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  1. Good episode to set this thing up and finish it off. Wrap it up nicely next week and let’s call it a successful 3 season series that came out of nowhere to beat expectations and be a good little series. Everyone involved with the show should be proud.

  2. 9 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

    Interesting prediction from Scott Galloway on the strike. I don't agree with him much on this. I think there is a very big difference between coal miners and writers. He's had some other opinions on this, but they are of a similar vein. 

     

     

    Scott Galloway, like Jim Cramer, is someone who generally is wrong to such a degree that you can expect the opposite of what they are saying to come to reality. Ijs 

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  3. Just now, TriStone said:

    He's getting off.  Don't you want to get off with him?  Just follow his lead and we can all get off together.

    THAT IS A GETTING OFF FACE?

    Oh man. I need to get out more.

  4. 6 minutes ago, Celery Man said:


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    This is the second time you've used this gif and I'm confused by it. Is it denoting a positive or negative reaction? It seems like a "do no want" type response but doesn't make sense in the context. Why do you like it? Because it is vague?

  5. I don't know how you people have the time to watch every acclaimed or talked about show, between families and careers and other hobbies, as I can only handle about 3 or 4 shows in the offseason. 

    I'm so glad that I happened to stumble upon Barry a few years ago and made it in the regular rotation because, much like JoJo Rabbit did as a movie, this show came out of nowhere and unexpectedly walloped me in the face and became my favorite show and series of the last decade.

    Succession is cool and Ted Lasso is mid, but Barry...now Barry is S-tier.

  6. 1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

    Hey, maybe that anchor host job may still pan out.  You don't know!  

    I know it's a show but in real life, it's funny to me when I know or hear about a younger woman who was having an affair with an older man for money/fame.  And in the end, she gets nothing.  I've known a half-dozen women like that.  And read about dozens more.  It's not funny to me because they get nothing after sucking on old dick for a few years.  As long as it was consensual, I don't care.  It's funny because they don't realize during, or even after, that was part of the turn on for the guy.  It wasn't just the young ass, it was the plot to kick you to the curb down the road with nothing to show for it.  That's part of the eroticism for the man, knowing he holds all the cards including the ending one.  I suspect for Logan most of all.  

    Which I think ties into some above comments.  Logan will throw one more monkey wrench into this with his Will.  No way a guy like that goes out with a single page letter in a safe and a video montage.  He's gonna fuck with his family, with Matsson, and America one last time.  I'm stoked.  But also saddened that it's over.  This started out as a bridge filler in the summer of 2018.  We grew to love and crave it during Covid seasons 1 & 2.  And now it's just a masterclass in satire.  

    Though they are mostly attractive and young and well paid, I almost feel bad for this cast.   They will never be this good again.   Except Sandy, but that's just how his face looks.    

    True, but the narcissist who would want to get with an old man for clout, money or fame (or all the above) generally is delusional enough to be making a bet on themselves. That they can make the old man fall in love and be irrational with his money and affairs and do something stupid like split with half his dough.

    I mean, I just read today that Bezos is YET AGAIN getting marriedm this time to his gf of 5 years Mrs. Senorita lady I forgot her name. She bet on herself and she won. The guy has a $500mm yacht with a sculpted mermaid on the front to look like her. I mean...just because you are uber-wealthy doesn't mean you aren't a simp, I guess, and these women outchea.

    Lucky for me I'll never be wealthy or attractive enough to have those struggles or single again, Lord willing.

  7. The funniest part of that whole sequence was a dirty from head to toe Hank leaving the old ladies house and the way he thanked for her for letting him use the phone implying he really got it on with the old lady and was chewing the fat on her plastic covered couch for some time, and his disgust once out of immediate sight for the full-bodied coca-cola.

  8. 1 hour ago, yoladu said:

    When it was mentioned that Logan grinds (ground) his teeth at night, the 4 women all kind of acknowledged it, especially Kerry as she broke into tears. That was a great moment.

