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  1. On a personal note, does Durant have much of a life outside of basketball? He clearly loves the game seemingly more than some of his fellow elite level players. But does he do anything? Collect cars? Have a main chick? Hands on investment in businesses and non-profits? Seems like he's either playing ball or acting like a bitch on TV or social media. Comes across as kind of a lost soul. 

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  2. Agreed. Everyone said Episode 3 was the best episode but it got rather slow. The Yakuza stuff is just standard, Hollywood Yakuza. At least they pronounce the word ‘yakuza’ correctly….something Hollywood routinely screws up. 
     

    Less of the hostess girl and more of Watanabe. 

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  3. I'm two episodes in and totally digging it. I'm surprised though there's no love interest. Any good looking gaijin with blonde hair and that fluent in Nihongo is getting laid. 

    I know several guys that worked with Adelstein at the Yomiuri but they were at the English paper. Looking forward to them watching it to get their takes. 

    One thing about the Yakuza, I always found them to be kind of comical. Definitely not in the same category as the Russian mob. 

    First Japanese girl I ever dated was the daughter of a Yakuza member. We dated for 4 years. Great chick, still keep in touch. Anyway, her dad ran a red-light district somewhere around Asakusa. She didn't care for her father at all. When she was a kid, he fell in love with one of his prostitutes. She recalls going to Ueno Park one day with her dad and some strange woman. He eventually left them for this chick. He was arrested a few years later and she testified in court against her dad at age 11. She only saw him sparingly after getting released. 

    A few months after we started dating, she told me I had to have a sit down dinner with both of her divorced parents at the apartment. It's unusual to meet Japanese parents when you're only casually dating. He definitely wanted to meet this gaijin dating his daughter. Definitely a memorable dinner. He wasn't impressed. 

    I worked briefly at a small English school in Asakusa, pretty heavy Yak area. All of our Japanese staff were women. One day, a couple of Yakuza fellas came in wanting to speak to the manager. They were put in one of the classrooms until the manager finally came in and introduced herself. They repeated their request to speak to the manager but she replied that she was in fact the manager. They told her that they didn't do business with women and that they would return later to speak to a man. A few days later, they came back to find the same manager and - again - said they would return to talk to a man. They never came back. Weird.  

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  4. 17 hours ago, 'stache said:

    My inlaws live in NW OKC and we almost never go downtown. It's so far away it might as well be Frisco. OKC is way too big, everyone drives 45 minutes or more to get wherever they are going. I hate going there. The new stuff along Kilpatrick Turnpike is fine. Not my favorite, but at least Roughtail is up there now.

    Boomtown is a great read. 

    Yeah, I mainly just go downtown for Thunder basketball and the Bricktown Comedy Club. They pull in pretty solid acts. Margaret Cho, Kevin Nealon, Dave Attell, etc. Great addition to that area. 

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  5. On 3/31/2022 at 3:06 PM, 406W30th said:

    Going to be in OKC in a couple weeks, stopping for a day and a half w/ the family on our drive home from Texas. Itinerary is shaping up but I'd love to hear thoughts/suggestions from people more familiar than me. We've got two young kids and will be traveling with our dog, so that has an impact on things.

    Day 1

    - arrive in OKC mid/late afternoon

    - Scissortail Park so the dog can stretch her legs, kids can play on the playground

    - happy hour/early dinner at Social Capital 

     - hopefully put the kids to bed and grab a few pints at Prairie

    Day 2

    - Either Factory Obscura, an immersive art experience that looks fun for the kids

    - Or First Americans Museum, which finally opened last year and is supposed to be fantastic

     - lunch at Riviere Modern Banh Mi

    - Skydance Brewery, a Native-owned craft brewery that's supposed to be pretty good

    - dinner at Ludivine

    Day 3

     - breakfast at ?

     - head home

     

    Holy crap. I live in Oklahoma City and I haven't done any of that stuff (aside from the park). Let us know how it goes. 

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  6. Was at the game. I swear there was a ten-minute span in the second period where the Isles were stuck on 8 shots. Could not get one legit shot on goal. Two-minute power play....no shot on net.....gave up a short-hander. Ridiculous. 

