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Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?
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Volpone
Zombie Hunter
I think an unexpectedly interesting part of time travel would be the smells. Smoking is still a thing in the USA, but nothing like in the 1970s and earlier. The other day I was in a fairly small room with a fairly large number of smokers. They weren't actually smoking but I knew because of the smell coming from their clothes and bodies. It's hard to believe that's the way everyone and everyplace smelled once upon a time. Even back in the early 2000s, I had someone ask if I minded if they smoked and in college the lounge we would hang out at between classes allowed smoking for the first few years I was in college so I said something to that effect. I was surprised by how overpowering cigarette smoke is when you haven't been around it for 10-15 years.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Colonel Kira's Left Tit
Bearded Belly of Bajor
Ya know, I think I did follow them outside now that you mention it. They just kept moving farther down the parking lot so I gave up.Did you follow them and carry on gawping at them while they beat the piss out of each other?
Seph
* * Filthy European * *
At least you tried hombre
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
I have fond memories of when I was little and my parents would get a babysitter and go out for a night and they'd come in buzzed and stinking of alcohol and cigarettes and wake me up to kiss me goodnight.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Seph
* * Filthy European * *
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
I hate to say it because I loved the show--to the point of doing cosplay of it--but "Stargate: SG-1" has not aged well. It was great the first time through but it just isn't very rewatchable. The arcs are too linked (especially later in the run) to watch random episodes but they aren't compelling enough to watch the whole thing over. I've got around 4 seasons on DVD and I'd like to have a couple more but I just don't care enough to go out and get them. (Of course the show was completely out of ideas after the victory against Anubis over Antarctica.)
Other night I was channel-surfing for some background noise while I ate dinner and it was on and it was seriously a chore to watch. It was some episode where the System Lords were having a convention to decide if they should allow Anubis back and Daniel had infiltrated it with Sam's Dad while Jack, Sam, and Teal'c were trapped on some Goa'uld-held planet and I've got to tell you, it was a lot more boring than that quick summary sounds.
Other night I was channel-surfing for some background noise while I ate dinner and it was on and it was seriously a chore to watch. It was some episode where the System Lords were having a convention to decide if they should allow Anubis back and Daniel had infiltrated it with Sam's Dad while Jack, Sam, and Teal'c were trapped on some Goa'uld-held planet and I've got to tell you, it was a lot more boring than that quick summary sounds.
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
History Channel series are real hit-or-miss. Take, for example, 2 shows that have been on last week: "Digging for the Truth" and "America Unearthed." They couldn't be more different. I've talked about "Digging..." before. They costume the host like nuIndiana Jones, but it works and the show is very good and educational. Last night they did "King Solomon's Mines." First they visited a mine dating to the time of King Solomon in Southern Israel and learned about how mining was done in the day--but it was a copper mine, not a gold mine, so they had to keep looking. Next he heads down to Zimbabwe (by sailing ship, no less) and visits a modern gold mine as well as the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, but those turn out to be thousands of years newer than King Solomon so they are ruled out. Finally, he goes to Ethiopia to see the purported castle of the Queen of Sheba as well as seeing gold mining in Ethiopia. It turns out the traditional method of gold mining really leaves no permanent trace so he concludes the show by saying the likelihood is that King Solomon's Mines would've disappeared and been reclaimed by nature thousands of years ago. Good show. Fun but educational. And they wrap it up honestly.
"America Unearthed", on the other hand... I'll spare you an entire episode synopsis--partly because I've never managed to sit through more than about 5 minutes of it. Now I enjoy a good, entertaining conspiracy theory as much as the next guy--I had a GeoCities Knights Templar Website, back in the day--but man! "Did Giant Vikings Live in America Hundreds of Years Before Columbus?" "Did the Ancient Egyptians Dig the Grand Canyon?" No and no. I only caught snippets of the Egyptian/Grand Canyon one because by this point I knew what a waste of time the show was, but the Giant Vikings one... He starts out by referencing the Kensington Rune Stone, which blows any credibility out of the water right from the start--the Kensington Rune Stone has been proven to be a hoax for some time now. But the episodes just chug along, shoveling it deep. He meets with rubes and hicks and never tells them their homemade map is garbage. They had one about Washington DC being a secret Masonic Devil Worship site that started with a historical reenactment with George Washington checking in on the architect in secret in the dead of night and...you know, ordinarily you put some effort into casting someone to play George Washington, but I feel like they got a costume and wig from Spirit Halloween and grabbed Stanley the Janitor for this dialog-free vignette. The Egyptian one wrapped up with basically: "Well, no one can actually PROVE that the Egyptians DIDN'T build the Grand Canyon. The Ancient Egyptians were certainly alive thousands of years ago. And the Grand Canyon has been around for at least that long. And the Egyptians DID have boats. So who are we to say that they didn't settle in the American Southwest thousands of years before the Giant Vikings?" Absolute dreck.
"America Unearthed", on the other hand... I'll spare you an entire episode synopsis--partly because I've never managed to sit through more than about 5 minutes of it. Now I enjoy a good, entertaining conspiracy theory as much as the next guy--I had a GeoCities Knights Templar Website, back in the day--but man! "Did Giant Vikings Live in America Hundreds of Years Before Columbus?" "Did the Ancient Egyptians Dig the Grand Canyon?" No and no. I only caught snippets of the Egyptian/Grand Canyon one because by this point I knew what a waste of time the show was, but the Giant Vikings one... He starts out by referencing the Kensington Rune Stone, which blows any credibility out of the water right from the start--the Kensington Rune Stone has been proven to be a hoax for some time now. But the episodes just chug along, shoveling it deep. He meets with rubes and hicks and never tells them their homemade map is garbage. They had one about Washington DC being a secret Masonic Devil Worship site that started with a historical reenactment with George Washington checking in on the architect in secret in the dead of night and...you know, ordinarily you put some effort into casting someone to play George Washington, but I feel like they got a costume and wig from Spirit Halloween and grabbed Stanley the Janitor for this dialog-free vignette. The Egyptian one wrapped up with basically: "Well, no one can actually PROVE that the Egyptians DIDN'T build the Grand Canyon. The Ancient Egyptians were certainly alive thousands of years ago. And the Grand Canyon has been around for at least that long. And the Egyptians DID have boats. So who are we to say that they didn't settle in the American Southwest thousands of years before the Giant Vikings?" Absolute dreck.