    And to the poster who pointed out that Kerry actually lost the most, it dawned on me the others at least got a pound of flesh in material/wealth/money for their trouble whereas Kerry likely got nothing. Mentioning she brought a lawyer friend to try and haggle to even get in the funeral was telling.

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  9. 10 minutes ago, Texas St. Armadillos said:

    Had a dream last night.  Kendall gives Rava a gun to protect herself.  Something awful happens to the kids in front of her and Kendall.  While immediately in shock and grief,  she blames Kendall for creating this, pulls the gun on him, and then she is immediately shot by Colin.  Kendall is left alone getting the CEO role at the cost of his family's lives.

    And then the outro music plays over the he credits

    🎶 I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day 🎶

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  10. 3 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    Also, these people don't really fucking care.  They will go back to Bud Light at some point.  Even their outrage isn't really lasting or in good faith.

    Yes. It's the same people who were mad that their favorite syrup got woke-ified but now happily drink Pearl Milling Company Syrup on their powdered mix pancakes.

  11. 1 hour ago, Lurch said:

    That was a great scene.  Random, but perfectly played imo.  I have no idea what the guy said in Spanish but it worked so well with no further explanation.  And the way Root plays it straight just kills me

    I'm sure I've probably posted this a dozen times on Shaggy/Surly, but Root's straight-man masterpiece has to be Super Karate Monkey Death Car.  Brilliant!

     

    Is that Ron Jeremy in the audience?

    "The Raven"'s turn has been fun this season. From when it dawned on him after getting the crap beat out of him and not saying anything everyone respected him to when he was released, you could envision the 8 years of working out and tattoos.

  12. It's a weird feeling, but I don't think the penultimate episode was that great tbh. Leading into the series finale, I'm not all that invested or care too much for what happens, more morbidly curious. Like I want to see the end of the train wreck.

    To be honest, one of the weaker episodes of the season. I guess it was cool seeing Kendall build his team and Hugo woof woofing. Maybe I just miss the nasaly "Greyag!" from our favorite Minnesotan. 

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  13. 40 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    I thought Ewan’s eulogy was one of the best I’ve ever seen. Brutally honest while being infinitely fair. Hard to do. Cromwell is a master actor and he finally had his big moment. 
     

    Rupert Murdoch’s reaction video to the Succession eulogy would get more viewers than the Super Bowl. 

    I agree-- thought the eulogy was fantastic writing. Shiv's sucked, Kendall's was B+ with special bonus for having to go mop up Roman's puddles and mess.

    In the game of succession thrones, Roman died in this episode. He's officially out and I think that's why he lashed out like a mentally ill maniac at the protestors. Better that than kill someone or himself, I guess.

     

     

  14. On 5/15/2023 at 9:19 AM, HamsterHookah said:

     

    My bet is Roman being the unlikely heir apparent and winner of the succession of thrones. We see his turn this season, he's firing people, he's getting a taste of pure power, and this week he was the most focused and clear on execution (and correct, in pursuit and to keep power).

    The teaser next week shows him breaking out of the shell as the showman and charismatic face.

    My bet is Roman is the Michael Corleone of the Roy family and we will see an ending that solidifies Roman's turn to baby Logan and the last episode will leave us with the assurance that the cutthroat empire is in good hands.

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  15. 12 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Please. They drink White Claw. 
     

     

    Exactly. They had a model miss (you always do!) and now they are worse off than square one. 

    Here's the thing - beer and CPG companies have always done this - delivered narrowcasted marketing to emerging markets, including to the LGBTQ+ worlds, going back years. What they missed was that partisan media would arbitrarily choose this one, this time, and make it a symbol in their culture war. 

    So now I guess the play is to retrench (e.g. football games and country music commercials referenced above) and tread water until the world forgets about this and then they can try to pivot another way?

    The bottom line is they have to do something to grow and their target demo is dying on the vine and progressives/liberals/trans and young people don't want to drink bud light, for all the potshots you can read even on this thread about it being pee water and poor people beer, even before this controversy.

