5l2kbHY.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Those look really cool :smile: :cheers:
How come so many people want to go back in time to high school? If ever I found myself back there I think I would start violently screaming, which would probably also solve the problem of my being there, but then again my high school was not like most in that it had two functions: for most there it existed to impress good colleges by putting its name on a diploma without actually demanding much more from a student than most schools would; or to create a handful of high-functioning scholars to bring academic glory onto the school and carry the reputation of the others.
I was one of the latter, existing in a pressure cooker environment so demanding and intense that most days I wanted to stand up and walk out, and once or twice actually did, which sent the staff into meetings trying to figure out why a cog in their machine was giving them a problem, and concluding it was a nut behind the wheel.
The fact they didn't kick me out revealed something amazing to me: if I gave them the results they wanted I could otherwise get away with anything else there.
Wish I'd figured that out a few grades sooner.
My schoolteacher friend says it's a shame I went there instead of a gentler school like the one where he teaches, but if I had, well, would I have known the difference without a comparison, and just have complained about that school too? I think it's my nature not to have liked school, no matter how "good" at it I seemed at the time.
Thoughts like these arise after living through a Christmas season hearing: ".... I was back at school, and felt that old familiar pain...." Though I'm pretty sure that's not what Dan Fogelberg meant. I bet his school didn't have counselors who tried to guilt trip you over getting A's instead of A+'s, though I guess they wouldn't have indulged my rejection of them my last year either because a public school doesn't live or die on reputation like mine did.
Ah, memories during new year's week.
Quote from: ER on December 30, 2021, 07:14:13 AM
How come so many people want to go back in time to high school? If ever I found myself back there I think I would start violently screaming, which would probably also solve the problem of my being there, but then again my high school was not like most in that it had two functions: for most there it existed to impress good colleges by putting its name on a diploma without actually demanding much more from a student than most schools would; or to create a handful of high-functioning scholars to bring academic glory onto the school and carry the reputation of the others.
I was one of the latter, existing in a pressure cooker environment so demanding and intense that most days I wanted to stand up and walk out, and once or twice actually did, which sent the staff into meetings trying to figure out why a cog in their machine was giving them a problem, and concluding it was a nut behind the wheel.
The fact they didn't kick me out revealed something amazing to me: if I gave them the results they wanted I could otherwise get away with anything else there.
Wish I'd figured that out a few grades sooner.
My schoolteacher friend says it's a shame I went there instead of a gentler school like the one where he teaches, but if I had, well, would I have known the difference without a comparison, and just have complained about that school too? I think it's my nature not to have liked school, no matter how "good" at it I seemed at the time.
Thoughts like these arise after living through a Christmas season hearing: ".... I was back at school, and felt that old familiar pain...." Though I'm pretty sure that's not what Dan Fogelberg meant. I bet his school didn't have counselors who tried to guilt trip you over getting A's instead of A+'s, though I guess they wouldn't have indulged my rejection of them my last year either because a public school doesn't live or die on reputation like mine did.
Ah, memories during new year's week.
I've always felt sorry for people who think that your school days are the best ones of your life. Imagine the rest of your life being an anti-climax.
Quote from: Alex on December 30, 2021, 07:45:04 AM
I've always felt sorry for people who think that your school days are the best ones of your life. Imagine the rest of your life being an anti-climax.
I went to an English Public School from 1980 - 1984: a school founded on EPS principles in my hometown where you had to wear ties, a suit in the winter and even a straw basher. It was both the best and the worst of times: some of the teachers were brutal bastards, some were nasty and some were just plain bad. :buggedout:
The only good thing I got there was a good education, despite the teachers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplin_High_School (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplin_High_School)
Quote from: Trevor on December 30, 2021, 09:51:13 AM
Quote from: Alex on December 30, 2021, 07:45:04 AM
I've always felt sorry for people who think that your school days are the best ones of your life. Imagine the rest of your life being an anti-climax.
I went to an English Public School from 1980 - 1984: a school founded on EPS principles in my hometown where you had to wear ties, a suit in the winter and even a straw basher. It was both the best and the worst of times: some of the teachers were brutal bastards, some were nasty and some were just plain bad. :buggedout:
Did you divide up into houses?
Quote from: ER on December 30, 2021, 09:52:49 AM
Quote from: Trevor on December 30, 2021, 09:51:13 AM
Quote from: Alex on December 30, 2021, 07:45:04 AM
I've always felt sorry for people who think that your school days are the best ones of your life. Imagine the rest of your life being an anti-climax.
I went to an English Public School from 1980 - 1984: a school founded on EPS principles in my hometown where you had to wear ties, a suit in the winter and even a straw basher. It was both the best and the worst of times: some of the teachers were brutal bastards, some were nasty and some were just plain bad. :buggedout:
Did you divide up into houses?
Yes, we had both girls and boys houses. I was in MacDonald and our sister house was Hamilton.
I will never forget MacDonald winning the interhouse sports in 1982: that was a surreal day. At one point, we became aware that we had a chance of winning the competition and then, the unthinkable happened. We won. We were screaming, crying, hugging each other and I remember after we took a lap of honor around our track, I sat down in the stands and cried: tears yes, but happy tears. :smile:
School is a different experience for everyone, but really, what I think people really wax nostalgic for is not so much the classes and teachers and learning experience as just the opportunity to be YOUNG again; to have all your future ahead of you and to experience the joys of life and love for the first time all over again.
RIP Betty White
For a somebody who played a tough guy in a lot of westerns, Clint Eastwood sure knew is ascots.....
Quote from: indianasmith on December 30, 2021, 10:20:44 AM
School is a different experience for everyone, but really, what I think people really wax nostalgic for is not so much the classes and teachers and learning experience as just the opportunity to be YOUNG again; to have all your future ahead of you and to experience the joys of life and love for the first time all over again.
I went to an English Public School and for me, it was the best and the worst of times.
Death washed away Princess Diana's sins.
It's strange, I came across a tabloid from June 1997 with a cover story that was blasting on her for hooking up with an Egyptian (in the article he was dubbed "Arab") playboy. This article got mean, as in really mean, as it quoted people in Britain who were ragging on her, saying some truly rugged stuff about her character and morals, and one woman called her a "traitor."
Flash forward eight or nine weeks and those same people likely not only forgave her all that, they probably forgot they ever felt that way about her as they cried and wailed that she was the People's Princess whom they'd always loved and would love to the end of time. (Insert chirping crickets....)
I went out today with my dancer friend to see her new studio expansion and we had lunch and I was like, "Y'know, I'm real proud of you for never being bulimic."
That got me an odd glance from a server who overheard but the thing is, I actually am proud of her for that since bulimia is the common cold of dancers. It's even called the "dancers' disease."
Me, I think I'd go for tape worms instead of barfing all the time if I had no other viable scenarios and had to be ten pounds underweight all my career.
Well, It seems that this year I will continue with my tradition of be single in Valentine's Day. It's not like I really care about that day, but I start to think about why be single at my 38 don't worry me. I mean, I really want to meet a woman and have children, start my own family, but here I am. The irony it is this 'statement' sound a bit depressive, but it is not. OK, just a little.
Quote from: Argonaut on February 02, 2022, 08:31:06 PM
Well, It seems that this year I will continue with my tradition of be single in Valentine's Day. It's not like I really care about that day, but I start to think about why be single at my 38 don't worry me. I mean, I really want to meet a woman and have children, start my own family, but here I am. The irony it is this 'statement' sound a bit depressive, but it is not. OK, just a little.
Hey, I don't think I'll have a date for Valentine's Day, either, and I don't really want one. I just stopped seeing someone seriously.
The irony is, when I was your age I really wanted to meet a wife and start a family. In my 40s I decided I wouldn't chase that dream anymore---and suddenly, more women started coming to me. It just became so much easier once I removed that pressure from myself. Hopefully the same will happen for you.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 02, 2022, 11:25:39 PM
If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I think that is hilarious and true.
Quote from: Argonaut on February 02, 2022, 08:31:06 PM
Well, It seems that this year I will continue with my tradition of be single in Valentine's Day. It's not like I really care about that day, but I start to think about why be single at my 38 don't worry me. I mean, I really want to meet a woman and have children, start my own family, but here I am. The irony it is this 'statement' sound a bit depressive, but it is not. OK, just a little.
If I could offer any man one piece of advice where women are concerned? Be a good listener. No, that's not the only thing that matters but almost all women find it an attractive quality, and it's a trait almost any man can learn. Don't patronize, truly listen and try to relate. You might be surprised where that may take you.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 03, 2022, 12:10:03 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 02, 2022, 11:25:39 PM
If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I think that is hilarious and true.
Yeah, that was good.
Agonizingly painful arthritis in my left hip....
Just spent my entire evening at the hospital only to find out there's nothing I can do about it!
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 03, 2022, 12:44:18 AM
Agonizingly painful arthritis in my left hip....
Just spent my entire evening at the hospital only to find out there's nothing I can do about it!
Can you move somewhere warmer?
Quote from: Argonaut on February 02, 2022, 08:31:06 PM
Well, It seems that this year I will continue with my tradition of be single in Valentine's Day. It's not like I really care about that day, but I start to think about why be single at my 38 don't worry me. I mean, I really want to meet a woman and have children, start my own family, but here I am. The irony it is this 'statement' sound a bit depressive, but it is not. OK, just a little.
I didn't meet my now wife until I was 38 and we had our son when I was 44, so you still have time.
Quote from: ER on January 27, 2022, 05:23:52 PM
Death washed away Princess Diana's sins.
It's strange, I came across a tabloid from June 1997 with a cover story that was blasting on her for hooking up with an Egyptian (in the article he was dubbed "Arab") playboy. This article got mean, as in really mean, as it quoted people in Britain who were ragging on her, saying some truly rugged stuff about her character and morals, and one woman called her a "traitor."
Flash forward eight or nine weeks and those same people likely not only forgave her all that, they probably forgot they ever felt that way about her as they cried and wailed that she was the People's Princess whom they'd always loved and would love to the end of time. (Insert chirping crickets....)
If I was a young virginal bride who was courted by the future King of England as a potential breeding oven because his ugly whore's baby-making parts were useless, I would go out and commit as many sins as I desired.
I don't dispute that Princess Diana had many affairs and there were many people who didn't like her: my sister was one of them but she was genuinely sad that Diana had died.
Quote from: Trevor on February 03, 2022, 08:10:46 AM
Quote from: ER on January 27, 2022, 05:23:52 PM
Death washed away Princess Diana's sins.
It's strange, I came across a tabloid from June 1997 with a cover story that was blasting on her for hooking up with an Egyptian (in the article he was dubbed "Arab") playboy. This article got mean, as in really mean, as it quoted people in Britain who were ragging on her, saying some truly rugged stuff about her character and morals, and one woman called her a "traitor."
Flash forward eight or nine weeks and those same people likely not only forgave her all that, they probably forgot they ever felt that way about her as they cried and wailed that she was the People's Princess whom they'd always loved and would love to the end of time. (Insert chirping crickets....)
If I was a young virginial bride who was courted by the future King of England as a potential breeding oven because his ugly whore's babymaking parts were useless, I would go out and commit as many sins as I desired.
I don't dispute that Princess Diana had many affairs and there were many people who didn't like her: my sister was one of them and she was genuinely sad that Diana had died.
Princess Diana's death was strange for me, because like I've said I heard about it on a portable pocket radio while in the middle of the Hundred-Mile Wilderness section of the Appalachian Trail in extreme rural Maine. ("Nowhere's nowhere...") I heard the morning after amid static on a distant station from downstate and thought, did they really say that, and felt a jolt of shock that I remember was bigger than any sadness, but I heard it as a passing headline, not any extended coverage, and we talked about it a moment and then I and those I was with went on, and because you try to save batteries out there, we didn't turn the radio on except for a few minutes each morning when the weather was good (and then the batteries came out and got stored in a waterproof baggie) and we finished our hike at Mount Katahdin a few days later and got back to find all the spectacle and grief and coverage on TV showing acres of stacked flowers and people lining London streets, so I only got Point A's announcement and Point C's mega-event, no point B transition like most people had to prepare me for how big a cultural moment her death unfolded to be. It was surreal to come back into that when I'd only caught it as a news headline and not much else, and to be grubby and sore and cold and worn out and riding a weary achievement high of finishing a hard trail section, but the world was filled with upset people grieving. (And people loudly rejecting that grief to anyone who would listen.)
Very strange experience.
Hey, thanks for the kind words :smile:
Now, about the 'hammer and the nails', is that a euphemism? And if it's not, why I think it is?
What is the difference between CNBC & MSNBC?
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 04, 2022, 04:16:44 PM
What is the difference between CNBC & MSNBC?
CNBC is more focused on business and financial news. The 'C' stands for "consumer'.
^Oh.^
Why did the Redskins change their name to the Commanders? It seems like the Salmons would fit better.
And it would look cool on their helmets!
^ :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:^
Salmons are pink, not red....
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 04, 2022, 09:19:28 PM
^ :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:^
Salmons are pink, not red....
So give them pink uniforms!
And why do they have to be red?
If they have to be- why not the Washington Apples?
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 04, 2022, 09:47:05 PM
If they have to be- why not the Washington Apples?
Ummm, 'cause I think they're suppose to represent Washington DC & not Washington State, which is why they tend to practice somewhere in Virginia.....
Come to think of it, they once tried to cover up the little indian logo on their helmets, making it look like they were wearing little white ps & qs.....
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 04, 2022, 10:17:59 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 04, 2022, 09:47:05 PM
If they have to be- why not the Washington Apples?
Ummm, 'cause I think they're suppose to represent Washington DC & not Washington State, which is why they tend to practice somewhere in Virginia.....
Come to think of it, they once tried to cover up the little indian logo on their helmets, making it look like they were wearing little white ps & qs.....
There's always an innocent victim in things like this, and I heard Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, Mrs. Butterworth, the Washington football team mascot, and the tribal lady off Land 'O Lakes butter have all had to go the welfare.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 02, 2022, 09:51:43 PM
Quote from: Argonaut on February 02, 2022, 08:31:06 PM
Well, It seems that this year I will continue with my tradition of be single in Valentine's Day. It's not like I really care about that day, but I start to think about why be single at my 38 don't worry me. I mean, I really want to meet a woman and have children, start my own family, but here I am. The irony it is this 'statement' sound a bit depressive, but it is not. OK, just a little.
Hey, I don't think I'll have a date for Valentine's Day, either, and I don't really want one. I just stopped seeing someone seriously.
The irony is, when I was your age I really wanted to meet a wife and start a family. In my 40s I decided I wouldn't chase that dream anymore---and suddenly, more women started coming to me. It just became so much easier once I removed that pressure from myself. Hopefully the same will happen for you.
I hope your next relationship is even better, Rev. Good luck toward happy times still to come.
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 04, 2022, 10:17:59 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 04, 2022, 09:47:05 PM
If they have to be- why not the Washington Apples?
Ummm, 'cause I think they're suppose to represent Washington DC & not Washington State, which is why they tend to practice somewhere in Virginia.....
Come to think of it, they once tried to cover up the little indian logo on their helmets, making it look like they were wearing little white ps & qs.....
DC??? I did not know that! I swear all these years it was Washington State. I don't watch football.
Then it should be the DC Rioters!
Rudy Giuliani was on the Masked Singer. :bluesad:
I'm sure they both have the same audience.
(https://i.imgur.com/ouPh3I8.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 05, 2022, 12:26:15 PM
Rudy Giuliani was on the Masked Singer. :bluesad:
I'm sure they both have the same audience.
(https://i.imgur.com/ouPh3I8.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
Rarely in my life have I seen a once-respected US politician slip so far. After 9-11 all he would have had to do is nothing else, keep quiet, make happy speeches, ride the glory train, and he'd have been set. But instead.....
I remember in the aftermath of September the 11th he was lauded as a good future candidate for the presidency and he really did seem like the man for the job (from an outsiders perspective anyway). From that to press conferences across from a sex shop is quite some fall.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 05, 2022, 10:22:31 AM
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 04, 2022, 10:17:59 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 04, 2022, 09:47:05 PM
If they have to be- why not the Washington Apples?
Ummm, 'cause I think they're suppose to represent Washington DC & not Washington State, which is why they tend to practice somewhere in Virginia.....
Come to think of it, they once tried to cover up the little indian logo on their helmets, making it look like they were wearing little white ps & qs.....
DC??? I did not know that! I swear all these years it was Washington State. I don't watch football.
Then it should be the DC Rioters!
I don't watch football either, and I agree on the name.....
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 05, 2022, 12:26:15 PM
Rudy Giuliani was on the Masked Singer. :bluesad:
I'm sure they both have the same audience.
(https://i.imgur.com/ouPh3I8.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
That's still on?
^ I don't watch that either!
I guess an upcoming episode will have Rudy and 2 of the judges walk off the set. Like this wasn't a set up to boost ratings. :lookingup:
Why do people watch this? I would gain more pleasure by inserting needles into my groin and sit in an electric chair.
(https://i.imgur.com/gMGhbtB.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
The song 'We Are 138' by the Misfits is about when Danzig was a kid him and his friends had secret code words.
One was "138". Which meant " Kill without thinking twice".
I also heard '138' is a reference to THX 1138.
Much like how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know.
You guys want to do something disturbing, go online and look up health department inspection reports on the restaurants you go to.
Quote from: ER on February 07, 2022, 10:48:05 PM
You guys want to do something disturbing, go online and look up health department inspection reports on the restaurants you go to.
Someone once told me a health inspector had advised them never to go to a restaurant with anything less than a perfect hygiene rating.
I bet somewhere in the afterlife, Betty White is having an affair with Oscar Wilde.
Quote from: ER on February 09, 2022, 10:56:49 AM
I bet somewhere in the afterlife, Betty White is having an affair with Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde was gay.
Quote from: ER on February 09, 2022, 10:56:49 AM
I bet somewhere in the afterlife, Betty White is having an affair with Oscar Wilde.
I'll bet they're still dead!
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 09, 2022, 01:39:52 PM
Quote from: ER on February 09, 2022, 10:56:49 AM
I bet somewhere in the afterlife, Betty White is having an affair with Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde was gay.
Which shows how cool Betty is. :thumbup:
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 09, 2022, 01:48:55 PM
Quote from: ER on February 09, 2022, 10:56:49 AM
I bet somewhere in the afterlife, Betty White is having an affair with Oscar Wilde.
I'll bet they're still dead!
You've seen ghosts, RC.
Quote from: ER on February 09, 2022, 02:54:33 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 09, 2022, 01:48:55 PM
Quote from: ER on February 09, 2022, 10:56:49 AM
I bet somewhere in the afterlife, Betty White is having an affair with Oscar Wilde.
I'll bet they're still dead!
You've seen ghosts, RC.
Not the ghost of Betty White.
I'm STILL getting spam emails from team Trump to send them money! He's a millionaire!
Why on this green earth does he need my money? :question:
If anybody doesn't think his presidency wasn't about money- look at all the money he continues to rake in from imbeciles when he has no moral compass to begin with. He never cared about policy or the rule of law.
It was always about him and his ego and $$$.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 10, 2022, 04:55:06 AM
I'm STILL getting spam emails from team Trump to send them money! He's a millionaire!
Why on this green earth does he need my money? :question:
He funded his entire presidency run on loans the first time around. I'd guess he did the same for the second and needs to pay it all back. Plus he is a money whore and there and plenty of gullible people out there who will send him cash.
Quote from: Alex on February 10, 2022, 05:01:19 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 10, 2022, 04:55:06 AM
I'm STILL getting spam emails from team Trump to send them money! He's a millionaire!
Why on this green earth does he need my money? :question:
He funded his entire presidency run on loans the first time around.
Which, of course, he has no plans of ever paying back. He stole money from kids with his Trump collage, he cheated building contractors on a regular basis, etc, etc.
I'll just leave this right here.....
http://youtu.be/ILCDHcZG1no (http://youtu.be/ILCDHcZG1no)
Sometimes I think my personality falls somewhere between Jim Ignatowski and a dominatrix.
if jails were run the way they are with Jeffrey Epstein and his friends there would be jailbreaks every ten minutes.
Quote from: lester1/2jr on February 19, 2022, 03:55:36 PM
if jails were run the way they are with Jeffrey Epstein and his friends there would be jailbreaks every ten minutes.
No, they would all have killed themselves.
:thumbup:
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 19, 2022, 04:06:55 PM
Quote from: lester1/2jr on February 19, 2022, 03:55:36 PM
if jails were run the way they are with Jeffrey Epstein and his friends there would be jailbreaks every ten minutes.
No, they would all have killed themselves.
:thumbup:
Either would require an overwhelming amount of organization.
what is it about modern jails where the cameras never seem to work? is it an issue related to humidity or perhaps mold spores
In all honesty, people would be shocked if they knew how rarely security cameras are fully operational (generally they cost a lot to repair and no one seems to want to pay to keep them working all the time). Still, even then sometimes it feels suspicious.
I got a text from Donald Trump, Jr asking for money this week.
I may or may not have used the phrase "little fascist hobgoblin" in my reply.
Quote from: indianasmith on February 19, 2022, 11:53:00 PM
I got a text from Donald Trump, Jr asking for money this week.
I may or may not have used the phrase "little fascist hobgoblin" in my reply.
I used to get emails from the 2016 Trump campaign begging for money. I eventually wrote back that I was going to donate $5 to John Kasich every time they emailed me. The emails stopped.
Here in Michigan a Trucker Convoy (like Canada has going on) was planned and held. Nobody showed up.
Yesterday was 2/22/22. And it was Tuesday! :smile:
RIP Sally Kellerman
https://311.boston.gov/reports/101004199751 "Been packing here without a stick up for 3 days and nobody shagged them Good job made a maid"
translation: been parking here without a sticker for 3 days and nobody ticketed them good job meter maid
Hmmm....
Two of my favorite stinkers on tonight....
Smokey and The Bandit (1977) about a beer run that turns into a two hour chase scene
or
Hannie Caulder (1971) a western with Raquel Welch as a topless gunfighter.....
Remind me to tell you guys on Sunday about the weird thing I did Saturday. (No, not a couch exorcism...)
I was reading a Tales from the Crypt comic, and this guy murders his wife, buries her, and plants a peach tree on her grave. When the cops come to investigate, the killer offers one of them a peach from the tree (which somehow is bearing fruit already.) He bites into it and blood squirts out. The end.
Now there's a story with a happy ending!
Oh, ER- it's Sunday. What did you do Saturday?
Thank you, Ronny.
Yesterday we explored an immense abandoned mall. Huge place. Almost 3/4ths of a mile if you walk all the way around it inside. When it opened in the 1980s it had space for about 300 tenants and five anchors but it never thrived and was eventually deserted in stages til it was left totally empty. It was surreal in there, like a dark echoing time capsule, chairs, tables, signs, merchandise left in place, movie posters from the 2000s visible in the inside multiplex, dead plants, dead palm trees, unemptied trash bins, even petrified food left on some food court counters. Except for a busted skylight the place wasn't in that bad a shape but it had a serious Chernobyl vibe. Eerie.
Quote from: ER on February 27, 2022, 08:49:24 AM
Thank you, Ronny.
Yesterday we explored an immense abandoned mall. Huge place. Almost 3/4ths of a mile if you walk all the way around it inside. When it opened in the 1980s it had space for about 300 tenants and five anchors but it never thrived and was eventually deserted in stages til it was left totally empty. It was surreal in there, like a dark echoing time capsule, chairs, tables, signs, merchandise left in place, movie posters from the 2000s visible in the inside multiplex, dead plants, dead palm trees, unemptied trash bins, even petrified food left on some food court counters. Except for a busted skylight the place wasn't in that bad a shape but it had a serious Chernobyl vibe. Eerie.
That sounds totally cool! Wish you'd gotten pics or video.
Interesting how many horror movies there are about old psychiatric hospitals
Over the past 20 years, we've gradually traded watered-down stoicism for watered-down hedonism.
Quote from: pacman000 on February 27, 2022, 07:33:09 PM
Over the past 20 years, we've gradually traded watered-down stoicism for watered-down hedonism.
Blame my generation. After all, we gave you Clinton. :thumbup:
Yesterday was a good day. The sun shone, spring was in the air, I had it medically confirmed things are well in the immediate sense, everybody was happy, and there were multiple celebrations of various sorts throughout the afternoon and into the night.
Today the sky is silver, the air is chilly, the first flowers are emerging, I saw a pregnant deer out back, and life was again good this morning.
I could Groundhog Day this life.
Hello? I still have an account here...
Why do the LeMat Revolver & the revolving rifle always end up on lists of the worst guns in history, but Colt's 1846 walker only gets the occasional mention, & Colt's 1868 Richards-Mason conversion is practically celebrated?
How come the Walch 12 shot never makes these lists? Two shots, one chamber? Can you say, "Handless Hank?"
Or how about the TEC 9? Even as a kid, it reminded me of a toy gun that shot real bullets... Even though they looked cool, I wouldn't have wanted one....
And Volcanic Arms.... Yeah, I know, They were the forerunner to two successful companies, but jeez, they don't look like something you get at the gun store, they look like something you find in the "AS SEEN ON TV" section at the drug store....
And how come the 1857 Smith & Wesson gets credit for being the first cartridge revolver, when it was really the 1846/1858 Lefaucheux?
My StepDad just passed away...
He'd been in decline since late December...
^ I'm very sorry. :bluesad:
Quote from: LilCerberus on March 04, 2022, 02:13:08 PM
My StepDad just passed away...
He'd been in decline since late December...
Hate to hear this. I buried my Dad five years ago this summer . . . still miss him.
Quote from: LilCerberus on March 04, 2022, 02:13:08 PM
My StepDad just passed away...
He'd been in decline since late December...
Oh gosh, that's grim news. My sympathies to you and everyone who was part of his life.
Quote from: LilCerberus on March 04, 2022, 02:13:08 PM
My StepDad just passed away...
He'd been in decline since late December...
I'm sorry for your loss :bluesad:
Something tells me Horace Smith & Daniel B. Wesson got ahold of an 1858 Devisme & decided to rebuild it backwards in order to get around the copyright laws.....
March 28, 2022
It's 6:30pm, eastern daylight savings time, & I'm already back to not caring about the oscars......
