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4 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
I never "pissed on" McCain for enriching himself to the tune of $16 million as a life-long politician, I merely pointed it out to illustrate so many of his fellow veterans faring far, far worse. Note also I did so in direct response to IpMan's virtue signaling about how McCain had it so rough. I don't begrudge anyone for amassing wealth. Wealth is awesome. Whoever said $$$ can't buy happiness must of been a Democrat seeking to steal more of mine to fund more of theirs. You see, I am as consistent in my viewpoints as an atomic clock.
It's guys such as yourself & IpMan that are strangers to consistency. On the one hand, you support athletes who openly disrespect the flag but on the other you have a meltdown if it isn't kept at half-staff until after McCain's interment. Guys like you insist a handful of Russians placing facebook ads can determine the outcome of a Presidential election, but your down with granting full citizenship & all the rights that entails, to include voting, to millions of illegals.
It's gonna be a long week for anyone with a good memory because in the week ahead they will insist McCain was a maverick who was Presidential in all but title. What a crock of shit!
Who me? Well, since you mention it, I believe I can respect a man on the one hand for his later in life integrity and the fact he spent 5 & 1/2 in a POW camp. Plus, disagree with much of his policy issues and his blatant opportunism earlier in his career. A man can be more than one thing you know. Kinda like how I admire what Barack Obama is, what he did, and what he accomplished yet still be pissed off at him because he was way too much of a centrist, did not abolish the Patriot Act, and intensified the drone program.
The problem with Trump is I have found a person with zero redeeming qualities, a feat I believed impossible until now. Truthfully, you can name any President from American history and I point out several good things they did even though they were bad Presidents. Even Andrew Johnson stood against the Radical Republicans during reconstruction and was part of the buying of Alaska.
All our Stable Genius has done is reduce the office of the President to a cartoon, a laughing stock twittering away like some cranked up clown at 3am. The man is a walking Kurt Vonnegut novel.
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27 minutes ago, zepscoda said:
It was that verse we finally got to hear in In the Evening, that should have been a message to Camille the entire time:
So don't let her
Play you for a fool
She don't show no pity baby
She don't make no rulesGoosebumps !!!!!
As soon as she said she was Persephone I knew she was the killer, and then her little speech about how though Hades may have been the one in charge, it was Persephone who meted out punishment in the underworld.
She is one cold child. Shhhhhh...don't tell momma.
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7 hours ago, cryingbluerain said:
Two sides to every story. RIP
Have you people lost your collective minds? This whole video is stupid. There were no POW's left in Vietnam after 1973, there was never any proof because why would the Vietnamese keep the 2,646 Americans missing in action? The majority of that number constitutes soldiers that were blown up or shot up to such a degree their remains could not be identified, soldiers left behind on the battlefield and later killed, and of course, believe it or not, soldiers who just said fuck it and left Vietnam, living under a new name. If there were any left over there they would have simply killed them and be done with in by 75'. Stupid ass video. That is not what is being argued, this is very simple to understand. McCain still served in combat, was shot down, and lived in a POW camp for 5 & 1/2 years. He refused early release and waited until everyone else was released before going home. Whether he was tortured or not, given preferential treatment or not, he was still shot down and rotted in a POW camp for 5 &1/2 years. He was not out chasing beaver for 5 &1/2 years having a good ol' time partying and evicting minorities from buildings he owned while having daddy keep his ass out of the military. Nope, he still put his ass on the line. Something our current President has NEVER done. Trump is the poster child for the philosophy of Looking Out for Number One.
Pathetic
RIP Commander McCain, I may not have always agreed with your position, but I came to respect you for you integrity later in life. McCain is a model life for the work in progress, and I believe the last 20 years of his life he had indeed become a good man.
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5 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
Well, one has to be a serious asshole to continue as a self-serving politician with a lust for power for at least 20 YEARS past one's "Best If Used By Date". One has to be a serious asshole to place all the blame for a failed run at the Presidency squarely on the soft shoulders of the female running mate one purposefully chose in a calculated move to pander to the electorate. What you have said and what I added underscores one point, and that is this is what one can always expect from politicians.
That is a pretty sad attempt at a rebuttal, actually, it was not a rebuttal but a bait and switch, and a poor one at that. Sad.
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16 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
He was the son of an Admiral who amassed a personal net worth of over $16 million as a life-long politician. America's VA hospitals are overrun with veterans who've gone through so much more for so much less so please spare us the virtue signaling.
The man was not perfect, he would be the first one to admit such himself, but by the last 20 years of his life his integrity could not be questioned.
