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  1. 10 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    I liked it better than I thought I would. 

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    Funeral scene was the best part. The widow's line, "You people make cereal! Why did my husband explode??" had me rolling.

     

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    The ending re Jan. 6, and the reveal about Mar-a-Lago being named for Marjorie Post was great (I had to look it up to confirm that their statement that it was true, was true, which it is).

    The parts I thought could have been cut back was the romantic tension between Gaffigan and Schumer and the living Ravioli thing.

    The kid actors, the girl in particular, cracked me up. 

     

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  2. I hate having to rank thinks that are hard to distinguish, so tiers.

    Community/Parks n Rec/30 Rock (All terrific all time greats)

    Modern Family (never took a deep dive into this one but the ones I’ve seen were pretty good)

    HIMYM (really enjoyed the first few seasons then it went downhill and at this point I feel kinda guilty for liking it at the time because it’s pretty lame on rewatch)

    Big Bang Theory is pure trash, only saw a few episodes and they were awful.

    That said, Aways Sunny dominates them all, and Arrested Development is in the top tier above. I’m a Seinfeld fan but it’s hard to rank because on rewatch I still like it but it has a lot of flaws. The best of that show however is top tier.

     

  3. 8 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    You're definitely doing the right thing there, IMO.  One of my best friends is pretty sure his daughter's gay, and I think he's probably right.  He and his wife have 0 hang ups with it so I'm sure that she'll be pretty comfortable coming out if that's actually the case.  She's also 12.  His older brother is gay, and his parents did not handle it well (Baby Boomer Czech/Irish Catholics from northeast Iowa, so no shit, right?), so he's kind of a got a model for what not to do.  Good luck and I hope you're daughter is comfortable in being her authentic self.

    I honestly think it's 50-50 at this point. She's never been comfortable when her girlfriends would hold hands with boys and call them their boyfriends. She also doesn't really act that way with this other girl, as far as we can tell, so she may just not be interested yet in romantic relationships. I think it's possible that with that mindset, she has more fun with this particular girl and considers it a romantic crush, or she might just be confusing emotions. or it could be genuine romantic attraction. She's 12 for crying out loud, we're just making sure to not try and persuade her one way or another. 

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  4. That's absurd and could never be enforced. I said it earlier, the fucking ACLU represented the KKK and their right to march. The message doesn't fucking matter! Only where they manifest into physical acts of violence or true threats can they be suppressed.

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  5. 6 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    If this trend continues, I might just start hoping my daughter is a lesbian.

    Probably not the right thread for this discussion, but my 12 year old daughter told us she thinks she has a crush on one of her girl friends. We know the other girl and her parents and apparently the other little girl has said the same thing. We said that we don't care and to not let anyone talk her into dating before she's ready or how to feel about other kids one way or another. So we're prepared if that's where she ends up. I'm so glad I came around on this issue 20 something years ago and not "oh I guess it's okay now because it might personally affect me and my family."

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  6. Lol, I can't see replies on x anymore, but I assume it's in relation to his horrible shooting as a player. Great at generating offense and assists, horrible jump shooter. Also, the NBA has plenty of players with unorthodox shots (Shawn Marion comes to mind), if it works it works. Nevertheless, I watched a little Caitlin Clark, and her shot seems sound, and should work just fine in the WNBA.

  7. WVU is playing pretty well too. At this point, there isn't much separation. The UT-OSU series appears to be the only remaining series amongst the top of the current league standings. 

  8. 35 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    Sounds like we're brothers from another mother.

    Fear of rejection was really high on the list...also fear that I'd suck at sex, and she'd tell everyone at school.  This was so strong that I mostly messed around with girls from other schools.  I was also oblivious to clues, so even the action I did get was when the girl made the first move.

    I didn’t really mature emotionally until late college right around the time my now wife and I got serious. I was very introverted and lacked any semblance of self esteem in those early years. Fear of rejection was pretty high in the list for why I wasn’t dating or banging at that age. I also was quite traumatized looking back at my strict catholic upbringing. Like crying myself to sleep routinely because I gave in to jerking off. Pretty sure I’d have entered a guilt coma if I had actually had sex with girl. I hate that it’s probably still a major issue for millions of kids. At least I wasn’t molested by a priest, goddamn I hate that part of my life.

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  9. 9 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

    I will say one astounding thing.  If it could indeed be proven that the youngs have, as a cohort, a considerably reduced interest in sex, that there are virgins that are perfectly fine with it, etc. then we have stumbled upon quite the breakthrough.  Humans, and all animals in general are hard-wired to survive, adapt and.....reproduce.  There are and have always been a number of individual exceptions.  But, when you start looking at some of the numbers like the ones that lead this thread off..... if one could in fact attribute it to the fact that a primary driving factor in those numbers is youngs are just not as interested in sex and don't any longer have the drive to participate in the act of reproduction then that means that on a much broader non-exception level we are evolving (at a seemingly a breakneck pace).  And, evolving in a way that doesn't follow the general "survival" driven path of evolution.  

    Modern medicine has dropped infant mortality from very common to very rare. Our species is unique that way and doesn’t require tons of births for survival. If evolution is at play, it makes sense that humans in general can be less interested in sex because it’s not necessary for a woman to pump out a dozen kids hoping that a few survive to adulthood. 

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