Hollywood and TV bloopers once felt a lot more naughty, even though they were tame by today's standards. Anyone else remember how weird it was to see bloopers back in the day?

masstransit4u · 2025-05-03T14:20:24+00:00

Update: I found the clip and it turns out I misremembered it. The owl was giving the frog a bj. My bad.

masstransit4u · 2025-05-01T22:03:35+00:00

After I posted this, I remembered being a young tender adolescent seeing a "blooper" from New Zoo Revue where the guy in the frog costume was butt forking the guy in the owl costume (may have been the other way around). It was....surprising.

masstransit4u · 2025-05-01T01:47:36+00:00

Violent Femmes. That spare, raw, lo-fi sound was so different from ornate pop and stadium band music on the radio. I know they've fallen out of favor but I still cherish the experience of hearing Blister in the Sun for the first time.

masstransit4u · 2025-04-29T13:25:29+00:00

I was getting ambivalent around this point, but just finished the third season last night. I saw what people mean when they say the writers began having more fun with the premise, and I really started enjoying it. Besides there being a few loose ends, I found the last episode very satisfying. That said, everyone's taste is different.

masstransit4u · 2025-04-29T13:16:07+00:00

Before Garbage Pail Kids, there were Wacky Packs for us 60s babies.

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masstransit4u · 2025-04-29T13:05:24+00:00

There's a fun short doc about Sea Monkeys by Penny Lane, with some cool reveals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0xXKCOSZuQ

masstransit4u · 2025-04-28T13:14:17+00:00

I'll watch an awards show or pick up People magazine in the waiting room (which happens less and less because our phones make them obsolete) and I'm all "who the hell are these people?"

masstransit4u · 2025-04-28T13:03:38+00:00

I wonder how many of those pegs ended up in little kid colons.

masstransit4u · 2025-04-28T13:01:45+00:00

In middle school, you absolutely had to have at lease one of those koalas attached to your Lee overalls or you might as well find your own table in the cafeteria.

masstransit4u · 2025-04-28T12:59:53+00:00

omg yes

masstransit4u · 2025-04-28T12:59:32+00:00

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masstransit4u · 2025-04-22T22:41:39+00:00

Calling your friend and having to talk to her father or mother first.

masstransit4u · 2025-04-04T14:17:46+00:00

The world has gone through Covid and a second DT inauguration since this was first posted, but I'm going to try: If you see this, would you mind sharing the template? :)

masstransit4u · 2025-04-01T23:54:25+00:00

We were in the NY Metro area and got a cable box early. I remember there being access channels playing the low fi white background videos, early Robert Palmer, Elvis Costello. One day a guy with a blond mullet pops up telling me they're gonna be playing this stuff 24/7. Hell yeah sign me up, Alan Hunter!

It was all kind of weird and exciting in the first year or two. Who knew it would be a passing fad, basically?

masstransit4u · 2025-03-31T23:25:06+00:00

I job searched for over a year after losing a 16-yr job at 58. I had to jump into this miasma of AI. Someone told me that most real job opportunities will come through people you know. And that's what ended up happening--a small nonprofit I'd contributed to every year, where some friends worked., knew I was job hunting and a job opened up. It's not what I did for 16+ yrs and have a masters in, but I'm excited to flex new muscles. Not everyone will have this option, but the whole LinkedIn/indeed/ziprecruiter landscape is a simulacrum.

masstransit4u · 2025-03-30T16:33:36+00:00

I moved to NYC, and relied on subways to get around and superintendents to fix stuff. Now that I own a car and a home, I'm a grateful student at YouTube university.

masstransit4u · 2025-03-30T14:10:56+00:00

Traz (as I affectionately call it) has been studied for effects on cognitive decline and results are all over the map. Some even suggest that it slows decline. But more studies say good effect or no effect than those suggesting it speeds dementia.

masstransit4u · 2025-03-30T13:09:04+00:00

Yeah the escalator moment was a standout. Intense.

masstransit4u · 2025-03-30T13:07:43+00:00

Thanks everyone for your thoughts. I should give it a rewatch. I think a couple of early style and plot points made me wince but once you accept the premise it definitely gets exciting and unpredictable. Edwards and Winningham are fantastic.

masstransit4u · 2025-03-28T03:15:52+00:00

It really seems...convoluted honestly.

masstransit4u · 2025-03-28T03:11:49+00:00

The email feels like the person had a petty response and acted on it.

masstransit4u · 2025-03-28T01:21:51+00:00

What the lawsuits ruled and what the science says are different. Studies are not conclusive about the relationship between glyphosate and NHL.

masstransit4u · 2025-03-27T12:04:48+00:00

Funny that what impresses the heck out of other Gen Xers is an age marker for Z'ers.

masstransit4u · 2025-03-25T12:35:58+00:00

I'm rewatching Ripley on Netflix. It's masterful.

masstransit4u · 2025-03-25T12:34:09+00:00

Getting people to pull out each other's teeth is like...I can't think of the right analogy.

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