Maybe this Oscar winner can lift your spirits
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I randomly remembered many years ago, a week or so after I'd been stabbed in the shoulder I was walking down the street and met an old woman I knew. She didn't know about the stab wound (I was keeping it as secret as possible for various reasons) and clapped me on the shoulder during the conversation. I felt waves of nausea washing over my body and struggled to stay upright. I have no doubt the colour must have drained from my face but somehow I managed to stay on my feet.
Then she clapped me on the same shoulder a second time.
My mother, age 79, receives (physical) catalogs from The Vermont Country Store, the Country Store, and The Country Door all of which sell the same sort of stuff.
OK, Viking culture and mythos rocked but Vikings were library-burning dicks.
Nazis looked damn chic while out genociding and invading.
The Sith radiated coolness while they whacked younglings and blew up whole planets.
So why the heck can't the forces of good get their act together and present a more impressive image to the world?
Odin made an oath to rid the world of frost giants. I've never encountered a frost giant. Odin's cool for that. :cheers:
Quote from: ER on March 31, 2022, 04:25:45 PM
OK, Viking culture and mythos rocked but Vikings were library-burning dicks.
Nazis looked damn chic while out genociding and invading.
The Sith radiated coolness while they whacked younglings and blew up whole planets.
So why the heck can't the forces of good get their act together and present a more impressive image to the world?
Because there's no money in being good............... :lookingup:
Quote from: LilCerberus on March 31, 2022, 07:36:32 PM
Quote from: ER on March 31, 2022, 04:25:45 PM
OK, Viking culture and mythos rocked but Vikings were library-burning dicks.
Nazis looked damn chic while out genociding and invading.
The Sith radiated coolness while they whacked younglings and blew up whole planets.
So why the heck can't the forces of good get their act together and present a more impressive image to the world?
Because there's no money in being good............... :lookingup:
Tell that to a call girl.
Or an artist.
Or Batman! I mean. he's a millionaire playboy!
And he looks cool!
Well...sometimes.
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My son Eddie stopped over- looked at my TV- which hasn't worked in 2 months- and fixed it. :thumbup:
I keep confusing ALDI with Lidl.....
Probably because this is a Food Lion town.....
There's more Food Lions in this town than there are Starbucks.....
My Dad lives in NYC and was intending to take the N train to 59th st with a stop at 36th, which is where the subway attack happened. His wife, my stepmother, got sick and he had to tend to her otherwise he could have been there. He was going to buy Tamales from some lady on 59th st.
Quote from: lester1/2jr on April 12, 2022, 10:28:36 PM
My Dad lives in NYC and was intending to take the N train to 59th st with a stop at 36th, which is where the subway attack happened. His wife, my stepmother, got sick and he had to tend to her otherwise he could have been there. He was going to buy Tamales from some lady on 59th st.
It's scary when gun violence brushes up against those we love.
I was a toddler at the time, but in 1966 my Mom and Dad literally moved off of the sidewalk on the University of Texas campus to make room for a guy pushing a dolly with a trunk on it towards the UT clock tower. They got in their car and drove off, and moments later he came out on top of the clock tower and started shooting, wounding over 30 people and killing 13. Mom and Dad missed being in his sights by about five minutes, and recognized him when his picture was displayed on the news that evening.
Well, in NYC unfortunately there are now a lot of these types of incidents. The whole defund the police, let criminals get off vibe isn't working. Whatever was supposed to arise in it's place hasn't. It's just been a field day for criminals.
Quote from: indianasmith on April 12, 2022, 10:53:34 PM
Quote from: lester1/2jr on April 12, 2022, 10:28:36 PM
My Dad lives in NYC and was intending to take the N train to 59th st with a stop at 36th, which is where the subway attack happened. His wife, my stepmother, got sick and he had to tend to her otherwise he could have been there. He was going to buy Tamales from some lady on 59th st.
It's scary when gun violence brushes up against those we love.
I was a toddler at the time, but in 1966 my Mom and Dad literally moved off of the sidewalk on the University of Texas campus to make room for a guy pushing a dolly with a trunk on it towards the UT clock tower. They got in their car and drove off, and moments later he came out on top of the clock tower and started shooting, wounding over 30 people and killing 13. Mom and Dad missed being in his sights by about five minutes, and recognized him when his picture was displayed on the news that evening.
Charles Whitman? OMG :buggedout: :buggedout:
Quote from: lester1/2jr on April 12, 2022, 11:16:38 PM
Well, in NYC unfortunately there are now a lot of these types of incidents. The whole defund the police, let criminals get off vibe isn't working. Whatever was supposed to arise in it's place hasn't. It's just been a field day for criminals.
Defund...what? None of those policies are in place. WTF are you talking about?
I suppose if we had more cops we can catch mass murderers? Spree killers? These are people that just decide they're going to go apesh!t with a gun.
Are you that much of a melon head?
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 13, 2022, 11:01:43 AM
Quote from: lester1/2jr on April 12, 2022, 11:16:38 PM
Well, in NYC unfortunately there are now a lot of these types of incidents. The whole defund the police, let criminals get off vibe isn't working. Whatever was supposed to arise in it's place hasn't. It's just been a field day for criminals.
Defund...what? None of those policies are in place. WTF are you talking about?
I suppose if we had more cops we can catch mass murderers? Spree killers? Are you that much of a melon head?
Do we really need name-calling?
^ No. We don't need it.
Sorry Rev.
I didn't mean Melon Head. I was thinking of giant penis Superman head!
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this is walgreens in san francisco
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everything is locked up because of constant shoplifting due to prop 47
^...and that has what to do with mass shootings?
And how does locking up drugs in SF affect you in Boston?
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They aren't drugs theyre regular products that's the point. The fact that you're a free man shows we haven't been tough enough on crime.
^ Your'e right. Trump and cronies are still slithering free in public.
If Patrick Swayze were here in this very thread, you know what he'd do and say, right?
Quote from: Zapranoth on April 15, 2022, 08:52:52 AM
If Patrick Swayze were here in this very thread, you know what he'd do and say, right?
"We've got entirely too many troublemakers here. Too many 40-year-old adolescents, felons, power drinkers and trustees of modern chemistry"?
Quote from: Zapranoth on April 15, 2022, 08:52:52 AM
If Patrick Swayze were here in this very thread, you know what he'd do and say, right?
He'd say "No one puts Trev in a corner." :wink:
If one is a brand, the how does the individual market themselves, especially in a town like this??????????
I forgot how nice it is browsing the internet with an ad-blocker. Four ads blocked right here, and no more ads on youtube :cheers:
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 06, 2022, 11:30:08 AM
My son Eddie stopped over- looked at my TV- which hasn't worked in 2 months- and fixed it. :thumbup:
one of those? :wink:
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Quote from: LilCerberus on April 16, 2022, 08:49:03 PM
If one is a brand, the how does the individual market themselves, especially in a town like this??????????
Like any brand. First, you must convince people that they want what you are offering. If they don't believe in the product you need to change so it offers more, or at least convince people that it does.
I saw the worst Easter church sign in the history of Easter hurch signs yesterday in Tyler, TX.
It was even worse than the "Jesus Got'er Done!" sign I saw in Arkansas a few years ago!
This one said:
"Easter Comes Just Once A Year - How Often Do You?"
I mean, either they are talking VERY awkwardly about church attendance, or else this church has an unhealthy interest in its members' personal lives.
Quote from: indianasmith on April 17, 2022, 01:17:06 PM
I saw the worst Easter church sign in the history of Easter hurch signs yesterday in Tyler, TX.
It was even worse than the "Jesus Got'er Done!" sign I saw in Arkansas a few years ago!
This one said:
"Easter Comes Just Once A Year - How Often Do You?"
I mean, either they are talking VERY awkwardly about church attendance, or else this church has an unhealthy interest in its members' personal lives.
It isn't entirely inappropriate given Easter's origins as a fertility celebration...
just gonna leave this here
https://youtu.be/wlslwdB9Z4g
I wonder what would happen if Elon Musk bought MySpace......
^ It would have less members then it does now!
He's a mad doctor looking creeper.
Quote from: indianasmith on April 17, 2022, 01:17:06 PM
I saw the worst Easter church sign in the history of Easter hurch signs yesterday in Tyler, TX.
It was even worse than the "Jesus Got'er Done!" sign I saw in Arkansas a few years ago!
This one said:
"Easter Comes Just Once A Year - How Often Do You?"
I mean, either they are talking VERY awkwardly about church attendance, or else this church has an unhealthy interest in its members' personal lives.
Do I want to know the double meaning here? :question:
Quote from: pacman000 on April 18, 2022, 11:16:09 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on April 17, 2022, 01:17:06 PM
I saw the worst Easter church sign in the history of Easter hurch signs yesterday in Tyler, TX.
It was even worse than the "Jesus Got'er Done!" sign I saw in Arkansas a few years ago!
This one said:
"Easter Comes Just Once A Year - How Often Do You?"
I mean, either they are talking VERY awkwardly about church attendance, or else this church has an unhealthy interest in its members' personal lives.
Do I want to know the double meaning here? :question:
Trade "come" with "cum"....ya know, that thing that happens when your pee pee gets hard in your sleep.
well, after six months of talking about it and setting up the appointment, I had my first colonoscopy screening this Monday.
The dreaded "prep" was not as bad as I'd feared, although the concoction they had me drink did its job in quick fashion.
As for the procedure itself, they knocked me out and I felt nothing and remembered nothing.
When I came to, the nurse asked if I was OK and I said: "I expected to wake up feeling like a convict who had dropped the soap in the shower, but I'm not sore at all!"
She LOL'd at that, and then the doctor came in and told me they had found and removed two polyps from my colon; one was small and insignificant; the other they are sending off to be checked - he said it didn't look cancerous but he wanted to play it safe.
And I have to do it all over again in 2 years.
Who the heck is Mr Dorset?
And why do the annoying telemarketers hocking Easy Rest Adjustable Beds assume that's my name?
^ Mr. Dorset is your doppelganger! :buggedout:
Obviously your doppelganger with back problems!
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Quote from: RCMerchant on April 20, 2022, 11:04:20 PM
^ Mr. Dorset is your doppelganger! :buggedout:
Obviously your doppelganger with back problems!
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I remember sneaking in to see that when I was 11: scared me for a long time.
For some reason, I can't seam to find out why the English Transitional Revolver is called "Transitional"....
On this day every year, people who "Care More Than You" celebrate the birthday of The Unicorn Killer.....
It's raining. Supposed to thunderstorm this afternoon.
I have the windows open and I can hear a woodpecker tapping a tree.
Even though it was, like, a thousand years ago, people are up in arm about this all of a sudden....
I'm not sure why...
http://youtu.be/FYbavuReVF4 (http://youtu.be/FYbavuReVF4)
^ I'm afraid to hear the answer, but what people? I have never read or heard that anybody has objected to this.
King Tut by Steve Martin? Huh?
Apparently, in 2017, one college class' students protested the song & video because someone wore gold face paint: https://www.newsweek.com/steve-martins-king-tut-sketch-causing-controversy-one-college-campus-717418 (https://www.newsweek.com/steve-martins-king-tut-sketch-causing-controversy-one-college-campus-717418) They said it was like blackface, & an example of cultural appropriation.
This thread of thought has resurfaced since it's the sketch's 44th anniversary:
https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/steven-martins-king-tut-sketch-from-1978-sparks-twitter-debate-on-cultural-appropriation/ (https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/steven-martins-king-tut-sketch-from-1978-sparks-twitter-debate-on-cultural-appropriation/)
https://www.tmz.com/2022/04/23/steve-martin-snl-king-tut-skit-defended-against-millennials/ (https://www.tmz.com/2022/04/23/steve-martin-snl-king-tut-skit-defended-against-millennials/)
Sounds like more folks are defending Steve Martin than finding offence in his work tho; so far this is just a bunch of hot air, not worth mentioning, unless you're a news agency getting clicks from culture wars. :/
Oh, & some people said it's not funny anymore, & that 70's comedy isn't as funny as what we have today. I disagree; modern comedy is often based on akward social situations. That doesn't make me laugh; it makes me cringe.
Have I never seen a Tesla, or have I seen Teslas and I just don't recognize them?
I know I've never seen a Tesla dealership.
Do Teslas exist?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 28, 2022, 07:43:45 PM
Have I never seen a Tesla, or have I seen Teslas and I just don't recognize them?
I know I've never seen a Tesla dealership.
Do Teslas exist?
Apparently not in South Africa :wink:
https://www.news24.com/wheels/news/gear_and_tech/you-can-buy-tesla-infrastructure-in-sa-but-not-their-cars-so-why-is-there-a-model-x-here-20211206-2 (https://www.news24.com/wheels/news/gear_and_tech/you-can-buy-tesla-infrastructure-in-sa-but-not-their-cars-so-why-is-there-a-model-x-here-20211206-2)
Tiana came over and visited for for most of the day. It was nice to hang out with her. :smile:
YouTube's "Short" video feature is useless because there's no option to add it to a play list, no option to adjust audio, and no slow motion option. :lookingup:
rev- maybe a socio economic/ political thing. tons of teslas here in tony let leaning Boston mass
Much strangeness in the nooz today, I wasn't sure where to start..............
MyPillow guy jumped the gun on starting a new twitter account, banned a few hours later because he was banned for life, so clearly people are panicking over nothing...
Don't misunderstand, I've heard some of what Lindell has to say, & it's too far out for me.....
And Biden hired some weirdo who sings mary poppins spoofs to keep elon musk in check....
And David Hogg got in the nooz last week because he thought he could take down mike lindell by starting his own pillow company, only to get overwhelmed & palm it off on one of his business partners...
I'm not sure why, but this made me think about EESpeaks, who created a bunch of educational board games for children on how to start a business... Thing is, in spite of their pro-capitalist learning toys, the folks at EESpeaks are liberals.....
Anyway, it might do Hogg some good to take a couple years off & go to junior college.....
Oh, and there's creepy dolls washing up on a Texas beach............
Quote from: LilCerberus on May 02, 2022, 10:08:01 PM
David Hogg got in the nooz last week because he thought he could take down mike lindell by starting his own pillow company, only to get overwhelmed & palm it off on one of his business partners...
Last week? Where are you getting your David Hogg n00z from?
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He resigned April 2021
QuoteBiden hired some weirdo who sings mary poppins spoofs to keep elon musk in check....
Biden should've hired a singing windmill instead. Much more effective to keep some weirdos in check.
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or how about a Pizmonim blasting Space Laser?
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The rain clouds are so dark this morning that street lights are on at ten AM.
Putin may have cancer.
Good luck, cancer! :thumbup:
Two Thousand Mules came out over the weekend, and bootlegs & pirates are popping up all over the place, because everybody thinks it needs to be seen, but nobody thinks you should have to pay to see it, but everytime one of these pirates gets taken down, the QBalls scream censorship.....
I even tried explaining this, got called a karen, & had my post removed because they don't want it known they're sharing pirate crap....
Oh, and if you have to know, I haven't seen it myself, but I have been amusing myself reading the debunkers....
I heard this morning that we're running out of javelin missiles.
Just found out Randy Weaver passed away on Wednesday.....
They should have this be May 2020 and we just forget the Covid years ever happened
You know what would really be embarrassing? If you were a serial killer out cruising for victims and you fell victim to some other serial killer.
Quote from: ER on May 27, 2022, 01:55:33 PM
You know what would really be embarrassing? If you were a serial killer out cruising for victims and you fell victim to some other serial killer.
That must have happened at some point.
Quote from: Alex on May 27, 2022, 02:12:11 PM
Quote from: ER on May 27, 2022, 01:55:33 PM
You know what would really be embarrassing? If you were a serial killer out cruising for victims and you fell victim to some other serial killer.
That must have happened at some point.
It has- in Texas, Dean Corll was murdered by his lackey Elmer Wayne Henley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 27, 2022, 02:20:08 PM
Quote from: Alex on May 27, 2022, 02:12:11 PM
Quote from: ER on May 27, 2022, 01:55:33 PM
You know what would really be embarrassing? If you were a serial killer out cruising for victims and you fell victim to some other serial killer.
That must have happened at some point.
It has- in Texas, Dean Corll was murdered by his lackey Elmer Wayne Henley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll
And the other turd accomplice died last year in prison of Covid 19.
Sometimes, I feel like Strawberry from Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke....
My idea of the outdoors is riding a motorcycle, even through the city....
As I was telling someone, I have a cousin on my mom's side who was hiking in the New Forest years ago and was bitten on the thumb by a baby adder. She said it wasn't much worse than a wasp sting, just scarier.
On this day in 2004, after years of getting beat down by a corrupt local government in collusion with a local cement factory, Marvin Heemeyer took a sixty-three-ton Komatsu D355A bulldozer armored with 30 tons of concrete and steel and went on a rampage through Granby, Colorado...
I've always been a shotgun man....
The only rifle I ever owned was a cheap .22 that you loaded the cartridges into a tube under the barrel & held about 17 rounds...
Can't remember what brand it was, but it was a semi auto that looked pretty friendly, but you could squeeze off all your ammo just like one of these mean looking guns....
Of course, I wasn't raised that way; I was raised to aim first, & use one round at a time...
A tough old cowboy once counseled his grandson that if he wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a pinch of gunpowder on his Oatmeal every morning.
The grandson did this religiously and lived to the age of 110. He left 4 children, 20 grand-children, 30 great-grandchildren, 10 great-great-grand-children and a fifty-foot hole where the crematorium used to be.
Talking about scraping the bottom of the barrel for new material...
I just saw on The Mads Are Back facebook page that Manos is getting at TV spinoff...
Facebook removed the only feature I ever used on Facebook: local weather. Now I have less of a reason to visit Facebook :lookingup:
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 07, 2022, 04:55:29 PM
Talking about scraping the bottom of the barrel for new material...
I just saw on The Mads Are Back facebook page that Manos is getting at TV spinoff...
Here's a cite:
https://shiptoshoremedia.com/blogs/blog/what-makes-a-bad-film-good-do-we-really-need-a-manos-extended-universe
Not sure if that's a joke post or what.
Quote from: pacman000 on June 08, 2022, 04:34:21 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 07, 2022, 04:55:29 PM
Talking about scraping the bottom of the barrel for new material...
I just saw on The Mads Are Back facebook page that Manos is getting at TV spinoff...
Here's a cite:
https://shiptoshoremedia.com/blogs/blog/what-makes-a-bad-film-good-do-we-really-need-a-manos-extended-universe (https://shiptoshoremedia.com/blogs/blog/what-makes-a-bad-film-good-do-we-really-need-a-manos-extended-universe)
Not sure if that's a joke post or what.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8243302/reference/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8243302/reference/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tJND2VBgn4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tJND2VBgn4)
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 08, 2022, 05:02:14 PM
Quote from: pacman000 on June 08, 2022, 04:34:21 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 07, 2022, 04:55:29 PM
Talking about scraping the bottom of the barrel for new material...
I just saw on The Mads Are Back facebook page that Manos is getting at TV spinoff...
Here's a cite:
https://shiptoshoremedia.com/blogs/blog/what-makes-a-bad-film-good-do-we-really-need-a-manos-extended-universe (https://shiptoshoremedia.com/blogs/blog/what-makes-a-bad-film-good-do-we-really-need-a-manos-extended-universe)
Not sure if that's a joke post or what.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8243302/reference/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8243302/reference/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tJND2VBgn4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tJND2VBgn4)
Jackie Neyman Jones has been pitching this project for a while, she ran a Kickstarter for it.
It's not a "TV series" like it's going to be on NBC or Netflix or something. It's just a pilot.
" I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER!"
Believe it, baby.
I had a haircut and I'm regretting it every morning. :buggedout:
I'm going to NYC a month from now!!!!!
^ Have fun! Visit Grand Central Station and have some street hot dogs!
Quote from: Trevor on June 09, 2022, 10:14:36 AM
I had a haircut and I'm regretting it every morning. :buggedout:
Why?
Quote from: pacman000 on June 09, 2022, 05:31:27 PM
Quote from: Trevor on June 09, 2022, 10:14:36 AM
I had a haircut and I'm regretting it every morning. :buggedout:
Why?
It's freezing here in the morning: the cold wind whistles through the seams of my shattered underpants :buggedout:
http://youtu.be/FQMbXvn2RNI (http://youtu.be/FQMbXvn2RNI)
Amber Heard should get a Razzie. Whether she was being mendacious or not on the stand, it came across as annoyingly bad acting.
Let's do a magic trick.
The actor who played John Boy Walton (Richard Thomas) recently celebrated his 71st birthday.
There, now you feel old.
Quote from: Alex on June 15, 2022, 01:49:15 PM
Let's do a magic trick.
The actor who played John Boy Walton (Richard Thomas) recently celebrated his 71st birthday.
There, now you feel old.
Oy indeed I do.
Every day this week has felt like a Friday.
Anybody else ever wonder why The Beast Of Hollow Mountain (1965) is on Comet & not on Grit?
Hmmm...
Trying to find another old B&W western about ranchers fighting dinosaurs, but this was about stereotypical Vaqueros, not cowboys.....
^ Not B&W, but VALLEY OF GWANGI (1969)
(https://i.imgur.com/3xmq2TT.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
just gonna leave this here
https://www.theblaze.com/news/video-beavis-and-butt-head-gloriously-lampoon-white-privilege-woke-culture-in-clip-from-new-movie?utm_source=theblaze-dailyAM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__AM%202022-06-28&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM (https://www.theblaze.com/news/video-beavis-and-butt-head-gloriously-lampoon-white-privilege-woke-culture-in-clip-from-new-movie?utm_source=theblaze-dailyAM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__AM%202022-06-28&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM)
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 21, 2022, 09:17:06 PM
Hmmm...
Trying to find another old B&W western about ranchers fighting dinosaurs, but this was about stereotypical Vaqueros, not cowboys.....
Sound of Horror?
https://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/soundhorror.html
Quote from: pacman000 on June 28, 2022, 08:22:38 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 21, 2022, 09:17:06 PM
Hmmm...
Trying to find another old B&W western about ranchers fighting dinosaurs, but this was about stereotypical Vaqueros, not cowboys.....
Sound of Horror?
https://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/soundhorror.html (https://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/soundhorror.html)
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/soundhorror/ (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/soundhorror/)
No, that's not it....
Maybe it "was" Valley of The Gwangi (1969), & I just happen to be remembering my old B&W TV set.....
I wonder what the world would be like today if people had evolved from cats rather than apes.
Quote from: Alex on June 29, 2022, 03:19:25 AM
I wonder what the world would be like today if people had evolved from cats rather than apes.
More naps and more self-worship, plus Mouse-In-A-Pouch would also be the world's favorite snack.
Kristi told me that Amber Heard had started a GoFundMe to pay her expences. She'd managed to raise about $2000. I'd wonder if it is genuine or not, but I don't care enough.
Auditions for The 48 Hour Film Festival are back in my town for the first time since covid, & for once, I'm really dreading it...
I'm about to finish a Korean horror/ drama that is pretty good but too drunk to remember the name of it
Yesterday I saw jet leave a contrail that went from horizon to horizon.
Quote from: ER on July 02, 2022, 05:40:02 PM
Yesterday I saw jet leave a contrail that went from horizon to horizon.
You spelt chemtrail incorrectly.
Folks around here been setting off home fireworks for the last 2 days. My dog is hiding under my computer chair. I Like fireworks. My dog does not.
Finally heard an Awake The Rapper song...
Strikes me as an uninspired Travis Bickle rip-off from Taxi Driver (1976)
If this is a word, I'm not sure what language it is............
http://fb.watch/e4KHlfQhnp/ (http://fb.watch/e4KHlfQhnp/)
Somebody blew up one of The Georgia Guidestones....
The state had to demolish the rest of it for safety.....
Never heard of 'em before....
RIP Larry Storch & Shinzo Abe
The Kel-Tec Sub2000 folding rifle looks like, well, junk.....
I wonder why it is that no matter what I do or how tired I might be, about one night per week I get insomnia? Think it's an evolutionary safeguard for someone to be likely to be up some nights?
It's 3 in the morning, and I'm on the computer smoking pot.
Good thing I have no life! :thumbup:
Police forces in two towns quit this week....
Springfield Colorado, Three officers, called "poor timing"...
Kenly, North Carolina, five officers, due to "poor management"....
I was thinking about all the famous people who died in bathrooms. Wonder what it is? In bathtubs there's Jim Morrison, Whitney Houston, Dolores O' Riordan, Sridevi Kapoor, and if wanted to range a little farther, even adult actress Althea Leisure. Elvis, Lenny Bruce, and Judy Garland died in bathrooms, to be indelicate, while using the "commode." So did 18th century King George II of England, and 11th century King Edmund Ironside. Not to mention Tywin Lannister on Game of Thrones. Maybe bathrooms are good places not to spend unnecessary time in, huh?
Quote from: ER on July 24, 2022, 01:43:25 PM
I was thinking about all the famous people who died in bathrooms. Wonder what it is? In bathtubs there's Jim Morrison, Whitney Houston, Dolores O' Riordan, Sridevi Kapoor, and if wanted to range a little farther, even adult actress Althea Leisure. Elvis, Lenny Bruce, and Judy Garland died in bathrooms, to be indelicate, while using the "commode." So did 18th century King George II of England, and 11th century King Edmund Ironside. Not to mention Tywin Lannister on Game of Thrones. Maybe bathrooms are good places not to spend unnecessary time in, huh?
Everyone has got to go somewhere. That does seem a crap place to go though...
Quote from: Alex on July 24, 2022, 01:57:28 PM
Quote from: ER on July 24, 2022, 01:43:25 PM
I was thinking about all the famous people who died in bathrooms. Wonder what it is? In bathtubs there's Jim Morrison, Whitney Houston, Dolores O' Riordan, Sridevi Kapoor, and if wanted to range a little farther, even adult actress Althea Leisure. Elvis, Lenny Bruce, and Judy Garland died in bathrooms, to be indelicate, while using the "commode." So did 18th century King George II of England, and 11th century King Edmund Ironside. Not to mention Tywin Lannister on Game of Thrones. Maybe bathrooms are good places not to spend unnecessary time in, huh?
Everyone has got to go somewhere. That does seem a crap place to go though...
Oh! I left off Catherine the Great.
