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People still watch ESPN outside of Buffalo Wild Wings?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:05 PM (kaLsp) 2
Bub-bye.
1 People still watch ESPN outside of Buffalo Wild Wings? Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:05 PM (kaLsp) Nope. They have junk on for the last few years. Posted by: Ann at January 26, 2018 04:05 PM (jtHQy) 3
In Russia, bots infiltrate you!
Posted by: RoozskiBotMan at January 26, 2018 04:05 PM (ctuyM) 4
Top 5?
Posted by: random 5
And no, never heard of that genre of movies. Or does Billy Jack fall into that category?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:06 PM (kaLsp) 6
What is this ESPN you speak of?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2018 04:06 PM (tr2D7) 7
It was late-sixties thing about so-called "beautiful losers," people who
just didn't fit into Society, and, of course, who were therefore losers, but were "beautiful" in their loserdom. They felt so much, and had such Integrity in their Losing. But the others in society, they're so PLASTIC, man. Posted by: Holden Caulfield at January 26, 2018 04:06 PM (LAe3v) 8
Beautiful Losers:
Walter Mondale Michael Dukakis Al Gore John Kerry Hillary Clinton John McCain Mitt Romney Bob Dole Posted by: Tom Servo at January 26, 2018 04:07 PM (k1TUh) 9
SJW's can destroy something real quick,right NFL?
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2018 04:07 PM (LiyEm) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 26, 2018 04:07 PM (pYqXv) 11
Well, nuch as I dislike her, I hope ESJWPN has to pay her anyway, just for spite! PFFFTT!
Posted by: random 12
man I got the Kahlua Pork thing wrong AND made the last comment on two threads today. Sheesh...at least Hillary is still not my preznit.
Posted by: DanMan at January 26, 2018 04:08 PM (XTiHL) 13
OT: just read that Ms. Lindsay has been cut out of any future talks about DACA. Screwed the pooch, idiot
Posted by: Cheri at January 26, 2018 04:08 PM (JkFpA) 14
ESPN..ESPN...I seem to vaguely recall something along those lines...
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 26, 2018 04:08 PM (ul9CR) 15
But the others in society, they're so PLASTIC, man.
Posted by: Holden Caulfield They are the future, though. Posted by: Benjamin Braddock at January 26, 2018 04:08 PM (LAe3v) 16
Beautiful loser - Buford T Justice
Posted by: MAGA at January 26, 2018 04:08 PM (JHs8o) 17
>>>>>The Undefeated, which is all about the intersection of, get very much this, race, politics, and sports.
. . .This alone should tell everyone everything they need to know about ESPN. Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 26, 2018 04:09 PM (+Dllb) 18
Ace, re: Marvel and Soviet Justice Wanking. T
his guy talks about that. How when you make some physical characteristic the defining thing about your character as the SJW writers do, then there is nothing left to talk about with that character. And he uses an answer from Avery Brooks who played Sisko to highlight that point. https://youtu.be/u-5KSdpfWcI Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:09 PM (kaLsp) 19
Oh, nice post. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2018 04:09 PM (fceHP) 20
Bless the Beasts and Children is a beautiful losers book and movie.
Posted by: DJIA Death Watch at January 26, 2018 04:09 PM (QQ+il) 21
Not really...
Large media organizations tend to move towards the loudest voices, as "volume" generally equals publicity (which is always good, per MBAs everywhere) Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 26, 2018 04:09 PM (fdz7u) 22
PIAPS was a really sore loser.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 26, 2018 04:09 PM (89T5c) 23
dammit
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:09 PM (QQ+il) Posted by: RoyalOil at January 26, 2018 04:09 PM (xww/W) 25
>>>5 And no, never heard of that genre of movies. Or does Billy Jack fall into that category?
I doubt it, because Billy Jack could kick ass and could be master of his fate, right? I mean, if BIlly Jack is a Beautiful Loser, then a character who's an awful lot like him -- Rambo -- is also a beautiful loser, and I don't think anyone's claiming First Blood was a beautiful loser counterculture picture. But I don't know. I think Robert Downey -- senior -- might ave directed some of these pieces of shit. (They sound like pieces of shit, at least.) Posted by: ace at January 26, 2018 04:10 PM (8rNrN) 26
Hopefully everyone getting a tax cut or one time bonus from their employer is going to invest that money into cutting the cable and purchasing some toys for streaming. Yes, invest. If you spend a couple hundred and you save five hundred every year after, that's a good investment. Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 26, 2018 04:10 PM (2FqvZ) Posted by: Gossamer at January 26, 2018 04:10 PM (G0XCe) Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 26, 2018 04:10 PM (ul9CR) Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at January 26, 2018 04:10 PM (72PAC) 30
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But the others in society, they're so PLASTIC, man. Posted by: Holden Caulfield They are the future, though. Posted by: Benjamin Braddock You're tearing me APART! Posted by: Jim Stark at January 26, 2018 04:10 PM (LAe3v) 31
OT: just read that Ms. Lindsay has been cut out of any future talks about DACA. Screwed the pooch, idiot
Posted by: Cheri at January 26, 2018 04:08 PM (JkFpA) read where? Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2018 04:11 PM (fceHP) 32
How 'bout Easy Rider?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:11 PM (fuK7c) 33
Beautiful Loser is actually quite a good Bob Seger tune. As good if not better than any of his better know hits IMHO. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 04:11 PM (mbhDw) 34
The mainline protestant churches, the Catholic Church, and a real solid attempt with the military
Marxism screws up everything it touches and it does so ON PURPOSE, It thrives on chaos; inside out, upside down, bottom up, top down. Once you've destroyed the host, you move on to the next host until you can insist that the marxists can solve all your problems by putting you into an ant farm. There is nothing they won't go after; sex, children, security, food, weather, communication, clothes, even your toilet. Everything is open game to them. Posted by: dagny at January 26, 2018 04:11 PM (16bxt) 35
ESPN is a rumblin', stumblin' pile of ex-cree- ment!
Posted by: Keith Jackson at January 26, 2018 04:11 PM (bc2Lc) 36
They were beautiful precisely because they were losers, and ineffectual in changing their fates in a Society rigged against them.
Losing sucks. Losing continually = shithole. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:11 PM (W2taJ) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 04:12 PM (mbhDw) 38
But the others in society, they're so PLASTIC, man.
Posted by: Holden Caulfield They are the future, though. Posted by: Benjamin Braddock You're tearing me APART! Posted by: Jim Stark at January 26, 2018 04:10 PM (LAe3v) Some times I just go BERSERK! Posted by: Billy Jack at January 26, 2018 04:12 PM (QQ+il) 39
And "The Undefeated" is a modest western best known for having a pickup truck drive behind John Wayne and cast in 1860s Mexico...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 26, 2018 04:12 PM (fdz7u) 40
They're deadly parasites for any organization that allows them to crawl inside their bodies.
Really? As if our press wasn't bad enough already, you compare us to Democrats? Posted by: Tapeworms at January 26, 2018 04:12 PM (LAe3v) 41
What about the Lonesome Loser?
Posted by: Little River Band at January 26, 2018 04:12 PM (89T5c) Posted by: Don Q'Bot at January 26, 2018 04:12 PM (NgKpN) 43
Teh Googlez doesn't know "beautiful losers films of the sixties."
Just a 2008 movie and the Seger song. Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 26, 2018 04:12 PM (ul9CR) 44
The dead fukn skin of the once important institution you sjwhores wear upon your backs is dead. We see the rot, mange, and maggots as you parade around in your dead suit.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 26, 2018 04:13 PM (SPs83) 45
Losing sucks. Losing continually = shithole.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:11 PM (W2taJ) Dude. Posted by: The Cleveland Browns at January 26, 2018 04:13 PM (72PAC) 46
Bye, Felicia!
Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at January 26, 2018 04:13 PM (5fSr7) 47
And Disney seems to have killed Star Warbles with SJW. And so has CBS with Star Trek: Discovery
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:13 PM (kaLsp) 48
They were beautiful precisely because they were losers, and ineffectual in changing their fates in a Society rigged against them.
So, obviously, society needs to change so that they can be better appreciated and be like everyone else . It's society as formed that doesn't appreciate them properly. It would, of course, if it were engineered to foster every person so they were equal to every other person. Posted by: dagny at January 26, 2018 04:14 PM (16bxt) 49
Hoping to stay out of the barrel.
Posted by: Penfold at January 26, 2018 04:14 PM (Fbt5B) 50
may low ratings defeat the undefeated
Posted by: concrete girl at January 26, 2018 04:14 PM (C6eZV) 51
How about Breaking Away? Definitely beautiful losers.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:14 PM (QQ+il) 52
HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE LONESOME LOSER
Posted by: Kareoke Stan at January 26, 2018 04:14 PM (sXKrQ) 53
I also don't watch ESPN but in the spirit of the holidays, good money after bad.
Posted by: Penfold at January 26, 2018 04:15 PM (Fbt5B) 54
Only one that springs to mind for me is Napoleon Dynamite. Don't know about the beautiful part though.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2018 04:15 PM (wPiJc) 55
Well, she'll be safe there - it sounds like a show entirely devoted to genocidal racism so a perfect fit, she can just be herself.
Posted by: russian-bot_rat_eez, gaslighting you 24/365 at January 26, 2018 04:15 PM (oVWx5) 56
this goes along to things like "is this minor female character a feminist?" workshopping that goes on whenever some character gets popular.
Is poison ivy a feminist, sure kid, why not. but even more likely, is the mentally imbalanced girl who stalked the Joker a feminist? Duh...almost by definition. Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:15 PM (V3U1L) 57
Damn I was willowed bigly.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 04:15 PM (cdYPW) 58
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How about Breaking Away? Definitely beautiful losers. Posted by: Grump928(C) Except the hero wins the race, and I don't care what you say, I think he nailed the hot girl later. Posted by: pep at January 26, 2018 04:15 PM (LAe3v) 59
I hate ESPN, but do love me some Buffalo Wild Wings. Wings with Original Buffalo Rub, bleu cheese and celery. Mmmm.
Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:15 PM (2sCft) 60
When Trump gets done dismantling Barry Obama's Legacy, Barry will become the King of Beautiful Losers.
Posted by: Fritz at January 26, 2018 04:15 PM (bJ0w+) 61
Holden Caufield's mother had to have been a drunk narcissistic slut.
That's what I got when I reread it as an adult. Posted by: dagny at January 26, 2018 04:15 PM (16bxt) Posted by: 13times at January 26, 2018 04:15 PM (WHVu+) 63
It was late-sixties thing about so-called "beautiful losers," people who just didn't fit into Society
--- This also is the story of barack obama Posted by: Methos at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (XQvuQ) 64
Is _A River Runs Through It_ a beautiful loser movie?
Posted by: goodluckduck at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (rwaEp) 65
I always feel lost when people talk about people on TV or TV shows. I didn't own a TV for 25 years and never missed it. Too busy doing other crap and can't stand to watch sports except a little golf. I remember I had a lawyer in Dallas and he told me when cable TV first started up, " 20 or 30 years from now, a bunch of talentless nobodies will be on the tube "
He also told me that music vids would ruin music. IDK Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (4u7kU) Posted by: Monk at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (g4lFK) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (mbhDw) 68
The first Billy Jack movie = not beautiful loser
Billy Jack sequels = beautiful losers all the way down Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (EzdLW) 69
They're not even beautiful losers. I don't see Hannibal, Cleopatra, Charles I, or Robert E Lee in their pantheon.
They also aren't really Social Justice WARRIORS. I know the word was initially adopted sarcastically, but that's worn out now. We should rename them Social Justice - Vampires - Leeches -Tapeworms - Lice Or just plain Parasites. Posted by: George LeS at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (+TcCF) 70
In the shuffling madness Of the locomotive breath, Runs the all, time loser, Headlong to his death He feels the piston scraping Steam breaking on his brow Old Charlie stole the handle and The train it won't stop going No way to slow down Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (QQ+il) 71
Beautiful loser movies...
Elecrtaglide in Blue One Flew Over the Coo Coo's Nest 5 Easy Pieces Midnight Cowboy Ned Beaty in Deliverance... Posted by: Dang at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (8b+oT) 72
I think Tell me that you love me Junie Moon was a beautiful loser movie. The whole thing was pointless and depressing
Posted by: kallisto at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (sqMPm) 73
How about Breaking Away? Definitely beautiful losers.
1980-ish. Also the skinny guy wins at the end. More like plucky underdogs. I voted for Easy Rider because they set off to see America and get murdered for being different and also the 1960s. Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:17 PM (fuK7c) 74
even the losers get lucky some times
Posted by: Zombie Tom Petty at January 26, 2018 04:17 PM (ZQfW9) Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2018 04:17 PM (wPiJc) Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2018 04:17 PM (LiyEm) 77
as long as people slight right of left of center keep losing their jobs whenever the lefty outrage crew goes into full twitter meltdown, then this direction will never change.
I was struck by Rush today, he mention he had no use for twitter since twitter was a vehicle and a tool for crazy lefties to try to destroy him. I am weening myself off a sad habit of twitter and facebook and a million other internet dopamine hits. It's a waste of time that will get me fired more so than heroine. But it's hard. Twitter is for ISIS not for normies. sad Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:17 PM (V3U1L) 78
64 Is _A River Runs Through It_ a beautiful loser movie?
Posted by: goodluckduck at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (rwaEp) A movie that is there to remind you of how awful of an actor Brad Pitt is Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:17 PM (4u7kU) 79
Revenge of the Nerds
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:17 PM (QQ+il) 80
That's what is so bitter sweet as Marvel closes in on the end of their first decade. There's is an almost formal changing of the guard taking place with the next two back to back Avengers films. There is a sort of long good bye to the cis white era and a sense that new slightly more SJW characters are seated to come to center stage. Goodbye golden era Marvel Cinematic Universe!!
Posted by: Max Power at January 26, 2018 04:17 PM (llxrS) 81
A young Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern alongside star Dennis Christopher. I think he won the race and learned the life lesson of being happy and thankful for who you are and where you come from, and in being yourself. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (mbhDw) 82
Back back back back back back back back back back back back back back
Back back back back back back back back back back back back back........ Posted by: 400 lb. Chris Berman at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (89T5c) 83
What we need is a governmental organization dedicated to forcing people to watch these shows and buy the approved products.
It would work just as well as socialized medicine has. Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (7ZVPa) 84
Bless the Beasts and Children is a beautiful losers book and movie.
Posted by: DJIA Death Watch at January 26, 2018 04:09 PM (QQ+il) Yes, agreed. Haven't thought of that moving in years. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (2sCft) 85
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Hopefully everyone getting a tax cut or one time bonus from their employer is going to invest that money into cutting the cable and purchasing some toys for streaming. Yes, invest. If you spend a couple hundred and you save five hundred every year after, that's a good investment. Cut the cord, no reason not to do it save money get the product YOU want and quit paying esjwpn and all the rest. Cable/satellite is a horrible overpriced waste, get rid of it. you will be glad you did. Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! that cut the cord and never looked back. at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (0OmEj) 86
She's going to a blog site that has very little traffic so she can SJW everyone to DEATH to her hearts content and preach her "hate whitey" garbage where NO ONE WILL SEE IT and ESPN won't have to answer questions about it.
Enjoy obscurity, dizzy. You've earned it. No one wants that shit as a part of their SPORTS broadcast. NO ONE. Posted by: Sponge at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (Zz0t1) 87
Midnight Cowboy for sure.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (fuK7c) 88
Cool Hand Luke, beautiful loser? Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (lKyWE) 89
They also aren't really Social Justice WARRIORS. I
know the word was initially adopted sarcastically, but that's worn out now. We should rename them Social Justice - Vampires - Leeches -Tapeworms - Lice Or just plain Parasites. Posted by: George LeS ----- I'd go with tapeworms. Getting into the organization, feeding off it. Slowly killing it. Posted by: Dang at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (8b+oT) 90
Anna Kournikova?
Except she's world famous and rich for being a mediocre tennis player. You just have to define your goals. Posted by: pep at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (LAe3v) 91
And this is why I mostly prefer Japanese developed games, as they MOSTLY don't care about appeasing American Political Masters.
