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Watching any streaming event or show in which you are forced to sit through commercial breaks, and they have only one commercial in "rotation".

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I was 14 when I broke my right tibia. It's such a minor break that they had me in a walking cast and I had a normal gait within two weeks. I even hit a home run in gym softball with the cast on! I had a runner, of course ...

What's the confusing part, djhutch?

Best football play you may ever see.

Dorothy would definitely be Marsai Martin. Good actor, right age, right look. I could see Wallace Shawn as the lion. If you want someone younger, Thomas Middleditch would be a good fit. Hold a cattle call for the Scarecrow. I have no strong feelings on this one. For some reason, I like Terry Crews as the tin man. He’s a guy who could convincingly wield a fake ax. Good witch: Constance Wu, all day. Bad witch: how about Kristin Stewart? Or, if you want to play it more age-appropriate and funny, perhaps respected character actress Margo Martindale. Play it dark and weird? Tilda Swinton. I like Samuel L as the wizard.

Fox is second-rate on more than just the actual broadcast. That pre-game with A-Rod, Papi, and Bug Hurt is a complete clown show as well.

Pecuniary Maneuverability Inevitable

Yet another talent we raided from the Dodgers. Nice.

OK, so, maybe "nonchalance" isn't the operative word here after all.

I've been re-reading Colin Woodard's American Nations book, and this tweet reminds me what he wrote about those people whom he termed as Borderlanders: basically the Scottish, Northern Irish, and northern English settlers of Appalachia and their descendants: "While hostile to external restraints on their behavior, the Borderlanders could be uncompromising in enforcing their own internal cultural norms. Dissent or disagreement—whether by neighbors, wives, children, or political opponents—was unacceptable and often crushed savagely." So, see? "Cancellation for thee but not for me" didn't come out of nowhere. It has a long and rich cultural history with these people, who have been very successful exporting this way of thinking throughout a good chunk of the United States, in large part through their colonization of interior First Nations territory. I think it has also caught on with Americans who are not of that national stock because of the rugged individualism associated with them that has been romanticized as the one true American cultural ideal. IOW, people who think it makes them look cool to be rough and tough on others.

It always is.

Or I can post it in an unrelated forum and someone who works in that line of business can share that feedback with his bosses. Either or. 😉😁

Speaking as a customer, I would feel more that’s the case if they started off by asking me questions about my customer experience, rather than would I please drive some more business their way.

Oh yeah, I definitely think that’s a core principle in the Kremlin’s playbook here: employ a firehose strategy so relentless that we eventually throw our hands up and give up. Their goal is to break down our resistance so they can roll the metaphorical (I hope) tanks in without firing a shot and they can commence the overt plundering and retribution.

Remember when I said once that Bush and his administration was basically Revenge of the C+ Students? We’re now down to Revenge of the Ninth Grade Dropouts.

That’s my home county. Um … yay?

Awesome! I’m going to try that. Although by the time Christmas Eve rolls around (that’s my eight-month mark), they’ll probably have opened it up to under-65s, anyway.

Correct: anything that started in the 20th Century is not eligible. Well, at least theoretically: the list includes Curb and Gilmore Girls, both of which started in 2000, which was the last year of the 20th Century.

Sure, if there were any other deaths due to this kind of mishap, we'd know. But what we don't know is how many close calls there have been, how many times people were lucky and got away with it. Those don't make the news. Maybe there have been a lot. Maybe it practically never happens. We don't know, at least yet. We also don't know the level of chalance or nonchalance, due to cultural influences, that are attended to this kind of job, at least in America as compared to how it is handled in other countries. Or, for a more local example, versus how other potentially lethal props, such as explosives or wild animals, are handled. I think it's possible armorers might be perhaps marginally looser with guns than an explosives expert is with explosives, or a wild animal expert is with wild animals, specifically because of guns' ubiquity and our uniquely American cultural attitude towards them as being NBD. I'm not saying I firmly and incontrovertibly believe this to be the case—only that I think it's possible, and something I can't immediately dismiss out-of-hand as impossibly ridiculous simply because I myself certainly wouldn't treat it that way. In any event, it does seem to be increasingly clear that both the assistant director and the armorer on this particular movie treated the use of prop guns on the set with a certain degree of nonchalance.

My grandpa used to say that, too. I believe this aphorism was coined back in the days when literally the only way you could see anything was live, and in front of you.

Using a survey at the end of the call to provide feedback on your experience is something else again. I don't mind doing that. Emails that come a day, or days, later, and start right out with "please recommend us, and tell us why you do" ... no thanks. Do your own marketing.

Do you qualify because of Julie?