DagwoodIII
@DagwoodIII@piefed.social
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 1 day ago:
Most people agree that the movie was much better than the book
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 1 day ago:
Funny thing.
When you said ‘the third one’ I thought you were referring to Fredo.
But I see that you meant the third movie. Even re-editied, I don’t want to see it.
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 1 day ago:
The book does a good job of showing how Vito built his organization bit by bit. He quietly amassed power without doing a lot of killing. He was feared, and that was enough.
- Comment on 💀🌈🙏🌈💀 1 day ago:
One of the few funny ‘Cathy’ cartoons ever.
Cathy and Irving are talking and Irving asks Cathy what she wants in a man. He has to be a self-made millionaire; who is not materialistic. He has to love pets; he can’t own any. He can’t be afraid of commitment; he can’t have any exes.
Irving goes off. He points out that what she wants is impossible.
Cathy asks Irving what he wants.
“A beautiful virgin who loves sex.”
- Comment on 💀🌈🙏🌈💀 1 day ago:
Similar.
Charlie Sheen said that he didn’t pay women for sex. He paid them to have sex and then leave.
- Comment on grrr 4 days ago:
I heard about this book when I was young, and the older I get the realer it becomes.
“Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler, written circa 1970. The author, a sociologist, predicted that as the world moved from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era many people would be unwilling/unable to deal with the new realities.
“Conservatives” all over the world are working harder and harder to hold onto the past.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 days ago:
Your first line is “Western leadership didn’t tweet their every racist thought to the public.”
My first line was “… being racist was the default position for any Western leader in that era.”
In what world is that me agreeing with you?
Also, at this moment I see your comment is -9 and mine is +24 points. I only mention to show that not many people agree with your interpretation of the facts.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 days ago:
Almost as if you have to actually work to have nice things.
Who could imagine??
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 days ago:
WRONG!
You hype the Dems in public every chance you get.
The GOP once elected a dead pimp because they don’t care.
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Dennis Hof, the Nevada brothel owner and reality TV personality, was posthumously elected to the Nevada State Assembly in November 2018 for the 36th district, even though he died just 21 days earlier on October 16, 2018 Wikipedia+1.
Hof, who had been a Republican since 2016, ran against Democratic challenger Lesia Romanov in a heavily Republican district that included parts of Nye County and surrounding rural areas BuzzFeed News. He was known for his flamboyant style, his HBO reality series Cathouse, and his self-proclaimed role as the “Trump of Pahrump”
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 days ago:
Everything you wrote is wrong. Sorry, but I can’t say it any other way.
First, being racist was the default position for any Western leader in that era. FDR having Black combat troops was a hugely controversial idea. People knew what Churchill had done in India.
Read ‘The Autobiography of Malcom X.’ There were plenty of Black Americans who believed that the system was perfect. Plenty of colonized peoples thought that ‘the Mother Country’ had done them a favor by civilizing them.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 days ago:
I’ve posted this a lot, and I’ll post it again.
Read up on Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. Back in the 1970s televangelist Falwell decided to get involved in GOP politics. He had a simple formula; he’d send his people to any local Republican event. If twenty people total had shown up the last time the club picked the new county clerk, Falwell would have fifty there. Those dogcatchers and justices of the peace were soon Congress members and Senators and governors.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 days ago:
By that logic, no one should have supported racist America and colonist Britain against the Nazis.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 6 days ago:
Wooooosh!
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 6 days ago:
Since the novel was written circa 1935 the estate could sue the producers.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 6 days ago:
USA is big. Like, really, really big.
The food you get in New York City and Waco, Texas don’t have a lot in common.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 6 days ago:
“Exit To Eden” has entered the chat.
The novel, “Exit To Eden” by Anne Rice [aka Ann Rampling] was a pornographic romance that was turned into a very bad movie that added a lot of nonsense for no reason.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 6 days ago:
[off topic?]
Great classic mystery novel, “Too Many Cooks” by Rex Stout. Nero Wolfe is a 300 pound private detective who hates leaving his Manhattan brownstone. He investigates from his armchair, sending his assistant Archie Goodwin to round up clues and bring him folks to interrogate.
Wolfe is a famous gourmand and is invited to give a speech on American food to a group of European chefs.
Interesting novel on many levels.
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 1 week ago:
The mistake people keep making about the Right is that they care about logic.
Trump spent 2016 to 2020 talking about the Wall. From 2024 on he was silent. None of his people bring it up.
They will hate on you anyway. Take the damn money
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 1 week ago:
Rich people have their hands out 24/7.
Look at all the government money Musk took.
Ronald Reagan got rich by making sure he was always the poorest guy in the room. He sucked up to his bosses at General Electric [then one of the biggest companies in the USA] and got to invest in sweetheart deals.
George W. Bush was given a US major league baseball team.
Take every penny your qualify for.
- Comment on Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney 1 week ago:
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
In his first term, Trump screamed about The Wall constantly. This time around, he’s silent on it. You’d think his people would notice and ask a few questions…
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 week ago:
In “The Stars My Destination” Alfred Bester wrote that conspicuous consumption was the basis of all civilization
- Comment on BASED? 1 week ago:
Variation on the joke.
Parents of a high school age boy and girl have a photo on the living room wall.
It’s a picture of a fat, bald old man in a Speedo standing on a yacht with a pretty girl hugging him.
“It’s to inspire our kids to stay in school and get good grades. We want our son to try and be like the man, and our daughter not to be like the woman who is with him.”
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 1 week ago:
I don’t follow Trek as much as I used to.
I’d guess that the problem is that it’s hard to come up with stories in a happy world where everyone gets to choose their own path.
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 weeks ago:
Nope, totally different.
Look at the price of Super Bowl tickets.
First Bowl tickets were $10.00. This year they were going for $6,000.00
Top luxury car in 1960 was $7,500.00 for a sports car and $35,000.00 for a Rolls or Bentley. Most expensive car today is $30 million.
The rich have gotten much, much richer and ’need’ to spend more so people will notice.
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 weeks ago:
It’s like any other luxury.
Back in 1960, minimum wage was $1.00/hour. You could get a meal at a diner for under $1.00 or go to a really swanky place and spend $4.00 or $5.00.
Today, minimum wage is $7.50, a diner meal is $20.00, and a luxury meal is $100.00
You can go out a find a really well build product that will last, but it will cost ten times as much as the one you can afford.
- Comment on politicians who say "tough choices" are rarely effected by consequences 2 weeks ago:
Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act. He was a Southern Democrat and he knew that his party would lose a lot of votes.
One of the instances where a politician was actually affected by a policy.
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 3 weeks ago:
If you check the high end stores you can buy deodorants from Calvin Klein, Paco Rabanne etc.
But most of the time I use unscented
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 3 weeks ago:
After the 2016 election, the NY Times assembled a panel of TV creators. ‘The West Wing,’ ‘House of Cards’, ‘Scandal,’ and other political dramas were represented.
All the creators said the same thing; if they’d had a fictional candidate say the things Donald Trump had said in real life, every advertiser and network executive would demand that the character be shown as hated by all Americans, and lose the election in a landslide.
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 3 weeks ago:
Melania was doing lesbian porn in 1996. Stormy Daniels was a stripper in 1996 and started doing porn six years later.
We have every reason to believe that there is a Stormy Daniels/Melania Trump movie out there somewhere.
- Comment on Word ofs wisedome 3 weeks ago:
On the Buffverse show ‘Angel’ Harmony was the dumbest vampire.
At one point she agreed with someone by saying “You’re preaching to the horse’s mouth.”