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Fake Facebook account pretending to be someone I know requested to follow me. Asked someone who knows this person to report it, but they refuse to click on this fake account. What are you even afraid of? It’s just another one of millions of Facebook pages.
A lot of the animal sanctuaries and rescues I follow have to deal with people setting fake accounts pretending to be them, and then getting their own followers and starting up fundraisers.
How horrible of a human being do you have to be to rip people off by stealing the identity to be an animal sanctuary?
 
Speaking of animals, one of those "charity" ads came on the TV in the break room at work the other day. Now I'm all for rescuing animals who are in jeopardy, but the voiceover in this ad was so ridiculously over-the-top that my coworkers and I just burst out laughing. I seriously thought that the voice actor was going to cry, it was an absolutely ridiculous level of over-wrought emotionalism and hyped-up drama.

Besides, if the animals are that bad off, why doesn't the fucking CAMERA CREW give them some food? They're right in front of you, why don't YOU feed them, you sick fuck?
 
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I think for a lot of those the camera crews are there with the people who are in the process of rescuing them. And just randomly tossing food to animals can actually be really dangerous, especially if you give a starved animal to much food, that will kill them. They call it refeeding syndrome and it's a huge danger for people who deal with starved animals, there's a very specific procedure they have to use to start feeding them.
 
How horrible of a human being do you have to be to rip people off by stealing the identity to be an animal sanctuary?
Humans are capable of great evil. And, sadly, if the behavior is reinforced as being a success what's to stop them?
 
You're old if you are rewatching movies from my teenage years while doing chores and realising half the cast members of them are dead (Aka what I did on my weekend).
 
You're old if you make noises getting INTO bed.

You're old if you were alive when Law & Order first aired.

You're old if you get nostalgic for Cop Rock. ("Has the jury reached a verdict?...HIT IT!")

You're old if you get into arguments about the second season of War of the Worlds.

You're old if you remember the ORIGINAL V.
 
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I think for a lot of those the camera crews are there with the people who are in the process of rescuing them. And just randomly tossing food to animals can actually be really dangerous, especially if you give a starved animal to much food, that will kill them. They call it refeeding syndrome and it's a huge danger for people who deal with starved animals, there's a very specific procedure they have to use to start feeding them.

This is precisely true. The footage you see in those ASPCA commercials is usually stuff captured on an iPhone or whatever, to document the conditions the animals have been kept in as evidence for criminal and / or civil prosecution.
 
One more: You're old if the place you're most likely to now hear the rebellious songs of your youth is in an Applebee's commercial.
I knew I was getting old when they used Jimi Hendrix to sell Chevy Camaros.

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You're old if you get nostalgic for Cop Rock. ("Has the jury reached a verdict?...HIT IT!".
No matter how old I get, I will NEVER be nostalgic for Cop Rock. Jesus, what was Steven Bochco smoking?

You're old if you get into arguments about the second season of War of the Worlds.
No, you're old if you remember the movie with Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. If you can remember listening to the Orson Welles radio broadcast, you're probably dead.
 
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Don't ever cheap out and get the store brand.

It was hot so I went to the grocery store to get something cold. Store brand popsicles were on sale and it was a giant box, so I figured I would blow through them no problem as long as it remained hot. Well these popsicles suck. Not sweet, no flavor, and it wasn't like I bought the sugar-free version either. Disappointing.
 
So happy that the mighty New South Wales have won the third match in the State of Origin and wrap up this series. That game brutal tonight.
 
Don't ever cheap out and get the store brand.

It was hot so I went to the grocery store to get something cold. Store brand popsicles were on sale and it was a giant box, so I figured I would blow through them no problem as long as it remained hot. Well these popsicles suck. Not sweet, no flavor, and it wasn't like I bought the sugar-free version either. Disappointing.
Huh.

I do store brand on a lot of things but not on ice cream or treats. I prefer store brand for dry goods, medicine, and rice. Interesting experience.
 
Humans are capable of great evil. And, sadly, if the behavior is reinforced as being a success what's to stop them?
At least in this case they can hopefully be charged with fraud.
This is precisely true. The footage you see in those ASPCA commercials is usually stuff captured on an iPhone or whatever, to document the conditions the animals have been kept in as evidence for criminal and / or civil prosecution.
Ok, I had assumed it was something like that.
Don't ever cheap out and get the store brand.

It was hot so I went to the grocery store to get something cold. Store brand popsicles were on sale and it was a giant box, so I figured I would blow through them no problem as long as it remained hot. Well these popsicles suck. Not sweet, no flavor, and it wasn't like I bought the sugar-free version either. Disappointing.
I've bought a few of store brands for some things and they're pretty good, especially since a lot of the stores are now introducing a higher end store brand that have some really good stuff. Kroger's Simple Truth line includes some really good vegan stuff, especially their chocolate covered raspberry ice cream bars, which are awesome. But I do tend to avoid the lower end brands of things like pop, ice cream or popsicles, when I was in school they used to get them when they'd through classroom parties, and they were almost always pretty gross.


OK, I know I am overly literal with this kind of stuff, but Megan The Stallion's stage name really bugs me. How the hell is a human woman a male horse?
 
OK, I know I am overly literal with this kind of stuff, but Megan The Stallion's stage name really bugs me. How the hell is a human woman a male horse?

It's actually "Thee" not "The". But if it helps, here's the explanation from Wikipedia.

Pete adopted the stage name "Megan Thee Stallion" after she was called a "stallion" during her adolescence due to her height (5 ft 10 in (178 cm)) and "thicc" body frame; voluptuous, statuesque women in the southern United States are sometimes colloquially called "stallions".
 
OK, I see where it comes from now, but I still don't understand why anybody would have even started referring women as stallions.
 
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