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Posts posted by henrygandorf
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4 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
GLP-1 also looks to have similar benefits for alcohol, drug and gambling addictions.
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2 minutes ago, Red Five said:
It is, right? Even as a kid I was like "Damn this is actually really fucking good. Charles Grodin is amazing."
you're thinking of the great muppet caper. understandable, as that movie is also strong.
but the muppets take manhattan is a musical and it is fucking awesome. the songs have good hooks.
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11 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:
good to see she got a new job. it's rough out there.
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15 minutes ago, aggie08 said:
Yes, I'm telling you that actual election results are what carry weight. Because duh. Yes, it's a small step. No, it doesn't guarantee anything in a year's time. Yes, it's going to be a long fucking 3 years regardless. (Who is suggesting differently to any of those statements, by the way?). But to play it off as insignificant--ass-kickings across the board, a hard shift left virtually everywhere, all with record turnouts--is pretty naive and bitchy. You don't have to live your life with cunt mode fully engaged at all times, man.
you shush. everything is fine.
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50 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:
There’s dumb. There’s really dumb. And then, well below even that low bar, there’s baseball player dumb.
there's baseball player dumb, then there's relief pitcher dumb, then there's what goes on in the mind of a closer. that's a deep, dark, place.
someone should encourage rocker to run for senate.
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20 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
Chauvinism and misogyny?
But, more realistically, perhaps, I think she was intended to represent the underutilized housewife whose dreams and aspirations were crushed by domesticity. The topic of Mother's Little Helper. Why they had her express that as bitchiness is a good question.
To some extent, it postpones the viewer's candid assessment of Don, so he's not unlikeable from jump.
i like betty's character and her storylines are crucial the first time (or 3) that you go through the series. but yeah, when i rewatch, i want office shit. and when i say i like her character, i mean i like how it's written and played. you're not supposed to 'like' or 'admire' betty draper. she's an instrument. she's a reflection. she shows us who don is and to a certain extent, who roger is.
what i really like in her character arc from s2-s3 is that she knows she's mad but doesn't really know why. she wants to be mad because she's quite positive don is cheating on her, but cannot prove it (finds only slogans on cocktail napkins in his pockets). that said, she's certain don is "hiding things from her" and she has that suspicion confirmed when she finds out he has a secret past/alternate identity/name/family, culminating in the gypsy and the hobo kitchen scene, which should've yielded every emmy imaginable.
it's where she is able to turn off the snark "oh i know, you're a very gifted storyteller" to some real empathy "i always assumed you were a football hero who hated his father" and "i knew you were poor, i've seen how you are with money, you don't understand it." we also see this in the scenes with her family, notably her brother, played by the incomparable eric ladin. i actually really like the hofstadt storylines throughout s2 and s3 and could've managed more of it, but obviously s4 went away from all things betty.
if i really put my women's empowerment hat on, i could even say that her s3-s4 arc is equally impressive, because it shows how strong and brave she was to want to get away from a destructive situation and actually act on it, whereas most women of the time would've stayed in an unhappy marriage because of 3 small children and all the money she could ask for. it's when she leaves to be with henry that we get a different pov on the whole thing. he will do anything to be with her - his character (underrated) always reminded me of sterling. a bit older, wiser, and willing to call a brat a brat. but like roger, he wanted what he wanted when he wanted it, and it didn't end well.
don writes her a letter basically saying that if they split up, she'll move on and find someone, but he'll be alone forever. even if he meant that metaphorically (he had to), we know what he really means and how he really feels. don, surrounded by people, is forever alone. always on the verge of panic and running away, not caring what he leaves in his wake.
one of my favorite story turns is how it doesn't take long for henry to tire of betty's shit, and that's the real moment that we know - she's the problem. betty is going to betty. she's incredibly consistent. her mother was a bitch and passed it on. her dad was a hardass who didn't make things better. everything wrong with sally is wrong because of betty.
don, in comparison, is surprisingly empathetic and thoughtful, which is why he's such a piece of talent in the advertising space. don has the ability to achieve perfection, because donald draper is an entirely fabricated individual. and if you were going to invent someone, you'd invent someone with minimal flaws. he had a traumatic childhood, upbringing, young-adulthood. but it never happened. it will shock you how much it never happened.
