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Prepuce of Doom

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  1. I briefly saw that issue in another thread this morning, but when I scrolled back up to look again, the dates were correct. @immamac - fyi
  2. Pekin, IL (the town where dad is from) is racist as fuck. Their high school mascot used to be "The Chinks" (Pekin/Peking, get it?) but it was changed to "The Dragons" in 1980 and people there are still salty about it.
  3. Michael Irvin is probably about to explode.
  4. Yeah, another one that's just a little too slow and character-driven for him right now, but which is on the list to watch eventually.
  5. Interesting idea. I never watched Wonder Years back in the day. Throughout our Stranger Things adventure, I kept thinking about how we needed to watch Stand By Me together soon.
  6. Eh, only partial credit without including a separate third and final point.
  7. That's a good idea, too. Probably give him a little bit of social currency too, or at least more street cred than the X-Files. Separately, but on the topic of watching shit because it makes him seem cool to the other kids, it's very clear to us that (at least among Doomlet's cohort) there's a great deal of cache associated with having seen the Scream movies. He's seen the first one and the first half of the second one, but the plot is so thin and the characters all so tedious that he hasn't asked to finish it. I disengaged from all the Star Wars shit when it became too much to keep track of, but I imagine that if he shows an interest in the future, those might be good options.
  8. Sweettooth is a good one that I had forgotten about. Many of the shows that Mrs. Doom and I watch all have some kind of bleak and/or apocalyptic setting, so I don't want to overwhelm him with too much overly depressing shit given the general state of the world these days.
  9. I'm more interested in long, evolving stories than 30 minute sitcoms. Maybe Justified? I don't remember enough about it to recall if there's anything egregiously off-limits there. But we're fairly permissive, so I'm really just trying to think things that aren't too heady or heavy for a ten year old (The Leftovers, Dark, etc.). Station 11? Scavengers Reign? The Americans, maybe?
  10. Our family (Doomlet, age 10, plus the Missus and myself) binged Stranger Things together over the holidays. That was the first serialized show that we've ever watched together as a family, and now I'm trying to think of what other shows might be good for all of us. I think he's a little young for Breaking Bad, definitely too young for The Sopranos or GoT or The Wire, or for most of the more character-driven shows that I look forward to eventually watching with him (Fargo, Mad Men, etc.) The only thing that I can really think of is the X-Files, but I worry that he might lose interest due to not having any added motivation to watch so he can talk about it with (and seem cool to) his peers. He really likes cryptids and monsters and shit, but I can't remember whether the show starts off slowly or with a bang, so if the first episode or three are all just exposition, I fear he will grow bored with it quickly and lose interest in sticking with it. Any other good ideas for shows that will appeal to everyone in the family?
  11. You bring up a topic that I've been contemplating this past week. Binging Stranger Things over the holidays was the first serial program that we watched together as a family, and the Doomlet (age 10) was really engaged in it. I'm sure at least part of it was his interest in being able to talk about the show with his peers, but we're trying to figure out what might be the next good series for us to watch together, and we're having some trouble thinking of something that will strike the right balance. I'll start a separate thread about it, but was hoping to get some additional ideas.
  12. Congratulations - drive it really fast and avoid the police!
  13. Approximately how many farts in the sleeping bag?
  14. She's dead. After all the angst and teeth-gnashing when Hopper kept El being alive a secret from Mike & co. earlier in the show, she wouldn't do that to him again.
  15. JB Pritzker's family still owns a significant portion of Hyatt - would be a pretty ballsy move for him/them to step up and ban ICE.
  16. I'm right there with you on the intro.
  17. Some loon just threw his helmet way up in the air.
  18. Yeah, we were completely disgusted with how difficult it seems to be to find a vet that can see our dog within a day or two. Thought we found a good one until the first issue came up and they couldn't fit her in for two fucking weeks, and they acted like I was some kind of entitled asshole when I expressed my frustration with their timeline. Went to the emergency vet, figured out she had leptospirosis and was in kidney failure, hospitalized for a few days, and now she's good as new. She would have died if we listened to the original vet. Switched vets, obviously, but I harbor a serious grudge against Companion Animal Hospital and other similar outfits. Fuck your buddy in the goatass, @orange dream
  19. These are the same people who can't go anywhere without their Stanley. Or whatever brand of travel mug now confers the greatest social standing among the dimwitted and easily impressed.
  20. My biggest gripe about S5 was Linda Hamilton's comically large wig. Kim Mulkey-esque. There were a few scenes where I wondered if it was something left over from Matthew Modine's equally bighaired character's prop/costume equipment.
  21. And regarding your last paragraph, I completely agree with your view of the situation, but I feel like I'm losing my mind because it just doesn't seem to me like very many other people appear to understand that. It's Cassandra-like. I hope I'm merely going crazy, but I fear I'm not.
  22. Doomlet was too young for the show until now, so we binged from start to finish over Christmas break, finishing up today. This is what he's most hung up on, too. Out of curiosity, I kept track of how many separate times we heard the Kate Bush song. 11 instances in S4, 10 in S5. My continuity gripe is that Max has two different pro-quality skateboards in S2 and then again later on in S3 or S4, but she's riding a crappy generic department store board during the finale. No skater would ever go from good equipment to bad like that. I had the same initial reaction to Will's long coming out scene as someone else mentioned upthread, but I imagine that it might have been validating or comforting or reassuring or whatever to a fair number of kids in the audience trying to come to terms with that same thing in their lives right now, so I'm glad the show gave it the time and attention it did, despite taking up a lot of very limited and precious time as the plan came together. Overall, I liked how it ended. I thought the actor who played Billy was excellent, and was disappointed to learn that he's basically given up acting in anything but arthouse films.
  23. Intentionally or not, Farage is making a cigar pun with his last sentence. "Maduro" is a type of cigar featuring a dark, mature type of tobacco leaf.
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