tomiant comments on The Adventures of Don and Mel

Oof. That movie was a hard watch when I was a kid. I added it to my collection recently, thinking that I was too young to appreciate it, but I still haven't been able to finish watching it.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

i went with friends to watch it in the second run theater back in the day. we did bad movie nights all the time and would make fun of them like mst3k and it was great. no one else was in the theater so we got to play mystery science theater in a real theater! it was great! we even brought a pizza and had ditched school, it was wonderful.

the movie was so bad we ran out of stuff to make fun of (like, we had to start repeating stuff to make fun of) after 45 minutes so we started playing tag. we had another hour of that theater being ours and we were going to use it.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Did you know that you can rent a theater? Back when I did it, it was relatively affordable: about $200 for 2.5 hours. I went with a small group of friends and we played Halo

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

it is very, very tempting but i'd rather sink the money on getting a better home theater.

great for a medium group of friends though, as long as they don't mind me bringing in a cuban buffet (the shack i wanted to buy for my own and turn into an ice creamery, it is now a cuban restaurant i will make them cater)

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (38 children)

Lemmy user base is older than i expected

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[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 31 points 7 months ago (19 children)

I think a big chunk of us are gen X. We used BBS forums, Usenet, then slashdot. Then it went mainstream. Move to digg. Move to Reddit. It keeps getting ruined. Now we're here but I guess at some point we'll migrate again. Nothing is permanent.

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Hey now some of us are older Gen Z. But I grew up around a lot of old tech so I'm weirdly more similar to millennials and Gen X in some regards on that front.

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (11 children)

I was raised by my grandmother, my biological fathers a rapist (I know from experience) and my mother is fucking crazy due to untreated bipolar disorder. Also yes TVs don't get enough appreciation.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (10 children)

apologies, hug your grandmother. and your tv.

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Ya couldn't have known and I can only hug my TV. My grandmother ain't dead, just driving to Idaho.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (8 children)

idaho? she might as well be dead i got family in burley and boise. that drive suuuucks and it's wet today. give her my love too.

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (7 children)

She's going up towards Elk Bend. Also she's leaving from San Bernardino California so she has a couple days for shit to dry up.

Also yeah Idaho while beautiful also kinda just sucks, luckily unlike Utah it can be salvaged pretty easily.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (6 children)

i'm trying to think where my favorite places to eat are along that drive. i'm thinking 15 to 84 is better than 5 to 84 and all the places i like are on 5. there's a taco place called Rosie's over in Yucaipa worth popping off onto Yucaipa Blvd and getting off the freeway for a few minutes if it's mealtime, but that might be a little early in her drive.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

I'm up by the bay area/sacramento but we make the drive down to phoenix to visit family every so often, and we had some friends in yucaipa so rosies was a frequent stop. is redlands burger the place with the good zucchini fries?

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

No clue about the zucchini fries since zucchini texture doesn't agree with me. But it's got good breakfast burritos and burgers, it's across the street from a postal facility.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

i will have to check it out the next time we drive through. about a decade back we were visiting our friends in yucaipa for their wedding and after the wedding we went with a bunch of our friends from home (we lived in Davis, CA at the time) to find munchies. it was only 8 when the reception wound down and we were looking for someplace open near UofR. It was shockingly quiet for a college town at 8PM. All I remember is finding a place with zucchini fries that, like the fries were almost a foot long. I kind of want to eat them again. Unfortunately the frier at the local zucchini fries place gives me the squits (which i'm sure you wanted to know), so i really have to want zucchini fries if i'm going to eat theirs because i can't get the breading to stick right when i fry them myself.

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[–] bajabound@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I'm glad to find out I'm not the only one. I took pretty much the same path. Can't forget many thousands of hours spent on IRC.

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[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Slashdot represent!

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[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

This was before my time. But there is a pretty wide range of users here, I’ve noticed.

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago

Gen X local bar.

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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Have you ever seen the movie they made in like 2000? It's interesting to say the least.

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[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

They actually filmed that in the town I live. I still haven't bothered to watch it though.

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[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Even old farts can use new tech.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (7 children)

new tech is more user friendly than old tech, so i don't see why not

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[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

WHY IS MY LEMMY BLINKING 12:00

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's the signal to insert the Betamax cassette.

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[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I DON'T LIKE BETAMAX I LISTEN TO STEELY DAN

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago

Steely Dan was the best porn star I ever dated, Rock Hard Ron was the second.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

IT KEEPS SCREAMING PC LOAD LETTER. I BURNED MY LAST PRINTER WHAT THE HELLS

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[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

"PC LOAD LETTER" just means it wants woke paper, but doesn't want any if that nancy Euro A4 shit.

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I am so glad I missed this 60's reference. That means I'm young!

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[–] Rothe@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

It is also not really a reference that is widely known outside of the US (or North America).

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

I think I saw a Rocky and Bullwinkle pinball Machine at an arcade in my metro area (Surrey Central City Fun Park)

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[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 months ago

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (15 children)

She still has a heavy ~~Russian~~ Slovenian accent/intonation despite many years living in America, and her voice is reminiscent of Natasha, one of the villains from Rocky and Bullwinkle who along with Boris were stereotypical Russian caricatures created for a cartoon that aired during the cold war.

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[+] Jiral@lemmy.org 19 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

You're right, my bad. I corrected my original post. Cheers.

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[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

She's Slovenian.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 6 months ago

We don't hate her because she foreign, we hate her because she's Eva Braun.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Thanks, corrected the original post to reflect that.

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[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I'm actually rather astonished that her accent is so heavy and her diction is so stilted, after living in the US for 30 years. It's as if she doesn't have to speak to anyone in English. She also seems to have trouble pronouncing words correctly, even when they are written for her.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

She has no friends

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[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Hey? If you don’t have any friends or you don’t have anything to say, how do you get to know how to speak foreign language?

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[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean you. I meant that mail-order wife.

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[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Ah, okay.

It probably doesn't help that the last person she wants to talk to is her husband.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

For years, her and Barron spent most of their time with her parents, also illegal immigrants, and they all spoke Serbian. Word was that when Barron started school, he could barely speak English, and he spoke it with a Slavic accent.