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Who goes there for steak?

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Ive had some very good steaks from restaurants that primarily serve seafood..... but that is beside the point . That Pic looks like a steak dinner ad from Shoney's circa 1985.....and a terrible one at that

I doubt anyone has seen or heard of this 1988 adaptation of Asimov's well regarded short story Nightfall...but I actually saw it in the theater....and it was the worst movie I've ever seen.

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I used to check it almost daily. Not long after Amazon bought it, the daily Woots just weren't as good (both the products and the prices).

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FYI for old school Wooters....

The guy who made Woot, and sold it to Amazon went on to create MEH.com. Its very similar to the old Woot with generally a single daily deal of cheap crap and a funny write up.

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And you JOOtards think they posed no threat to us?

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Well Trump seemed pretty confident he could make a deal with them that did not include destroying the current IRGC regime as long as they gave up their nuclear weapons and quit causing problems in the SOH. Seems like he doesnt really think of them of that big of a threat. Perhaps he has changed his mind but he certainly has not committed forces or tried to muster support to declare war on the regime. If the IRGC survives... the threat, even if its diminished, remains. .

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early 2000s. That’s just flat wrong. You could walk through tigerland at night and not be in mortal danger.

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Early 2000's was when we started having a couple instances of drivers getting robbed in TL.....and when Derrick Todd Lee was hunting, but yea it had not turned into a total shite hole yet.

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Lmao grew up in riverbend off brightside in 90s and the kids would all duck on the bus when we drove through tigerland as if we were scared of being shot

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Tigerland in the 90's still had sorority girls living there. I was delivering pizza at Tigerland Dominos and from 2000-2003 is when it really started to decline.

Gave one of the most honest assessments Ive heard of heroin use....

Beard explains that he had different reasons for taking different drugs, saying "the pills thing came about just from the workload. And the heroin thing came about because I just liked it. I mean, you ever done heroin? It's great. It's a fricking vacation for the mind, and I liked it. I liked it a lot."

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You are out of your element here.

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I just keep thinking...

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Carpet bomb every structure in the country. Quit talking. Just kill them in enough numbers they unconditionally accept terms. It worked in 1945. It will work now.

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There were at least some folks in the Japanese high command and the emperor himself that did not want to subject civilians to any more pain. Not sure if that the case with the IRGC.

Many in the leadership roles were strapping bombs to their buddy's chests and sending them out to rush Iraqi fortified positions and minefields when they were just teenagers. If their goal is to ultimately destroy Israel in order to initiate the return of their Imam al Mahdi...they know that will result in a counter attack that will lead to the destruction of Iran. They are a death cult. They wont submit. They just have to be killed. Or keep mowing the grass as they say on their nuclear program and hope at some point a more moderate regime rises up.

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They aren't psycho or crazy or fanatical. They just want to stay in power.

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Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Iran's leadership is a mixed bag of hardline religious zealots and some more moderate folks from two different generations. The older hardliners were young men, many them jsut teenagers during the Iran/Iraq war that strapped bombs to their friends chest and watched them rush into minefields and fortified Iraqi positions. They are every bit as dedicated to their cause now as they were then. The more moderate leaders are always walking the tight rope and are often targets of both their own hardline leadership and outside forces that have an interest in keeping the hardliners in power.

I miss the old days of Woot with one item with a usually well written humorous description. If fact I d go there everyday just to read the descriptions.