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

[Mojochi]

So here's me in a nutshell. I just filled out a jury duty form. Knowing that many people loathe the prospect of jury duty, I realized I'd be more apt to have that feeling over instead receiving a wedding invitation. Yes. I'd rather be government mandated, for an indiscriminate length of time, to adjudicate a criminal case, than be courteously offered the opportunity to voluntarily attend a single day of a friend's nuptials.

You see, in all practicality both are for me an inconvenience, potentially boring or awkward, & matter FAR more to others than to myself. These are both altruistic endeavors. However, where the option to not attend jury duty, ironically, is freeingly not up to me, whether to attend a wedding or not is solely up to me, & the consequences of that decision solely mine to bear, especially were I to decline & maybe offend/alienate a friend.

What's IMHO of the utmost importance though is the nature of these events, as it applies to me. In the case of a wedding, my involvement couldn't be more passive, relegated to a mere presence of moral support, for an event that IMO is the last thing on Earth that should require it. I can hardly think of a single thing that should require an approving audience less than a couple's bonding ritual.

OTOH! Not only is my involvement in jury duty an active, necessary, participatory engagement, I'm SO needed & potentially indispensable that the bloody government is (possibly) demanding I do it! In fact, people's legal futures could literally depend upon me. Frankly, I don't care how long, drawn out or even underwhelming a process it might be, if I'm that necessary to it, you win. I'm into it. What kind of ass would I be if I wasn't?

So yes. I dislike peoples' weddings more than jury duty. Hell, the former I'm not even sure why we do. PLUS, the law is something that DOES affect me. Maybe not in this case, but in the grand scheme, & TBH, I want to know it works, & what better way than to participate in it?

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

i've been waking up with a headache the past few weeks,
and i just now started Voyager season 4 episode 7 - "Scientific Method"....... hmm...could it actually be...???

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Sleep is elusive… so what the is keeping me awake?!

 

[fireproof78]

Sleep is elusive… so what the is keeping me awake?!

Your brain.

Ruminations.

Stress.

Anxiety.

 

[Magic Maik]

It's always interesting to see how people have individual views on movies and have their own feeling on what to glean from the subject matter.

I watched this movie called "My Man Godfrey" and for me it's a movie about mental illness.
I don't see two of the women as being simply kooky or eccentric, I see them as having serious mental illness/weakness of the mind, this is due to being part of an upper class set who are likely the unfortunate outcomes of inbreeding.

I kind of felt sorry for Godfrey in a way, love comes in many shapes and forms but the thought of being tied to someone who's so unstable, erratic and emotionally manipulative is unsettling.

They seem like good people even though they do bad things like acts of vandalism, theft, etc, but we've only seen the good.

 

[Mrs. Silvercrest]

I did post this on things that frustrate us all. But got no response. So I thought I would put it here. We don't have the Disney+ so we have not been able to watch the related shows for the Avengers gang. And wonder (no spoilers please) but would we miss a lot of things in the movies. In the latest Dr. Strange movie and Antman and Wasp movies having not seen these? Like The Wanda Vision? Because she is in the Dr. Strange movie and the other shows, I don't know if they come up in the movies? It is hard to not be able to keep up because we don't have access to something. Anyone else feel that way? We are people that like to pick up on everything! We have waited a long time and will keep waiting, until we can somehow see these things. Hoping...?

 

[Oddish]

A couple of interesting observations...

1. Why does Catwoman use a whip (it's not because she's kinky... well, Ok, not just because she's kinky)?
2. Why does Batman, who's trying to be stealthy, have that big yellow bat symbol in the middle of his chest?

Answers:

1. Catwoman is aware that a whip is only effective in trained hands. Therefore, she knows that if her weapon is taken away by a stronger opponent, it is unlikely that they will be able to use it against her.
2. It might seem that by presenting such a visible target, Batman is just asking to get shot there... and he is. Since Batman's torso doesn't have to flex as much as his limbs do, he is able to put much thicker armor over his chest. The bat-symbol encourages gun-wielding bad guys to shoot where their bullets will do the least damage.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Catwoman is aware that a whip is only effective in trained hands. Therefore, she knows that if her weapon is taken away by a stronger opponent, it is unlikely that they will be able to use it against her.

This also applies to Jedi lightsabers and Wonder Woman's lasso. Only their owners can wield them.

As for Batman's chest logo: I thought it was now just a black bat? I assumed they did away with the yellow awhile ago.

 

[Oddish]

As for Batman's chest logo: I thought it was now just a black bat? I assumed they did away with the yellow awhile ago.

Varies by version, I guess. The treatise I read came out around the 1989 film by Tim Burton.

And, different batsuits worked different ways. The suit in "Batman vs. Superman" was just a tank, while the Adam West Batman had no armor, very little black, and a sidekick in bikini briefs.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I think the logo was yellow with the Earth-1 Batman but the Earth-2 version just had the bat.

 

[Oddish]

The Burton version had a yellow utility belt, so they might not have been thinking about it. Or maybe they just forgot.

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It had the best Batmobile, though.

 

[Aragorn]

Post office delivered a package today. I know they've been doing package delivery on Sundays, but not a federal holiday.

 

[Avro Arrow]

A second set of eyes on your product listings is almost always a good idea....

 

[bdub76]

Shopped at Backcountry, Moosejaw, and REI today. REIs have really gone downhill, and outdoor clothing quality is going downhill as well. The REI I went to had so much useless stuff and lots of poorly made clothes. Their shoe section was a disaster. Prana pants aren't made as well. Altra trail runners are much worse these days. Finding base layers at REI is next to impossible. I ended up ordering some more base layers over at Backcountry. I ended up ordering a new tent for car camping from Moosejaw. Much better pricing these days with them. The state of the outdoor industry post the pandemic is overpriced, low quality stuff.

 

[Magic Maik]

I remember playing this game ages ago called Real Lives, basically it's about living a random life as someone born into the World and trying to make it through life.

Thinking on this particular life I lived, in some crime ridden hell scape, studied and worked hard to become a doctor, had a pretty good life, moved to the UK and then the bad event happened that completely ruined my life.

Grass is always greener my ass! I should've stayed in the danger zone.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I've been on lots of flights this summer and I always had the same seat! I am nothing if not consistent.

 

[auntiehill]

I always get a little nervous when driving to a new place.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I always get a little nervous when driving to a new place.

This, multiplied by a thousand.

I can't read a road map to save my life. The only place outside this city where I will drive is Kansas City, and that's only because 1) I really love the BBQ and 2) I know the way.

If I have to look at a map, forget it.

Hell, when I was in high school I used to drive to Leigh (about a hundred miles away) to visit my grandparents. I navigated by sight alone. I literally had no idea which highways I was driving on. I only knew the way because I'd seen my parents drive it a thousand times when I was a kid.

 

[fireproof78]

I always get a little nervous when driving to a new place.

I use to be. I definitely am old enough to have car atlases, maps, and printing off directions from Map Quest.

Now, if I am traveling to visit family, I find out a list of addresses, program them in to my phone and read the map directions before I go. I am far more confident now than even ten years ago printing off directions. Much easier now, even if I get turned around.

 

[bdub76]

I always get a little nervous when driving to a new place.

I make sure to download offline maps. The last thing I want is to be without Internet in a place I don't know without a map. I start to get Stephen King vibes especially if it's a small town.

Now, I should carry paper maps in my vehicle, but I haven't done that since MapQuest.