I watched Mary Poppins so much growing up in the 80s my parents almost actually bought it. Guess they figured 40 rentals was cheaper. He’s always the chimney sweep guy to me but he’s always great wherever he is.
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Then things that weren’t acceptable by people who can’t think of priorities in a large system would be left aside. The point of voting in representatives is you vote in people who can have a better idea of what is needed in various areas.
Mean that’s not always the case but way better than Joe Blow deciding all his taxes go to the military rather than education.
Mean I see the appeal but that voting has to come from informed voters with proper reasoning skills. Since we’re in an age of propoganda nothing essential would ever be funded, people are too easily swayed.
My editor’s font/ligeratue changes the != To that symbol when programming. Unfortunately I have to use visual basic usually and type out Not most of the tiime but works well with C#.
Probably not a big increase in readability but I like it. Damn hate all the words needed in VB.net but oh well, could not be programming for work which would be worse and least still know .net libraries.
orbitz@lemmy.cato
AntiTrumpAlliance@lemmy.world•There's "Reality" and then there's whatever the hell this isEnglish
6·6 days agoEver once act like a half decent human being if it doesn’t benefit him.
That alone should have ever told people that he was not a good choice for improving anything.
orbitz@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.zip•In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the InternetEnglish
1·9 days agoI never knew the difference till I just googled it, does sound familiar from way back when. I seem to recall having an email button in one of them or just fuzzy memory these days.
orbitz@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•This stupid system that everyone hates has been like this for decadesEnglish
9·15 days agoProbably be 32/32 in the near future at the rate they’re going.
Huh I just remembered the orders of arithmetic but parentheses trump all so do them first (I use them in even the calculator app). Mean I assume that’s that that says but never learned that acronym is all. Now figuring out categories of words;really does my noodle in sometimes. Cause some words can be either depending on context. Math when it’s written out has (mostly) the same answer. I say mostly because somewhere in the back of my brain there are some scenarios where something more complicated than straight arithmetic can come out oddly but written as such should come out the same.
orbitz@lemmy.cato
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Russia’s new state dictionary calls authoritarianism the ‘most effective’ form of government and bans the word ‘ass’English
6·19 days agoLike doublespeak or just saying the complete opposite and people accepting it? Shit man, no first world country would do that at least. Eyes the US
Maybe I didn’t help cook as much but was my job to clean after pretty much every dinner. Always thanked my Mum for the dinner nightly (regardless of my taste preferences). Pretty much set the table for dinners all regular night and cleaned up.
Larger dinners with company she let me stop cleaning after awhile but these days I’d gladly clean till the end, she made the best dinners.
orbitz@lemmy.cato
news@lemmings.world•Clintons summoned to testify about Jeffrey Epstein caseEnglish
2·23 days agoI’ve heard it both ways.
orbitz@lemmy.cato
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear!English
1·1 month agoHaha I think of that look more often than is probably needed, like an elementary school kid mocking someone. Which for the movie was great and at the time fit well for that time. Nowadays who’d ever to think of doing similar on tv? Except maybe someone without shame.
I don’t know Emo Philips at all but him just willing to do that bit and the good Christian joke flood bit that I’ve read and made me think he was cool. Like what God cares if we do one tiny bit differently? Mean maybe murder but that’s not up for debate…well a few examples stick out unless he’s a real hardass about it. Hah I’d love to defend that line if there were a pearly gates.
orbitz@lemmy.cato
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear!English
2·1 month agoOpen wide!
One of my favourite movies of all time. I love the spoof type movies this was up there. Probably not as good as say Mel Brooks but hard to beat his movies and always enjoyed Wierd Al.
orbitz@lemmy.cato
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Dog shoots owner in the back after jumping on shotgun left on bed: PoliceEnglish
47·1 month agoSomehow he was cleaning it and it still had rounds to fire or he cleaned and reloaded and left it unsecured so it had rounds to fire. Sounds like sort of person who should own a gun for sure.
orbitz@lemmy.cato
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What old movies hold up because of a lack of special effects or because clever use of effects?
3·1 month agoIt was a favourite growing up (up there’s with Explorers, The Goonies to me back then), I hadn’t watched it in decades till a few years ago. I also thought it held up really well. Besides the exterior spaceship there’s minimal effects anyways (plus cute aliens of course which were practical) it’s more an odd buddy (new friend?) comedy. I still thought what was there was for the ship effects held up better than expected for the time.
Course may be rose tinted glasses and all, but I really enjoyed it last time still, plus time travel is always awesome.
Well you just reminded me to watch more Star Wars, guess I didn’t need it. Fun that there is little debate about which original to watch csuse they’re all so much more awesome than the rest. Yes I’m that old, and the shiny interior death star scenes look so fantastic compared to late 80s tv.
orbitz@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.world•The U.S. Has Now Killed Over 65 People In Strikes Against Alleged Drug BoatsEnglish
4·1 month agoBesides that it’s from the administration that lies all the time, and no proof has been shown? I guess not, though there are good arguments that the boats couldn’t have reached the US and having 11 people on a smuggling boat doesn’t make sense.
Then there’s the fact that the crimal punishment for smuggling isn’t death and they were not even charged, had a trial and found guilty.
That was my first thought of a Dracula movie, it’s been so long since I saw it I had to double check it was the movie I thought it was I just remembered it was a comedy. And oh what a comedy with Brooks and Nielson, hard to ask for better Okay time to watch again.
I always liked vampire movies in general though.
orbitz@lemmy.cato
Star Wars@lemmy.world•Jennifer Hale did not see KOTOR's twist coming: 'Knights of the Old Republic really showed me the level of writing, storytelling, and surprise that was possible in games'
3·1 month agoAlso helped at the time it came out, unless you purposely looked it up or forums threads about it, it was hard to randomly know about that twist. It was one of the best reveals in gaming, I’d even say ever for gaming but everyone has their opinion. Mean I was already past school so maybe those areas would have had more spoilers.
Also at that time, for the people a bit too young to know (not knocking ya just doing my Grandpa Simpson story) even if Star Wars was big for prequel trilogy, attack of the clones was out but not last one, there was no Star Wars RPG story game similar at the time or previous. And it had some of the top notch story writing for gaming.
Also that’s the game where I learned about Jennifer Hale, I’ve always enjoyed her work since. Took awhile to remember her name I just knew the character’s name for the longest time.





There’s an early Robot Chicken bit where he dies and asks silly questions to a book that can give him an answer like how many times did I listen to this song, or how much of a wall could my poop make. This question sounds like an interesting one to ask that book though. Actually I’d probably prefer not to know the chaotic randomness that is our lives but guess the lives part would be redundant at that point anyways.