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If you haven't seen/read it, we should point out it works on two levels because he's Jack Torrance, meaning his formal name is John. Here's an outdated thing: Letting a car warm up. Much more of a reality when an engine uses a carburetor instead of computer controlled fuel injection. It was a plot point in an early Seinfeld episode. Also, it was because Jerry had some kind of muscle car and I didn't get the impression it was something he sought out, I think it was just a cheap old American car. Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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*69 sounds like analingus version of 69
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Feb 8, 2020 17:03
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Milo and POTUS posted:*69 sounds like analingus version of 69 Eatin' asterisk
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Feb 8, 2020 17:06
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Jack B Nimble posted:If you haven't seen/read it, we should point out it works on two levels because he's Jack Torrance, meaning his formal name is John. It's still a good idea to let oil get to operating temp before pushing the engine hard I think
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Feb 8, 2020 17:34
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brugroffil posted:It's still a good idea to let oil get to operating temp before pushing the engine hard I think In extremely cold climates it's good to warm the engine enough to be sure the oil will flow. Think places where it gets down to -40. Of course if you leave a car out in those temps without a block heater you are likely to pop the freeze plugs and need a major maintenance, so, most people have block heaters and don't need to warm the engine up there either. In normal above-super-freezing temps it's just wasting gas. The engine already has a "cold cycle" mode and will be a little down on power till it reaches a better running temp but idling will not warm it up quickly and you'll be actually putting more wear on the engine than if you just started it up and started actually driving.
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Feb 10, 2020 04:14
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Talking about Trailer Park Boys in the "TV shows that didn't age well" thread, is the idea of the "corny white gangsta rapper" something the young kids still joke about or is the overton window shifted so far that rap is the default sad boi genre, instead of emo. Like, if "Malibu's Most Wanted" was a real movie, instead of a contagious hallucination we all briefly experienced in the late 90s/early 00s? Jamie Kennedy is the name directors used when they're ashamed of what they've created, right? Like hundreds of years from now pedantic dweebs on Twitter will make jokes that Jamie Kennedy is the name of the monster and the scientist who created him was named Marty Power? if you cast a circle of salt around an unopened Son Of The Mask HDDVD and let the blood of a white hare fall upon it, what nightmares would you bring into our world? Malibu's Most Wanted 2?
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Feb 10, 2020 07:48
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Tragically, I fear that Calvin & Hobbes will be so full of outdated references that my kids won't be able to appreciate it. Mercifully, I now realize as an adult that I didn't get the majority of humor from C&H when I was a kid so there's still hope for future generations.
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Feb 10, 2020 22:23
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The only significantly dated cultural references I can think of in C&H are the strips where he rents a VCR and some scary movies. Everything else is so vague that future readers can just plug in whatever the current incarnation of what they're talking about is.
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Feb 10, 2020 23:55
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A child being allowed to play outside by himself and wander the neighborhood without a tracking device attached to him or a helicopter parent ten feet away at all times? A nuclear family where the middle class dad works only one job, is home on the weekends, and makes enough money for the mom to stay at home? An imaginative and rambunctious boy not being medicated into a drooling automaton?
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Feb 11, 2020 02:55
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well he also has a pet tiger that turns into a stuffed animal when adults are around, so I think kids will manage with the rest of that fantasy
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Feb 11, 2020 02:58
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A tiger stuffed animal instead of a tablet? I think you’re giving the next generation too much credit.
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Feb 11, 2020 03:09
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Did... did we just turn into Boomers?
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Feb 11, 2020 03:13
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Imagined posted:Did... did we just turn into Boomers? Nah I was raised on Calvin and Hobbes and I'm like, the last year of the millennials I think. I know a 16yro that enjoys them a lot. The kids will be fine imo
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Feb 11, 2020 08:23
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Imagined posted:A child being allowed to play outside by himself and wander the neighborhood without a tracking device attached to him or a helicopter parent ten feet away at all times? A nuclear family where the middle class dad works only one job, is home on the weekends, and makes enough money for the mom to stay at home? An imaginative and rambunctious boy not being medicated into a drooling automaton? I see all of those except the second one all the time - and the only reason I don't see that is that I live in the poor part of town. The other two are not nearly as common as the Internet and media would have you believe.
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Feb 11, 2020 09:08
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Wait. I didn’t think the mom in C&H was stay at home and had like a job-job. (Not being lovely to stay at home parents and just stumbling over vocab.) Did I imagine that? It’s been years.
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Feb 11, 2020 11:38
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Xiahou Dun posted:(Not being lovely to stay at home parents and just stumbling over vocab.) Paid employment?
