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#71 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 88 weeks ago

This is only a rumor but basically Smith is gay and was using Jada as a beard.  It's not really anything new either.

#72 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 88 weeks ago

misterID wrote:

Every time I start feeling bad for them I remind myself Palestinians voted Hamas in.

I don’t see how anyone can support the Palestinians on that point alone.  I mean Israel has its faults but it’s not part of a terrorist group/org.  Really those on the left who support the Palestinians should be ashamed.  Never mind that Arafat walked away from a peace deal negotiated by Clinton in 93 or whatever.

#73 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 89 weeks ago

See my problem with Trump, is aside from the fact that he is corrupt as hell, is that he isn't smart enough to implement these policies.  I mean he's just not there on a basic intelligence level.  No, you don't have to be a genius or policy wonk but you do have to have a baseline of intelligence which I don't think he has.

#74 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 89 weeks ago

Stigmata (1999).  This one isn't bad at all.  It got panned when it came out.  It's a time capsule of the 90s (to me that was a positive).  It's not a super scary/moments one.  More philosophical in nature about the belief in god.  This was set and filmed in Pittsburgh.  I thought it was New York for a while.  The ending is sort of interesting, but I'm not sure it works that well for me.

Heat (1995).  I've watched this waaaay too many times in the past year.  I'm not sure how this crept up on me and became one of my all time faves.  I remember I used to watch it for the famous shootout.  Now, I see greatness in most scenes/characters.  I end up feeling for Eady at the end because she got betrayed more than once by Neil.  And you notice the acting.  Watch DeNiro near the end, especially when he's driving and makes a key decision.  You can see the doubt in his mind.  I now appreciate the Pacino (high on coke) rendtiion of Vincent Hanna.  He kind of reveals why in one of the scenes with the wife where he says he channels that energy (for the hunt).  There's also the entire brotherhood/loyalty/family/ ethos that permeates this film.  The Jon Voight character is practically Neil's father.

#75 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 90 weeks ago

I'm not sure how anyone could think that things aren't calmer now that an actual adult, Joe Biden is in charge.  The more you read about the stuff during the Trump admin, the more you think the real adults in that admin held things together from Trump.

And McCarthy got voted out as speaker in the past few hours.  Sorry, GOP.  That's your MAGA monster that you created, now you have to deal with it.

#76 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 91 weeks ago

James wrote:

And Devil Inside & New Sensation.

At least half the time a car drove by, you heard either GNR or INXS. Same when you went to the mall.

I totally forgot about those two.






James wrote:

Any time I hear of New Kids On the Block, it reminds me of freshman year of high school. This girl who really liked me wore their shirts. She would make comments about my shirts(mostly GNR)...as kids did back in those days. I was a hell of a lot more relentless with my NKOTB insults. It didn't take very long for her to stop liking me. I didn't care at the time...she wasn't the only girl at school. When I got older, I realized how stupid it all was. Who cares if she's wearing those shirts. It wasn't any different than me or anyone else wearing our favorite band shirts.

Like all other girls, she quickly grew out of her New Kids phase which made it even more pointless.

It's funny I think about some girl too when I kind of think about New Kids.  I think I was 10 or 11 when they got big.  There was this one girl that transferred in.  She was born or was from Burma/Mynamar.  This was about the only time I knew anyone from that country. 

As years go by, you learn that you did some crappy things to people when you're growing up, you never realize those things at the time.  I'm glad that wearing band/artist tees are still somewhat prevalent though.

#77 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 91 weeks ago

I'm equal opportunity in terms of term limits.  There should be an age limit or something.  You want to serve a long time in Congress.  Get in early.   

As far as McConnell goes, as long as he's still lucid and there and functioning it's fine if he keeps on serving.  He's probably more damaging than Trump but he's done all within the laws etc.  It's not his fault he's outmanuevered the Democrats.   

Did anyone mention the Menendez stuff where he got caught with 480k in his house.  NJ politicans are sleazy.  Water is wet.  They belong in a group with Chicago, Louisiana as sort of the areas/states where corruption seems to be prevalent for decades maybe centuries.

#78 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 91 weeks ago

What blows me away about some of those 88 and 89 charts is that a lot of those albums were released the year before (or later).  No way in this current era of disposable music this happens.

Yeah, INXS was everywhere with Mediate, Need you tonight and Never tear us apart.  On the very poppy side, New Kids on the Block seemed like they were everywhere in 1989.  Not as big as Guns but kind hit a pop culture high in 89-90, until people got sick of them.

#79 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 91 weeks ago

James wrote:

https://www.twitter.com/gunsnroses/status/1707445861796507819



Who in the hell is coming up with these lithographs?!?


I have no idea what the fuck that is.  Compare that with this (not a big fan of the band, but at least they know and understand their fanbase):

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tejastech08 wrote:

They’re playing my city this evening. I hope the local folks have a good time.

you should have went.  they were blowing out the tickets at 24.50 I saw earlier.  It was 40% full at most from what I saw at ticketmaster earlier.

#80 Re: The Garden » NFL 2023/24 season » 91 weeks ago

mitchejw wrote:

I get what you’re saying but look at every single person they’ve hired to coach for a decade…they’ve hired cheap coaches who’ve never done the jobs they’re hired to do. They have no experience…

I’m cynical but i believe they do this because these people are cheap AND they are so far behind that they don’t think coaching matters in 2023…

Astonishing that anyone could make sense of hiring the people that they did and gave no care or thought to what would become of one of the youngest teams in the nfl…don’t they see that without the coaches the hundreds of millions they spend on the players is totally wasted?

Cheapness and inexpirence at HC isn't the Bears' problem.  Look at all these other non experienced HC that got hired on other teams.  GB coach:  no previous HC experience, only was an OC at the Rams and TEN,   Rams coach:  no HC experience.  Bengals guy:  no HC experience.  the MIA HC whose team just put 70 pts on the Broncos, again first time coach.

They've just consistently hired the wrong people.  I even looked at the previous candidates from the 2022 coaching search.  Majority were DC guys, some of them failed retreads.  The only offensive guys were the Bills OC (ended up getting the NYG job) and Doug Pederson.  And they weren't hiring Doug Pederson.

On the GM stuff/inexperience stuff you may have more of a point.  They chose to overpay LB on day one of free agency and chose to sign a OG with questionable practice habits and shitty pass blocking skills, traded for Claypool and he's disappointed.  Those are bad moves/losses to me.

The Bears need to just improve whatever fucking criteria or processes that go into hiring these guys.  At some point, they might be better off tossing a dart at a random board of names.  You can be cheap as an owner and succeed in the NFL.  The Bears are cheap and dumb.  That aint gonna work.  Either the owners gotta step up and start giving a shit about who they hire or just live with this cycle of crappy Bears football.

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