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

[scotpens]

Had a bit of a bizarre experience today. I guess you could call it a "Mandela Effect", if you were so inclined.

Not to be pedantic, but the "Mandela Effect" is a colloquial term for a collective false memory -- one that's held by thousands, if not millions of people. For example, the Monopoly Man wearing a monocle. Or a brand of peanut butter called Jiffy (a conflation of Jif and Skippy).

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Not to be pedantic, but the "Mandela Effect" is a colloquial term for a collective false memory -- one that's held by thousands, if not millions of people. For example, the Monopoly Man wearing a monocle. Or a brand of peanut butter called Jiffy (a conflation of Jif and Skippy).

Indeed.... The so called effect named because of people thinking Mandela died in prison in the 80s yet he died after being released in the 1990s and died in 2013 as a free person. But a chunk of people seem to think he died in prison

 

[Aragorn]

Going through the movie showtimes, there's a movie I never heard of before about the founding of the United States of America. It's a Fathom Event so is it what I think it is? Kevin Sorbo, check. Michael Medved, check. It is.

 

[auntiehill]

Another day of applications. One company keeps dicking me around. I register for the test and took the first training ---and failed. I apparently missed that there was a whole different section of information to train on. I didn't see it at all, so when I got to that test section, I just had to guess. Then I see the message at the top, saying you can take the test as many times as you need to pass. So I register again, and wait.

Then I get a message asking me to register for the test. Huh? So I register again. It tells me to read the guidelines. I can't access them. I send an email, and they send a link. The link doesn't work. I give up.

Then, this morning, I get another email saying I have not registered for the test.

 

[auntiehill]

Woo! Finally have a possible part -time remote job lined up. Wish me luck!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Woo! Finally have a possible part -time remote job lined up. Wish me luck!

Yay. Applause . Best wishes

 

[auntiehill]

Have two possible work from home jobs--waiting for responses from the companies.

*sigh* Waiting is awful.

 

[tomalak301]

What is the best airline to take now? I was basically a Southwest lifer for the longest time, but their changes this week have been a real turnoff. I'm not planning to go to Vegas this year, but I looked at the costs to go to Vegas for San Francisco and San Jose and it's a lot more (especially with the bag fee increase). I know others take airlines have gotten used to the additional costs, but Southwest took their brand, stabbed it with a knife, and told us this was what customers wanted. It's really off putting.

 

[Commander Troi]

In comparing flights for my recent trip across the country, Southwest is still the cheapest.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

@tomalak301

Alaska Airlines is the one I would choose if the carrier flies to those cities.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

So I just found out from a customer that the state of Utah installs a tracking device on every new car that is sold and it cannot be removed until the car is paid off.
The reason she came in, is that she is visiting from Utah and the tracking device is interfering with the vehicle electrical system because the car has been taken out of state, so it thinks it's stolen and trying to shut the car down.
The state of Utah doesn't trust you with your own vehicle.​

 

[Sgt_G]

I just figured out that history is much harder for kids to learn these days because there's fifty more years of stuff that happened since I was in school.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I just figured out that history is much harder for kids to learn these days because there's fifty more years of stuff that happened since I was in school.

But they're probably still using history textbooks that were printed when you were in school, so it all evens out.

 

[Kor]

Where's the dividing line between history and current events?

I find it odd when a history class or a history textbook tries to bring everything together by getting right up into the very latest present-day events of the time when the book was written or when the class is being taught. Current affairs are outside the scope of History as an academic field, and more appropriately addressed in other disciplines.

Kor

 

[Set Harth]

Ad for Dominos here in Australia. The most disgusting pizza ever

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wtaf.

 

[Aragorn]

Just learned about this movie called New York Ninja. It came out in 2021 but get this, it was made in the 80s, they ran out of money and the movie got shelved, all these years later eight hours of footage were uncovered and Vinegar Syndrome turned it into a movie even though there was no sound, no script, no editing notes, not even credits.

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[SithHappens]

Why, when you watch a movie with scenes set in Havana do you see so many old American cars.

When I went it was full of old Russian cars, hardly an old American one to be seen.

 

[auntiehill]

Why, when you watch a movie with scenes set in Havana do you see so many old American cars.

When I went it was full of old Russian cars, hardly an old American one to be seen.

Because the movie isn't being *filmed* in Havana. It's easier for the film company to find old American cars for set decoration.

 

[Aragorn]

Saw a spider in the bathtub unable to crawl out. So I helped it get out. A few hours later, it's back in the bathtub! I don't see it today, so it must've crawled down the drain. Isn't that basically a death sentence?

 

[carcinoGeneticist]

There is a troubling amount of spiders in my bathroom. I don't understand why they're there or what about the bathroom is so attractive to them. I'm just hoping they die before getting the oppurtunity to make egg-sacs...