I also am in the camp of "silent service" that is, if you serve that is your choice and you do not use that service to benefit yourself. However, I would take hearing about McCain's torture in an NVA POW camp over Cadet Bone Spurs (Trump) stating on record that avoiding STD's was his own personal Vietnam while is jackass father pulled strings to get him 4 deferments from service.
Seriously, you have to be a SERIOUS asshole to dodge the draft, chase pussy, and stay cosy knowing daddy's connections will keep you safe... and then 50 years later talk shit about a POW. I really would be hard pressed to find a better example of how low and disgusting a person could be, captured on video as well.
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12 hours ago, JTM said:
Page comes across as bit of a petulant nimby, as long as Tower House does not sustain any major damage through fat boy's alteration work on his own property Jimbo ought to stop whinging. If I owned TH as long as it wasn't a listed building, didn't have any kind of preservation order on it I would gut it and completely change it's interior. That current interior is way to gaudy for my tastes, I'm afraid it'd have to go.
What an absurd and ridiculous post
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10 hours ago, Mook said:
I was at the Munich gig in 1980 & conducted a survey of every attendee there & can confirm that 7,500 fans were US servicemen & 7,500 fans were Europeans so you're all wrong, it was 50/50.
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7 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
There is a a lot of bullshit associated with being a man in our society, but a man-child such as yourself wouldn't know about that. I'm neither sad nor butt hurt by it though, aside from tired of people like you who feel people like me owe the world an apology for being so great. All I do is win. You wouldn't see why anyone romanticizes Bonnie & Clyde because you're not down with boys being boys and girls being girls. However, if Clyde had cut his cock cut off and slipped into an evening gown he'd be your avatar.
If you are such a winner, why bother to explain? Every winner I know never needs to explain that he / she is a winner.
Bonnie & Clyde were boys being boys, girls being girls? So murder and theft are normal behaviors now? Talk about a Steve-O flip flop.
Seems the Steve-O protesteth too much
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Anything by the Ohio Players
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2 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
First, there is no such thing as white privilege. It's a fabricated social construct concocted by intellectually vapid black academicians and embraced by guilt-ridden liberal whites. Secondly, no one here is calling the baggage handler who stole the plane a hero and he's not. What he did do however, regardless of race, is remarkable. On some level it probably is romanticized in the same way that what Bonnie & Clyde did is romanticized. As far as endangering lives, he purposefully flew over waterways and near mountain ranges. You make it sound like he made a beeline for the Space Needle. Yes it was damn foolish and yes he's damn fool, but still you got to give the boy some credit, that was a fucking sweet barrel roll.
Per your own words:
"No mental illness with this man, just massive balls. This guy knew what he was doing, and was so sick of the profound bullshit associated with being a man in our society that for 90 minutes he took his life into his own hands. Answering to nobody."
Sounds like if you admired the guy any more you would have asked him on a date had he lived. Then there is the fabricated social constructs of social constructs, "the profound bullshit associated with being a man in our society." Talk about a load of absolute shit! Awww, whats wrong, are poor white men sad because they no longer hold absolute power over women and minorities? Awwwww, boo hoo. Suck it up buttercup. I guess getting along on personality and talent alone is not cutting it. Oh well. The very fact of your above quote pretty much proves white privilege, because if it was simply a construct, why so butthurt over equality?
BTW, Bonnie & Clyde were sociopathic twats, I don't see why anyone with half a brain would romanticize those two losers.
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So let me get this straight, when a black guy steals a pair of $120 Nike's he is a thug, but when some white guy steals a 10 million dollar plane and endangers the lives of others (you know there were humans on the ground below him right?), he is a hero?
I heard of white privilege but DAMN!
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8 hours ago, SymphonyX said:
That's a bunch of total nonsense. Servicemen/women did not make up 70% of the Zeppelin gigs.
Pictures or it never happened.
The site here showing picture of outside and none of them look like servicepeople
http://www.ledzeppelin.com/sites/g/files/g2000006376/f/201705/frankfurt80g_0.jpg
By god man you are correct! I looked at that picture and not a single punter is in uniform, proof positive of your statement. Wow, I sure feel like a fool now.
My friend was stationed in Germany at Boeblingen outside Stuttgart 79' - 82' (which is the same base I would be at six years later). He was quite the traveller and went all over Europe whenever he had leave. The late 70's and well into the 80's were a tough time for terrorism in West Germany, the Red Army Faction and Rz were particularly nasty. By the time I got there in 88' things had calmed down to a degree compared to the early 80's but the groups were still active, just not as much.
I really loved my time in Germany and Europe in general.
