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« Reply #72600 on: January 27, 2026, 12:20:58 am »
I wish Amazon sold weed. That 15 minute drive is such a buzzkill

You could be iced into the holler like I am.  The plow and salt trucks have even given up, nothing they can do until it warms up.

I could probably get out if I tried but it is not worth risking a crash for.
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« Reply #72601 on: January 27, 2026, 12:46:48 am »
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« Reply #72602 on: January 27, 2026, 01:39:57 am »
Alfred Hitchcock is as good as Twilight Zone. This what I’m doing because I’m too whacked to operate a television. I watch shows made before I was born at 2 in the morning.
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« Reply #72603 on: January 27, 2026, 02:00:52 am »
Alfred Hitchcock is as good as Twilight Zone. This what I’m doing because I’m too whacked to operate a television. I watch shows made before I was born at 2 in the morning.

I am watching old Time Team. 

Nothing wrong with old TV and movies, a lot of that stuff I missed for one reason or another so it is still brand new to me.
Gunsmoke for example, or Hawaii 5-0. My folks did not like those shows so I missed them first run.

And when it comes to movies, most of the new stuff can't hold a candle to the old. Yeah ya got color and CGI now but the old ones told better stories, more character development and such.
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« Reply #72604 on: January 27, 2026, 02:08:13 am »
I am watching old Time Team. 

Nothing wrong with old TV and movies, a lot of that stuff I missed for one reason or another so it is still brand new to me.
Gunsmoke for example, or Hawaii 5-0. My folks did not like those shows so I missed them first run.

And when it comes to movies, most of the new stuff can't hold a candle to the old. Yeah ya got color and CGI now but the old ones told better stories, more character development and such.
There hasn’t been a movie made in the past 30 years worth watching. There all remakes of old movies or comic book movies. The writing on those old shows like Alfred Hitchcock are great. They didn’t rely on special effects, gore, sex and car crashes.
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« Reply #72605 on: January 27, 2026, 02:21:14 am »
There hasn’t been a movie made in the past 30 years worth watching. There all remakes of old movies or comic book movies. The writing on those old shows like Alfred Hitchcock are great. They didn’t rely on special effects, gore, sex and car crashes.

There are a few newer movies that are good but they a buried in free movie channel listings, not the ones you have heard of.
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« Reply #72606 on: January 27, 2026, 03:37:23 am »
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« Reply #72607 on: January 27, 2026, 03:46:50 am »
"..We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:

"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."

"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."

PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:

-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’

-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.."
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« Reply #72608 on: January 27, 2026, 07:57:39 am »
Don't they make you learn stuff like that, or are you an illegal?
Nah, they don’t make us learn that, and if they did, I forgot all about it.
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« Reply #72609 on: January 27, 2026, 08:34:11 am »
Well, we sure could use a lot more Dem votes, a large liberal majority that might never end.
You folks would bring that and we all could do better.

Keep it up and you might talk me into it.
Delusional much?
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« Reply #72610 on: January 27, 2026, 08:49:08 am »
There are a few newer movies that are good but they a buried in free movie channel listings, not the ones you have heard of.
Companion is a low budget but quite entertaining film if you have it on your cable. I watched it because I was bored and “nothing” was on.
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« Reply #72611 on: January 27, 2026, 09:58:31 am »
For some reason I'm relieved that it's 5 degrees.
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« Reply #72612 on: January 27, 2026, 10:01:59 am »
Almost everything on tv is not worth the trouble it takes to scroll through the channels to see what's on. I don't need 1200 channels of garbage.
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« Reply #72613 on: January 27, 2026, 10:17:50 am »
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Mom? Is that you?

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« Reply #72614 on: January 27, 2026, 10:59:06 am »
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She should put some ICE on that

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