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MaybeACoordinator

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  1. Inflated and intentionally misused missing persons data is the well-watered and fertile field that gave us the Q Anon harvest.
  2. It just occurs to me how hilarious it is that the very crowd that has been pining for mass arrests for years now have gotten what they wished for, but it is them and not Dems and celebs getting arrested.
  3. Robel would've taken it even deeper....not.
  4. Siri and Chaz first Astros rookies to go back to back since Daryle Ward and Lance Berkman, 1999.
  5. Ha....guessing Tyler. There was this one dude whose drawl was so slow you could run out and get a 12 pack before he was done asking if we had any beer.
  6. Yeah for sure I've heard accents that strong -- even on campus back in the day. Dudes from places like Tyler and Dumas...but yeah, nobody actually says shit like moo-stash or Americ-y
  7. in one sense of the word "terrible," this is solid evidence of same. In another sense, it is contradictory. If you have absolutely zero morals, it's pretty brilliant.
  8. Motherfucker struck me out in my one AB against him in LL. God he threw meat -- I've spent 35-plus years wanting a second chance, so I could have a cooler story than the one I just told.
  9. Careful what you wish for with that McCormack chick. Ain't no gingers like North GA gingers....
  10. No, that's hyperbole. My impression of Ford was that he fell down all the time and of Carter, a smiling peanut farmer. But I was always wondering when they would get in as much trouble at Nixon. i just thought that was what happened to presidents. And I guess it is, because then you had Iran-Contra, Monicaghazi for Clinton, and then Trump.
  11. Naw that's perfect. If you can remember 9/11 that would mold you. i was just coming out of my little toddler blackout when Watergate was the big deal, so for me i expect presidents to all by scumbags. i think a better cutoff for Boomers would be if you could remember the Kennedy assassination.
  12. I am aware of all of this, but in the early days of the show, it was all about them being able to drink gigantic amounts of booze, and them being so stoic whatnot, it didn't effect them. They were still the top combat surgeons on the Korean border. A puritanical wave swept in with the Reagans and that was when you would see them talking about temporary abstinence and such. Same as on Dallas -- they had to tell JR he couldn't slam a double of bourbon every time he entered a room.
  13. was wondering about that. My son is almost a millennial (a little too young) and is absolutely regarded when it comes to maps, but my daughter, 8 years younger, is a navigational champ. this despite my son being an army vet. they've just never made sense to him.
  14. Borderland Beat can be pretty fucking gnarly...shit your average Mexican tabloid, even back before the cartels, would generally have about five dead people in full color splattered all around the insides of some car that wrecked.
  15. yeah and they'd be sitting around swilling martinis all day and then perform flawlessly in surgery after the choppers touched down. Well, actually, it was the '50s, so....
  16. You can live out of your van in the national forests for a long ass time. Payment is voluntary -- you tip the park hosts or you don't, and huge areas of them don't have park hosts at all. Millennials....their map skills suck. if the dude can't find a better place to try to bury her than where he did, he is a grade A idiot. He had weeks to find a better spot and one quarter of a giant landmass to do it in. Maybe he has some shred of conscience that forced him into thinking "I can't live with having the body of this woman i once loved in the van with me anymore" so he was not able to think about things logically, but dude, in the abstract, like, if you gave me the body of some pauper to bury in a test for FBI agents or something, i think I could have put those remains somewhere harder to find than where he did. Now that would be a great reality show for the crime networks: The Great American Cadaver Chase. "Hot young couples try their best to elude America's most elite law enforcement agencies as they bury, sink, burn and dismember bodies donated to ID network. Drive fast and dig deep. Who will be America's next great fake Natural Born Killers? Tune in Saturday nights at ten."
  17. yeah, the tastes of prestige tv producers and the common clay of the great American hinterlands are generally not in alignment.
  18. Whole different set of rules for movies like that. Gen Kill and The Wire purport to show you "what it's really like" on the streets of Baltimore or charging through Iraq with 1st Marine Recon. When they take creative license it should not come across as unbelievable, as it is with this over-the-top accent or having Bunk Moreland sing along to every word of a Pogues song.
  19. Eh I write fast and was just rewatching Gen Kill. That whole diatribe is pre-written in my head...And as for my friend and his music, we've had that argument many times. He is right about how fake it is but that shouldn't be enough to pull the plug on a show, imo. It's like this other friend of mine he was super into this chick he was dating. then one night she told him she liked My Morning Jacket, and he dumped her almost immediately. There are a few bands out there I might consider dumping someone over, and while i am not a big MMJ fan, they are not worthing giving a GF the heave-ho.
  20. She probably went missing after she wouldn't stay silent for two fucking minutes on their couple's cross-country road trip. Sup wives' thread dudes, amirite?
  21. Terrible Southern or Texas accents. They are more often terrible that good -- usually it takes a native -- but the worst one ever was on the sgt major in Generation Kill. Nobody, I mean not even the most idiotic trailer-dwelling backwoods yokel talks like that, and i have hung out with idiotic trailer-dwelling backwoods yokels everywhere from the Sam Houston National Forest to the hollers of West Virginia. (Not so fun fact: Sgt Major John Sixta, the guy portrayed here, was a pedo. He was convicted for raping a friend's 12-year-old daughter after returning from Iraq, and you can't blame PTSD, even if you were so inclined: after that conviction, two California women came forward from decades ago that landed him prison for 30 years.) Looks like he was maintaining grooming standards before, during, and after the war. Anyway, he has an unusual name and so he was easy to research. (How many hillbillies have last names like Sixta, anyway.) He is from the Kansas City metro. Maybe there is some linguistically isolated suburb up there where the accent makes Yosemite Sam sound like Al Michaels, but I doubt it. Simon and Burns apparently just thought it would be funny to give the biggest asshole in the battalion a horrible fake Southern accent. And that makes me surly. This bothers me a little less, but whenever there's a scene in some shithole bar on a show like Justified, the background music is always waaaayyyyy cooler than it would be in real life, but no, the little hillbilly Mafia that runs Skeeter's Beer Joint are playing Steve Earle or the Drive By Truckers, and not Toby Keith and Garth Brooks. This good buddy mine will eject on a show if it does this more than once. Or even just once, sometimes. The Wire almost lost him when there was the scene in the dockers bar featuring the Nighthawks, a criticially acclaimed DC roots-rock band from the '80s but today pretty much forgotten weekend warrior biker dad blooz. And then it did lose him when the cops -- Black and white, everybody -- were always singing along to the fucking Pogues at wakes for dead cops. i kinda thought maybe that was possible, given the stereotype of the Irish cop, esp on the East Coast, and how it seems like every cop killed in the line of duty has the bagpipes blaring somewhere in the vicinity, but he just wouldn't have it. And he was right and i was wrong -- Simon and Burns just thought it would really cool if that was the way cop wakes were.
  22. In the MAGA days of Ronald Reagan all the naval officers were white
  23. Oh, we're counting the French as white now are we? I love those rare exceptions where someone says "yeah i knew the fucker was crazy as a shithouse rat, and it was a just matter of time before i would be seeing him on the teevee.":
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