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Feb 11, 2020 11:42
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Yes. Probably a better phrasing. Thank you. I haven’t metabolized coffee yet.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Wait. I didn’t think the mom in C&H was stay at home and had like a job-job. (Not being lovely to stay at home parents and just stumbling over vocab.) Did I imagine that? It’s been years.
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Feb 11, 2020 11:53
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My Lovely Horse posted:There's at least one strip that says outright she gave up her job after Calvin was born. 
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Feb 11, 2020 12:20
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Huh. That's what I get for trusting vaguely-formed memories from childhood. Thanks!
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Feb 11, 2020 12:38
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but that's calvin's dad though, he's lying because it builds character.
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Feb 11, 2020 13:09
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Jack B Nimble posted:Here's an outdated thing: That's not outdated, everyone I know with a car will run it to let it warm up first when the weather gets below -10C or so. Admittedly, part of that is because it's just more comfortable to be in the car once it's warmer; modern cars, you can drive right away if you have to, but it's better for them to warm up first. Also, some of the cars my family owns are generally old enough that you do still need to let them warm up first.
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Feb 12, 2020 13:20
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tinytort posted:modern cars, you can drive right away if you have to, but it's better for them to warm up first. No, it's not better, idling more than 30 seconds in a modern car with modern oil is doing nothing but wasting gas if it's anything above -40. Cars warm up by driving or block heaters, not idling. https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a19086/warming-up-your-car-in-the-cold-just-harms-engine/
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Feb 12, 2020 14:47
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tinytort posted:That's not outdated, everyone I know with a car will run it to let it warm up first when the weather gets below -10C or so. Admittedly, part of that is because it's just more comfortable to be in the car once it's warmer; modern cars, you can drive right away if you have to, but it's better for them to warm up first. In older cars as well the heating won't be "on" a minute or so after the engine's on. I spent many early mornings running late for school getting cold air blown in my face, waiting those seconds for the hot air to come in.
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I mean, waiting for an old carburetor car to warm up is kind of a different thing. I feel like a young person starting up a car from the 60's would think it was broken.
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Feb 15, 2020 04:13
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80s, and even the early 90s. Which themselves were 30-40 years ago.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:80s, and even the early 90s. I hate you for this. It's bad enough seeing 'classic' albums in the stores, when I still have an original pressing that I bought when it was first released.
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Feb 16, 2020 01:31
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The part in Christmas Vacation where missing out on a Christmas bonus is a big deal that drives the plot instead of completely normal.
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Feb 16, 2020 05:10
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The Christmas bonus in the first place, you mean.
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ultrafilter posted:The Christmas bonus in the first place, you mean. Yeah it's kind of a quaint and antiquated idea, that Christmas bonuses were common for the average person, and not reserved exclusively for the highest-level executives.
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Feb 16, 2020 08:51
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Are the Griswolds supposed to be average? Clark has some fancy white collar job and they live in a palatial house
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Feb 16, 2020 11:00
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Christmas bonuses are starting to make a comeback. I got one this year instead of getting an actual raise/cost of living adjustment.
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Alterian posted:Christmas bonuses are starting to make a comeback. I got one this year instead of getting an actual raise/cost of living adjustment. In my country you only pay half tax on your pay in december, and it has been this way since the fifties. The reason for this is that people should be able to afford christmas presents.
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Alhazred posted:In my country you only pay half tax on your pay in december, and it has been this way since the fifties. The reason for this is that people should be able to afford christmas presents. You gonna say what country or do we have to guess?
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Feb 16, 2020 19:43
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It beings with N and ends with Orway
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FreudianSlippers posted:It beings with N and ends with Orway North Lenorway?
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Nattensorway.
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Alhazred posted:In my country you only pay half tax on your pay in december, and it has been this way since the fifties. The reason for this is that people should be able to afford christmas presents. How does this not get insanely massively exploited? Like after the first year, pay me 100% of my annual pay in December and I'll manage, kind of exploited? e. or I bet it has to be your regular pay, right, like half tax on 1/12th of your annual income, and in that case all they're *really* doing is making everyone pay a slightly higher tax rate for 11 months to subsidize december, which being the last month of the year implies that this is excellent for the government and actually lovely for workers who are effectively loaning the government a small fraction of their pay for 11 months just to get a little bit of that back in december, lol
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Leperflesh posted:How does this not get insanely massively exploited? Everyone's tax returns are public.
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Leperflesh posted:How does this not get insanely massively exploited? Look what living in a hosed up country with a hosed up antiquated tax system has done to your brain and thought process. The public and government aren't locked in a grift vs grift system elsewhere.
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