Small Talk: Ughngnggh! Ugghhnnn!

[Nashville]

4 hours ago, madmax said:

I thought they had just divorced when that came out.  I'm too old to remember...

The year after, iirc.

 

10 hours ago, nachomama said:

In the battle of the heathers were you team locklear or Thomas? 

Team Thomas all the way.

[nachomama]

She was in the Zapped movie too. And I just looked up her IMDB, BJ and the Bear. I loved that too. Not one that I think holds up in retrospect.

[OoohMaggie]

I don’t know which concerns me more, the impending start to WW3 with Russia & Ukraine, or that I’m now having to pay $9.45 for a gallon of Diesel, and that’s before the missiles start flying 🙄

[nachomama]

Is Diesel common in the UK? I dont' know what ya'lls rules are like we do leaded, unleaded and diesel for some trucks and imports.

My mom used to wake us up on either Friday or Saturdays to watch Sha-na-na. I have no idea why. Apparently I liked Bowser but did they have their own show? Was it a late night thing? We went to bed and my mom would wake us up for their 5 minutes of singing. I'm beginning to think I was incredibly weird as a child...

[Mr. Sparkle]

1 hour ago, nachomama said:

My mom used to wake us up on either Friday or Saturdays to watch Sha-na-na. I have no idea why. Apparently I liked Bowser but did they have their own show? Was it a late night thing? We went to bed and my mom would wake us up for their 5 minutes of singing. I'm beginning to think I was incredibly weird as a child...

OMG I LOVED THAT SHOW!!! We got it here at 8 or so on Tuesday/Wednesday. I thought Bowser was the coolest! 

[nachomama]

21 minutes ago, Superclam said:

OMG I LOVED THAT SHOW!!! We got it here at 8 or so on Tuesday/Wednesday. I thought Bowser was the coolest! 

Ok did I go to bed at 7? What the heck was that? And how did I get the humor? I just remember he always flexed and had that huge frikkin grin. I imagine we only knew who they were because of grease but still it’s a weird blip on my radar. 

[Mr. Sparkle]

1 minute ago, nachomama said:

Ok did I go to bed at 7? What the heck was that? And how did I get the humor? I just remember he always flexed and had that huge frikkin grin. I imagine we only knew who they were because of grease but still it’s a weird blip on my radar. 

If you were 7, you were probably a little advanced for that "humor." It was dumb! I liked the music. I still like doo wop. 

[Nashville]

2 hours ago, nachomama said:

My mom used to wake us up on either Friday or Saturdays to watch Sha-na-na. I have no idea why. Apparently I liked Bowser but did they have their own show? Was it a late night thing? We went to bed and my mom would wake us up for their 5 minutes of singing. I'm beginning to think I was incredibly weird as a child...

Yes, Sha Na Na had their own show; don’t recall it being on particularly late.

 

1 hour ago, nachomama said:

Ok did I go to bed at 7? What the heck was that? And how did I get the humor? I just remember he always flexed and had that huge frikkin grin.

Being a greaser goof was Bowser’s (John Bauman’s) schtick, and he played it up for all it was worth.  😄

 

1 hour ago, nachomama said:

I imagine we only knew who they were because of grease but still it’s a weird blip on my radar. 

Weird was Sha Na Na’s stock in trade.  😁

[Mr. Sparkle]

20 minutes ago, Nashville said:

Being a greaser goof was Bowser’s (John Bauman’s) schtick, and he played it up for all it was worth.

Totally, he was on talk shows and did informercials for 50s records based on Bowser. 

[nachomama]

I just googled and now he works for some group that tries to help social security. And for the life of me you can't tellme Joe Namath and George Forman needs social security money!

We were very early in getting a vcr. Vcr and Microwave my dad was ahead of the curve but he must have spent $1000 in 1981(?) for our vcr. The tape popped up out of the center in a little elevator. Here's how dumb we were with the new fangled technology. We sat there taping live shows and it had a remote for pausing commercials. My mom would hit the pause and we couldn't figure out how come it didn't just skip the commercials. (or at least I was confused, perhaps they knew you only get to skip the commercials when you rewatch) That vcr lasted forever, we still had it like 12 years later and it was now in my parents bedroom and we got a smaller, cheaper with actual remote in the living room. One thing my mom recorded was the 25th anniversary of Motown where Michael Jackson moonwalked. And one day I hear my mother just ranting about indecency and how could they let that be shown on tv etc. etc. and I coudln't figure out what she was talking about and she kept saying "that girl on tv with her boob out" so we watched and didn't see what she was seeing until finally she paused it and it was Randy Jackson at the very end of the show when all the Jacksons got on stage and he had a tank top on and I guess at some pointed his nipple popped out and yes he had a fairly long-ish afro but we couldn't quite see how my mom couldn't tell that was a boy.

