Random Thoughts

joey con carne wrote:
The little symbol is a fuel pump. If the fuel pump handle is on the right, then your gas cap is on the left side of your car. And vice versa. The indicator tells you the orientation of the pump so you can refuel if you somehow forget on which side your gas cap is on your car.

Rusty wrote:

joey con carne wrote:
The little symbol is a fuel pump. If the fuel pump handle is on the right, then your gas cap is on the left side of your car. And vice versa. The indicator tells you the orientation of the pump so you can refuel if you somehow forget on which side your gas cap is on your car.

Not on my work vehicle, but it is 20 years old, and in a different country

I do know a lot of newish vehicles have a little arrow under or next to the fuel gauge that points to the side the filler cap is on.

UltimateMarvel wrote:I want to build something like this for my home theater but I have zero skills. Mine is only one step of 2x4s though so about 3 inches of the ground. Wylde, you could probably do mine with your eyes closed. lol

WyldeMan wrote:Looks like a nice afternoon project.

UltimateMarvel wrote:

WyldeMan wrote:Looks like a nice afternoon project.

Damn! I already have 10 treated 2x4s. Just need a saw and some screws and probably one plywood to get it done.

WyldeMan wrote:Can you guys see the stars at night or do you all live in big cities where the smog and lights block them out? I was recently talking with someone who mentioned that it'd been years since they'd seen the stars in the sky at night and I realized that I see them every single night and I can't even recall one night where I didn't. Is this something that you just accept like not seeing the night sky is perfectly acceptable to you cause to me, it's kind of mind blowing.....

WyldeMan wrote:This hit Netflix today and as soon as I started the trailer all I could think of was that this looked like an inferior version of Michael Keaton's 90's classic Multiplicity. I usually like Rudd's work but this looks like a bad remake by a different title.

UltimateMarvel wrote:

WyldeMan wrote:This hit Netflix today and as soon as I started the trailer all I could think of was that this looked like an inferior version of Michael Keaton's 90's classic Multiplicity. I usually like Rudd's work but this looks like a bad remake by a different title.

Saw the trailer a couple of weeks back. Now that you mention it, it does remind me of Multiplicity. Shockingly, I have watched that movie on TV once. lol

Tyger wrote:The power of Keaton

Tyger wrote:The power of Keaton

WyldeMan wrote:Now that I think about it, Abe has seen Batman and Batman Returns. If he's also seen Beetlejuice, I might have to believe that Michael Keaton is in fact a man of actual magical powers and has somehow managed to get Abe to watch several movies made from before his own birth.

UltimateMarvel wrote:I do love Keaton. I watched Jack Frost too plenty of times.

UltimateMarvel wrote:LOL Believe it or not, I not only saw Beetlejuice but I used to own it as VHS as a kid. Don't remember who got it for me but I think they thought it was for kids.

Tyger wrote:I’m blown away that Abe knows what a cassette is.

I didn’t realize Living With Yourself is a series, I was thinking it was a movie. I’m halfway through and so far not seeing why it couldn’t be a movie

UltimateMarvel wrote:You guys have no idea.

UltimateMarvel wrote:Read about J Law's wedding, I hope it lasts. That is absolutely a weird name.

joey con carne wrote:Clearly, that is not a list of talented singers. Seems more like a list of singers that draw a crowd.

Tyger wrote:That list is all over the place

joey con carne wrote:Have you ever seen The Last Witch Hunter with Vin Diesel? The movie isn’t horrible and the sound is fantastic. Loud and low.

I’ll watch this new one sight unseen. His films outside of Fast and Furious are entertaining enough.

UltimateMarvel wrote:I will be watching this, looks like a lot of action. I remember Last Witch Hunter but I never saw it.

I didn't watch the trailer before so I had no idea who was in it but having just watched it, I have only two words.......Santanico Pandemonium.

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Students at the University of Oxford have voted to ‘replace clapping’ with a silent wave because it ‘could trigger anxiety’. They are instead being told to use ‘jazz hands’, where they wave their hands in the air. The motion to ‘mandate the encouragement of silent clapping’ was successfully passed by the university’s student union officers, following their first meeting of the year on Tuesday. It will come apply at student union events, and if successful, rolled out to other societies and events. Oxford students had argued that alternatives to clapping already existed in some organisations and institutions and that they should follow suit. It comes after the University of Manchester passed a similar motion in September last year.

Jazz hands is the British Sign Language expression for applause and is considered a more inclusive gesture. Sabbatical Officers Roisin McCallion said: ‘The policy was proposed in order to encourage the use of British Sign Language clapping during our democratic events, to make those events more accessible and inclusive for all, including people who suffer from anxiety. ‘Inclusivity is one of the Students’ Union’s founding principles.’

Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/24/clapping-banned-oxford-university-stop-people-triggered-10975221/?ito=cbshare

Felicity Huffman Released From Prison After 11 Days In College Bribery Scheme

Felicity Huffman has been released from a federal prison in Dublin, CA, three days short of a 14-day sentence for her role in the college bribery scheme, a prison spokesperson confirmed to Deadline.

Huffman was released early Friday morning. She began her 14-day sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin on Oct. 15, but was released early as is normal prison policy for inmates who are set to be released on weekends.

The Desperate Housewives actor also is ordered to serve a year’s probation, perform 250 hours of community service and pay a $30,000 fine.

Having plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud back in May, Huffman was the first to be sentenced among the more than 30 parents indicted in the nationwide effort of wealthy families to get their children into top schools using underhanded methods.

Jane Fonda was arrested at the Capitol for the third consecutive Friday today as she continued her protest demanding that Congress take action on climate change.

This time, Ted Danson, 71, joined the 81-year-old actress in the demonstration and he too was arrested by Capitol Police.

“Get in motion, save the ocean,” Fonda, Danson and other demonstrators shouted as they made a short march on the Capitol grounds.

The events are being called “Fire Drill Fridays,” and have ended in acts of civil disobedience. The demonstrators blocked First Street near the intersection of East Capitol Street, which is between the Capitol and the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court. The location was near the same spot where they blocked the street last week.

After their previous arrests, the demonstrators have been taken to a separate location and processed and released. They are being charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding, which are misdemeanors.

Fonda said that she has moved to Washington through the end of the year to take part in the weekly demonstrations, but will have to leave in January to resume production on Netflix’s Grace and Frankie.

“The fossil fuel industry wants us to believe it’s our fault,” Fonda told demonstrators at a rally beforehand. “Bulls–t.”

joey con carne wrote:It must be nice to be so rich to move somewhere just to protest and then leave when you have to go back to work in three months.