I thought the series (of books) was great. The only complaint I had at the time was I thought 2-3 books around the start of the second half should have been condensed into one. But if I was reading it now with them all out it might not bother me. At the time I would be pretty annoyed that the main plot didn’t move much and now I had to wait for the next one.
Yeah the whole old empire thing was basically a giant socialism strawman (including equal distribution of sex from pretty women, lol) that he totally destroys by showing everyone by example how to pick yourself up by your bootstraps. And his author blurb says he a member of the Ayn Rand society or something like that. That shit didn’t start creeping in in a big way until the later books though (correction: it started early, I didn’t know he wrote 26 of the things). It was enough to put me off his follow-up series.
Edit: Shit, apparently he wrote 15 more after I stopped with book eleven, which really felt like a complete end to me, I was surprised way back then that there were any more. I don’t know how he managed to milk it that much.
You just made me see the cap on the pole for the first time.
It’s real. If I remember correctly, there was a problem with the sound and he filled the time pretending to suck a dick with the microphone. Why? Who the fuck knows.
I’ve got a lot of play in my life and the woman almost always made the first move. Because I don’t want to be a creep giving unwanted attention and I’m the kind of idiot where a woman can come sit in my lap and stroke my inner thigh and I’ll think “hmmm, I wonder if she might be interested in me.”
If a woman has never hit on you, I’ve got bad news for you dawg (assuming you want a woman to hit on you).
Edit: Lemmy, help me settle an argument. The night my wife and I got together, she sat in my lap, leaned back and into me, tilted her head back, put her arm around my head and pulled it down, and placed her mouth millimeters from mine. But I moved the last two fucking millimeters so she insists that I kissed her. Who kissed who first?
One of the Epstein emails talks about pics of Trump blowing Bubba and the speculation is that Clinton is Bubba.
I’d spend about $3k on something unreasonable like a bottle of scotch. Or maybe several $500-750 bottles I will actually drink soonish so I don’t end up never opening the $3k bottle always waiting for the right time. I’d also get my wife a nice bag in a price range she would rarely get for herself, so another $2-3k. The rest would go in my brokerage.
The use of the definite article “the” is important.
He didn’t ask if Putin “has photos” like you and I might if we were joking about some hypothetical blackmail material we don’t actually know exists, he asked if Putin “has the photos.”
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I think he’s saying add him to the list for directing it, not let the eight off the hook because they didn’t act independently.
Idea for a new job:
Become an expert consultant on having just the right amount of AI bullshit in your ads to generate a ton of free engagement (like this thread) without taking away from the effect in people casually watching it who hopefully won’t notice.
Seriously, discussion over this, here and elsewhere, has forced more Coca-Cola branding into my brain than I think I’ve seen in the past year.
The deal was the Republicans got their eight votes from senators that aren’t up for election soon.
It always goes something like that. It’s never 30-40 senators or house members from the opposing side that vote for something when a deal is reached. It’s always just enough, with the votes coming from the ones most able to take the hit due to not being up for election next time, in a safe seat, very high popularity, etc.
Even when the minority leader admits to being part of the deal, they aren’t necessarily part of the group voting for it.
They may just be confused about what they heard, or they heard that from someone confused.
Something I heard, which sounds more plausible, is: rotisserie chickens that have been sitting around a bit (not even close to going bad, just not very hot and fresh anymore) are used to make the things they sell with rotisserie chicken in them, like those trays of chicken and broccoli Alfredo. (I can eat an embarrassing large portion of those “family size” trays.)
I could see how after being passed through a few people that turns into what they said.
True, it is nice to be reminded of that piece of shit’s financial ruin. We just have to hope that any donations she got went to legal fees.
Not wanting to be a lazy shit that lets her do all the housework is 99% of my motivation. But when I get the motivation to do the dishes it has to be now or it’ll be never.
If someone ever finds themselves in a situation where they feel the need to say that they don’t see themselves as a racist…
They’re out of touch, libertarian, centimillionaires. Fucking hilarious out of touch, libertarian, centimillionaires, but still, no one should take them seriously.
Meanwhile, my wife enables my executive dysfunction, saying things like “oh, just do it tomorrow.” I have to explain to her, if I don’t do it now, it won’t get done for a month. Saying it out loud like that seems to give me the motivation to do it now.
The fourth he wrote and directed, not including one of the rooms from Four Rooms. The first three were Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown.
Before he was big enough to do whatever he wanted he also wrote True Romance, but his ending was different. He does like Tony Scott’s ending though. He also did the original screenplay for Natural Born Killers, but he has basically disavowed Oliver Stone’s interpretation and rewrite of it. I definitely consider it to be an Oliver Stone movie. From what QT has said about it, I would be interested in seeing his remake. And he did the screenplay for From Dusk Till Dawn, but he chose to concentrate on writing and acting so Robert Rodriguez got to do it.
With the exception of a couple little things, that’s everything he did before Kill Bill. You’re right though, it seems like he was considered a much bigger thing that his number of credits would suggest when it came out.
Edit: oh yeah, the original question: This title has been used before on a smashup or two movie set, but as I understand it this version also has some changes to the editing, including some unreleased scenes, that affect the narrative. Not really changing the story, just moving some stuff around to make it more appropriate for one big movie, like the reveal at the end of 1. Also, it seems like he’s doing a “road show” of the 70mm print like he did with The Hateful Eight.
But he wasn’t criticizing communism, or advocating for capitalism. He was criticizing a dictator and saying he prefers democracy.
Unless you think communism can’t exist outside of a brutal dictatorship.