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re: Is Karoline Leavitt sexy?

Posted by DarthGadget on 4/9/26 at 7:47 pm to
Saw KL in real life in the ramp up to 2024...the answer is an unequivocal Yes.

Video cameras don't like some folks as much as others; 2D / 3D thing.

I have known lots of female TV talent, but the most interesting 2D / 3D case I ever witnessed was the telemarketer Kevin Trudeau. Not bad on TV hawking stuff, even to the side. In real life his side view mug shot looks like the foreman threw a speed square at his face and it stuck.

I worked with closely another chunky gal on a 3 month project; ran in to her about 4 years and -45 lbs later...did not recognize her. 45 down she looked like Sela Ward at 30 in 'Nothing in Common'...stupid pretty in person. Not even joking. On video camera: attractive...but not Sela.

I find that picture disturbing.

I agree with whoever said to outlaw plastic surgery.

Be Eva Marie Saint instead !


I love how all the established kinks are all given a modern clinical sounding backronym, acronym, or other, to make it sound legit.

Sanitation Engineers of the world unite !

re: Chernobyl HBO

Posted by DarthGadget on 4/4/26 at 11:34 pm to
The end scene in "Please Remain Calm" where to they go in to open the sluice gates, and the dosimeters are going nuts while the lights drop out and it fades to black...the hairs on the back of my neck stood straight up !

Been a while since a TV show did that to me.
The in-Tahoe video of Methany hitting the stock gate as the Tahoe stops, but she does not, would have only been better if she had a seat belt on so the airbag could deploy.

Second place goes to the officer realizing her squad went mobile without her...lol

They got WAY lucky; that Tahoe could have been down the side of that hill and totaled.

Sweet.

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Judges are sometimes really bad with technology.

There are still US Circuit and US District (senior lifetime Article 3) judges that are essentially baffled at anything beyond email. They are incredibly smart people, and have keen legal minds. Tech does not always fit that kind of brain, and they often have always had a clerk / wife / kid do the heavy tech lifting over the last 25 years. They are not going to learn tech at this late date in their judgeship.

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I would like to humbly apologize to the OT for *appearing* to defend His Rudeness. I was only attempting to possibly explain his frustration.
That Hillary thing was uncalled for.

Way to derail a Hall of Fame thread.
Judges are sometimes really bad with technology.

There are still US Circuit and US District (senior lifetime Article 3) judges that are essentially baffled at anything beyond email. They are incredibly smart people, and have keen legal minds. Tech does not always fit that kind of brain, and they often have always had a clerk / wife / kid do the heavy tech lifting over the last 25 years. They are not going to learn tech at this late date in their judgeship.

Legal people that are over 60-65ish today are the last group that will be able to work in that field without knowing more than how to email or Westlaw.

(well...except for maybe Samuel T. Cogley...lol)
Glock 26 (or similar in that same frame)...with:

Extended 1/2 inch floor plate (pinky finger grip) mag extension.

and for the 26...

Federal Premium HST 147gr or 124gr JHP or
Speer Gold Dot 124gr +P or

or....

Winchester Defender or
Hornady Critical Defense/Duty ammo.

Not much bigger that mini LCP Ruger, round edges, FAR better trigger, and its a Glock.
"...but you should use discernment."

I think this is the best and correct way to look at it.

The new popular wave of the "claim trend" is certainly concerning. I see public behavior that is not the way it should be; but know I have done the same, so I better mind my own house.

Saturday night and Sunday morning have been very different at times...
Check out Leonarda Jonie; she will restore your faith in the old days.
I used to be a HUGE watcher, threw watch parties, it was a big deal.

I started to sour on the SPR snuff as well...it was not even close.

Meryl Streep getting Best Actress for The Iron Lady (2011) against Rooney Mara in Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was the last time I watched zee Oscars. Streep is amazing, but I did not think her work on The Iron Lady was more deserving than Rooney Mara in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Since then there have been years I did not see any of the nominated films.

So sad.

re: R.I.P. actor Matt Clark

Posted by DarthGadget on 3/16/26 at 6:42 pm to
I think his best role was as RJR Nabisco's Ed Horrigan in Barbarians at the Gate with James Garner, best scene was when the deal fell apart...lol. Or in the lab with the Premier.. I laughed so hard!

re: Welding Entry Jobs

Posted by DarthGadget on 3/14/26 at 6:32 pm to
Do a couple of months as a helper...he will pick up valuable info.

Also...look at trailer manufactures...they always need welders.


Isn't Britain generally blamed for how they carved up the Middle East?

Its obviously no win...but I always thought every Middle East country was pissed at Britain for the boarders on an eternal basis...
From Wiki...rank / item / value in US millions of $

1 Cars 34,360
2 Unspecified commodities 19,107
3 Refined petroleum 15,541
4 Vehicle parts 10,633
5 Pharmaceuticals 9,308
6 Trucks 5,807
7 Pig meat 5,129
8 Aircraft, helicopters, and spacecraft 3,707
9 Non-Knit Women's Suits 3,658
10 Citrus fruits 3,580
11 Olive oil 3,281
12 Unglazed Ceramics 3,155
13 Wine 3,066
14 Aircraft parts 3,031
15 Rubber tyres 2,389
16 Insulated Wire 2,357
17 Other vegetables 2,303
18 Human or animal blood 2,302
19 Perfumes 2,269
20 Polyacetals 1,926
21 Berries 1,925
22 Iron or steel structures 1,910
23 Footwear 1,700
24 Biodiesel 1,648
25 Knitted/Crocheted clothing 1,642
26 Self-Propelled Rail Transport 1,601
27 Low-voltage protection equipment 1,594
28 Spark-ignition engines 1,548
29 Coal tar oil 1,544
30 Furniture 1,533

It appears most of this goes to Europe.
If I remember correctly there exists a picture of her with 3 classmates of her Academy class...and at least two of them had black marks above their names for "performance issues".

I think it was even a YD or OT post....
He needed the money...LOL Diceman Cometh





You win the Internet today !
My non ranked Top 6.

The Game (1997)
Fight Club (1999)
Zodiac (2007)
The Social Network (2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Gone Girl (2014)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo would be my pick for DF number 1;

Zodiac, The Game, and Fight Club all tie for number 2.

Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl did not work for me at all; I do think its her career defining role...I just did not like her as Amy. The only movie I have ever liked her in was Fracture.

However: The casting of Lisa Banes as mother Marybeth Elliott...holy crap...is the best cast role of the movie.

Mercy - Solid Movie !

Posted by DarthGadget on 3/1/26 at 9:49 pm
Went and saw Mercy (Chris Pratt) tonight at the cheap theater. Had been tempted before at the first run movieplexorama, but went to other flicks instead (eg Marty Supreme and others) based on the reviews of tomatoes and popcorn.

Mercy was a really solid movie, never dragged. Recommended for a great big screen movie experience. Personally, I think Mercy was FAR better than Marty Supreme.

I regretfully missed Warfare in theaters this summer...clearly a big screen experience. I thought I would pass a Mercy big screen theater recommend to the board.
Ali was not even on my radar before Landman.

She is smoking hot for 50 !

Taylor writes crazy older gals (Beth / Angela) just fine. They certainly do seem outrageous for most of us sane menfolk who live somewhat normal day-to-day lives.

However, if you watch arrest content / body cam video on YouTube...the hot ones act just that way; especially when lubricated with grape or spirits. Very entitled and in their own world when it comes to behavior and lack of constraint / judgement

Not many of us would want to be wed to that level of crazy; but the shock value makes it fun to watch. Crazy on that level would be very hard to live with.