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bigskycountry -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/23/2007 11:19:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: TheDiva
and I just kept thinking how appropriate it would be if they all would have throttled that one girl for her "great idea".
True, there is a handful of "suspension of disbelief"/character detatchment that accompanies the movie. For Me, though, it was perhaps the best divergence from hollywood/big studio formula that I have seen released on the big screen in ages. Don't get Me wrong, I am not a horror film fanatic, but it beat the SHIT out of saw and the hostel as far as integrating a humanistic element.
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ORIGINAL: outlier
OK,
Old fashioned hardware stores where you could get the
type and quantity of what you wanted and it all was not
shrink rapped. Just tucked away in an infinite number of
little bins and cubby holes all around the store.
My father owned hardware stores since I was three years old. I started working at them when i was 13. Some of My fondest memories of those times are helping old guys fix their daughter's broken shelving in her apartment and helping newlywed couples in their new house repair the things the inspector missed during appraisal. I'm going to go off on a tangent here, a "rant", if you will...
The "big box" stores lack the concern and helpfulness of the do-it-yourself ethos. I spent My high school and college years working at hardware stores and learning about the operation of systems. That all things are made of mere interacting parts compounding upon each and as easily as one is reliant upon another. They are, by the nature of their presence, selected to be there by the suzerain who decided. The major problem I have with home depot and the like is that they compartmentalize product in a way that would make macgyver get a side ache from running around that damn two acres of concrete. In fact, one of My biggest pet peeves about this phenom is when I need to get one fastener of one size (say...a 3/8-16 stainless steel locknut for something I am building) and the clerk just points and says "um...walk that way until you see a sign that says nuts and bolts?" And so I walk back to the aisle I was just in and have to buy a pack of 3 nuts and 7 lock-washers for seven dollars. Hell, when i worked in hardware stores, a 3/8" ss locknut cost thirty seven cents...
OK. I miss those days too.
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