Random randomness

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:24 pm

Well, I am still watching Lower Decks, and I need to catch up on Discovery. I kinda ignored season 3 and on.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:25 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:14 pm Its not even Halloween yet.....whats with all the Black Friday crap out there.

If you don't buy it now, it won't be there on Black Friday. Supply chain issues are real.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:35 pm

stessier wrote: ↑Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:25 pm
Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:14 pm Its not even Halloween yet.....whats with all the Black Friday crap out there.
If you don't buy it now, it won't be there on Black Friday. Supply chain issues are real.

Yeah, CNBC has been suggesting "Black Friday" started about two weeks ago and very little holiday shopping convenience or deals will be reliable after Halloween. Everyone has been prognosticating the supply chain is running dry and demand will kill supply come Monday.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:38 pm

Good. I dont need any more shit.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:44 pm

I wish I could say the same thing. I just paid $35 for the cheapest sheet of plastic to go where a smallish glass window used to go. $45 to throw in a cheap putty knife and window caulk.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:51 pm

Really glad my christmas will mostly be electronic... steam, ps5 games, kindle books and maybe a gift card or two. I will have to find something for the wife, but she got a new car this year so her expectations are fairly low.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Oct 29, 2021 4:11 pm

For me "Black Friday" starts whenever I say it does.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Oct 29, 2021 4:22 pm

Think Sunday it will be time to do the usual....watch The Curse of Frank Black episode from Millennium.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Oct 29, 2021 7:09 pm

I feel a crick coming on. Felt it all day. Tomorrow I wont be able to move maybe. Its going to run down the right side of my neck then on down my back to at least the midway point. Already getting its hurt starting. Going to take some ibuprofen and tylenol

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 12:06 pm

I noticed Ive lost enough weight to cut my toenails easily again. Been a year since I could do it well. Wasn't long ago I found it to be a hell of a chore. But today Im back to my old easy to reach self. Yay..Im proud of that actually. Lol the stuff you can be proud of when older. Im the type to sit on the edge of a bed or chair and pull my leg up to where my knee is into my chest to do it. I cannot do it cross legged at all.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:32 pm

Microwave died as I started lunch. Had to go to Walmart. First time in over two years. Almost had a panic attack.
I could have waited on almost anything else for a few days and order thru Amazon. We use the microwave multiple times a day tho.
Hopefully I'll be dead before I have to go again.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:44 pm

Been worrying with mine lately. Doesn't seem as strong. I think a complete cleaning is in order though as it has some spatters in it and the outside is greasy from the no hood stove beside it. Gonna take some effort. Ive heard putting a bowl of water in it on high for 3 min will make cleaning the inside easier.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:36 pm

Those who like to join class action suits are advised that Overcharged for chicken might be worth a few bucks someday.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:07 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:36 pm Those who like to join class action suits are advised that Overcharged for chicken might be worth a few bucks someday.

I'm in. Might get enough to buy a chicken sandwich.

Boo to Big Chicken.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:15 pm

Chicken must be restored to its respected perch!

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:26 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:44 pm Been worrying with mine lately. Doesn't seem as strong. I think a complete cleaning is in order though as it has some spatters in it and the outside is greasy from the no hood stove beside it. Gonna take some effort. Ive heard putting a bowl of water in it on high for 3 min will make cleaning the inside easier.

Fill the bowl with 50/50 water and vinegar, zap it on high for 5 minutes.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:26 pm

It's been 21 years since I have lived in a city. I just discovered that I no longer remember how to parallel park.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 6:09 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:07 pm
Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:36 pm Those who like to join class action suits are advised that Overcharged for chicken might be worth a few bucks someday.
I'm in. Might get enough to buy a chicken sandwich.

Boo to Big Chicken.

I just redeemed my $7.51 milk settlement, so I'm feeling like the cock of the walk.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 7:17 pm

I went out walking the dog and realized that while tomorrow is Halloween, tonight is the night for adult Halloween parties.

Saw a number of fun/creative/sexy costumes (there are a lot of 20-somethings in my neighborhood), but the best was a pair who were a perfect Wednesday Addams and Ted Lasso. Somehow they made a model couple.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 7:24 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:26 pm It's been 21 years since I have lived in a city. I just discovered that I no longer remember how to parallel park.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 7:31 pm

I parallel parked a few days ago in my little downtown area. Our old post office in fact.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 7:34 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 7:24 pm
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:26 pm It's been 21 years since I have lived in a city. I just discovered that I no longer remember how to parallel park.

