Things you should know by now, but only just discovered

Keithustus wrote:

Getting pretty P&C in here. Can we wrap this one up, please, and find some new discussion?

For example....

I just learned about Apple Pay a couple days ago. It seems to work well so far. I guess I could actually go without a wallet nowadays other than needing to put my driver’s license into my phone case. Anyone going walletless?

Samsung phones can pay on regular credit card machines, which has me very close to going walletless... Still need somewhere to keep my id and Costco card though and I don't like the card carrying phone cases.

It's always a good idea to keep cash/cards and ID seperate from your phone, for the simple reason that phones can run out of power, get lost or damaged, and so forth. It's hard to run a credit card out of power, or have your cash neutralized after it gets wet. Always nice to have a backup.

This Ryan Reynolds guy doesn’t just bear a striking resemblance to one of the actors from a twenty-year-old sitcom that I vaguely remember: he’s the same guy.

Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place?

(Also starred Nathan Fillion)

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place?

(Also starred Nathan Fillion)

I knew from that show that he was destined for great things. I never guessed those things would include Pikachu, however.

Yeah, that’s the one. I don’t really keep up with pop culture and had heard the name but I don’t think I’d ever seen his face associated with it. Saw a couple minutes of Deadpool on TV the other day and thought “he sure looks like what’s his name.”

FeralMonkey wrote:

Yeah, that’s the one. I don’t really keep up with pop culture and had heard the name but I don’t think I’d ever seen his face associated with it. Saw a couple minutes of Deadpool on TV the other day and thought “he sure looks like what’s his name.”

Now go through half the movies from the last 10-15 years and see how many MCU or other comic characters are in it.
Example: He's just not that into you from 2009. It has Rocket, Black Widow, and Vicki at least.

That assumes I’ve seen any of those movies

FeralMonkey wrote:

That assumes I’ve seen any of those movies :D

FeralMonkey wrote:

I don’t really keep up with pop culture

You’re not lying.

Chumpy_McChump wrote:
FeralMonkey wrote:

That assumes I’ve seen any of those movies / I don’t really keep up with pop culture

You’re not lying.

Eh, keeping up with pop culture is for Chumps. =)

FeralMonkey wrote:

Saw a couple minutes of Deadpool on TV the other day

Wow, Deadpool on TV -- that must have been one short movie, after the censorship edits. Kind of like:

Hadn't seen that clip. Thanks.

I watched Reservoir Dogs on commercial TV. I don’t understand how it made it to air. The edits made it nearly unwatchable. They had to know long before they finished it wasn’t going to work.

My S8+ is too big for me to use one handed. I just found out there's an option to use "One-handed mode" which shrinks the screen so everything is reachable while I hold the phone in one hand.
Mind. Blown.

Seems like a required feature for phones that large.

The natives in the area likely tried to help the Donner party, but the settlers shot at them instead.

Until now the Native American perspective has been left out of the telling of the Donner tragedy, not because the wel mel ti did not remember the pioneers, but because they were never asked, or perhaps were not ready to share. Their oral tradition recalls the starving strangers who camped in an area that was unsuitable for that time of year. Taking pity on the pioneers, the northern Washoe attempted to feed them, leaving rabbit meat and wild potatoes near the camps. Another account states that they tried to bring the Donner Party a deer carcass, but were shot at as they approached. Later, some wel mel ti observed the migrants eating human remains. Fearing for their lives, the area's native inhabitants continued to watch the strangers but avoided further contact. These stories, and the archaeological evidence that appears to support them, certainly complicated my interpretation of the Donner Party event. The migrants at Alder Creek were not surviving in the mountains alone—the northern Washoe were there, and they had tried to help.

This does not surprise me.

Gremlin wrote:

The natives in the area likely tried to help the Donner party, but the settlers shot at them instead.

This is a perfect analogy of how my company(played by the Donners) develops products and refuses to ask for help from the cellular carriers(the Native Americans) that offer free labs and engineer resources to work with to develop m2m products that communicate over cellular.....

