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irishtexan

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  1. I was just joking. Kind of. That order might draw a side-eye, but it's not as controversial as putting ketchup on a hot dog. I just don't know why you'd turn a beef into a chicken parm sandwich.
  2. I think it's good/not great. But it's still entertaining. This. HBO should just let this guy keep making new cops and robbers mini series. And I expect the third installment to be not as good as this one. That's how it goes. I don't think there is enough meat left on these bones to sustain a second season. Robbie's dead. Maeve is gonna have to lay low and lauder some money. Lizzie's dead. Grasso's going down. Are we gonna spend a whole season with Mark Ruffalo's depressing-ass family? He gets assigned a new case with a new task force that includes Aleah, the no-nonsense crack-shot one-dimensional token black female character, and a retired Martha Plimpton? And a new mole? Yeah. No thanks.
  3. This is a killer fucking record. I encourage you to give the whole album a spin:
  4. I went to Levitation this year and caught TV on the Radio's set. I'm not a huge fan of theirs, but I appreciate and respect what they do. But this is a perfect song:
  5. Big news. I think we all have to ask ourselves, how does removing the "+" align the apple brand with your own identity as a consumer? It's a lot to consider. Take your time before replying with a response.
  6. Unpopular opinion? You can't judge her acting bona fides based on a one-dimensional stereotypical role that wasn't fully-developed and only served to complicate the decisions made by the protagonist. It was a shit role that couldn't have been salvaged by Meryl Streep. In what other films do you think her performance is over-rated? Let's look at a more complicated multi-dimensional character for which she received positive reviews, but you think she sucked. It would be helpful for you to provide opinions on why the acclaim she receives from her contemporaries is unfounded. Or, are you just shitting on her entire career based on a limiting performance in a movie about dudes, for dudes.
  7. I don't see how you watch Cignetti and Indiana do what they did last year, get two wins against top-10 teams this year (including against #3 Oregon on the road this last weekend), and think "nah, we'll go with the guy who has lost 17 in a row to top-25 teams. Not top-10. Top 25."
  8. Penn State wanting to get those Cignetti negotiations started ASAP
  9. So we were home team yesterday. I haven’t read a single article about recruits that were at the game, reactions, etc. In fact, there have been almost zero news/articles/reactions coming out of any of the home games this year. Were there no visitors at any of our recent home games? Seems strange.
  10. I fucking hope they don’t!
  11. That was ten yards short
  12. Why do we keep going backwards?
  13. This team will be lucky to win 6 games with this OL
  14. "easy to get to the airport" and "affordable" are the wild cards here. If you're cool taking the train to the airport, get a hotel near the orange line, which runs through the loop downtown. It goes right to Midway, and then it's about a quarter mile walk from the train to security. If you're gonna take a taxi or a ride share, it doesn't matter where you stay (from a convenience perspective), but just know the neighborhoods get rougher as you go further south and west. As far as the neighborhoods to stay at look into river north, the loop, magnificent mile, west loop, streeterville, or a little further out would be old town and gold coast. You could do south loop too, but I wouldn't go south or west of south loop/west loop. Anything north or west of that you're into neighborhoods, which could also check most of your boxes, but obviously not gonna have easy access to the downtown shit.
  15. Haven't been to a Portillo's outside of Chicago, but the ones up there make a serviceable italian beef, better than average hot dog, and had a damn good burger. My co workers raved about their chopped salad and their chocolate cake. I was gonna hit it up next time I'm in Dallas to see how it checked out. I don't eat at steak houses so I can't speak to Beck's Prime.
  16. Betty Gilpin has huge tits.
  17. That looks pretty terrible. Based on what billfromlaketravis said above, looks like they took a story meant for young adults and tried to repurpose it for a broader audience. Kinda like how they fucked up the Hobbit movies. If those are the "jokes" they're putting in the trailer, how bad are the ones they not promoting?
  18. OK. I'll contribute. You're right in that Mr. Brightside is in the conversation for the biggest hit of the early 2000s. It really might be the biggest hit of the decade. It's hard to understate how big that song is. While it's definitely not even close to the "BEST" song from that era, it might be the biggest. It's the highest selling single of all time to never top the chards. It's the most streamed song from the 2000s on Spotify. It's fucking massive. Crowds of a hundred thousand will sing every word to the song at English soccer matches. A song about a creep watching his girlfriend getting banged out by some other dude has somehow become a jock jam. For years I thought the Killers were a britpop band. They're an American band aping the sound of late 90s/early aughts britpop in a similar way to the early british invasion bands playing the music made by black blues musicians. The Foos aren't an apt comparison. Their roots are in the "hard rock" music that Dave Grohl played in Nirvana and Pat Smear played in the Germs, albeit a version that is extremely sanitized to appeal to a broad audience. They put out multiple albums with top-10 singles and have nearly unparalleled longevity in being in the conversation as the biggest band in the world. But the only thing they have in common is that they both play "rock" music and are popular bands. So my opinion is comparing the two makes no sense. It's like comparing Wings to the Police.
  19. Responding to differing opinions and offhand sarcastic remarks with wildly over the top personal attacks? EXACTLY like both of those threads! Let's keep it going!
  20. Killers thread : ztejas as Shane Gillis thread : Derka as What happened to Demi thread: Spystud
  21. My wife got a pair of NIN tickets. I haven't seen them since 95 on the Downward Spiral tour. I went to Levitation Fest a few weeks ago. I'm a huge Pavement fan, as they hit their peak right when I was in high school/college. I've seen them like 5 times before and they had always been great. Anyway, they sucked balls at Levitation. Stephen Malkmus was playing every song cute and weird and it was fucking annoying. He forgot the words to one of the songs. I don't know. It was pretty disappointing. On a related note, they should have a lot more shows at the Palmer Events Center.
  22. I didn't see anyone say they were shocked by it. I, and others, said it was creepy. Because it was creepy. Because it was supposed to be creepy. Which is a thing that audiences tend to appreciate in horror films.
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