Malls Are Dying. Hollywood Is Dying.<br>Is America Dying?

Malls Are Dying. Hollywood Is Dying.
Is America Dying?

A formerly profitable mall, once worth $1.2 billion has just closed in San Francisco and was sold for, essentially, scrap.

An iconic mall in San Francisco foreclosed for a fraction of the billion-dollar valuation it once commanded as Covid shutdowns and out-of-control crime left the seven-story behemoth a shell of its former self.
Valued at $1.2 billion nearly a decade ago, the San Francisco Centre Mall, previously known as the Westfield Emporium, was sold at an auction on Wednesday to lenders Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the mall served as a shopping hub in San Francisco, with residents and tourists flocking to its vibrant energy and big-name brands.
As consumers turned away from the city's sketchy downtown and toward online shopping, however, the mall's value declined drastically. An appraisal at the end of 2022 valued the property at only $290 million, a 76 percent drop from its height before the pandemic.
But lenders purchased the property for even less than appraisals, with the final sticker price for the sprawling 1.5 million square-foot mall only $133 million - or just 11 percent of its top valuation.

Beyond the matters of covid getting people out of the habit of going outdoors for shopping -- or eating, or anything else -- the other big contributor to the end of the mall is blue-city tolerance of hypercriminality.

At the time, Westfield blamed 'unsafe conditions' and 'lack of enforcement against rampant criminal activity' for the mall's decline.

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Since then, the number of retail stores has declined rapidly. The mall's flagship store, Nordstrom, shuttered its doors the same year. Bloomingdale's soon followed suit, and the mall's movie theater later shut down.
The mall currently has only leased 9 percent of its storefronts, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
One visitor from Los Angeles described the mall as 'eerie' during a recent interview with CBS News.
'Coming in, you're expecting so many stores, you know, like a typical mall but it's not that at all,' Romel Pacheco told the publication.
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San Francisco isn't the only city facing a drastically changing retail climate. According to data compiled by Capital One, an average of 1,170 shopping malls closed every year between 2017 and 2022.
Projections indicate that the trend is expected to continue, with estimates revealing that up to 87 percent of large shopping malls may close over the next decade.

Meanwhile, even the NY Times reports that its communist allies in Hollywood are in a Biden-steep decline, with October ticket sales are the lowest in history, adjusting for inflation.

Note that the entertainment media never adjusts for inflation, because they're industry shills and always want to claim that we're breaking records which we're definitely not even close to breaking.

But October's takings were so puny that the Times realized it had a story if it for once adjusted for inflation, so they bothered to do the very simple math.

Theaters in the United States and Canada collected $445 million across all titles in October, the lowest total on record, after adjusting for inflation and excluding 2020, when the pandemic darkened screens.
For context, October ticket sales in 2019 totaled an adjusted $1 billion, according to Comscore.

Christian Toto writes:

Why? How much time do you have? It's easy to point to the obvious causes:
The rise of streaming competition
The shrinking window for films hitting VOD platforms
The rise of consequential video game titles
Social media
Shrinking attention spans in Gen Z
The pandemic fallout
And the ones media outlets won't go near.
Stars made themselves toxic to half the country with their political views
Stars are, for the most part, over-exposed
The movies just aren't very good, in toto
The Woke Mind Virus still infects the industry
Hollywood has lost touch with the common man

That's all true, but I have a darker idea. I wouldn't say it's a theory, because I don't have much faith in it. It's more just a speculation of a possibility.

Malls and movie theaters are -- or used to be -- the favored hangouts of bored teenagers.

Young people used to love going out just to look for attractive members of the opposite sex. I remember when I used to be a young person, before I turned 29 this past November 13th.

Oh, how we young people loved to show off our new "BUM" sweatshirts, our exciting and classy Swatches, our Flock of Seagalls haircuts, and our Frankie Says Don't novelty-t shirts.

This wasn't just about these wonderful pieces of eternal fashion.

It was about hooking up. All young people think about, or used to think about, was attracting a mate. So even if we could just sit home and watch a movie with our parents, we'd go out to the theaters to see if we'd run into any classmates. Or go to the mall for the same reason. Maybe we'd run into someone attractive while waiting for the Cinnabon sous-chef to finish ladling on the frosting.

Have young people stopped caring about sex?

Are they just homebound? Or to coin a term: phonebound?

Or, alternately: Do young people no longer need to cruise the Main Drag at the wall to have a chance at romantic or sexual stimulation? Do they now just arrange hook-ups on the phone?

Is this the biggest reason why Hollywood, and the mall, are taking? Half of kids are incels and the other half are just having random sex with Tinder strangers, so why bother going out either way?

Older people have also become more homebound and phonebound but the economic impact isn't as great because older people are settled, usually, and don't go out as much. The post-29 crowd (which I will be joining myself in several years; I plan to remain 29 throughout the 2020s) is mostly married and thus do not gain the extra benefit of seeing potential mates when they go out.

I really don't know what the hell is even going to happen when young people no longer seem particularly interested in finding mates.

Related: Billionaire investor tries to help young people actually make contact with the opposite sex by offering a pick-up line. Or rather: An ice-breaker, as we never called it when I was young but they did call it that in the 70s at the Regal Beagle.

Ackman -- who is now worth $9.3 billion, according to Forbes -- claimed the pick-up line "almost never got a No" in his younger days, adding that "the combination of proper grammar and politeness was the key to its effectiveness."
"Just two cents from an older happily married guy concerned about our next generation's happiness and population replacement rates."

Perhaps also helping Ackman's early romantic life -- having married his first wife, Karen Herskovitz, in 1994 -- was his investment firm Gotham Partners, which he co-founded in 1992. It had grown to more than $500 million in assets just a few years later.
Users online quickly turned the dating advice into a meme, jabbing at the pick-up line's apparent success rate -- or lack thereof -- in dozens of posts.

I don't think it's a good line but I like what he's trying to do. The question is, at least, polite, which is a plus, and also attempts to express an interest in the other person.

I think that last part is key. I think women would be actually happy to have someone show an actual interest in meeting them, rather than the usual super-casual, we-can-talk-if-you-want-to method of "showing interest" while actually hiding all interest because anyone who shows interest is uncool and needy and desperate. (Or so the thinking goes.)

Related: It was simpler when I was young. Way back when, pickin' up chicks was as easy as getting in your Chevy Chevette, cranking up Def Leppard, and driving to the nearest roller-disco.

Gen-X Retirement homes are going to be a Blast!! 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Ni72V2rin1
— G-PA INDY (@GPAIndiana) November 16, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 03:50 PM

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Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 03:51 PM (DRSnL)

2 America is changing.

Whether that change is manifested as "death" remains to be seen.

Posted by: Defenestratus at November 17, 2025 03:51 PM (WYStd)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 17, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

4 I remember when I used to be a young person, before I turned 29 this past November 13th.

Was last week really your birthday? If so, Happy Birthday! And thanks for everything.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 03:51 PM (DRSnL)

5 Frist? Bill?

Posted by: imp at November 17, 2025 03:51 PM (g6TN6)

6

Dammit, read the content!

Posted by: imp at November 17, 2025 03:52 PM (g6TN6)

7 People are lazy.

WalMart and Amazon delivering shit to your door same day has made it worse.

They will be a couple of a handful left standing when it's all said and done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 17, 2025 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

8
Escarpment.

Has ACE ever showed us beautiful images of Escarpments on the Cafe?

Do you know what an escarpment is?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (xBXaH)

9 One phenom I've seen in some "blue" nearsuburbia is the Food Hall. This is basically a mall food court without the actual mall.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (gKWVE)

10 Bored teenagers and bored 20 somethings hang out at Wal-Marts now.

Malls have been dying for decades.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (Ydr2P)

11 ""Oh, how we young people loved to show off our new "BUM" sweatshirts, our exciting and classy Swatches, our Flock of Seagalls haircuts, and our Frankie Says Don't novelty-t shirts.""

Dear God, I'm roughly the same 29 as you are.

Posted by: GMan at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (GfWuY)

12 There will be fewer malls but the concept won’t die out entirely.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (1Ky97)

13 Didn't Harrison Ford land on a taxiway?
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I think it was a henway.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (krQz2)

14 Malls were great because there was no internet, and no social media. You had to leave mommy's basement.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (snZF9)

15 I think Ackman had great success with pickup lines, but it wasn't that lame-o line. It was "Wanna go for a ride in my Lamborghini?" Now, that line would work like Colt 45.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

16 Everyone is a weirdo now

Posted by: NCKate at November 17, 2025 03:54 PM (uQzkA)

17 We're losing our WinnDixie. It might have something to do with our three Publix within a two mile radius.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 03:54 PM (jc0TO)

18 I know its practically a 90% discount from the supposed glory days, but frankly I'm shocked that anyone would pay $133 million for a mall, any mall, much less a mall in California.

Posted by: Crusader at November 17, 2025 03:54 PM (TN0g+)

19 Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

What if the girl doesn't care about cars?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 17, 2025 03:54 PM (PFs9e)

20 May I meet you ? Seriously ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 03:54 PM (VE6XX)

21 Malls are so 1980's.

I don't go out much at all, but WalMart, Aldis, HomeDepot/Menards ... seem to be doing OK.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 17, 2025 03:55 PM (vbXSk)

22 Malls Are Dying.
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Expensive crap.
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Hollywood Is Dying.
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See above, access on the second word.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 03:55 PM (krQz2)

23 Escarpment.

Has ACE ever showed us beautiful images of Escarpments on the Cafe?

Do you know what an escarpment is?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM

We've had a mesa, I believe.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 03:55 PM (jc0TO)

24 My wife and I often go to the local mall on Sunday afternoon to walk around for exercise. We sometimes see other older couples that look like they're doing the same thing.

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

25 The COVID authoritarians just hastened the collapse they were already going. Literally legalizing shop lifting didn't help either.

Posted by: steevy at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (YwEeS)

26 Why? How much time do you have? It's easy to point to the obvious causes:
The rise of streaming competition
The shrinking window for films hitting VOD platforms
The rise of consequential video game titles
Social media
Shrinking attention spans in Gen Z
The pandemic fallout

A winner of one of the stupid awards they give themselves gave a speech where he begged actors to STOP doing straight to streaming productions because theaters built the industry and theaters should NOT be destroyed because Apple has a streaming platform.

I agree with him.

They've flooded the market with SOOOOO much shit, it's destroyed any desire I might've had to watch a movie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

27

"May I grope.... I mean meet you?" that usually gets the police called out

Posted by: imp at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (g6TN6)

28 On YouTube there is even a Dead Mall series

Here is one of them from 10 years ago
https://youtu.be/la7sIrNo8Sw?si=IRvPfLiUMvdA87uS

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (Ydr2P)

29 Mall rent is too damn high.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (U+AKE)

30 I want to ask this question early enough it won't get willowed: what of the protests in Mexico against their President? Will they accomplish anything? If for some crazy reason the current government of Mexico were to fall, what would happen next?

Posted by: Crusader at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (TN0g+)

31 Seen videos on YouTube of local malls that are empty of customers, on line shopping maybe?

Posted by: Skip at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (+qU29)

32 We've had a mesa, I believe.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 03:55 PM (jc0TO)
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That's sounds like a lot.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (krQz2)

33 I really don't know what the hell is even going to happen when young people no longer seem particularly interested in finding mates.

My son is post-29, but he very much fits into this category.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (DRSnL)

34

deadmalls.com/

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (pkeXY)

35 Fully read the content.
That's how people end up at comment 40.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (Sco7b)

36 Oh, how we young people loved to show off our new "BUM" sweatshirts, our exciting and classy Swatches, our Flock of Seagalls haircuts, and our Frankie Says Don't novelty-t shirts.

Raise your hand if you had a "Hyper-Color" shirt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

37 'Does this handkerchief smell like chloroform' to you?"

Best pickup line of all time.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (jc0TO)

38 "May I meet you?" is probably better than...

Whores go in the box.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (GD2xa)

39 >>>A formerly profitable mall, once worth $1.2 billion has just closed in San Francisco and was sold for, essentially, scrap.

Indoor Zombie-infested laser tag. Call me, mall people.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (dK+Kv)

40 frankly I'm shocked that anyone would pay $133 million for a mall, any mall, much less a mall in California.
Posted by: Crusader at November 17, 2025 03:54 PM (TN0g+)

Some malls were repurposed into apartment homes IIRC.
The Houston Galleria will likely survive because it's already blended in with the Westin Oaks and also a bunch of office blocks.
Also downtown Houston had a tunnel system, so people in offices there had several retail options underground (to avoid, well, Houston's outdoors, which is terrible). Although it might have flooded and been abandoned since I was there.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (gKWVE)

41 The record industry largely died 30 years ago.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (U+AKE)

42 25 The COVID authoritarians just hastened the collapse they were already going. Literally legalizing shop lifting didn't help either.
Posted by: steevy at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (YwEeS)

Exactly. Happened to my Grandkids... They missed their Junior and Senior years.. No dances, or games.. No socializing....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (VE6XX)

43 Long ago would be hitting malls on the way home holiday shopping but haven't been to one in maybe 10 tears

Posted by: Skip at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (+qU29)

44 The Cartels run Mexico.

Posted by: steevy at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (YwEeS)

45
Just goggled "average movie ticket price."

$16 for Massachusetts?
That can't be right.

But if it is accurate, can't one buy a 55" el cheapo TV & Blu Ray player for the same cost as 25 movie tickets?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (xBXaH)

46 Malls attract drug deals, homeless who can't be evicted, gang bangers, flash theft mobs, and even worse, really high inventory taxes and rents for businesses which are marginal even when the paying customers aren't chased off by feral bums, violence, crime and poverty from inflation outpacing income.

America is not dying, it is being targeted for destruction through crime and neglect.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (rbvCR)

47 Fully read the content.
That's how people end up at comment 40.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (Sco7b)
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You'll never outblade the blade that way.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (krQz2)

48 Billionaire investor tries to help young people actually make contact with the opposite sex by offering a pick-up line.

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Bunch of smart asses making fun of this.

https://is.gd/vTh2Mk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (L/fGl)

49 Well... Chevrolet is mostly dead and Baseball is on it's way out. Apple Pie is going to have to save us!

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (Bo9Yf)

50 I played laser tag for the first time last week--it was a LOT of fun!

Posted by: Crusader at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (TN0g+)

51 I'm everlastingly grateful I grew up when I did. That world was a veritable enchantment compared to today.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (t+TFX)

52 We're losing our WinnDixie. It might have something to do with our three Publix within a two mile radius.

Posted by: toby928(c)

Probably also from never recovering from being a ridiculously mismanaged major grocery chain 20 years ago, which didn't help.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (OUMaO)

53 When 10% of the population own 90% of the wealth and 20% do 60% of the spending this will happen. We get pseudo populism from trump and democrat establishment has to prevent real populism from Bernie Sanders AOC and Zoran Mamdani.

Posted by: raimondo at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (2wbIJ)

54 37 'Does this handkerchief smell like chloroform' to you?"

Best pickup line of all time.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (jc0TO)

Agree 100%

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (a/dOO)

55 I try shopping locally in a lot of cases. It's just online offers more selection if I can wait a day or two.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (krQz2)

56 Gen-X Retirement homes are going to be a Blast!!
.....

Looks like a good way to break your hip.

Posted by: wth at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

57
Old: If the Marine Corps wanted you to have a wife, they would've issued you one.

In: If the government wanted you to have a wife, they would've issued you one

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (tgvbd)

58 49 Well... Chevrolet is mostly dead and Baseball is on it's way out. Apple Pie is going to have to save us!
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (Bo9Yf)

Can't go wrong with apple pie

Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (VE6XX)

59 Escarpment.

Has ACE ever showed us beautiful images of Escarpments on the Cafe?

Do you know what an escarpment is?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM

We've had a mesa, I believe.
Posted by: toby928(c)

You're just bluffing.

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (77rzZ)

60
We've had a mesa, I believe.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Not enough, in my opinion.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (xBXaH)

61 24 My wife and I often go to the local mall on Sunday afternoon to walk around for exercise. We sometimes see other older couples that look like they're doing the same thing.
Posted by: Bulg at

Hear me out …you can do this outside. What!?! No. Really. And you can pick up the pace to actually get your heart rate up for cardio benefits.

Also, aren’t you my age? Because I am not at all older.

Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (p4NUW)

62 America isn't dying, it's just changing. Twas ever thus.

Also, the economy is booming. WSJ:

The Trump economy appears to be cooking. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has just upgraded its estimate for real U.S. economic growth in the third quarter to a robust 4.1%. This follows a second quarter in which the U.S. economy grew 3.8%, a strong rebound from a first quarter in which the economy shrank by 0.6%.

What isn't booming is employment. Weird to see a vibrant economy with a very mediocre job market. As Bessent says "Wall Street should give way to Main Street".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (JZa8P)

63 'Does this handkerchief smell like chloroform' to you?"

