This photo reminds me of the story of Jeanne Calment. At 90 years old, she signed a contract with a lawyer which stated he would inherit her apartment upon her death, but he would pay her 2,500 francs per month until the time came.
Her lawyer died 30 years later, when Jeanne was 120. His family continued making payments to Jeanne until she finally died at 122 years old, by which time she had been paid more than double what her place was worth.
I think her daughter may have started impersonating her at some point but there was no way to prove it so they had to keep paying.
Wow that was a fascinating rabbit hole. I think she was probably legit, but the fact that nobody else has broken 120 years is somewhat perplexing. The big gap between her and second place is statistically very unlikely, but there is also a lot of positive evidence mentioned in that article that’s hard to refute.
Every time I think “hey I wanna watch that one movie again” it’s never on any of the streaming services I pay for. Even old ass movies like the godfather are missing and I’m asked to instead rent them. Fuck you, where’s my pirate flag??
where’s my pirate flag??
You can have my spare, here you go 🏴☠️
I’ll be pirating that
Now I have a bunch more for others to take too 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Hey! You wouldn’t copy/paste a pirate flag!?
Your pirate flag was within you this whole time.
One thing to not find your movies my man, but losing your pirate flag? Time to get checked for Alzheimers!
Just want to mention that this issue is even worse for content from non-US markets.
There’s a huge list of classics from where I live that are completely impossible to find and we depend on one privately owned platform to decide to buy the rights and make it available even if these productions received public financing and that’s just when it’s clear who owns the rights.
Even piracy isn’t an option.
Yeah it’s also worse for streaming outside US markets, especially if you prefer original English. Supposedly you can use VPN but that didn’t work plus you need credit card.
And since they move services so damn often it’s almost impossible to find an up-to-date list telling you where you can go to watch something!
It took me 5 minutes to finally track down The Perfect Host. And it’s “available to rent” on Amazon? Fuck that entirely!
I recommend the app “Just Watch”. Pump in whatever you wanna watch and it’ll tell you what services it’s available to stream on. If none, hoist the flag, amigo!
Personally speaking: Fuck adding another app to my phone. Go visit justwatch.com
Google also shows the services it’s available on now when you search a movie or show, so you don’t even need to visit the site
I would take any third-party service over Google.
Fair enough
Movies on your own jellyfin server getting streamed to your devices
My cousin bought a whole video store back in 2019 for practically nothing, he still has thousands and thousands of VHS and DVD, he’s still waiting for the big revival. I helped him last year to get rid of many cubic feet of porn stuff, though. His kids discovered it & for some reason his wife insisted.
