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My grandma told me about him many years ago. He used to live nearby and fled town when a teenage patient and intern accused him of sexually abusing her.

This was in the 70's, I believe... so long before he was famous as Dr. Phil, he was infamous around these parts for allegedly being a predator.

They vary in quality. There used to be one here in town that was nasty and had roaches running around... they went out of business, of course.

But I went to one in another city that was very clean and had good food.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Sometimes it's okay to just shut the fuck up.

You've needed to follow your own advice here many a time, including presently.

You're acting like the guy died or something. This is a game show host leaving his job to enjoy his retirement, that's it. And his toxic, bigoted, elitist views are fair game to bring up.

SHRlKE posted...

How come it got closed?

Jan 6. The regulars there were cheering it on, hoping for politicians to get killed, for Trump to be made dictator, etc.

Alien Resurrection

MICHALECOLE posted...

I dont understand the reference >_>

There was only one reference there, the rest was me just being my weird self.

https://youtu.be/lrLO0F-nKYs?t=301

MICHALECOLE posted...

The right shape

jesus Christ

It wasn't up to snuff.

It WAS something to sneeze at.

It didn't have the range.

You might be able to dispose of a vampire with it because he'd sooner think it a stake than a steak!

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https://i.imgur.com/bAz7XQ1.gif

I've had some good chocolate cake before, but cheesecake is pretty much always good. I'm going with the dessert that's more consistent in deliciousness.

Lecter's philosophy is to eat the rude. This would not bode well for Trump.

Cheers
https://youtu.be/zGdpE8Dsr0U?t=3

Rudy Giuliani was suspended Friday from WABC Radio and his daily show canceled over what the station called his repeated violation of a ban on discussing discredited 2020 election claims. Giuliani said the station's ban is overly broad and "a clear violation of free speech."

Lol no. He knew it was off limits. It's no different than when an employer tells you that you aren't to discuss controversial topics like religion or politics with customers, Good luck on trying to make this a "muh freeze peach" issue when his employer specifically forbid him from discussing this in order to be employed there.

LonelyStoner posted...

I cant imagine being a grown man named Dana. I sincerely thought he was a woman for years because I never looked up his photo.

It's definitely not a name you'll find much these days, but it seemed to be more common back in the day. Here's a few guys named Dana that I could think of.

Dana Carvey (Comedian, SNL alum)
Dana Elcar (MacGyver actor)
Dana Ashbrook (Twin Peaks actor)
Dana Andrews (old movie star guy, mentioned in the Rocky Horror intro song)

My thing about this is the same thing I said about that awful video game... we don't need more of the Gollum story. The films covered pretty much everything interesting about him that was mentioned in the books. Aragorn and Gandalf hunting for Gollum is something that's covered very briefly in the story from what I recall, and I don't know how you'd turn that into a worthwhile movie.

I hate eggs with a passion. Something about the taste and texture is just utterly repuslive to me.

Next to? No, but there is one that's a very short walk behind my house. I can get to it in less than five minutes.

Lots of stupid comments there, especially his attacking the superb soundtrack. And if he thinks it was pretending not to be campy, he doesn't understand Tim Burton, especially during that time... the campiness was intentional. It was there in Peewee, in Beetlejuice, in Edward Scissorhands, and in the sequel to this film, where there's an army of missile launching penguins marching through Gotham.

Bubbagump posted...

I think you have to put the film in its proper context. In 1989, when most people thought of Batman, they thought of the 1960s campy Adam West version. This Batman was the first one to bring a darker (comparatively) tone to the series and did it quite successfully. It was also one of the first big summer blockbusters that had huge merchandise tie-ins (games, books, toys, etc), and made a big splash within the culture. Everyone was wearing batman shirts, consuming batman media, the stuff was everywhere! There had never been anything like it except for maybe Star Wars.

Also this... even with the campiness, it was a very dark movie for the time, especially for a comic book. It was the 1980's and entertainment and pop culture were very different from what we know now. Cesar Romero was the only Joker anyone even knew before this and a Joker who killed was not known to the general public... only comic book fans even knew of the darker Joker.