Edited February 15, 2022 by nachomama

[OoohMaggie]

8 hours ago, nachomama said:

Is Diesel common in the UK? I dont' know what ya'lls rules are like we do leaded, unleaded and diesel for some trucks and imports.

Very common all over Europe, I can’t believe you’ve still got leaded, think of the children! 😷😷😷

 

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

I don't believe you can get leaded gas in the US. ❔

From the internet, so you know it's true:

"Effective January 1, 1996, the Clean Air Act banned the sale of the small amount of leaded fuel that was still available in some parts of the country for use in on-road vehicles. EPA said fuel containing lead may continue to be sold for off-road uses, including aircraft, racing cars, farm equipment, and marine engines."

[madmax]

8 hours ago, nachomama said:

We were very early in getting a vcr. Vcr and Microwave my dad was ahead of the curve but he must have spent $1000 in 1981(?) for our vcr. 

We got a microwave early, but it was a commercial type with preset buttons.  I think my asshole step-father #1 stole it from somewhere.  That thing was a beast.

I don't think we had a VCR the whole time I lived at home.  When we got married, we paid $750 for ours.

2 hours ago, Superclam said:

I don't believe you can get leaded gas in the US. ❔

From the internet, so you know it's true:

"Effective January 1, 1996, the Clean Air Act banned the sale of the small amount of leaded fuel that was still available in some parts of the country for use in on-road vehicles. EPA said fuel containing lead may continue to be sold for off-road uses, including aircraft, racing cars, farm equipment, and marine engines."

We actually buy leaded for our ATV because the unleaded eats some little doohickey in the carburetor.  You can buy it at a Shell station not far from us; they call it racing fuel and it sure ain't cheap.  Easily $2-$3 more than regular unleaded.

Edited February 16, 2022 by madmax

[Nashville]

28 minutes ago, madmax said:

We actually buy leaded for our ATV because the unleaded eats some little doohickey in the carburetor.  You can buy it at a Shell station not far from us; they call it racing fuel and it sure ain't cheap.  Easily $2-$3 more than regular unleaded.

You can buy lead substitute as an additive and mix it into unleaded gasoline.

[OoohMaggie]

9 hours ago, Nashville said:

You can buy lead substitute as an additive and mix it into unleaded gasoline.

We have that here so the owners of ‘proper’ cars can still run them without having the cylinder head adapted, bring on the summer 😎

[OoohMaggie]

18 hours ago, nachomama said:

The tape popped up out of the center in a little elevator.

Exactly the same as our first one, Mother used to manage a TV rental shop so somehow  ‘borrowed’ one, for evaluation purposes obviously. It was great, she even upgraded to the luxury model with a remote control on a wire, saved ME getting up every five minutes to change channels. The best part about VC’s was that boys of a certain age could watch films they were way to young to see in the cinema, driller killer, I spit on your grave, Halloween  all the good stuff, the TV engineers used to get pirate copies of everything

Obviously it wasn’t long before certain other movies began to appear, Snow White does the Seven Dwarfs seems to ring a bell, a classic Disney offering 😳🙄

[nachomama]

19 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

 I spit on your grave, Halloween  all the good stuff, the TV engineers used to get pirate copies of everything

Obviously it wasn’t long before certain other movies began to appear, Snow White does the Seven Dwarfs seems to ring a bell, a classic Disney offering 😳🙄

Boy do I vividly remember watching "I spit on your grave" holy moly. And I fully believe the only reason we got a vcr so early was that my father did see the future of porn coming down the pipeline, so to speak. After the ancient vcr made it's way to my parents bedroom I made a humongous error whilst babysitting. We had a little boy that loved this Disney tape with all the Disney songs so I put him to bed in my parents room with the "Disney" tape. I hated hearing the songs, so I plopped him down and just pushed "play" didnt check because the Disney was what was in there earlier...several minutes later I realized he wasn't singing or sleeping so I checked on him. There was a spicy tape playing and the little boy just kept making smacking noises.

