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Participant[quote=svelte]Perhaps some music will soothe your soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_czbS6qa9RU%5B/quote%5D
Nope.
Didnt work.
But wait, this one didSongs most likely to cheer me up are probably, split kick with art blakey and clifford brown, the introducer of the act always puts a smile on my face…such a funny intro
Terrapin station…
And most Charles mingus
Participant[quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic]
But people do have control over being prepared for bad times. Its shocking how overextended people I know are.[/quote]Yes, but this is America. Buy now pay later. You are a miser, as I’m pretty sure most people on this board are. But, that’s like 20-25% of the population.
The 75-80% of the population that cannot manage their finances creates a lot of opportunities for the rest of us. If the majority of the population were to actually act like we do, businesses would not nearly do as well as they do here in the states. That’s how’s its been, that’s how it will continue to be.
There are some people that just have bad luck, those people are unfortunate. But those aren’t in the majority.[/quote]
You’re right. I’m getting cheaper all the time. No soap, no showers. Large serving of oatmeal for breakfast/lunch. Only used clothing.
This lockdown does make the idea of going out with cash and spending it seem like a distant dream.
Just stay home and eat your oats
Participant[quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Coronita]You guys are so negative. I look at it differently….
Free car wash… I’m moving some of my cars out of the garage as we speak.[/quote]Maybe.
But this relatively small event causes 10 perc. Unemployment.
Would it really take a lot to send us to 30 or 40 perc. Unemployment.
If half the country were out of work, I’m not sure what america would look like.
One thong o know for sure, you wouldnt be happy about a free car wash.We start from no social cohesion. People distrust each other.
I think humans may also be significantly dumber and less robust nowadays with higher expectations.
15 perc chance shit gets ugly.
I’m kind of wondering if the signs are all around us and we just dont see, kinda of like how I though CV was nothing like, just last month
…[/quote]No point worrying about things you have no control over. Some folks were already on borrowed time to begin with, many of us don’t even know we are on borrowed time, especially the ones that are health fanatics that think that magically they are immune to the randomness of some cancer, tumors, viruses, and infections. You read about some of the most fittest and healthiest people out of nowhere get a heart attack and die. Sheryl Sandberg’s former husband, of all things that could have killed him, died from Arrhythmia while exercising on a treadmill. What’s worse? Dying with everyone else, or being the last one and watching everyone else die around you… I’ll pick door #1 please.[/quote]
But people do have control over being prepared for bad times. Its shocking how overextended people I know are.
Participant[quote=sdduuuude]I thought humidity was harder on the virus than dry.
Cool and dry – happy virus, sad people
Warm and humid – sad virus, happy people.Is that not right ?[/quote]wait, maybe you’re right.
I feel better
Participant[quote=Coronita]You guys are so negative. I look at it differently….
Free car wash… I’m moving some of my cars out of the garage as we speak.[/quote]Maybe.
But this relatively small event causes 10 perc. Unemployment.
Would it really take a lot to send us to 30 or 40 perc. Unemployment.
If half the country were out of work, I’m not sure what america would look like.
One thing i know for sure, you wouldnt be happy about a free car wash.
We start from no social cohesion. People distrust each other. Hell, I really dont trust people. Frankly I think most people are nuts.
I think humans may also be significantly dumber and less robust nowadays with higher expectations.
15 perc chance shit gets ugly.
I’m kind of wondering if the signs are all around us and we just dont see, kinda of like how I though CV was nothing like, just last month
…Participant[quote=svelte]This country has been through the Civil War, World War 1, The Great Depression, and World War 2.
The magnitude of any of those events is many times worse than a little virus and rain. And we recovered from all of them.
2020 has knocked us down a couple of pegs, but this perturbed society to a much less degree than those other events.
I am ready for some sunshine![/quote]
We had a good run. I’d say it’s all over. The end will likely come in some silly way, like this old guy I knew who fell off a ladder.
The us will probably implode from a hangnail.
Or a slightly worse virus, some environmental issue and a decent earthquake.
I feel like society is about as stable as a sandcastle on the beach.
Participant[quote=ltsddd]Just take a look at Amtrak & the USPS and then you tell me how well SOEs are working out.
The gov’t did get ownership of the bailed out companies via stocks. That’s how it was with TARP.[/quote]
What if we had a SOE where the S doesnt actively try to make the E fail.
ParticipantHi quality tote bags are really nice.
I recently bought a dandux coal bag, rated to carry 100 lbs. Big in japan apparently.
Steele totes has a nice website, gorgeous product
Artifact bags, more hipster, absolutely beautiful
Will require greater investment, but I’ve had a heavy canvas bag I’d been using regularly since 1998 . Handle finally came loose
April 8, 2020 at 9:21 PM in reply to: Los Angeles 1978, up in smoke, power, cops, tommy chong’s prison stint #816336Participant[quote=svelte]tactical women’s alert team.
It’s all coming back to me.
Comedy classics![/quote]
I cant even chuckle 4 those clips. Sorry. Too late 4 me.
watching THE OFFICE reruns. That makes me laugh.
