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  1. I remember sitting on the floor about 2 feet away from the TV watching it for hours while my parents yelled at me to turn it off and move back from the TV.

    Fast forward to today-  me yelling at my kids to turn off their ipads and find something else to do. 

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  2. Preview spoiler- Nothing definite just something that I noticed in the previews that could spoil who goes home next week-

     

    Spoiler

    In the rear shot of them walking into the LA coliseum there were only 6 contestants- Either Karen or Le Ann are out based on body type of those in the shot..........And neither one of them were in the previews of the other challenges aside from Karen during what looked like a kid's school lunch challenge.

     

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    12 hours ago, Radical Larry said:

    Holy shit, that's a lot of food.

     

    Kevin fucked himself with trying to do to damn much. I understand what he was trying to do but the more you make the more chances the judges will be disappointed in your dish which in RW could be the deciding factor between a W and a L.

     

    11 hours ago, ss13 said:

    Damn, can’t ever talk shit about Kevin. 

     

    Respect the shit out of him. He seems like a genuinely great guy. 

     

    11 hours ago, kevwun said:

     I'm really surprised that Kevin's restaurant ended up being such a train wreck.

     

    Way too much food. Eliminate 2-4 of those dishes/sides and I think it's a hell of a lot closer. Also sucks that he couldn't find the same curry powder he used last week. Obviously that is going to have a pretty big impact on trying to recreate the dish the judges loved so much the previous week and what they were expecting. 

     

    11 hours ago, ss13 said:

    Why does it always seem like RW is a one-sided boatrace? We rarely get two close concepts with any suspense. 

     

    Agreed, it's odd. Although I don't think it was as one sided as it had been in past seasons. But pretty clear that Kevin bit off more than he could chew.

    As much as it pains me I have to give  Malarkey a lot of credit. Him talking about not letting the guest know or see the chaos going on in the kitchen is so damn true and can make or break a restaurant. It also brought back a ton of memories of when I was a restaurant manager back in the day. 

     

     

     

  4. 3 hours ago, idigTexas said:

    There may not be a need to expose a crack.  If Nat comes back, she has an idol.  If Tyson comes back, he has an idol.  If Rob comes back, he has an idol.  So if one of those three come back, they aren't immediately being voted out, crack or no crack.  Tony and Ben also have idols, which means Sarah and Denise may end up with a great opportunity to pad their resumes. 

    Also, don't sleep on Tony being Tony and turning on Sarah.  It would be very much in character for him to want to make another move and take an EoE returnee to the end to increase his chances.  I do not like Tony at all, but I do respect his game play.  If he could solve a puzzle, he would be unstoppable.   

     

     

    100%. 

    Tony annoys the shit out of me but if he is still in the final 3 he will deserve to win based on resume so far. If Tony doesn't win the challenge idol I don't know how you don't take a shot at him and hope that his ego has him go home with an idol in his pocket. 

     

     

  5. 2 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Much like you can't really blame Chris Underwood for playing the cards he was dealt, you can't blame Natalie for making the best of her situation.  But you can certainly criticize the game for allowing the situation to even come to this.  Last night really highlighted how the EOE concept is incompatible with the core concepts of Survivor, especially when compounded with fire tokens.  Yes, she has kicked ass at earning fire tokens, but that's only because she was blindsided within 48 hours of setting foot on the island.  And now, because of that, she has enough surplus to not only bond with the jury like Underwood did, but buy challenge advantages and essentially Tyson's jury vote?

    EOE as an endurance concept is flawed, but at least I get it.  There was no advantage for Reem getting voted out first, other than more time to build relationships.  But when Natalie has 3 advantages in the re-entrance challenge (plus an immunity idol) and Nick has nothing, and the only difference in their actual games was that Nick got blindsided 30+ days later than Natalie, the system is broken.

    Again, this is no fault of Natalie, but it's a shame that we are even discussing this scenario.

     

    I agree with all of this but it's what happens when the producers continue to try and find ways to tweak a show/game that has been around as long as Survivor. The problem there isn't a happy medium. 

