Recent comments in /f/Maine

ZingZongZaddy t1_jck3uks wrote

Reply to Remove Maine from Hollywood!! by Hangry_Pauper

Many people involved in the development of TV and movies are from or have connections to the state. It's not a bad thing.

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What should stop, is the shitty representation of characters. The Boston accent is not ours, Hollywood. Stop using summer people as your consultants. Those Lifetime original movies set during the holidays, that's not what Maine looks like. That's Connecticut.

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I'm all for increased representation, but let's at least be accurate about it.

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DodgeDeBoulet t1_jck3nzq wrote

Reply to Solar recommendations by Substantial-Spare501

I'm looking at a proposal for a qty 58 480w QCell panel ground installation with 4 heat pumps right now @ $135K (pre- tax incentives). Financing through Mosaic @ 10.59%, but we're not doing that. Heat pump installation won't start before August and array before October.

Seems a little spendy compared to what some other folks are reporting, and I'm a bit dismayed by the timeline. We haven't signed anything yet, so alternatives welcome.

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LaChanz t1_jck08sn wrote

Reply to comment by MuForceShoelace in Remove Maine from Hollywood!! by Hangry_Pauper

We're just not a drive thru state. Well, unless you're Canadian. People don't just dive thru and think, hey, this is nice. I think I'll live here for a while. They have to actively decide to come here. That's one of my favorite things about Maine.

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MikoTheMighty t1_jcjzgf0 wrote

Reply to comment by vestafell in Do you think Maine should mandate later start times for high schools? by benpinette

Most jobs generally don't involve learning new information, every day, having take-home off-the-clock assignments, and then being tested on it. Even in a job with a lot of novelty, it still isn't comparable to the sheer amount of information you're being asked to learn at school where you're also expected to be a generalist and not a specialist.

I'm currently in a masters program while working a fulltime 8-5. Even just taking one course at a time (instead of a half dozen different topics) school still requires far more of my mental energy than my job, and I spend much more time at my job.

A lot of research has already shown that grown adults at 8-5 jobs experience a drop-off in ability to focus after several straight hours. I don't think it's realistic to expect better outcomes for kids being taught for 8 hours every day.

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MakingItUpAsWeGoOk t1_jcjz2mg wrote

Reply to Remove Maine from Hollywood!! by Hangry_Pauper

Have you ever tried to get somewhere quickly that’s beyond Massachusetts? It is damn near impossible. Hollywood isn’t too far off. Once spent a solid 20 hours just at Logan trying to get to Eastern Europe to my daughter. There was zero chance at Bangor or Portland. Had a family member trying to come back to Maine from New Orleans a year before Katrina in another hurricane and he had to drive to Huston TX to find a plane coming close. Seen people drive to central Ohio because it was going to take same amount of time as finding a flight.

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TickingCringeBomb t1_jcjyaxi wrote

Reply to Remove Maine from Hollywood!! by Hangry_Pauper

I like it. We get kind of a lot of mention for a 1.2 million population place. I like the mystique and misperceptions. Every time they mention it I do the "Dicaprio pointing at the TV" meme.

One of my favorites is in The Sopranos. Vito's son is getting in trouble so they're going to send him to a boarding/reform school in Maine.

The kid goes "I don't wanna go to stupid Maine"

And James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano says "You think anybody wants that?"

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BOOSH207 t1_jcjyath wrote

Reply to Remove Maine from Hollywood!! by Hangry_Pauper

Many movies have Maine in them or mention Maine and it’s not disparaging.

Reference: Iron Giant

Filminmaine.com and Penbaypilot.com/article/maine-movies-35-films-where-maine-was-third-character/1313338

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