boxcarbarney
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Above all things, be a man |
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| Number of Posts: | 26025 |
| Registered on: | 7/31/2007 |
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re: 2.30am and a woman in the UK saw a migrant STARING AT HER THROUGH HER DOOR
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/21/26 at 2:22 pm to Zappas Stache
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Because your a piece of shite racist is why.
*you’re
re: TGIF Watch thread
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/20/26 at 8:22 pm to CAD703X
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Challenge accepted!
Appreciate it
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any more info about when your actually purchased it? I'm on the case...
It would have been between 1997 and 2000. Probably closer to 97 than 2000. I know I had it when I was at LSU. And I lost it when I was still working at Blockbuster Video. It was purchased at one of those Watch Station stores in the Esplanade Mall.
re: TGIF Watch thread
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/20/26 at 5:07 pm to CAD703X
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Julian Alexander?
I don't think so.
The watch wasn't traditional looking like that one. Most of it was just the body, with the face and domed crystal taking up the bottom half of the body. My brain is leaning towards Kenneth Cole, but I'm not 100% sure.
It looked like this
re: TGIF Watch thread
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/20/26 at 4:51 pm to CAD703X
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I really love that one
Thanks. I used to have the late 70s version of that watch that my dad used to wear when we lived in Dubai and he'd spear fish in the Persian Gulf.
I'd lost it, so this was the closest replacement I could find.
re: TGIF Watch thread
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/20/26 at 4:19 pm to boxcarbarney
I've been trying to find a watch I lost in the early 2000s.
The brand may have been a Kenneth Cole - the brand was definitely a man's name, but for the life of me I cannot remember it. I bought it from the Watch Station in the mall some time in the late 90s/early 2000s.
It had a rectangular stainless steel body.
The face sat on the lower half of the body. The face was blue and had a domed crystal on it. I don't believe there were any numbers or hour/minute markings on the face.
The band was stainless steel.
I've tried google searching with no luck.
Any ideas?
The brand may have been a Kenneth Cole - the brand was definitely a man's name, but for the life of me I cannot remember it. I bought it from the Watch Station in the mall some time in the late 90s/early 2000s.
It had a rectangular stainless steel body.
The face sat on the lower half of the body. The face was blue and had a domed crystal on it. I don't believe there were any numbers or hour/minute markings on the face.
The band was stainless steel.
I've tried google searching with no luck.
Any ideas?
re: TGIF Watch thread
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/20/26 at 4:09 pm to CAD703X
Switched out the NATO strap for a stainless jubilee bracelet on the Seiko diver
re: 2.30am and a woman in the UK saw a migrant STARING AT HER THROUGH HER DOOR
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/20/26 at 3:25 pm to real turf fan
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It doesn't sound terrible as written, but the picture/video is terrible. There is no way he's looking in a friends door...that's distinctive and he is trespassing.
Sorry, but it has been brought to our attention that it is fear mongering at its finest.
re: 2.30am and a woman in the UK saw a migrant STARING AT HER THROUGH HER DOOR
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/20/26 at 1:33 pm to Klark Kent
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he doesn't have a wife or child.
What if a migrant was coming to steal his Harry Potter Funko Pop collection?
re: 2.30am and a woman in the UK saw a migrant STARING AT HER THROUGH HER DOOR
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/20/26 at 1:01 pm to boxcarbarney
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The woman in this video is
@katiej167
She tells me later after police left him he ATTACKED NHS STAFF
Here is the man trying to break in to her home
2.30am and a woman in the UK saw a migrant STARING AT HER THROUGH HER DOOR
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/20/26 at 1:00 pm
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She called the Police and they took him to hospital then released him
She asked what she should do if he comes again, Police said "Call us"
Poster boy for multiculturalism
re: Washing machine options
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/20/26 at 10:14 am to lepdagod
For the most part most consumer grade appliances these days suck. Planned obsolescence.
Get a cheap Maytag. Replace parts when it breaks. There are enough youtube videos out there for just about any issue you have with the washer.
I've replaced the solenoid on my washer. Just last week I replaced the suspension rods. I was able to pinpoint the issue both times just by googling the problems the washer was having.
I've done the same for the dryer.
Get a cheap Maytag. Replace parts when it breaks. There are enough youtube videos out there for just about any issue you have with the washer.
