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JimmyWa11

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pretzel__logic said:
- Oppenheimer was excellent, and glad I went to see it at the theater rather than waiting for it at home. The visual/audio effects Nolan uses throughout to illustrate Oppenheimer's state of mind are both immersive and overwhelming. While it'll still be great at home, it was unreal in the theater. I usually get antsy with movies with extended run times, but it's so compelling I didn't even notice. The casting was also tremendous. I didn't recognize Gary Oldman or Josh Hartnett 'til I browsed through the credits. The cast all look remarkably like their real-life counterparts. Cillian Murphy's stare is particularly effective for this role.

I knew Oppenheimer was a complicated guy, but I had no clue about any of the security clearance issues following the Manhattan Project--or the machinations behind the hearing to strip his clearance. McCarthyism was so stupendously insane, but in context...it's not hard to see how it took hold. What a chaotic, paranoid time in history. I've read The Man in the High Castle, so it's not a novel question; but I wonder what life would look like had the Nazis beat us to the bomb. Or if the Soviets' Tsar Bomba wasn't just a shock-and-awe demonstration, and they had actually used it.

- Because I have ADHD and I hyperfocus on topics, since Sunday night, I've already devoured American History Tellers: The Bastard Brigade and I'm halfway through The Cold War: Prelude to the Present. Other Cold War-ish podcast recs welcomed for when I finish this one.

- Best story from the Bastard Brigade: the Nazis were worried about a scientist who later won the Nobel Prize (Walther Bothe) who was vocally unhappy with the Reich defecting to the Allies instead of joining their uranium program. They sent a Nazi spy to honeytrap him on his vacation to America. She succeeded, but a little too well. When she convinced him that these Nazis weren't that bad and he came back to work in the program, he couldn't concentrate worth a damn. He was supposed to determine if graphite could be an effective moderator for fission (it is). He was so lost in the sauce he didn't run his tests correctly, and the Nazis had to pivot to using heavy water...which gave the Americans time to catch up. In conclusion: fascist ***** saved Europe.

- Speaking of Nazis, when I was in 7th grade, my Social Studies teacher was explaining Nazi racial policies and what "Aryan" meant. I grew up in an area with a pretty diverse population. My classroom was not majority white. Rather than just describing Hitler's fetish ideal, like, you know, a normal person, she pointed at me, the only tall, blonde, green-eyed child in the room, and said, "She'd be an Aryan." The kid who sat in front of me was named Ivan Rodriguez. He turned around and gave me the most disgusted, withering stare a 7th grader has ever given. I could have passed away from terminal shame in that instant. Teacher just breezed on with whatever she was talking about like that wasn't an incredibly strange thing to say. (She also showed us the news broadcasts about Timothy McVeigh's execution, which...is also weird.) Probably the most embarrassing moment of my middle school career, tbh.

- July 1 until this past Saturday was a stressful, miserable whirlwind of prepping my house for listing. It went on the market Thursday night and we accepted an offer from the first showing we had on Friday. Still have to pass inspection, so not out of the woods yet, but holy ****, what an incredible relief. Especially since I had to do a lot of the staging alone with my other half working out of town. Ron, good luck.

- Speaking of moving, the basement in my new house is about to be the home gym of my dreams and I CANNOT WAIT. I've wanted a set up at home for years, but never thought it would be feasible...but now it is, and I feel like a kid on Christmas picking out the pieces I've always wanted. Why we do this, atkot. /meathead
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F that teacher and all the commies trying to guilt trip us for being white.
 
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Ron Mehico said:
Bottom middle is the version we all want, the one we all deserve

Just booked Labor Day in Montauk. Some place in New York, have no clue where the hell she finds these places but they all seem to be pretty cool so whatever
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One time I caught a 16-footer off Montauk. Had to stick 2 barrels in him. 2 to wear him down and bring him up. Nowadays, these kids, they take out everything. Radar, sonar, electric toothbrushes.
 
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HymanKaplan_rivals48997

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The Cardinals play the Reds 6 times and the Brewers 7 in September. If they F*** this up for the Reds I'm not sure I'll be able to get over it.
Between the hiring of Marmot, and Bob Mozeliak, my fandom is already hanging by a thread anyway.
 
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Snell and Hader, talk about an injecting that bullpen and shortening the game for your starters too! I’m not sure you could ask for anything better for this roster.
 
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HymanKaplan_rivals48997

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AIChatGPT said:
Milwaukee is a fun town
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I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this was sarcasm.

As a Packer fan since I was 9 years old, and rooting them on from afar, I can honestly say; I wish I'd never actually gone up there for a game.

To put it bluntly; it F***ed the mystique.


My first trip up there, I went to a local pub, where a radio station was having a live event. A "night before the game" radio show.

As part of the show, they had a trivia contest for call ins and patrons of the pub.

I won the thing in a landslide. I say this not to brag on my Packer trivia knowledge (which is pretty good, but not rainman level), but to point out how absurd it is; that I could roll up from KY, walk into a bar in Green Bay, and wipe the floor with homegrowns at Packer trivia. I've been there three times, and this is going to sound snobby, but people from Wisconsin just don't seem to be very, well, intelligent...
 
