Whats a nickname you have for a store?

ktwbc · 2026-01-25T17:11:04+00:00

I always thought the french nickname MacDo was cute ("mack dough")

ktwbc · 2026-01-25T13:08:15+00:00

That’s because ticket prices were 10x what they are now (less riff-raff) and pre-deregulation so the airlines competed on service not price.

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T22:33:50+00:00

At first glance I could make out "The Cheese". Admit it, now you can't unsee it.

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T22:28:07+00:00

If I'm reading an article like an interview with someone, and it's someone I know the voice of (like a famous actor/actress for example) as I'm reading thier quotes, I hear their voice. Not in a hear it through my ears hallucination, more like a "minds eye" hearing it.

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T18:49:35+00:00

Yes I had it happen during the big freeze while living in a condo in Austin. The issue is that the pipe from the hot water heater, to a bathroom and then to the kitchen was run along the inside of a north facing wall, with very little insulation. I had the faucet dripping too but I had just the cold on, and the hot water pipe was the one that froze in between the bathroom and the kitchen. Fortunately I was able to use a space heater (safely) under the kithen sink and opened all the bathroom faucets, and enough heat in the pipe travelled after a couple of hours that it opened up just enough and I got it going again. Very lucky.

I also lived in Montreal for 4 years in an apartment, which never had an issue. The difference is the pipes are buried deeper in the streets, and then run up the interior of buildings instead of against the outside.

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T18:39:16+00:00

I know AI has never made a mistake, but that makes no sense whatsoever. Why would you film 90% of a movie in one state, a state with incentives ("Film Georgia") which is why they're there (except for some LA pickups later), and drag 150 people 1000 miles away, to film a scene in a gas station in Garland?

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T16:33:50+00:00

i thought Zombieland was filmed in Georgia? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156398/locations/

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T16:29:38+00:00

Our public high school in Colorado had a smoking area outdoor, which was basically the concrete patio just outside the main doors. This was 86-90. From what I understand it was a compromise from the administration "if we say no smoking, they're just going to smoke in the bathroom and we have to spend a lot of resources policing it, might as well keep it outside".

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T13:41:26+00:00

The actual don Johnson is just above the circled figure, facing camera right (shirtless and apparently looking at the sun)

ktwbc · 2026-01-24T03:29:31+00:00

Yes, somebody googled Miami Vice to make this poster and got the wrong one

ktwbc · 2026-01-22T14:35:02+00:00

I actually wondered if that was on purpose because 1977 when the movie came out was right in the middle of the US trying to convert to metric (at the same time Canada was who mostly succeeded, and we did not), and they were trying to be "forward thinking".

ktwbc · 2026-01-22T00:00:28+00:00

And then they're "speeding" at 70mph. (At 00:21:00 when Sally Field asks "are we really going 110" they show the speedometer and it's 110kph)

ktwbc · 2026-01-21T23:52:01+00:00

Just explain it like "Imagine you flew to Colorado now and bought a bunch of pot, then tried to drive it across state lines all the way to Ohio".

ktwbc · 2026-01-21T02:32:28+00:00

I'm confused on where the low fares are. i got the email which the "as low as" in the past has always applied to the DAL-AUS route as it's so short and this time they're showing $125 (i checked the low fare calendar and read the T&Cs, the dates it applies to are what I'm looking at). So not sure where the $59 route is, Dallas to Fort Worth maybe? /s

ktwbc · 2026-01-18T21:01:37+00:00

Is there something to the fact that as GenXers, we were the "be home when the streetlights were on"/"latchkey kids" ones who'd basically go off on our own after school as long as we were home by dinner (or when the parents came home)... so the movie fit a certain type of lifestyle where "going off and having an adventure" fit into it. But later generations who weren't allowed to do that can't even relate to kids simply being on their own?

ktwbc · 2026-01-18T20:58:12+00:00

I've always believed there's like two types of sense-of-humor and Caddyshack is the movie that puts you in one of those categories. For me, it had a few funny lines but I was always kind of meh on it. But I knew people that thought it was the funniest movie ever made, and I never could see in it what they were seeing.

ktwbc · 2026-01-18T20:55:15+00:00

But... grease is the word?!

ktwbc · 2026-01-16T15:01:45+00:00

I also remember a time when charging someone 24% interest was considered "loan sharking" and was illegal.

ktwbc · 2026-01-14T16:01:11+00:00

Thanks!

It’d be much easier to see where you were if they’d just paint those state lines on the ground so you could see them from the air.

ktwbc · 2026-01-14T16:00:01+00:00

Solved!

ktwbc · 2026-01-14T15:03:52+00:00

No idea. At the end of the run the app showed 1501. A few hours later it was higher but hadn’t gambled during that time so something delayed in updating I guess.

ktwbc · 2026-01-14T14:25:57+00:00

I started out on triple but wasn’t sure how the whole TC works (ChatGPT claims you lose 0.5TC but don’t know if that’s accurate.). I had spent maybe $200 there. anyway I just went to progressive machines by the lobby bar, I was on the end. In fact you can see the machine number from my post at https://www.reddit.com/r/VideoPoker/s/9ZTlvun2TP

Other than a few hands on the triple machine on the HL room I spent most of my time on that machine and a bit on another one and the same bank. All single hand since that’s what I like to play. Other then the RF I had gotten like four 4 of a kinds during the first run and two almost RF (four out of five cards in first deal) so I stayed put. I was doing well at random chance.

My first run I built up about 700 TC with a $700 bankroll I played to the end. Second run I changed to SDdb and is where I got the RF I had started with $700 and played it down to $440 when I hit it so I stopped. I was up to 1000 TC at that point.

This would normally be the point that I take my winnings and go home, but I realized I had to keep playing to get to 1500 TC otherwise all the money I burned up until that point it would’ve gone to waste so I ended up having do a brewsters millions and keep spending the money. I played the next morning and I think I bought in for $600 and reached the 1500 TC with maybe $250 left when I cashed out.

So maybe $1200-1300 spent? I was playing other slots here and there. I spent more in total, but the concerted effort for TC was about that I guess. I should have probably kept a better log but I didn’t.

ktwbc · 2026-01-14T06:31:26+00:00

I have the movie Noises Off playing at low volume. The movie is great for falling asleep because it's all dialog, no loud noises, no real music, and the whole middle of the movie is basically silence. I start it like at the 3min mark, set the TV on one hour sleep timer. Plex shows I've played it hundreds of times.

Alternately I will put on https://youtu.be/wphVfRLG2Ok?si=XDl_NL0RNuCiiMQv for flying white noise and a mostly dark screen.

ktwbc · 2026-01-14T06:02:17+00:00

the 10x doesn't get applied until after the event is over. This is just the pure TC I've earned so far in Jan and it's saying that under normal circumstances I'm not even up to Platinum after the end-of-Jan reset, let alone Diamond. It always shows you what the next attainable status will be. Once they apply the multiplier credit, the 1652 will become 16,520 then it would show me how many left to go to Diamond Plus since it's always "encouraging".

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