I've replaced the solenoid on my washer. Just last week I replaced the suspension rods. I was able to pinpoint the issue both times just by googling the problems the washer was having.
I've done the same for the dryer.
re: Weapons on HBOmax
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/19/26 at 1:07 pm to Kracka
I'm at the point where if a movie can hold my interest for the entire run time, I call that a win.
re: Are the soprano kids the worst kids in TV history?
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/19/26 at 11:17 am to nvasil1
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She started out so nice and bubbly until the heel turn at the concert that got Darlene in trouble.
And Daisy Chainsaw of all bands.
re: Portable Tent Saunas
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/19/26 at 11:09 am to greenbean
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We live in the Deep South, summer highs near 100, what about adding a heater to a pop up tent and putting it on the back deck?
Just go in your attic 90% of the year to get the same effect.
re: How Star Trek Was Destroyed By Hollywood, The Full History Of Its Ruination
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/19/26 at 5:59 am to drizztiger
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Have you watched SNW?
I tried but soon lost interest. I can’t speak on the show as a whole, but the dialogue felt off to me.
People seem to like it though. So I may give it another shot in the future.
re: How Star Trek Was Destroyed By Hollywood, The Full History Of Its Ruination
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/19/26 at 5:48 am to Fewer Kilometers
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Nothing in your quoted sections mention Strange New Worlds. Did the article just decide to skip over it? SNW is legit some of the best Star Trek, period, and have two seasons left to finish it out.
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It doesn’t fit the narrative.
There’s a section on SNW. It talks about how the series started off strong, but soon became silly.
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They created a spinoff called Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for Pike to rescue him from Discovery’s sinking ship. Though his new series was technically an extension of the Disco-verse, it quickly set out to differentiate itself from Discovery and the mistakes it had made.
Unfortunately, Alex Kurtzman was still in charge, and he simultaneously set out to make Strange New Worlds his own, which meant he made it stupid. He made it his stated mission to work only with people who didn’t actually like Star Trek, intending to hollow out the brand and wear it like a skinsuit.
So, instead of hiring serious science fiction writers who might have a fondness for Gene Roddenberry’s work, he hired Strange New Worlds and Discovery writers based on diversity quotas. Those writers, who care nothing about Star Trek or science fiction, then turned the show into a playground for theater kids rather than Star Trek fans. After a strong first-season debut, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds devolved into a series of joke episodes and ridiculous plot arcs, which chased away initially optimistic Trek fans.
re: How Star Trek Was Destroyed By Hollywood, The Full History Of Its Ruination
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/18/26 at 9:55 pm to boxcarbarney
Then there’s this article Giant Freaking Robot where Roger Avery met with Kurtzman, and offered to write Star Trek for free essentially.
Kurtzman doesn’t want to hire fans of Star Trek. He wants to pull. Rian Johnson and turn the franchise in its head.
Kurtzman doesn’t want to hire fans of Star Trek. He wants to pull. Rian Johnson and turn the franchise in its head.
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Avary told his story this week on The Joe Rogan Experience, saying of Alex Kurtzman, “I went in and met with the guy, I was like, I will write for scale. I will write on your new show. I just want to be part of it.”
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Kurtzman’s response was a hard no, and as Avary explains it, “He didn’t want anybody who had any kind of fondness for the original show. He wanted to do something new and create something new.”
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Or as Avary put it: “This dweeb Alex Kurtzman just comes along and s**ts all over everything… Starfleet Academy is an abomination. I could not get through three episodes of Discovery. It’s just awful, awful storytelling… Picard was terrible.”
How Star Trek Was Destroyed By Hollywood, The Full History Of Its Ruination
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/18/26 at 9:03 pm
Giant Freaking Robot
Basically, it’s all Alex Kurtzman‘s fault.
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Star Trek has never been at a lower point. The franchise’s current batch of shows receives almost no ratings, and the brand’s total mismanagement has been so bad that it’s driven away existing Trekkies while failing to attract any new viewers.
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What happened? What went wrong? How did we end up in this Star Trek hellscape? To find the answer, we have to look into the past.
