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Celtic Tiger
| Favorite team: | New Orleans Pelicans  |
| Location: | Lake Charles |
| Biography: | |
| Interests: | LSU, cycling, triathlon |
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| Number of Posts: | 676 |
| Registered on: | 2/24/2005 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Discussion Thread. Currently 62% tomatometer
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 5/22/26 at 10:51 pm to Napoleon
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So tired of the 3-4 posters who hate on movies they will never see yet waste more time in the Threads on them then they actually would watching the movie.
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I give it a 7/10. It was enjoyable. The first half of the movie is better than the second half, the pacing is bad (especially in the second half, which is weird because the first half is awesome. First half felt better than Solo while the second half dragged bad until the last 15 minutes or so), and the movie really doesn’t trust its audience at all (it seems to go out of its way to explain stuff rather than just let forshadowing do its thing). It tells when it could just show. It also frequently puts cuteness in the foreground frequently enough that it feels like jingling keys in front of a baby. A lot of this extra cuteness and exposition felt added on in post, like the studio saw test screenings and said “brainrotted kids are too stupid to get that without help” or “add a cute thing here to get attention”. It’s the movie equivalent of yellow paint in a video game. With that said, despite its flaws, it’s still entertaining. Great action set pieces, cool worlds that feel lived in, the plot is interesting enough, and It’s a self-contained adventure outside a few cameos by familiar Feloni verse characters. The first half is classic early season Mando. It’s like John Wick meets Thor: Ragnarok but less quippy. The second half felt more like an above average Star Wars Rebels arc. I had fun and felt like I got my money’s worth.
This too. Was a little too cute at times but the kids in the audience seemed to enjoy that. It was a fun one-off, which is all it tries to do. Not everything has to move a 20 movie plot forward or be Schindler's List or something
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re: 40,000+ evacuated in SoCal
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 5/22/26 at 10:30 pm to Figgy
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Garden Grove
Smells like Lou dog inside the van
re: favorite garden tools?
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 5/22/26 at 2:01 pm to cgrand
Love my hori hori, but find myself using my Dewit Potting Trowel more for planting anything bigger than seedlings. I find its size to be perfect.
Trowel
And absolutely love my Japanese weeding sickle. You can weed quickly but with precision. Has held up to a fair amount of abuse and is esay to resharpen
Sickle
Trowel
And absolutely love my Japanese weeding sickle. You can weed quickly but with precision. Has held up to a fair amount of abuse and is esay to resharpen
Sickle
re: Big Bend in summer
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 5/18/26 at 5:49 pm to Zappas Stache
Thanks y’all. That was kinda what I was thinking.
Had seen you say that in a different BB thread and looked it up. Definitely on the list for mid day.
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from the park take River road along the rio grande towards Presidio.
Had seen you say that in a different BB thread and looked it up. Definitely on the list for mid day.
Big Bend in summer
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 5/18/26 at 4:02 pm
So my HS senior got it in his head he wants to go to Big Bend this summer despite my warnings about the obvious weather. Being from S La. gives us some tolerance for the heat, and my boys run cross country in our 100 degree summers, so i know they won't die, :lol: But just how miserable will we be if we stick to morning hikes and maybe floating the river in the afternoons? Seems like there are a lot of scenic drives to be taken in the heat of the day, so it should be ok logistically, but not sure I can talk myself into it. Thanks.
re: Anyone ever been to Cannon Beach, Oregon?
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 4/17/26 at 10:25 am to Gerry Laval
Went last summer, stayed about 20 minutes south in an awesome little town called Manzanita. Quieter, but gorgeous. Whole coast is great. There are a lot of little towns, all seem to be 20 minutes or so apart, separated by state parks, and we would just day trip up and down the coast. Highly recommend it
ETA we got an airbnb right across from the beach. Amazing view and the beach was very secluded
ETA we got an airbnb right across from the beach. Amazing view and the beach was very secluded
re: Are the KC Royals City Connect Unis the fan favorite here on Tigerdroppings?
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 4/11/26 at 1:17 pm to justaniceguy
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Green is an interesting color choice for the Red Sox
true, but it's a nod to the monster, so it works, IMO
re: Are the KC Royals City Connect Unis the fan favorite here on Tigerdroppings?
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 4/11/26 at 10:32 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
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The next good city connect uniforms will be the first
Disagree
re: Mail Lady Chases Loose Dogs On Her Route
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 1/30/26 at 9:02 pm to AtticusOSullivan
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The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 authorized $120 billion in emergency funding to help stabilize the agency, including $8.64 billion used during the pandemic.
Yeah. But that bill was to bail them out from a deficit created by a 2006 bill that required USPS pre fund pension benefits a ridiculous 75 years in advance. Before that, and without thet requirement, they were in the black. The 06 bill had them paying for pensions for people who weren’t even born yet. Yeah. That dig a bit of a hole :lol:
re: Back to the ex-DeRidder Mayor Misty Roberts Saga
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 1/30/26 at 7:31 am to SlowFlowPro
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Just to update the thread, one of the charges was thrown out per this ruling.
