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Chips O'Toole

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  1. I think a lot of the family movies from the 80s and 90s hold up really well and are quite fun. Princess Bride, Goonies, Mighty Ducks, Cool Runnings, Hook.. I watched these with my kids and didn't expect them to be so enjoyable. There is a Japanese movie called Ping Pong about ping pong players that is a fucking blast. Timecrimes is a Spanish movie about time travel that is hilarious and fun. Idiocracy is not only the most quotable movie from that era, but it is still funny as fuck to this day, maybe even funnier now than when it came out.
  2. I haven't watched the Australia season, so maybe I'll check it out. She very well may be more of a Lolo Jones.
  3. So you don't like her and she will never get better at the game game, she can't make friends except with awful people, everyone else hates her. Just keeping score here, it seems like a super unbiased take to me. I didn't like her or root for her throughout the season, but I do find it kind of interesting that she dragged Yes through a few dailies. I couldn't decide who to root for in the elimination, as I don't really care for either of them. I thought it was impressive that Emily nearly matched Kaycee's strength and was scrappy enough to get a win on her. I would take Kaycee 10/10 in Hall Brawl against every current female cast member not named Aneesa. We'll see if she just plain sucks and can never get better at the game. I mean, there is plenty of historical evidence that difficult personalities can come through this competition, flame out, and come back more polished with a better handle on the game. Some have learned how to adjust their personality, some haven't. Sometimes the friendships happen off the show and they come back with a stronger set of allies. All I was really saying is that despite being on the bottom in the social game, my read on her is that she is too intense and often, those types dial it back after getting some perspective. I'm not calling for her to be on the OG seasons, but I'm fine with her being on these McDowell's off-brand seasons which are watered-down but watchable.
  4. Except Kaycee's personality is basically another scumbag bro, imo. Why are all the big brother people so unlikeable? I agree on Emily being annoying, but I think she is an interesting add to the show and will definitely be cast for the next round for good reason. The show needs those types to balance out all the usual cliques, and I bet after a couple more seasons, she chills out and plays a more deft political game. She also nearly took down Kaycee twice in hall brawl which is legit.
  5. Driussi out 3-4 weeks, that's terrific.
  6. The model, according to a list I found in an old email, was a VFM071. Can't find much info about it except it is from the 80s.
  7. I'm not positive what it was, I never gave a shit when I recorded with him. Now that I'm trying to do it myself years later, I am always pissed at my younger self for being so uninterested in the engineering side of things. I think it was a VFM model but I remember it being bigger than what I see when I look it up. It wasn't an 80, I think it cost him less than 20k. I was usually drunk or on shrooms when I was out there though, so who fucking knows.
  8. Hell yeah you did. I just got the Audioscape version of the LA2A, it sounds really great. Their FET comps are extremely popular too. I like the opto because I am by myself a lot and dialing in the FET comp for myself in the next room is an exercise in futility. I looked up that podcast, and I think I recognize least than 10 of the guests they had on out of 55.
  9. You guys are making me sad. I almost inherited a Trident board a few years back when my producer left the game completely and moved out of state. He left the board with a friend because he was such a packrat that he figured he could come back and claim it at some point. Well, said friend moved and didn't have space for it, so I was next in line to keep it in the family, so to speak. I just had to arrange pick up because we were busy and he was an hour away. I waited a bit too long, I guess because he stopped responding and I never heard back from him. So he must have found a spot for it or sold it or died. He was the type who could have probably done any or all three without giving it much thought. I picked up a Daking mic pre ii after doing a bunch of research and finding out they were basically doing an updated version of the old trident desk pres. It's pretty nice, I haven't thrown too many mic's at it yet. I am planning on doing a shootout soon and getting as many mic's as I can to see what works best on voice, guitar and piano. I really need a 47 style with and m7 capsule, and I am debating going with a FET model or moving up to a tube version.
  10. Oh, he's an absolute slimeball. It's a mystery how all the girls (and Glenn ffs) find him charming or whatever. But he somehow hasn't crossed into toxic dbag territory, or not far enough for Bravo to turn on him.
  11. Posted on the ads thread, but I can't get on the site on a mobile device without getting a bukkake amount of ads. Logged in, chrome mobile on iphone or Android. I've resorted to using Firefox mobile with ublock but it sucks ass because Firefox mobile is pure garbage.
  12. Yeah his whole bit is still funny as fuck decades later.
  13. Time to rebuild in year 3 of the franchise?
  14. So glad we played Finlay on the right and moved Rigoni to the left so now we have two Rigonis to piss me off.
  15. It happens to me every few months, but usually goes away pretty fast. This time, not so much.
  16. On the spectrum of guest awfulness on Below Deck, I didn't think they were that bad considering they never got to go anywhere or sail at all and the crew was still a bit shaky since it was their first charter. Yeah, the one lady went over the top with her "worst trip of my life" or whatever so fuck her, but still...never leaving the dock because the boat didn't work fucking sucks for them.
  17. I have unstoppable ad super-aids on the mobile site on my pixel 5a. I've tried clearing all browser data in chrome and cookie monstering, logging out and restarting the phone before logging back in. I can't figure this shit out, wondering if there's anything else I could try. I just logged in on my wife's iphone and browsed and had the ads on there as well. It also ad blasts me if I switch to the desktop site. I don't have this issue on a PC fwiw. Any ideas?
  18. Hopefully, Gary can figure out how to stop getting COVID again and again from himself through his own pillow.
  19. LAFC just clowning us at this point.
  20. Zardes, Lima, Lindquist, nice let's see if we can lose by 4.
  21. Everyone fucking standing around on the other side, that looked easy as fuck.
  22. Why was Vaisanen out? Is he injured? Last night's lineup was really odd. There were some really poor moments throughout the match on both ends. We were lucky CO didn't score on one or two of those set pieces. Nice to see Djeffal make a terrific pass only for Redes to be perfectly on brand for Redes. Zardes should come in at about 70 when we need a spark. He should not be starting at this point when we have Urruti who is a much more technical player and has proven chemistry with Seb and Diego. Rigoni once again didn't play too terrible, but he is so one-dimensional and provides no creativity. We got beat predictably by some speed up top against a shoddy backline that was out of position. We get dominated against more than half the teams in the league with that effort. Its better than losing, but the losses are going to come at a high clip really soon without huge improvement.
  23. Hahaha, can't imagine getting beaten so badly that I had to flagrant foul the person who did it.
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