Nuff said. LFG!
Edit: Their effort to stick it to Apes has been fine tuned dramatically since June 2021. Citadel army have increased their offensive coordination.
Scores of honest, hardworking, and innocent families and individuals were suffering under such a regime and system and network of governance. Very much the same can be said of Wall Street.
To this end, I say, Mr. Biden, tear down this wall.
You can replace a few key words in the speech here and it fits remarkably well.
>"Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. . . . Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar. . . . As long as this gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind. . . . General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Good day everyone, I wanted to share a website I started last summer where I discuss and not-that-seriously write about proverbially "bad" movies along with other features and content that I'm adding over time.
It's called UpAllNightMovies and is loosely based on the 90s USA Network show of the same name, "USA Up All Night".
Not only am I writing about the movies, but it's also always visitor-voted. Roughly every month I'm posting a poll of 4 randomly selected movies that I've noticed on streaming services, and let users have a couple weeks of time to vote on which they want to see covered.
Current poll can be found here
I also post accompanying trailers to help visitors choose, as well as I've done a brief amount of "sponsor interviews" with more to come in the future.
Would love to have some more traffic and eyes on the site, as well as any constructive criticism anyone can offer, let me know if I'm doing decent, sucking worse than the movies covered, or just need to keep my day job.
Some sample posts from past voted movies can be found here: Chopping Mall Zombeavers
Let me know what you think, and please vote in the poll, it's the last weekend available for it.
So in a gala or ice show during the time when the USSR existed, a Russian skater did a gala or ice show program where they impersonated a drunk cowboy. He had the cowboy hat, boots and jacket. He was a singles skater at the Europeans/Worlds/Olympics level. Any ideas who this could be?
So I’m stuck at home, not very well but to cheer myself up I’m watching a full rerun of England winning 25-14 in Australia back in 2003. Maybe doesn’t qualify as a classic but a nice memory from my youth.
What are your classics from back in the day? Preferably where a full rewatch is available
Ok, the food is of equal caliber. But they have literally doubled their prices (think eggrolls) over the past decade. So.. I now reserve it for a special occasion. My question: Where to go for fantastic cheap eats, particularly Vietnamese but honestly looking for any hidden gems maybe not on my radar. Am I right assuming that Quang's took disproportionately to inflation, or is this the new normal? Please advise. Thanks.
Starlink existed back in 1996 (albeit, a little different), looks like they offered two plans, one at a blazing 1.5 Mbps and 36.6Kbps. 36.6Kbps on a 1.5Mbps backbone. (Thank you to those that pointed out that was for the entire ISP, hilarious by today's standards, how far we've come)
http://web.archive.org/web/19961223035759/http://starlink.com/
Later, the address was turned into literally a list of stars.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080831223212/http://www.starlink.com/
And then finally, the Starlink we know today. This was the first archive I could find, I'm assuming this was V1 of today's Starlink but if you find an earlier, different version, let me know.
http://web.archive.org/web/20190531212348/https://www.starlink.com/
I just found this amusing, and hope someone else does too.
When the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award was established in 1969 to honor one exceptional artist every year for their outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema, the first recipient was the First Lady of Indian cinema. Not only was Devika Rani the first leading lady superstar of India but instrumental in launching the careers of Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Ashok Kumar, Madhubala and Mehmood to name a few through her studio “Bombay Talkies”. Such was her charisma, fame and power that her name used to feature prominently above all others and even above the movie’s title on its posters. Her acting style, beauty and power was enough to dub her the Indian Greta Garbo.
Born in a distinguished family of Army chiefs, Chief Justices, Surgeon generals and Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, she met her future husband and producer-actor Himanshu Rai in London and joined his team as art director and costume designer. They both travelled to Germany to learn filmmaking techniques from the likes of the legendary Fritz Lang. Himanshu married Devika and started work on their first movie together as a couple named “Karma”. Karma was the first Indian movie made in English and Hindi at the same time. Its English version was highly acclaimed and a big success in England on release in 1933. It was so ahead of its time that it featured a never equalled iconic 4 min kiss on screen between Devika and Himanshu. Devika sang India’s first English song in a movie in “Karma”. However the Hindi version of the movie didn’t receive the same amount of acclaim and popularity. After the success of its English version, BBC invited Devika Rani to play a role in their first ever television broadcast in 1933 and she also inaugurated their first short wave radio transmission to India.
Himanshu and Devika returned to India in 1934 to set up India’s most progressive and well equipped studios named Bombay Talkies and launched their first movie, a thriller which was shot entirely on a train called “Jawani Ki Hawa” starring Devika Rani and Najm-Ul-Hassan. During the shooting of the movie Devika and Hassan became romantically involved and eloped when their next movie “Jeevan Naiya” was being shot. The movie’s production got halted after their elopement and a friend and assistant to Himanshu Rai named Sashadhar Mukherjee (Eventual head of the Mukherjee clan) managed to trace and convince Devika Rani to see reason and return to her husband in the interest of her social standing
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Hi everyonee, so I think tier 7 rewards have been reached but I'm only 7/15 gifts delivery in, so does this mean I can still receive all 7 tiers of rewards once I finish 15 deliveries? Could someone please explain/enlighten me thanks!
TL;DR 30 something y/o man daydreaming about a happier, simpler time without so much division, fear & intrusive technology.
