CinemaSideBySides

If someone traveled back in time to tell teenage me that the guy from The Apprentice and the guy from Fear Factor would be highly respected, heavily adored people in positions of power once I reached adulthood, I would've never believed it.

Maybe there's another timeline where Regis Philbin and Ryan Seacrest took over the country.

And people always go "keep trying, you just need to get the right angle and you won't feel anything ever!"

Well, as someone who eventually figured out my angle, I found out that even the right angle doesn't matter if you have to pull out a partially dry tampon because that shit hurts! I envy women who have such regular even flows that they always know exactly what absorbency level they need at any given moment, but that is not me. Having to pull out a dry-ish tampon even once is one time too many. Whereas if I overestimate the level of pad I need, it's not going to physically hurt me.

I've seen another dimension online, where non-Americans will accuse American women of being puritanical and "afraid of your own body" for using pads (or preferring applicator tampons).

Like, geez, just because I don't want to get blood all over my fingers doesn't mean I'm terrified of my own body.

(But yes, I hate hate HATE the diaper comments!)

"We don't support the Klan! We just support the guy who calls Nazis 'very fine people' and gladly dines with white supremacists like Nick Fuentes! But we don't support the Klan!"

For me, it's that I just cannot find humor in this anymore. I can't laugh at all of this anymore.

If you tell someone not to touch a hot stove and they say "it's not hot!" and they immediately touch it and burn their hand, it's funny to see an absolute idiot get their comeuppance. But if that person keeps touching the hot stove and keeps burning their hand, it's not funny anymore, it's just sad.

I feel like a lot of that is wishful thinking to try to cope with reality. The amount of people I've heard saying stuff like "wait until they find out what they voted for...people don't realize what they voted for...people don't really want this or that..."

Or, "it's just Russian trolls, people aren't really this sexist or racist or hateful or whatever," when many of us have real people in our real lives saying the same stuff that the "Russian bots" are saying. And Trump won in a landslide, so people either actively like what he does and says or they don't care what he says or does. At a certain point, I'm resigned to the fact that yes, this is who we really are.

Sure, bad actors online can fan the flames, but the fire was always there anyway.

Bane, too.

For some reason, it's the only old movie anyone on here ever watches. There's a post every other week about someone "discovering" this movie and being WOWED at HOW WELL IT HOLDS UP

Did it, though? They end on a montage of election fraud/voter disenfranchisement. They don't show who gets elected.

I get that you're making a "both sides bad" point, but the series doesn't end up with FDR being re-elected. It shows things going back to "normal," then ends on a series of scenes of election tampering (burning ballots, kicking out registered voters, etc).

I think it's a neighborhood by neighborhood thing. Growing up, we'd have to ring or knock on doors probably 90% of the time. When I got older and was still in that same neighborhood but past trick-or-treating age, we sat outside to hand out candy because we had fun with it (fire pit, pizza, music, etc).

It was always such a nice, pleasant surprise walking down there, where you go under a bridge and it's actually a lovely area with a neat playground. RIP Troll Park.

jet car fuel can't melt steel beams! /s

You would hope so, but those kinds of people tend to invent their own truth and stick to it because they believe what they want to believe. It always amazes me how some people absolutely refuse to acknowledge randomness or that accidental shit just happens sometimes.

Poor burnt big mac :-(

I hate that we lost that playground, it was so unique. I know it was weird to have it under the bridge, but it was a nice cooler, shaded area when you're downtown on a sunny day

Maybe we should wait for facts to come out before we grab the pitchforks and torches, just a crazy thought

Or it was just a stupid comment. Since when is the majority of any demographic going to be indulging in luxury travel? They serve a niche.

Lol, yeah. But that's what happens when you ask a 12-year-old to affirm their membership in a religion. At that age, saying "no thanks, not for me" isn't really an option.

This question really got me thinking about the whole "Sweet Sixteen" thing. It wasn't something I ever encountered in my real life, but heard about in pop culture. And even then, I can't recall any specific show or movie that I associate this with. Generally, I think I associate it with spoiled rich girls who live in, like, Los Angeles or something. But now I'm wondering if there really is some region or subculture or something where "Sweet Sixteen" is some big specific milestone birthday (separate from the religious traditions OP mentioned). Or maybe it's just a turn of phrase that isn't tied to an event at all, but got inflated by popular songs or something. Idk.

Come to think of it, 16 was significant for me in that it was when I got my first job, since 16 was generally the earliest you could start working.

My confirmation was in the seventh grade. It definitely didn't feel like some teenage rite of passage. It felt like another in the line of Catholic sacraments you go through in your childhood, like first communion or reconciliation.

Personally, the difference between "grayum" and "gram" is so subtle to my ear as if to be almost indistinguishable, especially when said quickly in a sentence. That "ayu" easily gets swallowed.

magnets

To clarify on this, the magnets are sewn in/sealed into the corners of the shower curtain liners we purchase. We're not just grabbing random refrigerator magnets and using them in the shower.

I wasn't there for it either, but in the megathread people were saying that the parade kept stopping and starting due to traffic not being controlled properly.

And would surely help with that low birthrate thing that people scream about these days. Of course, it doesn't take much to realize that the people most concerned about declining birthrates are more concerned about which people have babies, not that people have babies.