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Samson's Wig

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  1. If you're a crook with bad teeth, that must have come in handy. I don't use Facebook or TikTok, so I have no idea which is the "better" platform. Enough mind-numbing things are vying for my attention that social media had to go a few years back. I did enjoy Instagram for following local artists and motorcycle content, but it became nearly impossible to find the things I wanted to see amidst the nonsense at one point, so I gave it up as well.
  2. I know this may come as a shock to someone who grew up under the thumb of of tech bros, but you can live a solid and productive life without engaging with any of these companies. As for businesses relying on Tiktok, I mean, c'mon man. I think the energy drink producers and fly-by-night fast fashion shithouses will find another way to capture the hearts and minds of impressionable youth.
  3. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about, unless you're confusing me with another poster. I was teasing a little before, but now I'm genuinely concerned about the brain rot you're suffering from due to social media use. Maybe less TikTok will be good for you.
  4. I can't believe someone is wringing his hands over the removal of one social media platform just because it's better designed to suck you in and waste your life away than the American versions of the same thing. They're all shit, and anyone bemoaning the loss of any social media platform should take a step back and think about whether or not they're a fully functioning human or just a mind-controlled zombie. To have the awareness that it's bad for you yet still complain that it's being taken away because it does a better job of capturing your attention than the alternatives is some next-level dumbassery.
  5. "the p.g.a. mark—a distinction highly valued and taken seriously within the industry.” That line made me laugh.
  6. I was teasing you over the inflection/infliction typo.
  7. How out of tune does one's crying have to be for this to rise to the level of an actionable tort?
  8. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they're paying him more. Perhaps a lot more.
  9. Too late to edit my ealier post. Please remove if needed BL. I didn't mean to cloak room anything. I don't even go to that forum so don't exactly know where the lines are.
  10. Trudeau was always an empty suit with empty-headed ideas (or really just no ideas of his own at all). The amazing part is that he's lasted this long, which is more an indictment of the conservative party in Canada and perhaps the average Canadian voter's love for shiny, polite things than anything else. I'll never forget one of his early press conferences after taking office when a planted reporter fed a planned question about machine learning to an expert at the mic, and Justin stepped in with an "I'll handle this" and went on a long, and clearly memorized, detailed explanation of the intricacies of the tech. The press, naturally, gushed and goo-gooed over how brilliant he was when it was painfully apparent to anyone with a functioning brain that he had no clue what he was talking about. In short, he has always been style over substance, has gotten by on charm and saying the right things that make most Canadian voters feel warm and fuzzy, all while adding zero value to the country, and has now overseen the worst Canadian economy in most living people's memories along with the immigration issues already discussed above. He's overseen serious cultural instability and economic misery, and now there are loads of angry voters who would ultimately prefer a left-leaning moderate but will likely vote far right in the next election just to send a message to the liberal party (sounds a bit like another country we all know well). As noted above, the immigration issues are no doubt part of the dissatisfaction with Trudeau, but as is most often the case, the economy is the real issue. He has been a big spender and doesn't see a far-left pet cause he doesn't like to throw money at. His ousting stepping down has much more to do with taxpayers' dissatisfaction with government spending when they're struggling personally than it does with immigration. When you factor in how much the government, particularly in the Eastern half of the country, handled the pandemic and the economic fallout that came from it, people are fed up and broke. If the Liberal party doesn't find leadership who can tone down the nonsense they're going to get roasted in the next election, and that's not something that should really have happened at all except they have continued to double down on bad ideas for years.
  11. She did just that, which is what led to this dust-up. Overall, I would say this is a positive outcome of the Me Too era, in that this would have never been public a decade ago. I can't comment as to what did or didn't happen on set, but this type of behavior, while not nearly as common as most people think, does happen on occasion, especially with low-level productions with inexperienced producers/directors involved. You can almost always spot a newbie to the industry by how big of an asshole they are and especially with how they treat women. Like any other industry, the people who are enjoyable to work with are the ones who stick around. The assholes rarely get more than a couple of shots. It's all word of mouth with no job security, and no one will work with you if you're a jerk unless you bring heavy-duty influence through financials or proven box office draw. No matter what actually happened here, this director/producer's shot at a career beyond low-budget productions is toast.