    I hate all of the idols floating around, I think it just takes away from the core competition and social aspects of the game that makes it so interesting. What Hatch was able to do season 1 with none of the fall backs or advantages that today's players have is absolutely crazy to think about now. But that is the problem now. If they went back to the first handful of season's rules with no idols or advantages viewers would hate it. Either they don't remember how actually boring the shows were outside of the comps or were too young and never watched them. 

    I am old school less is more guy but not sure how they would be able to find that happy medium of adding interesting potential blindsides that everybody loves vs. having one alliance with all the numbers doing absolutely nothing and just picking off the other sides players week after week with no drama. 

     

  6. 12 hours ago, WBT said:

    This season has gotten kind of boring.  Why are the people on the bottom gunning for Ben for two straight votes?  No one's voting for Ben to win at the end.  And the last vote tonight everyone agreed to vote out Michelle and then shifted it to Nick?  Those two aren't winning either.  How have Tony and Sarah gotten no votes?  It's hard to see anyone but one of those two winning.  Good on them for finding good followers in Ben, Denise, and Nick but it's pretty disappointing the all winners season has shaken out this way.

     

    The first half of the season was great, it has really stalled the last few weeks if you ask me. I guess they can only do so much but watching last nights episode I would have rather watched two hours of those on Extinction then the players left in the actual game. Tony I guess is entertaining but everyone has to know (including Tony) that if he makes it to the end he is going to win in a landslide. Plus doesn't he have two idols left? 

    I am not anti Tony just didn't think a season with this cast would play out this way. 

    Really the only person left in the game that has any chance at all to beat Tony in the end is Denise. She blindsided Sandra (at the time the biggest move of the game) and is the only person other than Tony to win more than one individual immunity challenge. (Tony-3 Denise-2) 

    That said I don't think she has received the edit for someone that will make it to the end let alone win. 

    2 hours ago, Lat22 said:

    I like Natalie, but if she makes it back and wins, it’s total bullshit. 

     

    If Natalie comes back in and wins I think she would deserve it a hell of a lot more than the guy that won in the original Extinction season who literally had to do nothing for like 30 of the 39 days to win $1M. Natalie has been working her ass off at winning pretty much every advantage and "challenge" they have had on Extinction against some of the best players ever to play the game.

    She is a fucking beast. I also view what she has done as more impressive than Tony finding 20 immunity idols.  

     

  7. 8 hours ago, Go Pokes said:


    Bare ass, side boob, sex scenes that rival hard R rated movies (with the good stuff just barely out of the shot), cursing like we hadn’t really heard before. And Dennis Franz.

     

    Yeah pretty much all of this. 

  8. On 5/5/2020 at 3:06 PM, Message Board User said:

    This is what always confuses me - why the rush to break it up?  Why not try to win as many titles as possible while they still have a chance?

    On the other hand, he made some incredibly shrewd and ballsy moves as GM without which they would likely have not sniffed 6 titles, not that the viewer would know this from watching this memoir oops I mean documentary:

    • Trading for Pippen - the doc briefly mentions the "trade" (and I don't think they ever said what the Bulls had to give up to get the #5 pick, as that was glossed over) but this was flat out larceny of a Kareem and Parish/McHale and Dr J magnitude.  A huge story and win for the Bulls and Krause that went virtually unmentioned in the Pippen episode.  Instead, it was almost like "Oh and by the way Pippen was actually drafted by Seattle."  Easily one of the 5 most lopsided trades in NBA history, without which it's really unlikely MJ wins 6 titles.
    • Jettisoning Doug Collins after the ECF.  Most GMs, after an ECF appearance with a young team, would have run it back and brought the band back together and hope that natural improvement gets them over the hump, but Krause recognized that Collins (who MJ loved) wasn't going to maximize the window of opportunity and went with a first time HC.  
    • Acquiring Rodman.  At the time, Rodman was considered toxic and most teams wouldn't touch him.  But he fit perfectly for what the Bulls needed in 96-98 and Krause was right that MJ & Pippen & Phil Jackson would be able to keep him in line.
    • Kukoc.  The memoir I mean documentary derisively describes Krause as "lusting" after Kukoc as if that was a bad thing.  But Kukoc was a damn good and important player for the Bulls who would do well in today's game.  The tone that the film had in the Kukoc story was almost critical that Krause would pursue him, instead of maybe saying "for a second round pick, Krause nailed it" and the addition of Kukoc clearly improved the team.  

