The Swamp

Ryan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:07 am There’s a Disney emoji matching game on my phone that I haven’t opened in like 5 years and when I just updated it from the App Store, the notes said:

NEW EMOJIS ADDED:
Dorothy Zbornak

2003 tennbengals does not know what any of those words mean when put in that order

You never watched Golden Girls?

*raises hand*

I don't know how it missed me, but I only watched a few episodes of GG.

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:18 am You never watched Golden Girls?

A few episodes - certainly not enough to clock last names or that any would warrant an emoji…(insert shrug emoji)

Anyone looking at the villages yet? Ill come back in exactly 13 years

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:26 pm Anyone looking at the villages yet? Ill come back in exactly 13 years

That place needs to be nuked.

brian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:13 pm

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:26 pm Anyone looking at the villages yet? Ill come back in exactly 13 years

That place needs to be nuked.

Eh, just wait for the VD to work its way through.

The hangover today is really hangovering.

Real Salt Lake is celebrating their "twentieth anniversary" at their home opener Saturday.

This annoys me way too much. It's not their twentieth anniversary, it's the beginning of their twentieth season.

19th anniversary doesn’t have the same ring to it.

I volunteered at the Trap and Skeet range yesterday. It was fun, but man. Let me tell you.

It was like a January 6th convention. All of these standard issue white people who very clearly fit a certain demographic with all of their shotguns, FJB stickers on them, and ginormous camper vans going out into the desert for competition.

All I took away from it was: liberals need to buy guns. And train relentlessly with them.

Not sure that's the lesson there (we would lose). Our ingenuity will win the day (modified COVID spray that kills anyone unvaccinated). I could definitely see liberals with maga spray key rings like college girls.

What percentage of them buy the guns because they’re complete fucking cowards to start?

rass wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:58 pm What percentage of them buy the guns because they’re complete fucking cowards to start?

This is now the 2nd or 3rd generation that was raised by people who believed that owning guns was both their birthright and a part of their identity.

As many of you know, I grew up in a small town in the west. A high percentage of people in the town owned guns. But nobody made a big deal about it. It seems like nowadays, many gun owners make a big deal about it, for some reason. I think it’s because the NRA has convinced them that they are under siege.

Ever wonder how many pictures of you exist in homes of people you don’t know? Backgrounds of pics in bars, on vacations, whatever.

mister d wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:07 pm Ever wonder how many pictures of you exist in homes of people you don’t know? Backgrounds of pics in bars, on vacations, whatever.

No because I’m a vampire.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:59 pm As many of you know, I grew up in a small town in the west. A high percentage of people in the town owned guns. But nobody made a big deal about it. It seems like nowadays, many gun owners make a big deal about it, for some reason. I think it’s because the NRA has convinced them that they are under siege.

Oh, absolutely. As with any ideology, there's a direct correlation between its obnoxiousness and perceived persecution complex.

mister d wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:07 pm Ever wonder how many pictures of you exist in homes of people you don’t know? Backgrounds of pics in bars, on vacations, whatever.

I've often wondered how many people I've seen in my life. In class, in crowds, at ball games etc. etc.

I think enough time has passed here ... while her life was infinitely more impressive than mine, no doubt, in the big scheme of things I kinda feel like Krista McAuliffe is overrated.

You check the o-rings on that take?

Woah rings!

I heard the other day that Big Bird was supposed to go up in the Challenger but was nixed because of size. Talk about ending a character.

I mean... On what scale is she being rated? Put another way, that's the first time I've seen/heard her name in over a decade.

I guess good teacher/overrated astronaut?

jesus christ, you guys, that's all so fuckin' awful. Like, I am laughing, but, still.

Does it change things when you realize it's Ch and not K? Cause to me, it makes her more overrated tbh.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:22 pm I guess good teacher/overrated astronaut?

Essentially. If all of them came back to life without any knowledge of history since the explosion, I'd want to see their reactions to the group being remembered as "Christa and the Others". Like name the actual pilot or lead astronaut or whatever they're called. I bet even McAuliffe herself would find all that kinda fucked.

Giff wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:29 pm Does it change things when you realize it's Ch and not K? Cause to me, it makes her more overrated tbh.

I've made the change in my latest post and, also, yes.

Lemme see if I can remember the other ones. I’ll put it in spoiler if anyone else wants to try:

[+] spoiler

Dick Scobee
Ellison Onozuka
Ronald McNair
Judy? Resnick
Some guy Jarvik?
Don’t remember the other white guy.

Ron McNair

The only astronauts I can name come from the Apollo missions/lunar landing era.

Oh, yeah, to Mr. D's point, and McAuliffe.

Oh, and the lady that wore diapers to drive from Houston to FL (or whatever) to kill her lover (or whatever). I don't know her name, but I'd recognize it if I saw it.

ETA - Nope. Googled it and did not recognize that name.
ETA2 - I had the commute reversed.

l-jam wrote:

Don’t remember the other white guy.

that's why trump and the fascists are about to win...

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:36 pm

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:22 pm I guess good teacher/overrated astronaut?

Essentially. If all of them came back to life without any knowledge of history since the explosion, I'd want to see their reactions to the group being remembered as "Christa and the Others". Like name the actual pilot or lead astronaut or whatever they're called. I bet even McAuliffe herself would find all that kinda fucked.

Still makes no sense. The reason she's remembered more is perfectly reasonable and nobody's rating her on anything. I don't even know what state she's from, why are you asking?

What if she was from New Hampshire, Ryan, would that change things!!?*

(She's actually a name that was pretty prominent here in the DMV* because she was a teacher in Prince George's County. And I just looked it up.. She WAS a teacher in Concord, NH!!)

* - I'm not explaining this again!!!


!!!!!!

Wrong place, wrong time is a reason why otherwise non-remarkable people get remembered, really.

Like Jesus. And John Bobbitt.

If Bobbitt was filming a porn movie with five professional pornstars and one other normal person, they all got attacked on set and had their genitals cut off, but people only remembered Bobbitt, that would be the perfect analogy.

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:48 pm If Bobbitt was filming a porn movie with five professional pornstars and one other normal person, they all got attacked on set and had their genitals cut off, but people only remembered Bobbitt, that would be the perfect analogy.

I was more making a joke but...sure. That would make it a better analogy.

mister d is wrong because no one remembers any of the Columbia astronauts.