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If I ever get to travel to Greece prepare yourself for tastefully offensive Americans with a z. And congratulations on the new job! Speaking of working in the button mines of Kessel, my wife is getting a new title and raise but she's super concerned that the raise won't be enough to offset that she won't be getting overtime anymore. She's expecting a lot of mandatory overtime because her team has mostly bailed leaving her as probably the most senior person left. In man stripping news, I may be getting poached to go dance somewhere else for significantly less coin tips(ouch) and significantly more cash tips.

I was going to put this in the funny things thread but since we're talking about teachers: I don't know how @Hurlshotand his counterparts do what they do. I couldn't do it. But I am seriously lacking in patience and compassion.

anniversary o' one o' the few good moments to come outta the pandemic. HA! Good Fun!

one o' our "moderators" has a very large cat to be making use o' an n95 that large. pet cougar perhaps? moving on... edit: the original gazpacho police. HA! Good Fun!

We didn't have school staff that could hit us because that was our parents job. I kid, my mom worked at my school growing up so I was never safe. I kid again, mostly anyway, as my mom wasn't a big spanker and I was good at not getting in trouble. I also can't think of one situation in school that I think would have been enhanced by a teacher hitting me but maybe I'm just into the wrong stuff.

Yeah, death of the author is the only way to stay sane, especially in this age of Twitter and JK Rowlings. I shouldn't have, but I burst out laughing at this. Thanks internet, thanks George Lucas...and thanks majestic, .

No I heard it before. Thankfully I'm a subscriber to 'the author is dead' line of thinking and thus what they discussed making the film or even what they intended is really irrelevant to me.

Not sure what's worse, Lucas suggesting that Indiana Jones had an "affair" with a 10/12-year-old or Spielberg immediately turning that into Marion having pictures and being a promiscuitive Lolita. Do you think they made this face when talking about it?

Well, I hope you'd heard this before and it wasn't me that ruined it. Personally, I never really thought about it that much - the conversation just sounded like a writing device to indicate that something had occurred in the past that left Marion the big mad at Indiana, and that's really all it had to be as a way to quickly setup some character history as well as some motivations for how they were going to act towards each other for the rest of the film. Then the internet happened, and I was told that no, that's there because the creators of this film deliberately thought out that Indiana raped the poor girl when she was anywhere between 10 and 12 years of age. Thanks internet, thanks George Lucas - very cool.

The thing that really confuses me is that Spielberg apparently said that "she had better be older than 22" (22 - 12 = 10, she would have been ten years old, George Lucas - quick maths!)...and then the very next thing he says is that "let's make it her fault by having her be promiscuous". What the hell, guys? Luckily, all that really materially exists of that idea in the film is that one solitary thread of conversation, especially because the actress, Karen Allen, was actually in her late 20s at the time of filming.

Up to episode 19 of JoJo... that's some bizarre naming conventions 😂 The first super villain (the original "man in the pillar", nick named Santana) is disposed of, but 3 new super villains show up in Rome. Named after bands apparently 🤔 Wham, AC/DC and (The) Cars. A new leader introduced on the side of the "good guys", Lisa Lisa (not a typo) and her maid/servant named after Suzi Quatro.... 🙄 JoJo and Caesar are no match for the villains, who wipe the floor with them, being too unimportant to even kill. However, JoJo, being his charming self (i.e. constantly aggravating) manages to goad them into a challenge. He'll improve his skills so much in a month, that he'll offer them a good fight. Being proud (and vain) super villains, of course they can't resist such a challenge. To add pressure on JoJo, they place poison rings around his aorta and his windpipe, which will dissolve and kill him in 30 something days or so. The only way to safely dispose of them are an antidote for each of the two poisons, carried in the nose piercings of AC/DC and Wham. JoJo and Caesar does the training together, but of course are not exactly the super heroes their ancestors were, but still manage to dispatch AC/DC through some nice team work. As for what the trio of villains were after, some kind of perfect gem, which was a perfect red aja gem. No, I have no idea what it is. But the stone masks, which turns humans into vampires, are too weak to penetrate the skulls of the super villains, so they need the gem to boost the stone masks and turn them into some kind of legendary super vampires. The stone got stolen and sent by train in direction Switzerland, where the German army intercepted it before it reached it's destination. The German boss is none other than Von Stroheim (the German antagonist in Mexico), with an all new, mechanical body. That's about where I got to. The red aja gem when it was still in the hands of the good guys... A not so covert mission from Rome to St. Moritz, Switzerland...

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The round bit was storage. Most likely grain. The rest are walls from various phases, from likely 800 BC to around 1000 AD. The site was a pottery workshop in antiquity. I have 5,5 wells underneath my foundations (half a well is under the neighbouring building), and we even found a large slab of unused clay. We found traces of the old road, and the clay pipes of the antique water line still have water trickling along. Don't tell the archeologists I posted this, but this is back from 2009 when we had the dig:

Amazing game and experience meeting the bugs and areas of the map. Definitely would love to see this game last another couple years adding new bugs like pr mantis, butterflies, daddy long legs spiders, arouses weapons tones of new tiers. Definitely would be awesome after full release of game to work on dlc like adding the house to in or something new and big. This game can't die you guys and girls have developed a game that re defines gaming something new and never gets old. I hope this game can have a big road map and continues way down the road thanks for the game and the enjoyment of an old childhood movie..

