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Re: Podcasts
"Cinephobe". Reviews of movies that score under 40% in either reviews or audience rating at Rotten Tomatoes. "Rocky IV", "Blue Chips", "Assassins", "Harlem Nights", "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard", "Street Kings" and over 200 ot...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:27 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9273
- Views: 477891
Re: Random Politics
Someone on here is actually praising Biden for something? Holy shit. While I'm feeling charitable, Mayor Pete did a good thing today too! I think a potential side effect of the "delay" portion of this new policy (airlines have to compensate travelers for 3+ hour delays) is that airlines w...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: WNBA Draft
- Replies: 61
- Views: 1255
Re: WNBA Draft
For many MANY years, the entire marketing approach of the Bullets was to advertise when Magic and Kareem or Bird or MJ or Dominque or whoever the marquee stars were coming to DC. Clippers were the same. Sunday LA Times sports section in the mid-90's would have ads for a six- or eight-game ticket pa...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
- Replies: 319
- Views: 10109
Re: NFL 2024 Offseason
I don’t disagree that the Broncos are going to suck. But, a zero rating? Gonna be a long year. Starting quarterback Jarrett Stidham is leading one of the more depressing rosters in the league. They have about four guys under age 28 who are clearly better than average players. Surtain, Javonte Willi...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
- Replies: 319
- Views: 10109
Re: NFL 2024 Offseason
I don’t disagree that the Broncos are going to suck. But, a zero rating? Gonna be a long year. Starting quarterback Jarrett Stidham is leading one of the more depressing rosters in the league. They have about four guys under age 28 who are clearly better than average players. Surtain, Javonte Willi...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swampers at the Ballpark
- Replies: 262
- Views: 12097
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Godless III - Completing The Trinity
- Replies: 2283
- Views: 221384
Re: Godless III - Completing The Trinity
He said "the theory of adaptation is obviously true", adaptation being the cornerstone of evolution by NS. Then the motherfucker follows up with "but Darwin's theories...totally untrue....that's why it's still a theory 200 years later." Where do you even go from there? You shame...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swampers at the Ballpark
- Replies: 262
- Views: 12097
Re: Swampers at the Ballpark
Gonna go back through this thread later with the hope that dsafe’s sole contributions are to thirst after Mrs Met’s ass and a potshot at the Buccos. Once again, I disappoint. But, I got onto the Mrs. Met stuff from the LeBatard show, as AB mentioned. So, when it appeared here, my brain went to &quo...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swampers at the Ballpark
- Replies: 262
- Views: 12097
Re: Swampers at the Ballpark
It's a Pirates game. Finding them should take 47 seconds.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Electric Vehicles
- Replies: 136
- Views: 2928
Re: Electric Vehicles
The reported repair time is 35 seconds... to attach the cover of the accelerator to the pedal so that it no longer slides out of place and gets caught in a seam of the car, locking the car in the fully accelerating position.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Athletic Thread
- Replies: 320
- Views: 11819
Re: The Athletic Thread
Things must be going great, as they have sent me the "five 30-day passes" email six times in the last 7 1/2 weeks, including four times since April 1.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Getting the spins
- Replies: 3316
- Views: 205134
Re: Getting the spins
Our oldest said she was advising people to not stay up last night to listen to it after purchasing at midnight. Got five songs in before leaving and expected to get two or three more in on the bus before arriving at school.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
- Replies: 319
- Views: 10109
Re: NFL 2024 Offseason
In Rodgers’ defense, doesn’t every top of the top athlete have a massive ego? It seems like it’s necessary to have to get to the highest level. Even dudes like Gretzky probably thought all his teammates were trash at times; he just had the self-awareness to keep it to himself. I will gave it a go t...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:34 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Twitter:The New Batch
- Replies: 1068
- Views: 30390
Re: Twitter:The New Batch
I would just like to agree with every point that DSafe made. Any writer who has made a living as a writer has worked on many shows that they would never watch. But it's a living. I can pretty much guarantee that the person who wrote that Mike Piazza scene has at least one university degree. If I ha...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Twitter:The New Batch
- Replies: 1068
- Views: 30390
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:55 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Twitter:The New Batch
- Replies: 1068
- Views: 30390
Re: Twitter:The New Batch
I'm getting there, NLFC. Sure, I get that. It wasn't hard to decipher. The international angle is an interesting part of it. But what I'm talking about is a room full of highly-paid (maybe?) writers who have a job writing for an extremely popular show. And they have to write shit like that. And whil...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Singularity
- Replies: 262
- Views: 19112
Re: The Singularity
Dualipaty?
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023-2024 NHL Season
- Replies: 657
- Views: 15454
Re: 2023-2024 NHL Season
Hopefully that was communicated to Philly so they don’t bother pulling the GK at 1-1. It wasn't. Shaaaaaady.... The flyers being eliminated then taking the Penguins and Patrick Kane with them is perfection, right down to Kane's sad and meaningless shootout winner. Wouldn’t change a thing. Kane also...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Twitter:The New Batch
- Replies: 1068
- Views: 30390
Re: Twitter:The New Batch
I'm very curious about the writers' room on shows like that. How does that work? Are they hacks? Are they embittered old writers who've given up and and are just doing whatever pays the bills? There is a much broader level of storytelling used in shows like "Baywatch", which was reliant o...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:40 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: college football offseason
- Replies: 22
- Views: 733
Re: college football offseason
I like how the teams that get promoted and relegated will pay multiples of travel expenses over the course of a season than the established, big money school.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Singularity
- Replies: 262
- Views: 19112
Re: The Singularity
Was that the dualarity?
