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Maybe some of us are not dead on the inside? I’m pretty sure CTJ hates everything and he even posted to say he likes this movie.

I also found out last night they did a reunion short film sequel in 2017. It’s called Red Nose Day Actually and was made to support a fundraiser. It’s about 15 minutes long and you can stream online for free.

So many great scenes but how can anyone not like the scene of Sam running through the airport to catch Joanna?

We watch it every year around this time. Great Christmas movie, great movie overall. Let’s do it. Let’s go get the shit kicked out of us by love.

Agreed on both counts. Terrible season, very little competition or legs that felt close at the end, challenges were weak, alliance sucked, ending was lame.

For many healthy people, the decision to get a vaccine holds a greater benefit to the population as a whole than it does to the individual. In some cases, the risk of contracting the actual disease or becoming severely ill from the disease may be relatively low, so the perceived risk/benefit of vaccination may not seem to be in the individual’s favor. This is a yearly problem with the flu vaccine. Even though I am young and healthy, I personally think the risks and the unknowns of the COVID vaccine are lower than the risks and the unknowns of COVID infection. Regardless, I am a physician who works directly with elderly and high risk patients on a daily basis, so the individual risk of vaccination is low enough for me than I am willing to accept that risk for the added protection of the patients I come in contact with. I would hope that most other healthcare providers would have a similar mindset for the sake of not only protecting our patients, but also leading the way towards vaccination of the greater population and eventually reaching heard immunity.

I’m a MD and most of the physicians and nurses I know seem to want it. I don’t know who your pharmacist buddy is or where he practices or what types of MDs he hangs around, but I don’t think most MDs are planning to wait 6 months to decide. There have been countless surveys issued to healthcare workers in the past week so I’m not sure what the official data shows nationwide.

I also watched it over the weekend and thought it was shit. The movie was a jumbled mess of cliché assassin storylines with a very shallow plot, combined with family drama that seemed like it would be more at place in a Hallmark movie. The acting was terrible, even felt like Chastain had mailed it in for a paycheck, but maybe she just had terrible dialogue to work with.

Fair enough. I think the screen size and sound quality make the theater experience better for big action movies and that justifies the cost for me. Plus, I watch TV at home almost every weeknight, so if a good movie gets released, I’m ok leaving the house to go see it. I don’t eat at the theater so concessions for me equals beer or wine, which is marked up but not any more than an average bar or restaurant.

I disagree. They already penalize teams for helping their own partner during a Roadblock so it would be somewhat the same just extended to other teams for all challenges. I’m not entirely against all cooperation, mainly opposed to teams blatantly telling each other the final answers. They could draw a line somewhere in there. For instance: Telling another team to put the countries in the order they heard the songs in the race - fair game and not a penalty Telling another team the exact 4 countries and their order - 30 minute penalty

Which is pretty cheap for 2-3 hours of entertainment outside your home. You can’t go to a live sporting event, concert, golf, bowling, etc. for less than that. I’m not sure the cost of going to the theaters is a valid criticism. Of course it’s more expensive than watching the same movie at home, but that could be said about almost everything.

At the start of this leg I thought they had instituted the race around Manila format to eliminate the benefits of the alliance, only to have the leg end in a challenge that clearly benefits an alliance. I didn’t care for Gary and DeAngelo but what a shitty way to get eliminated. None of the 4 teams knew the answer but a group of 3 can systematically do process of elimination faster than a single team can. Then again, watching DeAngelo’s bitter exit statements made me suddenly care less all the way around. Going back to the start of this season, I, like many others, felt this season was unusually full of likable teams. The alliance has gradually stripped that away to where I don’t particularly like any of them, or rather, I hate the way the final 3 teams reached this position and wish they would all lose. The only thing that could make this season worse is if we find out these 3 teams have agreed to a 40/30/30 split of the prize money. The Amazing Race could easily eliminate or minimize alliances. Simply institute a 30 minute penalty for telling another team the answer to a mental task. It might not be perfect in all situations, but I think the fear of a penalty would quickly discourage teams from helping each other to any significant degree.

Are you 14 years old?

Landed again today because... why not? We normally do June trips but we had a travel itch and we think this is a relatively safe travel destination during the pandemic. Testing required for entry and once you get here almost everything is outdoors or open air. Had a great dinner at Santa Fe to kick things off. Somehow we had never been there but it lived up to its reputation. We have a ridiculous lineup of meals to come - Tamarin, Isola, Orega, Bonito - just to name a few. Places that would each be the star restaurant in our hometown. Staying at Christoper in Pointe Milou which I personally think has the best views on the island as the sun goes down.

