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TGIFfunnies 11/21/25 EDITION: Random Thoughts

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 1 day, 2 hours ago to Entertainment
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More like satire rather than humor but it's entertaining anyway . . .
Just making use of all the Human memenome's in the entire meme pool .


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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 1 hour, 18 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah - I used to take pictures of stuff that I wanted to be able to look back on and enjoy. Did not ever try to get a candid shot, just wanted to remind myself that at "that" particular point in my life I was able to enjoy being wherever I was at the time. I have snaps from my '72 trip to Italy, a place that I thought that I would never get to go to - went with the Latin Club I joined when I was taking Latin in HS. Those picks mean more to me, and bring back more memories, than the digital pics I have from Italy in 2016. Funny what brings back good memories, and what is just kinda - yeah, that was fun...
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
    ¿Lo sabe? me gusta la palabra no-binario porque estoy binario. No estoy binaria.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 hours, 18 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino was quite young when I read Dracula. Don't recall the Kodak but I was impressed by how well it was written. I was already weaned on classic horror movies.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 hours, 24 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, I did grow up about as segregationist Deep South as you can get in one half hour to the Florida line in Dothan, Alabama.
    It was approximately 1970 when I shared a canteen with a black Marine and imagined people in Dothan pointing and screaming at me.
    Just because you were raised to be a racist doesn't mean you had to turn out that way.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 3 hours, 20 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    Ours started out white, but the blood staining after a few years. Eventually, the girls were not REQUIRED to play. We had a fella, Todd Cathers who could catch anything you threw at him, and he had a throw that could rattle the wall, he hit a girl in the chest so hard, she flipped backwards and landed on her stomach.
    He caught my leg once, and it swept my feet out from under me!

    There is NO CHANCE this would be allowed today, and quite frankly, ZERO Chance I would let my daughter play...
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  • Posted by Steven-Wells 3 hours, 24 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    I recently started reading a classic book and discovered just how old Kodak cameras were.

    "It looks like part of a keep, and is close to an old chapel or church. I could not enter it, as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house, but I have taken with my kodak views of it from various points."
    [emphasis added]

    Jonathan Harker’s Journal
    Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897
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  • Posted by Steven-Wells 3 hours, 29 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    Polaroid made the cameras for which you peeled off the back of the film (and coated the black and white pictures.) Kodak did not have a peel-off version. After Polaroid invented their color instant camera with its chemistry fully contained in the permanent picture, Kodak developed a version. Others within this thread have commented on details.
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  • Posted by Steven-Wells 3 hours, 33 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    I had one of the Kodak instant cameras. I made a side-by-side comparison at a camera show with the Polaroid version, I thought the Kodak version produced more appealing color pictures.
    After the lawsuit was settled, Kodak offered some money for turning in some specific part from the camera. So, I got some money back.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 3 hours, 57 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    LOL, I recall our dodge balls were white, too. Oh wait, those were volley balls used as dodge balls.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 6 hours, 34 minutes ago
    Lobsters in the tank on the Titanic? That is how I feel about the NYC Mayor!
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 7 hours, 36 minutes ago
    "Let the stupidity work itself out of the gene pool." I never considered it was self-cleaning...I love this idea. Great set, as usual, OUC.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 7 hours, 38 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    I was working for Kodak in Rochester, NY when all this went down. I worked with process systems that made parts for the cameras and chemicals for the film. The coolest feature was the pictures were self developing before your eyes. You could watch the image come to clarity over a few minutes. Once in a while I see one of these cameras show up in an antique shop or second hand store. I would say unopened film packs are extremely rare by now.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 7 hours, 40 minutes ago
    If that is what white privilege is, then I’m happy to be white.
    Another great bunch … thanks!
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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 8 hours, 19 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    Mine never did - had the basic, then mail in the film and wait a couple of weeks to see how well the picks turned out../....
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  • Posted by mccannon01 10 hours, 38 minutes ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, Kodak made an instant camera like Polaroid for a couple of years and were sued by Polaroid for it. Kodak had to cease production and pay Polaroid $800 million. When Polaroid started, Kodak made the film with the understanding Kodak would always make the film. When Polaroid fired up its own film plant, then Kodak responded with an instant camera of its own. Neither company won in the end.
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