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/dev/random / Re: The Official Inclusive Non-denominational Holidays 2020 Thread

« on: December 21, 2023, 09:07:25 AM »

One of many peoples favorite Christmas movies, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

They've show it damn near every day on TV this December... and I've seen it on TV plenty thoughout the rest of the year too. Hell, it's almost like they're TRYING to make people get sick of it. Here's a short video with some interesting info about several deleted and missing scenes that are likely hidden away in a vault somewhere. Maybe they'll dig 'em out one day.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsWkgXyamvY

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/dev/random / Re: The Man Thread

« on: December 16, 2023, 03:01:35 AM »

It looks like it belongs in a ZZ Top Video 

That was a 33 Ford Coupe.



My grandpa had a 1935 Willys Coupe that he bought after coming home from the Korean War.



He drove himself and my grandma all the way from the Naval base in Washington state back to Atlanta GA. I think there's pics of them in front of the car stopping at different places in the desert out in Arizona and such. My dad said he was kinda pissed when he sold it in the mid or late 60's because he was looking forward to getting it. Instead, before he started driving, they went out and bought him an old 62 Chevy Imapala SS. The car was stolen out of the driveway at night not long after I was born. Back in 2009 or so when I was making shitloads more money that I am now, my friend and I found him another one, towed it home, worked on it ourselves for a year in secret, and I gave it to him for Christmas that year.

So if I outlive my old man, I'll get it back... and I like a 62 Chevy Imapala... but I dunno, I kinda wish grandpa would've kept that 35 Willys too, then that would've been what I restored for him.

I dunno though, those old 30's coupes look cool, but they're pretty small inside. I dunno that my big ass could fit in one comfortably.

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Quake / Re: REAL money CHALLENGE 1v1 / DUEL

« on: December 14, 2023, 06:24:19 AM »

Don't back out 2d, it could be entertaining watching you die, run, die, run, die, run, die.

That's what Hamas is good at.

focalor that was low blow

Because you hold them in the highest regard?

If you don't like Hamas, you should be happy that the IDF is getting rid of them.

Your logic has more holes in it than the backs of the 364 people murdered at the Supernova Sukkot Gathering in the Re'im kibbutz.

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/dev/random / Re: The Good Old Days thread

« on: December 12, 2023, 07:32:19 AM »

More K-mart shit.

From what I've been reading online, there's now only TWO K-mart's left.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heg2OmKVVFM

I remember back in the early 2000's, my then girlfriend and I went to the Winder GA K-mart store that was a week or two away from closing because her friends told her they had everything about 50% off to get rid of everything. Apparently the sale worked, because they had almost nothing left in the store. So many sections of empty shelves, shelves with one or two sparse items. And none of it was anything you'd really want. We thought we'd get some furniture and housewares kinda stuff for good deals... pretty much a wasted trip. The only thing I saw that I liked was these little funny looking horses heads eraser ends for pencils that were about 50 cents. 

Got to looking on wiki... didn't know this, but apparently the larger Kmart company also bought up Borders and Waldenbooks, which is why you don't see those anymore.

Venting:

These companies are all assholes. All of them have been doing the same thing: they take out these ENORMOUS loans so that they can build tons of new stores all over the place in an effort to saturate areas with their presence and gobble up as much market share... but in order to sustain that, they need to continue to do crazy-good business like they tend to do when they first open and everyone is excited to shop at the new place in town. And when locations no longer rake in the same levels of profit, they can't pay back these loans, so they go through bankruptcy. They either GET bought out, or they buy out someone else in hopes of consolidating profits and operating in the green again,... and they don't. And the cycle continues until you're left with cities that have tons of empty retail spaces, and only a handful of retailers left with a severely limited selection of items compared to what they used to carry.

