Small Talk: Ughngnggh! Ugghhnnn!

[Mr. Sparkle]

I'm sorry for your loss. My condolences. 

[AngelaHunter]

Sorry you're going through this, nachomama. I have a sister I haven't seen in 20 years, and have no idea if she's dead or alive. I tried to find her, with no luck, but even if I did, I can't have an alcoholic in my life so I let it go. Sometimes that's all we can do.

[nachomama]

Our only contact for the last 30 years has been through the good one. Only seen her in person 4 years ago when goodone had open heart surgery. She would come and go, wind up in shelters and I truly lost no sleep over her. I’m the executor for goodone so I will perform my duties and hopefully good riddance. Before I left Texas we did try to have her committed. She was willing to go but she’s not covered and apparently not dangerous enough. My sister left her a car, house and property. I said don’t fuck it up and don’t ever show up on my doorstep cuz I sure as shit ain’t taking you in. 

We also finally know where my niece is! She hadn’t been in touch with her mom (goodone) in almost 20 years. My niece is only 4 years younger than me. My sister was 15 years older than me. My niece is doing 8 years in federal prison for methamphetamine trafficking. Sigh. We are just such stellar people. So I’m writing prison letters now. Wheeeeeee! Currently I have ringing in my ears, a cough and apparently very low on potassium. I just want to sleep for a week. Ain’t happening. 

[nachomama]

Had to buy Evil a tire yesterday. Good grief, it's like dealing with a toddler. She has absolutely no shame in begging the church for anything and everything. Air conditioning went out and she's on the phone "We're gonna need a new a/c" as if that's what the church does is just hand them out. Does she think the benevolent society just has her name written on it? When I asked her what SHE should/could be doing to solve these problems...she told me she has a connection with Sharon Osbourne on "The Talk". She's going to write to Sharon, Ellen and Kelly and Ryan because they'll help her. They want to do a show from a viewer's home, she's a mental health patient and her voice needs to be heard. I'm thinking more like a job or filing government paperwork. Lordy mercy I don't even know what I'm gonna do with her.

I never really liked Jonny Quest, it was too sciency. More like learny tv not cartoons.

[Nashville]

@nachomama - sorry about the sister you lost, and the sister you didn’t.

I spent this past weekend up in Louisville with my oldest daughter, her boyfriend, my wife’s college roommate, and a few thousand close personal friends of ours:

[OoohMaggie]

On 10/2/2019 at 6:55 AM, Nashville said:

I spent this past weekend up in Louisville with my oldest daughter, her boyfriend, my wife’s college roommate, and a few thousand close personal friends of ours:

Damn, I wondered who that Alice In Chains T-shirt belong to in row B aisle M, that looked to be some concert, who was on the bill?

[AngelaHunter]

Were you performing, or merely attending this concert(?), Nashville?

[Nashville]

10 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

I have no clue what that picture is supposed to represent.  It looks like a concert of some sort.

Louder Than Life music festival - ran for three days (Fri-Sun) in Louisville KY this past weekend.  The photo is of the Saturday night crowd attending - something like 42K that one night.

6 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

Damn, I wondered who that Alice In Chains T-shirt belong to in row B aisle M, that looked to be some concert, who was on the bill?

Alice has her own fan following at these things - I lost count of how many people commented on it, and several people stopped me to take pictures.  😄 

Here’s the lineup:

32 minutes ago, AngelaHunter said:

Were you performing, or merely attending this concert(?), Nashville?

Solely attending.  My musical tastes run primarily to metal and blues, but my voice is attuned for little else other than country - and that’s really kind of horrifying to me.  😂

[OoohMaggie]

17 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

I have no clue what that picture is supposed to represent.  It looks like a concert of some sort.

I'ts actually an artist's impression of the Walking Dead movie premier night 🙄

Yo Jadis! Yo Jadis!

Edited October 4, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[Nashville]

3 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

I'ts actually an artist's impression of the Walking Dead movie premier night 🙄

Yo Jadis! Yo Jadis!