Yeah, there are a few exceptions, but he. Posted by: Hikaru at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (XMDuf) 92
He sees his children jumping off At stations, one by one His woman and his best friend In bed and having fun He's crawling down the corridor On his hands and knees Old Charlie stole the handle and The train it won't stop going No way to slow down Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (QQ+il) 93
88 Cool Hand Luke, beautiful loser?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (lKyWE) Von Ryan's Express. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (mbhDw) 94
Leaving Las Vegas
Posted by: Monk at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (g4lFK) Are you saying you think this is s beautiful loser movie? Leaving Las Vegas is a movie everyone who believes they may be developing a drinking problem should watch. I did not see anything beautiful in any of it. Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (cdYPW) Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (W2taJ) 96
75: Amen.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (89T5c) 97
I hate ESPN, but do love me some Buffalo Wild Wings. Wings with Original Buffalo Rub, bleu cheese and celery. Mmmm.
000 their garlic paremsan sausce is the bomb. My charmed adult life is now obsessed with, while low carbing for the most part and IF'ing, finding great french fries. B-dubs's are ok but Hooyter's fries remain great. Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (V3U1L) 98
Jemelle Hill?
I'd hit it.... *hic* Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 26, 2018 04:07 PM (pYqXv) Seriously, I don't find her attractive at all. Is it just me? Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (2sCft) 99
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What we need is a governmental organization dedicated to forcing people to watch these shows and buy the approved products. You mean like Airport terminals showing CNN? Posted by: whig at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (acrHV) 100
80 That's what is so bitter sweet as Marvel closes in on the end of their first decade. There's is an almost formal changing of the guard taking place with the next two back to back Avengers films. There is a sort of long good bye to the cis white era and a sense that new slightly more SJW characters are seated to come to center stage. Goodbye golden era Marvel Cinematic Universe!!
Posted by: Max Power at January 26, 2018 04:17 PM (llxrS) Such is my terror. The only movies I go to the theaters to see anymore, and after A4 I think it's going to go hard downhill. The MCU has basically replaced Star Wars for me, now that SW has died a worse death than George Lucas could ever conceive. Here's to hoping I guess. Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (72PAC) 101
90 Anna Kournikova?
Except she's world famous and rich for being a mediocre tennis player. You just have to define your goals. Posted by: pep at January 26, 2018 04:18 PM (LAe3v) I met and was an acquaintance of Vitas Gerulaitas. Great guy and what a horribly sad ending. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 04:20 PM (mbhDw) 102
There was a decent comedy in the nineties, called Legends of the Fall.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 26, 2018 04:20 PM (7ZVPa) 103
beautiful loser?
isn't this just a modern yet low stakes version of what the old time english lit types would call "tragedies"? Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:20 PM (V3U1L) 104
I only watch ESPN for college hoops. Unless Bill Walton is calling the game (which sucks because I'm an Arizona fan).
Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2018 04:20 PM (EzdLW) 105
He hears the silence howling Catches angels as they fall And the all-time winner Has got him by the balls He picks up Gideons Bible Open at page one I think God He stole the handle and The train won't stop going No way to slow down No way to slow down No way to slow down No way to slow down No way to slow down No way to slow down No way to slow down No way to slow down No way to slow down Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:20 PM (QQ+il) Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:20 PM (fuK7c) 107
I'll go with One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest because awesome movie and mmmm Juicy Fruit.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (/tuJf) 108
94 Leaving Las Vegas
Posted by: Monk at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (g4lFK) Are you saying you think this is s beautiful loser movie? Leaving Las Vegas is a movie everyone who believes they may be developing a drinking problem should watch. I did not see anything beautiful in any of it. Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (cdYPW) Saw it once and only once. At the end I wanted to off myself. A downer to put it very mildly. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (mbhDw) 109
Soviet Justice Wankers, that is what I call them.
Would Bruce Dern in Silent Running be considered a beautiful loser? Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (kaLsp) 110
One Who Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest is one of the most red pilled movies ever made.
It's like calling Cool Hand Luke a beautiful loser. Posted by: Monk at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (g4lFK) Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (tMFgx) 112
but at a vertical called The Undefeated,
What's a "vertical"? And you got me to wondering about the word "undefeated". How the heck did that word ever come into being? It sounds really strange when you think about it. I have to assume that it has some Eurotrash origins since it serves well to hide the hideousness of ties. One would think that a team that has won every game deserves a positive description rather than a wishy-washy double negative. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (8gDQu) 113
94 Leaving Las Vegas
Posted by: Monk at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (g4lFK) Are you saying you think this is s beautiful loser movie? Leaving Las Vegas is a movie everyone who believes they may be developing a drinking problem should watch. I did not see anything beautiful in any of it. __ kind of a guide book for me. it's funny tho. you drink a bottle of wine a day and you're an alkie. drink a bottle of vodka a day and you're a tragic figure. Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (V3U1L) 114
When the loser wins, it's not a beautiful loser movie, guys. That's a winner, just an underdog movie.
Wrong time frame, but The Great Gatsby is more of a beautiful loser book. Posted by: dagny at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (16bxt) Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (QQ+il) 116
Didn't James Caan pioneer this genre?
Posted by: Fritz at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (bJ0w+) 117
Harold & Maude.
Posted by: russian-bot_rat_eez, gaslighting you 24/365 at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (oVWx5) Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 26, 2018 04:22 PM (7ZVPa) 119
Was not the original Rocky that kind of thing? He did lose at the end, did he not? Sorry for the fucked up sentences, but this website does not like Safari commas.
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at January 26, 2018 04:22 PM (rdl6o) 120
>>Is _A River Runs Through It_ a beautiful loser movie?
Hmm...then also "Our Idiot Brother" and "Evening." Posted by: Lizzy at January 26, 2018 04:22 PM (W+vEI) 121
108 94 Leaving Las Vegas
Posted by: Monk at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (g4lFK) Are you saying you think this is s beautiful loser movie? Leaving Las Vegas is a movie everyone who believes they may be developing a drinking problem should watch. I did not see anything beautiful in any of it. Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (cdYPW) Saw it once and only once. At the end I wanted to off myself. A downer to put it very mildly. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (mbhDw) White Knighted for the whore. Women loved it. Posted by: Monk at January 26, 2018 04:22 PM (g4lFK) 122
So John Carpenters -The Thing-was basically SJW doctrine come to space alien life. Even though Carpenter himself is a SJW moonbat.
Posted by: WonkishRogue at January 26, 2018 04:22 PM (Loq+3) 123
I met and was an acquaintance of Vitas Gerulaitas. Great guy and what a horribly sad ending.
Wow, that is terrible. I hadn't heard his name in forever. Posted by: pep at January 26, 2018 04:22 PM (LAe3v) Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 26, 2018 04:22 PM (r+sAi) 125
30 For 30 sometimes has good documentaries. Like the one about Nature Boy Ric Flair, as a recent example.
Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (EzdLW) 126
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Just a couple of beautiful guys who didn't fit in because they liked to steal stuff and then they die.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (/tuJf) 127
Holden Caufield's mother had to have been a drunk narcissistic slut.
That's what I got when I reread it as an adult. Posted by: dagny The novel is the single most mis-construed novel of all time. It's not a story about sympathetic loser; it's about repressed grief. Re-read the first few pages. What's going on? He's talking to a counselor because his behavior after the death of his older brother. The whole narrative is Holden's stream of consciousness circling around the loss of his brother. The education mafia has fucked up that novel more than any other. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (32tyq) 128
I bet the rest of the on air "talent" will raise a fist or maybe wear black armbands for their sister....
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (LiyEm) 129
Man of La Mancha
Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (wPiJc) 130
97 My charmed adult life is now obsessed with, while low carbing for the most part and IF'ing, finding great french fries. B-dubs's are ok but Hooyter's fries remain great.
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (V3U1L) Still like Red Robin's endless french fries. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (2sCft) 131
From Sports Center anchor to doing "special assignments"? Sounds to me like she's been buried.
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (O5Q3r) 132
Certainly Huey, Dewey, and Louie were.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (QQ+il) 133
LLV was a sad movie.
what other sad movies have you folks seen? like tears in the eye sad. I think 50-50 was super sad and it was supposed to be a comedy. Also, the deniro Intern movie. sad. like Atonement was supposed to be sad, just like English Patient, but I didn't actually find them sad sad. missed the mark, you'd say. Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (V3U1L) 134
The Graduate wins the girl, even though he was never remotely beautiful. Most miscast movie in existence.
Posted by: dagny at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (16bxt) 135
119 Was not the original Rocky that kind of thing? He did lose at the end, did he not? Sorry for the fucked up sentences, but this website does not like Safari commas.
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at January 26, 2018 04:22 PM (rdl6o) Yes but he got what he wanted and that was to go the distance. Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 26, 2018 04:24 PM (dKiJG) 136
I guess Rocky might be more of the noble savage type theme.
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at January 26, 2018 04:24 PM (rdl6o) 137
part and IF'ing, finding great french fries. B-dubs's are ok but Hooyter's fries remain great.
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (V3U1L) Still like Red Robin's endless french fries. -- tell me more. are they thin or thick? Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:24 PM (V3U1L) 138
I did not see anything beautiful in any of it.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (cdYPW) Except Elizabeth Shue, who is smokin' hot in my book. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:24 PM (wYseH) 139
Bob Rafelson's movie, 'Five Easy Pieces' could arguably be categorized as a 'beautiful loser' movie, except that Jack Nicholson's character, Robert Dupea, is played as an exploitative, amoral, vicious asshole, nothing beautiful about him. Nicholson's a great actor but it's a hard movie to watch.
In the movie, Nicholson's character comes from a privileged background. He's not ground down by the system or exploited by The Man. He consciously and willfully chooses to be a loser, to live a squalid, miserable, drunken, transitory life. At the time this choice (and this film) was celebrated by the critics. The movie won all sorts of awards. It doesn't hold up well, frankly. Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:24 PM (raGQi) 140
SJWdom has invaded every single facet of our lives.
I was in Barnes and Noble this morning, killing time waiting for the Below Five store to open up, and I passed by a collection of books on an end cap that had a sign stating something about 'keeping strong girls strong' or some bs. All of the books were about brave girls doing brave things...I should have taken a picture of it, but I was so pissed. Then I figured I was probably jumping the gun, and maybe they had a similar set up for boys. So I looked for the 'keeping strong boys strong' end cap throughout the entire store. Of course there wasn't one. I may have jumped the gun, but I was right. Irritatingly right. Posted by: squeakywheel at January 26, 2018 04:24 PM (2Ot+m) 141
Have you heard of a genre of movie called the "Beautiful Loser" movie? It was late-sixties thing about so-called "beautiful losers," people who just didn't fit into Society, and, of course, who were therefore losers, but were "beautiful" in their loserdom. They felt so much, and had such Integrity in their Losing.
Self-pity has long been a very seductive call to the weak personalities. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 04:24 PM (8gDQu) 142
Rocky wasn't counterculture or out to stick it to The System. Not a beautiful loser movie.
Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2018 04:24 PM (EzdLW) 143
White Knighted for the whore. Women loved it.
Posted by: Monk at January 26, 2018 04:22 PM (g4lFK) Aren't 2/3 of movie goers women ? Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:25 PM (4u7kU) 144
My charmed adult life is now obsessed with, while low carbing for the most part and IF'ing, finding great french fries. B-dubs's are ok but Hooyter's fries remain great.
Seriously? LOL The anti-low carb extravaganza. But you eat them in your time window? Posted by: dagny at January 26, 2018 04:25 PM (16bxt) 145
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The Graduate wins the girl, even though he was never remotely beautiful. Most miscast movie in existence. Yeah, he wins her, and when they're on the bus, they both realize this will not end well. Still a loser. Posted by: pep at January 26, 2018 04:25 PM (LAe3v) 146
it's funny tho. you drink a bottle of wine a day and you're an alkie. drink a bottle of vodka a day and you're a tragic figure.
Posted by: zibbly wibbly I've always seen it, (at least as people have said to me) drink a bottle of wine a day and you are normal. Have a shot or two and you're an alkie. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:25 PM (W2taJ) 147
kind of a guide book for me. it's funny tho. you drink a bottle of wine a day and you're an alkie. drink a bottle of vodka a day and you're a tragic figure.
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (V3U1L) Oh, shit. Is that definition of an alkie? Only one bottle?? ***looks around sheepishly**** Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:25 PM (2sCft) 148
Fighting against the state and conformity of the collective, and being punished or killed for it does not make you a loser.
Posted by: Monk at January 26, 2018 04:25 PM (g4lFK) 149
A new dawn for finger-lickin' good!
Posted by: Female Colonel Sanders at January 26, 2018 04:25 PM (ctuyM) 150
Trump said doody in a meeting.
Posted by: Mega at January 26, 2018 04:25 PM (ETHIU) 151
Bad Santa, Beavis, Butthead
Posted by: WonkishRogue at January 26, 2018 04:26 PM (Loq+3) 152
What this country needs is a shrill and shrieking woman and a rude and crude male suffering toxic testosterone poisoning to tell the woman, "Stifle yourself."
Hmm, release the Trumpian! Posted by: Skandia Recluse at January 26, 2018 04:26 PM (O+THj) 153
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976).
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:26 PM (QQ+il) 154
Beautiful Losers are still just Losers.
Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 04:26 PM (aRXNK) 155
Richard Nixon's screwing in the '60 presidents contest
He did not challenge the Illinois result. Not beautiful. Cowards. rinos Posted by: azalea city at January 26, 2018 04:26 PM (WX+x0) 156
Still like Red Robin's endless french fries.
-- tell me more. are they thin or thick? Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:24 PM (V3U1L) Kinda in between and crispy and all kinds of dipping sauces available. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (2sCft) 157
Leaving Las Vegas is a movie everyone who believes they may be developing a drinking problem should watch.
And you won't score with Elisabeth Shue either. Posted by: DaveA at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (FhXTo) 158
A new dawn for finger-lickin' good!
Posted by: Female Colonel Sanders at January 26, 2018 04:25 PM (ctuyM) That would bug except .. it's Reba! I like Reba. Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (QQ+il) 159
Nixon wanted to,others talked him out of it.For the good of the country.
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (LiyEm) 160
Still like Red Robin's endless french fries.
-- tell me more. are they thin or thick? Posted by: zibbly wibbly Thick. Slab cut. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (W2taJ) Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (r+sAi) 162
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (wPiJc) 163
I don't think Electraglide in Blue is BL. Easy Rider? Yeah. Billy Jack horseshit, too.
Posted by: 13times at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (WHVu+) 164
Most miscast movie in existence.
I think that honor goes to Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist. Posted by: pep at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (LAe3v) 165
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976).
Starring Lynda Carters tits and a vapid former child preacher. Not in the 60s but stays in contention based on Lynda Carter's spectacular bare breasts. Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (fuK7c) 166
"Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)."
Watched that on deployment, on the mess decks at movie call. Several times. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2018 04:28 PM (EyPfd) 167
A new dawn for finger-lickin' good!
Posted by: Female Colonel Sanders at January 26, 2018 04:25 PM (ctuyM) That would bug except .. it's Reba! I like Reba. Posted by: Grump928(C) I'd lick Reba. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:28 PM (W2taJ) 168
I hate ESPN
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 26, 2018 04:28 PM (SjImc) 169
>>>Was not the original Rocky that kind of thing? He did lose at the end, did he not?
nah. it's a convention of "good" sports movies that the hero loses but in a much more important way, he wins. Rocky's goal in that movie was not to win, but to go the distance with Apollo, which he did. Also, I just noticed this (saw it the other night), it was a split decision -- 1 of the 3 judges thought he won. He lost the match, but he won at his goal. He also got his girl. Also, Apollo gave him respect, of a kind, in saying "There ain't gonna be no rematch." Posted by: ace at January 26, 2018 04:28 PM (8rNrN) 170
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Beautiful loser movies... Elecrtaglide in Blue One Flew Over the Coo Coo's Nest 5 Easy Pieces Midnight Cowboy Ned Beaty in Deliverance... Posted by: Dang at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (8b+oT) Cool Hand Luke? Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 26, 2018 04:28 PM (ymnmz) Posted by: russian-bot_rat_eez, gaslighting you 24/365 at January 26, 2018 04:28 PM (oVWx5) 172
Bad News Bears
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 26, 2018 04:28 PM (ymnmz) 173
Thick. Slab cut.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (W2taJ) And their fry salt isn't bad either. Actually buy that and take it home to use on other stuff.. Posted by: Sponge at January 26, 2018 04:28 PM (Zz0t1) 174
Holden Caufield's mother had to have been a drunk narcissistic slut.
That's what I got when I reread it as an adult. Posted by: dagny What? I don't recall that at all. Why is that your interpretation of Holden's mother? Seriously curious. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:28 PM (2sCft) 175
>>>Most miscast movie in existence.
