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For just me to never work again, or for both my wife and myself to never work again?

Because those number would be drastically different.

TMOG posted...

Then they can learn how to drive safely and retake the test. This really isn't a difficult concept.

And what do they do in the months it takes to get a new appointment?

Again, I'm just giving the reasons whey they don't do it. It's a discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.

trickMms posted...

That defense makes zero sense to me. We should be failing bad drivers regardless of age. Don't blow through a stop sign on your literal driving test and you'll be fine.

And if you do blow a stop sign, you can take it again. IIRC you get a few tries before they stop you from taking it again for a few months.

It's a bad defense.

I'm just repeating what I was told by the guy that taught my defensive driving course like 20 years ago.

I'm not here to champion old people or uninsured driving or anything like that. I'd be perfectly fine with having to retake your road test every 5 years once you turn 60.

I'm just telling you why they have never proposed doing it. it would also cause age discrimination lawsuits all over the country.

TMOG posted...

Then those people end up losing their licenses or having their vehicles impounded, and face fines or jail time, and the roads end up becoming safer in general anyway because eventually all the bad drivers who refuse to learn how to drive safely end up off the road.

In theory. Not necessarily in execution.

It's not like alternatives such as public transportation or taxis/Uber exist or anything.

Right. So added expenses to people that are still working into their 60's. Because those are the people with disposable income. People in middle America that live 20-30 miles away from where they work. Just hit them with a nice $25-40 Uber ride every day.

Auto Insurance prices are out of hand now because of how many unlicensed drivers are on the road and getting into accidents. This would make it worse.

TMOG posted...

"It's a bad idea because they would fail me for my unsafe and illegal driving habits"

"I would then continue to drive illegally rather than adjust my driving habits and retake the test, and the consequences of my actions would be their fault"

Yes. That's exactly my point.

I was creating a hypothetical, and that's not really how I would react, but there are A LOT of people that would react like that.

You think there's just thousands and thousands of people that would fail, and then say "Welp, I guess after 50 years I'm just not going to drive anymore. I'll just tell my boss I quit because I have no way to get to work".

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I think the same thing. Even with the "go back knowing what I know now" qualifier, I don't know if my brain today could get over the teenage fear of rejection.

Yeah.

My brother in law is an opera singer, and has a lot of friends that are in the singing/Broadway/entertainment business.

He know a lot more than I do, but through him, I've become acquaintances with at least 3 people that identify as non-binary.

voldothegr8 posted...

Maybe at first, but once the system is established things would level out. Believe it or not most people don't want a record so there wouldn't be as many rogue seniors as you think.

It'll either level out, or the DMVs will realize how much money they're making on forcing people to pay for their new road test that they change the age to 50, or make it that you have to do it ever 10 years.

A fleet of bad, but insured senior drivers, is MUCH better than a fleet of bad, uninsured, senior drivers.

RespectWomen posted...

Not for younger people, but maybe after 65/70 years old

dementia happens quick

voldothegr8 posted...

After a certain age it should be mandatory

It sounds like a good idea in theory, and was one I supported for a while. Until someone explained to me why it would be a fruitless effort.

Imagine I get my license at 18. After driving for 45+ years they tell me that I have to retake my test. I roll through a stop sign or don't make a full stop when making a right on red as a force of habit.

They fail me.

I still have a job though, and need my car to get to and from work. I decide "Eff It" and keep driving. I'm now driving without a license. And because I have no license (depending on where you live), I can't re-register my car. And if it isn't registered, I can't insure it.

So now I'm driving with no license, in car that is not registered nor insured.

And then we get into an accident. I flee the scene for fear of getting arrested. Your insurance company then fucks you over and raises your rate because you have no choice but to make a claim.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Homer

Thanks. I figured he would.

Score one for the working man!

ssj3vegeta posted...

