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50 minutes ago, Irlandesa said:I live in Vikings territory and I'd say some fans kind of knew that the record was deceptive.
No one in Minnesota thought they'd win. It's Minnesota. It's a known thing that they can't win anything. Ever. They usually come up with ways to lose that make things as heartbreaking and terrible as possible, so today was at least a nice break from that.
On the news last night they were interviewing people who'd come to town for the game and even they were less than positive on the winning. One guy said a win would be great, but I just think it'll be fun to watch a playoff game. That's like saying I'm just happy to be nominated.
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Georgia goes from celebration to tragedy. And still one player and another passenger in the hospital with serious injuries. UGA had a great season, it's terrible that it ends this way.
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12 hours ago, Bronx Babe said:
The Dog Lover's Guide To Dating: Axe throwing??? Where was the story supposed to take place, in that Minnesota town with those statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox???
Axe throwing is actually pretty popular across the US and Canada. There are chains that offer just the throwing experience. But if you want to do it in Brainerd (home of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox), there's a bar there that offers it.
I wasn't a huge fan of the movie, but I appreciated that it didn't make the designer girlfriend evil. She was not a good fit for the guy, but I like that she dumped him because she deserved more.
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So excited to see Psych is back in the rotation on HM&M!
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By all accounts, the Bengals' Higgins was devastated as he was the player who made the contact. I hope they get him some real support. It's not his fault, but he's likely feeling it is. I was happy to hear that he left the stadium with his mom who had her arm wrapped around him.
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This game is over. Everyone go home. Leave them alone. There should be no debate. Goddell needs to call it.
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NFL Thread
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Nine minutes of CPR. That's not good. It seems like they should have gotten him out of there as fast as possible on that ambulance.
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I wish they'd asked how the couple intended to become financially independent. Like did they actually have a solid plan or was it as vague as the stuff in their initial stepping back statement? What were their prospects? Meghan could go back to acting, but she doesn't seem all that interested in it and she wasn't an A-lister like Grace Kelly who could've gotten any role she wanted in Hollywood. She could make a reasonable living for normal people, but that's not going to work for them. Harry is basically worthless as a wage earner if he's not using his title/royal connections. Meghan seems like a lovely woman with prospects. Harry just seems clueless. What does he do all day anyway?
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1 hour ago, PepSinger said:
They were going to be representing the Queen throughout the Commonwealth, not the UK. Plus, they offered to represent Her Majesty “for free” as Harry put it, so that argument doesn’t hold water from the British.
Except that the way they were planning to finance that "for free" stuff was with the use of the royal name, which is a huge no-no. It is very clear that Harry still doesn't understand why the half in/out plan was never going to fly. They were planning to commercialize the royal brand with their whole Sussex Royal thing. They applied to trademark the phrases Sussex Royal and Sussex Royal Foundation for use on books, stationery, clothing such as pyjamas and socks, charity campaigns and the provision of training, sport and social care. This was their independent brand. As a working royal, this wouldn't be a problem. If they used this brand to finance their new independent lives, then they are cashing in on something that doesn't belong to them or anyone really. It belongs to the institution. I can't tell if he's too stupid to understand or if he thinks that he can just pretend there are not valid reasons behind this beyond his jealous family wants to ruin his plans and everyone will side with him.
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MLB Thread
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6 hours ago, xaxat said:I am highly suspicious of that list. Barry Bonds, a Black man who hasn't played in decades is the most search player in Wyoming?
Or you know, Albert Pujols was close to breaking Barry Bonds record for something while he was playing the Colorado Rockies and Rockies fans in Wyoming looked up Bonds when it was mentioned during the game(s).
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15 minutes ago, BloomsburyRez said:
For as many people who have made money off of stories over the past several years Meghan’s ex-husband Trevor has been admirably quiet (at least I don’t remember hearing him comment at all).
He doesn't need money since he married a woman who inherited millions and I don't think he wants that type of press anyway. He and Meghan were dating for something like seven years before they got married and I don't think the divorce was acrimonious, so it seems like he's content to let it lie, which is nice. I did laugh to read he dated Bethenny Frankel after the divorce.
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I think there is some small attempt to make things controversial without being overt about it. So Meghan commenting about hugs and Will & Kate not being super warm even behind closed doors makes it seem more like a criticism and making it appear like they didn't like her or whatever rather than clarifying that Kate just isn't a hugger or if they noted that many people aren't as openly affectionate as Meghan.