Best pickup line of all time.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (jc0TO)
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Better numbers than Sex Panther.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (krQz2)

64 Back in my yute, I thought Denver's Cinderella City mall was the apex of civilization.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (L/fGl)

65 But if it is accurate, can't one buy a 55" el cheapo TV & Blu Ray player for the same cost as 25 movie tickets?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM

When a thousand dollars will get you an 85" 4K and a 5.1 sound system, theaters are doomed.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (jc0TO)

66 If there are no malls left, where will the few intrepid survivors hole up when it's Dawn of the Dead time?

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (wVcYX)

67 "Have young people stopped caring about sex"

The state rails at them for years that young men aren't allowed to so much as (literally) look at women the wrong way, plus younger women tend to be miserably woke and just not fun to be around.

Posted by: heya at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (CMghx)

68 Have young people stopped caring about sex?

Young men are having much less of it, but the young women are having plenty. They've haremed themselves to Tinder Chads, and anyone who doesn't meet their absurdly unrealistic 300-point list of requirements, each of which is a "deal-breaker," is "chopped," "dusty," a "brokie," a "creep," and/or gives them the "ick."

This is just one of the problems of our atomized but social-media-obsessed/driven society.

Posted by: We're pretty much fucked at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (TbWk/)

69 Houston area malls still packed and the new 'city center' outdoor mall settings even more popular. But the fanciest Galleria mall on PostOak is not what it used to be though still profitable. And that's all because of crime.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (EYmYM)

70 Ackman doesn’t understand that if the kids see a chick now, she has a septum ring, bird hands, and a novelty t-shirt of Trump being aborted.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (rhQSf)

71 54 37 'Does this handkerchief smell like chloroform' to you?"

Best pickup line of all time.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (jc0TO)

Of course, according to my bride, not only did I have no game, I had no idea where the field was. I was no Paolo.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (a/dOO)

72
As Clownfish TV observed, "Everything sucks now."

Well, maybe we're going through a phase of enshittification as the old ways die out and the new ways seem to have as steep a downside as they do an upside. Surely, new ways of real-world socializing will emerge.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (n7CIX)

73 "I really don't know what the hell is even going to happen when young people no longer seem particularly interested in finding mates."

Sexbots. Trendlines makes this an inevitability.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (gLikB)

74 It doesn't help that most people are just selfish assholes now.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

75 54 37 'Does this handkerchief smell like chloroform' to you?"

Best pickup line of all time.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (jc0TO)

I laughed even though I no I shouldn't....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (VE6XX)

76 >>>For context, October ticket sales in 2019 totaled an adjusted $1 billion, according to Comscore.
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Once was a time when theaters were a place of decorum.
We would purchase our popcorn and soda, proceed to ours seats and quietly talk until projection began. At that time everyone would be mute silent in respect to other patrons and what we expected ourselves.

Theater today is an arena of chaos and clatter not to mention risk of bodily harm.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (2DV5Q)

77 "A formerly profitable mall, once worth $1.2 billion has just closed in San Francisco and was sold for, essentially, scrap."

I highly doubt the mall was ever worth $1.2B. I think what we're seeing in a lot of markets -- real estate included -- isn't a drastic crash in value, but a more realistic valuation of the asset. Some of these assets will end up being sold off to make way for "highest and best use" uses.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

78 I want to ask this question early enough it won't get willowed: what of the protests in Mexico against their President? Will they accomplish anything? If for some crazy reason the current government of Mexico were to fall, what would happen next?
Posted by: Crusader at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (TN0g+)

You mean the one that is eerily like the one in Morocco and Nepal and Bangladesh? That seem to be driven by Reddit?

Fluke. Local issue. Inequality. Lack of opportunity.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (rbvCR)

79 I mean...this country wasn't founded on malls and Hollywood. That was just some profitable shit that happened.

I would prefer to say that things just change.

Is creativity and art and music and literature and originality and humor dead you may ask?

Is architecture dead? you may ask.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (aTgV0)

80 Hear me out …you can do this outside. What!?! No. Really. And you can pick up the pace to actually get your heart rate up for cardio benefits.

Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (p4NUW)
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But where would you get the Orange Julius after?

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (krQz2)

81 Malls were great because there was no internet, and no social media. You had to leave mommy's basement.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (snZF9)

Arcade. Record store. Pizza joint. Did anything else matter?

Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (Ltmlv)

82 Posted by: raimondo at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM

Piss off, racist foreign weirdo.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (jc0TO)

83 America is molting.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (krQz2)

84 20 May I meet you ? Seriously ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Eminem wrote a rap about that, "As The World Turns".

I met a slut and said, "What up? It's nice to meet ya" (Hi)
"I'd like to treat you to a Faygo and a slice of pizza
But I'm broke as f... (and it degenerates from there)

Posted by: gKWVE at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (gKWVE)

85 28 On YouTube there is even a Dead Mall series

Here is one of them from 10 years ago
https://youtu.be/la7sIrNo8Sw?si=IRvPfLiUMvdA87uS
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (Ydr2P)

Dan Bell is a Pedophile.

Posted by: XTC at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (UnA8+)

86 >>>our Frankie Says Don't novelty-t shirts.

Was this like the Kaboom of Frankie Says Relax novelty-t shirts?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 17, 2025 04:01 PM (dK+Kv)

87
Houston area malls still packed

_________

Went to Baybrook a few months ago. Good quality stores, lots of crowds.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 17, 2025 04:01 PM (tgvbd)

88
When a thousand dollars will get you an 85" 4K and a 5.1 sound system, theaters are doomed.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Well, I suppose you should include the cost of a chair in there, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2025 04:01 PM (xBXaH)

89

Same 29 here as well. Our Jams shorts or Girbaud jeans, rocking the Lacoste shirts popped, too

Posted by: imp at November 17, 2025 04:01 PM (g6TN6)

90 Spencer Gifts is still around, in our local mall. Same schlocky crap as in the old days, too.

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

91 They've flooded the market with SOOOOO much shit, it's destroyed any desire I might've had to watch a movie.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 17, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)
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I think that's a large part of the problem. The market is so oversaturated with content that no one movie or television show will EVER have the same viewership as they had a few decades ago when there was a lot less content to choose from. The paradox of having TOO MUCH content is that people will eventually decide they can't choose what to watch and thus will turn to an alternative entertainment--like books (which also has the same problem...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:01 PM (IBQGV)

92 Anchorage got its first indoor mall in the late 1960's. The Sears Mall, because Sears was at one end and Carrs Grocery store at the other end. I worked there as a high-school kid, at a high-end women's clothing store that catered to the Governor's wife and also the closeted cross-dressers. At Christmas time, men came in to buy undersized naughty undies for their wives, leave them to be wrapped and head down to the bar in the middle of the mall. At closing time on Christmas Eve, somebody had to go down to tell the men to pick up their packages. Then the ladies all returned them the day after Christmas and got a bigger size.

The Mall was a cool place to hang out. There was a kite store, a carmel-corn shop, Radio Shack, book store, bank, barber shop, hair dresser, lots of clothes shops, and a carousel.

I think these days that isn't very much entertainment for anyone, but at the time, it was just right on a cold-ass snowy day.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 17, 2025 04:01 PM (6Bc88)

93 52 We're losing our WinnDixie. It might have something to do with our three Publix within a two mile radius.

Posted by: toby928(c

I never went to the WinnDixie. I do go to Publix because my studio is literally next door, and the pig. And Rouses because they have better prime meat. Publix is an awful landlord, though.

Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 04:01 PM (p4NUW)

94 Is the love of doing something awesome and beautiful dead, you may ask.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:01 PM (aTgV0)

95 America is...think of it as shedding its skin, or entering a cocoon. Look at the things that are "dying"--Hollywood, consumer culture, shallow "dating" scenes--what were they? A shell over the America that had been before. There was a core underneath that was the real, vital nation, under that shell of parasites.

A changed America is in the process of emerging. What that nation will be is...not yet clear. It will not be what it was before. It can be something amazing. Or it could be a nightmare. That's what's at stake now.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (OUMaO)

96 -
Bunch of smart asses making fun of this.

https://is.gd/vTh2Mk
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 17, 2025 03:57 PM (L/fGl)

Meanwhile, none of them are meeting broads because they're too busy in mom's basement playing videogames online.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

97 Too much vibrant diversity.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (pkeXY)

98 Arcade. Record store. Pizza joint. Did anything else matter?

Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (Ltmlv)
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B. Dalton's / Waldenbooks...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (IBQGV)

99 Women have always been difficult to deal with but modern women are a whole new level.

Posted by: steevy at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (YwEeS)

100 Yeah

IT IS ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID!!!

Malls are closing Wendys is closing 300 stores!
This economy is a train wreck

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (bK/wS)

101 If it is dead it's dead everywhere, not just America.

It's dead in every part of the world.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (aTgV0)

102 Our one nice mall started going down hill when they routed a bus line thru the parking deck. A guy got car jacked and killed. Meemaws started getting mugged going into Nordstrom for lunch. Mommy & Mes got continually accosted by hobos for money. That's why it's dying. If you make it into the mall then the gang bangers are looting the stores. I'll just stay home and have less stuff.

Posted by: NCKate at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (uQzkA)

103
Some of these assets will end up being sold off to make way for "highest and best use" uses.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

___________

Looking to open a lead smelting plant, pulp processing factory and a tannery myself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (tgvbd)

104 We're losing our WinnDixie.

Posted by: toby928(c
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Transitioning?

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (krQz2)

105 1.5m square feet sounds about right for a Buc-Ee's.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (zN27e)

106 >>>Are they just homebound? Or to coin a term: phonebound?

I'll re-re-relate a synopsis of a nutshell of a story shared recently. At a teen-rich activity, of those not actively engaged in the activity, 10/10 had their noses in their phones, even sitting shoulder to shoulder, not a word said between them.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (dK+Kv)

107
What size TV does one need, minimum, for a proper movie-watching experience?

I mean, we watched A Lot of movies on a 19" screen back when VCR's and video rentals were a thing. And we were happy.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (xBXaH)

108 There also the crapification of everything. Trust me it's a thing.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (wBaIH)

109 Its crazy to me that up here - the Maine Mall in South Portland is packed almost all of the time. I don't usually go there except they have a Best Buy and if I need a cable or piece of electronics *right now* I'll go there and yes, I have to actually search for open pahhking in the lot.

Posted by: Defenestratus at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (WYStd)

110 The advice that Clay and Buck gave to young men on their radio show was this-and no, I don't listen to them unless I turn on the radio in the car

A guy has to be fearless in approaching a group of Attractive young women. Go in there with supreme confidence and have a sense of humor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (PFs9e)

111 We're losing our WinnDixie.

Posted by: toby928(c
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Transitioning?

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (krQz2)

To WasDixie.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (dK+Kv)

112 Didn't Harrison Ford land on a taxiway?
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I think it was a henway.
Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (krQz2)

What's a henway?

Posted by: Teeing it up because I can't resist at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (TbWk/)

113
Meanwhile, none of them are meeting broads because they're too busy in mom's basement playing videogames online.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

___________

Maybe because they've met the broads, they're playing video games instead.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (tgvbd)

114 Malls should probably have a yearly fee like Costco to scare away tha Amish teenagers that make white women feel unsafe.

When groups like that show up and old school Jesse Jackson would feel unsafe, things turn south fast.

Around the hilltop in Columbus Ohio on High street was a fairly nice mall I went to once or twice. But I was worried about the car in the parking lot, it was nearly empty and kind of creepy.

Windsor, Ontario - Windsorstan - has a beautiful mall that's still packed. Nice place to shop.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (Sco7b)

115 One cheap weekend hobby was going to the mall and people watching.

But that became too depressing. We aren't going to make it as a species.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (cIxJn)

116 Was in SF a few summers ago, saw that mall that is now closed, surrounded by public defecators and passed out bums. I like Nordstrom, but I'm not gonna walk through human detritus to get there.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (6Bc88)

117 104 We're losing our WinnDixie.

Posted by: toby928(c
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Transitioning?
Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (krQz2)

It wants to be known henceforth as WinDixon.

Any deviation for that is deadnaming it.

Posted by: Defenestratus at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (WYStd)

118 20 bucks same as in town.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (U+AKE)

119 "I really don't know what the hell is even going to happen when young people no longer seem particularly interested in finding mates."

I don't believe this. I think it's a "thing" for young people to claim they aren't seeking mates, but I don't believe it. It's just a fashionable thing to say.

I don't believe a few decades of social media changes millions of years of evolution.

If anything, the nuclear bomb of changing sexual politics came decades before social media: the rise of "feminism" and normalizing casual sex and promiscuity. That had a bigger negative effect on efforts to find mates than social media has.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

120 I never went to the WinnDixie. I do go to Publix because my studio is literally next door, and the pig. And Rouses because they have better prime meat. Publix is an awful landlord, though.
Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 04:01 PM

Your studio is in that strip mall? Fancy.

When WinnDixie closes I have the choice of the Pig, Greer's old folks store, and Publix. I don't like Publix.
I make the drive to Rouses when they have a good sale but it's 7 whole miles away!

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (jc0TO)

121 B. Dalton's / Waldenbooks...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (IBQGV)

Only when I wanted to peruse the various volumes of "Truly Tasteless Jokes"!

Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (Ltmlv)

122 Also, aren’t you my age? Because I am not at all older.
Posted by: PiperAlso, aren’t you my age? Because I am not at all older.
Posted by: Piper

I turn 60 on Friday. AARP won't leave me alone.

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

123
Go in there with supreme confidence and have a sense of humor.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (PFs9e)

__________

"Beat it, loser!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (tgvbd)

124 The death of malls has been an ongoing thing here in Canada, since maybe he 1990's.

And, IIRC, malls got their start in Canada, mostly for the obvious weather-related reasons.

Park Royal Shopping Centre, which was in my 'hood as a yute, opened in 1950.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (npFr7)

125 It doesn't help that most people are just selfish assholes now.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

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Seriously, what IS that? After I got back from TX I saw a meme and sent to son. It said, "they should make a separate airport for people who know how to act like they've been in public before." It's not just the airport, though, it's everywhere.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (DRSnL)

126 Kids went to the mall to talk to each other, too. We couldn’t just text our friends. We had to speak to them, and you generally only had 1 or 2 phone lines. My sister and I shared a phone line, so while we didn’t have our parents yelling at us that they needed the phone, we did that to each other. Which reminds me of the time she pretended she was me on the phone when a boy I liked called. I could have killed her.

Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (p4NUW)

127 I turn 60 on Friday. AARP won't leave me alone.
Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)
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You, youngster, can get off my lawn.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (UJMvS)

128 That San Francisco mall has been in a shithole area for a very long time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (n9ltV)

129 We're losing our WinnDixie.

Posted by: toby928(c
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Transitioning?
Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (krQz2)

WinnVagie

Posted by: No balls at all at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (TbWk/)

130 "What's a henway?
Posted by: Teeing it up because I can't resist"

About ten pounds because you I would.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (aTgV0)

131 I'll re-re-relate a synopsis of a nutshell of a story shared recently. At a teen-rich activity, of those not actively engaged in the activity, 10/10 had their noses in their phones, even sitting shoulder to shoulder, not a word said between them.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 17, 2025 04:03 PM (dK+Kv)
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I see this ALL THE TIME among the college students where I work. Used to be you'd have student chatting with each other in the hallways. Now, more than 1/2 of them are constantly plugged into their phones via earbuds or headphones and as soon as they get out of class, they immediately pull out their phones and start texting.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (IBQGV)

132 AARP doesn't even seem to be offering lame gifts anymore.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (U+AKE)

133 Arcade. Record store. Pizza joint. Did anything else matter?

Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:00 PM (Ltmlv)
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B. Dalton's / Waldenbooks...
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Yeah, any decent sized mall had at 2-4 booksellers, a pet store, 2-3 music stores, 2-4 athletic footwear stores, 2-4 jewelry stores, a sunglasses store, a cinema with 4-8 screens, a sporting goods store (different than the athletic wear stores), a shop that sold chocolates and fresh nuts, a lingerie store, and 3-4 large department stores as anchors.

Posted by: Crusader at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (TN0g+)

134 It's sad. My new SIL has 4 (very smart, not ugly) guy friends who all want to meet the right woman, or ANY woman I think.

And as a widow just beginning to emerge from grief, I see plenty of young men in bars, looking. Some of them even try try hooking up with me (and I'm obviously at least twice their age!).

Problem is, there are no young women there for them. And if there are, they're taken.

Like I said, sad.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (JCLJi)

135 It wants to be known henceforth as WinDixon.

Any deviation for that is deadnaming it.
Posted by: Defenestratus at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (WYStd)
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It's transitioning, so Dixoff, I would think.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (krQz2)

136 One thing to understand about Hollywood is that a select few aren't just insisting on politically correct agenda narratives; they, basically, gutted the talent pool as well.

