Neauxla_Tiger

I watched someone throw trash out their window (driving a piece of shite car of course), and then proceed to turn into a grocery store parking lot. The littering itself is annoying, but it enraged me to no end that they could have waited 2 more seconds and thrown it away in a trash can at the store. Unbelievable. Nearly turned around and slashed their tires.

By the same token, there's always some a-hole that dumps their fast food scraps in my trash at the curb when the trash guys leave my lid open. Because of course they can't wait 2 seconds to get home and throw it in their own damn trash . Even though it's in my can, it still pisses me off because their ketchup and whatever other disgusting shite bakes in the sun and makes my can smell like shite.

I've had this issue twice. First time it was because I didn't upgrade the old doorbell transformer, so it wasn't sending enough power for the ring to charge itself. Ordered the recommended size up and replaced. Hardest part was just locating the transformer. Mine was behind the indoor chime. But I was looking around in the attic for a while. So if you have an older house, it could be this .

Second time, it just seemed to be a faulty ring unit. I was in warranty still so they sent a new one after a lot of head banging going thru troubleshooting.

This is one of those things where it's actually more dangerous for kids the more adults there are around because everyone assumes somebody else is watching the kids and lets their guard down. When you're alone with the kids, you know the burden is 100% on you.

My wife and I always end up being the ones at parties that watch everybody else's kids for this same reason. It may seem like we're being helicopter parents, but you just can't assume somebody else is watching them.

Lithium prices have been spiking lately. At their highest mark since November 2023 and still going.

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And was Lucas firing off water ballons?


I was wondering what he was shooting too. It was like green ooze. I was thinking maybe gasoline to enhance the flame throwers.

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I thought it was pretty clear it was balloons filled with gas or lighter fluid or something. All Mike had was a flare gun, so Lucas threw the accelerant, and Mike shot the flare at it to ignite.

My main gripes are:
1. the unnecessary shoe-horning of the gay character. As others have said, it's not just the existence of a gay character, but it just seems so trivial in the context of the world/universe being on the verge of collapse. Not realistic that everybody would take time out of their doomsday prep to sit and listen to Will's confession. And for the viewer, we've all been watchign 5 seasons of build-up for the final show-down with the main villains...nobody wants a detour for this shite. So anti-climatic. It doesn't help that there's overall fatigue with all movies/shows these days that force a DEI character/plot that doesn't fit. I just finished Ted Lasso a few weeks ago and the whole episode about the side character's coming out was the same thing... not a problem that he happens to be gay - the problem is that we detoured from the main characters and plot to develop this side character's sexuality that NOBODY cares about and it did nothing to advance the show (At least it did nothing that merited an entire episode).

2. Overuse of "GD." I don't really have a visceral reaction to that word like some religious folks do. If it's used in the right context, fine. But it became noticeable how overused it was. I don't mind cursing at all, but when it gets plugged into casual dialogue that doesn't call for it, it gets distracting. They had little kid characters who hadn't cussed the whole series suddenly cussing like sailors. It was just so odd.

3. As everyone else said, the epilogue was comically long. We paused after the final show-down and couldn't believe we weren't even halfway through the finale. The rooftop scene with the older kids was completely useless. I couldn't wait for that scene to be over. Besides Steve, it was all of the most unlikeable characters in the show who all grew up to be even bigger douches than they already were.

4. They should have used all the wasted airtime on Will's gay storyline and the absurdly long epilogue to spend more time on plot-centric stuff. Where did the space rock come from? How did Mind-flayer corrupt Henry? What was the end-game for merging earth with the Abyss? Is there any depth to Mindflayer at all besides being a big shadow/spider monster? What was the military's goal with the experiments? It seems like every kid they experimented on went sideways and they couldn't contain it, yet they keep trying for more.

Also, this one's minor, but to add an observation nobody else has pointed out yet: how did little Linda Hamilton's character slam/pin that soldier into a wall? He's got like a foot and a half and 100 pounds on her at least :lol: Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a fictional show with monsters and space travel, but the little things can still be believable. It just takes me out of the moment.

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9 dragon and it will take about 10 meenuts

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:lol: No matter if you ordered 1 egg roll, or 5 combos, or during peak lunch rush or off hours, it was always gonna be 10 minutes. Miss that place. Got a special place in my heart for hole in the wall Chinese places since I moved away.

That $5 resistance is a real biotch

If you do this, then where does it end? At what point do you draw the line? I just recently got my family to accept only doing Xmas presents for immediate family and not all ancillary relatives like aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. I can't freaking imagine feeling obligated to tip/get a gift for every random person I'm vaguely familiar with.

'Memba when everything was big green an hour ago? I 'memba.

I've got two 6 year olds. One weighs 70 (which is pretty big for his age) and the other is 58. I cannot fathom a 14 year old who weighs HALF of what my 6 year old weighs.

The injury rumors and bad O-line don't excuse his decision making. What had people screaming for him to be benched is when he throws into double or even triple coverage to kill a scoring drive (see Ole Miss), when he refuses to run for an easy first down and instead throws a deep ball to your worst receiver who is double covered (see LaTech), when he calls timeout on 3rd and long that we're unlikely to convert on the first drive of the game for like 4 or 5 games in a row, when he thinks he's Russell Wilson and tries to do the reverse pirouette to get away from a pass rush even though he has bricks for feet and could have just stepped up in the pocket instead... the list goes on.

Even if injury explains why his deep ball suffered, then why keep throwing bad deep balls when you know you can't get it there? The LaTech interception keeps coming back to me. Barion Brown had 10 yards on the nearest DB for a walk-in TD and somehow you underthrow it by 20 yards to get intercepted. Either the worst throw ever, or a throw he never should have attempted if he was hurt that bad.

What drove people crazy is that the traits that were supposed to be his strengths, were suddenly weaknesses. We get that he doesn't have the Jayden Daniels type of mobility. But you're a pocket passer that has awful pocket presence/awareness and suddenly can't pass or hit deep balls. You're a coach's son who has been in the program for 5 years and still makes awful decisions that have me questioning your football IQ.