The Random Post Thread

scotchandcigar said:
I just used a vending machine that accepts large bills, and gives change in dollar coins. They're gold coins, with the Statue of Liberty on back, and the front has different presidents. I got Abe Lincoln and William Henry Harrison.

Somehow, I've been totally out of the loop on these coins. I didn't know they existed, or anything about them. I know a lot more about bitcoin than these. How can that be?
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Update. The coins were circulated between 2007 and 2011, and they feature every deceased US President. They added George H.W. Bush in 2020, but after 2011 the coins are made for collectors only.

Apparently, there's a glut of these left over from the years it was in circulation. Enough to stock many vending machines.
 
If you like time-lapse photography, you won't like this video. No, really. You won't like it. It shows how Michael Jackson's face changed from 1969 to 2009. The way he looked in 1993 and 2003 is downright scary! And he changed from black to white!

 
The black to white thing was a skin condition. What surprised me was how after about 1987 he seemed to become more effeminate. Almost looks like a woman.
 
There was a joke going around at that time: What would Michael Jackson be if he underwent a sex-change operation?

A man. :D
 
sadchild said:
Started going downhill in 1985. That's what Thriller money will do to a person.
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Actually that's what drinking Pepsi does to a person. When his hair burnt up in the Pepsi commercial in 1984 he got on some pain killers and I don't think he ever shook them. I think it was a contributing factor to his decline.

It's why I drink Coke to this very day (not really, just prefer it).
 
Interesting. I bet you're right. I keep reading stories of junkies who got started on pain meds. Dangerous shit.

Similar happened to Stephen Pearcy of Ratt

Pearcy formed and fronted Arcade, Vicious Delite, then Vertex over the next four years until 1996 when he, DeMartini and Blotzer reunited and began touring. The compilation Collage appeared the following year, but Pearcy fell 12 feet from a stage that July, requiring kneecap surgery that would begin his need for pain medications.

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In 2019, after Pearcy began mixing alcohol with pain meds for his knee, clips posted to social media websites of him ‘trashed’, ‘stumbling’ and unable to remember the words made headlines on several rock news websites.
 
sadchild said:
Interesting. I bet you're right. I keep reading stories of junkies who got started on pain meds. Dangerous shit.

Similar happened to Stephen Pearcy of Ratt

Pearcy formed and fronted Arcade, Vicious Delite, then Vertex over the next four years until 1996 when he, DeMartini and Blotzer reunited and began touring. The compilation Collage appeared the following year, but Pearcy fell 12 feet from a stage that July, requiring kneecap surgery that would begin his need for pain medications.

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In 2019, after Pearcy began mixing alcohol with pain meds for his knee, clips posted to social media websites of him ‘trashed’, ‘stumbling’ and unable to remember the words made headlines on several rock news websites.
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I think he was on LSD.

Lead Singer Disease.
 
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