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Wednesday Morning Rant
The new product is called "Girls on the Bus," and will be airing on Max (formerly known as HBO Max) next month. If the trailer (also embedded below) is anything to go by, it's going to be a stupendous stinker. "Girls on the Bus" looks to be a grrrl power take on campaign coverage. It follows a group of four professional women while they "Sex and the City" it up as groupies - excuse me, I mean "journalists" - embedded in a presidential campaign. The trailer hits all the high points. If you watch it, you'll be treated to plenty of teases about "Our Democracy," racist conservatives, meaningless trysts, alcohol abuse by professional women, etc. - and it's all presented as glamorous. It is also, of course and not by coincidence, coming out in an election year.
The show is based on a book called "Chasing Hillary," written by a woman embedded in Clinton's campaigns. The book came out a couple of years after the 2016 election, and is apparently something of a self-laudatory celebration of herself and her time on the campaign trail and the highs and travails of modern journalism and journalists. Hooray. I think I'll give it a miss. It does, however, sound like prime fodder for a Hollywood that just can't help itself. The industry machinations to make this program come to fruition are themselves somewhat notable. This adaptation started on Netflix, but that company dropped it. It then moved to the bastion of high-quality American prestige television: The CW. Even The CW - the dregs network of American television that brought out such trash as "Batwoman" - didn't finish this one. But this show is "important" or something and mustn't be allowed to die. It was canceled at The CW and moved to Max. This may have something to do with Warner Bros. Discovery selling off The CW, but I am not sure. It doesn't matter. Several years and three networks later, this celebration of slutty propagandists shilling for Democrat candidates while destroying their own lives presented through a lens of glamorous and meaningful "work hard, play hard" freedom fighting and truthiness will finally be released. The bottom tier of the entertainment press is trying to prime the pump for it among the only audience a program like this could ever have: self-impressed AWFL activists. Per The Mary Sue, this show appears to hit the high points that really matter:This series looks like a blast and falls into my favorite genre of Max show: Four Ladies Doing Things (see Sex and the City, Girls, The Sex Lives of College Girls, And ... Just Like That, etc.)."Four ladies doing things." What an endorsement. As Hollywood continues to fail to find the much-discussed "Contemporary Audience" it craves, it will continue to make shows like this one - predictable failures aimed at a hypothetical audience but that push propaganda to the redline. They must make these shows. Hollywood pathology demands it.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 28, 2024 11:01 AM (a1415)
Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 28, 2024 11:02 AM (XPM1I)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:02 AM (VoAdT)
Posted by: MkY at February 28, 2024 11:03 AM (zpWLJ)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2024 11:03 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: spindrift at February 28, 2024 11:03 AM (2IVCa)
Posted by: caf at February 28, 2024 11:04 AM (/+mVZ)
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2024 11:04 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2024 11:04 AM (6IDWi)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2024 11:04 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:04 AM (VoAdT)
Ahem.
Posted by: The Real Ho's of Atlanta at February 28, 2024 11:04 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (nC+QA)
Posted by: spindrift at February 28, 2024 11:03 AM (2IVCa)
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I guarantee you that whatever you saw had better writing than and was overall superior to this. I haven't seen this (nobody has, since it isn't out yet), but I am perfectly comfortable betting everything on it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (6IDWi)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (yOPHD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (oyVa+)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:04 AM (VoAdT)
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I wish I had put it that well.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Come and see at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (NBVIP)
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (eYF7X)
Posted by: Steiner at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (aD39U)
*Mwaaahhhhh, chef's kiss*
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:06 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2024 11:06 AM (OiAR7)
Posted by: Oh what a wonderful world at February 28, 2024 11:06 AM (h+Z2d)
Posted by: Skip at February 28, 2024 11:06 AM (RyHSl)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 28, 2024 11:07 AM (pohLc)
I can live with that.
Also, it goes my quickly, but there's a little girl on girl action, because, you know, edgy.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:07 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 28, 2024 11:07 AM (sNc8Y)
I think I've already seen this series on Pr0nhub.
That's "Bang Bus"
Posted by: Official AoD Pr0n Historian at February 28, 2024 11:07 AM (xttsV)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2024 11:06 AM (OiAR7)
They all bang the same Chad.
That's what people in the industry call "plot".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:07 AM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Nancy's neighbor at February 28, 2024 11:07 AM (a1415)
Thank you, Joe Biden!
http://tinyurl.com/99kbn26c
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
I don't care. The Tooth Fairy is just another camouflaged commie redistribution scheme.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 28, 2024 11:08 AM (FVME7)
Chapter 3: There Be Bollards
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2024 11:04 AM (ENQN6)
Heh.
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2024 11:08 AM (AwYPR)
Would importing MORE third-world immigrants help? They need to hear the girl-boss message more than anyone, to fight their inherent, patriarchal beliefs and cultural norms!!!
Posted by: Rabid Leftist Show Producer at February 28, 2024 11:08 AM (JCZqz)
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I think I've already seen this series on Pr0nhub.
Bus, train, whatevs.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 28, 2024 11:08 AM (sNc8Y)
That's what people in the industry call "plot".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:07 AM (VoAdT)
A love pentagon, if you will.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:08 AM (aD39U)
Yeah, you're doing it wrong.
You are unmoored and think this is how everyone else lives. No wait, scratch that -- you know normies *don't* live and die on the latest political whatever, and you hate them for that emotional stability, sanity and solid values.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2024 11:08 AM (6IDWi)
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2024 11:08 AM (JunzL)
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Man, this place has everything.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:09 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Martin Tell at February 28, 2024 11:09 AM (6Iip2)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:08 AM (aD39U)
Heh.
A spin-off of four trannies following around a flag officer...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:09 AM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Rabid Leftist Show Producer at February 28, 2024 11:08 AM (JCZqz)
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No.
But importing foreign media products might help. Help speed your demise, I mean.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:09 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: JT at February 28, 2024 11:09 AM (T4tVD)
Would importing MORE third-world immigrants help? They need to hear the girl-boss message more than anyone, to fight their inherent, patriarchal beliefs and cultural norms!!!
Posted by: Rabid Leftist Show Producer at February 28, 2024 11:08 AM (JCZqz)
The pathetic thing is that there are people who will pretend to love it and say it's the most important thing ever, just so that they can judge anyone who doesn't watch it as evil and possibly even a *GASP* Nazi.
Posted by: XTC at February 28, 2024 11:09 AM (sm6Pk)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:09 AM (VoAdT)
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I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!
Posted by: David "Lucky Pierre" French at February 28, 2024 11:10 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Xipe Totec
No, but I did stop doing this to my blueberries.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:10 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:10 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: PJ at February 28, 2024 11:10 AM (G1dq6)
Posted by: JT at February 28, 2024 11:10 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2024 11:10 AM (JeYYB)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 28, 2024 11:07 AM (pohLc)
Ummmm - I don't think those words mean what you intend them to mean
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2024 11:10 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
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I suspect that they ain't no ladies in conventional terms.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (hKOIV)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (FVME7)
Why is all this modern feminism just taking things guys do putting girls in it and making it lame...looking at you lady Ghostbusters.
Can you please cone up with your own ideas instead of riding mail coattails...looking at you hillary.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (OiAR7)
Posted by: PJ at February 28, 2024 11:10 AM (G1dq6)
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But you seem to be disregarding their refreshing, sexually-liberated liaisons in bathroom stalls!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (HnUIn)
I suppose "I Toured The Country As A Drunken Whore To Extol Truthiness While Failing To Notice That Everyone Hated The Witch I Was Covering" was too on-the-nose.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (1Z8zZ)
Pronhub has videos about this.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (eYF7X)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (JeYYB)
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (XShg/)
Seriously? I would doubt anyone in their target audience knows who Reagan was.
Might as well crack wise about Calvin Coolidge.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: Xipe Totec
No, but I did stop doing this to my blueberries.
