Yeah, I knew enough people who would react to any whisper of an AIDS vaccine breakthrough with "HELL YEAH BABY THE SIXTIES ARE BACK!" (straights, of course) to think that this will not change public demand or desire to go to a movie or a bar. It might well break the back of the movie theater industry as we know it to some extent, but that is a different story... you could still have "movie theaters" in various key locations even if they're ultimately just destination presentation spaces. The Alamo Drafthouse conquers. I do expect Americans will start wearing paper masks in the winter like in Asia, though.
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Yeah, to use your example, a more reasonable prediction is something like "movie theaters will be forever changed with poo poo like Alamo and giant Imax poo poo, and also weird indie theaters, surviving, and things like a Regal or whatever might die or have to change and who knows?" That's at least based in something, while saying "movie theaters as a concept are going to die" is just weird. People said that about stage shows a hundred years ago. Don't be weird.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 07:18 |
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Boonoo posted:I think there’s going to be enough pent up demand that once things like that are open again they’ll see business.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 08:51 |
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Nessus posted:I do expect Americans will start wearing paper masks in the winter like in Asia, though. The absolute best case scenario will be a few more people wearing balaclavas that cover the nose and mouth
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Cheesus posted:Yeah that's certainly not going to happen.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 11:04 |
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Beyond being a new addition to every prepper's arsenal, I doubt we'll see the uptake of masks in the West to the same extent as Asia. I see less masks worn here in London during a pandemic than I do on a regular Tuesday in Tokyo. There is a strong underlying cultural and social apparatus that supports mask use in Asia that isn't really present here so much, plus multiple consecutive pandemic scares, pollution issues, population density and so on.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 11:47 |
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Xiahou Dun posted:Not gonna change the conceptual space of restaurants or bars I'd fully it admit. I don't think people are going to stop eating and drinking booze. Everything that fails will get replaced by the exact same thing most likely. Then...that fails and yet another wave of hopeful entrepreneurs steps in like an ever changing row of shark teeth. By the 4th wave you might see some permanent changes. I just remember how restaurateurs kept trying to time the end of the Great Recession and opening up businesses thinking everything was on the upswing only to fail 3 months later. Watching sports is going to see some changes. Like if baseball comes back, but without spectators in the stands, then people are going to crowd sports bars even more than usual. But if social distancing restricts the number of people in an establishment, then another outlet will be created. Maybe someone will figure out the legality of creating pop-up tailgate parties where they open up in an empty lot and sell beer and brats and show the game on a large projector.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 12:32 |
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Interrupting COVID talk to post about a reference lost on me. In the book Dark Reflections, Arnold and Judy are getting married - but first Arnold has to stop into a clinic to “get his Wasserman test done”. Turns out before 1980 you were required to get a swab jammed up your dong to check for syphilis before you could get married. Maybe this isn’t lost on some people since Montana was still doing blood tests for women in 2019, but I didn’t know about it.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 13:04 |
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I'm pretty sure it was a blood test. The cover story most people were told was it was to make sure their blood types were compatible, not to check for diseases.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 13:35 |
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Ah yeah you’re right, I went back and checked - he gets a full test done while he’s there but the required one is just blood. It still struck me as really odd and archaic. And they lied about the reason? So weird.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 13:52 |
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My impression is people didn't really like talking about what the blood test was really for. People knew (like doctors didn't lie) but if you were having casual conversations with people it was totally to make sure their blood types were compatible.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 13:54 |
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I think it also rested on the amusing presumption that the engaged couple hadn't had sex yet.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 17:07 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:Maybe someone will figure out the legality of creating pop-up tailgate parties where they open up in an empty lot and sell beer and brats and show the game on a large projector. Drive-in movie theaters are something lost on modern audiences, but are gonna make mad bank if they come back, especially if they run with your idea of showing concerts, sporting events, and such. Already read about a couple places in Florida that are cleaning up nicely right now showing "re-runs" like Back to Future, Jurassic Park, etc (and one that was super sweet and offered their place up, free of charge, for any high school that wanted to hold graduations there --- everybody parks, then they show pics of the students on the big screen ).
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We've got a drive-thru in my town that was re-opened by a company that bills itself as "the largest drive-in theater chain in the world" with a staggering... seven locations!