I was sitting in my work vehicle this afternoon and I saw some kids walking by in a group: faces down, thumbs busy on their screens, chatting but not conversing (I know what you're thinking and no, this isn't the stereotypical "back in my day" old man rant).
It made me notice that I had this laptop in the car, my phone, a bodycam, my E-Reader (that I keep naively thinking I'll ever get to use on shift lol) and at the time I was engrossed in work stuff but it was just gnawing at me all day that those kids were in a group & were barely present with each other.
I remember as a small lad going to the shop with some mates or heading to a cinema and it was the be-all to end-all; we would be hooting and hollering, full of piss and vinegar! That was in the early 2000s for me, when my mates and I would be sat about at some local park blasting "Polyamorous" by Breaking Benjamin on some Tesco brand stereo and talking some absolute shit to each other about this and that.
I moved to America when I turned 21 because the family had fallen to the wayside here when mum and da split and I needed a fresh start (which I invariably received by the way). It was so good here then when you could talk to virtually anybody of any stripe in society and have a halfway decent conversation with them without some political diatribe coming up and diluting it into an argument about which president sucks less.
My job is universally controversialist - as well it ought to be - and it's both engaging and exhausting. My best friend & work partner here in the US is somebody I never dreamt I'd have been best friend with back in Ireland as a lad; not because of any kind of backwoods ideological BS, but because I never knew a blackfella whilst I grew up! Seems like yesterday it was a regular sort of friendship to have because nobody cared about the fact that we're both clearly two different races. Now, in light of the (necessary) social changes that have sprung up across America in recent years, we've both been called every name under the sun for our friendship. How upsetting is that? Very, I'll tell you.
I remember when I would get into my 1987 Volkswagen Scirocco that I bought from my uncle Percy in 2004 and all I'd have to do is set the mirrors, pray the clutch held together for another week of procrastination and away I went. Now I get into my 2019 Bui
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There are very few Indian actors who have appeared in globally acclaimed international movies. So it would come as a surprise to many movie aficionados of the current generation to find out that there is an Indian actor who has masterpieces like "Lawrence of Arabia”, “Death on the Nile” and “Harry Black” for which he received a BAFTA nomination on his filmography making him one of the first Indian actors to receive an international award nomination. He acted, produced and directed several hindi movies and also appeared in a couple of Italian movies. It will come as an even bigger surprise to learn that this actor was none other than the elder brother of renowned Bollywood producer Yash Johar and uncle to Karan Johar. Inderjeet Singh Johar AKA I.S.Johar was a unique actor - writer - producer - director from the 50s, 60s and 70s who had his own style of satirical comedy movie making.
He is most known for his Filmfare Award winning triple role in Dev Anand’s "Johny Mera Naam" and for his partnership with Mehmood which resulted in the iconic movies “Johar Mehmood in Goa” and “Johar Mehmood in Hong Kong”. He also wrote, acted in and directed “Johar in Kashmir” and “Johar in Bombay” as an expansion of the series. He mixed humor, satire and political topics in his movies in order to create funny but thought provoking movies. I.S. Johar was ahead of his times as a pioneer of satirical humor and spoofs in India. His movie “5 rifles” is one of India’s first spoof movies starring Rakesh Khanna (A Rajesh Khanna look alike) and Shahi Kapoor (A Shashi Kapoor look alike), decades before mimics and look alikes of Bollywood stars became a thing. A salute to I.S. Johar for his contribution to Indian Cinema.
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The pen trembled like a seismometer’s needle across the notebook. Not a single character was legible even to the writer. His patience had been stretched thin. Attempting to take in a deep breath, he slowly placed the pen on the table and closed his eyes, before aggressively tearing the page from the notebook and obliterating it into pieces. His frenzy continued as he stood up, sending the chair across the other side of the room, and pushed the stacks of books, photo frames and whatever was in the way of his arms off the table. His chest rose and sank as quickly as his heart was beating, before his knees buckled and he found himself on the carpet, staring at his deformed hands. His fingers were gnarled like the vines just outside of his window, malformed with a set of four scars at every single joint. The back of his hands was cracked and rough like tree bark. His hands were truly becoming less and less human. They might as well not be his.
The morning rays cast shadows of the window frames upon him. He squinted past the sunlight and spotted two swallows soaring high in the sky. He scratched his face, as he attempted to wipe a tear from his eye. He too used to fly high. But with his wings clipped, all that was left was just a flightless bird.
His fingers quivered before him as if each of them had a life of their own. These hands used to hold scalpels. These hands used to suture wounds together. These hands used to literally cure people of cancer. Now they could not even write a single legible word on paper.
So much for once being one of the Ten Tiger Surgeons of Guangdong. When the streets weren’t bled with red banners at every intersection that screamed propaganda at passersby, bell-bottomed jeans and mini skirts flooded even into the remotest of villages. That was also where he would often find himself visiting to check up on his patient, usually old folks who were content with the peace and tranquility in the country, or would complain about all the youngsters flooding to what was once a backwater salt farm that was Shenzhen. They simply could not understand why they were listening to such weird clothes and listening to strange music they called rock and roll, but with everyone getting richer and having their bellies fed, they seemed to be content with the status quo. Trade was booming when Regan visited Beijing. Whatever the Paramount Leader was doing, he was paving a bright future for China. He certainly proved the people right by ensuring Hong Kong
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