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My wife has gotten into watching Green Acres. Omg the writing is so sharp, just one joke after another. The characters do get repetitive but that is the way with all sitcoms.

The Mary Tyler Moore show is very rewatchable. The writing and characters are so well done. Ted Knight and Betty White are brilliant.

Welcome fellow gen-xer!

I tried rewatching The Prisoner but I can't get past Patrick McGoohan's acting now. He has one setting, a hard squint and rage.

I, Claudius is excellent and seeing John Hurt prancing about as a crazed Caligula is another reason to watch it. Brilliantly done series.

Connections is very interesting, well done, and I remember it fondly from watching it as a teen but I never bought some of his "connections". Like you said, claiming, say, coffee led to the chemical industry. Well they could've just as likely met over ham sandwiches too. lol "These two physicists met while playing tennis, therefore the invention of tennis led to the first atomic bomb..." oy!

Yes! I binge watched Mayday. Very well done documentary with only a minimum of dramatization, you do get some "Get this into the lab!" type acting and shoop shoop edits but not much. Looking into the events they are good about getting like 90% of the info. They have the actors reading straight from the CVR records. It really does point out how the vast majority of accidents require a lot of star all lining up. It also points out how important thorough maintenance is. You've got things failing in ways you'd never expect if they had only, say, put some grease on a single screw. The really frustrating ones are where the crew ignore their instruments thinking they (the pilot) must be right or the crew sit and watch the pilot fuck up without intervening. The cash in Portland OR where the pilot obsessed over a landing gear light and ignored that they were running out of fuel is a case in point.

The most disturbing ones are where a pilot likely suicided and took all the innocent people with him or someone attacked the crew. Insanely selfish a-holes.

After watching all of the episodes, some repeatedly, I think I could assist a crew in a crisis now.

As someone who has to do installs and admin at work a lot I'm constantly dealing with yum/dnf. I cry when I have to work with AIX.

Maybe hearing that Trump wanted to forcibly take back the Panama Canal pushed him over the edge.

gooning

I read about a guy who fell into boiling water. When someone tried to pull them out the skin on their hand came off instead.

Burns can do it. I saw a hand where a finger was degloved because a person was climbing with a ring on and the ring snagged when he fell.

Or cyber as a prefix

Convince myself I'm going to lose these 20 extra pounds

Ok Stewie

I just had all of my comments deleted by the mod of a vegan group because I questioned one person. Seems lemmy is bringing over mods from reddit and their attitudes.

"Oh, by the way grandma, I'm wearing the dress you bought me too."

One place I worked at had a white elephant gift that was an "Elvis Sings Christmas" cassette compilation that showed up every year.

Most? Ok, what did the others get you?

Still better than her cooking.

As a depressed 16 year old boy I received a self help book from my mother.

"Thanks mom but 'Coping with Menopause'?"

Did the 49ers lose? That may have been the last straw.

My BIL's bday is on Christmas. We call him "Little baby Jesus".

As a kid I was fascinated by the chunks of rotten rock that would come off of a granite boulder in our backyard. My dad however did not appreciate that I used his nice hammer to smash it. I eventually stopped when I ran out of rotten chunks and found out how hard granite really could be.