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[Porthos]

1 hour ago, Lordmandeep said:

Be honest Seattle has some of the worst traffic I seen in North America. 

Seattle is the only place I've personally driven that had worse traffic than the LA Megalopolis.  Just horrific.  

 

I mean, I suspect why it is.  Not easy building a freeway transportation system with huge honking hills surrounding one side of the city (as well as inside it) and a large ass bay on the other.  THEN throw in two major Interstate arteries (I-5 and I-90) just for funsies. 

 

Just a recipe for disaster even with a reasonably good public transportation system (and I did like Seattle's public transportation, for the record).

 

Been a while since I've driven there, but I can't imagine it's much better.  Especially at the I-5/I-90 interchange.

Edited September 11, 2019 by Porthos

[Lordmandeep]

12 minutes ago, Porthos said:

Seattle is the only place I've personally driven that had worse traffic than the LA Megalopolis.  Just horrific.  

 

I mean, I suspect why it is.  Not easy building a freeway transportation system with huge honking hills surrounding one side of the city (as well as inside it) and a large ass bay on the other.  THEN throw in two major Interstate arteries (I-5 and I-90) just for funsies. 

 

Just a recipe for disaster even with a reasonably good public transportation system (and I did like Seattle's public transportation, for the record).

 

Been a while since I've driven there, but I can't imagine it's much better.  Especially at the I-5/I-90 interchange.

 

Yea the traffic is horrid in the downtown core as well.

 

 

[LOGAN'sLuckyRun]

7 hours ago, cannastop said:

I was in 1st grade during 9/11. My dad got scared and pulled me out of school despite us living no where near NY. I had no clue what had actually happened.

Edited September 11, 2019 by LOGAN'sLuckyRun

[TwoMisfits]

8 minutes ago, LOGAN'sLuckyRun said:

I was in 1st grade during 9/11. My dad got scared and pulled me out of school despite us living no where near NY. I had no clue what had actually happened.

I know we all remember NY, but I knew people at the Pentagon (VA) that day (thankfully, they were ones who survived)...and I'm sure others knew folks on Flight 93 that went down in PA.  It was a morning where no one was really sure what was happening, except that airplanes were crashing seemingly everywhere and it was unbelievably bad...so I'm not surprised your dad pulled you out - that's being a good dad:)...

[75Live]

52 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

I know we all remember NY, but I knew people at the Pentagon (VA) that day (thankfully, they were ones who survived)...and I'm sure others knew folks on Flight 93 that went down in PA.  It was a morning where no one was really sure what was happening, except that airplanes were crashing seemingly everywhere and it was unbelievably bad...so I'm not surprised your dad pulled you out - that's being a good dad:)...

 

My brother worked in I believe the tallest building in Philly that day and they evacuated the whole thing since no one knew what was going to still haopen.  He was pretty freaked out

[cannastop]

All I remember is a teacher coming into my room saying "a plane hit a building and they don't know if it was an accident"

 

And then I remember the year long nonstop coverage of it. The constant reliving of the destruction of the towers.

[Webslinger]

3 hours ago, Porthos said:

Been a while since I've driven there, but I can't imagine it's much better.  Especially at the I-5/I-90 interchange.

Ugh, I still shudder at the mere mention of I-5. It was awful enough in Portland, so I can't even imagine what it must be like in Seattle...

[Morieris]

 

So was anybody going to tell me there was a Harbringer adaptation in the works or was I supposed to learn from this tweet.meme

[DeeCee]

2 hours ago, Webslinger said:

Ugh, I still shudder at the mere mention of I-5. It was awful enough in Portland, so I can't even imagine what it must be like in Seattle...

Downtown Seattle was my first ever experience of left side steering wheel and driving on the right.

 

I think I would have driven the I-5 up to the Everett Boeing factory.

 

I survived.

 

Drove all the way from Seattle to Orange County via the 101 down the coast.

[DAR]

Chicago traffic is no picnic 

[filmlover]

Special shout-out to Variety on this day of sad 9/11 remembrances for posting a 10 year anniversary retrospective to a movie I'm pretty sure the entire world had completely forgotten about.

 

 

 

[Napoleon]

I used to love Jennifer's Body but didn't enjoy it as much in my most recent rewatch. But it's unique and iconic, it will always be worth revisiting for nostalgia. Karyn Kusama made a brilliant film some years later (The Invitation).

[MCKillswitch123]

@CJohn Nazaré is a fucking M-O-N-S-T-E-R.

 

14.8% / 30.7% for its third episode. Bigger result than the second episode. Oh, and it topped the Twitter trends yet again (alongside Carolina Loureiro - no surprise, she showed up in her lingerie, GODDAYUM).

 

And here we were thinking people weren't interested in soaps anymore. Silly us.

[CJohn]

15 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

@CJohn Nazaré is a fucking M-O-N-S-T-E-R.

 

14.8% / 30.7% for its third episode. Bigger result than the second episode. Oh, and it topped the Twitter trends yet again (alongside Carolina Loureiro - no surprise, she showed up in her lingerie, GODDAYUM).

 

And here we were thinking people weren't interested in soaps anymore. Silly us.

FUCK I will watch the episode tonight. With scenes like that 30% share daily will be the normal.

Edited September 12, 2019 by CJohn

[Avatree]

why am i such a stupid fucking TWAT?

 

I went out last night and got pissed and crashed my mums car into a ditch..

[carolwoodpr]

Foot update:  today I got my cast off, and my stitches out.  Foot is horribly swollen still and it has been 4 weeks since surgery.  Found out I have at least two, but probably 4 weeks off my foot.

 

So, they put me back in another beautiful purple cast.  This time me foot is at 90 degrees so I can put it down when needed.  Bad news is my toes are out.  If I hit them it is really going to hurt.  I don’t like not having protection for my toes!

[Porthos]

So.  Um.

 

Disney+ (soft) launched in Netherlands today.

 

Apparently its mostly for testing/trial purposes.

 

 

Looks to be free during this beta/testing phase (through Nov 12)

Edited September 12, 2019 by Porthos

[Eric Atreides]

Just now, Porthos said:

So.  Um.

 

Disney+ has (soft) launched in Netherlands today.

 

Apparently its mostly for testing/trial purposes.

Important info

 

 

[Morieris]

I wonder if we can try it if we use a VPN...

[TMP]