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I am so disappointed and/or angry. I ordered the worst Chinese food I've ever eaten. It was so gross. I'll spare the details and keep my blood pressure down.

I rarely make reviews on anything, but the quality of the food forced my hand. When I went over to google reviews, I found that a ton of people have actually rated it as a 5 star restaurant. There's just no way this place could be anyone's favorite place unless it's the only restaurant they've ever eaten at. It's one of probably 5 meals I've ever not been able to finish.

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maybe the goodreviews are from culinary masochists.... they think they deserve bad kung pao and it turns them on a little when they're gagging before they even swallow (see? that works for other perversions too, what a great line)

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If they don't swallow, they don't love it. Food reviews are not something they can take on the chin.

Walking Dead just beat out Lord of the Rings for most amount of time wasted watching people walk. Congratulations.

I dunno, my wife and I both liked walking dead in its original comic form but we watched most fo season 1 and decided it sucked on TV and that we were just sick of Zombies anyway.

Yeah, the show has had large ups and large, large downs for me. I've sworn off the show a season at a time, a couple of times now. This season started off awesome and then quickly went into the slow dredge that is dialogue.

They need to just make stuff happen every episode. No more episodes of character building. We have all the characters we need, now we just need the story to progress constantly.

being youngish you are more akin to zombies whereas me and my asshole (bitch-ass?) wife were more of the gen ex vampire age bracket.

Ha!

I never liked the zombie craze; I knew where it really came from. It re-surged due to conspiracy theorists and doomsday preppers. When these people would go online and converse why they needed certain types of rounds or weapons and whether or not they would be good enough for certain situations, they referred to the potential targets as "Zombies". As in, a person who blindly follows orders and is out to get you, not the undead horde. It would be the code word needed to be used for law enforcement, military, or foreign soldiers depending on which theory was believed in and was thought of as being mandatory during these talks due to the NSA and Patriot Act fears. . It became tongue and cheek for some time until people actually thought the undead were back in pop culture. By adding them into video games and movies, they actually forced a dying genre of horror to resurface.

There's now a large number of people who HAVE bought firearms and stores in the name of a fake horror creature.

Next time you stumble across an older forum where they are talking about needing an incendiary Chinese 7.62x39 rounds in case the zombies have level 3 body armor on, you'll know it's in reference to marshal law, invasion, bio-threats, etc.

I didn't know people actually talked about this stuff other than my one crazy friend who collects guns and is such a head-in-the-clouds libertarian I can't talk to him anymore. I thought he was part of a really small minority of loonies...

I'm watching some of Beauty and the Beast: Live Action. It's not impressive. In particular, Emma Watson's voice has no vibrato and sounds super compressed/auto-tuned. Her phrasing of the words is lazy and behind the beat as well.

Disney's constant efforts at social justice and political correctness is actually, noticeably left out of this film and as a history buff, I appreciate that. This is 1700's France. You know, when slavery was still commonly accepted and constant war with the English was the main topic. The Normally, Disney would try to shoehorn in different ethnicities and maybe even add modern vocabulary to make the dialogue fresh and relatable. Not here. A nearly all white cast with exception of the four or five black actors who, to credit the time period, were only in parts of the film that showed them either working/delivery/cleaning or as possible prostitutes in the tavern Gaston sings in.

Aside from Belle's awkward singing and the British accents so many of these French characters have, it seems like a pretty faithful rendition.

I didn't know people actually talked about this stuff other than my one crazy friend who collects guns and is such a head-in-the-clouds libertarian I can't talk to him anymore. I thought he was part of a really small minority of loonies...

There have always been people who prepare for the worst and hope for the best. All the qwerks behind 9/11 really opened the door for these people to come together. The Oath Keepers are a well known military/law enforcement community that really strengthened during this time. After a year of hearing about zombies, Hollywood's misinterpretation developed into the first 3 large scale zombie movies being released; Resident Evil, 28 Days Later, and Dawn of the Dead(re-make.) This movies were successful due to their budget size, their ties to other large franchises, and the fact that zombie movies were practically extinct for a decade. Now, we are all forced to see and hear about the undead in all forms of media. I think the zombie craze is slowing a bit. It's going to be a nostalgic period for a lot of preppers and gamers though, so it won't fully leave pop culture for a decade or more, I'm afraid.

I also think a generations choice of movie monster speaks to the mood of those young people... like when Iw as a little boy in the 80s it was slasher movie mosnters, Jason, Freddie.... and they were revenge driven killers usually (other than Michael Myers who is a senseless psycho in the Norman Bates tradition, but he's really a 70s character).... then in the 90s it went full vampire when Iw as groing up and that hung on for longer than those Jason type baddies.... then slowly I watched the enxt generation graduating and going to college or getting jobs, starting bands whatever and I started hearing about Zombie apocalypse all the time and pop-culture from movie studios to humorists responded and the vampire was relegated to twilight and movies like 39 days of night where they are more medieval in character and zombie-ish. Its interesting. I wonder what the generation in highschool now will contribute to monster-movie culture?

The pattern we all seem to be following, I would say it's just going to be re-makes and re-hashed monsters. Universal is making a shared universe, Avengers like, series featuring the 1930-1945 monsters. Dracula, Wolfman, Mummy, Creature from Black Lagoon. I think we'll see a flood of remakes, prequels, and sequels to Nightmare, Friday, Halloween, etc before they go back to the drawing board and start redoing Hitchcock films. It's only a matter of time before they take credit for Hitchcock's works because they made it, "darker, edgier", and all that mess. The 2010's have been dominated by supernatural demons/ghosts.

Even as of late, movies are just stolen ideas from each other. They made, "Lights Out", which was a ripoff of, "Darkness Falls", not to be confused with the new, "Shadows Fall". It's angering when people don't come up with something new.

I'm surprised there have only been a few horror/suspense films that were related to cellphones.

you're right, since about 2011 its been a proliferation of Poltergeist and Amityville lost souls and demons... I wonder what that says about these post-millennials coming up like Narcist?

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my late wife could tell you that the police could give a fuck how pretty a girl is.... at least where I live. They have ticket and arrest quotas to make!

Anyone else wanna start a racket smuggling BOSS pedals now?

Save me a DM-2, yeah?