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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 8, 2012 5:30 AM
in response to: FloydDBarber
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Same here, Floyd.
I'm just disappointed in Newton. Survivor and AI have been on the air for eons now, and he keeps silent?
Shame on him.
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 8, 2012 1:24 AM
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I don't depend on TV as my primary source of entertainment. For example, I'm not one that turns on the TV as soon as I enter the house (like most Americans). So I think it is good you are watching less TV. Everyone should watch A LOT less TV.
So I highly recommend that all of those people that feel TV has let them down find other hobbies and ways to entertain themselves. The Internet even makes this more easy to do, but there are many, many other activities one can do besides watching TV and most of those are commercial free to boot.
You are right. No doubt about it; people should turn off the TV and learn to the play the piano. Great suggestion, Jonny.
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 4, 2012 7:11 PM
in response to: willbefree25
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If television was a vast wasteland in 1963 what could it be today?
The times have changed which is why the updated Twilight Zone and Outer Limits just did not work for me. I was naive in 1962, most of television was black and white and actors could act.
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 4, 2012 2:43 PM
in response to: casablancalover
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I'm glad to see you've recognized the value of Fred's wise counsel here, Charlotte!
(...as this could come in quite handy for you and everyone else out there on the road when and if that day/night comes you find yourself driving to met Ben Mankiewicz on that date you're attempting to line up!) 
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 4, 2012 2:31 PM
in response to: FredCDobbs
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You just explained to me how it can happen, even in regular traffic. Thank you.
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 4, 2012 2:27 PM
in response to: Dargo
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Btw, I'm thinkin' that while Floyd may not appreciate how his thread about "Commercials" has now kinda segued into a "PSA" for us motorcyclists out there, I gotta say I'M kinda diggin' it!!! 
(...sorry Floyd!)
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 4, 2012 2:13 PM
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That's an excellent observation and suggestion here, Fred. I think you're exactly right. And, considering that motorcycles are smaller than cars, this would add to this whole scenario.
And, to expand upon this, an additional "theory" of mine as to why drivers(or "cagers", in the parlance of us motorcyclists) will pull out on us motorcyclists is that the smaller the vehicle approaching into a cagers field of vision, the less it becomes a "threat" to them, as if, say it's a city bus which was closing on 'em. Now THAT would tend to register in their cellphone-usin'/makeup-applyin'/coffee-drinkin'/etc/etc/etc preoccupied little lizard brains as a REAL threat to their lives, and thus they'd be more inclined to take heed of that kind of situation.
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 4, 2012 1:44 PM
in response to: Dargo
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when some kid pulled right in front of me out o' nowhere one sunny day
Let me tell you guys something about science and physics that explains why a lot of people pull out in front of other people on streets and highways.
It took a lifetime for me to discover this and figure it out. This is based on science.
Even if a person looks both ways before he pulls out into traffic, he can pull out right in front of a car that hits him.
Why?
Because he doesn't look long enough.
It takes from 1 to 2 or so seconds for a moving car to register on a person's brain that the car is actually moving.
Too many people glance left and right too quickly, and they see the left and right part of the road for less than 1 second. Sometimes just for a half a second. If a car is passing at a moderate speed, the viewer will actually see the car but he will NOT notice that it is moving, so the car registers in his brain only as a stationary object, and it blends into the background of the scene he is viewing.
I finally became aware of this phenomenon a few years ago when I quickly glanced both left and right, and I saw NO oncoming car, then I pulled out and an oncoming car nearly hit me.
I was shocked and I asked myself why I didn't see the car? I finally concluded that I DID see the car, but I did not realize it was moving. My brain told me it was a stationary object, since I had glanced at it so quickly.
So, before pulling out into traffic, look left and count off two or three seconds, then look right and count off two or three seconds. To give your brain a chance to realize if anything is moving or not.
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 4, 2012 1:03 PM
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Dargo wrote: Wow, now THAT'S an interesting story! So, you've actually meet one of guys who gave the sport of motorcycling its" black eye", huh?!
I never see those types now. Motorcycle gangs I see all may have been bad dudes once, but now that they're grandfathers, they soften up a bit.
Yeah, down in FL, a guy will call himself a Hogmaster, and well...
Edited by: casablancalover on Feb 4, 2012 10:42 AM
Well, yeah, I suppose they CAN call themselves that...EVEN if they're ridin' a Suzuki Metric Cruiser like the doo-rag sportin' older fart is doin' THERE...but knowin' as how many of the OTHER old farts who cruise around on their Harley-Davidsons feel about somebody callin' themselves a "Hogmaster" while ridin' on a Metric Cruiser, there's ALWAYS a possibilty that they'll eventually be corrected regarding their chosen nomenclature.
(...yep, even out here in Arizona, where them there Harley-Davidson motorsickles out-number MY chosen brand, Triumph, by about 100-to-1..BUT, then again I've never felt the need to play-act like so many other motorcyclists seem to do nowadays that I'm some kinda "pirate outfit' wearin' bad-boy", like that dude you supplied a picture of here!...nope, ya see, I learned YEARS ago to always WEAR MY FREAKIN' HELMET and a jacket, 'cause one o' them there "brain-buckets" saved my head from some serious injury about 17 years ago and when some kid pulled right in front of me out o' nowhere one sunny day when I still lived in LA LA Land!)
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:39 PM
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I have trouble keeping my balance on anything that doesn't have 4 wheels.
And sometimes I've been known to tip those over too. 
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 4, 2012 10:42 AM
in response to: Dargo
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Dargo wrote: Wow, now THAT'S an interesting story! So, you've actually meet one of guys who gave the sport of motorcycling its" black eye", huh?!
I never see those types now. Motorcycle gangs I see all may have been bad dudes once, but now that they're grandfathers, they soften up a bit.
Yeah, down in FL, a guy will call himself a Hogmaster, and well...
Edited by: casablancalover on Feb 4, 2012 10:42 AM
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 3, 2012 1:48 PM
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Like I was sayin' here Fred, your story, and now this photo here, are most interesting.
(...thanks for sharin' 'em!) 
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 3, 2012 1:37 PM
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Yes, they weren't quite so bad back in those days. I was a freelance photographer back in the '60s, and I did some risky things to get my pictures. I was young and foolish, like the freelance photographers in the movie "Salvador" (1986). It frightens me today to think of some of the stupid risky things I did back in the '60s.
I talked to Barger on the telephone two or three times. He was so mad, I think I would have c****** in my pants if I had met him face to face.
Here's a photo I took at Laconia in '65:
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 3, 2012 1:29 PM
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Wow, now THAT'S an interesting story! So, you've actually meet one of guys who gave the sport of motorcycling its" black eye", huh?!
(...yeah, Sonny's a real "sweetheart", alright...though I can't say I know this from any firsthand experience...FORTUNATELY!!!)
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Re: commercials and movies
Posted: Feb 3, 2012 1:23 PM
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I was too young to be at Hollister, but I filmed the Laconia riot in '65, where they smashed windows and burned a couple of cars. The Governor already had the National Guard on stand-by and they moved in rather quickly.
I was in jail with a couple of Hells Angels back in the '60s. Barger was mad as heck. I was able to bail them out.
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