OT: 66th Obsequious Banter Thread: Get your kicks in thread 66

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Beef Invictus

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Dude. LIGHTNING STRIKE!

Last Saturday morning at around 10:45 I was sitting here watching the end of the Southampton-Tottenham match. It was raining outside and there was like a slight storm, but hardly any thunder at all - seriously, about three thunder sounds the whole time. But all of a sudden there was this ****ing crash and this big flash right outside the windows down here, and the flash wasn't just bright ****ing light, right, but it had like a reddish or ****ing pinkish light around the edge of it - I've never heard or seen anything like it. I went upstairs because it sounded like it blew the top of the ****ing house off, no joke. It didn't, the house was fine, but mother****er:

* It knocked out the DISH network stuff. We called them and they got out here by later that same day and the TV stuff was fine. The strike fried the ****ing DISH box.

* It knocked out the ****ing water. All of the indoor plumbing is the same as you would have in a normal place in the city or suburbs, but it comes from a well and there is an electronic pump or some **** that gets it inside. The strike knocked out some electrical thing down there and the guy couldn't come out until Monday to fix it, so we had to go outside to this pump that still worked and had to bring in buckets of water to pour in the toilet tank to be able to flush the ****ing things. The water was on next door in the house we are renovating, so we could shower there. But mother****er.

* The coup de grace was that it knocked out the ****ing internet. I guess when they moved out here, the only option was Hughes Net, the satellite ****s. Holy ****, these ****ing ****s. We called them that day, last Saturday, and they wouldn't send me a new router. I had to basically break down the guy's will to live and debunk his entire company's goofy philosophy before he agreed to do it. He said he could send a technician out to check everything, and thus everything would be free, but if he sent me a new router, it would cost $195. They couldn't send a guy until ****ing THURSDAY, if you can believe that ****, and I had to explain to him that it made no sense to not charge me if they sent a guy out (a guy they would have to pay) and charge me if they DIDN'T have to send a guy out here. I just kept beating him down with logic and pleas and belittling and everything else you can imagine and eventually he agreed that they would waive the ****ing fee.

Well, the ****ing router arrived Monday and it didn't fix anything. So I had to call the ****ing ****s back and we got cut off twice, and when that happens you have to call back and go through the whole automated switchboard bull**** again. I mean, you guys know how super patient and calm I am normally, but I was just layering apoplexies like a ****ing thermonuclear superonion. I finally, finally got the ****ing ****s to stay on the line long enough to tell me they could make an appointment ... FOR THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY! So I was without internet for a ****ing week.

So I just got back on a few minutes ago. Mother****ers. I have seen all our games and everything. Now the only thing left is an enormous battle to see whether I can find enough patience and energy to launch a PR crusade against ****ing Hughes Net. These mother****ers, man, I swear to ****ing Jobu ...

B Schenn did this.
 

LegionOfDoom91

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I watched a documentary on Hippo’s in Colombia that were left over from Pablo Escobar’s exotic zoo. They left 4 of them there & now there’s estimated to be 40-50 of them. They don’t really know what to do to curb them from reproducing so much because typically the droughts in Africa & other predators there keep their numbers in check there. They killed one of them & the people there went nuts. There hasn’t been one yet to this point I don’t believe (I think the documentary is a few years old so I could have changed) but they’re concerned about civilians getting killed/attacked by one. The public there are pretty dumb about them & don’t know they’re one of the deadliest animals in the world when it comes to killing humans.
 

Amorgus

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I watched the first five episodes of Love Death + Robots and loved them all so far. I demanded my niece and nephew have to watch the one called Three Robots because it hits VERY close to home with the Xbox teabagging and Exploding Kittens references.

Edit: My niece just watched it and agreed.
 
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Magua

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Have any of you seen They Shall Not Grown Old?

Saw it in the theater last month.

From a historical standpoint, absolutely enriching to see old WWI reels at 24 FPS and in color. All the faces, the locales........it was an impressive project that's like nothing you've ever seen. It injects personality and life into a war without the immediacy of latter ones. As a documentary? It dragged a bit -- mostly in the trench combat scenes (which weren't filmed, so they used contemporary magazine drawings to simulate) -- because there's no real narrative to it.
 
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BigToe

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Saw it in the theater last month.

From a historical standpoint, absolutely enriching to see old WWI reels at 24 FPS and in color. All the faces, the locales........it was an impressive project that's like nothing you've ever seen. It injects personality and life into a war without the immediacy of latter ones. As a documentary? It dragged a bit -- mostly in the trench combat scenes (which weren't filmed, so they used contemporary magazine drawings to simulate) -- because there's no real narrative to it.
Was gonna watch it, but I’m a little hesitant because of the gore and stuff. I’m fine with it in movies, but when it’s real life it’s tough to watch.
 

Magua

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Was gonna watch it, but I’m a little hesitant because of the gore and stuff. I’m fine with it in movies, but when it’s real life it’s tough to watch.

There's no real combat shown. WWI filmmakers weren't exactly running around in No Man's Land. You do see corpses and wounds and such post-combat.
 

Beef Invictus

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WWI wasn't very much fun for anyone. Especially Gallipoli.

TE Lawrence is underrated these days. Lowkey perhaps the most astonishing and influential 20th century human.
 

PHILOUDELPHIA

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has anyone been to the Dump, I read the Turnersville location is closing forever. I'm not sure when the last day is but I want to see if I can get a new rocking chair at a very cheap price.
 
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