Writers, directors, actors, producers....these positions are now in the hands of the same people who force feed "THE MESSAGE" to us constantly. The talented writers, innovative story tellers etc. have been removed and blacklisted. There's a great documentary available about how Disney removed all the talented animators from their employment (being that they were older white males) and replaced them with absolute amateurs.

Add to that the insistence on re-boots and sequels on a lot of stuff that should just be left alone.

The select few doing this (and having done this) reflect their own tastes, but don't reflect what a majority of their perceived customer base wants. They end up trying to sell dung covered turnips on a stick. And, no one is buying.

Posted by: Orson at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (dIske)

137 122 Also, aren’t you my age? Because I am not at all older.
Posted by: PiperAlso, aren’t you my age? Because I am not at all older.
Posted by: Piper

I turn 60 on Friday. AARP won't leave me alone.
Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

You are 6 years older than me, so not old. Stop acting like it!

Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (p4NUW)

138 Only when I wanted to peruse the various volumes of "Truly Tasteless Jokes"!
Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (Ltmlv)

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Wow, that's a blast from the past.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (DRSnL)

139 A guy has to be fearless in approaching a group of Attractive young women

Especially in 2025 when approaching a woman who doesn’t find you attractive means she’ll get you cancelled and in extreme cases thrown in prison.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (rhQSf)

140 I saw Hypercriminality open for Woods Of Desolation at the Beta Bar in '07.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (Rul0B)

141 "A formerly profitable mall, once worth $1.2 billion has just closed in San Francisco and was sold for, essentially, scrap."

I don't understand this, the land must have some value even in san francisco. Why doesn't some developer buy it up and use the new state laws and incentives to build *affordable* housing? There are tons of incentives and huge tax breaks that the state can give out to builders. I would think buying something up like an old mall and demolishing it to make tiny homes or something similar would be a big hit in CA.

I guess they really don't care about the people of the state.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (0N4FZ)

142 Sure it's not WinnChicks now?

Posted by: gKWVE at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (gKWVE)

143 121 B. Dalton's / Waldenbooks...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (IBQGV)

Only when I wanted to peruse the various volumes of "Truly Tasteless Jokes"!
Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (Ltmlv)

Have you forgotten the latest Garfield comic strip book? I thought I knew you.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (a/dOO)

144 I used to go to that mall in SF when I worked down the street from it. It did OK when the anchor tenant was there - Nordstroms. After they pulled out, it was downhill from there. The big problem has been the rise of drug dealing along that stretch of Market Street. Hondurans or "Hondos" as they're called, are the bulk of the dealers in that area.

Posted by: beckster at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (I7J98)

145 AARP's call center is in India.

Yeah, there are more than a few retirees who might be able to man the phones and could use the money.

But AARP farmed out their help desk.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (UJMvS)

146 >>>>Way back when, pickin' up chicks was as easy as getting in your Chevy Chevette, cranking up Def Leppard, and driving to the nearest roller-disco.

No, side one of Led Zeppelin IV.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (CNl8/)

147
You are 6 years older than me, so not old. Stop acting like it!
Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (p4NUW)

________

Children, children, stop squabbling.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (tgvbd)

148 Monterey, California has an open-air mall, the Del Mone Center, that was designed by the same architect who designed JFK's eternal flame grave.

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

149 "What isn't booming is employment. Weird to see a vibrant economy with a very mediocre job market. As Bessent says "Wall Street should give way to Main Street".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (JZa8P)"

The economy isn't booming at all and I think Trump knows it, and why, and is just trying to do what he can.

Wages started their death spiral in 1971 and cranked it up a notch in 2020. Too many over 29 don't truly realize how bad it has gotten. In most areas real typical entry level wages, with real adjustment for inflation, not BLS unicorn farts, are about 1/2 of what federal minimum was when shit started falling apart. (not promoting min wage here, just comparing). Comparing non entry level is worse, more like a 75% collapse.

This is ON TOP of the shifts in housing, medical, and tuition. It's not sustainable and the end will be sooner and more sudden than most think.

Posted by: heya at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (CMghx)

150 Young people used to love going out just to look for attractive members of the opposite sex

************************

When i was in high school and college almost every girl was a 1

There were so many attractive girls that just by sheer math at least 1 or 2 of them were going to be interested in me (and they were, and behold, it was GOOD)

But today, HO LEE FUK

I dont know what happened, it doesnt matter if I go to stores, or if Im at work, or if Im checking dating apps, like 90% of women look awful and are mid at BEST. Its horrific

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (HYKHz)

151 sigh

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (56ESQ)

152 I'm only 57.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (U+AKE)

153 All the cute chicks are selling that ass on the internet.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (aTgV0)

154 A guy has to be fearless in approaching a group of Attractive young women. Go in there with supreme confidence and have a sense of humor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (PFs9e)

The oldest approached the group of top tier feral hotties and asked them all out to Trick or Treat. He's handsome, but geez dude. Good way to get yourself killed.

As it turned out, they were floored, didn't know how to respond, and in the end, it turned into a great night with all the hotties and a him and a few friends.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take, I guess, if there's a moral to the story.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (dK+Kv)

155 > I don't believe this. I think it's a "thing" for young people to claim they aren't seeking mates, but I don't believe it. It's just a fashionable thing to say.

They're not just claiming it. They act like they're not looking. They don't date. They don't socialize. I'm speaking generally, of course. You may know some who do, but many don't.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (Yp6az)

156 137 122 Also, aren’t you my age? Because I am not at all older.
Posted by: PiperAlso, aren’t you my age? Because I am not at all older.
Posted by: Piper

I turn 60 on Friday. AARP won't leave me alone.
Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

You are 6 years older than me, so not old. Stop acting like it!
Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (p4NUW)

Both of you get off my lawn

Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (VE6XX)

157 Our one nice mall started going down hill when they routed a bus line thru the parking deck. A guy got car jacked and killed. Meemaws started getting mugged going into Nordstrom for lunch. Mommy & Mes got continually accosted by hobos for money. That's why it's dying. If you make it into the mall then the gang bangers are looting the stores. I'll just stay home and have less stuff.
Posted by: NCKate

Common denominator: bus line.
Fatigue is real.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (cIxJn)

158 You are 6 years older than me, so not old. Stop acting like it!
Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (p4NUW)
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And you, young lady, will make sure the trash is taken out and the dishes are done before you leave on a date!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (UJMvS)

159 The basic problem with pickup lines is that unless the girl has already decided that she is already kinda sorta interested in you, it's almost guaranteed not to work.

Of course if she's decided that she is kinda sorta interested, you could say, "My farts smell like A&W Root Beer."
And she'll laugh like you're Oscar Wilde at his wittiest

Posted by: naturalfake at November 17, 2025 04:09 PM (mJQ5E)

160 121 B. Dalton's / Waldenbooks...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (IBQGV)

Only when I wanted to peruse the various volumes of "Truly Tasteless Jokes"!
Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (Ltmlv)

Have you forgotten the latest Garfield comic strip book? I thought I knew you.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (a/dOO)
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I can still smell the odor of a B. Dalton's / Waldenbooks even though I haven't been to one in decades.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:09 PM (IBQGV)

161 B. Dalton's / Waldenbooks...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:02 PM (IBQGV)

Only when I wanted to peruse the various volumes of "Truly Tasteless Jokes"!
Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (Ltmlv)

and The Far Side

and Calvin & Hobbes

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 17, 2025 04:09 PM (wVcYX)

162 Have you forgotten the latest Garfield comic strip book? I thought I knew you.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (a/dOO)

Heathcliff >>>>>>>>> Garfield

Back then, my tastes were Bloom County, Far Side, and of course, Calvin and Hobbes. Still have several FS and C/H books.

Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:09 PM (Ltmlv)

163
The Apple store is the tentpole keeping our last standing mall going.

The boomer geezers getting their steps in aren't buying anything.

If you want to see an amazing collection of sex toys there's a Spencer's Gifts there.

Posted by: Auspex at November 17, 2025 04:09 PM (Y8DZL)

164 "Why are truck drivers being fired for not speaking English when the First Lady, in name only, also can’t speak it? "
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She speaks five languages, which is five more than you, you discarded dildo.

Posted by: ... at November 17, 2025 04:09 PM (E0p3T)

165 74 It doesn't help that most people are just selfish assholes now.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 17, 2025 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

Always were.

Even in Caveman Times, Ug beat Grug to death with a club to steal his wife and his food.

Posted by: XTC at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (UnA8+)

166 As a teenager we chased weed, beer, and girls. I had a computer and sometimes played rudimentary computer games, but school, sports and work combined with social activities kept that to a minimum.

Probably reversed now: kids don't have jobs, don't much care about school or sports, and everyone gets "A's" anyway, and mostly they play computer games.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (qz4RZ)

167 I turn 60 on Friday. AARP won't leave me alone.
Posted by: Bulg

Fffffffftp. I turn 63 on Thursday. AARP has quit bugging me. They started when I was 45.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (cIxJn)

168 The new thing as I mentioned above is 'city centers' which is an outdoor mall combined with business office space and high dollar apartments above the restaurants/businesses or just stand alone within the ' City center' . Parking is the biggest downside.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (EYmYM)

169 Young people used to love going out just to look for attractive members of the opposite sex

now they have everything easier, twice as many opportunities

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (56ESQ)

170

Demographics is destiny.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (och2J)

171
That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my WinDixie
Trying to keep up with you

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (krQz2)

172 Wow, that's a blast from the past.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (DRSnL)

You've met me. It's what I do.

Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (Ltmlv)

173 And as a widow just beginning to emerge from grief,
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (JCLJi)

=====

Sorry for your loss.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (DRSnL)

174 >>Piss off, racist foreign weirdo.

Toby, a daytime raimondo appearance? To be savoured. At least coherent, this time.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (NcvvS)

175 Remember cruisin up and down the street and then going to the one hang out spot?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (zzXla)

176 For those you getting AARP maileers, call AARP and tell them to stop. They will.

Worked for me, anyway.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (UJMvS)

177 No, side one of Led Zeppelin IV.
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Once upon a time I was a HUGE Zeppelin fan. And perhaps because of that, I never "got" that punchline. Led Zeppelin IV is an epic album, but there's nothing on side one or side two that the fairer sex would find intoxicating. I had better (accidental) results from "Whole Lotta Love" from Zeppelin II.

Posted by: Crusader at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (TN0g+)

178 Commercial Real Estate has been in a cleft stick for a long time, since before Covid. The question is whether there will be a crash and a sell off, of if the companies that hold them in their portfolios can make up the difference with the other, more successful holdings like single family housing for rent, and apartment housing.
One of the nice thing about Biden's traitorous importation of the entire third world is that it supported real estate income, both by increasing demand and by providing federal funds to pay for it.
It sucks if you are taxed, suffer from the inflation of money printing and have to compete for housing from subsidized illegals, but the companies that own the rentals are keeping their heads above water and won't have to liquidate the CRE holdings just yet.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (rbvCR)

179 "I don't understand this, the land must have some value even in san francisco"

No, it doesn't. The building itself can be a liability, as well as the location. I am surprised they got 9 figures for it, that's amazing.

It is probably not worth anywhere near that much.

Posted by: heya at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (CMghx)

180 It doesn't help that most people are just selfish assholes now.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Guilty as charged.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (cIxJn)

181 122 Also, aren’t you my age? Because I am not at all older.
Posted by: PiperAlso, aren’t you my age? Because I am not at all older.
Posted by: Piper

I turn 60 on Friday. AARP won't leave me alone.
Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

60's on the younger side, for the Horde.

Posted by: XTC at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (UnA8+)

182 Back then, my tastes were Bloom County, Far Side, and of course, Calvin and Hobbes. Still have several FS and C/H books.
Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:09 PM (Ltmlv)
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Got the complete collections of all three!

Definitely worth it!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (IBQGV)

183 Demographics is destiny.

in fairness, no shit, do you have any idea how many kids hoes named destiny have?

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (56ESQ)

184 Related subjects. Seminarians have to give up cell phones five days a week:

https://tinyurl.com/5n6rx9tp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (PFs9e)

185 Note that the entertainment media never adjusts for inflation, because they're industry shills and always want to claim that we're breaking records which we're definitely not even close to breaking.
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I remember back in the 70s finding out about that. The context was that the real top year for Hollywood was 1946. Which makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (s0JqF)

186 I would have expected malls to hang on longer in northern climes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (jc0TO)

187 Still have several FS and C/H books.
Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:09 PM (Ltmlv)

As do I.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (a/dOO)

188 >>>>Way back when, pickin' up chicks was as easy as getting in your Chevy Chevette, cranking up Def Leppard, and driving to the nearest roller-disco.

No, side one of Led Zeppelin IV.
Posted by: Mark1971 at November 17, 2025 04:07 PM (CNl8/)

And if you had a Mr. Microphone, you were in like Flint.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (wVcYX)

189 I just want to live as far away from people and as close to food and clothing as I can.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (aTgV0)

190 Even in Caveman Times, Ug beat Grug to death with a club to steal his wife and his food.

Posted by: XTC at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (UnA8+)
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Fuckin' Ug!

Posted by: Caveman Neighbor at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (krQz2)

191 Of course if she's decided that she is kinda sorta interested, you could say, "My farts smell like A&W Root Beer."
And she'll laugh like you're Oscar Wilde at his wittiest
Posted by: naturalfake at November

Do not take this advice, single morons. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (p4NUW)

192 Thank you Jordan.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (JCLJi)

193 > Fffffffftp. I turn 63 on Thursday. AARP has quit bugging me. They started when I was 45.

I'm 48. I haven't seen any AARP trash in my mail yet.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (Yp6az)

194 The is at least one YouTube channel that does nothing but visit closed shopping malls. It is really sad.

Posted by: SMOD at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (RHGPo)

195 Wages started their death spiral in 1971 and cranked it up a notch in 2020. Too many over 29 don't truly realize how bad it has gotten. In most areas real typical entry level wages, with real adjustment for inflation, not BLS unicorn farts, are about 1/2 of what federal minimum was when shit started falling apart. (not promoting min wage here, just comparing). Comparing non entry level is worse, more like a 75% collapse.

Posted by: heya at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (CMghx)
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This is what you call Total Bullshit

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (qz4RZ)

196 Related: It was simpler when I was young. Way back when, pickin' up chicks was as easy as getting in your Chevy Chevette, cranking up Def Leppard, and driving to the nearest roller-disco.

I would love to believe that you did that.
And so I shall.

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (RuTUS)

197 78 I want to ask this question early enough it won't get willowed: what of the protests in Mexico against their President? Will they accomplish anything? If for some crazy reason the current government of Mexico were to fall, what would happen next?
Posted by: Crusader
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X commentary seems to be past tense. It's as if the people had their big expression and now it's over. If it happens again we'll have a better idea.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (2DV5Q)

198 148 Monterey, California has an open-air mall, the Del Mone Center, that was designed by the same architect who designed JFK's eternal flame grave.
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Yep, the Del Monte Center is my favorite mall. John Carl Warnecke was the architect.

Posted by: beckster at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (I7J98)

199 The U.S. House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol cost almost twice as much as previously reported, including spending taxpayer funds for TV news producers and documentary filmmakers to create videos dramatizing its case against President Donald Trump, an investigation by The Center Square found.

The Washington Post reported that the panel had a projected budget of $9.3 million in September 2022. According to a review of U.S. House disbursements, the select committee spent $17.4 million.

Posted by: SMOD at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (RHGPo)

200 Young people used to love going out just to look for attractive members of the opposite sex

now they have everything easier, twice as many opportunities
Posted by: n

Yeah. A young guy will just as easily suck a dick as chase poon.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (cIxJn)

201 118 20 bucks same as in town.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (U+AKE)

AMERICAN DOLLARS?????

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (Sco7b)

202 It was "Wanna go for a ride in my Lamborghini?" Now, that line would work like Colt 45.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Girl, thinking: Oh, what a cool car, I'd love to ride in it! ... except if he's got a car that nice he's one of the rich popular guys, and I'm Plain Jane from Average Lower Middle Class Family. He's setting me up to humiliate me isn't he? Better refuse politely just to be safe.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (a+4eV)

203 Why are truck drivers being fired for not speaking English when the First Lady, in name only, also can’t speak it? "
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She speaks five languages, which is five more than you, you discarded dildo.
Posted by: ... at November 17, 2025 04:09 PM (E0p3T)
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She's also not driving a 60,000 lb vehicle down the road endangering everyone.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (UJMvS)

204 now they have everything easier, twice as many opportunities

**************

I would not call now having gold subscriptions to OnlyFans accounts more opportunities

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (HYKHz)

205 Malls and movie theaters are -- or used to be -- the favored hangouts of bored teenagers.

Or fast food places. We got to watch a cringe-inducing interaction between a few kids who looked 15 or so at the Taco Bell the other night. Hilariously, it was the girls being awkward and the boys ignoring them.

