@Mik said in Stranger Things: I watched a couple episodes over Christmas. Meh. Reminds me of Lost vapid and spins and really goes nowhere. They had 3 years to get it right… I wonder if that was actually too long? They were reportedly still writing the last episode during filming. Maybe they had too many ideas and got indecisive?

And yes I'll die on the hill that the Ossia Cadenza is MUCH better than the cheap Tocatta Cadenza.

I remember him getting cucked while he was a politician, by an elderly female who called him out in some town hall. That probably stung. We talked about it here at the time.

Yeah basically a return to the way it was in the 19th and early 20th century.

It is funny how reading something like this posting can trigger a memory. Long long long time ago, I was kind of remote location and the office had a library and one of the books that I read was "The Marsh Arabs". It focused on the people in Iraq rather than Iran, but there were probably a similar group in Iran also. I hadn't thought about that book in years. LOL During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq—long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein—Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Traveling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicine and treating the sick. In this account of a nearly lost civilization, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage, and endurance of the people, and describes their impressive reed houses, the waterways and lakes teeming with wildlife, the herding of buffalo and hunting of wild boar, moments of tragedy, and moments of pure comedy in vivid, engaging detail.

Even the “small” gambling called Fantasy Sports completely destabilizes trust.

It's just another tax on motorists. London has an inner Congestion charge, an outer ULEZ (ultra low emission zone). We are taxed for use of the road, on buying insurance, on buying petrol/gas, now taxed for just being in certain places and for polluting certain places.

Skilled comedian, obviously juggling well within his limits. I've seen him do his motorbike juggle, classic clowning

Very nice.

It could certainly reduce routine PCP visits.

That lady was quite frisky.

I guess it gives you what it thinks you can absorb.

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@jon-nyc said in From my sister who works at the sheriffs office: My sister was a dispatcher aged 24 when 'The Gainesville Ripper' serial killer hacked up five co-eds about her age. The movie 'Scream' is based on him. That freaked her out. She had details that no one sane wants to hear. Some day, if she's still willing to talk, I will be willing to listen.

lol

TARS told me earlier that SCOTUS has been reluctant to address such a topic.

We won after all!

RIP Scott Adams. NYT obit gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/arts/scott-adams-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFA.SuLG.fk_J3jikMa77&smid=url-share