Quote from: ER on July 24, 2022, 02:28:49 PM
Quote from: Alex on July 24, 2022, 01:57:28 PM
Quote from: ER on July 24, 2022, 01:43:25 PM
I was thinking about all the famous people who died in bathrooms. Wonder what it is? In bathtubs there's Jim Morrison, Whitney Houston, Dolores O' Riordan, Sridevi Kapoor, and if wanted to range a little farther, even adult actress Althea Leisure. Elvis, Lenny Bruce, and Judy Garland died in bathrooms, to be indelicate, while using the "commode." So did 18th century King George II of England, and 11th century King Edmund Ironside. Not to mention Tywin Lannister on Game of Thrones. Maybe bathrooms are good places not to spend unnecessary time in, huh?
Everyone has got to go somewhere. That does seem a crap place to go though...
Oh! I left off Catherine the Great.
Shame the horse didn't...
PTSD sucks.
Quote from: ER on July 24, 2022, 02:28:49 PM
...Oh! I left off Catherine the Great.
...And
NANCY SPUNGEN.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Nancy_Spungen_1978.jpg)
South Africa won the first World Championship of Tent Pegging in 2014.
Quote from: Newt on August 04, 2022, 01:01:32 PM
South Africa won the first World Championship of Tent Pegging in 2014.
Someone here cares about that. Unfortunately, the word "pegging" has been ruined for me forever.
Quote from: Newt on August 04, 2022, 01:01:32 PM
South Africa won the first World Championship of Tent Pegging in 2014.
:teddyr: :teddyr:
At least they won that: our ghastly cricket team couldn't win a game on Fantasy Island :buggedout:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 04, 2022, 01:27:46 PM
Quote from: Newt on August 04, 2022, 01:01:32 PM
South Africa won the first World Championship of Tent Pegging in 2014.
Someone here cares about that. Unfortunately, the word "pegging" has been ruined for me forever.
:teddyr: :teddyr:
Indood I dee........umm, indeed I do :wink:
wow theres an entire feature length Cryptic Slaughter documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU-Df5CemGc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU-Df5CemGc)
Fatfreddys cat might be the only one besides me who's interested in such a thing and even that is a stretch
their name might not make much sense but they were relatively unique musically, to the extent that thrash can be unique
My crockpot came in the mail today! :thumbup:
About to win these for $8.00!
(https://i.imgur.com/r8qGO2w.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
I threw all my plates and old crockpot out when Tiana left. I used them and was so depressed when they got dirty I just threw them in the garbage. right now I use paper plates. I've lost over 20 pounds. I'm down to 130.
I Just paid my water bill, the last of my bills for the month. I have $124 dollars left until September.
I'm tired, sleepy, hungry, thirsty, and I'm sunburned, but you know, it's been an enjoyable day! :-)
Another sunny day!
I am estatic, as usual.
(https://i.imgur.com/F1Nx82F.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Changed some vitamins to get rid of some lower back pain...
It worked, but the arthritis in my left leg came back with a vengeance....
Trying to get the fine tuning right is a nightmare.....
Boy, having arthritis in your hips is a real pain in the @$$!
In a few minutes I have to go meet a man whose brother is on death row. (Our meeting has nothing to do with that but it always finds a place in my mind to remember that.)
It bugs me how on old sitcoms people never seem to close doors behind them. (Three's Company was the worst for that.) Actors walk in from outside, leave the door open, yet a moment later the door has mysteriously closed. I think in real life closing doors rattled flimsy set walls...?
Quote from: ER on August 15, 2022, 02:45:08 PM
It bugs me how on old sitcoms people never seem to close doors behind them. (Three's Company was the worst for that.) Actors walk in from outside, leave the door open, yet a moment later the door has mysteriously closed. I think I'm real life closing doors rattled flimsy set walls...?
You need to look up an old British soap opera called Crossroads.
Quote from: Alex on August 15, 2022, 02:48:09 PM
Quote from: ER on August 15, 2022, 02:45:08 PM
It bugs me how on old sitcoms people never seem to close doors behind them. (Three's Company was the worst for that.) Actors walk in from outside, leave the door open, yet a moment later the door has mysteriously closed. I think I'm real life closing doors rattled flimsy set walls...?
You need to look up an old British soap opera called Crossroads.
Bad about that, eh?
Boy, Sciatica is literally a pain in the @$$
So, after four years of trying to work with the Virginia Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services, going from one bureaucratic formality after another, from psyche tests to sending in doctors notes saying that an old stroke & an old back injury wouldn't effect my ability to work, they finally decided last Friday with employment development......
Right after that meeting, I got a terrible pain shooting down my left leg, that quickly got worse, until I couldn't even move, because almost any movement seemed to agitate that leg...
So, today my mom took me to the hospital, & I was diagnosed with sciatica with herniated discs....
I'm on steroids & pain killers until I can see a specialist, but DANG that's discouraging......
A bat was flitting around my house late last night. My 29 year old son running around like a girl was hilarious!
He shoed it out the back door. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 17, 2022, 07:15:08 AM
A bat was fitting around my house late last night. My 29 year old son running around like a girl was hilarious!
He shoed it out the back door. :bouncegiggle:
Like a girl? :bouncegiggle: Dude, we got a bat box on a tree in our woods and my girls got names for some of those winged mice. Darned if I can tell the bats apart myself.
(Oh, I just noticed our giggles bounce in sync.....)
I am listening to a podcast where a guy plays through the Fighting Fantasy books I used to play as a kid. I've only really been listening to the episodes where he plays a book I'm familiar with myself but one thing has struck me. If I wanted to play to lose them, I'd play exactly the same way he does. So far he has only completed one of the books and he had to cheat to even do that.
Actual conversation I had with my husband in the '10s:
Me: I'm thinking of writing a memoir about my past relationships.
Him: Interesting. How would it begin?
Me: "The first time I fell in love I went head over heels. The second time it was just the opposite."
Him: Hmm...
Me: Too much?
Him: Maybe a bit. Besides, it wasn't like that. I was there.
Me: Actually, you weren't.
Him: Damn. So where do I come in?
Me: "Chapter Nine---The Semi-Connected Pretty Boy With The Dad Who Gets Us Into Any Event In The City."
Him: Any chance you'll take up needlepoint instead?
I discovered today that the neighbouring town where I grew up was once the busiest port on the west coast, and until the American Revolution, had used ships made in Boston. Once the revolution started, they built their own shipyards and start made their own vessels from then on.
Eddie Murphy is the least convincing boxer I have ever seen in a movie.
Although Joe Bugner was less convincing in a real ring.
Well, a week ago, I thought I was gonna man up & walk it off, then come Monday & I can't walk...
Show up in the ER sweatin' like a hog from covid, stroke high blood pressure, & one of the nurses said my snoring was rather loud & cut out once, indicating sleep apnea...
Got an epidural in my spine on Thursday, so at least one of my problems is taken care for the next six months, but on Monday, I'm going to need to find a primary care doctor & a physical rehabilitation specialist...
Two weeks ago, I thought I was finally looking towards a new dawn, then the earth fell out from under me....
Quote from: LilCerberus on August 27, 2022, 10:52:40 PM
Well, a week ago, I thought I was gonna man up & walk it off, then come Monday & I can't walk...
Show up in the ER sweatin' like a hog from covid, stroke high blood pressure, & one of the nurses said my snoring was rather loud & cut out once, indicating sleep apnea...
Got an epidural in my spine on Thursday, so at least one of my problems is taken care for the next six months, but on Monday, I'm going to need to find a primary care doctor & a physical rehabilitation specialist...
Two weeks ago, I thought I was finally looking towards a new dawn, then the earth fell out from under me....
Ouch! Hope it resolves quickly.
Settling into my mom's place for a few days....
Set up my old laptop & getting back into my old habits...
Still need to find a couple of different rehab specialists & sort things out with Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, The Choice Group, & my county case manager......
Still can't wait to get back home in spite of the hoarding problem...
Maybe someday I'll find a decent job & find a decent motorcycle, but for now, it feels good to be blessed....
Gonna try going back home tomorrow...
Gotta tie up some loose ends.....
Been on SNAP since December, & since I didn't pick up my card for a couple months, it's got a nice hefty surplus on it, & I've been saving money....
Should've been thinking about eating better all this time, just never got around to thinking about it....
Finally back home...
Had to buy a new APC & set it up....
Dilly of a day!
Gotta say this, hopefully in the appropriate thread, but Joe Biden's disgusting tirade last night is exactly why I've always thought Triumph Of The Will was a good movie!
Quote from: LilCerberus on September 02, 2022, 05:46:56 PM
Gotta say this, hopefully in the appropriate thread, but Joe Biden's disgusting tirade last night is exactly why I've always thought Triumph Of The Will was a good movie!
You know, if you don't want to be called a fascist, quit supporting one!
Biden spoke nothing more or less than the plain truth.
Biden was talking about himself & his own administration the entire time.....
Pretty childish, really.
I don't recall Biden supporters lying about an election, attacking the Capitol, and I certainly don't recall him stealing hundreds of pages of classified documents. History is going to be SAVAGE in its judgment of Trump and his supporters.
What has Biden OR any of his cronies said that is true?
Every day, his idiot for a press secretary looks at talking points & tries to say that what is is not what is!
In 2000, they refused to accept the election results, then in 2016, likewise, with democrat leaders calling for valence in the streets for anyone who disagreed with them!
And then to have the gall to accuse the right of the hatred, bigotry, lies & violence that the left is guilty of!
It's Disgusting!
The election results were NOT lied about, but rather, numerous questions were raised, who's askers were attacked for having them!
And so far, there has been absolutely no evidence that ANYTHING was stolen by Trump, or at least any more than the Bush's, Clinton & The Bamster declassified a number of boxes of top secret documents, presumably for the national archives, but never got around to it!
And a big blacked out search warrant signed off at the last hour by a former Jeffrey Epstein crony tells me all I need to know!
Last night, I saw an infirm maniac who wants to be Hitler, but he doesn't have the personality!
Quote from: LilCerberus on September 02, 2022, 10:27:03 PM
What has Biden OR any of his cronies said that is true?
Every day, his idiot for a press secretary looks at talking points & tries to say that what is is not what is!
In 2000, they refused to accept the election results, then in 2016, likewise, with democrat leaders calling for valence in the streets for anyone who disagreed with them!
And then to have the gall to accuse the right of the hatred, bigotry, lies & violence that the left is guilty of!
It's Disgusting!
The election results were NOT lied about, but rather, numerous questions were raised, who's askers were attacked for having them!
And so far, there has been absolutely no evidence that ANYTHING was stolen by Trump, or at least any more than the Bush's, Clinton & The Bamster declassified a number of boxes of top secret documents, presumably for the national archives, but never got around to it!
And a big blacked out search warrant signed off at the last hour by a former Jeffrey Epstein crony tells me all I need to know!
Last night, I saw an infirm maniac who wants to be Hitler, but he doesn't have the personality!
You're so hopeless I give up. Let history decide.
^likewise^
Giving fitted sheets to people who disagree with you seems an odd thing to do, but I can think of worse things.
Quote from: Alex on September 03, 2022, 08:06:09 AM
Giving fitted sheets to people who disagree with you seems an odd thing to do, but I can think of worse things.
?
Never heard that term on this side of the pond....
It's midnight and I can't sleep 😔
I thought the Obamas already had TWO official portraits!!!!
How many do they need????
One of my neighbors' trees looks kinda like Godzilla when viewed from my kitchen window.....
On blustery days like this, it looks like it's snarling....
A Russian submarine has disappeared....
Svenghoulie is on a nationwide manhunt for a new sidekick.....
A group of women in green screen suits beat up a pair of New York teens....
A pair of football players took down an animal rights activist....
busy day for crazy nooz..........
Quote from: LilCerberus on October 04, 2022, 08:09:36 PM
Svenghoulie is on a nationwide manhunt for a new sidekick.....
Gasp!! Like 7 years ago I was seriously considering painting circles around my eyes and putting on a fake mustache and goatee, taking a picture and sending it to Svengoolie with a note that said "Daughter of son of Svengoolie" and my new career would be launched. Now he's going to New York to find some buffoon to be his sidekick that isn't going to be nearly as funny as that idea. Missed opportunities I tell ya!
Yeesh, this week has been one financial disaster after another.
But hey, who DOESN'T need $12,000 in new debt?
I think it settles which country is better that most Canadians live near the US border.
Quote from: ER on October 06, 2022, 05:45:02 PM
I think it settles which country is better that most Canadians live near the US border.
Could that be because the northern half of the country is so cold you have to look at your driver's license to remember your gender?
There are now two completely different woke Velmas...
Comedienne Judy Tenuta passed a few days ago.....
Quote from: ER on October 06, 2022, 05:45:02 PM
I think it settles which country is better that most Canadians live near the US border.
That would be why we maintain a
border.
As a Canadian superhero written by Americans, it makes sense that Wolverine has healthcare as a super power.
Pondering perfluorocarbons.....
re: how cold Canada is: check out the "death By popcorn" doc about the winnipeg jets. it snows like 11 1/2 months a year there
RIP Jerry Lee Lewis
I keep meaning to get my leg & my blood pressure looked at.....
Now this is downright creepy....
And also a really good idea for a really bad movie!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2232850356/permalink/10167024564095357/ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/2232850356/permalink/10167024564095357/)
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 08, 2022, 05:27:47 PM
Now this is downright creepy....
And also a really good idea for a really bad movie!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2232850356/permalink/10167024564095357/ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/2232850356/permalink/10167024564095357/)
Without giving too much away: yikes, yikes, yikes! :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:
Wednesday is five-dollar sushi day at Kroger's.
OK, glad that abbreviated breakfast is over. My daughter wanted to stop by Kroger's on the way back to get some product called energy gummies, and I am not sure that's cool (one day energy gummies the next she's snorting ashes with Keith Richards) and sometimes I get my jollies by driving to a different parking spot than the one I let her out at, like I just did, so I can watch her come out of the store looking down at her phone, thumbs furiously flying in a text message about boys or something, making a beeline back to where the car was, then just before she climbs into some stranger's vehicle, she'll gaze up in shock and spin around looking for me. Shrug, ya gotta take amusement where you can find it in this world.
I wonder if Hilaria Baldwin still pretends to be Spanish
I can't seem to find that sub-board for movies you can't remember the title of......
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 21, 2022, 04:01:39 PM
I can't seem to find that sub-board for movies you can't remember the title of......
"What Was That Film?"
http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html)
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 21, 2022, 08:04:10 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 21, 2022, 04:01:39 PM
I can't seem to find that sub-board for movies you can't remember the title of......
"What Was That Film?"
http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html)
Thank you! :teddyr:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 21, 2022, 08:04:10 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 21, 2022, 04:01:39 PM
I can't seem to find that sub-board for movies you can't remember the title of......
"What Was That Film?"
http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html)
I see why I couldn't find it now!
I wouldn't have thought to look under Information Exchange, which I somehow unsubscribed from.....
I love going to the river to look for stuff. It's one of my favorite places to go.
But that climb out seems to get harder every time.
Like it or not, I'm getting old!
Quote from: indianasmith on November 21, 2022, 11:25:40 PM
I love going to the river to look for stuff. It's one of my favorite places to go.
But that climb out seems to get harder every time.
Like it or not, I'm getting old!
"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage."
Quote from: indianasmith on November 21, 2022, 11:25:40 PM
I love going to the river to look for stuff. It's one of my favorite places to go.
But that climb out seems to get harder every time.
Like it or not, I'm getting old!
Remember, pain is weakness leaving the body.
Quote from: Alex on November 22, 2022, 12:23:20 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on November 21, 2022, 11:25:40 PM
I love going to the river to look for stuff. It's one of my favorite places to go.
But that climb out seems to get harder every time.
Like it or not, I'm getting old!
Remember, pain is weakness leaving the body.
Or taking up long-term residency! LOL
Do you suppose wolves think of dogs as Uncle Toms?
Wonder if Warren Zevon ever got tired of going "aoooooo!" all the thousands of times he sang Werewolves of London?
Quote from: ER on November 25, 2022, 09:07:03 AM
Wonder if Warren Zevon ever got tired of going "aoooooo!" all the thousands of times he sang Werewolves of London?
Many stars do get tired of singing their biggest hit. Cobain by all accounts hated Tean Spirit, Lemmy was tired of playing Ace of Spades (although he also credited it with allowing him his subsequent lifestyle).
Last night, I found out Jodorowsky was was supposed to direct the sequel to Tron......
The production stills lie somewhere between psychedelic and corny, but not quite as bleak as the original..... Kinda like '70s Eurotrash on an '80s blockbuster budget.....
Story goes, he had 100hrs of footage, but it was all destroyed by a new studio chief after it was way over budget & way behind schedule.....
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 01, 2022, 11:29:53 PM
Last night, I found out Jodorowsky was was supposed to direct the sequel to Tron......
The production stills lie somewhere between psychedelic and corny, but not quite as bleak as the original..... Kinda like '70s Eurotrash on an '80s blockbuster budget.....
Story goes, he had 100hrs of footage, but it was all destroyed by a new studio chief after it was way over budget & way behind schedule.....
I think this is a fan-imagined thing, like Scorsese's "Goncharov."
https://kottke.org/22/12/jodorowskys-tron
The details otherwise fit Jodorowsky's version of DUNE.
I swear, every time I see a picture of Sam Brinton, I'm reminded of some '80s meme where a kid gets into a department store & rearranges the mannikins....
RIP Kirstie Alley
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 05, 2022, 09:16:47 PM
RIP Kirstie Alley
That one was a surprise. She was 71, I had no idea she was that old.
Sometimes a chapter in your life begins, has its moment, then ends. I think my one-time fascination with Lovecraft may be such a situation. I still fondly recall his works but there was a brief time when reading his tales seemed like a opening a magical doorway. I've tried several times since and especially recently to re-read Lovecraft, and though the pull of sentimentality is there, that old magic isn't. With some writers the glory seems ongoing but I've had to conclude HPL isn't one. Oh well, maybe someday.
So, it appears Sam Brinton, the guy in charge of America's nuclear waste, is a friggin' kleptomaniac....... :buggedout:
My inner fourteen-year-old is screaming. My beloved Robert Smith looks like Beetlejuice and Sam Kinison had a baby. Oh, why couldn't he have overdosed in his prime taken better care of himself Sad, so, so sad....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLwifc4UvWg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLwifc4UvWg)
Just found out I got a new mailbox today...
The old one was too close to the curb, so it was getting hit by everybody..... It's plastic, so except for the missing door, I never noticed....
But, it was recently hit by a school bus, so the county thought they should replace it.... I wouldn't have noticed, but for the new door on it....
Trying to comprehend the pros & cons of Ranked Choice Voting and Chevron Deference....
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 16, 2022, 01:19:59 PM
Trying to comprehend the pros & cons of Ranked Choice Voting and Chevron Deference....
In a nutshell, ranked choice voting tends to disfavor extreme candidates who might win in a winner-take-all election. It benefits a moderate candidate who may not be the majority of voters' top choice, but is an acceptable representative for the widest number of voters. Cons are you could say the will of the majority is frustrated, and it's confusing and cumbersome for the average voter.
Chevron deference is an abstract legal separation of powers thing. Pros are it streamlines litigation and stops courts from substituting their own views on policy matters. Con is it gives administrative agencies too much power.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 16, 2022, 01:43:37 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 16, 2022, 01:19:59 PM
Trying to comprehend the pros & cons of Ranked Choice Voting and Chevron Deference....
In a nutshell, ranked choice voting tends to disfavor extreme candidates who might win in a winner-take-all election. It benefits a moderate candidate who may not be the majority of voters' top choice, but is an acceptable representative for the widest number of voters. Cons are you could say the will of the majority is frustrated, and it's confusing and cumbersome for the average voter.
Thanks Rev.
I had a rough idea, & watching the polls, I figured it caused some problems in Alaska...
Virginia still uses the old way of either/or (whatever the name for it is), but the parties use ranked choice in the primaries....
I'll be voting in a primary for the first time tomorrow, because I really don't want this grifter from Oklahoma representing my side again.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 16, 2022, 01:43:37 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 16, 2022, 01:19:59 PM
Chevron deference is an abstract legal separation of powers thing. Pros are it streamlines litigation and stops courts from substituting their own views on policy matters. Con is it gives administrative agencies too much power.
I knew the IRS & the ATF have been using this for years, but I never knew they had a name for it.....
That fart just hurt 😳😳😳
In the fifteen years I been coming here I've made posts while undressed a few times, and nearly always it's been when I've gotten on my phone while soaking in the tub. Realizing that made me think first off that it was a little odd of me to do that, secondly that it's a little odd of me to admit that, and thirdly it made me wonder if anyone else has ever done a post while nude, or if I'm the only one.
Quote from: ER on December 17, 2022, 12:41:15 AM
In the fifteen years I been coming here I've made posts while undressed a few times, and nearly always it's been when I've gotten on my phone while soaking in the tub. Realizing that made me think first off that it was a little odd of me to do that, secondly that it's a little odd of me to admit that, and thirdly it made me wonder if anyone else has ever done a post while nude, or if I'm the only one.
Unless I posted from work, and pre-Ash being born yes. At most I'd be sitting in my underwear. These days though I tend to be more modest.
Thank goodness I haven't been the only skyclad-posting freak here then. :wink:
Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights https://tomlehrersongs.com/
The only reason I haven't posted here nude is because I never access this site on my phone.
Anyway, I had a lovely hunt on the river today, but then my old XTerra gave up the ghost on the way home.
And I can't afford another car payment, so I'm gonna have to let it sit in our drive until I can afford to get it fixed.
Quote from: indianasmith on December 17, 2022, 05:25:15 PM
The only reason I haven't posted here nude is because I never access this site on my phone.
Anyway, I had a lovely hunt on the river today, but then my old XTerra gave up the ghost on the way home.
And I can't afford another car payment, so I'm gonna have to let it sit in our drive until I can afford to get it fixed.
Maybe you could sell lonely widows pictures of yourself posting here in the nude, and that way get the money to make your repairs?
Quote from: ER on December 17, 2022, 05:27:17 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on December 17, 2022, 05:25:15 PM
The only reason I haven't posted here nude is because I never access this site on my phone.
Anyway, I had a lovely hunt on the river today, but then my old XTerra gave up the ghost on the way home.
And I can't afford another car payment, so I'm gonna have to let it sit in our drive until I can afford to get it fixed.
Maybe you could sell lonely widows pictures of yourself posting here in the nude, and that way get the money to make your repairs?
As I, unfortunately, found out while watching Mick Foley's Santa Claus documentary, you can make money by selling nude Santa calendars.
I'm sitting here watching Planet of the Sharks (2016), a cheap rip off of Waterworld (1995), while at the same time, I'm getting alerts & notices that we're looking at the coldest Christmas on record.....
QuoteThe only reason I haven't posted here nude is because I never access this site on my phone.
:bouncegiggle:
Been pondering Envy, lately....
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 18, 2022, 11:49:15 PM
Been pondering Envy, lately....
Sorry, I'm notoriously un-hip, so are you talking about the emotion or is that....like a proper noun? You got me curious.
When I was growing up London was not so much a place as an ideal. I went to Ireland many times in my childhood but didn't make it to London til I was in my late teens. Even then I didn't get to spend as long there as I liked. I was working in the UK, briefly, and because of the job, circumstances didn't make that possible. I went back several times later though, and used to confidently say I was going to live in London someday. There was a time that was even still possible. Now I am not sure I'd still want to live in London. I think the city is gliding on the momentum of past glories. Or maybe that's what I tell myself to lessen the sting of an old dream that's died
Quote from: ER on December 19, 2022, 12:11:02 AM
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 18, 2022, 11:49:15 PM
Been pondering Envy, lately....
Sorry, I'm notoriously un-hip, so are you talking about the emotion or is that....like a proper noun? You got me curious.
Life, the goals I've had, the pitfalls, & what's really meant for me.....
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 19, 2022, 12:58:36 PM
Quote from: ER on December 19, 2022, 12:11:02 AM
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 18, 2022, 11:49:15 PM
Been pondering Envy, lately....
Sorry, I'm notoriously un-hip, so are you talking about the emotion or is that....like a proper noun? You got me curious.
Life, the goals I've had, the pitfalls, & what's really meant for me.....
Oh. Yes I think sooner or later that theme visits all of us, but think how cool it is that you were born in the United States, not just an economically advantaged republic, not just a place where you can freely speak your mind, worship, marry out of love and not usually get sick from the drinking water, but the reigning superpower of the age. On a global stage that's like winning the lottery. Trust me the life you have would be envied by millions. :thumbup:
I'm getting ready to start a topic. What will it be on?
Quote from: lester1/2jr on December 21, 2022, 12:47:47 AM
I'm getting ready to start a topic. What will it be on?
Sex sells?
thats part of it
happy festivus
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 23, 2022, 01:07:19 PM
happy festivus
I'm a Saturnalia guy.
(https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/7/2018/01/Sat1-1f2d212.jpg?quality=90&resize=800,534)
Dear God I'm forty-four years old.
Thank God I'm forty-four years old.
This staying up late to assist Santa stuff is sleepy business. I shoulda watched the Pope.
Quote from: ER on December 24, 2022, 11:34:56 PM
Dear God I'm forty-four years old.
Thank God I'm forty-four years old.
Just imagine how old things from 1944 were when you were born.
Kristi once berated me for buying a copy of The Ridiculous 6. The only problem with this is that it is a film I have never seen, have no interest in watching and I don't own a copy of it.
Was sad to read on Twitter that Carrie Fisher passed away, until I learned that it happened six years ago.
I'm going to direct a found footage rom com/ hallmark holiday warmedy
need to get the ticker looked at...
I can hear it pounding in my head....
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 30, 2020, 06:28:44 PM
Well, just when you thought facebook sucked enough, zucky found a way to make it a dozen times worse.
:hatred: :hatred: :hatred: :hatred: :hatred:
For some reason, reminds me of Zoroaster and Kubrick's
2001.
R.I.P. Pelé
Just read that Greg Nicotero is doing a remake of The Keep.....
Celebratory gunfire nearby & it's barely nine o'clock.....
No resolutions this year.... My health is a wreck, the economy's in the toilet, the city aint worth setting foot in, and frankly, I'm pretty disillusioned with the whole local scene...
