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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Post a book you're reading |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 5:23 pm
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Replies: 4,866
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Post a book you're reading |
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Posted: 21 Jan 2025, 6:47 am
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Replies: 4,866
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Last thing ya bought? |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2024, 7:32 am
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| A 1980 Sunday Seattle Times from EBay, w/the banner headline of the Mt. St. Helens eruption (torn up real bad on front page, and missing one section, but otherwise quite complete) https://i.postimg.cc/F1JY2L0n/seattletimes19801.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Mv2nxpDZ/seattletimes19802.jpg |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The past |
| bmasters1981 |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2024, 6:42 am
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Replies: 11
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| Because I was not grieving with everybody else when my father passed on earlier this year (he is departed now at 84); my brother came up to me and asked if I knew how to grieve. This took me aback because, for one thing, I had made peace with that fact that he would no longer be here, and had said g... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Old-timey newscasts vs. modern news |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 5:00 pm
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Replies: 16
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| I thought I might say also that I've been listening to old-time radio newscasts as well, mainly from the former WCBS 880 of NYC (now WHSQ ESPN radio), and 1010 WINS ("You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world); also, national newscasts from all three networks, and Mutual as well. Here's ... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Old-timey newscasts vs. modern news |
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Posted: 09 Sep 2024, 5:15 pm
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| Two other things that have me favoring the way it was are the better quality of graphics (some of the best graphics, IMO, being the Serif Gothic font variations that were on WNBC in the Big Apple starting in 1980 w/the debut of News 4 New York [derived from the NBC Serif Gothic font usage then] up t... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Old-timey newscasts vs. modern news |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2024, 3:32 am
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| And another reason why I like/favor how it was then is because of the commercials-- it wasn't all the same commercials all the time (that WNBC 1984 one that I posted to start has a commercial w/the late, great Tom Bosley showing how d-CON fogger worked to kill bugs in the walls; that's the kind of c... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Old-timey newscasts vs. modern news |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2024, 1:20 pm
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| Do you think that it's weird that I am more into the old-timey newscasts from many stations that actually had a good bit of in-depth reporting and longer stories (in essence, the 5 Ws and 1 H), compared to today's so-called "news" that is more political judgmentalism and argument (i.e. tal... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Your Most Specific/Niche Interest |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2024, 4:56 am
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Replies: 96
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| As I've said many a time, old-timey newspapers, which I have a wide variety of, from various places in the U.S., and even two or three from Canada (they cost a pretty penny from EBay [where I got most of them], but I would much rather pay that for an interesting, intriguing and involving old-timey d... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Not liking things that are popular |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2024, 4:45 am
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Replies: 18
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bee33 wrote: I like having my corner of the vast landscape of entertainment that feels like home to me.
So do I-- I get more out of old-timey shows like Emergency! and The Streets of San Francisco than I ever would have these days out of Chicago Fire and Blue Bloods. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Everyone else finds it funny, I don't...Why? |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2024, 3:56 am
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Replies: 49
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HawkingShrugged wrote: I could not fathom how Seinfeld and his cohorts put so much time and energy into such a waste of time. 
Neither can I about how the 6 "friends" of Friends did likewise for 10 seasons on NBC (1994-2004). |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Celebrity crush |
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Posted: 27 May 2024, 5:48 am
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Replies: 23
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| Very definitely Joey King (she is not just a remarkable actor, but is an incredible celebrity as well). |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Isit just me or are youtube videos getting longer? |
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Posted: 27 May 2024, 5:46 am
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Replies: 29
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| Personally, the only long-form videos I like on YouTube are those of old sports broadcasts from my youth (like the NBA on CBS, for one), driving videos from places I've never been (Los Angeles, for one), or old newscasts from my childhood (like WLS Eyewitness News from Chicago). |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have you been bullied for a special interest? |
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Posted: 27 May 2024, 5:40 am
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Replies: 33
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| I have certainly met with social disapproval when expressing my interests. I'm not sure what the current definition of bullying is, but when you are excited to share something that gives you pleasure (I'm not even getting to kink here; I'm talking poetry, history, literature, interesting facts, etc... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Does anybody else watch specific episodes over and over? |
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Posted: 27 May 2024, 5:23 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 7,400
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| TL;DR: Individuals with autism may watch the same episode or movie repeatedly for sensory comfort, routine and predictability, exploration of special interests, better processing and understanding of content, and comfort in familiarity. watching the same episode or movie over and over again. Here's... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: TV Episodes You Have Just Watched |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2024, 6:20 am
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Replies: 7,315
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| I prefer a series come to an organized ending rather than "Guess what. That cliff hanger we left you with? Live with it. The show has been canceled." And Barney Miller is one show that did that quite well, as shown here from the bottom of the last episode, "Landmark, Part 3" (OA... |
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