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  1. Just watched Another Round on Netflix last night. 

    It won Academy for best full feature foreign film in 2020.

    Dark comedy staring Mads Mikkelsen about a bunch of middle aged dudes teaching in Copenhagen using alcohol to solve their problems with hilarious consequences.

    There is an American version in the works starring Leo DiCaprio, but I don't think it will work as well set on the US.

    Nice hidden gem and the womens will like it too...just like Irish Spring.

    Has kind of a Full Monty feel about it once it gets rolling.

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  2. 6 hours ago, tbone_ said:


    Wasn’t his kid the dude from the Butthole Surfers?

    Don't know, but my twin brother got in a wreck with their lead singer back in the late 80s. It was Butthole Surfer guys fault and he didn't have insurance so he gave my brother a bunch of cash on the spot.

    It was just a fender bender, but my asshole brother pocketed the $ and never got the bumper fixed.

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  3. 11 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    Dozing Donny

     

    Would also have accepted 

    Drowsy Don

    Dammit, should have looked closer above.

  4. 1 hour ago, Smax said:

    Houston Pastor Ed Young calls Biden 'godless' in anti-immigration sermon

     

    https://www.chron.com/culture/religion/article/ed-young-biden-godless-19402656.php

     

     

    Starts at 29:50 if anyone cares to watch, last about 5 mins, he straight up lies saying Biden picked Easter as the day to celebrates transgender and of course talking politics from the pulpit. Isn't this a violation of the Johnson amendment?

    He left out:

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  5. 18 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

    Damn, Captain Kangaroo shaved his moustache.

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    By all accounts, the "captain" was a devoted husband and father, solid citizen, and recipient of many awards, honors, honorary doctorates and inductions to various halls of fame (not the least of which was the clown hall of fame).  So basically nothing like dotard. But damn, that is one candy from a van looking son of a gun.

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  6. 1 hour ago, BearSchlong said:

    Back to reality for us poors.

    My dad’s brothers kid was in town for his parents’ 60th anniversary party. Last night at around cake cutting time looked at him and said “pick you up at 5am? I know all your tackle is back home but I got you covered.”

    So I did spend the remainder of the evening re-spooling 6 reels and gearing up.

    Moon and tide was all wrong, wind howling straight up the ship channel so we retreated to the LA marsh which you know I love dearly.

    Got into a pod of 28”-34” reds up in a duck lake and had a ball. Then from 30 feet away this 7 footer chases down my cousin’s cork and eats the hook. I cut the line about 5’ above the first knot.

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    I’ve been fishing for 48 years and I’ve never encountered a more aggressive gator. He sat right by the Boat for a half hour like my dog begging for scraps. He wouldn’t shoo, was probably a she. Maybe defending her nest? Seriously freaked me out.

    What a crock!!!!

  7. I will always choose to remember him not as a killer, but as an all pro running back mercilessly slashing through defenders back in the 70s.

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  8. 4 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

    A lot of people say GMOs in wheat and other produce have triggered severe allergic conditions in people predisposed, but I like to think it’s nature punishing humans for veering too far from our carnivore roots. Nobody ever got a life threatening reaction to brisket or a ribeye in their shoe!

    I have nothing to back this up, but a couple of thoughts:

    We are a larger country today by 100 million or so there's that.

    Also, might have been some undiagnosed fatalities way back then which would have lessened the observed pool of allergy sufferers v  today.

  9. 51 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    Old man yelling at clouds take: makes me wonder if the men’s numbers would be better with an earlier tip-off time?  I was a Women’s Finals viewer hear me ROAR! 

    This and don't pit it on TBS. CBS prime time for the win.

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  10. 40 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Okay, just got the chance to hop on here about our experience.  We went out to a ranch in Llano, had a group of 17 folks camping out there.  My wife's cousin is a hot-shot astronomer, and they have a group that travels to see as many total eclipses as possible, so we were talking about plans and best ways to make this local eclipse happen starting four years ago.

