Posted on 01/07/2023 7:30:38 AM PST by Hostage
👍 beautuful!
Oops (sp?), but typing on a smartphone with a thumb, so it happens.
Unnecessary is right.
Read like an infomercial didn’t it?
Tediously told and irritating. Every time there is a commercial break the story starts over.
Must have gotten paid by the word or it came from one of those one spoonful at a time click again and again things that are nothing but advertisements.
She shouts to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consults his portable GPS and replies, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
She rolls her eyes and says, "You must be a Republican!" "I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," answers the balloonist, "everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you're not much help to me."
The man smiles and responds, "You must be a Democrat." I am," replies the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault."
Me either.
If I had done that I would have had no clue about who it was I had helped.
great story!
I've started paying more attention to movies in recent years and, while I don't follow the gossip sites, I do read reviews and interviews. The impression is steadily growing on me that 90 percent of the celebrities are generally pretty gracious, many of them extremely so. As in other fields, there is a small minority of jerks and nightmare cases that give everyone a bad name. And of course, drugs and alcohol sometimes get involved.
It's also true that the big celebrities live under a constant microscope. The paparazzi have always been there, but now everybody has a smart phone with a camera. It must be a nightmare to be photographed every time you step out onto the street, go shopping, or sit down in a restaurant. Everyone has an occasional bad day and anyone can get snappish when they're tired, upset, or have just been pestered one too many times in the last 15 minutes. But the celebs now live in an environment in which every bad moment gets captured and often goes viral.
I don't move in movie circles, don't hang out in clubs, and probably wouldn't recognize more than a dozen celebs if they were sitting right next to me. If I saw a celeb on the street, I wouldn't accost them. I've worked around politics most of my life. When I see political people out of uniform, off the clock, doing real people things in the real world, I leave them alone. They get harassed too much and it contributes to their tendency to self-isolation. They are entitled to private lives and time with their families. The same goes for movie people and other celebs.
That said, I have gone to a few local film festivals that were within range as well as a couple of "special appearance" type events involving movies in which I have an interest. There's nothing to it; just buy a ticket or two and drive out to see the film(s). My personal encounters with the tribe are therefore extremely limited. I can think of five somewhat recognizable actor/director types that I've met and a larger number of movie people who are basically unknowns. In my limited experience, all have been perfectly normal people. They were all present to work an event so they arrived in a fan service frame of mind to begin with, but they were still easy going, personable, attentive, responsive, etc., and they honestly seemed to be enjoying themselves talking about their craft. These weren't top tier, red carpet events that they had to go to because the studio demanded it; they were doing a favor for a friend and could have begged off if they wanted to. No head cases. No handlers or bodyguards. No one was watching the clock. They all stayed until they had answered every question and taken every picture, and they were among the last out of the room.
These weren't mass attendance events with a crush of crazy fans; they were small enough that one could have a short conversation in a relaxed way. And these weren't the mega A-list names whose presence would automatically generate a mob environment. All of that helped. But even many of the mega A-listers have the reputation of being very nice when encountered in a civilized environment.
I live in DC, so targets of opportunity do appear. My most recent such adventure was the Middleburg Film Festival, which was a completely lovely event that had several excellent movies that were on my list. Only one of the several venues was a theater; the rest were local buildings (community center, a church, a school) with a room big enough for an improvised screen and a jury-rigged sound system. Several of the directors (I don't recall any actors) made appearances and stayed around for discussion. It has certainly given me a whole new perspective on the industry. There are hundreds of such small, low profile festivals around the country. Check one out sometime, just to get a flavor of that strange world that we do so much complaining about. You will find out that a lot of the people aren't strange at all; they just have an unusual and pretty interesting way of making a living, and most of them seem to be grateful for the opportunity. And grateful to the audiences who ultimately make it all possible.
Typical clickbait prose. Why I do not ever click on that crap....easy tell....”X person looks at photo of spouse, immediately calls police, medical authorities, divorce lawyer, priest and psychiatrist” usually 60 intrusive ads follow along with the text.
So we are now posting click-bait stories here? Please, don’t.
Keith Urban? Bah! Let me tell you about the time I met Keith Hernandez at ....
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I used to see Prince driving to work. I’d be driving home, and I’d see a small black man in a yughe sports car. After about 4 sightings I realized that it was Prince.
And for all the MN people: Guess who I saw? Dave More and Vern Gagne.
Another one - a limo was stopped on the side of the road with a flat tire. A couple stopped to help. Turns out it was Trump’s limo. Trump repaid their kindness by tracking him down and paying off their mortgage.
Another one - Trump paid off an elderly widow’s farm mortgage. Her husband committed suicide thinking the insurance would be enough to pay off the mortgage but there was an exemption for suicide. Trump stepped in and paid it off so she could continue to live on the farm that had been in her husband’s family over 100 yrs.
Biden, however, wouldn’t spit on America to put out a fire.
My husband was in India on business. Hundreds of homeless children crowded around him and his crew begging for anything. The crew had already been warned that if they gave them anything that the children would be jumped and most likely killed and the money would be stolen.
Sometimes the reaction is situational and can have differing responses, depending on the perspective. Example:
We were at a Dodger game, first level aisle seats about twenty rows up. Two rows in front of us and a few people to the right was Karen Carpenter (this was at the height of her fame) A woman and her young (13, 14 ish) daughter wanted an autograph.
With the encouragement of the mother the daughter was working her way in front of people to get to Karen Carpenter. The girl was stopped by somebody associated with Miss Carpenter and went no further returning to her mother. She said she was told that Miss Carpenter only signs autographs between innings. The mother thought this to be rude and loudly said so.
The woman and the girl were rude and did not realize it, thus they likely think very little of Miss Carpenter.
Encounters, when natural, not forced, are far different than something like that one at the baseball game.
thanks for those examples- just adds more weight to how decent he is- in stark contrast to the bidens
Good one.
His recent songs have gotten too bland for my taste but his earlier hits were pretty good, like "Where The Blacktop Ends" and "Raining On Sunday." He has had a pretty impressive run of Top 10 country hits during his career.
This story does seem a little contrived however, if he was surrounded by bodyguards, why didn't one of them pick up the tab?
Excuse me, but what in the text body of the thread is asking you to click anything?
The source has to be listed, but nothing in the story above in this thread is prompting you to click.
Or are you suffering Bidenism? Yeah, chronic stupidity.
The picture of Ruth with Kieth is outside.
But she helped him inside.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4121570/posts?page=39#39
Yeah, I felt the same way.
It’s a good story but it would have been better shorter.
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