Rainsmercy wrote:
Gremlin wrote:

The natives in the area likely tried to help the Donner party, but the settlers shot at them instead.

This is a perfect analogy of how my company(played by the Donners) develops products and refuses to ask for help from the cellular carriers(the Native Americans) that offer free labs and engineer resources to work with to develop m2m products that communicate over cellular.....

I mean, they had the pass named after them; so, they must have been doing something right. Your company just has to wait for that one, truly defining moment!

Even today, Agent Orange is a household name!

Robear wrote:

Even today, Agent Orange is a household name!

BAM! AND THE FOLIAGE IS GONE!

Farts are both amusing and utilitarian. Did I spell that right. sh*t did I use that right?

MaxShrek wrote:

Farts are both amusing and utilitarian. Did I spell that right. sh*t did I use that right?

They do say the speller's the feller.

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Gremlin wrote:

The natives in the area likely tried to help the Donner party, but the settlers shot at them instead.

Until now the Native American perspective has been left out of the telling of the Donner tragedy, not because the wel mel ti did not remember the pioneers, but because they were never asked, or perhaps were not ready to share. Their oral tradition recalls the starving strangers who camped in an area that was unsuitable for that time of year. Taking pity on the pioneers, the northern Washoe attempted to feed them, leaving rabbit meat and wild potatoes near the camps. Another account states that they tried to bring the Donner Party a deer carcass, but were shot at as they approached. Later, some wel mel ti observed the migrants eating human remains. Fearing for their lives, the area's native inhabitants continued to watch the strangers but avoided further contact. These stories, and the archaeological evidence that appears to support them, certainly complicated my interpretation of the Donner Party event. The migrants at Alder Creek were not surviving in the mountains alone—the northern Washoe were there, and they had tried to help.

Until I read this, and subsequently looked it up, I always thought the Donner party was something that happend in more modern times. Was there some other group of individuals that made the news because they died in the Sierra Nevada's in more recent history?

If you're talking groups that resorted to cannibalism you might be thinking of the survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which crashed in the Andes in 1972 which was the basis for the 1993 movie Alive.

No, definitely knew about the Alive crash. Read the book when I was in grade school. I think I had conflated when I first heard of something and when it actually occurred. What probably happened, is I first heard of it watching some tv show in the nineties or early oughts, never looked it up and just assumed it was a recent event, hence my confusion.

The Shining makes reference to the Donner party - the Overlook Hotel, where it's set, is in the vicinity, and is affected by the psychic scars. It's possible your brain has kept a connection to the Donner party and the 80s, when the book & film take place.

Janthe_X wrote:

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Oh. My. Goodness.

Clumber wrote:
Gremlin wrote:

The natives in the area likely tried to help the Donner party, but the settlers shot at them instead.

Until now the Native American perspective has been left out of the telling of the Donner tragedy, not because the wel mel ti did not remember the pioneers, but because they were never asked, or perhaps were not ready to share. Their oral tradition recalls the starving strangers who camped in an area that was unsuitable for that time of year. Taking pity on the pioneers, the northern Washoe attempted to feed them, leaving rabbit meat and wild potatoes near the camps. Another account states that they tried to bring the Donner Party a deer carcass, but were shot at as they approached. Later, some wel mel ti observed the migrants eating human remains. Fearing for their lives, the area's native inhabitants continued to watch the strangers but avoided further contact. These stories, and the archaeological evidence that appears to support them, certainly complicated my interpretation of the Donner Party event. The migrants at Alder Creek were not surviving in the mountains alone—the northern Washoe were there, and they had tried to help.

Until I read this, and subsequently looked it up, I always thought the Donner party was something that happend in more modern times. Was there some other group of individuals that made the news because they died in the Sierra Nevada's in more recent history?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...

charlemagne wrote:
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Oh. My. Goodness.

OH. My. goodness.

FTFY