Random Thoughts

[MadMan]

Put the new Suspiria on my Christmas list.

Nice STBY avatar, sir.

[megladon8]

I have always preferred Spider-Man having organic web shooters.

I feel like without those there’s nothing particularly “spider-y” about him.

[Skitch]

I have always preferred Spider-Man having organic web shooters.

I agree. This is totally nitpicky silliness, but I've never understood why his spider grip works through his gloves and shoes and suit.

[Ezee E]

I agree. This is totally nitpicky silliness, but I've never understood why his spider grip works through his gloves and shoes and suit.

Never put that together.

[megladon8]

I agree. This is totally nitpicky silliness, but I've never understood why his spider grip works through his gloves and shoes and suit.

Agreed.

I mean without the organic webshooters, he can clmb walls? Hardly spider-specific. He could just as easily be Cliffhanger.

I saw a meme recently that made me chortle. I can’t find it again, but it was something like...

“Imagine meeting someone who knows nothing of comic books or superheroes. Tell them about one character who is blind and uses echolocation to see, and then of a character who is a fearless adrenaline junkie with gadgets. Then tell them which one is Daredevil and which one is Batman.”

[Dukefrukem]

We had that conversation a while back when someone complained about the scene in Spider-man 2 when he tries to stop the train in the tracks. His suit would rip. And that's when we got into the Superman comparison.

[Ivan Drago]

There's only one way to stop the arguments about Baby, It's Cold Outside.

By collectively agreeing that Santa Baby is worse.

[megladon8]

There's only one way to stop the arguments about Baby, It's Cold Outside.

By collectively agreeing that Santa Baby is worse.

Damn it, you’re right.

[MadMan]

Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt is a great song, though.

[Irish]

We recently discovered that over the past decade, Star Tribune movie critic Colin Covert has written some film reviews using the same unique language of writers for other publications, without attribution.

Covert, a staff writer at the Star Tribune for more than 30 years, has resigned.

This matter came to editors’ attention in a recent email from a reader that said Covert in his 2009 review of the movie “Nine” had used a unique phrase from the late New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael. Editors confirmed the phrase -- “self-glorifying masochistic mush” -- was used by Kael in 1974.

I dunno why a vet critic would do this but OTOH, if you steal, steal from the best?

OTOOH, this dude also lifted material from Vulture and IndieWire so he's clearly delusional and needs help.

http://www.startribune.com/star-trib...ach/502410192/

[MadMan]

Wow. He is an idiot to think he would not get busted in the age of Google.

[megladon8]

I wish Amazon accepted forms of payment other than credit card.

The only debt remaining in my life is credit card debt, and I want to eliminate using credit cards for anything except emergencies.

Don’t understand why you can’t use PayPal for Amazon purchases.

[Dukefrukem]

I wish Amazon accepted forms of payment other than credit card.

The only debt remaining in my life is credit card debt, and I want to eliminate using credit cards for anything except emergencies.

Don’t understand why you can’t use PayPal for Amazon purchases.

DOesn't Amazon accept Debit Cards?

[Scar]

DOesn't Amazon accept Debit Cards?

And checking accounts.

[megladon8]

DOesn't Amazon accept Debit Cards?

If they do, that’s news to me!

[Irish]

Amazon definitely accepts debit cards (I bought my Switch with one).

Fun fact: Visa and MasterCard require your credit card number, expiration date, and 3 digit security code to charge the card. They don't need your name, address, birth date, telephone number, email address, or (IRL) your signature.

So if an online retailer or service provide requires oodles of personal information "just because" ... you can falsify it and it won't matter.

In real life, you can sign any name on the receipt and it will be valid. Or draw a picture. Give em a little doodle. The credit card company doesn't care; the charge went through when you swiped.

[Ezee E]

Amazon definitely accepts debit cards (I bought my Switch with one).

Fun fact: Visa and MasterCard require your credit card number, expiration date, and 3 digit security code to charge the card. They don't need your name, address, birth date, telephone number, email address, or (IRL) your signature.

So if an online retailer or service provide requires oodles of personal information "just because" ... you can falsify it and it won't matter.

In real life, you can sign any name on the receipt and it will be valid. Or draw a picture. Give em a little doodle. The credit card company doesn't care; the charge went through when you swiped.

I feel like this is something that a retired uncle raves about at Thanksgiving dinner.

[Irish]

I feel like this is something that a retired uncle raves about at Thanksgiving dinner.

LOL, I am totally that guy

[Spinal]

Rank the 2019 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductees for no apparent reason:

1. Radiohead
2. The Zombies
3. Stevie Nicks
4. The Cure
5. Janet Jackson
6. Def Leppard

Don't really know Roxy Music that well.

[bac0n]

1. The Cure
2. Radiohead
3. Stevie Nicks
4. The Zombies
5. Janet Jackson
WTF. Def Leppard

[Dukefrukem]

1. Rage Against the Machine
2. Radiohead
3. The Cure
4. Janet Jackson
5. The Zombies
Everyone else

[Skitch]

WTF. Def Leppard

If Rage had made the cut they wouldve been my #1. Otherwise...

1. The Cure
2. Stevie Nicks
3. Radiohead
4. Janet Jackson
GET FUCKED Def Leppard

[megladon8]

Duke, your package arrived today.

Get ready for your mailbox to be blown up.

[MadMan]

Rank the 2019 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductees for no apparent reason:

1. Radiohead
2. The Zombies
3. Stevie Nicks
4. The Cure
5. Janet Jackson
6. Def Leppard

Don't really know Roxy Music that well.

I agree with that ranking. I only know Roxy through a few hits of theirs.

[transmogrifier]

Rank the 2019 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductees for no apparent reason:

1. Radiohead
2. The Zombies
3. Stevie Nicks
4. The Cure
5. Janet Jackson
6. Def Leppard

Don't really know Roxy Music that well.

Roxy Music is better than everyone else on that list.