Dan Kretzer

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@Super70sSports I used to sit and watch TV through that bionic eye.

The road to the title of greatest action figure ever runs through Colonel Steve Austin and every 70s kid knows it.

@becomelutheran Interesting. I'm a Catholic and I always thought we were the only ones who did confirmation. Congrats on your childrens' confirmation!

An amazing confirmation service. One kid got a bloody nose, one had to step out from overheating, but we got through it. The 3 on the left are ours. Very proud dad here.

@MiddleEarth_xD Yes. I watched them once and liked the added stuff. But honestly, I haven't watched them again. The theatrical releases are just better.

Is watching the extended editions of LOTR worth it?

@John_Cyrano Do you use low sugar sauce? It always burns when I do this because of the sugar.

For my Japanese friends, this is a cut of meat called a pork steak. It's a Midwestern specialty. We cut the pork shoulder into steaks. They're salted and peppered. When I put them on the grill I will add barbecue sauce. You always add the bbq sauce as you cook, so that it cooks onto the meat. After bringing it to temperature with indirect heat I will sear them so the sauce crystallizes. Progress pics will be posted. (More pics in replies as they cook).

@SceneinCinema Maybe not the best, but he deserves to have his gif in these comments.

Name the best portrayal of a psychopath in a film. I’ll start:

@SandyofCthulhu Casablanca, but they're two different kids of movies, really.

My buddy and I have an ongoing argument over the greatest thriller drama. He says Maltese Falcon. I say Casablanca. What say you?

@CavemanInASuit @Martyupnorth The same percentage of households have guns today. People just no longer trust that the poll takers won't put them on a list is they say they have them.

@Martyupnorth Yeah... a lot more households had guns back then, and high schools had shooting clubs

For decades we had phone books. Everyone's address was public knowledge. No one worried about psychos knowing where we lived.

@Martyupnorth People worried. They actually paid to have their info omitted from the phone book. Navin R. Johnson was almost killed by a gunman who picked his name out of a phone book.

@DieinPlace This is no different than haggling over prices anywhere. Apples - $5/bucket Gee, I dunno. They look kind of bruised.

When I entered into the process to consider selling my business to a PE firm it was pure psychological manipulation, an exercise in two seperate narratives. Narrative A: Your business is exceptional. Narrative B: Your business is broken. - Step 1: Praise the founders to build rapport. - Step 2: Undermine the founders to create leverage. - Step 3: Position themselves as the indispensable solution. - Step 4: Anchor the valuation lower than your expectations. - Step 5: Make you feel like taking their deal is the “smart, rational” move to continue, improve and expand your exceptional creation.

@TheRitualDiv @nxd1979 I'm not. It's not unreasonable to not know about the Dresden raid, and it is not idiotic to ask if you don't know something. There was a point in your life when you didn't know what happened to Dresden. Were you an idiot?

@DanKretzer @nxd1979 Stop apologising for idiots.

Back in 2014 I was on a walking tour of Dresden and our guide kept referring to the firebombing destroying this or that building until an American girl in her 20s raised her hand to ask "sorry, who firebombed Dresden?" and the group fell so silent you could hear a pin drop

@EODHappyCaptain There won't be a draft because we don't have that kind of military anymore, but don't knock the idea of conscription too much. Many in the military lament how detached the civilian world has become from them. That is 100% the result of an all volunteer force.

I see people who have never served are calling for the United States to implement the draft. Drafting should always be a last resort. It fundamentally changes the military at its core. We are currently an all volunteer force. Every single person serving chose to join. We take pride in what we do.

@fandompulse Not to defend Iger, but he was probably thinking George had some neat ideas in the 1970s and a bunch of creatives helped him turn them into great movies. Then George jettisoned those talented people and tried to do it all himself in the late 1990s and showed what a hack he is.

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger on how he betrayed George Lucas' Star Wars vision: "George immediately got upset as they began to describe the plot and it dawned on him that we weren’t using one of the stories he submitted during the negotiations... George knew we weren’t contractually bound to anything, but he thought that our buying the story treatments was a tacit promise that we’d follow them, and he was disappointed that his story was being discarded... Now, in the first meeting with him about the future of Star Wars, George felt betrayed, and while this whole process would never have been easy for him, we’d gotten off to an unnecessarily rocky start.” What was Bob Iger thinking?

@TiffaniMarie483 Just be kind to her. Be an example for her. Listen to her fears and let her know you’re there for her.

My boomer, liberal, atheist, MIL lives with us now. I actually love her very much. She’s been having anxiety about death lately and I so badly want to share the gospel with her, but she’s so anti-Christian that it just makes her mad. What’s my move here?

@DannyDrinksWine *zombie

@DannyDrinksWine The word zombi comes from the Bantu (West Africa) word zumbi, which means ghost.

Simon Pegg on why he thinks fast Zombies are pointless & the movies that Edgar Wright & he watched in preparation for "Shaun of the De@d" (2004): "Interviewer: What do you think of the trend towards fast moving zombies? Pegg: I think it's kind of pointless. For me, zombies are supposed to be slow. The word zombie comes from "somnambulist," which means sleepwalker. They're creepier when they're are slow, plus when they're fast, you can't share any screen time with them because you're always running away. Interviewer: What was the process for you and Edgar? Pegg: We watched a lot of siege movies like 'Straw Dogs' (1971), 'Assault on Precinct 13' (1976) and a lot of well-structured films like 'Back to the Future' (1985) and 'Raising Arizona' (1987). Then, we literally wrote out scenes on index cards." (Simon Pegg's interview with Daniel Robert Epstein) P.S: On this day, 22 years ago, "Shaun of the De@d" (2004) premiered in London, England.

If your story contains the phrases “you could hear a pin drop,” “their face got beet red,” or “everyone began to clap,” then it definitely didn’t happen.

@ayeejuju It’s all Idaho peace keeping garrisons and military cemeteries from the great Washington-Montana border war. President Polk settled things by giving it to Idaho as a buffer zone.

i have always wondered what’s going on here

@sanpellyenjoyer People found out what crappy pets they are.

You don’t see dalmations too much these days. They were everywhere in media. It was pretty common to see them at dog parks/being walked. Now I haven’t seen one in probably a decade. Where the hell did they all go

@mephisto1965 @Noirchick1 My least favorite.

@Noirchick1 The Carter administration.

Which "disaster" film of the 1970's was your favorite?

@Noirchick1 Kramer vs. Kramer