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[darkforcerising]

So I was really misled by the Netflix series Blown Away. From the title, I really thought it was going to be about something completely different.

It also introduced me to the fact that there is a group of people out there who use the terms "glory hole," "hot glob' for totally different reasons than the rest of us would.

In short, today, I binge-watched Blown Away, and I learned something in the process.

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[not_as_i_do]

You know, Anakin, if you hadn't turned down one of my proposed drinking locales, I'd think you were expecting Netflix to have loosened their rating restrictions.

... If you need to watch things explode, I seem to recall seeing something scrolling on my cable guide called "The Explosion Show"....

[yes, he still has cable. what. he's old. you kids and your Netflix and Hula Hoops]

[darkforcerising]

Okay, that show sounds amazing.

But, okay, did you just say 'cable guide'?

[not_as_i_do]

Yep. Not the paper TV Guide kind of thing - God, would you even remember TV Guide? - but the scrolling list that tells you what's on every channel. You know. Like if you had a dish, or something.

[good god he feels old]

[darkforcerising]

I grew up poor so, ya, I know what the paper TV Guides were.

You know that there are better ways to watch TV than through cable?

[not_as_i_do]

By 'better', I take it you mean more modern. Like those ... what are they? Fire sticks? I don't know, I know just enough about computers to get by. If you were going to convert me to something like that, you'd have to have the patience to show me how it works, dear boy.

[darkforcerising]

Fire sticks?

I mean streaming services. No TV guide needed.

[not_as_i_do]

Don't you have to have a newer TV to do that? ... I mean, I guess mine's old enough that I should probably replace it anyway.

[darkforcerising]

Oh my god. Please tell me you don't have an old cathode ray tube TV.

[not_as_i_do]

No no no, it's uh ... a Sony. Rear projection.

[the TV does have the capability for adding in Netflix and other streaming stuff, he just hasn't figured that out yet. please help him join the century, Anakin]

[darkforcerising]

So one of those huge things from the early 2000s?

[not_as_i_do]

[it's a good thing pouts don't carry over text]

When you say it like that you make it sound so OLD.

[darkforcerising]

But that is old.

[ Ya, Anakin is a brat. ]

[not_as_i_do]

I'd hate to see what you'd make of the console Quasar my family had when I was in high school...

Either way, if you've got any suggestions, I probably should try to catch up with the times.

[darkforcerising]

It's in a museum, now, right?

Look, if your television is that old, you're going to need some equipment. I can help set it up, if you want.

[not_as_i_do]

Quite possibly, if not, the squirrels have made quite a mansion out of it somewhere.

If you're offering, that'd be terrific. I can pay you for your time, I know it's valuable to you.

[darkforcerising]

We're friends now. Friends don't make their friends pay them for things like this.

[not_as_i_do]

[wait we are? ... awesome. he's one of the older Different, it feels odd being the one who gets to decide where the friendship threshhold is with people like him and Lisa]

Oh - well, thank you! Let me at least get dinner delivered. Then once you've got things all set up you can show me how it works and we can watch something. Have a couple of beers. Catch up.

[darkforcerising]

Make it rootbeer and I'm in.

[not_as_i_do]

Barq's or IBC?

[there are no other valid choices.]

[darkforcerising]

IBC.

[not_as_i_do]

Done. Just let me know what time works best.

[care to handwave the dinner or would you rather thread it out?]

[darkforcerising]

Anytime after work is good.

[ Let's just handwave. ]

[darkenedmoon]

You thought it was about explosions, didn't you, my dear?

[Of course she's amused. And she knows Anakin. She's also incredibly curious, now, as to what he actually was watching...]

What was the show actually about, if you don't mind my asking?

[darkforcerising]

I did! I mean, c'mon, with a name like that, what else was I supposed to think?

It's a glass blowing competition show.

[darkenedmoon]

Did you see anything you liked? Blown glass! [She probably would have, but she's like that, really.]

How have you been? Did you have a busy holiday season?

[darkforcerising]

I don't really know anything about art or glass art so... I don't know.

I don't have any family so I spent the whole holidays over in that ski resort area.

How was your holiday?

[darkenedmoon]

Oh. Well, blast, I should have invited you over. It wasn't a huge to-do--I don't speak to most of my former family. But it wasn't bad. [Though she usually has her Christmas dinner catered, because cooking is not high on her list of skills. Or so Yotsuyu would say.]

You don't have to know a lot about art or glass, I certainly don't know much about glass, myself, but I imagine I could find a piece that spoke to me. Somehow. Even if I only was fond of the colors involved, or the shape.

[darkforcerising]

There's always next year.

I guess I just see the artistic design in automobiles and bikes and not... glass, I guess. It looked really difficult to do. I can appreciate the skill it takes.

[darkenedmoon]

Would a motorcycle blown entirely of glass not pique your interest? Even a little?

I imagine that would be quite the undertaking, but if they can make one from cake, I imagine it wouldn't be out of the scope of possibility. [Guess who watches all these baking shows, for all her claims that she doesn't watch much television? Yotsuyu does have a sweet tooth, after all...a well-known one.]

I appreciate the skill, too. It's certainly not within my wheelhouse.

[darkforcerising]

You can't ride a motorcycle made out of glass. That seems like a disaster waiting to happen.