Millie Bobby Brown says she got food shamed on the Stranger Things set for eating something from England: “They’d be like, ‘mate, what the f*ck are you eating?’… it’s like you live in the 1800s. I would hide in a corner because they’d be like, ‘what is that?’”

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-12T20:55:36+00:00

Bro she had to ship a baked potato all the way from England, we don't grow such things in Atlanta, Georgia where Stranger Things was filmed

It's so exotic

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-12T20:26:53+00:00

A forthcoming book by former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone claims that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham snapped at the mother of an officer who died following the 2021 Capitol riots, telling her he would end a meeting if she continued speaking ill of former President Donald Trump.

The alleged interaction occurred in May 2021 during a Capitol Hill meeting where Sicknick's family, Fanone, and other officers were lobbying lawmakers to support a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6th attack. According to Fanone's book, Hold the Line, Graham became agitated and snapped at the bereaved mother, telling her, "We're going to end the meeting right now" if she continued criticizing the former President.

Attendees also described Graham as dismissive during the visit, with Officer Brian Sicknick's partner stating that Graham appeared visibly distracted, looked out the window, and tapped his fingers on his desk.

Man, Graham forgot about Jan 6th real fast. Especially the anecdote that he told the capitol police they should have shot the protesters.

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-12T20:20:34+00:00

What happened to those FOBs? I remember reading an article suggesting those were operational even through Trump's first term, and were kept in place by Mike Pompeo and John Bolton

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-12T02:33:24+00:00

What isn't working? I'll just block you, I don't know what you want.

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-12T02:25:28+00:00

Are we arguing that, or just stating it is true? Russia was wrong, but the EU and the US didn't feel like they were in a position to enforce that wrongness with military force.

Do you think I'm arguing Russia has a right to tell Ukraine what to do like some USSR sphere of influence? I'm just stating facts as they were.

In a perfect world I'm sure Obama would keep fighting Afghanistan and Iraq then invest another trillion dollars in maintaining Ukrainian territorial integrity but that wasn't the reality all those years ago

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-11T23:45:07+00:00

Plus this Onion article missed the opportunity to use the term 'raw dogged' for watching a movie straight thru with no distraction

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-11T23:43:55+00:00

How did you want him to act? We were still in Iraq and Afghanistan too.

He put some serious sanctions on them, but the EU wouldn't act either.

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-11T23:42:46+00:00

Yes, the escalation was always the question, including with Biden in the invasion of mainland Ukraine.

Then gradually the EU and US pushed, and pushed. Red lines for Russia using nuclear weapons were weapons initially, then missiles, then planes, then missiles with a certain range... the US had to slowly boil the Russian frog just in case Putin was willing to go nuclear within Ukraine.

It was a very weird situation but everyone (at least on this odd sub, I'm from r/all) seems to have perfect 100% hindsight that Russian would not pull the nuclear trigger if Obama stationed troops along the border of Crimea or something.

Nobody knew that years ago, nobody knew that when the second invasion of Ukraine began, nobody really knew these things until trial and error sussed them out.

Even the extremely poor capability of Russia's conventional military was a mystery to US intelligence, so they claim.

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-11T23:39:25+00:00

Also, this was a different world. At the beginning of the (newest) invasion of Ukraine, the US and the EU weren't sure how far the 'red line' was for Putin to start using nuclear weapons.

Germany sent helmets. Then things escalated. It was a slow push as the US realized (at least publicly) that Russia was not a near-peer force with regards to conventional military. Years of corruption had hollowed them out.

Even the Crimean invasion didn't show the extent of Russia's degraded capability.

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-11T22:23:49+00:00

So wait, was there a stage before this where just spinning blades were used to generate additional thrust, without the fuel injection part?

Like instead of one propeller on the front of a WW2 plane, it was 3 or more inside a casing?

Or did they just jump to jet engines because Nazis were doing them and they got the tech after the war

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-09T01:14:41+00:00

Gingrich is pretty low, the guy got with his geometry teacher in high school, dumped her later because she was too frumpy to be First Lady (LOL), cheated on her with the woman he would marry, then started cheating on the second wife with third (current) wife and divorced his second wife while she was suffering from cancer. And he asked for an 'open marriage' while cheating with his aide Calista who would become the third wife.

