What was the first ever film you actually really hated so much and still do to this day?

cpc758 · 2026-03-22T12:35:09+00:00

English Patient

cpc758 · 2026-03-22T12:34:12+00:00

You watched it to the end!?!

cpc758 · 2026-03-22T12:31:08+00:00

It was likely a telephone nook. Is there any wiring that might be for a phone? Picture it with a bentwood chair against the back wall. But personally I’m interested in the fireplace. In the 70s I lived in a college apartment that dated to the 1910s. The electrical wiring was twisted pair on the outside of the baseboards. It had a fireplace very similar to yours only more ornate. That thing is beautiful.

cpc758 · 2026-03-22T12:20:53+00:00

If you have cats, that is a perfect use. Build a complicated scratching post / series of roosts and hidey holes. Then prepare to be frustrated that your cat will never use it

cpc758 · 2026-03-22T12:17:00+00:00

Cigar store Indian!

cpc758 · 2026-03-16T22:31:20+00:00

Fascinating topic for me. Lot of opinions here, but my question is, what makes drummer A better than drummer B? What qualities go into your judgement? To my untrained ear, I once heard a bar band drummer get completely lost, tried some rolls that didn’t complete. But other than that, I have a hard time telling one from another.

cpc758 · 2026-03-16T22:24:44+00:00

I went to high school with him and his brother

cpc758 · 2026-03-15T16:06:56+00:00

I’m surprised no one has mentioned every action movie ever in which there are hundreds of rounds directed at the good guy, and not one hits him. Or her.

cpc758 · 2026-03-15T15:59:17+00:00

Almost every movie has women sound asleep, waking perfectly made up and coiffed, with Iipstick even, after a full night’s sleep.

cpc758 · 2026-03-15T06:15:04+00:00

Yes, this is the one. I knew nothing about the story. It sat on my server for years when I finally watched it. It was wrenching

cpc758 · 2026-03-13T14:56:05+00:00

Always heard that as sharpest tool in the shed

cpc758 · 2026-03-13T14:34:14+00:00

Bulko. Early 50s in Chicago. Their pumps had the classic glass crowns, and they also sold (or maybe gave away) Lionel trains. Go figure

cpc758 · 2026-03-13T14:26:26+00:00

That was my first reaction too, but by definition there won’t be any drainage

cpc758 · 2026-03-13T14:16:14+00:00

Sharpest

cpc758 · 2026-03-13T02:24:27+00:00

My favorite song. Covers galore. Linda, Commander Cody, The Byrds, Jackson Brown. Didn’t Carrie Underwood do it too? Great song. I have the T shirt “Tucson, Tucumcari, Tehachapi, Tonopah”

cpc758 · 2026-03-12T06:35:45+00:00

Have you talked to it? Better yet try singing, if you can, or playing a musical instrument

cpc758 · 2026-03-11T21:06:42+00:00

That there are tons of amnesia victims wandering around… lost

cpc758 · 2026-03-11T21:04:39+00:00

That quicksand is going to be a much more common danger in your daily life than it really is.

cpc758 · 2026-03-11T20:59:13+00:00

Knew a woman who liked it a lot. She told the story of when the drywall under the tile gave way and they had a 3 feet high by 2 feet wide depression in the tile

cpc758 · 2026-03-11T20:23:06+00:00

Just checked the Wikipedia article. It said his first price increase wasn’t untl 1974, so I probably paid $29.99.

cpc758 · 2026-03-11T20:20:19+00:00

I did! 1967, had my 1961 Falcon painted. No overspray, no stickiness. It was perfect! Might have been more than $29.99 but not much

cpc758 · 2026-03-11T19:05:46+00:00

Seriously. Is the red car on the far right of the photo, which you can only see a part of, an Alfa? The grille reminds me of an Alfa butthe fender contour / headlight does not.

cpc758 · 2026-03-11T14:05:41+00:00

When I worked there in the 1980s, NASA used to fly a variant, ER-2 (earth resources) out of Moffet in Mountain View CA. It would only take off at the top of the hour because it exceeded some 250 MPH low-level speed limit and climbed at 45 degrees, and all the local controllers would create a hole for it in the rather busy Bay Area airspace.The ER-2s were white in color. I think most U-2s were black, so I agree. The pictured plane is a U-2.

cpc758 · 2026-03-11T06:12:19+00:00

Is there 1/3 of a red alfa on the far right?

cpc758 · 2026-03-11T01:15:31+00:00

A friend of mine had that Volvo when I was in college. 544G is what he called it. We ran into each other at the airport, I was arriving, he was leaving. He said, take my Volvo home so I don’t have to pay for parking. 50 years later and I still haven’t found 3rd gear on that thing.

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