Oh, remembered the process, it's the timing and spacing I was all out of whack on. It's a perishable skill, and after two decades of disuse it's gone to pot. I used to be able to plop it in four inches from the curb and evenly spaced. This time? Pfft. I drove over the curb three times, got laughed at by oncoming traffic, then gave up and parked around the block where there was a double space I could just pull in to.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:43 pm

When I was a grad student in Ann Arbor, my best college friend (himself a grad student in Boston) visited me for a couple of days. We went to Zingerman's for sandwiches and parked on the street, putting a couple of bucks in the meter.

Sandwiches took a while and we had a long conversation while we ate, so by the time we got back to the car I had been slapped with a $10 parking ticket. I cursed and fumed, but my friend just laughed.

Me: "What's so funny?"
Friend: "Dude, in Boston you wouldn't be able to lunch-park for less than $20 in the first place."

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:38 pm

Parallel parking is Wife's superpower. She gets it right the first time, every time.

I should be better at it than I am since my tiny car can fit into any space, but with low-profile tires, making contact with the curb means scratching my wheels. I always go in too shallow and have to adjust.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Tue Nov 02, 2021 2:44 am

Woman found out that merely waiting in the ER for 7 hours (and never got seen by an ER doc) still costs $700. After a head injury, she went to the hospital ER, got paperwork done, and waited 7 hours, gave up and went home. She got a bill for $688.xx.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Nov 02, 2021 12:11 pm

Window replaced. I did a shit job but I think it will hold and hold the weather out, so that's good.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Tue Nov 02, 2021 5:02 pm

Courting controversy is a shockingly effective way to generate controversy.

Terry Gilliam's Into the Woods cancelled by Old Vic after reports of staff unease

A new production of Into The Woods, set to be co-directed by Monty Python star Terry Gilliam, will no longer be staged at the Old Vic.

The reasons for the cancellation have not been made explicitly clear, and the theatre only posted a short announcement on its website last week.

However, industry publication The Stage has reported some staff were unhappy with previous controversial remarks made by the actor.

Gilliam has not yet commented.

Gilliam has previously described the MeToo movement as a "witch hunt", adding there were many "decent people" who were "getting hammered" as the industry grappled with sexual abuse.

Several allegations were made against the Old Vic's former artistic director Kevin Spacey. as part of the MeToo movement, which began in late 2017.

Last year, Gilliam told The Independent he was "tired of white men being blamed for everything wrong with the world". In the same interview he said: "When I announce that I'm a black lesbian in transition, people take offence at that. Why?"

He also recently defended the comedian Dave Chappelle, whose most recent comedy special included comments deemed by some to be transphobic.

After some younger Old Vic staffers reportedly raised concerns about hosting Gilliam's production, it's understood the theatre's management held meetings with producers in the spring.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Nov 02, 2021 5:09 pm

Spoken like an old white guy.

Wiki

Gilliam graduated from Occidental College in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. In 2003 he told Salman Rushdie about defining experiences in the 1960s that set the foundations for his views on the world:

I became terrified that I was going to be a full-time, bomb-throwing terrorist if I stayed [in the U.S.] because it was the beginning of really bad times in America. It was '66–'67, it was the first police riot in Los Angeles. ... In college my major was political science, so my brain worked that way. ... And I drove around this little English Hillman Minx—top down—and every night I'd be hauled over by the cops. Up against the wall, and all this stuff. They had this monologue with me; it was never a dialogue. It was that I was a long-haired drug addict living off some rich guy's foolish daughter. And I said, "No, I work in advertising. I make twice as much as you do." Which is a stupid thing to say to a cop. ... And it was like an epiphany. I suddenly felt what it was like to be a black or Mexican kid living in L.A. Before that, I thought I knew what the world was like, I thought I knew what poor people were, and then suddenly it all changed because of that simple thing of being brutalized by cops. And I got more and more angry and I just felt, I've got to get out of here—I'm a better cartoonist than I am a bomb maker. That's why so much of the U.S. is still standing.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Nov 02, 2021 6:46 pm

Is that Drazzil's dad?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:50 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 12:11 pm Window replaced. I did a shit job but I think it will hold and hold the weather out, so that's good.

