My parents are watching "Virgin River" (also mentioned in that link) and they keep telling me it's like a Hallmark movie. A direct quote from my mom from a few minutes ago while I was talking to them on the phone, "It's not that good, and I wouldn't recommend it, but I think I like the characters so I keep watching."
If the Suits people ever want to move on to Burn Notice, let me know. I might be down for a re-watch of that USA show.
Why? "Most popular" is rarely equivalent to "highest quality". Never has been.
I'm not commenting on the quality at all, I'm definitely not doing a "why are people watching this awful show?" thing, it's more confusion that of all the shows out there, Suits?
Like, The Office, sure. Friends, fine. One of the sixty billion CSI franchises, okay.
But Suits? It's just so random, we're not even talking about a Network TV show, we're talking about a cable TV drama whose best Neilsen rating was a 4.28.
Community did better in its first two seasons, retains an insanely dedicated fanbase, and is nowhere near these streaming numbers.
A cultural juggernaut this was not. And yet!
All insanity is temporary.
Jonman wrote:Why? "Most popular" is rarely equivalent to "highest quality". Never has been.
I'm not commenting on the quality at all, I'm definitely not doing a "why are people watching this awful show?" thing, it's more confusion that of all the shows out there, Suits?
Like, The Office, sure. Friends, fine. One of the sixty billion CSI franchises, okay.
But Suits? It's just so random, we're not even talking about a Network TV show, we're talking about a cable TV drama whose best Neilsen rating was a 4.28.
Community did better in its first two seasons, retains an insanely dedicated fanbase, and is nowhere near these streaming numbers.
A cultural juggernaut this was not. And yet!
I think a lot of people are streaming it as ambient background noise.
I saw a Fage commercial that used the same music as Barney's movie in the film festival episode of The Simpsons. It was disorienting. I legitimately was expecting this yogurt commercial to end with "don't cry for me, I'm already dead."
All insanity is temporary.
Wait... what? Hmmm I have to call my doctor tomorrow..
I considered, on a whim, going to NY Comic-Con this weekend, until I saw that tickets were $80.
Like, I don't give a damn about any of the panels or whatever, I mostly just wanna go peruse artist alley, and as much as I'd really like to support those people, $80 just to get in for that is steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
Also, I think I've outgrown slasher flicks, because I watched Scream 6 tonight and was mostly bored and distracted the whole time.
and y'know what, I'll keep it a buck - The gore SFX were terrible. None of the stab wounds looked even half-decent and all the blood was completely unbelievable. I expected better from a modern legacy horror franchise!
(Then again, from the outset, the Scream franchise has been a meta-commentary on the Slasher genre, so maybe I missed something.)
We have a cheap but good quality chain of supermarkets called Aldi in the UK (their secret has been good European suppliers. Not sure how that works now.) They have everything other supermarkets have but it’s all own brand with similar logos but different names. It occurred to me, whilst looking at the butters and margarines, that the store is basically an in game supermarket but in real life.
We have a cheap but good quality chain of supermarkets called Aldi in the UK
They are in the US now, too! So are Lidl. Very happy to have one store of each within easy driving distance of my house in NJ.
Aldi and Trader Joe's arose through a dispute between members of a grocery-store family, after Aldi split into Aldi-Nord and Aldi-Sued in Germany back in the 1960's. The brothers could not agree on whether or not to carry cigarettes in the stores.
After Aldi-Sued opened a store in Iowa in the 1970's and began to expand, Aldi-Nord bought the tiny Trader Joe's chain in 1979 and began to operate it and expand in competition. Interestingly, I think Aldi sells some Trader Joe's products in its US stores.
Lidl is not related to either of them. 
I heard the brothers thing but that it was Aldi and Lidl that were the result. Both great stores.
We don’t have Trader Joe’s in the UK.
Apparently, Lidl is a different family.
Trader Joe's is actually like a cross between Whole Paycheck... Sorry, "Foods"... And Lidl. So you aren't really missing anything, except it's a bit cheaper than the former.
Suzanne Somers was the first woman I saw naked when I found my Dad's stack of Playboys. I was definitely too young but when I saw her naked I was like "Oh my gosh look at this lady!"
Wait, is this the Confession Bear thread?
I can't remember who the first person I saw naked was. My earliest memory of nudity is either when someone brought a Playboy to school in middle school, or the ending of the Robert Altman comedy film "Pret-a-Porter," which my parents accidentally rented and let me watch when I was like 12.
There's a scene in the unedited Airplane, which I saw at a church lock-in when I was 12, where a topless woman runs by as everyone in the cabin panics. My friend and I kept rewinding until we got the pause on the 2-head VCR just right, with no blur. Did I mention we were 12?
I first saw Airplane at a double feature drive-in. I forget what the second film was, but I remember that brief moment in the movie very well.
Also, my dad had a very memorable VCR rental 'whoops' moment when he rented a film called "The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak" staring Tawny Kitaen. He was expecting it to be another Raiders of the Lost Ark/Romancing the Stone- and while it had those adventure elements in it, it also featured an army of topless women warriors and many other moments of nudity. I was very pleased; my mom was less amused.
The fact that he rented a movie with a star named "Tawny Kitaen", and that your mom didn't actually stop him from watching, shows there might have been more to the situation than you were told.
Good news! It's available for streaming in HD!
Filling up my watchlist! Keep the recommendations coming! 
If you're looking for recommendations of non-pornographic movies that were really just vehicles for nudity on the big screen:
1) Comedy genre
2) Rated R
3) Released around 1985
4) Bonus if it has the word "zany" somewhere in the description on the back of the box
I won't defend the actions of 18-year-old me, but I will at least share the results of my friend group's research.
We had an unlocked cable box when I was 12. It was right around the time the Playboy channel started...
Not the first time I saw nudity though. There was tons of it. I remember seeing Logan's Run forgetting to edit out a brief topless scene on a Saturday afternoon on essentially network TV.
Airplane also has the scene where a woman goes through the security scan machine that sees through her shirt.
Why are we talking about this again?
Hah yeah we had HBO for free in those days. I definitely saw some things.
Good news! It's available for streaming in HD!
"Un filme de just jaeckin"
My French is a bit rusty but "a film just for jacking?"
My French is a bit rusty but "a film just for jacking?"
"A film by Just Jaeckin" actually. He also directed other French "classics" like Emmanuelle and The Story of O.
In my dad's defense the original American VHS box art did all it could to make it look like another Raiders of the Lost Ark:
Also, for those who may not know, Tawny Kitaen later became better known as the Whitesnake car girl, appearing in a few of their music videos- most notably Here I Go Again.
Last week, I received SIM cards, out of the blue, from Rogers. (I have switched to them recently as my ISP, a move which I am starting to regret.) No idea why. I put them in a drawer and forgot I had received them.
Fast forward to today, where I receive a $60 bill from them via email for wireless services. That I had never asked for.
Let's just say I felt very sorry for the customer service representative who answered my call. I did apologize in advance for my language and I did say that my anger was directed at their employer, not them specifically. Luckily they did not argue and cancelled the bill and the services.
She also played the role of Hercules's wife, Deianeira, in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
Why are we talking about this again?
Because Suzanne Somers passed away earlier this week.
Why are we talking about this again?
It’s the non sequitur thread. Also, because your light was on.
Buying my wife's birthday present 6 weeks in advance: good.
Having to search for an hour yesterday because I forgot where I hid it: not so good.
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