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  1. 3 hours ago, DCA_HORN said:

    You guys are aware it's been a few years and it's also a "reality" show right?

    You mean that Freddie not knowing if he can make it, and not calling Jonathan to confirm that he can nor answering his calls, and showing up on the dock just as they're throwing lines was staged?

  2. 3 hours ago, Lat22 said:

    First hour was pretty good. I thought the TB had been completely repainted before it went on the market?

    Someone posted a link to a boat sale site some time back that had a red boat exactly like the TB, and thought it was the TB repainted red.  It wasn't though because when I perused through the site I found the actual TB listed on there in its traditional black coat.

  3. 1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

    unpopular opinion, im pulling for matsuyama or zalatoris. cinderella story 

     

    if this was the PGA, i'd 120% be pulling for Spieth. that's the tournament that cements his legacy with the all time greats, not another masters 

    100% pulling for Rose.  I know a good guy who's uber friends with him.  He can't talk highly enough about him.  I really think he's going to pull it out.

  4. Does the poster who has those badass dark green Masters bourbon glasses still post here?  Please post another pic of those.

    Had the opportunity to buy that set at the member's pro-shop a few years back and talked my dumbass out of it.

  5. Landed a new job at a Fortune 200 company, probably easiest interview process ever had: an outreach by a recruiter, a ten minute call with the hiring manager, a two-hour total interview with the hiring manager, two would-be colleagues and the CFO, respectively.  In the interviews with the other three I picked up that this role was dreamed up by the hiring manager, faced skepticism within the exec ranks, and he had to use a lot of political capital to get it approved.

    Anyway, get hired and am excited but feeling the pressure.  First day on the job I learn the company's annual all-day meeting with vendor partners will be held in two days at a hotel in San Diego.  As I will need to work with these folks I pushed my new boss to let me attend.  He was dubious, given I had just started but agreed.

    Go to the event, top notch event all around, 300 or so reps of vendors in attendance, introduced myself to a lot of folks.  Late in the day, my new boss comes over and says, "Bob, I'd like to introduce you to ** ******" (with no augmenting info of who he was).  I smile, shake his hand and ask what his role is with the company.  "Uh, I'm the President", he said with notable annoyance.  Out of the corner of my eye I see my boss's face drop.  This was his direct boss.  I don't recall how I responded, but the conversation ended quickly after that.  Fortunately, the guy (who I later came to know had a healthy ego) never held it against me.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

    maybe similar to that - Tony with his bottle of orange juice in his botched hit, calling back to the oranges in the Godfather movies. That connection between oranges and death carried through those movies (or at least I guess until the orchard scene). I think in The Sopranos, eggs play a similar role. Which works well given the whole.. birds thing. I need to watch again.

    Years ago, some guy wrote an excellent detailed analysis of the final scene to prove Tony's death.  Big part of his discussion was the fact that the show turned the real ice cream shop into an orange toned space.  Orange everywhere.

  7. Interesting take, and seems to align with what's gone on in this thead.

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/meghan-markle-oprah-interview-prince-harry-american-conservatives-liberals-474407

    “Because of their support for the status quo and the existing cultural, political and social order,” she wrote to me in an email, “conservatives would tend to attribute responsibility for negative outcomes to the individual rather than to the system.” But liberals, she wrote, “are less wedded to social and cultural traditions and norms.” So they’d be in favor of broader change, tearing up the system altogether, “so that fewer individuals face those risks.”

     

  8. 3 hours ago, Restinmybones said:

    The pitch hit out stayed up and didn't break down.

    Yeah, I was going to say, that wasn't really recognizing the pitch, it was the pitcher fucked up his pitch and hung one.

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  9. 1 minute ago, immamac said:

    Not jumping to conclusions isn't defending. I'm calling people out who are just blatantly drawing conclusions with absolutely nothing to base those conclusions on. I know using your brain is hard, but you should try it some time. 

    You just being silly.  Your argument is that if you weren't there personally you can't know for sure and can't form an opinion.  It's a classic defense mechanism of a side one has chosen.  And you chose based on a one-sided emotional interview with the best in the business at manipulating narratives.

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  10. 4 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Look I'm not trying to defend meg here, but what the fuck do you know about her personal relationships with these people? This whole "she's a c list clout chaser" narrative is a really fucking weird take as a first conclusion. 

    Well, actually you are defending her, quite vigorously.  And with no more (and I'm pretty sure less because you are going off one tilted interview done by the best in the business and forming narratives) information on the whole thing than me.  Am I not allowed to formulate and offer an opinion based on what I've read about this thing ?

  11. This has been an enjoyable diversion from the typical heavier shit going on.  Very much looking forward to the RF's counter offensive.

    A couple of things, very well played by Oprah and Meghan to showcase those side by side headlines on Kate and Meghan, respectively, eating avocados when pregnant. Based on that blatant example of bias there were able to give the impression that all Meghan headlines were hogwash, and that she was sitting innocent and bored in her palace room while horrid stories were being made up about her with the RF providing implicit if not explicit support of same.  I just don't buy that.

