Classic Conversation Thread

[Porthos]

Who has two thumbs and won their fantasy football league for the first time on that INCREDIBLE Hopkins TD catch?

 

THIS GUY! 

[DeeCee]

Boxing Day Test from the MCG.  Hugh Jackman has joined the commentary team for a spell. 

[That One Girl]

Boxing day tomorrow!

 

[Napoleon]

I watched the first 2 hours of Lawrence of Arabia, it was boring but damn, how beautiful it is. Why movies don't look like that anymore? 

[The Panda]

Just now, Napoleon said:

I watched the first 2 hours of Lawrence of Arabia, it was boring but damn, how beautiful it is. Why movies don't look like that anymore? 

[That One Girl]

4 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

I watched the first 2 hours of Lawrence of Arabia, it was boring

 

@Lor San Tele

[DeeCee]

Hugh Jackman is trending on Twitter in Australia. 

 

Consensus:Please replace everyone else with Hugh Jackman on the cricket commentary team. 

[Ethan Hunt]

My entire family is debating bitcoin 

[grim22]

11 minutes ago, DeeReyEgonnnnn said:

Hugh Jackman is trending on Twitter in Australia. 

 

Consensus:Please replace everyone else with Hugh Jackman on the cricket commentary team. 

He's surprisingly good at sports commentary, including WWE.

[cannastop]

2 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

My entire family is debating bitcoin 

Does anyone think it's a good investment or that it will replace dollars?

[DeeCee]

7 minutes ago, grim22 said:

He's surprisingly good at sports commentary, including WWE.

 

[Porthos]

*checks 10 day forecast*

 

It's never gonna rain in California again as long as I live.

 

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We've gotten .13 inches of rain so far this month; we're supposed to get around 3.5 or so for the month and there's no end in sight for the current weather pattern.

[Fancyarcher]

2 minutes ago, Porthos said:

*checks 10 day forecast*

 

It's never gonna rain in California again as long as I live.

 

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We've gotten .13 inches of rain so far this month; we're supposed to get around 3.5 or so for the month and there's no end in sight for the current weather pattern.

You should move to New England then. Sometimes it feels like it never stops raining here.

[The Panda]

23 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Does anyone think it's a good investment or that it will replace dollars?

It’s potentially a good investment (depending when you buy and sell), it definitely won’t replace dollars.  It’s a decent speculative currency.

 

Bitcoin’s more like digital gold than a digital dollar.

[Eric the Minion]

I still have no idea what Bitcoin is, nor do I really care.

Edited December 26, 2017 by CoolEric258

[aabattery]

5 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

I still have no idea what Bitcoin is, nor do I really care.

 

It's like Pokemon but the Pokemon are moneys.

[Barnack]

43 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

I watched the first 2 hours of Lawrence of Arabia, it was boring but damn, how beautiful it is. Why movies don't look like that anymore? 

There is maybe some technical reason, some of the lenses were made for that movie and never re-used, shooting in such heat on 65mm at the time had some technical issue that maybe gave a bit of an unique result, 65mm movie are rare nowaday to start with, etc....

 

But an other factor is how much would it cost now, the shoot was very long (around 285 actual shooting days), a king lended is army to help the battle scene, the list of locations is James Bond level:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/locations

 

They built small cities and so on, movies does not tend to get that kind of giant production now.

[Dementeleus]

1 hour ago, Napoleon said:

I watched the first 2 hours of Lawrence of Arabia, it was boring but damn, how beautiful it is. Why movies don't look like that anymore? 

 

1 hour ago, That One Guy said:

 

@Lor San Tele

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[The Panda]

I kind of want to rewatch Get Out and Logan 

 

but there’s also movies like It Comes at Night, Logan Lucky, a Quiet Passion, The Meyerowitz Stories and Lady Macbeth that I want to see

Edited December 26, 2017 by The Last Panda

[Barnack]

1 hour ago, cannastop said:

Does anyone think it's a good investment or that it will replace dollars?

The fact that the question include both is part of the problem, an unstable device has little chance to become a well used device, imagine worrying about using your dollar because you feel they would be worth much more next week and vice versa rushing to spend them feeling the value could go down, those huge inflation/deflation must be a giant break to any massive use as the main currency.

 

If a cryptocurrency become state use it will not be the bitcoin I would imagine but their own.

 

Dollar and other currency have a lot of things going on for them, one of those is how good they have been in the last 20 year's, no crazy inflaiton/deflation, one of the most stable time for many currency in all human history, so much that younger people take a good stable currency as granted, very few I would think feel for any change to be made.

 

Momemtum, the amount of dollars all around the world is really huge:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m0

 

More chance to replace currency in country with very unstable money or without state money, the dollar in our life time would be surprising.

Edited December 26, 2017 by Barnack