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36 minutes ago, Joe Jitsu913 said:
FBI Profiler John Douglas (hired by the Ramseys at one point) states in his book "The Cases that Haunt Us" that most criminals he's met who commit a murder are too wired and anxious to do anything else. They're running on pure adrenaline. He mentioned that a killer wouldn't be in the right kind of frame of mind to sit there and write a lengthy ransom note (along with a practice note).
I have a lot of issues with John Douglas, particularly since he earned money off of the case. I also don't think profiling is this exact science the FBI pretends that it is. If we're not to take any clues from how John and Patsy acted in the days after the case, because there's no one way people are going to react to that kind of stress, then doesn't that also apply to this?
Also, try as I might, I cannot come up with any scenario where it's more likely someone other than Patsy wrote that note.
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On 9/25/2016 at 11:30 PM, pythonite said:
Santa made my skin crawl when I watched him being interviewed years ago. It was all weird little stories about how important Santa Bill was to JBR, and he struck me as being far too at ease with the idea she was dead. I'm very suspicious of his intentions toward the little girl, he was obsessed with her in an unhealthy way. I though it was him.
If memory serves, for however odd/creepy Santa was, he'd also had open-heart surgery a few weeks prior, and was so weakened by it, he couldn't keep his job as a mall Santa. That makes him as a perp extremely unlikely.
I know discussion of this goes around and around in circles, but that doesn't really mean the discussion is any less fun. I've always been under the impression that Patsy was the actual killer (generously, let's call it an accident), and when I read Perfect Murder, Perfect Town that kind of strengthened my option. I really liked the specials, even though they clearly came at it with the belief that Burke was the one who did it. But what I also don't know for sure is if that's an artifact of their investigation probably having been completed before they started filming.
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I always thought the point of fishing was not the catching of fish, but the drinking of beer while waiting for the fish.
11 hours ago, rhys said:Paleo was all over the place & I missed the quick reference to another product. Can someone help a girl out?
He was talking about the way Amy's built its brand. Although he was quick to point out that Amy is vegetarian, and not all manly and brawny like paleo. And then he grunted like a caveman and did more burpees.
Honestly, I thought the lapel thing was almost clever. I can see it having the ability to be tacky, but I agree that it would be great for high school proms, and I thought the guy with the wine-colored suit really did look good with the black lapels. And the jacket they had for Lori actually looked okay too.
I really have no comment on Magnet Lady. She was competent and had a product that solves an actual problem.
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6 hours ago, LittleIggy said:
Really. Would have made a bit more sense if they had let her have honey. Of course, then Manning wouldn't have been able to make her insta-diagnosis.
ER did a honey baby story. Although at this point, it's hard for a medical show to do something ER didn't.
In real life, Natalie would have known as soon as the observation "She's floppy!" was made. It's literally called Floppy Baby Syndrome.
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My heart just totally broke in Connor and Oliver's big scene. I can't even be mad at Oliver, because he seems unhappy too. I'm probably too involved in it, because I am aware these are fictional people.
The COTW and especially Amy Madigan's performance in same, were one of the best we've had in a long time.
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On 9/29/2016 at 0:20 PM, EricJ said:
A question for current New Yorkers - does "Harlem" actually still exist? That is, is it really still an organic, predominantly African-American community, or is it like Little Italy, a few soul-food restaurants and gospel brunches primarily for tourists surrounded by more recent immigrant populations and waves of gentrification?
Depends on the part. I (half of a white male/male couple, the stalking horse of gentrification) used to live in Harlem. I was trying to spot the locations, and a lot of it seemed to be filmed around 125th St, where the Apollo Theater is. That area is pretty touristy, but there are still vendors selling bootleg DVDs (just no footage of the Chitauri attack) and the like, so it's not completely sanitized. The further north you go, the less gentrified it is, although that's starting to change. There are a lot of really beautiful old brownstones in the 140s. I'm pretty sure the storefront of Pop's is in my old neighborhood.
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5 hours ago, statsgirl said:
Would she need the parents' permission in real life?
Yes. Running a test without consent is legally the same as Halstead ignoring the DNR. The only exception is in an emergency.
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I think there are people who will deny stuff until it's laid out directly in front of them.
Which shouldn't really be a surprise. In the most recent volume of Sensation Comics, she officiated a wedding between two women she'd befriended, and when Superman asked about her being pro-gay marriage, she simply pointed out that where she was from, it was just marriage.
