The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Deux

Yeah, seen the grown up image on the funeral announcement, but I cannot see anything in my head but a ninth grader's face.

 

<Eliot Ness> DID HE SOUND LIKE THIIIIIISSS?

 

That seems a little exaggerated. Maybe we're operating on different definitions of alpinism...I'm usually thinking just light and fast with a straightforward climb.

 

I think we are talking the same thing but considering what they were doing, that is rather light. My guess is they were carrying some equipment in small backpacks, but their main haul bag was being pulled behind them. That was the one that was cut by the falling cliff rock.

Mountaineering, how I have understood it, requires porters, a base camp, acclimatizing, multiple attempts to find routes, place fixed ropes, haul gear. AKA basically an expedition.

They both can get you to the summit. I guess it depends on the "How"

 

Kinda agree with Tarantino here

Quentin Tarantino has never liked Scooby-Doo.

In fact, he always thought the adventures of the perpetually scared crime-solving dog were “stupid”.

During an interview with Yesterdayland, Tarantino dismissed the iconic cartoon by saying
I actually remember watching the first episode ever shown of Scooby-Doo, like the season it started. I go, ‘What the heck is this thing?’ I never thought the mysteries were good. I always thought it was stupid.”

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/tv-series-quentin-tarantino-hates/

 

Maybe he just hates these meddling kids?

 

Of course it's stupid. As a prepubecent child I thought it was stupid. But it was still the best thing on.

 

This was better

 

You have perfectly described why alpining is not your thing.

I don’t mind suffering somewhat, probably less so than @YankHibee, but I really don’t like putting my life on the line like that.

 

It doesn’t have to be a huge production like that.

I remember Steve House being very controversial, as he’d lightning up and down some very high and difficult ascents with minimal equipment/footprint while taking extraordinary risks. No sherpas.

 

I knew it didn't go down like in the film, but the film was so compelling that I remember it fairly well.

Thinking about Westerns now. The West wasn't as violent as the films portray it, but there would be no good Westerns if the violence wasn't ramped up a bit for entertainment purposes. I will watch Bonanza or Big Valley for an hour, sure, but for a sho-'nuff Western film, I want lots of killing and gunplay in the plot. That's what set Gunsmoke apart- the adult setting.

 

I loved it as a kid. Though for me a highlight was seeing Daphne bound and gagged nearly every episode, had a prepubescent kink for that kinda thing.

 

Those guest stars were a really weird combo of fiction and reality. Like one episode you’d have Cass Elliott and the next you’d have Batman and Robin.

 

There's a name I haven't heard in quite a while. One of my faves.

 

When watching that episode as a kid I had no idea who she was. I remember my dad saying “hey, it’s Mama Cass!” and me being like who tf is that?

 

Once she went out on her own she soared!

 

Mama Cass ate all the scooby snacks.

 

I purposefully will go through the Great Hall at Union Station on that staircase when I head downtown, well, if I have the time!

 

When I was at UIC, I lived in Roscoe Village and, later, Ravenswood-ish and Lincoln Square. I'd take the Brown Line to Quincy and walk to work every day. Cut through Union Station nearly every time. I couldn't help it.

 

Other than it being a straight lift from the Battleship Potemkin.