    I get that it's chic to dump on Krause as the short fat (which is funny to me since I know 95% of Surly users are probably short and fat but whatever) fuck who ended the dynasty.  And as I said at the top that's the one thing that has always puzzled me - they could have won at least one more title with the shortened 98-99 season that would have played to an aging team's strength.

    But looking at it objectively Krause's moves above were incredibly high-risk but came up aces and as much as MJ wouldn't want to admit it was a huge part of winning 6 titles.  As for Pippen's contract situation, Reinsdorf made it clear in the film that he under no circumstances would renegotiate, so not sure if the bitterness is the fault of Reinsdorf or Krause (or Pippen for that matter, who Reinsdorf cautioned against signing a long-term deal).

     

     

    I can't remember where I saw the article but it was from one of the Chicago media circles. 

    It basically said that Krause didn't get the credit he deserved for what he did and also wanted more credit then what he deserved. 

    So he did a great job and also was a jock sniffing asshat that didn't realize without MJ his moves meant shit. 

     

     

  9. 5 minutes ago, 4thgenhorn said:

    I’ve never tried the food and have a freezer full of beef. Just seems like a high growth space...and it feels like I’m back at the craps table, which is always nice. 
     

    im sure in time they’ll make foods that don’t kill u as much, and are better for green house gasses. 

     

    100%. I wasn't talking this thread specific as eating that shit and making coin investing in said company are two totally different things. I was more talking about the annoying friends that say it tastes the same or is better for you but don't realize they are eating 3 times the amount of salt they would if they had a real hamburger. 

     

  10. On 4/29/2020 at 11:28 PM, utxmike05 said:

    Nobody has a good strategy in this game. Jay had a good point...what if he wins 4 skulls...that’s less opportunities for others to get one down the road as time runs out.

    Vets = right to use excuse “welcome to the challenge” is fuking annoying.

    Last season everyone cried when they got their name called to go in. Now they HAVE to go in to make a final and they still keep delaying and acting scared. The earlier you go in the lesser competition you will face.

    TJ calling everyone out is great. He gets as annoyed as viewers.


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    Most of TJ "calling them out" was a voice over. But it was still awesome especially him dragging Shaggy C

    I would love for the Producers to just fuck over this lay in the weeds game play. 

    It would never happen but would be so awesome if with like 12-18 people left they were just like "welp, that's it if you don't have a skull you are going home right now." even if there were only a couple of people on the men's and women's side that had them. 

    I like that they can't run the final without going to an elimination challenge but make those that qualify exempt from the vote for a couple weeks or something like that to get more people to nut up and actually do something instead of just talking shit 24/7. 

  11. Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I'm not one for ooh-ing or aw-ing about most things but the ability and balls to fly in close formation is bad ass.  And I think of these flyovers as much more impressive than they tricks at air shows. The air show performances are awesome but I assume very well choreographed with timing.  These fly-overs are unique flight paths over extended  periods of time.

     

    My favorite part of that video is the pilot's looking to the right and left like they are checking their side mirrors before attempting a lane change going 25 MPH. It's fucking insane. 

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  12. 5 hours ago, Dilligas said:

    Finally canceled DirectTV today after contemplating it for a couple years. Customer service rep congratulated me on being with them 7 years and of course tried to get me to stay. I was a couple whiskeys in so it was easy to cut him off and do the deed. Took about 5 minutes.

    Monthly bill was around $206.

    Thinking about streaming YouTube TV, already watch a lot of Prime and Netflix.

    Damn I feel free!

     

     

    That is right around where our bill was last year when I finally jumped ship. 

    YoutubeTV, Hulu, HBO Go and Disney (for the kids) we already had Netflix and Prime. 

