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Once upon a time in Hollywood any good ?
dpberr replied to Teddy KGB's topic in Off the Wall Archives
The Bruce Lee part was hilarious (IMO). I don't know why his daughter is upset. What I appreciate most, especially in retrospect, is the attention to the dialogue in his movies. So many memorable lines. I'm disappointed that we will never have a Winston Wolff or a Vega brothers movie. -
Seahawks rookie D.K. Metcalf to have knee surgery
dpberr replied to HOUSE's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Agree and felt the same way about him. He's way way way too top heavy. Those leg tendons are over-exercised and carrying more weight (arguably all muscle) than they should be. Those tendons are also now running routes, precise as possible, and that adds serious stress to them. -
Who is your slightly surprising cut?
dpberr replied to JohninMinn.'s topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Hauschka is my vote. Something isn't right with him. -
Are we talking characters or actors? The characters were likely cut from the same cloth. Stallone's Captain John Rambo and Schwarzenegger's Major Alan Schaeffer were both from US Army Special Forces units. Rambo, a member of MACV/SOG in Vietnam. Based on the movie, Schwarzenegger knew the dead guys they found in the helicopter as "Green Berets from Fort Bragg" which suggests he was likely a member of Delta Force. I give the the edge to Schwarzenegger's character. He's younger and he defeated an enemy who had the edge on geography, technology and strength with a heavy tree and some mud. Rambo was very good at taking on poorly trained Soviets in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
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If Jay-Z can make the SB halftime show better, good for him. I doubt he does this deal with the NFL and if so, it's not for very long. He doesn't strike me as a guy who's going to withstand the heat he's absolutely going to get no matter what he does.
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The Dolphins are like the LA Lakers. For decades, hubris has prevented them from doing a legitimate rebuild and resisting the temptation to do dumb things. People kill the Bills for their playoff ineptitude while ignoring that the *spend spend spend* Dolphins haven't won a playoff game in nearly 20 years (2000) and their last conference championship appearance was in 1992 versus the Bills. Hell, they've had just one winning season in the 10s.
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Most public schools no longer teach cursive writing. At all. The secret code of the future will be cursive writing.
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Democratic 2020 Presidential Primary Thread
dpberr replied to snafu's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
The Democrats are out of time. They are hopeless slaves to the Trump 24/7 mania. The Democrats had all this time to come up with decent ideas about healthcare, transportation, college debt, law enforcement reform, moderate gun control positions, etc. Not to mention coalesce around three candidates, not 20+. They pissed it all away on the "Trump is Bad" feel good emotional rage out and fighting "every" single battle instead of picking them. Trump is especially vulnerable on healthcare and transportation because he hasn't done a thing about either issue. -
I think Epstein is a small part of a very deep, very dark worldwide organized, very sophisticated pedophilia/trafficking organization. I think the information he had/has is so damning that it'd destabilize whole industries and whole countries, including the US. He and Maxwell were the "storefront" for a larger organization of people. People talk about third rail groups all the time - I think this is a bonafide secret one that truly exists.
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Don't take your dogs to the lake anymore
dpberr replied to Royale with Cheese's topic in Off the Wall Archives
This is a sad, tragic story. However, the dangers of fresh water swimming have been in the news a lot over the last few years, especially in the south. I know that we "should" be able to bathe in fresh water ponds because we always did it with no problems but it's more dangerous today. It's likely a very unpopular opinion but I feel this lady should have known the risks. -
Hollywood Blockbuster Satirizes Killing Of Deplorables’
dpberr replied to OldTimeAFLGuy's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Fox News with the big stretch on this one. First of all, the original short story was published in the 1920s. Get Out was essentially the same plot! The Hostel movies just involved elite Europeans. The 90s had two decent humans hunting human movies. Ice T was hunted by Rutger Hauer and his hunting buddies in 1994's Surviving the Game, Jean Claude Van Damme was hunted by Lance Henriksen in 1993's Hard Target. (likely John Woo's best American action film.) -
What is better, no guns, or more guns?
dpberr replied to Security's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
If I were Trump, I wouldn't care whatsoever what LaPierre or the NRA thinks. Besides being a corrupt organization that doesn't serve its membership well, the leadership has been on the wrong side of the gun debate for a long time. (opinion of a former long time member) -
Smacking around the Chinese on trade was going to happen. Some US President was going to have to do it. Just so happened to be Trump. Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2 and Obama all certainly could have done the same thing.
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Democratic 2020 Presidential Primary Thread
dpberr replied to snafu's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
She's their best all around candidate to beat Trump, IMO. If it weren't a crazy pills time, the not-elderly, female war vet who's anti-war would be the candidate of choice. -
Mass shooting at El Paso Walmart/and also Dayton OH
dpberr replied to Patrick Duffy's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
That's an example of a common sense regulation that'd help. In this instance, the media is right. There is a "pistol" loophole. Owning a short barreled rifle or SBR requires a lot of paperwork and wait time. I have a Colt SBR and it took me months to complete the paperwork and take possession of it. Those drum high cap magazines should also require a tax stamp. The government isn't banning either product - just making you go through the hoops. -
Nope. They turned F&F from street racing outlaws to an impossible missions force that goes all over the planet now, taking on drug cartels, weapon traffickers, and terrorists. The Expendables had a good idea bringing back actors from the 80s and 90s but the stories were first pedestrian, then weird. (Schwarzenegger's character is revealed to not only be gay...but in a relationship with Jet Li's character) See, you're missing out. Hahaha.
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What is better, no guns, or more guns?
dpberr replied to Security's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I agree. Bans just speed up the evolution of the means. Today it's guns. Tomorrow it's drones. Why shoot up a place when you can fly a drone or drones inside it and detonate the bomb you've attached to it? -
Just another reason why Rex and his crew was fired
dpberr replied to Protocal69's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Ed doesn't want to put the work in. A lot of players who want to be coaches intern and do the grunt work for a few years on staff. He just wants to be coach because he's Ed Reed. -
I don't think the Chinese can wait out the United States. Despite the bluster, their economy is more fragile than ours.
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I don't think he has more than Biden. The Sanders fundraising is consistent or stagnating, depending on how you look at it. He's raising it but I think he's burning through it equally fast. The transfer of money from his senate account already suggests to me he has a cash flow problem. It's early to be doing that. I think he likes being rich more than seeing the party adopt his ideals. I know a lot of people believe in Bernie Sanders but he's a millionaire and has published a book every year since he ran in 2016.
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I think Bernie Sanders is done after last night. I don't think his campaign has any money, he's not going to spend his own money, and he doesn't look like he's interested in campaigning for *another* year. I give it a month. The DNC isn't doing anything to trim the heard either - so the money will continue to be diluted.
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Panthers/Chargers The Ron Rivera "every other" holds true for another run. Chargers avoid Foxboro. Panthers have a legendary title match against the Seahawks in the conference championship. The Chargers, with home field advantage, beat the Chiefs. (Age catches up to Brees and Brady, Wentz is injured again, Steelers, Packers are average)