One of the other people working here who I met on friday when our boss made us hotdogs for lunch got sorta-threatened by a guy
The guy had apparently forgotten that he'd given permission for my coworker to be let in so he got kinda angry when he got home.
My coworker completely ignored it and was just like, can you wait a bit, I'm almost done.
Guy was still clinging to his "broke in to do maintenance" theory because he tried to go You're not going anywhere in an authorative voice while calling somebody
Coworker, who is 1.90 m, answered, no, I am very definitely going to leave now
And there was a moment where the big man looked at the little angry man and something unspoken passed between them and he let him exit.
I'm not sure what I'd do in that situation. I am not an imposing man. I am wearing a knife but like, threatening clients with a knife is not a good look.
One of the other people working here who I met on friday when our boss made us hotdogs for lunch got sorta-threatened by a guy
The guy had apparently forgotten that he'd given permission for my coworker to be let in so he got kinda angry when he got home.
My coworker completely ignored it and was just like, can you wait a bit, I'm almost done.
Guy was still clinging to his "broke in to do maintenance" theory because he tried to go You're not going anywhere in an authorative voice while calling somebody
Coworker, who is 1.90 m, answered, no, I am very definitely going to leave now
And there was a moment where the big man looked at the little angry man and something unspoken passed between them and he let him exit.
I'm not sure what I'd do in that situation. I am not an imposing man. I am wearing a knife but like, threatening clients with a knife is not a good look.
Yeah, don’t threaten someone with a knife, just go straight for the kill.
One of the other people working here who I met on friday when our boss made us hotdogs for lunch got sorta-threatened by a guy
The guy had apparently forgotten that he'd given permission for my coworker to be let in so he got kinda angry when he got home.
My coworker completely ignored it and was just like, can you wait a bit, I'm almost done.
Guy was still clinging to his "broke in to do maintenance" theory because he tried to go You're not going anywhere in an authorative voice while calling somebody
Coworker, who is 1.90 m, answered, no, I am very definitely going to leave now
And there was a moment where the big man looked at the little angry man and something unspoken passed between them and he let him exit.
I'm not sure what I'd do in that situation. I am not an imposing man. I am wearing a knife but like, threatening clients with a knife is not a good look.
Yeah, don’t threaten someone with a knife, just go straight for the kill.
And then go merrily on my way to clean the rest of the ventilation ducts
Somebody on Twitter just reminded me of this amazing series cliffhanger from the soap about the lives of the rich and famous that was The Colbys. Ostensibly a show about rich people doing rich people things, this came out of literally nowhere.
When he first appears in Season 6 of Dynasty, he is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only one year to live. However, it was later revealed that he was never sick at all and the mistake was due to a computer error.
You can see the writers shrugging and saying look, this'll do.
I guess those kind of rich folks soaps metamorphosised into stuff like The OC and 90210, or had their melodramatic ground seized by high-profile Telenovelas like Ugly Betty or Jane The Virgin.
I say this at the same time I find out that they've revived Dynasty.
I'm vaguely remember one of the soaps my mum used to watch just went fuck it and spent a few episodes remaking the poseidon adventure.
A cursory googling suggests this was Sunset Beach, which only lasted a couple of years but plainly went to town with the storylines.
The show was known for other outrageous storylines, such as Terror Island in which several of the show's main characters were stranded on an island with a masked serial killer (whose costume bore a close resemblance to that of the killer from Scream) intent on killing them, especially Meg. A handful of characters were killed by the maniac, mostly minor characters introduced as serial killer-fodder, but also one lead character, young runaway made good Mark Wolper. In his dying moments Mark pulled off the killer's mask and audiences were stunned to see Ben's face behind it. As it turned out, Ben had an evil twin, Derek, who plagued Ben and Meg's lives off and on for the rest of the run of the show. Derek was killed after being shot in a struggle with Ben during the show's final weeks, following a long storyline where Derek kidnapped and impersonated his twin for months, sleeping with Ben's wife Maria (having previously also slept with Meg).
I guess those kind of rich folks soaps metamorphosised into stuff like The OC and 90210, or had their melodramatic ground seized by high-profile Telenovelas like Ugly Betty or Jane The Virgin.
I say this at the same time I find out that they've revived Dynasty.
Yeah, it's on Netflix. It's an IP that will not die.
I suspect it was barely watchable and best consumed through the medium of plot summaries, but boy howdy those plot summaries. I did watch an episode of a US daytime soap once, and I think maybe 50% of it was stalling, just endless long shots of someone's face as they struggled to emote in the face of bad news, and lots of cutting between several ongoing scenes and back again because viewer's attention spans couldn't last for the duration of the whole scene. The kind of thing that's tough to parody because the original is so ridiculous.
Though I remember Soapdish being pretty funny. A quick check of the wiki for the movie suggests I forgot about the spectacularly problematic ending. Still, the scenes of Kevin Kline doing Death of a Salesman in a theatre/restaurant are great.
Didn’t Dallas end with JR being taunted by Satan into killing himself?
And then when they did the follow on they decided to say that JR just shot a mirror and Bobby (already raised from the dead via the “it was all a dream” trope) ran into the room, looked at the floor and cried out “MY GOD!” because he was horrified JR was going to have seven years bad luck?
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The few minutes I saw tells me it’s the same thing they showed behind closed doors at e3, so no doubt about that.
They're also kinda gross.
We show affection by rubbing the entrance to our digestive tracts together.
The guy had apparently forgotten that he'd given permission for my coworker to be let in so he got kinda angry when he got home.
My coworker completely ignored it and was just like, can you wait a bit, I'm almost done.
Guy was still clinging to his "broke in to do maintenance" theory because he tried to go You're not going anywhere in an authorative voice while calling somebody
Coworker, who is 1.90 m, answered, no, I am very definitely going to leave now
And there was a moment where the big man looked at the little angry man and something unspoken passed between them and he let him exit.
I'm not sure what I'd do in that situation. I am not an imposing man. I am wearing a knife but like, threatening clients with a knife is not a good look.
That's really gross. Our reproductive organs are much cleaner.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
And exits!
One way to find out
Yo dawg
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Yeah, don’t threaten someone with a knife, just go straight for the kill.
That headline tho
Steamed hams remixes are getting more avant garde
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It's bad in there. Real bad.
And then go merrily on my way to clean the rest of the ventilation ducts
Nah, some night in the distant future, when you least expect it, your foot will find it.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
This follow up is incredible
A golden age of TV.
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You can see the writers shrugging and saying look, this'll do.
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I say this at the same time I find out that they've revived Dynasty.
Choose Your Own Chat 1 Choose Your Own Chat 2 Choose Your Own Chat 3
A cursory googling suggests this was Sunset Beach, which only lasted a couple of years but plainly went to town with the storylines.
Spoilers, I guess.
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Yeah, it's on Netflix. It's an IP that will not die.
Though I remember Soapdish being pretty funny. A quick check of the wiki for the movie suggests I forgot about the spectacularly problematic ending. Still, the scenes of Kevin Kline doing Death of a Salesman in a theatre/restaurant are great.
Choose Your Own Chat 1 Choose Your Own Chat 2 Choose Your Own Chat 3
And then when they did the follow on they decided to say that JR just shot a mirror and Bobby (already raised from the dead via the “it was all a dream” trope) ran into the room, looked at the floor and cried out “MY GOD!” because he was horrified JR was going to have seven years bad luck?
Strictly speaking I had dinosaur for dinner on saturday
This checks out
This is too realistic for a soap opera