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TexasHooch

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  1. 21 minutes ago, F250 said:

    This. Heathers is the Gen-X wheelhouse.

    Breakfast Club and those John Hughes films seem to be a bit out of the Gen X orbit. Those early 80's movies seem more related to that slightly older unknown group that are too young for boomers and too old for Gen-X.

     

    Born in '75, towards the tail end of Gen X.  I've never in my life watched "Heathers", whatever that is.  I have, however, watched every John Hughes film ever made, pretty much as they were made (Weird Science was an eye opener at the age of 10).

  2. 1 hour ago, C-Man said:

    This is a good take.

    I'd also argue that while Gen X is the smallest of the generations in existence today we've got an inordinate number of the "classic" HS-era, coming-of-age films because the 80's was jam-packed with them. It was movie upon movie upon movie. John Hughes was a big part of that.

    • Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    • Sixteen Candles
    • The Breakfast Club
    • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    • Pretty In Pink
    • Weird Science
    • Less Than Zero
    • Heathers
    • Porky's
    • Better Off Dead
    • Risky Business
    • Can't Buy Me Love
    • Back to the Future (though I guess you could give this one to Boomers)
    • Teen Wolf
    • Private School
    • Valley Girl
    • Some Kind of Wonderful
    • Footloose
    • Summer School
    • Dead Poet's Society
    • Red Dawn
    • The Outsiders (see Back to the Future note)
    • Just One of the Guys
    • Three O'Clock High

    Just One of the Guys! Now that one resonates with this X'er.  

     

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  3. 5 hours ago, Burt said:

    Our electricity has been out for 45 minutes (no heat), and this is our current weather....

    Screenshot_20240113_005429_Weather.thumb.jpg.2251229b589691b443f19e2d08d8e938.jpg

    That suuucks.  Hopefully it's back by now.  We lost our heat in similar weather for 4 days a few years ago. Luckily we had power though.  Our gas fireplace and a few space heaters made it manageable.  

     

  4. Ruby's Two Sad Daughters
     
    In this land that knows no laughter,
    And this land that holds no water,
    We were all in love
    With Ruby's two sad daughters.
     
    One went way out west,
    One went way wrong.
    One left at seventeen,
    And the other couldn't wait that long.
    Neither went anywhere with me.
    Not to the games or the Dairy Queen.
    They split with the first boy who lied sweet
    And looked vaguely mean.
     
    _______________________________________
    Love at the Five and Dime
     
    Rita was sixteen years, hazel eyes and chestnut hair
    She made the Woolworth counter shine
    And Eddie was a sweet romancer, and a darn good dancer
    And they'd waltz the aisles of the five and dime
  5. My kid has his first  race of the year this weekend.  These are the highs. He's a seasoned Minnesotan, but I can't say I love the idea of him standing at the top of a hill in nothing but a race suit.

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    *Reposting because I accidentally replied to the "travel" thread.  

     

     

  6. I'm long since removed from being a resident of Texas, but can't imagine actually having to make contingency plans for the electric to go off for days in a cold snap.  Wrapping/covering/dripping pipes, sure.  But no electricity?  Man, that sucks.

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  7. Just now, Satchel said:

    Can you imagine the breaking news aspect had Obama taken 8 million from foreign governments?

    I'm not sure because it didn't happen.  What do you think?  More, or less than wearing a tan suit?

  8. 28 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    Holy Shit.  Let's play "Spot the Rhetorical Fallacies" in this short clip.

    I've got:

    Hasty Generalization, Equivocation, Red Herring, Scare Tactics (duh, it's Fox), Post Hoc, Strawman, Begging the Question...

    How many of the people who believe her crap could define or provide an example of any of these, let alone spot them in real time?

    We're doomed.

     

     

     

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  9. Quote

    A new report by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee documents more than $7.8 million in payments from at least 20 foreign governments — including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar — to businesses owned by then-President Donald Trump during two years of his presidential term.

    This sounds really bad, and I hate that I'm saying this, but... meh.  We already know that he kept his businesses, including his hotels, and that foreign diplomats frequently stayed at his DC and NY hotels. 

    It's shady, for sure.  I just don't see the breaking news aspect of it.

     

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