Does this piss anyone else off?

kleinbl00

After the makeover, by most people's standards, she looked less attractive. That it all.

To you. Did you ever think that maybe that was the point? There's no doubt about it - she gives up some individuality. But in doing so, she gains peers. How is that not the teenage experience in a nutshell?

the point is by most standards - it was a failure

I have no idea what bizarre standards you're using. Here we are, talking about it 25 years later. It's quite possibly the most successful teen movie of all time.

Yes, and that was gross. However - she still looked kempt.

How do you show the girl to be attractive enough to garner interest - but not so attractive that she doesn't need to change? Again, this is a change far more subtle than glasses'n'ponytail. One could argue that she didn't go from ugly to pretty or from pretty to ugly - she went from "style 1" to "style 2" and since there are more peers in the "style 2" group, the actual change is irrelevant.

We're just talking about how the makeover affected her physical appearance.

Then you're just missing the whole point of the movie.

ANd again, I award you no points.

kleinbl00

The new Mysterium X sensor has enough sensitivity that using two Canons is unnecessary.

kleinbl00

One does not just casually link to nigerian witchcraft videos.

kleinbl00

Yes, but the point was that the effort put in - backfired.

She totally gets kissed within seconds of showing up with her hair done.

we were to think she was suddenly a flower that had been pulled from the gutter and cleaned.

No, we weren't. We were to think that she was a person who was ignored by her parents, had "nothing better to do" on a Saturday and made friends with someone who helped her get the boy. It's in the mutherfucking dialogue.

She looked more attractive before the makeover.

Not the point. After the makeover, she looked more attractive to the jock. That was the entire point - that if you want something, you have to meet it half-way. If she was after Bender, she wouldn't have had to change much.

Also, I disagree she looked unkempt before.

She decorated a picture with dandruff.

She looked like she was taking care of her appearance enough, just partaking of a particular style.

Watch Breakfast Club in a theater if you ever get the chance. The whole audience goes "Ewwwww...." at that scene. That's not a particular style, that was the quickest, easiest way to cinematically demonstrate repulsive personal habits.

I award you no points, and my god have mercy on your soul.

kleinbl00

Yours is a problem of chronic overwork and chronic underappreciation. These are short term problems. Yours is a permanent solution.

You say you hate your family and have no problem leaving them to rot. Have you thought of doing that? Just drive away? Drop the car off at the nearest lot, take your $300 for it and hop on a Greyhound to anywhere else?

Try that first. If it makes you feel better, keep trying. Take care of you for a change - maybe that means panhandling, maybe that means day labor, who knows.

If it makes you feel worse, then you do care about your family and you care about leaving them in the lurch. And they need to know that they're killing you. And that you can't carry them any more.

You need change. That much is clear. But "change" does not mean "death."

kleinbl00

Dumbass.

LAX does random searches of cars. They've got SWAT on speed dial. They've got an agreement with the Coast Guard that if they need USCG helis to vector in, they're 30 seconds away via the oil refinery. It's probably the highest-security spot you could choose to do photography in LA ...

...and then you waited until night time and decided to be a prick about "civil liberties."

You want a "similar incident?" Fine. Here's a sock puppet of mine. You'll notice I was dealing with much bigger dicks than you were - and when the cops showed up, they were pretty eager to clear up a misconception. The LAX cops aren't bad folks, by and large - that's my 'hood and I see them every day.

Show 'em your damn license. Show 'em your damn photos. IF THEY ASK YOU TO DELETE THEM then you can start being bitchy - but until then, what you want to do more than anything else in the world is give them a reason to be bored with you.

This is accomplished by paying lip service to the rules. They attempted to show you this by demonstrating that if you are capable of showing ID and choose not to, they can make you distinctly uncomfortable.

Hopefully you learned something. Not all cops are dicks, not all photographers are terrorists, but we're never going to make this shit better unless we try and fucking cooperate a little.

Congratulations. You just made it that much harder for me to go take pictures around LAX. And since that's my neighborhood, fuck you.

PS. It wasn't fucking cold tonight. It's fucking 62 RIGHT NOW. Quit being a whiney little bitch.

kleinbl00

In my day, we wouldn't ask the internet this question.

We'd investigate this question and then film the answer.

kleinbl00

I love that I live in a country where I can get not one, not two, but three angles - including a gyro-stabilized, helicopter-lofted Wescam - on a toy pony being blown to fuck.

kleinbl00

All time winner.

kleinbl00

Cloʃe only counts in horʃeʃhoes.

kleinbl00

You're mixing alphabets.

