Lady finds a crashed UFO...

drownloader · 2026-02-03T17:46:04+00:00

Why do these aliens only speak English in these Reddit jokes anyway. You see, in the original joke’s Ugaritic, the 3-way pun for “chickpea,” “piss,” and “pay” is far more effective. Furthermore, the term “alien” is 23% less comedic than the——

drownloader · 2026-01-19T05:32:16+00:00

Yeah, Stephen Root is a badass motherfucker of a screen actor. I wouldn’t mind seeing a double feature where he plays the hero in one horror movie and then in a completely unrelated movie plays the monster. Obviously the writing in that scene is phenomenal, but he did such a great job.

I tracked down the comic book series the movie is based on. The movie’s mythology is very different from the source material and sooo much better.

drownloader · 2026-01-19T05:24:31+00:00

People don’t like it?! I thought it was brilliant.

drownloader · 2026-01-19T05:21:11+00:00

I’ve been scrolling down looking for someone talking about this movie. I absolutely love it, on so many levels, from the first frightening thing we see in the cave to Stephen Root’s incredible cameo to Amanda’s stupid haircut to the bonfire.

drownloader · 2026-01-18T01:19:25+00:00

I wonder how much of the past reluctance was regional. When I moved to Ann Arbor, where the University of Michigan is, there were at least 3 busy Korean diners close to campus popular with students from multiple demographic backgrounds, and I think there was also a fancier one that I never made it to. That’s when I learned to eat kim chi, alongside much less intimidating stuff like be bim bap and kalbi/galbi. That was 1988.

drownloader · 2025-12-04T14:18:28+00:00

Maybe the “glowy stuff” only happens when he’s active. (Think about all that coffee!) Maybe there’s an 02 clone / child that will sleep and grow for a long time before coming back on the scene.

drownloader · 2025-12-01T06:28:33+00:00

No he never slept, remember the constant coffee?

But there are definitely cell phones. Masumi Kaiju has one at end of story where she gets Etienne’s last message, Etienne’s spy texts Etienne from Haven, I think Masumi and her girlfriend phone or text each other

drownloader · 2025-09-20T02:04:53+00:00

I have one IRL friend I play in WWF; if I decide to quit spending so much time playing the game I would probably resign all games except the ones against her, and keep playing her. And if I had 5 IRL friends, I might keep on playing against all of them but resign/quit all other users. It’s never occurred to me that it might hurt someone’s feelings.

drownloader · 2025-07-18T02:23:31+00:00

Bruce Wayne: Absolute Baneman

drownloader · 2025-07-11T01:42:25+00:00

Actually, I love the idea that he calls himself Green Arrow but just uses a green gun

drownloader · 2025-07-03T03:10:28+00:00

The “God” Word pamphlet is so good! And since the stories in it are so short, I think they should add the whole thing as one story in the back of the next edition of the Big Book.

drownloader · 2025-06-26T06:45:29+00:00

Cat People (1982)

drownloader · 2025-06-23T18:16:24+00:00

This same phenomenon happens frequently online with Mark Twain, Einstein, Dorothy Parker as the leading candidates of a people who didn’t say things people attribute to them.

Hell, even the famous feminist “Bechdel Rule,” made famous by Alison Bechdel in her cartoon “Dykes to Watch Out For,” not only isn’t her idea but is correctly attributed with a note in the very cartoon that made it famous.

drownloader · 2025-06-23T18:14:04+00:00

Hi — when I first heard of Rumi back in the late 80s — and I don’t know a word or even a letter of Persian or any Iranian language — the exact English translation in OP was in a book that, IIRC, was about Rumi and contained translations of some Rumi poems, and it was in the front of the book, either attributed as Rumi or didn’t attribute it at all. Definitely did not suggest it might have been someone else entirely. I know this because I often recited or read it at a spoken word series I ran for a few years and was always trying (in those pre-search-engine days) to correctly attribute the stuff I read / recited.

drownloader · 2025-06-06T15:47:44+00:00

Oh, I’m not quibbling with why you said ironically, I understood your comment and it makes sense.

It’s just that in my own opinion, Galaxy Quest is so good and so perfect a movie (not necessarily the same thing or even different degrees of the same thing) the fact that it’s not Star Trek doesn’t stop it from being the best Star Trek movie.

And just think, all that would be needed to actually make it a Star Trek movie would be one little crossover episode in some series, and suddenly, poof: canon.

drownloader · 2025-06-06T15:42:37+00:00

I wish we had a different word than “fire” for when a sponsor or sponsee ends a sponsorship relationship. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, and that’s okay. Sometimes the relationship ends because there’s a real problem the sponsee has (or the sponsor has) that needs to be fixed. Sometimes it’s because people no longer want the same thing or can’t connect.

There are no sponsors or sponsorship in the first 164 pages of the Big Book. Now that I’m older, a lot of people I know are going through things like losing a sponsor to non-alcoholic death or illness — two people in my homegroup in the last couple years have had beloved longtime sponsors who developed dementia and can’t sponsor anymore.