There was some other movie we watched very young that was borderline porn, A dude gets stranded in an old house and there's a beautiful woman who lives there and lets him stay the night. She seems rather lonely and he thinks he's hitting it off and he's gonna get lucky. During the yatchee batchee she "ages"??? Turns out she's a ghost, she done got murdered by a whole sorority of men and they turn up a car that she was buried in and her skeleton falls out. Maybe this dudes great grandfather was one of the perpetrators and she takes them all down. I'm lost on the details but there was nakeds and I do remember that.

[Nashville]

3 hours ago, nachomama said:

she done got murdered by a whole sorority of men

What was the name of THAT sorority - Ima Dragga U?

[Mr. Sparkle]

7 minutes ago, Nashville said:

What was the name of THAT sorority - Ima Dragga U?

I was going to let it go, but since you brought it up.... 

[nachomama]

HEY I JUST PICK WORDS. ok fraternity. sigh And now it's killing me what this dang movie was. I swear the old guy that shows up at the end is somebody famous like Jimmy Stewart or some other geezer that maybe fell on hard times and had to do this movie for money. But I've googled Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche The movie had to be prior to 1983. But I don't know how prior, my mom's friend ran a video rental and we got all kinds of garbage to watch. And clearly nobody was checking the ratings.

Now that I'm thinking of watching these movies, like "I spit on your grave" I wasn't sneaking around, I swear I watched that with my mom!

My father turned off "the Breakfast Club" because it had bad words. The nerd kid says the fucking elephant lamp didn't go on and my father turned it off right after but BUT we watched Mandingo as a family. MAN-FREEKIN-DINGO racism, nudity and boiling dudes alive is all well and good because nobody said the F word.

[Mr. Sparkle]

10 minutes ago, nachomama said:

Now that I'm thinking of watching these movies, like "I spit on your grave"

I absolutely despise this movie. I saw it once, and will never watch it again. No redeeming features whatsoever. 

[nachomama]

3 minutes ago, Superclam said:

I absolutely despise this movie. I saw it once, and will never watch it again. No redeeming features whatsoever. 

Oh there is nothing redeeming for sure, and I was about 10 when i watched it. AGAIN I think with my mom!!!! It had to be after we moved becuase that was when my mom knew the rental lady and she'd let us have like 5 movies over a weekend. And we did gravitate towards horror, she had a son roughly my age and the 2 cousins were both boys. If there was an axe, alien or beast run amuck we watched it.

[Mr. Sparkle]

Just now, nachomama said:

If there was an axe, alien or beast run amuck we watched it.

I have no problem with any of those. Give me an alien killing a beast with an axe. 

[nachomama]

I watched and read every Stephen King book or movie. Clearly my mother wasn't censoring my viewing habits. My dad had very weird dividing lines between decent and indecent. We had no cable television until I was in high school. We did watch the scrambled channels for a bit where you could catch a glimpse of a boob and could hear all the dialogue. There was no Mtv so we watched Friday night videos. We were very underprivileged! We walked to this video store! Until about 12 when we started driving or had a motorcycle and yes my mom would let us go to the Post office or the video store unaccompanied. I'm really questioning my moms choices...she bought the magazine that Madonna was published nude in. She was "curious" what the fuss was about and her only takeaway was that Madonna had armpit hair. She gave the magazine to some rando standing outside the store. 

[OoohMaggie]

4 hours ago, nachomama said:

If there was an axe, alien or beast run amuck we watched it.

Sums my childhood up 🤪

 

3 hours ago, nachomama said:

She was "curious" what the fuss was about

I’ve been wondering the same ever since ‘Holiday’ 🤔

[nachomama]

Not a big Madonna fan? The one video did “oh father” freaked me out because im guessing it had to do with the death of her mother. They showed her mouth wired shut and that’s a very specifuc memory. 
amybody go through a stage of calling their parents by their first names? My mom was Nancy and she didn’t care but we called my dad George and he flipped out. But when we flipped it and called him Jorge (hor-hey) Mexican persuasion of George then he thought it was cool. (He was not Hispanic) my parents were very weird. 

[madmax]

22 hours ago, Nashville said:

You can buy lead substitute as an additive and mix it into unleaded gasoline.

He did that once, said it wasn't the same.  So about every six months, we go buy five gallons of the expensive stuff.

12 minutes ago, nachomama said:

amybody go through a stage of calling their parents by their first names? 

I never did with my father, but I call my mother by her first name all the time, especially when she pisses me off, like when she ordered some random thing from Facebook and never got any confirmation, then made me call the credit card company when they charged her for the thing she never got.

