[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

College program in 06, seasonal transportation car member for two years after that.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Dunno. I've got it on Blu-ray... that's... 4k...? I'm not sure.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Traditions! That's what it's called! Couldn't for the life of me remember.

Where'd you work? I was a monorail pilot down in Orlando.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Sorry, was drunk when writing that. Meant it to be implied that this is what companies tell their employees about why they do it.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

I'm registered unaffiliated because I'm an anarchist. Still voting though.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago

There's all these iconic photos of Walt Disney where he's pointing at stuff with a two finger point. I've heard that some within the company say that this is the example by which their resort employees always use the two finger point to direct guests.

In reality, he was holding a cigarette and the photos have been airbrushed. He died of lung cancer in 1966. Pointing with two fingers is just seen (kind of universally across cultures) as being non-accusatory. Like, say you saw someone talking to someone else and you cannot hear them (or it's in a language you don't understand); they're pointing with one finger in your direction, you may be inclined to think they're talking about you. If they're using the two finger point, you're less likely to think that... it's the same for airliner flight crew.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

"Alien" (1979) still gets me every time I watch it. The slow build, the pops of horror, the delectable suspense of the Big Chap hunting. I know every scare, every moment of terror, every death by heart... but it still gets my circulatory system going. All other home invasion/haunted house movies can go home, Alien nailed it.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

I haven't seen polling specifically for her district but, while Georgia is very purple (and has been since like 2014), her district is gerrymandered to hell and back to not be anything other than red. I think I saw that it's one of the deepest red districts in the country.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

You want to address the current set of big problems by ... creating more big problems to address.

Right. There's already a shitload of big problems.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 90 points 3 weeks ago

Dude... he has a fucking Dreamcast? Tim Walz is the dad I never had.

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American comedian Ron White frequently tells a story about how his van was damaged in a comedic way by the technicians at a Sears Automotive Center in Savannah, GA. This week, that Sears Automotive Center is being torn down. While the shopping mall that former Sears location is a part of is otherwise doing well, the Sears has been closed for years. The department store end-cap building and the car service center in its out-parcel property are being demolished to make way for the development of a new apartment complex.

A link to Ron preforming the story for a live audience.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 159 points 5 months ago

Didn't someone have a picture of a Tesla in the wild with a bumper sticker that read something like: "I bought this before I knew Elon was a complete idiot."

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 92 points 6 months ago

An election year is a great time to blow up the only part of the government your party controls... I say let them flight.

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No one’s sure how the ambitious bandits made off with the heavy steel structure, WJLX station general manager Brett Elmore told WBRC.

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All pictures in the listing seem to be from before the ship's "Margaritaville" makeover, but it's definitely the same boat. The rest of that class has been retired and sent to the breakers.

In 2023, it was featured in YouTuber Bright Sun Travels cruise video "North America's Worst Cruise Ship." The ship, named the "Margaritaville At Sea Paradise" (at the time of that review), had been purchased second hand and operated by a company called Margaritaville At Sea Cruises (formerly Celebration Cruiseline). All of the Margaritaville and Jimmy Buffett branding was a licensing deal the company made with Buffett's food service and vacations empire.

The ship was originally launched in 1991 as the Costa Classica for the Costa Cruises company of Italy (the same one of the Costa Concordia disaster infamy).

So, who wants to buy a cruise ship? Not gonna lie to you all... she's got some problems, not least of which is the Jimmy Buffett theming.

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