Oh, there I am!  See?  Right by that light....  😆

ETA:

BTW, wanna hear the kicker?  This crowd was for the Saturday headliner - Guns ‘N Roses - which was the band about which I probably cared the absolute LEAST.  But we stuck around for a while, and you know what?  Slash and the rest of the guitar corps are still 100% on point, but somebody kidnapped Axl Rose and replaced him with a great big ol’ Chucky doll.  He stunk up the place like an open can of tuna fish in a honeymooner’s car.  Insert every Fat Axl meme you ever saw, and it was 10% shy of doing reality justice.  Like, fucking WOW.  🤣🤣🤣

Edited October 4, 2019 by Nashville

[OoohMaggie]

36 minutes ago, Nashville said:

 Like, fucking WOW.

Jesus, I had no idea, at first glance of this picture I thought "what the hell is that hanging out of his mouth?" talk about an optical illusion, i'm assuming there was a 'Defib' positioned stage left! 🚑

[OoohMaggie]

3 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

at first glance of this picture I thought "what the hell is that hanging out of his mouth?" talk about an optical illusion,

I have to admit that now seeing the picture as it is, my comment must seem ridiculous, but the first glimpse had me asking whether that was his tongue coming out, or the hoof of a cow going in?

Edited October 4, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[Nashville]

21 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

or the hoof of a cow going in?

One of several over the years, it would appear.

😉 

[AngelaHunter]

Oh, my. I admit I've never been a follower of Axl Rose, but I never would have recognized him from that pic.

Actually the only names on that flyer I know are Guns 'n Roses, Marilyn Manson, Dropkick Murphys (hell, yeah!) and only recently "Disturbed" after I randomly found a video of them doing "Sounds of Silence." Normally I am not a fan of covers, but that one is truly outstanding, particulary since it comes from someone who looks like he should be tied to the front of a truck in a "Mad Max" movie.

If anyone has not heard it, be prepared to be blown away.

[OoohMaggie]

21 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

If anyone has not heard it, be prepared to be blown away.

I absolutely loved it the first time I heard it, but stereotypically I was expecting a guy with long dark hair with a funky beard of some sort to be belting it out, either way it was a great version.

[OoohMaggie]

21 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

Actually the only names on that flyer I know are Guns 'n Roses, Marilyn Manson, Dropkick Murphys (hell, yeah!) and only recently "Disturbed"

I'm probably one behind you, but now I have some names to explore, I may just find some future favourites worthy of a space on the iPod.

[AngelaHunter]

The Dropkick Murphys with my favorite Christmas tune:

[Nashville]

5 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

The Dropkick Murphys with my favorite Christmas tune:

LOVE.

Never guess I’m a Murphy from way back, eh?  😄

[Persnickety1]

On 10/3/2019 at 8:22 PM, Nashville said:

Louder Than Life music festival - ran for three days (Fri-Sun) in Louisville KY this past weekend.  The photo is of the Saturday night crowd attending - something like 42K that one night.

Alice has her own fan following at these things - I lost count of how many people commented on it, and several people stopped me to take pictures.  😄 

Here’s the lineup:

Solely attending.  My musical tastes run primarily to metal and blues, but my voice is attuned for little else other than country - and that’s really kind of horrifying to me.  😂

That lineup ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 

[Mr. Sparkle]

A few bands I would like to see, many that I've heard of and aren't interested in, and most I'm not familiar with. 

[nachomama]

Aside from hating people and crowds I'd like to see more shows. We don't get good stuff, here, mostly.

Had a wonderful weekend with no water. There was a leak between the water main and my house. I called the city they claimed it wasn't on their side so I paid a plumber $450 to come dig a ginormous trench in my yard, where he did find a couple of leaks but guess what? the main leak was in the cities water main connecting to my house. My yard is so lovely.

