The only thing that comes to mind is: any time someone drops something, I tell them, “oh, you can just put that anywhere.”

I don’t know where I got it from, but it annoys my kids.

Also no character growth for Andor while also complaining that he kills a guy in cold blood but then doesn’t kill Galen later under orders. And then breaks orders again because he put his faith in Jyn and not the Rebels.

Rogue One is a good movie and I don’t care about production issues. It made the Empire far more menacing than even the OT did. Peak Vader. Peak Death Star. Even peak Stormtroopers.

If you want the former, I’ll say Arcane. They poured money into that and it shows. They will never be able to count money made by that, though it was great word of mouth and I’m sure increased sales. But they spent like a half-billion dollars on that with no hope of any return. But damn that was a hell of a series.

Moana is all about the musical performances. I love the whole movie but what is on the screen just kinda punctuates and gives context to the music for me. Frozen is the same way. And they’re thinking they are going to remake all that music and have it be just as good?

It would be like trying to remake The Blues Brothers with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham just because the original is 40 years old.

Neither of those movies were really all that terrible. I enjoyed John Carter. But clearly they didn’t connect with audiences.

And yet… it’s my favorite post-OT movie. It could’ve used another draft to tighten a couple things up here and there, but it was good.

Now… TRoS is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen in my life and is the only Star Wars property I’ve only seen a single time and never will watch again. Hell I watched Book of Boba Fett twice. Shit, I’ve watched In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale twice. I’d have to go back to Battlefield Earth to think of an equally terrible film.

But when watching The Last Jedi I feel nothing but joy.

I had to research that phrase for a bit to make sure there are no racial connotations because… yeah.

I was 3 when I attended my parents’ wedding. I guess I should note not my dad and birth mom.

I met my birth mom many years later. She stressed how she and my dad were briefly married when I was born, so I wasn’t a bastard, and that she gave birth in FL, not MI — the only home I remembered — so I wasn’t a damn Yankee. Like she did me some kindness in both those cases.

That was the attitude that led me to be quite happy with my circumstances — acting like I was in her debt over things I had no care over. So yeah, I attended the wedding of my dad and the only woman I’ll ever call mom.

4. In a martini
5. Off of fingertips (though my fingers are big enough that I just have to eat them out of the can)

Jalapeños. I like them on everything from nachos to burgers, but I vastly prefer fresh to pickled.

Sauerkraut. Only on a Reuben.

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• Commonspace
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Mix and match to get:

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I’m sure we could find more candidates for prefixes and suffixes. Any term of art is going to take time and promotion to adopt, though. I doubt any will sing clearly to everyone without context.

I spell most words just fine, but swipe implies some level of autocorrect, anyway. With physical keyboards of course not.

Swipe is really bad on iPhone. I remember some frustration at times on Android but on iPhone it’s infuriating. I use it anyway.

Second the door ice maker. We got a Samsung, which everyone will tell you is shit but my wife needs her aesthetics and perfectly matching everything. But my requirement in return was we got an ice maker internal to the freezer that we connected to a reverse osmosis filter. It’s been great for us so far for 7 years.

Now, my Samsung dishwashers (yes, plural) have been hot garbage. Even paying for top of the line shit they both needed major work or repairman ~ once a year, and obviously a replacement.

Billionaires.

I don’t embark on such journeys, tbh. I’m more of a day by day/ path of least resistance person. But fucking good on people who do that shit. I’m proud of you. Best I can do is make rash decisions and see them through. Some of them work out really well. Some don’t.

I’ve been to the Caribbean a few times and loved every trip. Just went to the Dominican Republic for the first time this year and it was amazing. Grand Cayman had the most beautiful water I’ve ever seen. The Bahamas are wonderful. Aruba is on my list of places I want to go.

Playa Del Carmen, Mexico was a fun place to visit although the ocean swimming isn’t great there. I loved the Xenote we visited.

But the place I most want to go back to Thailand. The north country is beautiful, and the people are lovely. My first trip was really heavy on the temples, but each one has a unique character. Doissetep was incredibly scenic, we saw the palace temple where we got blessed by a monk, and the white temple (Wat Rong Khun) was incredible. We saw several other temples but they kinda blended together. We also made merit by feeding the monks and saw the water festival. I’m not a spiritual person but it really made me feel connected to humanity.

Bangkok was really cool, but I only saw it for a few days and that was enough of the big city. The floating market was really cool, and the food was amazing. I want to go back and visit Phuket. I got to see a less touristy side of the country because my uncle married a Thai woman. It’s not overstating it to say it was a life-changing experience. I want to take my kids and I hope they find it as meaningful as I did.

I’ve never really connected with a country like I did with Thailand. It was also my only tour group. My wife, who I married later, prefers all inclusive resorts where you barely experience the culture. I won’t deny I really enjoy them, but wish I could talk her into a tour group some day.

I’m not judging any individual, I said a solo male vacation to Thailand is a flag. Which is the whole point of the post, so what are you even saying here? I hope when I check you are admonishing everyone else who responded…

Oh look at that… not just that but you are a top level commenter judging people. Hmmm.

Oh I know. I’ve been there, twenty years ago. It’s a wonderful place and I hope to take my kids there some day.

But the reputation isn’t for no reason. It’s at the top of my list for problematic places for single men to travel alone to, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an awesome place to go or even that all single men traveling solo are there for bad intent.

I would highly encourage people to go there. The more non-sex tourism they get, the better for everyone, I think.

This was with Roberts-Sinto 35 years ago. I’m sure a lot has changed.