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6 hours ago, dave2007 said:
Am well aware of where Rotterdam is but are you ? It is closer to some of the German cities and the US Army bases than they are to each other.
eg. .Cologne to Rotterdam is 160 miles. Munich to Bremen is 465 miles.
As for the US base in Frankfurt...it is 285 miles from Rotterdam. It's also 246 miles from Munich...not that much difference.
Look, I just disagreed that it was stated as "fact" that the "majority" of the attendees on the Euro dates were US Service personnel. You are the one that got worked up about it and have the ;delicate ego'.
Thanks for the geography lesson, BTW, how far is it from London to Bruges? I hear that Bruges is a very calm place.
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11 hours ago, kingzoso said:
I haven't seen any of season 6 (is it Roanoke?). And I know nothing about season 7, not even the season name
By the way; Lily Rabe is a great actress and also a beautiful woman.
Season 6 is Roanoke and is filmed as some sort of reality show BS. It really sucked, reminded me of Blair Witch Project 2. Season 7 is called Cult and for some harebrained reason is all about the 2016 election and Trump in particular. Everyone on this board knows how I feel about this issue but come on, did they really have to go there? Now to be fair I have not seen it so it may surprise me however I doubt it. The new Season 8 is called Apocalypse and is a crossover of seasons 1 & 3 and sounds like it will be a return to form and the best season since Hotel (Season 5).
Yes, Lily Rabe as a great actress and very pleasant on the eyes. I would love to take her out for a lovely dinner.
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29 minutes ago, kingzoso said:
I have all the AHS srasons up to Hotel. Murder House, in my opinion, is the beat of them. Connie Britton is a great actress and a beautiful woman.
So far my favorites are seasons 2 (Asylum), 3 (Coven), and 5 (Hotel). Season 6 was utter rubbish IMO. Have yet to see season 7 however I have read the synopsis and it sounds boring. Thoughts?
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Just watched the season finale to Mindhunter on Netflix and they used In the Light quite liberally during the end of the episode...almost the whole song. The scenes they use the song for fit perfectly.
This is a great series BTW as it is about the founding of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit during the late 70's. The interviews in the series with serial killers are the actual interviews of the real serial killers but read by actors. This is a regular series, not one of those docu-dramas.
Very good show
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1 hour ago, dave2007 said:
Yes, your friend is wrong. The "majority" of the attendance at Frankfurt and Munich were not American service personnel.
You are wrong saying it was a "fact" saying the whole tour was in the "majority" attended by American service personnel.
I was at Rotterdam...attendance was between 10 and 15,000.....if the majority of that was US army personnel it would have been a whole different atmosphere and gig. If you think over half of that attendance was American service personnel then that is quite a troop movement from the base in Germany and the Russians would have gone to Defcon 1. Joking aside, it only takes a few hundred "hollerin and yee haw" americans to vastly impove the atmosphere at a low key euro gig.
Dave Lewis is the best source for this. Have known him personally for over 35 years..he was on the tour with the band. The American personnel thing is acknowledged at Frankfurt and maybe Munich but not the whole tour.
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You do realize Rotterdam is not in Germany, nor is it near any US bases. As only four dates of the European tour were outside of Germany (Brussels, Rotterdam, Zurich, & Vienna) it would make sense those dates would have a greater native population.
You know, I have no idea why you are getting so worked up over this, I was simply stating what a very reliable friend had told me. Plus, I have known other US servicemen who also attended some of the German gigs and they pretty much said the same thing. But hey, if it calms you down then fine, they are all completely wrong, delusional even and you who admittedly attended only the Rotterdam date are the ultimate source of factual information for tour dates you never attended. You mentioned Dave Lewis, so, how about you post a quote from him regarding the make up of the German audiences as I am sure he would know. Or, have him post here to confirm either way since you are such good friends. I have no problem admitting when I am wrong and will gladly do so. In the time being though, in an effort not to bruise your delicate ego, I defer to your expert opinion on this matter...having attended a single show and all.
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6 hours ago, dave2007 said:
Sorry, have to disagree with this. It's not a "fact" at all. There were a notable contingent of US service personnel at Frankfurt and maybe Munich but even on those nights they were not the " majority" of the audience. As for the other 10 or so dates it was definitely not the case
So, my friend who was at both shows is somehow wrong but you are correct? Did you attend either the Frankfurt or Munich shows? Did you attend any of the shows?
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20 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
No mental illness with this man, just massive balls. This guy knew what he was doing, and was so sick of the profound bullshit associated with being a man in our society that for 90 minutes he took his life into his own hands. Answering to nobody.
