LoneHaranguer
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1 hour ago, CoderLady said:
I just noticed that in the aftermath of each accident the damn idiot driver is still staring at his/her phone, even the kid whose car is spinning on its roof. That's depressing.
Maybe the spinning kid is calling 911. The one eating lunch probably already did.
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On 8/3/2019 at 1:29 PM, Ghost of TWOP Past said:
"My self-absorbed wretch's judgement is so execrable that he/she shouldn't be trusted with a motor vehicle, but now technology saves me from listening to all the whining about having to stay home! I can put the lives of bystanders at risk with a clear conscience!"
One piece of technology they should have put in is a seat-height adjustment. The girl can barely see over the dashboard.
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On 8/2/2019 at 4:25 PM, aradia22 said:
Why forego having biological children and actually growing old together just because of the vague threat of Dolly? She could still take them out with a shot to the head.
Why would Dolly kill a human? Would she even recognize Liv as a human, especially after a few years of normal aging?
On 8/3/2019 at 12:27 AM, aradia22 said:For all the reasons already stated in the thread, it seems weird to arrest your development as a child with a cheap zombie cure available. If you want to the vampire thing of staying young and beautiful forever, at least take the cure and wait until you're somewhere between 25 and 40.
Being a zombie means you have a better chance of surviving being young and stupid, so it makes sense to wait at least a few years to take the cure.
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14 hours ago, LemonSoda said:
Hef didn't have half the power or cash everyone assumed he did.
Owning over 50% of the voting stock in a company, gives you the power, but that doesn't mean you can't be swayed by others. Acquiring porn companies may have been pitched as an easy way to get the production facilities to do the playmate videos they started with. It took a lot of years to drift into producing anything that can be classified as hardcore (barely - still very classy).
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2 hours ago, qtpye said:
I heard it was actually his daughter that focused more on the nude women rather than the compelling cutting edge journalism that made the magazine so respected in the early days. Bad move when the internet made nudity extremely cheap and it was no longer a valuable commodity.
It didn't help that the photography got very cookie cutter after Hef stopped watching over production. Hair, makeup, poses, settings, etc - going overboard trying to give the magazine the same look each month.
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25 minutes ago, Racj82 said:
I'm sure can just tell them as a group, they have interaction with production, to stop doing it.
And the group can just ignore them.
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33 minutes ago, laurakaye said:
This has turned into my pet peeve for the season. I wish the powers that be would nip this in the bud. We don't need to hear "Hiiii Juleeeeeeeeee!!! I vote to evict......... SamHappyBirthdayMomJoeHankLoveyouNateHarryVeronicaMissYouFluffy!!!
How can TPTB stop them if they're all doing it? I'm more annoyed by having a commercial break in the middle of a live vote. That kind of thing is part of why I don't watch competitive reality shows on NBC anymore.
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12 minutes ago, Ray Adverb said:
Blaine was out on bail awaiting trial for killing the mayor. He has a court date set. The police are not just going to let that go. It shouldn't be too hard for them to find him at his father's mansion. It's just a question of whether he turns feral before then.
I expect he'll either be out of the well long before then, or have had his head torn off by Don E. Neither is bound up like Angus was, so getting out won't be a problem once they've either tabled their animosity or fought it out.
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17 hours ago, PaperTree said:
Tommy is again on my last nerve. Funny he can't shower! Let's spread that punishment around. They all stink anyway. The lotion treatment is hilarious. I'm sure they cleaned him up first. Damn!
It looked like they just put on more of the "poison ivy" makeup, nowhere near the color of calamine lotion.
53 minutes ago, Melina22 said:It literally never occurred to me that there was a teleprompter.
You can sometimes hear unnatural breaks between words and inflection changes.
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1 hour ago, funky-rat said:
I don't know what version the kid is singing, but the one on the Alexa is Amy Winehouse.
It could be that the kid is just a lousy singer, and the only reason the old guy bothered with Alexa is that he was tired of hearing him screw up a song he likes.
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3 hours ago, Jynnan tonnix said:
Still not entirely sure what the X in the logo might represent, though. Maybe boobs, but since that's really not the point of the product it seems a bit of a stretch.
Maybe not, in the context of products. Sheiks are condoms, so for them to pick a soundalike brand name for bedding may say something about where their minds were.
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15 hours ago, Kelloggirl said:
So the old guy says to Alexa "Alexa, play the song that goes "Valerie"" which to me implies that maybe Alexa can hear you sing some lyrics or a melody and use magic AI to figure out what the hell you're talking about, like in situations when you're talking to a friend and you're saying, "You know?!?!? That song that goes la-da-da-di-da duh duh duh dum Yeah Yeah Yeah?" and your friend is like "Whatchoo talkin' about Willis?"
It's not magic if Alexa lets you set up a playlist and looks for a match there first, although it sounds like the old guy picked a different version from what his son was singing. Either he's tone-deaf or whoever added the music to the ad said "hey, this other version of Valerie is a lot cheaper to license".
