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  1. On 8/2/2025 at 12:17 PM, sith_horn said:

    Having a hard time wrapping my head around this. Seriously, WTF over!

    On another note, I'd love to have seen hidden camera footage of all this. There had to have been some comedy gold facial expressions, superhuman suppression efforts and stolen eye contact going on, LOL.

     

    My mother-in-law did this to my family one year. We flew down to Sarasota (where they retired) on Christmas Day. My b-i-l and his family met up with my family at the Tampa airport, and we all were going to drive together. We were told explicitly not to eat because they had dinner prepared for us. We show up with a collective 4 children who are all very hungry to be greeted by my in-laws ... and four of their couple friends, who had come for Christmas dinner and had already eaten nearly everything. There was only just enough food for the children after I made some scrambled eggs and there was nothing for any of the adults. None of the olds could figure out why we were not happy to be there.

    I become furious every time I think about it. Just unbelievable. 

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  2. Okay, even though I know how this will go, I will respond. 

    I saw him in Birmingham a few years ago, and his opening line was "When will they stop taking our Confederate monuments away from us?" And then he did a long bit about how he looked up how many there are and it's a lot - it's way more than you could possibly imagine. It was excellent. 

    Sledgehammer, his 2023 special, is funny. Bad Thoughts was awesome. The one parodying Garth Brooks is genuinely outstanding.

    I think it's pretty obvious that his "outward disdain for his own fans" is a running gag that all of his fans know is a joke.

    Anyhoo, Tom Segura is an excellent standup comedian and I like him so there.

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  3. 3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I think Segura's stand up is funny but he's also at a wealth point that he can't talk about anything related to normal people. I also stop any clip if he talks about Texas and Austin like he's a native when he's lived here for 5 minutes. 

    I think that's part of the problem with podcasting. You just have to talk and talk and talk and 75% of it is "who cares." He is a great stand up. 

    I also think his friendship and dynamic with Kreischer is very entertaining, even though I don't think Bert is very funny and he would annoy the shit out of me in real life. 

  4. 3 hours ago, Helobious said:

    Segura is fucking terrible. He was kind of funny years ago but transformed into the most unlikeable preachy hateful comedian out there, which is even worse because he only is where he is in life because of his rich dad paying for him to breakthrough. 

    Tom Segura also is hilarious. If you think his bit on do not vacation where they film the First 48 is "kind of funny," then I'd like to know who you think is "actually funny". 

    Bikes

    Women are not horny the way men are horny

    Real life race war

    Tell that motherfucker I appreciate him

     

  5. Shane Gillis is hilarious. Tires is a masterpiece. 

     

    If you think he's not funny, then just watch his bit about going to Mt. Vernon and George Washington. Or his bit about his uncle with Down Syndrome, grilled cheeses, the Special Olympics and John Cena. If you still don't like him, then fine but I think he is very funny.  

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  6. 14 hours ago, Mo Horn said:

    In the latest episode of I'm never right, I'm in the doghouse. We got a new credit card so had to update all our auto pays and saved cards on various places. She made a list and we took care of it. On Sunday I said that I remembered one more we needed to do. She said no that was on the list and we did it. Stupidly, I said no I don't remember seeing it on the list and don't remember doing it. I got a lecture on how I shouldn't make her feel dumb because I questioned her. She then showed me the list, which had it crossed off. I, again stupidly, asked how me saying I don't remember seeing it, or doing it, made her feel dumb. She then totally blew up about how I would not make her feel stupid and screamed for like 5 minutes, and has been pissed ever since.

    It made no sense until today when I remembered that 2 weeks ago she said the Costco products were called Kirtland. I said no they are Kirkland and showed her on my phone. She didn't say anything at the time. That's obviously been festering and finally came out this past weekend. Who knows when I'll get some again.

    OK, cathartic story/rant over

    Why would you do this?

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  7. On 12/24/2019 at 1:29 PM, Michael Knight said:

    Shelby Foote's work is the best on the War but he very much sympathizes with the South so take what he says about any Northerner with a grain of salt

    It's the most epic and has unparalleled narrative qualities but "best" is very subjective. I second the recommendation of Chernow's Grant above.

  8. On 7/22/2019 at 10:16 AM, kevwun said:

    The general rule in the Civil War is that whoever attacked lost the battle.  There are exceptions of course, especially when Grant was involved, but in most of the major battles of the war, the defenders had a major advantage.  Artillery and infantry fire accuracy had advanced to the point that an army attacking a prepared position was going to be decimated before they got close enough to try to overwhelm the enemy position.  Lee was really good at maneuvering his army in to good positions to defend.  Once he had his spot, he dug in because he had figured out very quickly the advantages it game him.  He had better generals serving under him than the Union did for the first few years of the war.  Longstreet in particular was a master at preparing defensive positions.  After a whole lot of success following this plan, Lee came to believe his army was invincible.  This led him decide to take the war to the North.  Then Gettysburg happened.  The roles were reversed and the South was attacking a well defended position.  The Union finally won a major battle in the East and  Lee was no longer unbeatable.  While all of this was going on, Grant had been steadily rising up the ranks in the Western theater.  His success was based largely on his aggressiveness.  He moved decisively and attacked ferociously.  He understood that the Union had an advantage in men and materials and that the best way to use that advantage was to attack relentlessly.  He understood the Union would win a war of attrition.  When he finally rose to the top and went head to head with Lee, he did this.  Most of the battles were a draw at best, but he kept pushing Lee back towards Richmond.  When Sherman came up from Georgia, it was finally over.  They both were good at using the tools they had and they both made mistakes.  The result of the war would have almost certainly been the same if their roles were reversed.

    I agree with all of this except for the notion that Lee took the fight to the North because he believed his army was invincible. Quite the contrary. He knew the South could not win the numbers game or the long game and that he needed to bring the war to the North in a way that made it urgent and personal to its citizens and not an abstract concept happening somewhere else to other people. He gambled and lost. 

  9. On 4/5/2025 at 3:16 PM, Chips O'Toole said:

    That looks really stupid and really fucking fun. Just like Gunn's Suicide Squad which might be the only DC film I would ever rewatch. 

    Peacemaker was one of the best things ever on tv.

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  10. On 4/4/2025 at 11:32 AM, Drew said:

    There are just going to be some people who will shit on this no matter what.  Just gotta ignore those fools.

    I'm not going to shit on it. I've said my piece but hope it is good 

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