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Death on the Nile (1978)
#death on the nile#death on the nile 1978#filmedit#periodedit#perioddramaedit#poirot#hercule poirot#**#i forgot how insane the cast is in this film#they don't make 'em like they used to#poirotedit
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Robert Jordan was really out there writing 100 page prologues
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What was that one comic you made that included Sir Vilhelm and the ashen one? I can’t seem to find it 👉👈
Oh god, late response but I think this is the one?
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What's batshit is that we cannot find a mandolin similar to my mom's which has a guard that you can put what you're cutting through from the get go. It's basically a plastic tube and is better than any I've seen recently
#would love to get one like hers#even tried the manufacturer and nope#they don't make 'em like they used to
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The only Valentine I want
#christina applegate#kelly bundy#married with children#90s#90s aesthetic#big hair#the ultimate babe#be still my heart#they don't make 'em like they used to
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What's your favorite car made before 2015?
That's a pretty wide span of time to choose from, considering the first car was built in 1885. If you're looking for buying advice, you might wanna narrow it down a bit more--feel free to reach out to me again if this doesn't help. If you're just looking for my opinion, though: my favorite car of all time, the first-generation Toyota MR2, was on the market from 1984 to 1989.

Peak '80s retrowave aesthetics, a high-revving four-cylinder mounted behind the driver's seat for optimum weight distribution, and handling tight enough to keep up with damn near anything through tight corners, plus the dashboard looks like the cockpit of a fighter jet; I mean, really, what's not to love? Truth be told, I'm not a big fan of most cars built in the last 15-ish years; they're stuffed full of largely-unnecessary tech features that distract drivers, make the driving experience less tactile, and make maintenance and repairs both more frequent and much more difficult, especially for the home mechanic.
#cars#toyota mr2#aw11#they don't make 'em like they used to#which is to say they make 'em to be ridden in from point a to point b as safely and undramatically as possible#and then disintegrate the moment the warranty expires#which i guess is fine if you don't want to actually enjoy owning the $20k+ thing you bought
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Speaking as a former hot person, I think it's much more fun to look at hot people than to be one.
#looking at pics of salma hayek and monica belucci and megan fox from the 2000s#they don't make 'em like they used to#knee of huss
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High-concept sci-fi thrillers from 2011 that I enjoyed once and didn't watch again until this week, my beloved 🥰
#Source Code and The Adjustment Bureau still hold up.#they don't make 'em like they used to#It helps that they're both about an hour and a half long. Compact and neat.
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I love The Crown and I've watched it for years but the true story of how William and Kate met is so cute (and dare I say, unique? In some ways?) and the way it was quite literally dramatized with a love triangle, generic pining and generic angst is just so tiring. Just as I was talking to friends about nearly every new show or movie that Netflix puts out being the same formula over and over again, they go and do this with one of their more salvageable shows
Like yes it's a work of fiction merely based on reality but why take your creative license to spit out yet another edgy romantic drama?
I rant more in the tags and I realize this is random for my blog but I just had to let it all out
#the crown#netflix#the crown netflix#the first four seasons were phenomenal#but i've felt like seasons 5 and what i have watched of 6 are just not it#they've had a lot of hits but it just feels so different#like they're trying way too hard to be poetic or symbolic or interesting#they don't make 'em like they used to#and don't get me started with the way they handled william's aversion to everyone wanting his autographs with it being invalidated#and all that for the sake of delivering the same pseudofeminist message like come on stop shoving it down our throats#mainstream media this year has been exhausting fr
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back then, a friend of mine had a very star trek shaped phone (i don't remember if it was a flip phone, but i think probably so) and it had voice commands, like "call [name]", so for checking voicemail, she used "picard to enterprise".
I keep seeing folks my age getting grumpy about early 2000s cell phone designs being described as "retro", and, like, let's be serious for once – those goofy things had kind of a retro vibe even when they were new. They were not a solution to a real problem that anyone had; they were like someone was trying to make Star Trek communicators real. Which was very cool compared to today's nondescript slabs of fragile glass, don't get me wrong, but let's not pretend we were on the aesthetic cutting edge here. It was 1960s sci-fi shit with more chrome.
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You don’t see cars with peanut trebuchets very often any more
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Like people DUNKED on Titanic for being four hours but like at least it convinces me these two could be in love
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Clive Rosfield the man that you are.
Final Fantasy XVI - PC • (dev. Square Enix)
#Clive Rosfield#they don't make 'em like they used to#And that's a good thing cause this is a MAN#Joshuaaaaa
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Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream (Official HD Video)
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Still love this song after 27 years; now to regain that gumption...
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Fallout (2024) title cards
#Fallout#Fallout (2024)#idk man i just really like 'em#someone should take the ability to use 'contrast' and 'sharpen' away from me but also please don't they make me happy#my gifs
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