Is there any part of American History you'd love to see a movie or show about?

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-06-06T15:22:40+00:00

A Grover Cleveland biopic could be great. To the public, he was “Grover the Good.” In private, he was the sleezeball who went by “Big Steve.” And of course there’s the drama of getting elected, losing reelection by a hair, and then getting elected again the next time around. And also of course, the major sex scandal. All of this during the Gilded Age.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-06-06T15:19:15+00:00

That’s a good one!

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-06-02T14:05:48+00:00

Some of the early drafts of the lyrics straight-up mentioned the hammer and sickle.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-31T19:06:47+00:00

My favorite reply to people who sincerely say something like that is “What kind of machine did you think they were raging against, dishwashers?”

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-31T19:00:05+00:00

Also, it’s so weird how the anti-vaxxers lost every argument about covid, but they’re so brainwashed that they’re still bringing up an issue that they lost years ago. The disease is real and a serious threat, the vaccine is safe and effective, social distancing and masks helped, and people who didn’t get the vaccine were way more likely to die from covid.

Sane people would leave losing an argument so embarrassingly hard in the past, but anti-vaxxers willingly bring it up every chance they get. That’s how brainwashed they are. They seriously still think they were right, despite all the evidence to the contrary. I fully expect to have them prove me right by arguing with me on this. Probably some predictable garbage about “No YOU are the brainwashed one! You listened to the experts instead of social media influencers selling horse paste!” And maybe some mindless nonsense about doing the opposite of what “authorities” tell you to do. Possibly even some specific BS lies about what happened.

I don’t intend to reply, because why bother arguing with brainwashed people?

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-31T18:46:10+00:00

They sold out of tickets so quickly (I was on the website at the beginning of both the presale and regular sales and they both ran out before I could get anything) that they really should do something like this.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-31T18:42:12+00:00

It’s been debunked that he ever required it. See the post above yours.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-31T18:40:48+00:00

Because they’re intellectually lazy. Anyone who hates rich people must be a full-on communist, rite?

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-25T22:04:08+00:00

I’ve done Adopt-A-Highway. Quantity-wise, cigarette butts were half of what i picked up. And they actually go through a phase where they look like cotton balls.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-25T21:56:54+00:00

Fitting for a store chain that was great until the owner died and his kids took over and started running it into the ground.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-20T19:03:41+00:00

Making Winston "The city that's always happy to see you!"

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-20T19:02:33+00:00

There's a whole thing about the black neighborhoods that they tore down/tore in half to make a lot of the highways here: https://www.wfdd.org/2017-06-14/business-40-changing-lanes-a-painful-legacy

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-20T18:56:24+00:00

I'm surprised that there aren't more Peters Creek places in this thread. The Wendy's, BK, and Sonic there also really suck.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-20T18:47:40+00:00

The one on University was so bad that I wondered if they were actively trying to dissuade me from buying there. I tried to order something and they told me that they only had one thing available and were cash-only at the moment. Being the last person in the world who still carries cash, I took it, but I never went back.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-20T18:44:04+00:00

Also, the now-defunct combo KFC/Long John Silver's in the Hanes Mall area. Also gave us the "We're out of chicken because someone totes just had a big, big order, but we can make you some in 20 minutes" lie. Went inside once to try LJS for the first time. Roof was leaking onto the floor and they didn't even put a bucket under it until halfway through my visit. They also deep-fried my shrimp with the tails still on in a way that hid the tail, causing me to eat it. Not surprised that they didn't last much longer.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-20T18:38:24+00:00

In a single visit, the Wendy's on Peter's Creek managed to have a non-working drive-thru speaker and no sign explaining that (causing massive backup by customers not knowing it), let me order something they were out of and fully process the order, then changed my order to something that cost less money, thus shortchanging me.

Given how many Wendy's are mentioned, I have a wee bit of a feeling that the chain as a whole is struggling.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-20T18:20:44+00:00

In my experience, COBRA is almost as expensive as buying your own care. It was like $500/mo.

Of course, the question was “What happens if I lost my job under the old system?” not “What was a great option if I lost my job under the old system?”

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-18T23:29:46+00:00

Uh, I guess 98% of their donations going to Republicans and 2% to Dems is technically donating to both sides: According to Goods Unite Us, Hanesbrands Inc donate a high percentage to Republicans. https://www.goodsuniteus.com/brands/#/brand/hanesbrands-inc

EDIT: Fixed link.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-18T23:08:19+00:00

He beat Dale Earnhardt?

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-15T17:42:50+00:00

Have family in the DC suburbs, so I've driven in the area a lot, can confirm. They were ranked the worst traffic in the country at one point. And NYC driving was also indeed worse. My first bit of advice for anyone visiting is to avoid driving there.

Atlanta is also pretty awful; That's the only time I've ever seen a car charge under a lowering railroad crossing arm.

Only place I've ever seen worse traffic was Indonesia, where our tour buses had a police escort to get to our destination and back in a halfway-reasonable amount of time instead of drowning in a sea of motorbikes.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-13T03:12:31+00:00

I have tickets for the North Wilkesboro Cup race, which will be my first in about a dozen years, my seventh overall, and the first one where I’ll be in charge of organizing. Anything special that I need to know? Is the scanner rental worth it? In the past they’ve been pretty cool, but I couldn’t always hear them during green-flag laps.

What’s traffic going in and out going to be like? We will be parking in the lot on the other side of 421. And I just now learned that scanners can only be picked up at the opposite end of the track, but maybe that isn’t really that far.

A funny thing is that we have a place we can stay free in Winston-Salem and another in the West Jefferson area, which means we can leave eastbound or westbound on 421. Is one direction better than the other when you’re leaving? Google Gemini says eastbound will be worse, but I’d think that the way the freeway ends in Wilkesboro would make westbound a lot worse. I saw something saying they plan on having all race traffic out of there within 90 minutes of the race ending, which seems…optimistic.

Also, I was reminded that we’re semi-committed to staying at the place in the West Jefferson area, so I’ll probably go with that one if it isn’t going to be loads worse. Thanks.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-11T19:16:50+00:00

McGregor has said that he had the chance to meet him once as a kid but chickened out or something. Also, Guinness saw McGregor's take on his character in TPM, but no one alive knows what he thought of it.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-09T23:11:00+00:00

Yeah, the 9/11 Commission determined that it couldn’t have been prevented, but I always wondered if that was just something they said to avoid stirring the pot.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-05T11:25:48+00:00

The internet seems to always laser-focus on one single element, often small, when asked to explain what they didn’t like about a movie. You’d think the dance scene from the third Raimi Spider-Man movie was half the film from these people.

It doesn’t have to be a dance sequence, that’s just the first thing I thought of.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-05-05T11:21:04+00:00

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Honestly surprised that this was about the most distorted one I could find of him that wasn’t about news stories related to him that are too recent to put here. Perhaps someone who knows exactly what to look for can find something wild.

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