R.I.P. Anita Pointer
:smile: Post 8k! :smile:
R.I.P. Adam Rich
Didn't know he was still alive....
I dind't even know who Adam Rich is. Google told me I have never seen Eight is Enough so, there ya go.
R.I.P.
R.I.P. Lynette Hardaway, AKA Diamond of 'Diamond and Silk'
R.I.P. Jeff Beck
I was pondering something tonight I will likely never know the answer to and it's even hard to explain the question, but I was wondering if more people spend their entire lives living in just one century, or do a majority live in two? Most people alive today were also here in the 20th century, but eventually the scales will tip. So which is ultimately more the norm, a lifetime spent in a single century, or a lifetime divided between two?
Quote from: ER on January 12, 2023, 12:10:24 AM
I was pondering something tonight I will likely never know the answer to and it's even hard to explain the question, but I was wondering if more people spend their entire lives living in just one century, or do a majority live in two? Most people alive today were also here in the 20th century, but eventually the scales will tip. So which is ultimately more the norm, a lifetime spent in a single century, or a lifetime divided between two?
Divided, I would think. We all are, I recon. I mean everybody on Earth. Unless they died real young.
A century is a hundred years. Lotsa folks were born within 100 years. I was in 1962-now it's 2023. Not hard to do.
Unless you die an untimley death, I think most folks do.
If you were born in the year 1923, you would be a 100 in 2023. Most folks are between that.
Quote from: ER on January 12, 2023, 12:10:24 AM
I was pondering something tonight I will likely never know the answer to and it's even hard to explain the question, but I was wondering if more people spend their entire lives living in just one century, or do a majority live in two? Most people alive today were also here in the 20th century, but eventually the scales will tip. So which is ultimately more the norm, a lifetime spent in a single century, or a lifetime divided between two?
The tech these days is pretty cool, but I also remember when people wore hats....
I look a motorbikes these days, & I don't really see bikes, I see a big mess of plastic....
Too much plastic these days & not enough metal....
R.I.P. Lisa Marie Presley
R.I.P. Robbie Bachman
R.I.P. Robbie Knievel
R.I.P. Gina Lollobrigida
Yeah, I like reading obituaries, too, LC. (It's the only place where people almost always say nice things about each other.)
Quote from: ER on January 17, 2023, 02:37:15 PM
Yeah, I like reading obituaries, too, LC. (It's the only place where people almost always say nice things about each other.)
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Back on blood pressure meds......
I wish all of you all the best today and always.
Likewise to you, ER!
You're one of the bright spots on this old forum.
A pleasant afternoon to all! I will now go watch it snow and do my best to avoid hearing about football for the day.
Eagles all the way!
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OK, a month into my "job" I am forming the opinion that WASP-ish Methodists simply do not get Irish Catholics when it comes to things like binge drinking at funerals feeble attempts at wit. For instance these two older women there helping me sort out boxes of creamed corn were picking on Richard Simmons, saying he had turned into Howard Hughes and was living reclusively in his house, and after them bashing the poor man on and on, I suggested: "Jeesh, Richard Simmons spent his career helping countless people fight their obesity, while at the same time doing more than anyone in the world to keep hot pants relevant post-1970s, he deserves a quiet retirement."
They looked at each other in a way that told me they thought I was mentally deficient and kind of smiled and nodded before fleeing to where the crates of donated apple sauce were stored.
I felt so lonely.
I been missing my Ma a lot lately.
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 23, 2023, 01:33:08 PM
I been missing my Ma a lot lately.
Missing someone we love and will never stop loving is one of the worst things in life. I can say I have experienced that pain as someone who felt death was the end of existence, and as someone who has hope that it is possible I might one day again see the ones I've lost, and of those two ways of thinking, the second is far better, even if it is ultimately a delusion. If you could find some way to foster hope of being with her again, it might make things better.
My AOL account still works.... :lookingup:
Ever held a lighter to a bar of soap? What you expect to happen probably won't match reality.
R.I.P. Cindy Williams & Annie Wersching
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cindy-williams-laverne-shirley-actress-dead-75?fbclid=IwAR1yDPCEN8ye4ssxW2vV7Z44idbxLEaxLAPv04C-gZGoYwYWNzK8Bxa-Lz8 (https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cindy-williams-laverne-shirley-actress-dead-75?fbclid=IwAR1yDPCEN8ye4ssxW2vV7Z44idbxLEaxLAPv04C-gZGoYwYWNzK8Bxa-Lz8)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/annie-wersching-death-died-young?utm_source=theblaze-dailyAM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__AM%202023-01-30&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM (https://www.theblaze.com/news/annie-wersching-death-died-young?utm_source=theblaze-dailyAM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__AM%202023-01-30&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM)
Glancing over a map, I discovered that this state has TWO towns named Mechanicsville...
I had a sublingual massage today and it ranks among the most painful experiences of my life. Brazilian waxes, blood drawings, ear piercings, minor surgery without local anesthesia, and even donating bone marrow in 2001 all hurt less.
Schoolhouse Rock tribute on ABC tonight...
I wonder if I'll be able to sit through it....
:lookingup: WW3 could be started by a balloon.... :lookingup:
World oil production per capita peaked back in 1979 and has never recovered since:
https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2013/07/peak-oil-what-peak-oil.html
Why is this a nothingburger? Because most don't know that almost everything in food production and manufactured goods require oil.
CO2 ppm increased to 400+, or at a rate of 1 ppm a year. Why is this a nothingburger? Because most don't know that around a million years ago CO2 ppm reached 800 but grew at a rate of around 30 ppm every 1,000 years. Now, it's rising at a rate of 50 ppm every 50 years.
Sounds like a sci-fi movie!
Are you a doomer, ralfy?
R.I.P. Melinda Dillon
You sure do meet interesting people at laundromats . . .
Quote from: ralfy on February 03, 2023, 09:44:37 PM
CO2 ppm increased to 400+, or at a rate of 1 ppm a year. Why is this a nothingburger? Because most don't know that around a million years ago CO2 ppm reached 800 but grew at a rate of around 30 ppm every 1,000 years. Now, it's rising at a rate of 50 ppm every 50 years.
Sounds like a sci-fi movie!
Cool! I have no clue WTF you are talking about! :buggedout:
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 03, 2023, 01:10:09 PM
:lookingup: WW3 could be started by a balloon.... :lookingup:
(https://i.imgur.com/zuq72hYl.jpg)
Quote from: indianasmith on February 04, 2023, 11:05:39 PM
You sure do meet interesting people at laundromats . . .
Me, perhaps? :wink: :teddyr:
Quote from: Trevor on February 05, 2023, 07:50:02 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on February 04, 2023, 11:05:39 PM
You sure do meet interesting people at laundromats . . .
Me, perhaps? :wink: :teddyr:
I did hear about a washing machine in South Africa that actually threw up when it was exposed to someone's toxic underpants. . .
Quote from: indianasmith on February 05, 2023, 08:50:29 AM
Quote from: Trevor on February 05, 2023, 07:50:02 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on February 04, 2023, 11:05:39 PM
You sure do meet interesting people at laundromats . . .
Me, perhaps? :wink: :teddyr:
I did hear about a washing machine in South Africa that actually threw up when it was exposed to someone's toxic underpants. . .
That happened in Sunnyside, Pretoria :wink: :wink: :teddyr: :teddyr:
Quote from: claws on February 05, 2023, 06:25:23 AM
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 03, 2023, 01:10:09 PM
:lookingup: WW3 could be started by a balloon.... :lookingup:
(https://i.imgur.com/zuq72hYl.jpg)
Yes, I shared that on the song of the day thread....
The backstory says it all...
I didn't know, haven't checked in the song thread for some time.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 04, 2023, 11:06:39 PM
Cool! I have no clue WTF you are talking about! :buggedout:
You'll like this story; I think it came from the "Climate Wars" documentary. Keep in mind, though, that I'm not a scientist, so I probably have these terms wrong.
Back in the 1970s, scientists predicted that we'd be entering a new ice age soon. Why? Because it happened many times in the past, around every 100,000 years or so. Why's that? Because the earth doesn't revolve around the sun in a perfect circle; in several cases it's closer or not. In addition, the earth wobbles when it rotates, and solar activity is greater or weaker based on some cycle. So, when it's not that close to the sun then it becomes cooler, and that leads to major cold spells worldwide.
That's what happened in the 1910s and the 1940s. The second is what led to the Nazi defeat in the Eastern Front: record cold leading to snow stopped them in their tracks and allowed the Russkies to recover and counter them.
The problem is that after 1976, record heat began to take place and towards the end of the decade there was no cold spell worldwide. In fact, there's hasn't been one since the 1980s. I think someone wrote an article about that: if you were born after 1987 or so, then you've never lived on a planet that experience a global cold spell, or something like that.
Scientists studied the matter further, and discovered that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere went up and down (ppm, or parts per million) with temperature, and figured that it was either an effect of warm weather (more things burn, leading to more CO2, etc.) or a cause (CO2 traps heat). It turns out to be both, but with the latter kicking in. That is, CO2 isn't the major cause of heat, but it increases things like water vapor, which are.
So, now they know that's what causing record heat and even record cold (when the sun is not that close, which is what happens during winter, and there's a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere, then that leads to more water vapor, and that means more cold) is increased CO2. But here's the sci-fi part:
They found out that at best the amount of CO2 ppm went up by the rate of 30 ppm every one thousand years, and that happened around a million years ago, likely due to intense volcanic activity. In time, the CO2 ppm reached 800; the maximum is usually 300. There was no large-scale human economy back then, dependent on normal weather to maintain economic activity.
Now, it's 400, but it's rising at the rate of 1 ppm every year, or fourteen times faster than it did naturally a million years ago.
Nena's hot!
Here, check out these balloons:
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1621323329721487360
Quote from: ralfy on February 07, 2023, 04:08:55 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 04, 2023, 09:06:38 AM
Are you a doomer, ralfy?
I say "realist".
You might enjoy the interview with this guy (who also calls himself a realist). He's an academic runs an online "casino" where you can "bet" on climate disasters (including carbon levels): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nui67G-g2Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nui67G-g2Q)
What interests me is not how bleak things are for the planet ecologically, I accept that, but how we respond to it on a human level.
R.I.P. Harry Whittington
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 07, 2023, 11:28:06 AM
You might enjoy the interview with this guy (who also calls himself a realist). He's an academic runs an online "casino" where you can "bet" on climate disasters (including carbon levels): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nui67G-g2Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nui67G-g2Q)
What interests me is not how bleak things are for the planet ecologically, I accept that, but how we respond to it on a human level.
I don't see anything wrong with what he said, which is why I still watch B-movies. Coping mechanisms are part of the human condition.
What's notable, though, is the speed in which changes are taking place, and how little scientists know about what's happening. Even CO2 ppm became an issue only because they decided to investigate it, and only because someone bothered to measure and collect that data by himself for decades. I think it was narrated in the "Climate Wars" docu.
Two decades ago, they began to detect over 50 multiple feedback loops, several of which they didn't realize had to be studied because they were amplifying warming.
Meanwhile--and this is known only because some media outlets bothered to report on them--several military forces, insurers, and multinational banks have been issuing detailed reports to clients and personnel warning of both the effects of climate change (plus ecological disaster) and of peak oil (and generally a resource crunch), and to prepare accordingly. Several of these groups include the U.S. military, Lloyds of London, and HSBC.
^ Ahhh! I see your having a nice day! :thumbup:
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 07, 2023, 11:00:49 PM
^ Ahhh! I see your having a nice day! :thumbup:
That's weather. The nothingburger's climate.
R.I.P. Burt Bacharach
Quote from: ralfy on February 08, 2023, 12:14:48 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 07, 2023, 11:00:49 PM
^ Ahhh! I see your having a nice day! :thumbup:
That's weather. The nothingburger's climate.
I want my nothing burger with onions, mustard, mayo, and horseradish!
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 09, 2023, 06:44:27 PM
I want my nothing burger with onions, mustard, mayo, and horseradish!
That's nothing-onions, -mustard, -mayo, and -horseradish.
Quote from: ralfy on February 10, 2023, 02:08:37 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 09, 2023, 06:44:27 PM
I want my nothing burger with onions, mustard, mayo, and horseradish!
That's nothing-onions, -mustard, -mayo, and -horseradish.
(dontaskevelyndontaskevelyndontaskevelyn) ralfy, I'm tying to figure out your post. Are you saying grammatically that's how RC should have typed that?
Quote from: ER on February 10, 2023, 10:03:00 AM
Quote from: ralfy on February 10, 2023, 02:08:37 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 09, 2023, 06:44:27 PM
I want my nothing burger with onions, mustard, mayo, and horseradish!
That's nothing-onions, -mustard, -mayo, and -horseradish.
(dontaskevelyndontaskevelyndontaskevelyn) ralfy, I'm tying to figure out your post. Are you saying grammatically that's how RC should have typed that?
It's just that if that's how you write I was thinking you might be a descendant of Emily Dickinson's secret love child. See how she wrote? Lots of weird dashes?
It lay unmentioned - as the Sea
Develope Pearl, and Weed,
But only to Himself - be known
The Fathoms they abide -
^ "Develope Pearl, and Weed,"
Ah HA!!!
(https://i.imgur.com/CjMKlkv.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Quote from: ER on February 10, 2023, 10:03:00 AM
(dontaskevelyndontaskevelyndontaskevelyn) ralfy, I'm tying to figure out your post. Are you saying grammatically that's how RC should have typed that?
Nothingburger implies something inconsequential. Presumably anything applied to it should have the same characteristics even though it should be doing the opposite, i.e., make it taste better.
Quote from: ER on February 11, 2023, 11:18:19 AM
It's just that if that's how you write I was thinking you might be a descendant of Emily Dickinson's secret love child. See how she wrote? Lots of weird dashes?
It lay unmentioned - as the Sea
Develope Pearl, and Weed,
But only to Himself - be known
The Fathoms they abide -
I think she used dashes. The ones in my post are hyphens.
"That's nothing-onions, [nothing]-mustard, [nothing]-mayo, and [nothing]-horseradish."
Three smells I never get tired of:
Freshly cut grass
Rain falling on hot concrete
Lime
Many cats secretly believe they are lungfish, with sometimes tragic results.
Sounds like what Rocky would say in Mask!
As hard as I try, I absolutely cannot sit through Duel (1971).....
I honestly don't see how a typical commute became a movie....
Not sure who I find more annoying; The telemarketers for Easy Rest Adjustable Beds, or those spammers who keep posting those phony obituaries for Will Smith's son....
^ In your Email? :question:
Seriously- on your phone?
I had scammers on my old land line phone. And I got another old line phone, because the old one took a s**t, but a new number. I'm sure they will try to leech me once they get it in their..whatever. I really don't care. Steal what from me? I ain't got no money in the bank !
Go for it, man!
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Ah! There's BELA, behind the teller window at the bank...! He say: "Empty! Ha ha ha! EMPTY!!!"
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Something got me thinking about those 35mm production slideshows they used to show us in elementary school back in the 1970s...
Y'know, the kind that came with a record or cassette tape, with narration & dialog & music....
Like a radio theatre, with a slide show....
Be cool to try bringing those back.....
If I was Marion Crane, I'd have squirted shampoo in Norman Bates' face. Ever had shampoo get in your eyes? It sting like crazy, man.
I actually emptied my email Spam folder without looking inside it first for once.
Sitting here under a tornado watch, with a tornado warning just west of us.
When Dallas enters the shafts and ducts to go after the alien, he receives instructions from Lambert, who uses a monitor that has no directions or levels. So when she tells Dallas to move away as the creature approaches, he doesn't how where to go.
They would have realized that before he started.
At one point, Thunderbolt refers to Lightfoot as "Louise". Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is said to have inspired Thelma and Louise.
Looks like Vanessa Chase is back.
https://iamvanessachase.com
One Galactica episode features Dark Shadows alumni Roger Davis and Lara Parker.
In one episode of Night Gallery, the real estate agent says that the home price is cheap because the owners are English. The actress who plays an American buyer is Joanna Petter, who's English.
One episode of Tales of the Unexpected features Suzanne Danielle, whose character has a Professionals tv show poster in her home. One of Danielle's earlier roles was in The Professionals.
Real Genius's Michelle Meyrink works for Actorium:
https://actorium.ca/meet-us/#instructorsandstaff
Fletch wears a Weyland-Yutani cap.
M*A*S*H* belongs to the same universe as Aliens.
Dr. Craig of St. Elsewhere says that BJ Hunnicut of M*A*S*H* was an associate.
St. Elsewhere characters once have a drink at Cheers, and is served by Carla.
One of the customers of Cheers is Frasier.
Frasier once receives a phone call from John Hemingway, from the John Laroquette Show.
The Yoyodyne Corporation (a generic company name but it's still the same name) is said to have built the bus stop across the street in the same show.
One of the clients of Wolfram and Hart from Buffy is Yoyodyne. One of their other clients is Weyland-Yutani.
Weyland-Yutani has multiple businesses featured in Aliens. Also built weapons for Firefly, part of Blade Runner, and featured in other shows.
We need to catch up, though, as Blade Runner is set in 2019. But Microsoft plans to use AI tech with drones and robots, so maybe Skynet's on.
Two new YT channels I like been showing up in my feed. One is Dagoth Ur mouthing off, the other is this elderly rabbi mouthing off doing social commentary, and he's so far been strangely wise and compelling. I'll have to dig up links.
The other day my mother dropped her pants outside and almost went to the bathroom before my dad could stop her.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on March 01, 2023, 09:41:18 AM
The other day my mother dropped her pants outside and almost went to the bathroom before my dad could stop her.
That's sad. Sad....
I seam to recall some news story back in the 1990s, that the original models for King Kong (1933) were found in a cubbie space underneath the original Star Trek bridge set, but I can't find anything on the web about it......
Quote from: LilCerberus on March 06, 2023, 08:04:07 PM
I seam to recall some news story back in the 1990s, that the original models for King Kong (1933) were found in a cubbie space underneath the original Star Trek bridge set, but I can't find anything on the web about it......
Nonsense. The only surviving original models were in Forrest J Ackeman's collection. He auctioned much his stuff before he died.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 07, 2023, 12:48:57 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on March 06, 2023, 08:04:07 PM
I seam to recall some news story back in the 1990s, that the original models for King Kong (1933) were found in a cubbie space underneath the original Star Trek bridge set, but I can't find anything on the web about it......
Nonsense. The only surviving original models were in Forrest J Ackeman's collection. He auctioned much his stuff before he died.
Kinda cool someone found and restored these....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3vaibEZs68 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3vaibEZs68)
^Well I know I heard SOMETHING was found under the Star Trek Bridge set...^
RIP Robert Blake
Anyone going to watch the Oscars tonight? I think the last time I did was....in the 2000s? I used to look forward to them once upon a time.
Quote from: ER on March 12, 2023, 05:56:10 PM
Anyone going to watch the Oscars tonight? I think the last time I did was....in the 2000s? I used to look forward to them once upon a time.
I normally watch the Oscars when I know a South African or a film made here is up for an award.
Arthritis in my left hip joint...
Getting an injection for it tomorrow....
Q: What does The Incredible Hulk do on St Patricks Day?
A: He gets smashed.
(I know, ShutUp Al)
Another cheap hot water kettle bites the dust....
Going in tomorrow to get the other hip injected...
So far, the first one hasn't worked all that well...
Sometimes I think I sit here and post at night because it feels like too much effort to walk upstairs and go to bed.
Long, busy day too. I was in two states, four counties, two courthouses, and two grocery stores today on top of gathering ammo for yet another IRS audit that is coming. (Ever tried to get a free tax advocate? You'd have better luck summoning a Norse god; just get a lawyer and an accountant and count on spending more that way than you would by just paying what the IRS asks.)
Came home and gave tiredness the middle finger by running two and a half more miles on the treadmill when I was feeling dead on my feet. I try not to let my body push me around any more than I have to, you see. :-)
Nice little storm hit a bit ago and it's still raining. We may get four inches of precipitation before dawn, they're saying.
Thinking about getting a massage tomorrow, or maybe getting two inches cut off my hair. Or just staying home and reading a book I bought today for a dollar and making nachos with my son.
See, I'm posting at random to resist getting up and going to bed. It's seductive to just sit longer....
Night, bad movie-ers.
ANYBODY who says Maga is not a cult- Trump is having a rally today in Waco, Texas on the anniversary of the Branch Davidson's shoot out. :hatred:
WHACKO you say?
^ yeah! That joint! :thumbup:
I took a lady from Wisconsin and her sister on a guided fossil hunt today and got to see her make the best find of her lifetime!
I'll admit, it was a piece I'd have loved to added to my collection, but the look in her eyes was worth WAY more than the value of the fossil.
I love giving people that experience!!
There are 2 small Bic lighters in front of my keyboard. One is pink, the other blue. I thought " A boy and a girl." Yup. Gotta cut down on my smoking, maybe....
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( I have this poster hanging up on my computer room wall)
^ My son took a picture of it!
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That painting by Tara Sue hung in the Old Hat Bar until they closed some years back.
RIP Al Jaffee
RIP Lasse Wellander
when i was a teenager i read donald hall's poem my son my executioner & refused to see the arrival of a child in terms like those
today my youngest turned 11 & im still refusing
trinity made me more alive she didn't set me flinching from the re-division of my existence
Yesterday one of my students told me: "I PROMISE I'll have that late paper to you tomorrow, or you can have my left eye!"
So today I brought an ice cream scoop to school. But, darn it, he turned the paper in!
Quote from: ER on April 13, 2023, 07:27:05 PM
when i was a teenager i read donald hall's poem my son my executioner & refused to see the arrival of a child in terms like those
today my youngest turned 11 & im still refusing
trinity made me more alive she didn't set me flinching from the re-division of my existence
I had an ex who was telling me the story of how she got pregnant with her first child and the realisation that she'd had when she first discovered she was pregnant. Her first thought was "Well, that's my life over." I won't say she didn't love her children in her own way, but she treated them as an inconvenience that got in the way of her partying. It didn't surprise me some years later when a mutual friend told me that her kids had walked out of her life. I've certainly never felt that way about Ash.
^ I always have and always will consider my children to be the best thing that happened in my life.
Tucker Carlson's official "blue check" Twitter profile ends with "Fully vaccinated. She/Hers" and a Ukraine flag. :bouncegiggle:
Sssssoooo......... It's now National Walkout Day for Columbine fans, which coincides with National 4-20 Day for marijuana fans, which coincides with Hitler's birthday.....
In fourth grade my teacher asked me to invent a rumor to see how fast it spread, so I said the glue that's on the paper wrappers on DQ ice cream cones was toxic. Not only did that brain fart spread through my class and my school, but that summer I heard it at a park a county away. Maybe it's still bouncing around out there. Things have to start somewhere.
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Guess I wasn't meant to walk the Arizona Trail this year. Not only because my father in law is sick but they've just closed big sections of the trail around the Grand Canyon, one of the best parts. Oh, well, maybe another time.
Possible writers' strike happening tonight...
The main thing I remember about the last one, was the commercials....
Replaying the same two commercials, all day, every day, for months....
A facebook friend shared one of those lost movies on his thread....
The Power (1968)
I always thought it was in B&W, but that was because I saw it on a B&W TV set....
Most of the old reruns I find myself watching are in B&W....
In a small way, it kinda makes me sentimental about those cheap B&W TV sets....
Young Sherlock Holmes was a huge movie that has mostly been lost to history
Quote from: lester1/2jr on May 02, 2023, 12:51:45 AM
Young Sherlock Holmes was a huge movie that has mostly been lost to history
That was a very good movie with great visual FX for its' time, especially that stained glass knight. :thumbup:
I just bought this. For 20 dollars. On ebay.(https://i.imgur.com/FLrwZ00.png) (https://lunapic.com) It's from the early 60's.
It's not big. About a penny and half a penny. I like it.
The sax man from The Lost Boyd is 68.
Someday it'll all be gone. Loch Ness, White Castles, Elvis, rubber balls, teachable moments, T-rex fossils, oak trees, the moon, soft woolen socks, camels, Mount Rushmore.
Occurred to me this evening, that 3d printed houses don't factor in rebar...
Quote from: ER on May 06, 2023, 01:20:59 PM
Someday it'll all be gone. Loch Ness, White Castles, Elvis, rubber balls, teachable moments, T-rex fossils, oak trees, the moon, soft woolen socks, camels, Mount Rushmore.
But the pyramids will still be here.
Quote from: indianasmith on May 16, 2023, 09:28:22 PM
Quote from: ER on May 06, 2023, 01:20:59 PM
Someday it'll all be gone. Loch Ness, White Castles, Elvis, rubber balls, teachable moments, T-rex fossils, oak trees, the moon, soft woolen socks, camels, Mount Rushmore.
But the pyramids will still be here.
But not always.
Quote from: ER on May 06, 2023, 01:20:59 PM
Someday it'll all be gone. Loch Ness, White Castles, Elvis, rubber balls, teachable moments, T-rex fossils, oak trees, the moon, soft woolen socks, camels, Mount Rushmore.
Like the the Sioux say- nothing lasts forever except the mountains and the sky.
Oh yeah- I'm pretty sure the moon will still be around. Not for us to see- we'll all be dead.
Quote from: ER on May 06, 2023, 01:20:59 PM
Someday it'll all be gone. Loch Ness, White Castles, Elvis, rubber balls, teachable moments, T-rex fossils, oak trees, the moon, soft woolen socks, camels, Mount Rushmore.
When you consider how long the universe has been around and how short a time our species has existed, we really are just a speck of dust. If we were wiped out tomorrow, give it 6 million years, the only trace of our civilisation left would be a thin layer in the dirt trapped between other layers. Funny how some people think we are the most important thing in existence when you look at us beside the size of the universe and how long it has been here we are actually really insignificant despite our vainglorious self-importance.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 17, 2023, 03:17:13 PM
Quote from: ER on May 06, 2023, 01:20:59 PM
Someday it'll all be gone. Loch Ness, White Castles, Elvis, rubber balls, teachable moments, T-rex fossils, oak trees, the moon, soft woolen socks, camels, Mount Rushmore.
Like the the Sioux say- nothing lasts forever except the mountains and the sky.