But with DoorDash and other food delivery services, this kind of interaction is probably becoming rare.

Posted by: pookysgirl hung out at the DQ her friend worked at at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (Wt5PA)

206 the other big contributor to the end of the mall is blue-city tolerance of hypercriminality

Quite apart from businesses wanting to avoid WOW-style raids on their stores ...

Who wants to be out and about when thugs can do whatever they want with minimal consequences and self-defense, defense of others, and defense of property are put under a microscope?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (gBv1i)

207 I would have expected malls to hang on longer in northern climes.

blacks have given northern malls all of the violence and none of the purchasing

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (56ESQ)

208 I would like to go out and be less homebound and phone bound, but then i remember there are people out there

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (HYKHz)

209 NO STAIRWAY!!

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (jc0TO)

210 It's the shitty malls that are dying. The problem is that's like 99% of the malls.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (aTgV0)

211 60's on the younger side, for the Horde.
Posted by: XTC at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (UnA8+)
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Hmmmmm.....
* rubs chin, maybe people aren't 29 like they say *

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (krQz2)

212 Got the complete collections of all three!

Definitely worth it!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (IBQGV)

Wow. Does that mean I can participate in the Book Thread?

Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (Ltmlv)

213 I turn 63 on Thursday.
Posted by: rickb223

Happy early birhday!

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (77rzZ)

214 She's also not driving a 60,000 lb vehicle down the road endangering everyone.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (UJMvS)

But in a great country, she would be.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (gBv1i)

215 My favorite pickup line.

Excuse me . Could you settle a bet between me and my friend. He says you have hazel green eyes.. and I say you're a dirty little girl.

Okay maybe not my favorite but the one that makes me laugh .

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (EYmYM)

216 Even in Caveman Times, Ug beat Grug to death with a club to steal his wife and his food.

Posted by: XTC at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (UnA8+)

Now Ug just sneaky-links Mrs. Grug while Mr. Grug work 60+ hours a week, pays all the bills, and raises three kids that he doesn't know aren't his.

Posted by: Ah modernity at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (TbWk/)

217 Chevy Chevettes.

They never seemed to die. They just go louder and uglier and time went on.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (JCLJi)

218 And the ones media outlets won't go near.

Stars made themselves toxic to half the country with their political views
Stars are, for the most part, over-exposed
The movies just aren't very good, in toto
The Woke Mind Virus still infects the industry
Hollywood has lost touch with the common man

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And that is why the media are following Hollywood into oblivion, they may even get there first.

Posted by: Decaf at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (unUNN)

219 When I was a kid we couldn't wait to get our drivers license and drive around town all weekend. We'd buy shitty weed and some pony millers or wine coolers and talk to boys. We weren't looking at pictures of dicks on our phones and playing video games all day. We had kid jobs and a little cash. And we weren't porkers. Then college was the ultimate destination. And we didn't become fucking weirdos.

Posted by: NCKate at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (uQzkA)

220 Bill is a nice guy but i told him a long time ago he was overthinking it.
Just walk up and grab em by the pussy.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (bZ+t8)

221 Young men are having much less of it, but the young women are having plenty. They've haremed themselves to Tinder Chads, and anyone who doesn't meet their absurdly unrealistic 300-point list of requirements, each of which is a "deal-breaker," is "chopped," "dusty," a "brokie," a "creep," and/or gives them the "ick."
Posted by: We're pretty much fucked

You might find a better class of woman if you stopped thirsting after e-thots and getting your behavioral statistics from hook-up apps, most of them gay.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (a+4eV)

222
I would not call now having gold subscriptions to OnlyFans accounts more opportunities

I was meaning that they do not have to worry about whether the other in the back seat is same or different sex

its not do they have complimentary parts, its do they have holes we can cram things into

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (56ESQ)

223 Funny the guy/girl concept...teen girls hung out to see each other in camraderie, not seeking hook ups.

Before you didn't want that to be your house b/c mom and dad would interfere and be lame b/c your hang out had to be in person.

Now it's on your phone/laptop/etc, so you don't need to GO somewhere, b/c going still involves getting rides from the 'rents. Now, you can just sit down and watch a streaming movie together in a Google hangout or pay a game over Twitch...

Girls stopped going, so guys stopped going b/c THEY were looking to pick up girls who are no longer there...

Plus, all these things cost money...kids aren't getting hired for PT jobs that are all going to illegals, so kids don't have money and seek the cheap...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (tOcjL)

224 60's on the younger side, for the Horde.
Posted by: XTC at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (UnA8+)

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Is it? I thought there were a bunch of us Gen-X'ers.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (DRSnL)

225 *as time...

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (JCLJi)

226 Ace, did you have a Mr. Microphone???

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (RuTUS)

227 Our mall is a wasteland even on weekends. Food court gone. Good anchors all gone.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (U+AKE)

228 Is it? I thought there were a bunch of us Gen-X'ers.
Posted by: Jordan61

nope

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (56ESQ)

229 My favorite pickup line.

Excuse me . Could you settle a bet between me and my friend. He says you have hazel green eyes.. and I say you're a dirty little girl.

Okay maybe not my favorite but the one that makes me laugh .
Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (EYmYM)
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"Let's get something straight between us ...."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (iFTx/)

230 I turn 60 on Friday. AARP won't leave me alone.
Posted by: Bulg
.....

Sylvester Stallone was on the latest cover of their magazine.

Posted by: wth at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (v0R5T)

231 May I meat you?

Posted by: Mayor Pete at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (qUkBO)

232
Melania Trump used to be a correspondent for the Entertainment Tonight TV show, back in the 90's.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (xBXaH)

233 "blacks have given northern malls all of the violence and none of the purchasing
Posted by: n "

And of course, there's that.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (aTgV0)

234 The Refugee Observatio on kids' hooking up habits is an extension of the Refugee Observation on drinking.

Observation - back in the day, college drinking seemed to be a nice normal distribution. Some excessive soon-to -flunk-out booze hounds on one end, some hardly-evers at the other, with a solid "let's drink some beers, maybe even two too many" in the middle.

Now, it seems, based on talking with my youngn's, you're either a booze hound or a teetotaler, with not much in-between. Bi-modal.

Same with hooking up. If you're willing, it's available. No need to cruise the mall, work up your nerve. It's just . . . there. So kids are either getting right down to business, or abstaining.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (Oh1ux)

235 200 Yeah. A young guy will just as easily suck a dick as chase poon.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (cIxJn)

As Chris Rock said :

"If a girl has a tongue ring, she'll probably suck your dick. If a GUY has a tongue ring... he'll probably suck your dick."

Posted by: XTC at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (UnA8+)

236 181 60's on the younger side, for the Horde.

Posted by: XTC at November 17, 2025 04:11 PM (UnA8+)

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My YT has revealed that I will be turning 12 sometime next year to the Horde.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

237 America dying? Based on two hellhole areas in CA? Not so much.

Posted by: Roy at November 17, 2025 04:16 PM (1Cncb)

238 You are 6 years older than me, so not old. Stop acting like it!
>>>>>Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (p4NUW)

It's for attention.

Posted by: Same Old Same Old at November 17, 2025 04:16 PM (y4f2m)

239 It's mall rent. It drove up the price of the goods sold at malls. And then in more pragmatic times, people consider mall prices to be less of a bargain--plus better selection, and likely a better price online.

Personally, I liked going to theaters for a movie. It's just Hollywood hasn't produced much in recent years to get me to want to go.

I did see the Chainsaw Man movie, recently, though. But nothing between that and Superman.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:16 PM (krQz2)

240 The main drag in my home down used to have a traffic circle at the end of 5 miles. Perfect turn around spot. At the other end was the drive in burger stand that's been there since 1950. Pull in chat a while, them cruise the drag. And at 11 when the burger stand closed and blocked off the parking lot, it was head out of town for a while to a pasture party

Posted by: Stacy0311 at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (G1ktt)

241 m, the proper response to Mr. Microphone was, and is, Mr. Shotgun.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (NcvvS)

242 It was "Wanna go for a ride in my Lamborghini?" Now, that line would work like Colt 45.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Girl, thinking: Oh, what a cool car, I'd love to ride in it! ... except if he's got a car that nice he's one of the rich popular guys, and I'm Plain Jane from Average Lower Middle Class Family. He's setting me up to humiliate me isn't he? Better refuse politely just to be safe.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (a+4eV)
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True, but guys in Lambos are probably not hitting on Plain Jane -- at least not with that pickup line.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (iFTx/)

243 220 Bill is a nice guy but i told him a long time ago he was overthinking it.
Just walk up and grab em by the pussy.
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (bZ+t

They let you, is the point.

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (RuTUS)

244 naturalfake: "The basic problem with pickup lines is that unless the girl has already decided that she is already kinda sorta interested in you, it's almost guaranteed not to work..."

True. That's why it requires lots of attempts and brass balls to survive multiple public rejections. It's something of a courageous act because you can't hit if you never swing.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (gLikB)

245 Happy Birthday, Rick!!!

What is it with Ricks?

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (aTgV0)

246 224 Is it? I thought there were a bunch of us Gen-X'ers.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (DRSnL)

The oldest Gen Xers are 60.

Posted by: XTC at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (UnA8+)

247 We still lead the world in pizza delivery.

Posted by: Hiro Protagonist at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (3nLb4)

248 Posted by: beckster at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (I7J9

Are you in the Monterey area? I have so many fond memories of that place.

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)

249 its not do they have complimentary parts, its do they have holes we can cram things into

**********

thats the important thing!

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (HYKHz)

250 Hey Goid Looking. We'll be back to pick you up later.

50 quatloos to whoever can identify that product.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (EYmYM)

251 it is true mall rents , in line , are expensive, but the internets is what done them in more than anything

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (56ESQ)

252 Malls have been dying since the 80s. Developers would put one on every intersection, one on every highway exit. Saw it where I grew up over and over.

There just aren't enough people to support all these malls.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 17, 2025 04:18 PM (8avO+)

253 The free streaming shows serm to be improving.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:18 PM (U+AKE)

254 Good =Goid. How bad is autocorrect.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:18 PM (EYmYM)

255 I really don't know what the hell is even going to happen when young people no longer seem particularly interested in finding mates.

Elon's Optimus robot prices around $20K. Imagine what happens when the same thing that happened with color tvs, digital watches, calculators, computaters, and virtually all other electronics happens?

In twenty years you'll be able to get a cute electronic girlfriend tailored to your particular proclivities, almost indistinguishable from a real girlfriend but without all her bulls***. She'll never get fat. She'll never get knocked up. You'll know where she is and what she's doing at all times. She won't spend your money. If you want you can have more than one and change them out periodically.

It will be the end of the human race.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 17, 2025 04:18 PM (QGaXH)

256 Ace, did you have a Mr. Microphone???
Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:15 PM (RuTUS)

How else do you think he slayed so much poon back in the day?

Posted by: Of course he did! at November 17, 2025 04:18 PM (TbWk/)

257 Do you know what an escarpment is?

The goldfish that got away?

Posted by: Halfhand at November 17, 2025 04:18 PM (1BSVJ)

258 >>> Gen-X Retirement homes are going to be a Blast!!

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Hoping to join that group as soon as my wife's second knee replacement is good to go.

Also, my HS buddies had a 82 chevette. Or as we told the girls, an 82' Vette.

Posted by: Turn 2 at November 17, 2025 04:19 PM (CyFyf)

259 Ronco.

Duh.

Get off the lawn!

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:19 PM (aTgV0)

260 I did see the Chainsaw Man movie, recently, though

How was it?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 17, 2025 04:19 PM (YnIRo)

261 America is fine, it's the blue shithole cities and states which are dead or dying but are kept alive by suckling from the federal penis.

Cut off the federal money and let them starve already.

Posted by: Die Blue States Die! at November 17, 2025 04:19 PM (1mUlr)

262 250 Hey Goid Looking. We'll be back to pick you up later.

50 quatloos to whoever can identify that product.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (EYmYM)

Mr. Microphone

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:19 PM (RuTUS)

263 Elon's Optimus robot prices around $20K. Imagine what happens when the same thing that happened with color tvs, digital watches, calculators, computaters, and virtually all other electronics happens?

[ Cherry2000 has entered the chat ]

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 04:19 PM (jc0TO)

264 Happy early birhday!
Posted by: Bulg

Back at you!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:19 PM (cIxJn)

265 Gen-X Retirement homes are going to be a Blast!!

latchkey seniors

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:19 PM (56ESQ)

266 America dying? Based on two hellhole areas in CA? Not so much.

Posted by: Roy at November 17, 2025 04:16 PM (1Cncb)
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Yeah, you are talking about the Everybody Gets $900 of Free Merch per Visit State.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:19 PM (krQz2)

267 Was America more America or less America before malls and movies?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

268 OT - Virginia Tech football fans.

It looks like James Franklin will be your next coach.

Posted by: mr tmz at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (rJ48h)

269 Gen-X Retirement homes are going to be a Blast!!

kramer vs kramer in reverse, who has to have mom and dad

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (56ESQ)

270 Does that mean I can participate in the Book Thread?

Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (Ltmlv)

Once you learn to read!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (n9ltV)

271
I dont know what happened, it doesnt matter if I go to stores, or if Im at work, or if Im checking dating apps, like 90% of women look awful and are mid at BEST. Its horrific

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at November 17, 2025 04:08 PM (HYKHz)

It takes discipline and effort to look good: eating a healthy diet, working out, taking care of your hair and makeup, making sure your clothes fit well and stylish, even if they aren't couture. Also investing in your mind so that you can have a conversation that is, uh, like, uh you know, like...

No one wants to put in effort or discipline.

Posted by: moki at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (wLjpr)

272 I see someone mentioned Mr microphone before I posted. You have to be fast around here.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (EYmYM)

273 Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at November 17, 2025 04:14 PM (bZ+t

I think that was actually raunchy, silly guy talk b/t friends. Can you imagine Melanie going out with him again if that was the extent of his personality.? Trump is not bad looking and I imagine he can be very entertaining and funny and a gentleman on a date.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (lQ+/f)

274 In my imagination I got the Ronco fishing reel, and did catch anything.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (aTgV0)

275 You'll know where she is and what she's doing at all times. She won't spend your money.

*******************

To be fair, dating a woman currently in prison would fit this description quite nicely too

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (HYKHz)

276 270 Does that mean I can participate in the Book Thread?

Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (Ltmlv)

Once you learn to read!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (n9ltV)

=====

Can someone tell me what this says?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

277 Will Gen-X be the first generation of retirees who aren't total dolts when it comes to tech?

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (CNl8/)

278 I did see the Chainsaw Man movie, recently, though

How was it?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 17, 2025 04:19 PM (YnIRo)
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I enjoyed it.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (krQz2)

279 272 I see someone mentioned Mr microphone before I posted. You have to be fast around here.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (EYmYM)

We're showing our age!

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (RuTUS)

280 Meanwhile, I just had a birthday.

But, I was old 2 years ago.

My youngest turned 40.

So, any of you oldsters with youngsters still under the age of 40 rejoice!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (UJMvS)

281 $900 worth of free $#!t a day? After a day I wouldn't want anything else.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (U+AKE)

282 Wow. Does that mean I can participate in the Book Thread?
Posted by: Doof at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (Ltmlv)
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Well, there is a pants requirement...but other than that, yes, of course!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (IBQGV)

283 If you want to see an amazing collection of sex toys there's a Spencer's Gifts there.
Posted by: Auspex at November 17, 2025 04:09 PM (Y8DZL)

Or my place.

Weasel asked about books we'd be too ashamed to admit we owned. So many books on the female orgasm...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (Sco7b)

284 I can't even spell illiterate.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (jc0TO)

285 Will Gen-X be the first generation of retirees who aren't total dolts when it comes to tech?
Posted by: Mar

no

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (56ESQ)

286 "This is what you call Total Bullshit
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (qz4RZ)"

It is not and people have been huffing paint for 40 years trying hard to pretend it isn't happening.

We have run out of room to play games hiding it by replacing quality labor and products with crap via outsourcing and offshoring, and by blowing bubbles.

I think Trump has an OK shot at making something good out of being the last ones standing (which is also pretty tranparently what China is angling for, now). But getting from here to there will be rough absent a legit miracle of some sort. And I don't expect all this AI hype to be that miracle when the clearest symptom of the problem is decoupling productivity from wages in the first place.

TL,DR the bankers are just about done robbing us blind and it isn't clear how they can keep it going.

Posted by: heya at November 17, 2025 04:22 PM (CMghx)

287 Was America more America or less America before malls and movies?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (GBKbO)
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Yes.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:22 PM (krQz2)

288 I turn 60 on Friday. AARP won't leave me alone.
Posted by: Bulg
.....

Sylvester Stallone was on the latest cover of their magazine.