  12. I'm inclined to believe that an insignificant "explosion" with zero damage to anything but the driver and the vehicle itself is part of some mass conspiracy. I mean, we're all living in a post-Vegas-cybertruck-explosion world now, aren't we? One guy didn't pull this off on his own, that's for sure.
  13. If warning labels have taught me anything about cancer risks, it is that no one should ever go to California unless they have a death wish.
  14. They're assholes either way, but nobody needs to eat anything that comes out of that water.
  15. To what end? They're not going to eat that nasty shit, are they?
  16. Okay. The majority of the population only ever deals with divorce attorneys and PI lawyers. I can understand reviling those folks, given the circumstances in which one deals with them, but they make up a small percentage of attorneys. Half the founding fathers were lawyers, for fucks sake. What should scare everyone is how many doctors are making their way into elected office. That keeps me up at night. School teachers? lol
  17. Clearly, we need more men on the street, i.e. businessmen, running things. You know, the guys who never listen to the lawyers but then blame them when things go to shit, most often in the exact manner the lawyers warned them about in the first place. Those guys have common sense and get things done.
  18. Nah, man, a bonafide American hero says something fishy is happening. Who do you think you are to question him?
  19. I chaperoned a middle school trip to Disneyland earlier this fall. I was responsible for a group of 10 boys for three days at the parks. When multiple Disney employees ask you if you're doing okay, or shake their head with pity, or mention how they've never seen that many kids with just one adult, you know you're probably doing something that shouldn't be done as they see it all. I was scared to death going in that it would be a nightmare. To the contrary, I was blown away by how kind and supportive these kids were. For all the talk about how kids are being raised soft and with no work ethic, etc. they're also being raised to treat each other with respect and kindness and are much more fully functional and high quality human beings than any middle school kid, myself included, that I can recall from the past. I truly came away from that trip with more hope for the future than I've ever had.
  20. Posting Canadians doing nice things seems almost like cheating.
  21. lol. I was just setting the scene for the reveal at the end. It was definitely his fault both times. He's long passed, so he won't mind me saying so.
  22. My grandfather had two train accidents in his life while living in a small town with fast trains and zero signals, signs, alerts, etc. Both times, it happened at night, and the intersection had no lighting outside of whatever moonlight might be shining. The first time, the train hit him as he crossed right in front of it. The second time, he hit the train because he didn't see it. Both times, he was drunk.
  23. I hope he learns to accept himself and finds a nice fella who makes him happy and settles down into a life of mixing complicated cocktails, laughing at breeders while vacationing extensively, and publishing thoughtful treatises in an attempt to reverse all the damage he's done to young impressionable kids . . . and then dies a painful death.
  24. It's a thing now because every shitty-driving soccer mom drives an SUV too big for her to handle (because she's not used to handling big things because she's married to a dipshit with a giant pickup too big for him to handle) and modern SUVs now come with 360-degree backup cameras and these shit drivers feel more comfortable backing in because of those cameras. If you watch them, they're not looking around them at all but only down at the screen in front of them. The reality is that backing in has always been the safest option for larger vehicles and is how you should do it. People who actually know how to drive larger trucks can execute this maneuver with no problem, and in fact find it much easier than pulling in forwards. In the old days you could usually spot an urban cowboy dipshit because he didn't back his truck into a spot. The problem now is too many dumbasses drive vehicles much too large for them to handle, but the technology on these beasts has given them the confidence to do things they're not capable of doing well, such as backing into a spot. I think there should be more driving license classifications than A, B, C, and M. If we make people take extensive classes and pass tests to get a motorcycle endorsement, we should be doing the same thing for SUVs or pickups that weigh over 3500 lbs. The vast majority of people driving them have no clue what the fuck they're doing and are a menace on the roads and in the parking lots. A slightly more rigorous licensing process would have 80%+ of the women in giant SUVs and the city dudes in F150s and GMC Sierras driving hatchbacks and sedans again.
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