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  1. 32 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Panic inducing watching it. Like a 2 hour long anxiety attack 

    Apocalypse Karen was great and the other cast wasn't too bad, either.

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    I loled at the last scene. The Friends references were killing me.


    I loled at the last scene. The Friends references were killing me.

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  2. What a good girl.

    Nonprofit says fosters needed after rescue Labrador Retriever gives birth to 14 puppies

     

    Lady Longhorn’s puppy’s names

    Boys

    • Vince
    • Earl
    • Colt
    • Major
    • Sark
    • Mack

    Girls

    • Quinn
    • Jordan
    • Ricky
    • Sam
    • Brook
    • Jaylen
    • Sugar (Bowl)
    • Rose (Bowl)
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    AUSTIN (KXAN) — A former maternity nurse has now had the honor of helping her rescue Labrador Retriever deliver 14 puppies.

    “She was huge,” Lori Ziemann said. “This was the largest litter that I’ve ever had the honor to help a mama with.”

    The Labrador, Lady Longhorn, went into labor during the Longhorn game over the weekend when Texas beat Oklahoma State for the Big 12 Championship. Ziemann said Lady Longhorn’s delivery took awhile.

    “When she delivered through the day, we put the T.V. in here,” she said. “She is a Longhorn fan now, so we could partially watch the game and cheer the Longhorns on. So, after that, we decided no, this is going to be Lady Longhorn and her 14 little longhorns.”

    Lady Longhorn gave birth to six boys and eight girls– all named after notable Texas football players, including Vince, Earl, Major, Ricky and Rose– to honor the times the team has played in that bowl game.

    Another pup is named Sugar, in honor of the Horns’ upcoming bowl game.

    As a former maternity nurse, Ziemann said she spends some of her free time with the all-volunteer nonprofit Lucky Lab Rescue, now that all of her kids are grown up.

    That nonprofit said it is in need of fosters for the pups. If you are interested in fostering or donating, you can visit the Lucky Lab Rescue website for more information.

    Lady Longhorn’s puppy’s names

    Boys

    • Vince
    • Earl
    • Colt
    • Major
    • Sark
    • Mack

    Girls

    • Quinn
    • Jordan
    • Ricky
    • Sam
    • Brook
    • Jaylen
    • Sugar (Bowl)
    • Rose (Bowl)

     

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  3. On 11/30/2023 at 9:46 AM, Vito Andolini said:

    Just read this Obliterated review.

    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/obliterated-review-brainless-teenage-boys-060000750.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00

    Looks like Surly has its TV spirit animal, boys! 

    Obliterated, review: brainless teenage-boy's fantasy nonsense is a new low for Netflix

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    Call off the search: the worst show of 2023 is here. That is, unless you’re a 13-year-old boy, in which case Obliterated (Netflix) is your dream product. Guns! Naked breasts! A lead character who is a government operative but also looks smokin’ hot in a red bikini! And that’s before we get to the script, in which a foreign baddie plots to nuke Las Vegas. Standing in his way is an elite tactical unit (the best kind) whose members say things like: “We’re supposed to stop the bad guy with the bomb” and to a female team member with a computer: “You’re the tits, Tech Chick.”

    Remember how the boys in Weird Science came up with their ideal woman? Obliterated is what would happen if they were teenagers now and decided to invent an eight-part Netflix series. It is so avowedly dumb that you spend the first episode thinking that the writers are spoofing 1980s action movies and any minute now they’ll cleverly up-end it. Nope. The hour ends with the team’s crazed bomb-disposal expert falling face first into a coffee table after lacing his guacamole with magic mushrooms.

    The rest of his team of “real American heroes” have also been on mushrooms, MDMA and champagne (glugged straight from the bottle – this is Vegas, baby!), in between sex scenes. This is at a party they’ve thrown to celebrate a successful mission, in which they went undercover to capture a Russian villain and killed loads of people to a soundtrack of cool rock music. “No one’s ever going to know what we did because, until this is declassified, today never happened,” says Special Agent Ava Winters (Shelley Hennig), walking away from a job that involved a military helicopter firing missiles through a hotel window in a packed holiday destination.

     

    “Had we streamed our take-down on TikTok, we’d be trending right now,” laments the team’s female sniper, who also says admiringly of a colleague: “McKnight might be the cockiest son of a b---h I’ve ever met, but that’s why the ladies love him.” See what I mean about a 13-year-old boy writing the dialogue?

    Anyway, it turns out that their mission actually failed, and they get called back to the field despite all of them (including the pilot) being high. “I don’t care how f—ed up we are, we’re still the best in the game,” says a character called Chad McKnight (Nick Zano). I did not think it was possible to cross The Hangover with the combined oeuvre of Steven Seagal, but here we are.

     

    Sounds like the SNL skit where Andy Samberg was a 13-yo consultant on Game of Thrones.

  4. 3 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    An amazing movie. The early scenes with Eliza and Henry Higgins are just fabulous.

    One of my favorites - I always crack up at the scene where she's trying her upscale accent for the first time and says about her alcoholic aunt "it was like mother's milk to her." 

