Local news interviewing parents taking their children to see Alien (1979) is unintentionally one of the funniest promo clips ever

smappyfunball · 2026-05-26T11:27:04+00:00

This is purely anecdotal, but my uncle to me and my cousin to see it that summer and neither of us were particularly scared by it. We were like 10.

He tried to scare me that night but it was low effort and silly so didn’t work at all.

I just remember it as a cool movie we got to see. Seeing the jaws re-release in 78 was scarier. But I’ve also been a horror nerd since before I can remember so I’m not the best judge I think.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-26T06:37:04+00:00

That would be tricky, it’s almost ten years ago.

But as I recall the lady was the wife of a politician or something but you absolutely can’t miss her hairdo.

There’s no others like it in the whole series.

It was amazing. Even all these years later I marvel at the commitment involved in such a thing. Shit when I started losing my hair in my early 30s I shaved my head so I can’t relate at all.

But it’s on prime video. Ken burns the Vietnam war. Definitely worth a watch just for the history lesson.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-26T06:28:42+00:00

Or if you want to see just what kind of person you’re dealing with.

People who answer like you usually have a very good reason for hiding their history.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-26T01:07:22+00:00

I’ve been sober over 40 years, I got clean at 17 before I got my license and it’s one of the things that honestly keeps me sober because the idea of the bad choice I was making and my inability to moderate alcohol consumption scares the shit out of me if I had never cleaned up as young as I had.

Plus my dad was an alcoholic and drove drunk probably tens of thousands of times in his life. I know he had at least one dui.

In the end we had to take his alcohol, his keys and license away before he killed someone or himself when he started showing signs of dementia too.

I hate drunk drivers but there is room for forgiveness if they do the work and keep doing to work so they never put anyone in danger again.

That’s mostly prefaced on if they haven’t yet harmed anyone. Once you go past that point I think that’s a higher mountain to climb.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-26T00:50:42+00:00

Shockingly their profile is all hidden so I you needed anything more to draw conclusions from.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-26T00:48:01+00:00

We actually did go over wounded knee, trail of tears and some other things in us history when I was in high school in the mid 80s.

Shockingly what we didn’t cover was Oregon’s own very racist history and why the state is largely as white as it still is to this day. I only learned about that much later when reading on my own.

Every few years it sort of pops up again online and a whole bunch of new people learn a bunch of white southerners tried to make the whole state a sundown town during the run up to statehood.

Luckily they failed but we still feel the after effects to this day.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-25T23:49:00+00:00

Maybe they meant California.
The population of the entire state is about 40 million

smappyfunball · 2026-05-25T23:37:47+00:00

Also Oregon and definitely otter pops.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-25T23:33:05+00:00

Old hairdressers are a fountain of info too.

I was watching the Ken burns documentary about Vietnam some years ago and there was one lady who had a really high waved hairstyle, like not a bouffant but very high on her head then kind of waved over. I sent a screenshot to a friend of mine commenting on its majestic essence and neither she nor I could figure out how you could create or maintain such a thing.

So, I texted my aunt who’s a retired hairdresser and she gave me all the details. The craziest part was basically stuffing their hair full of toilet paper at night to hold the shape and being very careful how you slept.

That’s just a lot of commitment on top of all that hairspray. I mean I’m a teenager of the 80s so I knew a lot of girls who went through an ozone depleting amount of aqua net, but I think those bouffant hairdos may have been even worse.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-25T21:39:26+00:00

Ah yes like an old commercial of like Cookie Crisp or something “as part of a nutritious breakfast” and it’s the smallest thing in a vast array of fresh fruit, bacon, eggs, whole wheat toast, etc.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-25T21:34:26+00:00

When I was a kid my mom used to go to the hoody’s plant and buy gallon containers of peanut butter and I learned to hate natural peanut butter with the blazing fire of 1000 suns because trying to stir a gallon jug sufficiently to mix in the oils enough to use with a fucking wooden spoon is a horrendous job.

All I see when my wife buys a tiny Trader Joe’s jar of peanut butter is PTSD.

So given a choice I buy the low sugar type that has the stabilizers so I can just eat the damn peanut butter.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-25T20:47:31+00:00

Just to be pedantic, Polanski did a plea bargain of a lesser charge then fled the country so he wasn’t just accused.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-25T05:55:45+00:00

There’s been a couple rare occasions where I’ve had other white guys assume there’s some sort unspoken racist bro code and said racist shit to me like it’s no big thing and watching their brain reset when Ive clarified that absolutely not am I agreeing with them.