I think that honor goes to Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist. Posted by: pep at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (LAe3v) In her prime, casting Denise Richards was never a mistake. NEVER. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 04:29 PM (8gDQu) 176
I think that honor goes to Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist.
Posted by: pep To Be Fair (tm), she never said she was a good physicist. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 26, 2018 04:29 PM (32tyq) 177
Midnight Cowboy?
Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2018 04:29 PM (wPiJc) 178
http://bit.ly/2EbMva6
Maggie Haberman - Helping The Deep State Camp Do The "Most Shaping" Since 2016. Posted by: MISH McConnell at January 26, 2018 04:29 PM (y3aQB) 179
I saw a number of Woody Allen's original movies. Beautiful loser without the beautiful part.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 26, 2018 04:29 PM (yL25O) 180
Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist.
Posted by: pep at January 26, 2018 04:27 PM (LAe3v She has her MS in Operations Engineering from Northwestern. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:29 PM (wYseH) 181
Oops. Late to the party with that one.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2018 04:29 PM (wPiJc) 182
I'd lick Reba.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:28 PM (W2taJ) She's getting a little weathered. Might be like licking sandpaper. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (2sCft) 183
69 They also aren't really Social Justice WARRIORS. I know the word was initially adopted sarcastically, but that's worn out now. We should rename them
Social Justice - Vampires - Leeches -Tapeworms - Lice Or just plain Parasites. Posted by: George LeS at January 26, 2018 04:16 PM (+TcCF) I always went with "Social Vengeance Zealots", since they all seem to have an axe to grind and a specific person they want to stick it to and get their "revenge" on. Posted by: Hikaru at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (XMDuf) 184
The Graduate wins the girl, even though he was never remotely beautiful.
Posted by: dagny at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM Thank you dagny. I flatter myself that I don't look a day over 29. Posted by: Mrs. Robinson at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (ctuyM) 185
Seriously? LOL
The anti-low carb extravaganza. But you eat them in your time window? --- well, sure. It's not as if there are french fries available to a person at home. You have to go looking for them. So it's a treat not a day to day thing. at the end of teh day, FF are potatoes and not processed, refined flour or HFCS...and I don't dip in catsup...or even ketchip...so I think I'll live. right? Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (V3U1L) 186
Cut off the funding to prog academia and watch this nonsense wither away.
Posted by: DaveA at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (FhXTo) 187
The movie won all sorts of awards. It doesn't hold up well, frankly.
Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:24 PM (raGQi) It may be from the fact that the film depicted a short period of his life. He may have turned it around, who knows. I wouldn't want a movie made up a small slice of my life. I'm afraid we all got a bit of loser in us, beautiful ??? who knows Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (4u7kU) 188
So the losers cannot win in a Beautiful Losers movie? Not even symbolically like Animal House?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (QQ+il) 189
In her prime, casting Denise Richards was never a mistake. NEVER.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 04:29 PM (8gDQu) ... One is left with the impression she probably didn't back down from the casting couch. Posted by: TexasDan at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (yL25O) Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (LiyEm) 191
133 LLV was a sad movie.
what other sad movies have you folks seen? like tears in the eye sad. I think 50-50 was super sad and it was supposed to be a comedy. Also, the deniro Intern movie. sad. like Atonement was supposed to be sad, just like English Patient, but I didn't actually find them sad sad. missed the mark, you'd say. Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (V3U1L) TAKING CHANCE, where Kevin Bacon escorts a fallen soldier's coffin home. Saddest damn movie I have ever seen. Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (dKiJG) 192
All these booze metrics are inapplicable once ya hit slavistan.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (fA1SL) 193
Beautiful loser & sjw 60s movie? Lonley Are The Brave
Posted by: Adobe Juan Kenobe at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (yF69t) 194
The first couple minutes of Leaving Las Vegas where he's stocking up the shopping cart to the top with booze? Loved it. You know this is not going to end well, whatever the hell he's up to. I've asked the clerks at the local state sanctified booze selling establishment if they've ever seen it and not a one would admit it. Seems like it would be part of their Nanny State training. Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 26, 2018 04:31 PM (2FqvZ) 195
Leaving Las Vegas is a movie everyone who believes they may be developing a drinking problem should watch. I did not see anything beautiful in any of it.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 04:19 PM (cdYPW) I'm a recovering drunk with many years of sobriety. I watched 'Leaving Las Vegas' once. Once was enough. Too painful to watch it again. Nicholas Cage's character made a choice I could've made, but didn't. Some people I knew and cared about in recovery did make the choice he made, and now they're dead. I close my eyes and see a sea of faces, all gone now. You can't imagine how grateful I am to be alive. Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:31 PM (raGQi) 196
Was Shaft a beautiful loser?
Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2018 04:31 PM (wPiJc) 197
Ace is knowledgeable about movies
He too along with JJ wanted to work in Hollywood as screenwriters Posted by: You at January 26, 2018 04:31 PM (K+zuv) 198
8 Beautiful Losers:
Walter Mondale Michael Dukakis Al Gore John Kerry Hillary Clinton John McCain Mitt Romney Bob Dole Posted by: Tom Servo at January 26, 2018 04:07 PM (k1TUh) Losers? Oh my, yes. Beautiful? Hardly. Not one. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2018 04:31 PM (7UW64) 199
Thick. Slab cut.
00 gross. thin is in. Prefer a bit thicker than match sticks. That's too thin. But I hate steak cut. Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:32 PM (V3U1L) 200
TAKING CHANCE, where Kevin Bacon escorts a fallen soldier's coffin home. Saddest damn movie I have ever seen.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 26, 2018 04:30 PM (dKiJG) But very well done and respectful. Very much worth it. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:32 PM (wYseH) 201
I will say this. I watched Bless the Beast and the Children as a very young kid. Maybe 3rd 4th grade.
I knew right then it was messed up. I even felt that the movie was trying to guide me to a place I should not go. If that makes any sense. I thought ot myslef. These kids need to sack up some. Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 26, 2018 04:32 PM (ymnmz) 202
110 I never post but must say that One Who Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest is one of those movies which was left wing when it came out and now is, if you really think about it as a metaphor for all federal bureaucracy, an incredibly right wing movie.
Posted by: DC Delenda Est at January 26, 2018 04:32 PM (bVc72) 203
193 I think that is more about not fitting into society.I can't even watch the end when they shoot his horse....
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2018 04:32 PM (LiyEm) 204
She's getting a little weathered. Might be like licking sandpaper.
Posted by: SteveOReno That's ok. She's got me by 7 years and I'm pretty far north of weathered barn wood. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:32 PM (W2taJ) 205
what other sad movies have you folks seen? like tears in the eye sad.
Brian's Song always ranks at the top of that list. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 04:32 PM (8gDQu) 206
Isn't a beautiful loser sort of another term for an anti-hero?
Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2018 04:33 PM (wPiJc) 207
That gal in Leaving Las Vegas is great in Last Man Standing!
Posted by: Bill in Chappaqua at January 26, 2018 04:33 PM (bc2Lc) 208
147 kind of a guide book for me. it's funny tho. you drink a bottle of wine a day and you're an alkie. drink a bottle of vodka a day and you're a tragic figure.
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (V3U1L) I'm quite sure this is incorrect Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:33 PM (4u7kU) 209
gross. thin is in. Prefer a bit thicker than match sticks. That's too thin. But I hate steak cut.
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:32 PM (V3U1L) Steak cut fries are not fries. They are potatoes. And potatoes are gross. French fries are delicious. Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at January 26, 2018 04:33 PM (72PAC) 210
I am a beautiful loser but I've made one good life choice.
I clicked on a flimsy lingerie ad on the sidebar and then I clicked on it every time it came up and now it's the only ads I get, so the home page is sort of a soft pron site. Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:34 PM (fuK7c) 211
how many bottles of wine a day can one drink and still be:
1. not an alkie? 2. not fat? I guess those are the only questions that matter Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:34 PM (V3U1L) 212
12 monkeys
Posted by: azalea city at January 26, 2018 04:34 PM (WX+x0) 213
Bang the Drum Slowly..... can a well loved sports hero be a beautiful loser? or ooohhh.... Brian's Song. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 26, 2018 04:34 PM (r+sAi) 214
20 Bless the Beasts and Children is a beautiful losers book and movie.
Posted by: DJIA Death Watch at January 26, 2018 * * Right; I was trying to think of examples after reading the post. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2018 04:34 PM (IB8DY) 215
SJWs Always Lie.
Even if you think Vox Day is distasteful for one reason or the next, and someone who admits being an extremist has no pretensions to universal popularity, skip ahead to Chapter 3 of SJWs Always Lie. Once you can articulate how they attack, you can defend against it. This book might save your job someday. Chapter 4 will give you a chance to hit back. If it can happen to ESPN, it can happen to you. Posted by: trev006 at January 26, 2018 04:34 PM (jRA31) 216
That's ok. She's got me by 7 years and I'm pretty far north of weathered barn wood.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:32 PM (W2taJ) So, you're saying the two of you together would be like Miss O'Leary's cow.....a real barn burner? Posted by: Sponge at January 26, 2018 04:34 PM (Zz0t1) 217
The failure is that people within these organizations. who truly have a long-term stake in their well being, are often Kool-Aid drinkers themselves. They lack either the insight, intellectual capacity or temerity to honestly discern their real fundamental existential interests.
So they start down the road to predictable failure. This is a problem endemic to contemporary society. We used to say, crudely "don't let your mouth outrun your ass". In this case it is, "don't let your emotions outrun your intellect". Today's instantaneous society and social media tribes short-circuit the intellectual judgment process to produce tactical stupidity. People ultimately become vested in that stupidity because it comports with their emotional view, not truth, reality or an intellectual conclusion. The problem being one ends up peddling fallacy and sophism, even in the face of verifiable truth or predictable outcomes simply because they become personally, disturbingly vested in it. As a byproduct, we've become more divided than ever, because their is no agreement on what is clearly the verfiable truth. It has been replaced with perpetual emotional causuistry- which is where we are today. At one time we called this illogical or preposterous. But today some speciously call it "righteous", when it's nothing of the sort. It is just cunning political self interest- and it's a disgusting violation of the veracity. Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (VpIIl) 218
You can't imagine how grateful I am to be alive.
Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:31 PM (raGQi) God bless you, troyriser. My 22 year old son is in recovery for three months now. Praying for you both. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (2sCft) 219
Comic books and movies - Ace seems to be eternally caught in a whirlpool of pop culture.
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (YV+SU) 220
Follow-up: i wonder what other movies have made the greatest transition from left wing at inception to right wing today ...
Posted by: DC Delenda Est at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (bVc72) 221
Have you heard of a genre of movie called the "Beautiful Loser" movie? It was late-sixties thing about so-called "beautiful losers," people who just didn't fit into Society, and, of course, who were therefore losers, but were "beautiful" in their loserdom. They felt so much, and had such Integrity in their Losing.
Sounds like some of those old Liza Minelli movies. Posted by: nerdygirl at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (+lVUW) 222
glengarry glenross
Posted by: azalea city at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (WX+x0) Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (4u7kU) 224
Want to say that is where the category 'dramedy' started. You go expecting some kind of funny, but darn it all, just depressing self-centered dreck.
Napoleon Dynamite was a wonderful movie and I laughed like a loon all the way through. Nothing depressing at all. Posted by: mustbequantum at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (MIKMs) Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (V3U1L) 226
Anyway I think beautiful losers are better than the "Ohmagerd we are going to die "from pollution,overpoplation,running out of resources,ice age,Greenhouse Effect 70's movies....
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (LiyEm) Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 26, 2018 04:36 PM (QQ+il) 228
You can't imagine how grateful I am to be alive.
Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:31 PM (raGQi) Huzzah! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:36 PM (wYseH) 229
Office Space?
Posted by: Sponge at January 26, 2018 04:36 PM (Zz0t1) 230
Isn't a beautiful loser sort of another term for an anti-hero?
Posted by: Muldoon Hmm, not really. An anti-hero is one that uses anti-heroic acts to further a goal that could be considered heroic. Batman, the perennial reference, goes out of his way to find and beat the shit out of criminals in order to stop the city of Gotham from becoming a shithole. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 26, 2018 04:36 PM (32tyq) 231
what's an ESPN?
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 26, 2018 04:36 PM (FZYNt) 232
208. So, Byelorussian men, whose per capita consumption of booze works out to just under 30 litres of PURE ethanol per man per year, are tragic? 'Cause they beat everybody, even the Russians.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at January 26, 2018 04:36 PM (fA1SL) 233
"Bless the Beasts and Children"
I think I was about 12 when that came out. My sister worked the opening night of the "GayLynne Theater" in Houston and that was the opening show IIRC. It sucked and blew at the same time. The movie, not the theater. Posted by: DanMan at January 26, 2018 04:36 PM (XTiHL) 234
What was the movie they made from the book Flowers for Algernon?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 04:37 PM (6Ll1u) 235
211 how many bottles of wine a day can one drink and still be: 1. not an alkie? 2. not fat? I guess those are the only questions that matter -------------- Two to three bottles per day combined with rigorous manual labor for 12 to 16 hours per day. See your ancestors consumption and work load. None of them were fat. Posted by: Puddin Head at January 26, 2018 04:37 PM (YV+SU) 236
What was the movie they made from the book Flowers for Algernon?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 04:37 PM (6Ll1u) "Charlie." Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:37 PM (wYseH) 237
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glengarry glenross Posted by: azalea city at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (WX+x0) Stupid F-ING movie. There is not one soul in the movie worth giving one crap about. Jar Jar Binks would have made it better and more relateable. Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 26, 2018 04:38 PM (ymnmz) 238
Follow-up: i wonder what other movies have made the greatest transition from left wing at inception to right wing today ...
Posted by: DC Delenda Est at January 26, 2018 04:35 PM (bVc72) Sunshine was supposed to be a left-wing movie ... but they screwed up and made it a strong conservative movie, a cautionary tale, really, about putting leftists on any critical missions. It's a great movie. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 04:38 PM (8gDQu) Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 26, 2018 04:38 PM (QQ+il) 240
Two movies I refuse to see:
Old Yeller & Marley & Me. Had to bury too many companions. Not going to watch it on screen. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:38 PM (aNSOb) 241
Oh Lord, now Obama is claiming "I'm basically a liberal Jew"........(discussing Israeli settlements at a NYC synagogue)
Posted by: KWDreaming at January 26, 2018 04:38 PM (PafTy) 242
What was the movie they made from the book Flowers for Algernon?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 04:37 PM (6Ll1u) Charlie. With backwards letters or something. Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 26, 2018 04:38 PM (2FqvZ) Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (wPiJc) 244
Wait a minute. maybe it was "They Shoot Horses Don't They?" with the Carpenter's singing Bless the Beasts and the Children in it. Been at least 17 years ago so maybe I got them mixed up.
Posted by: DanMan at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (XTiHL) 245
Oh Lord, now Obama is claiming "I'm basically a liberal Jew"........(discussing Israeli settlements at a NYC synagogue)
I'll allow it. Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (QQ+il) 246
174 Holden Caufield's mother had to have been a drunk narcissistic slut.
That's what I got when I reread it as an adult. Posted by: dagny What? I don't recall that at all. Why is that your interpretation of Holden's mother? Seriously curious. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:28 PM (2sCft) I didn't either. I thought Holden's parents were your typical post-war, wealthy Manhattan WASPs. Very concerned with status and the correct schools, clothes, social behavior etc. Not very demonstrative or affectionate. Holden's mom probably did drink too much but the late 40's and 50's were a hard-drinking time. Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (ZM2xo) Posted by: Puddin Head at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (YV+SU) 248
Ah, the Electric Horseman.
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (QQ+il) Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (kaLsp) 250
211 how many bottles of wine a day can one drink and still be:
1. not an alkie? 2. not fat? I guess those are the only questions that matter Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:34 PM (V3U1L) I drink at least a bottle of red wine everyday. Sometimes i'll stop, for no reason, for a week or two. I'm 6'3" and 190. The secret to life is to exercise and keep moving. Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (4u7kU) 251
close my eyes and see a sea of faces, all gone now.
You can't imagine how grateful I am to be alive. A funeral that looks like the annual intergroup picnic or one with a distraught relative, the organist and an attempted sponsor. Posted by: DaveA at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (FhXTo) 252
Is Elwood P. Dowd a loser in "Harvey"?
Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (2sCft) 253
She's getting a little weathered. Might be like licking sandpaper.
