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I can’t tell if you actually deleted your comment, or if that is a clever comment about Charlie Kirk.

I dunno. I’m kinda fond of drinking personally

Run it until it’s cold. You don’t need 5 minutes.

Yeah, the one at the water treatment plant.

As gen x- you open the tap, and you fucking drink. It’s not rocket science.

Well, as a garden hose drinker from back in the day, I’m here to tell you that it was run through a filter. It’s just that that filter was back at the water treatment plant. Same thing with public water fountains, which were everywhere. We’re not that goddamned tough. We weren’t slurping pond water through a straw or something like that.

I was recently listening to a podcast interviewing Chris Columbus on how they adapted the novel. It was the first thing he wrote that got picked up. I’ve never read the original screenplay, but they ended up cutting out the most graphic stuff. For example, at one point a disembodied head comes rolling down the stairs due to gremlin shenanigans.

So you experience could definitely have been worse.

Safe to say that we were all pretty nuke-aware when that came out. It certainly didn’t help assuage our anxieties.

I mean, is it too much to ask that people wipe the Santorum off before the salad tossing begins?

Paul Verhoeven is one sick fuck. I’ll watch anything he’s made.

Man, if you caught the scene of Barlow sitting up in his coffin screaming, you got the gist of it.

Aw shit. You just reminded me of seeing Jaws from the back seat of the station wagon at the drive in at 7 when I was supposed to be sleeping.

Hey, my now very adult daughter feels the same way about The Fox and the Hound. Not judging.

I’m assuming the Cronenberg version.

Did the story end?

Salem’s Lot. Watched it with a buddy on a late night sleepover when it was on TV in the late '70s, probably 8 or 9 years old. I’ll never forget Barlow sitting up in his coffin. Or my buddy barfing when he did it.

I also won’t soon forget seeing a late-night new years eve showing of Caligula a few years later. My tiny mind wasn’t ready for either the onslaught of tits or beheadings.

Tell me you dont have kids without telling me you dont have kids.

Kids today have joysticks and xbox. Back in my day, we just had stick and box. We were definitely banging at 14.

It’s long struck me as odd that land, power, water, and cooling intensive infrastructure doesn’t take root in more remote arctic and sub-arctic locations where the cooling is mitigated, hydro plants exist to provide local power, excess heat can be used for other activities like heating other buildings or greenhouses, and even keeping some water ice-free through the winter has benefit. The big obstacle of course is the fibre plumbing for getting the data to and from the site, but that seems pretty solvable.

The hill the local kids go tobogganing in winter very likely was already used in that capacity 2500 years ago as some archeological sites have shown.

No doubt by the fossilized remains of kids that perished on the slope by hitting the trees at the bottom.