No, its tone is very much like the games, and it doesn't ever have any parts like the Dunwich building in Fallout 3.

Let's not be too quick to judge. Charlene has her own story to tell. If she tried to eat a brain, I'm sure it was in her untoward past, which is all behind her now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImHHKw8LMcM

lilORANG posted...

Is that the one with the weirdo mutants and the nuke?

Yes, and also Charlton Heston is in it, but just for a short while at the beginning and end, while much of the story concerns a Heston lookalike that obviously would've been Heston's role if they'd been able to use him for the whole movie. His requirements were a short role and that his character dies, (so he wouldn't be asked to do more ape movies.)

Smug saying from the kind of person who thinks it's a gotcha if they hear an atheist say the extremely common phrase, "Oh God!",

It has as much wisdom as thinking Brits literally believed in the Roman god Jupiter when they said "By Jove!" back in the day.

Hyena_Of_Ice posted...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/politics/video/marjorie-taylor-greene-antisemitism-bill-vote-zanona-sot-ebof-digvid

I swear, it's like the stupid bill is a cake, and MTG iced it with a great big fart.

There is a bonus layer of stupid in that tweet. Can you spot it?

Crucifixion was a Roman practice, not a Jewish one. It was seen as barbaric by Jews.

Also this woman was a speaker at a white nationalist rally:

https://georgiarecorder.com/2022/03/01/marjorie-taylor-greene-spoke-at-an-event-led-by-a-white-nationalist-and-has-no-regrets/

Glad I didn't click. This is definitely a "pics, or it didn't happen" situation.

archizzy posted...

I'd say being properly diagnosed by a qualified professional.

This. I avoid eye contact and found out this is a common trait of people on the spectrum, which led to me taking the autism spectrum quotient, where I got a high score, and that in turn led me to seek out a professional who then diagnosed me.

But even things like the quotient can only point to red flags, they can't tell you you're on the spectrum. Like, lots of people with ASD have social anxiety but that doesn't mean everyone with social anxiety has ASD.

Doe posted...

Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it. They need it so badly and they dont get it, Seinfeld said. It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, Oh, Cheers is on. Oh, MASH is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on. You just expected, Therell be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well, guess whatwhere is it? This is the result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.

That idiot is parroting the arguments of people who wouldn't even allow those shows to be made if someone tried to make them in this day and age, especially MASH and All in the Family.

AITF had a bigoted character but he was almost always the butt of the joke and the show had a progressive message. MASH? These people would be shrieking that Klinger is a groomer and the show is trying to turn kids gay/trans.

I've been having indigestion lately and have been able to handle potato soup (without bacon, of course).

ROBANN_88 posted...

What if you go from darkness to brightly lit room?

Yes, it can happen then too, and I've even been able to make myself sneeze in a dark room by lifting my head up and pointing my nose towards my desk lamp, which isn't even that bright.

Homeless_Waifu posted...

I even sneeze when direct sunlight hits me like Im just walking to school, glimmering light is poking through trees and then when the sunlight hits me directly I just sneeze almost everytime it happens.

This is called the photic sneeze reflex. I have this too and especially if I go from a dimly lit room to bright outdoors, I can have a sneezing fit.

0K_Then posted...

never forget the time he basically date-raped somebody & the victim basically confessing to it the next morning to his friend somewhere nearby on the same property during a livestream he was unaware was still being broadcasted(?) before both of them call the police to report andy

He also has a history of this kind of thing, sexually harassing and assaulting lots of people over many years, exposing himself in public, etc. Some years back, he was finally forced to register as a sex offender.

Scintillant posted...

oh so they just want a record of all queer people love that

I was at the clinic today and they handed me a tablet asking me a lot of medical questions, most of which was info they already had about me anyway, but one thing that was new was they asked about my sexual orientation and this was REQUIRED info, couldn't skip it. Straight, bi, gay, other, undecided, decline to answer (why not just let you skip the question instead of making you mark that?)

I noticed another question where they were asking people to let them know if they're trans, genderfluid, etc, .

