Social WR Lounge v270 Hesitation Kills

[essie]

I only saw that movie once, but I did not like it or WD's character at all, haha.

The parts I remember are Defoe dressing up as a female prostitute (and sexing a guy?) and that ludicrous shootout scene where three professional killers unload hundreds of bullets at each other at close range yet can't hit anyone, and where Defoe does that comic reenactment.



Marlow's muscle?!

Was not a fan. Wasn't he just a unfailingly loyal servant to a guy he seemed to know was a psychopath?

His childhood trauma stemming from being molested was very powerful to me and I thought it was a really good portrait of that kind of pain.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

I only saw that movie once, but I did not like it or WD's character at all, haha.

The parts I remember are Defoe dressing up as a female prostitute (and sexing a guy?) and that ludicrous shootout scene where three professional killers unload hundreds of bullets at each other at close range yet can't hit anyone, and where Defoe does that comic reenactment.



Marlow's muscle?!

Was not a fan. Wasn't he just a unfailingly loyal servant to a guy he seemed to know was a psychopath?

I loved that movie in HS/ college but I'll admit it's not actually a good movie

 

[tonni]

What is this like the 150th the Wire talk?

 

[essie]

Pretty sure they are on sherdog's YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/officialsherdog/videos

Not sure how far back they go

There are a few. I am looking for these in particular https://www.sherdog.com/radio/Rewind-Look-Back-Clyde-Gentry-UFC-15-3477 Thank you for the link though.

 

[danny23]

How would you rank The Wire’s seasons?
For me it’s
3
5
4
1
2

 

[CubicleGangster]

He was like a colder more calculating version of Webay.

Slim Charles is still one of the better non-talked about characters from the show:


"This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money!"


Bubbles had a support system of Keema and his own sister, that's how he got out. Dookie has Prez and that's about it and even Prez hasn't written him off he can't focus on him the way Dookie likely needs.

We all wanted Prez to save Dookie but it just didn't pan out that way

 

[Jack V Savage]

I'm not sure that your description of the vote is necessarily reflective of the participants in political discourse. That is, I don't think disaffected moderates that went to Bernie were all that engaged in the primary process. The group that was engaged was disproportionately left and disproportionately young.

I feel like there's a bit of whack-a-mole going here.

I don't want to get too deeply into this because I would have to reacquaint myself with the reports. But my recollection is that even Warren's own staffers sided with Sanders' version of the events, that no one confirmed Warren's version, and that Sanders' version was the only one that was remotely consistent with his past actions (namely, urging Warren to run in the previous cycle). Yet Warren confirmed on the stage (iirc) her claim that Sanders flat out said "a woman can't win."

I kind of expected to drift toward your position (that it wasn't a big deal) over time. But, more than a year later, it still strikes me as a particularly toxic and unseemly thing: to purposefully leak a report like that, which has no bearing on policy but rather is specifically aimed at an opponent's character, in a pivotal point in a race and to then more or less refuse to engage the topic and instead feign indignation.

Not sure that Warren leaked it. She confirmed it after someone else leaked it, looks like. I also wouldn't read it as an attack on his character, and as an aside, treating it like one is pretty damaging, IMO. It's like something SDW does with race. "How DARE you insinuate that I might have racial bias--that's the worst thing you can possibly say about someone and you'd better have damned good proof! Also, everyone to my left is a racist, and no I can't prove it or even explain why I think so." I don't remember Warren's staff siding with Bernie's version of events, but as I said, it doesn't seem like there's much of a difference between the versions anyway, and what there is could easily be explained by different people remembering it differently. Also don't know why you think that any indignation she felt was feigned. If you assume bad faith from the start, of course you're going to conclude it.

 

[Gregolian]

There's a lot of mystery surrounding Chris that makes him interesting. A lot of stuff in the show points to him possibly being ex military. I wouldn't consider him a psychopath either given how he reacted to the news that Michael was being abused (which seemed to hint at his own past issues with abuse).

That scene...

*Chris finishes beating Michael's dad to death
"DAMN, you couldn't wait till we got him in the vacant?" -Snoop

 

[essie]

How would you rank The Wire’s seasons?
For me it’s
3
5
4
1
2

4
2
3
1
5

 

[tonni]

My weekend starts tomorrow at 13:00 and it goes on until tuesday. I wil ltry to have some fun !

 

[Gregolian]

We all wanted Prez to save Dookie but it just didn't pan out that way

God it was rough.

And I don't want to hear people bitch about how certain seasons don't belong and shit.



The fifth season is the weakest but I get why it's included.

 

[Trotsky]

FTR, I'm still Team Walter, because I don't count Season 5 as happening.

As far as great drama characters go, Keri Russell's character in The Americans is hugely underrated. Very complicated and well-portrayed.

 

[essie]

That scene...

*Chris finishes beating Michael's dad to death
"DAMN, you couldn't wait till we got him in the vacant?" -Snoop

That's probably my favorite scene in the show it's so brutal and cathartic and vulnerable from a character who is so closed off.

 

[tonni]

I don't know much about numbers or money or comptuers. all I know is that I saw dog coin on sale on an app and I bought 1200. My only dream in life is to get rich beyond comprehension by doing nothing and b accident and then I'll pretend it was my plan all along.

 

[CubicleGangster]

There are a few. I am looking for these in particular https://www.sherdog.com/radio/Rewind-Look-Back-Clyde-Gentry-UFC-15-3477 Thank you for the link though.

Some more here if you follow this link: https://www.sherdog.com/tag/mma-at-20
Sherdog did a shit job of archiving their actual content

How would you rank The Wire’s seasons?
For me it’s
3
5
4
1
2

Hard for me to choose but I would probably go with: 3, 4, 2, 1, 5

 

[tonni]

Jacques Beurre would absolutely squash everyone on that list including the people that voted for them.

 

[CubicleGangster]

God it was rough.

And I don't want to hear people bitch about how certain seasons don't belong and shit.



The fifth season is the weakest but I get why it's included.

I enjoy them all but would admit the 5th season is my least favorite as I just didn't care too much about the newspaper/journalists

 

[Gregolian]

That's probably my favorite scene in the show it's so brutal and cathartic and vulnerable from a character who is so closed off.

That is one of Chris's best scenes for his time in it. One of his other best ones is actually in that final montage where him and Webay are inside standing against the fence together.

 

[sickness2.0]

Never seen the wire before.
As for breaking bad goes, that show is for basement dwellers who still live with thier parents collecting unemployment checks each week. Shit show.

 

[Gregolian]

I enjoy them all but would admit the 5th season is my least favorite as I just didn't care too much about the newspaper/journalists

The 5th season also was the one season without a large chunk of the writing staff as they went to other projects so it suffers from quality that way.

The fake serial killer thing would never have happened if the main writers from the prior 4 seasons were around. At least, it wouldn't have been such a huge central plot point.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

@Lowmanproblems @HockeyBjj

good enough