DagwoodIII
@DagwoodIII@piefed.social
- Comment on *Eyeroll* 2 hours ago:
I’m old enough to remember the moment when enough of the Greatest Generation had died so the GOP could start in on how FDR had been a failure.
When the Greatest* were alive they’d talk your ear off about how FDR had saved the country and what a great leader he was.
But the New Deal was way too Socialist to be allowed today.
*Please don’t yammer about they weren’t ‘great’ because of the racism and sexism and imperialism. “Greatest Generation” is the commonly accepted term.
- Comment on Forty hours, one life... 16 hours ago:
Also, not all jobs are sitting at a desk looking at a screen.
I got lucky and found a job I actually enjoyed doing. Yes, I’d take the occasional mental health day, but most Mondays I went to work feeling pretty okay.
- Comment on The mystery of why so many black Britons still can't swim 1 day ago:
I don’t know about the UK, but I was taught that US slave owners would do collective punishments if any slave kids were caught swimming.
Swimming is a super power if you’re running from dogs, because dogs lose he scent when you cross a river.
Also, a lot of US public swimming pools were destroyed by the local governments when racial segregation was banned.
- Comment on Why are there so many shit posts about beans? 1 day ago:
Children should know their cultural history!
- Comment on Mmmm tasty 2 days ago:
You offend me with your rank amateurism
- Comment on Mmmm tasty 2 days ago:
The barefoot hillbillie with a beard and a jug was a standard trope in cartoons.
Bugs Bunny ran into them all the time.
- Comment on Mmmm tasty 2 days ago:
Absinthe used to be called ‘the green fairy’ because it was supposed to take you to Neverland.
‘Green Fairy’ would be a great name for a soda, imho
- Comment on What should I do about my family? 2 days ago:
I’m a lot older than you are, and I’ve never met anyone who told me they were happy in high school.
Here’s something that might help. When I was almost thirty I was on workers’ comp after a job related injury. I’d never liked any job I’d ever had, and thought it was because I was some kind of misfit.
Someone pointed me at a book called ‘Discover What You Are Best At’ by Linda Gale.
It’s a series of self tests you can knock off in an afternoon. The rest of the book lists all the jobs that your skills are goodfor.
For example, a hair stylist, a paramedic, and a product demonstrator all need good dexterity and good people skills. Three completely different jobs with the same skill set.
Also, they list jobs with different levels of training. You can become an Emergency Medical Technician in a few months, a nurse in a couple of years, and a doctor in eight years.
Having a job where you fit in amkes a lot of life’s other problems a lot more manageable.
Good luck.
- Comment on What should I do about my family? 2 days ago:
How old are you?
Can you afford to move out?
Generally speaking, you can’t make other people change, you can only change how to treat with them.
- Comment on Oh no 2 days ago:
One word, as per my device’s autocorrect.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 3 days ago:
Just for clarity’s sake.
The question was ‘What can you buy with a billion that you couldn’t get with $50 million?’
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 4 days ago:
This is what’s really crazy.
A long time ago, I was having a conversation with a workmate. Guy earned as much as me. I asked him what he’d buy with $1 billion that he couldn’t buy with $50 million.
He couldn’t name one actual experience/object that he’d need the extra money for.
Still insisted that he wanted the billion.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 5 days ago:
My way of dealing with comments is to take them at face value, unless it’s completely off the rails.
If people want to act shocked at the idea that homophobia actually exists, I can’t stop them.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 5 days ago:
It’s funny because I thought the first movie and the book jibed up pretty well. I mean, the part where the cop says ‘that’s a dame with hair on her chest’ came from the book.
I am a long time Hammett fan, and finally got around to seeing ‘Satan Met A Lady.’ It’s very, very loosely based on ‘The Maltese Falcon’ and Bette Davis has a ball playing the femme fatale. It’s wild to see what they kept and what they threw out. For instance, Joel Cairo is replaced by a six foot tall Englishman.