I don't like people I know in my personal space let alone someone I've barely met, but I know a lot of people struggled about not being able to give hugs during the last couple years due to COVID. Neither one is a negative attribute and it could be made explicitly clear that it's not a criticism, just differing personalities and preferences, which could lead to misunderstanding the other. I had a coworker who asked me why I hated her so much and I had zero idea what she was talking about. She couldn't understand that I'm very reserved and that I didn't have anything against her at all. If Meghan's first impression was that their reserved natures actually meant dislike or disapproval of her, that would not bode well for future interactions.
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MLB Thread
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The commentators on the game had me rolling my eyes. Somehow I'm supposed to be impressed and sympathetic for Houston having to overcome the adversity of being known cheaters.
Or maybe I think they got away with it completely and wonder if they keep cheating since nothing happened the first time. They got a season of no fans as a buffer and never really got the true cheater experience. None of their players were punished at all. They kept their title of World Series Champions. Basically a couple of management guys lost their jobs for a season during which there was almost no baseball anyway and the team was fined $5 million. Boo hoo. Much adversity. How they must struggle to overcome such stiff penalties.
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7 hours ago, Camera One said:
How else can you explain taking one of the best parts of the first season and eliminating it utterly and completely.
Easy. They simply didn't notice. They weren't interested in that part of the show and didn't want to write for it, so they never noticed that it completely disappeared. The fans that enjoyed those moments aren't the type to be vocal either. The shippers and the devoted Evil Regals are out in force, but people who like the show for its quiet character moments between mother and daughter aren't screaming on Twitter or at conventions about how their favorite is being mistreated or about how they want more.
I believe the lack of Snow and Emma interaction was pointed out to one of the writers sometime during S6 and that person was genuinely surprised (probably more surprised that there wre people who even cared about this).
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11 hours ago, KingOfHearts said:
I think it would've been good to see more than 5 minutes of Snow being a teacher again or Emma going to therapy.
Not gonna lie, watching Snow teaching for more than 30 seconds was too much for me. An actual storyline for her would have been nice, but then Ginny Goodwin just had baby #2 in between S5 & S6, so I don't think she wanted to actually do anything. She could have done something more than send Emma to Archie for therapy so she could go console Regina and then yell at Emma for actually seeing the therapist and taking his advice and working through her issues. Wow, I forgot how much I hated S6.
Was this the season where we actually see Snowing say that they are sacrificing Emma's happiness for everyone else and closing the door on her? That was totally giving her her best chance. And then when Snow confessed, Emma didn't react. To be fair though, Emma had clearly figured this out by the first episode of S2, it just took four years for Snow to get on the same page.
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Elsewhere on the internet, someone posed a question that got me thinking. This is a show where the episodes weren't always all that great, but individual scenes and interactions between characters were excellent. So what were some of your favorite scenes in the show?
One of my top scenes is between Emma and Jefferson in S1 where they discuss the possibility of the existence of magic. Jefferson's words do a really good job of encapsulating the where Emma and the audience and their mindset clash with the show's premise. I wish they'd been more true to this overall. All of the doors and all of the worlds he mentions in this scene in this quote:
"A real world. How arrogant are you to think yours is the only one? There are infinite more. You have to open your mind. They touch one another, pressing up in a long line of lands. Each just as real as the last. All have their own rules. Some have magic, some don’t. And some need magic. Like this one."
As disappointing and as much of a letdown as it was, I also like the scene in S2 where Emma and Snowing are somewhat alone for the first after the memories are returned and Emma believes. David's awareness that pushing Emma is a really bad idea and Snow's refusal to let it go and Emma actually telling the real truth about the whole giving her her best chance stuff. It was some of the most truthful this show ever got to covering the damage Regina's curse had done and how their own actions had led to Emma's life.
Snow: We’re together – finally. And I can’t help but think you’re not happy about it.
Emma: Oh, I am. But, see… Here’s the thing – no matter what the circumstances, for twenty-eight years I only knew one thing. That my parents sent me away.
Snow: We did that to give you your best chance.
Emma: You did it for everyone, because that’s who you are. Leaders, heroes, princes, and princesses, and that’s great. A-And amazing. And wonderful. But it doesn’t change the fact that, for my entire life, I’ve been alone.
It gets left there and is never really addressed again, but this is where I think Emma's feelings remain. She moves on and deals, but this is always the reality. It also pisses me off that the next time everyone finally gets to be reunited and happy, the show focuses on how this makes Regina sad.
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Season 1 is the only season that I find to be re-watchable pretty much the whole way through. There were filler episodes that I'm not a huge fan of, but it's got a cohesive narrative that actually ends in a fairly satisfying conclusion. The twists are interesting and often are worked well into the story. There are also quite a lot of character relationship moments which make us care about the characters and actually lets them show real emotions to things that happen to them.