    We go great weather, and the best wildflower display in 20+ years -- was really cool to show Texas off to them, coming from AZ, CA, PA Germany, and Spain.  Several beloved family members, but also their friends.   And....we knew these were "hotshot astronomers," but we really didn't realize HOW hotshot.  Sunday evening, we're gazing up at the night sky and getting some explanations from the woman who fucking LEADS the SSDS (the project that is literally mapping.....everything in the universe.  All of it.  The whole known universe.  You can watch her damned TED talk about it).  That evening, I got to sit by the fire and sip a beer as she quizzed my wife, with genuine curiosity, about some big theological questions.  I just sat there, drank my beer, looked at the stars, and listened to two incredibly smart women engage each other.  And we got to hang out with the head of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, who is fucking cool as hell.  Oh, and he gets to be in charge of building and stoking the campfire -- it's his thing, don't take that away from him.  Or Bernhard, who is an eclipse junkie, and also in the Nobel Prize talk for his work in mathematics and AI (he's a pioneer of "causality," using math to determine whether different astronomical phenomena are coincidental or caused, in short form.  His work helped find exoplanets, including the first one found in the habitable zone).  Also, he fucking loved my brisket, and ate it three meals in a row.

    We were like everyone else, tracking the clouds carefully, gambling on whether we should stay where we were or try to chase it.  Bernhard chose to chase it, and he got a good view.  We chose to stay, and we got a perfect view -- the clouds broke a few minutes before, and stayed clear the entire time.  I don't know what I was expecting....but what we saw was MUCH more awesome than I expected.  We were all grinning and laughing and patting each other on the back at how amazing the experience was.  We hung out after and had a nice lunch, then broke camp a bit earlier than planned because of the forecast for stormy weather.  Several of them didn't have a place to stay Monday night because they'd planned on camping.  We have lots of room in our house, so we told them to bunk with us, and they did.

    That evening, we sat around the table bullshitting, eating leftovers (Bernhard heated up brisket, again), and just having a damned pleasant visit.  Again, with people who have their own freaking Wikipedia pages.  We have an invitation to come and stay in Heidelberg now.  AND....Bernhard's wife is Spanish, and has family in the zone of totality for the August 2026 eclipse that will pass over Spain, so we started talking plans for that.  

    It was an amazing experience on its own, objectively.  It was made even better by being in a place so near and dear to us, that we could show off with some pride.  And then made even better by experiencing it with family and new friends.

    TLDR: if you haven't experienced a total eclipse, and think it's no big deal, think again.  It's a top-5 lifetime experience, highly recommend.  And experience it with great people, that makes it even better.

     

    Oh, I still need to get a good emailed version of this, but this is a shot of the photo up on my TV - Bernhard shared it with us all Monday evening.  He has a friend on the ISS, and when he realized when she would be there, he told her the timing and angle to get a good shot of the eclipse.  So she took this one, and sent it to him via WhatsApp (yep, they have WhatsApp access on the ISS):

    Yeah? Well my wife's brother went to MIT, so there....

     

     

     

    ...but he's also an alcoholic asshole.

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  11. 18 hours ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

    I have never heard anyone who saw a total eclipse for the first time say, "That was lame. What a letdown."

    Most people - as evidenced by this thread - say, "HOLY SHIT! THAT WAS AWESOME AND EXCEEDED MY EXPECTATIONS!"

    But there are lots of people who have never seen one who will still say, "What's the big deal?" They are also usually the same people who say, "Well, it's going to be __% here at my house. That's close enough."

    After we went to Missouri in 2017 and saw that one, I knew it was going to be worth driving and sitting in traffic to see it again this time. 

     

    So from the outside, you can't understand it, and from the inside you can't explain it.

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  12. 1 hour ago, utee94 said:

    Yes it's on Burnet Road a block north of Anderson Lane.  On a site that used to be a Ross Dress For Less, and a Chuck E Cheese Pizza.  Which was a Showbiz Pizza before that, and the whole building was a Kroger even before that.

    My mom left me in that Kroger "on accident" back in the mid 70's, so this hits close to home.

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  13. 1 hour ago, G650 said:

    I have a conflict the weekend of the MS ride here in Va. unfortunately or I would love to ride.

    Yes. It is a bit of a commitment for the weekend. Plus fund raising and logistics.

    I am pretty amazed by the participation this event gets considering that at least 75% of the riders are pretty slow. No big deal and good on them for getting out there, but I just don't see how spending 7+ hours in the saddle on each day with rides lasting into the hot afternoon can be any fun.

    Even more amazing is that most of that 75% are repeat and multi year riders.

    Hell, maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I sure do like not waiting in line for a shower.

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  14. I don't find Hurley arrogant at all. If anything he understates things and gives an honest assessment.

    Much of his team's success is due to his coaching v. Some guys that just role out waves of talent like the Fab 5 etc.

    His sideline demeanor is a beating but some of that is due to his punch able Hurley family face and Jersey vibe.

    Time will tell, but he has a long way to go to be in Bobby Knight, Coach K., Calliperi, Self, Rupp, Richardson etc. asshole territory.

    The more he wins the more of a dick people will think he is.

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