@Catseye3 said in Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone: I just spent a couple of minutes watching the action. Crowds, energy, lots of capering around like kids released from school for summer break. I'm with Loki. That novelty excitement will die down pretty quick. People will start recalling the crap that infiltrated their lives before: Annoying boy/girlfriends, annoying parents, fear of parental punishment when they go back home, job loss (money) worries -- all the boring mundane stuff that they in their initial effervescence were too glad to escape will loom real once again. Especially as the inconveniences encroach more. "Eh, what's a little street gravel" will turn into, "Eww, what's that?" I don't feel quite as disapproving as some in here, maybe because I still remember these shows from when I was also young and wild. Okay, I was never wild; wildish. I never took part in them myself, but I smoked with 'em, you bet, and I remember the joyful recklessness in their faces. Feeling kind of nostalgic, actually. Yes, I think their commitment will wane very shortly and they will miss their own futons. This is a tantrum, and poorly designed at that. Yes, they are, for all intents and purposes, today's hippies. Even when I rather looked like one I disliked hippies. Naive and loopy, the kind of idiots who were astonished when they were actually arrested for various and sundry illegal things. But I was much more of a street kid anyway.

@Mik said in My Favorite Redhead has hidden talents!: Oh, same here. It was down past my shoulders when younger. But being able to cover my ears is very long for now! I considered just letting it go but it was a pain. Gotta cross the threshold.

I've been replying weekly with the updates, it just makes it easier to find if I do a reply instead of an edit. It might be time to quit, COVID's not very interesting anymore. I should probably turn the page, and spend more time with the potential civil war and the election. We'll get back to the Wu Flu when we have the massive outbreak that is going to happen when they start playing football.

@Loki said in He Owes His Career to Her ...: What is the bachelor? Since this announcement it is one of the most important TV shows in the whole wide world.

@Aqua-Letifer Sorry, never have use before.

Meh, the real problem was that somewhere along the way she forgot to continue to develop Ron and he became comic relief. You could see the path she was headed in with him, but quite frankly, she never rounded him out. Instead of more of the boy that played the most brilliant game of Wizards Chess Hogwart’s had ever seen, we got too much of the kid who was barfing up slugs because of his wand backfiring over and over. Instead of the boy that played an astounding game of quidditch when his confidence was up and learning from that, they focused too hard in the movies of how ridiculous he was before that, then had him acting like a complete fool with Lavender. It was much worse in the movies than it was in the books. Ron was supposed to kind of encapsulate a little of the best of the Weasley boys. Not quote as athletic as Charlie, but a little better more than the others, not quite as cool as Bill, but maybe a little more adept than Percy and the twins. He carried some of Percy’s nature for leadership (Prefect) while also being willing to break the rules like Fred & George. He always felt lost in the middle of all of them, but ultimately should have been the best of them. He was a good enough Wizard to get all of his OWL’s necessary to pursue a career as an Auror, yet they always made him out to be a joke as a Wizard. I blame the movies. Ron was developing in the books, but by the time you got to the last 2 books, the movies were catching up and I think the movie characterization of Ron as a screwup and as comic relief influenced Rowling. Plus, it was helped that the actor became rather goofy looking as an adult...

@Jolly said in Cultural Appropriation: BTW, lot of muttering in the trucker community. Because of the volatility of some of these protests, some guys are turning down loads to certain cities. There was a "march" in our town this week. It lasted from 12PM to 2PM. That evening, the Mrs. and I decided to order in via Doordash. About half an hour after placing the order (for a 6PM delivery) I got a text saying, without explanation, that my order was cancelled. When I inquired why, I was told that delivery guys will not go to locations where a "demonstration" is being held.

Love the comments: "Whilst my lute doth gently weep", circa 17th century, traditional This takes me back to a simpler time back 1422, we use to listen for hours in the parlor... “M’lord he has playethed the Tritone! Send him to the rack!”

Impressive! Congrats.

Mystic chord. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_chord

Still would have been able to tell you with utter certainty that such videos were a thing.

Who 'da man, WHO 'DA MAN!! Ax 'da man. AX 'DA MAN!!! Polyester it is, and don't any of the rest of you try to talk me out of it.

@LuFins-Dad said in It was inevitable....: @Aqua-Letifer said in It was inevitable....: @Horace gets it. I cast Magic Missile. With Empowered Spell. Motherfuckers. Sorry, but you really should have spent more time time reading your spell book and less time reading Elf Fragility. The spell backfires... Well now, you seem to be as despotic as my department head, except at work, all quests are pathetic and there's no experience to be gained, anywhere, ever.

Funny, earlier today I listened to Lisitsa play a Beethoven Sonata on the opposite end of the scale - Op 106

I will continue to consider an IFR which applies to all age groups as very close to meaningless.

That's the most awesome thing I will see this year.

@89th said in Robert E Lee: @Larry Good post. "Ax"