Oh yeah- I'm pretty sure the moon will still be around. Not for us to see- we'll all be dead.
Even those will be swallowed by the sun one day.
Well, the sun will still be here- of course, unless it goes supernova.
My underpants will also still be here 😳😉
^ I think those may disinagrate at any moment.
Trying to watch the new Hellraiser film, but the noise of aircraft taking off are not making it easy to pay attention to.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 17, 2023, 08:34:28 PM
^ I think those may disinagrate at any moment.
😄😄😄😄 I needed that laugh today thanks 😄😄😄😄
Uggh. Hard time sleeping last night.
the doom and gloom i just read can't work for me right now. i'll skip this thread for awhile.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed. Change is the one constant. A paradox. Someday the atoms inside your bones will redden the hair of a person a thousand years from now, or become a drop of water on a moon that doesn't even exist yet. We own nothing. We're ancient, and are "made of star stuff. "
The moon slowly gets further and further away from the earth. One day, it will escape its gravitational pull and spin off into the universe. Perhaps it will smash into one of the other planets on its way out of the solar system and be destroyed. Millions of years ago, when the moon was much closer to the earth, there must have been some absolutely spectacular moon-rises with an enormous seeming moon coming up over the horizon (not to mention higher tides. Best not to watch it from the shore I guess) with no one around to see the sight or appreciate it.
I think Clair Cameron Patterson believed that everything would eventually turn into lead...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3410940/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3410940/)
Watching Svenghoulie...
Trying to sit though The Thing With Two Heads....
Got an email last year asking me to come back to WRIR....
Last week, I got an email asking me to come back to WRWK...
Every time I mull it over, I think about the reasons I left...
If you are looking for a job, it is a lot easier to get a new one if you are currently in a job. Would it be worth working for them just as a stepping stone to somewhere else?
Quote from: Alex on May 21, 2023, 05:23:57 PM
If you are looking for a job, it is a lot easier to get a new one if you are currently in a job. Would it be worth working for them just as a stepping stone to somewhere else?
That's what I kept telling myself for eleven years...
And it was volunteer, no pay...
Happie Caning Of Charles Sumner day, 1856
It smells like citronella ants outside.
Me: Mom, do you have any children?
Mom [long pause]: No....
Me: Mom, there's a clue to the right answer in the question.
baby sister's response to that question would be" no, i have adults with children. i like their kids better about 1/2 the time. my nieces bear a strong resemblance to their mother , and me, when it comes to temperament, lol! :cheers:
I was reading a WWII US war bride's account of her life, and she mentioned as soon as the war ended all references to it in most magazines seemed to instantly vanish, replaced by features about fashion and home decoration and sports, a complete flip from the past several years when articles related to the conflict dominated everything. Well when I read that it struck me that references to the pandemic have so disappeared in our popular culture it too might as well never have happened at all.
Me in 1973. I was 11.
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If you search for the classical myth "Leda and the Swan," you get some remarkably graphic image results. Googler beware!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 02, 2023, 03:59:52 PM
If you search for the classical myth "Leda and the Swan," you get some remarkably graphic image results. Googler beware!
My usual cry of Oy fits well here 😳😳
Not sure what I was gonna say, so I'm just gonna start blathering about a few things I was enlightened to this week...
I heard about this guy named Theodor Wonja Michael who was a black actor in Nazi Germany....
It seems, there weren't that many Afro-Germans at the time, so most of them escaped the camps by acting in propaganda films (with the principal roles usually going to white Germans in black face)...
Most noted, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943)
I also heard that Chinese archeologists unearthed Unit 731, which was the Imperial Japanese version of Josef Mengele, and how they somehow weaseled out of the Nuremberg Trials.....
Just something y' never heard about in history class....
Shooting downtown...
Big news, apparently....
If you drink enough grape pop your s**t will turn green.
I just hung out with my freind Jerry Mitchell who I ain't seen in 30 years. We smoked a joint. :thumbup:
It's victory in Midway day
RIP Pat Robertson
^ f**k Pat Robertson :hatred:
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 08, 2023, 12:10:56 PM
RIP Pat Robertson
Indeed, for he'd make a formidable zombie.
for the 10 millionth time democrats think they've stopped Trump
Quote from: lester1/2jr on June 09, 2023, 12:14:31 AM
for the 10 millionth time democrats think they've stopped Trump
The Timing is always highly suspect....
:lookingup:
Why have I always kind of assumed Yoda was Jewish?
Feeling hyper and high still about acing my first job interview since leaving the RAF and knowing that even if I hadn't gotten this one there are still plenty of other employers who would snap me up.
Sometimes I'd swear I have some kind of guardian angel looking after my life, although if I do I am pretty sure it has black and leathery wings.
Quote from: Alex on July 13, 2023, 02:32:36 PM
Feeling hyper and high still about acing my first job interview since leaving the RAF and knowing that even if I hadn't gotten this one there are still plenty of other employers who would snap me up.
Sometimes I'd swear I have some kind of guardian angel looking after my life, although if I do I am pretty sure it has black and leathery wings.
Congratulations. Not many people can lay claim to having served in multiple branches of the military, or to being so in demand.
Now the part you cringe to hear: thanks for your service!
It's a bit warmer here tonight 😊
i really hope that strangely will be a little less of a fruitbat about getting in her carrier tomorrow, but at least i know she'll be feeling better after her solensia shot tomorrow. and the old guy will feel better after a haircut too!
I went to the Party store this morn, and the lady said" Watch out on your way out- there's a bat!"
I said "where?" It was a baby. It was perched on the cooler. I Took it by the wings outside. I think it was sick or dying. :bluesad:
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 14, 2023, 09:25:15 AM
I went to the Party store this morn, and the lady said" Watch out on your way out- there's a bat!"
I said "where?" It was a baby. It was perched on the cooler. I Took it by the wings outside. I think it was sick or dying. :bluesad:
That was brave and kind.
People born in 2033 will be -10 this year.
Quote from: ER on July 14, 2023, 10:56:04 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 14, 2023, 09:25:15 AM
I went to the Party store this morn, and the lady said" Watch out on your way out- there's a bat!"
I said "where?" It was a baby. It was perched on the cooler. I Took it by the wings outside. I think it was sick or dying. :bluesad:
That was brave and kind.
I felt bad. But I don't know how to take care of a bat. Regardless of my avatar. :bluesad:
If OJ were on trial for murder today, I wonder if his lawyer would cite NFL concussion syndrome as a defense and say brain damage cause temporary insanity?
Trying to watch two Lee Van Cleef movies at once....
In Bad Man's River (1971) there's a disco song during a shootout scene...
In Take A Hard Ride (1975), he has long hair, which makes him look like some kind of sick bird.....,
I wonder how it would look if Lee Van Cleef flipped someone the bird, 'cause, well, aw forget it.....
Last night was the first night this season I woke up feeling cold. Yaaaay, cooler weather.
In ten years no one from Hogwarts thought to do a wellness check on Harry Potter and see how the Dursleys were treating him??
new Rolling Stones song sounds like an AI wrote it
Just sat through The Black Rider (1954)
A one hour long matinee in which a goofy looking small town reporter buys a motorcycle, joins the local club, and runs afoul of terrorists....
We are further from 1970 than 1970 was from 1918. :buggedout:
Now excuse me, I need to go lie down. . . . :bluesad:
Did a ride (uber) from the airport with two female passengers who talked about astrology the entire time. I learn a lot at my job but some of the things I learn are more useful/ interesting than others.
FB suggested a real estate group and they claimed Mike Tyson passed away 3 days ago including pics of a (closed) casket.
I don't know if this is a prank group or just spreading fake news. All I know is that Tyson is still alive so, wtf FB?
I just....ran 4.2.....miles.....
Quote from: claws on September 25, 2023, 06:28:48 AM
FB suggested a real estate group and they claimed Mike Tyson passed away 3 days ago including pics of a (closed) casket.
I don't know if this is a prank group or just spreading fake news. All I know is that Tyson is still alive so, wtf FB?
I've seen a large number of fake clickbait ads on FB claiming that this or that (alive) celebrity just died.
Possibly related: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mike-tyson-not-dead/ (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mike-tyson-not-dead/)
Some of the prehistoric cave art was done by a person creating an airbrush out of his or her mouth. That's amazing to me.
ADHD for meeee!
There's flooding in New York, & I'm pondering how it would've looked in C.H.U.D.
They want to give steroids to soldiers, & I'm reminded how Hitler tried juicing his troops, but gave it up after a short time.
^ Homeless people will survive. They know how to live with nothing. Comfy cozy folks will die.
I just tried to watch Corey Feldman in concert. Holy f**king trainwreck. So BAD.
Watching him try to play a harmonica is like watching a monkey try to f**k a football.
For most of my life I've been fascinated with Hadrian's Wall (and Offa's Dike) and until it became unwise for me to return to the UK, I intended at some point to walk the Hadrian's Wall Trail, and seeing the Robin Hood tree there was always something I looked forward to. When I heard vandals had cut it down, I felt sadness, soon replaced by a strong desire to badly hurt whoever had done it. An empty desire but a desire never the less, and one that surprised me by being so powerful.
They've arrested a young boy and an old man for cutting it down.
^ Yeah, I bet bad s**t comes their way. Seriously, I wish no good on them.
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 01, 2023, 02:51:51 PM
I just tried to watch Corey Feldman in concert. Holy f**king trainwreck. So BAD.
Watching him try to play a harmonica is like watching a monkey try to f**k a football.
:buggedout: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Learned a few new Orwell quotes that don't get much attention, today....
Also finally figured out that a meme about classy women from times gone by VS. today's post punk girls, is actually a still from a bawdy '60s comedy.....
So, my next viewing choices are 1984 (1954), 1984 (1956) or Sex Kittens Go To College (1960).....
(I've already seen 1984 (1984)...)
Quote from: LilCerberus on October 02, 2023, 10:16:27 PM
Learned a few new Orwell quotes that don't get much attention, today....
Also finally figured out that a meme about classy women from times gone by VS. today's post punk girls, is actually a still from a bawdy '60s comedy.....
So, my next viewing choices are 1984 (1954), 1984 (1956) or Sex Kittens Go To College (1960).....
(I've already seen 1984 (1984)...)
My head's spinning. Ha....
I keep thinking about the song Sexbeat by The Gun Club, but then this stupid ad for KeepSakeFrames.com comes on & screws it all up in my head.......
Today, I was trying to think about Sexbeat by The Gun Club, and found myself thinking about Centerfield by John Fogerty...
My ADD is getting out of hand...
Enough bad news for today....
Rather than sit through one of the 1984s, I sat through Sex Kittens Go To College (1960)....
Pretty slow, relying heavily on innuendo, with a ten minute long scene of strippers dancing for a robot & a monkey towards the end that quickly gets as grating as the children from around the world segment of Santa Claus (1959).....
Co-stars Mijanou Bardot (Billed as Brigitte Bardot's sister) with her voice dubbed over.....
Sesame Street may be the greatest TV series of all time, but it also had way better music when I was little. (The hand-washing song is something I still hum along to in my head each of the score-plus times a day I wash my hands; what will today's kids remember, the theme to Elmo's World? How can you scrub away germs to that thing?) It also used to have Barklee the Dog, who was up among Lassie and Wishbone as all-time best TV dogs. I don't know where Barklee went but he's not there anymore. (Do Muppets die?) Too much Elmo now. Too much CGI, not enough Muppets who aren't red and irritating. Also too much Bart and not enough Homer anymore!
If everyone who in no way contributes beneficially to the world in any way were suddenly to be removed from existence, I wonder how many people would be left?
Quote from: Alex on October 10, 2023, 11:04:34 AM
If everyone who in no way contributes beneficially to the world in any way were suddenly to be removed from existence, I wonder how many people would be left?
I wouldn't be around to find out.
The right wingers keep comparing the attack on Israel to the Holocaust, but I think the Nanjing Massacre put things more in perspective.....
Quote from: Alex on October 10, 2023, 11:04:34 AM
If everyone who in no way contributes beneficially to the world in any way were suddenly to be removed from existence, I wonder how many people would be left?
From a biological point of view the only contribution that matters is reproduction, so if you have reproduced or will, and if you are tending to the needs of offspring that might one day reproduce, that means you are contributing to the world in the only way nature in its most basic state cares about. If you haven't done that, nature regards you as a treasonous failure and has no use for you.
According to a recent email, I am apparently I'm a member of The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, despite never having applied to it (and being straight).
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 10, 2023, 03:28:25 PM
According to a recent email, I am apparently I'm a member of The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, despite never having applied to it (and being straight).
You probably misread it and it was from the Society of LGBTQ Psychic Entertainment Critics foreseeing the future when you become gay. Uh, is it too late for a spoiler alert?
There's this weird mushroom squad posting in youtube comments aggressively insisting mushrooms have to be brushed, NEVER WASHED, before cooking.
So this one youtube cook brushed mushrooms, and washed them afterwards. He showed the water which was dirty.
You would think proof like that would shut up the anti-washers. They said he faked his video because brushed mushrooms don't have dirt.
As long as I can remember, we always washed our mushrooms. The pro-brushers claim mushrooms soak up water when washed, which also has been proven wrong.
Yet the mushroom squad still complain about mushroom washing. So strange.
I used to sell blotter acid at a biker bar in Marcellus, Michigan.
My neighbors Verne and Nola used to have keggers. We lived across from a biker bar in trailers up the hill. I got Sid from Thersa Sexton- for 5 bucks a hit. It came on a sheet. Like stamps almost. I sold it to folks at Melville's Bar at 10 bucks a hit. About 1987.
I was f**king 25 years old. I'm 61.
Ever feel your mortality?
RIP Suzanne Somers
Quote from: LilCerberus on October 15, 2023, 05:46:27 PM
RIP Suzanne Somers
Aw, man! Gina and I used to steal her mom's Thighmaster Suzanne Somers infomercialed and try it out. Sad news.
One of my adolescent crushes has left the world . . . rest well, Suzanne!
My personalized ads on youtube are based on my search data and viewing history.
I do search for and watch a lot of culinary arts and cooking videos. The majority of my personal ads are for mouth, gums and teeth hygiene (plus video recommendations about obesity). Rarely do I get ads for food, and when I do its mostly vegan which I actually don't watch very often on youtube.
When I'm watching something movie related (I never ever look up series) I get ads for series (not movies) on Disney+, Paramount+ and Netflix.
I do try to avoid commercials. I usually scroll down a bit until the video is out of sight, and turn audio off. I did try adblockers but they slow down youtube after a while.
So yeah, this my experience with youtube ads.
Quote from: claws on October 17, 2023, 05:29:12 AM
My personalized ads on youtube are based on my search data and viewing history.
I do search for and watch a lot of culinary arts and cooking videos. The majority of my personal ads are for mouth, gums and teeth hygiene (plus video recommendations about obesity). Rarely do I get ads for food, and when I do its mostly vegan which I actually don't watch very often on youtube.
When I'm watching something movie related (I never ever look up series) I get ads for series (not movies) on Disney+, Paramount+ and Netflix.
I do try to avoid commercials. I usually scroll down a bit until the video is out of sight, and turn audio off. I did try adblockers but they slow down youtube after a while.
So yeah, this my experience with youtube ads.
I have an adblocker going and now and then I get a warning message from YT saying I must disable it or else I can't watch my usual naked grannies in lingerie channel. :buggedout: :wink:
self driving Ubers in San Francisco have run into an unexpected issue. The cars are programmed to follow traffic rules. In some places that's fine, but who goes 55 mph on the highway? The cars navigate on their own just fine but can't "go with the flow".
If a self driving car is speeding, who do you give the ticket to?
Been spending a lot of time on pintrest lately....
Finding posters of classic baddies I've never heard of, usually in the public domain...
Just sat through Space Amoeba/Yog, Monster from Space (1970)
Pretty slow for the first hour, then picks up toward the end....
That one character who laughs every time he talks is pretty grating.....
Quote from: LilCerberus on October 21, 2023, 07:48:38 PM
Just sat through Space Amoeba/Yog, Monster from Space (1970)
Pretty slow for the first hour, then picks up toward the end....
That one character who laughs every time he talks is pretty grating.....
BTW, no amoebas, it's an energy cloud....
The alternate title keeps making me think about GOG (1954)
The other day at a party an informal little truth or dare broke out, just PG-13 stuff, and I was asked if I ever had an affair with a teacher.
Without thinking I said, "Sleeping with the enemy? What do you think I am, a Quisling?"
People thought I meant "quizling" as in one of those insufferable teacher's pets who liked taking quizzes, and for some reason my trying to sincerely explain the term Quisling ended up causing practically everybody there, including people not even playing truth or dare, to get infected with laughter that went on and on, feeding on itself, contagious beyond all sense.
Then one dude laughed so hard he farted, and everybody tried to flee the oncoming stink, but some were laughing so hard by that point they couldn't get away and fell victim to the eye-watering power of the fart, and the rest of us kept laughing, laughing for the sake of laughing, laughing at the contortions of the wretched victims of the fart, laughing with joy that were ourselves were not likewise fart victims. This went on and on and on.
It was a great birthday party....
^ :smile: ^
I want a suit of armor I saw, to put in the study.
My husband says til we get the IRS straightened out we oughtn't to buy anything major.
I want a suit of armor I saw, to put in the study.
Bloody mosquitos :tongueout:
Robert DiNiro liked a post I retweeted from a secondary account. At least he SAYS he's Robert DiNiro's official account. Only 550 followers.
^Of course it is. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 26, 2023, 02:05:46 PM
^Of course it is. :bouncegiggle:
Any advice for these mosquitos. Ronny?
Quote from: Trevor on October 26, 2023, 02:15:16 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 26, 2023, 02:05:46 PM
^Of course it is. :bouncegiggle:
Any advice for these mosquitos. Ronny?
Put your undies on a stick and shake it at 'em. Scare those little blighters right off!
R.I.P. Matthew Perry
Watching The Night Strangler (1973) on SvenGhoulie.....
The story's okay, but all the shouting is really grating...
Ever come across anyone in real life or online who you've just felt after a while of knowing them that it doesn't matter what they do, they are going to fail and nothing is ever going to get any better for them? Even if you helped them until your last breath, they would still be in the same downward spiral they've always been in.
Quote from: Alex on October 29, 2023, 01:35:38 PM
Ever come across anyone in real life or online who you've just felt after a while of knowing them that it doesn't matter what they do, they are going to fail and nothing is ever going to get any better for them? Even if you helped them until your last breath, they would still be in the same downward spiral they've always been in.
No one on this site, thankfully. But yes, I have on other sites like FB.
Liberty Insurance is like Mussolini to Geico's Hitler.
Well, if you're looking for something exploitive with lots of racist epithets that gets weirder as it goes, then
SPACE IS THE PLACE (1974)
No one should or does care about this but I figure if anyone would it might be you guys.
We stayed a few nights at a local hotel while we were temporarily displaced this summer. The first night we were there we arrived kind of late and I was wandering around the lobby area with my 5-year old son while my husband checked in. We wandered over to the bar area and with a quick glance at the TVs I instantly knew the movie that was playing. Moments later, the manager or some employee tried to warn me about the movie since it's not appropriate for kids and I cut him off before he could tell me the name and said "Shaun of the Dead" and he seemed ever so slightly shocked that I knew it.. actually very disappointingly slight because I thought it was WAY more impressive that I knew the movie that quickly from the innocuous scene that was showing. He just kind of trailed off saying something like "Oh! So then you know how bloody it's about to get". Later I tried to brag about it to my husband and daughter but they weren't impressed either.
Quote from: Paquita on October 31, 2023, 09:07:07 PM
No one should or does care about this but I figure if anyone would it might be you guys.
We stayed a few nights at a local hotel while we were temporarily displaced this summer. The first night we were there we arrived kind of late and I was wandering around the lobby area with my 5-year old son while my husband checked in. We wandered over to the bar area and with a quick glance at the TVs I instantly knew the movie that was playing. Moments later, the manager or some employee tried to warn me about the movie since it's not appropriate for kids and I cut him off before he could tell me the name and said "Shaun of the Dead" and he seemed ever so slightly shocked that I knew it.. actually very disappointingly slight because I thought it was WAY more impressive that I knew the movie that quickly from the innocuous scene that was showing. He just kind of trailed off saying something like "Oh! So then you know how bloody it's about to get". Later I tried to brag about it to my husband and daughter but they weren't impressed either.
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tryiing to figure out how to get PUAAdvertising off my pc
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 02, 2023, 12:48:36 PM
tryiing to figure out how to get PUAAdvertising off my pc
That sucks. Norton Antivirus has itself become sort of annoying with advertising itself, but I have to admit I haven't had any real viruses on this computer.
Tonight's baddie was Gorgo (1961)
A kaiju from the UK, gotta be the meanest, toothiest looking kaiju I've ever seen...
I give it a thumb up....
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TikTok's chopped Italian sub sandwich is "breaking" the internet. Why?
All ingredients are chopped with a knife to tiny pieces, and then put on the bun. Never mind the mess and chopped pieces falling out the bun.
It is actually faster, with no mess, when you do the Italian sub the regular way.
"But regular is boring. And I'm bored. Why don't I just chop a sandwich and put in on TikTok?" Congrats.
Next episode: Chopped Thanksgiving Dinner on cornbread.
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TikTok's chopped Italian sub sandwich is "breaking" the internet. Why?
All ingredients are chopped with a knife to tiny pieces, and then put on the bun. Never mind the mess and chopped pieces falling out the bun.
It is actually faster, with no mess, when you do the Italian sub the regular way.
"But regular is boring. And I'm bored. Why don't I just chop a sandwich and put in on TikTok?" Congrats.
Next episode: Chopped Thanksgiving Dinner.
Reminds me of those weird "loose meat" sandwiches you find out in western Illinois and Iowa that are like hamburgers diced into little pieces and put on a bun. As soon as someone takes a bite they spill all over their shirt and the ground but for some reason people out there seem to love them.
November is the season of the turkey holocaust.
Woooooo! I get free bus travel this weekend.
Makes all those years of serving in the military worth it. :bouncegiggle:
I got some serious- arthritis? in my right leg. It hurts like a motherf**ker.
Theirs a stink bug crawling on the edge of my computer screen.
I think I have discovered a new form of brain rot. Too bad it is keeping me from remembering the symptoms.
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 09, 2023, 11:24:31 PM
I got some serious- arthritis? in my right leg. It hurts like a motherf**ker.
Theirs a stink bug crawling on the edge of my computer screen.
Sounds a bit like poetry there, Ronny:
I got some serious-
arthritis?
in my right leg.
It hurts like a motherf**ker.
Theirs a stink bug crawling on the edge
of my computer screen.Kinda Bukowski-esque.
Tonight's stinker was The Lost Missile (1958)
A movie meant to cash in on the fears of nuclear war, an alien rocket headed for Earth is knocked off course by a Russian warhead, sending it across Canada & bound for New York, incinerating everything in it's path....
The movie relies heavily on stock footage, poor music, and a narrator to tell you what's going on, and the music & sound effects sound cheap, even for a fifties drive in flick....
In spite of it's numerous shortcomings, the editors somehow manage to keep it riveting.....
I haven't seen anything with Cillian Murphy in it, but it would be cool to see him play the antagonist in a spaghetti western...
He's got that kinda face...
I love how in Ukraine and Russia and in Israel and Gaza no one seems at all inclined to find any sort of solution. just relax and get in to the blood feud
^ Israel is f**kin' up. Don't wan't a cease fire.
They have no incentive for peace.
There was a ceasefire in effect on Oct. 7.
HAMAS cannot be trusted, period.
^for once, I hafta agree with you^
Hamas has a long history of violating cease fires at least as far back as the Obama years...
The entire situation is hopeless. Israel is counting on the US to help them and Hamas and Palestinians are also counting on the US to moderate Israel's gory objectives.
No one pretends there is any tangible way forward anymore.
Tonight's stinker was TARGET EARTH - 1954
Pretty slow moving, even painful at times, dedicated mostly to pretentious character development.....
I somehow expected more from the robots, but they wound up getting little screen time, leaving me disappointed.,..
Had some xtra time, so I took in another stinker
Turbo Kid (2015), based in a post apocalyptic society, a teen assumes the role of his favorite comic book hero....
Kinda like in Roller Blade (1986), The world is run by people on BMX bikes, but instead of a litany of T&A, they resort to a ton of gorsploitation.....
Perhaps most interesting, the protagonist befriends a very strange girl, who is overwhelmingly cheerful & optimistic, it's creepy....
Fairly amusing little curio.....
RIP Rosalynn Carter
Desantis has John Kerry 2004 vibes. So many people pulling for him but he can't do it and his team makes it worse.
Whenever I google search a movie, there appears a list of streaming services on the right side, with options to watch it instantly. Of course, not for free. There's YouTube, Amazon Prime and Google Play all offering the same movie for the same price. Then there is Apple TV, always offering the same movie for a much higher price.
I wonder why Apple TV is much more expensive? A dealbreaker for sure.
Quote from: claws on November 22, 2023, 09:06:52 AM
Whenever I google search a movie, there appears a list of streaming services on the right side, with options to watch it instantly. Of course, not for free. There's YouTube, Amazon Prime and Google Play all offering the same movie for the same price. Then there is Apple TV, always offering the same movie for a much higher price.
I wonder why Apple TV is much more expensive? A dealbreaker for sure.
If I'm not wrong, I think their prices to rent popular movies like BARBIE are the same as other services. Their prices to rent some specialty fare (the stuff most of us like) is higher, but it's such a small part of the market they don't lose much on it. And some people will be used to renting from Apple and not even notice the price difference.
Google shows me the German Apple TV & Co streaming platforms. No idea how much their prices differ in Germany from the one's in America.
Apple TV Germany is currently offering Barbie for €4.99.
Google Play and YouTube want €5.99 for Barbie. So, in this case, Apple TV is actually cheaper. Color me surprised.
It might come down to licensing costs for each different country and what kind of deal the company has struck with the studio. Just my guess.
Three things I will never understand:
- the ongoing popularity of SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
- How any sane person still supports Donald Trump
- Why my wife thinks it's a good idea to start a home improvement project the day before Thanksgiving!
Is anybody reading these thing?
