OT: 118th Obsequious Banter Thread: February is the month of food days

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

February is approaching. Pick your favorite food based on its individual day in February.

This 118th thread began on 1/18.

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[Embiid]

Hi

Btw: Yasso frozen yogurt bars are the shit ....especially coffee chocolate chip!

 

[JojoTheWhale]

@Beef Invictus Dune 40th Anniversary - Fathom Events

I am so going to end up at this alone, but that's ok!

 

[Kermit the Prog]

Hi

Btw: Yasso frozen yogurt bars are the shit ....especially coffee chocolate chip!

Can confirm

 

[Beef Invictus]

@Beef Invictus Dune 40th Anniversary - Fathom Events

I am so going to end up at this alone, but that's ok!

Nothing hammers home the weirdness of that film like making a neophyte watch it, and then observing their reactions

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Going back to bef's ramblings in the previous thread, Lawrence of Arabia is a crowning triumph of cinema and should be mandatory viewing for all humans. I really want to see it on a big screen one day.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

Going back to bef's ramblings in the previous thread, Lawrence of Arabia is a crowning triumph of cinema and should be mandatory viewing for all humans. I really want to see it on a big screen one day.

The vast stretches of time traversing the desert tried my patience, but it's worth it for Anthony Quinn's performance alone.

 

[Chinatown88]

@Beef Invictus Dune 40th Anniversary - Fathom Events

I am so going to end up at this alone, but that's ok!

You're not alone on the sticky bun train.

 

[wankstifier]

Nothing hammers home the weirdness of that film like making a neophyte watch it, and then observing their reactions

I saw that movie pretty young and remember it as a masterpiece. Another one with mixed reactions that I loved after seeing it around the same age was The Abyss. Both overdue for a rewatch.

 

[Embiid]

The Battle of Algiers is a great movie

Makes you understand how futile it is to combat a resistance to occupation or counterinsurgency with a military "solution" only.....

 

[Beef Invictus]

Going back to bef's ramblings in the previous thread, Lawrence of Arabia is a crowning triumph of cinema and should be mandatory viewing for all humans. I really want to see it on a big screen one day.

TCM often does things deliberately, and I'm pretty sure Lawrence following by Close Encounters was deliberate. Spielberg has stated Lawrence of Arabia is what made him want to be a director, so that set up a nice "This caused that."

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[Embiid]

 

[Kermit the Prog]

I used to play bass in Falling Iguanas. We were big in Japan.

 

[DancingPanther]

Anyone see this Sports Illustrated stuff? Pour one out lol

The publisher terminated its licensing agreement with SI's parent company and now is going to lay off "most if not all" of SI's employees.

o7

 

[trostol]

Someone needs to tell all these people still coming out and shopping to go away

 

[Danko]

Anyone see this Sports Illustrated stuff? Pour one out lol

The publisher terminated its licensing agreement with SI's parent company and now is going to lay off "most of not all" of SI's employees.

o7

Sucks for the employees. I don't think i've read an SI since i was in 4th grade.

 

[Embiid]

Read? I just looked at the pics from the swimsuit edition...

 

[DancingPanther]

Sucks for the employees. I don't think i've read an SI since i was in 4th grade.

Yeah I mean, without sounding cold hearted....what even is a magazine? I'm surprised they've lasted this long tbh

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Yeah I mean, without sounding cold hearted....what even is a magazine? I'm surprised they've lasted this long tbh

Their website was a few good writers and some absolute disasters. But the point is that it was so far above everything else for long form pieces that it should have been impossible to fail this quickly.

Rick Reilly is possibly my least favorite person to ever write about sports, so this is far from a personal preferences thing. The lament is over what was lost years ago. It’s not the magazine. It’s the ritual gutting of the premier sports writing institution for no reason beyond a VC firm making a few more bucks.

 

[DancingPanther]

Their website was a few good writers and some absolute disasters. But the point is that it was so far above everything else for long form pieces that it should have been impossible to fail this quickly.

Rick Reilly is possibly my least favorite person to ever write about sports, so this is far from a personal preferences thing. The lament is over what was lost years ago. It’s not the magazine. It’s the ritual gutting of the premier sports writing institution for no reason beyond a VC firm making a few more bucks.

That's true, it is crazy that it nosedived so hard so fast. Not just in quality but in prestige. They're nowhere near what they were in that regard. Haven't been for 15 years it seems like

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

I always wanted that "NFL Rocks" video that you could get with an SI scrip back in the 80's. And the football phone lol

 

[Kermit the Prog]

I always wanted that "NFL Rocks" video that you could get with an SI scrip back in the 80's. And the football phone lol

I had the football phone. It was a piece of shit.

 

[Embiid]

I had the football phone. It was a piece of shit.

Did you spike it?

 

[Embiid]

Precisely why I am not a thrill seeker