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roguemocha

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wcc31 said:
Those girls are a dime a dozen at EKU - good and bad reasons, right @Booker Noe and @Wildcat Willy ?
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-One of my biggest regrets as a kid was as a sophomore/junior in HS, my older buds took me to Richmond to a COLLEGE party. Was a big deal to a young rogue.

Sophomore gal at this party wanted to hook up and I said no because of my stupid HS girlfriend(who wasn’t there)… 🤦‍♂️.

-Two of my baseball buds and I always send each other those ridic stats and Gwynn, Nolan and Maddux are usually the craziest.

-Never been to Green Bay, I am on the season ticket waiting list though, but was always nervous to go because my friends that have been, say the stadium is awesome but outside of that it’s a big nothing.
 
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HymanKaplan said:
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this was sarcasm.

As a Packer fan since I was 9 years old, and rooting them on from afar, I can honestly say; I wish I'd never actually gone up there for a game.

To put it bluntly; it F***ed the mystique.


My first trip up there, I went to a local pub, where a radio station was having a live event. A "night before the game" radio show.

As part of the show, they had a trivia contest for call ins and patrons of the pub.

I won the thing in a landslide. I say this not to brag on my Packer trivia knowledge (which is pretty good, but not rainman level), but to point out how absurd it is; that I could roll up from KY, walk into a bar in Green Bay, and wipe the floor with homegrowns at Packer trivia. I've been there three times, and this is going to sound snobby, but people from Wisconsin just don't seem to be very, well, intelligent...
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And then everyone clapped
 
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WayneDougan_rivals170043

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  • Worked on a project where I was in Green Bay weekly for almost two years. This was in Brett Favre's last year and Aaron Rogers's first. Grown men were wearing Jets jerseys in protest. They loved Favre. Executives I worked with at my client would talk about him like he was a god. They would almost get emotional about it. Wish I were there when Favre played for the Vikings.
  • I went to Richmond to party once as a freshman at UK. Hit the Dog (kind of sucked) up and then went to a frat party (not sure how welcome we were there). Walked back to my car and some dude had been stabbed to death about 30 feet away. The detective told me he didn't care if I were drunk or high, just get my car and get the hell out of there. That was enough of Richmond for my college career. But man, had I known there were all those mugshawties running around I would have been there weekly.
  • Naomi Osaka was a victim of the media telling athletes they need to brag about having mental health issues. It was never a virtue.
 
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I know Mags has been harping on it on the radio but Sturgill’s cover of All the Gold in California is so good. And I don’t even like Sturgill.
 
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-Sitting at court waiting all day might be the worst punishment I can think of for someone that didn’t commit a crime or do anything wrong.

Surrounding by sad, angry people and degenerates (for the most part), standing room only, playing the waiting game. Shoot me now.

If I didn’t 100% know my father’s other son would be a terrible guardian I for sure would let him do all this.

May have to come back in September and if I can’t zoom I may just say figure it out.

You lawyers have to have the patience of Job, just be why you get paid.

-Is Mags finally back? I haven’t listened since he left and basically forgot about it. May just wait til mid August.
 
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rudd1 said:
-tazwells was our spot. Never ended up in the Madison Radisson...not sure how.
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Somehow, I avoided it as well. After the bars closed one Thursday night, I was shitfaced & making the long walk up the hill back to campus and stumbled into somebody's crappy landscaping. You know those little knee high white arched wire fences that are made of the same ****** metal as coat hangers? I was all tangled up in one.

Flashing blue and red lights immediately. Cop helps me up & makes me stand next to his car. A drunk couple started arguing really loudly across the street.

"Wait here." OK.

I ran like a drunk Carl Lewis and hid near the amphitheater. Woke up under some bushes. Good times.

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But yeah, EKU girls were a species you had to be really careful with. Especially the ones from the mountains. I've told wcc stories. I won't repeat them on a public forum in this day and age, but I'm very lucky to be alive.

The excitement of not knowing if she was going to kiss me or kill me wore off after a couple of hospital visits.
 
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Wrong

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Wildcat Willy said:
Somehow, I avoided it as well. After the bars closed one Thursday night, I was shitfaced & making the long walk up the hill back to campus and stumbled into somebody's crappy landscaping. You know those little knee high white arched wire fences that are made of the same ****** metal as coat hangers? I was all tangled up in one.

Flashing blue and red lights immediately. Cop helps me up & makes me stand next to his car. A drunk couple started arguing really loudly across the street.

"Wait here." OK.

I ran like a drunk Carl Lewis and hid near the amphitheater. Woke up under some bushes. Good times.

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But yeah, EKU girls were a species you had to be really careful with. Especially the ones from the mountains. I've told wcc stories. I won't repeat them on a public forum in this day and age, but I'm very lucky to be alive.

The excitement of not knowing if she was going to kiss me or kill me wore off after a couple of hospital visits.
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Tazwells was the fraternity/sorority spot and my main hangout. But the Dog opened back up during my junior year. T-Bombs was the spot in the summer with their huge patio. Salad days ATKOT.
 
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MaxPowerrr

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I walked into a bar in Mt. Adams one night and a guy handed me a styrofoam plate with some beef and skittles on it.

Beef was a little chewy but the Skittles were fine.
 
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