Contentious C
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1 hour ago, Death From Above said:
Why the hell is anyone going to watch this shit show then? "Hey look the guys that got cut from CFL practice rosters made a league?"
Which they already did with every Arena League, ever, and boy howdy, do those games make overflowing barf bags seem appealing.
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Because why do something spectacularly bad once, when you can do it two times for twice the price?
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Bah, I'm a Celtics fan and no way I'd say they're better than Houston or GS.
That said, I hadn't looked at Son of Tweedledumber's slash line before and HOLY SHIT he's a terrible shooter! In every facet! Michael Carter-Williams must finally feel like the pressure's off a little bit!
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36 minutes ago, TheVileOne said:
Best Animated Feature is a shit category anyway and all it does is keep animated films out of the Best Picture category, despite Zootopia being one of the best reviewed and acclaimed movies of 2016.
And yet still beat Kubo and the Two Strings for the Animated award, despite Kubo being miles better.
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Was I the only one hoping the whole time, just a little bit, that
Spoilerthe climactic fight scene with Luv would somehow reveal that Luv was, in fact, Deckard's daughter? I mean, that would have been the quintessence of mindfuckery.
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4th quarter of the AFC Championship game saw Bortles finally turn into a pumpkin (or at least stop being the best QB on the field). NFC Championship game saw Keenum turn back into one, too. SB is probably Foles' turn.
I only guess Eli Manning didn't turn into one largely because his face already looks like something you'd carve into a Jack O'Lantern.
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Man, I had no idea Brad Armstrong was dead. Granted, I say this fully expecting any and all wrestlers to instantly drop dead upon turning 52, but still. I've obviously been out of touch.
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Bahahaha - a science Ph.D. bankrolling things. I'm lucky I can bankroll lunchmeat that isn't Land O'Frost anymore.
That said, I could write at least 1 TV series for ya...
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Yeah, I just moved in September, so the only reason I hadn't seen one of his commercials in a while was due to telling Comcast to go fuck themselves.
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And just to get back on-topic, here's an oldie-but-goodie, for those of us who've spent some time in Baltimore...
I bring you, Barry Glazer.
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Thank you for explaining the joke; have you considered that as a profession?
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Man, this is some grade A insanity from the lot of you on the shaving front.
Are the 87-blade monstrosities horrible? Yes. I always flash back to the Mad TV sketch about this when I see them in the store. "Blade 14 removes the second dermis layer, preventing you from ever growing hairs in that spot again!" etc. They're all of the problems of a standard disposable, only with flashier packaging.
But I'd get some awful ingrown whiskers if I don't get my face warmed well, use some kind of real shaving cream or proper shaving soap - Cremo is a solid brand - and shave with an old-school safety razor (the ones that take double-sided razor blades). I bought one at an antique store for $6 and it changed my fucking life, used that thing for 10 years before I bought anything else. I'd eat a disposable razor before I'd use it on my face. You bunch of goddamned savages; madness, I tell you.
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The Clippers' coaching staff was in a separate room, heard the ruckus and rushed out --- only to see its former point guard, Paul, getting pushed back out and into the hallway, sources said.
"Could you describe the ruckus, sir?"
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Yeah, there was a part of me that was almost thinking this was code for something else, but, much like buttering, it's exactly what you think it is. Good to know.
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This is why you watch Christmas Vacation each and every year: to remind yourself about the attic stairs. Don't stand in front of them, don't sit on them when you get stuck. Thank you, Chevy Chase. Thank you.
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Just putting this here.
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If there's any notion of the NFL rigging things, this is why: they see the possibility of a JAX/MIN SB and are shitting themselves.
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Is that a meteor-sized problem? Because to me that sounds more "gigantic asteroid should Pac-Man the bejesus out of Earth"-sized. Though, honestly...yeah, those fucking guys, too.
(Not to insinuate all the people making those choices are men, per se - just the phrase rolls off the ol' brain-tongue better when it's 'guys'.)
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Thanks, and fair points, J.T.
I wouldn't call the guy a dick. More like he flat-out has the wrong mentality to be a scientist. For most of us, when something goes wrong, the first - and best - question is, "What did I do wrong?" And it's usually some fixable, easy sort of thing that takes no time and makes you feel dumb for having bollocksed it in the first place. And there's a smaller subset who are crazy/paranoid and think "What did someone else do to my experiment?" Though, that being said, there have been some high-profile instances of sabotaging labmates at major universities.
But this guy is more like, "Oh, that didn't work. I guess the entire protocol - that half a dozen other people wrote, refined, and troubleshot for a combined 3 decades between them - must be wrong, so I'm going to skip entire steps because I think I can be 'efficient' and 'creative'." And then wonders why it didn't work. At one point early on, we had him doing the same general task for a good 3 months straight, with little variation, and he never did it the same way twice or figured anything out for himself that wasn't a shit idea. Since that time, he's been doing quite literally the easiest possible thing there was to do in that lab - stuff that I could train my parents how to do in a couple of weeks, tops - but, like I said, didn't comprehend the difference between "because of me" and "in spite of me".
I think what chaps the collective asses of his graduate school class and those of us who had to tolerate him is that he may very well get grandfathered through a lot of stuff he doesn't deserve and end up with a degree anyway. He still has to take his quals, and the only real hope there is that he fails them and is summarily booted out. If he doesn't...well, then any degree he gets cheapens the one I just got, because I wouldn't hire him to mow my lawn. So much for the illusion of meritocracies.
And am I on people's shit lists? Oh, for sure. But that's because I choose to put myself on them. In the words of Ray Velcoro, I welcome judgment.
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There is also a System Shock remake supposed to come out this year. I was in on the Kickstarter.
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There's all this talk about 20+ year old shows, and not a whit anywhere about Alias Grace or, as I'd like to call it, Canadian Distaff Rashomon. It brings the weird and the mindfuckery. The pacing is a little off in the early going, I feel, with two less invested episodes sandwiching a fairly heavy one, but it comes together by the end.
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6 minutes ago, RIPPA said:
Hey! Marty won a UFL Title!
Oh man, thanks for that. This led to the following train of thought:
- "Surely Phil means 'USFL' right?"- Search for USFL coaches turns up no Marty.
- Search for UFL turns up one in the 60s and one recent one. "Surely it can't be the recent one..."
- Marty's Wikipedia page. "Yup, it's the recent one. Oy vey."
- And then the money shot from Wikipedia...
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Reid at least made the SB once, so I think Marty's still got that one on lockdown.
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The other guy who did that was Steve Young, wasn't he?
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Hah, which divorce? He was on what, wife 3 by then?
Deathbird Stories is probably going to hit the same way as Shatterday, really - I think he extensively mentions the dog who had just died throughout that collection (and inspired "A Boy and His Dog"). And it's readily apparent how often that bleeds through into other things. Or maybe it's something he wrote specifically in the edition I have; haven't looked at it in 15 years to recall.