I can see how this information could be useful and I'm sure the clinic itself is asking in good faith, but my problem is with people acting in bad faith (like most of the politicians in this state) potentially having or obtaining access to that information, so I just marked down straight.

https://i.imgur.com/4yHKv2L.gif

Jimmy Soul's "If You Wanna Be Happy."

The message is to marry an ugly woman instead of a pretty one because the ugly woman will be more servile and cook you meals "on time" without complaining.

This message has been brought to you by the same people who created the avocado toast talking point.

Torgo posted...

Who is Charlie?

Are they sarcastically suggesting it only won because there is some "woke" AKA it includes someone fascists hate - so the T-Rex must be trans?

I still don't get what atheists specifically are supposed to like about that image. Please explain to me like I'm 80 years old and dumb.

The atheist part is just an old meme/joke, which itself is making fun of actual dumb shit that fundies say about atheists, like atheists secretly believe in God and just hate him, or all atheists are devil worshipers, stuff like that. You could think of it as a variant of the "checkmate, atheists" joke, which started with fundies declaring victory over things like the Kirk Cameron/Ray Comfort banana video.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6e701846.jpg

Poppycock

The dad also fired an employee because she wouldn't assist his murderer son.

Ashley Reynolds, a former employee of Travis Renner at Relentless Media Agency, told the Arizona Republic last month that Renners father and CEO, Adam Kifer, allegedly discussed moving his son to the cabin and shifting the blame on another boy involved in the deadly assault.

The former executive assistant at Relentless claimed the two men asked her to help with the crisis and regularly provided updates to her about the case.

Reynolds, who is a mother herself, said she never got the opportunity to decide for herself to get involved, and after two months of not being unwilling to help them with their scheme, she was fired, according to the outlet.

The source is the New York Post article on this story. Gamefaqs won't let me post the long-ass link and so much the better if I'm not having to share a link to a Murdoch site.

SMH... "Back up off my man, bitch!" is not the energy the song's supposed to have.

LeoRavus posted...

Remember when Jenny Jones used to bring out trans and biological women and have the audience yell out which ones they thought were men

Maury did this also in the days when there was more variety in his topics. I believe there were drag queens in the mix as well.

People at my school were always going after the vending machine for not coughing up the goods. but yeah, we just rocked it, not this unnecessary kicking shit.

I assume the awkwardness over sexual matters was over with long ago. I doubt one would've been able to masturbate without the other knowing or maybe even feeling it.

That woman in the audience that claims women are going into hospitals and having abortions and it's being covered up by being marked down as a miscarriage, she's one of those ones who wants to arrest/execute women who have miscarriages.

Watch some youtube vids on the alphabet. This will do a lot to help your pronunciation early on.

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish is very good. It is a serialized telenovela-type story... I think it has English in the first couple of episodes and then switches over completely to Spanish and you figure out what they're saying by context. There are 52 episodes that are 27 minutes long.

https://www.learner.org/series/destinos-an-introduction-to-spanish/

I made a separate youtube channel for my Spanish learning where every single video is in Spanish. This makes things more convenient for me as things were a lot more confusing when I just had all my Spanish content mixed with the English on my main youtube page.

Dreaming Spanish is also a pretty cool source, it's all in Spanish and they use things like puppets and drawings in the beginner videos so that you understand what they're saying. Their site has their vids organized by category so you can set it up to show you only the Superbeginner ones. It has tons of free videos and you can pay to unlock extra videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmDRTqKjpT4

People who say this kind of shit in American politics usually mean democrats need to coddle the already entitled repugs. They're quite supportive of said repugs having this mentality:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7ae1fd1d.jpg

Their "reaching across the aisle" only goes on way, and they usually mean give the repugs 200% of what they want, even if they don't aren't in power.

Lana Del Rey - Once Upon A Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8waJ7W3QcJc

I'm sure the usual suspects, who are always claiming Biden is senile, will soon be here to insist there's nothing wrong with what Cheeto said and it's proof of him playing 4D chess.

The part of Texas I'm in is that. There's less of it here in the city, but I still see plenty of Trumpy bumper stickers and there's this idiot that rides around with a "FUCK JOE BIDEN" flag waving from his truck.

But the further you get from the city here, the more Trumpy signs and decorations you see on the gates of farms and ranches.