==4
Solve for euphemisms. Go
Posted by: Oh what a wonderful world at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (h+Z2d)
So that's just how bad the inflation has gotten now.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (a1415)
I'm not trying to be all cranky old codger here, it's just ... why do we have to be constantly entertained?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (0WmIo)
https://youtu.be/p79ioDrN4ao?si=K-z1-uxIvoX2Za9K
Posted by: logprof at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (t4eFS)
Posted by: Seems Legit
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Probably daughter as well.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (hKOIV)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (Q4IgG)
Except be shown farting on camera or sitting down to take a shit on camera.
Come on, where's the bathroom equality, AWFLs?
Posted by: XTC at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (sm6Pk)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
We're doing our part!
Posted by: Manga and Anime, destroying their Western counterparts at February 28, 2024 11:13 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (XShg/)
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Maybe, I dunno. I suspect most of them become sort of inured to it.
For a brief period (less than a year), I was a cameraman for a local news outfit. I would sort of just tune it out and listen for the director to call a change in my headset.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:13 AM (HnUIn)
Seriously? I would doubt anyone in their target audience knows who Reagan was.
Might as well crack wise about Calvin Coolidge.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (aD39U)
My thought, exactly.
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2024 11:13 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: JT at February 28, 2024 11:13 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 28, 2024 11:13 AM (CwhoI)
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (hKOIV)
Precisely.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 28, 2024 11:13 AM (nC+QA)
Round and round
Round and round
The girls on the bus go round and round
All through the town
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 28, 2024 11:13 AM (u73oe)
I understand they have a few more in the pipeline. Ugh.
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at February 28, 2024 11:14 AM (AD14M)
Explain to me, Batman...why is it that in sports, the best women seem to be men?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 28, 2024 11:14 AM (a1415)
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality
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They get paid just like the people filming pron. Fortunately for them, no Baldwin on the set to shoot at them.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:14 AM (hKOIV)
The last show I watched on network TV was BBT. I literally never even glance at their offerings, because they're such a waste of time and uniformly awful.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 28, 2024 11:14 AM (xPJvm)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover walk into a bar...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:14 AM (9yWhg)
dopamine addiction -- made 1000x worse now than it was in just the tv days by zombie scrolling short videos on social media
Posted by: brak at February 28, 2024 11:14 AM (25k9m)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2024 11:14 AM (hWxEy)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (FVME7)
So Beth's great grandma will act like a badass because her daddy is powerful?
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (JunzL)
Might as well crack wise about Calvin Coolidge.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:11 AM (aD39U)
You'd think they wouldn't know, but no. They've all been programmed to think of him and Thatcher as the Demons who dared stand against the Virtuous Soviets.
Posted by: XTC at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (sm6Pk)
Round and round
Round and round
The girls on the bus go round and round
All through the town
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 28, 2024 11:13 AM
Replace 'round' with 'down' and I suspect it will be more accurate.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (5sOEG)
Explain to me, Batman...why is it that in sports, the best women seem to be men?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Posted by: Prof Henry Higgins at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (hKOIV)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 28, 2024 11:13 AM (CwhoI)
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I go back and forth on it. I'd like to see our cultural products not suck and push horrible messages 100% of the time.
But then, they're also shoveling money into cash furnaces in a manner that is hugely destructive to their entire awful industry.
I feel like the meme of the guy in front of two buttons.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (HnUIn)
Carla Gugino was already looking pretty rough during her stint in Entourage, fifteen years ago.
Posted by: spindrift at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (2IVCa)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (0WmIo)
So we don't burn the cities/overthrow the gov.?
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (5sOEG)
I don't know. A couple of 'em look pretty fucking round to me.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (VoAdT)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (KbCG3)
Hubby's good friend from HS is a cameraman, has worked on all sorts of things - music videos, tv shows, movies of range of budget/prestige, commercials. We asked him this and his response: OH YES, we know when we're working in something bad and you just have to get through it.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (6IDWi)
Posted by: Zombie Charles de Gaulle at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (HRQvT)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
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I suspect that they ain't no ladies in conventional terms.
Posted by: whig
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Lady penis at February 28, 2024 11:16 AM (JCZqz)
Phase 1: That's okay, this show isn't for you.
Phase 2: Why aren't you pigs watching?!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2024 11:16 AM (KbCG3)
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Well, did you know the tree trunks discovered in the swamp on Oak Island date to the 1200s? This is when they were cut down. This is news.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2024 11:16 AM (hWxEy)
The girls on the bus go up and down
Up and down
Up and down
The girlls on the bus go up and down
Same as in town...
Posted by: Muldoon at February 28, 2024 11:17 AM (991eG)
Posted by: Zombie Charles de Gaulle at February 28, 2024 11:15 AM (HRQvT)
Vulcanized Ribbed Aisle Matting
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:17 AM (VoAdT)
For a brief period (less than a year), I was a cameraman for a local news outfit. I would sort of just tune it out and listen for the director to call a change in my headset.
I imagine it's like being a surgeon. You're so focused on doing things correctly that you don't have time to think about the fact that you've got your hands wrist-deep in someone's body.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:17 AM (CsUN+)
Ask me why I took my kids to the craptastic Spy Kids sequels.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 28, 2024 11:18 AM (sNc8Y)
How has no one written the obvious companion, Chucking Hillary?
The shoe on the ground as a cover would earns millions on its own.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2024 11:18 AM (KbCG3)
I'm not trying to be all cranky old codger here, it's just ... why do we have to be constantly entertained?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Well, The Jam has you covered about entertainment without TV, "That's Entertainment"
https://youtu.be/m-H0uIH5HHQ
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:18 AM (hKOIV)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 28, 2024 11:18 AM (T+Iwg)
Come on, where's the bathroom equality, AWFLs?
Posted by: XTC at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (sm6Pk)
Boss babes don't have time to sit to shit. They just drop trou and shoot out a chocolate missile and go on about their day. Turns out most of them work at the EPA.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2024 11:18 AM (1Z8zZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:17 AM (CsUN+)
Man, sounds just like a job interview for a senate staffer.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:18 AM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:18 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Skip at February 28, 2024 11:18 AM (RyHSl)
Up and down
Up and down
The girlls on the bus go up and down
Same as in town...
Posted by: Muldoon at February 28, 2024 11:17 AM (991eG)
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LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:19 AM (HnUIn)
How Peppa Pig is Ruining America
American parents have branded Peppa Pig a 'brat' and have become furious about the well-known British cartoon that they say has taught their children 'rudeness and impatience.'
http://tinyurl.com/bdftwy5h
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 28, 2024 11:19 AM (FVME7)
Sooner or later, a river has to run through it. Or Fort Peck.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 11:19 AM (zdLoL)
Hunter would have these bitches begging for mercy!!!
Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2024 11:19 AM (QB+5g)
"Girls Under the Bus Driver"
His name is Gus.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2024 11:19 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Montec at February 28, 2024 11:20 AM (YofvK)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Voluptuous or zaftig?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:18 AM (9yWhg)
Chonkers?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:20 AM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:20 AM (VoAdT)
Hambeasts?
Diabeasties?
Posted by: XTC at February 28, 2024 11:20 AM (sm6Pk)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (0WmIo)
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There is always entertainment. It's always been an industry, well before mass media. Even impoverished serfs sing and dance for each other.
Entertainment - whether excessive in quantity or not - is part of the culture.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:20 AM (HnUIn)
Or my personal favorite, the Lightning Bolt.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 28, 2024 11:21 AM (CwhoI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2024 11:21 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:21 AM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 28, 2024 11:21 AM (CwhoI)
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Pffft.
Pikers.
Posted by: Downward-facing arrow with bedazzling at February 28, 2024 11:21 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:21 AM (9yWhg)
It's basically a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
With genders reversed.
And ... it was good.
They CAN write good shows starring women.
Just, most of them don't want to.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2024 11:22 AM (0WmIo)
I love the lead picture for the video.
It looks like-
The Mount Rushmore of Self-Inflated Cheap Skanks
i'm sure that's on purpose.
How serious and dedicated they look! Staring into their future as Woke Lonely Cat Ladies, but right now they have important work ahead of them. Important Hillary! work to do!
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2024 11:22 AM (nFnyb)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2024 11:12 AM (0WmIo)
So we don't burn the cities/overthrow the gov.?