Posted by: SteveOReno<<< Eleven herbs and spices ain't gonna make that old hen any more appetizing. Posted by: Fritz at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (bJ0w+) 254
Everything must Go with Will Ferrel reminds me of this beautiful loser stuff.
But I don't concentrate on that stuff. You are what you make. Life sucks. Life is hard. If it were easy, we'd all live forever. That's why we die. Live is hard. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (bB4HN) 255
Anything by George Romero who hated humanity and religion.
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (LiyEm) 256
"Two movies I refuse to see:
Old Yeller & Marley & Me. Had to bury too many companions. Not going to watch it on screen." -Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:38 PM (aNSOb) I've watched 'em both and I wish I hadn't. Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (Ckg4U) 257
The Born Losers & Billy Jack. Where's my Oscar?
Posted by: Tom Laughlin at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (bc2Lc) 258
230 Isn't a beautiful loser sort of another term for an anti-hero?
Posted by: Muldoon Hmm, not really. An anti-hero is one that uses anti-heroic acts to further a goal that could be considered heroic. Batman, the perennial reference, goes out of his way to find and beat the shit out of criminals in order to stop the city of Gotham from becoming a shithole. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 26, 2018 04:36 PM (32tyq) Anti Hero... Charles Bronson.. Death Wish movies... Posted by: Don Q'Bot at January 26, 2018 04:40 PM (NgKpN) Posted by: DR.WTF? at January 26, 2018 04:40 PM (T71PA) 260
"She'll also host issues-based town halls and she'll be free to do more field reporting and longer pieces, like her recent interview with Lynx forward Maya Moore. Hill also revealed recently that she has started a production company with friend and ESPN colleague Kelly Carter."
Sounds RIVETING Posted by: Dude at January 26, 2018 04:40 PM (RYASC) 261
Ben?
Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (wPiJc) You are a very, very bad man for making me laugh at that. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:40 PM (wYseH) 262
A young Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern alongside star Dennis Christopher. I think he won the race and learned the life lesson of being happy and thankful for who you are and where you come from, and in being yourself. Dont short Jackie Earl Haley. He only does support roles in everything Ive seen him in, but damn if he isnt a jewel in every one. Posted by: Clay, unimpressed with your wokeness at January 26, 2018 04:40 PM (4RLKt) 263
Been wondering about this guy in light of the news:
Hawaii Official Who Sent False Missile Attack Alert Refusing to Cooperate with FCC ..."We are quite pleased with the level of cooperation we have received from the leadership of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency thus far," Lisa Fowlkes, chief of the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Thursday. "We are disappointed, however, that one key employee, the person who transmitted the false alert, is refusing to cooperate with our investigation," she said. "We hope that person will reconsider." We hope? pjmedia has all the stink of a sjw Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2018 04:40 PM (fceHP) 264
Someone who now identifies as a liberal Jew raised Muslim. I can't see how this will end well. Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 26, 2018 04:41 PM (2FqvZ) 265
gross. thin is in. Prefer a bit thicker than match sticks. That's too thin. But I hate steak cut.
Posted by: zibbly wibbly You need Freddies Steakburgers or Steak & Shake for shoestring fries. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:41 PM (aNSOb) 266
Jean de Florette was the most beautiful of losers
Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:41 PM (4u7kU) 267
Follow-up: i wonder what other movies have made the greatest transition from left wing at inception to right wing today ...
remember, Watchmen was written by a lefty lunatic...and rorsarch isthe hero. Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:41 PM (V3U1L) 268
I think a heroic figure like Cool Hand Luke can't be considered a loser despite the end that befalls them.
Posted by: Max Power at January 26, 2018 04:41 PM (llxrS) 269
What was the movie they made from the book Flowers for Algernon?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 04:37 PM (6Ll1u) Charly, starring Cliff Robertson. Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (raGQi) 270
39 And "The Undefeated" is a modest western best known for having a pickup truck drive behind John Wayne and cast in 1860s Mexico...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 26, 2018 04:12 PM (fdz7u) Proof of time travel! Posted by: rickl at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (xjiRE) 271
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Everything must Go with Will Ferrel reminds me of this beautiful loser stuff. But I don't concentrate on that stuff. You are what you make. Life sucks. Life is hard. If it were easy, we'd all live forever. That's why we die. Live is hard. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (bB4HN) I liked it. Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (ymnmz) 272
Oliver Twist.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (QQ+il) 273
I'm 6'3" and 190.
Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (4u7kU) Wow.... you are a fat fvck. Posted by: BMI Calculator at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (wYseH) 274
246 I didn't either. I thought Holden's parents were your typical post-war, wealthy Manhattan WASPs. Very concerned with status and the correct schools, clothes, social behavior etc. Not very demonstrative or affectionate.
Holden's mom probably did drink too much but the late 40's and 50's were a hard-drinking time. Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (ZM2xo) Yes that's more like my take. It makes sense his parent's drank like fish and Holden does too to imitate them in being an adult. Never thought his mom was a narcissistic slut. But I haven't re-read it for a few years. Always interested in other people's take on Catcher in the Rye. People seem to either love it or hate it. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (2sCft) 275
Old Yeller can lick my balls.
Posted by: Sounder at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (bc2Lc) Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (V3U1L) 277
just under 30 litres of PURE ethanol per man per year
It's math day. 30 litres of pure grain is x (1 / .40) 80 proof vodka which is 75 l per annum which is 1.44 liters per week, which is basically 2 bottles per week. That does not describe the Belarussians I drank with. Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (fuK7c) 278
Actually, Romeo and Juliet is a beautiful loser story.
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I think a heroic figure like Cool Hand Luke can't be considered a loser despite the end that befalls them. Posted by: Max Power at January 26, 2018 04:41 PM (llxrS) I threw that out there like a curve ball. The fact that he died over parking meters makes me think, though. Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (ymnmz) 280
Wut. Ebber. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (W6iva) 281
256 "Two movies I refuse to see:
Old Yeller & Marley & Me. Had to bury too many companions. Not going to watch it on screen." -Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:38 PM (aNSOb) I've watched 'em both and I wish I hadn't. Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (Ckg4U) Don't watch 8 Below. My wife still hasn't forgiven me for that movie. Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (dKiJG) 282
The education mafia has fucked up that novel more than any other. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 26, 2018 04:23 PM (32tyq)
Most misconstrued IMO is Fahrenheit 451. It's not a book about the evils of government censorship. It's about societal apathy to the point where literature no longer has value. Ray Bradbury even clarified this at length when he was alive. But no one cared because MUH NARRATIVE! Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (hvf9s) 283
Jean de Florette Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:41 PM (4u7kU) What's that? You want to rip my heart out of my chest and stomp on it? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (wYseH) 284
"Oh Lord, now Obama is claiming "I'm basically a liberal Jew"........(discussing Israeli settlements at a NYC synagogue)"
Is that what thy call it nowadays when you are self-loathing, committed to people and states who want to destroy Israel and supporting every cause hostile to its existence? Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (VpIIl) 285
The way to stop SJW virtue signaling and desecration of institutions is to make it clear that what they are signaling isn't getting them anywhere.
Boycott their crap, ridicule them constantly, ignore them completely when they throw a tantrum, etc. Using reason does not work with toddlers. Put them in time out and leave them there until they starve to death. That is pretty much how the younger generation of Catholics are dealing with the left-over smelly hippies who tried to subvert the Church. Prayer, reverence, TLM, chapel veils, having dozens of kids and raising them to know, love and serve Our Lord. The hippies haven't a chance. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2018 04:44 PM (7UW64) 286
Dreams of my Father - Totes loser story - but not beautiful.
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Old Yeller can lick my balls. Posted by: Sounder at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (bc2Lc) The Yearling. Top that. Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 26, 2018 04:44 PM (ymnmz) 288
277. Ya gotta remember - that figure does not take into account the teetotallers. Ya gotta figure there's at least a few of those, and plenty of people taking up the slack.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at January 26, 2018 04:44 PM (fA1SL) 289
how many bottles of wine a day can one drink and still be:
1. not an alkie? 2. not fat? I guess those are the only questions that matter Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:34 PM (V3U1L) Serious alcoholics are too impatient for wine--at least I was. Had to drink a gallon of that stuff to get where I wanted to go. Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:44 PM (raGQi) 290
sort of like how Hunfer Games could really be about the Obama years. DC is district 1.
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:44 PM (V3U1L) 291
In her prime, casting Denise Richards was never a mistake. NEVER.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 04:29 PM (8gDQu) Christmas came several times that year. Posted by: rhennigantx at January 26, 2018 04:44 PM (BtQd4) 292
Cool Hand Luke ate fifty aigs ... t'ain't no loser! Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2018 04:45 PM (W6iva) 293
"Oh Lord, now Obama is claiming "I'm basically a liberal Jew"........(discussing Israeli settlements at a NYC synagogue)"
Is that what thy call it nowadays when you are self-loathing, committed to people and states who want to destroy Israel and supporting every cause hostile to its existence? Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (VpIIl) and hang out with Farrahkan and G D America Wright? Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2018 04:45 PM (fceHP) 294
Is that what thy call it nowadays when you are self-loathing, committed to people and states who want to destroy Israel and supporting every cause hostile to its existence?
Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (VpIIl) Unfortunately, that does seem to describe some liberal Jews - the Sally Kohns of this world for instance. Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 04:45 PM (ZM2xo) 295
You want to rip my heart out of my chest and stomp on it?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (wYseH) How much would that pay ?? Posted by: a friend of sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:45 PM (4u7kU) 296
I just clicked on that Eric Erickson article in the sidebar. Wow. I just read the first couple sentences and I had enough.
Posted by: bluebell at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (kNasr) 297
76 What was the movie they made from the book Flowers for Algernon?
00 southside with you Posted by: zibbly wibbly Had to look that up. Holy Shit that's mean. Posted by: t. rissle at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (V3U1L) 298
Robbie Benson Movies?
Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (aRXNK) 299
That does not describe the Belarussians I drank with.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:43 PM (fuK7c) That is total consumption/total population. That includes children and non-drinking grandmothers and so on.... I watched some Ukrainians at a wedding, and while I am a big guy who can drink a fair amount, I was in awe. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (wYseH) 300
Ooh! Bonnie & Clyde!
In real life, they were cold-blooded killers who did not look at all like Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Posted by: rickl at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (xjiRE) 301
293 "Oh Lord, now Obama is claiming "I'm basically a liberal Jew"........(discussing Israeli settlements at a NYC synagogue)"
------------------------- ValJar has him by the balls. He is pitiful. Posted by: Puddin Head at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (YV+SU) 302
275 Old Yeller can lick my balls.
Posted by: Sounder at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (bc2Lc) *** spits coffee on keyboard *** Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (2sCft) 303
Always interested in other people's take on Catcher in the Rye. People seem to either love it or hate it.
Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (2sCft) I read that, but I preferred Catcher in the Wry. Bob Eucher, recounting his storied history in the Major Leagues. With several photos of him being obliterated at home plate. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (7UW64) 304
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Addendum - and this assumes whoever collected the Byelorussian data wasn't hammered himself. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (fA1SL) 305
Celebrities unite to host event protesting Pres. Trump's State of the Union address. on Cavuto right now they can gth Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (fceHP) 306
A lesser known beautiful loser movie that I love is The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (wPiJc) 307
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner - never got what he was rebelling against since the "establishment" wanted to genuinely help him.
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 26, 2018 04:47 PM (vgwv+) 308
Jean de Florette was the most beautiful of losers
Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:41 PM (4u7kU) He was just an idiot, really. And that whole town of frogs were complicit - which the French seem to excel in. Nasty bunch they all were. What I never got about that movie was that he knew about the spring from the old map but never seemed to even try to find it. How tough can it be to find the location of something on a map. Sure, he might not have found the plugged spring but he never even looked. Meanwhile, he researched everything else from day to night. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 04:47 PM (8gDQu) 309
I watched one of those many new drinking shows where they went to a Polish wedding and err'yone drank straight vodka the whole day.
I'm polish and irish and I'm like ... fuckkkkkk. Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:47 PM (V3U1L) Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:47 PM (QQ+il) 311
She should partner with Olbermann at some point. That pairing seems so natural that it would probably only take 2 or 3 months before their ovulation was synched up.
Posted by: Burnett at January 26, 2018 04:47 PM (OPvZI) 312
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Heroic ethanol metabolism is but one more proof - Slavs are the master race. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (fA1SL) 313
And Disney seems to have killed Star Warbles with SJW. And so has CBS with Star Trek: Discovery
Discovery got much better recently when they shifted it into the Mirror Universe. Suddenly, the dark ships and everyone being a giant asshole actually works. Also, the blonde girl now wears tight leather. Posted by: Ian S. at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (3J/LN) 314
Cool Hand Luke ate fifty aigs ... t'ain't no loser!
And it looked like he did! Shirt off, no special effects, his stomach distended. Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (fuK7c) 315
>>>It's math day. 30 litres of pure grain is x (1 / .40) 80 proof vodka
which is 75 l per annum which is 1.44 liters per week, which is basically 2 bottles per week.<<< Yes, but if you operate like the US Government, it's perfectly acceptable for you to can kick the can further down the road with 3 bottles a week and let future generations pay for it. Posted by: Fritz at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (bJ0w+) 316
How much would that pay ??
Posted by: a friend of sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:45 PM (4u7kU) Did you see the sequel...Manon Of The Spring? Wow, that woman was stunningly beautiful. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (wYseH) 317
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Robbie Benson Movies? Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (aRXNK) Every last one of them. OMG that one where he winds up in the barn doing the nasty with old bill. WTF was that. Glad I didn't see that as a kid. I was about 40 when I first saw that and I was all WTF? Can I unsee this somehow? Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (ymnmz) Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (/tuJf) 319
ValJar has him by the balls. He is pitiful.
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (YV+SU) You assume he has a pair. You are a silly person. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (7UW64) 320
Actually Flowers for Algernon/Charly is going to be a lot of peoples story. Alzheimer's is a bitch. I've known a lot of people who've gone down that road. From genius to drooling idiot, in mere months. Some people it's fast, others much slower. But always deadly in the end. Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 26, 2018 04:49 PM (2FqvZ) 321
Dont short Jackie Earl Haley. He only does support roles in everything Ive seen him in, but damn if he isnt a jewel in every one. Posted by: Clay, unimpressed with your wokeness at January 26, 2018 04:40 PM (4RLKt) --- I didn't recognize him in Preacher as Odin Quincannon. I always think of him as a kid. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 26, 2018 04:49 PM (qJtVm) 322
Don't watch 8 Below. My wife still hasn't forgiven me for that movie. 8 Below is a mixed bag. Certainly there are parts that really yank the heart strings, but overall it is an uplifting story. Canine packs are loyal to a fault. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2018 04:49 PM (W6iva) 323
234 What was the movie they made from the book Flowers for Algernon?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 04:37 PM (6Ll1u) Charley Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 04:50 PM (aRXNK) 324
A Fist Full of Dynamite (Duck you sucker)
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Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (7UW64)
Unbelievably, Uecker once hit one of his few HRs off of Sandy Koufax, thus proving that even Koufax had his off days. Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 04:50 PM (ZM2xo) 326
Real Buffalo wings, as in, the ones that Buffalo originally made famous, are deep-fried (NEVER baked) and have a sauce made of exactly 2 ingredients: Frank's Hot Sauce and butter.
That's it. No sweet and sour this or teriyaki that, no rubs, no nothing. Frank's and butter. The only adjustment to be made is the butter-hot sauce ratio. Served with bleu cheese. Carrot sticks and celery sticks on the side. Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 26, 2018 04:50 PM (ul9CR) 327
I watched one of those many new drinking shows where they went to a Polish wedding and err'yone drank straight vodka the whole day.
I'm polish and irish and I'm like ... fuckkkkkk. Posted by: zibbly wibbly I used to be able to do 10 screwdrivers in 2 hours. But that took a couple of years to work up to. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:50 PM (aNSOb) 328
Serious alcoholics are too impatient for wine--at least I was. Had to drink a gallon of that stuff to get where I wanted to go.
Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:44 PM (raGQi) This is correct. Sometimes I start a good bottle at 11 am and might not finish it until 7 or 8 pm. And sometimes I open a bottle at 4 pm and another at 6 pm and another ........ I have had many friends that had the curse and it's not pretty. Could possibly be the hardest thing to overcome. Posted by: a friend of sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:50 PM (4u7kU) 329
Every last one of them.