Valerie Bertinelli was on their magazine cover probably 10 years ago and hot AF.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 17, 2025 04:22 PM (3nLb4)

289 284 I can't even spell illiterate.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (jc0TO)

You did.

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:22 PM (RuTUS)

290 how many gen xers never figured out how to program vcrs?

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:22 PM (56ESQ)

291 One phenom I've seen in some "blue" nearsuburbia is the Food Hall. This is basically a mall food court without the actual mall.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (gKWVE)

Food court in malls were pretty efficient because they shared the seating space. To get super efficient make the restaurants those food trucks and your investment is pretty low.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 17, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)

292 Internet is killing the malls. I was out at a mall this weekend with 15-year old grandson who was looking at some attachment for his gaming console. He turned to me and said "Too expensive, it's cheaper online". And there it is.

Posted by: Decaf at November 17, 2025 04:22 PM (unUNN)

293 269 kramer vs kramer in reverse, who has to have mom and dad
Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:20 PM (56ESQ)

With my mother's family, it was more "Who has to pay all of Dad's debt now that he's dead?".

And it tore them apart.

Posted by: XTC at November 17, 2025 04:22 PM (UnA8+)

294 True. That's why it requires lots of attempts and brass balls to survive multiple public rejections. It's something of a courageous act because you can't hit if you never swing.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at November 17, 2025 04:17 PM (gLikB)

---------------

Most of my high school friends growing up in Las Vegas were Mormons -- and virtually all the guys went on two-year missions before coming back and going to college.

Then barely turned out to be extremely successful in business (they already had a built-in network via their Church within which to network) and sales (when you get the door slammed in your face thousands of times, you stop taking rejection personally).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 17, 2025 04:22 PM (Rul0B)

295 You are 6 years older than me, so not old. Stop acting like it!
Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 04:06 PM (p4NUW)

So I can get on your lawn?

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:22 PM (77rzZ)

296
Common denominator: bus line.
Fatigue is real.
Posted by: rickb223

================

You ain't seen nothing yet.

Posted by: Free buses at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (n7CIX)

297 My YT has revealed that I will be turning 12 sometime next year to the Horde.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

Same! You also must have refused to volunteer your identifying information so they could steal it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (a+4eV)

298 It will be the end of the human race.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 17, 2025 04:18 PM (QGaXH)

Indeed.

Don't date robots! (From Futurama):

https://tinyurl.com/3xk4sf9j

Posted by: Thrawn at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (9Ovst)

299 Quite apart from businesses wanting to avoid WOW-style raids on their stores ...

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (gBv1i)

"I got shot! Need heals!"

"I'm out of mana! And our tank is down! PUT THE DEODORANT DOWN AND RUN, YOU IDIOT!"

Posted by: pookysgirl, having flashbacks to Ice Crown Citadel at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (Wt5PA)

300 I can't even spell illiterate.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 04:21 PM (jc0TO)
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What?

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (krQz2)

301 115 One cheap weekend hobby was going to the mall and people watching.

But that became too depressing. We aren't going to make it as a species.
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If you want cheap fun just go to the court house and watch dumb shits get hammered. That was our entertainment on rain out days.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (Wg6v7)

302 VCR's are easy to program. Just use the bluetooth app, right?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (UJMvS)

303 Chainsaw Man is a great manga and anime series. But like many such productions from Japan don't expect happy or uplifting.

Posted by: Brace yourself at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (TbWk/)

304 Arcade. Record store. Pizza joint. Did anything else matter?

Posted by: Doof
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For Doof and my fellow Gen-Xers hanging out at the mall arcade (I still have this on 45):

https://tinyurl.com/4b9sp9as

Posted by: screaming in digital at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (T52c5)

305 We use to go to numerous malls up to 20 miles away in the 80s and 90s

Posted by: Skip at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (+qU29)

306 "Why are truck drivers being fired for not speaking English when the First Lady, in name only, also can’t speak it? "

Well, truck drivers have to be able to read road signs and shipping manifests, and be able to communicate effectively with dock workers on both departure and arrival.

The First Lady's only real job is to look good in official photos. And of course, Melania does speak excellent English.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (npFr7)

307 you stop taking rejection personally).
Posted by: ShainS

that, with the ability to negotiate, would be a superpower

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (56ESQ)

308 Your studio is in that strip mall? Fancy.

When WinnDixie closes I have the choice of the Pig, Greer's old folks store, and Publix. I don't like Publix.
I make the drive to Rouses when they have a good sale but it's 7 whole miles away!
Posted by: toby928(c) at Novemb

Yes, it’s right there. I will pick up your Rouses order and you can grab it from the studio. I will save you 5 miles. Lol.

Posted by: Piper at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (Wmg4n)

309 303 Chainsaw Man is a great manga and anime series. But like many such productions from Japan don't expect happy or uplifting.

Posted by: Brace yourself at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (TbWk/)

=======

Are you telling me a show called Death Note won't end with a happy musical number involving cute animals?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

310 True, but guys in Lambos are probably not hitting on Plain Jane -- at least not with that pickup line.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Fair point. Plain Jane is invisible to everyone.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (a+4eV)

311 There was a great mall in central Jersey near where I grew up. Woodbridge center. People from Staten Island would also go there because it was also close enough for them, and the sales tax was less. It was great around the holidays. Great for meeting chicks too.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (snZF9)

312 Find God. Date with a purpose. Look for a soul mate you can share your life with, not a one night hookup to temporarily satisfy your primal urges. Place your wife and family above yourself, and your own needs. Find someone who shares your values and will do the same.

Is it easy? No, self sacrifice that is pleasing to God never is. But it’s the most fulfilling thing you will ever experience.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (4caix)

313 It will be the end of the human race.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 17, 2025 04:18 PM (QGaXH)

---
The sensible people warned us not to elect Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (krQz2)

314 CR's are easy to program. Just use the bluetooth app, right?
Posted by: blake - s

yeah you can even do it over the landline rotary phone

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:25 PM (56ESQ)

315 310 True, but guys in Lambos are probably not hitting on Plain Jane -- at least not with that pickup line.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Fair point. Plain Jane is invisible to everyone.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (a+4eV)

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She's also a 9 on a bad day and doesn't deserve less than a Triple 8.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

316 I hear Hatemonger's words in my mind though...

"Boobies...are evil! We mustn't look at boobies!".

Posted by: Thrawn at November 17, 2025 04:25 PM (9Ovst)

317 The mall in my city is an anomaly. Most of the stores are open, and business is brisk. There is one closed anchor store, but I would say 80% +/- of the storefronts are occupied.

When I was a kid, our town had no mall, no fast food. So when we visited Billings, it was like heaven. A big mall, McDonald's, Taco Bell, and even a Burger King. And mall chicks. Lotsa mall chicks.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (0aYVJ)

318 Fair point. Plain Jane is invisible to everyone.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM

Until she takes off her glasses, as Hollywood has taught me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (jc0TO)

319 How much does a polar bear weigh?

Enough to break the ice!

Posted by: Josephistan at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (y9ksN)

320 Are you telling me a show called Death Note won't end with a happy musical number involving cute animals?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

Oh dear now I've done and spoiled it.

Posted by: Sorry bout that at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (TbWk/)

321 Haven't been to a mall in years.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (XeU6L)

322 I mean....yeah but...come on...

( . ) ( . )

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (xcxpd)

323 Here you go.

Mr. Microphone commercial. 1978.
$12.99

Why the hell didn't all of us have that?

https://tinyurl.com/2xb9cnmy

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (Sco7b)

324 Bezos, the root of all evil.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (abIsI)

325 When WinnDixie closes I have the choice of the Pig, Greer's old folks store, and Publix.

Posted by: toby928(c)
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When WinnDixie closes
Mama you got to move.
Oh well, oh well.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (krQz2)

326 Sort of OT:

Mark wrote about his Top 10 movies:

https://is.gd/xftAJN

Read! Like! Comment!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

327 > So I can get on your lawn?

Morons need permission to enter your domain, like vampires. Don't give it to them.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (Yp6az)

328 Find God. Date with a purpose. Look for a soul mate you can share your life with

****************

If you're homeless, just buy a house

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at November 17, 2025 04:27 PM (HYKHz)

329 Now I want to go skating.

Thigh/foot cramps be damned!

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 17, 2025 04:27 PM (JCLJi)

330 Read! Like! Comment!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)
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Wait, I thought our assignment was you and Howard Hawkes?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:27 PM (UJMvS)

331 309 303 Chainsaw Man is a great manga and anime series. But like many such productions from Japan don't expect happy or uplifting.

Posted by: Brace yourself at November 17, 2025 04:23 PM (TbWk/)

=======

Are you telling me a show called Death Note won't end with a happy musical number involving cute animals?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

Season 1 kinda has a...happy ending. Light seemed happy at least.

The less said about season 2, the better.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 17, 2025 04:27 PM (xcxpd)

332 >>>Was last week really your birthday? If so, Happy Birthday! And thanks for everything.

no, but i always claim it's in november so let november 13 be my Fake Internet Birthday

Posted by: ace at November 17, 2025 04:27 PM (1wjle)

333 Oh dear now I've done and spoiled it.

Posted by: Sorry bout that at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (TbWk/)
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Just don't mention that Mellow and Near practically fuck the whole story up!

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:27 PM (krQz2)

334 I mean....yeah but...come on...

( . ) ( . )
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

it is the size of the "." that gives those a nice, appropriate size

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (56ESQ)

335 and thank you for your Fake Birthday wishes, Jordan.

Posted by: ace at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (1wjle)

336 REPORTER: "Why wouldn't [the Epstein files] have been released the last four years when President Biden was in office?"

CHUCK SCHUMER (MORON): "That's the question every American is asking... What the hell is he hiding!?"

http://tiny.cc/627v001

Posted by: bonhomme at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (Yp6az)

337 Having watched Cherry2000 recently, the moral of the story is we're better off with prime Melanie Griffith.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (gKWVE)

338 Landman is back.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (U+AKE)

339 326 Sort of OT:

Mark wrote about his Top 10 movies:

https://is.gd/xftAJN

Read! Like! Comment!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

Thankee

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (xcxpd)

340 327 > So I can get on your lawn?

Morons need permission to enter your domain, like vampires. Don't give it to them.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (Yp6az)

======

Is permission tied to the property itself, the person who granted it, or the relationship between person and property?

Like, once granted, can a vampire enter that property forever? No matter who owns it?

Or, can the vampire enter any property by the person who granted access?

Or, can the vampire only enter that one property own by that one person?

Also, is ownership required? Can some rando invite a vampire in?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

341 Find God. Date with a purpose. Look for a soul mate you can share your life with, not a one night hookup to temporarily satisfy your primal urges. Place your wife and family above yourself, and your own needs. Find someone who shares your values and will do the same.

Is it easy? No, self sacrifice that is pleasing to God never is. But it’s the most fulfilling thing you will ever experience.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (4caix)

Tried that. The values and sacrifice was a one way street of pouring years lifeblood into an unfillable hole of insatiable entitlement. Turned out to be ruinous and almost fatally unfulfilling. What else you got?

Posted by: Sorry mate but that's tradcon fantasy bollocks at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (TbWk/)

342 no, but i always claim it's in november so let november 13 be my Fake Internet Birthday
Posted by: ace at November 17, 2025 04:27 PM (1wjle)

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Ah. My fake internet birthday is October 31. Easy to remember.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (DRSnL)

343 The most fun I had at bars is on business trips with coworker guys when was in my 20's and who could come up with the best lies talking to the ladies.

I've been an aide to a Senator , race car driver, jewelry store owner , professional golfer and a trust fund kid from the family that invented scotch tape.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (EYmYM)

344 I would have expected malls to hang on longer in northern climes.

blacks have given northern malls all of the violence and none of the purchasing
Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:13 PM (56ESQ)

A big advantage of Malls when they first came out was the AC more than heat.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (8avO+)

345
I used to be able to do long division and multiply numbers either in my head or with a pencil and paper.

I've used a calculator since the 70's.

It made me stupider, and I wasn't climbing the higher branches in the tree of knowledge to start with.

Posted by: Auspex at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (Y8DZL)

346 330 Read! Like! Comment!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)
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Wait, I thought our assignment was you and Howard Hawkes?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:27 PM (UJMvS)

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Ranking goes live tomorrow!

I actually tried with the thumbnail this time!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

347 The mall in my city is mostly full of Riff Raff from surrounding areas that don't have malls.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (CNl8/)

348 no, but i always claim it's in november so let november 13 be my Fake Internet Birthday
Posted by: ace

November birthday people are the best!

Well, except for King Charles.

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

349 Landman is back.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (U+AKE)

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I really, really tried to like that show, but I couldn't finish the first season.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (DRSnL)

350 Damn...I missed ace's fake internet birthday.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (aTgV0)

351 Will Gen-X be the first generation of retirees who aren't total dolts when it comes to tech?

-----------------------------

Also the last. Generation Tidepod can work phone apps, but beyond that are as bad as Boomers.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (+Hq3E)

352 Those mall properties will be ideal for constructing low-income subsidized housing.

Posted by: A Progressive at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (XeU6L)

353 Tried that. The values and sacrifice was a one way street of pouring years lifeblood into an unfillable hole of insatiable entitlement. Turned out to be ruinous and almost fatally unfulfilling. What else you got?
Posted by: Sorry mate but that's tradcon fantasy bollocks at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (TbWk/)\

Choose someone who values the same thing...not just the hottest girl on the block who will have sex with you...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (tOcjL)

354 >> I plan to remain 29 throughout the 2020s

Fantastic! This is my plan as well. So let it be written, so let it be done

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (/iXAp)

355 Mr. Microphone commercial. 1978.
$12.99

That is, well, so gay.

This is more like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjoZKr31IUY

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (abIsI)

356 349 Landman is back.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (U+AKE)

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I really, really tried to like that show, but I couldn't finish the first season.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (DRSnL)

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My MiL was watching that earlier, and I walked through the living room during one scene.

Billy Bob Thornton giving one of the most stilted performances of his career for roughly 10 seconds. I felt no desire to linger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

357
In twenty years you'll be able to get a cute electronic girlfriend tailored to your particular proclivities, almost indistinguishable from a real girlfriend but without all her bulls***. She'll never get fat. She'll never get knocked up. You'll know where she is and what she's doing at all times. She won't spend your money. If you want you can have more than one and change them out periodically.

It will be the end of the human race.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 17, 2025 04:18 PM (QGaXH)

Cherry 2000.

better movie than it gets credit for being, I was always amused when our protagonist tries to hook up with a real woman at some seedy bar, and before they can leave the House Lawyer runs over with contracts that must be signed by both parties concerning everything that could conceivably happen if they leave together and intend to have any kind of physical contact.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (uWKK8)

358 265 Gen-X Retirement homes are going to be a Blast!!

latchkey seniors
Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:19 PM (56ESQ)

snort

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (xcxpd)

359 Find God. Date with a purpose. Look for a soul mate you can share your life with

****************

If you're homeless, just buy a house
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at November 17, 2025 04:27 PM (HYKHz)

LOL. That's about right.

Posted by: If you're poor just be rich! at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (TbWk/)

360 1970's died. JC Penney, Sears, Montgomery Ward, Circuit City,etc.

Why is Target still in business?

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (W7XSX)

361 Ah. My fake internet birthday is October 31. Easy to remember.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (DRSnL)
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Seriously, Jordan, you put that 50mph floater right down the heart of the plate. What were you thinking?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:31 PM (UJMvS)

362 352 Those mall properties will be ideal for constructing low-income subsidized housing.
Posted by: A Progressive at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (XeU6L)

Or repurposing for shelters and military bases post nuclear apocalypse.

Posted by: Thrawn at November 17, 2025 04:31 PM (9Ovst)

363 Those mall properties will be ideal for constructing low-income subsidized housing.
Posted by: A Progressive at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (XeU6L)

That is EXACTLY what is now happening with the Galleria Mall in Redondo Beach, CA

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 17, 2025 04:31 PM (/iXAp)

364 no, but i always claim it's in november so let november 13 be my Fake Internet Birthday
Posted by: ace at November 17, 2025 04:27 PM

You share a fake birthday with my brother.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 17, 2025 04:31 PM (jc0TO)

365 A big advantage of Malls when they first came out was the AC more than heat.
Posted by: Ol

that was nice in the hot areas, but four or five of the biggest, nicest malls in the country were the "Dales" in MSP

they are garbage now, but so is the Mall of America, thanks to having a monorail run in between the hood and the mall

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:31 PM (56ESQ)

366 may I meat you >> may I meet you

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 17, 2025 04:31 PM (LZ2Ps)

367 I really, really tried to like that show, but I couldn't finish the first season.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (DRSnL)
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Well, you'll get no dessert, then.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:31 PM (krQz2)

368 Common denominator: bus line.
Fatigue is real.
Posted by: rickb223

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You ain't seen nothing yet.
Posted by: Free buses

Cathy Hochul pissed all over that bus fire.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:31 PM (cIxJn)

369 Will Gen-X be the first generation of retirees who aren't total dolts when it comes to tech?
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More likely, the first generation who are not able to adjust a Crescent wrench.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (XeU6L)

370 Landman is back.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (U+AKE)

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I really, really tried to like that show, but I couldn't finish the first season.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (DRSnL)

I liked it. I am, however, not too het up about seeing the second season. Also, I do not have Paramount Positive.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (0aYVJ)

371 White Flint mall in Rockville, MD used to be our hang out. Movie theaters, food court and Spencer's. For the parafanali.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (NwnyJ)

372 > Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

I hereby give all vampires, past, present, and future, permission to be in or on all locations TJM may occupy.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (Yp6az)

373 before they can leave the House Lawyer runs over with contracts that must be signed by both parties concerning everything that could conceivably happen if they leave together and intend to have any kind of physical contact.