I don't really think K-mart's been as guilty of the practice as other newer companies. (Then again, they bought out Borders and Waldenbooks like I said above.) K-mart's just had streams of unending bad luck. Mostly, there was the Columbine thing - when it was found out that the little idiots who did that had bought their ammo and maybe one of the guns at a Kmart, lots of people boycotted them. (I think they got sued as well.) You've also had Wal-Mart making DAMN SURE they always build a Wal-Mart near any K-mart, making sure to try to screw them outta business from that side. And in more recent times, you've had the rise of Amazon serving to screw them from the other side... because pornographic double-penatration analogies are always fun. K-mart's just been trying to do what they do and make a living. It's sad. I miss the K-mart where I grew up. Working there that one Christmas  (2003 I think) was one of the best jobs ever - selling the shit outta real and artificial Christmas trees, helping load them up for people, the fun group of guys I worked with, and the inside of the store wasn't a total fuckin' MADHOUSE of pissed off shoppers like it was at the Walmart I worked at the year before. Good times.

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/dev/random / Re: The Man Thread

« on: December 12, 2023, 03:01:03 AM »

1939 Cadillac LaSalle

Probably THE COOLEST custom job on an old Cadillac I've ever seen in my life.

Looks mean and beefy, but also super classy. That color they picked is PERFECT.











https://www.motortrend.com/features/1048srp-1939-cadillac-lasalle/

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/dev/random / Re: The Good Old Days thread

« on: December 11, 2023, 06:24:53 AM »

Not sure if this really is a copy of the in-store music. Maybe. Some of it's got LP record hiss.

When I worked at Walmart in college, I know they had their own national radio that was pumped in via satellite connect from the home office I think. I also worked at a Kmart back then too, they had a similar thing. But back in the 70's and 80's I suppose it would've been some kinda pre-recorded thing they played in the store itself. Would be interesting to know how they did in-store music in the 70's since they had to be using records at the time, and records only have about 25 minutes of play on one side.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQt5umECcdo

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Quake / Re: REAL money CHALLENGE 1v1 / DUEL

« on: December 09, 2023, 04:33:04 PM »

Don't back out 2d, it could be entertaining watching you die, run, die, run, die, run, die.

That's what Hamas is good at.

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/dev/random / Re: Thanksgiving 2021 (and 2022) (and 2023... and probably from now on) thread

« on: November 22, 2023, 05:50:41 AM »

In my movie collection, I have a folder with a small handful of Thanksgiving themed movies:

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987) - starring Steve Martin and John Candy
Dutch (1991) - starring Ed O'Neill and Ethan Embry
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)
Alice's Restaurant (1969) - starring Arlo Guthrie

If anyone knows of some other good Thanksgiving themed movies I can add to it, let me know.

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Alice's Restaurant.

It's a Thanksgiving cult classic. Either you hate it and would never watch it, or you don't hate it and maybe would. I've never met anyone who really LOVED it though. I like the song a lot better than the movie. I like listening to it on Thanksgiving in the car on the way to family's house to eat Thanksgiving dinner. It's kind of a tradition. Some stations play it on the radio every Thanksgiving. The old classic rock station in Atlanta used to play it a few times throughout the day on Thanksgiving, but that station closed many years ago. The movie... I'll watch it every few years maybe - definitely not EVERY year. Might watch it this year.

If you wanna watch it...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbCIEhPaYaw

It's kinda weird. An interesting snapshot of life in the 60's and hippie culture. The message in it? I don't really know. That family isn't just blood, it's everyone. The ending feels kinda sad, with Alice left standing on the steps of the church as Arlo drives away - and who knows when or if they'll ever meet again. Something about families can't stay together forever, or learning to let go maybe? I guess you can find whatever meaning you need to find in it.

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Bot Drop / Re: Epod/septic

« on: November 19, 2023, 06:06:55 AM »

LOL

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: November 11, 2023, 01:00:19 AM »

Oppenheimer (2023)

Watched it last night. Yeah... so... it's a dramatization of Oppenheimer's life and story. Nothing really more to say than that. It is what it is. Pretty long though, 3 hours total. I fell asleep somewhere after hour 2 and woke up about 15 minutes before it ended. Didn't miss a damn thing that I could tell.

