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Chad Fuck

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  1. "exhausts" It's a bi-lingual joke.
  2. Agree with this take. It’s been a long long while since I’ve dealt with what is essentially a personal bk masking as a corporate bk. I will say there is a tremendous amount of scrutiny on the SDTX BK court right now. So this judge is going to be very deliberate (slow) in processing this case. It will draw the kind of attention the Judges there don’t want. SDTX already has a rep of being friendly to debtors - too friendly in a lot of people’s eyes. Bad publicity from this could cause problems. I know the law shouldn’t be influenced this way, but bk courts are particularly sensitive to it for myriad reasons.
  3. Putin, Lil Kim, some variation thereof. It is known. What’s still baffling is the not insignificant number of Americans who are cool with that.
  4. Im surprised this hasn’t happened already.
  5. It should definitely be entertaining.
  6. Man, I thought this thread was morphing into a "hot Venezolanas" thing. Now we're back to poo flinging guerrilla monkeys? I haz disappoint.
  7. Hmm, going after the religion that isn't of the dominant power. Nothing to see here. Those Catholics aren't "real" Christians anyhow, are they?
  8. This may've been posted already, but the view from the other side of the hill. The last sequence is pretty dramatic.
  9. Old 666 is a great tale and they have their own panel at the NMUSAF, and rightly so. That said, there's not a whole lot about the actual maneuvering here but to say that the pilot banked the plane hard/steeply to give his rear gunners a shot at the attackers. What does that mean? 30 degree bank angle? 45? 60? Who knows. I will watch it again, as I started again at Ep 1 last night. I have no doubt Rosenthal flew the shit out of the airplane. Zero. None. But a "violent maneuver" in a B-17 may look drastically different than a "violent maneuver" in a P-51 or Me 109. Further, I am not expressing doubt that the veterans are telling the truth about what they perceived. I have interviewed literally hundreds of vets for my work. They are people like any other people, and they may be unaware of certain facts, they may embellish, come to change their minds or believe embellishments. I'm not saying that they're lying or that we shouldn't believe them. I'm saying that reality may be slightly different from what they perceive. For example, I had a Sunday school teacher shot down in a B-24 over Wewak. Every Japanese plane as a "Zero" to him, and he insisted his plane was shot down by a Zero. Turns out, reserach showed that there were no Navy aircraft (the Zero is a Navy aircraft) at Wewak at the time he was shot down. He was most likely shot down by a Ki 43 Oscar (an Army aircraft). Maybe the research was wrong, maybe he misidentified in the heat of the moment. Bottom line, I am not doubting that an extraordinary bit of flying occurred as described in the episode. However, I remain skeptical that the "violent maneuvers" which Rosie undertook look in real life like it did with the CGI on the television.
  10. One of the singers in my Dad's band had an Ovation Adamas. It was their top of the line back in the late 70s. It was a fine guitar, as long as you were standing up.
  11. Very hard to sit down and play. They go wandering off your lap. In other news, I had a red letter date yesterday. Chad Jr. has been taking piano lessons for a long while. Way back during covid, he got interested in guitar and we tried to do the Fender lessons together, but he got frustrated, then I got frustrated and didn't handle it so well. So I just left it alone hoping I hadn't fucked it up for life. Last night we had made a deal to practice together (he on piano, me on guitar) and after about an hour of that, he asked me to show him some basics on guitar. You could have knocked me over with a feather. One of my great dad moments showing him how a C on the guitar was just like a C on the piano. Thought I'd share that will y'all.
  12. Pups and knob numbers don’t match up.
  13. All of this. Couldn’t have said it better. Mike Love is the reason why The Beach Boys stopped progressing and became a novelty/nostalgia act.* *Also Brian losing it a bit maybe contributed.
  14. So sad to hear about this. He has brought so much joy to so many for so long. I hope his passing is as peaceful as possible.
  15. And another perfect song this morning. It may be worthy of another thread, but how many songs are there out there with this literary tone? Most break up songs are "f you I'm leaving or becuase you're leaving". There's always an undercurrent of bitterness or animosity. The opposite is true here. It might be worthy of a whole other thread topic. Or, it might just be a very short thread. I'm not sure whether Ray or Jamey did it better. You be the judge. Or maybe you like Elvis's version, or Al Green's, or...
  16. I never get tired of listening to this. It is a perfect arrangement of a perfect song. The subtlety of the kiss-off in music and verse is absolutely stunning. And in this case the band is so tight behind him, but allows Willie to do his Willie thing and jazz it up a bit. I know I've posted this half a dozen times in various places here it's like a musical deconstructed hamburger. In any case, here it is again because it fits here.
  17. My uncle had a similar deal with my aunt while he was in Vietnam. I asked her about it later, after he’d passed. After getting over the shock of me asking, she said she didn’t begrudge him much when every day held the specter of death. People have needs. I didn’t ask her what it was like being alone stateside with three kids wondering if your husband would make it back. She’s gone now too. Perspective. She had it.
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