I also had 5 separate conversations with 3 near total strangers because my sister sent them to me. She's trying to "evict" the people she invited to live with her. after Goodone died she invited a girl to live there who had lived with Goodone several years ago. Evil expected her to be so grateful to have a place to live that she would essentially be Evil's slave. We had taken the car away from Evil because of her midnight escapade so she expected a chauffeur, a maid and someone to do yardwork and feed the animals. Yes, she was driving Evil to her appointments and yes she was taking care of the yard and pets. She was "hard to wake up" and was sleeping too much during the day for Evil's tastes so now she wants them gone. According to me, Evil is on a power trip, because the girl didn't jump when Evil asked and "made herself at home" that is all she did wrong. So Evil posted eviction papers on the house and says the sheriff will come Tuesday to be sure they're gone. She changed a lock on the back door. She's grounded the car (the insurance ran out so no one is legal to drive it anymore). Evil thinks she has the county "providing" for her, as in home visit to take a look at the bills. She thinks the county is going to give her rides to therapy, classes, grocery store etc and start paying her bills as well as she will qualify for disability because of her mental status. None of this is guaranteed and if this falls through, what is her plan then? So some random girl is calling me and has Evil's side of the story and some other guy who "used to be a cop" was over there trying to negotiate peace. I definitely think Evil went about it the wrong way, she didn't need to get hostile. They haven't done anything to her, she is paranoid and thinks they're stealing but everything she claimed they stole they were able to produce and it was where it had last been seen. Everything she puts down she forgets, she lost her glasses, her phone, money and she accused us all of taking at one point or another. OMG she is such a mess and I don't want her to be my problem but I can't make her these other peoples problem either. Seriously, wrong sister died.

[Nashville]

4 hours ago, nachomama said:

OMG she is such a mess and I don't want her to be my problem but I can't make her these other peoples problem either.

@nachomama: unless you’re holding a pistol to her head and forcing her to act a certain way, you aren’t “making” her shit - she’s doing that all on her own.  Not your monkey, not your football.

4 hours ago, nachomama said:

Seriously, wrong sister died.

In terms of 100% reality, sometimes shit happens - and sometimes we’re related to it.  And sometimes you just have to scrape it off your shoes, knock some of the dust off, and keep heading on down the road.

Unless y’all have some significant assets in common, it might be time to simply say “enough” - and “later”.

[nachomama]

No we specifically have no common assets, my sister left her a house and a car which for any other human being would set them up for life but not her, she's gotta make it difficult. I truly wanna say "bye, felicia" but obviously until probate I'm stuck having to at least listen to it.

[AngelaHunter]

2 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Over the weekend I was watching my favorite "Lost in Space" episode,  "The Great Vegetable Rebellion". 

Dr. Smith lands on a planet, pisses off a huge talking carrot, and gets himself turned into a stalk of celery.

I get that show on MeTV. I've never bothered watching it but I can see that maybe I should. 🤣

[Nashville]

3 hours ago, nachomama said:

No we specifically have no common assets, my sister left her a house and a car which for any other human being would set them up for life but not her, she's gotta make it difficult. I truly wanna say "bye, felicia" but obviously until probate I'm stuck having to at least listen to it.

Well... you could always get her declared non compos mentis, stick her in County, sell the house and car, and hit the road....

Hey - it’s AN option.  😉

[AngelaHunter]

On 10/5/2019 at 10:55 PM, Nashville said:

LOVE.

Never guess I’m a Murphy from way back, eh?

Well, my name is not Murphy, but it's plenty Irish enough. My father told us kids once, or more than once, "Kids, there are two kinds of people in the world: Those who are Irish and those who wish they were." I believed him then but have since found that may not be universally true. 😏

[Nashville]

43 minutes ago, AngelaHunter said:

Well, my name is not Murphy, but it's plenty Irish enough. My father told us kids once, or more than once, "Kids, there are two kinds of people in the world: Those who are Irish and those who wish they were." I believed him then but have since found that may not be universally true. 😏

My bad; I did not clarify.  “Murphys” = collective name for the Dropkick Murphy fanbase.  As in, we are all Murphys.  

