memes @lemmy.world The Picard Maneuver @startrek.website 11mo ago

How to start the day off strong

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They drink pretty much the whole movie. It was a game to drink along with them when my partner and I were younger.
- Sounds like fun. I'll try this next year.
  
  During Christmas.
Chronic alcoholism, and their tinsel was filled with lead

the 1950s and its consequences has been a disaster for the human race
- The lead made the tinsel taste better though.
- The idea to decrease alcohol consumption is an incredibly recent development in human history.
  
  Which started long before the 1950s. The temperance movement in the US started in the first half of the 19th century.
  
  So relatively recent yeah, but not really relevant in this comment thread.
  
  You mean like Islam?
  
  Probably because alcohol and automobiles don’t mix too well
- If there is one thing I could bring back from that era, it would be the durability of their appliances and materials. Much better than this throwaway culture we have, where everything is made to last a couple years past warranty, then thrown out at the first sign of malfunction. Shit from the 1950's was built to endure decades of regular use, and repairs were simple and cheap.
  
  so how come they're so rare nowadays? I mean everyone had one back then, why aren't the overwhelming majority of these appliances still with us? Survivorship bias, that's why
  
  I don't know, their lamp seemed pretty fragile.
- Sure was fun though!
  
  As long as you weren't Black, Native, gay, trans, homeless, a woman, or any other marginalized group -- then yeah, the 50s were grand
- You mean you don't like black face?
  
  Isn't that more like the 1920s?
I haven't seen this movie in a really, really long time, so I don't remember what the dad actually looks like, but in this frame and at this angle he looks like a weird morph of Tommy Lee Jones and Bob Odenkirk
- I see that. Weirdly also seeing a festive sprinkling of Bryan Cranston
You know this wine's not bad. It's not good either.
Fragil'ee. Must be Italian!
- The knowledge that they were drunk the whole time puts the whole movie in a different context.
I am pretty sure the wine was homemade and gifted to them from another family member? So they decided to drink it after opening it. Not that it changes anything, but at least there was some context as to why.
can't tell if this is a photo of a paper or the editor went through the effort of making the black text background look better than just plain black, either way kudos

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