Are you familiar with the website http://www.zerohedge.com/? I read it for entertainment purposes only (**not **educational), when eating lunch. Spend enough time there and you’ll see the spirit of Tyler is alive and well.
OK, so that website exists. What does it have to do with any impact on the amount of stuff people buy?
Cite that Dalmatians are not good with kids?
Dalmatians will get along with other pets and children if socialized as a puppy with all types of pets and people. Dalmatians can make a wonderful active playmate for children (with proper supervision to be sure that both the child and the dog are following acceptable rules for behavior).
Read more at Dalmatian Dog Breed Information and Characteristics
http://www.dalmatianwelfare.co.uk/living-with/children/
But yes, border collies , Australian shepherds, some huskies, etc are scary smart, and should only be got as pet after research.
Try joining up and read some threads. Use a phrase like “buying shit you don’t need…etc” and you’re mostly preaching to the converted. Quite a few take it further and talk about their stock of ammo and dried foods and stacks of silver, but the general level is a resistance to commercialism and the messages from the MSM.
The movie could’ve been a symptom of a trend away from commercialism and conspicuous consumption for most, I don’t know but it was released in 1999 so I doubt it, but it may have been a catalyst for some.
Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory led to Wonka Candies. Odd, because Dahl’s book was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The book and movie The Stepford Wives led to the adjective “stepford.”
The Simpsons led to the adjective “cromulent.”
I think The Matrix was responsible for a resurgence in neo-Zen philosophy stuff (“There is no spoon”), along with the idea that we’re all just living in a computer simulation.
I know it wasn’t the first piece of fiction with that scenario, but it’s certainly the one that brought it to the forefront of popular culture.
…didn’t the Strategic Defense Initiative, although proposed in '83, really start development around then, too?
I mean, treaties are dandy and all, but the situation—and maybe even the aftereffects from the film—might have been a bit more complicated than plowshares good, fire bad.
It is most rooted in Scottish tradition, possibly for several 1000 years. Maybe they copied it from the Scots. Cairns were, rather slowly, built through singular additions. There’s a saying, “Cuiridh mi clach air do charn” —“I will put a stone on your cairn”. People have been adding stones — or stanes — all over Scotland non-stop all the time.
At 2nd Inverlochy, 1645, Montrose gave Argyll’s people a very well-deserved hiding, and since every passing MacDonald must add a stone, and every Campbell — hopefully well penitent — must subtract one.
I would be pretty certain that all this started in the Cradle of Civilisation,the Middle East many 1000s of years ago. There are a lot of stone structures there.
Its usage has been embiggened since.
Didn’t Nikita Krushchev say something like that?
I think the Godfather films were great propaganda for the Mafia … they made them seem like honorable family men, a sort of criminal nobility, when all they’ve ever been were street scum with money.
One mountain near where I live has at least three separate cairns - all of which are built as fairly neat columns instead of rock-piles. Each is around six feet tall. They don’t show up well on Google Maps or I’d post a link.
I’m familiar with cairns and the process of adding to them, but I maintain this modern practice of placing stones atop monuments which are already complete, and made of large dressed stones, is completely different.
With traditional cairns, the small stone you add is virtually indistinguishable from the ones making up the rest of the pile.
But this modern practice has people putting smaller stones, utterly unlike those making up the monument, atop the monument itself. They’re not adding just another stone to the cairn. They’re placing an extra alien element to a monument.
In that sense, putting a pebble on a monument is more like leaving, say, a tree on top of a cairn. You could say you’re adding to the pile, but what you’re adding ain’t the same.
Sorry, not to hijack the thread–but if anyone gets a chance to go to the Stax museum in Memphis-GO!!! One of the most interesting museums I’ve ever been to (and I love museums). I learned so much about blues, soul, gospel, the different sounds from the different studios and the history of these styles of music!
I wonder if My Cousin Vinnie lowered sales of instant grits in the South?
My guess is we are talking about Supersize Me.
Fight Club. :rolleyes:
My guess was we were talking about Supersize Me. Lots of people steered away from McDonald’s and fast food for a while after that. We were among them.
Darn edit window. Still, sort of fits.
No, he PMed me. Fight Club. Which, you dont talk about. Hence the “joke” of not giving the title.