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Things that annoy you...
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: Things that annoy you...

Thank you guys.

I know the CD player in my car is going because it takes about 20 tries of entering a CD before it will play without skipping (it used to be just certain CD's, but now it's mostly...
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Things that annoy you...
Posted By Captain Steel
I once asked, but got no conclusive answer - do...

I once asked, but got no conclusive answer - do DVD's or CD's go "bad"?

I've had several that worked fine for years, but then suddenly just froze at certain points or wouldn't play anymore at all...
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Is it practical for us to live here?
Posted By Captain Steel
Same with global cooling - which some of the very...

Same with global cooling - which some of the very same people who today warn us about global warning told us was the most imminent & existential threat just a few decades ago.

This just shows that...
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Is it practical for us to live here?
Posted By Captain Steel
Yet we are the dominant species on the planet. ...

Yet we are the dominant species on the planet.
We've gone from living in caves, where everyday was a fight for survival, to living in giant metal towers and lives of luxury (well, some of us anyway)...
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
Funny thing is, at that age when my peers were...

Funny thing is, at that age when my peers were listening to the Bay City Rollers, Kiss and the Bee Gees (Disco era that is), I was discovering Doo-Wop music (because my older brothers were going...
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
Somehow I saw this coming! :D

Somehow I saw this coming! :D
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
Oh yes. Things worked out relatively nicely. ...

Oh yes. Things worked out relatively nicely. He's married (I was best man at his wedding) & has a child who's a teenager now. His parents still live down the street from me as I now live in what...
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
Agreed. In grammar school, his mom would lock him...

Agreed. In grammar school, his mom would lock him in the house after school on most days. I'd go talk to him through the window screen.
Forum: Games and Tabs 4 days ago
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First movie to come to mind
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: First movie to come to mind

Shrek


Medusa the Gorgon
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
I didn't mean to continue talking about this, but...

I didn't mean to continue talking about this, but the narrative I created in my mind (apparently) surrounding this alleged memory has actually become part of my nostalgia.

In my memory, Pat going...
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
I didn't even know Odo and Kira ever "got...

I didn't even know Odo and Kira ever "got together"!

Despite all I've said, I won't ever stop doing good deeds.
After all I'm a phila... philan.. phil.. yes.. *ahem*... a good deed doer!
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: Do you often feel nostalgic?

I'm still not sure what to make of this one: back in the 80's I had a girlfriend named Patricia. She liked to go by "Pat". I called her "Patty" which she didn't like, but I explained I felt that...
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
Yes, that's why I mentioned the concept in Ground...

Yes, that's why I mentioned the concept in Ground Hog Day.
Understanding this is similar to the concept of reaching enlightenment.
"Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After...
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
This is a great point as I never got the feeling...

This is a great point as I never got the feeling my friend was out to deceive, (impress maybe, along the lines of a tall-tale-teller, but not deceive). It seemed like he actually processed these...
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
I had a friend, and within the group of friends...

I had a friend, and within the group of friends he belonged (including his now wife and brother-in-law) they dubbed him a "history usurper"!

He lived a very sheltered childhood due to his mother...
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
I've found that being caring, compassionate,...

I've found that being caring, compassionate, sympathetic and generous tends to attract people into your life who are "takers", ne'er do-wells, moochers, grubbers, grifters, dependents and needy (who...
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MISCELLANEOUS
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: MISCELLANEOUS

I'm remembering a commercial a while back (not sure if it was a PSA or what)... but at a family dinner, the grandparents collected everyone's cell phone as they entered the house and put them in a...
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: Do you often feel nostalgic?

I think we all long to belong to something. Maybe not something big, but just a small group of friends, or to have a place to go where everybody knows our name. It's human nature to want to be part...
Forum: The Television & Music Forum 6 days ago
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The Official WWE Wrestling Thread. All Things Pro Wrestling.
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: The Official WWE Wrestling Thread. All Things Pro Wrestling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtVwGQs-ZT0
Forum: The Television & Music Forum 6 days ago
Replies: 265
The Official WWE Wrestling Thread. All Things Pro Wrestling.
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: The Official WWE Wrestling Thread. All Things Pro Wrestling.

This is just a theory, but I have a slight indication that everything we see in professional wrestling MAY not be ENTIRELY real.
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Things that were supposed to make you happy as a kid, but hated
Posted By Captain Steel
In kindergarten, a kid pushed me off of the top...

In kindergarten, a kid pushed me off of the top of a high sliding board.

In first grade a kid jumped down from monkey bars onto my head, (I was trying to protect a sand castle I'd built and the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
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Four girls stabbed at AMC theater in Massachusetts
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: Four girls stabbed at AMC theater in Massachusetts

Stuff like this didn't happen when John Adams lived in Braintree.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Posted By Captain Steel
Was it this guy? ...

Was it this guy?

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/revengeofthenerds/images/7/7f/Ogre1.jpg

Hee-hee-hee! :D
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MISCELLANEOUS
Posted By Captain Steel
Yeah, the video says that most of the shows he...

Yeah, the video says that most of the shows he joined got cancelled within a few seasons or two later, but they do quote Ted as saying (not verbatim) he sees it a different way: his coming onto shows...
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MISCELLANEOUS
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: MISCELLANEOUS

Fun and interesting video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdcUXJEywNs

Personally, I like Ted McGinley because he was in one of my favorite movies: Revenge of the Nerds (1984).

P.S. If I...

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