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i mean, don't skip the betty scenes the first time you're watching it, obviously. maybe not even on a years-later rewatch. but once you're completely familiar, yeah, put them shits in the rearview asap.
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9 hours ago, Red Five said:
Mike Johnson’s superpower is being without shame. He will simply answer “I don’t know anything about that” until reporters stop asking him about it-
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1 hour ago, Parliament said:
Not sure why all the hate. Glen, otoh... I hope he died in Vietnam.
i assumed friendly fire incident. unreported.
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5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
I think liquor choices back then were rather prosaic.
it was whatever they had in the storeroom, and often based on who their clients were.
when my wife opened her office, she wanted a rolly bar and asked me to set it up to "look good and match", clearly not to use. i stocked it with bombay gin, stoli, and blanton's. it looks good, gets compliments all the time, and not a drop has been touched in 5+ years.
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16 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:
Canadian Club was Don’s office sipper right? Always kind of irked me. I wonder if it’s a homage to an Weiner alcoholic uncle or something?
yeah, he drank cc, both home and office i believe. "why is this empty?" "because you drank it all."
roger liked stoli. bert didn't drink very often, but when he did he liked brandy.
i think pete and peggy kinda drank what others poured them, but i wanna say gin was in the mix. and i think lane drank gin.
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6 minutes ago, Helobious said:
Haven’t seen it but I just read a Wikipedia summary. Sounded boring but movies aren’t made to be experienced that way in fairness.
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44 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
I would kill for Anson Mount’s hair. I mean, sure I’d be in prison, but that hair, at his age.
in prison you don’t need good hair to get laid.
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On 8/8/2025 at 9:33 AM, BigOrange1 said:
i almost included the second half of season 3 - the final three episodes are all outstanding and yes, most of the season is fantastic. i just thought it started a bit slow (betty's dad storyline, betty giving birth storyline) compared to seasons 4 & 5. it's really just picking nits not including it.
"the fog" gets a bad rap, but take away the 8-10 min of childbirth (+sopranos-style day-dreams) and it's an excellent episode.
it has a dramatic peggy scene when she first asks for a raise. it has the admiral television sequence, starting with a perfect scene in pete's office. and it has one of roger's best lines, right after they throttle pete post-admiral-pitch, when lane asks, "are we done with the flogging?" and sterling responds, "it's never as good as you think it's gonna be."
when i do my rewatches, i ff thru scenes and characters i don't care about (like betty, giving birth, and some of grandpa gene), so s3 is fairly unblemished in my eyes. so much of scdp is about the solvency of the agency, it makes you miss the golden age of sterling-coo.
i'm still convinced they could've done an entire season that took place in between the s3 finale and the s4 premiere.
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2 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
That thread is so fucked it's got me agreeing with a post 52-80 made.
something something overton window.
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was this my favorite season?
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i don't have kids and not super excited about climate change. wait.
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25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
They're never getting released, dude.
they're 100% getting released.
he just won't be mentioned in them at all.
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when i was a boy, there was a mansion on the river i used to paddle by in my johnboat. the twinkling lights, violins, girls giggling about something.
it’s different inside.
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keep his schedule tight and busy, more long plane rides, more complicated foreign food, more jetlag. keep doubting his health and endurance, and he'll keep trying to be superman.
encourage him to run for a 3rd term by asking him unchallenged questions and musing about how airtight the constitution really is.
if we do this right, then by 2027-2028, he'll be so fucking deranged, that either (a) enough people will wake up and say "yeah, i don't want this" or (b) he somehow gets re-elected and that's the only thing that could actually crash this geopolitical jenga/risk mash-up board game. maybe some mousetrap too.
if vance/rubio run and win (fair or otherwise) we are turbo-fucked for a generation. trump needs to be encouraged to run again. this is the only way out. shawshank style.
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