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Whoops, astigmatism would be why I can't do them now, then. Push starting a car, which was a plot point as recently as Children of Men (and which would make more sense in Europe), would probably just draw strange looks from USA zoomers. Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Mar 27, 2020 |
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Mar 27, 2020 12:02
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FreudianSlippers posted:Prejudice against Roma people? That's been a serious problem as of at least last year. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/roma-antiziganist-romani-discrimination-italy-matteo-salvini-ukraine-a9024196.html https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/world/roma-bulgaria-violence-eu-elections-cnnphotos/ etc etc etc edit: oh, I see - I thought you were saying that "antiziganism" was a reference in older media lost on modern audiences. (If only.)
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Mar 27, 2020 15:11
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Magneto was actually Romani for a while. It wasn't until after the first X-Men movie where he was retconned into being Jewish.
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Mar 27, 2020 15:34
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FreudianSlippers posted:Magneto was actually Romani for a while. It wasn't until after the first X-Men movie where he was retconned into being Jewish. Kind of. He was originally written as Jewish, then Marvel didn’t want to have one of their biggest villains be Jewish so they changed his backstory in the 80’s or 90’s, then they went back to Jewish but with a Romani wife and retconned it as him having posed as Romani for reasons. But yeah, the only reason he was ever written as Romani was because the public never really gets its hackles up over Romani being portrayed as evil.
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Got an e-mail from a stressed out student who was complaining she couldn't reach me, she had sent several texts and had gotten messages back saying that the text couldn't be delivered. She was texting my landline office phone. (She didn't understand what a landline was because basically no one has them anymore, outside of an office setting) lizard_phunk fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Mar 30, 2020 |
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Mar 30, 2020 16:27
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lizard_phunk posted:Got an e-mail from a stressed out student who was complaining she couldn't reach me, she had sent several texts and had gotten messages back saying that the text couldn't be delivered. I've had similar - moved into a new team that had the same supervisor for long enough that they'd all communicate over text and they started whining when the only phone number I gave them was the office landline. like, gently caress off, you don't get my personal number. you call or email the office like the union agreement says you do
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We got rid of our landline a few years ago because the only people that ever called were my wife's aunt and people trying to reach a dry cleaning place that had a slightly similar number. Even my parents have stopped using landlines and got rid of their phone a couple years ago. Landlines are probably going to stick around for a while for institutions and businesses but I wouldn't be surprised if I live to see the day where they're as anchronistic as telegrams are now.
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Mar 31, 2020 02:53
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A few years back, our neighbors had to come over to use our landline because the husband had like a heart monitor or something of that nature that didn't work on cell phones to send the telemetry to the doctor's office. We've had the same phone number for twenty-some years now, even though it's technically VOIP now from AT&T. That, the tv, and internet all run through the same equipment.
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zmcnulty posted:Maybe I am a freak because I can see all them just fine, with depth and detail. Had the entire series of books as a kid. I used to be able to see them just fine - granted I had lots of time to practice, managing a Waldenbooks in the "not the good mall" mall. Then I had a TIA which rendered one of my eyes just the slightest bit lazy and I can't see them for poo poo anymore. I guess Waldenbooks and mall bookstores in general may fit the thread subject, as well.
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Mar 31, 2020 08:40
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I can still pulse‐dial on my my landline.
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I tried to get a land line installed at my house as a back up to the cell phones. Couldn't get anyone to install a traditional land line, so we basically have VOIP now. Works, but doesn't have the traditional off the hook sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO_YErq1M-M
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VoIP also shits itself if an earthquake takes the power out, right? If you listen to old radio programs, you'll occasionally get an odd joke about not the musicians not being able to play songs because of "Petrillo". This refers to a 2 year musician's strike resulting in no recordings produced from 1942-1944. Interestingly enough, the recording ban caused the first years of the Jazz BeBop style to go missed. It may have also helped end the Big Band era of music, as vocalists were excluded from the restrictions.
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FilthyImp posted:VoIP also shits itself if an earthquake takes the power out, right?
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When characters are on a plane and the flight attendants make them turn off their electronic devices for safety reasons.
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Apr 14, 2020 23:50
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when characters dress up nice to get on a plane, and are served food or drinks without having to pay, and refer to the flight attendant as "stewardess", and have anything other than an utterly miserable cramped awful experience.
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Apr 15, 2020 00:37
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Animal House was scored like a serious movie instead of whatever contemporary comedies sounded like, but the combo of comedies afterward doing the same thing and film scores changing in general makes this much less obvious.
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Apr 15, 2020 00:47
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When characters get on a plane.
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Apr 15, 2020 00:48
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And if there was a kid on a plane on TV, he'd usually end up with a free set of pilotwings to pin on his shirt, something I've never experienced in all my life and can only assume happened before I was born. e: Sometime ago, there was a short-lived TV series about Pan-Am starring Christina Ricci that basically survived on references lost on modern audiences, starting with Pan-Am.
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Apr 15, 2020 20:36
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I got a set of pilot’s wings once in like 1988 because I was flying for my first time ever, and I was like 4 years old.
