OT: 117th Obsequious Banter Thread: National Cookie Day is celebrated in December

[Danko]

Cats and dogs are non human biologics so par for the course....

What if...

 

[Danko]

Ok, will you start a thread about UFOs then? Why are you so mad?

My guy, you've complained about it multiple times...it's clearly working you up. I'm not upset, if the powers that be require me to start a new thread, i guess i will. Why you heff be mad?




Is there some additional information or corporate connection you'd like to disclose as to why you are so dismissive of the topic?

 

[Beef Invictus]

Can we talk about Richard Dreyfuss abandoning his wife and young children at the end of Close Encounters to board the alien ship to probably get anally probed and put in a zoo? And it's considered a happy ending? Pretty selfish and uncaring, if you ask me. The aliens play 5 notes on an alien keyboard, and he tells his family to f*** off.

None of the "protagonists" come off well in that film.

 

[Jack Straw]

None of the "protagonists" come off well in that film.

 

[Danko]

Lacombe is based off of Jacques Vallée who is one of the most famous ufologists out there who strongly supports the interdimensional theory

 

[Magua]

None of the "protagonists" come off well in that film.

Melinda Dillon had her son stolen, and she just wanted him back. She didn't see the aliens come out of the ship and immediately look up orphanages in the yellow pages. It's really just Richard Dreyfuss' character. Even Spielberg knows he's an asshat.

In a 2005 interview, Spielberg stated that he made Close Encounters when he did not have children, and if he were making it today, he would never have had Neary leave his family and go on the mother ship.

Still a great movie. Show it to The Child and ask her if she would leave you for aliens.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Melinda Dillon had her son stolen, and she just wanted him back. She didn't see the aliens come out of the ship and immediately look up orphanages in the yellow pages. It's really just Richard Dreyfuss' character. Even Spielberg knows he's an asshat.



Still a great movie. Show it to The Child and ask her if she would leave you for aliens.

Melinda let her kid play in the street on a blind curve.

 

[Magua]

Melinda let her kid play in the street on a blind curve.

It was the 70s. Kids used to play hopscotch on highways and swim in toxic landfills. And when their parents said supper was ready, they returned home. Just par for the course really.

 

[Danko]

Anyone got a spare 20k?

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I don't think there's a problem with posting Alien/UFO/UAP related stuff here. It fits the criteria of the thread and others, like myself, are interested in it.

If a Mod disagrees, a new thread can be started.

Or like I do just skip by the post. There are plenty of times I have done that.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

It was the 70s. Kids used to play hopscotch on highways and swim in toxic landfills. And when their parents said supper was ready, they returned home. Just par for the course really.

Kids back then did things outside that kids nowadays would never do. They are too busy on their smartphones.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Kids back then did things outside that kids nowadays would never do. They are too busy on their smartphones.

Bro, they are so soft nowadays. Member when we had to make bows and arrows from whittling twigs, or create our own toys from those helicopter maple seedlings?

 

[Lord Defect]

People are so week these days. We’re at karate and the sensai asked if people were afraid to come to class today. More than half of the kids didn’t come.
Because of rain. At an indoor activity.

 

[Embiid]

The flash flooding can be dangerous. Probably the main fear for driving. Some heavy bands expected between now and 11 here in Philly and up north. Imagine if this was snow.....but instead my snowblower is rusting in the garage.

 

[Embiid]

Bro, they are so soft nowadays. Member when we had to make bows and arrows from whittling twigs, or create our own toys from those helicopter maple seedlings?

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As kids in the 80's...we used to be out all day until dusk playing and making up games. We only stayed in during bad weather events and played Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision and Nintendo.

 

[Lord Defect]

The flash flooding can be dangerous. Probably the main fear for driving. Some heavy bands expected between now and 11 here in Philly and up north. Imagine if this was snow.....but instead my snowblower is rusting in the garage.

It was still what I consider a light rain at the time.

 

[Beef Invictus]

People are so week these days. We’re at karate and the sensai asked if people were afraid to come to class today. More than half of the kids didn’t come.
Because of rain. At an indoor activity.

Nah this is a borderline hurricane We've got 80mph gusts.

 

[ajgoal]

Can we talk about Richard Dreyfuss abandoning his wife and young children at the end of Close Encounters to board the alien ship to probably get anally probed and put in a zoo? And it's considered a happy ending? Pretty selfish and uncaring, if you ask me. The aliens play 5 notes on an alien keyboard, and he tells his family to f*** off.

Until you realize it was Richard Dreyfuss.

 

[Lord Defect]

Nah this is a borderline hurricane We've got 80mph gusts.

Earlier in the day it wasnt

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

People are so week these days. We’re at karate and the sensai asked if people were afraid to come to class today. More than half of the kids didn’t come.
Because of rain. At an indoor activity.

Sounds about right. They close schools up here if we have a few inches of snow on the ground. Can’t have kids going out on the snow and cold now can we.
Back in my youth (yes that’s a long time) our school superintendent had a rule. If he could get out of his driveway our town has school.

Nah this is a borderline hurricane We've got 80mph gusts.

Pfft we went to school during the blizzard of 78. Suck it up buttercup

 

[Cody Webster]

It gon' rain.

You're back! Was wondering where you've been. Good to see ya again. The wind and rain here is insane. It's wicked out there @VladDrag. Just sitting here in the dark, looking out the window, at the sky lighting up from all the transformers popping. Looks like we're going to get hit pretty good around 9:30-10, then it should be over.

 

[VladDrag]

You're back! Was wondering where you've been. Good to see ya again. The wind and rain here is insane. It's wicked out there @VladDrag. Just sitting here in the dark, looking out the window, at the sky lighting up from all the transformers popping. Looks like we're going to get hit pretty good around 9:30-10, then it should be over.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

Sounds about right. They close schools up here if we have a few inches of snow on the ground. Can’t have kids going out on the snow and cold now can we.
Back in my youth (yes that’s a long time) our school superintendent had a rule. If he could get out of his driveway our town has school.


Pfft we went to school during the blizzard of 78. Suck it up buttercup

THAT was a hell of a blizzard. I was in sixth grade and had to walk a mile in snow up to my cinnamon ring.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

Melinda let her kid play in the street on a blind curve.

Yeah, but she had great cans (e.g. Slap Shot)

Spielberg...(exhale)...can you do ONE movie where the main adult protagonist is not a bad father/father figure and/or include children for the sole purpose of putting them in jeopardy?

Other than that, I actually do enjoy 1941.

 

[Embiid]

I blame aliens for this..

Researchers discover thousands of nanoplastic bits in bottles of drinking water

Nanoplastics are microscopic flecks so small that they can be absorbed into human cells and tissue, as well as cross the blood-brain barrier.

www.latimes.com