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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • The mall pictured in the article, Rolling Acres Mall in Akron OH, was the largest of three indoor shopping malls in the greater Akron area. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Akron, but we didn’t need three goddamn indoor shopping malls. We’re down to just one now, which seems appropriate.



  • Boogie Nights.

    My hetero life partner and I went to see this opening night because we heard Heather Graham got naked… and we’d both been infatuated with her since License to Drive. We ended up going back to the theater at least a dozen times to watch the movie just because it was so goddamn good.

    It’s an amazing ensemble cast of actors who were, (with the exception of Burt) at that time, B-list at best. The story is engaging and friendly without reaching too far into hackey territory. We might be able to predict the exact destination, but we can enjoy the journey to that destination as it’s own unique experience. Anderson lets his actors really make the characters their own, so long as they stick to his writing.

    In short, it’s an amazing example of what a whole bunch of very talented actors can do when they’re given good material to work with.

    I don’t like Mark Wahlberg as a person, but he was amazing in this movie. John C Reilly is the fucking man. Julianne Moore and Heather Graham deliver Oscar caliber performances.

    I can’t think of a single bad part of this movie.



  • lingh0e@lemmy.filmtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldTrying is for losers.
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    This person is a parent, likely going to teach their kids also be lazy, inconsiderate goons.

    We live in a society. Park in the lines, put your shopping cart in the corral, stand on the right side of the escalator… these are basic things a person does to make life a little less inconvenient for others. L

    Don’t teach your kids to be privileged dicks.


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    That’s what people who park like assholes tell themselves. It takes ten extra seconds to straighten out and park correctly.

    The daycare I take my kids to, there are six regular spots in front of the building and two handicapped spots. There’s tons of parking on the side of the building, it’s just not as convenient.

    Without fail, there are mothers who will absolutely park in the handicapped spots if the other spots in front are taken. Some of them will even park their massive SUV in BOTH handicapped spots. It blows my mind, the privilege these people display. They can park on the side of the building and walk an extra ten feet like s normal human being, but no… they are more important than anyone else.

    I make sure to point out to my kids that those people are breaking the rules because they don’t want to deal with a very slight inconvenience.



  • I spent one night cleaning commercial airliner cabins at a regional airport.

    Since I was would have basically unrestricted access to commercial airliners post 9/11, I had to go through serious screening to get this job. Fingerprinting, MASSIVELY invasive federal background checks, the whole 9 yards. You’d think I was going to work at the Pentagon. But that’s a good thing. If someone has momentarily unfettered access to an entire jet that will be carrying a ton of jet fuel and hundreds of passengers, I absolutely want to make sure people are thoroughly vetted. It was made ABUNDANTLY clear to me, the potential consequences of fucking up this job. If I were liable for a fuck up I would be at the very least fined thousands of dollars, at worst I’d be thrown into federal prison.

    So my first day passes and I get called into my supervisors office. Apparently I missed a non-sanctioned magazine a previous passenger had left in a seat back of a flight. I wasn’t being fired or fined, but I was on final warning. Over a magazine. I quit on the spot.

    I also forgot to mention that this job payed barely above minimum wage…

    I wasn’t going to bust my ass cleaning airplane cabins, risking my livelihood and freedom for a fucking pittance.