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Celery Man

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  1. I'm on to season 4 in the latest rewatch. I was in my twenties when I first watched this and thought that Stringer was super smart. And, he's not a moron, but with a bit more seasoning it's interesting watching again and realizing how much fo a dipshit he still is (how self satisfied he is with his assessment of cell phone market saturation, his stupid roberts rules of order, him just taking Clay Davis' bait every time. And every single misstep he makes sealing his fate because he thinks he's the smartest motherfucker around. He would have been fucked anyways - i missed it before, but there's a phone call right at the end of season three that indicates he contracted some hitters (to hit Clay Davis). There's no way that whatever plan he had would have stood up to the scrutiny that would have come down with a hit on a politician. Avon was the smarter one out of the two of them, and he was a trillion percent correct with his assessment of Stringer being not hard enough for this right here and not smart enough for that out there. Another cool thing I've noticed a few times that I missed in previous viewings is the trick they'll do with the sound editing where you'll here some background noise and it will continue into the next scene at a different location. In season 2, they throw the guns that land on the boat, the boat's horn blows, and then it cuts to the Greek in the diner and the horn is blowing farther off in the background. Same at the end of episode 1 or 2 of season 4 when Carcetti is drunk on the park bench being told to move it along by a cop, and there's a police siren far off in the background, and then you're with Randy sitting on his stoop and the same siren is still going, much closer. I always took it as Wee Bey is a free agent but he recognizes Namond as his child and at the very least, he takes care of his baby mama and Namond and perhaps even as a member of the family in a sometimes conventional way. While also having his own crib and drug-fucking shorties to death and etc.
  2. What’s the best Texas polo these days? I like a basic pique polo ( but the one on the coop website looks like it might be shitty) but am curious about the general consensus.
  3. Man that’s like lesson two “oh cool, James Bond” stuff I usually hang by the bridge, which is why I have trouble with the strat volume knob sometimes.
  4. If you feel like being brave; play rhythm with the tele bridge
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    New Music 2025

    New Petey album dropped. Love this guy and just for fun
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    Colonoscopy

    nurse was not amused when I asked for a wallet print of my appendiceal orifice
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    Colonoscopy

    Skinnier than you are.
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    Colonoscopy

  9. One time at the old Redrum I was singing into a 58 and saw Leslie's asshole at a 90 degree angle.
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    Colonoscopy

    I actually was having some second thoughts on the orange - my instructions say that jello is OK as long as it's not red or purple. Orange is close to red, but it's not exactly a niche jello color and you'd think they'd say it explicitly if they're listing which colors of jello not to eat.
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    Colonoscopy

  12. Combine the two paragraphs here for the change, I think. It used to be that you had people who were obsessed on a topic and did the work to go down the rabbit holes to become that type of kook. Now if you get on the internet you’ll inevitably stumble across a video that gives you special information making you smarter than all of those bookfag experts. If that kind of thing tickles your fancy, there are more right there and pretty soon the internet will learn to feed you that information almost exclusively.
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    Power Pop

    Man I’d love to catch the show with them and Ben Kweller
  14. Ah shit there may not be enough gpus
  15. An AI tool that detects when posters are being shitheads and moves their posts to a penalty box thread. So, in football there would be the Quinn Ewers thread [7 pages] and the Quinn Ewers Penalty Box [527 pages].
  16. Buddy sent me his episode on the freakonomics guy’s podcast and so I’ve been listening to his book. Mid year and I’ve declared unequivocal victory on the weight loss goal. I don’t give a shit about muscles or lifting more than my what I functionally need to lift in my life but he’s convinced me. Figuring out phase two.
  17. That’s interesting, it’s so close to almost just a Les Paul but definitely has a tele shape. another random algo guitar company, in the more dano/fano realm - never heard of ruby guitars before but this is kinda cool. Love the grain on pic 3
  18. I went in to my daughter's room this morning to take her to brush her teeth. She was playing on the floor, hopped up and gave me a big hug and told me she wasn't surprised because she heard my footsteps coming. And then she asked why I was sad, "why is your face like this? ☹️". She's 4, she's at an age where I'm not trying to hide things from her but I'm never sure how much to try and explain, but I decided to tell her about how there was a big flood in Texas and a lot of people got hurt, and a lot of the people who got hurt were kids and little girls like her. And I was happy because I love her so much but I was sad because I would be so sad if anything ever happened to her and there are other daddies out there right now who are that kind of sad. And she reassured me that she was OK, and then she said that she would be sad if something happened to her friends, and I talked about how there are little girls who are sad for their friends right now. But that it's good to love people that much to be that sad. And then we brushed teeth. I'd fucking die. I can't imagine. We were at the beach weekend before last and I was walking around with her holding a bucket, looking for shells. She was making a princess tower and we needed shells. A 60-70 year old guys was walking down the beach, and he and I made eye contact for a second as he was passing and he just kinda waved, and it was little moment. I can't describe the look on his face or his posture or whatever, maybe I was just in that moment realizing that I was on the flip side of one of the handful of days I experienced as a small child that then make up your entire "going to the beach as a kid" core set of memories, but it was like the guy was waving to his own memory.
  19. used to love dem mitts
  20. At some point I had to read a bunch of different early Christian takes on Job. It would be interesting to go read those again. To the explicit question of how an elected official can say such a thing, it's purely a political move to manipulate voters into continuing to believe the opposite of what is true. They say it because it gives them power and that power has corrupted them such that they are no longer acting in service of a Christian God, if they were ever even trying to do that in the first place.
  21. Lol you’re so deranged with politics you’ve switched sides on Jesus
  22. I mean tech job market isn’t great at the moment but if you’re straight salary that’s some bullshit. But, digression. I will say, one of the things that accelerated my creep up in weight in 2023 was no time = grilled cheese. Pivoting to no time = spinach shake was a big part of what has worked for me this year with little kids and a busy job. I look forward to that shake for lunch almost every single day. If my wife wasn’t on dinner I’d have a hard time staying on track with the kids. But if it was just me, I’d have a couple of things in rotation and that would be that.
  23. I mean wtf if you’re actually working 14 hour days regularly. My wife takes care of dinner, so that’s my hack. But, I am happy to eat a small number of things pretty frequently and that works well for me to stay in a calorie range. I eat one of two things for lunch almost every day, the same breakfast daily, and could do similar for dinner. One thing I like that my wife does is cook one protein and serve it a few ways. She’ll make broccoli beef with just ground beef (using kenjis recipe, but ground instead of shaved beef mostly because little kids). And then we’ll have more of that beef with some diced baked sweet potatoes and diced avocado and cottage cheese. Or she’ll put it into a bao. Or whatever. Similar with chicken- a rice bowl, something with a roasted veggie, maybe a big salad. Frozen fries are actually not that high calorie if you bake or air fry them - we had kimchi fries the other night with whatever protein and it was great. Eating out 2-3x a week would be hard for me, but also… I have almost zero free time and don’t know how you’d do anything if you’re working 8-10.
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