Scanlon Shorthalt

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Do you think Gordo planned this all from the beginning,

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No. I think when Gordo first ran in to Simon he truly wanted to put the past behind them and just reconnect as friends. I don't think he even wanted a confession at first. I DO think that he was slightly infatuated with Robyn. She was the kind of girl he wanted and had not found. And there was definitely a connection between the two of them.

The gift giving was a bit mush, showing that Gordo wasn't really wired right and had no sense of social proprieties. But Gordo was trying really hard to impress them.

It wasn't until Simon started to show his true self that Gordo went in to revenge/retaliation mode.

I think Gordo was good at heart and that his feelings for Robyn were pure. So he wouldn't rape her, even to get back at Simon. But introducing that suggestion in to Simon's brain was a perfect way to get revenge in a similar manner to what had been done to him.

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Thug down. One by one, they will be caged in prison or killed. Eventually, eradicated ...just gonna take patience and time.

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If only it were so. But they breed faster than they fall. There will always be more roaches.

I read them a million years ago. I can't remember much except that I liked them. They weren't "epic" but they were a fun read. I put them in the same category as the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny.

So far I think I've agreed with everything posted here.

I'll add John Carter and Tarzan to the list. I'm a huge E.R.B. fan and with the advances in CGI I thought that surely we'd finally see these two characters and their worlds done right.

Nope.

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I have another one, more funny than scary.

The last dive of a weeks worth of diving and drinking heavily. The seas were rough and we were all hung-thefrick-over. The waves weren't a big deal on the ride out, but once we stopped and started gearing up the boat was bobbing in three directions at once. Our whole group was fumbling around with our gear, heads pounding from too many shots and chronic dehydration. My friend starts burping and one is more of a "vurp". We all basically CRAWL to the front of the boat for the pre-dive talk.

The Dive Master looks at all the sunken eyes, and green faces and says "y'all look like hell. We've been diving together all week. I trust y'all not to do something stupid. Get in the fricking water".

We are all flopping over the sides like a bunch of corpses. I am really questioning my decisions over the last 24 hours, especially the decision to wake up and even come out there. The waves are kicking my arse on the surface but I begin to descend anyway. Once below the surface it was like I had planeshifted to another world. I could see the monster waves above me, but below them it was calm. The clean, cold air coming through the regulator was like a sip of pure energy. My head stopped pounding, my stomach chilled out, and I felt great.

My friend next to me puked through his regulator (I'd heard you could do that but never experienced it. Yep, you can do that). A ton of fish show up to have his breakfast and he gives me the "I'm OK" sign.

We had a great dive from there.

Getting back on the boat was a challenge after. But our NAUI training had covered it so we just did as we had been taught and timed our move to the ladder with the rhythm of the waves, and we were up.

Kinda long, but all true I promise.

We were diving off Cozumel and my good friend and his wife were doing there check out dive. The first dive of the trip was the shore dive that takes you out to the sunken plane. All went well and they were both feeling confident.


The next day we dove Santa Rosa Wall. The boats were full, there were 4-5 groups all getting dropped in roughly the same spot. The idea was to drop us out before the wall, we would descend to the bottom (30' or so), then swim over to the wall and drop down the side of it to a 60'-70' depth, with a basic open water max depth allowed of 100'. My wife and I are in the first group and all goes great. I saw a TON of cool stuff and loved it. We get back on the dive boat after and my friend, who was in the last group to be dropped off, is sitting there, white as a ghost. His wife is up on the bow with just the dive master, and I can tell she's crying.

It turns out their group was the last to be dropped off and had drifted over the deep side of the wall. The currents can be really powerful in Cozumel and this was an exceptionally strong day. They started to descend and my friend notices that his depth gauge is reading that they are going deep fast. He can't see anything below him except his wife, who's about 4' below him. He gives her the "are you OK?" sign and she signals back "I'm OK". They keep dropping and he's thinking wow, my gauge is really fricked up, it's showing 80' but I was told the bottom is around 30'. But he can see a lot of bubbles coming up from below so he figures that's the rest of his group.

All of a sudden the dive master, shoots past him like a bullet, head down, fins up, pumping. He grabs the wife, pulls her up to my friend, and inflates both their BCs fully. The three of them go rocketing to the surface. My friend's thinking "great, someone fricked up and they're cancelling the dive. Dammit". They get to the top and the dive master explains that the current was so strong coming over the wall that it was pushing them straight down. They were at 178' and dropping when he grabbed them. They had already started to narc out and weren't thinking straight. The wife even had a nose bleed going.

That DM saved their lives.


He talked through what happened with them and calmed the wife down. The next day we went on a dive with a hard bottom of 30' feet. There was a dive master on each side of them and another experienced diver above them, following them everywhere they went. Before we went down the DM told them, don't worry, you're not going deeper than 30' without a shovel.


That group of couples went on a lot of vacations together and the guys would always buy the girls a charm for their charm bracelets that signified the trip. For that trip my friend bought his wife an anchor.
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Come on Mickey!

MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!!

Bunky in the summer and Siberia in the winter

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The BLM movement wasn't an attempt to elevate black lives over white, Hispanic, or any other race. It was started to raise awareness to some challenges some blacks in this country face, particularly when it comes to law enforcement, and affect change in that.

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Do you REALLY believe that's why it was started and what their goal is?

I call bullshite. These same assholes are calling fro reparations. Are reparations about raised awareness? Or are they about using white guilt to grab some cash?

A black man was elected president not due to the black vote, but due to a large percentage of non-black votes. That ended the argument about "

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Unfortunately, this country isn't ready to reconcile with its racist past, nor its inherent racism still present today".

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You know who won't move on and reconcile with their inherent racism? Black folks. Deny it and you are either an idiot or a liar.

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Here we are again.

Hello, my old friend. I wish I could say it was good to see you.


We might as well get started. What is Transformers: The Last Knight about?

It’s about everything. Everything that happened to pop in Michael Bay’s head over the course of god knows however long it took to churn out this thing. In a way, it’s completely unique among the Bayformers films in that it has more story than the previous four films combined.

Michael Bay made a Transformers movie with a story that actually makes sense?!

Oh, god no. There’s a ton of story, as our review pointed out, but maybe a quarter of it drunkenly follows what could charitably called “the plot.” And virtually nothing whatsoever connects to the previous films, unless you consider “constantly contradicting them” to be a connection.

Why can’t Michael Bay keep track of the canon of his own four films?

I have a theory. You know how babies’ brains haven’t developed, so whenever their parents wander directly out of their eyesight, they start crying because they assume their parents, having disappeared from view, must be gone forever?

Yeah…

It’s called object permanence, and Michael Bay doesn’t have it either. Once he is done with a Transformers movie, he completely forgets everything that’s happened in it, and he starts the next one with his brain as smooth as a baby’s bottom. It’s the reason why the Transformers are always hunting for a new dumb object that is the most important thing in the universe that no one has ever mentioned before, why Megatron sometimes dies but is suddenly fine in the next movie, why after the Autobots save the Earth in very public ways all Transformers are always being hunted when the next film starts, and why humans keep making dumb, dumb, dumb partnerships with the Decepticons even though the Decepticons keeps trying to kill humanity every. Single. Time.

All of which happens in The Last Knight, of course.

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And that's just round one of the shite show.

How the frick does Michael Bay keep getting greenlit?