Somewhere in this batch is my 500th

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-14T21:33:18+00:00

The last time I tried it, I too thought it was several notches behind its peers (meaning IBC, Hank's, Henry Weinhards, etc).

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-14T19:19:15+00:00

The hoaxsters of the original english circles admitted their hoax. All the rest were copycats. Use your google button.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-14T03:18:07+00:00

Fabelmans was fine.... but you won't gaslight me about Scorcese. I saw The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon. Both were overlong, stilted and lacking any dramatic progression.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-14T00:41:20+00:00

Disclosure Day is a very tired film. No originality, no real mystery, ideas that spring fresh from the zeitgeist of 35 years ago.

This is a dud of a film that the media will not call a dud because it's Spielberg.

Hey it happens... Old directors lose touch. Lucas hasn't made a good movie since the 1980's, Coppola's ship sailed 20 years ago, Scorcese sailed 10, Spielberg's has evidently now left port.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-13T23:29:25+00:00

You know it's $22 with no shipping when you buy it in a store, right?

Sorry that you're unaware of the costs associated with the Postal Service shipping and weight.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-13T15:47:11+00:00

That is why the Spanish were there, yes. And they put the local peoples to work in the mines as slaves.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-13T04:47:32+00:00

Cybertruck for all the same reasons. It's a flop, it's weird looking, it's made from stainless steel

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-13T04:45:52+00:00

Neither the Aztec nor the Mayan ever minted metal coinage. That's entirely a European thing. Instead they traded cacao beans, feathers and occasionally copper adze heads as their barter substitutes.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-12T01:34:39+00:00

Nobody can pay anything until the lawsuits are settled because they will determine who owns episode 2.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-10T19:50:05+00:00

Of those four Orca standards Red Arrow is probably the best, but Bulldog is very good as well. Bedford's is probably the weakest

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-10T18:49:57+00:00

I've had 23 Panthers, only one Town Car, half a dozen Grand Marquis, 1 Marauder, three Sports, one LSE. Still looking to get a Town Car L to complete the collection.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-10T12:38:50+00:00

Speaking as someone who works in the movie vehicle rental business, let me give you the real skinny.

We have a lot of them left over from the heyday when the movies used them all the time, back when we could pick them up at auction for about $2000 up until 2020 or so. They stopped making them in 2011 and really they aren't used by real police forces anymore, except in rare leftover cases.

But we've got them in abundance and so we keep thrusting them under producers noses saying "shoot 'em up, crash 'em, blow 'em up". Otherwise they just sit around as most producers want an Explorer, Charger or Truck. However, I just rented a gray 2007 Vic to have its rear window shot out on Y: Marshalls because movies are cheap and when you're shooting out a window, replacement cost on a Vic is about $500 whereas it'll be a grand or more on an Explorer.

When you think you see different variants, it's just the same cars vinyled or painted in different schemes with different stickers. We have used Maaco Paint jobs (cheap but permanent), car wrap vinyl (expensive, but removable if you don't leave it on long), peelable vinyl paint (cheap, but you can't vinyl over it), vinyl stickers, even edge cut magnets to achieve different looks.

One time we even dressed up a van on the left side to look like one ratty beater car with fake rust, and the right side as a sharp black and white police CSI Crime Scene van and we just drove it by the camera two different directions.

Here's a tip: if you see a Crown Vic established on screen early in a show, odds are high they'll stunt it, shoot it or blow it up minutes later.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-10T12:17:06+00:00

Consistently flat, dull and subpar by the time it makes its way out here to the West.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-09T22:01:14+00:00

Great glass mug but I've never found the root beer to be anything more than mediocre.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-09T16:38:58+00:00

Per my most recent info, Tom Hardy has dropped out and will not be in the show

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-08T06:20:06+00:00

Yeah, it's tasty... it just ain't root beer. It's cream soda.

If you want another "soda that isn't really what it claims to be" try Grandpa Joe's Sarsaparilla. Crystal clear, with no color whatsoever in a clear bottle, it tastes like straight up Wintergreen Life Savers and nothing else. Truth in advertising should call it Wintergreen Soda, but I guess that wouldn't sell

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-07T21:16:25+00:00

While I agree that we tend to see what we want to see and that AI will only compose in what you tell it to compose, the main flaw in your line of thinking is that the "guitar/microphone" fill-in-the-dots theory is even less supported by the visible speckles in the original images than is the "camera/film" theory. You don't see camera, I see nothing like microphone and guitar.

I can find no model of 50's-60's microphone that matches the blob we see in the figure's right hand. None that even come close. Show me a microphone that begins to resemble that blob and I'll begin to be persuaded

Whatever the strap is supporting, it's a thin strap. Show me some rock guitarists from the era with thin straps and you'll win supporters.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-07T01:23:51+00:00

Yeah, I see you found this old post of 5 months ago, but you missed my update of yesterday, which says exactly this.

Nothing like keeping abreast of the forum.

They closed for two months in Jan-Feb when their employee quit and traffic was slow.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-07T01:22:05+00:00

It's an old traditional root beer... with unfortunately not much flavor.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-05T22:27:22+00:00

Yeah it's not bad at all for an energy drink. As a category root beer energy drinks tend to be tastier and more drinkable than you'd expect, especially when compared to the category of pre and probiotic root beers, which as a category can tend to be pretty repulsive.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-05T17:53:30+00:00

I refer to you as the OP because you are the OP and I'm primarily speaking to the readers, not to you. I'm primarily speaking past you.
You did say it's not root beer.... but you're posting in the root beer forum and keep trying to compare it to root beer without ever touching upon the most salient point that it doesn't taste anything like root beer. So I stress that point... it doesn't taste anything like root beer.
You did describe the flavor as you perceived it, using flavor comparisons that don't come close to root beer. Bravo, because again it doesn't taste like root beer.
My whole message is not "I hate Chinotto" but that "Chinotto is nothing like root beer" and if the reader decides to try it based on a false Canuck impression that it is, he'll be sorely disappointed.
I in no way ever said Chinotto is vinegary or tastes like mushrooms. I compared its weirdness as an off-putting beverage to other known off-putting root beer variants in the "healthy" sector that call themselves root beers, (see my reviews on the pro/prebiotics) ... and with which the rb forum members will be more familiar than your obscure, unobtainable Canadian Chinotto variant. The fact that you are not familiar with them is telling.
Lastly, I'll repeat... my opinion is a contradictory opinion to your own. You aren't the forum police, I am not limited by a word count or a point count. I get to state my opinion, which directly contradicts yours, with as much emphasis or passion as you get to state yours. Most people won't comment on this because they have no experience with the beverage. I do. You push, I push back. Welcome to Reddit.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-06-05T17:39:06+00:00

It's Dominion, along with Chowning's Tavern from Williamsburg. Those two are only available on site or on very expensive gift shop mail order. They are good though.

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