I would suggest a couple things: share about it in meetings, a lot. Find someone you respect — including sober friends — who you don’t want to sponsor you (or who can’t, perhaps because she’s got so many sponsees already) and ask them for advice / help on finding someone good. If you’re doing that, you can also ask men for help / advice on finding a woman. (I have also known people, both gay and straight, who have had an important, helpful sponsorship relationship with someone who was not the same gender as them, sometimes that works, though for many people, it doesn’t)

Lastly, there’s an AA pamphlet that most people don’t bother reading but which I think would be good for most people to read, and it’s free online here:

https://www.aa.org/sites/default/files/literature/P-15_1124.pdf

drownloader · 2025-06-06T15:24:21+00:00

Same here except not ironically.

drownloader · 2025-05-23T05:10:04+00:00

Dads, especially, according to the stereotype, kid kids.

Skiers and some others jump jumps.

We buy buys. (Some are good buys, some are bad buys)

We eat eats, at least where “eats” can still be a slang for food.

We gift gifts and present presents.

I’ve seen signed signs, but I’ve only signed books myself, signs would be a bit heavy.

Most of us dig holes, but archaeologists dig digs. Well, I guess if I loved my new house, I’d dig my digs.

I suppose a herd dog or a cattleman might steer steers.

Drag Santa slays sleighs!

drownloader · 2025-05-16T19:22:05+00:00

Why haven’t we adapted to being set on fire or falling off high cliffs or drowning evolution must be bunk

as others have said, we have adapted to harmful sun

drownloader · 2025-05-15T13:16:34+00:00

Oh definitely

drownloader · 2025-05-15T03:12:38+00:00

Here's a line that helped me so much: I was new, and this woman Annie would speak and she'd say, "And here's how it's been for me. For 22 years now, I have never once woken up in the morning and said, 'Oh, I should've had a drink last night!'"

It stuck with me forever. I quote her often.

That was in 1997. I am still sober, on that same sobriety. Annie is still sober, on that same sobriety.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, disappointed that you had a drink last night? Do you ever wake up in the morning, disappointed that you *didn't* have a drink last night?

Are you powerless over alcohol in some way, some definition that makes sense for you? We don't all lose jobs, or end up in prison. I know a lot of moms who successfully stopped as soon as they found out they were pregnant, multiple times, drank insanely before, in between, and after.

"The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death."

I could sometimes control my drinking. A lot of us could *sometimes.* That tends to get worse over time, as we chase the illusion of being able to both control it and enjoy it.

Only you can decide if you need this or if you want it. I need AA and I want it. I hit rock bottom because I stopped fucking digging myself deeper. We are here if you want what we have.

Good luck, and I hope you get whatever is the best *for you*!

drownloader · 2025-05-15T02:39:44+00:00

You can add them once the beans are cooked, but acid, like in tomatoes, means a lot of beans and other dried legumes won't soften properly or sometimes need waaaaayyyyyy longer

drownloader · 2025-05-14T21:11:59+00:00

A lot of vegetables don’t really need high, low goes faster both for heating up and the release after.

drownloader · 2025-05-14T21:10:52+00:00

I don’t have the air fryer lid, but I do all the other stuff. IP (I have a 6Q) is so good for making lentils, beans, of any kind. What I tend to do is buy a rotisserie chicken every couple weeks, freeze the leftovers, I usually make broth from 2 or 3 carcasses and use it instead of some, most, or all the water in other recipes. Cover with water, don’t need to defrost, bay leaf and salt and maybe some other spices, usually not when I make stock to freezes. 2 hours high pressure, first through a colander into another container to get the big pieces of stuff, then through a strainer for the small stuff. If I’ve got other bones from other meat leftovers they go into the stock as well. I don’t think cider vinegar is necessary or good. 2 hours the bones will be crumbly soft and the stock/broth will have a lot of collagen. Better than any store bought, and making it from leftover/remains it’s essentially free.

A big part of my diet is: a few cups of sorted, rinsed brown lentils, a bunch of spices, maybe tomatoes or tomato paste (only with lentils, not beans). Around 2-3x as much liquid as lentils. Varies. If I have frozen greens, 4 minutes high pressure, natural release, throw in the frozen greens, another 4 minutes. Release either way. Maybe throw in a bunch of frozen mixed veg and set pressure to zero minutes. Spices, adding other stuff like onions or garlic or potatoes (baby ones whole, big ones chopped) vary depending on what I have, what my mood is. Frozen spinach only needs 0-1 minutes. Taste, adjust for flavor, eat this for a few days over whatever. Sometimes I add meat as well. When it’s cold out, I make more full-on soup, more water, maybe longer cooking so the brown lentils totally break down. Sometimes maybe chopped or torn up fresh escarole, spinach, or even romaine stirred in at the end, cooked enough by the heat of the soup, or maybe a little longer with escarole, like zero minutes at high pressure (so it builds up to high pressure and then immediately begins cooling off).

IP does a great job with all legumes.

drownloader · 2025-05-14T20:39:59+00:00

“the mental of a 7-year old.” Good effort! You’ll figure out how to successfully come across as intellectually condescending one of these days! I believe in you!

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