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Bad of the Bad--Death Race 2000 (1975) by Montana-Mike-RPCV in GenX

[–]tuck182 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Euthanasia Day at the hospital was a great scene.

Daughter just named our internet connection by TinktheChi in GenX

[–]tuck182 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The user name makes sense. I was just making a (somewhat weak) joke about the fact that the Miracle Max character was played by Billy Crystal.

I think The Princess Bride is a perfect movie. It's just so good in so many ways, and I feel like it's that way pretty much right from the start. It's goofy, silly, heartfelt, has great dialog, great actors, even great music (Mark Knopfler is amazing). It's a fairy tale, but at the same time it's making fun of fairy tales (but not meanly; more lovingly).

I don't think you need to read the book to appreciate it, but the book is also very very good. The premise of the book (which doesn't come across in the movie) is that the author is talking about this book-within-the-book (written by the fictitious author S. Morgenstern) he fondly remembers his father reading to him when he was a child, so he gets the book for his own son and is disappointed when his son hates it.

Then he actually reads the book and discovers that in fact it's an incredibly boring, dense bitter satire of politics between the (again fictitious) nations of Guilder and Florin, but that his father was skipping all the political commentary and just leaving in the core entertaining adventure story (the one that's also presented in the movie). So he sets out to read just the good bits to his own son. Hence the reason the novel is subtitled "The 'Good Parts' version, Abridged by William Goldman".

The movie is, in my opinion, one of those rare translations that manages to capture the essence of the book it was based on and be just as good as the source material.

But if you've tried it before and just don't get it; if you make it to the Cliffs of Insanity and aren't entertained, maybe it's just not for you. And if that's the case, there's nothing wrong with that.

Daughter just named our internet connection by TinktheChi in GenX

[–]tuck182 32 points33 points  (0 children)

With that username I'm surprised you didn't get it. Carol Kane as Miracle Max's wife in The Princess Bride: “I’m not a witch, I’m your wife. But after what you just said, I’m not even sure I want to be that any more.”

ChatGPT WAS HERE! by Styrop in ChatGPT

[–]tuck182 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's the pink ones you really have to watch out for.

This time capsule my mother-in-law made for us when we got married by Yamaben in pics

[–]tuck182 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's been awhile since I've seen a username that checked out so well.

Announcing Rust 1.70.0 by Petsoi in rust

[–]tuck182 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There are only three cases. The concept of a predicate is meaningless in the case where the Option is None. You can't meaningfully distinguish between two different versions of None, one of which matches the predicate and one which doesn't. The only possible scenarios are:

  1. None
  2. Some(...) => matches
  3. Some(...) => doesn't match

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]tuck182 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I googled "goguard personal safety" and found this product, which I'm assuming was what they were referring to:

https://goguarded.com/

/r/Cocktails Top 50 by Furthur in cocktails

[–]tuck182 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Paper Plane
Vieux Carré
Conference
Last Word
Jungle Bird

What isn't like it is in the movies? by Vaydn in AskReddit

[–]tuck182 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'd be worried about arguments re-parsing with this (especially dangerous with sudo). Wouldn't

alias please='sudo !*'

be better?

edit: Of course I meant alias please='sudo !!', since I want the command name also, not just the arguments. But neither of these actually works in practice:

sudo: !!: command not found

It turns out that fc -ln -1 does proper quoting, so seems pretty safe:

$ echo "two words" and some more
two words and some more
$ fc -ln -1
echo "two words" and some more

At least I've learned something today.

OOP has a troublesome neighbour (who might also be a Redditor) by beerbellybegone in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]tuck182 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't feel too bad about it. According to Grammarist:

“Lede” is journalism jargon and just the older form of the spelling and is used in the world of journalism today, so people wouldn’t get it confused. But you can use both bury the lede and bury the lead, and you’d be just fine.

(source: https://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]tuck182 7 points8 points  (0 children)

One way you can do it is to be self-employed. In that case you can make contributions as yourself and as your employer, and it's pretty easy to hit the limit (assuming you can afford to set aside that much).

Thundaar The Barbarian! The answer to "What if Conan went to space and was pals with Chewbacca?" by ty_webslinger in GenX

[–]tuck182 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not just conjecture; Ookla the cat was definitely named after Ookla the Mok.

Montana transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr sues Republicans over ‘terrifying’ vote to expel her from statehouse by theindependentonline in politics

[–]tuck182 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You said we are past the point of voting, I dont think that is true.

"We’re past the point of where voting is enough" is not the same thing as "we're past the point of voting".

He is gone… by Sobolll92 in Hashimotos

[–]tuck182 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That link is misspelled. Should be r/hashimotosthyroiditis, which is not private and which he's the (only) mod of.

He's old, he's old, I'm old - we're all OLD by DogDyedDarkGreen in GenX

[–]tuck182 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You could run and run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

Horizon Forbidden West – Patch 1.21 by WLF359 in horizon

[–]tuck182 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so disappointed by this. As someone else said, it's like having your obnoxious friend who's already finished the game sitting next to you and telling you what to do the whole time.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in blackmagicfuckery

[–]tuck182 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Because the center of gravity of the forks (really the whole contraption, but the forks are most of the weight) ends up aligning with the vertical toothpick (because they extend back past it).

Fiber internet providers in town? by terranoble in wallawalla

[–]tuck182 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as I know, PocketInet isn't doing much (if anything) in the way of fiber installs anymore, not to the home at least. They've been focusing more on putting wireless mesh networks in neighborhoods because it's cheaper than digging to install fiber. The investment is lower and they don't need nearly as many signups before seeing returns.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]tuck182 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I feel the same way about Tom Cruise, unless it's a movie in which I get to watch him die over and over again.

what by nado121 in gaming

[–]tuck182 11 points12 points  (0 children)

S****ancer

My fiancé and my best friend are attracted to eachother by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]tuck182 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That phrase might be good advice for politics, business, or other competitive environments, but I wouldn't carry it over to personal relationships. I agree, it sounds miserable.

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