Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Gingerbread Demon]

Cashier doesn't ring up an item and you don't find out until you return home, maybe you don't even find out for a few days because you don't look at the receipt. What do you do? If you take it back and try to pay for it, does the cashier get in trouble? Would it being a $2 item vs. being a $75 item affect your decision?

It depends on the store I guess. I've had that happen on occasion and I can't speak for where you live but that kind of thing is built into most stores insurance and overheads, at least over here, mistakes happen and sometimes an item isn't scanned or checked when they put them in your bag.

If it had happened with an item around $75 I probably would want to go back and say hey you made a mistake but if it was a $5 item or less I wouldn't usually bother and the one or two times it has happened it's only been something small like small chocolate or something under $5.

 

[Mojochi]

Because I never watch or pay any attention to tv show opening credits, it's taken me over 15 years to realize that the opening to It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia takes place... at night, & therefore not sunny lol

 

[auntiehill]

All my passwords are protected by memory loss.

 

[JD]

how can it be a spoiler when it's on the official posters? it's a spoiler when i write about the sting ending ... and, btw redford ain't really shot dead

I actually hadn't seen the posters with the cloud, so I wasn't aware of that.
But having seen the movie, I can see why she said it was a spoiler, it is a pretty signficant reveal. And posters and trailers have contained quite a few spoilers over the years.
If you are going to see it, and haven't seen it yet, I would actually avoid watching the "final trailer", IMO it reveals way too much. This really is the kind of movie where it's better to go in knowing as little as possible.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm very undecided about Nope.....
Get Out was the only Jordan Peele movie I have seen and I didn't mind that.

 

[Timewalker]

I'm feeling a bit bemused. The Pope is in my province, on a "pilgrimage of penitence". He finally got off his backside to come here to extend an in-person apology to the indigenous people of Canada for the atrocities committed in the Catholic-run residential schools from the 1800s to the 1990s.

The bemusement part comes due to my FB activities. I belong to a few political groups and am a regular poster on my MLA's page. I have to wonder if she attended any of the Pope's events, and if so, how many days it will be before she posts pictures and a gushing post, babbling about how "wonderful" it was and how "honored" she felt... all the while the new curriculum she's trying to push is completely tone-deaf to the racist attitude the writers of said curriculum have toward the historical and current issues facing the indigenous people.

And then I happened to peruse the latest posts of another group that has nothing to do with politics, just photos of castles (for inspiration for the ongoing writing project I'm doing). One castle was said to be in Spain, built to honor Christopher Columbus.

Thanks, but no. From my pov, honoring Columbus is no better than honoring any other POS whose actions were intended to, or contributed to, either physical or cultural genocide. I'm surprised that my comment about the Pope was allowed to stand there (I phrased it much more nicely than I did here).

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I saw that on the morning news here and my only thought is not repeatable.

 

[Timewalker]

I saw that on the morning news here and my only thought is not repeatable.

Seeing some of the news reports leading up to this visit... was sickening. The Catholic dioceses are doing fundraising to the tune of $15-18 MILLION, for reasons they won't tell. Yes, the Catholic church promised reparations years ago. Yes, they had lots of money to put toward building a new church and renovating others, but when it came to the reparation money, they coughed up a few million and then claimed they tried, they really did try, but gosh, they just couldn't...

GMAFB.

So nobody knows what this current batch of fundraising is for. It can't be to pay for the Pope's visit, because the indigenous people who were supposed to be the recipients of this "apology" were asked to DONATE $$$ to help with "expenses" for the various bishops, etc. accompanying the Pope.

Then to top it all off, there was a request that went out to indigenous doctors. Would they mind VOLUNTEERING to work that day, to be available in case anyone became ill?

Um, excuse me? Doctors get paid in this country... and the Pope is rich enough to pay for his own visit.

We haven't been allowed to comment on any of the articles about this on the CBC news site, btw. No articles that have anything to do with indigenous issues are ever open for comments.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm very undecided about Nope.....
Get Out was the only Jordan Peele movie I have seen and I didn't mind that.

The only thing I've seen Jordan Peele do is host the 2019 Twilight Zone. He was pretty good at that.

Wasn't a fan of the actual show, though. Can't hold a candle to the 80's version.

Edit: Actually there's also this Weird Al video. That's Key and Peele in the car at the beginning:

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[oberth]

I actually hadn't seen the posters with the cloud, so I wasn't aware of that.
But having seen the movie, I can see why she said it was a spoiler, it is a pretty signficant reveal. And posters and trailers have contained quite a few spoilers over the years.
If you are going to see it, and haven't seen it yet, I would actually avoid watching the "final trailer", IMO it reveals way too much. This really is the kind of movie where it's better to go in knowing as little as possible.

okay, you didn't see the posters and i guess much of their promo efforts (i just don't fathom they were that different) either; what made you watch the movie?

 

[JD]

The first trailer intrigued me, and the fact that it was written and directed by Jordan Peele.

 

[Aragorn]

Went inside the bank for the first time in a while. There were only two people working there, the teller and someone with a private office. All the desks out on the main floor, not one person was there.

 

[oberth]

The first trailer intrigued me, and the fact that it was written and directed by Jordan Peele.

no clouds in that trailer?

 

[JD]

I skimmed through it and no, and to be clear it's something very specific involving a cloud, not just clouds in general that's the spoiler.
I have to admit, the more we're talking about this, the more I'm thinking my mom might have overreacted a bit.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Odd thought... do people within certain churches ever think about how their actions, or lack thereof, may have driven others away from faith?

 

[JD]

More and more I'm starting to think the planet, would be better off if we went back to everybody growing their own food, meat, fruits, vegetables, all of. The amount of damage we've done to the planet growing food, from cutting down the rain forests to make room for Palm trees used to create palm oil, to wild horses being rounded up to make room for cattle. It would also save a lot of waste, if each household were to just produce what they need, rather than the massive amounts of food that are produced now, a lot of which ends up just being thrown away if it doesn't sell.

 

[oberth]

More and more I'm starting to think the planet, would be better off if we went back to everybody growing their own food, meat, fruits, vegetables, all of. The amount of damage we've done to the planet growing food, from cutting down the rain forests to make room for Palm trees used to create palm oil, to wild horses being rounded up to make room for cattle. It would also save a lot of waste, if each household were to just produce what they need, rather than the massive amounts of food that are produced now, a lot of which ends up just being thrown away if it doesn't sell.

subsidy farming can't feed everybody - whom should we get rid of first?

 

[JD]

Maybe not, but there has to be a better way to go about it that doesn't destroy the planet and kill millions of animals, and not just food animals, in the process.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

More and more I'm starting to think the planet, would be better off if we went back to everybody growing their own food, meat, fruits, vegetables, all of. The amount of damage we've done to the planet growing food, from cutting down the rain forests to make room for Palm trees used to create palm oil, to wild horses being rounded up to make room for cattle. It would also save a lot of waste, if each household were to just produce what they need, rather than the massive amounts of food that are produced now, a lot of which ends up just being thrown away if it doesn't sell.

If you want to spend the majority of your free time farming, be my guest.

The entire concept of human progress is predicated on the idea that we're better off specializing and trading than we are every person for themselves. Putting aside the fact that most people don't have land to do that, I think there are better solutions than abandoning all human advancement and forcing the entire population into a single profession.

Now, making locally grown food tax deductible or otherwise making it easier for people to choose it over the factory farms and food that has to be transported thousands of miles, that would be a good idea.

 

[oberth]

If you want to spend the majority of your free time farming, be my guest.

it wouldn't be the majority of his free time it'd be his daily work