I can only imagine the hue and cry that's come up from some corners of the internet. I think it's great, personally.
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So, I see the writers spent the hiatus watching The Night Shift. For however ridiculous that show is, at least it doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is.
We suffer through all the crap about Leann becoming ER Chief, and then they just handwave it?
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I know this wasn't a "great" episode per se, but Kelli Williams so fantastic, I really wish we were back in the salad days when the show got Guest Actor/Actress Emmys left right and center.
As ridiculous as Uncle Joe and his "friend" Olivia were, it was clearly intended as a nod to Mariska's Joyful Heart Foundation. She's done similar press conferences with Cyrus Vance, Manhattan's real DA, before. And whatever else you think of her, the foundation is a great thing.
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At least those posters aren't going to give me panic attack like the Man on a Wire ones did.
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It's worth seeing. There's a new Blu-Ray coming out next month that contains the original cut of the film under its original title Legion. The footage was supposedly lost, so I'm not sure where they found it, but I'm glad they did.
It's really more of a thriller than a horror movie, but there's this one great scene...I'm not going to describe it, but you'll know it when/if you see it.
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19 hours ago, Lisin said:
On Chicago's south side, a series of bizarre ritual killings begin taking place.
If this is inspired by the vastly underrated Exorcist III, I'm very impressed. The movie has a very bad exorcism scene that was tacked on at studio demands (the actor playing the priest never actually shares the screen with any of the other actors), but 3/4ths of it is a fantastic thriller with great performances from George C Scott and Brad Dourif.
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Has anyone watched this? I watched about 15-20 minutes of the first episode and could not get into it. Should I go back and stick it out?
Yes. I think they've rejiggered it as well, because Grace Gummer's take on Nora Ephron, which was originally announced as only being part of the pilot, is now credited as a main character.
It's a very stylish show, and Anna Camp (playing the character you'd expect Anna Camp to play) and Genevieve Angelson who plays Patti, the very driven flower-child researcher, are both great.-
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10 minutes ago, LGGirl said:
I loved the dad and mom who put together the sting/posse.
Indeed. Go vigilantes! /s
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The other thing about iSlide is that I'm not entire sure how viable a business model based primarily on DJ Khaled is.
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Honestly, if I had children, I'd forbid them from going within a mile of social media.
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11 minutes ago, statsgirl said:
Wouldn't Halstead be earning about $200,000 a year as an attending?
Should be a lot more than that, especially in Chicago.
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It's very slickly made, and I liked it enough to stick out for however long it sticks around, but I have to say it kind of spoiled it for me when they decided to tip into the supernatural stuff right away. Even though the movie is calledThe Exorcist and the audience knows what's coming, Reagan doesn't start doing demonic stuff until about halfway into the movie. Those scenes of her getting tortured in the name of a medical diagnosis are as scary if not scarier than the head-spinning and soup-spitting.
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I could see sending chicken soup as a novelty once (although probably not at those prices), but unlike, say, flowers or candy, you can't sent it for Mother's Day or a birthday. And this is perhaps unkind, but I don't know if the news that one of my parents had been diagnosed with cancer that my first impulse would be to send soup through the mail, rather than get on a plane. And of course, the crying.
Flip-flop guy is a blooming idiot. I wonder if he was crying because he realized that he'd just totally blown it.
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Goddamnit, Lori, don't make me start to like you.
In another first, they found a teenager who wasn't annoying.
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Would Annalise be reacting like that to Connor? She seems to have a different kind of relationship with him than with the other Five, but it's not the kind of maternal feelings that she has toward Wes nor the respect she has for Laurel. She seems fond of him and kind of treats him like a baby bird, but it's not quite the same thing.
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Just now, Texasmom1970 said:
Okay I also know its a television show, and is possible in real life but am I the only one who found the grand father coming back to life for just a minute just as he daughter and grand daughter rushed in a little over the top and hokey?
Not even a little bit. Especially with the "this is made for the preview" moment of Halstead telling Choi "I saw a dead man come back to life." Barf.
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S08.E02: GoodHangups, The Lapel Project, Ice Age Meals, TactiBite
in Shark Tank
I think the point was more that you could turn a dark suit INTO a tux by applying the lapels. So rather than buy or rent them, you just buy a sticker and use it on a suit you already own.
I don't know, I didn't go to prom and definitely didn't wear a tux when I got married, so even two occasions seem like a lot to me.