Yes, so many when i was in HS

Same. I was hung up on this one girl in HS that constantly gave me "maybe" vibes, causing me to tell other girls that were interested in me that I wasn't interested, for fear that she would find out and turn that "maybe" into a "definitely not".

This was before the term "Friendzone" was a thing, but I was definitely firmly in the Friendzone and didn't realize it until it was way too late.

Homer or Burns

I can't find the topic.

I just signed mine yesterday.

Had to have them professionally done because there was a lot of weird things happening that was attached to accounts inherited when my parent passed away, and it just got too complicated for me to do them myself.

That's kinda the stance I've always had.

Should women use it as a form of birth control or as a "fall back" for not taking proper precautions? No.

Should it be an option in the case of rape, incest, or if it is causing health risks to the potential mother? Of course.

Late 20's.

Was 27 when my daughter was born, and 30 when my son was born.

radical_rhino posted...

What does an HBO Max subscription cost now? Like $12 or $15? Is it cheaper if you have an HBO subscription through your cable provider?

I believe it's free if you have a cable subscription. You just put in your cable log in details.

BurmesePenguin posted...

That isn't very many people.

Netflix has 206 Million subscribers

According to the website Statista Apple has 25 million paid Apple TV+ subscribers but 50 million on free promotions. Paramount+ currently has about 46 million paid subscribers, and HBO Max will have 70 million subscribers in the 4th quarter of 2022.

There's A LOT of crossover in those subscriptions

There were A LOT of bad NES and Sega Genesis games that I loved as a kid that I've tried to replay over the years only to realize they were pretty bad.

Garabandal posted...

Action 52

There was a game on there in the Breakout/Arkanoid vein that my friend and I played for MONTHS at a time.

Honestly, not much.

We couldn't even get half the population to wash their hands on a regular basis, simply because a doctor that voted for Hilary Clinton suggested it.

It created an entire population of people that went from listening to every word their doctor said for 50+ years to suddenly ignoring them when they suggested to take a vaccine, all because a Democrat won the Presidential election.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Rihanna looks like she's 12 in that first pic so I ain't gonna vote on that.

Left is better in that 2nd pic tho but she still looks good on the right

That's a pic of Rihanna when she was 18. Which is College freshman age.

EnormousBreasts posted...

I am wrong, theres is no woke!

Glad it only took you a few hours to come around.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

.....do you not know how this works? Guys get hotter as they age, Chicks get less hot as they age

Trickfinger posted...

Exactly. Guys are knowing for getting their glow up in their 30s.

Ok.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/9/AAafKOAAEX4z.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/0/AAafKOAAEX40.jpg

EnormousBreasts posted...

Those movies werent considered woke aside from Avatar 2. They are successful in their own rights, Avatar being a global phenomenon, Force Awakening the revival of Starwars, despite its own shortcomings like being a huge rehash.

And the Frozen movies being the 2nd and 3rd most successful movies in Disney Animation Studios history? Both were largely labeled as "woke" due to their strong female leads.

You're allowed to admit you're wrong. No one will fault you for it.

s0nicfan posted...

I wish my first exposure to Clue was in the movie theater where they supposedly only aired one of the endings at random at each viewing, rather than watching it on Comedy Central where they aired all the endings back to back. It must have been hilarious to the writers and producers on opening night watching all these people fight over how the movie ended before they realize they were each given a different ending.

Same. First time I saw it was on VHS, where they show all the endings.

It was such a wild concept, and I'm kind of surprised no one has ever thought of replicating it.

lolife67 posted...

To be fair, he's a pretty obvious troll so it's your fault for continuing to expect a serious answer at this point.

At this point, it seems so.

I really wish he wasn't, because I'd love to really dive into someone that thinks like he does, and try to get them to explain their stance without using buzzwords and catchphrases fed to them by their TV.

EnormousBreasts posted...

Thats being polite

And you're just going to ignore the rest of my post that decimated your platform that "woke" movies aren't successful?

EnormousBreasts posted...

