skooma512 posted:

TBF 9/11 or not the fighters would not have splashed a civilian aircraft as a first resort that far away from anything important , they would have instructed him to land and he would have done so and everyone goes home that night. Itchy trigger fingers aside I’m sure they don’t expect everything that just came over the pacific to know about the sudden continent wide no fly zone

nullandvoid posted:

Holy poo poo I forgot all about the squawk code! That pilot's English was god-awful. Most of the pilots from KE had pretty terrible English anyway, but they knew enough to understand things about the dangerous goods and live animals when I would go to the airport and get them to sign off on the NOC.

This pilot was BAD. I mean I'm sure he's a really nice guy and everything, but the skill he needed to have wasn't there in the time that he needed to have it.

Kind of cool that there's a Wikipedia page about it. I think I know a few people I'm going to send this to.

Neito posted:

I had a weird era where I tried to pretend I was "too cool" for any popular music, so I've spent a lot of my late 20s and now 30s rediscovering the music of this era (and the 90s, but this isn't the 90s thread). Of special hate at the time was Linkin Park, cus it seemed the most mockable. Now I really like In The End, which was thrust in front of me a few years ago because of a cover by NateWantsToBattle and notable "Hey remember this from the 2000s" person Egoraptor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWVrgeFCwmY

je1 healthcare posted:

It's the result of spreading one's creative wings when you're suddenly given a new platform that's unmoderated, or less moderated. The first thing you want to say is all the stuff that you couldn't before.

Cable went off into a crass direction in the 90s because the FCC no longer controlled everything on television. And then the internet comes along and the userbase (predominantly young, male, middle-class, socially marginalized) has a platform where they could say ANYTHING without consequence. Plus there was a lot of awful poo poo going on to cope with. School shootings, 9/11, two wars, and an evangelical political party that's justifying it all.

It also helped that for most of us, those things were abstract, distant crises. It wasn't like the 80s and early 90s when the problems of the time were in our own neighborhoods, when there were recessions and crime rates hitting historic highs. By the time we see things in the media....they're no longer real, if that makes any sense. It's like pop culture got edgier with each passing year as irl crime became less common. It was an escape from the increasing mundanity of the real world, and when the real world was a violent hellworld we wanted wholesome family sitcoms.

Sentient Data posted:

The living room thing is more than just a change in family values. The people on this forum are witnesses to a major turning point in human history itself - the rise of personal computers and especially the internet is just a straight up industrial revolution level event. We haven't even gotten to the point where things are stable yet, so who knows how it'll all and up


A good chunk of my early 2000s was spent on irc and telnet-based mucks. I even paid for editplus specifically because it allowed 2-dimensional text highlighting which I used when working on ascii art

shame on an IGA posted:

It is literally impossible to overstate the influence of Matt Groening and Seth McFarlane on 1999-2005 youth culture

Mr Interweb posted:

In the End's pretty good, but my favs were Faint and Breaking the Habit. I know LP was a punchline for a lot of people but i thought they made good music

Sentient Data posted:

Groening is responsible for untold deaths and environmental destruction by spreading nuclear energy fears, and I'm not joking in the slightest

Sir Lemming posted:

This instrumental of one of their later songs ("Powerless" + "Tinfoil" intro) came up in my shuffle this morning and it kind of stopped me dead in my tracks. It's good with vocals too, but something about this version really gives me chills. I feel like the chords & dynamics say a lot all by themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9xn0JSGq4U

3D Megadoodoo posted:

ACKCHUALLY, Simpsons merely shows that capitalism is bad. State-owned nuclear power is fine.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

ACKCHUALLY, Simpsons merely shows that capitalism is bad. State-owned nuclear power is fine.

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

In what episodes of the Simpsons are state institutions portrayed positively?

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

It's bad enough we've been reliving a lot of 2000s era "War on Terror" politics in the past three weeks; Pepsi doesn't need to torture us by bringing back that vile poo poo.

Happy Landfill posted:

Listening to my dad's opinion about Muslims was not something I was hoping to relive, but here we are. I'm sure Thanksgiving conversation will be delightful

Heath posted:

Pepsi Blue was good

Mister Speaker posted:

https://twitter.com/futurevictim_/status/1436921787254644740?t=i6awKYyCmKf9zH_lFcBE7A&s=19

Mister Speaker posted:

https://twitter.com/futurevictim_/status/1436921787254644740?t=i6awKYyCmKf9zH_lFcBE7A&s=19

Gonz posted:

Heath posted:

I used to get Pepsi Blue from the vending machine when I would bowl with my friends on weekends. That and some fried mozz sticks. Why yes I was overweight as a teenager

Heath posted:

I used to get Pepsi Blue from the vending machine when I would bowl with my friends on weekends. That and some fried mozz sticks. Why yes I was overweight as a teenager

DrBouvenstein posted:

I'm 99% certain the bowling alley near me still has Pepsi Blue in the vending machine, and I have my doubts that it's from the re-release...

Grassy Knowles posted:

Did you listen to ska

Gonz posted:

I had a girlfriend in high school in the late 90’s who was a complete ska fiend, and every time we’d go out somewhere, she would seemingly have a new ska megamix CD that she made, and put it in the car player to listen to.

At first it was fine, but over time, it became the audio equivalent of water torture/extracting teeth.

To this day, I have a negative Pavlovian response to hearing ska. I’d sooner listen to audio of a dozen dogs barking at once, or the brown noise.

Mister Speaker posted:

I bleached my hair to look like Eminem in the seventh grade.

Gonz posted:

I like post-No Doubt solo pop artist Gwen Stefani.

uber_stoat posted:

there are some bottles from the late 90s on ebay. 50 bux, you can do a trip report.

Mister Speaker posted:

That interim period where they were still No Doubt but the band's production was going places, was a lot of fun. Hella Good still absolutely rips.