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| 40220 | The Café | <blockquote rel="Mr Magic" style=""><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="">Mr Magic wrote :</b><br><i style=""> <div>Papa John Schnatter's downfall.</div><div><br></div><div>https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/11/news/companies/papa-johns-pizza-john-schnatter/index.html<br></div> </i><b style="">-end quote</b></span></blockquote><blockquote rel="Mr Magic" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"The call was specifically designed as a role-playing exercise to prevent future public-relations disasters.</span></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Colonel Sanders called blacks n—–s,” Schnatter said, before complaining that Sanders never faced public backlash. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not a wise move but he was quoting someone else and in the proper context of managing PR disasters, so I don't know about this one. Also, </span><span style="font-size: small;">I'm not exactly sure why but the internet tells me that Papa John's is the official pizza place for the Alt-Right lol</span></p> | echidna64 | Jul 12, 2018 |  |
| 40219 | The Café | <div>Papa John Schnatter's downfall.</div><div><br></div><div>https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/11/news/companies/papa-johns-pizza-john-schnatter/index.html<br></div> | Mr Magic | Jul 12, 2018 | |
| 40218 | Retro Manic! | <div>This is probably totally meaningless at this point, but while I was fixing other cron jobs, I noticed that four or five crons for Retro Manic needed updated, so I did that. This will fix a few things that may not have been working before.</div><div><br></div><div>Again, probably pretty meaningless now but hey... I was in there and it didn't take long to fix so... ta-da!<br></div> | Vaporman87 | Jul 12, 2018 | |
| 40217 | Just a question for "Retro" and "Toy/Figure" enthusiasts | That's actually an interesting idea. Given the nostalgia craze now and days, it could be a rather easy sale. Might not be G.I. Joe or Transformers levels of success, but there has to be some market that wants it. | Rick Ace Rhodes | Jul 11, 2018 | |
| 40216 | The Café | Other than being on a Danny Phantom kick as of late, I'll be going to a convention near by. I wasn't sold on it at first, until they announced the original red power ranger Austin St. John and just recently Zordon. There are also two other rangers from In Space that will be there too. | ThatDudeintheHoodie | Jul 11, 2018 | |
| 40215 | Just a question for "Retro" and "Toy/Figure" enthusiasts | Oooh, is this a new Vaporman venture?!<div><br></div><div>Sounds pretty cool, I think that there would be a market for it! Due to licensing, you might need to do "parodies" like "Robo Patrol" instead of Robo Cop, but that could be fun!</div><div><br></div><div>A miniature 80's village sounds neat!</div><div><br></div> | echidna64 | Jul 11, 2018 | |
| 40214 | Hey, That's Pretty Cool! | <div>You know that story about the Thai soccer team?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/asia/thai-cave-rescue-mission-intl/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/asia/thai-cave-rescue-mission-intl/index.html</a><br></div> | Mr Magic | Jul 10, 2018 | |
| 40213 | The Breakfast Club | Similary, I was thinking about the movie American Pie (1999) which is almost 20 years old!<div><br></div><div>The scene where Nadia is recorded taking her clothes off with a secret webcam would certainly be a lawsuit today- c<span style="font-size: 10pt;">razy how times change! </span></div> | echidna64 | Jul 10, 2018 | |
| 40212 | CNN - The 2000s | In articles I wrote for RetroJunk from 2006 through 2009, I wrote about how the 00s were more enjoyable for me than the 90s were. I was actually what TV Tropes would call a Stepford Smiler in those articles. While I certainly enjoyed the pop culture of the 00s more than that of the 90s, I was actually having a very rough time in my personal life. I was not on the right mix of medication, I was seeing a therapist who didn't understand Aspergers' Syndrome, which was also a puzzlement to me and my mom, and speaking of my mom, our relationship was codependent and toxic, as relationships in families with people on the spectrum tend to be. <div><br></div><div>I think the best example of the Stepford Smiler trope would be when I wrote an article about my happiness in the 00s in 2008 called "Life Does NOT Suck Today!". I thought I was happy at the time, but the truth is, my life in the 00s was just as distressing, sad and painful as my life in the 90s was. I wouldn't really come to know true happiness until this decade (The New 10s). I started seeing a therapist who understood Asperger's Syndrome, while Wikipedia would help me learn more about it as well, allowing me to talk about how it impacted my life in both bad ways and good ways. I finally got on the right mix of medication. Most importantly for my progress, my mom passed away in 2010. I know that sounds ghoulish and heartless, but hear me out. Our relationship was not a good one. While we both loved each other on a familial level, we didn't like each other as people. She thought I was a selfish hoarder who was nasty, vindictive and bitter. I thought she was a callous hypocrite whose behavior towards me not only bordered on abusive, but sometimes stepped over that border into outright abuse, whether verbal, emotional or even physical. Her death on November 5th, 2010, was a good thing for both of us. She was free of her medical issues and had her spirit restored to her. I was free to live a more honest life, and would eventually come to have greater peace of mind. I'm in a far better in 2018 than I was in 2008, and that's the truth.</div> | Caps 2.0 | Jul 09, 2018 | |
| 40211 | The Breakfast Club | <div>Living in the era of #MeToo has cast a negative light on films like The Breakfast Club. Scenes in which Bender insults Claire, inappropriately violates her personal space (under a desk), uses homophobic slurs, etc. are now looked at much differently.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink">Molly Ringwald addressed this in April</a>. I tend to agree with most of her logic in that article. But she doesn't address the fact that yes, indeed, teens of the '80s acted just like this. Are we to believe that they don't today? You can't tell me that teens don't engage in any of this sort of thing today (excluding the homophobic slurs to a certain extent). Nor can you tell me that teen girls today ARE NOT attracted to "bad boys". <br></div><div><br></div><div>Sure we are far more careful to include this kind of thing in film, but Hughes knew how things were. He just didn't allow our aversion to the truth get in the way. <br></div> | Vaporman87 | Jul 09, 2018 | |
