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Post by Deeky on Jan 25, 2019 9:39:14 GMT -5
I'm honestly surprised how little my coworkers (who I use as proxy for the general public) know about current events.
For example, one recently asked "Who is Elizabeth Warren?"
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Post by Choconado on Jan 25, 2019 10:35:34 GMT -5
After starring in the remake of THE WICKER MAN, you'd think he would have learned his lesson. Nothing, nothing can ever muscle aside the original DIE, MONSTER, DIE! Will Wheaton would have a word. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 25, 2019 15:10:58 GMT -5
I'm honestly surprised how little my coworkers (who I use as proxy for the general public) know about current events. For example, one recently asked "Who is Elizabeth Warren?" Did I ever tell youse guys the story of the survey instrument a co-worker of mine at the Institute For Social Research designed? She wanted to ask people about their knowledge of World War Two. This was in the late 1980s, when the vast majority of people who fought in that war were still active in the workforce. The study was conducted by random-digit dialing so they got a very random sample of active phone numbers. She said "almost" everyone knew who Hitler was, but some of them thought WW2 ended in the late 1960s, many guessed that Mussolini was an American senator if they even recognized the name at all, they thought America was one of the Axis countries, most didn't know who the Allies were, and one even said that Anne Frank was a little blind and deaf girl who overcame her problems. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 25, 2019 21:42:43 GMT -5
After starring in the remake of THE WICKER MAN, you'd think he would have learned his lesson. Nothing, nothing can ever muscle aside the original DIE, MONSTER, DIE! Will Wheaton would have a word. What do you mean, he'd have a word? |
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Post by Mayzshon on Jan 26, 2019 8:26:07 GMT -5
Will Wheaton would have a word. What do you mean, he'd have a word?  |
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Post by Choconado on Jan 26, 2019 10:29:42 GMT -5
Yes. The Curse is a relatively accurate "American Gothic" adaptation of Colour Out Of Space. Leagues closer in tone and story than Die Monster Die! Mayz knew what I was talking about.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 27, 2019 15:14:54 GMT -5
Wil Wheaton is no Nick Adams.
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Post by Deeky on Jan 27, 2019 16:54:46 GMT -5
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jan 27, 2019 23:29:08 GMT -5
Posted by a self-described "...Canadian conservative who loves my country, my Jeep Wrangler, & the Oilers. Oh and wine" Very well then. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 1, 2019 0:00:17 GMT -5
Wil Wheaton is no Nick Adams. True, but The Curse is a whole buncha fun. As soon as I saw that opener with "that Duke boy" John Schneider with the face boils being led away by police while shouting about the water, I knew I'd seen it. My memory is shit though, so I sat down to it again last night. Worth it just to watch Wil get slapped around the entire movie by Claude Akins.
And there's The Curse 2, which bears little resemblance to the original except for more tainted water, and focuses on snakes. Growing off of a guy's arm if I recall. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 10, 2019 16:05:29 GMT -5
I just turned to my phone to add some new titles to GR and saw that the home screen said it is both 4 and 5 p.m.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 11, 2019 1:23:40 GMT -5
Do the Time Warp!
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Mar 11, 2019 4:42:30 GMT -5
Again!
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 11, 2019 19:02:49 GMT -5
For once I have documentary proof of this phenomenon:
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Mar 11, 2019 20:59:57 GMT -5
My clocks didn't change. 😜
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Mar 12, 2019 5:08:07 GMT -5
In protest, perchance? Perhaps you need the services of a clockbreaker. |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Mar 12, 2019 7:30:36 GMT -5
In protest, perchance? Perhaps you need the services of a clockbreaker. Nope. No DST in sunny AZ outside of Diné (Navajo) country --another instance of the Feds fucking over Native Americans, imho. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Mar 13, 2019 5:02:31 GMT -5
In protest, perchance? Perhaps you need the services of a clockbreaker. Nope. No DST in sunny AZ outside of Diné (Navajo) country --another instance of the Feds fucking over Native Americans, imho. See, I'd put that in the Things What I Learned thread, but, well, we just covered it here.
I've never given much thought to the political implications of the whole thing, although I know there are some. (All of life has them, after all.) To me, it's a small tax in the spring and a small gift in autumn.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Mar 13, 2019 9:14:51 GMT -5
Nope. No DST in sunny AZ outside of Diné (Navajo) country --another instance of the Feds fucking over Native Americans, imho. See, I'd put that in the Things What I Learned thread, but, well, we just covered it here.
I've never given much thought to the political implications of the whole thing, although I know there are some. (All of life has them, after all.) To me, it's a small tax in the spring and a small gift in autumn.
When your summer temps are 100+ for weeks at a time, you don't add 10pm sunsets to the mix. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 13, 2019 12:46:51 GMT -5
And on Michigan roads at the end of winter, you don't want people driving half-asleep on top of the potholes, ice and slush. Today I had a family offer to come in for an office meeting because they knew I didn't have 4WD and their driveway was not navigable without it. The husband was fast asleep thru most of the meeting.
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