    The only time the youth ever drink Bud Light it seems is when it is a) free and b) in college years

  16. 15 minutes ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

    They sell shitty beer to racists and homophobes.  They should have known that adding diversity into their advertising wouldn't have actually added any new customers but would lose so of their old customers.  As long as they make shitty beer, they won't be increasing their sales to younger generations who actually want something that tastes good.  They should have continued their ads using attractive women and "manliness" airing right after ads for boner pills so that they could keep their customer base--fat, racists, homophobic, impotent cucks with no taste.  

    But that's the problem. It's a dying business if you aren't trying to break into emerging markets, like the youth and the progressive and the LGBTQ, etc.

    They know that at an executive level and so they brought in some change agent-y folks to make some waves and pivots and take some risks. They definitely modeled the risks out but I am guessing the risks and backlash was greater than any model could have projected. They effectively fired and threw the folks under the bus who they hired to do this exact job.

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  17. 2 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

    The whole thing seems like dream sequence/hallucination (it has a very Mulholland Drive feel).  I thought it was Barry's, but now I'm thinking it may be Sally's.  The scene last week with the masked man/men and the wall being torn away were very dream like. I'm not sure when it began.  Last season?  After Barry comes back to her apartment after the prison break?

    Yea, it's certainly something going on.

    I love how the narcissism is such a disease that Couseneau can't help himself. He wants so much to be a good guy but he's so diseased with it that as soon as they start talking about big names he can't help himself with the tipping point being the Four Season in BH lololol.

    Also, Sally Reed actress is killing it this season. 

  18. The hits keep coming when you take a big bet to broaden your TAM and it backfires and you not only don't gain any new marketshare but you anger your core demographic:

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    Bud Light's partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and its dissolution is still experiencing backlash, The Wall Street Journal reports. In early May, U.S. sales volume went down more than 28% compared to the same time last year, according to consulting company Bump Williams' Nielsen data analysis. Last week, LGBTQ+ rights organization Human Rights Campaign suspended parent company Anheuser-Busch’s Corporate Equality Index score, a ranking of companies based on policies for LGBTQ+ workers. Now, Bud Light is trying to refocus efforts on TV commercials surrounding themes of country music and football.

     

  19. 14 hours ago, Macanudo said:

    Not ''had".  Having.   We're currently working with them to offshore jobs.   

    They are completely siloed in their approach and no one seems to know what is going on outside of their little fiefdom.   Our trainers are told information about extended timelines before our management is.   We find out from them that ACCN has made a change to timelines without consultation from us, especially our trainers who in some cases have 5-7 years experience in their jpob as a trainer.   When creating the timelines, we had to constantly remind them that Widget Processes #1, #2 and #2 can not be trained at the same time because in order to learn Widget Process #3, you have to be trained on #1 and #2.   This happened repeatedly in multiple areas.  

    They have waited to identify who managers and trainers will be.   I can understand this to some degree but their requirements for doing both are basically "be a good trainee with good quality" not necesarilly "have you managed people before" or "do you know how to train."

    They view quality as a premium to quantity.  So the person who processes 10 items a day at 98% accuracy is seen as more proficient than the one who does 40 items at 97.5%.   When someone does not "get it" they have a team lead/management candidate work with the struggling employee without the trainer when the TL/manager has the same level of experience as the struggling person.   When we meet to discuss QA errors, their answer to what remedies they took is usually "we told the trainees to re-read the SOPs and to keep them open on their desktop."   Did they specifically tell John that he needs to complete the item in the workflow system and add a comment?   Nope.   They don't discuss specifically what needs to be addressed for each person.   Refresher training is not targeted or specfic.   It's "don't do that again."

    They work our hours so it's overnight for them.  A huge problem we're having is that employees in Delhi have not been made to understand that when it's 5:00 here (3:30 am in Delhi), they aren't done.   We work up until 8:00 pm or 9:00 pm some days.  We are supposed to be same day processing and many of our Service Level Agreements state that we will complete items recieved that day (by market close.)   An item received at 2:45 should be completed.    We gets thousands of items per day to process.

    It's been a beating.

    You might be glad to hear that Accenture is laying off thousands and around 500 of them are in Austin.

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