    How that team won four games in row is a mystery. 

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  7. I actually saw that MASH episode with the rape statement this evening. Interesting timing. 

    I'm on a Slap Shot group on Facebook. Pretty funny private group which obviously celebrates the greatness of the Paul Newman classic. 

    Most of the posts initiate loads of quotes from the movie. However, directly quoting several lines from the film have actually gotten a few members suspended for 30 days. 

    Clearly some of that script would get edited out in the modern day. 

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  8. Interesting take. I thought the ending was pretty much the entire movie in a nutshell. It spoke volumes. Here's my take....

    At the end of the film, the daughter is sitting on the porch and says (and I'm paraphrasing) "Man, Oklahoma looks exactly the same as it always did. Nothing has changed'. The camera does a tight shot of Damon and he responds 'No, it looks very different to me'. 

    The movie was really about taking this white guy from Oklahoma out of his comfort zone and then seeing that change he encounters along the way. 

    If you remember the day the daughter got a day pass from prison and spends the day at the flat, the French woman asks why she came to France. The daughter responds by saying she pretty much just wanted to get out of Oklahoma, as far as she could go. That seems logical considering she's young, a lesbian and most likely on the liberal/more adventurous side. She probably is not particularly keen on her conservative hometown and finds it pretty much the same despite being gone 6 + years. 

    Matt Damon, however, is the complete opposite. He's a 100% Oklahoma guy, football fan, construction/oil rig worker, high school dropout with a criminal past. He most likely would have never visited France had his daughter not been there. He was totally out of his element and it forced him to reexamine certain aspects of his life. 

    For example, one thing I noticed is that he was working construction in France. How did he get that job? Remember when the man was looking at photographs and said the French were having the same issues with Africans that the Americans were having with Mexicans? And the French woman refused to continue because he was racist? Damon didn't care because 'I work with guys like that back in Oklahoma'. 

    Now what's interesting is that a few months later, Damon has the labor job. There's no way he had a proper working visa. He didn't have an EU passport, he wasn't married and he had a record. Very little chance he would get legal paperwork for a construction job. So now HE'S the Mexican......doesn't speak the language, is working a low paying gig, and is doing so under the table. This is one way he is forced to reexamine the world around him. 

    I don't know, I thought the film was pretty deep. Matt Damon nailed the role. 

     

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  9. 7 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    This is a completely ridiculous take.  When they're good, they sell out most every game.  They're openly tanking right now.  There are plenty of cities that can't or don't support their pro sports teams but Okie City ain't it.  They're actually middle of the road this year in local TV ratings and that's with a shit team and yes, I've been to about as many games as you have.

    College football teams took about the same political stances as the Thunder and OU football is sold out every game.

    We heard all about how these same people would never watch another NFL game ever and you know what that did this year?  They watched NFL games.

    Have you looked around the arena lately? Christ, it's like a Tulsa Oilers home game in there. The Golden State crowd was great (lots of kids cheering for Curry) but the following game against Toronto was abysmal. You'd think there was 4 feet of snow outside. 

    You should really visit with some regular folks in Oklahoma City. It's like a cult when it comes to conservative political allegiance. I know at least a dozen families that have cancelled season tickets due to politics. Bizarro world. 

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  10. I've hit about 9 Thunder home games this season and the attendance has been horrendous. I'm not exaggerating when I say there are nights where we only have 6 or 7,000 in the seats. You can pay $10 for a ticket on stubhub and sit pretty much anywhere. 

    I've noticed the three things that have impacted the attendance: rebuild, organization's support of BLM, and the earlier requirement to have vaccines and masks at games. 

    The vast number of politically conservative people in this community that openly want this organization to fail and/or relocate and leave Oklahoma City is pretty astounding. I hear it quite a bit from the 'Go Woke/Go Broke' crowd. They actually want the NBA to leave town. 

    Do you think behind closed doors that the NBA is regretting putting a team in Oklahoma City? I don't think you'd be seeing these politically related issues in Seattle.  

     

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