This means you make no sense in at least two languages.

kleinbl00

...how can you not know that?

She was also in Short Circuit, Man's Best Friend, and Bad Boys.

And for added fun, here she is as a coke-addicted dyke photographer.

kleinbl00

Source

kleinbl00

Hard to beat The Exorcist.

The Thing gets close, though.

kleinbl00

Because it dates back to mutherfucking Egyptian heiroglyphics and does a bajillion different things in a bajillion different tongues.

Back da fuck up. Useless letters are the shit. You know damn well life would be more interesting with some æ &c to meß around with.

kleinbl00

Try here.

If you're lucky, the ICs are socketed. They'll probably be dirty. You can clean them.

It's likely that it'll need recapping. This can be a tedious and expensive process.

The transformers are likely to be eh. The backplane is likely to be eh. If I were you, I'd walk away now.

The kleinbl00 in this saga is me. Been there, done that. Peaveys suck ass, man. At least the Wheatstone had P&G faders and Jensen transformers. There is no amount of audio magic you'll get out of that Peavey that will justify spending any time on it.

Considering you don't have the vaguest place where to start to find parts, I'm gonna hazard the guess that you're in over your head. I could be wrong. In that case, I'm fond of All Electronics if you can find stuff there, and if not, there's always Digikey.

kleinbl00

You should define "cheap."

kleinbl00

Speaking as a dyed-in-the-wool Goth, no.

Speaking as an optioned screenwriter, no.

Speaking as a red-blooded American male, no.

Here's the thing: The point they were trying to make with Ally before was "unkempt." As in, "putting no effort into it." As in, "withdrawn and disinterested in her fellow man." The point they were trying ot make with Ally after was "groomed." As in, "attempting to appeal to the opposite sex." As in, "trying to score the jock kid."

In any movie not John Hughes, this is accomplished by taking the hair out of the ponytail and taking off the glasses. Ally actually undergoes a real transformation - and she's obviously uncomfortable with it, that's part of the gag. But what you're really supposed to notice is not that she's somehow subverting her inner womyn or some such shit, what you're supposed to notice is that rather than hanging out in the back of the classroom she's allowing her new friend to help her get the guy that is entirely out of her experience.

It's a meaty role. Molly Ringwald wanted it. Ally Sheedy plays it with aplomb.

If it pisses you off, it's a sign that you're not paying attention.

Sincerely, John Hughes

kleinbl00

It has been unseasonably cool in Los Angeles...

kleinbl00

True story.

I grew up in a funny place and during WWII, in addition to designing nuclear weapons, much of the empty scrub was used as gunnery ranges by the army. As a result, there were a whole bunch of places that we went hiking that were full of UXO. Much of our world was walled off behind barbed wire and these yellow DOE signs, but you could just throw a blanket over it and go for a really mellow hike. Sometimes people found mortar shells. Kid blew himself up with one when I was maybe 8, a full 40 years after WWII ended.

Fast forward to high school. I'm hangin' out with these reprobate juvenile delinquents whom I was loosely associated with. I see them in the morning - they're grinning like cats that ate the canary. "What are you guys so happy about?" I ask. "We went collecting," one of them answers. Pops the trunk on a '72 dodge Dart with bad shocks that I was really glad I never went riding in.

In the trunk was a cardboard box.

In the cardboard box were the pieces of no less than 8 mortar rounds.

I didn't stick around long enough to get a good look. I backed slowly away from the car. Never saw two of them ever again. One of 'em I saw later, but I never asked about the explosives.

Stupid doesn't just happen in war.

kleinbl00

Yes.

EMP damages anything that can be affected by strong magnetism, particularly germanium semiconductors and gaps in integrated circuits. The Soviets had a lot of vacuum tube technology in their front line equipment; chances are most of their stuff would have been fine. Your average GPS, however...

A crank-powered flashlight is literally a static magnet and some spinning coils of wire. The alternator on your car would be fine, except for the solid state circuitry that rectifies it. The generator on a Model T? Just dandy.

kleinbl00

Hell, I remember when you could buy inert cluster bomblets on eBay.

kleinbl00

Take pictures when you're done. I'm pretty intrigued.

Hey - you're probably a pretty good person to ask. I need to make some LED tea lights, basically... except I want to use some bright ass LEDs and put them on a string with a wall wart. I wanna put up some farolitos this christmas but LED tea lights as they currently exist aren't particularly impressive outdoors. Any thoughts?

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