Did you make sure you got the correct side facing outward?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Nov 02, 2021 11:40 pm

Its that time again. Time to watch more Time Team episodes on YouTube. Can never go wrong doing that. The older they are the better they are.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:16 am

I agree with pretty much all of that.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:39 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:50 pm
LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 12:11 pm Window replaced. I did a shit job but I think it will hold and hold the weather out, so that's good.
Did you make sure you got the correct side facing outward?

I can see through it, so I must have.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:31 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:39 am
hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:50 pm
LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 12:11 pm Window replaced. I did a shit job but I think it will hold and hold the weather out, so that's good.
Did you make sure you got the correct side facing outward?
I can see through it, so I must have.

Both sides appear transparent, the question is do you see an interior or exterior scene.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:19 am

I wondered what happened to those Allstate "mayhem" ads, which I always found amusing. Turns out, the actor who played Mayhem is in a bad way

Back in summer 2009, the former "Oz" alum, 57, went to the doctor with a bad fever. While in the doctor's office, he collapsed and was rushed via ambulance to a local hospital. While en route, Dean technically died, as his heart stopped beating for over two minutes. After medics revived him, Dean spent three weeks in the ICU. The hits, however, would continue to come.

During his recovery at home, the "Rescue Me" star contracted a bacterial infection and suffered through multiple operations and gangrene, which resulted in the amputation of two toes and half of a thumb.

Yikes.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:23 am

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:19 am I wondered what happened to those Allstate "mayhem" ads, which I always found amusing. Turns out, the actor who played Mayhem is in a bad way

Back in summer 2009, the former "Oz" alum, 57, went to the doctor with a bad fever. While in the doctor's office, he collapsed and was rushed via ambulance to a local hospital. While en route, Dean technically died, as his heart stopped beating for over two minutes. After medics revived him, Dean spent three weeks in the ICU. The hits, however, would continue to come.

During his recovery at home, the "Rescue Me" star contracted a bacterial infection and suffered through multiple operations and gangrene, which resulted in the amputation of two toes and half of a thumb.
Yikes.

Yikes, indeed. that sounds horrible.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 11:01 am

Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:31 am
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:39 am
hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:50 pm
LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 12:11 pm Window replaced. I did a shit job but I think it will hold and hold the weather out, so that's good.
Did you make sure you got the correct side facing outward?
I can see through it, so I must have.
Both sides appear transparent, the question is do you see an interior or exterior scene.

Uhhhh... Khakis?

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 11:22 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 11:01 am
Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:31 am
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:39 am
hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:50 pm
LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 12:11 pm Window replaced. I did a shit job but I think it will hold and hold the weather out, so that's good.
Did you make sure you got the correct side facing outward?
I can see through it, so I must have.
Both sides appear transparent, the question is do you see an interior or exterior scene.
Uhhhh... Khakis?

You appear to have installed windows that see into the heart of Hepcat’s soul.
You may want to get some curtains.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 11:46 am

TheMix wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:23 am
Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:19 am I wondered what happened to those Allstate "mayhem" ads, which I always found amusing. Turns out, the actor who played Mayhem is in a bad way

Back in summer 2009, the former "Oz" alum, 57, went to the doctor with a bad fever. While in the doctor's office, he collapsed and was rushed via ambulance to a local hospital. While en route, Dean technically died, as his heart stopped beating for over two minutes. After medics revived him, Dean spent three weeks in the ICU. The hits, however, would continue to come.

During his recovery at home, the "Rescue Me" star contracted a bacterial infection and suffered through multiple operations and gangrene, which resulted in the amputation of two toes and half of a thumb.
Yikes.
Yikes, indeed. that sounds horrible.

On the other hand, it kind of seems on brand for the "mayhem" guy.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:16 pm

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:19 am I wondered what happened to those Allstate "mayhem" ads, which I always found amusing. Turns out, the actor who played Mayhem is in a bad way

Back in summer 2009, the former "Oz" alum, 57, went to the doctor with a bad fever. While in the doctor's office, he collapsed and was rushed via ambulance to a local hospital. While en route, Dean technically died, as his heart stopped beating for over two minutes. After medics revived him, Dean spent three weeks in the ICU. The hits, however, would continue to come.

During his recovery at home, the "Rescue Me" star contracted a bacterial infection and suffered through multiple operations and gangrene, which resulted in the amputation of two toes and half of a thumb.
Yikes.

He's been through a lot, but he's also continued to make a life for himself. He's acted a ton since that time.