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  1. On 4/4/2022 at 10:12 AM, A-Tex Devil said:

    Speaking of the HBO doc, I rewatched it over the weekend and Seyfried is really killing it.  Her eyes are a little more buggy then Holmes, but the hunching and the head bobbing, etc. are all just nailed.  Uncanny, even.  

    I was watching it with my wife and I made the comment about how the really uglied-up Seyfried. Then that turned into 10 minutes of her trying to convince me that Amanda Seyfried isn't all that attractive anyway. 

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  2. 12 hours ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

    I'll say this since you're younger than most of us and probably didn't watch the 80s NBA with any real level of perspective, the 80s NBA was the golden age of basketball in the sense that it launched the sport into the American zeitgeist in a fundamental and inextricable manner. Teams were diverse in their style of play and perfectly fit the makeup of their cities. You had teams like the Lakers, Nuggets, Sonics, Mavericks, Warriors, and even the Celtics who pushed the absolute mess out of the ball up and down the court. You had Houston and Atlanta who were perpetual brides maids despite overwhelming athleticism. Then on the other end of the spectrum teams like the Pistons, Utah, Cleveland, and Knicks who would routinely force opponents into rock fights.

    Also like @longhornmatt mentioned there were true characters back then who weren't obsessively worried about their image and focus testing their every utterance. Plus these guys in the 80s came up before the commodification of basketball so unlike today with AAU and data driven strategy forcing everyone to play within a narrow set of stylistically parameters, players back then had a diverse array of playing and shooting styles. Magic shot the ball like a shot put. Kareem had his famous skyhook. Mark Price had absolutely flawless fucking form. Bird cocked the ball behind and slightly to the right of his head. Dominique shot with the palm of his hand and kicked his legs out in a very specific way. If a kid mimicked a player on the court absolutely everyone knew who he was. Even the announcers were characters. Freaking Tommy Heinson sounded like Fred Flinstone was broadcasting a game alongside Dick Stockton. All this added to the texture and overall enjoyment of the league during an era that essentially introduced the game to the country. Even though the 90s brought us Jordan's peak I'll contend that much like some would argue with Steph today, his success altered the style of the game for the worse and ultimately stagnated the NBA once his star was no longer around to blockout the banality his presence brought upon the league. 

     

     

     

    I still love the NBA. The Memphis Grizzlies are my team, they're a blast to watch now, and I loved the Grit n Grind days. However, the flopping bullshit has gotten way out of hand. 

  3. 16 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Got in a Terrytown stand-off with a Surly wife and daughter in a new baby blue Land Cruiser. Cars parked on both curbs making it one way. As I’m halfway through, she approaches, enters the one lane then stops and give me the out of the way signal. There are multiple cars behind me and nowhere to go. She then puts it in park and starts laughing with daughter. Crosses arms and won’t budge for a min or two. Eventually Amazon delivery yells at her to move. She is clearly drunk and pissed off. 
     

    She animatedly shifts to reverse, guns it, and smashes the back end of the LC into a poor worker’s truck parked on the side of the road. Gave her a thumbs up when went around her. Would love to hear the story she tells her husbandVhs Kiss GIF by vhspositive

    Spoiler: You were being an asshole. 

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  4. 3 hours ago, notre dame joe said:

    Indeed.  I knew BF was aloof with his family when he was in France but I did not realize it was that bad with his son.  I also would have liked a bit more time on the writing of the Constitution, it could have been a single episode.  Otherwise loved how Burns hit another winner.  

    Where did y'all watch this? 

  5. 1 hour ago, Macklemore said:

    My family hear enough curse words from me daily that a crusty cunt like Roy Kent mouthing off in a show doesn’t phase them :). What’s funny is that our pastor was playing clips from the show in the series he was a teaching in the show and the f-bombs being thrown out broadcast in the assembly hall :). It was a bit jarring and humorous that it was happening at church in front of a crowd of 50+ people :). Definitely would never have occurred at a Baptist church but it didn’t raise an eyebrow at our mainline church

    Did he show clips of Keely from the sexy Christmas episode? 

  6. 21 minutes ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:

    Had the EXACT thing happen during our last visit to Chili’s.  Same result … haven’t gone back.

    Now that's some damn coincidence. Either Chili's is a known mark for gypsy scams, or y'all were at the same spot at the same time.

  7. 9 hours ago, Superhero said:

    We’re in Vancouver this week and the weather is phenomenal. Overcast all day with temperatures in the mid 40s. Intermittent sprinkles here and there.

    A lot of people like the weather in Southern California where I live. But I’ll take this weather all day everyday.

    Fuck that. You just described winter in Arkansas. And I can't wait until spring. 

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