Posted by: BignJames
Romans had bread and circuses, Western civilization had religion drugs...currently we've dumped religion, so drugs, welfare and mindless entertainment (social media and streaming) keep people of all generations, backgrounds and incomes occupied and passive.
Posted by: Leftist Collectivist WEF wannabe at February 28, 2024 11:22 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 28, 2024 11:23 AM (JTwsP)
American parents have branded Peppa Pig a 'brat' and have become furious about the well-known British cartoon that they say has taught their children 'rudeness and impatience.'
Oh, ffs. Do your damn jobs as parents.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:23 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Montec at February 28, 2024 11:23 AM (YofvK)
It was either max virtue signaling or an epic troll. I can't decide which.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 28, 2024 11:23 AM (991eG)
It's basically a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
With genders reversed.
And ... it was good.
They CAN write good shows starring women.
Just, most of them don't want to.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2024 11:22 AM (0WmIo)
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Huh. And from 2022, which is well after the transition.
I wonder how it slipped through.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:23 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2024 11:24 AM (JunzL)
Posted by: Ciampino - the wheels on the bus go at February 28, 2024 11:24 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:24 AM (9yWhg)
*Mwaaahhhhh, chef's kiss*
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024
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Agreed, but she is so far down the cast list, not even on the "Top Cast" section of the IMDb entry, that I doubt she'll have much screen time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2024 11:24 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Eeewwww!
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:24 AM (hKOIV)
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The studios love highlighting the lowest common denominator. I think it's to make that behavior normal and acceptable.
Whores gotta whore.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2024 11:24 AM (JeYYB)
Mayor Adams Surrenders to Reality, Begs to Change NYC Sanctuary Status
http://tinyurl.com/2js2yxmp
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:25 AM (CsUN+)
More like Girls on the Short Bus.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 28, 2024 11:25 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2024 11:24 AM (JunzL)
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LOL.
If the prettier AWFL activist tell the Babygirls to watch the show, some plurality of them will.
But bolting a microscopic market onto a tiny market is no road to profitability.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:25 AM (HnUIn)
But still can't read a map.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 28, 2024 11:25 AM (sNc8Y)
>>Would importing MORE third-world immigrants help? They need to hear the girl-boss message more than anyone, to fight their inherent, patriarchal beliefs and cultural norms!!!
No, they are going to want to watch Spanish Soap Operas, which are largely told as traditional European Fairy Tales.
Which is no longer En Vogue with the white lunatic leftists that run the world.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 28, 2024 11:25 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at February 28, 2024 11:25 AM (PWI4f)
American parents have branded Peppa Pig a 'brat' and have become furious about the well-known British cartoon that they say has taught their children 'rudeness and impatience.'
Oh, ffs. Do your damn jobs as parents.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:23 AM (CsUN+)
To be fair, Peppa does suck. She's a self-centered, know-it-all brat. Daily life has enough of that.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2024 11:26 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Scottst at February 28, 2024 11:26 AM (33ETo)
Meanwhile, these same moms cream themselves over "Bluey" because it has some schmaltzy sentimentality tossed into every episode and shows the fantasy of the dad taking care of the kids all day. and yeah, it's just a cartoon so I'll lighten up
Posted by: brak at February 28, 2024 11:26 AM (25k9m)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:26 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Montec at February 28, 2024 11:23 AM (YofvK)
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They're going to try and shit on Candace Owens.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2024 11:26 AM (JeYYB)
Mayor Adams Surrenders to Reality, Begs to Change NYC Sanctuary Status
http://tinyurl.com/2js2yxmp
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:25 AM (CsUN+)
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Adams is a apostate to leftism and must be destroyed. Primary him, Worker's Party acolytes. For the greater good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
Mayor Adams Surrenders to Reality, Begs to Change NYC Sanctuary Status
http://tinyurl.com/2js2yxmp
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:25 AM (CsUN+)
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"We need to modify the sanctuary city law that if you commit a felony or violent act we should be able to turn you over to ICE and have you deported," he said to voters at a town hall meeting on Monday.
LOL. Something tells me that, buried somewhere in NYC's corrupt and double-dealing governance system, there's a way he could do it himself...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:26 AM (HnUIn)
I have disagreed with this conventional wisdom for a few years now, that Hollywood is trying to "find a contemporary/modern audience".
I do not believe they are trying to find an audience, I believe they are working to create the audience through indoctrination with their product. They indoctrinate through television shows, movies and through their amusement parks. They also indoctrinate through all the interviews the producers and directors and writers do as well as those done by all the actors/actresses.
It's the same as with the auto industry and EVs. They are not trying to fulfill an EV market, they are forcing EVs on people and you will either accept or reject them. And if you reject them, you will be smeared for it.
Same playbook they use for Hollywood and culture overall. You will accept "the message" or you will be smeared and shunned.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 28, 2024 11:27 AM (UKWFA)
Posted by: Montec at February 28, 2024 11:23 AM (YofvK)
Odds that she comes around to admitting all of her views and the views of her employer are wrong?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2024 11:27 AM (KbCG3)
Oh, lord, don't get me started on all that TBS trash. I swear, the lure of 'fame' makes too damned many black people live down to the worst ghetto stereotype.
And then there's the 'Teen Mom' and 'Jersey Shore' franchises. Utter trash. If the Romans had TV, thisis the sort of thing they'd watch.
The Real Slaves of Ultima Thule, anyone?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 28, 2024 11:27 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at February 28, 2024 11:27 AM (99mMm)
It was either max virtue signaling or an epic troll. I can't decide which.
Posted by: Muldoon
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Virtue signalling. Bone meal and/or fish meal is a typical component along with soybean meal for chicken feed. So, the all veggie chicken probably uses only soybean meal as a component. Problem for egg layers as calcium is not as good as oyster shells in producing calcium but probably not for broilers.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:27 AM (hKOIV)
Meanwhile, these same moms cream themselves over "Bluey" because it has some schmaltzy sentimentality tossed into every episode and shows the fantasy of the dad taking care of the kids all day. and yeah, it's just a cartoon so I'll lighten up
Posted by: brak at February 28, 2024 11:26 AM (25k9m)
Brak was also a cartoon. A great cartoon. Always lightened me up.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2024 11:27 AM (KbCG3)
Some people just have The Gift.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:28 AM (VoAdT)
Joey's ICE won't take them.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:28 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: Race To The Bottom at February 28, 2024 11:28 AM (V5BDR)
I'm a firm believer that one of the big differentiators between different types of people is the ability to entertain one's self, without imposing on others.
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 11:28 AM (XShg/)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 28, 2024 11:28 AM (dZVON)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 28, 2024 11:27 AM (UKWFA)
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Yes, of course. They have a "Field of Dreams" approach to it: if you make it, they will watch.
The want the audience to reflect their product, not their product to reflect their audience.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:28 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:23 AM (CsUN+)
To be fair, Peppa does suck. She's a self-centered, know-it-all brat. Daily life has enough of that.
My parents made sure I knew there were lines, and I'd better stay between them. I generally did, and when I didn't, I regretted it. These parents just want someone else to do their job.
If that's just too much for you, turn the channel, or better yet, turn the TV off.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:28 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: brak at February 28, 2024 11:28 AM (25k9m)
LOL. Something tells me that, buried somewhere in NYC's corrupt and double-dealing governance system, there's a way he could do it himself...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:26 AM (HnUIn)
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He's asking to overturn the cornerstone of Sanctuary status, only "modifying" it so that they can still call themselves Sanctuary.
The left would accept the change without question because the important thing is the messaging, not the actual policy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:28 AM (GBKbO)
Chickens eat a surprising amount of bugs. Just recently there has been news of plans to feed them a principal diet of mass-grown insect protein. This advertising might just be for those who'd like to specify a traditional chicken diet instead of insect meal. b
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 11:29 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 28, 2024 11:29 AM (JTwsP)
They are years past girlhood.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2024 11:05 AM (6IDWi)
It might be a callback to Timothy Crouse's book The Boys on the Bus, which was a look at the scumbag reporters covering the Nixon campaign of 1972.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 28, 2024 11:29 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
Forget about us
Put the blame on me...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:29 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Big Sausage Pizza delivery driver at February 28, 2024 11:29 AM (VTILd)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 28, 2024 11:28 AM (dZVON)
Just watch out for seat 38 on Fido 3.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2024 11:29 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Ciampino - the wheels on the bus go round at February 28, 2024 11:30 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 28, 2024 11:29 AM (Q0kLU)
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It is.