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Apr 15, 2020 21:09
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I used to get pilot wings all the time. All the time being the two times I flew in a plane as a child. I never got to see the cockpit though. The movie Airplane must make no sense to anyone born after 2000. Courtesy phone? Hare Krishnas? Steak or fish?
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Krispy Wafer posted:I used to get pilot wings all the time. All the time being the two times I flew in a plane as a child. I never got to see the cockpit though. Sniffing glue, however, is timeless.
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Apr 15, 2020 21:18
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Krispy Wafer posted:I used to get pilot wings all the time. All the time being the two times I flew in a plane as a child. I never got to see the cockpit though. I speak jive. Also that Barbara Billingsley speaking jive was equally the joke to old white lady speaking jive was.
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Apr 16, 2020 03:28
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Krispy Wafer posted:I used to get pilot wings all the time. All the time being the two times I flew in a plane as a child. I never got to see the cockpit though. Smoking or nonsmoking?
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Apr 16, 2020 04:04
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When we flew last year with our 4 year old they gave her little plastic wings. Maybe only certain airlines?
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Leperflesh posted:when characters dress up nice to get on a plane, and are served food or drinks without having to pay, and refer to the flight attendant as "stewardess", and have anything other than an utterly miserable cramped awful experience. I was floored when I recently watched The Parallax View and there was a scene in which passengers paid for their flight while on board, after takeoff!
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Apr 16, 2020 06:23
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killer crane posted:When we flew last year with our 4 year old they gave her little plastic wings. Maybe only certain airlines? Most of them still do that. American, Delta and Alaska have all given my kids wings in the last three years.
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Shine posted:I like to cross my eyes slightly such that I see the image with its 3D effect inverted, so the pop-out instead sinks in, and the background pops out. Wait, is that not... how it works? 
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I was re-watching Naked Gun movie intros and here's a nice one from 2 1/2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BI4F7ZgbHQ Zsa Zsa Gabor had been convicted a few years earlier for slapping a police officer.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:I was floored when I recently watched The Parallax View and there was a scene in which passengers paid for their flight while on board, after takeoff! Airlines were regulated so they couldn't charge more or less than a certain price, so I guess there wasn't any question about what your ticket would cost. Everyone's tickets cost the same. Which meant airlines had to make a better flying experience since they couldn't compete on price and no one under the age of 30 is ever going to believe that was true.
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Leperflesh posted:when characters dress up nice to get on a plane, and are served food or drinks without having to pay, and refer to the flight attendant as "stewardess", and have anything other than an utterly miserable cramped awful experience. I mean bear in mind back when flying cost more, every class was first class. They paid for that poo poo.
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Straight White Shark posted:Wait, is that not... how it works? Basically, you can mess with your eyes to view them in two different ways. The intended way is for the image to pop out of the background. Like, if you have a picture of a planet, then the planet pops out of the background, and as if it's hanging on a wall. But you can also tweak your eyes to invert the image, so that the planet would instead recess into the background, as if it's smashed into the wall.
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I tried Googling cost of air travel over time and got conflicting information. The best source I found was the following link: https://www.transtats.bts.gov/AIRFARES/ The cost of an average flight from an American airport has dropped from $500 (in 2020 dollars) in 1995 to $350 now. That's crazy!
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silence_kit posted:I tried Googling cost of air travel over time and got conflicting information. The best source I found was the following link: One example I found was a flight from NYC to LA was at a minimum $1442 adjusted for inflation. Airlines couldn't charge any less than that. Now it's often under $300. Also planes don't crash as often now.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I used to get pilot wings all the time. All the time being the two times I flew in a plane as a child. I never got to see the cockpit though. I saw Hare Krishnas in Stockholm a couple of years ago.
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Apr 16, 2020 22:21
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This book on the history of skyjacking was pretty eye opening to me. Hard to believe how lax security was, especially compared to post 9-11 world. The Skies Belong to Us
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Cascadia Pirate posted:This book on the history of skyjacking was pretty eye opening to me. Hard to believe how lax security was, especially compared to post 9-11 world. This Boston Globe story goes into one of the game-changing hijackings. This guy isn't interested in going to Cuba. He also has a gun.
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The funny thing about TV and movie airplane scenes is that the plane layouts all seem to be stuck in 1995. You see a lot more cushy seats with generous legroom on TV than in real life. That's probably because so many plane scenes are filmed in a studio in LA rather than an actual plane. It would be a logistical nightmare to film onboard something as cramped as an actual modern airplane.
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I work on a plane-heavy tv show and thank god our plane scenes are 95% in first class. Nobody wants to dump in a hundred extras on a stage day. Plus for every shot, your hard working set dressers are unbolting rows and rows of seats and rebolting others depending on where the camera and dolly have to go
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I wonder if there are any TV or movie examples of what it takes to get on a plane and fly somewhere for a normal person in 2020. If flying in a plane ever actually becomes less of a hassle (or more), what it means to be a plane passenger would be forgotten in the popular consciousness. Hell, watch enough TV now and you could forget until your next flight.
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