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Drive-in movie theaters are something lost on modern audiences, but are gonna make mad bank if they come back, especially if they run with your idea of showing concerts, sporting events, and such. Already read about a couple places in Florida that are cleaning up nicely right now showing "re-runs" like Back to Future, Jurassic Park, etc (and one that was super sweet and offered their place up, free of charge, for any high school that wanted to hold graduations there --- everybody parks, then they show pics of the students on the big screen ). They are still around what few that are left. The Shenandoah valley in VA seems to be relatively overpopulated with 'em.
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Leperflesh posted:I think it also rested on the amusing presumption that the engaged couple hadn't had sex yet. Yet at the same time recognising that they probably had sex with other people before that, or it wouldn't be necessary to test... To be fair, getting tested before starting any monogamous (or mostly-monogamous) sexual relationship is like sexual health 101. Also to be fair, the US is particularly bad at both teaching and practising sexual health 101.
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:Ah yeah you’re right, I went back and checked - he gets a full test done while he’s there but the required one is just blood. It still struck me as really odd and archaic. And they lied about the reason? So weird. It was incredibly wacky when I got my blood test done in Georgia in 2001. They still only required syphilis although by 2001 of course there were much nastier STDs by then (AIDS being #1 with a bullet).
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Drive-in movie theaters are something lost on modern audiences, but are gonna make mad bank if they come back, especially if they run with your idea of showing concerts, sporting events, and such. Already read about a couple places in Florida that are cleaning up nicely right now showing "re-runs" like Back to Future, Jurassic Park, etc (and one that was super sweet and offered their place up, free of charge, for any high school that wanted to hold graduations there --- everybody parks, then they show pics of the students on the big screen ). My local town in Germany has opened up a vacant site & put up a stage for comedy evenings throughout April & May. It's drive-in only, with a maximum of two people per car. You sit there & watch the comedian live on stage & on a big screen, but you tune in to a specific FM frequency to hear the gig. Instead of clapping, all you hear from a distance is a random chorus of car horns. You can always tell when a joke falls flat, as there's only a half-hearted 'honk'. Must be really weird for the performers, though, since there can't be anything like the feedback you'd get in a club. How does anyone heckle? Anyway, it seems to be working. On most nights so far it's been more or less full: 300 cars at €60 per car. It could catch on...
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# ? May 2, 2020 20:15 |
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Frazzbo posted:
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ulmont posted:It was incredibly wacky when I got my blood test done in Georgia in 2001. They still only required syphilis although by 2001 of course there were much nastier STDs by then (AIDS being #1 with a bullet). They shot people with aids?!
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# ? May 2, 2020 21:14 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:They shot people with aids?! The lost references are coming from within the thread! quote:(of a hit record) that has entered the charts in a high position, or has climbed rapidly in the charts, or is thought to have the potential for further rapid advancement
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# ? May 2, 2020 21:37 |
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Useless trivia: In 1975, there was a song called "Eighteen With a Bullet". It would peak on the Billboard Hot 100 at eighteen. With a bullet.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Drive-in movie theaters are something lost on modern audiences, but are gonna make mad bank if they come back, especially if they run with your idea of showing concerts, sporting events, and such. Already read about a couple places in Florida that are cleaning up nicely right now showing "re-runs" like Back to Future, Jurassic Park, etc (and one that was super sweet and offered their place up, free of charge, for any high school that wanted to hold graduations there --- everybody parks, then they show pics of the students on the big screen ). The Rustic theater in RI never closed, I predict they're going to have a banner year
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# ? May 3, 2020 03:01 |
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Frazzbo posted:How does anyone heckle? Police surplus loudspeaker
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# ? May 3, 2020 04:35 |
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I was walking this afternoon and my music shuffled to Offspring's Walla Walla, which has a reference with a real shifting value. That car looked so tempting, so easy to drive Just like that apartment that you burglarized You started to run, but didn't get far Cause under your arm was a VCR This dude's awful. That's at least $250 for that VCR. It's not the most dated reference on that album. That might go to Pretty Fly For a White Guy for suggesting the white guy go on the Ricki Lake Show.
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# ? May 3, 2020 04:36 |
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Platystemon posted:Police surplus loudspeaker If you ever get the chance to yell at someone over a police or ambulance loudspeaker, take it. It’s so much goddamn fun.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:If you ever get the chance to yell at someone over a police or ambulance loudspeaker, take it. It’s so much goddamn fun. My middle school band director had a CB as well as speakers under the hood that he’d use to offer commentary on other drivers in town:
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Frazzbo posted:
Ha, that's interesting. I was just talking to my husband today about how late nite show hosts have been dealing with the lack of a live studio audience. John Oliver is rolling with it well, I think; he keeps up his patter with just a teensy bit of a pause after a joke so you can chuckle or lol, then moves right along. On the other hand, Stephen Colbert, much as I love him, still puts these looooong pauses after his bon mots as if a crowd of hundreds is still hooting and laughing right there for few good seconds. So if it's a joke that really only deserves a "heh" than a long belly laugh, it is awkward as hell to watch.
