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I realize that the Academy had to make a difficult decision, very quickly, as to how to handle it and that proceeding with the show as scheduled was probably their way of trying to just get past it. I'm also saying that Will Smith is a grown-ass man who acted like a child and assaulted someone onstage over said tasteless joke (that Chris Rock probably didn't even write) so yeah, it would've been nice to see a more nuanced response from the Academy rather than a canned "we don't condone violence" statement, in the same tweet where they congratulate the winners.

The Academy: "We do not condone violence in any form." The Academy, earlier, after the incident: "Here's a trophy to the guy who just hit another guy on stage!"

Boeing 737 crash in southern China was among the fastest jetliner descents ever recorded

Oh blessed Christ, I'm not a teacher - AISD has a sister city in Germany and my son's elementary does an exchange with a school in Koblenz. He and I worked hard on his application and he was one the kids picked to go, so that's why I'm going. I do marketing for a tech company and would be an awful teacher. I know this because my husband is a teacher and once, years ago, I was unhappy with my job and considered a career change, so he got me to help chaperone a field trip to the TX capitol, knowing I'd get over that really quickly. He was correct.

Yeah, I'm going on an exchange trip with a bunch of 4th and 5th graders and their parents so that prescription was going to get renewed anyway.

This made me nauseated. The annotated transcript is incredible, especially where it documents the sheer human error that contributed to the crash. I didn't fly till I was 18 and had a couple of bad experiences early on, and until a couple of years ago I needed Xanax every time I flew. Whenever we hit turbulence I have to run through a list of reminders in my head to stay calm - the plane is more than equipped to handle bumps, this is really common, I'm more likely to die in a car crash, we'll be back to smooth skies in a few minutes, the flight crew is skilled and knows exactly what they're doing, etc. Obviously shit happens and pilots are human, but reading that play-by-play in stark detail is a tough reminder that sometimes things just go wrong. I'm going to Germany this summer on an A330. Probably gonna have to renew that Xanax prescription.

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What is an "extreme" tornado watch?

This is exactly what I said. And they will cling even tighter now that the rest of the country is saying they should change. It's very much "us vs. everyone else" down there. I was the first person in my family to move away (move away = somewhere not in Jefferson County or Calcasieu Parish) and I've never regretted it. I loved my childhood and my family but I knew couldn't stay forever.

If you are a glutton for punishment (or just want to see a bunch of rednecks with their blood up), check out the comments on any of the articles about this on the KFDM Facebook page.

Oh, and the district has deleted their social media accounts since the story went viral, while several of the girls in the video have gotten threats on social media. Cowards. I keep thinking about those poor kids being left holding the bag. I can guarantee you that 99% of them genuinely had no idea that so many people would find their routine offensive. They're raised hearing "Indian pride!" and "Bleed purple!" We moved from Port Arthur when I was going into 6th grade and I thought they were all brainwashed, but by the end I was one of them.

Excuse you, sir, I was in band and spent half my time trying to not get hit by the Indianettes' flags while marching. I keep seeing people go "did no administrator see this dance before they went to Disney??" and the answer is yes, of course they did. First off, PNG has been doing that dance and that song for generations, despite MANY calls from Native tribes to stop. Second, they've done this routine at Disney multiple times over several years (7-8 times, I think), so it's a little disingenuous for Disney to act like they had no idea what was going on. I also know for a fact that they wouldn't let the Indianette officers wear their headdresses, so again, they at least knew that the mascot is the Indians. Anyway, what a lot people outside of TX don't get is how insular that community is, and how very Friday Night Lights it is when it comes to football. Generations of people have born and died there with no one even moving out of the county, and on top of that, the Native songs, dances, traditions, etc that they've appropriated are heavily intertwined with the football team. And the fact that they try to justify it by saying they are honoring Native Americans (which I think most of them genuinely do) in no way mitigates the fact that it's still racist as hell. I hope that one day the staunch defenders of "Indians" as a mascot can realize that they can still have school pride and community pride without being tied to that mascot. I proudly wore that shit and sang that song when I was there, but now I'm grown and see that things need to change. When you know better, do better.

That's a great one. The other we watched all the time back in the day was Hatari!, which also gave the world the Baby Elephant Walk tune.

Oddly enough, I've never seen the Wayne version of True Grit. Dad doesn't like it and thinks it's weird that he won the Oscar for that movie. Another Bogey favorite of mine is The African Queen. Forgot about that one till this thread.

Bogie's the better actor, and I love me some Casablanca. However, El Dorado is one of my favorite movies from childhood. I have lots of great memories watching with my family. Dad's a huge fan of the Duke and he made us watch most of his catalog back in the day.

Trophy wife? What contest in hell did I win?

I'm not there yet, but I do hope they start giving us an answer or two soon, instead of just introducing more questions.

Couldn't find a thread on this already, but let me know if I just missed it. I'm loving this super weird show. Adam Scott and Patricia Arquette are fantastic, as are everyone else to be honest. I've only ever seen Britt Lower in her very brief appearances in Ghosted, but she's great, too.

I call this "Dog in patch of sunshine." He does this whether it's 30 degrees out or 100, solid black fur nonetheless.

My pawpaw was from Avery Island so it's Tabasco all the way here, but otherwise I'm with you. Looks delicious.

He was great in Yesterday and then I didn't see him in anything for a few years, and now he's in both Station Eleven and Don't Look Up. Looking forward to seeing him in more stuff.

We were in NYC the week after Christmas, so we missed that week of hell, but the day after we got back I tested positive for Covid. The next day, HornOnTheBayou tested positive, and after that, both our boys. I'm the only one of us allergic to cedar and I was shocked at how similar my covid symptoms were to cedar fever. The only difference, the thing that made me test, was that I got an actual fever. Symptoms flared back up about a week later but I think that was actual cedar, not some kind of covid double jeopardy. This past weekend was rough but today was much better.