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4 hours ago, Tom Holmberg said:
According to the Charity Navigator site they spend 75% on its program and services
It looks like Charity Navigator is one year up from what the site I used had. Program expenditures are up about $20M for FY 2017 with about $10M less in contributions, greatly improving their stats. That kind of variability may be why CN has them rated at only 3 stars.
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On 7/29/2019 at 1:54 PM, Tom Holmberg said:
Apparently it is legit, according to charity rating sites. The main criticisms I saw were on religious and personal grounds that have nothing to do with their charitable work.
Legit, but they're spending almost as much on fundraising as the grants they give for assistance, and the ads are somewhat dishonest and manipulative in singling out the elderly Holocaust survivors when most of the aid goes to other needy people. I know other charities play the same "what's the most heart-wrenching thing we can put in the ad?" game, but my immediate reaction is to question whether there are enough needy Ukrainian Holocaust survivors to justify such a fundraising effort, and to assume the worst about where the rest of the money they raise is going.
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On 7/27/2019 at 7:58 PM, AngelKitty said:
The thing they took from the lab was a flashdrive with the formula they needed.
So they don't even have to start back home to pass along the cure?
On 7/27/2019 at 10:26 AM, ketose said:In an amoral sense, it would be better for everyone in Seattle to kill each other rather than dropping a nuke that would make the land uninhabitable.
The military has nukes that are designed to avoid that problem. Seattle would be General Mills' chance to see how well they actually work.
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8 hours ago, wingster55 said:
And if Chidi wasn’t so tied to Eleanor then I’d bet he’d be just as poorly used as Tahani and Jason.
I think you may have cause and effect reversed. Chidi is tied to Eleanor as a way to use him. Prior experience matters and, among other work, WJH has more episodes of The Electric Company to his credit than he has so far on this series. They cast relative unknowns for Tahani and Jason.
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1 hour ago, SnarkEnthusiast said:
There's no way Nev had suspicions about Taylor from their bland 5 min introduction.
I wouldn't be surprised if Nev says something similar every time, in case it fits the narrative the producers decide to put together. It's also not unusual for reality shows to film things after-the-fact, so anything with Nev and his cohost-of-the-week talking in a nondescript hotel room or coffee shop can be done that way too.
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56 minutes ago, aradia22 said:
I had the exact same thoughts. Maybe they just wanted a snack? But brains can kind of hijack their zombies. Not everyone is as extreme as Liv but we've seen all kinds of effects. Seems risky to just eat an brain in the middle of your crazy plan without knowing the possible side-effects of taking on someone else's personality and memory flashes.
Early episodes of Quantum Leap made the point that it's not as easy as you might think to be someone else. At the least, there are probably things like business procedures and prices they'd want to be up on so that victims won't be telling authorities about the oddly-acting prostitutes they had been with. The memory flashes will be a smaller risk than guys later saying "I didn't care at the time because it was a great deal, but ...".
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There are a lot of non-PC things that you can be accused of and this show casts a diverse enough group that from time to time the HG's who are worst at making the right connections to stick around long may fall into a category. In this case that happened to be "minorities", and I'm hearing that we'll just ignore this other minority that's been wielding more power than some of the white HG's and call "racism". Is there something going on on the feeds that I'm not aware of?
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7 hours ago, BadCommercials said:
Liberty, Liberty, Liberty...Liberty. Cringe. To make it worse the guy with the huge calves.
Why is a "fitness junkie" a little pudgy?
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1 hour ago, funky-rat said:
I'm not a fan of the musical, so I won't be seeing that. I like broadway musicals, but that is one that's just a "no" for me.
You're not itching to see Taylor Swift singing while wearing a cat outfit? 🙂 It looks like they're expecting the variety of big names they've cast to get people in.
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3 hours ago, Paloma said:
I'm not saying you can't ever make a fictional show about drag queens (or about cross-dressers or transgender people), but there needs to be some thought about how they are depicted--preferably in a way that is more than just the stereotypes.
TV shows use stereotypes to tell you about characters without having to have clunky dialog, and no group is excepted from this. With all of the brains Liv has gone through over the seasons, it has never been suggested that the characters in the group(s) of the week are representative. About all you can expect is for them to avoid negative stereotypes, and they've been doing that,
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10 minutes ago, Halting Hex said:
Surely it would be more effective to do after-the-fact, no?
Not if Cliff is looking for the best "why wasn't I included on this?" reaction from Jack. After-the-fact would let the group downplay what Jack was left out of.
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12 hours ago, Soobs said:
Nev has Tallulah in his phone as Tallulah Willis because he knows more than one Tallulah?
I'm sure he just saved her number after she called him.
Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage
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There's an ad for a booking site that has a bunch of guys each saying they booked the last room. It bugs because the company doesn't seem to understand that cancellations happen, and when they do, somebody else can get the new "last" room. It's like they just have a web site and agreements with other companies and never bothered to learn the business they're fronting.