Take the new Scooby Doo Show, Velma.

Its full of identity swaps and is absolutely awful.

But, again, it's not because it's "woke". It's because it's just a poorly written show that didn't have any identity and didn't know what it wanted to be.

One can argue that four of the top five grossing movies OF ALL TIME have female leads.

Avatar 1 and 2, Titanic, and Force Awakens.

And 3 of the 4 are women as "Action Heroes" roles traditionally reserved for male characters.

BOTH Frozen movies, which SCREAM "Girl Power" are in the top 20.

Are those also "woke"? Because if they are, they fly in the face of your "go woke, go broke" mantra.

EnormousBreasts posted...

If only we had this at the start of the topic

We did. I posted this over 70 posts ago.

You chose to ignore it.

I also posted:

Disney stock (which also make Marvel movies) is up 11% this year.

Warner Bros/Discovery (who make DC movies) is up FIFTY NINE PERCENT this year.

Anheuser-Busch is up 10%

So tell me again how these companies are failing?

EnormousBreasts posted...

I am not, this is about the most polite answer I can give. How would you define then?

The term "Stay Woke" originated in African-American circles to remind each other to remain aware of the societal differences between cultures and races. To remind them that people may treat them different based on prejudice.

It then somehow morphed to be anything that shows something "against the norm".

So a strong female lead in a movie. A play about the Founding Fathers being cast mostly by minorities. A sitcom with a non-stereotyped gay character. That all somehow became the new definition of what "woke" is.

But it is the incorrect definition of woke. So if that's what you think "woke" is, then you're just flat out wrong.

s0nicfan posted...

I feel like something that got lost in translation with all the Mel Brooks spoofs is that movie still need to have a plot and in his movies all the characters are playing their roles completely straight. The comedy comes from the absurdity of it all. I feel like one major flaw with modern spoof movies is they're way too self-aware and expect that self-awareness to be a fair substitute for an actual story.

Definitely. They (and the Zucker/Abrams/Zucker films) played their roles like they weren't in on the joke. Where everything after that tried to capture it, but the actors involved were doing the "wink at the camera" acting way too much.

As good as they were, I felt it started to turn with the "Hot Shots" movies. Where they almost shoehorned as many jokes as they could.

I guess two.

I worked in the arcade of an amusement park. I don't know if I'd consider that "retail" though. I basically was the guy that made change and fix the games if there was a ticket or token jam.

And my other retail job was a few summers working at a deli. But I was in the back as a short order cook more than I was at the counter.

Axiom posted...

But I didn't watch 80% of the channels I got when I paid for cable in the first place. I get way more things that I care about just paying $40 for multiple services which is still under half of what I paid for cable

Then you're not the person I'm talking about. I'm talking about the people that cut the cord to save money, then got Sling TV, Netflix, Hulu/Disney, Peacock, Apple, and HBOMax. Combine that with a $70 internet package, and now they're paying more than they originally paid for a Cable/Internet combo package.

I cut the cord about 4 years ago, and like I said above, only pay for Hulu Live, Netflix and an Internet package.

I'm paying about $70 less a month than I was for cable, and haven't missed anything.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Tbf I can't share a cable package with my family that lives in a separate house. I pay for like 3 streaming services and have access to over a dozen or so.

Same.

I have Hulu Live and Netflix, so that also gets me Disney+ and ESPN+.

My Bro in Law works for Verizon, so he gets his cable at a deep discount. He uses my Netflix/Disney, I use his HBO Max and Peacock.

I then use my other Bro in Laws Apple TV

harley2280 posted...

Bro is out here going to bat for fucking cable companies. Streaming is better than cable any day simple because I can cancel it in a few clicks instead of being forced to call and get transferred half a dozen times.

Questionmarktarius posted...

This is what happens when streaming somehow just becomes cable all over again.

That was the point I was trying to make.

People were cutting the cord because streaming was a cheaper option. But then it splintered so many times that in order to get everything you originally got with a cable/internet package, you end up paying the same amount.