April 8, 2020 at 5:02 PM in reply to: Los Angeles 1978, up in smoke, power, cops, tommy chong’s prison stint #816322Participant[quote=sdduuuude]I thought Pineapple Express was poor. Hard to watch. Ending was good, but it never got funny.[/quote]
It was poor, but I liked the way james franco just wanted a friend.
April 8, 2020 at 3:02 PM in reply to: Los Angeles 1978, up in smoke, power, cops, tommy chong’s prison stint #816316Participant[quote=sdduuuude][quote=scaredyclassic]… pretty lame cheech and Chong.[/quote]
Blasphemy ! I read no further than this :|[/quote]
Cheech does move in an amusing way. A hyped up chicken, maybe. That’s fun to watch. He dances funny. My wife hates drugs and drug humor, but she liked cheech, and actually liked the movie. He has a real Chicano self mocking pride to himself.
The details are nice, especially cheechs car, which is like a whole separate character in the film.
Chong, though, not sure what his talent is, other than a kind of hey I know a stoner kinda like him guy.
The lesser star, Kind of like Garfunkel to cheechs paul Simon.
If Simon and Garfunkel were 2 homeless guys with no sense of pitch playing ukeleles in a park 4 spare change.
The sex stuff is a little painful. . At one point, a woman shows cheech her breasts, and his face lights up with an adolescent delight and surprise that I dont think would be believable in 2020. Weve been too saturated with porn to go back to cheechs expression, to even imagine such surprise and wonder.
When cheech tries to pick up some clearly underaged teeenyboppers from a bus stop, its downright frightening, not funny, not even a little funny. Mr hulots holiday is a laugh riot compared to that moment. Thankfully, they decline his offer.
Probably my favorite character in the movie is the really odd looking slow talking girl who likes qualludes and chong and Carries around a nicely made picnic basket type drug stash.
She is weird, for sure, but not as frightening as the girl who unwittingly snorts 3 lines of ajax thinking its coke and has a kind of 3 stooges reaction to it at the PTSD vietnam vets house cheech and chong are trying to buy weed from.
Maybe that’s the most dated thing in the film, making fun of a veteran with PTSD. Not done in anything remotely resembling a humorous take on it.
Which is kind of compelling, in it’s own way.
If that scene were released today cheech and chong would probably get death threats from patriots and told to stand in front of the troops if they can’t get behind them in the movies
.But the funniest moment for sure…
“One scene that stands out today involves a Mexican family calling immigration, or “La Migra,” on themselves, self-deporting so that they can all find a ride and a meal down to Mexico for a wedding.”
Ahh, the 70s.
Apparently the scenes of underrepresented east l. A. Were groundbreaking for the time.
.we forget how disconnected films were from reality as lived by many. .Pineapple Express has better moments. But still ultimately, about as dumb.
April 8, 2020 at 10:41 AM in reply to: Los Angeles 1978, up in smoke, power, cops, tommy chong’s prison stint #816306ParticipantHoly crap, chong’s 81, looks great!
April 8, 2020 at 10:39 AM in reply to: Los Angeles 1978, up in smoke, power, cops, tommy chong’s prison stint #816305Participant[quote=zk][quote=sdduuuude][quote=scaredyclassic]… pretty lame cheech and Chong.[/quote]
Blasphemy ! I read no further than this :|[/quote]
In 1979, I was a senior in high school in the suburbs of Chicago. Two buddies and I took a 4-week trip to L.A. We did this very much on the cheap, sleeping in parks and whatnot so the meager job earnings we’d saved up would last, and spending most days on the beach. One night we parked at NBC studios overnight getting ready to line up super early the next morning to see Johnny Carson the next evening. We had Big Bambu on tape and a few hours to kill, so we fired up a J (or three) and cued up some Cheech and Chong on the car’s tape deck. After a little while, we were really good and high, and we noticed that they started pretty much every sentence with “hey,” and ended pretty much every sentence with “man.” In the state we were in, we found this quite funny. So every time they said “hey” or “man” we would crack up. We’d heard the whole album many times before, of course, but it didn’t matter that it wasn’t new to us, because “hey” and “man” was all we needed at the time. And we got one of each almost every sentence.
Just the memory of that night is enough to make me love Cheech and Chong forever.
Cheech goes to visit his super-high friend Chong and finds him sitting on the couch:
“Hey, watcha doin’, man?”
“Aw, just watchin’ tv, man.”
“Watchin’ tv? What are you watchin’, man?”
“I don’t know. It’s a movie about Indians, but it’s really boring, man.”
“Hey, man, that’s not a movie, man, that’s a test pattern, man!”[Larry the cable guy accent]: I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.[/quote]
In the credits tommy chong’s character is just called “man”.
Participant[quote=sdduuuude]Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, grocery store customers are now restricted from bringing in their own shopping bags.
Free one-time-use plastic bags are back in California !
I missed them.[/quote]Yeah me too. And I admit now, I was wrong, I need at least a small paper bag
I dont shower anymore, use wet wipes. Youd be surprised at how much more poop you’ll find with wet wipes.
And how much u want a bag.
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