I wasn’t aware that take-backsies were a valid strategy for dodging copyright infringement. Very interesting, indeed.

Oh yes, this I remember. One time I was traveling with family, and we had a layover in a city where we relatives, and they just came to the airport and visited with us at the gate until we were ready to board. The only thing you needed the boarding pass for was getting on the actual plane.  And even then, the…

I started out questioning this comment,... but yeah. You’re totally right.

Fuck this. Once they start sending normal people to these places instead of celebrities and richies then I would think it is ok. Even though I think our justice system is a joke and is basically designed to crush people into subhuman beasts I am tired of entitled assholes getting the white glove treatment.

It’s true. Shower curtains are now controlled by an app. There are no rings. They are just hung digitally with the blockchain.

I can remember traveling in the 90s, and taking a souvenir pocket knife in my carry on. Security didn’t think anything of it, and I remember at the time, nobody thought that would be a problem. Now, I’d be whisked away by TSA so fast.

I did see something online awhile back about coming up with what happened after the movie ended, and for this one, someone came up with Del turning out to be a serial killer, that murders Neal and his family, and makes shower curtains out of their skin.

Sort of. But “security” pre 9/11 was even easier than it is with TSA-Pre or Clear today. Basically the metal detectors were like the ones in museums and other public buildings meaning that things like watches, belts, and wallets didn’t trigger anything. You had to have something major like a weapon or something. So…

“Where’s your other hand?”
“Between two pillows...”
“Those aren’t pillows!  But I don’t mind...”

There were still long security lines, metal detectors, and pat downs in 1987 so he would’ve still missed his flight.

All I know is that this is quite possibly one of the most heartwarming shots in all of cinema.

“shower curtain rings (which, by the way, are also mostly obsolete now)“

I know. I’m just saying they passed up on the U.S. and whoever else bidded for 2022, for a bunch of nouveau-riche asswipes who didn’t have the infrastructure in place 12 years ago, worked thousands of migrant laborers to death to build something like 8 new soccer stadia that once the World Cup is done won’t get much…

Don’t believe them. ANYONE and ANY BOT with a Ticketmaster account was allowed to enter the ticket queue. It wasn’t until you waited hours to get through the queue that you had to enter your presale code. Had they simply required you to enter the code prior to entering the queue, this all could have been avoided.

Specifically, it’s CBS and its O&Os. But aside from KPIX, none of these stations are saying it on their own Twitter feeds. They’re just logging off. I’m reading it’s not just because of Musk’s big-brained moves but because the impact those have on security. And that CBS Sports isn’t doing the same because of a…

Last I heard, Twitter is now worth $8 billion. For context, he paid $44 billion for it a month ago.

The guy probably did save Haribo some hassle. Not because there was any possibility in anyone else cashing the check, but because locating the check likely saved the Accounts Payable team at Haribo a bit of work in trying to understand why an open invoice wasn’t paid.

Well, yeah, but America put in a bid to host this year. I’m sure other countries where people drink and slave labor isn’t used to build soccer stadiums did, too.

“maintaining their traditions”

Who would have thought dealing with a theocracy could be so limiting?