So I'm not "going to bat" for anyone. Just pointing out the costs basically being the same if you were to try to mirror what the average cable package offers.

Imit8m3 posted...

Don't look up.

I'll have to check that out.

History of the World Part 2 had it's moments as well. That's what made me think of it.

HylianFox posted...

IIRC the last movie of this type I actually saw in theaters was "This Is The End" with James Franco

It was alright

I just rewatched it not that long ago.

Don't know if I'd consider if a spoof though.

Comedies as theatrical successes seem to be a thing of the past in general, as everything needs to be a tentpole movie in order to get a widespread theatrical release, but I really miss the days of a quality spoof movie.

Feel like the "Scary Movie" franchise was the last one that could be considered even remotely good.

This is what happens when people continue to think "cutting the cord" is a good idea.

Cobra1010 posted...

In this question, more sleep doesn't give you more energy. Both 6 and 8 hours replenish your energy 100%.

You are spending the same hours awake. Sleeping more just allows you to span it over more years. But you still get old and become slow and sluggish as everyone normally ages.

Think I still take the "Live to 91" option.

May actually see the Mets win a World Series.

That article goes from Wait what? to Oh. That makes sense pretty quickly.

Assuming those extra 21 years arent spent in agony, why would I not choose to get more sleep?

Murphiroth posted...

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LOL get fucked

Welp.

I'm all for someone with a differing view, but my man was just unhinged.

WhisperWolf2005 posted...

I forgot we even had a topic on it v
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80401353

Now can we stop the bad faith denial of woke?

And almost every post was about how it was a terrible show, not that is was "woke"

WhisperWolf2005 posted...

Oh yea and the most expensive show ever made, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power had only a 37% viewer completion rate, HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!

https://youtu.be/SjGgXCu6fNQ

This show was so accessible too! You only need an Amazon Prime membership to acces Prime Video and just about everyone on the planet has one of those accounts!!!!

GOD LORD!

Maybe they didnt do enough for the show? Not enough women and minorities? It certainly was not woke!

They stopped watching because the show sucked.

WhisperWolf2005 posted...

The latest Disney, Marvel, and DC movies bombed and Bud Light campaign flopped, with that company literally in hiding. Thats just to name a few and you are ignoring it all. yall call me spineless

Disney stock (which also make Marvel movies) is up 11% this year.

Warner Bros/Discovery (who make DC movies) is up FIFTY NINE PERCENT this year.

Anheuser-Busch is up 10%

So tell me again how these companies are failing.

The term "Stay Woke" originated in African-American circles to remind each other to remain aware of the societal differences between cultures and races. To remind them that people may treat them different based on prejudice.

It then somehow morphed to be anything that shows something "against the norm".

So a strong female lead in a movie. A play about the Founding Fathers being cast mostly by minorities. A sitcom with a non-stereotyped gay character. That all somehow became the new definition of what "woke" is.

ellis123 posted...

The idea is that you clearly don't have anything even close to resembling the moral high ground, what with the whole "defending child labor" thing, so a complete lack in a legal high ground makes your post come across a meaningless fluff.

The issue with this particular example, not the concept as a whole, is that there's not enough evidence to even know what's going on.

Could it be a father taking advantage of his son as "cheap labor"? Sure.

Could it be as simple as "I know we have plans tonight, but Dad has to close the store. But if you go with him and help clean up, we can probably get out of there an hour early and still make it to (insert event) on time".

The fact that the father owns the store changes the situation a lot. it would almost be like coming down on a parent as taking advantage of "child labor" because you pay your kid $20 to mow the lawn.

Im old, so its getting tough for me to keep up with trends.

Are we saying Yay Pedro! because hes breaking the tradition on what it means to be a success in your 40s because he doesnt own a home?

Or are we saying Boo Pedro! because he supports the renter/landlord dynamic that we all hate?