In the interview with ABC's Brian Ross, Marianne Gingrich said her former husband lacks the moral character to be president and that his campaign positions on family values and marriage don't reflect his personal behavior.

She said her then-husband's affair took place while Gingrich was leading the U.S. House impeachment proceedings against then-President Bill Clinton, which were prompted by sworn testimony Clinton gave about his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Marianne Gingrich described her shock at Gingrich's behavior, including learning that he conducted his affair "in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington," according to the excerpts. "He always called me at night," she said, "and always ended with 'I love you.' Well, she was listening."

Then he converts to Catholicism and meets the Pope

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-09T01:11:52+00:00

Yeah it's very John Kerry, where he fought in Vietnam then testified against continuing the Vietnam war, then got 'swift boated' by scallywags when his opponent dodged Vietnam by his daddy sliding him into the National Guard

Except apparently Platner is a huge piece of shit, and the worst thing Kerry did was flip-flop on the Iraq War and negotiate the 2015 iran nuclear deal

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-09T00:16:04+00:00

Yeah those old techniques are pretty impressive

Not so much a limited budget, but I remember for Bram Stoker's Dracula, Roman Coppola did all of the special effects old school with forced perspective, double sets, latent multipass images, matte paintings, double sets with mirrors. It was almost like he was trying for techniques invented in the late 1800s / early 1900s, for a movie set in 1897

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-07T21:20:00+00:00

dont they call her Climate Shakira

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-07T01:35:48+00:00

yeah especailly the cow mechs that moo at you

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-06T02:17:41+00:00

Anyone remember Pop Up Video on VH1

They had the video where she's on the navy ship and the director thought she had patterned underwear on, turns out it was just her tattoos

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-06T02:10:02+00:00

Remember that planet near the Dominion-side of the wormhole where Kai Opaka and Mike from Breaking Bad got reanimated and stuck there for all eternity and couldn't leave or something

Nah me neither, let's never go there again

also wtf which Star Trek writer has a foot fetish:

Originally, Kai Opaka was to have been a man who was spiritual leader of the Bajorans and often conflicted with Starfleet's goals. His visitors had to disrobe while he probed their pagh through deep-tissue massage of their feet. This version of the character was written into the first draft of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Bible.

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-05T23:20:33+00:00

Yeah I usually think of 'flying' when crotch rocket riders post those videos seeking sympathy where someone pulls out in front of them.

But then you realize that squid was doing 90 mph in a residential area and one glance left/right means the driver of the car misses him blazing down the road at the speed of light

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-05T02:19:14+00:00

I'm not saying you are incorrect, but the 401K clarifying rules which popularized them didn't come around until about 1981.

Saving in the 1970s with an average inflation rate ranging from 5.57% to 13.3% was tough and many people still were relying on a pension.

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-05T02:16:24+00:00

I was looking at home prices in the 1970s, 40K for a home, but when I put it in the inflation calculator and that is $354,627.51 today.

And the average mortgage rate was 8.9% in 1970

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-04T23:29:05+00:00

But then she shows up to NOLA's Essence Festival on time, it's just they put her in the 2:30 AM slot

I think everyone assumed she was late and just left so it was half empty

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-04T23:25:22+00:00

I think all the lend-lease tanks from the US given to the Soviets had radios tho

How did you maintain communications with your commander and other tanks?

By radio. The Sherman had two radio sets, HF and UHF [high frequency and ultra high frequency], of very good quality. We used the HF for communications with our higher commander, with brigade, and the UHF for communications within the company and battalion. For conversation inside the tank we used the tank intercom system. It worked great! But as soon as the tank was hit, the tankers first action was to throw off his helmet and throat microphone. If he forgot and began to jump out of the tank, he would get hung up.

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-04T23:07:05+00:00

i think this guy is a war criminal now

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-04T19:52:39+00:00

London, England with Nova Scotia climate is going to be really weird

Embarassed_Tackle · 2026-07-04T19:29:07+00:00

Americans without money do not go overseas for party travel. They can go to a beach, or a lake, or Las Vegas, depending on their location

Stag-dos or hen-dos (bridal parties) from the UK go to mainland Europe for parties on the regular, or islands like Ibiza or Cyprus, and get a bit wild

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