OMG that one where he winds up in the barn doing the nasty with old bill. WTF was that. Glad I didn't see that as a kid. I was about 40 when I first saw that and I was all WTF? Can I unsee this somehow? Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (ymnmz) That was why Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. You would, too. Geez Louise. Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:50 PM (raGQi) 330
>>Follow-up: i wonder what other movies have made the greatest transition from left wing at inception to right wing today ...
Not a transition, but a movie that I still can't figure out if it was intended to be rightwing or leftwing: "The Last Supper" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113613/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Posted by: Lizzy at January 26, 2018 04:50 PM (W+vEI) 331
Would Bruce Dern in Silent Running be considered a beautiful loser?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (kaLsp) I would put that as a Doomsday (The Future Will Suck) Movie. Also very prominent in the 1970s. See also THX 1138, Logan's Run, The Omega Man, Planet Of The Apes, Soylent Green (although ANY film with Charlton Heston is pretty cool). And they wondered why Generation X was so bitter, suicidal and negative, growing up on *that* who wouldn't be? Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 26, 2018 04:50 PM (ujg0T) 332
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Don't watch 8 Below. My wife still hasn't forgiven me for that movie. 8 Below is a mixed bag. Certainly there are parts that really yank the heart strings, but overall it is an uplifting story. Canine packs are loyal to a fault. -- yes, I think that counts as a good, sad movie with some uplift at points. Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:50 PM (V3U1L) 333
Robby Benson and Jack Lemon made a movie together that was good and a tear jerker. Can't remember the name. Lee Remick was in it as well.
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Robbie Benson Movies? Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (aRXNK) Every last one of them. OMG that one where he winds up in the barn doing the nasty with old bill. WTF was that. Glad I didn't see that as a kid. I was about 40 when I first saw that and I was all WTF? Can I unsee this somehow? Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (ymnmz) Hahaha....yup. Wasn't that Tallahoochie Bridge or whatever the heck it was. I was glad when he jumped. Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 26, 2018 04:51 PM (EoRCO) Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:51 PM (kaLsp) 337
The Beautiful Loser movie I remember is "Georgy Girl." Mainly because of the song.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 04:51 PM (ZM2xo) 338
326 just deep fried, not breaded?
Want. Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at January 26, 2018 04:51 PM (hMwEB) 339
"I watched some Ukrainians at a wedding, and while I am a big guy who can drink a fair amount, I was in awe.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (wYseH)"I went to a Ukrainian wedding and the teenage girls were outdrinking me. Oh yeah, and they were the most functional "drunks" I have ever seen. And that's saying a lot. I've been all over this world.. Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2018 04:51 PM (VpIIl) 340
Unbelievably, Uecker once hit one of his few HRs off of Sandy Koufax, thus proving that even Koufax had his off days.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 04:50 PM (ZM2xo) Sometime, google up his acceptance speech from the Hall of Fame. You will die from laughter. How he does it with a straight face I will never know. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2018 04:51 PM (7UW64) 341
Did you see the sequel...Manon Of The Spring?
Wow, that woman was stunningly beautiful. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (wYseH) Emmanuelle Beart. I saw her first in A Heart In Winter. ANother fvcked up French movie that is really stupid at its core, but she was just gorgeous. Worth watching. Same costar with her, BTW - Daniel Autiell somethingorother. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 04:52 PM (8gDQu) 342
303 Always interested in other people's take on Catcher in the Rye. People seem to either love it or hate it.
------------------------- Over hyped book for Yankees. Read all of Salinger's books and honestly they made no impact on me. I hardly remember them. I guess if I went to prep school and was from NY wealth it might have had something I could relate to. I feel the same about F. Scott Fitzgerald's stuff. Dittos Thomas Wolfe. There are a lot of authors who your supposed to read that really suck. Posted by: Puddin Head at January 26, 2018 04:52 PM (YV+SU) 343
327. There's the problem. Screwdrivers.
Trip ya up every time. Straight liquor, it gives you more control and awareness of its effects. This is how, for instance, my uncles could drink for - say - two or three days running and not pass out or throw up. Or die. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at January 26, 2018 04:52 PM (fA1SL) 344
Oh Lord, now Obama is claiming "I'm basically a liberal Jew"........(discussing Israeli settlements at a NYC synagogue)
--- If being a Muzzie is almost being Jewish........ then Yeah OK Posted by: MISH McConnell at January 26, 2018 04:52 PM (y3aQB) 345
trebuchet for the hurl of large objects, what fun
but there's more. trebuchet is a CUCKING stool. Posted by: azalea city at January 26, 2018 04:52 PM (WX+x0) 346
>>> "So-called "beautiful losers," people who just didn't fit into Society, and, of course, who were therefore losers, but were "beautiful" in their loserdom. They felt so much, and had such Integrity in their Losing. They were beautiful precisely because they were losers, and ineffectual in changing their fates in a Society rigged against them.
That sounds like The Outsiders, which I remember reading as a preteen and gave me All the Feels. I think it was one of the first unofficial YA novels, before there really was a genre for YA. No idea if the book holds up over time though. Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (hvf9s) 347
ESPN is on a roll today. They produced a serial piece on Larry Nasser called Outside the Lines and have targeted the entire Michigan State administration and now are delving into how the university handled sexual assault complaints from students.
They are trying now to destroy Tom Izzo and Mark Dantonio, the basketball and football coaches respectively. MSU, like most other universities, has not only a campus police department, but the entire SJW student campus life department that all sexual assault complaints must be reported. ESPN's own reporting states that even if a complaintant doesn't want to report an incident to the student kangaroo court, it is required. In Dantonio's case, over his 11 year tenure there, ESPN claims 16 of his players have been accused of sexual assault of some form or another. Most of those cases ended up with no charges filed due to either the female changes her mind, or it's the typical he said she said with no evidence and the claim made months after the fact. Last summer four players on the football team were charged with sexual assault, and those charges and trials are pending. All four were dismissed from the team and the university. ESPN is claiming that because out of 1300 players Dantonio has coached over 11 years, 16 were accused of sexual assault, that means he is covering it up. They are trying to use the pen to destroy people. Posted by: Jen the original at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (wLPDG) 348
328 Serious alcoholics are too impatient for wine--at least I was. Had to drink a gallon of that stuff to get where I wanted to go.
Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:44 PM (raGQi) This is correct. Sometimes I start a good bottle at 11 am and might not finish it until 7 or 8 pm. And sometimes I open a bottle at 4 pm and another at 6 pm and another ........ I have had many friends that had the curse and it's not pretty. Could possibly be the hardest thing to overcome. Posted by: a friend of sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:50 PM (4u7kU) My Mom would drink NyQuil when they stopped selling booze. Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (dKiJG) Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (/tuJf) 350
I used to be a good drinker, now I'm a bad one (I detoxed last year and am slipping and trying to work my way back out), but when I was young and strong and doing business in Belarus those guys were absolutely scary.
I had to pretend to drink all the toasts they'd make in one dinner and sneak-pour it into the potted plant. Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (fuK7c) 351
Was 'What's It All About, Alfie' a beautiful loser movie?
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (YV+SU) 352
The concept of antihero goes back a long ways.
Posted by: pogomip at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (lU2eE) 353
>>> man I got the Kahlua Pork thing wrong AND made the last comment on two threads today. Sheesh...at least Hillary is still not my preznit.
Danman is this about my recipe in the cookbook, or something else? I'm out of the loop on convos at AoS this week. Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (hvf9s) 354
"Why are you executing me? I'm not political"
"We're executing you exactly BECAUSE you're not political" Posted by: Thorny at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (nNAQ8) 355
Did you see the sequel...Manon Of The Spring? I need to watch both those films again - they were quite good, despite having to contend with subtitles. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2018 04:54 PM (W6iva) Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:54 PM (kaLsp) 357
Did you see the sequel...Manon Of The Spring?
Wow, that woman was stunningly beautiful. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2018 04:48 PM (wYseH) I own both movies. They are must watch a few times a year movies. And yes, although I'm not normally into blondes, she was sizzlingly innocent. Posted by: a friend of sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:54 PM (4u7kU) 358
"OMG that one where he winds up in the barn doing the nasty with old bill"
I saw that movie as a kid and I don't remember it showed anything explicit - which is why it was so shocking when Billie Joe blurted out "Ah have been with a man!" And then you found out who the guy was - some old farmer. But there was no kissing or any clue that anything was going on there. Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 04:54 PM (ZM2xo) 359
"I just clicked on that Eric Erickson article in the sidebar. Wow. I just read the first couple sentences and I had enough."
Eric is a self promoting jackass. Take it from someone who knows. He also destroyed RS. Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2018 04:54 PM (VpIIl) Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 26, 2018 04:54 PM (bB4HN) Posted by: Dana Perino at January 26, 2018 04:54 PM (a1s18) 362
Samson a beautiful loser repurposed
Posted by: azalea city at January 26, 2018 04:54 PM (WX+x0) 363
8 Below actually has a happier ending than the real story.
5 out of 8 survived in the movie. In reality it was only 2. Out of 15. Posted by: Hikaru at January 26, 2018 04:55 PM (pkvO1) 364
Easy Rider
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 04:55 PM (cdYPW) 365
sed to be a good drinker, now I'm a bad one (I detoxed last year and am slipping and trying to work my way back out), but when I was young and strong and doing business in Belarus those guys were absolutely scary.
--- how did the detox work and go>? Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:55 PM (V3U1L) 366
It's been too many years since the literature/English studies in college but the style of ace's article here strikes a memory - can't recall the name of the style. The way he sets up the Beautiful Loser angle suddenly at the end and closes with it in a flourish is fantastic. This ace guy is mean f-cking writer.
Posted by: MSTisdale at January 26, 2018 04:55 PM (xHVD5) 367
I detoxed last year and am slipping and trying to work my way back out),
------------ Fix that, my dear. Please. Posted by: bluebell at January 26, 2018 04:55 PM (kNasr) 368
My Mom would drink NyQuil when they stopped selling booze.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (dKiJG) I did, too. Strange thing: to an alcoholic, drinking NyQuil on Sundays seems like a perfectly normal, ordinary thing to do. I simply couldn't understand why people looked at me funny. Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:55 PM (raGQi) 369
I need to watch both those films again - they were quite good, despite having to contend with subtitles.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2018 04:54 PM (W6iva) Don't speak french ?? How gauche Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:55 PM (4u7kU) 370
363 8 Below actually has a happier ending than the real story.
5 out of 8 survived in the movie. In reality it was only 2. Out of 15. -- need brain bleach now. must not know this Posted by: zibbly wibbly at January 26, 2018 04:55 PM (V3U1L) Posted by: bluebell at January 26, 2018 04:56 PM (kNasr) 372
I wasn't realized for fifty years, but the best beautiful loser movie has to be The Russian's are coming, The Russians are coming. Starring Jackie Gleason.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 04:56 PM (6Ll1u) 373
Some of us have a much shorter trip.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (/tuJf) Can you still smell peanut butter from a distance? Supposedly thats a clue. That spoon seems to be getting closer to my nose every couple of months. Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 26, 2018 04:57 PM (2FqvZ) 374
how did the detox work and go>?
It worked. Five days in a facility with meds and supervision. Then after enough sobriety (close to a year) started thinking "I can handle it again". Nope. Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:57 PM (fuK7c) 375
Hey, Joe Dirt was a Beautiful Loser movie.
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 26, 2018 04:57 PM (YV+SU) 376
That sounds like The Outsiders, which I remember reading as a preteen and gave me All the Feels. I think it was one of the first unofficial YA novels, before there really was a genre for YA. No idea if the book holds up over time though.
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (hvf9s) I loved "The Outsiders" and "That Was Then, This is Now" by S. E. Hinton about the guy with a brother that turns out to be a dealer. There was a strong anti-drug message. There was another YA writer I liked, Paul Zindel, I think his name was... Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 04:57 PM (ZM2xo) 377
>>> man I got the Kahlua Pork thing wrong AND made the last comment on two threads today. Sheesh...at least Hillary is still not my preznit.
Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 04:57 PM (aNSOb) Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:58 PM (fuK7c) 379
I did, too. Strange thing: to an alcoholic, drinking NyQuil on Sundays seems like a perfectly normal, ordinary thing to do. I simply couldn't understand why people looked at me funny. -------------------- That's exactly what Diane Feinstein said. Posted by: Puddin Head at January 26, 2018 04:58 PM (YV+SU) 380
Look up "Cordyceps", an odd sort of mushroom. A literal parasite that takes control of its host, getting it to go to a place that is more beneficial to the fungus, and then leaves it to die as the cordyceps releases its spores to spread the infection.
Homework for tomorrow: List the key differences between an SJW and a Cordyceps. [DO NOT SHARE - ANSWER SHEET] 1) Cordyceps actually reproduce Posted by: Another Anon at January 26, 2018 04:58 PM (jNP0V) 381
Oh Lord, now Obama is claiming "I'm basically a liberal Jew"........(discussing Israeli settlements at a NYC synagogue)
--- If being a Muzzie is almost being Jewish........ then Yeah OK Posted by: MISH McConnell at January 26, 2018 04:52 PM (y3aQB) Whoever the moron was here who said some years back that Obama would be a shit stain on the pages of our history was sooo nuts on. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at January 26, 2018 04:58 PM (aMlLZ) 382
You folks struggling with alcohol, I'm praying for you.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2018 04:58 PM (VpIIl) 383
He also quoted Neudings observations that Sweden is undergoing a exual assault crisis owing to the immigration of men from extremely patriarchal cultures and that Sweden's self-described feminist government has quietly abandoned women.
muslim>women duh! Posted by: rhennigantx at January 26, 2018 04:59 PM (BtQd4) 384
Okay, I got one:
Funny Girl. Bleah. (Although I think Love Story Seagull fits in there as well.) Dramedy, guy. I tell ya, that is when dramedy was coined. Posted by: mustbequantum at January 26, 2018 04:59 PM (MIKMs) 385
Hey, Joe Dirt was a Beautiful Loser movie.
Posted by: Puddin Head Well, that blonde chick/love interest was pretty hot.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the 386
I drink only to excess.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 26, 2018 04:59 PM (QQ+il) 387
>>Can you still smell peanut butter from a distance? Supposedly thats a clue. That spoon seems to be getting closer to my nose every couple of months.
Not yet. But I meant my trip wasn't going to start at genius. I'm not that far from drooling idiot right now. So I got that going for me. Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2018 04:59 PM (/tuJf) 388
It worked. Five days in a facility with meds and supervision. Then after enough sobriety (close to a year) started thinking "I can handle it again". Nope.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:57 PM (fuK7c) Sweetheart, I will give you the four words of wisdom given by my husband's counselor when he quit drinking: 1. Shut the Fuck Up. 2. You don't know anything. 3. Don't Drink. 4. Go to Meetings. Easy to remember, straight to the point. Unless you want to be dead, that is. So do it. We can't spare the morons. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2018 05:00 PM (7UW64) 389
Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:55 PM (raGQi)
When I was young, my sister and I would come in from the farm to Dallas to visit my father. We would go down to White Rock Lake to find bags with clumps of glue in them and spray cans. Took me another 30 years to learn what it was about. Not sure my sister ever figured it out. Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 05:00 PM (4u7kU) 390
382 You folks struggling with alcohol, I'm praying for you.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2018 04:58 PM (VpIIl) appreciate prayers for my son, OReno, Jr. Newly sober but long way to go. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:00 PM (2sCft) Posted by: Ignoramus at January 26, 2018 05:01 PM (NHEQO) 392
But I meant my trip wasn't going to start at genius. I'm not that far from drooling idiot right now.
So I got that going for me. Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2018 04:59 PM (/tuJf) You're kidding of course. You're someone I always read from beginning to end. That's saying something. Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 26, 2018 05:01 PM (2FqvZ) 393
Bandersnatch, don't listen to the shoulder demon who is saying "Here drink this beer."
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:02 PM (kaLsp) 394
I loved "The Catcher in the Rye" when I was a teenager, but now I think Holden would get on my last friggin' nerve. But then, so do most adolescents.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 05:02 PM (ZM2xo) 395
The guy in the video talks about how making a character be all about
being black or female or gay means that you can't make the character flawed and give them a growth arc. I am afraid the same thing is going to happen with the A Wrinkle in Time movie. Meg in the book wears glasses and braces and is plain and gawky. But since they have cast a black girl as Meg, I'm afraid it's just going to be "black girl does cool stuff in outer space." Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at January 26, 2018 05:02 PM (FQKBL) 396
Anything Tennessee Williams was Beautiful Loser.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at January 26, 2018 05:02 PM (toi7g) 397
331 Would Bruce Dern in Silent Running be considered a beautiful loser?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:21 PM (kaLsp) Bruce Dern is the go to guy for Crazy Bad Stuff. Donald Sutherland is the go to guy for Crazy Fun Stuff. Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 05:02 PM (aRXNK) Posted by: mustbequantum at January 26, 2018 05:02 PM (MIKMs) 399
appreciate prayers for my son, OReno, Jr. Newly sober but long way to go.
Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:00 PM (2sCft) -------- Will do. Good for him for quitting. Posted by: bluebell at January 26, 2018 05:03 PM (kNasr) 400
Oh no! No more Jemelle Hill? What will I ever do to fap, now? Oh, the humanity! Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 26, 2018 05:03 PM (8O3HH) 401
Blessed Matt Talbot, pray for us.
St. Monica, pray for us. Lead us out of bondage from alcohol into the light of the Love of Our Lord. Amen. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2018 05:03 PM (7UW64) 402
...Dantonio has coached over 11 years, 16 were accused
of sexual assault, that means he is covering it up. They are trying to use the pen to destroy people. Posted by: Jen the original * * * * * Sorry for the chopped cut and paste which gives you the quote rather than ESPN but I follow MSU football pretty closely. Not sure your angle on this but in full disclosure I'm a fan of a rival but do not allow that to color my approach to this. The MSU program has indeed been covering up sexual assaults by team members since at least the mid-nineties. Just last year they lost several star rookies who videotaped themselves attacking a girl in a bathroom. It took the school almost the entire year to produce the investigation results and toss the players - some of whom are arguably key to the program's future success - and it was ONLY because there was video evidence of the attack. In this matter, MSU is getting what it deserves from SJW ESPN. Posted by: MSTisdale at January 26, 2018 05:03 PM (xHVD5) 403
Thanks for the well-wishes, folks. I've gone into enough detail for now.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 05:03 PM (fuK7c) 404
"Danman is this about my recipe in the cookbook, or something else? I'm out of the loop on convos at AoS this week."
I can't wait to try it. I seriously mentioned seeing something about Kahlua Chicken and my wife came home with a big bottle of Kahlua yesterday and she couldn't find the recipe. Because it was pork not chicken. Posted by: DanMan at January 26, 2018 05:03 PM (XTiHL) 405
In Hollyweird hypocrisy news:
KATY PERRY OBSESSED FAN GUILTY OF STALKING ... Getting Deported https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/956813999173242881 It's okay to be for borders and protection and deportation of the Great Unwashed if you're a Chosen One and in need of it. To be fair, it might be safer for Pawel Jurski in Poland than in contact with all the microbes that Katy Perry accumulated from years of willing decadent passion with Russell Brand. Posted by: The Institute at January 26, 2018 05:04 PM (nGsFZ) Posted by: Glenn John at January 26, 2018 05:04 PM (LilNs) 407
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (fuK7c)
Into a Potted plant. ( sits and waits for the snark) Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 05:04 PM (cdYPW) 408
354 "Why are you executing me? I'm not political" There wasn't an execution, but the scene in Dr Zhivago where his half brother (Alec Guinness) first meets Zhivago and he commented upon Yuri's expresssed sentiments and how they were subtle, yet politically dangerous and potentially fatal if they had been spoken in front of the wrong person. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2018 05:04 PM (W6iva) 409
134. and highly improbable, the way Elaine embraced the fugly dweeb who boinked her mom.
Posted by: kallisto at January 26, 2018 05:04 PM (sqMPm) 410
>>You're kidding of course. You're someone I always read from beginning to end. That's saying something.
Well thanks but I'm just an average moron. Now my father, he was a genius of sorts. And he had Alzheimer's as a complication from Parkinson's. It is very sad to see someone you've loved and looked up to all your life slip away. Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2018 05:05 PM (/tuJf) 411
Every Rom-Com is a beautiful loser movie.
Posted by: The Last Man-Bot at the CDC at January 26, 2018 05:05 PM (nAjD1) 412
Barb, yeah the character becomes cardboard.
And yes A Wrinkle in Time has been thoroughly processed by the SJW writing machine. And Oprah Winfrey is in it. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:05 PM (kaLsp) 413
396 Anything Tennessee Williams was Beautiful Loser. Posted by: Rusty Nail at January 26, 2018 05:02 PM (toi7g) Yep! And "Long Days Journey Into Night." I had a friend who called her family "the Eugene O'Neill Family" and she was right. I was there for dinner once and the whole family got drunk and the aunt started crying because her mom gave her a "10 cent holy card" for her birthday once. Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 05:05 PM (ZM2xo) 414
Into a Potted plant. ( sits and waits for the snark)
I know. I was trying to think how to phrase that without either betraying the truth or inviting the HW jokes. Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 05:05 PM (fuK7c) 415
I did, too. Strange thing: to an alcoholic, drinking NyQuil on Sundays seems like a perfectly normal, ordinary thing to do. I simply couldn't understand why people looked at me funny. Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 04:55 PM (raGQi) Scope mouthwash. An alcohol buzz plus your breath is minty fresh. . Posted by: Soona at January 26, 2018 05:05 PM (Fs5vw) 416
394 I loved "The Catcher in the Rye" when I was a teenager, but now I think Holden would get on my last friggin' nerve. But then, so do most adolescents.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 05:02 PM (ZM2xo) Agree completely, Donna. But I think his confused character is a very accurate portrayal of a lot of teens, not all, but a lot. i think that's why Holden is so relate-able to many teens. But yeah, as an adult you want to shake him. He's the biggest phony of all. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:05 PM (2sCft) 417
Bandersnatch, don't listen to the shoulder demon who is saying "Here drink this beer."
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:02 PM (kaLsp) My sponsor calls that 'The Whispers'. The good news? The mental obsession and physical craving stop after a fairly short period of total abstinence. The bad news? That fairly short period of abstinence seems to go on forever. Nothing for it but to pray and stay in the day. Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 05:05 PM (raGQi) 418
I think I would be an alcoholic if something weird hadn't happened in my early 30's. Drinking started making me puke. EVERY time. Even small amounts. Even a glass of wine at dinner.
I hate puking, so that was that. Posted by: Rusty Nail at January 26, 2018 05:06 PM (toi7g) 419
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 26, 2018 04:53 PM (fuK7c)
Into a Potted plant. ( sits and waits for the snark) Posted by: Roc Ingersol Driving. Had to let that one go. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 05:07 PM (aNSOb) 420
My short review of Napoleon Dynamite:
Losers win! ===== Vote for Pedro. Animal House. Posted by: mustbequantum at January 26, 2018 05:02 PM (MIKMs) I do not know if Napoleon won but he did not lose. Best part of the movie was his brother transforming into a brutha. Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 05:07 PM (cdYPW) 421
273 I'm 6'3" and 190.
Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (4u7kU) Wow.... you are a fat fvck. Posted by: BMI Calculator at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (wYseH) Yes, I'm afraid so. Thanks for the rub in Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 05:07 PM (4u7kU) 422
So is Sympathetic Loser the same as the Beautiful Loser angle? Clockwork Orange.
Posted by: MSTisdale at January 26, 2018 05:07 PM (xHVD5) Posted by: Soona at January 26, 2018 05:08 PM (Fs5vw) 424
356 Emmanuelle Beart?
Date With An Angel. Phoebe Cates as a really mean Heather. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 04:54 PM (kaLsp) Phoebe Cates has the look that makes guys stupid. Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 05:08 PM (aRXNK) 425
I think I would be an alcoholic if something weird hadn't happened in my early 30's. Drinking started making me puke. EVERY time. Even small amounts. Even a glass of wine at dinner.
I hate puking, so that was that. Posted by: Rusty Nail at January 26, 2018 05:06 PM (toi7g) same here, for me and my husband we can't handle a lot, at all I drink one drink a week, if that. More if there are special events or a nice home dinner, but never more than 2x a week. One scotch on a Friday night = perfect for me. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2018 05:08 PM (fceHP) 426
Phoebe Cates has the look that makes guys stupid.
Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 05:08 PM (aRXNK) She makes me a moron. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:09 PM (2sCft) 427
>>Arthur
He got the girl and the money and he never worked a day in his life. I'd take that kind of losing. Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2018 05:09 PM (/tuJf) 428
Wasn't there a wife of a presidential candidate who went to rehab for drinking Listerine?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 05:09 PM (6Ll1u) 429
Nobody has mentioned the novel Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen. Does nobody remember it? I guess that makes me the oldest one here.
Posted by: Youkali at January 26, 2018 05:10 PM (j75YX) 430
Oh, I almost forgot this beautiful loser movie:
Arthur Posted by: Soona Awww, I think you're cute too. Ha ha haaaaaa Posted by: Arthur at January 26, 2018 05:10 PM (HScFq) 431
My short review of Napoleon Dynamite:
Losers win! Posted by: Ignoramus at January 26, 2018 05:01 PM (NHEQO) My short review of that movie. Spend your time elsewhere. You'll be better off. Posted by: Sponge at January 26, 2018 05:10 PM (Zz0t1) 432
Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2018 05:05 PM
I went to the house where he wrote that (not far from where I live). Guy seemed like an asshole. Loved his dog, hated his daughter, and drove his wife to sedatives. Posted by: Rusty Nail at January 26, 2018 05:10 PM (toi7g) 433
Oh, I almost forgot this beautiful loser movie:
Arthur Posted by: Soona "Perhaps you'd like me to wash your 'dickie' for you, sir......" Posted by: Sponge at January 26, 2018 05:10 PM (Zz0t1) 434
"One scotch on a Friday night = perfect for me.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2018 05:08 PM (fceHP)"Wow.Who saw that coming. I thought you were going to say glass of wine.But that's the misogynist in me, ha! Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2018 05:11 PM (VpIIl) 435
Wasn't there a wife of a presidential candidate who went to rehab for drinking Listerine?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 05:09 PM (6Ll1u) Michael Dukakis's wife drank rubbing alcohol IIRC. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:11 PM (2sCft) 436
Picture the cast of characters in Clockwork Orange as the staff of NRO, and their attacks on the various townspeople are akin to their writing. Someone should do a photoshop of idiots Kevin Williamson, Jonah Goldberg, et al in a still of one of the scenes.
Posted by: MSTisdale at January 26, 2018 05:11 PM (xHVD5) 437
I can still drink a bit, but I've gotten to the sad point (okay that's a joke) that trying to drink too much brings on the headache long before I get the buzz. And I hate headaches. So i'll have the occasional beer or two, or a glass of wine, but that's about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 26, 2018 05:11 PM (k1TUh) 438
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins is a goofy loser movie -not sure about beautiful. Alan Arkin and Sally Kellerman -saw it on TCM a while back. Arkin had a difficult time getting laid IIRC.
Posted by: Glenn John at January 26, 2018 05:11 PM (LilNs) 439
Hahaha....yup. Wasn't that Tallahoochie Bridge or whatever the heck it was. I was glad when he jumped. Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 26, 2018 04:51 PM (EoRCO) That reminds me of one of the funniest jokes about the theater. Pia Zadora was in the lead role of Anne Frank's Diary and giving a terrible performance. In the scene where the Nazis barge into the house someone from the audience yelled: "She's in the attic!!!" Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (aRXNK) 440
Speaking of fat fucks, I declare that my weight has officially crossed the Rubicon.
I am going nearly carb free. I can't handle being this fat anymore, and they won't do liposuction for that, so I guess I'll have to banish it myself. I hurt my neck something fierce a few years ago and I've been not moving around much like I used to. Cheesy excuse, but there it is. The hard part is giving up beer. I love a cold one after work. I'm told that once I make weight, I can have red wine, but not until then, and at this rate, it will be a couple of years at least. Luckily, there's bacon. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (7UW64) 441
My grandmother was an alcoholic who had done AA and was sober for a long time. Or they thought until my 12 year old self discovered her bottle of whiskey in the laundry basket on our summer trip to their house. Did not realize the drama I had started. Good news is she sobered up again.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (cdYPW) 442
Cyrano De Bergerac is a beautiful loser. Not the shone, but the man. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (mbhDw) 443
Phoebe Cates has the look that makes guys stupid.
Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 05:08 PM (aRXNK) Ohhhhh YEAHHHHHH..... Posted by: Yello at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (Zz0t1) 444
442
Cyrano De Bergerac is a beautiful loser. Not the shone, but the man. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (mbhDw) SHNOZ not shone. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (mbhDw) 445
429 Nobody has mentioned the novel Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen. Does nobody remember it? I guess that makes me the oldest one here.
Posted by: Youkali at January 26, 2018 05:10 PM (j75YX) "Suzanne" certainly seems like a "beautiful loser" song. Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (ujg0T) 446
>>> I can't wait to try it. I seriously mentioned seeing something about Kahlua Chicken and my wife came home with a big bottle of Kahlua yesterday and she couldn't find the recipe. Because it was pork not chicken. Posted by: DanMan at January 26, 2018 05:03 PM (XTiHL)
Ha. Just so you know my kalua recipe does not list Kahlua as an ingredient. But if you want to add some for flavor, I won't stop you! In a similar vein, the hilarious Henny Tacos Youtube "tutorial": www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB2E6tQo72o Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (hvf9s) 447
Here's one possible reason why beautiful loser movies are hard to identify: most people want to see a strong character win or an underdog win. Very few people want to invest 2 1/2 hours into a movie to see a loser lose. Regardless of how beautiful they do it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 05:13 PM (aNSOb) 448
436 Picture the cast of characters in Clockwork Orange as the staff of NRO, and their attacks on the various townspeople are akin to their writing. Someone should do a photoshop of idiots Kevin Williamson, Jonah Goldberg, et al in a still of one of the scenes.
Posted by: MSTisdale at January 26, 2018 05:11 PM (xHVD5) Eunuch Jelly thou = Bill Kristol Blue Persuasion Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:13 PM (mbhDw) 449
273 I'm 6'3" and 190.
Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 04:39 PM (4u7kU) Wow.... you are a fat fvck. Posted by: BMI Calculator at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (wYseH) Yes, I'm afraid so. Thanks for the rub in Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 05:07 PM (4u7kU) Yeah, thanks asshole. I'm 6' and 230 lbs...... Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:13 PM (2sCft) 450
I wonder what those little confabs that Trump is holding in Davos would look like if Hollywood or Madison Ave was casting them ??
Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 05:13 PM (4u7kU) 451
I have numerous functional alcoholics in my family. All combat vets.
I say functional because they always hold a job and work hard. But once the whistle blows, it's downhill. But come 0600 they are up and out the door. Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2018 05:13 PM (VpIIl) 452
Good for you, tcn. Good luck. And Lent will be here soon, which will help your resolve. You'll only have to give up bacon on Fridays!
Posted by: bluebot at January 26, 2018 05:14 PM (kNasr) Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2018 05:14 PM (fceHP) 454
My guess is that Jemele Hill was / is boinking an exec at ESPN.
No other way to explain how she got the gig. Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at January 26, 2018 05:14 PM (hMwEB) 455
kalua pork (Hawaiian) =/= Kahlua (Mexican)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at January 26, 2018 05:14 PM (toi7g) 456
Hopefully everyone getting a tax cut or one time bonus from their employer is going to invest that money into cutting the cable and purchasing some toys for streaming. Yes, invest. If you spend a couple hundred and you save five hundred every year after, that's a good investment.
Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 26, 2018 04:10 PM we did that at the end of Dec. 2 Roku adapters for the tv were ca. $80. W/ a subscription w/ Hulu we are saving $65 a month, well worth the $80 spent. Only fly in the ointment is that Comcast will charge us more for data usage after 2 months of freebie overages. I think if we turn off the tv more when not really watching it we can keep the extra charges to a minimum. We shall see. Anyone else in the same boat? Posted by: Farmer at January 26, 2018 05:14 PM (yJ1e6) 457
Pia Zadora was in the lead role of Anne Frank's Diary and giving a terrible performance. In the scene where the Nazis barge into the house someone from the audience yelled: "She's in the attic!!!"
Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (aRXNK) Hahaha....Too funny! Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (EoRCO) 458
Yeah, thanks asshole. I'm 6' and 230 lbs......
Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:13 PM (2sCft) I'm 5'9" 190. BMI says I should be 145 or some shit. I'd look like fucking Urkle at 145. Posted by: Sponge at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (Zz0t1) 459
Poor Juan.
