theGarnetWay

re: Leeds United 2023/24 Season-long thread: All aboard the HMS Piss tLeague

Posted by theGarnetWay on 5/4/24 at 7:01 am

Seeing the Championship on ESPN 2?More of this please....

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re: Hollywood sex scenes have declined by 40% since 2000

Posted by theGarnetWay on 5/3/24 at 3:51 pm

[quote]One thing I noticed is the lack of tiddies in House of the Dragon compared to the first few seasons of Game of Thrones[/quote] And a 100% increase in painful birth scenes....

re: UCLA Protester tries to charge police officer with plastic garbage can shield

Posted by theGarnetWay on 5/2/24 at 2:36 pm

[quote][img]https://i.imgflip.com/8os742.gif[/img] [/quote] [img]https://y.yarn.co/ff1c3565-6516-4f08-870b-ac7ff2be7ccd_text.gif[/img]...

re: Remember the Titans

Posted by theGarnetWay on 5/2/24 at 1:59 pm

For me the movie isn’t ruined. Was it embellished like all Hollywood films? Certainly. But the message is the same and it’s a damn good movie (Rudy is the same way in my view). If it was the exact same film but completely made up teams and names they’d both be great films and stories. Like a lot ...

re: Remember the Titans

Posted by theGarnetWay on 5/2/24 at 1:01 pm

And not to derail the thread but TC Williams was renamed a few years ago :casty:...

re: Remember the Titans

Posted by theGarnetWay on 5/2/24 at 12:13 pm

[quote]I'm sure it's not 100% historically accurate but they handle the race issue about as well as they could.[/quote] Some of the sports stuff is definitely dramatized (which I get). For example, they actually kicked the shite out of their opponent in the championship game. But I get why a movie...

re: Boeing whistleblowers hitting the ground like a 737 MAX

Posted by theGarnetWay on 5/2/24 at 10:02 am

Damn. Boeing going full KGB....

re: Michael Crichton Books

Posted by theGarnetWay on 5/1/24 at 5:55 pm

[quote]Prey was great[/quote] SPOILERS FOR ANYONE READING OR PLANS TO READ PREY I enjoyed it well enough. But to me it just came off as just Jurassic Park but nanobots instead of dinosaurs. :lol:...

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re: The upcoming loss of the OU-Ok State rivalry reminds me of a once-classic SEC rivalry....

Posted by theGarnetWay on 5/1/24 at 3:32 pm

Not playing UGA next year is a fricking travesty. I don’t care if we lose that game 90% of the time. It should be taking place....

SEC Rant

re: George of the Jungle (1997)

Posted by theGarnetWay on 5/1/24 at 3:06 pm

[quote]Brendan Fraser was incredible in the 90’s. [/quote] Also had a great recurring character in Scrubs in the mid 2000s. ...

re: Northwestern Cuts Deal. Gives Full-Ride Scholarship for Palestinian Students

Posted by theGarnetWay on 4/30/24 at 4:10 pm

[quote]Northwestern Cuts Deal. Gives Full-Ride Scholarship for Palestinian Students[/quote] So they’re basically buying the protestors off? fricking cowards. :casty:...

re: 245 spellers have qualified for the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee

Posted by theGarnetWay on 4/26/24 at 9:39 am

[img]https://i.imgur.com/vIf0lAD.gif[/img]...

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re: Shogun - Official Series Discussion Thread Spoilers

Posted by theGarnetWay on 4/23/24 at 9:08 pm

[quote]really thought he was going to be this absolute psychopath super dark character. He booked a guy alive episode 1. [/quote] He’s definitely a psychopath in his own way in the way that he seems to have an obsession with death or ways to die. The whole Japanese culture at the time was that de...

re: Niger has effectively kidnapped1000 US soldiers at our $500 mil dollar base

Posted by theGarnetWay on 4/23/24 at 12:10 pm

[quote]We need to leave all these shitholes and let them descend into chaos. Not everyone is or should be inhabitable[/quote] I don’t disagree. The only counterpoint/devil’s advocate point I’d make is that when they descend into cause, people flee, refugees, borders overwhelmed, and it spreads (s...

re: 2024 Gamecock Baseball | 31-15 (12-11) | Sat, May 4 @ Missouri L 3-8

Posted by theGarnetWay on 4/20/24 at 7:16 pm

[quote]I look for my Gamecocks to win this weekend series. Just a feeling I have.[/quote] [img]https://media.tenor.com/ry7UwHxZLwAAAAAM/charlie-murphy-wrong.gif[/img]...

South Carolina Sports

re: Israel taking out Iranian nuclear sites right now

Posted by theGarnetWay on 4/18/24 at 10:03 pm

[quote]From what we're seeing now, #Iran absolutely seems content on just sweeping this under the rug and pretending it never happened.[/quote] Iran: [img]https://media1.tenor.com/m/j5YcO9slE7YAAAAC/leslie-nielsen-nothing-to-see-here.gif[/img]...

re: What Series Intros Do You Not Skip?

Posted by theGarnetWay on 4/16/24 at 9:33 pm

There were some that were so short that it wasn't worth the hassle, and it was fine anyway, Scrubs for example. Besides those types, I think I usually allowed the Mad Men and Narcos intros to play through. And for a modern one, I don't think I ever skipped the Masters of the Air intro....

re: 2024 Gamecock Baseball | 31-15 (12-11) | Sat, May 4 @ Missouri L 3-8

Posted by theGarnetWay on 4/13/24 at 6:47 pm

[quote]Florida W 9-8[/quote] [img]https://media4.giphy.com/media/QexBv0amMb12o/200w.gif?cid=6c09b9527i0xp71qk39udojb15nqm05fbd6ywh68vukjly29&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.gif&ct=g[/img]...

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re: 2024 Gamecock Baseball | 31-15 (12-11) | Sat, May 4 @ Missouri L 3-8

Posted by theGarnetWay on 4/12/24 at 9:36 pm

[quote]Florida W 10-3[/quote] [img]https://media4.giphy.com/media/QexBv0amMb12o/200w.gif?cid=6c09b9527i0xp71qk39udojb15nqm05fbd6ywh68vukjly29&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.gif&ct=g[/img]...

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