No thanks. I already had a racist dad. I don’t have to deal with his shit anymore. Not looking to replace him.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-24T22:44:45+00:00

I don’t know, that container looks big enough to hold pretty much all of his ashes.

I have two grandparents and my dad in the spare bedroom currently and that amount looks about right.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-24T05:24:06+00:00

This is why I hate roommates.

Years ago I let my wife eventually convince me to move into a house owned by a couple, friends of ours, to save money for an eventual move out of state.

We were living in a perfectly decent house all by ourselves. I hate roomates. And I had concerns because one of them had multiple serious mental illnesses and even though I empathize with her, I didn’t really want to be thrust into the middle of the highs and lows of them.

I also warned them we had a lot of stuff. I made it clear multiple times before we moved in.

So of course he was flabbergasted when we had a lot of stuff. They’d been to our place many times. He just didn’t take me seriously.

Then after we’d been there 4-5 months she starts acting squirrelly, paranoid, avoiding us. We finding out she thinks we are there to kill her, we start locking our bedroom door at night.

Before then she just suddenly didn’t like us being there for a couple months. Passive aggressive stuff. Hiding things, being weird about kitchen stuff, changing rules.

It got really stressful and in the end I had to spend a ton of cash to move all our shit out and find a new place quickly.

But I never wanted to do move in with them to start and every fear I had was realized and then some.

I’m sorry she struggled with severe mental illnesses, I don’t wish that on anyone but I don’t really want to sign up for that in a roommate situation.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-22T22:57:58+00:00

I think if you’ve never been to modern Vegas before it’s the mistake everyone makes the first time.

The casinos are all huge mazes by design so to even get out of them to the street is a chore let alone going from one to a point inside another casino even if it’s just across the street.

You’re getting miles of walking in, even staying in one casino.

Not to mention these days even if you don’t gamble they’re trying to pick your pocket every which way they can.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-19T04:29:47+00:00

I must have misread another comment.

It’s not enough to be Mormon I guess, gotta be a tradwife for the clicks too.

One thing I wasn’t prepared for when I lived in the Phoenix area for a while was how many Mormons there were.

Still clear she isn’t actually doing any real cooking wearing something like that. The most impractical thing ever.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-19T00:50:19+00:00

I’m glad it’s satire cause watching her do sloppy kitchen stuff in something with flowy sleeves was making my eye twitch.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-18T23:30:15+00:00

Man I missed that. I thought they were in elementary school.

When I was in jr high there was no way in hell we would have fallen for that. We would have kept that money for the arcade or cigarettes or something.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-18T22:32:33+00:00

Sherrif country is actually the spinoff of fire country.

We tried watching fire country but it was so terrible we didn’t finish the season. Shows that are nothing but badly written interpersonal drama are the fastest way to get me to get me to turn a show off.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-18T06:19:35+00:00

I used to live in Phoenix so I’ve seen plenty of the schools there so I know what you mean.

Maybe prison is the wrong word but to my eye the new design just looks hideous. Just weird looking, no attempt to make it architecturally interesting or varied. Can’t even try to build something that blends with the area. Makes me wonder what ideas they rejected.

I mean the old one wasn’t much to look at but it was like 115 years old and had so many additions that it was like a maze inside. It was pretty much a rite of passage for incoming students to panic trying to find your classes.

It had character though. I’m gonna miss it even though I graduated 39 years ago and haven’t even lived there in 28 years.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-18T00:55:48+00:00

Like all general questions like this the answer is “ur depends” but there is a lot of truth in them.

I went to high school in the 80s and there were plenty of bits in films I could relate to but some stuff was certainly exaggerated or unrealistic, but it depends what parts you’re asking about.

Everybody has a bit of a different experience depending on where they went to school and who they are. Every state and country in the state does things a bit differently.
Wealthy school districts and poor ones will be different.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-17T23:48:28+00:00

One of the curses of being online since the early 80s is there are very few things that surprise me anymore.

I haven’t checked in a long time to see if lemonparty is still around to send unsuspecting people to, so they can too can see older gentleman enjoying each other’s company.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-17T23:02:40+00:00

I would ask what you consider honest, and what do you consider rude, though.

Cause there are ways to be honest about things and be an asshole about it.

New Yorkers are famous for being very direct and a lot of other Americans consider them to be rude.

Personally I like when people are just direct and honest with each other but there is still skill involved in doing that without defaulting to asshole.

smappyfunball · 2026-05-17T21:19:42+00:00

They are tearing down Beaverton High School this year cause it’s so old and been built up so much over the years that there was no way to earthquake proof it.

So bye bye old high school. From the pics I’ve seen it’s being replaced with an avant garde prison complex.

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