Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

Oh I know about the socket kits and cords. Still might just go to goodwill to take apart a old lamp.

People think Cthulhu is so terrifying, but if you read the story you learn all you have to do is run into him with a steam ship.

I am absolutely team "Disney owning everything in entertainment is Not Good" but after D23 today there is literally no question that I will be signing up for Disney+.

I mean, I already have Hulu and ESPN+, shouldn't I just get grandfathered in anyway?

EDIT: Ah, it's $12, a price that screams "this is beneath market value per-person, but we know we've got all of you by the balls and 33% of the earth's population will be using this service so we'll still make money."

Prederick wrote:

I am absolutely team "Disney owning everything in entertainment is Not Good" but after D23 today there is literally no question that I will be signing up for Disney+.

I mean, I already have Hulu and ESPN+, shouldn't I just get grandfathered in anyway?

EDIT: Ah, it's $12, a price that screams "this is beneath market value per-person, but we know we've got all of you by the balls and 33% of the earth's population will be using this service so we'll still make money."

Standalone is only $70 if you pay for the whole year or $6.99 per month. That leaves a LOT of room for incremental price increases too as time goes on.

Are the kids still using the word "yeet"? It's like I heard about it for a couple days, then, yeet, it was gone.

Woke up this morning to the sound of a gas line exploding and taking out a coffee place and several adjacent buildings, a few miles away. (No one reported hurt; several rescued from a trapped elevator.) Rattled the house and the windows. I was instantly up and out of bed as the echoes faded.

Talk about a non-sequitur start to the day....

You only think it's a gas line explosion. People who know better know it was an alien agent using an explosive weapon while the MiB were trying to apprehend her.

Tscott wrote:

Are the kids still using the word "yeet"? It's like I heard about it for a couple days, then, yeet, it was gone.

My 8yo is constantly spouting "yeet", but he's also still dabbing (a lot) so he may not be optimally diagnostic. Whatever youtube video he happens to watch is current culture to him.

qaraq wrote:
Tscott wrote:

Are the kids still using the word "yeet"? It's like I heard about it for a couple days, then, yeet, it was gone.

My 8yo is constantly spouting "yeet", but he's also still dabbing (a lot) so he may not be optimally diagnostic. Whatever youtube video he happens to watch is current culture to him.

Since posting that late night thought I've searched the word yeet on twitter and it appears to be used over 1500 times per hour. So, apparently it's still a thing- just not in the circles I hang around with.

LarryC wrote:

You only think it's a gas line explosion. People who know better know it was an alien agent using an explosive weapon while the MiB were trying to apprehend her.

I would have woke up and thought that it was an alt-right militia group trying to start a new civil war. Because I listened to this podcast called It Can Happen Here and I’ve not been the same since.

RawkGWJ wrote:
LarryC wrote:

You only think it's a gas line explosion. People who know better know it was an alien agent using an explosive weapon while the MiB were trying to apprehend her.

I would have woke up and thought that it was an alt-right militia group trying to start a new civil war. Because I listened to this podcast called It Can Happen Here and I’ve not been the same since.

Same. We should start a support group.

Yeah, Robert Evans is great, but definitely not "happy" listening.

EDIT: What I will say that is a surprise though, is that our current political moment has me all the way in on mindless, escapist television.

I would've never deigned to watch "Friends" prior to 2016. Since then? I'm on, like, my fourth watch-through. Not because it's good, but because, for me, it's televised white noise. A largely inoffensive thing that shuts off all the screaming anxiety in my brain for a few minutes of hackneyed jokes until I nod off.

Oh, and I think also because "Friends" is probably the single most representative cultural product of the last period in American history where I felt unalloyed optimism about the future.

Sometimes, I'm in the mood for more nuanced, intelligent, well-written television, even television that has something to say about the world we live in.

And sometimes I want to watch a show that's not swinging for the fences, but basically aiming for a bloop single and nothing more ambitious than that.

Dude! You don’t have to shame watch Friends. The writing is excellent, the humor just corny enough, and like every great sitcom it leaves you with good feels. I’ve seen every episode at least once.

Yeah my daughter asked to watch friends on Netflix my wife and I were worried it might be a bit to adult for her so we started watching with her incase questions came up.

I was surprised that by season 2 I had bought back into it enough to be laughing out loud at some parts, the characters become cartoons of themselves in later seasons but it's still pretty watchable today.

As for being too adult for my 10 year old there is alot of sexual jokes but in general it's still fairly tame and she loves it.