  5. Has anyone seen Leave the World Behind? I tried reading the book years ago and the writing was so fucking pretentious I barely got through 1/4 of it before I stopped. I actually wrote down a few quotes in case anyone asked me how it was, spoilered below. But I do still find the premise intriguing and I wonder if it comes across better in film.

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    It was at the point where I read "pudendum in relief" that I just couldn't take it anymore. This was a few pages after I read "the white demimonde of plumbers", at which point I realized I should've stopped. Some excerpts:

    "He slowed the car because the road was curvy, seductive, a hip switched back and forth. Designer mailboxes like a hobo sign: good taste and great wealth, pass on by. You couldn't see anything, the trees were that full. Signs warned of deer, idiotic and inured to the presence of humans. They strutted into the streets confidently, walleyed and therefore blind. You saw their corpses everywhere, nut brown and pneumatic with death."

    "The brain abets the eye; eventually your expectations of a thing supersede the thing itself. Yellow-and-black pictographs, hillocks fading into prefab concrete walls, the occasional glimpse of split-level, railroad crossing, baseball diamond, above-ground pool." 

    "The en suite bath was all white...that particular fantasy of purity to escape the reality of your own excrement."

    And then, three pages describing every. single. item one of the characters puts in her grocery cart. Lots of people like this book, but as for me...it's a no.

     

  6. 3 hours ago, slorch said:

    saw it when it came out.  Damned sure didn't understand it at age 19.

    Shit, I'm not sure I fully understood it now. There are definitely plot holes but I can see how it influenced a future generation of psychological thrillers/horror.

    3 hours ago, RPM said:

    Unbearable Weight was excellent

    "I fucking told you" 😂

  7. 2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

    It is the Friday before Thanksgiving break right? Let the kids get a 24 hour flu or take them to Taco Bell for dinner. 

    Yeah, I'd consider it if it was just my kid, but I'd still have to drive the other ones in carpool if he wasn't there. So we'll all be stuck in traffic together.

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  8. 26 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    From what I've seen in the past, it's a rolling shutdown, but it's quite a big buffer.

    We're leaving town tomorrow morning (from nearby, and we live along the route), but we're taking a back way out to avoid it altogether.  And I expect that it will be MUCH larger than the procession on Sunday.  For the funeral, there will be a law enforcement presence from all over the state - hundreds of cars.

    Yeah, we live northwest off Mopac but my son's school is south of the river and tomorrow is my day for carpool. Is it normal to do this on a weekday at rush hour? Thankfully it's been a long time since an officer died in the line of duty so I don't remember what happened last time. 

  9. On 11/13/2023 at 11:16 AM, Brisketexan said:

    On Sunday at around 1:15, we were getting on 183 at Burnet to head home.  Cops had all the ramps closed.  Took us a minute to figure out why, then the procession carrying his body came up 183, then headed onto Mopac heading south.  I presume they were heading to Cook Walden or Weed Corley.  Whole freeway was shut down for a few minutes.

    Damned shame.  I do wish we'd hear some more about the actual crime victims at the home.  They matter.

    Got a call from AISD a couple of hours ago that Officer Pastore's funeral procession will start tomorrow at 8 am at Mopac/2222, and staging will begin at 7. They're calling to give everyone a heads up because of traffic/school bus schedule delays. Does anyone know if the roads shut down at staging time or procession start time? 

  10. I fucking DIED at the story about the almost fight in the Senate yesterday. You have to be a special kind of moron to challenge - to fisticuffs! - a man who is not only president of the Teamsters, but who is named Sean O'Brien and is from Medford. THAT's the guy you want to pick a fight with? I was talking to a friend about this last night and this morning she sent me this TikTok and said "this is you talking about it last night." Yes, yes it was.

     

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  11. On 11/12/2023 at 9:27 PM, wutang75 said:


    I feel like the entire point of the movie was him coming to terms with that fact that his way of life or thinking isn’t absolute. “The only real path is the one behind you.” He let the guy go because he had nothing to do with what happened to him personally. The others chose that career and knew what could happen.

    Didn’t love the movie - was just ok.

    Was this the case with the cab driver? I thought he was just a random person drawn into the whole thing, but maybe I missed something.

  12. 6 hours ago, The Dude said:

    He’s not a good killer right?  I mean he has all these rules and mantras but he isn’t very good at what he does. He’s a legend in his own mind. Isn’t his whole revenge tour against his own rules?

    This is exactly what I said - from the first botched hit to everything else. Some other thoughts:

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    The entire plot of the movie hinged on him avenging the attack on his girlfriend, which was a violation of one of the rules he kept repeating.

    The nail gun death - he miscalculated that shit, too.

    The voiceover narration was a bit much. My 15-yo was playing video games and halfway watching and at one point early on he goes, "maybe he wouldn't have missed if he hadn't been talking so much in his head". I loled but seriously.

    I hated how he killed everyone involved except for the guy who ordered the original hit. WTF? You won't spare Dolores but you'll spare that guy? 

    I do generally like Fincher. Just didn't love this one.

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  13. What an absolute dickhead.

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    Goss asked if there were any other payments his team might have missed. “Possibly a minute amount here and there,” Capps replied, “when [Rajena] was calling and begging for some money to buy groceries.”

     

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