The "What's on your mind?" thread

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by civiclx

If I come help you look for it and find it, can you lend me $30?

Sure

[Scarface32]

How come the Harlem Globetrotters are called the Harlem Globetrotters, if they aren’t from Harlem? Why aren’t they called the Chicago Globetrotters, they are from Chicago after all.

[sk33tr]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

How come the Harlem Globetrotters are called the Harlem Globetrotters, if they aren’t from Harlem? Why aren’t they called the Chicago Globetrotters, they are from Chicago after all.

"In late 1926, Abe Saperstein took over as coach of a touring African-American team in Chicago called the Savoy Big Five (they played their games at the Savoy Ballroom). Saperstein renamed them the Harlem Globetrotters because all the players were African-American (Harlem being a predominantly African-American neighborhood)."

from this page...

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

Because they use DHL. Every Amazon.jp order I've made has been shipped via DHL and, in most cases, arrived in 3 days or less to me in the Northeast US.

Has something changed with DHL in Europe? Years ago, if Amazon shipped your order by DHL you'd be lucky if it ever arrived.

[civiclx]

Wondering if I need a new digital camera. I'd say hell yeah but that would mean I have to do some research and while I love reading stuff on the internet, I'm not that into researching new products I'm considering buying.

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

Has something changed with DHL in Europe? Years ago, if Amazon shipped your order by DHL you'd be lucky if it ever arrived.

IIRC, DHL was on the verge of bankruptcy a few years ago so they merged (or were purchased) by a German carrier and are now a predominantly International carrier. Apparently they've improved service but they're no longer "one of the big guys" in the US like UPS or FedEx.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by civiclx

Wondering if I need a new digital camera. I'd say hell yeah but that would mean I have to do some research and while I love reading stuff on the internet, I'm not that into researching new products I'm considering buying.

If by "camera" you mean to take still photos, I bet your phone is good enough. However if you want to shoot video, then in my opinion the best on the market are by the company RED. The problem with phones and video, they often have a limited optical zoom before switching over to a digital zoom (digital zoom is garbage in comparison to optical zoom). If you don’t plan on doing much zooming though, my iPhone takes pretty good 4K video.

[y2jman]

so tornado storm happened last night down in tenn yes bad Nashville kindsof makes me little mad treading twitter apparently nobody cares about my little city 16 deaths so far meh

[Waboman]

I'm not a smoker. Never have been. So don't pay much attention to prices. I was at Walgreens today picking up more Mucinex for this cold that won't go away. I'm starting to think it's not a cold but that other thing that starts with a C. But I digress, I was in line waiting to pay, glancing around and I see the wall of cigarettes behind the counter. Like I said, I don't pay much attention to that stuff, but then I saw the prices! Holy tobacco road! It ain't cheap to be a smoker.

[BeastCreatureTrapper]

Originally Posted by Waboman

I'm not a smoker. Never have been. So don't pay much attention to prices. I was at Walgreens today picking up more Mucinex for this cold that won't go away. I'm starting to think it's not a cold but that other thing that starts with a C. But I digress, I was in line waiting to pay, glancing around and I see the wall of cigarettes behind the counter. Like I said, I don't pay much attention to that stuff, but then I saw the prices! Holy tobacco road! It ain't cheap to be a smoker.

It shows you just how addictive cigarettes are. Imagine selling people on a habit where they pay crazy amounts of money to breathe in toxic fumes, smell terrible, lose their sense of taste, cough constantly, and live the tail-end of their shortened-life in excruciating levels of declining health.

There's no reason anyone would stay on board for that, unless they were addicted.

[civiclx]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

If by "camera" you mean to take still photos, I bet your phone is good enough. However if you want to shoot video, then in my opinion the best on the market are by the company RED. The problem with phones and video, they often have a limited optical zoom before switching over to a digital zoom (digital zoom is garbage in comparison to optical zoom). If you don’t plan on doing much zooming though, my iPhone takes pretty good 4K video.

That's possible and it's certainly more convenient carrying your phone around than it is a camera. I'll do a bit of reading and see where that takes me.

[civiclx]

Kim Clijsters is back! She's had like two kids, has been retired for a few years and is making a comeback to tennis at the age of 36

[Scarriere]

You wouldn’t like interviews with hockey players.
They overuse that word immensely.

[BeastCreatureTrapper]

Originally Posted by ForumUser

I feel like I am developing an aversion to people who use the word “obviously” and I have no idea why. It just feels like an utterly redundant word. Is anything really obvious in these modern times?

I feel like I’ve entered a Kafka-esque scenario some days, where what should be self-effident has to be clearly spelt-out and well articulated. In fact to go one further, if this were some sort of ... “Olympics” for words I dislike, the word “obviously” would have to be up on the podium, awarded a bronze medal. Alongside it, would be the word “trope” receiving the gold...

I feel like you're in your own feels with the overuse of "feel".

You feel me?

[BeastCreatureTrapper]

Originally Posted by ForumUser

Yes, yes Beast you are quite right. I’m afraid this affable codger has had too much Galway Pipe this evening and thought they were reprogramming their microwave.

It's cool. I'm just having fun inside, as they won't let me play out in the rain.

[sk33tr]

did some posts get deleted from this thread?

i remember my post being the top one on the page, now it's the bottom one on the previous page. and a couple from one user, that were quoted in other posts, are no longer there.

[BizCat]

I wish there were an IQ test to be allowed on social media.

[MazeRunner]

Wait forever for a blu-ray to drop in price, it doesn't, so you buy it full price because you want a slipcover and the store only has 2 copies left.

That blu-ray drops by $7 a week later.

Don't keep receipts or have an account at the store so can't price adjust.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by MazeRunner

Wait forever for a blu-ray to drop in price, it doesn't, so you buy it full price because you want a slipcover and the store only has 2 copies left.

That blu-ray drops by $7 a week later.

Don't keep receipts or have an account at the store so can't price adjust.

$7 isn’t much. I once placed an order with Amazon (this was before I had Prine, and free shipping meant a 2 week delay) and by the time it shipped, the price dropped $40. I asked for a price adjustment, saying the item didn’t even ship yet. They refused. Ended up paying $70 for an item that later dropped to $30 before I even had it in my hands

[EinCB128]

Is it not possible to post Twitter links on the forum?