Yeah. I can’t remember them doing anything worse than weiner and booby jokes. And 10 year olds these days are way more sophisticated than I was at that age.

There is alot of hinted at sex between the characters and jokes that are a little more detailed about oral, orgasms, and sexual positions.

I have found the sex-ed chariculum lacking in Ontario while my daughter has been in school so, it was an interesting conversation starter to be sure. We tried to answer all of my daughter's questions but once or twice my wife and I had to look at each other and just answer it's an adult joke about sex you'll learn more when you are a bit older.

The shows pretty ok though, it was pretty forward thinking in terms of gay rights on the 90's but now days it's a little dated. Chandler and his relationship with his father and some of the jokes may be a bit problematic under close scrutiny these days.

Nimcosi wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:
LarryC wrote:

You only think it's a gas line explosion. People who know better know it was an alien agent using an explosive weapon while the MiB were trying to apprehend her.

I would have woke up and thought that it was an alt-right militia group trying to start a new civil war. Because I listened to this podcast called It Can Happen Here and I’ve not been the same since.

Same. We should start a support group.

same same. Robert Evans is compelling and deeply frightening. It Could Happen here, Behind the Bastards, and The War of Everyone are all great

Spotted a new eggcorn today: "white color criminal."

Just had my first CAT scan. Definitely better than an MRI.

Rocketman was a good movie. But I was confused when I found out some people complained about the timeline or realism.

I mean it clearly tried to capture the ups and downs. I think it achieved that through the magic of movies and while it may have not gone fully into the dark parts I don't think they ignored them either. Also sure the songs may have not been timeline appropriate but they all felt thematically appropriate to capture those emotions.

Dr.Incurable wrote:

Just had my first CAT scan. Definitely better than an MRI.

If I never have to have another MRI I will be super happy. I am fine until they tell me not to move.

MRI fistbump? Oh right DON'T MOVE.

Bought a new flashlight. Used it a few times and now lost it. Gone through all the places I used it. Not near the human light I put up. Not near the lamp I replaced. Not near the shelves I covered in padding. Not in my man purse. Not hanging on the spot I had for it. Not in my tool box. Not with my crappy flashlight that was being replaced. Not with the solar powered emergency flashlight. Not in the junk drawer. Not on my desk.

Man I'm going to order a new one and I bet it will turn up the same day the new one comes in.

Why is every streamer the loudest eater on the planet?

iaintgotnopants wrote:

Why is every streamer the loudest eater on the planet?

ASMR: Am Sucking My Rations

Oh my lord I went to highschool with my nurse. In the hospital rn, for those unaware.

Dr.Incurable wrote:

Oh my lord I went to highschool with my nurse. In the hospital rn, for those unaware.

HELLOOOOOOO NURSE!!

It was more awkward than anything. I didn’t know them well because they were a year behind me and didn’t know of my health issues.

The thing about living near NYC is that my idea of "far" is significantly different to a NYC person's. I was talking with some people last night that I met a girl who lives 1:15 away, which I consider well within the range of "reasonable driving distance". Moreover, since our work schedules don't sync up perfectly, we can only really see each other once or twice a week anyway, but when we do we'll spend pretty much an entire day together, so to me, the drive is completely worth it.

My NYC friends all think this qualifies as a doomed "long distance relationship," which I regard as insane because to me a LDR would be with someone who lives in, like... Chicago. Or even Boston. But to them, anything more than 30 minutes is just too much, which I literally cannot wrap my head around.

Now I know, ultimately, this is up to what works for each couple and that there are people out there making NY-LA relationships work (or even further), but I'm curious what other people think now. Is a 1:15-1:30 drive "too far" or "long distance"?

Nah, that's just people getting used to an environment that you're not used to.

Not specific to the relationship thing, but people who're born on the islands here, or who have spent a long time on them, think that driving half an hour to forty-five minutes for something is insanely inconvenient and often refuse to even think of doing it.

As someone who grew up in the suburban part of the San Francisco Bay Area this idea is absurd to me. I drove half an hour to buy some electronics at Fry's, I drove an hour and a half to see friends. That's normal. That's fine. But living in a small, densely populated place long enough and your idea of what's "close" gets really skewed.

Yeah, that was what I kept on saying. They're all used to the entire planet being four subway stops away, tops, whereas going to hang out at the crappy local mall most weekends was a 35-minute drive for me as a kid.

I would also say traffic density ia a factor too. Most important places for me are 30 min away in the bad traffic. So an hour here in normal traffic is not bad or that far away, it would just be a ton of red lights.