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Brian Fuller And The Rise Of Alex Kurtzman
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Fuller worked on the show for 9 months. His tenure was marked by missed deadlines and ever-expanding budgets. Paramount clashed with him over his desire to reboot Star Trek into a Game of Thrones series. The company wanted its brand to stick with the traditions that made Star Trek work, and Fuller wanted to warp it into something entirely different. After these struggles and amid much controversy, Fuller essentially left the production while maintaining credit for the show.
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Star Trek: Discovery Launches And Is Hated
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Reports of Discovery’s ratings were vague and unreliable. Most indications were that after an initially strong debut, people began abandoning the show. Paramount and their new best friend, Alex Kurtzman, took note and tried making big changes for season 2. They brought in Anson Mount to play Christopher Pike, and Mount was fantastic. Unfortunately, the rest of the show was still the show it was always designed to be. Adding one good character to a terrible show cannot save it.
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Paramount Activates Quarantine Protocols For Star Trek: Discovery
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Stuck with a show no one liked, Paramount did the only thing they could do besides cancel it: They quarantined the entire series, separating it from the rest of Star Trek. They did that by time-jumping Star Trek: Discovery so far into the future that nothing it did could have any further impact on the franchise.
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Star Trek Becomes A Zombie Franchise Thanks To Starfleet Academy
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A disaster on the scale of Star Trek: Section 31 should have been the end of Alex Kurtzman. Paramount, however, continues funding his disasters. So enabled, Alex Kurtzman continued moving forward on one of his worst pet projects, Starfleet Academy.
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Ratings for the show are self-reported by Paramount and so can’t be relied on. However, most evidence suggests no one is watching it. Some estimates have its total viewership as being under a million. Fans hate it beyond all measure, and Starfleet Academy has some of the lowest audience scores of anything currently airing on streaming.
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Heroes Arose, But Alex Kurtzman Struck Them Down
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Developing in parallel with the Disco-verse was a Star Trek animated series called Lower Decks, helmed by Rick & Morty alum Mike McMahan. Mike McMahan is a serious, lifelong Star Trek fan, and while technically his show was produced under Alex Kurtzman’s auspices, all indications are that Kurtzman had nothing to do with Lower Decks.
That allowed McMahan to stack his staff with serious writing talent, who knew the genre and knew everything about Star Trek. They took Star Trek seriously, and as a result, Lower Decks was a huge success, and it had nothing at all to do with the Disco-verse.
Alex Kurtzman rewarded McMahan’s success by canceling his show after five seasons
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Tangential to the Disco-verse was the Picard-verse, a series vanity project Alex Kurtzman developed around Patrick Stewart’s Captain Picard character. The show was a disaster for two seasons until the third, when Paramount somehow convinced Kurtzman to turn the whole thing over to veteran TV showrunner and legit Star Trek fan Terry Matalas.
Matalas delivered the best Star Trek season of the modern Trek era. Matalas lobbied to be given more work, doing more Star Trek. Fans launched petitions to try and convince Paramount to hand the entire franchise over to him.
Alex Kurtzman, still with an iron grip on the franchise, responded by passing on Matalas and hiring more people who don’t like Star Trek to replace him on the franchise’s next projects, Section 31 and Starfleet Academy.
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And that’s the current state of Star Trek. We’re left with dancing Klingon boy bands and rainbow vomit. Sure, the .001% of humans who spent their formative years as theater kids may like it. Is that really a demographic worth pursuing? It’s like five people, and four of them are named Skylar.
Basically, it’s all Alex Kurtzman‘s fault.
re: What makes citizens proud of their country (Pew Research)
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/18/26 at 10:05 am to Everyday Is Saturday
Let me help you out
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Americans are particularly proud of the country’s “freedoms and liberties” (22%); the U.S. is one of a few countries surveyed in which this is the case. Interestingly, it is the only country surveyed in which there are significant partisan differences in pride in the country’s freedoms (32% of Republicans mention it, compared with 15% of Democrats).
When the topic of national pride comes up, the U.S. is one of several countries where something negative is a common response (20%). Once again, this is partisan (8% of Republicans vs. 32% of Democrats), though that is also the case in most other surveyed countries.
Other factors mentioned regularly include the American people (13%) and the economy (11%), with some emphasizing their pride in “the American dream” and having “plenty of opportunities.”
Every Space Movie
Posted by boxcarbarney on 2/18/26 at 9:47 am
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