I love Hat Trick more than any other episode of this show and it's so telling that the writer of that episode had nothing to do with the show at all and was able to come in and write something so completely awesome that fit the tone of the show. It was full of really awesome quotes from Jefferson. Like this one, "You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution for their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic." It's just right and I'm sad that guy never wrote another episode.
Sadly, it's also annoying to watch Season 1 because I know that the anticipation of comeuppance for Regina will come to nothing and the reunion of Emma and her parents is lackluster and highly unsatisfying and this will only get worse as the series goes on.
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3 hours ago, KingOfHearts said:
I dont understand the thought process behind many of their decisions.
This implies that they were actually thinking about things. Mostly their thought process consisted of "Wouldn't it be cool if..." and then they were stuck making crap that never made any sense.
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On 8/18/2022 at 2:03 PM, Kitty Redstone said:
That's good news. There are several other franchises I hope they bring back in addition to any new ones, though.
Lacey Chabert and Brennan Elliot were at some kind of convention and she indicated that the Crossword Mysteries had ended its last episode in a good place. It didn't sound like they planned on any more.
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6 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:
I doubt it. I really don't think any Duggar is paying into SS/Medicare. If Jana is being paid, it's likely as a 1099 employee.
1099 contractors pay FICA just like everyone else. The only difference is that they are responsible for the full 15.3% instead of splitting it like W-2 employees do with their employer. If Jana has any income above a very minimal level, she is required to pay into Social Security and Medicare.
It would be interesting to see how the payments from TLC went to the older kids since that was likely one contract payment to the family LLC. How that was distributed from the Duggar family account to the adult couples like Jessa/Ben and Jill/Derrick would affect their FICA liability, but it couldn't just be given to them.
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So Kristoffer Polaha's comments about Mystery 101 are interesting. Something must be going on at Hallmark.
QuoteMystery 101 is, for all intents and purposes, on a very long hiatus. We will find out about the future of Mystery 101. That's not to say it's canceled, but I have no dates as to when we're going to do No. 8.
I got this random call from my co-star in October and she was like, "Yeah, we're not going to shoot Mystery 101 in November, it might get pushed to January." And I got on the phone with everybody at Hallmark and said, "Hey, what's going on?" My Spidey senses were tingling, and I was like, "I don't know that we're gonna film this one any time soon.
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On 4/27/2022 at 10:32 AM, KingOfHearts said:
I don't think I've ever seen a show or movie do that sort of thing, other than Once Upon a Time and now Moon Knight.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom did it in 1984. Although that movie used the Blood of Kali to control people.
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7 hours ago, SusanwatchingTV said:
I'd like some more Crossword Mysteries too.
I think this is going to be a wait since Brennan Elliott's wife is battling stage IV metastatic gastric cancer. It doesn't sound good and they have two young children. However, both Lacey Chabert and Elliott signed deals with Hallmark, so I expect they do plan on more movies in the future, but I suspect it might be awhile.
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23 hours ago, ShortyMac said:
I was wondering why Elsa didn't yell in Comanche sooner.
That would have been like yelling Spanish at a Russian. Comanche and Dakota are completely different languages. They aren't even in the same language family. It was ridiculous that the warrior understood what she said unless he happened to know Shoshone (they were once the same tribe as the Comanche), a mortal enemy to the Lakota. And given the whole we kill each other mentality between those two groups, speaking Shoshone would have also triggered an attack. The Shoshone and Crow were on the side of the US Army during the Lakota War and are a big reason why Crook's army didn't end up just like Custer since their scouts provided warning of the coming surprise attack and provided cover for their retreat. A week later, Custer ran into that same group of Lakota/Cheyenne at Little Big Horn. Needless to say, Shoshone and Lakota were not friendly and speaking to one in the language of their enemy would not end well.
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Jill, Derick & the Kids: Moving On!!
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Kate admitted to "borrowing" more than $100,000 from the kids' accounts to fund her lifestyle (including furnishing her house). So there were accounts set up, but there is no legal recourse for Collin and Hannah, the two who lived with Jon, to get the money back.
I'm impressed Jill somehow managed to get the amount she got out of Jim Bob, but he was likely looking at it as a sort of hush money. It takes a special kind of ass to not cover the medical expenses of your daughter who almost died giving birth to a child which their religion insists is her only duty in life. This is especially crazy given that the filming of her family life is a big part of the reason he had any income at all. No one cared about Jim Bob and Michelle at that point. They were no longer "and Counting" by then.