The lawyer was played by Morpheus, at that.

Posted by: yeah, cherry2k was kino at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (gKWVE)

374 I am kinda late to the thread.

Go to church. Find a woman that wants to make babies.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (W7XSX)

375 My fake birthday is the 35th of this month.

It's real fake.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (krQz2)

376 248 Posted by: beckster at November 17, 2025 04:12 PM (I7J9

Are you in the Monterey area? I have so many fond memories of that place.
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I went to the Monterey Institute of International Studies, many moons ago. Now live 2 hours south of there but visit Monterey often.

Posted by: beckster at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (I7J98)

377 Choose someone who values the same thing...not just the hottest girl on the block who will have sex with you...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (tOcjL)

Tell me you don't actually read what you reply to without telling me you don't actually read what you reply to.

Posted by: People sure can be dense at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (TbWk/)

378 372 > Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

I hereby give all vampires, past, present, and future, permission to be in or on all locations TJM may occupy.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (Yp6az)

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Lucky for me, vampires are allergic to illiteracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

379 Just tell the girl to read your tattoos, and when she finishes reading take her out to a movie or street fight.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (EyfuW)

380 Sort of OT:

Mark wrote about his Top 10 movies:

https://is.gd/xftAJN

Read! Like! Comment!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 17, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

I only have one of those movies on my top ten list . Nothing wrong with the list though.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (EYmYM)

381
*?*
WTF is a 'Crescent wrench'.

Posted by: Gen-X at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (XeU6L)

382 Next you're going to tell me that JJ Sefton's birthdays are fake.

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

383 Find God. Date with a purpose. Look for a soul mate you can share your life with

Did. God took her.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (cIxJn)

384 sock off

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (n7CIX)

385 Is America dying?

No worries here, Jesus is getting ready to hold a fire sale for a new earth and a new heaven.

Posted by: Kingsman at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (ehY6c)

386 Posted by: People sure can be dense at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (TbWk/)

Oh, knock it off .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (lQ+/f)

387 Those mall properties will be ideal for constructing low-income subsidized housing.
Posted by: A Progr

you would think they would be good for something but they are good for nothing, nobody has ound a new use for those, or big box retail, stores

nothing to do but tear them down

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (56ESQ)

388 Next you're going to tell me that JJ Sefton's birthdays are fake.
Posted by: Bulg

Well, 364 are.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:34 PM (cIxJn)

389 Seriously, Jordan, you put that 50mph floater right down the heart of the plate. What were you thinking?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 17, 2025 04:31 PM (UJMvS)

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Come on, you know I don't think before I type.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:34 PM (DRSnL)

390 377 Choose someone who values the same thing...not just the hottest girl on the block who will have sex with you...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (tOcjL)

Tell me you don't actually read what you reply to without telling me you don't actually read what you reply to.
Posted by: People sure can be dense at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (TbWk/)

You said it was all a one way street. So, she obviously didn't value the same things you did.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 17, 2025 04:34 PM (tOcjL)

391 51 Will Gen-X be the first generation of retirees who aren't total dolts when it comes to tech

I spent three hours Saturday working with Grok to get my new router from the cable company, the range extender and my Generac to communicate.

Grok told me to order something.

Screw that. I had an ethernet cable and we went from there. AI is great when you don't blindly accept what's puked out.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 04:34 PM (Sco7b)

392 Choose someone who values the same thing...not just the hottest girl on the block who will have sex with you...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (tOcjL)
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Sounds like a paradox.

Posted by: Younger Me at November 17, 2025 04:34 PM (krQz2)

393 I really, really tried to like that show, but I couldn't finish the first season.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 04:29 PM (DRSnL)

Try Chad Powers on Hulu. Am I the only person to have watched it?

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:34 PM (EYmYM)

394 Go to church. Find a woman that wants to ~~make babies~~ raise the babies she'd made with Chad
Posted by: no one

Here you go. Don't need to thank me

Posted by: gKWVE at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (gKWVE)

395 But it’s the most fulfilling thing you will ever experience.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 17, 2025 04:24 PM (4caix)

Truth.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (JCLJi)

396 381
*?*
WTF is a 'Crescent wrench'.
Posted by: Gen-X

It's a French pastry I think. Croissant wrench.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (abIsI)

397 Hey, Good Lookin, we’ll be back to pick you up later!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (taG24)

398 Next you're going to tell me that JJ Sefton's birthdays are fake.
Posted by: Bulg

Well, 364 are.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:34 PM (cIxJn)

365 in a leap year!

Posted by: Imagine have a 2/29 birthday at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (TbWk/)

399 1970's died. JC Penney, Sears, Montgomery Ward, Circuit City,etc.

Why is Target still in business?
Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 04:30 PM (W7XSX)

Grocery, Pharmacy, Kids Clothes, Knick-nacks, Appliances.

A Target IS a mall.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (8avO+)

400 I fucking hate generational labels and wish they would die. Americans hate individuality. BUT…for a group of people born from, say, between 1960-1980, they are better at tech because they know what the Before Times were like. What it was like to research using a card catalog, libraries, actual books. What it was like to plan a road trip with Rand McNally. Or write letters as an alternate form of communication. Right now, if an EMP hits the country and all tech goes down, that group of Americans will take over the country without firing a shot.

Generational labeling is idiotic and pointless. I wish I could submit my fourth grade class pic as a thought exercise.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (sVOFR)

401 Those mall properties will be ideal for constructing low-income subsidized housing.
Posted by: A Progr

you would think they would be good for something but they are good for nothing, nobody has ound a new use for those, or big box retail, stores

nothing to do but tear them down
Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (56ESQ)

Driver training & licensing centers?

Posted by: Jake & Elwood Blues at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (wVcYX)

402 Vampires?

Okay, I have a complaint or 2 about "Dracula."

Why couldn't they take Mina (or Lucy) to a Catholic Exorcist?

I also have a complaint about "Jane Eyre." Why didn't Rochester just get an annulment?

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (W7XSX)

403 All of the streaming $#!t is free if you have internet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (U+AKE)

404 381
*?*
WTF is a 'Crescent wrench'.
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Its Islamic.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (Wg6v7)

405 somebody at the hq said "chad"

snort!

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (56ESQ)

406 I went to the Monterey Institute of International Studies, many moons ago. Now live 2 hours south of there but visit Monterey often.
Posted by: beckster

Cool. I was at DLI. Briefly dated a gorgeous redhead who was studying simultaneous interpretation in German at the Institute.

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

407 WTF is a 'Crescent wrench'.

Posted by: Gen-X at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (XeU6L)
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I misspelling of croissant wrench, probably.

Posted by: Younger Me at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (krQz2)

408 you would think they would be good for something but they are good for nothing, nobody has ound a new use for those, or big box retail, stores

nothing to do but tear them down
Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (56ESQ)

Why?

Posted by: Rackspace corporate HQ in San Antonio at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (sVOFR)

409 383 Find God. Date with a purpose. Look for a soul mate you can share your life with

Did. God took her.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (cIxJn)

Heart breaking.

You are so lucky to have had someone.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (Sco7b)

410 Seems like too many young women enjoy crushing the egos of young men who've shown an interest. Then posting their "victory" for all to see.

Keep swiping left, ladies. until you're thirty five and over the hill.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (InsZQ)

411 I like to think 95 is spot-on.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (Cjt/F)

412 Is it OK to start drinking yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (U+AKE)

413 Driver training & licensing centers?
Posted by: Jake & E

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (56ESQ)

414 If malls are going out of style, why is a group of investors spending $4.5 to $5.0 billion to build the American Dream Mall in Miami, Florida? Teenagers are hanging out in malls in Miami and not in San Francisco? I think it has to do with authorities in Miami not putting up with nonsense and enforcing the laws. Also, I believe there was not COVID shutdown over there, but maybe my memory is not that good.

Posted by: DominicanVoices at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (9IJFs)

415 WTF is a 'Crescent wrench'.
Posted by: Gen-X

It's pronounced "craw-sahn."

Posted by: Oddbob at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (3nLb4)

416 If you have 1000 people with $1000, they will spend more money that 100 with $10,000.

Those 100, in turn, will spend more than 10 people with $100,000. Those 10 people will, in turn, spend more than 1 person with a $1 million.

The reason is, the people at the lower levels will spend nearly all of it out of necessity, those at the middling levels are still acquiring wants and then luxuries.

The fellow with a $1 million likely has acquired all his needs, wants, and luxuries.

As the wealth aggregates to the top tiers, the retail economy dies. Short of a rejiggering of the class structure or an improvement in wages among the working class, the future of malls is dead, forever.

Posted by: It is What it Is at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (x1mVT)

417 So, I go into Target and they don't have what I want. I forget what it was, but they should carry it.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 04:37 PM (W7XSX)

418 A spanner?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:37 PM (U+AKE)

419 Is it OK to start drinking yet?
Posted by: Bos

it is barely even monday afternoon

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:37 PM (56ESQ)

420 Go to church. Find a woman that wants to make babies raise the babies she'd made with Chad
Posted by: no one

Here you go. Don't need to thank me
Posted by: gKWVE at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (gKWVE)

*snort* "if Jesus can forgive her of her past, you should too! Those 6 kids from 277 baby daddies are just God giving you an opportunity for service."

Posted by: Tradcons striking again at November 17, 2025 04:37 PM (TbWk/)

421 "Is it OK to start drinking yet?"

Beat you to it.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 04:37 PM (W7XSX)

422 adjustable spanner

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 17, 2025 04:38 PM (CNl8/)

423 Those mall properties will be ideal for constructing low-income subsidized housing.
Posted by: A Progr

you would think they would be good for something but they are good for nothing, nobody has ound a new use for those, or big box retail, stores

nothing to do but tear them down
Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:33 PM (56ESQ)

Real housing needs a crap load of plumbing and insulation and internal divisions and safety exits rather than be an upscaled cardboard box.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 17, 2025 04:38 PM (8avO+)

424 I fucking hate generational labels and wish they would die. Americans hate individuality. BUT…

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 17, 2025 04:35 PM (sVOFR)
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Oh, good. I was afraid nobody was going to bring that up this thread.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:38 PM (krQz2)

425 418 A spanner?
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Those things that stretch ear lobes?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 17, 2025 04:38 PM (Wg6v7)

426 Box Wrench

Posted by: garrett at November 17, 2025 04:38 PM (rO4EG)

427 69 Houston area malls still packed and the new 'city center' outdoor mall settings even more popular. But the fanciest Galleria mall on PostOak is not what it used to be though still profitable. And that's all because of crime.
Posted by: the way I see it

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Ditto The Woodlands Mall and I think the Fountains in Sugarland. Memorial City still seems to do well too... I'm sure online and COVID had an impact, but I think brands realize the importance of at least some brick-and-mortar presence, and consider that part of the marketing cost of overall (mostly online) sales. Anyway, malls have been declining, but it shouldn't be soul-searching news that San Fran, the deepest blue of deep blue cities, had a mall close. We should celebrate how much that city deserves it and how nice it is that a lot of malls in red / softer blue (in red states?) areas are doing fine... I mean, Leftist youth are going furry and trying to kill people (and themselves) for politics. But 'normies' still congregate and aren't a lost cause. Just not as many mallrats as before...

Posted by: bearski at November 17, 2025 04:38 PM (Bhsk7)

428 ." Why didn't Rochester just get an annulment?
Posted by: no one
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Is that you, Mr. Benny?

Posted by: Rochester at November 17, 2025 04:39 PM (XeU6L)

429 So, I go into Target and they don't have what I want. I forget what it was, but they should carry it.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 04:37 PM (W7XSX)
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A pair of Li'l Tuckies?

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:39 PM (krQz2)

430 If malls are going out of style, why is a group of investors spending $4.5 to $5.0 billion to build the American Dream Mall in Miami, Florida? Teenagers are hanging out in malls in Miami and not in San Francisco? I think it has to do with authorities in Miami not putting up with nonsense and enforcing the laws. Also, I believe there was not COVID shutdown over there, but maybe my memory is not that good.
Posted by: Domin

1. maybe they are stupid

2. it is more of something along the lines of a theme mall with rides, aquaria, other stupid stuff

3.. the way they build thing in FL should fall down in about 40 years

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:39 PM (56ESQ)

431 and the same for 400!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 17, 2025 04:39 PM (Cjt/F)

432 215 My favorite pickup line.

Excuse me . Could you settle a bet between me and my friend. He says you have hazel green eyes.. and I say you're a dirty little girl.

Okay maybe not my favorite but the one that makes me laugh .
Posted by: the way I see it

I still use the 'I say you're dirty little girl' pick-up line. No joke!

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 17, 2025 04:39 PM (Dv3i1)

433 "if Jesus can forgive her of her past, you should too! Those 6 kids from 277 baby daddies are just God giving you an opportunity for service."

I once attended a lecture from a Catholic priest at a church. Real guilt versus false guilt.

No. Ain't gonna marry some whore.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 04:39 PM (W7XSX)

434 407, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 17, 2025 04:40 PM (Cjt/F)

435 Will Gen-X be the first generation of retirees who aren't total dolts when it comes to tech?
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More likely, the first generation who are not able to adjust a Crescent wrench.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 17, 2025 04:32 PM (XeU6L)

Not sure about that one. All the gen-x I know are pretty good with mechanical stuff. You have to remember, a lot of them grew up in the ruins and the aftermath of the carter years. They learned to fix things, but those are early to mid gen-x. The very late gen-x, yeah no clue about them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 17, 2025 04:40 PM (snZF9)

436 and Outlet Malls, too. good and hard!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 17, 2025 04:40 PM (wVcYX)

437 If malls are going out of style, why is a group of investors spending $4.5 to $5.0 billion to build the American Dream Mall in Miami, Florida? Teenagers are hanging out in malls in Miami and not in San Francisco? I think it has to do with authorities in Miami not putting up with nonsense and enforcing the laws. Also, I believe there was not COVID shutdown over there, but maybe my memory is not that good.
Posted by: DominicanVoices at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (9IJFs)

You could fill a bookshelf with Developers who erect malls and then scoot away before they are left holding the bag when it all comes tumbling down.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 17, 2025 04:40 PM (8avO+)

438 Houston area malls still packed and the new 'city center' outdoor mall settings even more popular. But the fanciest Galleria mall on PostOak is not what it used to be though still profitable. And that's all because of crime.
Posted by: the

everybody is moving out of the galleria, every high end retailer is going north to woodlands, galleria is a ghetto now

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:40 PM (56ESQ)

439 Okay, I have a complaint or 2 about "Dracula."

Why couldn't they take Mina (or Lucy) to a Catholic Exorcist?

I also have a complaint about "Jane Eyre." Why didn't Rochester just get an annulment?

Writer Guy: "So the movie can happen!"

Posted by: Ian S. at November 17, 2025 04:40 PM (2ocoG)

440 Real housing needs a crap load of plumbing and insulation and internal divisions and safety exits rather than be an upscaled cardboard box.
Posted by: Oldcat

And that's the problem with malls as they stand.
Not enough plumbing. (No, every store doesn't have a sink or a bathroom)

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:41 PM (cIxJn)

441 "I really don't know what the hell is even going to happen when young people no longer seem particularly interested in finding mates."

No grandchillen

Posted by: fd at November 17, 2025 04:41 PM (vFG9F)

442 Why didn't Rochester just get an annulment?
Posted by: no one

Hey, it's really hard to get those!
-- Zombie Henry VIII

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:41 PM (77rzZ)

443 412 Is it OK to start drinking yet?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (U+AKE

Yes. 6.1% Black Ice.

Last day. I have a lot of stuff to learn.

