BigAppleTiger

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Some states are different.

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Doesn't this bring you back to your original question? Rutgers must have you in a real quandry.

Unironically... He Waz Kang.

It's about a TV show but really about food so hence posting on this board. I recently watched all 3 series with Eva Longoria. It's a follow up to Stanley Tucci's series Searching for Italy. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot, particularly about Mexican and Northern Spanish cuisine. I've travelled mostly throughout France and enjoyed that series. I've travelled a lot throughout Southern Spain but never made it to Madrid or the Northern regions. Spanish cuisine has evolved a lot since the advent of Ferran Adria and El Bulli and interesting to see the effect on Spanish and consequently world cuisine. Eva Longoria is very likeable and still very beautiful IMO. It did make me want to travel more in Mexico. The food from Mexico looks interesting and a little more blunted but definitely different from my limited experience. The evolution of ingredients from Mexico via Spanish and French occupation surprised me a bit. Interesting stuff.

Honestly, I always thought he was serviceable until Thanos in Infinity War. Even through motion capture he did an incredible job creating one of the best onscreen villians in comic history, and I'm including the Ledger's Joker in that as well. Since then my appreciation for his talent has grown.

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Galatoire's is good bit better imo. But, if you have $150 bux off and havent been, may as well go to Brennans. The trick to these places is, you kinda need to spend a lot of money to really enjoy it. The standard, reasonably priced food is fine, but you have to splurge to get the better experience.

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Listen to this man princess. :lol:

Caraxes has really become my favorite dragon throughout both shows. He's got an attitude and style all his own.

Here is the one nitpick I have really become aware of in the last few episodes. The cognitive dissonance between Rhaenyra's character portrayal from teen to adult. Gone is the smoother, quieter, badass that killed a wild boar and interrupted a meeting on her dragon to an overacting, over annunciating queen that shrieked and looked physically unsure and shaky while wielding a sword to cut of Otto's head. i like the actress who portrays Rhaenyra but she has been overacting along with Mysaria in this past season. I would like her to be a little more cool and resolute in the face of adversity like she was as a teen and in the previous seasons. We all change but this is noticeable and a diversion from the established character. Director's fault IMO. A piano doesn't write the tune.

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For real? What happened that Covington is so bad?

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It's not about being bad. It's about going to school with black people. In Covington public schools your child will be around all income levels which include black people. Your child will attend school with kids from all walks of life...rich and poor. The education is there for people who desire it and demand it. It will also teach your child to be in the world with hicks, blacks, and preps and not to be shocked or isolated in the real world. I went to Covington High with current Doctors, CEO's, garbagemen, and farmers, and they're all good people.

Yep. I will however add Riverwood to your list (although it's CCC adjacent) and honorable mention to Magnolia Gardens off Military Road.

And I will give credit to the developers of the The Sanctuary. They left a lot of natural foliage and kept the lots decent sized to emulate the feel of TCE at least.

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Terra Bella is least cookie cutter of all of those.

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My cousin lives there. It's the template the cookie cutter is made from. Terra Bella is the Stepford Wife of the Northshore developments. If it bathed itself in bleach it couldn't be any more sterile. If Disney and Southern Living had a test tube baby it would be Terra Bella. There are some nice homes but the premium you pay is for self deception on a tiny lot. Old Metairie house on a Kenner lot.

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I've been hurt by women, yes. And I'll admit, for myself, I've given up ever finding a woman.

I'm 5'8" and slightly overweight (which I am working on). Those two factors alone make me invisible to women. If I approached a woman at the bar, I know I would be risking losing my career and livelihood. Never mind that would be a bar I could never go back to.

If I really wanted to I know I'd have to probably go to Eastern Europe or Asia. But, like many men now, is that even worth it?

I'm 42, but having to be in the current dating game, I've really come to understand what the 18 - 34 male group has to deal with and it can be depressing even for the most confidant man.

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Holy shite. What a fricking pussy. Of course you're going to the manosphere. The last refuge of hopelessness and self pity. You don't need height or a great body to get women. You need confidence and a sense of humor. Women smell desperation and self loathing a mile away. Ironically , you need to man up buttercup. Look in the mirror and stop blaming women for your inert masculinity and change your approach..

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Out of Africa is stuffy and boring,

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Out of Africa is anything but stuffy and boring. It has themes of personal freedom, the cost of relationships, war, the success and failure of colonization, the value and limitations of indigenous tribes, and two great characters at its core who were very real and triumphant.

Karen Blixen- Isak Dineson the author. A woman very much ahead of her time and unafraid of being herself and forging a life in a world very foreign to her.

Denys Finch Hatton= A man's man. An American original who lived life on his own terms and forged a path through a mysterious and modernizing world.

Both these people placed a premium on the individual and the cost of giving up that premium for love and relationship.

Sidney Pollack directed an achingly beautiful testament to the people and times of this particular age that was appearing and disappearing around them at the same time.

Beautiful film.