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Leperflesh posted:I think it also rested on the amusing presumption that the engaged couple hadn't had sex yet. There was a hilarious line in some old film I saw once (don't remember what), that was something along the lines of "We can't have those two sharing a bed, they're only engaged after all."
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It's the sure signs of a lasting marriage
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# ? May 3, 2020 18:56 |
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quote:...pretty fly for a white guy... the idea that certain tastes are only for certain skin colors
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Greg12 posted:the idea that certain tastes are only for certain skin colors Colourblind racism. Oh wait, no, that's still here, and not going away any time soon.
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Greg12 posted:the idea that certain tastes are only for certain skin colors Is this a warm-up to an argument about who's allowed to say the n-word?
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# ? May 4, 2020 20:48 |
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I just watched The Wire (2002-2008) for the first time recently and there's a short arc where after one of the detectives learns what texting is, he proposes identifying the villain's cell phone by checking who was texting in the area at that time. His partner scoffs and asks him, "Do you have any idea how many people in the country are texting at a time? It must be thousands!!" Later, they go to the phone company, and are floored when the representative tells them that with a subpoena, they can obtain every single text message that someone has sent in the last month.
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Greg12 posted:the idea that certain tastes are only for certain skin colors Eh... The song isn't really about a white guy who likes stuff "for black people." It's about a clueless white guy emulating what he thinks "black culture" is. For example, "he needs some cool times tunes, not just any will suffice, but they didn't have Ice Cube, so he bought Vanilla Ice." There's also the fact that the song calls him a wannabe who's faking at being cool. But hey, hey, do that brand new thing.
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# ? May 4, 2020 21:34 |
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wizzardstaff posted:Is this a warm-up to an argument about who's allowed to say the n-word? nah A racist song mocking white people who don't "act right" by only listening to distortion guitar music will probably seem as strange as Pat Boone covering songs by objectively better black singers seems to us. So will a song, racist or otherwise, mocking people for being "trendy" and doing that brand new thing. also I thought that song was mocking white guys who act chicano (and latino people by extension) because the chorus seemed so stupid and racist that I never listened to the verses, because they're from Orange County, and because "uno dos tres quattro cinco cinco seis," so what the gently caress do I know?
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yet at the same time recognising that they probably had sex with other people before that, or it wouldn't be necessary to test... Yeah the Olden Times presumption is that the couple hasn't had sex with one another yet, and therefore, both are presuming virginity of the other, and the test will determine if one of them lied and in so doing, got a disease. Of course either could have gotten tested for syphilis or whatever beforehand, if they had had premarital sex and not lied about it, but the test is protecting both parties in the nuptials from the potentially deadly lie and disease of the other. It all rests on the premise that the test isn't too late to matter, e.g., the couple hasn't hosed yet. And otherwise, getting tested for "VD" (especially by men, when talking to their male doctors, esp. soldiers coming home from war etc.) was totally a thing, but prior to AIDS, most anything you could get was non-deadly. The "free love" period of the 70s was fully killed in the 1980s by the sudden realization that promiscuity could legit kill you. The promotion of the principle of getting tested before having sex with a new partner that came out of the AIDS epidemic has fully infiltrated society to the point where you call it 'sexual health 101', rightly so; before the mid '80s, it totally wasn't though. The presumption was that decent folk didn't sleep around and didn't have VD.
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:04 |
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It’s a song about a guy who’s trying to act cool without understanding any of the stuff that he thinks is cool. You’re really trying to force a specific intent to it by saying stuff like Greg12 posted:nah The whole point is that he has no idea what he’s doing, not that white people shouldnt listen to rap.
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:06 |
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Greg12 posted:A racist song mocking white people who don't "act right" by only listening to distortion guitar music will probably seem as strange as Pat Boone covering songs by objectively better black singers seems to us. https://youtu.be/jvlt6POm-lc
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You could also have congenital syphilis, for example. That was the ostensible reason for testing and often the actual reason. Even if you were already loving and both had it, they wanted to test you and cure you before you started making babies. Because babies with syphilis can be hosed up in a wide variety of ways, and often just dead.
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