Also, I'm doing leaves one last time and putting up about 8 extra spotlights pointing into the huge trees for Christmas. The house already looks beautiful.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 04:41 PM (Sco7b)

444 adjustable spanner
Posted by: Mark1971 at November 17, 2025 04:38 PM (CNl8/)

Like a King Dick?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2025 04:41 PM (npFr7)

445 Nobody wants to go to a place in a shithole blue city where all of the scumbags prowling about because the cops don't do shit already know that on the way in you have money (or at least a credit card they can jack from you) and on the way out you're carrying bags full of goods that they can jack from you.

Who the fuck wants to hire an armed security detail just to go buy a purse?

Posted by: ballistic at November 17, 2025 04:42 PM (3BwY8)

446 I still use the 'I say you're dirty little girl' pick-up line. No joke!

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 17, 2025 04:39 PM
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I should mention that I add the word "smelly".

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 17, 2025 04:42 PM (krQz2)

447 Langstrom 7” Gangly Wrench

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 17, 2025 04:42 PM (abIsI)

448 The muzzies take over. It will not be pretty.

But my children are well armed.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 04:42 PM (W7XSX)

449 Ballsy pick-up line:

"Don't eat that. Don't you realize that eating food like that will give you very large breasts?? Oh my God!! I'm too late!!!"

But easier pick-up line:

"Do you date immature men?"

Posted by: bearski at November 17, 2025 04:42 PM (Bhsk7)

450 Why couldn't they take Mina (or Lucy) to a Catholic Exorcist?

Lore-wise because vampirism infection is not the same as demonic possession, at least that's how I understand it.

Posted by: More like a virus than a demon at November 17, 2025 04:42 PM (TbWk/)

451 *snort* "if Jesus can forgive her of her past, you should too! Those 6 kids from 277 baby daddies are just God giving you an opportunity for service."

Posted by: Tradcons striking again at November 17, 2025 04:37 PM (TbWk/)

yeah, maybe if you're a public defender. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 17, 2025 04:43 PM (snZF9)

452 And that's the problem with malls as they stand.
Not enough plumbing. (No, every store doesn't have a sink or a bathroom)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:41 PM

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Not enough windows either

Posted by: Bigsmith at November 17, 2025 04:43 PM (1Au9i)

453 We used to go out to the lake or river and build bonfires and party till the cows came home and you could meet all kinds of folks there. Well, except for furries. And fags.

Posted by: fd at November 17, 2025 04:43 PM (vFG9F)

454 And that's the problem with malls as they stand.
Not enough plumbing. (No, every store doesn't have a sink or a bathroom)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:41 PM

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Not enough windows either
Posted by: Big

parking

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:43 PM (56ESQ)

455 I should mention that I add the word "smelly".
Posted by: Joe Biden

You smell like cabbage and urine, you creep!

Posted by: Tween Girl in Joe's Vicinity at November 17, 2025 04:44 PM (Dv3i1)

456 406 I went to the Monterey Institute of International Studies, many moons ago. Now live 2 hours south of there but visit Monterey often.
Posted by: beckster

Cool. I was at DLI. Briefly dated a gorgeous redhead who was studying simultaneous interpretation in German at the Institute.
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Many of my teachers were Naval Post-Grad and DLI. What year were you at DLI? Many of my friends were in the SI program. I did German and an MBA.

Posted by: beckster at November 17, 2025 04:44 PM (I7J98)

457 Every generation is full of simpletons, villains and the easily led. Human nature, but it’s more fun to think “our” generation is somehow better or at least different.

Posted by: tubal at November 17, 2025 04:44 PM (PCK5/)

458
I still use the 'I say you're dirty little girl' pick-up line. No joke!

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 17, 2025 04:39 PM (Dv3i1)

And you use it literally.
When they're 8....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 04:44 PM (Sco7b)

459 Why didn't Rochester just get an annulment?
Posted by: no one
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He may have felt some regret about that:

"Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life," - Rochester

I think about the quotation more and more often these days.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 17, 2025 04:45 PM (XeU6L)

460 Malls are dying and so is this thread

Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 04:45 PM (VE6XX)

461
Malls are an anachronism. I am in one maybe twice a year.

Buh-bye!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at November 17, 2025 04:45 PM (FNphl)

462 Not enough windows either
Posted by: Bigsmith

Crap. That too.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:46 PM (cIxJn)

463 The Hudson Valley Mall outside my city was big. Sears, JCPenney, Macy's, Best buy etc. Now only Target and Dick's is moving down the road. Part of the building is a medical center.
They died firstly because of Amazon and the web. When people didn't need to shop there, the teenagers didn't either

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 17, 2025 04:46 PM (bfwj/)

464 Am I the only one who read that as "croissant wench?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 17, 2025 04:46 PM (Rul0B)

465 Mall people, they come and go
Small people, they just don't know

Posted by: samantha james at November 17, 2025 04:46 PM (qLq6E)

466 Malls are an anachronism. I am in one maybe twice a year.

It's a good place to walk when it's cold or wet outside.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 17, 2025 04:47 PM (3nLb4)

467 Malls are an anachronism. I am in one maybe twice a year.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at November 17, 2025 04:45 PM (FNphl)
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I think you mean atavism.

Posted by: That Guy at November 17, 2025 04:47 PM (krQz2)

468 Ballsy pick-up line:

"Don't eat that. Don't you realize that eating food like that will give you very large breasts?? Oh my God!! I'm too late!!!"

Posted by: bearski at November 17, 2025 04:42 PM

As a pickup line, that's real genius.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 17, 2025 04:47 PM (mwle+)

469 Am I the only one who read that as "croissant wench?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 17, 2025 04:46 PM (Rul0B)
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Nope.

Bacon Wench >>>>> Croissant Wench

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:47 PM (IBQGV)

470 "Hey, it's really hard to get those!
-- Zombie Henry VIII"

You didn't have a valid cause. Bertha Henrietta Mason was effing insane.

I have studied the issues of invalid marriages. The biggest reasons, IMHO, are these:

Coercion: The woman is pregnant.

Diversity of Cult: On of the party is not Christian and the other does not agree to raise the children Christian.

One or both of the parties do not want children.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 04:47 PM (W7XSX)

471 460 Malls are dying and so is this thread
Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 04:45 PM (VE6XX)

460 comments and you are still, sorta, on topic. Huzzah!! Donna.!

Posted by: tubal at November 17, 2025 04:47 PM (PCK5/)

472 There are really only three malls left in the suburban areas here. One is thriving and has built multi-level parking garages, free. Clearview, which was always smaller, has had the main body shut down "for repairs" since the last big hurricane in 2021, though some stores -- Target, e.g. -- and the movie theatre is still open. On my side of the river, the only mall (and the oldest enclosed mall in the area!) is a ghetto now, but is still going.

I miss when malls had stores that appealed to men.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 17, 2025 04:47 PM (wzUl9)

473 Malls are dying and so is this thread

Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 04:45 PM (VE6XX)

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Needzzz more boobzzz!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 17, 2025 04:48 PM (Rul0B)

474 TJM been thinking of top 10 all time, could put up top 10 War or Westerns or even Sci-fi but whittle down to only 10 takes thought

Posted by: Skip at November 17, 2025 04:48 PM (+qU29)

475 Posted by: tubal at November 17, 2025 04:44 PM (PCK5/)

This is true but the ratios are what changes. I am at a quandary regard to how I see the current ratio.

I see some things and think we've tipped to the stupid side and then I see the popularity of TPUSA on campuses and recalibrate.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:48 PM (EYmYM)

476 You see I've been through a mall
on a mobility scooter
It felt good to get out of the rain.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 17, 2025 04:48 PM (wVcYX)

477 473 Malls are dying and so is this thread

Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 04:45 PM (VE6XX)

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Needzzz more boobzzz!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 17, 2025 04:48 PM (Rul0B)

Well I DID show up

Posted by: tubal at November 17, 2025 04:48 PM (PCK5/)

478 "Crescent" is actually a brand name. All others are an "adjustable wrench.

I am still looking for an adjustable wench.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 04:49 PM (W7XSX)

479 Many of my teachers were Naval Post-Grad and DLI. What year were you at DLI? Many of my friends were in the SI program. I did German and an MBA.
Posted by: beckster

I was at DLI as a student (of Russian) in 1990, and was back there on the staff of the Naval detachment from 1992-1995.

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ)

480 I miss when malls had stores that appealed to men.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 17, 2025 04:47 PM (wzUl9)

I miss when Amazon let you browse through more that 20 books.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 17, 2025 04:49 PM (8avO+)

481 I miss when malls had stores that appealed to men.
Posted by: W

youre a Chess King guy?

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:50 PM (56ESQ)

482 475

I see some things and think we've tipped to the stupid side and then I see the popularity of TPUSA on campuses and recalibrate.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:48 PM (EYmYM)

The new crop is a puzzle, indeed.

Posted by: tubal at November 17, 2025 04:50 PM (PCK5/)

483 115 One cheap weekend hobby was going to the mall and people watching.

But that became too depressing. We aren't going to make it as a species.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:04 PM (cIxJn)

Why depressing?

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:50 PM (RuTUS)

484 Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 17, 2025 04:46 PM (bfwj/)

I used to manage the CVS there.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:50 PM (EYmYM)

485 "May I meet you?"

Very Meh.

I would just start talking about something relevant to where we were. Then ask them about themselves.

Then again, if I had $500M I'd probably not bother with all that either.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 17, 2025 04:50 PM (1Nv0l)

486
Landsman croaked like this thread when they put Jerry Jones on to tell his life story.

Posted by: Auspex at November 17, 2025 04:50 PM (Y8DZL)

487 Malls are dying and so is this thread

Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 04:45 PM (VE6XX)
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* Makes whirring/whistling noise with his salt shaker *
* snaps it off *
...

Posted by: Bones at November 17, 2025 04:50 PM (krQz2)

488 ( . Y . )

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:51 PM (aTgV0)

489 Monterey, CA. Lived there for about a decade in the early 2000's. Wife worked at the Naval Postgraduate School. I worked for NOAA at an environmental ocean research lab in Pacific Grove.

Nice area. Full of weirdos. And artists.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 17, 2025 04:51 PM (NwnyJ)

490 488 ( . Y . )
Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:51 PM (aTgV0)

Mmmm...cleavage.

Posted by: Cleaving to the cleavage at November 17, 2025 04:51 PM (TbWk/)

491 ( . Y . )

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:52 PM (aTgV0)

492 Dallas screwed up and put malls less than 20 miles away from each other. Actually over saturated the market.
Prestonwood Mall was the first to have an ice rink in it long before the Galleria. But within five miles was Valley View Town Center & The Dallas Galleria. Fifteen miles away was the mall in Lewisville and Mesquite the other direction.
So Prestonwood closes. Then Valley View closes.
Mesquite is "in the ghetto". Lewisville closes.

The Galleria and the one in Frisco now are the two malls left.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:52 PM (cIxJn)

493 It wasn't a mall, but when I was teaching in South Korea, they had a huge sprawling marketplace.

It was really cool.

But I'm here in a Canadian town with two intersections with stoplights.

I'm easily amazed.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 04:52 PM (Sco7b)

494 Nice area. Full of weirdos. And artists.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Beautiful place.

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ)

495 58 49 Well... Chevrolet is mostly dead and Baseball is on it's way out. Apple Pie is going to have to save us!
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (Bo9Yf)

Can't go wrong with apple pie
Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 03:58 PM (VE6XX)

And hotdogs!

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:52 PM (RuTUS)

496 But if it is accurate, can't one buy a 55" el cheapo TV & Blu Ray player for the same cost as 25 movie tickets?

Blu-Ray is dead. I’m not sure it ever took off. I think DVD will outlast it due to perpetual 29-year-olds.

El-Cheapo 55-inch TVs are currently running only $250. Or fifteen movie tickets. That’s getting down into a group of friends territory.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 17, 2025 04:52 PM (olroh)

497 Why do mannequins have nipples? Women all wear bras now.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (Dv3i1)

498 Edmonton has a Mega Mall, yes?

Posted by: tubal at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (PCK5/)

499 I miss when malls had stores that appealed to men.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 17, 2025 04:47 PM (wzUl9)

I miss when Amazon let you browse through more that 20 books.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 17, 2025 04:49 PM (8avO+)

I miss Borders book stores…. Killed by Amazon. RIP

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (/iXAp)

500 Why depressing?
Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:50 PM (RuTUS)

Have you seen people lately?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (cIxJn)

501 I miss when malls had stores that appealed to men.
Posted by: W

youre a Chess King guy?
Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:50 PM (56ESQ)

The Sharper Image?

Radio Shack?

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (wVcYX)

502 (•Y&bull

Posted by: That Guy at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (krQz2)

503 ( . Y . )
Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:51 PM (aTgV0)

489 Monterey

that is nice but I'd have to go with the mae version of heavy hanging sweater puppies, that were let out to play

your version is slighty asymmetrical

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (56ESQ)

504 I miss when malls had stores that appealed to men.
Posted by: W
*
youre a Chess King guy?
Posted by: n at November 17, 2025

***
Bought one of my first leather bomber jackets at a CK in 1980!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (wzUl9)

505 Nice area. Full of weirdos. And artists.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 17, 2025 04:51 PM (NwnyJ)

Lot of overlap on that Venn diagram.

Posted by: Not all weirdos are artists, but... at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (TbWk/)

506 Jerry Jones life story sounds even more boring than a Mall.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (aTgV0)

507 I worked for NOAA at an environmental ocean research lab in Pacific Grove.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Are you an oceanographer?

Posted by: Bulg at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

508 As with any commercial RE - the “value” is the income/profit that can be generated. (If you want to talk about EBITA and other things we can - but seriously why?) the recent purchase price is land value - hoping enough people will still stay in SF to make some use (I’m guessing residential) but who knows.

Posted by: CtSpursman at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (pjQMz)

509 500 Why depressing?
Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:50 PM (RuTUS)

Have you seen people lately?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (cIxJn)

Make up little stories about them.

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:54 PM (RuTUS)

510 479 Many of my teachers were Naval Post-Grad and DLI. What year were you at DLI? Many of my friends were in the SI program. I did German and an MBA.
Posted by: beckster

I was at DLI as a student (of Russian) in 1990, and was back there on the staff of the Naval detachment from 1992-1995.
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You are younger than me - I was there 1982/1983.

Posted by: beckster at November 17, 2025 04:54 PM (I7J98)

511 El-Cheapo 55-inch TVs are currently running only $250. Or fifteen movie tickets. That’s getting down into a group of friends territory.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

48" Vizeo at Sam's - $99.00

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:54 PM (cIxJn)

512 >If malls are going out of style, why is a group of investors spending $4.5 to $5.0 billion to build the American Dream Mall in Miami, Florida? Teenagers are hanging out in malls in Miami and not in San Francisco? I think it has to do with authorities in Miami not putting up with nonsense and enforcing the laws. Also, I believe there was not COVID shutdown over there, but maybe my memory is not that good.
Posted by: DominicanVoices at November 17, 2025 04:36 PM (9IJFs)

The American Dream Mall is the real estate equivalent of vaporware.

Posted by: mr tmz at November 17, 2025 04:54 PM (rJ48h)

513 I miss when malls had stores that appealed to men.
Posted by: W

youre a Chess King guy?
Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:50 PM (56ESQ)
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Furry Costumes R Us?

Posted by: That Guy at November 17, 2025 04:54 PM (krQz2)

514 Bought one of my first leather bomber jackets at a CK in 1980!
Posted by: W

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:54 PM (56ESQ)

515 Glad to be a Baby Boomer.... Lots of fun growing up and women were thin and lovely and looked great in a Bikini

Unlike today the average Liberal Bitch is Fat, Dumb, Full of metal in the face, selfish, slobbish, physically attached to their phone, cannot put a complete sentence together when speaking, purple/green hair, tattoos all over their body, like feminine guys that are weak and look like Freddie Kruger, no morals, English is their second language to WOKE languages ...

Thank You GOD for having born in the late 1950's....

Posted by: Jackson at November 17, 2025 04:55 PM (J9q9v)

516 Mall of America is where the illegal picked up a random kid and threw him over the balcony.

He may have been a refugee. Damn now I have to google.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:55 PM (EYmYM)

517 For $20 more (same as in town) you can get an el cheapo 65-inch TV.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 17, 2025 04:55 PM (olroh)

518 497 Why do mannequins have nipples? Women all wear bras now.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (Dv3i1)

For chest-feeding baby mannequins.

Posted by: "Man"nequin is sexist, you know at November 17, 2025 04:55 PM (TbWk/)

519 Someone wake Ace up

Posted by: It's me donna at November 17, 2025 04:55 PM (VE6XX)

520 Are roller rinks and bowling alleys still things people go to??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 17, 2025 04:55 PM (/iXAp)

521 LOL. Daily Mail:

"Malia Obama looks chic in denim dungaree dress as she steps out with friend after mom Michelle's on-air rant"

She looks like a homeless person.