    Still use my parents DirecTV log in for MTV reality shows but saving over $100 a month and don't miss dealing with DirecTV at all. 

  13. Just now, RomaVicta said:

    So, death panels, anyone? 

    Maybe if we made moves to change the national diet by controlling advertising for unhealthy foods (of which you clearly disapprove) and not subsidizing unhealthy foods we could return to the way America looked 35 years ago.

    Maybe don't raise kids on melted cheese and movie-promoted crap food.

    Or maybe just pretend we're perfectly healthy and derogate those who are not.

    If they die, they die. I'm very tough. What shit.

     

    Derp. 

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  14.  

    8 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    How is it relevant? Or better, how is that information mitigating?

     

    5 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Maybe a giant wake-up call to all the jelly-bellies out there freebasing twinkies and mashed 'taters and sucking down gallons of sugar water.  

     

    Ding, Ding, Ding. Maybe mix in a fucking salad and go for a walk every now and again because guess what- it isn't bullshit it will probably save your life. 

     

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  15. 7 minutes ago, BevoSwag said:

    Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that of the 37,000 who died in the U.S. with Covid-19 between Feb. 1 and April 25, 31% were over 85. But 40%, or 14,600 people, were between 45 and 75 years old, and could have expected to live many more years. Total deaths linked to the virus in the U.S. passed 64,000 on Friday.

    Most of the responses to the article stated this was BS

    I understand actuarial science, in general, but I am skeptical of a metric that says someone 50-59 with severe health problems will live an average of 21+ year more--which is only 6 years less than an average person. This is a characterization of "severe" that is unfamiliar to me.

     

    Yeah most studies out there show 80%-90% (in some states 100%) of people dying had other underlying health conditions. I am not saying it should be an all clear but whenever things finally do clear up and studies are done I think it's really going to show that a overwhelming number of people that die had other health issues whether heart disease, hypertension, obesity, etc. Again not saying that is a reason to not worry about it but it will be interesting.  

  16. On 5/1/2020 at 6:59 PM, Deej said:

    I still think Gail would be much more fun in the sack. 

     

    And maybe it was just me but I swear they zoomed into her low cut top to show off the girls at least half a dozen times during the episode. 

  17. Just now, Hate said:


    I think it’s pretty clear that he was absolutely burned out and tired of it all. The “gambling suspension” has been debunked over and over, but people are going to believe what they want to believe. There were more than one clips from videos during that 93 season were Jordan clearly says that he might retire because he was tired of the scrutiny and constant criticism. Of course, he could have just stayed out of the public eye rather than playing baseball, but that guy can’t turn that need for competition off. You can see it just by how badly he wanted to win that game with the security guards. As long as he was awake, he was competing at something. It’s insane just how competitive he was. I’ve never seen anything like it even though we were always told by the people close to him that he was like that. To actually be able to see it in these old recordings is amazing.

     

    It's pretty rare that a guy that is clearly "the best" has that big of a chip on their shoulder after winning as much as he did. Give anybody in life the drive he had and they could do anything they wanted. As far as him being an asshole and his HOF speech being me, me me- Well no shit, that's what made him who he is. 

    Throw in the fact that most (all) of his teammates and the greats of that time (Kobe too) all either liked him, respected him or hung out with him says all you need to know about him. As the episode talked about last night is people want to find that crack to dig at. I get the gambling stories are eye openers for people but the whole side trip to Atlantic City story line was nothing more than New York tabloid bullshit to sell papers. 

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  18. 29 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    I don't think we have a thread for it so I'm putting this here. I just finished plowing through The Americans. Wow, great show. So, 

     

      Reveal hidden contents

    Stan Beeman's wife. Russian spy or no?

     

     

    There is a thread somewhere when it originally ran on Fx.- As for your question- I say No. 

  19. 1 hour ago, Elvis said:

    Being on the placebo would piss me right off.

     

    There is a reason why they have to use them in trials. Because they fucking work. 

    I am not making light of anybody's illness, mindset or ability to handle things but it does say a lot about people that are magically cured when given a water pill. 

    The power of positive thinking and why I try to avoid the "world is ending" segment of our population. 

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