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An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie

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Re: An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie

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Random but this app was founded by ex-NFL quarterback Carson Palmer's brother Jordan. Also still requires you to check your phone during a movie which should be immediate jail time across the board.

Jordan Palmer is also an ex-NFL quarterback. He never started, wasn't that good, didn't last long, and only had 18 career passing attempts, certainly no Carson, but he was still a pro.

Re: An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie

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L&T is the fourth Thor movie. Definitely the worst according to Lucas logic.

Really? I thought TPM was the strongest of the prequels; AotC was by far the worst.

The original StarWars trilogy flipped this, too. In my mind Empire Strikes Back was literally the best of the originals.

Re: An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie

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post #24

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> If you relieve immediately beforehand and can't hold it for 90 minutes, there is likely a medical issue (e.g. old man, or pregnant). Avengers Endgame is 3 hours and 1 minute long. Some of that is credits, and maybe you should be able to hold it for 3 hours anyway, but some people do have medical problems. They should still be allowed to enjoy movies.

I wonder why the theaters won't incorporate a 5 minute intermission break for movies longer than 2h:20m (140 minutes, on the higher end for typical films).

Intermissions feel dated. But when I saw Ben-Hur at the fathom event, boy did I need it!

Re: An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie

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> Also still requires you to check your phone during a movie Unless you use a smartwatch.

That's just a tiny phone on your wrist. If anything it's worse because you have it out during the entire movie.

mine has a theater mode specifically for this. yours doesn't? sounds like you "chose poorly" to quote the movie.

Re: An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie

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Random but this app was founded by ex-NFL quarterback Carson Palmer's brother Jordan. Also still requires you to check your phone during a movie which should be immediate jail time across the board.

Jordan Palmer is also an ex-NFL quarterback. He never started, wasn't that good, didn't last long, and only had 18 career passing attempts, certainly no Carson, but he was still a pro.

It's pretty funny that he probably looks bad in context, but if he showed up to a non-NFL match he'd be hilariously better than everyone there

I think about that a lot when I'm trudging through the muck on forums, especially TeamBlind. There are kids in their 20s getting burned out at Amazon who'd be able to singlehandedly revolutionize the engineering processes at most normal companies in the world.

Re: An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie

#36

Random but this app was founded by ex-NFL quarterback Carson Palmer's brother Jordan. Also still requires you to check your phone during a movie which should be immediate jail time across the board.

>Also still requires you to check your phone during a movie which should be immediate jail time across the board

Not true! The app has cues that you can read ahead of time. Eg:

> Bob says “I didn’t know you were French!”

When you hear Bob say that, there’s your chance to go.

The app will give roughly 3 cues per movie, about 15 to 30 mins apart, so you have multiple chances.

Also, apparently you can set it to go off with a timer, although I haven’t used that feature. On iPhones you can allow specific apps notify even when you’re on Do Not Disturb, which would probably be useful in this case.

Re: An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie

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post #24

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> If you relieve immediately beforehand and can't hold it for 90 minutes, there is likely a medical issue (e.g. old man, or pregnant). Avengers Endgame is 3 hours and 1 minute long. Some of that is credits, and maybe you should be able to hold it for 3 hours anyway, but some people do have medical problems. They should still be allowed to enjoy movies.

I wonder why the theaters won't incorporate a 5 minute intermission break for movies longer than 2h:20m (140 minutes, on the higher end for typical films).

When I watched Return of the King in a theater they had 10 or 15 min break in the middle, it was the first and last time I've seen such arrangement. It would be nice if Hollywood finally accepted such format and just went with 3-4 hour long movies with a break. Not for all movies of course, but at least for the more complex ones. I mean not making 2:30 long movie and then just pad it with irrelevant, often static scenes for some "Complete Movie Of the Year Directors Super Duper Cut Edition" clocking at 3:00, but having zero new content as compared to theater cut. That's just a dumb trend imho. But instead actually plan the story for 3 or 4 hours, with a proper increase of storytelling, characters and so on. Just for some top AAA movies.

Re: An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you relieve immediately beforehand and can't hold it for 90 minutes, there is likely a medical issue (e.g. old man, or pregnant). Avengers Endgame is 3 hours and 1 minute long. Some of that is credits, and maybe you should be able to hold it for 3 hours anyway, but some people do have medical problems. They should still be allowed to enjoy movies.

I wonder why the theaters won't incorporate a 5 minute intermission break for movies longer than 2h:20m (140 minutes, on the higher end for typical films).

My video game clan takes hourly bathroom/stretch breaks, since we're all in our 30s and 40s. It's pretty great

Re: An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie

#39

Random but this app was founded by ex-NFL quarterback Carson Palmer's brother Jordan. Also still requires you to check your phone during a movie which should be immediate jail time across the board.

A live sports version of this app, predicated on the likelihood of a big play coming up, would be fun.

It would be fun to think about predictive upcoming down/ad time. For example, one of the worst offenders in live sports is the ad break-kickoff-ad break sequence in an NFL game. If you could predict based on how many ad breaks have already happened whether such a thing was about to take place, you could get buzzed right after a touchdown: "hey, you're about to get 6 minutes where nothing happens but a touchback, you can take a bathroom break plus refill your drink."

Re: An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie

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post #29

Thor: Love and Thunder - Feel free to run and pee whenever you want.

My wife liked it better than Ragnarok. Nobody else in the family rated it better than "mediocre"

Man, I'm shocked people didn't like it

It was one of my favorite Marvel movies. I was on the edge of my seat and/or laughing uproariously the whole time

I'd say it proves I just don't have any taste, but you'd think that applies to anyone intentionally watching comic book movies..

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