One of the first movies I remember watching on a VCR was on an old Betamax.  It belonged to this family I babysat for and they told me to watch this really creepy movie once the kids went to bed.  It was Evil Dead.  I was hooked.

[Mr. Sparkle]

36 minutes ago, madmax said:

It was Evil Dead.  I was hooked.

Maybe because it's the GREATEST MOVIE EVER!!! Except maybe for Evil Dead 2. 

[Nashville]

1 hour ago, Superclam said:

Maybe because it's the GREATEST MOVIE EVER!!! Except maybe for Evil Dead 2. 

And maybe Evil Dead 3 (Army of Darkness).  😁

[madmax]

23 hours ago, Superclam said:

Maybe because it's the GREATEST MOVIE EVER!!! Except maybe for Evil Dead 2. 

 

21 hours ago, Nashville said:

And maybe Evil Dead 3 (Army of Darkness).  😁

I agree with @Nashville.  Army of Darkness is the GREATEST MOVIE EVER!!!

[Mr. Sparkle]

Sorry, I ran some numbers, and solved this equation:

ED2 > ED > AoD

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but math doesn't lie. 

[nachomama]

I’ll have to find these and do some research. 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Seriously though, you Can. Not. go wrong with any of those films. 

[OoohMaggie]

Tish tish,  Dawn Of The Dead surely, watching that on pirate in 78 started me on this long and often painful path to all things Zombie.

On 2/17/2022 at 12:22 AM, nachomama said:

Not a big Madonna fan?

I couldn’t stand the way she thought she was doing something that hadn’t been done a million times before, some old bint getting her tits out 🥱.I loved the quote from her Ex Guy Ritchie, “it was like laying in bed next to a piece of gristle” 😁

‘Hung Up’was pretty good though (Thanks ABBA) 👏

[Mr. Sparkle]

8 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

Tish tish,  Dawn Of The Dead surely, watching that on pirate in 78 started me on this long and often painful path to all things Zombie.

Just watching the trailer for Dawn of the Dead scared tf out of me when I was a young lad. 

Night of the Living Dead is still one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. 

[madmax]

3 hours ago, Superclam said:

Just watching the trailer for Dawn of the Dead scared tf out of me when I was a young lad. 

Night of the Living Dead is still one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. 

Agreed.  Even now, years later, Night of the Living Dead scares me.

My late sister's boyfriend played a zombie in the original Dawn of the Dead.  He's one of the ones you can see rushing in the door at the tenement.  Speaking of, even though it's been years and a bunch of remodels, I still get creeped out when I go to Monroeville Mall.  

[nachomama]

On 2/18/2022 at 9:10 AM, OoohMaggie said:

I couldn’t stand the way she thought she was doing something that hadn’t been done a million times before, some old bint getting her tits out 🥱.I loved the quote from her Ex Guy Ritchie, “it was like laying in bed next to a piece of gristle”

I thought maybe her fake british accent got to you.

I knocked out ED and Army of Darkness over the weekend. I do think I've seen ED or ED2 because many things seemed familiar, like quotey things. At first I was confused, if his girlfriend Linda died in the first one how is she in each consecutive one? And how the hell is she Bridget Fonda in Army of Darkness? But you just roll with it.

[nachomama]

I watched "Uncharted", it was decent. I'mnot a huge Mark Wahlberg fan but I like spiderman. Although, don't show me his abs because he's a child. (I know he's not but it's wrong)

[Nashville]

Wife and I caught the new Scream movie the other day (the one producers steadfastly refuse to call “Scream 5” the way God intended).  We compared notes afterwards, and were pleasantly surprised; both of us thought the movie was significantly better than any expectations we’d had.  Multiple nods to the original movie(s) without letting them trample the current story line.

[nachomama]

51 minutes ago, Nashville said:

Wife and I caught the new Scream movie the other day (the one producers steadfastly refuse to call “Scream 5” the way God intended).  We compared notes afterwards, and were pleasantly surprised; both of us thought the movie was significantly better than any expectations we’d had.  Multiple nods to the original movie(s) without letting them trample the current story line.

Watched it a week or so ago and I also was ...if not impressed at least entertained. I "knew" (because they told us...repeatedly) but they still made it interesting.

