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Great movie but I did notice one sizable error. The French man killed while getting a shave wasn't portrayed as the diplomat that history says he was. I give that a pass considering they brought forth the statement Washington signed under duress. The end felt abrupt and that things were built up to but not given the time they deserved.

My wife said it wasn't bad and she hates history...so I'll take the W there. For some reason she was laughing at the battle scenes.

He's doing a signing in Chicago at the end of the month. I'm hopeful that he'll make it there but this video does not instill confidence that he will.

Amazon Basin Daggers seem to be available everywhere. I'm struggling to decide between picking up a box of them or the Le Bijou 1922 Años.

It's been way too hot to enjoy a cigar lately. I am looking forward to the pool where we spend a week every summer. Nothing beats sitting in the shallow end with cognac and a well paired cigar.

I turned to my wife and told her I thought Lyric was going to be the ho of the season. That was before I knew she was quasi famous. Chicago chick might be the better prediction.

I wish they would stop relying on reality show veterans. It's bad enough that they recruit. Angela was annoying af a few seasons ago. I'm sure some people checked out the second they saw Rachel... and aren't even aware she was just a head fake to the Survivor chick who is the real 3rd "surprise" person.

I haven't regularly watched seasons since All Stars. Their DEI season was a disaster that they still haven't recovered from. They also didn't do themselves any favors when they stopped with BBAD. I would leave that on as background noise but it would keep me interested. I have P+ so I'll give it a shot this year. Aside from the token queer (and Angela), nobody is overly obnoxious.

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Learning decades later that they rode it in until they hit the ocean, no bueno.

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Thankfully they weren't conscious when the cabin crashed into the Atlantic.

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The Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts were likely unconscious or dead before their crew compartment struck the Atlantic Ocean. While the cabin remained largely intact during the 2.5-minute fall, investigators concluded that depressurization and a lack of oxygen would have caused them to lose consciousness.

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So…were you like the lawyer girl in Landman downing drinks and cheering the second half of the flight?

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Should never have sold them the content

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WWE licensed the content to Netflix.

Frankly the best way to watch wrestling now is with a VPN connection through Canada. All PPVs are on Netflix. Raw, Smackdown (live on Friday afternoons when in Europe), and NXT air with very few commercials. The library is on YouTube (along with Evolve).

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Culturally, the North is far more racist than the South

Certainly, historically, the offenses were more blatant in the South, but its changed; the North has not

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We had this discussion my first semester at State. One of my friends from the delta put it like this. In the South people may be racist but they don't hide it. In the north they'll smile to your face and then be racist af behind it.

Before my family met my now wife my grandmother actually asked my mom if she was black (her maiden name could be either way). It's not something I would've thought twice about but with my eyes opened it was a ridiculous thing to ask. I'm the oldest grandchild but 10 years later the second youngest married a black guy. And yep... smiled to his face and his mother but then went off on the whole thing after the reception.

A moment I'm not proud of but when I was 5 or 6 we went to a large city grocery store and I saw my first black person "in the wild" (whites/asians were 98% of the population there). Amazed I loudly stated to my parents 'look there's a n*gger!' Something that a lifetime of experience makes you ashamed of but there's still pockets of people all over the north who would think nothing of it on a daily basis.

I need to start watching the local news again. (I use a GPS Spoofer to stream Chicago's locals.) For those that don't know, this is roughly an hour NNW of the Chicago suburbs. Most of that "doubling" of population comes from Illinois. It's full of upper middle-upper class vacationers who don't want to drive up to Door County and think the Dells is trashy.

The waves up there are no joke. I grew up driving charter fishing boats out onto Lake Michigan during the summer. When we didn't have paid charters I'd drive the boat wide open until we got close to our fishing spot. The captain was an ex-nuclear sub captain and I got my arse kicked for treating it like a speed boat going into 10' waves a time or two. Never did it again. Unlike my dumb arse, these people did nearly everything right yet tragedy still found them. I do wonder why they couldn't get to safe harbor/refugee or at a minimum have the kids ready to abandon ship when it got rough. It sounds like they put them down under the bow and they got trapped there. They had life jackets on and their chances would've been better up top. You can take comfort that having such a horrible combination of factors aligned means that they are now with God.

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When was the last time we played this bad in wc?

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2022???