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023-2024 NHL Season
- Replies: 657
- Views: 15454
Re: 2023-2024 NHL Season
It's also a little weird bc the Caps have the tiebreaker on Detwah. I guess the fact that DET is playing a team wo any real motivation while WAS is away to a team with a puncher's chance moves the needle. I can definitely see Montreal being motivated after giving up a 4-1 lead to the Wings last nig...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023-2024 NHL Season
- Replies: 657
- Views: 15454
Re: 2023-2024 NHL Season
Three teams battling for one spot in Game 82. Fun stuff. ETA: I guess technically Philly isn’t eliminated yet so four teams. Wow. https://twitter.com/domluszczyszyn/status/1780094724465930286 As I told a Pens fan friend last night after seeing this, "This seems factually inaccurate, as I have ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023-2024 NHL Season
- Replies: 657
- Views: 15454
Re: 2023-2024 NHL Season
Lucas Fucking Raymond.
Ties it with a little over a minute to go in regulation after the Wings rally from 4-1, tacks on the gamer with under 25 seconds left in OT.
Ties it with a little over a minute to go in regulation after the Wings rally from 4-1, tacks on the gamer with under 25 seconds left in OT.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023-2024 NHL Season
- Replies: 657
- Views: 15454
Re: 2023-2024 NHL Season
STILL.DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 1:14 pmIt feels like every game in which they are not shut out involves one team making a comeback of three goals, minimum.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
- Replies: 6254
- Views: 352615
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:58 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Boston Marathon 2024
- Replies: 5
- Views: 147
Re: Boston Marathon 2024
My friend's wife, who is running it on her birthday.
Pete better show up with quality cake and champagne after she finishes.
Pete better show up with quality cake and champagne after she finishes.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Gunpowder's Gold Star Trivia
- Replies: 2147
- Views: 84446
Re: Gunpowder's Gold Star Trivia
Mark Madsen.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:02 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 24322
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Great question. And I agree that increasing the size of the court - and possibly the lane - would help. It's kind of wild to think about the size of players today compared to when the court size was decided. Obviously, there are logistical issues with increasing the size of courts at some older gym...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 24322
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Great question. And I agree that increasing the size of the court - and possibly the lane - would help. It's kind of wild to think about the size of players today compared to when the court size was decided. Obviously, there are logistical issues with increasing the size of courts at some older gym...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023-2024 NHL Season
- Replies: 657
- Views: 15454
Re: 2023-2024 NHL Season
The response to the Scottsdale "development" boiled down to "there is no water".
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random personalized license plate thread
- Replies: 360
- Views: 6875
Re: Random personalized license plate thread
ESPORTS - Virginia, silver Hyundai SUV
Re: The Juice
So, the funny thing is the person who brought Norm McDonald to that basketball game I played in years ago in LA... Kato Kaelin. I am 100% serious. One of our regulars brought a guy a couple times, who turned around and brought Kato at some point. He became a regular and eventually started bringing N...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
- Replies: 2617
- Views: 137906
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Nice, Giff.
Our oldest was stoked when she found out her teachers recommended her for the honors level classes for all the core courses her freshman year, including the English and Social Studies classes that cross over, including more debate and group projects.
Our oldest was stoked when she found out her teachers recommended her for the honors level classes for all the core courses her freshman year, including the English and Social Studies classes that cross over, including more debate and group projects.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:46 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 24322
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
I enjoy watching Edey play - total throwback. Hope he lands somewhere in the NBA where he can settle in at 20 minutes a game off the bench and have a long long career. Why didn’t Painter go to the portal to sign a big to play 15 minutes a game? They ran Edey like a freakin mule this year. I get tha...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random personalized license plate thread
- Replies: 360
- Views: 6875
Re: Random personalized license plate thread
1960's-70's veterinarian letting you know he has the good drugs.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:29 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Commercials
- Replies: 933
- Views: 60161
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:23 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
- Replies: 628
- Views: 24322
Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24
It seems like Calipari's fit at Kentucky has always been at least a little bit off. Once he said that the goal was to prepare his players for their NBA futures, it seemed like there was no coming back and smoothing over any bumps.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Umbras and Penumbras - The Sun is Going Away
- Replies: 159
- Views: 3321
Re: Umbras and Penumbras - The Sun is Going Away
Our house is now allegedly outside of the area of totality (original projections had us getting around one minute, 15 seconds). 67% sky cover projected at that time, anyway.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Road trip in California
- Replies: 5
- Views: 122
Re: Road trip in California
I think you would have to go with AirBnB/VRBO, as most hotels cannot guarantee connecting or adjoining rooms, which it sounds like you would want for this group. If you can, reach out to the "managers" of the houses you find prior to officially booking and mention the special circumstances...