But girls this time! Progress!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:30 AM (HnUIn)
the actresses would be more attractive
Posted by: brak at February 28, 2024 11:30 AM (25k9m)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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The more coercion they try, the more that they fail. Simply put, individuals may not learn from getting their hands burnt but society slowly does pull its collective hands out of the fire given enough punishment.
Even the Soviets could not make New Soviet man after 70 years of using all the levers of the state to do so.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:30 AM (hKOIV)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
A show made for middle-aged AWFLs can't have women that are too attractive in it...it will make them feel inadequate and insecure. Need a few uggos to make it seem more mainstream and normal. Dudes still need to be tall, suave and have status though.
Posted by: Movie Moron at February 28, 2024 11:30 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 28, 2024 11:30 AM (W/lyH)
Chickens eat a surprising amount of bugs. Just recently there has been news of plans to feed them a principal diet of mass-grown insect protein. This advertising might just be for those who'd like to specify a traditional chicken diet instead of insect meal. b
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 11:29 AM (zdLoL)
They could just call it corn-fed or grain-fed then. Vegetarian is a very specific way of presenting things.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 28, 2024 11:30 AM (eYoxG)
It’s like how water bottles say Gluten Free. Uhm yeah it’s water. It’s everything free.
Posted by: Montec at February 28, 2024 11:30 AM (YofvK)
Can't keep up w/ these stories at this point. Now media in Louisiana are reporting an illegal alien from Honduras has been arrested for the rape of a 14-year-old girl at knifepoint, and stabbing another man repeatedly during a robbery. ICE detainer lodged.
Biden's America.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 28, 2024 11:31 AM (nIvob)
the actresses would be more attractive
Posted by: brak
The acting and plots would be more believable.
Posted by: Movie Moron at February 28, 2024 11:31 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2024 11:31 AM (JeYYB)
Posted by: Mary, from the bus at February 28, 2024 11:31 AM (WWXoh)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:31 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: Montec at February 28, 2024 11:23 AM (YofvK)
Nah. You can bet there's going to be scene somewhere around the middle of the show where the Black Conservative Woman of Color meets dread MAGA Folk and they treat her badly and
Finally! Finally! she's she's that she has been a deluded fool! And that all Conservative are racisty racists of racism!!!
And then join together with her sisters to take down Horrible Orange Man Band.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2024 11:31 AM (nFnyb)
http://tiny.cc/zb84xz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:32 AM (HnUIn)
Trad Chicks are a thing now?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 28, 2024 11:32 AM (a1415)
It was either max virtue signaling or an epic troll. I can't decide which.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 28, 2024 11:23 AM (991eG)
Amazingly enough, it's real. A&W Drive-Ins in Canada promotes their "vegan-raised" chicken and eggs. Pretty stupid, really, since given their own druthers, chickens will eat bugs and worms all day long. And eggs that are "free-range" pretty well can't be vegan.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2024 11:32 AM (tkR6S)
the actresses would be more attractive
Posted by: brak
The acting and plots would be more believable.
Posted by: Movie Moron at February 28, 2024 11:31 AM (JCZqz)
Plus, I could only make it through about 20 seconds of each.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2024 11:33 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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And then she becomes bacon, sausage, and pork roast because no self respecting spider gives a damn about Peppa.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:33 AM (hKOIV)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2024 11:33 AM (4olE8)
https://youtu.be/m-H0uIH5HHQ
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:18 AM (hKOIV)
--Also obligatory:
https://youtu.be/tdtGo2Ib9oI?si=NkLtSR2msoM3DxcO
Posted by: logprof at February 28, 2024 11:34 AM (xvUBc)
And then join together with her sisters to take down Horrible Orange Man Band.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2024 11:31 AM (nFnyb)
I could also see a scene where the other three explain to her how she's hurting other women. And she decides that her lifelong beliefs are wrong and these degenerate women are right.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2024 11:34 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Wally at February 28, 2024 11:34 AM (btJ+z)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2024 11:32 AM (tkR6S)
++++
Several years ago, I was at a conference at a hotel. Breakfast and lunch buffets were part of it.
They did all kinds of this stuff on the labels. My favorite was in the breakfast buffet:
"BACON: no gluten added"
It isn't "gluten-free" because it's prepared in a non-gluten-free kitchen process, I guess, but don't worry - they didn't dump a bunch of excess gluten on it!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:34 AM (HnUIn)
http://tiny.cc/zb84xz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Pneumatic. Nice.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:34 AM (9yWhg)
Wait....am I supposed to be feeding my eggs?
Shit!!!!!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 28, 2024 11:35 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Ciampino
The show is for AWFLs, not Black people. You put in Black actors to meet DEI requirements and make the audience feel virtuous, but need to cast non-threatening and mildly racial actors in the parts. You can't have dark skinned radical Black Panther/separatist activists as the character. Light-skinned, white adjacent speaking and appearing.
Posted by: Movie Moron at February 28, 2024 11:35 AM (JCZqz)
Got an extra $150? Want your games to be more immersive? Now you can buy GameScent so you can smell your videogames! Smell the horse shit in Red Dead Redemption! The decomposing bodies in dungeon crawlers!
http://tinyurl.com/6py6yuvw
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 28, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)
Posted by: Wally at February 28, 2024 11:34 AM (btJ+z)
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Borrowing money at 7% instead of 0% has an effect as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: vic at February 28, 2024 11:35 AM (A5THL)
The bottom has fallen out of the Hollywood political surrogate pool.
Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 28, 2024 11:35 AM (GshMh)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2024 11:31 AM (JeYYB)
Running her cellulite farm.
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 28, 2024 11:35 AM (xcrUy)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 28, 2024 11:36 AM (JTwsP)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 28, 2024 11:28 AM
Hop on the bus, Gus.
Posted by: Paul Simon at February 28, 2024 11:36 AM (5sOEG)
Posted by: Wally at February 28, 2024 11:34 AM (btJ+z)
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That's sort of my point. There are noises about the industry giants starting to acknowledge the problem, but the content pipelines and employee populations are so full of this stuff that they can't stop doing it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:37 AM (HnUIn)
I don't think spiders normally butcher and cook their food.
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 11:37 AM (XShg/)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 28, 2024 11:37 AM (JTwsP)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 28, 2024 11:36 AM (JTwsP)
That seems gratuitous. Couldn't you just get an abortion in the bathroom?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:37 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 11:37 AM (XShg/)
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No, not normally.
But it does happen.
Posted by: Butcher who got bitten by a radioactive spider at February 28, 2024 11:37 AM (HnUIn)
They've collapsed and WB will not be purchasing Paramount now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 28, 2024 11:37 AM (JTwsP)
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Not dumping it on the bacon, that's for damn sure!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:38 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 28, 2024 11:36 AM (JTwsP)
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You can bet your ass they'll have an episode or two that talks about abortion. The skanks are their target audience and it's a hot-button issue for them this election.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2024 11:38 AM (JeYYB)
Posted by: Charlotte at February 28, 2024 11:38 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: Seems Legit
Working quietly in the background to see if she's a viable replacement for Biden if the Dem convention is brokered.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2024 11:38 AM (JCZqz)
They've collapsed and WB will not be purchasing Paramount now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
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Good. Let the bankruptcies be unleashed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:38 AM (HnUIn)
I suspect this is the media version of the old architectural giants during the cold war embracing Soviet Brutalist architecture. You want beauty? FU. You want timeless stories like Shakespeare or Tolkein? FU.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2024 11:38 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 28, 2024 11:38 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Wally
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They can push it but increasingly people aren't buying it. The move to streaming has hit the industry like a tidal wave because it means that people can watch what they like without much subsidy of things they don't like.
Cable carriage fees were a big pole propping up the tent of Info-tainment Inc's profits. Setting up alternative streaming channels on the other hand have wrecked some balance sheets of these big media companies and is compelling them to consolidate further.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:39 AM (hKOIV)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 28, 2024 11:36 AM (JTwsP)
NOOOOOO!
WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE!
HAAAAAAANGERRRRRS!
EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Posted by: Joan Crawford at February 28, 2024 11:39 AM (sm6Pk)
Posted by: mr tmz at February 28, 2024 11:39 AM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Ciampino - the wheels on the bus go round & at February 28, 2024 11:39 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 28, 2024 11:39 AM (JTwsP)
I don't think spiders normally butcher and cook their food.
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality
They can, but it ends up getting charred alotte.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:39 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2024 11:38 AM (JCZqz)
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That's my fear. "We need someone with experience."
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2024 11:39 AM (JeYYB)
"BACON: no gluten added"
I saw a tub of vanilla ice cream marked gluten free and...yes yes it should be.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2024 11:40 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:40 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:39 AM (9yWhg)
++++
*groan*
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:40 AM (VoAdT)
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at February 28, 2024 11:40 AM (s5zoC)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 11:40 AM (zdLoL)
I have tickets for Saturday, only the second film I've seen since Covid Time, after Godzilla Minus One
Posted by: arminius at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (Dpgtk)
Do they do round and round ?
Posted by: JT at February 28, 2024 11:09 AM (T4tVD)
no, but two trailer park girls go round the outside
--emenem
Posted by: SturmToddler at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (nXhwP)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 11:40 AM (zdLoL)
It's fat free!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 11:37 AM
Not normally...
Posted by: The Face-Sized Spider in AtC's Attic at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (5sOEG)
Cable carriage fees were a big pole propping up the tent of Info-tainment Inc's profits. Setting up alternative streaming channels on the other hand have wrecked some balance sheets of these big media companies and is compelling them to consolidate further.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:39 AM (hKOIV)
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The whole streaming thing is hilarious.
The entire industry went whole-hog on it. The entire industry. They thought they were going to replace theaters, cable, and OTA television with subscription models, and the subscription model is a giant shitshow.
The only one who could still be considered a success at the highest level is probably Netflix, and that's mostly because they're backed by so much investment money through their high stock price. Disney is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a quarter on Disney+ while their stock cratered to just over half of the highs they had a few years ago.
They are Icarus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
http://tiny.cc/zb84xz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:32 AM (HnUIn)
Nice mountains. And the scenery's not bad, either, Looks like the photo could have been taken around Queen Creek.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: El Mariachi at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (8E/8X)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2024 11:42 AM (tXFoB)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 11:40 AM (zdLoL)
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Yup.
For a little while, some deodorant brands advertised themselves as "antibacterial action to help prevent odor!"
Yeah, that's how most of 'em (that aren't just new smells to cover up other smells) work and always have.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:42 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:37 AM (HnUIn)
They are bathing in plunder and they won't stop until they bring everything down because nobody is going to stop them.
Posted by: coyne at February 28, 2024 11:42 AM (2S0F4)
Posted by: Retarded, psychotic AND drunken. Trifecta. at February 28, 2024 11:42 AM (i/8eo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (tkR6S)
I so need to visit west of West Texas.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:42 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:43 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (ibTVg)
Just lure those retards into a fucking Chuck-E-Cheez and it's a fifty/fifty proposition that they both make it out alive.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2024 11:43 AM (VoAdT)
Biden's America.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 28, 2024
***
It happened out in the suburban town where the airport is located, along with an entire Hispanic community that's popped up since I lived out there in the early Eighties.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2024 11:43 AM (J2vNu)
Don't make a fuss, just get on the bus.
Posted by: Roy at February 28, 2024 11:43 AM (z+ik4)
If Denis Villeneuve can strike gold again with Zendaya as one of his "stars" he might be the greatest director of all time...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2024 11:43 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Archimedes
Arachnid puns really tick me off.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:43 AM
Now that one just sucked.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2024 11:43 AM (5sOEG)
It's like listening to my drunken wine aunt lecturing me on sobriety.
Posted by: El Mariachi at February 28, 2024 11:44 AM (8E/8X)
Just lure those retards into a fucking Chuck-E-Cheez and it's a fifty/fifty proposition that they both make it out alive.
Approves
Posted by: Freddy Fazbear at February 28, 2024 11:44 AM (ibTVg)
If Denis Villeneuve can strike gold again with Zendaya as one of his "stars" he might be the greatest director of all time...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2024 11:43 AM (ibTVg)
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You know it's good when reactionary YouTube channels are going, "Is Dune 2 the conservative antidote to wokeism?"
Not even they are finding reason to bitch, and the trailers were full of some small conversation between Paul and Chani about Paul wanting to be equal with her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 28, 2024 11:45 AM (2ijlT)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) has seen Wonka at February 28, 2024 11:45 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2024 11:40 AM (aD39U)
Endorsed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2024 11:45 AM (tkR6S)
I have tickets for Saturday, only the second film I've seen since Covid Time, after Godzilla Minus One
Posted by: arminius at February 28, 2024 11:41 AM (Dpgtk)
Much as I dislike Timothy Chalamet I found Dune Part 1 to be an impressive adaptation of the novel, especially where visual effects were concerned. So I will probably watch Part 2 once it's on streaming.
Posted by: Still my top 3 sci-fi books of all time at February 28, 2024 11:46 AM (i/8eo)
Posted by: Still my top 3 sci-fi books of all time at February 28, 2024 11:46 AM (i/8eo)
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I have tickets for tomorrow night.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: El Mariachi at February 28, 2024 11:44 AM (8E/8X)
Is she hawt?
Posted by: Doof (don't even pretend you weren't wondering too) at February 28, 2024 11:46 AM (JunzL)
The entire industry went whole-hog on it. The entire industry. They thought they were going to replace theaters, cable, and OTA television with subscription models, and the subscription model is a giant shitshow.
The only one who could still be considered a success at the highest level is probably Netflix, and that's mostly because they're backed by so much investment money through their high stock price. Disney is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a quarter on Disney+ while their stock cratered to just over half of the highs they had a few years ago.
They are Icarus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Rectification is a stone cold bitch. Essentially all the pathetic new stuff is competing with all the previously released movies, tv shows, etc. and it can't do it. Even the cable news network is dying as the average age viewing those shows is near collecting Social Security. Network news is in even worse shape percentage wise in loss of audience.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:47 AM (hKOIV)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) has seen Wonka at February 28, 2024 11:47 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2024 11:47 AM (QB+5g)
I plan to go see it in Imax.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:47 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Roy "
I aint gonna squash it
and you dont need to wash it
Posted by: Mary, from the bus at February 28, 2024 11:48 AM (WWXoh)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 28, 2024 11:48 AM (a1415)
Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2024 11:47 AM (QB+5g)
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The Criterion release of Polyester has some sort of scratch off card in it, if I remember correctly. Not a huge Waters fan, so I never picked it up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:48 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) has seen Wonka at February 28, 2024 11:45 AM (aD39U)
And never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
Posted by: I mean, just look at him at February 28, 2024 11:48 AM (i/8eo)
Posted by: No Longer Participating at February 28, 2024 11:48 AM (V5BDR)
Posted by: No Longer Participating
She had a little hitch in her gitalong.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:49 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: XTC at February 28, 2024 11:49 AM (sm6Pk)
Posted by: I mean, just look at him at February 28, 2024 11:48 AM (i/8eo)
I could sort of see him playing soccer.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) has seen Wonka at February 28, 2024 11:49 AM (aD39U)
Dune definitely has some of what are now considered conservative ideas. Look at how it handles fear for example.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Fifty years ago everyone believed that a man needed to stare down his own fears and do what is right...but now that is a "far right wing" view on the emotion.
Posted by: Freddy Fazbear at February 28, 2024 11:49 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 28, 2024 11:49 AM (MeG8a)
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Working quietly in the background to see if she's a viable replacement for Biden if the Dem convention is brokered.
The really sad part? She probably is. Or at least The Party may think she is.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 28, 2024 11:49 AM (sNc8Y)
*Mentions Rectification of the Vuldronaii, because I like saying Rectification of the Vuldronaii*
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:50 AM (CsUN+)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) has seen Wonka at February 28, 2024 11:45 AM (aD39U)
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Isn't here that "babygirl" guy from yesterday's post?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:50 AM (HnUIn)
In the VCR era you could go to a store and rent whatever you wanted. It didn't generally matter what company made the movie.
