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RomaVicta

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  1. They try so hard to overplay their hand, and they still win. Stunning.
  2. @henrygandorf good point. But the movies aren't helping.
  3. Those are an interesting trio to compare and contrast. I haven't seen Open Your Eyes, but I will now.
  4. It took me a moment to see that Uncle Sam was not...er...aroused. Wardrobel malfunction. I feel dirty now.
  5. Books provide starting points not boundaries for movie making. This is a great discussion. Perhaps I needed some of the exposition because I don't recall feeling oppressed by it in the movies being discussed. I'm usually pretty sensitive to it. It often can be traced back to the studio execs, I believe, who haven't a clue about storytelling and fear the audience are all dunces. Oppenheimer was a horrific bore that I thought would never end. I recall almost nothing about it other than thinking they marketed this rather brilliantly as something we're supposed to like. Of all the movies mentioned, to me it's the only failure. It's bloated. Nobody gets through an entire career directing without misfires. Kubrick almost did, but Eyes Wide Shut is, to me, a disaster. Nolan tackles interesting ideas. I think that's why we are talking about him. He gets to make movies of a scale that usually only present absolute vacuity. His Dark Night is the star of all the tiresome superhero movies. Ledger is unforgettable and part of it is the writing and direction of that role. I'm almost grateful to Nolan for providing big Hollywood pictures that are both entertaining and possessed of depth should anyone choose to explore it. Those are the best kinds of movies to me. Movies are better if they're about more than they're about.
  6. Optimism sprouts up everywhere as the season nears. Most fans: I think we might be better than I thought. I think we'll have a good team. Aggies: The culture is changed. Practices are going awesome. We're going to win it all!
  7. Procedure in case of flooding: Be broken by debris as you drown in desperate fear.
  8. They haven't been provided their rationalization or lie to hang their hats on. The parrots are confused. Some slimeball will come up with something and then we get:
  9. Don't we all. Seems there's not, though.
  10. A person rich and largely untouchable grows accustomed to getting what they want. They have the freedom to choose their moral code. For women, you can easily attract the Melanias of the world. Maybe she once loved Trump because she was swept away by the lifestyle. Maybe it was all business from the beginning. It doesn't much matter because there is another younger woman that will step up to replace you. So, you think, women beginning their 20s are fantastic. So fresh and taut. I bet somebody in their teens would be sublime. Then, if you're used to the world going your way, you can easily brush aside stupid laws and phony morals. Everybody wants it, only some of us can get it. Look at history. Look at the Ozarks. 15 year old brides. You cross the line. You get to own a beautiful girl for a few days. She's having a great time. I bet she'll like the rough stuff. She's getting paid. I'll just add a little to the fee. Fuck it! I'm a royal prince. No harm. No foul. See, that piece of meat was crazy anyway.
  11. I guess the dynamic Mike Elko has made A&M the "it" school that all the recruits are just dying to go to. I'm sure Tamarion can't wait to show his friends in Rock Hill SC some of the cool moves that drew him to A&M. I can't believe their super not weird traditions! I love it!
  12. Right now we are focused on prosecuting the horrible brown killers and mother rapers and father rapers who have flooded this country due to Joe Biden. We haven't got time for this. It's in the past. But, Secretary- Thank you. We've got work to do. [Exit stage left. In huff.]
  13. If those are not on the resume, you won't get the job in the Trump administration. There's an odd irony in that his mendacity was not hidden. There is no deception. There's no, "if they only knew he was a sexual predator and constant liar..." They did.
  14. There will be lies from the liars about this. Everytime I see a clip from mutually congratulatory officials at a press conference I imagine Gunnery Sergeant Hartman walking in from a side door and looking at the camera and adapting this exortation to the situation. Why not, indeed.
  15. The sign is versatile. Everywhere a sign.
  16. Welcome, friend. What makes this old dude so smart? Mistakes were made. I stream, so I don't watch much live TV "news" shows. I'm guessing that they will all be drawn to the detail of if the NWS was manned or not. Goodbye, big picture. See: where gun was purchased as the top priority in a mass shooting. Through Apollo, NASA was 90% engineers. By the 80s it was 3% engineers. I'm sure now it is a giant bureaucracy filled with grad school grads who don't know how to do anything. My loathing of what the proliferation of grad students is doing to language and our world grows daily. When was the last time you met a PhD and walked away thinking, that guy is really smart. And the sign said anybody caught trespassing would be shot on sight...
  17. A friend sent me the link with the message, "watch all the way to the end." Thirty minutes. I watched the first few and got impatient. I skipped to about the 15 minute mark and assumed the camera was now at a new location. Then I recognized something and thought, "holy shit." I watched it all the way through from the start. Thirty minutes and it rose from stream to flooding over the center of the bridge. Not to be maudlin, but I just kept thinking of those poor sleeping little girls. Hard fucking world.
  18. Nor does the smallest sense of decency, but here we are.
  19. Yes. I still perk up when I here the sirens being tested. You would know something is wrong and immediately take steps to find out. @Hagbard Celine has added much to this thread about flood planes and historic memory. Just looking where the Mystic cabins were is sickening. The land tells you that floods happen here. Nobody should be sleeping on the banks of the river. Sure, have activities there in the daytime, but everybody to high ground at night. I'm usually not terribly affected by tragedy like this. Kids getting shot to death in class has made me sort of emotionally callous although I still care. I can't stop imagining all those little girls loving camp and happy suddenly awakening to a torrent that sweeps them away for a horrible final few moments of life. We really do need to ship our government officials to N. Korea so Kim can get some target practice with his anti aircraft guns. But, we know how it goes in Trump's America.
  20. The proof is in the results. I look forward to the TV press diving into the issue of staffing at the NWS as the only avenue of accountability for government. The big picture isn't really their thing. Stupid and lazy and, now, scared.
  21. Twenty sets of white parents would find themselves scorned as RINOS just looking to make money off a tragedy and sacreligiously refusing to accept God's will. No. Yes. You watch the officials flee from that PC above claiming they can't answer relevant questions because they are so heroically dedicated to finding everybody as soon as possible. Utterly despicable. These reprobates probably keep expecting to find a decency guardrail, but they never hit it. Only a defeated minority of Americans care.
  22. Yea. I didn't know about those, but I was wondering about what real time info authorities get on rising water. Relying on flash flood watches or warnings that go out whenever there's a storm is kind of like relying on the boy who cries wolf. Flash floods for most of us are impassable roads not unstoppable torrents hundreds of feet wide killing everything in its path. If an event like this could have been predicted at all, why not air raid sirens?
  23. They believe that they are in war to save America for God and White People that we started. If you lose battles or have a few shitty generals, you don't abandon your side no matter how void of any rightness it may be. It's why they're winning.
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