Tonight's stinker was The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
A lack of table scraps causes a monster to go to town....
Pretty exploitive for 1959, very riffable, definitely had me giggling a few times...
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 25, 2023, 08:48:50 PM
Is anybody reading these thing?
Tonight's stinker was The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
A lack of table scraps causes a monster to go to town....
Pretty exploitive for 1959, very riffable, definitely had me giggling a few times...
The beheading section was fairly brutal for an otherwise normal man-in-a-rubber-suit monster movie. It is one of my favorites.
I can't decide which of these Dark Souls 2 bosses I hate most: The Pursuer or The Smelter Demon!
I just had to interrogate someone by threatening to sing Celine Dion songs in the style of William Shatner. She crumbled and gave me the info before a single note had been mangled.
Quote from: Alex on November 27, 2023, 10:01:23 AM
I just had to interrogate someone by threatening to sing Celine Dion songs in the style of William Shatner. She crumbled and gave me the info before a single note had been mangled.
:buggedout: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Trevor on November 27, 2023, 11:52:57 AM
Quote from: Alex on November 27, 2023, 10:01:23 AM
I just had to interrogate someone by threatening to sing Celine Dion songs in the style of William Shatner. She crumbled and gave me the info before a single note had been mangled.
:buggedout: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
All... bymyself. I... don'twanttobe... all... bymyself...
Admit it, you just read that in Shatner's voice. :bouncegiggle:
Old enough to remember when that was an Eric Carmen song.....
Yeah, but he isn't as annoying as Shatner or Celine Dion.
Welp, my son just found a video on YouTube that plays diggy diggy hole on loop for 10 hours straight. How's everyone else doing?
Quote from: Paquita on November 28, 2023, 06:38:27 PM
Welp, my son just found a video on YouTube that plays diggy diggy hole on loop for 10 hours straight. How's everyone else doing?
Show him this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU)
Quote from: Alex on November 29, 2023, 03:03:39 AM
Quote from: Paquita on November 28, 2023, 06:38:27 PM
Welp, my son just found a video on YouTube that plays diggy diggy hole on loop for 10 hours straight. How's everyone else doing?
Show him this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU)
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Alex on November 29, 2023, 03:03:39 AM
Quote from: Paquita on November 28, 2023, 06:38:27 PM
Welp, my son just found a video on YouTube that plays diggy diggy hole on loop for 10 hours straight. How's everyone else doing?
Show him this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU)
I think that's the same one, only x1
https://youtu.be/rqrlXYrZZBI?si=ybTYZoDZrSgz8N0J (https://youtu.be/rqrlXYrZZBI?si=ybTYZoDZrSgz8N0J)
Quote from: Paquita on November 29, 2023, 11:37:23 AM
Quote from: Alex on November 29, 2023, 03:03:39 AM
Quote from: Paquita on November 28, 2023, 06:38:27 PM
Welp, my son just found a video on YouTube that plays diggy diggy hole on loop for 10 hours straight. How's everyone else doing?
Show him this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU)
I think that's the same one, only x1
https://youtu.be/rqrlXYrZZBI?si=ybTYZoDZrSgz8N0J (https://youtu.be/rqrlXYrZZBI?si=ybTYZoDZrSgz8N0J)
In that case you should send him over the next time I am going to see them live. :bouncegiggle:
time to break out the long johns
Quote from: Alex on November 29, 2023, 11:53:30 AM
Quote from: Paquita on November 29, 2023, 11:37:23 AM
Quote from: Alex on November 29, 2023, 03:03:39 AM
Quote from: Paquita on November 28, 2023, 06:38:27 PM
Welp, my son just found a video on YouTube that plays diggy diggy hole on loop for 10 hours straight. How's everyone else doing?
Show him this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU)
I think that's the same one, only x1
https://youtu.be/rqrlXYrZZBI?si=ybTYZoDZrSgz8N0J (https://youtu.be/rqrlXYrZZBI?si=ybTYZoDZrSgz8N0J)
In that case you should send him over the next time I am going to see them live. :bouncegiggle:
I might have to because they don't play in this part of the US very often!
Quote from: Paquita on November 29, 2023, 02:25:10 PM
Quote from: Alex on November 29, 2023, 11:53:30 AM
Quote from: Paquita on November 29, 2023, 11:37:23 AM
Quote from: Alex on November 29, 2023, 03:03:39 AM
Quote from: Paquita on November 28, 2023, 06:38:27 PM
Welp, my son just found a video on YouTube that plays diggy diggy hole on loop for 10 hours straight. How's everyone else doing?
Show him this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU)
I think that's the same one, only x1
https://youtu.be/rqrlXYrZZBI?si=ybTYZoDZrSgz8N0J (https://youtu.be/rqrlXYrZZBI?si=ybTYZoDZrSgz8N0J)
In that case you should send him over the next time I am going to see them live. :bouncegiggle:
I might have to because they don't play in this part of the US very often!
I promise not to take him into my favourite metal bar and play "How many JDs can you drink in 30 minutes" with him.
Quote from: Alex on November 29, 2023, 02:32:00 PM
I promise not to take him into my favourite metal bar and play "How many JDs can you drink in 30 minutes" with him.
I'm wondering how old Sister Paquita's son is :wink:
Quote from: Trevor on November 29, 2023, 02:44:39 PM
Quote from: Alex on November 29, 2023, 02:32:00 PM
I promise not to take him into my favourite metal bar and play "How many JDs can you drink in 30 minutes" with him.
I'm wondering how old Sister Paquita's son is :wink:
You can drink at a younger age in the UK. :wink: :wink:
Quote from: Trevor on November 29, 2023, 02:44:39 PM
Quote from: Alex on November 29, 2023, 02:32:00 PM
I promise not to take him into my favourite metal bar and play "How many JDs can you drink in 30 minutes" with him.
I'm wondering how old Sister Paquita's son is :wink:
He's 5 which I hope is still below the drinking age in the UK. Although, he can probably beat someone in drinking chocolate milks in 30 minutes.
R.I.P. Henry Kissinger
Quote from: Paquita on November 29, 2023, 04:51:57 PM
Quote from: Trevor on November 29, 2023, 02:44:39 PM
Quote from: Alex on November 29, 2023, 02:32:00 PM
I promise not to take him into my favourite metal bar and play "How many JDs can you drink in 30 minutes" with him.
I'm wondering how old Sister Paquita's son is :wink:
He's 5 which I hope is still below the drinking age in the UK. Although, he can probably beat someone in drinking chocolate milks in 30 minutes.
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
He could certainly beat me at drinking chocolate milks: one down, that's me :wink:
Tonight's stinker was Monster From The Ocean Floor (1954)
Rather corny opening
The ADR is all over the place
The scene with the shark is probably the most creative use of a kettle drum I've ever heard
Since Monster From The Ocean Floor (1954) was so short, I decided to get The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966) outa my system.....
Not quite on par with other low budget man eating, walking tree movies.....
Tonight's stinker, Night of the Blood Beast (1958)
Early on, I was thinking I'd seen it before, then realized that I had, and that's just how forgettable it was...
Pretty predictable; monster shows up, people are stranded, argue over whether they should kill it or talk to it...
Ends on a morally confusing note...
Whiskey & soda Does not make whiskey & science.... :teddyr: :teddyr:
Tonight's stinker was The Hideous Sun Demon 1958
Very riffable & twice as forgettable
I think my only real interest in this movie was seeing segments of it in The Head Hunter (1988)
I bet anybody I die first! Nope.
Word of the day:
Polydipsia
The walking rehab place I go to has a case with all these sculptures of hands.....
Always makes me think of that movie, You know the one.....
A happy Festivus for the rest of us!!
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 16, 2023, 09:28:08 PM
Tonight's stinker was The Hideous Sun Demon 1958
Very riffable & twice as forgettable
I think my only real interest in this movie was seeing segments of it in The Head Hunter (1988)
I was hoping it wasn't the South African subsidy film and now I see it is 😳😉
^Y'mean Head Hunter?^
I thought HH was okay, albeit, it had mostly to do with the acting job of a cop who's losing his mind as a demon is playing with his head...
Didn't quite understand what the footage of Hideous Sun Demon had to do with anything...
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 23, 2023, 03:09:45 PM
^Y'mean Head Hunter?^
I thought HH was okay, albeit, it had mostly to do with the acting job of a cop who's losing his mind as a demon is playing with his head...
Didn't quite understand what the footage of Hideous Sun Demon had to do with anything...
😁😁😁
Leonard Maltin said that the movie was set in a very strange looking Miami minus Latinos. I think that was because it was filmed in Durban 😉
Tonight's stinker was The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1962) (a.k.a. Spaceraid 63)
Pretty grating for only an hour or so......
Filmed on some palatial estate, It's mostly long drawn out scenes of people walking or running...
Oh, and it's a Christmas movie, kind of like Hardware or Die Hard, only overwhelmingly dull.....
Trying to sit through A Boy Named Charlie Brown (!969), The one where he almost wins a spelling bee....
Lots more music than usual, & way too much psychedelia.....
Happy boxing day! (Do we still have any Canadian friends?)
Happy Kwanzaa!
Tonight's stinker was First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
I dunno, I couldn't really get into it......
Spent the last 5 days in the hospital. The circulation in mt right leg is shot. I have to take moriphine every 4
hours.
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 31, 2023, 01:21:02 PM
Spent the last 5 days in the hospital. The circulation in mt right leg is shot. I have to take moriphine every 4
hours.
Sending hugs, Ronny 🙏
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 31, 2023, 01:21:02 PM
I have to take moriphine every 4
hours.
Oh no, you're turning into Bela Lugosi! :buggedout:
Get well soon. :smile:
Celebrities we lost in 2023
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If you seal diced banana peels in a mason jar with an equal weight of sugar, in 24 hours you'll have banana syrup--no water or heat needed.
Happie National Science Fiction Day
I have been locked in a parking garage for the past 2 months trying to learn a skateboard trick called The Impossible. You can imagine how that's going.
Quote from: lester1/2jr on January 03, 2024, 01:44:54 AM
I have been locked in a parking garage for the past 2 months trying to learn a skateboard trick called The Impossible. You can imagine how that's going.
Sounds like a bad movie plot.
the footage looks like Videodrome or something. just this big well lit freezing brutal looking room
:) Happie Epiphany!! :)
We had floods in Johannesburg - about 30 miles from us - a few days ago, not because of heavy rains but because the city's dwellers throw around their rubbish, blocking drains so that the waters can't drain 😳😳
Quote from: Trevor on January 07, 2024, 12:35:16 AM
We had floods in Johannesburg - about 30 miles from us - a few days ago, not because of heavy rains but because the city's dwellers throw around their rubbish, blocking drains so that the waters can't drain 😳😳
Same controversy came up in my town after Hurricanes Isabelle & Gaston
Tonight's stinker was Horror Hospital (1973), one I'd been meaning to get out of my system since catching the tail end sometime back in the late '80s or early '90s...
I think it was supposed to be a comedy, or a dark British satire, but I found it painfully slow.... Thirty minutes in, I felt like I'd been sitting for an hour, & after an hour, well, you know...
So, is everybody watching The Emmys, The Iowa Polls, or ANYTHING ELSE!
Quote from: LilCerberus on January 15, 2024, 10:14:55 PM
So, is everybody watching The Emmys, The Iowa Polls, or ANYTHING ELSE!
I watched a bit of NFL and the a re-watch of "Poor Things." Wouldn't watch either of those events you mentioned.
My leg is bugging me again...
I need a new round of injections....
Makes me wonder what Prince & Tom Petty were going through their last days.....
Tonight's stinker was Godmonster Of Indian Flats (1973), Which starts out weird, & turns into a mess!
I'm beginning to think I lake the older black & white drive in flicks better, because they're usually only an hour or so long, & typically stay on point...
Last night's stinker had too many sub plots, tried too hard to be artsy, & the '70s ending felt forced.....
You know it is January when YouTube assaults you with book your vacation in the sun ads. Every year the same spiel. I'm still in winter mode, and I'm not looking forward to summer and heat. On the same note, I still get the same mouth and dental hygiene ads since last summer, because I apparently love to look at people's gross gums in close-ups.
If YouTube ads are based on videos I watch on YouTube, then they are doing a very poor job at it. Not that I watch ads intentionally, though.
Quote from: claws on January 21, 2024, 03:29:32 PM
You know it is January when YouTube assaults you with book your vacation in the sun ads. Every year the same spiel. I'm still in winter mode, and I'm not looking forward to summer and heat. On the same note, I still get the same mouth and dental hygiene ads since last summer, because I apparently love to look at people's gross gums in close-ups.
If YouTube ads are based on videos I watch on YouTube, then they are doing a very poor job at it. Not that I watch ads intentionally, though.
I've recently been targeted by a lot of adds for joining the Royal Navy (specifically submarines). I have no intention of completing the trifecta though.
On a completely different train of thought, when someone complains to you that everyone at their old workplace treated them like an idiot, what is a polite way of telling them well that is because you are?
Tempted into looking up the KelTec Sub2000 Gen3, I found myself wondering, would somebody really take that down to the range, or would they just spend all day breaking it down & putting it back together???
Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Never Forget.
Tonight's stinker
Grabbers (2012)
Not too riffable, but then, it's supposed to be a comedy, so it gets some giggles after the plot is established, with at least one character getting in lots of one liners.....
Between sips of coffee this morning, I took a pause for The Serenity Prayer....
Pondering change, it made me think of my pants, Which I hadn't planned on changing until Wednesday.....
Things I would rather do than watch the Super-Dee-Dooper Bowl tonight included refilling a 1970s-era stapler, using a q-tip to clean behind the bathroom faucet handles, and use a damp cloth to dust our piano keys.
It surprises me to still see the term "best boy" in film credits. Aside from its gender specificity, it's a little boastful.
Somebody in florida wants to make it easier to kill bears....
The confusing part, is that the lamestream nooz is saying they just want to kill "black" bears, whereas the tabloids are saying they want to kill "crack" bears.....
I remember when Valentine's Day was a time for grand romantic gestures, getaways, snuggles under warm blankets watching snow fall through the windows, sweet little tokens of our lasting love. I guess that's all over, because you know how we've celebrated today? A quickie and then going over our tax audit paperwork.
When I was a kid back in 1970, this nut was all over the News, and my Dad usta say- "If you don't be good, I'll send you to live with Charlie!"
And being as we just got out of the foster homes, I believed him!
I reckon that's part of the reason I am fascinated by the Manson Family.
I own these 2 magazines!
(https://i.imgur.com/N53siJ1.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.imgur.com/fjvxcYW.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c6/f5/20/c6f520f8b41bff10ce053858bec2fc59.png)
The Internet thinks there was a 1990s movie with Sinbad called Shazaam. Well, this movie never existed. People got it confused with Shaq's Kazaam, and the made for TV short film Aliens for Breakfast, with Sinbad playing a genie.
Then you have conspiracy nuts going out of their way creating fake tapes, to add fuel to the fire, as seen above.
However, they used the Disney logo on the slip and MCA on the tape :teddyr:
Y'know what's charmingly peculiar about Ireland? You'll be listening to the radio and along on a regular basis will come the announcer giving these notices that someone has died. I don't mean someone like a movie star or even the mayor of a city, just like:
"Sorry to be saying today that at one o'clock this afternoon Mrs. Maub O'Shay of Salt Hill passed away at age seventy-one in St. Stephen's Hospital after a brief illness. All condolences are offered to her family."
And then a commercial will roll. Death is huge there and not lurid and not shunned. It's strange but it's also earthy and fitting.
Tonight's stinker...
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/crabmonsters/ (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/crabmonsters/)
Somehow managed to hold my interest...
Back at Christmastime my friends Rob and Tara put in a Christmas card what they thought my Dungeons and Dragons stats would be, if I were (as I am in real life) a character in the game, saying I had on a 3-18 scale:
Strength: 11 (Yeah, I am always getting told I should work on that.)
Intelligence: 14
Wisdom: 11 (Yeah, it is unwise of me to have given him and his wife so much money over the years.)
Dexterity: 16
Constitution: 14
Charisma: 16
Comeliness: 14
Well they sent me a Valentine's Day card that summed me up in the mana colors of Magic the Gathering, saying I was composed of:
40% blue mana.
25% white mana.
20% green mana.
10% red mana.
5% black mana.
Sounds about right-ish.
I still haven't heard anybody explain how that new law in Alabama prevents clinics from using frozen embryos.....
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 23, 2024, 02:26:43 PM
I still haven't heard anybody explain how that new law in Alabama prevents clinics from using frozen embryos.....
Not something I'd heard about but a quick google gave me this: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/alabama-hospital-puts-pause-on-ivf-in-wake-of-ruling-saying-frozen-embryos-are-children#:~:text=MONTGOMERY%2C%20Ala.,the%20legal%20equivalent%20of%20children. (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/alabama-hospital-puts-pause-on-ivf-in-wake-of-ruling-saying-frozen-embryos-are-children#:~:text=MONTGOMERY%2C%20Ala.,the%20legal%20equivalent%20of%20children.)
^ Yeah, a court said they were children, Which doesn't really explain why they can't use them.....^
As it says in the article, it comes down to potential legal issues that are currently being evaluated. Not a lawyer, but I'd imagine getting clarification on the practical applications of new laws wouldn't be an uncommon thing.
My guess would be that if something goes wrong and something happens to the egg, since it counts as a child that the medical professional is then possibly guilty of some variety of murder, but I'd need to really study things to give more than a simple answer.
Quote from: LilCerberus on February 23, 2024, 02:39:08 PM
^ Yeah, a court said they were children, Which doesn't really explain why they can't use them.....^
Because to have a good chance at getting a woman pregnant through IVF they have to create more embryos than will be carried to term. From the Mayo clinic description of IVF (highlighting mine):
"How many embryos will be transferred?" The number of embryos placed in the uterus often is based on age and the number of eggs collected. Since the rate of fertilized eggs attaching to the lining of uterus is lower for older people, usually more embryos are transferred — except for people who use donor eggs from a young person, genetically tested embryos or in certain other cases.
Most health care professionals follow specific guidelines to prevent a multiple pregnancy with triplets or more. In some countries, legislation limits the number of embryos that can be transferred. Make sure you and your care team agree on the number of embryos that will be placed in the uterus before the transfer procedure.
"What will you do with any extra embryos?" Extra embryos can be frozen and stored for future use for many years.
Not all embryos will survive the freezing and thawing process, but most will.
Having frozen embryos can make future cycles of IVF less expensive and less invasive. Or you might be able to donate unused frozen embryos to another couple or a research facility.
You also might choose to discard unused embryos. Make sure you feel comfortable making decisions about extra embryos before they are created.
100% true weird exchange I had....
Person: "I'll give you a nickel to have sex with me."
Me: "Wouldn't that make me a prostitute?"
Person: "You kidding, a prostitute wouldn't have sex with someone for a nickel."
Tonight's stinker
The Astounding She-Monster (1957)
The twenty minutes or so is driven by a rather annoying Narrator who aint no Rod Serling, especially on a mic that's too hot....
The "monster" is a woman in a leotard, who moves so slowly, that the cast escapes several times by running right past her!
There's a subplot about a kidnapping, & the hero is a geologist who has some acid on hand...
Tonight's stinker
The Mysterious Monsters (1975), A sort of Bigfoot docudrama...
Must admit, Peter Graves gives a pretty god performance as the Narrator, in spite of the abysmal audio & grating soundtrack... (Seriously, I think this movie induced a very painful tinnitus...)
Kinda surprised just how much of this "documentary" has been debunked, disproven, or revealed as a hoax over the pest forty-five years or so...
Post 9k!!! :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:
It shattered something in me years ago to find out how so much of the book series I loved best as a child, Little House on the Prairie, and its companions, was invention. Dates were changed, places altered or omitted, family members' ages altered for convenience, and Jack the bulldog, Mr. Edwards, Nellie, and many other characters weren't real people, they were inventions.
:smile: Happie LeapDay!!! :smile:
That Upcoming Birthday scroll on the main page has become like a graveyard of departed members.
My sister was just on a plane seated next to John Cafferty of " and the Beaver Brown Band" fame
Happy 1954 United States Capitol shooting & 1971 Weather Underground bombing day!
Quote from: lester1/2jr on March 01, 2024, 02:47:07 AM
My sister was just on a plane seated next to John Cafferty of " and the Beaver Brown Band" fame
"On The Dark Side" was always a fave song of mine. 😊
Trevor - They are still paying out apparently. I'm sure that one is still in the set
Quote from: lester1/2jr on March 01, 2024, 04:20:42 PM
Trevor - They are still paying out apparently. I'm sure that one is still in the set
👍👍
Good memories of Eddie and the Cruisers 😊😊
Tonight's Stinker
The Yesterday Machine (1963)
Very, very talky.... Filmed in Dallas, I had to look that up because of all the southern accents....
After lots of hints, we find out it's a time machine built by a Nazi scientist who plans to bring back Hitler rather than change the outcome of WW2...
A few of the voices are dubbed, but synced pretty well....
One black castmate, in what's probably the most racist typecasting I've seen in years....
cerberus- have you ever seen "Creation of the Humanoids"?
Quote from: lester1/2jr on March 03, 2024, 02:03:23 AM
cerberus- have you ever seen "Creation of the Humanoids"?
Yeah, 'bout a year or two on Svenghoulie....
Couldn't stop thinking about that, actually....
Tonight's stinker
The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969)
Mentioned on this forum before...
An awful low budget sequel to Frank Morgan's classic....
Feminist revolt in the Emerald City, responsibilities cause things to go sideways....
Bad audio, but a few good singers....
Tonight's stinker
Daimajin (1966) AKA Majin, the Monster of Terror
Supposed to be a kaiju movie, but that doesn't happen until the last ten minutes....
It starts with the murder of a samurai lord, his children escape, & then there's an hour of plotting, sneaking around, & praying to a statue...
For tonight's stinker, I'm back to Svenghoulie for the first time in months, & I'm reminded why I couldn't sit through this version of Dracula 30yrs ago.....
Is it just me, or are pieces of paper the loudest thing in '70s Dracula movies?????
I'm beginning to think The Rondos should be televised....
I might watch one or two to see what the fuss is about.....
Uniqueness is overrated.
The Bill Murray movie Groundhog's Day never explains why any of this is happening to Bill's character.
In one of the early versions of the script, there's scene that shows one of his co-workers putting a curse on him using a tarot, card, a chicken bone, one of Bill's business cards, and a book called 101 Curses, Spells and Enchantments You Can Do at Home.
When I watched Groundhog Day for the first time, together with my mom, she didn't understand why all the others didn't notice they were in a loop as well.
They're not! They continue on, the next day. How? I don't know; perhaps Bill Murray winds up in a different parallel universe each day. To ask "how" probably is overthinking things anyways.
QuoteIn one of the early versions of the script, there's scene that shows one of his co-workers putting a curse on him using a tarot, card, a chicken bone, one of Bill's business cards, and a book called 101 Curses, Spells and Enchantments You Can Do at Home.
gives new meaning to "Chicken Bone, Now Isson"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBe7TMaayyw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBe7TMaayyw)
Tonight's stinker
The Girl On A Motorcycle 1968
Billed as a Eurotrash skin flick, It comes across as trying (and failing) at being artsy.....
A young woman unhappily married to a wimpy school teacher hops on her bike & heads out to meet her lover...
Along the way, she talks to herself & ponders how she ended up with both men...
The bike is cool, but most scenes are green screened...
^ is there a scene where they are eating fondue?
Quote from: lester1/2jr on March 31, 2024, 12:29:39 AM
^ is there a scene where they are eating fondue?
yes...
Probably the most riffable part of the movie....
It takes place at a ski lodge, where one of the characters wears a yellow jumpsuit & red hat, making him look like Ronald McDonald......
Tonight's stinker
Cat Women Of The Moon (1953)
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/catwomen/ (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/catwomen/)
Well, at just over an hour, it's forgettable enough...
Quote from: LilCerberus on March 31, 2024, 08:17:16 PM
Tonight's stinker
Cat Women Of The Moon (1953)
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/catwomen/ (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/catwomen/)
Well, at just over an hour, it's forgettable enough...
Oh yeah, when they put on their space suits, they need to shout at each other for some reason....
Ever notice that about old movies?
Does "The Onion" print real news on April Fool's Day?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 01, 2024, 10:10:32 AM
Does "The Onion" print real news on April Fool's Day?
The true horror is it's all real, all the time....
My daily puzzle challenge on Wordscapes this morning had all the words backwards!
I freaked out when it accepted "teef" as a word - then I checked the definition and it said: "The plural of "foot" !"
One of the music videos for "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc has a lady dancing in a completely sheer top with nothing underneath! You can see everything! Bouncing! Very unexpected.
Quote from: Paquita on April 03, 2024, 03:14:39 PM
One of the music videos for "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc has a lady dancing in a completely sheer top with nothing underneath! You can see everything! Bouncing! Very unexpected.
You understand, of course, that a guy would have provided a link to go along with this observation... just sayin'. :wink:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 03, 2024, 04:12:07 PM
Quote from: Paquita on April 03, 2024, 03:14:39 PM
One of the music videos for "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc has a lady dancing in a completely sheer top with nothing underneath! You can see everything! Bouncing! Very unexpected.
You understand, of course, that a guy would have provided a link to go along with this observation... just sayin'. :wink:
😅😅
I just watched the video which has 9.1 million views: I saw no loose boobies 😭😭😭😭😉😉
Quote from: Trevor on April 03, 2024, 05:11:50 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 03, 2024, 04:12:07 PM
Quote from: Paquita on April 03, 2024, 03:14:39 PM
One of the music videos for "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc has a lady dancing in a completely sheer top with nothing underneath! You can see everything! Bouncing! Very unexpected.
You understand, of course, that a guy would have provided a link to go along with this observation... just sayin'. :wink:
😅😅
I just watched the video which has 9.1 million views: I saw no loose boobies 😭😭😭😭😉😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhzy7JaU2Zc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhzy7JaU2Zc)
Trev - I think you need to get closer to the screen!
Now that I had to go through the rigamarole of getting a link to try to get into the bro club, I started reading the comments and saw that apparently this song is "famous" for being in a snuff film? I didn't know about it until now so I guess it's not that famous, but holy heck! I am not going down that rabbit hole.
