Mr. Misanthrope
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Cloud 8 |
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| Number of Posts: | 6052 |
| Registered on: | 11/4/2012 |
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re: Who do you consider the best vocalist of any genre?
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/29/25 at 12:14 pm
Patsy Cline
Linda Ronstadt
Etta James
Dean Martin
Bobby Darin
Frank Sinatra
Harry Nielsen
Nat King Cole
Johnny Mathis
Sam Cooke
Jackie Wilson
All are great plus another hundred are missing from list. It’s all personal favorites in any event.
Male vocalist-Sam Cooke.
Female-Linda Ronstadt.
Linda Ronstadt
Etta James
Dean Martin
Bobby Darin
Frank Sinatra
Harry Nielsen
Nat King Cole
Johnny Mathis
Sam Cooke
Jackie Wilson
All are great plus another hundred are missing from list. It’s all personal favorites in any event.
Male vocalist-Sam Cooke.
Female-Linda Ronstadt.
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re: Citizen Kane - worth it or no?
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/29/25 at 11:56 am
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Understand it was a hit piece on Hearst. He went after Wells and really hurt his career.
Sort of like what Frank tried to do to Puzo.
Very much like. Solid take.
I like Kane for its importance to cinema, demonstrating Well’s genius, and it’s a good story well told. That said, I prefer The Third Man to it and Casablanca to them both.
re: Public space cleaning - whats grosser, tables or hotel bedroom bedding?
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/29/25 at 11:45 am
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Public space cleaning - whats grosser, tables or hotel bedroom bedding?
Or airline passenger seating?
re: WWYD - Female Passenger Strips and Defecates on Her Seat on Southwest Flight to Chicago
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/29/25 at 11:43 am
“When you gotta go, you gotta go.”
re: Carney and Liberals win in Canada
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/29/25 at 7:41 am
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fricking retarded sheep.
Trump said mean things, let's reelect the party that has completely fricked everything up for the last 10 years.
re: Inspection sticker elimination bill just failed at the Capitol
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/29/25 at 1:46 am
The most common reason for failing emissions testing is, quoting the DMV:
Fails DTC-A diagnostic trouble code (DTC) is a code used to diagnose malfunctions in a vehicle. DTCs are read by a scanner that plugs directly into the OBD II port of a vehicle. There are universal DTCs and manufacturer-specific DTCs. Vehicles that fail due to Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTC) do so because a situation has occurred which COULD lead to an increased level of emissions released from the vehicle. In most cases, the vehicle’s Malfunction Indicator Light (MIL) is illuminated on the dash panel. The problem may not be noticeable or affect the vehicle’s performance, but over time the situation could worsen and lead to increased inconvenience and expensive repairs. If your vehicle failed because of a DTC, the vehicle should be repaired before returning to a motor vehicle inspection station for a retest.
So you fail because a DTC reveals a problem that MAY cause increased emissions, not HAS or WILL cause them, but MAY result in increased emissions.
Can that even be defensible if challenged on its vagueness? It’s bull crap!
Fails DTC-A diagnostic trouble code (DTC) is a code used to diagnose malfunctions in a vehicle. DTCs are read by a scanner that plugs directly into the OBD II port of a vehicle. There are universal DTCs and manufacturer-specific DTCs. Vehicles that fail due to Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTC) do so because a situation has occurred which COULD lead to an increased level of emissions released from the vehicle. In most cases, the vehicle’s Malfunction Indicator Light (MIL) is illuminated on the dash panel. The problem may not be noticeable or affect the vehicle’s performance, but over time the situation could worsen and lead to increased inconvenience and expensive repairs. If your vehicle failed because of a DTC, the vehicle should be repaired before returning to a motor vehicle inspection station for a retest.
So you fail because a DTC reveals a problem that MAY cause increased emissions, not HAS or WILL cause them, but MAY result in increased emissions.
Can that even be defensible if challenged on its vagueness? It’s bull crap!
re: The Battle of the Mutara Nebula - Best Sci-Fi battle ever?
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/26/25 at 7:57 pm
I too have loved this movie from the time I first saw it.
The best Star Trek ever-up to the renaissance of the Franchise with Chris Pine where the first massively imbalanced firefight with Nemo ranks up there, if not equal to the Mutara Nebula fight, a very close second.
“Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother's. And yours. I dare you to do better.”
I would suggest it is that genre and does rank highly among them. Very reminiscent and suggestive of The Bedford Incident and The Enemy Below. Three dimensional chess with life and death consequences.
The best Star Trek ever-up to the renaissance of the Franchise with Chris Pine where the first massively imbalanced firefight with Nemo ranks up there, if not equal to the Mutara Nebula fight, a very close second.
“Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother's. And yours. I dare you to do better.”
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The strategy, both leaders getting the upper hand at different moments, would rank among peak Naval warfare movies if it were in that genre.
