wallybeavis
@wallybeavis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Phonebooks 2 months ago:
Did the voice on the payphone say: You must please deposit 25 cents to place your call LOL I think that’s engrained in my memory
Fun fact:
Once touch tone phones became the norm there were actually games you could play by just calling a number. There was also a number you could call and get the local time and temperature. Oh, and lets not forget Mr. MoviePhone! - Comment on Phonebooks 2 months ago:
Rotary phones weren’t even that long ago?!??! I still remember the swooop, click-click-click-click sound, oh, and the ear shattering ringing bells. I am happy that in our lifetime we’ve come so far that kids don’t understand tools from just a couple decades ago. I remember my father showing me a stack of punch cards he used at work and warning me not to touch them - but what I also know is, that those kids better get the hell off my damn lawn!
- Comment on Phonebooks 2 months ago:
Mid 40s, and I too feel old now - at first I thought OP was setting us up for a joke. The local phone company still delivered phone books to everyone in my city until a few years ago.
I think it was an old legal requirement for any phone company providing landline services to also provide phonebooks. Unfortunately most weren’t even recycled, they were either burned in backyard firepits, or just thrown out
- Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing? 2 months ago:
I’ve forgotten about that movie! It’s as if every fear, and suspicion, I had about the people working in restaurants came true 😂. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it’s memes…going to have to dig into the old meme folder and get posting
- Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing? 2 months ago:
Same! I think the only one I didn’t really care for was Covenant, I felt it wasn’t paced the same as his other movies, but I’d still watch it again if it was streaming.
In regards to Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, also two of my favorite movies, thanks for pointing them out, defintely a fun time!
- Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing? 2 months ago:
There is! Peninsula IMHO it wasn’t better/as good/worse than the first, it was just different
- Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing? 2 months ago:
These are some of my favourite, in no particular order:
The Phantasm series
Dale and Tucker Fight Evil
Cabin in the woods
Snowpiercer
Equilibrium
A bitter sweet life
The man from nowhere
I saw the Devil (you may not want to watch this one)
Train to Busan (1 and 2)
Lady Vengence/Sympathy for Lady vengence
Sympathy for Mr Vengence
OldBoy (the Korean version - you may also not want to watch this)
Wrath of man
The Family (DeNiro and Pheiffer)
Keeping up with the Joneses
Gran Torino
Boondock Saints
Layer Cake
RocknRolla
Operation Fortune
Lucky Number Slevin
A man called Otto
Stand up guys
King of New York
The Dead Zone
7 Psychopaths
Biloxi Blues
In Bruges
The Matador
From Paris with love - Comment on Official poster for 'The Critic' - Starring Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton and Mark Strong. 4 months ago:
The one true Critic
- Comment on This creature might try to drink my bones, but I will always cherish them. 6 months ago:
Looks like they’re available on eBay and Walmart (via a 3rd party seller)
- Comment on Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans? 7 months ago:
Inspired by this article. Thankfully it seems more like a chest thumping move, rather than standard practice. It’s not like there are hordes of addicts ravaging cemeteries like some post apocalyptic movie
- Comment on Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans? 7 months ago:
Don’t give them any ideas! 😂
- Comment on Short games with lots of replay value? 9 months ago:
I like the Kingdom Rush tower defense series of games
- Comment on 99% to passing the shopping cart test yet they failed right next to the goal. 11 months ago:
So close. It’s like they knew they had to do something, just not exactly what
- Comment on What are some of your favourite TV intros sequences and soundtracks? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Defederate/delete communities from FMHY lemmy instances? 1 year ago:
Someone will correct me, but I believe when the Mali gov’t took control of .ml they started revoking a bunch of domains. IIRC I saw a post stating that the datacenter hosting the .net was having issues, not sure if it was HW or ransomware related
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
- Sports (Blocked individually)
- Non-Native language (I figured I could use uBlock and just block an entire instance)
- Video games (Blocked individually. I swear some folks just create new communities on instances w/out checking around for an existing /c/ first)
- Genre specific music
- Anime
- D&D
- Comment on Canon Connections: 2x07 - Those Old Scientists 1 year ago:
I agree! This was the first one of !USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website’s posts I’ve seen, and also one of my favorite episodes yet. I just read it over my lunch, and I think I will need to re-read it again when I get home - just in case I missed anything. Thank you !USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website!
