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beetsnotbeats
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 15, 2015 at 02:42 PM UTC #
Julian, wrote:



Something tells me he's not actually the 420th dogpetter.
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 15, 2015 at 04:00 PM UTC #
Sidehatch wrote:
wow if romcom wasn't short enuf…had to go make it shorter
thanks for the translation


The actual shorthand may have been rom-com and I screwed it up. 

sweetcell wrote:
(and smackie, act tough all you want, but don't tell me there aren't already 12+ rom-coms on your DVR…)


There are two.  27 Dresses and Love Actually.

It helps that we just moved into our new condo and switched back to DirecTV a month ago, thus the DVR started clean.

Oh wait, three - Devil Wears Prada, but that's not really romantic, but definitely a chick flick.
walk,on,by
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 15, 2015 at 04:15 PM UTC #
Sidehatch wrote:
sweetcell wrote:
ro-co = rom-com = romantic comedy, AKA a chick-flick?

(and smackie, act tough all you want, but don't tell me there aren't already 12+ rom-coms on your DVR…)

wow if romcom wasn't short enuf…had to go make it shorter
thanks for the translation


longhand, better, shorthand.  sorry, van,smack.
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 15, 2015 at 04:17 PM UTC #
Julian, wrote:
What's everyone's personal Mt. Rushmore of Ro-Cos? I was just discussing this with some people.


In addition to Knocked Up and Princess Bride, I don't mind watching these at any time….

Say Anything
The Sure Thing
10 Things I hate About You
The first 3/4's of About a Boy
Clueless
Groundhog Day
Love Actually
Show me Love

Then there's this sub category where you got tricked into not realizing that you're watching a rom-com because it was cinematically beautiful:

Punch Drunk Love
Her
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lost in Translation
jrpa
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 15, 2015 at 04:32 PM UTC #
vansmack wrote:
Julian, wrote:
What's everyone's personal Mt. Rushmore of Ro-Cos? I was just discussing this with some people.


In addition to Knocked Up and Princess Bride, I don't mind watching these at any time….

Say Anything
The Sure Thing
10 Things I hate About You
The first 3/4's of About a Boy
Clueless
Groundhog Day
Love Actually
Show me Love

Then there's this sub category where you got tricked into not realizing that you're watching a rom-com because it was cinematically beautiful:

Punch Drunk Love
Her
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lost in Translation
Whoa, whoa, whoa. We're going to have to have a whole side conversation about what constitutes a Rom-Com. Clueless and Groundhog's Day? That sublist of four? That's not really what I think of when I think Rom-Com.
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 15, 2015 at 05:37 PM UTC #
Julian, wrote:Whoa, whoa, whoa. We're going to have to have a whole side conversation about what constitutes a Rom-Com. Clueless and Groundhog's Day? That sublist of four? That's not really what I think of when I think Rom-Com.


Wikipedia

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles.  One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily".  Another definition states that its "primary distinguishing feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled".

—-

Remove the witty banter from Clueless and Groundhog Day and you have essentially, romantic comedies.  The entire premise of Groundhog Day is that only love can break his recurring nightmare.  Clueless is about her quest to find a boy when the "right guy" lives in her house the entire time. 

Sorry man, but those are rom-com's, just with better writers.
jrpa
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 15, 2015 at 06:02 PM UTC #
Groundhog's Day, I'll give you pretty easily. Clueless, I really don't think the love story is the primary thing, but I'm not going to argue about that.

I don't see how Her or Lost In Translation fits that at, they're far from lighthearted nor are characters particularly sympathetic.
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 21, 2015 at 07:23 PM UTC #
I don't get angry often, but VW/Audi %$^&ed with the wrong guy on this one.  I will have their head.
jrpa
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 21, 2015 at 07:31 PM UTC #
vansmack wrote:
I don't get angry often, but VW/Audi %$^&ed with the wrong guy on this one.  I will have their head.
Hopefully you don't have any of their stock, as I referenced in the Dropping Like Flies thread.
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 21, 2015 at 07:33 PM UTC #
Julian, wrote:Hopefully you don't have any of their stock, as I referenced in the Dropping Like Flies thread.


Nope.  Just a once proud Audi A3 TDI owner with 80,000 miles on it, that might never meet CA Emissions standards.
Sidehatch
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 21, 2015 at 07:36 PM UTC #
vansmack wrote:
Julian, wrote:Hopefully you don't have any of their stock, as I referenced in the Dropping Like Flies thread.


Nope.  Just a once proud Audi A3 TDI owner with 80,000 miles on it, that might never meet CA Emissions standards.

is it a diesel?

And what if you converted to Bio-diesel? would that make a difference?
You are in the bay area, it's pretty easy to get there
jrpa
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 21, 2015 at 07:42 PM UTC #
Sidehatch wrote:
vansmack wrote:
Julian, wrote:Hopefully you don't have any of their stock, as I referenced in the Dropping Like Flies thread.


Nope.  Just a once proud Audi A3 TDI owner with 80,000 miles on it, that might never meet CA Emissions standards.

is it a diesel?
I'm not a car guy by a long shot, but I think TDI means diesel?
Sidehatch
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 21, 2015 at 07:56 PM UTC #
Julian, wrote:
Sidehatch wrote:
vansmack wrote:
Julian, wrote:Hopefully you don't have any of their stock, as I referenced in the Dropping Like Flies thread.


Nope.  Just a once proud Audi A3 TDI owner with 80,000 miles on it, that might never meet CA Emissions standards.

is it a diesel?
I'm not a car guy by a long shot, but I think TDI means diesel?

I'm not either…but I have this friend named google who get's me all the answers

Turbo Direct Injection

but…it does seem that also correlates to it being diesel
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 21, 2015 at 08:06 PM UTC #
TDI = Turbocharged Direct Injection which are used to power VW/Audi diesel cars.

I drive too many miles to use biofuel and while conversion is easy, finding biofuel is absolutely not worth the hassle.

Audi is going to have to do something about this….
ggw
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 21, 2015 at 08:23 PM UTC #
The first thing Audi is going to do is find a new tagline.  "Truth in Engineering" won't fly so well anymore.
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 21, 2015 at 09:28 PM UTC #
ggw wrote:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-21/streaming-music-passes-physical-sales-for-first-time


And the most important part - the download market is next.  As soon as the streaming market does that, the focus will be on quality and the competition will move to who who has the highest quality streams available.

Thanks for sharing.
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... September 21, 2015 at 09:42 PM UTC #
ggw wrote:
The first thing Audi is going to do is find a new tagline.  "Truth in Engineering" won't fly so well anymore.


You're killing it today.
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