He tries. He gets paid for trying. Posted by: artisanal 'ette Well, it takes Juan to know Juan. Ha ha haaaaa Posted by: Arthur at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (HScFq) 460
Truck stop glory holes are not going to staff themselves Jemelle. Now chop chop.
Posted by: Under Fire at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (r9UYA) 461
Sam Francis wrote his book about Conservatism, Inc. and called it Beautiful Losers. I've never read it, but I'm sure all of us know what is in it without even looking at it because we've seen it for years now.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (4ErVI) 462
My husband haz a sad because he thinks losing weight will reduce the size of the marital boobies. I'm just hoping to reduce the shelf they sit on currently.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (7UW64) 463
Yes, I'm afraid so. Thanks for the rub in
Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 05:07 PM (4u7kU) Yeah, thanks asshole. I'm 6' and 230 lbs...... Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:13 PM (2sCft) --------- Guys, he's teasing. I'm not a male, but 6'3" and 190 sounds pretty lean to me. Posted by: bluebot at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (kNasr) 464
447 Here's one possible reason why beautiful loser movies are hard to identify: most people want to see a strong character win or an underdog win. Very few people want to invest 2 1/2 hours into a movie to see a loser lose. Regardless of how beautiful they do it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 05:13 PM (aNSOb) The characters I always strive to create are ones that at the end of the movie, the get what they want, only not quite the way they expected. Irony in the ultimate character arc makes for great movies. Michael Corleone saves his family but destroys himself in the process. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (mbhDw) 465
KATY PERRY OBSESSED FAN GUILTY OF STALKING
... Getting Deported 1 out of 20 million. One very special beloved hollywood music star says one little thing about an undocumented worker. TA DA they are gone! 300 citizens suffer daily with lost wages, stolen taxes, destroyed culture and violence we are told if we put up with it we are a better country. Posted by: rhennigantx at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (BtQd4) 466
Yeah, thanks asshole. I'm 6' and 230 lbs......
Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:13 PM (2sCft) Do you exercise daily ? Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (4u7kU) 467
>> My guess is that Jemele Hill was / is boinking an exec at ESPN.
I'd like to see that guy. He must be blind. Or just one sick puppy. Or uglier than homemade sin himself. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (8O3HH) 468
She is Out of My League is a favorite underdog loser wins movie .
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 05:16 PM (cdYPW) 469
Speaking of fat fucks, I declare that my weight has officially crossed the Rubicon.
I am going nearly carb free. *** IIRC Someone told me distilled alcohol has no carbs. Too lazy to google. Is this true? Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:16 PM (2sCft) 470
Best beautiful loser movie?
Kingpin Posted by: Downcast at January 26, 2018 05:16 PM (PCKEG) 471
now Obama is claiming "I'm basically a liberal Jew"........(discussing Israeli settlements at a NYC synagogue) Posted by: KWDreaming Reminiscent of how rash of MSM reports about Hillary's "Jewish roots" when she was running for the Senate seat in New York. I recall Rush saying something like, "That's odd, I thought Hillary's roots were brunette." Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2018 05:16 PM (EzdLW) 472
IIRC Someone told me distilled alcohol has no carbs. Too lazy to google. Is this true?
Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:16 PM (2sCft) Vodka has no carbs..... Posted by: Sponge at January 26, 2018 05:16 PM (Zz0t1) 473
457 Pia Zadora was in the lead role of Anne Frank's Diary and giving a terrible performance. In the scene where the Nazis barge into the house someone from the audience yelled: "She's in the attic!!!"
Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (aRXNK) Hahaha....Too funny! Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (EoRCO) The audience reaction to Sofia Coppola getting shot at the end of "Godfather 3." Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:16 PM (mbhDw) 474
I enjoyed Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins because you get to see Louis Prima and Sam Butera and the Professionals in some Casino in Vegas. They rocked
Posted by: Glenn John at January 26, 2018 05:17 PM (LilNs) 475
how rash == >the rash
Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2018 05:17 PM (EzdLW) 476
380 Look up "Cordyceps", an odd sort of mushroom. A literal parasite that takes control of its host, getting it to go to a place that is more beneficial to the fungus, and then leaves it to die as the cordyceps releases its spores to spread the infection.
Homework for tomorrow: List the key differences between an SJW and a Cordyceps. [DO NOT SHARE - ANSWER SHEET] 1) Cordyceps actually reproduce Posted by: Another Anon at January 26, 2018 04:58 PM (jNP0V) Figures prominently in "The Last of Us" and "The Girl with All the Gifts," a movie I hated. Posted by: Insomniac - mostly stable at January 26, 2018 05:17 PM (NWiLs) 477
Peak Pia Zadora was in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:17 PM (kaLsp) 478
Forest Gump has to be the primary example of a Beautiful Loser movie.
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 05:17 PM (cdYPW) 479
Do you exercise daily ?
Posted by: sofa saver at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (4u7kU) Heck no. That and the bottle of wine a day are why I'm fat. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:17 PM (2sCft) 480
467 >> My guess is that Jemele Hill was / is boinking an exec at ESPN.
A big girl like that (guessing buck 90) needs lots of love. Posted by: rhennigantx at January 26, 2018 05:17 PM (BtQd4) 481
>>> And yes A Wrinkle in Time has been thoroughly processed by the SJW writing machine. And Oprah Winfrey is in it. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:05 PM (kaLsp)
I cannot even with how disappointed I am in the trailers. And it being an OPRAH! venture, with her inserting herself in as one of the witches. One of my fave book series from childhood and they are going to ruin it with SJWness, despite a lot of the conservative themes actually in it. I suspect her coyly neither confirming nor denying running for president after her Globes speech was just to drum up buzz for the film. Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2018 05:17 PM (hvf9s) 482
Arthur
Didn't Katy Perry's dirtbag ex-husband do a remake of this clusterfuck? There's your proof, right there, that Katy Perry is in the top running for 'most beautiful loser on the planet.' Posted by: Fritz at January 26, 2018 05:18 PM (bJ0w+) 483
I once went to an AA meeting at an Amish church in Ohio, the parking lot was mostly horse and buggy, just a few cars. The speaker was a 20 yr old kid who had gone blind drinking wood alcohol, so very powerful. And the food after was spectacular.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 05:18 PM (6Ll1u) 484
I detest the phrase vertical. I don't know why but I do.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. With drink holders. Hopping all around. at January 26, 2018 05:18 PM (dEQP3) 485
Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2018 05:16 PM
He has the nerve to claim this after he engineered the U.N. back-stab on his way out the door. Passive-aggressive and cowardly. Posted by: Rusty Nail at January 26, 2018 05:18 PM (toi7g) 486
"Perhaps you'd like me to wash your 'dickie' for you, sir......"
Posted by: Sponge at January 26, 2018 05:10 PM (Zz0t1) It is a funny movie. Posted by: Soona at January 26, 2018 05:18 PM (Fs5vw) 487
470 Best beautiful loser movie?
Kingpin Posted by: Downcast at January 26, 2018 05:16 PM (PCKEG) "The Cincinnati Kid." Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:18 PM (mbhDw) 488
Guys, he's teasing. I'm not a male, but 6'3" and 190 sounds pretty lean to me.
Posted by: bluebot at January 26, 2018 05:15 PM (kNasr) I know he's teasing. But I really am fat. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:18 PM (2sCft) Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:18 PM (kaLsp) Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 05:19 PM (cdYPW) 491
My goodness, I didn't realize I had that old sock on until I saw SteveOReno quote me. Bot be gone!
Posted by: bluebell at January 26, 2018 05:19 PM (kNasr) 492
Newsflash...Juan Williams is still an idiot.
He thinks Trump "thinking" of firing Mueller is obstruction of justice. That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works. Posted by: Farmer at January 26, 2018 05:19 PM (yJ1e6) 493
477 Peak Pia Zadora was in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:17 PM (kaLsp "S-A-N-T-A, C-L-A-U-S, Hooray for Santee Claws!" Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:19 PM (mbhDw) 494
Cordyceps??
Try the Japanese horror movie Matango. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:18 PM Fantastic movie, that one. Posted by: otho at January 26, 2018 05:19 PM (qGuLD) 495
484 I detest the phrase vertical. I don't know why but I do.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. With drink holders. Hopping all around. at January 26, 2018 05:18 PM (dEQP3) Because we control it. The horizontal too. Posted by: The Outer Limits at January 26, 2018 05:19 PM (NWiLs) 496
"Forest Gump has to be the primary example of a Beautiful Loser movie."
I think of Forest as a symbol of America, similar to Pecos Bill or Mark Henry; they can lose, but can't really die because they are a part of something larger. Posted by: goodluckduck at January 26, 2018 05:20 PM (rwaEp) 497
Beautiful Loser movie- Cool Hand Luke?
Posted by: Archer at January 26, 2018 05:20 PM (gbWkA) 498
I, being the personification of the perfect male form should be the standard for height/weight ratios.
Posted by: Under Fire at January 26, 2018 05:20 PM (r9UYA) 499
489 Cordyceps??
Try the Japanese horror movie Matango. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:18 PM (kaLsp) Wanna see a very freaking weird Jap flick? Look up "Gozu" from 2004,5. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:20 PM (mbhDw) 500
Pia Zadora was in the lead role of Anne Frank's Diary and giving a terrible performance. In the scene where the Nazis barge into the house someone from the audience yelled: "She's in the attic!!!"
Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (aRXNK) I always felt sorry for Pia Zadora. The whole world knew she had a complete lack of talent, yet there she was, plugging away, doggedly determined to remind us of it. She was like that slightly wacky relative who thinks he or she can sing but can't. Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 05:20 PM (raGQi) 501
How soon before she has a weekend show on MSNBC?
Posted by: #neverskankles at January 26, 2018 05:21 PM (3sFuV) 502
pointing the finger at SJWs is like prescribing Robitussin for a cold when the patient has AIDS
Posted by: dw at January 26, 2018 05:21 PM (stPAM) 503
Better to be vertical than stiff and horizontal oui?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:21 PM (kaLsp) 504
498 I, being the personification of the perfect male form should be the standard for height/weight ratios.
Posted by: Under Fire at January 26, 2018 05:20 PM (r9UYA) The Mooch/BMI standards say the personification of perfect male form is around 5'5" and 120 pounds. Starving North Korean peasant is the ideal. Posted by: Insomniac - mostly stable at January 26, 2018 05:21 PM (NWiLs) 505
IRC Someone told me distilled alcohol has no carbs. Too lazy to google. Is this true?
Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:16 PM (2sCft) Vodka has no carbs..... Posted by: Sponge at January 26, 2018 05:16 PM (Zz0t1) I'll try the Bombay Sapphire Gin Diet. Might work. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:21 PM (2sCft) Posted by: PugBot Mahon at January 26, 2018 05:21 PM (xPJvm) 507
Don't watch 8 Below. My wife still hasn't forgiven me for that movie.
8 Below is a mixed bag. Certainly there are parts that really yank the heart strings, but overall it is an uplifting story. Canine packs are loyal to a fault. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2018 04:49 PM (W6iva) That movie. Omg. I went thru half a box of kleenex. I would have been fine except...true story! So I was a mess. But it is a really good movie. Especially if you need a good cry. Posted by: Professor Chaos, Gumdrop Gorilla Channel at January 26, 2018 05:22 PM (qz18B) 508
I always felt sorry for Pia Zadora. The whole world knew she had a complete lack of talent, yet there she was, plugging away, doggedly determined to remind us of it. She was like that slightly wacky relative who thinks he or she can sing but can't.
Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 05:20 PM (raGQi) Like 80% of the people who audition for American Idol? Posted by: Insomniac - mostly stable at January 26, 2018 05:22 PM (NWiLs) 509
Beautiful Loser movie- Cool Hand Luke?
Posted by: Archer at January 26, 2018 05:20 PM (gbWkA) Untamed Heart. Both Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei are beautiful losers in that. Gah, I love that movie. Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. With drink holders. Hopping all around. at January 26, 2018 05:22 PM (dEQP3) 510
500 Pia Zadora was in the lead role of Anne Frank's Diary and giving a terrible performance. In the scene where the Nazis barge into the house someone from the audience yelled: "She's in the attic!!!"
Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2018 05:12 PM (aRXNK) I always felt sorry for Pia Zadora. The whole world knew she had a complete lack of talent, yet there she was, plugging away, doggedly determined to remind us of it. She was like that slightly wacky relative who thinks he or she can sing but can't. Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 05:20 PM (raGQi) If you lived in LA from the early/mid 80s through the 90s, you will surely remember a series of billboards all over the Strip and elsewhere "Angelyne Rocks"with the manager's telephone #. Now THAT was pitiful. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:22 PM (mbhDw) 511
>>501 How soon before she has a weekend show on MSNBC?
The ink just dried on a sub-par contract. Whores don't receive full scale until they put out for at least a year. Posted by: Under Fire at January 26, 2018 05:22 PM (r9UYA) 512
Forest Gump is the opposite of Beautiful Loser. He wins. Constantly. Because he's too stupid to know that he's not supposed to be able to do something, he does it anyway. And meets 3 presidents, becomes a millionaire, and even marries the girl of his dreams. He wins because he never thinks himself out of anything.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at January 26, 2018 05:23 PM (toi7g) 513
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My husband haz a sad because he thinks losing weight will reduce the size of the marital boobies. I'm just hoping to reduce the shelf they sit on currently. used to read Mad Magazine, didn't he? I remember a bit in there once about dieting, one section of which had a before and after panel of a woman dieting to lose weight, who loses it all from her boobies. Posted by: Anachronda at January 26, 2018 05:23 PM (2//jc) 514
"IIRC Someone told me distilled alcohol has no carbs. Too lazy to google. Is this true?"
Yes! Ethanol is not a carb. Added sugar is a carb, so schnapps and Kahlua and such have plenty. But vodka, scotch, Everclear, etc. do not. Posted by: Chris M at January 26, 2018 05:23 PM (eAZVt) 515
Posted by: troyriser at January 26, 2018 05:20 PM (raGQi)
I believe it was her second husband who told her she was good. Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 05:24 PM (cdYPW) 516
Any contestant on "Let's Make a Deal." As Carlin said, "you gotta be a little bit dingie to be 43 years old, standing up there on TV dressed like a radish." Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:24 PM (mbhDw) 517
514 "IIRC Someone told me distilled alcohol has no carbs. Too lazy to google. Is this true?"
Yes! Ethanol is not a carb. Added sugar is a carb, so schnapps and Kahlua and such have plenty. But vodka, scotch, Everclear, etc. do not. Posted by: Chris M at January 26, 2018 05:23 PM (eAZVt) This doesn't mean, however, that ethanol does not have calories. Posted by: Insomniac - mostly stable at January 26, 2018 05:24 PM (NWiLs) 518
JW uncovered docs showing #AndrewMcCabe's wife was recruited for a Virginia state senate race by now-Gov. Ralph Northam, that his wife received ~$700,000 in campaign contributions from Clinton allies, & that McCabe used FBI email to promote her candidacy.https://t.co/Fd7VnMfaYZ
Judicial Watch January 26, 2018 Posted by: MISH McConnell at January 26, 2018 05:24 PM (y3aQB) 519
If you lived in LA from the early/mid 80s through the 90s, you will surely remember a series of billboards all over the Strip and elsewhere "Angelyne Rocks"with the manager's telephone #. Now THAT was pitiful. Posted by: J.J. Sefton What was really pitiful was when they moved those billboards to Vegas. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at January 26, 2018 05:24 PM (HScFq) 520
Better to be vertical than stiff and horizontal oui?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:21 PM (kaLsp) I prefer the Horizontal Wii Girl. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:24 PM (2sCft) 521
Meh, I wouldn't mind losing fat from the boobehs much at all. Now, if the butt went flat, I'd need therapy then. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 26, 2018 05:24 PM (8O3HH) 522
Speaking of beautiful losers
Watched this movie where midwestern farm girl leaves home to find her way. Kills beloved local community leader in about first 15 minutes. Proceeds on journey assembling band of liars, ruffians, and ne er do wells that gets major city to take them in a royalty. They go off and kill second beloved sister of community leader claiming some type of Che revolution. She returns home as innocent girl never punished for her murderous ways. Posted by: rhennigantx at January 26, 2018 05:25 PM (BtQd4) 523
502 pointing the finger at SJWs is like prescribing Robitussin for a cold when the patient has AIDS
Posted by: dw at January 26, 2018 05:21 PM (stPAM) Name them and shame them. It's a start. Go after their "professors" next. Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 26, 2018 05:25 PM (ujg0T) 524
I am on record during the Birth Certificate flamewars in the late 2000s that I thought people questioning Obama's Birth Certificate in bad faith should be prosecuted.
