OT: 90th Obsequious Banter Thread: Freedom

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Anyone watching The Lost Symbol? Holy curveball batman

Spoiler

Zachary is Mal’akh

 

[Runner77]

Anyone watching The Lost Symbol? Holy curveball batman

Spoiler

Zachary is Mal’akh

I read that there will be 10 episodes and we’re now at ep. 6. I was going to wait til all the episodes are in and then binge watch it.

How do you like it so far?

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I read that there will be 10 episodes and we’re now at ep. 6. I was going to wait til all the episodes are in and then binge watch it.

How do you like it so far?

So far so good

 

[Beef Invictus]

Harlan County, USA is a fun watch if you wanna get mad about how little has changed since 1976

 

[Hurricane28]

Reading Michael Lewis new book about the pandemic and god damn there is some eye opening stuff in there about how woefully unprepared we were even if we were ranked 1st as the country most suited to handle a pandemic.

 

[Lord Defect]

Reading Michael Lewis new book about the pandemic and god damn there is some eye opening stuff in there about how woefully unprepared we were even if we were ranked 1st as the country most suited to handle a pandemic.

I’d figure Japan would be the country best suited to handle a pandemic, what with SARS hitting them not too long ago and whatnot.

 

[Runner77]

Reading Michael Lewis new book about the pandemic and god damn there is some eye opening stuff in there about how woefully unprepared we were even if we were ranked 1st as the country most suited to handle a pandemic.

Canada was also unprepared — they stupidly shut down, downsized and/or sold to foreign interests, their pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity and research facilities when a shortsighted govt in power from years back acted as if there would be no new viruses in the future and thus there would be no need for facilities.

On this front, the end result was the same as for the US — no matter how many contracts Canada signed to secure vaccines when they would be made available, they soon found out that the countries that were developing and manufacturing vaccines, were only interested in distributing them to their citizens and didn’t care about violating agreements and commitments to do so.

Biggest takeaway was clear — you do not delegate the research and manufacturing capacity of critical medicine outside your borders. And you never downsize, privatize or close any labs and manufacturing facilities just because a new virus may not be on the immediate horizon.

 

[TB87]

Dune (Pt. 1) was awesome.


I’m thrilled that they split the movie into 2 parts. 1 movie would’ve been a mess…like the movie from the 80’s was.


This was a cool scene:

 

[Jack Straw]

A couple of visitors at my back door. I wonder if I should let them in?

 

[BernieParent]

You needling me Bern?

You? No. The thread? Absolutely.

 

[DancingPanther]

Dune (Pt. 1) was awesome.


I’m thrilled that they split the movie into 2 parts. 1 movie would’ve been a mess…like the movie from the 80’s was.


This was a cool scene:
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Sandy that's not the worm.
Pardon?

 

[DancingPanther]

Reading Michael Lewis new book about the pandemic and god damn there is some eye opening stuff in there about how woefully unprepared we were even if we were ranked 1st as the country most suited to handle a pandemic.

We were more prepared. Then, it was decided to lower the preparation

 

[DancingPanther]

Anyone watching The Lost Symbol? Holy curveball batman

Spoiler

Zachary is Mal’akh

Believe it or not I actually read this book

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Believe it or not I actually read this book

May God have mercy on your soul.

 

[DancingPanther]

May God have mercy on your soul.

So I finally read something and still get berated. You wonder why I don't read

 

[Jack Straw]

I hear gunshots!

Oh wait, I live in Maine. Nevermind.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Believe it or not I actually read this book

my wife reads his books too, just hasn’t read that one.

 

[Rebels57]

Watching the original Willy Wonka with Gene Wilder again just drives home my belief that the Depp/Burton remake is one of the worst f***ing movies ever.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Just read a story about a guy in Florida ( imagine that) who shot and killed a neighbor because his cat wandered into his yard. He has been charged with 2nd degree murder

 

[Asnito]

Watching the original Willy Wonka with Gene Wilder again just drives home my belief that the Depp/Burton remake is one of the worst f***ing movies ever.

Can't say I disagree

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

So I finally read something and still get berated. You wonder why I don't read

You didn't get berated, you got pitied. And for what it's worth, it's Dan F***ing Brown, who is the actual worst. It's not a condemnation of you to react negatively to you reading it - it's a way of saying, quote, "Dan Brown is the f***ing WORST."

 

[Rebels57]

Just read a story about a guy in Florida ( imagine that) who shot and killed a neighbor because his cat wandered into his yard. He has been charged with 2nd degree murder

Once again, Florida should be nuked off the map.

 

[Asnito]

Just read a story about a guy in Florida ( imagine that) who shot and killed a neighbor because his cat wandered into his yard. He has been charged with 2nd degree murder

There has got to be more to the story or was it just a guy with testosterone oozing out of every pore and was just looking for trouble.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Watching the original Willy Wonka with Gene Wilder again just drives home my belief that the Depp/Burton remake is one of the worst f***ing movies ever.

The original is the best horror movie ever made outside of "The Blair Witch Project." I can't watch the f***ing thing to this day.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Just read a story about a guy in Florida ( imagine that) who shot and killed a neighbor because his cat wandered into his yard. He has been charged with 2nd degree murder

At least he didn't shoot the cat, that's the important thing. I was watching "Line of Duty" the other day and a criminal killed a character's dog. That kind of shit is unbearable.