Posted by: fd at November 17, 2025 04:56 PM (vFG9F)

522 Unlike today the average Liberal Bitch is Fat, Dumb, Full of metal in the face, selfish, slobbish, physically attached to their phone, cannot put a complete sentence together when speaking, purple/green hair, tattoos all over their body, like feminine guys that are weak and look like Freddie Kruger, no morals, English is their second language to WOKE languages ...
____

Like, gag me with a spoon!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 17, 2025 04:56 PM (Dv3i1)

523 505 Nice area. Full of weirdos. And artists.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 17, 2025 04:51 PM (NwnyJ)

Lot of overlap on that Venn diagram.
_________________
Yes, lots of weirdos. When I would visit during the covid years, the city of Pacific Grove had those flashing signs on the main roads which said: Wear your mask. Not kidding.

Posted by: beckster at November 17, 2025 04:56 PM (I7J98)

524 s with any commercial RE - the “value” is the income/profit that can be generated. (If you want to talk about EBITA and other things we can - but seriously why?) the recent purchase price is land value - hoping enough people will still stay in SF to make some use (I’m guessing residential) but who knows.
Posted by: CtS

did you see the pink building sale?

seattle

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:56 PM (56ESQ)

525 515 today the average Liberal Bitch is Fat, Dumb, Full of metal in the face, selfish, slobbish, physically attached to their phone, cannot put a complete sentence together when speaking, purple/green hair, tattoos all over their body, like feminine guys that are weak and look like Freddie Kruger, no morals, English is their second language to WOKE languages ...
Posted by: Jackson at November 17, 2025 04:55 PM (J9q9v)

"average"

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:56 PM (RuTUS)

526
I don't go to the store to get malled.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:56 PM (krQz2)

527 portland

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:57 PM (56ESQ)

528 Edmonton has a Mega Mall, yes?
Posted by: tubal at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (PCK5/)

West Edmonton Mall. Has more operational submarines than the Canadian Navy.

So they tell me, anyhow. Zero interest in setting foot in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 17, 2025 04:57 PM (npFr7)

529 517 For $20 more (same as in town) you can get an el cheapo 65-inch TV.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 17, 2025 04:55 PM (olroh

AMERICAN DOLLARS???

Sorry, that's my thing. An inside family joke.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 04:57 PM (Sco7b)

530 Bulg, how did it go today?
(I can't catch up on all the threads, I apologize if you've already posted about the orientation)

Posted by: old chick at November 17, 2025 04:57 PM (F3Dlr)

531 I'm sure some mall already tried it, but it'd be funny for a few weeks if a developer tried to recreate an 80's mall and make a big promotion of it. They could invite Gen z streamers/travel bloggers and the like to get it into the ether. Probably wouldn't last long, but it'd be funny.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 17, 2025 04:57 PM (mlg/3)

532 520 Are roller rinks and bowling alleys still things people go to??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 17, 2025 04:55 PM (/iXAp)

Yes but they are far less popular and there are fewer locations. And like most other forms of entertainment have become disproportionately expensive compared to their heyday in the 70s and 80s.

Posted by: Cheap evening out isn't cheap anymore at November 17, 2025 04:57 PM (TbWk/)

533 48" Vizeo at Sam's - $99.00

Yeah, sub-55-inch, maybe even sub-50-inch, is dirt cheap; I have a 46-inch tv I bought years ago. It’s fine for convincing me not to go out to the movies.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (olroh)

534
"May I meet you?"

Sure, Conehead.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (n7CIX)

535 the average Liberal Bitch is Fat, Dumb, Full of metal in the face, selfish, slobbish, physically attached to their phone, cannot put a complete sentence together when speaking, purple/green hair, tattoos all over their body, like feminine guys that are weak and look like Freddie Kruger, no morals, English is their second language to WOKE languages ...
Posted by: Jackson at November 17, 2025 04:55 PM (J9q9v)

---
Plus you have that factor that 80% of women hold out for the top 20% of men.

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (krQz2)

536 denim dungaree dress

also known as a Canadian ball gown

Posted by: dapper dan at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (qLq6E)

537 519 Someone wake Ace up
Posted by: It's me donna

He's awake; just resting his eyes.

Posted by: Auspex at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (Y8DZL)

538 By "stores that appealed to men" in a mall, I meant clothing stores, yes, but also the gadget/gift stores or places like Spencer's Gifts, a pipe shop, a pet shop, bookstores, an attached drugstore so you could take care of small necessary purchases without having to drive somewhere else, separate eating establishments instead of one big corral (aka "food court"), an ice cream parlor . . . lots of good stuff. To find those now you have to drive to separate locations. Bah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (wzUl9)

539 West Edmonton Mall. Has more operational submarines than the Canadian Navy.

So they tell me, anyhow. Zero interest in setting foot in it.
Posted by: Alb

shhhh! if you tell carney he's going to coutn those towards your nato spending obligation

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (56ESQ)

540 528 Edmonton has a Mega Mall, yes?
Posted by: tubal at November 17, 2025 04:53 PM (PCK5/)

When I deployed to Cold Lake for Maple Flag the Edmonton Mall was "GREAT" back in the 1980s....

Posted by: Jackson at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (J9q9v)

541 I always wanted a leather bomber jacket.

Still do in fact.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (aTgV0)

542
Anchorage got its first indoor mall in the late 1960's. The Sears Mall, because Sears was at one end and Carrs Grocery store at the other end.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 17, 2025 04:01 PM (6Bc8

The one I remember in Anchorage when I was stationed at Ft Rich in the late 80s was Dimond Center. That was my girlfriend's favorite mall because of the skating rink. She got a kick out of watching me fall on my ass while trying to skate. I'd distract her by taking her skiing and snowboarding down at Alyeska instead. We were both pretty good skiiers so I didn't make a fool of myself that often.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 17, 2025 04:59 PM (y9nCu)

543 Why malls died...

Smartphones

e-commerce

'urban yutes'

Posted by: CPT. Charles at November 17, 2025 04:59 PM (XjTSo)

544 Okay it was just your generic Chicago thug and not a refugee in the Mall of America incident.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 17, 2025 04:59 PM (EYmYM)

545 You mean get woke go broke wasn't just a made up catchphrase by MAGA?

Posted by: ... at November 17, 2025 04:59 PM (E0p3T)

546 538 By "stores that appealed to men" in a mall, I meant clothing stores, yes, but also the gadget/gift stores or places like Spencer's Gifts, a pipe shop, a pet shop, bookstores, an attached drugstore so you could take care of small necessary purchases without having to drive somewhere else, separate eating establishments instead of one big corral (aka "food court"), an ice cream parlor . . . lots of good stuff. To find those now you have to drive to separate locations. Bah.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (wzUl9)

Tinder Box and Cutlery World!

Posted by: Knives and tobacco, hard to ask for much more at November 17, 2025 04:59 PM (TbWk/)

547 nood ace

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:59 PM (RuTUS)

548 Someone wake Ace up
Posted by: It's me donna

He's awake; just resting his eyes.
Posted by: Auspex at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (Y8DZL)
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He's not pining for the fjords?

Posted by: Axeman at November 17, 2025 05:00 PM (krQz2)

549 541 I always wanted a leather bomber jacket.

Still do in fact.
Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 04:58 PM (aTgV0)

A friend had a leather bomber jacket for her dog. He was pretty badass.

Posted by: dogwalker at November 17, 2025 05:00 PM (qLq6E)

550 AOP

Thanks. It's been 10 days.
The dog lived.

I still carry him up and down stairs once in a while, but he's alright.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 17, 2025 05:00 PM (Sco7b)

551 Anchorage got its first indoor mall in the late 1960's. The Sears Mall, because Sears was at one end and Carrs Grocery store at the other end.
Posted by: tcn

thats not really a mall, its a shopping center

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 05:00 PM (56ESQ)

552 Bacon Wench >>>>> Croissant Wench
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 17, 2025 04:47 PM (IBQGV)

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Posted by: Jordan61 at November 17, 2025 05:00 PM (DRSnL)

553 I missed out on the leather bomber jacket rage.

I'm nostalgic for it.

Posted by: eleven at November 17, 2025 05:00 PM (aTgV0)

554 When in high school mumble mumble years ago the mall was my go-to place for pizza by the slice. Flying Garcia brothers… delicious

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 17, 2025 05:01 PM (YobFY)

555 For stores that appealed to men: add music stores. And for the geekier, computer stores.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 17, 2025 05:01 PM (olroh)

556 Where's that rink, im going.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 17, 2025 05:01 PM (sl73Y)

557 Yes but they are far less popular and there are fewer locations. And like most other forms of entertainment have become disproportionately expensive compared to their heyday in the 70s and 80s.
Posted by: Cheap evening out isn't cheap anymore at November 17, 2025 04:57 PM (TbWk/)

The alley has costs no matter how many people come to it.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 17, 2025 05:01 PM (8avO+)

558 547 nood ace
Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 04:59 PM (RuTUS)

Posted by: m at November 17, 2025 05:01 PM (RuTUS)

559 Bought one of my first leather bomber jackets at a CK in 1980!
Posted by: W

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Posted by: n at November 17, 2025

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It probably wasn't high-quality leather, and it had one of those black fluffy collars on it, fake mouton. But it looked sharp. Especially compared to the canvas one next to it, $20 cheaper, that Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 tried to talk me into.

Mrs. W. No. 2 liked it and said I'd made a smart choice.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 17, 2025 05:02 PM (wzUl9)

560 It probably wasn't high-quality leather, and it had one of those black fluffy collars on it, fake mouton. But it looked sharp. Especially compared to the canvas one next to it, $20 cheaper, that Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 tried to talk me into.

Mrs. W. No. 2 liked it and said I'd made a smart choice.
Posted by: W

Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 05:02 PM (56ESQ)

561 Nood if not given. Or even so.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 17, 2025 05:02 PM (sl73Y)

562 It probably wasn't high-quality leather, and it had one of those black fluffy collars on it, fake mouton. But it looked sharp. Especially compared to the canvas one next to it, $20 cheaper, that Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 tried to talk me into.

Mrs. W. No. 2 liked it and said I'd made a smart choice.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 17, 2025 05:02 PM (wzUl9)

I have a leather jacket, same one since the 90s.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 17, 2025 05:03 PM (8avO+)

563 Why would women want to look for mates? They should have no need or desire for heterosexual men who are most likely to vote for Trump. Men are finally an outdated, unneeded commodity.

Posted by: Sid at November 17, 2025 05:03 PM (OFLfN)

564
288 I turn 60 on Friday. AARP won't leave me alone.
Posted by: Bulg

I get junk mail on deals to bury my ass.

Posted by: YIKES! at November 17, 2025 05:08 PM (OgWfa)

565 I'm amazed how different perceptions of societal health can be depending on where a person lives. I'm surrounded by young married people having babies and hearing "yes, ma'am" from well-groomed students at my university. This makes me think all is well. But when I think about the deterioration in my former, now blue, state of residence I'm far less sanguine and feel we just barely missed getting swallowed by an evil cloud.

Posted by: Emmie at November 17, 2025 05:10 PM (9b91n)

566 Ice and roller rinks were always the best place to meet chicks. All you have to say is "Wanna skate?", and there you are-holding hands-first base with no angst.

Posted by: Goin' Round In Circles at November 17, 2025 05:10 PM (oftw2)

567 Why do mannequins have nipples? Women all wear bras now.

The late 60s and early 70s really were nice.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 05:11 PM (W7XSX)

568 Do you know what an escarpment is?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM

We've had a mesa, I believe.

Look at that beautiful mount over there.

That's a butte...

No, it's a mount.

Yup, and right purty, too!

Posted by: Philip (ht Firesign Theater) at November 17, 2025 05:11 PM (EZ8Gq)

569 First base was not holding hands.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 05:12 PM (W7XSX)

570 "Malls and movie theaters are -- or used to be -- the favored hangouts of bored teenagers."

And I was one of them! Social interaction before phones. We could also get away from 'the house' and 'rents.

GenX retirement will indeed be a blast!

Def Leppard Pyromania runs wild in 2030!!

Posted by: Danimal28 at November 17, 2025 05:12 PM (mNOhh)

571 The eastern side of South America is a gigantic escarpment.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 05:13 PM (W7XSX)

572
(OFLfN)

Let me explain biology to you. When a mommy Waifu and a daddy Waifu love each other very much...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 17, 2025 05:13 PM (y9nCu)

573 It's hard to have trade with cliffs that high.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 05:13 PM (W7XSX)

574 "Let me explain biology to you. When a mommy Waifu and a daddy Waifu love each other very much..."

I bought that book. LOL.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 05:14 PM (W7XSX)

575 Well, I was kindly asked not to return to the mental hospital this year for caroling.

It seems "Do You Hear What I Hear" is not an appropriate Christmas Carol.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 05:15 PM (cIxJn)

576 I see people walking (for exercise) looking at their phones. In the event the miss something, I guess.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 17, 2025 05:17 PM (WONhk)

577 So, at my old age, my 46 year old son confessed. He was caught shoplifting (stealing) at the local mall back when he was a teenager. My MiL, his grandmother was called. and I was never informed. He is still a work in progress.

Enjoy Purgatory Joan.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 05:17 PM (W7XSX)

578
Never NEVER let your girlfriend wear your leather bomber jacket. This is what happens.

Week 1: "Can I wear your leather jacket?"

Week 2: "I'm gonna wear the leather tonight, okay?"

Week 3: "I didn't say that you could wear my leather jacket."

Ask me how I know...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 17, 2025 05:18 PM (y9nCu)

579 "San Francisco" is not "America." Malls where I live are doing okay.

Posted by: MartynWW at November 17, 2025 05:22 PM (s1DvK)

580 A few years ago, there was a slew of mall brawls between urban youth. These melees were seen by millions and turned people off to "going to the mall."

Malls at Christmas time used to be an experience due to the decor and Santa.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 17, 2025 05:23 PM (PMtkd)

581 "may i meat you?"

Posted by: cmeat at November 17, 2025 05:29 PM (R11M+)

582 What if the girl doesn't care about cars?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 17, 2025 03:54 PM (PFs9e)

Most of them don't care about the cars. They care about the wads of money he has driving a car like that.

Posted by: Nelly at November 17, 2025 05:33 PM (pxbv1)

583 Excellent point about Teenagers! Now the malls are afraid to even let them in unchaperoned, because the ones that are showing up are all criminals!

Posted by: jocon307 at November 17, 2025 05:42 PM (91RJt)

584 551 Anchorage got its first indoor mall in the late 1960's. The Sears Mall, because Sears was at one end and Carrs Grocery store at the other end.
Posted by: tcn

thats not really a mall, its a shopping center
Posted by: n at November 17, 2025 05:00 PM (56ESQ)

I've been in it. You are very wrong.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 17, 2025 05:46 PM (vwL3N)

585 Alas, I borrowed a Chevette to drive away from the Church at my wedding. My '71 Pinto in the special Bondo edition was too ragged.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 17, 2025 05:50 PM (yDWlq)

586 I turn 60 on Friday. AARP won't leave me alone.
Posted by: Bulg

Fffffffftp. I turn 63 on Thursday. AARP has quit bugging me. They started when I was 45.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 17, 2025 04:10 PM (cIxJn)

Double PFFFFT!! 78 here. Now everybody get off my lawn!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 17, 2025 05:59 PM (5xuJ/)

587 My wife married me when I was poor. I could not but love her and take care of when she got MS.

No regrets.

Just love.

Posted by: no one at November 17, 2025 06:01 PM (W7XSX)

588 "May I MEAT you?" was always the best way to invite a young lady out for a steak dinner.

...what, you think it means something else?

Posted by: jagamo at November 17, 2025 06:29 PM (/ux4Y)

589 Mr Microphone: Hey, good lookin! We'll be back to pick you up later!

Posted by: Texican ette at November 17, 2025 07:12 PM (SNf74)

590 Do you know what an escarpment is?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 17, 2025 03:53 PM (xBXaH)

Is this about me?

Posted by: Caprock at November 17, 2025 07:48 PM (vwL3N)

591 Men are finally an outdated, unneeded commodity.
Posted by: Sid at November 17, 2025 05:03 PM (OFLfN)

Ah, Sid, you dummy. Even you had to be generated with seed. Which comes from…who?

Posted by: Caprock at November 17, 2025 08:19 PM (vwL3N)

592 Have young people stopped caring about sex?

Are they just homebound? Or to coin a term: phonebound?

Cars have gotten so expensive high school students don't even bother to learn how to drive them. The prime mall age is what, 14-18 or so? These kids can't afford cars.

I got my first (used) car for $1500, which the BLS inflation calculator tells me is $4129 in today's dollars. I paid $35 to get it registered. Can you get a working car for $4129?

Once you include registration, insurance, and gas, can you afford a car after working fast food after school and during summer for a year? Assuming you could get a fast food job.

Posted by: Ace's liver at November 17, 2025 09:25 PM (B9Dv5)

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