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The_Presitator t1_ja0pjo8 wrote
Reply to comment by Venturin in TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult. by duganaok
The random rowboat guy's leg and the lower half of Quint.
The_Presitator t1_j9y66ak wrote
Reply to comment by Various_Succotash_79 in TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult. by duganaok
People now don't realize that Jaws, which features horrifying, onscreen body dismemberment, is only rated PG. I like to ask people what they think it's rated and they're usually guessing R.
Imagine if that movie came out today.
The_Presitator OP t1_j6oycpt wrote
Reply to comment by VoreReznor in What was the cringiest thing you've ever witnessed at a wedding? by The_Presitator
Jeez... I don't know how a wedding can recover after that.
The_Presitator OP t1_j6oxv7h wrote
Reply to comment by VoreReznor in What was the cringiest thing you've ever witnessed at a wedding? by The_Presitator
Was this planned ahead of time?? Who would think that was a good idea planned or not?
The_Presitator OP t1_j6oxjnj wrote
You know the shoe game? That's where the bride and groom have their backs to each other, holding one of each of their shoes, and when a question is posed they answer it by raising either the bride's shoe or the Groom's. They're asked, like, "Who drives the best?" And they lift up the shoe of who they thought was the best driver between the two of them. I know some people don't like this game, but I usually find it fun and can be a cute look into the couple's relationship.
Well, at my cousin's wedding reception the bride's siblings decided to have the newlyweds do the shoe game. However, the game is usually done by a DJ or someone who can work the crowd, not by the bride's socially awkward, homeschooled siblings. On top of that, the bride had still been living at home and she and the groom hadn't lived with each other at all over the one year between going out and getting married (they didn't even kiss until they were engaged, but that's another story). Which is fine, but, the shoe game has questions like "Who does the dishes the best? Which one snores loudest? Ect.." which are hard to answer when you've both lived in your parents' home separate from each other.
It was like watching someone say they're about to do a backflip and then watch them biff it against a railing. The bride's siblings enthusiastically asked questions they should have known she couldn't answer. The bride and groom awkwardly shrugged every other question. The older sibling acted like he knows how to do stage banter while over 100 people watched this trainwreck in a crowded wedding-barn. I couldn't take it, the cringe was like being hit over the head by a hammer.
My wife and I fled the scene to get fresh air where we ran into my dad who also couldn't handle the cringe. We all played ping pong in a backroom/shed until we were sure it was safe to head back.
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The_Presitator t1_j5eyrt7 wrote
Reply to comment by GeoffH17 in Me sometime in the 90s. by ThaBlackBeacon
Yeah, me too. I was thinking OP might be one of the dudes in the back, but no, the comment under yours confirms he's claiming to be black kid.
Edit: checked his history and the vids posted seem to look similar to the kid in the pic. A friend was probably holding the picture.
The_Presitator t1_iu6kpls wrote
Reply to TIL that when the French first arrived in North America they met the Ojibwe Indians who introduced them to other tribes but used nasty names. The Lakota/Dakota people were called "Nadowessiwag," which became Nadouessioux in French, then Sioux in English. It means "little snake." by marmorset
Funny, I had a professor in college who was probably one of the most educated men on Great Plains Indians and he actually says that is an untrue or coincidental story. According to him, Nadouessioux was a was used by the Algonquin translators the French which meant "those who don't speak Algonquin." So when they would introduce French explorers to new tribes, the ones off the great Lakes would get called Nadouessioux. The French shortened this word to Sioux and the name stuck.
You can see this mistake on old maps marking Indian families as some Sioux family bounds would suddenly be far off from the rest.
The_Presitator t1_ja2u7h8 wrote
Reply to TIL of the 1955 Le Mans disaster. French driver Pierre Levegh crashed into a crowd of spectators. The crash, explosion and subsequent fire killed 84 and injured more than 120. It is still the deadliest car race crash ever. by triviafrenzy
There is an excellent engineering disaster podcast that did an episode of this. "Well there's your problem" is the name and they're hilarious if you don't mind them getting off topic occasionally.