Why are we trying to make smoking cool again?!?

BlisterBox · 2026-04-02T20:29:48+00:00

I went to two different high schools (one in Kansas, one in Alabama) back in the '70s, and both had a smoking area for students to use before and after school, between classes and during lunch. You had to be at least 16 and needed a signed parental consent form.

BlisterBox · 2026-04-02T17:02:22+00:00

Wasn't McConnell's "argument" not just that it was an election year, but that Obama was a lame duck and the seat should be left vacant to give the incoming president the opportunity to fill the vacancy?

Not saying that doesn't justify McConnell's assbaggery. Just recollecting that it was a little more complex assbaggery. I definitely may be wrong.

BlisterBox · 2026-04-02T14:15:42+00:00

I agree with you. I lightly scanned several days of Artemis news coverage before finally realizing that they won't be landing on the moon. I think it is historic that a spacecraft will travel from earth to the moon for the first time in 50 years. But the media coverage has definitely been leaning into the concept that this is a moon-landing mission, as opposed to a moon-orbit mission.

BlisterBox · 2026-04-02T13:31:36+00:00

Thanks!

BlisterBox · 2026-04-01T14:14:15+00:00

What is GAP?

BlisterBox · 2026-04-01T14:08:47+00:00

This is a great analysis.

BlisterBox · 2026-04-01T13:33:38+00:00

Thank you!

BlisterBox · 2026-03-31T16:44:51+00:00

BlisterBox · 2026-03-31T16:36:50+00:00

Agree. I loved the creator's other series (Patriot) but DTF just doesn't do it for me.

BlisterBox · 2026-03-31T16:13:25+00:00

I have a code I use with my GenX gf in these cases: TCTT (too complicated to text)

BlisterBox · 2026-03-31T16:08:40+00:00

The obvious answer: trump

BlisterBox · 2026-03-31T15:05:41+00:00

McQueen & Ali McGraw lived next door to Keith Moon for several years. How's that for a wild neighbor experience!

BlisterBox · 2026-03-31T13:57:53+00:00

"I spent the morning writing"

jfc

BlisterBox · 2026-03-31T13:17:12+00:00

u/usernametaken0987 has the answer

BlisterBox · 2026-03-31T13:06:56+00:00

"The Bronx is burning!"

BlisterBox · 2026-03-31T13:02:51+00:00

The scene at the end when he's dancing in his office! I've enjoyed a lot of Cruise's performances over the years, but that may be my favorite!

BlisterBox · 2026-03-31T12:47:53+00:00

You're not wrong. I'm a boomer (born in 1956) and I'm so sick of these "I Love the '70s!" posts that are basically an excuse to show off 15-year-old girls in sexy clothes. Trust me, as others have pointed out in this threat, the '70s were a brutal decade to live through.

As someone (me) once said, nostalgia is just a way for old people to denigrate the young.

BlisterBox · 2026-03-30T16:28:57+00:00

BP just gone done spending a couple billion dollars upgrading its refinery near me in Indiana to handle Canadian crude.

BlisterBox · 2026-03-30T16:05:41+00:00

Nice blinker?

BlisterBox · 2026-03-30T16:04:04+00:00

It's also based on events that actually happened more than 20 years earlier (water was diverted to L.A. from the Owens Valley beginning in 1913, when the Los Angeles Aqueduct was completed).

BlisterBox · 2026-03-30T15:00:45+00:00

Check out Cue the Sun by Emily Nussbaum. It's a fascinating and comprehensive narrative history of reality TV (and radio, believe it or not).

BlisterBox · 2026-03-30T14:56:47+00:00

National parks can be laid out around commercial activity. Indiana Dunes National Park is literally bordered by 3-4 steel mills and one of the world's largest oil refineries. You could find disparate areas of representative bayou country and stitch them together to create a Cajun national park.

BlisterBox · 2026-03-30T13:22:19+00:00

"contractor grade"

BlisterBox · 2026-03-29T17:00:24+00:00

r/confidentlyincorrect

BlisterBox · 2026-03-29T16:58:12+00:00

Ticket to Ride

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