So, I can at least be consistent when I agree wholeheartedly with Donald Trump that, yeah, let's get libel proceedings against news outlets that lie about him, his family, and his policies. Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 26, 2018 05:26 PM (6FqZa) 525
Untamed Heart.
Both Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei are beautiful losers in that. Gah, I love that movie. Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. With drink holders. Hopping all around. at January 26, 2018 05:22 PM (dEQP3) I've never even heard of that movie and I love both Slater and Tomei. Thanks for the recommendation AtC. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:26 PM (2sCft) 526
Today feels very anti-climatic. After all the FISA memo talk, and Secret Society talk, we are left with a big zero. Feels like something should have happened today.
Posted by: Professor Chaos, Gumdrop Gorilla Channel at January 26, 2018 05:26 PM (qz18B) 527
Heck no. That and the bottle of wine a day are why I'm fat. Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:17 PM (2sCft) 600 calories per bottle of wine, from a quick estimate. For a male of about six foot around 200#, a caloric intake of around 3,000 calories would be about 'maintenance level'. Neither gain nor lose. Something else you're enjoying the wine with is probably the bigger problem. All the good things like cheese, and crackers, and all other versions of food. Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 26, 2018 05:27 PM (2FqvZ) 528
Gozu? I'll never be able to work in housewares and look at ladles again without thinking of this movie.
https://youtu.be/Y1cTQYI-i5A But I have watched all of Hausu https://youtu.be/WQ_Yo06kIIA There are still three Japanese Dracula movies I should try and find from the 1970s. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 26, 2018 05:27 PM (kaLsp) 529
512 Forest Gump is the opposite of Beautiful Loser. He wins. Constantly. Because he's too stupid to know that he's not supposed to be able to do something, he does it anyway. And meets 3 presidents, becomes a millionaire, and even marries the girl of his dreams. He wins because he never thinks himself out of anything.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at January 26, 2018 05:23 PM (toi7g) His girl friend is the beautiful loser. Posted by: Soona at January 26, 2018 05:27 PM (Fs5vw) 530
''Old Yeller" another beautiful loser.
Posted by: Tuna at January 26, 2018 05:27 PM (jm1YL) 531
Any contestant on "Let's Make a Deal."
As Carlin said, "you gotta be a little bit dingie to be 43 years old, standing up there on TV dressed like a radish." Posted by: J.J. Sefton Dennis Miller: I was watching Let's Make a Deal", Monty stumped the audience by offering $50 to anyone who could muster up any self-respect. Came up snake eyes on that roll. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at January 26, 2018 05:27 PM (HScFq) 532
She returns home as innocent girl never punished for her murderous ways.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 26, 2018 05:25 PM (BtQd4) ----------- Well. That sounds like a real pick-me-up. Posted by: bluebell at January 26, 2018 05:27 PM (kNasr) 533
If you lived in LA from the early/mid 80s through the 90s, you will surely remember a series of billboards all over the Strip and elsewhere "Angelyne Rocks"with the manager's telephone #.
Now THAT was pitiful. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:22 PM (mbhDw) Day After Tomorrow had a joke about that - forward to 2:03 or so: https://youtu.be/dkErNkX2HKM Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. With drink holders. Hopping all around. at January 26, 2018 05:28 PM (dEQP3) 534
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 26, 2018 05:26 PM (6FqZa)
You thought Trump should be prosecuted? Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 05:28 PM (cdYPW) 535
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If you lived in LA from the early/mid 80s through the 90s, you will surely remember a series of billboards all over the Strip and elsewhere "Angelyne Rocks"with the manager's telephone #. Now THAT was pitiful. Posted by: J.J. Sefton What was really pitiful was when they moved those billboards to Vegas. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at January 26, 2018 05:24 PM (HScFq) and then Reno? Posted by: Don Q'Bot at January 26, 2018 05:28 PM (NgKpN) 536
>>526 Today feels very anti-climatic. After all the FISA memo talk, and Secret Society talk, we are left with a big zero. Feels like something should have happened today.
Our brilliant betters at GOPe have squandered another media moment. Posted by: Under Fire at January 26, 2018 05:28 PM (r9UYA) 537
Ya, she had her pink corvette and sunglasses and big hair, I think she just announced her retirement. She was an Icon.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 05:28 PM (6Ll1u) 538
That Tim Burton movie about Ed Wood would definitley classify as a Beautiful Loser flick. Not just Ed, but him and his entire band of misfits. You really get that feeling from the movie that here's a group of ne'er do wells but they're doing their own special thing even though it sucks.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 26, 2018 05:28 PM (4ErVI) Posted by: #neverskankles at January 26, 2018 05:28 PM (3sFuV) 540
Wasn't there a wife of a presidential candidate who went to rehab for drinking Listerine?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 05:09 From what I've read here recently it was Kitty Dukakis. No idea about the truth of that. Posted by: Farmer at January 26, 2018 05:29 PM (yJ1e6) 541
in the post-capitalism, "we are all socialists now" Obama years, currying favor with leftist power structures was deemed smart business. Now that capitalism is a thing again, companies are looking to get back into the business of doing business and making good shit. This is why Trump is confident that growth can run at 6%. There's a lot of pent-up winning in a lot of industries, if they just manage to shed their SJW leadership and garbage Obama-era product.
Posted by: ss at January 26, 2018 05:29 PM (iU+1A) 542
Omg. I went thru half a box of kleenex. I would have been fine except...true story! So I was a mess.
That was me during that GOD DAMNED FUTURAMA EPISODE WITH THE DOG. Fuck you, Matt Groening. (Great writing though.) Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 26, 2018 05:29 PM (6FqZa) 543
526 Today feels very anti-climatic. After all the FISA memo talk, and Secret Society talk, we are left with a big zero. Feels like something should have happened today.
Posted by: Professor Chaos, Gumdrop Gorilla Channel at January 26, 2018 05:26 PM (qz18B) ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Posted by: Jeff Sessionzzzzz at January 26, 2018 05:30 PM (NgKpN) 544
Boogie Nights fits the beautiful loser genre well.
Posted by: PugBot Mahon at January 26, 2018 05:30 PM (xPJvm) 545
Wasn't there a wife of a presidential candidate who went to rehab for drinking Listerine?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2018 05:09 From what I've read here recently it was Kitty Dukakis. No idea about the truth of that. Posted by: Farmer at January 26, 2018 05:29 PM (yJ1e6) The Dukakis house used to serve alcohol patches as after-dinner mints for Kitty. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 05:30 PM (8gDQu) 546
You thought Trump should be prosecuted?
Posted by: Roc Ingersol Trump didn't argue in bad faith. He was presented with evidence sufficient and proclaimed he was satisfied. Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 26, 2018 05:30 PM (6FqZa) 547
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 26, 2018 05:28 PM (4ErVI)
I think beautiful loser movies are a Tim Burton specialty . Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 05:30 PM (cdYPW) 548
If you lived in LA from the early/mid 80s through the 90s, you will surely remember a series of billboards all over the Strip and elsewhere "Angelyne Rocks"with the manager's telephone #.
Now THAT was pitiful. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:22 PM (mbhDw) Angelyne has been identified. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/angelyne-la-billboard-diva-30-years-1025678 Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 26, 2018 05:31 PM (ujg0T) 549
That was me during that GOD DAMNED FUTURAMA EPISODE WITH THE DOG. Fuck you, Matt Groening.
(Great writing though.) Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 26, 2018 05:29 PM (6FqZa) That tore me up. Bad. Posted by: PugBot Mahon at January 26, 2018 05:31 PM (xPJvm) 550
I've never even heard of that movie and I love both Slater and Tomei. Thanks for the recommendation AtC.
Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 05:26 PM (2sCft) You are welcome. Be warned, it has a, hmm, how to put this that is non-spoilery, a very very sad happy ending. Rosie Perez steals every scene she's in and she deserves to. Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. With drink holders. Hopping all around. at January 26, 2018 05:31 PM (dEQP3) 551
That Tim Burton movie about Ed Wood would definitley classify as a Beautiful Loser flick. Not just Ed, but him and his entire band of misfits. You really get that feeling from the movie that here's a group of ne'er do wells but they're doing their own special thing even though it sucks.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 26, 2018 05:28 PM Ed Wood occurred to me in this context too. But, I thought that because he finds true love and gets married equals a tangible win at the end. Destiny and that sort of thing. Dunno? Posted by: otho at January 26, 2018 05:31 PM (qGuLD) 552
Today feels very anti-climatic. After all the FISA memo talk, and Secret Society talk, we are left with a big zero. Feels like something should have happened today.
Our brilliant betters at GOPe have squandered another media moment. Posted by: Under Fire Because they are involved in it up to their necks. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 05:31 PM (aNSOb) 553
If you lived in LA from the early/mid 80s through the 90s, you will surely remember a series of billboards all over the Strip and elsewhere "Angelyne Rocks"with the manager's telephone #. Now THAT was pitiful. Posted by: J.J. Sefton I still see her driving around town occasionally in her stupid pink Corvette. She's lookin rough. Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 26, 2018 05:31 PM (lKyWE) 554
544 Boogie Nights fits the beautiful loser genre well.
Posted by: PugBot Mahon at January 26, 2018 05:30 PM (xPJvm) That movie was just sad. A chaotic symphony of self-delusion and self-destruction. Bill Macy's character finally getting fed up with getting cuckolded was the sharp break in the film. Hell of a scene. Posted by: Insomniac - mostly stable at January 26, 2018 05:32 PM (NWiLs) 555
NOOD - update on Jamele Hill story
Posted by: Hands at January 26, 2018 05:32 PM (EzdLW) 556
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 26, 2018 05:30 PM (6Fq
Okay then . I just do not remember that conclusive statement by Trump. Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 26, 2018 05:32 PM (cdYPW) 557
"Beautiful loser" doesn't apply to Cool Hand Luke or Elmer P Dow. Luke was a solitary rebel type and Dowd and his rabbit Harvey exhibited a kind of good-hearted mysticism (his rabbit is a Celtic pooka). Harvey ends up saving Dowd and bringing family and friends together.
The movie American Beauty has two beautiful losers- Kevin spacey and the plastic bag kid. This obnoxious movie romanticizes juvenile behavior, navel gazing and nihilism. I think that sums up the beautiful loser mentality. So pretty much the majority of movies after 1965. Posted by: Velveteen Mongoose at January 26, 2018 05:32 PM (4YHTV) Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2018 05:34 PM (aNSOb) 559
Any contestant on "Let's Make a Deal." As Carlin said, "you gotta be a little bit dingie to be 43 years old, standing up there on TV dressed like a radish." Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 26, 2018 05:24 PM (mbhDw) That reminds me of the show in the late 50s and 60s called Queen for a Day. Losers. Every one. Posted by: Soona at January 26, 2018 05:34 PM (Fs5vw) 560
Trump didn't argue in bad faith. He was presented with evidence sufficient and proclaimed he was satisfied.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 26, 2018 05:30 PM (6FqZa) Pretty much nobody who was demanding proof was arguing that case in bad faith. And Trump ended up being satisfied with what was one more pathetic photoshop. Never in my life have I heard of anyone accepting a jpeg or a xerox as "proof" of any document. Sheriff Joe and his posse did a serious analysis of that last bullshit jpeg Barky squeezed out and gave a very detailed report about which areas were doctored and how they knew. But that was all moot, anyway. The birth certificate was never that important. Barky's dad was an alien and that made him NOT natural born. End of story. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 05:35 PM (8gDQu) 561
That was me during that GOD DAMNED FUTURAMA EPISODE WITH THE DOG. Fuck you, Matt Groening.
(Great writing though.) Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 26, 2018 05:29 PM (6FqZa) Yea, when a movie is killing me I'll think...it's just a movie. Then I find out 'true story' and the water works go full blast. That happened with the dog movie and the movie North Face. Didn't know either were true until the end. The movie North Face, man, it still shakes me. Posted by: Professor Chaos, Gumdrop Gorilla Channel at January 26, 2018 05:35 PM (qz18B) 562
Which is the better phrase?
Get woke, go broke Or Roll left and die Posted by: RoyalOil at January 26, 2018 04:09 PM (xww/W) Embrace the beauty of And. Posted by: Traveling Man at January 26, 2018 05:35 PM (R5lpX) 563
Read the whole damn thread. I swear to Christ I just picked up my phone to check the weather.
Posted by: Clay, unimpressed with your wokeness at January 26, 2018 05:38 PM (4RLKt) 564
First 10 minutes of Up was very sad.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2018 05:39 PM (hyuyC) 565
Tiffany L Coyne makes the new let's make a deal worth watching.
Posted by: Downcast at January 26, 2018 05:42 PM (PCKEG) 566
There really should be a saying that is the exact opposite of "Stop, Drop, and Roll" for allowing SJW infiltration that ends up with your business setting itself on fire.
Posted by: Downcast at January 26, 2018 05:45 PM (PCKEG) 567
"The Girl with All the Gifts," a movie I hated.
Posted by: Insomniac - mostly stable at January 26, 2018 05:17 PM (NWiLs) --- I don't like movies where I am asked to root against my species (non-infected, non-android, homo sapiens sapiens). Now in the movie version of TGWATG I was on the side of the scientist, who needed brain matter to find the cure. I read that in the novel she was nowhere near finding a cure, so her feverish experiments were more sadistic. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 26, 2018 05:49 PM (qJtVm) 568
But that was all moot, anyway. The birth certificate was never that important. Barky's dad was an alien and that made him NOT natural born. End of story.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 26, 2018 05:35 PM (8gDQu) But his commie mommy was. As much as I loathe the Obamunist. Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 26, 2018 05:51 PM (ujg0T) 569
I've been on a binge watching 'Diversity &Comics' this week. It's absolutely great and keeps me interested in a topic I don't give a shit about (Comic books). Everybody needs to go to YouTube and watch his stuff.
Posted by: The Drizzle at January 26, 2018 06:33 PM (nzSKK) 570
But do tell me how afraid I should be that Donald Trump keeps whining,
ineffectually, that he might have to "open libel laws" for reexamination. First question, of course, is whether that's really something to fear. Imposition of responsibility for things you say doesn't really sound so awesomely horrible to me, buy YMMV. Second question is how the law of defamation could be "re-examined". Turns out the "public figure" doctrine isn't found in the Constitution - not a breath of it. It lies in a Supreme Court decision, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964). Therefore, "re-examination" would consist of taking a case of defamation against a "public figure" to the Supreme Court, and ask the Court to overrule the precedent. That's it - not really so much to it; chances are a conservative court might take the case and take a fresh look at the societal value of a Press that's free to lie about public figures. Posted by: one-eyed cat peepin' in the seafood store at January 26, 2018 06:38 PM (/sTHK) 571
Two movies I refuse to see:
Old Yeller & Marley & Me. Had to bury too many companions. Not going to watch it on screen. buried mine last week. been shitty coming home to an empty bark. Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at January 26, 2018 06:45 PM (9hHff) 572
I watched "eight Below" before i figured out the dog wasn't gonna make it. blubbered, I did.
Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at January 26, 2018 06:46 PM (9hHff) 573
Diversity and comics is great. his OCD analysis is spot on and weirdly soothing.
Posted by: Velveteen Mongoose at January 26, 2018 06:56 PM (4YHTV) 574
It was always about how msm/left SJW's using #AlinskyTactics subverted gaming etal to impose their version of reality/control people.
#GamerGate not so stupid after all? Posted by: Amy Shulkusky at January 26, 2018 07:56 PM (3WAA4) 575
Who's Jemele Hill? Some sort of basketball player? never heard of him.
Posted by: Muns at January 26, 2018 09:37 PM (0F8cD) 576
303 Always interested in other people's take on Catcher in the Rye. People seem to either love it or hate it.
Posted by: SteveOReno at January 26, 2018 04:42 PM (2sCft) I read that, but I preferred Catcher in the Wry. Bob Eucher, recounting his storied history in the Major Leagues. With several photos of him being obliterated at home plate. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2018 04:46 PM (7UW64) I most strongly prefer "Catch Her in the Rear" - a sturdy outing from Marilyn Chambers (mid seventies?). Posted by: In Like Larry Flynt at January 26, 2018 09:47 PM (DKzdS) 577
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