Yep, massive balls that went right through his skull and became a permanent part of the earth. The winner of this years Darwin Award.
Well played sir, well played
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7 hours ago, Jukkin said:
Lots of excellent audience tapes and soundboards out there that cover 68-80. Since those days remasters and remixes have been done to many tapes resulting in some great concerts being preserved. However, I have never understood why Europe 80 has so few decent recordings - Frankfurt? Zurich? Vienna? Rotterdam? And even they don't sound as good, to me, as either of the Danish warm up nights nights. Other than those four which are not too bad, the rest are a bit meh even after Winston's worked his magic. I would have thought that the band's comeback, even in a limited European tour would have got the hearts pumping with it's implications of business as usual before too long. Yet very few quality recordings exist. Always been puzzled by the seeming lack of interest from the fans.
I hate to say this but it is likely because it was a European tour at a time when no one in Europe gave a shit about Zeppelin, the Who, the Stones, or any of the "old guard" bands. The Stones did not embark on a tour of Europe until 82' after punk had all but died over there. But 1980...hell no. The European music scene was completely different from the US scene at the time.
I venture the US leg of the tour would have been covered extensively and possibly a show or two multi-tracked. As it was when tickets were announced for the American dates they either immediately sold out (dates which tickets were sold) or would have due to insane demand. Zep could have easily played the mega-arenas if they wanted to on the US 80-81' tour but in Europe they couldn't even get arrested if they wanted to. The fact is, the majority of the audience at those European dates were American servicemen. I have a friend who attended both the Frankfurt and Munich gigs and he supported this fact. He said the shows were pretty much USO shows in all but name only, that's how much of the audience were US soldiers.
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16 hours ago, Strider said:
Alec Baldwin does a hilarious cold open much in the way like his "Put THAT coffee down" open in "Glengarry Glen Ross".
Another great movie. You would think getting that many top flight actors together it would turn into a shit show as such ensemble casts typically do. Not this movie, everyone is spot on. In particular, Jack Lemmon gives one of, if not the greatest performance of his career. That and Day's of Wine & Roses are my two favorite Lemmon performances. Honorable mention to China Syndrome of course.
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12 hours ago, Strider said:
No. As it says in the credits it is based on Ron Stallworth's memoir "Black Klansman". Stallworth was the first black man on the Colorado Springs PD.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Klansman-Memoir-Ron-Stallworth/dp/1250299047
Ha, I was just joking.
As soon as you said Colorado Springs that was all I needed to know. That town makes Tokyo look culturally diverse by comparison. Not to mention all the shenanigans going on at the Air Force Academy. Such a beautiful place, been there once and through it a few times but you could not pay me to visit there ever again.
Can't wait to see this movie.
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4 hours ago, Strider said:
Best Spike Lee movie in years! Great cast. Adam Driver just keeps killing it! Who knew Steve Buscemi had a brother? For most of the movie, I'm thinking 'Is that Steve Buscemi? Damn, he looks old!" Then the credits roll and I see it is Michael Buscemi. The real surprise was that Eric Forman kid from "That '70s Show"...Topher Grace nails David Duke. Really inspired casting. I'll be seeing it again this weekend with some friends.
So I gather this is not based on the Dave Chappelle skit?
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On 8/15/2018 at 7:06 AM, Anjin-san said:
1979 Released today:
Sweet poster, but a recent one. Lawrence or as he was known then and listed as such in the movie credits was Larry Fishburn. He was never listed in any original promotion or poster for the movie as he was completely unknown...that was his first movie and he was just 15 years old when the movie was filmed.
Awesome movie though, one of my favorites. I have both the original version & Redux on DVD. I can understand why they did not use the portion from the French plantation as it was just too meandering, as was the scene with the Playboy Bunnies. Of course I always get a chuckle when the Chief asks Willard if there are any "mommas" and when Williard says "what?" Chief says never mind and walks away. Pretty stupid of Chief if you ask me. Willard clearly did not understand the slang so if there were some soul sisters his dumb ass would have missed out, simply because he was too proud to clarify his inquiry. I know, minor silly point but it always cracked me up.
LED ZEPPELIN IN HBO'S "SHARP OBJECTS"
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I noticed something was weird between the two but did not notice the marks. As much as a John Wayne Gacy or a BTK are pure monsters, there is something extra creepy, extra menacing about a sociopathic teen.
There were a lot, and I mean a LOT of references to The Bad Seed in the last episode. From the attempted poisoning, to the dialogue, etc.
So, anyone watching Mindhunter yet???