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 6 days ago:
Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton [back when they were married]
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 6 days ago:
Prisoners can write letters. I don’t know if you can make a legal phone call from one jail to another, but cell phones get smuggled in all the time.
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 6 days ago:
Someone said ‘drive it like you stole it’ should mean going just under the speed limit and signaling all turns.
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 6 days ago:
[off topic]
Crooks, a Novel About Crime And Family.
A minor Mafioso sees a woman stealing out of her boss’s cash register. They end up married with a flock of kids.
Fun novel with lots of crazy twists and turns. And a disco!
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 6 days ago:
A friend told me that he wanted to buy his nephew a Luke Skywalker action figure; he wanted the lad to have the same one he’d grown up playing with.
When he went to the store, the figure they had was bulked up. Looked nothing like the real Mark Hamill.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 6 days ago:
I literally had no idea there were Peter Gunn books.
Thanks for raising me from ignorance.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 6 days ago:
I am in awe of those comics. Better than any movie adaptation, including Lee Marvin’s.
Cooke’s style is perfect for this.
I’ll just add that he also did a fantastic job on Justice League - New Frontiers
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 6 days ago:
People report facts here and get downvoted.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 1 week ago:
The funny thing is that the first Dortmunder book started out as a Parker novel.
When the plot started getting too silly the writer realized that the Parker fans would hate the book, so he changed it to Dortmunder and Kelp.
I won’t say much but ‘Jimmy The Kid’ by Donald Westlake has a brief cameo by Richard Stark.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 1 week ago:
[off topic]
Here are a few book series that have a tough, lone wolf hero who actually seems human.
Parker by Richard Stark. ‘The Hunter,’ ‘The Seventh,’ and ‘Firebreak’ Parker is a professional thief. He works with a rotating crew of specialists. Harlan Ellison said that the author was the best writer he knew of.
Easy Rawlins and Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley. ‘Fearless Jones’ and ‘The Devil In a Blue Dress.’ Both men operate in LA circa 1946 to 1980. Fearless’ adventures are narrated by his pal, a skinny bookstore owner who would rather avoid trouble, but rarely does. Easy is in more books, but they do team up occasionally.
Travis McGee by John D. MacDonald. ‘The Deep Blue Goodbye,’ and ‘A Tan and Sandy Silence.’ Trav is a Florida beach bum who lives in a houseboat he won in a poker game. When his retirement funds run low he reluctantly seeks out crime victims who are unable to go to the police. A con man who isn’t afraid of a fight.
Any of these is miles ahead of any Reacher book.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 1 week ago:
So, I was watching ‘The Getaway’ with Steve McQueen. That movie was made when McQueen was one of the top box office draws in the world. He takes off his shirt and, to me, he looks a little scrawny.
A while later, I’m watching a movie where the shirtless guy is supposed to be a middle-aged lawyer with a minor drug problem. Looks like he could throw McQueen through the wall.
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 1 week ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I.
I was amazed to learn about the ‘galvanized iron.’
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 1 week ago:
Dialed your phone lately?
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 1 week ago:
Wild how something like that can happen. Obviously, this was a pretty popular song and yet it managed to disappear.
Makes you wonder how many other things in history have managed to slip through the cracks.
Keanu Reeves wrote a comic called ‘Brzrkr,’ about an immortal warrior. At one point he says that he has forgotten how many languages he’s used over the centuries, but he’s sure he learned calculus six or more times.
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 1 week ago:
Don’t worry.
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 1 week ago:
Yes. But a lumberjack isn’t a merchant, he’s the fellow who goes out and actually cuts down the trees.
‘Joe’ used to be a common term for coffee in the US, as in ‘pour me a cup of joe.’ ‘G.I. Joe’ comes from ‘government issue.’ Before WW1 some soldiers provided their own boots, saddles, rifles, etc. When the Army decided to standardize, everything from uniforms and weapons to bedding was ‘G.I.’
‘Jane’ was any woman.