Posts posted by mchookem
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48 minutes ago, Duckman said:
I watched it last night on HBO Max because I couldn't wait, scheduled to see in IMAX next weekend.
I enjoyed it and am very glad they appear to be green lighting the next installment.
I will say if I was new to the series the lack of narration would have made following somewhat confusing.
so i did cheat a little at the beginning, i looked up a plot summary, just to get the gist of the initial turnover to the Atraides... so yeah i was confused for like the first 20 mins but once i got the big picture it was cool.
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i've never read the book, didn't see the first movie. i knew nothing of the story going in. watched it in my living room.
thought it was awesome. i'm in.
cinematography and music very reminiscent of BR2049. thought the dragonfly helicopters were badass.
i didn't even know who was in it but as soon as i saw young Mr. Chalamet...well helllooo 😊
wish we'd seen it in a theater.
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5 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
fuck everything about that guy. I hope he dies painfully and slowly.
i'll quote myself from way back in this thread somewhere...
i hope he dies penniless and alone, preferably in prison, knowing all his children and his wives hate him and will celebrate his death.
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2 hours ago, Dr. Beeper said:
I’d be shocked if this occurs with my 13 yo daughter, 11 yo son or 9 yo daughter, or any of their friends. I have a lot of friends with older kids. Nobody has ever mentioned anything of that sort and that’s the kind of thing that would most certainly get out.
I believe this is very unique to your corner of Austin.
setting aside the fact that kids often (if not always) have an alternative life their parents are oblivious about lol... i was thinking about your last line and i think you have a point...
not necessarily "my corner' (bc the friends i'm thinking of are diverse/dispersed families with knowing me the only common element)...but moreso that most of my friends are open-minded, moderately-to-very progressive with pretty liberal views, and they've raised their children to be the same. so you're right, it's not surprising that their kids are more open to exploring and experimenting during their adolescent years... and now that i'm thinking about it, i can add a couple of boys that had crushes on trans girls at some point in high school.
but i really don't think it's that rare...after all we're in "The People's Republic of Austin" 😄
but to be clear, in none of these instances were any medical or permanent changes made, and most have already grown out of it. thus my original thought about how gender fluidity seems to have become kind of a 'cool' thing to try in some youth circles.
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Edited by mchookem
59 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:Could you please provide some examples of these “anti-trans” bills? Genuinely curious.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/15/politics/anti-transgender-legislation-2021/index.html
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15 minutes ago, troph said:
Same half that thinks I’m going into a woman’s bathroom to rape and pillage.
...and that brings us back to Dave and one of the salient points he did make about why all these 'bathroom' bills are such bullshit...
as he said, if i'm a boy and a trans woman comes in the men's restroom i'm gonna be way more confused and freaked out than i would be if i'm a girl and see that same woman come in the women's restroom. same for a girl with a trans man coming in the women's restroom...that's liable to scare/scar a kid way worse than the alternative. those laws are needlessly cruel not to mention pointless.
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Edited by mchookem
...bc they aren't harassing and abusing each other. sort of like race with that age group - most of them really don't care.
well, these are all kids raised in Austin...i imagine it's probably NOT such a 'hey this would be cool' in BFE east Texas.
and no, none of my friends or their kids actually took any action other than insisting they be called something else and dressing/acting differently for a time. the parents are/have mostly just let it run it's course. kids. 🙄 get off my lawn! 😄






All things SNL
in Movies and TV
Brandi Carlisle can SANG!
speaking of what's up with that...seems a legit trend recently to see what other celebs may be hanging out in NYC for the week and get them to drop in for a cameo. they've always done it every once in a while ( Deniro is most common, i assume he lives in NYC) but they seem to do it with more frequency now. i liked 'again, i am NICHOLAS BRAUN!' 😄