Now? Oh you want to see X? That's one subscription. Y? Another one.
Its a dumb model.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2024 11:51 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:47 AM (hKOIV)
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You got that right, brother
Posted by: Surly industrial electrician at February 28, 2024 11:51 AM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Freddy Fazbear at February 28, 2024 11:49 AM (ibTVg)
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Dune exists in this weird space between anti-authoritarianism and authority worship.
Paul is the warning. Leto II is the one who must rule as a tyrant to bring about the Golden Path.
As smart as Herbert was, I think he didn't really understand what he wanted from politics. Essentially, I might equate him to a monarchist as long as his monarch was in charge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:51 AM (GBKbO)
https://is.gd/V0iL0k
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 28, 2024 11:51 AM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2024 11:26 AM (JeYYB)
As of lately, Candice doesn't need the help to look bad, when you are saying nice things about actual Nazis, you have passed some barrier into fukkin lala land.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 28, 2024 11:51 AM (pohLc)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 28, 2024 11:07 AM (pohLc)
Not a guy, but I did give up non-dairy creamer. Switched to just whole milk. The creamer was adding fluff, and messing with my stomach.
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at February 28, 2024 11:52 AM (JCLJi)
Posted by: coyne
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Consumers are stopping them because they simply are not buying the woke product anymore and cable cutting due to tough times is likely to accelerate loss of audience rather than increase it.
We have what is called a secular shift in the market caused by streaming going on. This is also killing the gatekeeping function of cable tv providers and carriage fees for the declining channels. Even ad revenues are flat because of Google and Meta getting the advert revenues formerly given to print, radio, and tv.
Media companies are going to have to adapt or die like the dinosaurs they are.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:52 AM (hKOIV)
Experience tells me this shoot was not into "verisimilitude."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 11:53 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2024 11:53 AM (J2vNu)
http://tiny.cc/zb84xz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:32 AM (HnUIn)
Looks like my dental hygienist...I get 4 cleanings a year.
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2024 11:53 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: No Longer Participating
You watched it recently in syndication, though, right? You're not a day older than 29 I thought?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2024 11:53 AM (JCZqz)
Its a dumb model.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2024 11:51 AM (ibTVg)
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There's always the straight up rental model that still exists in the streaming universe. Pay $4 to stream whatever through Amazon or Vudu or a few other services.
That probably works decently well, but it doesn't get you everything because studios are putting up walls around their own content.
I think of Spirited, the AppleTV+ exclusive holiday movie staring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. It has this feel of wanting to be a holiday classic to be rewatched forever, but you have to have AppleTV+, and number is honestly not huge (apparently 25 million paid subscribers). That's a very far cry from It's a Wonderful Life, in the public domain, on the three networks every Christmas because it was free to show.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:54 AM (GBKbO)
https://youtu.be/I8YzI6MhPdw
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 28, 2024 11:54 AM (dZVON)
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If memory serves, he was a speech writer for both Eisenhower and Nixon. He did found a Family Franchise, as well.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2024 11:54 AM (FmapG)
Dune exists in this weird space between anti-authoritarianism and authority worship.
Yes - If you get your political ideology from Dune then it is weird. His fremen heros are based somewhat on the various Arab nationalist factions facing down the British and French. So I guess you could see it as a "Dancing with Wolves" take with Paul as the white savior of the indigenous people.
But I don't think that's what he really wanted. I only vaguely recall the later novels but it seems he wanted to play with much deeper ideas then just the nature of power.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2024 11:55 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2024 11:54 AM (FmapG)
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Dune was apparently written as a warning against Nixon and all populist leaders (he would have hated Trump, methinks), so he obviously soured on him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:55 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at February 28, 2024 11:52 AM (JCLJi)
That was a joke referring to one of the silly ads that shows up on the site.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 28, 2024 11:55 AM (pohLc)
https://is.gd/V0iL0k
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 28, 2024 11:51 AM (MsrgL)
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I have not been wholly convinced that it isn't satire.
But it's probably not satire.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 11:55 AM (HnUIn)
(I imagine it's about WEF 😆
https://youtu.be/PiKaXWH8UKw?si=4f0cBSrSBdix40EE
Posted by: logprof at February 28, 2024 11:55 AM (xvUBc)
Posted by: Skip at February 28, 2024 11:56 AM (RyHSl)
The ball gag tends to put a lid on her yammering.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 28, 2024 11:56 AM (Q0kLU)
Seems to describe most people. They all want a benevolent monarch. Politics is just the argument over the definition of benevolent.
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 11:56 AM (XShg/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Never cared much for Dune but the crisis of monarchy is that you don't have a scramble generally for succession of leadership but you do of sound leadership.
The Roman adoption system was probably one of the better than simply relying on biological chance for succession. The Ottoman approach would actually make for some decent entertainment albeit Game of Thrones on steroids. The politics of the seraglio plus the Highlander type competition among sons was some pretty fierce competition to become sultan.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 11:56 AM (hKOIV)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) has seen Wonka at February 28, 2024 11:45 AM (aD39U)
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I have to admit, I would probably go see Dune:The Musical.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2024 11:56 AM (tXFoB)
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Over/under on how long until Hollywood gets a multi-trillion dollar bailout by the feral government for being To Big To Fail?
/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS -- Laken Riley (Business is business, and it's a murder most foul) at February 28, 2024 11:56 AM (ThfNI)
But I don't think that's what he really wanted. I only vaguely recall the later novels but it seems he wanted to play with much deeper ideas then just the nature of power.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2024 11:55 AM (ibTVg)
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He wrote Dune Messiah because people were interpreting Paul as the actual messiah instead of the imitator who used popular beliefs to acquire power.
In Messiah, he compares himself to Hitler, almost bragging that Hitler hadn't killed nearly as many people as he had. Actually...it might have been Stilgar who said it. Can't remember for sure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:56 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at February 28, 2024 11:57 AM (n17eQ)
Mayor Adams Surrenders to Reality, Begs to Change NYC Sanctuary Status
http://tinyurl.com/2js2yxmp
Posted by: Archimedes
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Philly is all in & creating havoc in collar counties. Just one example of many follows:
CBS News: Jan. 9, 2024, Local News
New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia working with asylum seekers sent by buses from Texas
Governor Shapiro, Senators Casey & Fetterman, US Reps Summer Lee, Mary Gay Scanlon, Brendan Boyle, more.
What is happening & ever increasing immediately outside the city is a disgrace. And, it spreads very quickly.
Redistricting. Housing in hotel and motels & then quick "family" placement, including Section 8. New "careers" visiting local food pantries and other free services. Theft in ALL retail establishments. Failing, very expensive public schools nearest the city. Well-to-do communities opting out of Community College support funding, opting for State Police protection rather than properly staffing & funding local police departments, etc. The development of healthcare deserts.
Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 28, 2024 11:57 AM (GshMh)
I was flipping through the offerings on Amazon Prime last night, and now pretty much anything you'd want to watch has ads. I'll probably cave and give them their extra $4 a month for no ads.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:58 AM (CsUN+)
*********
Pitching Medicare Advantage plans and Balance of Nature™
Posted by: Muldoon at February 28, 2024 11:58 AM (991eG)
Matt Viser
@mviser
NEW: Hunter Biden in opening statement says "I did not involve my father in my business" and tells House Republicans "You have built your entire partisan house of cards on lies"
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
🚨 BREAKING: Hunter Biden’s opening statement in his closed door deposition blames the scandal on “MAGA-Motivated Conspiracy Theories”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 28, 2024 11:58 AM (FVME7)
The Dune series just got worse and worse as it went. I skimmed the last few, just to see how it all ended.
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 11:58 AM (XShg/)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:43 AM
Now that one just sucked.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
You're right. I mite've done better.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:58 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at February 28, 2024 11:59 AM (JCLJi)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 11:49 AM (9yWhg)
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Ring a Ding Ding
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2024 11:59 AM (tXFoB)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2024 11:58 AM (CsUN+)
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I don't think it applies to the actual rentals ($4 for 48 hours of access to the individual title), just what they have for "free" on Prime Video.
