Team Rename Everest Into A Ring Des Nibelungen Epic Lenght Poem, or TREIARDNELP
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I know what you mean. Fake fish has been a rarely successful venture where I live as well. Fake chicken is surprisingly good but it's still a gamble. Here's hoping this new "Fish" can at least hop the extremely low bar.
I mean, it's a fucking industry now, natives trying to get by on the extra dollars of idiots willing to put their own and others' lives at risk so they can take a selfie at the top of a rock.
Apparently Dominion of Canada is still a formal title in force in Canada. I thought it was dropped when Canada became independent but apparently it was never officially removed - people just stopped using it in official documents over time well before patriation ever happened. I guess it either fell out of fashion, or maybe the colonial reference became unwelcome over time.
So, from now on I'm going to dorkily insist Canada is located in the Gamma Quadrant and Star Fleet should remember we were never truly defeated.
So, from now on I'm going to dorkily insist Canada is located in the Gamma Quadrant and Star Fleet should remember we were never truly defeated.
Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks is about the death of her uncle and the murder of John Lennon. A white-winged dove represents the soul leaving the body.
I've been faffing about with ChatGPT and you can ask it to translate stuff to various languages like French, German and Dutch.
With pretty good results, actually, if sometimes a little clusmy i.e. grammatically correct but said in a way a native speaker wouldn't.
With pretty good results, actually, if sometimes a little clusmy i.e. grammatically correct but said in a way a native speaker wouldn't.
The character Dolly, from Moonraker, doesn't have braces... Further, I found out that there's a whole rabbit hole of people that distinctly remember her HAVING braces and their experiences with that "fact" wondering what kind of weird supernatural shenanigans are happening that literally thousands of people remember her as having braces despite her not having them.
James Rolfe did a video on it:
Personally I remembered this scene being far longer and gruesome than it actually was, probably because I saw it as a kid and it gave me nightmares.
In Transformers the Movie, when Hot Rod and Kup are fighting the Sharkticons on Quintessa, the scene is backed by the - pretty fucking rad - hair metal song “Hunger”. Surface level read makes sense since the Sharkticons want eat Hot Rod and Kup so eight year old me is just like bopping along.
Thirty year old me realised “Oh, wait a second. This song either about cocaine or heroin”
For a short time after first hearing about it, I thought the entire Mandela Effect "thing" was people who knew better being asses to freak out people who just didn't know better. Basically a mean spirited prank on dumb people. Every single "example" of the "effect" was something I remembered "correctly" or at least the way history has recorded events. After all, how could Nelson Mandela have become President of South Africa... if he was already dead. And so on, I still haven't found one example that I remember wrong. But the more I thought about it, memory is an incredibly fragile and unreliable thing. It actually isn't all that surprising that a false narrative can endure and gather enough adherents that the whole Mandela Effect thing could become a recognizable phenomena.
It got my boss last week. He even put money on the Forest Gump line being "Life is like a box of chocolates." One dollar richer, thanks Mandela Effect.
There's a thing on the internet about an episode of Have I Got News For You, where Paul Merton (a comedian who's on it every week) really goes for Jimmy Savile (who is a guest on one of the teams) on the paedophile line before it became well-known (well, to the rest of us who didn't work at the BBC) that he was in fact a paedophile.
They now say it was a hoax, just a made up transcript. But I would swear blind I've actually seen that footage (not just read a transcript), and I'm not the only one who says that Just a link, don't embed the image thanks!. I even remember Merton saying something about him liking young girls and Savile just sort of mumbling and looking at the desk and sort of folding up on himself.
Weird.
If I may speculate, I suspect it's a case of her having braces making sense thematically in the movie. She is notably younger than her love interest Jaws, and Jaws has the Bond henchman gimmick of having teeth made out of metal. If she had braces that would sense thematically since they fall in love at first sight and they almost die together, if they both have a mouth full of metal then there's a connection there. Therefore I suspect someone convinced themselves that she had braces, told someone else, that person accepted that since "it made sense" and from there constructed false memories.
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Er, they don't, it's mentioned that they returned to Earth and were recovered. Though they'd probably be executed for everything anyway.
In the 80s and 90s there was a style of restaurant in Japan called noo-pan shabu-shabu where there was a mirrored floor and the waitresses didn't wear panties.
Classy. Though, I'm not sure if that would really work, unless they were wearing dangerously short skirts anyway.