    I also don't buy that the Queen would allow her grandson to be unprotected by security.  There is more to that story.

    Meghan invited a bunch of Hollywood A-listers to her wedding who she never met.  What does that tell you about her personality and intentions with this marriage?

     

  12. 1989 Flyin' Illini loss to Michigan in the Final Four.  They were a dominant group of 6-4 to 6-6 guys who got up and down the floor, dunked, and blew teams out.  Just a huge amount of fun to watch, and grew to love that team.  They scored 127 points of Dale Brown's Tigers and he thanked Henson for not running up the score (and wasn't being sarcastic).

    They lost 4 games in regular season because Kendall Gill broke his wrist, otherwise would have had one loss tops.  Handily beat Michigan both regular season games including blowing them out on the road the last game of the regular season.  Defeated a loaded Syracuse team in Final Eight in a war.  Final Four game was intense back and forth with 33 lead changes.  Tied with seconds left, Nick Anderson had proper position but inexplicably didn't jump for a defensive rebound and let Sean Higgins jump over him for a put-back with two seconds left.

    That one crushed me as was a big Illini fan back then, and they hadn't won a title to date nor have they since.

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  13. 5 hours ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

    Not a big fan of going for 2 until near the end of the game. Being down 8 might have contributed to the stupid fucking coach's decision to kick a field goal. Had Rogers failed on 4th. He probably figured what are the odds. Tampa would have had first down at their own 10. GB all their time outs.

    Even at 8 down, he should have gone for it.

     

    The coaches thinking was that they needed 8 and even if the get the TD there and fail the conversion, they still need a score anyway.  Terrible logic.

    • Kick the FG and you still need a TD to win.
    • Go for it and fail and you have four time outs and TB inside their own ten.
    • Go for it and get the TD and conversion, game is tied.
    • Go for it, get the TD and fail the conversion, you still need  a score to win, but it's a FG, something that can be feasibly accomplished with 30 seconds on the clock

     

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  14. 1 hour ago, HouTex said:

    I tear up every time at the end when one of the men recite the famous line from Henry V. I’m 58 and my age group (+/- 5 years) didn’t fight a major war. My great regret in life is not serving in the military.

    I'm 57 and feel the same way.  What people may not fully understand was how lowly regarded the military was when we graduated high school (just before Reagan).  The stink from Vietnam was still strong, and it was basically a last chance bastion for losers and criminals.  No one I knew even gave a thought to joining. 

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  15. 3 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    Somehow, I knew it was "Evidently Chickentown."  I posted that video upthread (possibly twice). :)

    I remember watching that scene during first airing.  Blew me away then and still does.

    Tony and Chris hugging each other with eyes wide open to close....amazing

  16. 3 hours ago, dcbc said:

    Started Season 6b in my 4th rewatch last week.  AJ is such a miserable mess at this point.  But I sure do love this show. 

    Interesting side note.  After the Monopoly "Under the Boardwalk" fight (the next day) Tony is sitting on the dock by the boat looking at the water.  A bell (presumably on the boat somewhere) rings twice.  Each time it does, the perspective changes from third person on Tony to his point of view, and then back to 3P Tony.  Had not noticed that this early in Season 6 before.

    Ok, going through my rewatch and saw this episode this morning.  Re. the fight, my man Tony was just about to take full control of things when Carmela jumped on his back.  Bobbie put a quick end to things after that.  Not sure why when Tony was fretting over the loss he was pissed about the throw rug but not that.

  17. 2 hours ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

    I'll finally break my silence in this thread to laugh at those commercials. Freaking hilarious. 

    The person taking the picture with the iPad slays me every time. 

    And the one last night duding the title game throwing the "house signs" in the trash was pretty good, too. My 13 yo had to explain the "sitting in a chair and exhaling" gag and then he pointed out that I do it all the time. Little shit. 

    My favorite is, "you woke up early...no one cares"  I've been known to whine to family and neighbors about lack of sleep and waking early

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  18. On 6/27/2020 at 4:46 PM, Mac8111 said:

    We watched it last night. I am willing to give it a B+.

    Davidson is awkward but since this is pretty much based on his real life, he gets the job done.

    There were some funny parts. There were some touching moments.


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    My thoughts as well.  He was good in this role, but it was his wheelhouse and there were plenty of times where you could see through his acting.

    That AAA baseball stadium was bad as hell.  How has no other director used that in a film?

    Re. Davidson's success with pretty women, rumor is he's packing a monster.

  19. 1 hour ago, Homercles said:

    Cant remember where I read that, maybe Biggest Brother...but pretty sure that’s the term he used there when he’s smiling at the boy.  Winters never liked that part of it. 

    Just watched that episode today.  Seen that scene a few times before and I never drew any sexual connotations from it.  They even flashback to the young German he shot as he's looking at the boy, it's obvious he reminded him of that shooting.

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