LouisianaLonghorn

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You already know it is going to be something something white supremacy, something something immigration/ICE allegory. Leftists in Hollywood are pretty one-note these days How many times will she have to deal with cartoonish, 1920's style racism in the year of our lord 2026? I am betting at least once an episode

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You know they will find a way to introduce some race-related elements every chance they get. What are the odds that the Mulder character is a stupid white guy and the black woman has to constantly get his arse out of trouble?

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I say it every Olympics. Any sport relying solely on judge scores sucks arse.

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Yep. It makes it way too easy to cheat. Case in point was the finale of the ice dance event at the Olympics where the Americans got screwed out of the gold medal by the French and their judge.

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LSU fans are everywhere. Especially in Texas. Houston is Baton Rouge West

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Doesn’t Houston have the largest number of LSU alumni outside of Louisiana?

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velma will be a cis gender non binary rock

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That, or she will be Indian like in the horrible HBO Max series by Mindy Kaling. It's pretty much a guarantee that either Velma or Shaggy will be a POC, and that Fred will be an idiot.

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The US judge has a pretty large disparity as well, just not as massive as the French judge. Again, I get the issue, but I see other judges scoring the french just as high (or higher)

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It’s a moot point I guess. I just don’t understand how a team that made two obvious mistakes gets awarded a season high score while a team that was near perfect had some of their elements downgraded. It just doesn’t add up. Again, nothing will be done because the US Olympic officials are refusing to even question the results.

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So did 2 other judges, having the French far ahead of the Americans.

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The French judge was the only one who had the French pair far ahead of the Americans. All of the other judges' scores were pretty comparable. The French judge's scores were an outlier, which in most mathematical formulas are thrown out. Again, the French made mistakes but their scores were not downgraded for them. They received a season's beat score. That should be impossible if there were mistakes. If you want to defend the French judge or you hate the Americans, that's your prerogative, but to not acknowledge the irregularity in the scores is ridiculous.

As I said, I'm more upset that the US has chosen not to at least send in a letter of inquiry. I feel that it's their duty to look out for their athletes. I don't hate the French pair. In fact, I was a huge fan of Guillaume Cizeron and Gabby Pakadakis. They were phenomenal and deserved the gold they won in 2022. Cizeron and Beaudry have been humble in victory and Chock and Bates have been gracious in defeat. Apparently the two teams train together and are friends, so it's nothing personal. It's about accountability in a sport whose judging practices have been under scrutiny for decades.

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No grift is too humiliating, no level is too low.

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Yep. All Democrats do is pander to whatever audience they hope to get votes from, and then they abandon them in favor of the next group.

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I went with the girlfriend to this last night and enjoyed it well enough. She actually liked it too and isn’t a big movies girl. Christopher Waltz is excellent and the score by Elfman was good. I feel like his damnation / turn could’ve been a little more clear as to what happened there.

I need to watch the 1992 one to compare because I didn’t remember or know any of the lore. I could be wrong, but I don’t remember Dracula being somewhat of an empathetic figure in that film. He seemed not as ruthless to the humans as I thought

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It's basically a remake of the Francis Ford Coppola version from 1992. Many of the scenes are exactly the same, as are the costumes. I didn't like that they changed the location to Paris (although I understand why). The whole idea of Dracula needing a magical perfume to seduce woman was stupid, as were his little gargoyle helpers. Changing the Van Helsing character to an unnamed priest was an odd choice, and some of the CGI was really bad. I would've rather had them move the story to the modern day and follow the plot of the original novel. This movie didn't do it for me.

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It’s not a personal attack to admit that Staley absolutely owns Mulkey. I mean it’s the truth. LSU hasn’t beaten USCe yet under Staley and idk if Mulkey will ever be able to do it at this point unfortunately.

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I love CKM. I'm glad we have her. That said, when the game is on the line, Staley does seem to make better decisions.

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I don't know if he'll mentally recover from this, but he carried all the blame.

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He can rebound somewhat at the World Championships next month, but this will be something he carries with him until the next Winter Olympics, if he’s still skating by then.

The ice dancers who got cheated may be our only figure skating medal. The judges love the Japanese girls. I don’t see either. Alyssa Liu or Amber Glenn winning gold.