Spoiler

I knew some OG were gonna die and I knew who it wouldn't be so I kinda knew who

 

[Nashville]

Royally bummed because we’re not going to be able to do Days of the Dead this year. C’est la vie.  😕

[OoohMaggie]

It’s refreshing to see that its not only Ex Walking Deaders clinging desperately to the pension circuit 💰

How I’d love to ask Louis Gosset Jr did he at any time feel any empathy with the main character in Jaws 3D 🦈

Genuinely would have liked to meet the guy from Dawn Of The Dead, one of the mall bikers I think 😔

[Mr. Sparkle]

14 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

Genuinely would have liked to meet the guy from Dawn Of The Dead, one of the mall bikers I think 😔

I used to be facebook friends with the Hare Krishna zombie, then he went a little cuckoo for my taste. 

I used to attend the Chiller Theater convention, which sounds a bit like this. Aging B-movie stars, bit-part actors from sci-fi movies, and hot chicks peddling their horror-themed softcore porn. Good times! 

[nachomama]

1 hour ago, OoohMaggie said:

How I’d love to ask Louis Gosset Jr did he at any time feel any empathy with the main character in Jaws 3D 🦈

My favorite Lou Gosset Jr. movie is "enemy mine" where he's an alien and he and Dennis Quaid get stranded on some planet and have to survive together and on his planet the men give birth so Lou Gosset Jr has to go through labor. OMG it is so fantastic.

[Nashville]

3 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

It’s refreshing to see that its not only Ex Walking Deaders clinging desperately to the pension circuit 💰

How I’d love to ask Louis Gosset Jr did he at any time feel any empathy with the main character in Jaws 3D 🦈

Genuinely would have liked to meet the guy from Dawn Of The Dead, one of the mall bikers I think 😔

Stumbled across DotD TOTALLY by accident a couple of Februarys ago; got dragged to ATL for a weekend trip - halfway against my will - then came to find out  the convention was being held in our hotel.  Salvaged the entire weekend.

Then about 3 weeks later COVID landed on the nation with army boots, of course, and it’s been on hiatus ever since.  This weekend is the convention’s first return since that February 2020 con I attended - and I can’t go.  😢

 

2 hours ago, nachomama said:

My favorite Lou Gosset Jr. movie is "enemy mine" where he's an alien and he and Dennis Quaid get stranded on some planet and have to survive together and on his planet the men give birth so Lou Gosset Jr has to go through labor. OMG it is so fantastic.

“ZAMMIS!  ZAMMIS!”

[OoohMaggie]

Am off to fill up with Diesel before the prices skyrocket. Our country promised support for Ukraine if Russia invaded, this is scary people 😣

[madmax]

5 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

Genuinely would have liked to meet the guy from Dawn Of The Dead, one of the mall bikers I think 😔

Tom Savini?  Make-up artist and biker in Dawn of the Dead?  Also Sex Machine in From Dusk Till Dawn?

My son met him once.  He came in the store where my son works and my son, gotta love him, told him "My mom is going to be soooooo jealous that I met you."  😁

[Mr. Sparkle]

I'm back in soft pants for tomorrow!!! WHOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[madmax]

We go back two days a week the week of March 14, which will be 2 years out of the office.  Each department gets to choose what days they want to go into the office.  Our department picked Tuesday/Thursday.  Obviously, nobody chose Friday. 

[nachomama]

23 hours ago, Superclam said:

I'm back in soft pants for tomorrow!!! WHOOOOOOO!!!!!!

For my call center job, in addition to soft pants, one of the perks is  I get to lie. For most of the calls we have a very strict script. We get knocked off for “filler” words like “okay” or “um” but for one it’s completely unscripted. I call windshield places and get prices for windshields. They provide me a make and model but other than that I can say anything to get a price. I’m allowed to act disgruntled (although no profanity) as long as I get a name and a quote boom I’m good. Guess what? I freaking excel at lying! I’ve found of you get a dude on the phone he isn’t helping. He’s like “VIN?” And won’t go further without it. Any woman I’ve gotten asks me “does it have lane departure/cameras/automatic rain sensor”. So older cars are easier than a 2021 whatever because of all thr things that can be included. CAlibration etc. one guy I told him my husbands assistant went on maternity leave. And I’m filling in. If you don’t have enough details about the vehicle I say “this is my dads car, he’s 80 I have no idea if he has heated wipers” I told one guy that my husbands jeep  is his one true love and therefore he wants all the bells and whistles. I don’t know if there’s a lot of price gouging on windshields but who knew there were mystery shoppers for that?