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I remember this one from the 1980s in the metro NYC area called 'Alive & Kicking'. The covers they did for top-40 rock were always played with a disco-ey beat. It was brutal to endure.
Long time gasoline mower user until I went electric 2 years ago. An 'EGO' mower.
Mine has a 21 inch deck, uses a 56 Volt 5 amp/hour battery. The charging cycle takes 30 to 40 minutes and is good for about an hour of mowing, and it cuts through thick grass as good as my 4 HP gas mower did.
Another unrealized strong point of it I didn't realize until I used it was how <i>QUIET</i> it is. Really cuts down on noise fatigue when mowing. It's also lighter and I like how the handle folds and it can be stored vertically, saving a ton of space in the garage.
Just a regular workday for me ( us ) where I work. We can have holidays off...as long as they fall on your regular days off.
Hell yes; another summer hater here. I too am seen as some outlier by some because my default position <b>isn't</b> summer/sun/heat = happiness. They see summer in some mythical abstract sense of endless leisure time on breezy beaches and fun in the water. I see it in a day-to-day practical sense where where we're 200 miles from the ocean, and summer means working in muggy oppressive weather that has my clothes sticking to me and sweat gushing off of me just standing idle there, with physical activity making it exponentially worse.
During the summer, I'm outside doing stuff only for the the necessary chores and errands. I get enough of melting in the heat at my job. Central A/C makes catching up on my reading and movie binging possible. During autumn and winter, I embrace the outdoors. Even working my butt off doing chores feels <i>great</i> in the bracing cool air: I feel so energetic and can work and play hard without breaking a sweat. Plus, I breathe in and intake dense oxygen laden fresh air instead of soggy marmalade-like mud that passes for air in the summer.
Short days and cool air: Bring it on!!! Jimmy Buffet can put on insulated coveralls and heavy boots.
This:
"<i>Why don't we just leave everything on Standard Time (the true time) and let those who wish to pursue that mythical "longer day" get up an hour earlier in the spring and summer?</i>"
Excellent point! It would be unequivocally the fairest solution, certainly compared to the current one where we live under the relative tyranny by a minority...albeit a powerful and influential one.
- Dirty Harry ( the original 1971 film )
I don't dislike all the others, but they just don't do anything for me.
Agreed, and add me to the list of DST haters.
The principle of it is just so brazenly lame, as if the public would be naive enough to not see the artificiality of it all. I remember read a funny quote from a native American's reaction to it, and said it would be like cutting off part of one end of a blanket and then sewing on to the opposite end...How true! Also, as some others in this thread have alluded to, it's the insidiousness of how the PTB push this as some benign magic tweak that's a boon for the country when the end game of those pushing it is just to make us workaholics.
Over the years...decades, I've noticed how they've moved the beginning date of DST time earlier and earlier in the years, and ended it later and later in the year. For me, the only good part of DST is when it ends, and while that first day's extra hour is nice, the feeling of a little extra time fades quickly. When DST begins however, that single day's loss of an hour kicks my arse, and I'm dragging for 3 to 4 days afterward.
A particularly glurge-worthy tune heard at so many weddings in the 80s was 'You're the Inspiration' by Chicago.
They use this handy plot generator chart:
https://wronghands1.com/2019/11/29/hallmark-christmas-movie-plot-generator/
( You can enlarge the image by clicking on it )
Pithy post, well put.
'The Warriors' ( 1979 ).
As a whole, it's not worse than the original, but the comic book style screen shots to certain scene intros are unnecessary at best, and suspense killers at worst.
The one scene when some members the gang hurriedly exit a subway station and see the Baseball furies waiting for them suffers the most. The original film shows them, after having been split up and separated from the other half of their gang in an attempt to escape the cops on the subway platform, desperately exit the station to the street, but not seeing their other members. The camera pans around from them to show a desolate deserted neighborhood and pans around to show the Baseball Furies surrounding them, in their full regalia of face paint and uniforms, wordlessly twirling their bats. It's a sudden, jarring, and terrifying scene when you first see it.
In the directors cut, just before the Warriors exit the subway station to the street, a comic book screen shot showing animated Baseball Furies with large font stating "Holy shit! It's the Baseball Furies!" is inserted before cutting back to the camera panning scene from the Warriors to show the Baseball Furies. Completely ruins the surprise.
'The Thing' ( 1982 )
Space 2001
Solaris
Vertigo - Love the intro and music. Great photography too, but this is one Hitchcock flick that just doesn't do it for me.
Borat - Inane <i>and</i> boring
Another vote for 'The Revenant'
Any musical
I New York Mets game in the late 70s at Shea Stadium.
Judas Priest - British Steel
I'm saying people are mouth breathing dolts for demanding I "like" something just because it is well known and in play.
Any of the Indiana Jones stuff. I'm just not that into the overly contrived escapist "good guy vs bad guys" drivel. I caught a hell of a lot of flak for not liking that stuff.
Ghostbusters. Another case of catching flak from mouth breathing dolts for not caring for something that was all the rage at the time. It wasn't about me being an iconoclast: I just didn't get the hype.
Star Wars. I didn't dislike it, but caught hell for not going apesh*t about it when it was de-rigueur to do so.
Batman movies
Pearl Harbor/Titanic: In a class of utter schlock all its own.
'The Station Agent' 2003
'Charmed'?
FWIW, I believe that there is a subtle and involuntary "trying too hard" vibe that is given off even if one does their damndest to preempt such a thing.
I remember feeling awkward and reserved, overcompensating really, in an attempt to be friendly but not wolfish or cocksure toward women. I'm sure my "vibe" as seen/sensed outwardly was different from the one I wanted to present.
After reuniting with a woman I knew from decades past, it developed into a romantic relationship. A strange phenomenon I began to note going forward: Women were initiating conversation with me. While not exactly throwing themselves at me, <i>did</i> show much much more readiness to interact with me. I recall no such different "vibe" I was giving out since before the relationship, but it must have been there nonetheless. In turn, the fact I had a GF must have imbued me with an "I don't really give a damn" attitude when in the presence of women I would have been heretofore attracted to.