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Posts posted by utee94
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12 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:
It's disappointing compared to the book but still fun.
Some of us have commented earlier on this thread, it's really more like two different stories that originated from the same source material. I liked them both, but they weren't really the same.
And honestly, the movie was able to streamline a lot of the awkward, clunky dialog and odd storytelling in the book. It changed a lot of major plot lines, but it also smoothed it out. I liked that about the movie.
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Good Lord, McLaren. SMH.
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RIP, Niki.
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It's still good. The last time I stood in a 4-hour line was for the opening of Empire Strikes Back, but when I do pre-order or someone else brings me some, it's still always delicious.
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A part of the problem with our home schedules is that our marquee conference game against our sole remaining rival is played at a neutral site every year, so we lose what would be a huge home game every second year.
However, I would never want that game to leave the Cotton Bowl, even though our home schedule suffers.
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30 minutes ago, relapse98 said:
That's a good way of putting it. It's Monaco. It's tiny, fast, deadly, beautiful, glamorous, may it never change.
Amen, brutha.
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20 hours ago, BBQ2Bayou said:
How's the wait these days? I just moved back after 5 years. It's probably buried somewhere in the BBQ thread, but that sumbitch is long.
Pre-order is your friend.
https://preorder.franklinbbq.com/
Tuesdays-Thursdays are available about a week out. You have to go a couple weeks to get a Friday, and maybe 3-4 weeks to get a Saturday or Sunday.
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And also, as I say every year, this is my favorite venue in all of racing. I look forward to this weekend every year almost as much as I look forward to TX-OU. I realize it's largely processional, but it's just so... beautiful. It'll never NOT be my favorite.
Spa is my favorite race, but Monaco is my favorite venue and weekend. Can't wait for Thursday!
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Alright-- here's my annual friendly reminder for Monaco: the schedule is different. P1 and P2 are on Thursday. Nothing on Friday. Saturday and Sunday are normal race schedule. Set your DVR accordingly and enjoy!
Monaco Grand Prix
Practice 1 - Thursday, May 23, 4:55 AM - ESPN2
Practice 2 - Thursday, May 23, 8:55 AM - ESPN2
Practice 3 - Saturday, May 25, 5:55 AM - ESPN2
Qualifying - Saturday, May 25, 8:55 AM - ESPN2
Pit Lane Live - Sunday, May 26, 7:30 AM - ESPN3
On The Grid - Sunday, May 26, 8:30 AM - ESPN
Race - Sunday, May 26, 9:05 AM - ESPN
Race (Encore) - Sunday, May 26, 3:30 PM - ABC
Race (re-air) - Sunday, May 26, 6:00 PM - ESPNEWSThis is from ESPN and I'm assuming those times are Eastern.
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On 5/18/2019 at 6:03 PM, Hawndoh said:
Well the Indy 500 is a bit different than the normal races in that the cars are qualifying to actually get INTO the race, not just starting order. There are also teams that only run the 500 which is why there are hours and hours of practice leading up to the race.
I like it. All the work put into all of these practices leading up to actual high stakes qualifying builds enormous tension. You just don't get that in lots of other series. And you know at any second someone can hit the wall and it's all over.
No matter how slow the Williams is in F1, you know they're in the race and will pointlessly circle at the back. For the 500, a car like that goes home.
On 5/18/2019 at 8:23 PM, elfenix said:the indy 500 is a different beast. it's the oldest continuously operated race (everyone excepts WW2) at the same location in the world (predating the 24 hours by 12 years). a national championship was built around it, but you go back in time to the 40s and it's the only paved track on the schedule. the other races were all dirt tracks and pike's peak. it was part of the FIA's world championship from 1950 through 1960 (then the manufacturer's championship came into being, and i'm going to assume ferrari didn't want to build one-off cars for indianapolis). even when other paved tracks became part of the championship, indy was still the only superspeedway (most were 1 mile ovals, which just ain't that fast). it was often the first race of the season (so the biggest event first, like nascar). so, considering all that, all the practice and all the qualifying made a lot of sense. and it's also a rectangle with 4 distinct corners rather than most speedways where 1 and 2, and 3 and 4 aren't really separate corners.
maybe if it were only open to those running in the full time championship they could change the long practice and qualifying schedule. but it's not. it's always been a part of but separate from the national championship. which is really weird considering the tight relationship between the speedway and its sanctioning body since AAA pulled out (and that weirdness has helped lead to two splits so far in american open wheel. could be mostly roger penske's fault).
it's nice that we have the indy GP instead of a full month of not racing in prep for a race, though.