Or, more commonly:  LET’S GO MURPHYS!!!  😆

https://youtu.be/BJv586TETEY

[AngelaHunter]

2 hours ago, Nashville said:

My bad; I did not clarify.  “Murphys” = collective name for the Dropkick Murphy fanbase.

Oh, I see. Kind of like everyone is Irish on St. Paddy's day!

2 hours ago, Nashville said:

As in, we are all Murphys.  

Oh, hell. That is giving me dire flashbacks to "We are all Negan." 😬

[walnutqueen]

I'm of German descent, but I'm beginning to suspect my liver is Irish ...  ;~)

[Nashville]

My family’s primary ancestry is Scots-Irish; as such, we’ve been studiously demonstrating for years that life without a liver isn’t really all THAT bad.

[walnutqueen]

6 hours ago, Nashville said:

My family’s primary ancestry is Scots-Irish; as such, we’ve been studiously demonstrating for years that life without a liver isn’t really all THAT bad.

My favorite cocktail glass is etched with these immortal words : "Shut up, liver.  You're fine."

[nachomama]

My liver hasn't had to work much for over 40 years, bout time I start seeing if it's Irish.

Goodone was suffering from throat cancer and emphysema so anything she did to feel better was ok by me. Apparently she had been smoking a little medicinal marijuana and if it helped, great. She needed to eat so if she got the munchies, better. I do not care, she suffered plenty. So she had a little stash and we may have had a tiny puff, puff pass moment, honestly been over 10 years for me so not that big of a deal. Apparently big, big deal for Evil. All these rando strangers she sends to me have all mentioned that she's throwing me under the bus telling them I smoked. Evil, however, on her "big mission from god" was taking the stash across state lines to give to some ex boyfriend who is dying of cancer. She leaves that out when she tells people I imbibed.

Evil was making weird notes, 2 names of people from high school and a celebrity then drawing lines to connect them. Jesse Sarabia, Jessica Villanueve, Jessica Simpson. Debbie McGee, Debbie something and Debbie Gibson. Then lines kinda like how detectives hunt down serial killers. All from 30 years ago. At the top of one of her lists she wrote that I said I offered my mom medical marijuana when she had breast cancer when I was in high school. I was kinda being a jerk to my mom but if she had truly thought it might help her and wanted some I would have gotten it for her. But mostly I wanted her to be shocked I asked. Because I was a nerd in high school, I had my moments and actually managed a pretty cool reputation for weed, entirely innocently, but unbeknownst to Evil. So she's really jumping on the idea that I may have done something bad in my youth.

[AngelaHunter]

8 hours ago, Nashville said:

My family’s primary ancestry is Scots-Irish;

I bet being half&half like that creates a dilemma for you on St.Paddy's day: Half of you wants to get drunk, but the other half doesn't want to pay for it.

😁

34 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

The Time Tunnel

That's actually pretty good. I caught it a couple times during bouts of insomnia.

[nachomama]

I used to love Buck Rogers. I don't think I've seen an episode of Barnaby Jones in 30 years but I don't remember him being all that great. I didn't care about Buddy Ebsen once he wasn't Jed Clampett.

A couple years ago I watched the Rockford Files from the beginning and I liked it so much, yes very different. Him and the Charlie's Angels detectives always having to pull over to find a pay phone. And he was not a good fighter, always getting his ass kicked.

There's an episode of Charlie's Angels that always sticks in my mind, when they went to prison. And they had to take showers and get de-loused. I remember asking why they were getting sprayed but I think I was a little bit fascinated by the communal showering and how fixated the guard lady was. And I always think we were mean children because we always thought Kate Jackson was the "ugly" Angel and seriously she's a very lovely woman! I was always a Kelly if we played Charlie's Angels but Sabrina may be my favorite in retrospect.

[OoohMaggie]

6 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

MeTV airs a lot the Irwin Allen television series, they are awesome.

My two overwhelming memories of a couple of the shows were, in Buck Rogers, exactly how much tighter could Colenal Deering's skin tight uniforms get, and in Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, why would a submarine employ watertight doors on every compartment, only to have a 'man sized' ventilation shaft system that ran the entire length of the boat?

