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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 15, 2020, 04:16:31 pm ---You actually had measles? :o
I never did, but, come to think of it, I don't think I was ever vaccinated for measles. Maybe if I ever see an actual doctor again I should ask a bout it. ???
I had chickenpox when I was in first grade. That's why I made sure I got the shingles vaccine. I don't remember how long I was out of school. I do remember they itched like the devil.
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I did have measles, though I don't really remember it very well. I have this flash-like image of the doctor coming to the house, but that could have been planted by my parents speaking of it in later years.
You're probably fairly safe unless you start hanging out with schoolkids with anti-vaxxer parents.
I had chickenpox, which I also don't remember but it seemed like everyone did at some point. I asked my doctor about the vaccine and he said to wait because a better one was about to come out. That was some time ago, so I'm sure it's out by now. I'll have to set it up, if they're doing it these days, next time I see my doctor.
A guy I know said that when his cousins got chicken pox the aunts and uncles took all the cousins, infected or not, to stay with their grandma so they could all catch it and get it over with.
My thought was, wow, that's an accommodating grandma.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 16, 2020, 11:27:47 am ---I had chickenpox, which I also don't remember but it seemed like everyone did at some point. I asked my doctor about the vaccine and he said to wait because a better one was about to come out. That was some time ago, so I'm sure it's out by now. I'll have to set it up, if they're doing it these days, next time I see my doctor.
A guy I know said that when his cousins got chicken pox the aunts and uncles took all the cousins, infected or not, to stay with their grandma so they could all catch it and get it over with.
My thought was, wow, that's an accommodating grandma.
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Oh, I've heard about this. Parents would have "Pox Parties", and a kid that had chicken pox would have a gathering, and the parents would expose their kids to it, so they could catch it and get it over with.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on August 16, 2020, 07:31:28 pm ---Oh, I've heard about this. Parents would have "Pox Parties", and a kid that had chicken pox would have a gathering, and the parents would expose their kids to it, so they could catch it and get it over with.
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And now young people are reportedly doing the same with COVID. What could go wrong? ::)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 16, 2020, 11:21:42 am ---That's happened to me with a lot of movies I once found thrilling -- Raiders of the Lost Ark, for example. I saw it when it came out in theaters, loved it, and remembered it as really fast moving and exciting. Then I watched it with my kids and now it seemed really slow. I think our brains have changed.
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Or maybe just yours. ;D I saw it again not too long ago and for the first time in years on years, and I didn't find it slow at all.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 17, 2020, 10:05:06 pm ---Or maybe just yours. ;D I saw it again not too long ago and for the first time in years on years, and I didn't find it slow at all.
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Well, to each his own. Other movies from that era I think do hold up: Big and Back to the Future. A lot of the others I never saw in the first place ane/or am not tempted watch/rewatch to now. One I think is decidedly worse from my current perspective: Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Re RotLA, I still love all the witty and clever little Speilberg things. He is/was so good at those.
I've been feeling like doing a themed film festival -- one movie a night, or half a movie each night. My son just did Tom Cruise, and he seems like a good possibility -- he's done a lot of good movies, a range of drama to comedy and some well worth rewatching. He's almost always entertaining. Plus I like him better now than I did when I first watched them because I've since discovered there are worse things a celebrity can do than be a Scientologist.
But a Speilberg festival would also be good.
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