I wondered the same thing. Obviously hoping for eradication but preparing for the possibility of long term management through repeat vaccinations. FWIW, Fauci apparently thinks it will be chronic management, not eradication any time soon. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/coronavirus-dr-fauci-says-he-doubts-whether-covid-can-be-eradicated.html

Long time fan of the show and I’m also very annoyed with the current alliance situation. There is very little competition when one large group of teams gangs up on a weak team each leg. It has all but eliminated the possibility of a strong team getting upset and it’s pretty boring TV to watch them single out teams like Eswar/Aparna or Kaylynn/Haley. I’d much rather watch teams figure out challenges on their own or occasionally struggle with a mental task, rather than always having 1 team provide the answer to 3-4 other teams. As much as I dislike Will and James, they were the masterminds behind both alliances and it has clearly worked in their favor. It will likely get them into the final 3 so you can credit them with having a strategy and playing it well, other than they’ve also maximized the chances of their strongest competition - Riley/Maddison and Hung/Chee - also being in the final 3. Without the alliance, they may have been lucky enough for one of those teams to catch a bad break and get eliminated early. I remember ~10 seasons ago when we were all frustrated because the prominence of smart phones had allowed teams to stop random strangers on the street and Google the answers to things that were intended to require more problem solving. It seems TAR curtailed that issue and I’m hoping they take a good look at the alliance problem and find a way to limit its power. Otherwise, future teams will look at this season as a blueprint and start forging alliances in the very first leg, which is bad TV. That all assumes the show continues much longer.

I think the general requirement is that you have to be an attractive female who posts pictures on Instagram and recommends products or services. Your hobbyist Twitter account doesn’t qualify, regardless of the number of followers, because you aren’t an attractive female posting pictures of yourself. This particular girl seems like she was involved in a MLM scheme of sorts. No idea which one but there are posts that reference her monthly sales numbers and earning a free Cadillac at some point. Influencers don’t bother me. I don’t spend a lot of time on social media and I can easily ignore the annoying ones. MLM people bother me because they will ambush you (or rather, your wife) when casually hanging out with friends. You can’t easily unfollow Stacy because she tried to make your wife buy some shitty overpriced lipstick.

Aside from the 23 year age difference, she seems way out of his league. Sounds like he had been abusive towards her and she was threatening divorce, although he obviously denied all of that. He said she drove off while intoxicated on Thanksgiving night. Her body was found naked in some bushes over the weekend without any obvious injuries. The autopsy will be interesting. I’d say there’s a 99% chance he snapped and killed her. Terribly sad story either way.

I’m not familiar with the books but 6 seasons is a pretty healthy lifespan for a high budget TV series. Were people expecting a full 9 seasons to match the books? That’s a very long TV series.

Maybe they should publicly auction off 1000 doses a week. That’s a very small percentage of the total vaccinations, but it would give rich people a legit avenue for getting vaccinated earlier and the money could be directly used for COVID assistance for financially disadvantaged people. Not sure the ethical or financial considerations on something like that, but it seems there’s potential to use capitalism in a very limited manner for the greater good.

Pfizer and BioNTech said they expect to produce 50 million doses by the end of 2020 and 1.3 billion doses in 2021. If the 2021 production goal is distributed somewhat evenly throughout the year, that’s around 100 million doses per month. No idea how that would get distributed to various countries, obviously it won’t all be for the U.S. I haven’t seen production goals for the Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccines. Last I read, we need about 70% for herd immunity, either through vaccination or actual COVID infection. That’s 230 million people, but maybe 30 million have already had COVID, which I assume is a conservative estimate. So perhaps we need ~200 million people to get vaccinated, or 400 million doses. I would be surprised if the U.S. isn’t quickly approaching that by next summer, which means a large percentage of people will be getting vaccinated in January-March timeframe.

I had a growing concern that Jonathan would get acquitted or there would be a mistrial, then the series would end with us never actually knowing who did it. The ambiguous lack of an ending would’ve sucked. I’m glad they gave us a conclusive outcome, and given the list of characters/suspects, I can accept Jonathan as the killer more than anyone else. I had already grown to hate him as a liar and cheater, so it’s easier to find out he committed the murder than to have a reveal where Grace actually did it and her mind blocked it out, or that their son did it, or Elena’s husband, etc.

What do you mean nothing happened? A guy murdered his mistress, tried to convince his family and the public that he was innocent, and ultimately got the outcome he deserved when his wife realized him for being the monster he is.

Most posters seemed to like this show up until the finale but now some of you are clearly disappointed, frustrated, or angry. Is that because y’all were expecting an ending with a twist and they didn’t deliver?

I’m impressed that we knew who the killer was from the beginning and then spent 5 weeks coming up with alternate suspects and explanations. HBO told us the answer but because this is a TV show and, as TV viewers, we are conditioned to expect the unexpected, therefore our minds didn’t let us believe what was obviously true. Bravo.