^Yeah, if you turn down the color & squint, you can kinda see something through the scanlines...^
Man, that chick in the pink sure was creepy! No wonder these guys were a one hit wonder!
def some nip slippage in this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajSb3fZmt2U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajSb3fZmt2U) Sabrina- Boys Boys Boys
Quote from: Paquita on April 03, 2024, 03:14:39 PM
One of the music videos for "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc has a lady dancing in a completely sheer top with nothing underneath! You can see everything! Bouncing! Very unexpected.
(https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/crazyeyesCRAZYeyessadassdsds_465_358_int.JPG)
Fun facts:
The video was made at and broadcast on the popular German music television programme Musikladen.
The Musikladen Go-Go Girls: The Go-Go Girls were two, later three, girls who danced along to various songs on the Musikladen shows, usually wearing revealing outfits.
(https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/db/26/swwtjbti_t.jpg)
(Musikladen Go-Go Girls in action)
The blonde woman singing Funkytown is actually not the real singer of Lipps, Inc. Her name is Doris D, a Dutch singer of the pop/dance band Doris D & The Pins.
(https://i.discogs.com/nUauc0UNKvOOrfUyFIF_FaNU5rluUbZvC_1V9qxFxoE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:311/w:320/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9BLTM4ODc1/Ni0xMzY0NzE3OTUz/LTgzMTIuanBlZw.jpeg)
(Doris D & The Pins)
Apparently, Doris was asked by Lipps, Inc.'s German record label to promote Funkytown in Europe, since at that time Lipps, Inc. was a studio project and not a real group/band yet.
Siouxsie and the Banshees sure do sound funny on an AM pocket radio.....
You know what's a club that would go nowhere? Nerds Against Tolkien.
Quote from: ER on April 05, 2024, 04:03:20 PM
You know what's a club that would go nowhere? Nerds Against Tolkien.
You might be surprised there. A lot of nerds argue that Tolkien just stole stuff from other sources and wasn't very original. I've seen some fairly (comparatively) brutal threads on various fantasy groups on this one.
tonight's stinker
Space Chase (1990)
Bad VHS rip, I kept looking for some link to a couple of collaborations involving actor Matt Mitler & director Brett Piper, but no luck... Certainly were some similarities....
Sets leftover from Battlestar Galactica & costumes leftover from The Humanoid (1979) & lots of Star Wars references laid on thick & heavy.....
Well, Iran finally attack Israel...
Tonight's Stinker
NIGHT CALLER FROM OUTER SPACE (1965) AKA Blood Beast from Outer Space (1965), not to be confused with Night of the Blood Beast (1958).....
Heck of a title song during the opening credits, with John Saxon sporting a British accent....
Very talkie, with most of the cast talking faster than a morning traffic reporter.....
Kinda changes direction several times, with an ambiguous ending...
^Oh yeah, the "monster" is basically just a rubber glove.....^
Quote from: LilCerberus on April 13, 2024, 03:25:58 PM
Well, Iran finally attack Israel...
Well Israel's Iron Dome took out the Iranian missile strike.....
The nooz is rambling about retaliation, but if it were me, I'd just sit back & laugh about it.....
At a barely tolerable hour & three minutes, tonight's stinker;
Project Moon Base (1953)
In the near future (Circa 1970) women will have climbed that corporate ladder to become military pilots, in spite of being snippy little whiners who still haven't earned the respect of their male counterparts who openly display their hostility....
What could Iran do? They were up against Jordan, the UK and the US who have far superior technology.
The Chinese are tearing down mosques & exterminating Uyghurs...
Why isn't Hamas upset about that?
Quote from: LilCerberus on April 15, 2024, 01:49:09 PM
The Chinese are tearing down mosques & exterminating Uyghurs...
Why isn't Hamas upset about that?
I'm sure they are.
Hamas is more local to Palestine, but ISIS and AQ are more explicitly Islamic and haven't done much for the uyghurs. No surprise terrorist losers are a bunch of lame os
Israel has launched a counter strike on Iran
I inadvertently offended Debbie Rochon and it's been bugging the hell out of me.
I've heard the term "Self Immolation" so many times today, that it's starting to sound like an act of incontinence!
^ it's a sign. things are getting out of control
Things have been out of control for a long time.
They just gave 8 billion dollars to Taiwan who are not in a war.
Tonight's stinker
Star Pilot (1966) AKA 2+5: Missione Hydra
After a spaceship crashes in rural Italy, Three scientists & the daughter of one of them, along with a pair of Chinese spies are enslaved by the aliens, Who then keep flip-flopping on whether they will take over the ship or cooperate with the aliens..... They fight, damage the sip, fix it, & find themselves far in the future, and we all know how the future turned out in sixties movies...
Tonight's stinker
Beyond Atlantis (1973)
Sid Haig leads a group of crooked fortune hunters to an island of giant pearls, where they encounter bug-eyed natives with nefarious plans of their own.....
Lots of long, drawn out scenes of underwater dancing.....
Tonight's Stinker
Night of the Shadow People (2016?-17?)
Looks to be another shot on video senior thesis...
In the future, people live in dome cities, & outside the city live hooded monsters who eat souls, and the rest of the plot quickly gets all ADHD, laying on too many subgenres...
Half the time, I can't understand what the cast is saying, & lines are delivered without emotion... One of the characters is a robot that looks like air conditioner parts, another, a wizard with a goofy cape, and all the bad guy's henchmen wear those squid game masks...
What's that black & white pattern that some women like to get on their blouses & skirts....
It looks kinda like the PLO scarf...
Quote from: LilCerberus on April 27, 2024, 10:34:09 PM
What's that black & white pattern that some women like to get on their blouses & skirts....
It looks kinda like the PLO scarf...
Do you mean the houndstooth pattern?
^Yeah, that's the one! I know houndstooth has been around for decades, but the new PLO scarves are starting to look like that.^
Hmm...RC?
^ Hmm? Yes? :question:
Quote from: LilCerberus on April 27, 2024, 09:22:41 PM
Tonight's Stinker
Night of the Shadow People (2016?-17?)
Looks to be another shot on video senior thesis...
In the future, people live in dome cities, & outside the city live hooded monsters who eat souls, and the rest of the plot quickly gets all ADHD, laying on too many subgenres...
Half the time, I can't understand what the cast is saying, & lines are delivered without emotion... One of the characters is a robot that looks like air conditioner parts, another, a wizard with a goofy cape, and all the bad guy's henchmen wear those squid game masks...
Thinking about it, This film keeps feeling like it's made up of those monthly short film challenges, where they give you a prompt, a prop, a character name & occupation, & a line of dialog to work with...
Tonight's stinker
Warriors of the Apocalypse (1985)
A spaghetti road warrior rip-off, it starts a a bunch of guys walking around a beach that's supposed to be a dessert, then through a quarry that's supposed to be a dessert, where they duke it out with a rival gang, then meet a guy with fresh food who promises to take them to the green mountain.....
Next, they're on a safari, where they run into the usual safari clichés.....
Pretty painful to sit through...
Something I really don't get about antique gun dealers, is how they really try to avoid giving a clear look at the cylinder on a Colt Cloverleaf....
I mean, the whole point of the Colt Cloverleaf, is knowing if it's a traditional five shot, or if it's one of the more quirky looking four chambered cylinders.....
Tonight's Stinker
It Came from Hollywood (1982)
An amusing compilation of highlights from some of the silliest stinkers ever to hit the big screen, with several comedians dujour "riffing" on the films being shown before it was a thing....
In essence, two hours of commercials with commentary....
Gave me a few ideas for future stinkers of the weekend (kinda surprised how many of these I've already seen).....
I just realized that the four movies I have watched in the past starring Ryan Gosling all suck major balls. I like the guy but man those scripts are a disaster.
^Who's Ryan Gosling?^
So, a couple years ago, When I first came down with sciatica, I got steroid injections in my 5th lumbar the first two times, & Cortisone shots in my left hip....
The last time I went in for injections, they were in my 4th & 5th lumbar.......
Today's injection was in my 3rd lumbar...
3 down, two to go????
I dunno....
I see Russian media is increasing its references in official channels to taking back Alaska.
Quote from: Alex on May 10, 2024, 01:38:27 PM
I see Russian media is increasing its references in official channels to taking back Alaska.
Hahahaha!
Tonight's Stinker
The Slime People (1963)
A small group of survivors tries to avoid the creatures while looking for a way to destroy a resin wall that's been put up around the city.... Pretty slow paced....
The subterranean fishmen look impressive, but are introduced at the beginning of the movie, blowing any chance for a big reveal, and the constant sound of someone having digestive issues gets pretty grating after a while....
And I have to say, a couple of the characters are pretty annoying.....
Furiosa prequel coming soon.....
Frankly, I'd like to see a Mad Max sequel that goes back to those blue & yellow cars.....
Today, about a mile from my house, a pedestrian was killed and the world's #1 ranked golfer was arrested. Separate incidents, though.
^ I thought they were one and the same!
My son went to see his probation officer today- and he didn't go to jail! :thumbup:
Tonight's stinker is Snowpiercer on THE365 network.... Read a lot about it when it came out, but that's it...
Quote from: LilCerberus on May 18, 2024, 07:04:39 PM
Tonight's stinker is Snowpiercer on THE365 network.... Read a lot about it when it came out, but that's it...
Well, after three hours, I have a headache & I'm tired, but impressed.....
Well, I wanted to review last night's stinker, but, "been there, done that".....
Tonight's Stinker
The Space Children (1958) (Actually, MST3K season six, episode nine)
A group of children who've been isolated on an atomic testing base with their parents find an alien brain that starts telling them to sneak around.... Can it be trusted??? Are it's intentions good or evil???
Has a few bmovie regulars, with a few future TV stars.....
Quote from: LilCerberus on May 19, 2024, 09:45:09 PM
The Space Children (1958) (Actually, MST3K season six, episode nine)
Season 9, episode 6.
can anyone identify the movie in the picture? https://www.instagram.com/p/C7S7bu-MUC4/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/C7S7bu-MUC4/) I'm guessing it's recent to 1983
Quote from: lester1/2jr on May 23, 2024, 12:44:05 AM
can anyone identify the movie in the picture? https://www.instagram.com/p/C7S7bu-MUC4/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/C7S7bu-MUC4/) I'm guessing it's recent to 1983
Poltergeist?
At least, that's what it said in the comments section....
aaah I should have checked that first
What the heck is a "box office flameout"????? :question:
Quote from: LilCerberus on May 28, 2024, 05:51:44 PM
What the heck is a "box office flameout"????? :question:
Just another word for "bomb," "disaster," or "flop."
Only two more days till the biggest arrowhead show in Texas!
I have four tables reserved.
who is ross obrecht?
Quote from: LilCerberus on May 29, 2024, 10:29:03 PM
who is ross obrecht?
Dunno. Maybe you misheard "Ross Ulbricht"? https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-life-federal-prison-creating (https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-life-federal-prison-creating)
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 30, 2024, 08:47:04 AM
Quote from: LilCerberus on May 29, 2024, 10:29:03 PM
who is ross obrecht?
Dunno. Maybe you misheard "Ross Ulbricht"? https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-life-federal-prison-creating (https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-life-federal-prison-creating)
Ah, that must be the one.....
Trump promised the Libertarians he'd commute this guy's sentence, The only part of his speech that got cheers instead of boos...
The middle toe on my right foot is incredibly itchy.
So, I've seen the trailer for the Barbarella remake, & I can't help wondering: Is the main character supposed to be an android or something???
And are they trying to turn this into preachy statement about the environment????
Happy Marvin Heemeyer Day.
There is an area in Yellowstone State Park where it is theoretically possible to commit any crime and not be prosecuted for it. Reason: the population of the district is 0, and it would therefore be impossible to empanel a jury in accordance with the 6th Amendment. Congress has been warned about this loophole but has not acted to close it. (Don't get excited, though; no one has tested it, but in reality this defense would almost certainly not work.)
Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 05, 2024, 12:50:04 PM
There is an area in Yellowstone State Park where it is theoretically possible to commit any crime and not be prosecuted for it. Reason: the population of the district is 0, and it would therefore be impossible to empanel a jury in accordance with the 6th Amendment. Congress has been warned about this loophole but has not acted to close it. (Don't get excited, though; no one has tested it, but in reality this defense would almost certainly not work.)
I remember when I was a kid, someone accused of some crime claimed the right of trial by combat which was still on the books, although superceeded by newer laws. Even if they had won and been aquitted of the original crime they would then have been up on a murder charge. I think the guy who had the ceremonial position of the Queen's champion at that time was in his 90s.
February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004
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When Harriet Tubman was born, John Adams was still alive.
When Harriet Tubman died, Ronald Reagan was a toddler.
I was 5 in 1980 and met my great Grandmother who was 95, born in 1885.
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Tonight's stinker
Dune Warriors (1991)
In a post apocalyptic world, a girl escapes when her village is overrun by warlords.... She's rescued by David Carradine, Who happens to be looking for the leader of this gang..... They recruit a trio that runs a rigged fighting scam from town to town, and woman warrior they all seem to know.....
They have a week to fortify the village & teach a bunch of farmers to fight...
However, there's a small matter of the village chief, who doesn't like being belittled, and his jealous son, who doesn't like these warriors sniffing around his girl, and they plot against the warriors & the rest of the village....
When the bad guys show up, things don't go so smoothly.....
Tonight's Stinker
Survival Zone (1983)
Two years after WW3, a rural South African family must fend off a cannibal biker gang...
Not quite as exiting as it sounds...
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 09, 2024, 08:35:55 PM
Tonight's Stinker
Survival Zone (1983)
Two years after WW3, a rural South African family must fend off a cannibal biker gang...
Not quite as exiting as it sounds...
Believe me, it isn't as exciting as it sounds. You've got plants, grass and trees growing after a nuclear holocaust 😳😳😳 and I knew the director personally.
^One part that gets me, is when the farmer builds a bomb & a distraction just to kill two guards he could've just shot ten minutes earlier!^
Quote from: LilCerberus on June 10, 2024, 10:40:04 AM
^One part that gets me, is when the farmer builds a bomb & a distraction just to kill two guards he could've just shot ten minutes earlier!^
Oy 😳😁😁
This is me hometown of Lawton. Warning: VERY BORING.
https://youtu.be/qkt0yDe9W8o?si=felPIoRDFJw73v95
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 11, 2024, 05:28:46 PM
This is me hometown of Lawton. Warning: VERY BORING.
https://youtu.be/qkt0yDe9W8o?si=felPIoRDFJw73v95
Thanks for the warning, I almost clicked on that!
Tonight's stinker
King Dinosaur (1955)
A new green planet joins the solar system, & some astronauts are sent to explore it...
First few minutes, stock footage of NASA's biggest bloopers, then they land on the planet using the same spacesuits from Cat-Women On The Moon (!953), which were recycled from Destination Moon (1950) and The Three Stooges, Have Rocket Will Travel (1959)...
After learning the air is safe, the astronauts decide this is a great place for a camping holiday...
Then they go to an island in a lake, where they find blown up stock footage of lizards.....
I just found out Morgan Spurlock- the SUPERSIZE ME guy- died this month.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 26, 2024, 07:12:41 AMI just found out Morgan Spurlock- the SUPERSIZE ME guy- died this month.
He put me off eating MacD burgers before I even had one.
^ Most of that movie was bulls**t. The reason for most of his health problems is he was a drunk. (like yours truly was).
"I don't think anyone would have cared about the movie had he mentioned that many of the health issues he experienced in the movie were likely because of his years of alcoholism. Not saying eating a s**tload of McDonald's for a month wouldn't be unhealthy too but Spurlock led us all to believe his diet was squeaky clean prior to the experiment."
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 26, 2024, 11:33:25 AM^ Most of that movie was bulls**t. The reason for most of his health problems is he was a drunk. (like yours truly was).
"I don't think anyone would have cared about the movie had he mentioned that many of the health issues he experienced in the movie were likely because of his years of alcoholism. Not saying eating a s**tload of McDonald's for a month wouldn't be unhealthy too but Spurlock led us all to believe his diet was squeaky clean prior to the experiment."
Exactly.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 26, 2024, 07:12:41 AMI just found out Morgan Spurlock- the SUPERSIZE ME guy- died this month.
I made a post about his passing in May https://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php?topic=159575.0
You also replied in that thread!
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 28, 2024, 11:06:27 AMI wouldn't eat all that s**t. You couldn't pay me enough.
^ Yeah, well, I can remember something I did 50 years ago, but couldn't tell you what I did last week.
I heard some guy debunked Morgan Spurlock by going to McD's every day & ordering something light off the breakfast menu.....
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 26, 2024, 11:33:25 AM^ Most of that movie was bulls**t. The reason for most of his health problems is he was a drunk. (like yours truly was).
"I don't think anyone would have cared about the movie had he mentioned that many of the health issues he experienced in the movie were likely because of his years of alcoholism. Not saying eating a s**tload of McDonald's for a month wouldn't be unhealthy too but Spurlock led us all to believe his diet was squeaky clean prior to the experiment."
I never understood why anyone paid him the slightest bit of attention.
Eating McDonald's everyday isn't healthy. Right. We all get that.
And in other news, having a professional boxer punch you in the face hurts really bad.
So, I saw most of Suicide Squad 2 in the hospital last weekend, And theirs's one question they never answered...
Why would somebody want to blow up a building, but not what's in it????? :question:
Tubi now has The Mighty Heroes https://tubitv.com/movies/100021766/the-mighty-heroes
If you are of a certain age you will be want to check that out. Weird remembering stuff from 40+ years ago like the mechanical dog things and Tornado man spitting out trees into the new park.
AND CUCKOO AND CUCKOO
Quote from: lester1/2jr on July 03, 2024, 02:42:20 PMTubi now has The Mighty Heroes https://tubitv.com/movies/100021766/the-mighty-heroes
If you are of a certain age you will be want to check that out. Weird remembering stuff from 40+ years ago like the mechanical dog things and Tornado man spitting out trees into the new park.
AND CUCKOO AND CUCKOO
Sucks that TUBI is blocked in South Africa ☹️
Tonight's Stinker
Ganjasaurus Rex 1987
Shot on home video & released by Rhino home video...
A comedy about a group of marijuana farmers discover a strain of seed the size of ostrich eggs...
Meanwhile, a government agent seeks to rid the town of weed....
Lots of stock footage of marijuana farm raids...
About thirty minutes in, a rather pathetic looking kaiju monster shows up & starts stealing the governments busts...
Then a professor shows up to explain the monster, and is recruited by the g-man in hopes of saving face...
good for a few giggles....
Tonight's Stinker
Gremloids (1984) AKA Hyperspace (1984)
A cheap Darth Vader rip-off takes a wrong turn & ends up in a hick town...
Featuring Chris Elliott & Paula Poundstone before they were famous....
The humor is flat, but the movie it's self is never slow....
Tonight's stinker
Conquest (1983)
And talk about a stinker....
A young man is given a magic bow, then goes to the land of cave men, makes friends with a warrior that has no friends, then goes after an evil priestess....
Lots of rock & roll effects put into the dialog, so you can't really understand what they're saying, some scenes are too poorly lit, other scenes filled with so much fake fog that you can't tell what's going on....
Very confusing story, chock full o' that cheesy Italian techno muzak.....
Biden's dropped out of the election....
He'll be finishing his term...
History will judge Joe Biden more kindly than many of his contemporaries have, I think.
Quote from: indianasmith on July 21, 2024, 02:04:03 PMHistory will judge Joe Biden more kindly than many of his contemporaries have, I think.
Would have judged him even more favorably if he'd dropped out earlier. I think he gets a Mike Pence level of respect... he eventually did the right thing, but it shouldn't have been such a struggle.
I think the outcome in November will also affect his legacy.
^ Like Neville Chamberland after he appeased Hitler with the Czezh Republic in 1938.
He called the president of Ukraine "President Putin" who knows what he would have done next. No one has ever won the war against time.
^ Well, at least he didn't ramble about sharks, Hannibal Lecter, and birds getting killed by windmills.
Tonight's Stinker
The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1958)
Through a series of flashbacks, a scientist & some colleagues discuss how they took some relics from an Aztec temple, how a mummy came after them, and how a criminal mastermind is also after the relics...
Just over an hour, & doesn't waste much time moving forward....
Well, the Olympics got controversial very quickly 😳😳
Quote from: Trevor on July 27, 2024, 09:41:24 PMWell, the Olympics got controversial very quickly 😳😳
I did hear that stuff from the opening ceremony had been misinterpreted by people apparantly unfamiliar with the history of the games. I quickly scanned an articule about it but I've no real interest in it.
Tonight's Stinker
The Snow Creature (1954)
A botanist & a photographer go to Napal to look at plants, when the wife of one of their Sherpas gets abducted by a yeti..... Much to the pair's chagrin, the Sherpas go after the yeti, dragging them along.... They don't find the woman, but find the yeti, capture it, and take it back to L.A., where it escapes & the police spend the rest of the movie wondering where it is.....
Painfully slow & plodding.....
Tonight's Stinker
The Cosmic Man (1959)
The military tracks a UFO to the California mountains, where they find a sphere...
Later, the locals complain about a shadowy figure peaking in windows....
Everybody flirts the young widow who owns a local hotel....
The scientists & the military bicker over whether to kill the visitor & blow up his ship or talk to him & let him go.....
Even paced, but pretentious.....
Tonight's Stinker
The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/brainarous/
A pair of scientists follow a radiation signature out into the desert, find a cave, & only one of them returns...
The survivor returns home acting like a jerk... Turns out, he's possessed by an alien that also happens to be a jerk who wants to take over the world....
Tonight's Stinker
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/yuccaflats/
Tor Johnson plays a defected soviet scientist who escapes an assassination attempt, only to wonder out onto a nuclear testing site..... He survives the blast, only to turn into a strangling necrophile...
Of course, most of the film is spent showing him & some other people wondering around in the desert...
At one point, a pair of local policemen try to kill an innocent man for not apparent reason....
No real story (or acting) & horribly edited, all the dialog is dubbed in poorly with a narrator doing most of the talking, kinda like The Creeping Terror, only worse....
Just under an hour, thankfully!
Tonight's Stinker
The Brain Eaters (1958)
A spaceship turns up in a small town, then the locals get taken over by parasites...
I have a headache.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNSjeTTMS_4 brains for dinner, brains for lunch
Tonight's Stinker
Hand of Death (1962)
https://youtu.be/GJaNsMtCc4A?si=YI-A4UjYtqq3zp4O
A scientist working on a transdermal nerve gas is accidentally exposed to the agent, giving him the power to kill with a single touch.... A fellow scientist's attempt to help turns him into a monster...
Creepy opening, followed by goofy dialog, then get formulaic...
Tonight's Stinker
Terror From the Year 5000 (1958)
https://youtu.be/X6jNrJ6cnr8?si=iQkwefM7OM0ebHjJ
A scientist invents a machine that can take artifacts from the future... One of these artifacts is sent to an archeologist, who learns it's from the future, and highly radioactive...
The archeologist decides to visit the scientist, where he finds his assistant/investor has been secretly using the machine to try & bring back a living creature....
Slow paced, at times confusing, but ends up old fashioned sci fi fun....
Tonight's Stinker
Unknown World (1951)
https://youtu.be/sbsEal3Jgbg?si=3MQT88k7RyLKH8q_
A scientist with a pretty dystopic view of the atomic age leads a group of researchers in looking for a way to build a society underground...
They come up with an underground boring vehicle, but can't get the money to build it....
Help comes from the son of a rich newspaper magnate looking for adventure....
The machine works okay, but nobody likes this spoiled rich kid crashing the party, & cabin fever quickly takes over...
Made well before all the other "CENTER OF THE EARTH" movies I've seen, but I gotta say, the first two thirds of this one comes across like one of those safety videos they make you watch for operating heavy equipment with toxic chemicals.....
Quote from: LilCerberus on August 24, 2024, 09:09:25 PMTonight's Stinker
Unknown World (1951)
https://youtu.be/sbsEal3Jgbg?si=3MQT88k7RyLKH8q_
A scientist with a pretty dystopic view of the atomic age leads a group of researchers in looking for a way to build a society underground...
They come up with an underground boring vehicle, but can't get the money to build it....
Help comes from the son of a rich newspaper magnate looking for adventure....
The machine works okay, but nobody likes this spoiled rich kid crashing the party, & cabin fever quickly takes over...
Made well before all the other "CENTER OF THE EARTH" movies I've seen, but I gotta say, the first two thirds of this one comes across like one of those safety videos they make you watch for operating heavy equipment with toxic chemicals.....
You can post wherever you like, but did you realize there was a thread specifically for bad movie reviews? https://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php?topic=159149.0
Yeah, thought about it, but nobody cares...
So I deleted my Facebook again. I don't like. All I did was play Poker.
I wonder if boogers are thermolumniscent?
I as around 275 pounds at the beginning of summer. Now I have dropped down to 248.
Feels good to be relatively skinny again.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 28, 2024, 06:15:40 AMI as around 275 pounds at the beginning of summer. Now I have dropped down to 248.
Feels good to be relatively skinny again.
Good job mate. Keep it up. :thumbup:
Quote from: indianasmith on August 26, 2024, 06:51:38 PMI wonder if boogers are thermolumniscent?
😳🤣😂 I have been informed that mine are.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 28, 2024, 06:15:40 AMI as around 275 pounds at the beginning of summer. Now I have dropped down to 248.
Feels good to be relatively skinny again.
After having colitis in June, I started eating less, & moved town a couple notches on my belt.....
Quote from: indianasmith on August 28, 2024, 06:15:40 AMI as around 275 pounds at the beginning of summer. Now I have dropped down to 248.
Feels good to be relatively skinny again.
👍👍
Today I'm trying to drink water instead of soda.
Not really a sports fan, But I really feel like I should add "Seeing a cosmic baseball game" to my bucket list.....
Coffee wakes one up better than Dr. Pepper or Coca-Cola
Quote from: LilCerberus on September 13, 2024, 04:48:38 PMNot really a sports fan, But I really feel like I should add "Seeing a cosmic baseball game" to my bucket list.....
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Quote from: pacman000 on September 14, 2024, 01:06:36 PMCoffee wakes one up better than Dr. Pepper or Coca-Cola
Maybe, but it still tastes NASTY!!!