[AngelaHunter]

I don't watch many old shows on MeTV, except for "The Twilight Zone" and "Alfred Hitchock Presents" because most of them do not hold up. Oh, I also watch "The Big Valley" - all the eye candy!!😁

[nachomama]

I never could get into the big valley. My dad watched any and all westerns ad nauseum, some I could tolerate if not enjoy. Of course Bonanza and Matt Dillon. Another James Garner show Maverick. I think I liked James Garner. 

Was Quai Chang cane a western? Grasshopper 

[Nashville]

21 hours ago, nachomama said:

A couple years ago I watched the Rockford Files from the beginning and I liked it so much, yes very different. Him and the Charlie's Angels detectives always having to pull over to find a pay phone. And he was not a good fighter, always getting his ass kicked.

James Garner was one of my favorites - pretty much any role he was in (Maverick, Rockford Files, the “Support Your Local xxx” movies, etc.), he played the comedic antihero to perfection.

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There's an episode of Charlie's Angels that always sticks in my mind, when they went to prison. And they had to take showers and get de-loused. I remember asking why they were getting sprayed but I think I was a little bit fascinated by the communal showering and how fixated the guard lady was. And I always think we were mean children because we always thought Kate Jackson was the "ugly" Angel and seriously she's a very lovely woman! I was always a Kelly if we played Charlie's Angels but Sabrina may be my favorite in retrospect.

I was a teenage boy in the 70s when my older sister and her friends (wanting a male point of view, I guess?) asked me which was my favorite Angel.  My sister got TOTALLY bent out of shape when I said Sabrina/Kate Jackson, and stuck to my answer despite her badgering me that I was an idiot for picking her (which she was going to do anyway, no matter who I picked; I was two years younger than her, but I always got how the big sister/little brother thing worked better than she did).  

My sister’s friends, on the other hand, really liked my answer.  😄 

[nachomama]

I really liked Erin Gray. When boys argued over who was the "hotter Heather" Locklear versus Thomas (Fall Guy) I was always like I would have chosen Erin Gray or of course Kelly from charlies Angels (Linda Carter also) as my go to. I didn't really get the appeal of Farrah Fawcett either. I thought she was odd looking. I think I like brunettes because Daisy Duke was up next in the lineup. Maybe because I grew up in New Mexico and we didn't have any blondes. Although I really liked Jamie Sommers, The Bionic Woman. I think I was a very odd child...I was attracted to the way she pushed her hair back behind her ear when she wanted to "highlight" her super sonic hearing.

For some reason I really like "The Far Side of the Mountain" a movie Lindsey Wagner did about a skiier who was paralyzed from falling off a mountain. What 6 year old is mesmerized by watching essentially physical therapy? But oooh, I loved me some Lindsey Wagner.

[Nashville]

41 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

Farrah Fawcett did have that famous poster in the seventies.   Everyone I knew had that poster.

Best 70s posters: Farrah Fawcett, Cheryl Tiegs, and Keep On Truckin’.

41 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

The only thing more popular were Kiss t-shirts.

Best 70s T-shirts: Kiss, Adidas, Grateful Dead and NORML.  ;> 

41 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

There is a really cool website that I just noticed yesterday.   They have an interesting article on Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

What about Neil?  A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.   😉

[nachomama]

For some inexplicable reason my mother bought us tshirts with Bo Derek on them. Bo Derek running on a beach in a bikini with corn rows in her hair...hello? It wasn't the Farrah Fawcett poster but can you imagine wearing that poster as a shirt when you're 8? number 1 we were girls, why am I wearing a bikini woman on my shirt? 2 why did Bo have corn rows? Had she gotten me a Bionic woman tshirt I'd be all over it but I'm lookin at Bo Derek thinking wtf?

Linda Carter and Jaclyn Smith have held up reallllllllllly well I must say.

