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  1. I don't know.  That was probably that moment I was talking about where I was either looking at my phone or not remembering properly.  Regardless of whether that one thing was explained, I still thought season 2 was less enjoyable overall.  I did like that they found a new angle for this season and didn't just go back to repeating the same thing as season 1.

  2. Russian Doll Season 2 recently dropped.  I really liked the first season, but season 2 was messy and convoluted.  Season 1 was also three years ago but I feel like I definitely remember them ending up in different multiverses or something where the other one didn't know about the Groundhog Day loop.  Now it seems like they started back off in season 2 where they were both familiar with each other again.  I was probably looking down at my phone and missed some important detail that explained it, or I'm just flat out misremembering how season 1 ended, but either way I wasn't super impressed with the whole thing.  

  3. The 38ish year old woman with the 27 year old Mexican dude (I wish I could remember names) annoy the shit out of me, specifically the young kid and his dopey attitude and entitlement. The second he spent his whole night whining because she didn't buy him a car he should have been shown the door. These people are so pathetic.

  4. 15 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    Not pardoning anyone remotely known to the president would be a nice restriction.

     

    In all fairness, the president barely knew Bannon.  I think he may have gotten coffee for the president a few times, but he didn't really know him.

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  5. 9 hours ago, mchookem said:

    Bob was Bill's interview on Real Time tonight! i don't think i've ever actually seen him interviewed. pretty funny. 

    he never even auditioned for BB/BCS, he never read...Gilligan just offered. that's pretty amazing!

     

    It would have been a weird flex if Gilligan forced him to come in and audition for BCS after BB.

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  6. Good for her. 

    I really don't understand how allegations of being a pedophile or grooming children is so often being shrugged off and ignored by so many.  How are people going around making accusations as disgusting as calling someone a pedophile and not getting their asses kicked for it?  At the very least sued for defamation.  Do we not have libel/defamation laws anymore in this country?  Why does it seem everyone can get away with saying anything they want these days?  Words should have consequences.

  7. 34 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    The Beatles didn’t make a bad album. Their first albums were great. Hell, Twist & Shout was on their first album Please Please Me. That’s a rock ‘n’ roll classic. Are you telling me you don’t like that song, didn’t enjoy it in the parade scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? You know the construction workers dancing along to it? Those weren’t actors. Those were actual construction workers who were dancing along during the shooting of the scene and they filmed them.

    A lot of people judge them unfavorably because they grew up in a world of music influenced by later Beatles albums. The early Beatles had influences like Elvis and the Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly and Buck Owens and a host of R&B acts. They did covers but they also synthesized and came up with something new and unique when they wrote a bunch of their own songs.

    The Stones wouldn’t exist if not for the Beatles. They were Beatles fans. They were copycats while the Beatles were around. The Beatles wrote I Wanna Be Your Man for the Stones and that inspired the Stones to start writing their own music too. (It appeared on With the Beatles, their fourth album.)

    You won’t find many artists who’ll cite the Stones as an influence and not the Beatles too. Nothing is 100% so you can’t expect everyone to love the Beatles. But they have so much diversity in their music that it’s hard to imagine that anyone who likes rock music can’t find songs in their catalog that they like. If not, then it makes me wonder if they’re just being obstinate and contrarian and only want to find individuality by not going along with the pack. (I know a guy who doesn’t like Seinfeld for that reason.) Or maybe they think I Wanna Hold Your Hand is representative of their entire catalog. Maybe they never heard Savoy Truffle or The Ballad Of John And Yoko or Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey. (What a great song title.)

    The Stones are a good band. So are The Who. So was Led Zeppelin. So was Pink Floyd who put out arguably the greatest rock album of all time without any influence from the Stones and who have influenced a lot of other artists too. The Who played Woodstock. The Stones didn’t so they answered with the disaster at Altamont. And while the Stones played a lot of great music, they also played some total crap and I haven’t met a Stones fan yet who won’t admit that.

    Beatles ftw.

     

     

    I don't disagree with any of that.  When I say the earliest albums didn't age as well I'm talking specifically about the production.  Nothing wrong with the songs themselves or Twist and Shout, I like them all, but some of the recordings or the mixing or whatever you call it sounds dated to my ears.  I still enjoy the songs, but they sound "old" whereas the later albums almost feel like they could have been recorded much more recently then the 1960s.

  8. 6 hours ago, ztejas said:

    Beatles don't age well. And I'm tired of the "they did so much for music and I really appreciate them and understand how important and influential they were BUT..."

    You mean... BUT you don't enjoy their music? I mean for me that's sort of the barometer for appreciating an artist's contribution. Guess I'm sort of sick of pretending like the Beatles are some unassailable force of popular music and rock and roll when 2 or 3 generations now have let everyone know that they were kind of overrated and didn't really generate much that still persists today. 

     

    The Beatles aged perfectly fine outside of maybe their earliest few albums.  Not sure which generations are calling them overrated either because I'm a millennial and my generation for the most part loves them.  If anything, not liking the Beatles is a contrarian opinion regardless of which generation you're in.  

    And I like the Stones.  I just like the Beatles better.

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  9. On 3/26/2022 at 8:26 PM, closetohumping said:

     

    also where is Justin long?  Dude was on a rocket ship to fame 

     

    On 3/26/2022 at 10:34 PM, closetohumping said:

    Zack Braflin?  Another star that burned out quickly 

     

    Both were good at playing awkward and nerdy, coming of age, forever trying to find themselves 20-somethings.  Have either ever proven they can play anything else now that they're in their 40's?

  10. 7 hours ago, Lobo said:

    Did he just say what I think he said, by saying what he didn't mean to say?  

    Also, did he fall to the 5th round of the draft because they found out he was borderline retarded? 

     

    I've watched it twice and can't figure out what he's trying to say.

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  11. I like both shows, but the whole BB vs BCS boils down to this for me.  I watched BB as a stand-alone show and it was as close to a perfect series as you could get.  I really enjoy BCS, but I don't know if I would have made it through the first three seasons of McGill vs McGill if I wasn't already acquainted with several of the characters and their future storylines.  BCS doesn't get 6 seasons if BB doesn't already exist.

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  12. 1 hour ago, TurkeyChew said:

    Sanders did almost 2 full years.

    Nothing is more nakedly political than the misogynistic and body shaming of a thrashing ole "Huckabeef" (as some of our finest on here liked to call her) got compared to the blind fawning and confirmation bias of how snappily smart and pert Jen Psaki is and how great at her job she is.

     

    "Huckabeef."  Good one, Chewy!  Almost forgot about that one.

     

    I think what you're missing here is that Jen Psaki is quick as a whip and cute to boot while Sanders' inner ugliness and lies only amplifies how gross she looks.

    I just don't see the misogyny in stating the facts.  If you want, I'll call Ted Cruz fat and ugly too.  Because he is.

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