Quote from: indianasmith on September 14, 2024, 05:02:21 PMQuote from: pacman000 on September 14, 2024, 01:06:36 PMCoffee wakes one up better than Dr. Pepper or Coca-Cola
Maybe, but it still tastes NASTY!!!
It is an acquired taste. It's better with creamer.
Quote from: pacman000 on September 14, 2024, 06:31:04 PMQuote from: indianasmith on September 14, 2024, 05:02:21 PMQuote from: pacman000 on September 14, 2024, 01:06:36 PMCoffee wakes one up better than Dr. Pepper or Coca-Cola
Maybe, but it still tastes NASTY!!!
It is an acquired taste. It's better with creamer.
I like coffee- but it gives me the squirts. :bluesad:
The world has lost a great host of the late night horror scene...
William Bowman, aka The Bowman Body, host of Shock Theater....
RIP Kris Kristofferson
RIP Dikembe Mutombo
RIP Pete Rose
RIP John Amos
Boy, Pinterest sure is touchy about what it considers "Climate Misinformation"..... :buggedout:
From a friend....
"I have been searching for a poem I read in college about a person finding the road to Heaven, and smugly noting how overgrown it was with grass and weeds. When he looks closer, he sees that each blade of grass is a knife blade or shard of glass, and decides to go down the other path. Googles hasn't helped, and no, it is not the Frost poem about 2 roads diverging. Anyone have an idea of what it is?"
Ice T talking about working with Abel Ferrera
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Quote from: LilCerberus on October 22, 2024, 01:27:37 PMFrom a friend....
"I have been searching for a poem I read in college about a person finding the road to Heaven, and smugly noting how overgrown it was with grass and weeds. When he looks closer, he sees that each blade of grass is a knife blade or shard of glass, and decides to go down the other path. Googles hasn't helped, and no, it is not the Frost poem about 2 roads diverging. Anyone have an idea of what it is?"
think I found it....
The Road To HeavenI went on the road to heaven
And when I got to heaven
It had loads of weeds
And it was really overgrown
And when I looked closer
I saw the grass was glass
And that rhymes with grass
But it's sharper than grass
And I didn't want to cut myself
So I took the other path
And that's the end of the poem.
(Unknown Author)
Quote from: zombie no.one on October 24, 2024, 04:23:23 AMQuote from: LilCerberus on October 22, 2024, 01:27:37 PMFrom a friend....
"I have been searching for a poem I read in college about a person finding the road to Heaven, and smugly noting how overgrown it was with grass and weeds. When he looks closer, he sees that each blade of grass is a knife blade or shard of glass, and decides to go down the other path. Googles hasn't helped, and no, it is not the Frost poem about 2 roads diverging. Anyone have an idea of what it is?"
think I found it....
The Road To Heaven
I went on the road to heaven
And when I got to heaven
It had loads of weeds
And it was really overgrown
And when I looked closer
I saw the grass was glass
And that rhymes with grass
But it's sharper than grass
And I didn't want to cut myself
So I took the other path
And that's the end of the poem.
(Unknown Author)
TNX! :smile: I'll pass it on.
Today feels like the whole country is waiting for an STD test result.
^ Well, we already had Gonorreha Donald...
quote from Zapranoth circa August
QuoteGet used to saying these words for the next four years, possibly eight:
"Madame President."
Or as Trump would say,
I know words, I have the best words, like madame President. I'll compare my IQ with anybody, okay?
welp...
Welp, it's done.
For good or ill (most likely ill), it's done.
Welcome to tomorrow.
Happy Days Are Here Again · Annette Hanshaw
https://youtu.be/rfQ9JGyJFdc?si=2LnEpaeTTe1Nw0Wn
I figure I will either spend the next four years admitting I was wrong, or saying "I told you so!"
From the longest, saddest, most excruciating and unsatisfying "I TOLD YOU SO" in the history of the world, to Being "unburdened by what has been"!!! :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:
I'm convinced more than half the country is populated by total f**king idiots.
Kamala's campaign was doomed because of how they tried to do it.
If Biden had said a year ago "Okay I'm old as f**k I'm not gonna run again" they could have had a conventional primary and maybe Kamala would have won or maybe not.
This is the United States, you can't just appoint someone and say "here, she's as good as the one you guys elected".
Quote from: lester1/2jr on November 05, 2024, 11:49:51 PMquote from Zapranoth circa August
QuoteGet used to saying these words for the next four years, possibly eight:
"Madame President."
Or as Trump would say,
I know words, I have the best words, like madame President. I'll compare my IQ with anybody, okay?
welp...
Let's be real for a minute, I guess.
Lester, or whatever your name is in truth, my name's Seth.
I'm a doctor, I work in the state of Washington. I have a family, including two daughters and a son. I do the usual doctor work day to day. Some of my colleagues in the east of the state take care of women who come over from Idaho because they can't get women's health care where they are -- because the ob/gyns have left their counties, due to inability to practice medicine safely and ethically.
On the issue of my daughters, alone, I have been working my way through anxiety that I can feel in my body, due to the result of this election. On the issue of women's rights, alone -- let's leave all other considerations aside -- I feel nausea at what may be in our country.
I'm a stone-faced, unflappable physician, known even by other doctors for being steady under fire. I don't have much anxiety day to day, and what anxiety I have stays put until my work is done. I'm 20 years at this. I know how to manage my anxiety.
So. Yeah, you get to throw my words back in my face.
I'm a human being. My daughters are human beings too. And the people who voted in Donald Trump don't believe that my daughters are human beings who deserve the same rights to determine their destiny that men have.
Be very, very careful in replying to me, if you choose to, in your understanding of what I have written here. What I have written here is not bad movies frivolity -- it is what I am actually about. it is what I care about most.
Quote from: Zapranoth on November 07, 2024, 01:00:08 AMQuote from: lester1/2jr on November 05, 2024, 11:49:51 PMquote from Zapranoth circa August
QuoteGet used to saying these words for the next four years, possibly eight:
"Madame President."
Or as Trump would say,
I know words, I have the best words, like madame President. I'll compare my IQ with anybody, okay?
welp...
Let's be real for a minute, I guess.
Lester, or whatever your name is in truth, my name's Seth.
I'm a doctor, I work in the state of Washington. I have a family, including two daughters and a son. I do the usual doctor work day to day. Some of my colleagues in the east of the state take care of women who come over from Idaho because they can't get women's health care where they are -- because the ob/gyns have left their counties, due to inability to practice medicine safely and ethically.
On the issue of my daughters, alone, I have been working my way through anxiety that I can feel in my body, due to the result of this election. On the issue of women's rights, alone -- let's leave all other considerations aside -- I feel nausea at what may be in our country.
I'm a stone-faced, unflappable physician, known even by other doctors for being steady under fire. I don't have much anxiety day to day, and what anxiety I have stays put until my work is done. I'm 20 years at this. I know how to manage my anxiety.
So. Yeah, you get to throw my words back in my face.
I'm a human being. My daughters are human beings too. And the people who voted in Donald Trump don't believe that my daughters are human beings who deserve the same rights to determine their destiny that men have.
Be very, very careful in replying to me, if you choose to, in your understanding of what I have written here. What I have written here is not bad movies frivolity -- it is what I am actually about. it is what I care about most.
Thank you for the work you do for the people, Doc Seth 😊😊🙏🐢
QuoteBe very, very careful in replying to me,
what's that supposed to mean?
dude, it's an election. Sometimes the republican wins and sometimes the democrat does.
Anyway...
Politics suck we all agree... Politics aside but I seen that post as well, I'm surprised he's allowed to post stuff like that with the moderators actively viewing it? - regardless of what Democrats and Republican think... wow
Quote from: lester1/2jr on November 07, 2024, 02:21:59 PMQuoteBe very, very careful in replying to me,
what's that supposed to mean?
dude, it's an election. Sometimes the republican wins and sometimes the democrat does.
Anyway...
Omfg.
It means, please have respect that I have feelings, and that to me, this is a lot bigger than it seems to be to you. What the actual f**k did you think I meant, Lester? That I was threatening you? I'm a Washington doctor, not some MAGA gun totin' crank with two huge American flags on the truck I don't own.
it's definitely a symptom of the whole picture, that what I said was taken as meaning some kind of personal threat. My "side" of things is not the side making threats against the welfare of individuals.
Anyway. I'll now disregard this thread, I don't need any of this and I was a fool to try to explain anything.
I'm slightly worried I might be developing an unusual condition that causes me to (a) pour cereal into my coffee cup instead of my bowl, (b) pour boiling water from the kettle into my cereal instead of my coffee cup...
first time this happened was during the lockdowns but I've now done it about half a dozen times. also yesterday I accidentally microwaved my bowl of cereal instead of my coffee which had gone cold (I realised straight away, but still...)
breakfast fail syndrome. :bluesad:
QuoteI'm a Washington doctor, not some MAGA gun totin' crank with two huge American flags on the truck I don't own.
so you can insult whoever you want, but no one can give it back to you or even point out your own previous insults because you're a very serious thinker and "Washington doctor" who must be specially catered too. Yeah I don't think that's how it works
update: I have literally just spilled my bowl of cereal all over my nice carpeted floor.
what kind of obscure curse I have apparently unleashed on myself here?
(not expecting anyone to care, hence posting this stuff in here)
^ Hpw old are you? Hopefully not dementia. bt I've seen your taste in movies-so who knows? (Just kidding) :tongueout:
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 08, 2024, 09:12:17 AM^ Hpw old are you? Hopefully not dementia. bt I've seen your taste in movies-so who knows? (Just kidding) :tongueout:
haha.... yeah :teddyr: not that old (well I'll be 48 next year).
thing is, I'm not making these kind of mistakes generally with anything else... I guess it could be I'm just taking longer to 'wake up' properly hence only breakfast mishaps
^Maybe yer a "cereal" killer! :buggedout:
Quote from: zombie no.one on November 07, 2024, 04:55:21 PMI'm slightly worried I might be developing an unusual condition that causes me to (a) pour cereal into my coffee cup instead of my bowl, (b) pour boiling water from the kettle into my cereal instead of my coffee cup...
first time this happened was during the lockdowns but I've now done it about half a dozen times. also yesterday I accidentally microwaved my bowl of cereal instead of my coffee which had gone cold (I realised straight away, but still...)
breakfast fail syndrome. :bluesad:
Two words: exorcist.
where the heck is Allhallowsday> he still around?
Quote from: VenomX73 on November 08, 2024, 06:58:36 PMwhere the heck is Allhallowsday> he still around?
No, he split over personal conflicts with another user.
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 08, 2024, 02:57:01 PM^Maybe yer a "cereal" killer! :buggedout:
yep. most of my victims are found either snapped, crackled or popped...
Quote from: ER on November 08, 2024, 05:20:55 PMTwo words: exorcist.
I'd suggest you steer clear of the games on the good movies board right now :)
I really need to learn the difference between a fart and a shart 😳🤔
I need to find a hobby that doesn't give me a headache...
So, Christmas and Halloween "nuts" love to extend their favorite holidays. Interesting enough, I never read about people going all crazy for Easter. I wonder why that is.
Quote from: claws on November 11, 2024, 07:19:12 AMSo, Christmas and Halloween "nuts" love to extend their favorite holidays. Interesting enough, I never read about people going all crazy for Easter. I wonder why that is.
Because once you have a five-pound chocolate bunny to consume, life kinda fades out for a while.
These ads for Tablo are getting more annoying than The Super Duper Party Troopers!!!
Goddam, it's dead around here whenever I'm on. :bluesad:
I'm here - for a bit, anyway. I check in every evening; sometimes I post, sometimes I don't.
But I am still here.
Vic Flick, the guitarist for the first three James Bond films, has passed...
Night sweats are no fun in the winter....
said I loved you but check it out I lied
I've been trying my weight gain diet milk eggs oats protein powder it's disgusting how much milk I've been drinking lOL
Something Weird has been adding a lot of stuff to their youtube channel
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 28, 2024, 10:37:24 PMVic Flick, the guitarist for the first three James Bond films, has passed...
Vik Flick... wasn't that a Bond girl...? :teddyr:
I love the Bond theme for that amazing guitar chord it finishes on. there's no way that chord should make sense but it just sounds so 'spy film-esque'. RIP
edit, just listened to the theme... and it didn't finish on that guitar chord. LOL. I know what I'm talking about though.
edit #2: the internet agrees
QuoteThe iconic 'James Bond chord' was first featured in the very first Bond movie, Dr. No, and performed by guitarist Vic Flick.
Its technical name is EmMaj9 – an E minor with a major 7 and a 9th added – and learning how to play the James Bond chord on guitar is a rite of passage for just about every player.
^Flick had some kinda fancy guitar that was good at hitting the low notes...^
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 09, 2024, 02:23:30 PM^Flick had some kinda fancy guitar that was good at hitting the low notes...^
this has given me an amazing idea for a new invention, I'm calling it the 'bass guitar'... top secret right now so don't tell anyone :)
Four more days . . . .
A story came out last night that Luigi Mangione had back surgery & his diddley quit working...,.
That's one more thing I'm gonna need to ask my spine specialist about.....
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 11, 2024, 04:14:38 PMA story came out last night that Luigi Mangione had back surgery & his diddley quit working...,.
That's one more thing I'm gonna need to ask my spine specialist about.....
I hope your back gets better and please don't murder anyone if it doesn't.
Does anybody have any thoughts or any ideas why these drones are swarming over New Jersey?
where are they from why are they here
^ They're scouts. Ever heard of WAR OF THE WORLDS? Sutter's Mill, ya know.
Leaving Saturday morning with the Missus on a 5 day cruise to celebrate our 40th anniversary!
Quote from: indianasmith on December 12, 2024, 10:58:54 PMLeaving Saturday morning with the Missus on a 5 day cruise to celebrate our 40th anniversary!
Wonderful, enjoy your birthday too 😊😊😎🐢🍰🎊
Quote from: indianasmith on December 12, 2024, 10:58:54 PMLeaving Saturday morning with the Missus on a 5 day cruise to celebrate our 40th anniversary!
Happy anniversary!
Quote from: VenomX73 on December 11, 2024, 07:28:31 PMDoes anybody have any thoughts or any ideas why these drones are swarming over New Jersey?
where are they from why are they here
Nobody knows for sure, not even on reddit. Conspiracy nuts are having a field day with this, though.
Quote from: VenomX73 on December 11, 2024, 07:28:31 PMDoes anybody have any thoughts or any ideas why these drones are swarming over New Jersey?
where are they from why are they here
Amazon?
Before all the hoopla, there was this one case in Florida......
My father is extremely depressed this holiday season because my mother doesn't realize it's Christmas. She has gotten so she barely moves or communicates, just sits in a chair and stares at nothing all the time.
I say it every year, but we really need to stop dropping the ball, & try picking up the ball & running with it!!!!
Or raising the bar or something!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 16, 2024, 02:15:00 PMMy father is extremely depressed this holiday season because my mother doesn't realize it's Christmas. She has gotten so she barely moves or communicates, just sits in a chair and stares at nothing all the time.
Sometimes old familiar smells can bring on a positive response in people suffering from conditions similar to what it sounds like your mother is going through. I don't know if you've attempted to reach her with scents that might hold deep meaning to her but it's said the smell/memory link is one of the deepest in us all, and perhaps the last to depart. Anecdotally I've heard of these efforts bringing on what seems to be happiness in those who otherwise stir for little else.
I'm sorry for your family, and I hope there are better days to come for your mom.
Quote from: ER on January 01, 2025, 10:30:16 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on December 16, 2024, 02:15:00 PMMy father is extremely depressed this holiday season because my mother doesn't realize it's Christmas. She has gotten so she barely moves or communicates, just sits in a chair and stares at nothing all the time.
Sometimes old familiar smells can bring on a positive response in people suffering from conditions similar to what it sounds like your mother is going through. I don't know if you've attempted to reach her with scents that might hold deep meaning to her but it's said the smell/memory link is one of the deepest in us all, and perhaps the last to depart. Anecdotally I've heard of these efforts bringing on what seems to be happiness in those who otherwise stir for little else.
I'm sorry for your family, and I hope there are better days to come for your mom.
Thanks, but she is in the final stages of Alzheimers. The moments of clarity she has are very modest, i.e. when she can put a couple of words together. My dad has finally given in and hired caretakers to come in for 6 hours a day, at least. The disease is horrible because of how SLOW it is.
We wish you and your family the best, Rev
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 01, 2025, 12:03:32 PMQuote from: ER on January 01, 2025, 10:30:16 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on December 16, 2024, 02:15:00 PMMy father is extremely depressed this holiday season because my mother doesn't realize it's Christmas. She has gotten so she barely moves or communicates, just sits in a chair and stares at nothing all the time.
Sometimes old familiar smells can bring on a positive response in people suffering from conditions similar to what it sounds like your mother is going through. I don't know if you've attempted to reach her with scents that might hold deep meaning to her but it's said the smell/memory link is one of the deepest in us all, and perhaps the last to depart. Anecdotally I've heard of these efforts bringing on what seems to be happiness in those who otherwise stir for little else.
I'm sorry for your family, and I hope there are better days to come for your mom.
Thanks, but she is in the final stages of Alzheimers. The moments of clarity she has are very modest, i.e. when she can put a couple of words together. My dad has finally given in and hired caretakers to come in for 6 hours a day, at least. The disease is horrible because of how SLOW it is.
Sending you and your folks my love Rev. 😘😘🙏
Alzheimers is awful: Dad had it and was spared a lot of the agony as he passed away six months after being diagnosed.
Peculiar start to the new year...
Terrorist attack on Bourbon Street, a Tesla explodes in front of Trump Tower in las Vegas, and one world trade center, the empire state building, the Washington monument and the capital building were all struck by lightning.....
Today I started work on my newest novel, another alternative history scenario entitled THE RETURN OF JULIUS CAESAR.
Quote from: indianasmith on January 01, 2025, 11:31:17 PMToday I started work on my newest novel, another alternative history scenario entitled THE RETURN OF JULIUS CAESAR.
He comes back as a zombie seeking revenge, I hope.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 02, 2025, 12:43:00 AMQuote from: indianasmith on January 01, 2025, 11:31:17 PMToday I started work on my newest novel, another alternative history scenario entitled THE RETURN OF JULIUS CAESAR.
He comes back as a zombie seeking revenge, I hope.
😳😀😂😅🧟�♂️
About 70% of the lowest rated movies I own on physical media are not available for streaming where I live. Proves how bad my collection is.
Quote from: claws on January 02, 2025, 01:41:04 PMAbout 70% of the lowest rated movies I own on physical media are not available for streaming where I live. Proves how bad my collection is.
Trolling YouTube, I keep coming across some compilation of "Movies No one's Never Seen" or "Heard Of"....
But I've already seen them all.....
I should shave...
Not that I really want to at this time of year, but I've lost my comb....
Warming up around here...
Should probably shave....
The lip hair & the nose hair have been fighting over turf...
Quote from: LilCerberus on January 29, 2025, 08:41:57 PMWarming up around here...
Should probably shave....
The lip hair & the nose hair have been fighting over turf...
You should wax your nose hairs. Better effect, longer lasting, and plus then you can say you've survived a Klingon ritual.
For some reason lately, I've been banging my knee on my nightstand.....
Happie Groundhog Day
Ordered some small electronic items before tariffs go into effect. Dunno how long it will be before prices go up but if you want something that's not 100% manufactured in the US now's the time to save some money.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 03, 2025, 09:54:49 AMOrdered some small electronic items before tariffs go into effect. Dunno how long it will be before prices go up but if you want something that's not 100% manufactured in the US now's the time to save some money.
Don't recall having that problem the last time Trump was in office....
I've been hit harder by higher taxes & minimum wage hikes over the past couple years....
That's because last time he didn't slap 25% tariffs on two of our major trading partners and allies!
The economic slap in the face is coming for all America from this idiot's 19th century economic ideas.
Quote from: indianasmith on February 03, 2025, 06:48:20 PMThat's because last time he didn't slap 25% tariffs on two of our major trading partners and allies!
The economic slap in the face is coming for all America from this idiot's 19th century economic ideas.
Yeah, & so far Mexico's managed to get out of it by sending military aid to the border... That's what it's all about...
I wasn't trying to start a fight... I was literally saying if there's something you want to buy that you've been putting off, now's a good time to do it. Maybe the tariffs won't go into effect, but there's a good chance you'll get things much cheaper than you can in a few weeks. You could believe the tariffs are a good idea and that would still be true.
Quote from: ER on January 30, 2025, 07:31:58 AMQuote from: LilCerberus on January 29, 2025, 08:41:57 PMWarming up around here...
Should probably shave....
The lip hair & the nose hair have been fighting over turf...
You should wax your nose hairs. Better effect, longer lasting, and plus then you can say you've survived a Klingon ritual.
😳😃😀😅😄🐢
Quote from: indianasmith on February 03, 2025, 06:48:20 PMThat's because last time he didn't slap 25% tariffs on two of our major trading partners and allies!
The economic slap in the face is coming for all America from this idiot's 19th century economic ideas.
How about facts instead of your made up history ...
Canada has maintained high tariffs on certain U.S. goods:
Dairy Products:
Milk: 270%
Cheese: 245%
Butter: 298%
Meat and Poultry:
Chicken: 238%
Sausages: 69.9%
Bovine/Meat: 26.5%
Agricultural Products:
Barley seed: 57.8%
Industrial Goods:
Cars: 25%
HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning): 45%
Vacuums: 35%
Cable boxes: 35%
TVs: 45%
Steel: 25%
Aluminum: 45%
Copper: 48%
Mexico has imposed tariffs on a variety of U.S. products:
Agricultural Products:
Pork: Up to 20%
Cheese: Up to 25%
Potatoes: Up to 20%
Beverages and Spirits:
Whiskey: Up to 25%
Industrial Goods:
Steel: 25%
Aluminum: 10%
Textiles and apparel: Various rates, some up to 50%
Electronics, machinery, and pharmaceuticals: Tariffs have been applied, but rates vary.
Other Products:
Footwear, wood, plastics, chemicals, paper, ceramics, glass, electrical materials, transportation materials, musical instruments, and furniture have all faced tariffs at different times, with rates from 5% to 50%.
Glad to have you back Cheeze, but please, let's not. Toxic political discussions have contributed to the decline of this forum, causing long-time contributors to leave for good. Sorry I brought it up, I really should have foreseen this. :bluesad:
"Person being strangled to death, but they reach over and blindly grab a pair of scissors/ dense object" has definitely run its course in film.
description of the movie 5ive Girls (2006) on google
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjwuFDcXEAApfT3?format=png&name=small)
unfeasibly hot. It's simply not achievable at this time how hot they are.
Bought some "Pizzeria style" pizza sauce, won't do that again. Check it out if you are 7 years old and/or for some reason like sugar in your tomato sauce.
RIP David Johansen aka Buster Poindexter
Quote from: lester1/2jr on February 14, 2025, 11:28:02 AMdescription of the movie 5ive Girls (2006) on google
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjwuFDcXEAApfT3?format=png&name=small)
unfeasibly hot. It's simply not achievable at this time how hot they are.
Have you heard of Buster Gonad?
Quote from: lester1/2jr on February 16, 2025, 09:28:25 PMBought some "Pizzeria style" pizza sauce, won't do that again. Check it out if you are 7 years old and/or for some reason like sugar in your tomato sauce.
😳😳😝
Happie culturally appropriated drinking holiday...
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0752880/reviews/?ref_=up_ururv_sa good collection of film noir reviews from this random guys account.
I keep coming across youtube reviews of "Forgotten Movies", or "Movies No One's Ever Heard Of", and in all but one or two cases, I've already seen 'em all....
Do any twitter users know how to get a verification code???
What is a code generator app???
Save yourself, cerb. Stay off the Nazi's platform.
What a night! We had 80 mmph winds that knocked out powerlines and a tree in front of my neighbors house. No power until about half an hour ago! And it got down to the 20's last night! Everything's up and running now! Whew!
^ hope yer okay.... :thumbup:
a few years ago a massive tree was blown over in the night, right across my front doorway (the only way to get out my house) I was pretty much trapped and had to wade through the branches and chop bits away to get out
Quote from: Dr. Whom on March 02, 2025, 03:56:54 AMHave you heard of Buster Gonad?
hah... that must be the first place I encountered the word 'unfeasibly'... and the phrase 'double entendres' :teddyr:
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 31, 2025, 01:25:29 PMWhat a night! We had 80 mmph winds that knocked out powerlines and a tree in front of my neighbors house. No power until about half an hour ago! And it got down to the 20's last night! Everything's up and running now! Whew!
Glad to hear you're OK 🙏🙂🐢
^ The top of the tree was in my driveway.
(https://i.imgur.com/CVeump2.jpeg) (http://"https://lunapic.com")
We had similar wind. I briefly thought a tornado was coming through, lol. But the only damage I had was the endpiece to my rain spout came off.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 31, 2025, 06:47:04 PM^ The top of the tree was in my driveway.
(https://i.imgur.com/CVeump2.jpeg) (http://"http://"https://lunapic.com"")
Yikes 😳
^ We got a WORSE storm coming tommorrow. I'll likely go to my sisters, as she isn't surrounded by big trees, like I am!
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 01, 2025, 03:06:14 PM^ We got a WORSE storm coming tommorrow. I'll likely go to my sisters, as she isn't surrounded by big trees, like I am!
Be safe. 🙏
I"M KRACKED!!! :hot: :hot: :hot:
I'd give you karma, but that function no longer exists.
Various little computerized safety doo-dads in my car are falling out of whack, preventing me from pressing the shift selector, thus leaving me stuck in park.....
I can't help thinking that would make an amusing plot device for a horror movie.....
What are people going to do with themselves all day five years from now, when A.I. takes away all the jobs except for the people that service the robots that repair other robots?
^ The same thing I did after retiring and on SSI. Vegatate. Except they won't be old. Young and broke. Crime will hit an all time high. And the Terminators will come and put us all out of our misery. Or the powers that be will just have us all drugged into a stupor and strapped into chairs and placate us with VR headsets, where we watch porn and masturbate ourselves to death.
let's assume everything becomes automated. What non automated things will people pay for?