Menu
What's new
Troll Kingdom

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?

History Channel series' fall into basically 3 paradigms:
1) Obvious absolute garbage: Think "Bigfoot Alien Space Hookers of the Bermuda Triangle."
2) Actual interesting historical documentaries: The Civil War, FDR, how Stonehenge was built
3) Things that look legitimate but are actually just shell game/3 card monte garbage to suck you in: American Ripper, Looted Japanese Gold of the Philippines, or tonight's "Hunt for the Zodiac Killer." They trot out credible experts and have them chase after clues. They build each clue up to the Landbreaking Break in The Case and play it for 45 minutes before going, "yeah, no, we didn't actually find anything when we dug there." Then they just drop that and move on to the Next Landbreaking Break in the Case. You're like "what about the AI supercomputer?" And it's just like "forget that, we took a crossword puzzle, some Scrabble tiles, and some Yahtzee dice and figured it out." BUT! Next week! A tremendous break in the case that will blow the lid off everything we know! I hate being suckered by it. Especially when I know I'm being suckered by it. I'll pop onto the computer during a commercial break and see it's only 5 episodes so I might as well ride it through to the end and of course it ends with "we found out some interesting new stuff but as yet, the case remains unsolved, despite compelling evidence."
 
Volpone said:
History Channel series' fall into basically 3 paradigms:
1) Obvious absolute garbage: Think "Bigfoot Alien Space Hookers of the Bermuda Triangle."
2) Actual interesting historical documentaries: The Civil War, FDR, how Stonehenge was built
3) Things that look legitimate but are actually just shell game/3 card monte garbage to suck you in: American Ripper, Looted Japanese Gold of the Philippines, or tonight's "Hunt for the Zodiac Killer." They trot out credible experts and have them chase after clues. They build each clue up to the Landbreaking Break in The Case and play it for 45 minutes before going, "yeah, no, we didn't actually find anything when we dug there." Then they just drop that and move on to the Next Landbreaking Break in the Case. You're like "what about the AI supercomputer?" And it's just like "forget that, we took a crossword puzzle, some Scrabble tiles, and some Yahtzee dice and figured it out." BUT! Next week! A tremendous break in the case that will blow the lid off everything we know! I hate being suckered by it. Especially when I know I'm being suckered by it. I'll pop onto the computer during a commercial break and see it's only 5 episodes so I might as well ride it through to the end and of course it ends with "we found out some interesting new stuff but as yet, the case remains unsolved, despite compelling evidence."
Click to expand...
Seriously, it's like watching Adam West Batman solve a Riddler riddle. "Lake Tahoe police got this tip from an anonymous amateur from Texas, claiming to have solved the code." What do the crack codebreakers do? Do they plug it into their AI supercomputer for corroboration? No. They just tidy up the notes and send them off to their field investigators, who are like "well, here we are, on a road! Just like in the cypher! They said there'd be a road!" They wind up at Donner pass and no one goes "Huh. I guess some guy with a map wrote up instructions on how to get to Donner Pass and sent them to the Tahoe Police." No, it's "This could be the break we're looking for! I'm sure there's a body here somewhere and it will have DNA and important clues!" (There was no body.) Or when they actually find DNA. They found it in the first episode and they got their results in the last episode. And what they propose to do with the results is compare it with DNA from a different unsolved case. How does that ID a suspect!? It--at best--establishes the same person committed both crimes, which they already confessed to. You need to compare it to DNA from your suspects. Maddening.
 
I’m not a Trump or RFK, Jr fan by any stretch but if they ACTUALLY take pharmaceutical ads off of tv? I will definitely hate them both a little less (best I can do). The ads are annoying enough but the disclaimers?

“Don’t take it if you’re allergic to it”.

*face/palm*

“May cause serious irritation around the skin of the perineum”…and other side effects that could prove fatal.

I never thought much about the skin around the perineum but now every time I get pissed at my husband I tell him I think it might be getting inflamed. Just because it’s like a brain worm I’ve heard it so much (not cuz I take any medication, thankfully).

Speaking of brain worms, I guess RFK, Jr had one so he should know.
 
I decided, today, to put house cleaning on the back burner and shovel snow. Shoveling snow is the opposite of horseshoes and hand grenades. You can't "mostly" shovel your driveway and get any benefit from it. Well, that isn't entirely true. I didn't shovel a car width (on the stretch I shoveled) but I hope sunlight on the soil/gravel (which is darker than snow) helps melt snow along the edges. But I've still got a bunch to shovel.

On an unrelated note, the Cuban neighbor has a flock of peafowl and they periodically invade me and the other neighbor's property with a peacock guarding them.
 
I kind of want to go back out and try to get all the way to the carriage house. But it's bed time. And I realize I'm exhausted. And also, I'm old enough that I could go down the rabbit hole of ignoring how tired I am and how late it is and just power on to get a path carved.

BUT! Even if I did, there's still the path from the gate to the street. So there's no way I'm getting done even a path for the tires on one side, let along an actual done path. Shit, and I've also got to shovel out the turnaround spot, where I back out and get pointed to the street. It's a neverending story.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top