One thing about a .22- a kevlar vest will stop it cold. Even if your vest stops a .45, it will feel like you just caught a fast ball in the chest. And there are other rounds the typical cop vest wont stop. Even so pistol rounds. (Please note- there is no such thing as a “cop killer” round)
They are usually labeled.
glad I didn’t post about using the stopper as butt plug, …
Holy cow. I’ve never seen that movie.
Based explicitly on Henry Hill from Goodfellas who got in trouble in suburbia running scams while in the Witness Protection Program (he eventually got kicked out). A very, very different take on ole Henry, needless to say 
. It was written by Nora Ephron, best known for rom-coms like When Harry Met Sally… and Sleepless in Seattle. Who was, of course, the wife of Nicholas Pileggi who wrote Goodfellas and Casino. I find the connection absolutely fascinating and hilarious.
I was going to mention the Mafia/.22 connection. Apparently a lot of old timey hit men liked them because they were usually shooting people in the head from behind and from point blank range. The lack of recoil and the relative ease of silencing them was a plus.
My parents had a set of decanters. I think they may have received them as a wedding present.
They were never used. They were made from lead crystal, and my parents were worried that the lead in the crystal would leach into the liquor. Get drunk and lead poisoning, all at once, you might say. But even empty, the decanters looked great on the sideboard.
Was she That Mom in the commercials (or mediocre teen comedies)?
Where, on a normal School Day morning, she’s made a huge stack of pancakes and bacon and there’s a bowl of fresh fruit and those pitchers of milk and juice…
… and then Teen Kid rushes past her, grabs a raw Pop-Tart and rushes out the door, and Hubby says “Just coffee for me, hon, I’ve got to meet with Old Man McGinty about the Jablonski pitch, bye, love you!”
My grandmother kept her liquor in decanters. But, she was born in 1910, and my grandparents were well-to-do, high-society types in the 40s and 50s. As mentioned up-thread, I think in her mind, keeping liquor in decanters was just the way it was supposed to be done.
At a resort in Jamaica they had decanters of vodka/whiskey/rum because they used generic spirits from a local distillery. The bottles they poured into the decanters were labeled, for instance, RUM, black letters, white background. The decanters were way classier.
Not likely. My dad got up at 4:00 am without any alarm clock. My folks would always wake us up early enough that we always had time to sit down for breakfast. That was How Things Were Done.
And that’s why you were never in an '80s wacky teen series on the TOTES MAX FUN Channel, where the dumb jock and the prom queen switch bodies, and the nerd who figures out how to fix it ends up being respected by both of them.
(Sorry, it’s raw Pop-Tart OR totally awesome hijinks…)
Back when Julia Child was on B&W TV, her “wine” was actually tea.
(So, for that matter, was the beverage that Kevin DuBrow - RIP - chugged onstage out of a Jack Daniels bottle.)
Did you see “Everything Everywhere All At Once”?
(That whole movie was one “this couldn’t happen!” incident after another.
I’ve started watching that movie twice, both times giving up a few minutes in. And yet I’ve heard good things about it.
EEAAO is one of those movies where simply suspending your disbelief isn’t enough. There’s an inherent silliness you have to enthusiastically embrace, kinda like a Muppet movie, before the insanity can turn to brilliance.
I loved the scene when Kermit and Fozzy had a dildo fight
Hehehe, best description I’ve seen of the movie, and I love it. It’s perfectly suited for people who have learned to accept the absurdity of real life.
I don’t know if I would go that far.
There is a famous incident that is still used in training. In 1992 South Carolina State Trooper Mark Coates was killed during a traffic stop. It was a pretty early example caught on dash cam. He was shot once with a .22 pistol. The bullet travelled diagonally through his body. He bled out without really understanding what happened. The other guy was shot multiple times with a .357 and survived.
I remember the commercials and all the buzz when it came out, but I could never figure out what the story was. All the clips I saw where just weird and didn’t explain what it was about. It won awards and that kids from Goonies and Temple of Doom were in it, but I still wasn’t sure what it was.
It was suggested to me one evening on streaming so I figured I’d give it a go, and it was slow getting into, but once an understanding of what was going on was clear, it became an enjoyable ride.
It’s also really good on re-watch. You catch a lot of things you didn’t the first time.
Thanks to this thread, I watched it this morning and really liked. My wife fell asleep and missed an hour and then asked me what happened. I told her that there was no way I could explain it to her.