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4 hours agoDo yourself a favor. Spend Christmas through New Year’s in the town you’re planning on moving to first.
DagwoodIII
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4·10 hours agoI can’t wait for his biopic.
His father was up there with Robert Altman as an independent director.
He was in “Weird Science” as a bully when he was 19. Kept getting movie roles even when he was being arrested on a weekly basis. Turned his life around and got sober.
Be interesting to see if they can find an actor to play him.
Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey Sr.
https://youtu.be/OPgId7RgQ2E full movie
https://youtu.be/vO5aZjfOIPs trailer
1·11 hours ago[off topic]
“Zero” by Seife. Fascinating history of the mathematical concept of ‘zero.’
3·11 hours agoI just want all the money they are going to spend on new stationary, building signs, and other ‘rebranding’ costs.
If you want to binge a great documentary, Ken Burns’ The Civil War is phenomenal.
There’s a story that says that a Northern quartermaster didn’t want repeating rifles because he didn’t want his troops wasting bullets.
More likely the repeating rifles were more expensive and heavier.
1·1 day agoYou didn’t challenge anyone to improve themselves. You tried to impose your ideas on other people. There’s a difference.
Cheers.
it could not have happened and would not have happened, for essentially economic reasons.
The interesting alternative histories are ones that turn on a single fortuitous event.
You said it couldn’t happen, then said that there are ways it could have happened.
Also, if you don’t want to be part of the discussion, you are free to stay out. other people are participating and enjoying themselves.
You are contradicting yourself.
Hitler left orders not to be awakened so he slept in on D-Day. Rommel had left his post. Think that wouldn’t have changed things?
Stalin had dozens of warnings that Hitler planned to invade. What if he’d taken even one seriously?
What if Hitler had let the Army get the glory at Dunkirk and steamrolled the troops on the beach?
I can think of dozens of times the course of the War changed by the actions of one person.
iirc they decided to do the reboot after Michelle Trachtenberg died.
I’m not going to speculate about it, but I’d think that Geller and Trachtenberg were friends and I do know that Geller has resisted doing a reboot for years.
https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american
I’ve seen this idea from several sources. The British figured that American ‘Manifest Destiny’ would mean annexing Canada eventually. It didn’t cost the Brits a lot to stir up Southern resentments against the North. So they South got played.
https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american
Many people believe that the British government actively pushed the south to secede in order to weaken the US.
Apples and oranges.
Vietnamese had been fighting for twenty years against the French and Japanese. The South thought they would achieve victory with a few battles.
I take it as a personal affront that there are grown adults who are ignorant of their own cultural heritage.
Best wishes.
5·3 days agoStop, I can only get so hard!!!
/s
It’s one of those things that sound reasonable until you actually spend a minute thinking about the details.
Minting money. Starting a post office. Borders. People who work out of state.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BonanzaS05E28
At about the same time, it was common to have White people play Asians on TV.
otoh, the actual Trojans fought for years before Odysseus thought up that trick.
Sounds like you’d have given up Helen before second breakfast.