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Pronell

@ Pronell @lemmy.world

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  • What is your favorite TV show of all time?

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  • Community, followed by Fringe and then Justified.

    Community is my ideal sitcom: weird, experimental, hilarious, and emotional. It was my comfort show for a very long time. My ringtone comes from that show, Professor Professorson's conspiracy theory ringtone. (Dun dun dunnnnnn)

    Fringe is my ideal sci-fi show: weird, far reaching, and is allowed to reach its end.

    Justified is my ideal cop show: funny and dark, with a great supporting cast.

  • TIL "prop" in film and theater is short for "property"

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  • Upvoting you because I agree, it is obvious... but to me, only in retrospect.

  • What's the most interesting fringe group you've learned about?

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  • Spiritualists conducting scam seances in 1850s Boston, the Fox sisters. Their scam was done by "knocking noises" that were generated by the sisters cracking joints or even just tapping on the table or floor.

    The circles they traveled in included Quakers, suffragettes, high society, and financiers. (Some of their early seances centered on stock market predictions, and made them a good deal of money.)

    I just love that intersection of societies coming together to be scammed by some pretty bright women, in a really interesting time in our national history. Strict religious beliefs in a marriage with new age free thought.

    I have kind of wanted to write a book centered on that time but never found a good hook.

    My grandmother was an eventual product of that generation in Boston. Very equal rights for women while in a weird religious sect, Christian Science, founded by feminist Mary Baker Eddy.

  • SO wanted me to make this tuna casserole from his childhood

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  • Fuck the bullies, learn to cook the few basic foods you love, and see if the love of cooking grabs you.

    Or don't, I am certainly not trying to bully you into doing something you dread. I just get a ton of satisfaction from trying new things now that I am older and give less fucks.

    I wish I snapped pics of the calzones I made yesterday. They weren't perfect but tasty and my wife loved em.

  • What movie are you ashamed you love?

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  • I saw it in the theater and loved it then. Still do.

  • Warrior, rogue or mage, why?

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  • Warrior.

    I seem to want to protect and defend things. Plus I am big and strong.

    I'm a little bit rogue though, as I tend to overlook rules if it gets the job done.

    And mage? I am bright but terrible at book learning and arcane sigils.

  • What dumb line/joke may live in your head forever?

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  • There was a terrible standup bit that I loved. I believe it was from An Evening at the Improv.

    Guy is doing a bad private eye shtick: "Either this man was stabbed to death with a spoon, or his entire body is breaking out in little smiles."

    I have searched online for the clip for literally over a decade, and I know this because I searched once a few years ago and found... myself asking the exact same question on a forum a decade earlier.

  • lasik: wearing glasses with extra steps?

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  • Man, I am so glad my eye doctor told me it wasn't worth it rather than just taking the money!

  • lasik: wearing glasses with extra steps?

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  • The answer is that Lasik isn't a cure-all.

    I had the same experience. My vision was getting kinda bad and I wanted Lasik. I went to an eye doctor, and while I am farsighted in the left eye, the right is 20/20.

    Lasik would fix the farsightedness, but having that in one eye is an asset for driving. So now I have driving glasses and won't worry about Lasik.

  • What's the biggest misconception you think many people have?

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  • Better Call Sol.

  • I hope this clears things up

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  • Could've added: Cook.

    Cook sprayed with non-cooking spray stick.

  • Does a PBJ have a defined "up" side?

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  • It's existence led to this Mr. Show skit.

    And I am sorry to say this, but Mustmayostardayonnaise Lincoln was a Jan 6th rioter. (I secretly love having used that brand new sentence.)

  • Legends of flight

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  • That was the upset in the timeline that somehow delayed or prevented the Bell Riots.

  • Rallying With Sanders, Platner Condemns 'Corrupt Politicians and the Corporations That Bought Them' | Common Dreams

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  • They're all doubleplusgood.

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  • New campaign in my D&D world.

    700 years ago the moon fell and devastated the land.

    This island in particular almost split in two entirely, and a minor god died in the process of saving it.

    Now the characters are sent on a mission to prevent a war by destroying one side of the land. In the process they may uncover how they are being used, by who, what really happened back then, who the god was, and the real danger to the lands.

    Or they can just do what they were told and blow stuff up... except one character is a secret agent hoping to destroy the other side if it comes to that.

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  • I'm tired of all the non-fascists bitching about the non-purity of other non-fascists.

    We are supposed to be allies. If we can't work together, we deserve to lose.

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    Viral ‘Last Breath Of The Confederacy’ Speech Puts Louisiana Man On Political Map

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  • Since headlines can't identify individuals anymore for some reason...

    "Marshan Camese, who goes by Nola tha Progressive on TikTok..."

  • You're immortal and sent back to Dec 1945. How do you survive until modern day?

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  • ALL OF THAT, JUST FOR A SAFE CAREER IN ACTING?!

  • It's a sign of affection

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  • I have an orange butthead who likes to bite but I have mostly trained him out of it, which really means he still does it but very gently or just grazes you with a fang.

  • What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?

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  • Community - The slogan was 'Six seasons and a movie.'

    We are still waiting for our goddamned movie!