The explosion of the first test... seems like they didn't want to use any real footage of a real nuclear test. Did they maybe feel like the difference in the look of the shots would disrupt the flow of the movie somehow? I don't know. What they did end up creating in it's place looked FAR smaller than any kind of nuclear explosion. It was very underwhelming, and I think this movie had a moral duty to really demonstrate and relate just how unfathomably vast and powerful a nuclear weapon is. The real Oppenheimer was horrified by what he had created. And the movie showed that, but the explosion they showed looked more like a regular old fireball from a gasoline explosion. In my opinion, the bullshit explosion they used did more to disrupt the movie than using stock footage of the trinity test would've.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ikl8vy4zs

loved it.

Tried watching it tonight. Got about 30 minutes into it before I had to cut it off. There's so much Italian being spoken in the movie, and when I converted it to MP4 from the MKV I downloaded, I didn't burn in the subtitles. So I had to re-convert it a couple times trying different subtitle tracks before I got the one that added all the Italian parts. Will watch it tomorrow night I guess.

Instead, I watched...



The Killer (2023) starring Michael Fassbender.

The previews I saw for it on Youtube made it look like it was going to be some kind of start-to-finish high impact action marathon like a Jason Bourne movie or something, but... it really wasn't. It was okay. The flow was a bit weird the way it did "chapters" for each target he identifies. But the whole "he's a hitman who obsesses over details and methods" thing has kinda been done before, ya know?

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/dev/random / Re: The Strange and Interesting Thread

« on: November 06, 2023, 09:24:52 PM »

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
...located in Farmington Hills MI, about 10 or 20 miles north of Detroit.

Lots of old mechanical amusements and stuff.

http://www.marvin3m.com/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWIxKElGtkM

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/dev/random / Re: The Strange and Interesting Thread

« on: November 05, 2023, 08:24:11 PM »

Was searching for images of black granite textures and came across this site advertising massage spas.

No, I'm not looking for a massage with a happy ending from some poor chinese girl who's probably a product of human trafficking. Even if I wanted to (which I don't) who could afford it anymore with 300-400 dollar grocery bills every week.

Like I said, I was looking for a black granite texture, and this page was listed because of the background.

I dunno if these are places where you tip extra and they give you a "hand-J", or if they are legit non-sexual massage places. But as I scrolled down the page, I started looking at the pictures of the girls. Is it just me, or in recent times are asian girls starting to look weirder and weirder? Some of them are getting their eyes widened by surgery or something. It's like they're intentionally trying to look like pictures of those weirdo high-end rubber sex dolls. It's just creepy looking.







https://www.sgm9.com/

ps. another trend I've noticed lately is Thai girls using bright blue colored contacts. See picture on top left. Doesn't looks quite so disturbing on her because she barely looks Thai at all, but on girls that DO look stereotypically Thai, it's super creepy looking.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Spooky Soundtracks

« on: October 31, 2023, 04:46:13 PM »

Lit up at night... the pumpkins, not me... not yet anyway, workin' on it.





And a drive-by shot of my dog.



Starting to wonder if kids watch too much tv.

Had two trick-or-treaters come up a while ago. One was dressed as the Kool-Aid Man, the other was dressed as the State Farm guy. Kool-Aid Man said, "Don't worry, I won't break through your walls, I don't do that anymore." State Farm guy says, "But if he does, I have you covered."

 

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art, music, etc. / Re: Spooky Soundtracks

« on: October 31, 2023, 01:13:58 PM »

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art, music, etc. / Re: Spooky Soundtracks

« on: October 30, 2023, 07:15:24 PM »

Ingles had pumpkins 2 for $10, so I did 2 pumpkins this year. Note, these are not the finished product. Since I took the pics, I noticed places that needed further cutting and carving. Will probably continue cutting more shit off inside the holes every time I walk through the kitchen and notice something, up until tomorrow night when I set em out on the front porch.