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I’ve officially reached the age where the difference in 75 degrees and 60 degrees is “Wow this is so nice sitting on my porch in shorts” to “Where the fuck are my wool socks and space heaters?”

To answer Watergirl’s question:

Blazing Saddles
Breaking Away
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Uncle Buck
Spaceballs

Also, I can’t believe we have raised a million dollars. Were this a right wing operation, I’d half kept half of that and bought a boat and spent the other half at an ad agency owned by DougJ.

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  1. 1.

    Mallard Filmore

    68F and above, I can stay warm.
    67F can go either way.
    66F and below, I have to turn on the heater.

  2. 2.

    VeniceRiley

    I’m going to need HRT before I chime in. My lady just went on it and it made a huge difference. Yay estro-patch. She’s an estronaut.

    I think we need to have a million party. Maybe some candidates will stop by and thank us? Do an AMA? hahahaha

  3. 3.

    Baud

    Were this a right wing operation, I’d half kept half of that and bought a boat and spent the other half at an ad agency owned by DougJ

    So you’re saying you have regrets?

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    Just a moment ago I suddenly had to make a choice – come in from the porch or go get the heater and turn it on, so I have no idea what you are talking about.

  6. 6.

    Mousebumples

    Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) tweeted at 6:02 PM on Sun, Sep 20, 2020:

    A GOP source with eyes on SC tells me despite his in-your-face flip flop on voting in a SCOTUS justice 40-something days before an election, Lindsey Graham is privately rattled about that tie he’s in with @harrisonjaime. He’s never really faced a viable, well-funded challenger.

    (https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1307817359214891008?s=03)

    I haven’t donated to Jaime Harrison yet, but it’s wonderful to see weak willed Lindsey start to realize that his actions, choices, and words will matter when his constituents vote this year.

  7. 7.

    Splitting Image

    Also, I can’t believe we have raised a million dollars. Were this a right wing operation, I’d half kept half of that and bought a boat and spent the other half at an ad agency owned by DougJ.

    If this were a right wing operation, that would have been the best way to ensure that the suckers gave you another million.

  8. 8.

    Jeffro

    Cole, I have a pretty beat up old kayak you can have if you promise not to swamp a bunch of other boats in the inevitable Biden Boat Victory Parade.

  10. 10.

    khead

    I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark again just yesterday. Love that movie. I was 11 when it came out and will still stop on it whenever I’m flipping around and find it.

  11. 11.

    evap

    Breaking Away! What a great movie, and one that I had forgotten about. I must see if it’s available on any of the streaming services…

  14. 14.

    swiftfox

    70 degrees is where I shift from shorts to long pants and a short-sleeved shirt.  But no heat until it gets to the 30s.  And I’m about 12 yrs older than thee.

    I get the first three movies.  Uncle Buck???  And you can do better than Spaceballs – The Producers is much better.

  16. 16.

    Tony Jay

    @John Cole:

    If you had a boat you’d fall off it, land on a passing otter, feel guilty, then adopt the orphaned cubs and bitch about how the cutest one hates you and eats all your warmest socks.

    Not grifting makes your life comfortably simpler.

  17. 17.

    lahke

    And that million doesn’t count all the money we’ve raised for animal rescue and David Anderson’s niece and a few hundred other good causes.   We may actually be nice people after all.

    If you love Raiders,  then you should watch “Raiders!”  A shot for shot remake by kids, except for one key scene….  Best quote:”I don’t know why Steven Spielberg needed $20 million dollars to make this movie.   My dad did it with his allowance.”

  19. 19.

    JaneE

    Just wait a while and your tolerance for temperature will keep narrowing.  On the bright side, you will no longer need summer or winter clothes, depending on where you live.   My problem is that my shoulders and upper arms want the temperature about 15-20 degrees warmer than the rest of my body.  Shrugs, shorts and sandals is fine around the house, but people look at me funny when I go out like that in December and January.

  20. 20.

    Tony Jay

    @WaterGirl:

    •   The Ode of Cole is a familiar text. He’s like Radagast and Gandalf got into a teleportation booth with John Candy and Keyser Soze. Guy’s a frikken myth.
  23. 23.

    Another Scott

    We turned on the heat today for the first time this season. Warmth is nice!

    On the third anniversary of Hurricane Maria, it’s not enough to just remember the devastation wrought by the storm. We must act to ensure nothing like it ever happens again and to ensure Puerto Rico gets the full dignity and respect it deserves. https://t.co/2zOkcVkYEz

    — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 20, 2020

    Well said.

    It will be a good day when Puerto Rico is finally a state of the USA.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  24. 24.

    Honus

    Yeah, I’m thinking about firing up the woodstove.  In the old days, that would never happen above 50f.

  25. 25.

    rjnerd

    Well I struck out on finding a vigil to attend, but I did do my own bit to honor RBG, a small group gathered to ring bells in her memory.   To an outsider, there was an octave of bells, sounding steadily for about 40 minutes.  Here is a bit from near the end. https://youtu.be/_35lMT8RzYM

    In Foxboro  MA, 20-Sept-2020 A quarter peal of 1264 Bob Major, on handbells.

    Trebles – C. Perry

    3-4 – E. Hansen (conductor)

    5-6 – J. Del Papa

    Tenors- L. Dickerson

    In honor of the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg-may her memory be for a blessing.

     

    The English have a particular system for ringing churchbells, with all the bells ringing sounded in one order, then again in a different order, repeating for a specific number of rows, none repeating.  Its part music, part mathematical group theory worked out in real time.   For fans of classic whodunits, try Dorothy Sayers, The Nine Taylors, it will provide an introduction.  Anyhow extended performances are often used to commemorate events, births, deaths, weddings, coronations, etc.

