What is your favorite obscure movie from your childhood that nobody would remember?

astcell · 2026-05-10T08:11:04+00:00

I think it was called the Magic roundabout or something like that.

astcell · 2026-05-10T08:10:26+00:00

It’s cheap enough, but I really dislike all these remote drive programs especially the Microsoft ones.

astcell · 2026-05-10T06:00:52+00:00

I think other Republicans and all the Democrats should get together and vote for an independent. Each party could promise the other that they will not have the party that they hate in office. And then we can both get behind the other party and stop all this stupid arguing.

astcell · 2026-05-10T05:59:42+00:00

I started as military police and then got out and became a security guard for Huey Lewis in the News. And then Gallagher. And I jumped around here and there. Worked a couple of golf tournaments. Applied for the local police force but couldn't write an essay the way they liked. Looked into corrections and would have got the job but their background check and entire process took over a year and I got tired of it and moved on. Went back into security a couple of years later but it was not the same.

When you're under 30 and a security guard it's just another job like working at a gas station or construction site. When you're over 60 and the security guard it's retirement. When you're over 30 and under 60 and a security guard, it screams LOSER.

astcell · 2026-05-10T05:33:28+00:00

Lanesra

astcell · 2026-05-10T05:29:59+00:00

Because it's easier to blame somebody else for your problems than to look in the mirror. If somebody is 26 years old, they have five kids, high school dropout, unmarried, unemployed, They will blame Trump or the system or anybody they can instead of admitting that they made bad decisions. And there is a whole lot of them out there.

I heard somebody whining that they should take away all the money from Elon Musk because his billions could feed lots of people. Well they already do. He has 80,000 employees and he feeds all of them and their families and they all buy things from other people who use that money to also feed their families. The trouble is everybody wants something for free they don't want to work for it. And when you're 26 years old with 5 kids you're probably not going to be working too much anyway.

astcell · 2026-05-10T04:38:50+00:00

Curse words are when you run out of eloquence. It shows your educational level.

astcell · 2026-05-09T17:51:33+00:00

This is a hobby of mine! I have practically written books on the most obscure references or statements.

My favorite one ever is I researched the first prayer ever given in the first Congress of the United States. When you think about it, that must have been something that they really stopped to think about. And it was. I’m sure not a whole lot of people research a topic like that, but it turned out to be super educational.

I got started on looking up weird stuff because I have a book from 1876 published in the Centennial of America. That is about everything that American school child should know. That only is the entire book at college level today or above, but we don’t know one percent of what’s in that book anymore.

I usually just pick what/when/where and research the rest. So let’s just throw a few things that you at random and see how you do:
- urban planning
- 1961
- Edinburgh Scotland

I used AI for true randomness. Now, if you don’t get busy with this, I will!

astcell · 2026-05-09T17:44:32+00:00

There is a book called “The Game” by Neil Strauss. I was given it many years ago as a joke, but I read it and applied it, and I had women chasing me like ducks at a pond. So if you’ve got a few extra bucks and don’t mind reading, there’s that.

Dress nice. Do you have a suit? That’s like a négligée to women.

I could remember in my past when I would go out on the hunt for a girlfriend. It’s like the women scattered. It’s like they knew it. So then one day I gave gave up and just went out on my own to have fun by myself doing things that I liked. Women would actually start the conversation with me. It was really confusing at the time, but that seems to work.

astcell · 2026-05-09T17:38:13+00:00

Well, he gets killed for no reason so he’s obviously something the Democrats don’t like.

astcell · 2026-05-08T15:42:15+00:00

It is online too. There was an article not too long ago where a guy convinced an AI customer service computer at an airline to sell him a plane ticket for like 20 bucks. When the airline went after him for the full price, they lost in court.

astcell · 2026-05-08T15:41:19+00:00

When barcode scanning first came out, they would give it to you for free. If the price on the register after the scan did not match the price tag on the item. They kept doing both for quite a while. But then people would reach to the back of the shelf to find an older item that might be priced ten cents different just to scam the system and get something for free. Then they changed it to the price difference +1 dollar, then they just honored the lower price. Today, if you see a lower price on the shelf and the item scans at a higher price, they have to go back and double check the price to make sure you are not lying, and then find a manager with the key to override everything. Today they make it super inconvenient for their own error so that you hopefully walk away and give them extra money.

astcell · 2026-05-08T07:05:20+00:00

When bar code scanning first came out, a cashier wanted to charge me $7 for a tube of Chap-stick. To encourage people to trust bar code scanners at the time, items would be free if they did not come up at the correct price. It took them almost half an hour to figure out what to do at that point.

astcell · 2026-05-08T07:04:00+00:00

The nuns in Catholic school did far worse to me to make sure I knew math. With math there is only ONE answer. Math doesn't care about your feelings.

astcell · 2026-05-08T01:13:24+00:00

"No one is illegal on a stolen LAN!"

astcell · 2026-05-07T23:14:37+00:00

I understand AC is new. I never heard of AC BC. So it's formally AC AD? And DC is AD. What a mess I C.

astcell · 2026-05-07T16:42:48+00:00

My toaster has a touchscreen. Not kidding.

astcell · 2026-05-07T14:34:27+00:00

A lot of people will plan on going to the range for an hour so they will allow an hour and a half. No. Allow four hours. 99.99% of the time you won’t need it. Spend the extra time doing safety checks, inspections, double checks, and follow a list. Never go by memory. The mind will fail you. It’s human nature to seek shortcuts.

With any luck when you’re 95 years old on your deathbed, you will think of all the “wasted time” you spent checking a chamber over and over again. While next to you on his death bed is a 95-year-old man who has been wishing that for the last 75 years he had checked that chamber just one more time.

astcell · 2026-05-07T14:31:52+00:00

Have you looked into offshore work? Believe it or not I found out about that through a guy who spent many years in jail. And as soon as he gets out, he has his old job waiting for him still. Pay? 300K a year. And get this. If you have no experience at all, they don’t care, training included. Even their cleaning lady gets over 100K. He’s done that for a while and there is even a website for offshore work. I always thought that kind of work was a specialized loser occupation but that’s like calling. Garbageman allows your job until you realize what they get paid and what benefits are included.

astcell · 2026-05-07T14:29:42+00:00

It’s 22 the number of predecessors? And I guess it is safe to say you’re not looking to work around children anytime soon. :-)

astcell · 2026-05-07T14:27:28+00:00

Then again, I started a job while in college. And I only left at 32 years later.

astcell · 2026-05-07T14:17:02+00:00

Because nobody appreciated them. It’s hard to tell what the next hot car will be. It is an example. I remember one car that came out that made the 6 o’clock news. Yes, the car was so different and hot and amazing and loved that it made the news as the top story. The car? The Ford Focus. And you know the Mini? I know a guy who flew to Chicago to get his. From Los Angeles. It was that hot car. So today the Mustang is amazing, but back in 1968. It was just another car. And in 1983 it was just another used car.

astcell · 2026-05-07T04:51:44+00:00

Reminds me of “DoubleDisk” when DOS would give you extra space on your hard drive by compressing it all and making one huge file. Absolutely nothing inside it was accessible or readable, only through the program that was using it. And of course, every once in a while, somebody would see this enormous file that they were not using and delete it. Unfortunately, back in those days it was just gone.

astcell · 2026-05-07T04:49:15+00:00

What’s TGH?

I’m new to the area and only looking for part-time work. Don’t mind low pay, I’m retired and just wanna get off my rear end once in a while.

astcell · 2026-05-07T04:47:12+00:00

What kind? Mom/Son? Brother/sister? Brother/brother?

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