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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 16, 2020 20:11:25 GMT -5
It's being reported that the current administration in the U.S. had a definite policy of "we want them infected", which seems to have included personally ridiculing people for wearing masks and making the wearing or not wearing political, for a kind of herd immunity non-plan such as Sweden abandoned. I'm presently worried about two different wheelchair bound friends who were forcibly exposed by non-maskers in their buildings' elevators, it's an awful thing to feel lives are in the hands of fanatical or simply totally careless idiots.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2020 0:01:26 GMT -5
So I heard someone say "It happened in the late 1900s" today. God that makes me feel ancient.
There I said it.
-M
*someone else referred to that phrase earlier this week in a joke, but I actually heard someone use it today-a customer at work*
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 18, 2020 8:55:30 GMT -5
So I heard someone say "It happened in the late 1900s" today. God that makes me feel ancient. There I said it. -M *someone else referred to that phrase earlier this week in a joke, but I actually heard someone use it today-a customer at work* To my addled brain, "1984" is still set in the future. "Space 1999", "2001: a space odyssey" and "2010" even more so. Even worse... yesterday I watched a few Youtube videos about people whose face became memes. Those babies who set houses on fire or victoriously pumped their fist? All grown up now. How can that be? This whole internet thingie was invented, like, two weeks ago or something!!! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 18, 2020 9:41:20 GMT -5
So I heard someone say "It happened in the late 1900s" today. God that makes me feel ancient. There I said it. -M *someone else referred to that phrase earlier this week in a joke, but I actually heard someone use it today-a customer at work* To my addled brain, "1984" is still set in the future. "Space 1999", "2001: a space odyssey" and "2010" even more so. Even worse... yesterday I watched a few Youtube videos about people whose face became memes. Those babies who set houses on fire or victoriously pumped their fist? All grown up now. How can that be? This whole internet thingie was invented, like, two weeks ago or something!!! I hate to break this to you, but it’s been well over twenty years since I started posting at CBR. Oy! |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 18, 2020 10:15:53 GMT -5
To my addled brain, "1984" is still set in the future. "Space 1999", "2001: a space odyssey" and "2010" even more so. Even worse... yesterday I watched a few Youtube videos about people whose face became memes. Those babies who set houses on fire or victoriously pumped their fist? All grown up now. How can that be? This whole internet thingie was invented, like, two weeks ago or something!!! I hate to break this to you, but it’s been well over twenty years since I started posting at CBR. Oy! The idea that Mark Waid's Kingdom Come was what caused CBR to exist still amazes me, since I view that series as fairly recent. Tempus fugit like it has no business to!!! |
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Post by brutalis on Dec 18, 2020 12:01:07 GMT -5
Is Santa Claus magic strong enough to prevent him getting Covid? And if NOT, does that make him the biggest (ho ho ha) Covid spreader in the WORLD since he visits EVERY home in the world? There, I asked it!?!
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Post by junkmonkey on Dec 18, 2020 13:16:06 GMT -5
The day I really realised I was getting on was the day, a couple of years ago, that I realised that I was as old as half way to the Victorian era.
Queen Victoria Died in 1901.
I was born 58 years later in 1959.
In 2018 I was 59... |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2020 13:26:39 GMT -5
My favourite band, Duran Duran was in the studio exactly 40 years ago in Dec 1980 recording their first album. My mum used to see them play in the very early days in the Rum Runner club in Birmingham when she was in her late teens. I adore 80s music....I don't care if that makes me sound old, I will leave instructions to play "girls on film" at my funeral and go out with a bang.
There, I have my vinyl ready.
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Post by impulse on Dec 18, 2020 13:41:19 GMT -5
What boggles my mind is the sheer breadth of diversity of 80s music. It's absolutely wild to think these songs were all released in 1986 by bands that are household names today.
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Post by junkmonkey on Dec 18, 2020 14:08:53 GMT -5
Is 'Slayer' a household name? I've never heard of them.
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Post by impulse on Dec 18, 2020 14:16:07 GMT -5
They are one of the more famous metal bands out there and have been since the 80s and 90s, but I can see how they might not make the radar of folks not specifically into the heavy music scene. Ok, replace them with these guys who I am confident almost anyone who is remotely aware of mainstream music over the last few decades has heard of. Also 1986.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2020 14:25:46 GMT -5
I think Megadeth is my #1 metal act of the 80s....
But I'm not playing Into the lungs of hell this month....
There, I put on chirpy Christmas music instead.
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Post by impulse on Dec 18, 2020 14:28:33 GMT -5
I think Megadeth is my #1 metal act of the 80s.... But I'm not playing Into the lungs of hell this month.... There, I put on chirpy Christmas music instead.
Most days you ask me, they are my favorite band overall, but that is always a moving target. Though yeah, during the current COVID climate, I think I might leave that song alone for a while... |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2020 15:23:59 GMT -5
I think Megadeth is my #1 metal act of the 80s.... But I'm not playing Into the lungs of hell this month.... There, I put on chirpy Christmas music instead.
Most days you ask me, they are my favorite band overall, but that is always a moving target. Though yeah, during the current COVID climate, I think I might leave that song alone for a while... Yeah, go for this instead... |
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Post by Batflunkie on Dec 18, 2020 20:08:47 GMT -5
If movies aren't remastered it makes little sense transfering grainy old film to blu-ray because there's no HD.
Regular Shogun Assassin on blu-ray sucks.
Remastered....not bad.
There, I said it with Lone Wolf.
I wish more effort was done to preserve English dubs of older foreign films. Yes, they're by no means perfect, but I grew up on the dubs for Return Of The Street Fighter and Legend Of The 8 Samurai. They're very important to me
And who knows what happened to the American dub of the first Mad Max movie?
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