I would suggest it is that genre and does rank highly among them. Very reminiscent and suggestive of The Bedford Incident and The Enemy Below. Three dimensional chess with life and death consequences.
re: Vader’s Model Desk: Junkers Ju 87 Stuka
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/26/25 at 7:19 pm
Very nice. Beautiful representation of the Stuka tank buster variant. Ironically similar to the Warthog concept (vice versa really) don’t you think?
re: You can't even take the ole lady out for a nice meal any more
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/26/25 at 7:03 pm
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“I looked at my husband like what was that,” Andrews explained, adding she’s “scarred” for life. “When I turned around, I saw the snake in my margarita.”
Andrews said the snake — a baby of indeterminate species — started curling itself around her drink’s straw.:Lol:
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But there's booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on
re: Jackie Gleason
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/25/25 at 7:28 pm
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Love seeing his big arse move around the pool table in the Hustler
He had an understated but intimidating presence in the film.
re: J. Peterson is being driven crazy by the Christian phrase “Christ is King”.
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/24/25 at 5:09 pm
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Remember Westboro Baptist Church. protesting funerals of fallen soldiers,
An amusing aside. These folks showed up in Brandon/Flowood, MS when we lived there to protest the funeral of a fallen Brandon Marine. When they got up early to move out, all of their vehicles were blocked in at their hotel by large locked pickup trucks.
The police were called and they got right on it, working hard to locate the trucks’ owners to get keys and to get the trucks moved.
Many hours later, after the Marine Sergeant was interred with honors, the situation at the hotel was finally resolved. The owners of the trucks were warned by police and the Westboro folks were free to leave.
re: Most cardinals at the Vatican are gay, says Catholic academic
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/24/25 at 4:30 pm
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No more a burden than a straight man being loyal to one wife, or someone prone to drink not being an alcoholic.
Sin is sin. Temptation is temptation. We all fall short and need forgiveness.
But those who justify, deny or excuse sin are in outright, non-repentant rebellion.
Charitable. Sound. True, And doesn’t make one sin more heinous than another nor deny personal accountability and the ubiquitousness of sin among us all.
And yet you get downvoted,
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If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
re: Cool Video Describing Ancient Christian Liturgy
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/24/25 at 4:03 pm
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Anyone who thinks the Holy Eucharist is merely a symbol is directly going against Jesus’ words.
That’s an interesting point.
Between the gospel accounts of the Last Supper, chapter six in John’s gospel and St. Paul’s take on it you’d think even the Bible only folks would reach the conclusion the Eucharist isn’t merely symbolic or metaphorical.
Much the same can be said of the Sacrament of Baptism.
And I count myself among those who place Holy Scripture as authoritative on these matters.
re: South Mississippi groups sound alarm on potential Bonnet Carre Spillway opening
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/24/25 at 3:36 pm
quote:Apparently almost always appropriate, appreciated, and, applicable anytime anyway.
Alliteration almost always annoys.
re: If you believe in God AND Aliens…
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/24/25 at 3:26 pm
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Honestly, the only connotation I've got is butt probing.
Aliens are the Universe’s proctologists?
re: If you believe in God AND Aliens…
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/24/25 at 3:20 pm
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Not always.
:Lol:
re: If you believe in God AND Aliens…
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/24/25 at 11:18 am
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God made man and gave us freewill. He knew we would fall so the question is moot.
There’s a lot of philosophy and theology packed in that assertion.
That an omniscient God “knew” man would “fall” doesn’t necessarily mean man was predetermined to “fall”. Free will at the time of the Fall, before the yet sinless perfect man actually fell, must have meant he could choose between obedience to God and rebellion against God.
To borrow a favorite film quote…
Reading the scriptural narrative reveals a lot about our current fallen human nature.
God-“How do you know you’re naked?” “Did you eat the fruit I told you not to eat?”
Adam-“The woman you made for me, she offered it to me and I ate it.”
No personal responsibility or accountability.
Blame God and the woman.
Jimmy Buffett got it;
“Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
But I know,
it's my own damn fault.”
Adam disagrees, God and Eve are to blame. Not me. It runs deep in our spiritual DNA. Only the blood of Jesus Christ offers the cure.
re: If you believe in God AND Aliens…
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/24/25 at 10:39 am
quote:Indeed.
There are angels in the Bible, too.
I was only referring to the “fallen” ones.
As I think about it, don’t most Human/Alien contacts have negative consequences for the humans?
re: Child out of wedlock costs Catholic principal his job
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/24/25 at 9:30 am
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yall sure do hate the Church founded by Peter.
God founded his Church. A long time ago. See Ephesians 3.
But, to your point, no, I don’t hate the Roman Catholic expression of God’s Church.
re: If you believe in God AND Aliens…
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 4/24/25 at 9:15 am
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What if our concept of aliens is nothing more than angels/fallen angels?
That they are demonic is the most plausible theory consistent with a Biblical narrative/worldview isn’t it?
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