Given the track record of Amazon series, I'm not enthusiastic about this show. I guess we'll see in half a year.

Nowadays the kids beat up the teachers. Or shoot or stab, depending on your location.

When I was in elementary school corporal punishment was a thing. They gave you a choice: three licks or a one day suspension. Buddy THAT is a no brainer. Paddling is over in less than a minute and you don't have to tell your parents about it, nor explain why you are not going to school the next day. It was NOT a deterrent.

"If other countries have it worse, we should not complain about our country" is a pretty terrible line of reasoning. Reminds of a neighbour I once had, who said her son was a good kid because he had never mugged or killed anyone.

Just give the teachers a pistol grip pump.

This is a travesty. Daisy has been my main in any kart and sports game. She's way better than that floozie Peach and that hack fraud Rosalina. This killed any and all interest I had in the new Strikers. Nintendo is such a frustrating company. They can never just take a step forward, it's always accompanied with at least one step back. After 19 years they finally release a new 2D Metroid and it's phenomenal. They follow that up by embracing NFTs when most other companies are backing away due to backlash and by removing the best character from the new Strikers. On a more lighthearted note, they are adding 2 new difficulties to Metroid Dread, including an extra easy mode that the internet has dubbed David Jaffe Mode. 🤣

Happens to me all the time. If I reread the books now I'd probably pick up on how awful they are, like how wizards have slavery but it's cool because the slaves are happy or the racial stereotypes for anyone who isn't a britbong. But at the time the worst thing is that they were boring and I wasn't interested in children's books in general.

No, I just stopped caring about Harry Potter when I became a teenager.

Ghostbusters sales reel made especially for Showest:

Yes, not bad. My suggestion: Freeze and squizz.

About 25 years ago my dad and stepmom went on a second honeymoon to Greece and after a delayed trip they got to Paros, hired a car and were looking for somewhere to eat lunch while sightseeing They saw a large house with a patio outside and tables setup and several cars in the parking area. They got out the car walked to the patio area and sat down, they also noticed another group of people sitting at another table and a man, the hotel\restaurant manager, saying to the other people " I have arranged transport " But the service seemed really bad and it took over 5 minutes before the manager came to their table and said " how can I help you "...the conversation went like this Parents : Can we get some coffee Manager :Sure, what coffee do you want? I have Turkish, American, Greek etc. Parents: Anything, we just want coffee He brought out coffee with this delicious homemade cakes and since it was clearly quiet he started chatting to them about where they from and what they doing in Greece. It turned out this managers dad knew SA because his dad was stuck in SA during WW2 and they ended up having a 40 minute friendly chat about life and travels But at the end of the chat the conversation went like this Manager: Oh, by the way this is not a restaurant. This is my private home Parents : What !!! But who were those other people sitting at that other table Manager : Those were friends who had been staying with us My parents nearly died of embarrassment for assuming this was a restaurant but they all had a great laugh about it and they left on very good terms with the home owner How is that for "white, male privlidege "

They're all named after musicians or groups. Santana and Lisa Lisa are too, as is SHIIIIIISAAAAAAA's last name. JoJo's is an endless well of music references.

George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan in 1978 during the brainstorming process of creating Indiana Jones: An actual conversation between Indiana and Marion from the first Indiana Jones film..: Thanks, George - glad I'll remember this one anytime I re-watch Indiana Jones.

Btw who else thinks that "the Extreme Freeze Update" is a good name?

Just a preview of New Kaineng, the capital of Cantha in the upcoming Guild Wars 2 expansion (Cantha is an Asian inspired part of the GW2 world, which featured in the original GW) Looks like the Canthans are going to give the Asura a run for the money when it comes to who is the most technologically advanced. I want my own Jade Bot!

So I don't need to feel bad for having googled all veterinarian ladies in Guard Dog's vicinity to make sure we on the forum approve of who he is dating?

That has got to be one of the strangest reasons to not game anymore " Im too old ".....its a hobby, you never too old Its like saying " Im too old to read a book ". You may not have time anymore or your interests may change but you never too old to game 💻

Speaking of which, I just had a major, hearty laugh: No, but he picked a creepy inn as vacation spot.

Definitely been amazing game hands down you guys and girls of this company have re defined gaming and open world experience. Ik the game isn't done yet but you guys should definitely continue this game not only in the back yard but the house include more features like bed bugs and mice gand dad spiders fleas tones more things this game should never die down. It's opend up so much more for a big long lasting road map.

World’s Oldest Tortoise Still Doing His Thing Reptile Style - The Debrief

I watched about half of the first episode before I got distracted. Reacher looks like a muscular Dexter!

James Webb Space Telescope successfully deploys antenna.

Yes. I also agree 100% that the level cap needs a SIGNIFICANT increase. I hit 36 before finishing Eridanos and haven't even been to Gorgan yet. Third run through and this has happened every time. Please raise the cap asap. If I have nothing to strive for than I lose interest and I LOVE THIS GAME!!!! More DLC TOO PLEASE!!!!!!