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UpperWestside

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  1. I support people smoking all the weed that they want even though I've never smoked. This other stuff that has had a traumatic effect on your son and family needs to be shot into the sun.
  2. Can someone just piss on this guy while he’s walking down the street? No need to wait for him to be part of the grave pissing tour. What a coward.
  3. I still haven’t gone to see it. Seen so many WWII movies this semester because of class that I’m not certain I want to see anymore Nazis for a bit. I am sure this movie is well done and I do like Rami Malek.
  4. I am all for teams doing this. Spend money and try to win. I can’t stand the moochers like Pittsburgh and the A’s who make no attempt to win at all and just take their revenue sharing money and pocket it instead of investing in the team.
  5. Rendon is and was a selfish prick. There were warning signs on taking him on, but the Angels threw a ridiculous amount of money at him anyhow. I hope he moves back to Texas and loses everything he owns in a hurricane.
  6. It’s worth it to go. Chevy is getting up there (think he’s 82) and he’s slowing down quite a bit. His wife was on stage with him when he did the Q&A when I went two years ago. He did just fall on the stage in Buffalo so he still may have had some lingering issues from that. I didn’t ask a question because the only thing I would've asked him is did you get being so ornery with people from your grandfather? Pretty sure he would’ve flipped me the bird and told me to get out if I brought up the most hated man in the history of the US Navy.
  7. I think it means people who have not gotten the new ID that is Real ID compliant.
  8. Passports count, correct?
  9. Day freaking one during the swearing in the wrecking ball needs to be doing work on destroying that monstrosity. Bulldoze it and drop off the remnants at MAL from an airplane.
  10. The sledding scene is probably the only one that is just off to me. Then again it ends in the Wal-Mart parking lot. I used to work directly next to that Wal-Mart and shopped in it regularly in Frisco,CO. The only way a mountain scene would have made any sense there is for them to be coming off the side of Copper Mountain behind the Wal-Mart. Just one of those suspension of disbelief scenes in a movie full of them.
  11. Bots, Nazis and grandpas just “doin’ their research.”
  12. I watched it at a screening two years ago and for an hour afterwards Chevy Chase answered questions for us about the movie. I go every year to see it at the theater on the day it is shown. My niece and nephew back in Texas use a Christmas Vacation stocking with my name on it above their fireplace.
  13. You crossed the rubicon with that one buddy. Cousin Eddie will be pulling up into your driveway for an extended stay.
  14. This is pretty awesome and why football is a bit different out here. So happy for this young man to be embraced the way he has been by Hawaiians.
  15. They were all just cartoons to me, including the California Raisins!
  16. Read that for class this semester. I loved it. Highly recommend it. Larson wove a fantastic narrative out of the participants actual words and actions.
  17. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James Hornfischer. Not a better book about the US Navy has ever been written in my opinion. The events of that morning on October 25th, 1944 are just legendary and the opening salvo from Commander Ernest Evans started what eventually became one of, if not the most, unlikely wins in naval warfare history for any country.
  18. I did not watch this game, but I recognized maybe half those guys playing for New Orleans when I looked at the score against the Lakers. I did not know Bey was still in the league. Someone has to score on bad teams so might as well be him I guess. Looks like Luka and Reaves went foul hunting with 26 free throws combined.
  19. When everyone is putting up numbers the stats lose their luster. Good for Jalen Johnson, but again when so many guys can put up stats in the hyperfast era of the NBA it is not really a big deal. It's just normal and eventually teams that have to pay these guys for doing the new normal will figure it out and adjust accordingly. Austin Reaves is going to get paid well, but his stat line is inflated if for no other reason than he's quite the free throw merchant.
  20. I celebrate their entire catalog. I want to see them finish just above the Pelicans in the standings.
  21. This is Italy attacking Ethiopia, but without the revenge element for the Battle of Adwa.
  22. And they would not do a single thing with it to benefit the country because they have no spine. I vote for these cowards because the opposite is people in love with fascism. What a country we have.
  23. Seems like he’s doing his favorite post-game loss routine and blaming his receivers for him being well past his expiration date. Never seen the focal point and leader of any team in any sport take less responsibility for losses than Rodgers does.
  24. As a kid I can recall watching it once. I didn’t really connect with it, but clearly it landed well with a whole bunch of people. I don’t dislike it, but it was never on the list to watch each year. I preferred all the cartoon Christmas movies as a kid like Rudolph. Never get tired of hearing Burl Ives.
  25. It has never been a tradition for me to watch the movie like it is for a lot of people. However, knowing what Jimmy Stewart was suffering through mentally, especially during the one take scene where he breaks down and sheds real tears because of his memories of flights over Germany, has this amongst the Christmas movies I will watch if I get some time to do so. He was a wreck at that moment in time emotionally and had aged a good 10-15 years because of those flights.
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