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re: Section of Hongqi Bridge in China collapses months after opening

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/11/25 at 2:28 pm to Fun Bunch

Is that the bridge that went viral on Tik Tok to show how China was so much further advanced than America?

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re: Guy took 5g of magic mushrooms on live stream for science and now documenting it

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/10/25 at 8:02 am to Zendog

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Hello Kate

Kate’s a hottie but you’re going to have to eat only lentils and salad everyday for the rest of your life.

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re: Elimination week- Texas at UGA and OU at Bama

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/10/25 at 7:16 am to Soonerd78

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There is a chance every sec team besides Ole Miss finishes with two losses.

The SEC office won’t allow it.

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re: Guy took 5g of magic mushrooms on live stream for science and now documenting it

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/9/25 at 2:52 pm to LegendInMyMind

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How is she his "co-founder"?

He’s the Blueprint guy. A billionaire trying to live forever. He's spending his money on treating himself like a lab rat.

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re: Frozen Pipes north of I-10 if not snow flurries

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/9/25 at 1:49 pm to LegendInMyMind

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The cold is fine, the wind is the a-hole.

The humidity is always the real bitch.

I’d take 10 and dry over 35 with moisture in the air.

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re: Durka Durka crowd

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/8/25 at 7:09 pm to jvilletiger25

Why do this?

Sure, it’s a moral victory but Durkin did a good job with chicken shite.

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re: Auburn vs Vandy Game Thread

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/8/25 at 7:03 pm to jangalang

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This stings just like the rest of them

Nah. We had a personality and competed and didn’t look like lame ducks.

You can’t expect an interim to fix everything in a week. And yet, we looked like we had a pulse and pushed a good team to the last second.

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re: Auburn vs Vandy Game Thread

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/8/25 at 4:23 pm to auzach91

Didn’t call the PI. Calls the holding.

These fricking refs.

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re: Auburn vs Vandy Game Thread

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/8/25 at 4:19 pm to GoCrazyAuburn

Dominates the 1st half until the very end when we couldn’t punch it in from the 3 yard line? And then they start scoring?

Sounds familiar.

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re: Auburn vs Vandy Game Thread

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/8/25 at 4:04 pm to jangalang

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This has to be a dream. WTF am I seeing

We said that about this point in the Georgia game.

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re: What happened to fun kid movies that were made to teach life lessons?

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/8/25 at 12:15 pm to witty alias

Every one of those movies is animated or a remake except for Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip (which looks good!).

Where are these movies?

The Sandlot
Little Giants
The Mighty Ducks
Rookie of the Year
My Girl
The Goonies
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Home Alone
October Sky

Live action stories with hijinks to help construct a social reality for children.

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re: Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s historic $1 trillion pay package

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/6/25 at 5:19 pm to RLDSC FAN

I understand Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon being absurdly profitable companies making their top shareholders some of the richest people in the world.

And I get that Tesla and SpaceX are profitable, but how is it they are to the point that they make Elon the richest guy ever? A trillionaire?

Billions of people own iPhones. Microsoft and Amazon have their cloud services and Amazon is pretty much the ruler of internet commerce.

What is it about Tesla that makes Elon so rich?

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re: Maybe Lane does in fact want to follow Saban's footsteps

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/6/25 at 3:38 pm to Tifway419

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It’s not my money, but at some point the boosters will say enough is enough

We keep saying this but the numbers keep going up and up.

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re: What happened to fun kid movies that were made to teach life lessons?

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/6/25 at 1:17 pm to Weekend Warrior79

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Wife and I were talking about this recently as we have young kids. They are currently all about K Pop Demon Hunters, which has a great message; but as you pointed out where are the live action movies

The live action aspect is crucial for kids to see the stories as applicable to their real lives.

I think there are good lessons in an animated film, but there's more distance when they're not real people.

There were so many good kids movies in the 80s and 90s. Some in the early 2000s. Then they just disappeared.

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re: What happened to fun kid movies that were made to teach life lessons?

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/6/25 at 12:46 pm to FredBear

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For the most part they exchanged life lessons and morals for indoctrination and propaganda though there may be some occasional exceptions

Perhaps.

But it seems more like Hollywood just wants to maximize profits and goes for blockbusters with every single movie they release.

We need an "A24" to get back to family-friendly movies. Even non-kid movies that are just meant to entertain.

Do rom coms still exist? I can't remember the last time a dumb chick flick came out

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What happened to fun kid movies that were made to teach life lessons?

Posted by StringedInstruments on 11/6/25 at 11:31 am

I've enjoyed showing my son movies like Little Giants, The Goonies, and The Sandlot over the years. They're classics. They don't do a whole lot besides entertain and tell a story. The story always has a moral or a theme that kids can relate to. And they're live action as opposed to animated.

The only kid movies that come out nowadays are animated. I can't even find a good live action kid movie made in the last ten years that wasn't part of an epic trilogy.

I can't imagine they're super expensive to make.

Where the hell did these movies go?

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