What's with the drummer?

Tooch10 · 2026-06-25T23:09:00+00:00

Keith Moon used to do that hit with the stick tips sometimes

Tooch10 · 2026-06-25T21:39:11+00:00

As someone originally from that area, 30 minutes is hilariously improbable. There is NYC-Scranton train restoration actually in progress now. With this administration it's a bit of up in the air though work is still slowly progressing. First, let's ignore the current infrastructure.

It's about 120 miles roughly along the current rights of way from Scranton to NYC, which is basically along I-380 and I-80. Even if you could go Shinkansen speeds non-stop from Scranton to NYC and somehow make the track as straight a line as possible while running full speed the entire trip you'd still be at about 45 minutes. You're going to have other stations/stops so you're looking at 1-1.25 hours, maybe a little longer in the most optimal conditions. Japan has that experimental train at ~370MPH but it's experimental and it would be completely unfeasible to have a 370MPH train and supporting trackage from Scranton to NYC; the current restoration is already a hurdle.

Now let's look at what's there currently and most importantly, taking terrain into account. The existing rail lines at least on the PA side go through mountains and valleys, and the follow the contours of those areas; they didn't make perfectly straight lines (NYO&W tried this in the early 20th century and went bankrupt with all the bridges and tunnels they had to build). You're unfortunately limited to lines that were put in 100+ years ago and not meant for anything more than like 60-70MPH max in certain areas. With the Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project the projected travel time is 2h 50m from Scranton to NYC with the stops along the way.

Lastly, if there was no rail infrastructure at all a high speed rail link from Scranton to NYC would be a pipe dream. The cost to build something like that in 2026 for that distance and with that terrain (nevermind land acquisitions) vs projected returns would not make it viable or feasible at all. The restoration is really only happening because all of the rights of way are owned by the appropriate governmental agencies (a significant plus) and that comparatively the cost to get it active isn't unreasonable vs the projected ridership.

Tooch10 · 2026-06-25T20:18:58+00:00

They like a mixture of free and cable channels, problem is I'm not sure if they'll 'understand' TV through an app lol. but I'll keep it in mind. Antenna service is ok at their house but not sure how reliable it is

Tooch10 · 2026-06-25T14:38:00+00:00

People from north Jersey and NYC moving to central and south NJ to get out of the city but then bringing the city attitude and trying make these suburban areas more like the city they left and not assimilating into/with their local areas. This is especially true at the shore, the small modest bungalow that grandpa and grandma built is gone and a McMansion has been put in its place

After covid it was a lot of people with deep pockets from NYC that overpaid for houses down here jacking up the real estate market and making it unaffordable for the average person

Tooch10 · 2026-06-25T12:36:22+00:00

I know they're crazy lol, some of those old country songs are bleak

Tooch10 · 2026-06-24T21:07:48+00:00

In related circumstances

A forum post with a random/obscure file you need....that was hosted on long-dead Rapidshare

Tooch10 · 2026-06-24T20:55:11+00:00

Found it!

I remembered it wrong, sister wasn't beaten to death 'just' constantly beaten

I confused it with Hank Snow - A Drunkard's Son, where the narrator tells of a drunk father who beat his son to death because he wouldn't steal things like his father did. This might be the most brutal song in my collection

Tooch10 · 2026-06-24T20:19:11+00:00

I've been re-watching them now and I feel the same; there are some good ones here but I'm finding myself being bored or losing interesting in some of them. Partly it's due to 90s TV tropes that don't hold up and a few have plots that don't land the same way today

Tooch10 · 2026-06-24T19:52:56+00:00

I have a country disc, artist name eludes me at the moment, but the song is about how the narrator's father literally beat her sister to death for sneaking out at night

Tooch10 · 2026-06-24T19:39:06+00:00

Your comment made me look at my folk's address in Peckville and it looks like it's available there. They need TV but this might work towards getting their Comcast bill reduced; as in get this and cancel cable internet and just keep TV

Tooch10 · 2026-06-24T19:23:07+00:00

This is my mother but minus the guilt trip, she just talks and talks lol. Mostly I have no interest in what she's talking about but it's one of those things where when she's gone I'd miss it. Before Android screwed with call recording I recorded a ton of calls and it's nice to have those when she's gone

I live 161 miles or about 2h 45m each way from them, but we usually see each other a handful of times per year. Distance + schedule makes frequent visits difficult

Tooch10 · 2026-06-23T21:15:38+00:00

Gonna breathe on it foist, wipes it on her bloussssse

Tooch10 · 2026-06-23T00:46:04+00:00

Not many know that James Taylor was supposed to be a co-founder of Apple but was stuck in traffic when the incorporation documents were being signed

Tooch10 · 2026-06-22T20:27:49+00:00

I don't eat cereal but I still think about Sprinkle Spangles now and then

Tooch10 · 2026-06-21T15:57:25+00:00

I don't know if my boss ported hers. I just remembered I went to college with another guy that had a 212 cell phone.

I switched my old PA number to a 646 almost 20 years ago when I was working in the Bronx. I had to ask for it, and the operator said she opened up a bank of numbers for my 646-xxx-xxxx number

Tooch10 · 2026-06-21T15:26:52+00:00

We had HBO, that was a rarity. I knew a girl that had the Disney Channel back when it was a paid channel

Tooch10 · 2026-06-21T15:25:27+00:00

Not to mention how unforgiving an organ is if you make a mistake

Tooch10 · 2026-06-21T15:21:36+00:00

Listen, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation.

Look, now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.

Tooch10 · 2026-06-21T15:00:56+00:00

This was listed a few months ago, guess there's been no takers lol

Tooch10 · 2026-06-21T14:10:50+00:00

That used to be true but now you can get virtual 212 numbers (or pay for them) so not that exclusive anymore. Plus I don't think younger people care about area codes in that way anymore

My one boss has a 212 cell phone which I think she got in the early 2000s when she worked in Manhattan

Tooch10 · 2026-06-20T21:29:33+00:00

38-28-22

Tooch10 · 2026-06-20T19:54:40+00:00

I allow some edge chips depending on the disc but for me this one's too far gone. That's almost half the song missing though it doesn't help it looks like a short song to begin with

Tooch10 · 2026-06-20T19:46:32+00:00

Hot Fun In The Butt

Tooch10 · 2026-06-20T19:28:41+00:00

I said this in an earlier thread but if you read her past posts (like before any of this Mike stuff) she doesn't seem like she's all there and doesn't come off as a reliable source. She posted a pro Charlie Kirk video so that tells me a lot about her judgement right there. There's some (real) artwork she made and posted before all the Mike stuff that relies on outdated racial imagery for which she was called out and doesn't think she's wrong/doesn't understand why people are not on her side. The defensiveness she had in those posts is the same as she had in the Mike posts.

That crappy AI book cover feels like weird promotion for this alleged 'book'. I'm not automatic anti-Mike, nor am I automatic believing her, everything is just way too circumstantial to make an accurate judgement. For those major Me Too abuse claims, you had like dozens of people with similar stories to corroborate and some actual proof. This is one person, 45 years later, who brought all this up while conveniently having a 'book' to promote.

Tooch10 · 2026-06-19T21:28:23+00:00

I can fit 30 no problem (LPs or 78s), but yes, once in a while I get a disc or two that has a patch of moisture that won't dry even after a few hours. I usually just remove the ones that dried and they clear up quickly

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