[AngelaHunter]

2 hours ago, nachomama said:

For some reason I really like "The Far Side of the Mountain" a movie Lindsey Wagner did about a skiier who was paralyzed from falling off a mountain.

Oh, wow. I remember how that movie impacted me, as I tried to imagine living that way. I thought it was very good.

1 hour ago, Nashville said:

What about Neil?  A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.

Don't you be dissin' Neil. He's one of our national treasures!😁

[OoohMaggie]

3 hours ago, Nashville said:

My sister got TOTALLY bent out of shape when I said Sabrina/Kate Jackson,

Her last year on the show was my first as a teenager, and she certainly did 'it' for me, I never really got the other two, but Kate 😈

[nachomama]

Nail Young is a Canadian national treasure

LIES! BETRAYAL! FRAUD! Ya'll I ate a smoothie for breakfast. It says pineapple/coconut but it's 99% bananas. HURL! I know smoothies always use bananas for thickeners, it's a shame too. This is what I get for trying to eat healthy. Bananas are gross, yo

[Nashville]

Sharing for no reason other than I simply want to.

https://twitter.com/maguiremoments/status/1182346166194855936?s=21

 

ETA: just ignore the FUCK outta the Darwin Awards shit the damn link INSISTS upon including....

Edited October 10, 2019 by Nashville

[Nashville]

8 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

What?

No Molly Hatchet, Pink Floyd, ACDC, Rolling Stones or Blue Oyster Cult?

All of the above, but I’m not going to spend all day here typing shit.  😄

8 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

IIRC, when Cheryl Tiegs used to smile, she would clinch her teeth together.

Teeth???

Oh yeah, right - teeth.

Sure, if you say so.

[AngelaHunter]

11 hours ago, nachomama said:

Nail Young is a Canadian national treasure

He is. I'm also Canadian, so as Archie Bunker would say  - ipso fatso.

5 hours ago, Nashville said:

Sharing for no reason other than I simply want to.

So... are we listening to the two lesbians (two sisters) fantasy? Hardly earth-shattering revelation. 😂

[Nashville]

So - it’s Saturday now.  S10Ep2 airs tomorrow.

Here’s the thing, though: S10Ep1 is still sitting on my DVR unwatched - and right now, I feel absolutely no motivation to watch it.  Just the notion of watching it strikes me more than a little like an unwelcome chore.  And seeing as how I’m already at that point in life where my yesterdays outnumber my tomorrows, life’s too fucking short to waste my time on shit I don’t want to do.  So while I’ll still probably keep my nose stuck in some of the TWD forum topics (like Small Talk), I reckon I’m done with the continuing series.

So thanks a lot, Production; you succeeded in doing something 3 or 4 years ago I would’ve sworn was impossible - you made TWD boring.

Who would’ve thought we’d miss Carl and his pudding this much...?

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, Nashville said:

 Just the notion of watching it strikes me more than a little like an unwelcome chore.

Same here. I think, "I have to clean out that closet today, take out the garbage and watch TWD."  Only once have I given up on a series I'd previously liked. The few series I've watched in the last 10+years I still rewatch seasons or episodes and still greatly enjoy them. My DVR snatches every TWD episode from the last couple seasons and I feel like I'm playing "Whack-a-Mole" as I can't delete them fast enough. The thought of rewatching any of them fills me with despair. It's gone from "That was awesome," to "Well, at least it wasn't too horrible."

I was thinking I'd stick TWD out til the bitter end, but now it seems it may never end. I don't want to end up in a nursing home, watching Judith's grandaughter's adventures. For now, I'm only here for the Live Chat thread and the forum, for the witty and interesting posts.

[walnutqueen]

I will watch until the bitter end.  I just won't marathon reruns like I used to back in the early days.  I still refuse to participate in any live posting threads - ever.  I watch shows and ff thru ads, and have little interest in sharing my immediate experience with anyone but my cat - who does not interrupt my show with exclamations of "OMG" or "Wowza", etc.  He lets me do all the yelling at my TeeVee, and I like it that way!  :~)