molsusports

re: Liberal Backfire? - ‘Rampant Masturbation’ Takes Over Nudity Legal Seattle Park NSFW

Posted by molsusports on 4/29/25 at 11:18 pm

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Ok, but what makes a beach “queer friendly”?

Location most likely

You can pack your shite and get there lickety split.

re: Nicolas Cage The 25-Film Massive Collection for $25

Posted by molsusports on 4/29/25 at 11:25 am

Sort of like doing a best of Bruce Willis using his material from the last 15 years

re: WWYD - Female Passenger Strips and Defecates on Her Seat on Southwest Flight to Chicago

Posted by molsusports on 4/29/25 at 10:04 am

Southwest has officially entered the running for 2025 Waffle House of the Sky

re: Tom Cruise Top 5 Movies

Posted by molsusports on 4/26/25 at 2:50 pm

Top Gun
Rain Man
Edge of Tomorrow
Minority Report
Tropic Thunder

Honorable Mention:
Collateral

re: The social security tax cap is going to be lifted before 2033.

Posted by molsusports on 4/19/25 at 11:09 pm

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So what’s your solution?

1 Eliminate disability funding
2 Allow DOGE (or an equivalent auditor) to root through the organization and eliminate more fraud and waste
3. If those aren't enough only then adjust upwards the age at which benefits can be collected to match the SS revenues collected

There's just not room in the budget for additional deficit spending. Annual payments on interest exceed military spending. 37 Trillion is a civilization destroying number.

If you don't restrict spending now there will be a lowered QOL and standard of living for 99% of the population

Money Talk

re: The social security tax cap is going to be lifted before 2033.

Posted by molsusports on 4/19/25 at 1:55 pm

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The social security tax cap is going to be lifted before 2033

Seems like I need to retire within 8 years. That's a major tax hike.

FWIW they would get massively closer to making social security solvent if they stopped raiding it to fund disability. Funding disability was never an intended use of social security. It wasn't in legislation, that was just a judge's ruling that hasn't been overturned

Money Talk

re: David Stone 5 star DL in the portal.

Posted by molsusports on 4/18/25 at 9:30 pm

Am I correct in assuming he wants a bigger NIL payment? Or were there other issues?

LSU Recruiting

re: Mike Leach Allegedly Wanted to Use Dwarfs in the Backfield...

Posted by molsusports on 4/18/25 at 10:34 am

Better yet what if the dwarf sat on the Pirate's shoulder like a parrot squawking "put me in coach!" until there was a 4th and short?

More Sports

re: Paul Verhoeven thought Starship Troopers was "too subtle for the American consciousness"

Posted by molsusports on 4/18/25 at 10:26 am

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There were Nazis in Starship Troopers?

Where’s the disdain for liberal democracy?
The racism?
Antisemitism?
The community based on racial purity?

You can conclude there's something there if you want to carry forward the analogy that some racial groups are viewed as subhuman cockroaches by Nazis. But the movie's bugs are far from slaughtered innocents.

There's a curiously unself aware part of European psychology when it comes to Americans. Granted we have racism and fall short of an egalitarian utopia. But we're a better integrated society with countless racial and cultural groups in our melting pot.

PV seemingly felt a sense of superiority over his less integrated (European) culture. And he ended up projecting the Nazi or Fascist history from his own continent onto the United States.

re: Reminder, Tom Cruise is the most likeable movie star in the world, has been for 20 years

Posted by molsusports on 4/18/25 at 10:03 am

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The unspoken premise here is that Tom Cruise is not a super friendly, wholesome guy. He just tries so hard to be. The character of Vincent is much closer to what Tom Cruise really is than any other character he's ever played.

FWIW Christian Bale used Cruise's over the top extrovert interview style as an inspiration for his serial killer character in American Psycho.

I feel roughly the same about Cruise as I did about Michael Jackson. You can't deny the quality of material that he produced. But I wouldn't trust him with my children.

So far as I know there's no sexual abuse but the Scientology methods of rearing children are unacceptably abusive between the forced labor, separation from non Scientology family members, and the grilling of their members for secrets to the used as blackmail if needed. There's a decent book written by Miscavich's niece that details what it's like to be a child when you join the Scientology church.

re: First 3 months of 2025 lowest box office since 1996

Posted by molsusports on 4/17/25 at 4:06 pm

Pricing of tickets is always a partial explanation. I do the amc A list thing or I probably wouldn't go.

Right now there are a handful of movies I may see: the amateur and the ugly stepsister. Maybe John and Yoko if the reviews are good.

Streaming is also crushing theaters when the window between release and streaming is so tight

ETA: this coming weekend is as promising as anything in a while:
The Shrouds
Accountant 2
Cheech and Chong
Until Dawn

Granted there have been a fair number of movies released recently I wonder about getting greenlighted. Is there a major cry for the Wedding Party or On Swift Horses movies? Just based on the number of targeted viewers I am skeptical

re: Formula One legend Fernando Alonso poses with winner of the Aramco helmet design contest

Posted by molsusports on 4/17/25 at 10:59 am

It is a peculiar culture that confuses women's fashion with larping as a Jawa.

re: Films about Animals ?

Posted by molsusports on 4/16/25 at 8:38 pm

Jaws
Babe
101 Dalmatians
Lady and the Tramp
Hidalgo

re: 'Thunderbolts' Final Trailer | Marvel Studios

Posted by molsusports on 4/16/25 at 8:22 pm

The previews are well done but the movie is populated by marginal characters that I don't have much interest in

re: Mikey Madison turns down offer to star in Star Wars movie

Posted by molsusports on 4/16/25 at 8:14 pm

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the new and untitled “Star Wars” movie

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which will star Ryan Gosling

Barbie 2

re: Game show host wink Martindale dead at 91

Posted by molsusports on 4/16/25 at 1:34 pm

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Wasn't Martindale's show the one where the guy memorized the sequence? Tic Tac Dough?

No. That was Peter Tomarken and Press Your Luck. Michael Larson was the guy who cracked the code.

There is a movie about him out now. The luckiest man in America.

Kind of a fun nostalgia watch. After the credits they show the real guy interviewed by the host (Peter Tomarken).

re: OT Advice- Where to Live During Retirement?

Posted by molsusports on 4/14/25 at 7:58 pm

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I'm about 4 years out and have been doing a ton of reserach on it. There's a reason other than weather why so many northerners retire to the southern states.

Have you looked into Puerto Rico?

ETA. The tax advantages are something you mentioned for other locations

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re: Sirs and madams of M/TV Board, the illustrious Chicken of TD has given a possible...

Posted by molsusports on 4/14/25 at 7:11 pm

I think a good rule is no administrator should be the type who engages in extended personal back and forth exchanges with other posters.

And, like politicians, the best people will have less interest in running and be unlikely to serve