They're apparently going to fold FreeVee completely and just make it all Prime.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 11:59 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: mr tmz at February 28, 2024 12:00 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 11:58 AM (XShg/)
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I finished Heretics last week.
It's two main characters are barely in it. It's weird. He didn't know how to write the first entry in a trilogy (Chapterhouse was supposed to be the second with a third he never finished that his son completed in two volumes after Frank's death).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Archimedes
Doesn't apply to streaming channels you buy thru Amazon though. Only the Prime material. Have to make back the billion dollar budget on teh crappy LOTR prequel.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 12:00 PM (hKOIV)
Posted by: mr tmz at February 28, 2024 12:00 PM (rJ48h)
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My 1400 physical discs along my wall could assuage me for a while.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
https://shorturl.at/irFY1
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at February 28, 2024 12:02 PM (DmvSJ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Geesh, how many copies of Prometheus do you need?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 12:02 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Archimedes
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You should be able to get $5 credits each month with late shipping or leaky liquids if you chat when something is wrong. You probably won't even get a human. Just put "cost adjustment" in at the prompt and it will likely pick out what's wrong and offer you the credit.
Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 28, 2024 12:02 PM (eovkY)
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 28, 2024 12:02 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: G'rump928
That dude's been passed around Hollywood more times than a sandwich at anorexic's convention.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 28, 2024 12:03 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, ragin
but how many of those are Prometheus?
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2024 12:03 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Mebbe. Though FreeVee has simultaneous offerings with some of the streaming channels they carry only with ads. FreeVee also does not require a subscription but is accessible through prime itself as well as a free standing entrance. Has a fair number of Brit series on it plus some popular 80's and 90's tv series.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 12:03 PM (hKOIV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Geesh, how many copies of Prometheus do you need?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 12:02 PM (9yWhg)
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I must preserve the great works for future generations after the collapse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Spiders always remind me of the web of deception around Chelsea Clinton’s father.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2024 12:03 PM (JCZqz)
They can't create book-length fiction that sells. So they turn to writing 1,000-word fiction/propaganda pieces in the News and Opinion sections of print media and web news and opinion sites.
.
Posted by: Gref at February 28, 2024 12:04 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 12:03 PM (hKOIV)
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It's how I'm watching Peep Show now (well, not now...now I had an itch to watch Children of Dune).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2024 12:03 PM
Nicely done.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2024 12:04 PM (5sOEG)
She stands there, head held high. The wind gently waves her hair as the light of the setting sun paints her face in its gentle glow. "I am a Journalist," she thinks to herself, "no matter what happens, I will seek the truth!"
She does not see the kids on skateboards bearing down on her with the water balloons, and who escape laughing. Later, her ruined Dior pantsuit reflects the tragedy of her chosen career. She enters the Editor's office and begins to undress...hoping she gets another big story to cover.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 28, 2024 12:04 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 12:04 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 28, 2024 11:56 AM (Q0kLU)
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* snort *
The first time I ever saw that used &: depicted was in that rather shocking & uncomfortable scene in Pulp Fiction -- so am always immediately reminded of it when I hear that term.
Posted by: ShainS -- Laken Riley (Business is business, and it's a murder most foul) at February 28, 2024 12:05 PM (ThfNI)
I was explaining how the Ottoman succession processes worked to a friend I was watching the Ottoman v Vlad Dracula mini series that was on recently.
As Sultan you get as many wives as possible at least 5, but more if you can manage it. Slaves are good choice as well if they are good looking. Anyway, then you make sure you have a LOT of kids. Then the boys kill each other to make sure all the strongest succeeds perhaps with your wives helping to assassinate each other's sons as well.
And Mehmed II was especially screwed up. He took one Greek Princess as a sex slave for a couple of years, got bored with her and gave her to a retainer then demanded their oldest daughter from their marriage as a consort later...
Needless to say my non-history junkie co-watcher was horrified.
/JustMuslimThings
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2024 12:05 PM (ibTVg)
@bennyjohnson
🚨 BREAKING: Hunter Biden’s opening statement in his closed door deposition blames the scandal on “MAGA-Motivated Conspiracy Theories”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 28, 2024 11:58 AM (FVME7)
I know the Russian dude the Feebs arrested in Vegas a couple weeks ago, the narrative coming out of that is he's a lying liar who lies, and he made up stuff about Hunty so he could bribe somebody or other, with fake information about the Bidens taking bribes.
Seems everyone is bribing everyone. Whatever the case, I can't tell if they've caught this crackhead in a bald lie, or if it's murky enough that the Bidens will walk away from this (those of them who CAN still walk) scot free.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 28, 2024 12:05 PM (dGCAG)
spirited away > spirited
Posted by: anachronda at February 28, 2024 12:05 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at February 28, 2024 12:05 PM (DmvSJ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
So...the equivalent of our Nukie collection.
Posted by: Red Letter Media at February 28, 2024 12:05 PM (JCZqz)
If you have Walmart+ then Paramount+ is free.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2024 12:06 PM (tXFoB)
Only On Ice!
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 12:04 PM
Don't hold your breath. Ze promised me zat, too, ja?
Posted by: Hitler at February 28, 2024 12:06 PM (5sOEG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
So...the equivalent of our Nukie collection.
Posted by: Red Letter Media at February 28, 2024 12:05 PM (JCZqz)
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Not anymore!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbdij5Vi8oY
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
I'll call tomorrow a.m. and sit on the phone as long as it takes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2024 12:06 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 12:04 PM (zdLoL)
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Heh.
Posted by: ShainS -- Laken Riley (Business is business, and it's a murder most foul) at February 28, 2024 12:06 PM (ThfNI)
The new car will play whatever is on my phone tho'.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 28, 2024 12:06 PM (MeG8a)
If you have Walmart+ then Paramount+ is free.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2024 12:06 PM (tXFoB)
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They have not. They only have similar interfaces.
Look for Rings of Power on Paramount. It's not there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
He does strike me as someone who's been sexually abused.
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 28, 2024 12:07 PM (xcrUy)
Only On Ice!
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 12:04 PM (zdLoL)
All I know about Dune is the Lynch movie, and while I wouldn't say it's terrible, it doesn't make me want to see anything else in the Herbertian Cinematic Universe.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 28, 2024 12:08 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024
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Men, Women, Children, and Pets of Dune
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2024 12:08 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, ragin
but how many of those are Prometheus?
forty-two!
Posted by: deep thought at February 28, 2024 12:08 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2024 12:08 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2024 12:08 PM (tXFoB)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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You will want a blu ray drive on a computer, the necessary software, plus M-Disc media. No dye to fade on the disc as others do. The only caveat is continued availability of optical drives to read it.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 12:08 PM (hKOIV)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) has seen Wonka at February 28, 2024 12:08 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 28, 2024 12:09 PM (jbnUc)
Give the SyFy mini-series a try. I thought it was a lot better.
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 12:09 PM (XShg/)
She was on TV a week or two ago throwing Biden under the bus. Apparently the DNC needs a strong proven leader that can suicide people in Fort Marcy Park day or night and Joe ain't it.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 28, 2024 12:09 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2024 12:08 PM (tXFoB)
One stop shoppin'.
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2024 12:09 PM (AwYPR)
He does strike me as someone who's been sexually abused.
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 28, 2024 12:07 PM (xcrUy)
Well yeah. Somewhere well above half the male actors in Hollowood have been on their knees in front of producers and whomever, so if we're looking for exceptions to the rule, this little twink is not likely to be one of them.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 28, 2024 12:09 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 28, 2024 12:09 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2024 12:08 PM (J2vNu)
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Pebbles of Dune, the story of how the rock formations of the planet Arrakis came together, coming soon from Brian Herbert!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: logprof at February 28, 2024 12:09 PM (xvUBc)
Give the SyFy mini-series a try. I thought it was a lot better.
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 12:09 PM (XShg/)
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Or, you know, read the book. It's a pretty good book.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)
NOT THE BEE amazingly.
