Off Topic 2014

[BurghFan]

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Still talking about KMart huh.

We had a regular KMart, but that burned down back in spring of '99 (I remember listening to them talking about it on the radio when my mom was driving me home from my sneak peak visit at the college I'd be going to in the fall). They ended up replacing it with a Super K. Pretty sure it's still there, but I haven't been there in years and I don't think my mom shops there much if at all either.

And since a couple people mentioned Sears, we have a few of them too. They just announced one in a now largely empty mall will be closing in December though. That mall is 40 years old and has been dying a slow death since the late 90s. It's mostly empty and large parts of the 2-level parking lot are roped off and have seemingly fallen into disrepair.

[SPTO]

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Sometimes being a government worker pays off.

Columbus Day off

Bet you won't be eating this like my fellow Canadians though

[dickey1331]

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2 most recent Kmarts I've been to were in Key West and San Juan.

[AUChase]

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Only reason I got Columbus day was because of Typhoon Vongfong.

[dickey1331]

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Only reason I got Columbus day was because of Typhoon Vongfong.

We get the day off.

[Candyman5]

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Omg. These things are so delicious.

[Majingir]

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Speaking of Canadian Thanksgiving...In Canada,they're airing a Harry Potter marathon cause it's Thanksgiving long weekend. Even though I've said it before, it's still funny to realize how Harry Potters dad was actually a jerk(at least when he was a student). All that praise about Harrys parents when in reality,his dad sucked/was nothing more than a bully. Snape was the true good guy in the whole thing.

[Bellsprout]

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We all know Dobby was the hero of that story, man. #elfsolidarity

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Omg. These things are so delicious.

Yep.......been buying them since February.

[Majingir]

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We all know Dobby was the hero of that story, man. #elfsolidarity

One of my fave funny moments in any of those movies:
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Either way...in the end,some of the best characters in the entire movie....

Spoiler

all died! Lupin,Snape,Siruis,Dumbledore,Dobby! Hermione was the best character of all who didn't die.

[AUChase]

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I'll go to watch them and think to myself, "You'll just be disappointed that it's not as good as the book".

I will say this.. the first movie was extremely awesome to see. It was the first time we had really seen someone's interpretation of the world come to life.

They couldn't have picked a better cast for the movies. I'm still not sure which Dumbledore I prefer. The first was a little too stiff as a character and the second was a little too eccentric for what I had envisioned in my head.

Ahh Harry Potter. The only books I've ever cared about reading that didn't involve Goosebumps or The Berenstain Bears.

[Chef Matt]

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Still talking about KMart huh.



We had a regular KMart, but that burned down back in spring of '99 (I remember listening to them talking about it on the radio when my mom was driving me home from my sneak peak visit at the college I'd be going to in the fall). They ended up replacing it with a Super K. Pretty sure it's still there, but I haven't been there in years and I don't think my mom shops there much if at all either.



And since a couple people mentioned Sears, we have a few of them too. They just announced one in a now largely empty mall will be closing in December though. That mall is 40 years old and has been dying a slow death since the late 90s. It's mostly empty and large parts of the 2-level parking lot are roped off and have seemingly fallen into disrepair.

Yeah it seems Sears and the derelict malls go hand in hand. Our Sears that anchors our mall is exactly as you described yours.

So sad too. It used to be the go to spot on the weekends. We loved it as kids.

Huge, amazing, arcade. Girls we went to school with working almost all the stores, amazing food court with all the best chains in it, a huge fancy fountain that everyone threw pennies in, and of course "The Warehouse" where everybody went for the best selection in music and media.

Golden age baby. I miss the way it was so much. We spent countless hours in that mall.

[Majingir]

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I'll go to watch them and think to myself, "You'll just be disappointed that it's not as good as the book".

I will say this.. the first movie was extremely awesome to see. It was the first time we had really seen someone's interpretation of the world come to life.

They couldn't have picked a better cast for the movies. I'm still not sure which Dumbledore I prefer. The first was a little too stiff as a character and the second was a little too eccentric for what I had envisioned in my head.

Ahh Harry Potter. The only books I've ever cared about reading that didn't involve Goosebumps or The Berenstain Bears.

There's still people who don't like the movies though they liked the books cause the books actually did cut out lots of stuff. I slightly read the books(and didn't mind my friends spoiling later books for me cause I thought "I'm not gonna read the book and prob won't remember the spoiler when the movie comes out years from now",though I was real wrong on the remembering part lol), but didn't mind how much they cut out from it.

If the series happened like 10 years later,it probably would've been made into a TV series instead. Each book would be 1 season in the series. Really would've been interesting to see cause every part of the book would've been able to be captured in the series(since the season would be 6-8 hours compared to 2.5 hours of the movie,so things could've dragged out abit more). Production value wouldn't be as high,but still is interesting to imagine what it might have been like had this been a TV series instead, would it be as good/popular or what? Imagine the ending to the 4th,5th,6th movies as season finales of a TV show! Instead of spending 2+ hours building to that, it would've been 7-8 months! Would be cool for sure,even if people knew the endings like majority did going into the movies.

Of all the movies,I'd say probably the 3rd movie is my fave.

[LambertandHam]

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Man, the Sugar Cookie Pop Tarts are Birthday Cake Oreo levels of addicting. Sugar cookie outside with cookie dough inside.

[TheMatrix31]

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Yeah it seems Sears and the derelict malls go hand in hand. Our Sears that anchors our mall is exactly as you described yours.

So sad too. It used to be the go to spot on the weekends. We loved it as kids.

Huge, amazing, arcade. Girls we went to school with working almost all the stores, amazing food court with all the best chains in it, a huge fancy fountain that everyone threw pennies in, and of course "The Warehouse" where everybody went for the best selection in music and media.

Golden age baby. I miss the way it was so much. We spent countless hours in that mall.

Manchester Center? God, that place was ***. Can't believe it still exists.