Yes, I know it's different. I'm also well aware of its history with Formula 1, which is certainly very cool.
Regardless I dislike the qualifying for it. It's ok for you to like it, bu I do not.
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21 hours ago, Dark Horse said:
Victarion and Euron are awesomeif by "awesome" you mean "the worst ever" then I believe we're in total agreement.
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Finally watched and really enjoyed the Grand Prix of Indianapolis from last weekend. Loved all those moves Pagenaud pulled off to win the race in the rain.
I like the way Indycar does qualifying for their normal races. I really dislike the way they do qualifying for the Indy500.
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I don't really care whether the "mid" team is a lower-tier P5 team or a group of 5 team. Even though we had shitty losses to Maryland, they still weren't any more exciting of an opponent to me than UTEP or UTSA. Nor was Berkeley. There's nothing exciting about playing either one of these teams, except maybe in basketball.
1 marquee opponent, one regional opponent for recruiting purposes, and then whatever. I'm cool with that, and that's what we have for the foreseeable future.
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Aside from New Orleans, the state of Louisiana sucks for sure-- but it will never be the worst state.
Because Oklahoma.
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3 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:
I'd rather have a tuna sandwich than pork ribs. Beef ribs are good; pork ribs taste like poverty and regret.
WOW. I have to respect this post for pushing the limits of this thread's purpose.
Agree on the beef rib portion though, they're delicious, too.
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4 hours ago, Orange&White said:
I'm pretty sure that was the year that on Memorial day then lake was flooded so some of us tied our boats together while on trailers and sat and drank for a few hours.
We've done that, too!
Also, one time just sat in my friend's ski boat parked in his carport in Allandale during one of those gazillion Memorial Day downpours. Good times.
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Might have been. We had some pretty heavy June/July flooding that year too, as I recall.
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11 hours ago, SpiralOut said:
One of my favorite part of the books is all the tells leading up to Catelyn's return as a vengeful zombie.
When she visits Renly to treat with him for Robb, he lets her have his pavilion since he's staying in the castle there where the army is camped. She enters his tent and sees his armor hanging on a rack. It's deep green polished to such a sheen that she can see her reflection in it. She comments on how she looks like a drowned woman and asks herself if a woman can drown in grief.
Then there are the numerous references to her injured hands and how they've been cut to the bone. Clear foreshadowing to the bone deep scratches she leaves on her face at the Red Wedding and her future skeletal aspect.
As an aside, I think AFFC and ADWD get a bit of a bad rap. Yeah, they have some filler like Brienne/Pod going on a snipe hunt with that weird dude and Quentyn's pointless adventure. Though I imagine Quentyn's failure will have some serious repercussions down the road. Maybe with pushing Doran into the arms of fAegon or some such. However, those two books have a lot of great shit in them. Jaime's growth into something better than a self-obsessed, sister fucking asshole. Jon's leadership of, and eventual assassination by, the Night's Watch. Tyrion's descent into madness and becoming "Tywin writ small." All the shit to do with the Faceless Men. All the great stuff with the Ironborn, specifically Victarion and his molten fist of doom.
If you feel like AFFC and ADWD are weak, fillerish books, don't ever fucking read the middle of A Wheel of Time. If you do, you'll realize Martin, while meandering at times, is nowhere near as bad as he could be.
Agree with a lot of this, aside from the fact that I hate any and every single word written about the Ironborn. God they suck. I understand the need or desire to get a fleet for Dany, but other than that, every single interaction among them sucks the life out of my very bones.
And now I'll tell you how I really feel...
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2 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:
I love the taste of various cough syrups.I'm assuming you're talking about purple drank. Right?
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17 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:
Daniel Vaughn has a pretty good write up on Interstellar BBQ.
QuoteHe smiled when I asked for lean brisket, and later told me, “It’s kinda what we judge ourselves on these days.”
This guy gets it.
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^^^^^^
This sounds about right.
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Music is great, cinematography is great, special effects are great. It's still a really good TV show.
I also agree with Brad that the TV show was able to clean up some of Martin's weird and unnecessary side plots. Like, everything that happened in Dorne. And Quentyn Martell's entirely useless and stupid misadventures.
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So, do we know more?
Also, do we blame Mexico for the "abnormally dry" areas down in the RGV? Would a Wall help with that?
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Agree, I really like Siena and the atmosphere is great.