This was PUSH notified to my phone this morning via Yahoo finance, must have cost Google a premium to do that. Even the headline is as dramatically ridiculous as possible. Seriously this shilling stuff has to be seen to be believed. Tell me Google is paying these idiots to churn out damage control propaganda without telling me Google is paying these idiots to churn out damage control propaganda. The propaganda piece is about 20 pages long too. And, if you can believe it, written by a Columbia grad who used to be a "misinformation expert" for the NYT according to her bio. Who would actually admit to such a thing?
Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at February 28, 2024 12:10 PM (CZPkK)
Look for Rings of Power on Paramount. It's not there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
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It looked like they had many of the same movies and shows even down to the same order on my TV.
Maybe they are holding the big budget stuff back to just Prime.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2024 12:10 PM (tXFoB)
Posted by: Red Letter Media
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Speaking of, the D1 a mond Cobra vs Wh yte Fox episode that the crazy lady had pulled because... well, watch some of her other stuff.
youtube.com/watch?v=PAWGkRTOe-4
anyway, if you missed the RLM Best of the Worst:
(cough)
archive.org/details/BOTW_RLM_DLT
(cough)
Posted by: SHOUT OUT TO MY COUSIN MURPH at February 28, 2024 12:10 PM (eovkY)
Looks like my dental hygienist...I get 4 cleanings a year.
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2024 11:53 AM (AwYPR)
LOL I didn't realize a dental hygienists uniform lets their breasts hang out. Now we may know why NGU is really a dentist. JK, NGU.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2024 12:11 PM (Ki//m)
He does strike me as someone who's been sexually abused.
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 28, 2024 12:07 PM (xcrUy)
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It's only abuse if you don't like it
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 28, 2024 12:11 PM (iFTx/)
Needless to say my non-history junkie co-watcher was horrified.
/JustMuslimThings
Posted by: 18-1
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There was a reason why their Empire lasted as long as it did. Sultans had to be ruthless to win the power game.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2024 12:11 PM (hKOIV)
Big Mike definitely isn't. He doesn't want me and Reggie to be happy.
Posted by: B. Hussein Obama at February 28, 2024 12:11 PM (2ocoG)
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Give the SyFy mini-series a try. I thought it was a lot better.
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 12:09 PM (XShg/)
Here's the thing though, I really don't care for sci-fi anything.
I mean, there's stuff I've watched, but the genre itself... it's sorta like seafood. I'll eat it, if I'm hungry, and it's really well prepared, but I'm not seeking it out. Ever.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 28, 2024 12:11 PM (dGCAG)
Maybe they are holding the big budget stuff back to just Prime.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2024 12:10 PM (tXFoB)
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Licensing is a complex world of individual and bulk, non-exclusive contracts.
Dune is on Netflix (well, until tomorrow). It doesn't mean that Max and Netflix have merged.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
Because everyone would have to look up the word. Bad marketing to make your customers feel dumb from the start.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 28, 2024 12:12 PM (sNc8Y)
Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples uppity up at February 28, 2024 12:12 PM (eovkY)
But fanbois will persist that it's this or that and nah bro, it sucks Sandworm Ass.
In the garbage the book went decades ago.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 28, 2024 12:12 PM (2ijlT)
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2024 12:12 PM (JunzL)
Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at February 28, 2024 12:10 PM (CZPkK)
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The complexity and scale of a lie is inversely proportional to the simplicity and scale of the truth.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2024 12:12 PM (HnUIn)
Dune is on Netflix (well, until tomorrow). It doesn't mean that Max and Netflix have merged.
The smart money is that there will be consolidation to everything on a few services and then there'll be a bundle to get all of them. Et voila, the Millennials have re-invented cable.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 28, 2024 12:13 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)
Good lord, not just no, but HELL no.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 28, 2024 12:13 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at February 28, 2024 12:13 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 28, 2024 12:13 PM (Akjoo)
Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 28, 2024 12:14 PM (eovkY)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 28, 2024 12:14 PM (sNc8Y)
And then there's the 'Teen Mom' and 'Jersey Shore' franchises. Utter trash. If the Romans had TV, thisis the sort of thing they'd watch.
The Real Slaves of Ultima Thule, anyone?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 28, 2024 11:27 AM (Q0kLU)
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Roman here: we would make it more interesting with lions and tigers.
Posted by: Ciampino - the wheels on the bus go round & round at February 28, 2024 12:15 PM (qfLjt)
She was on TV a week or two ago throwing Biden under the bus. Apparently the DNC needs a strong proven leader that can suicide people in Fort Marcy Park day or night and Joe ain't it.
Posted by: Ian S.
I mentioned up at #218 she was unofficially campaigning a bit to raise her profile in case the Dem convention was brokered. Couldn't remember the exact details of how she was doing that, and your example is one of a few recent appearances I know she's made. She hasn't let the dream go lol.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2024 12:15 PM (JCZqz)
I watched intently as Barbara Eden, the manicurist, got off the bus in Mayberry, soon to upset the entire town. That was over 60 years ago.
Posted by: No Longer Participating
She danced in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055608
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 28, 2024 12:15 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2024 12:15 PM (J2vNu)
I liked the first two - thought the next two were "meh". After that ? Awful.
Posted by: The Pimp Hand of Reality at February 28, 2024 12:15 PM (XShg/)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 28, 2024 12:17 PM (jvlno)
"Google Gemini, please create a 10,000 word argument for why you are not racist".
Paycheck earned. I deserve a living wage for this.
Posted by: Davey Alba at February 28, 2024 12:17 PM (CZPkK)
Dune is on Netflix (well, until tomorrow). It doesn't mean that Max and Netflix have merged.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
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True but the interfaces are identical unlike Netflix and Max. And like I said they aren’t just sharing movies, they’re in the exact same order.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2024 12:17 PM (tXFoB)
Experience tells me this shoot was not into "verisimilitude."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 28, 2024 11:53 AM (zdLoL)
I would volunteer to pick Cholla spines out of her skin, which she would likely get plenty of, if she ran off that road.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2024 12:17 PM (tkR6S)
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Racism. Pure racism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 28, 2024 12:17 PM (FVME7)
“You have built your entire partisan house of cards on lies"
Those “lies” seem to include a lot of evidence that you and your dad do nothing but lie and take bribes.
What would Beau say if he were alive right now?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 28, 2024 12:17 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2024 12:17 PM (tXFoB)
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The interfaces aren't exactly the same. They have very similar structures, but even the searches operate differently.
Amazon and Paramount merging would be honestly huge news. It didn't happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 28, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)
OTOH, it's loaded with small strip malls with liquor, cigarettes, and 'spas/massage' and also convenience stores for scratch offs, sandwiches, and stimulate drinks.
Wilmington is rather attractive in daylight, totally ghost-like by 3 pm. Wealth is at the shore.
Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 28, 2024 12:18 PM (GshMh)
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Help help me out of this box, let.me out of this box!
Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at February 28, 2024 12:19 PM (CZPkK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2024 12:11 PM (Ki//m)
It's a good way to keep male patients sitting placidly in the chair, mouth agape.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2024 12:27 PM (tkR6S)
Thank you. I knew someone would hit that slow pitch over the plate for me.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 28, 2024 12:32 PM (jbnUc)
But fanbois will persist that it's this or that and nah bro, it sucks Sandworm Ass.
In the garbage the book went decades ago.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 28, 2024 12:12 PM (
THE SPICE MUST FLOW
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 28, 2024 01:47 PM (m6dV4)
As Sultan you get as many wives as possible at least 5, but more if you can manage it. Slaves are good choice as well if they are good looking. Anyway, then you make sure you have a LOT of kids. Then the boys kill each other to make sure all the strongest succeeds perhaps with your wives helping to assassinate each other's sons as well.
And Mehmed II was especially screwed up. He took one Greek Princess as a sex slave for a couple of years, got bored with her and gave her to a retainer then demanded their oldest daughter from their marriage as a consort later...
Needless to say my non-history junkie co-watcher was horrified.
/JustMuslimThings
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2024 12:05 PM (ibTVg)
Tanistry as a succession mechanism.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 28, 2024 01:49 PM (m6dV4)
visitors.
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