    There are other performances that have or will be happening.  They should get tabulated here https://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/event.php?id=13133

  27. 27.

    Tony Jay

    @WaterGirl:

    And who doesn’t like baby otters?

    (Cut to 3000 word rant on “You people have no fucking idea how annoying baby otters can be but I’m still treating them like houseguests because I’m a soft touch and screw you all for asking anyways”)

    It’s one of the reasons this Top 10,000 blog is always worth making a home in. There’s a lot of very different types of funny old life here.

    And it takes my mind off modern Britain. That shit is just depressing.

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    @Another Scott: That would be a good day.

    Perhaps we could finally change our nation anthem to something else – something from West Side Story!

    Totally silly response, but I agree.  It’s a travesty that they were thrown paper towels after the hurricane, and I don’t imagine for a minute – that if Trump comes through with actual money to help Puerto Rice – that there’s even one single person who won’t see it as a craven attempt to buy their votes, for a fleeting moment, before he shits on them again.

  30. 30.

    rekoob

    @rjnerd: Change ringing is such a wonderful tradition, as you note. One of my Sunday rituals is to track down “Bells on Sunday” on BBC Radio 4. There’s a snippet at 7:45p Eastern just before the final Shipping Forecast, a staple of the BBC broadcasting world. You listen to various conditions around the English Channel and elsewhere, culminating in a rousing “God Save the Queen” at 01.00 (8:00p Eastern).

  31. 31.

    Ken

    @rjnerd: I must admit that I enjoy the mathematics of change-ringing more than the result.  However though I play handbells I am not a change ringer so do not properly appreciate the technique, other than recognizing a steady rhythm.

  34. 34.

    Ken

    @Tony Jay: And it takes my mind off modern Britain. That shit is just depressing.

    I kind of enjoy Ed Miliband’s recent question time.  I mean, it won’t accomplish anything, but at least the UK still has a system where it’s allowed and even encouraged.

  35. 35.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Tony Jay:

    It’s one of the reasons this Top 10,000 blog is always worth making a home in

    *Almost* top 10,000. Let’s not be putting on airs.

  36. 36.

    Gin & Tonic

    As to the top of the post, arrived home about a half-hour ago. The thermometer read 43 God-fearing American degrees. That’s chillier than I’d like for Sep 20.

  37. 37.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    $1 Million. Many of us international readers would love to contribute to helping Americans get Hair Furor and his gang of incompetent lickspittles out of office, but we respect election finance laws (at home and in the US)

  38. 38.

    2liberal

    Pelosi was supposedly threatening to impeach trump again.  how would this prevent a vote on seating a SCOTUS judge?

  39. 39.

    Ruckus

    Shorts down to about 60 here and tee shirt to about 65, below that a sweat shirt.

    Above 80-82 its AC all the way. And yes I’m weird. Lived in snow country for a decade and couldn’t believe people had to wear what looked close to their weight in clothing to go outside.

  40. 40.

    rjnerd

    I am surprised that more than one person knew what I was talking about.  The best analogy I have for explaining the exercise to Americans, is imagine someone explaining poker to someone from another planet.   “We have 52 pieces of paper, and on one side they are all the same, on the other they are all different…..”

    Right now, except for rare events like this evenings performance, we have to stay in practice with online simulation systems, and put up with the lag. We don’t even get to use an actual bell, instead, we have to hit keys like a video game controller.  (I am working on the last part, if I can get the dueling libraries to actually compile, I will have a motion sensing “Handbell Input Device” )

    As anyone that has experienced an office group meeting attempting to sing Happy Birthday to someone over Zoom can attest, lag makes a real hash of things. Those that have seen performances by real musicians, that show as a bunch of tiled faces, They aren’t just sitting in front of the laptop and playing.

    The way it works is like a multi-track studio recording.  For those, the drum track goes down, each performer then plays  in synch with the track, unable to hear any other player.  Their streams are collected, they get slid around with delays until all the time codes match, and that result is what you see.  (With classic studio taping some play together, others like the person adding the brass accent line may lay down their track a week later)

  42. 42.

    wmd

    FWIW I’m older than you and don’t have the climate issues you do. turn 60 in March.

    5 movies:

    Blade Runner

    Silent Running

    Stand by Me

    Milagro Beanfield War

    Captain Marvel

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    @2liberal: Apparently an impeachment hearing/vote in the Senate takes precedence over ALL SENATE BUSINESS.

    So if they try to shove something through in the lame duck session, it would grind that to a halt.

    That’s the idea as i understand it, anyway.

  45. 45.

    SuzieC

    Strictly comedies:

    Animal House

    Miss Congeniality

    Caddyshack

    Blazing Saddles

    Writing 50 Vote Forward letters to shaky Dem voters.

  46. 46.

    gwangung

    @WaterGirl: With multiple, successive counts of impeachment to replace each one the Turtle tries to call.

    With anyone else, it’d be kind of a stunt, but there are ample legitimate opportunities with the shitgibbon…

  47. 47.

    Patricia Kayden

    For the 'sky is falling' folks. Keep it on your page.Someone was talking about how much money the Democrats have made on ActBlue and someone had to come in the comments talking about doom and gloom.Like damn, can people be happy for 1 second without y'all bringing it down? pic.twitter.com/MCr09dANYl— Leaundra Ross ?? (@LeaundraRoss) September 20, 2020

  49. 49.

    The Golux

    @evap: Decades ago, my wife and I went to Cinestudio (at Trinity College in Hartford) to see a movie whose title I can’t remember.  Cinestudio couldn’t show that movie because its run in first-run theaters had been extended.  In its place, they were showing “Breaking Away”, which we had never heard of.  Went in anyway, and it’s one of my favorites.

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