Looks like charges that got quashed can still be filed by bill of information. If I had to guess, the DA could do that today if he hasn’t already. All this did was run up the bill.
re: Stranger Things S5 - Volume 2
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 1/2/26 at 10:41 pm to GWfool
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But she was on the other side of the portal. I just don't see her faking it and running off like that. And, never communicating with Mike again. When he told that story, for a moment, I thought as he walked up the stairs a radio or something would go off with her communicating with him. But, this morning it seemed more like a coping mechanism for him.
Yeah. I think I’m leaning this way too. Because Kali was in the lab when it blew up. Even if she was still alive, it blew before the hole was blown in the wormhole. So don’t think she could have been there to do the “trick” Mike was hoping for. Idk.
re: Raise your hand if Amazon didn’t get your gifts delivered in time
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 12/23/25 at 2:26 pm to LakeChuckTigah
Ordered something on the 16th that didn't "ship" till the 21st. Was always supposed to arrive by today. When it did "ship" it had a usps tracking number, which indicated it was in Little Rock, waiting to be taken to the usps by a shipping partner. Two days later, the post office still has that as the status under that number. Amazon however, now has it listed with a ups number, indicating only that it has been picked up. This is probably a surprise to ups, who doesn't recognize the number at all. So I printed the picture in anticipation :lol:
re: The new animal farm movie focuses on the dangers of capitalism, not totalitarian USSR
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 12/15/25 at 11:38 am to cgrand
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its a common misinterpretation of animal farm, predominately held by those who havent actually read the book
its not a book
ETA. Not a lot of Archer fans I see. Or we have a few people that think stalinism doesn’t suck :lol:
re: F. King Alexander is responsible for LSU holistic requirements and more minority students
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 8/22/25 at 7:02 pm to Dingeaux
I don’t know how many turned in a score. The idea that only 1/3rd did seems off though. But I was talking about the scores for the incoming class. That incoming class had the highest scores ever. For those that did use scores, anyway. My impression was more did than not. But would definitely change my mind if I saw actual numbers saying otherwise.
ETA. My main takewaway/point is that it’s harder overall to get into LSU than in the past. Because there’s 2x the competition for the same number of spots. And that my kid needed to take the ACT again :lol: y’all feel free to have yours apply wholistically.
ETA. My main takewaway/point is that it’s harder overall to get into LSU than in the past. Because there’s 2x the competition for the same number of spots. And that my kid needed to take the ACT again :lol: y’all feel free to have yours apply wholistically.
re: F. King Alexander is responsible for LSU holistic requirements and more minority students
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 8/22/25 at 6:51 pm to Earnest_P
Almost certainly. And I think wholistic is a silly idea. But I do think the average incoming student is of higher “overall quality” ON AVERAGE because of increased competition. Especially w the increased out of state apps. Individual milage may vary I guess. And I could have heard wrong, and really have no true data on it other than the LSU sales pitch, but I want to say tests were still the norm. They certainly pushed them in the “applying 101” thing IMO
re: F. King Alexander is responsible for LSU holistic requirements and more minority students
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 8/22/25 at 6:40 pm to GreenRockTiger
No clue. But a deeper pool is a deeper pool. And the average score has increased quite a bit. Gpa as well.
re: F. King Alexander is responsible for LSU holistic requirements and more minority students
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 8/22/25 at 6:30 pm to Earnest_P
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you believe that this is the most intelligent freshman class in the history of LSU (in the ACT era)?
Took my HS senior to LSU’s preview day earlier this month. The way that the numbers of higher ACT scores happens, even with wholistic (which I agree is dumb) is by sheer numbers. You know how many applicants LSU has these days? 56,000 last year. And will have more this year. For roughly 8.000 spots. That’s twice the number of applicants they would get 5-10 years ago. 56,000 is insane. So even w some doing no score, the average scores of the kids they take has gotten higher because of dramatically increased competition and a more talented overall pool. So yeah. It has gone up
re: Delhi, India Recent Trip
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 8/5/25 at 9:44 am to Breauxfessor
went for a few weeks several years back, when I was young enough to bounce around for weeks in a backpack. a lot of this could be vary well dated info, but we went west from Delhi to Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Amritsar to the Sihk golden temple, and up to Dharamsala. the blue city and Mehrangarh in Jodhpur were amazing, but there wasn't much to the town itself. but I actually kinda liked that. the golden temple was cool to go to. but Dharamsala was the highlight for me. being in the 60s/70s after being in the desert heat was great in and of itself, but that town was beautiful. and it is so different from everything else in India with the Tibetan culture of it that it was nice to break it up a bit. sat with young monks, just shooting the shite, waiting for the Dali Lama to come back from a trip abroad. Would go back there in a heartbeat.
I had been thinking that it is a place best visited while you're young and moldable. seeing a culture so vastly different can shift your perspective some. that's harder to do once you've aged and calcified. but I rewatched the Darjeeling Limited the other day, and I agree with the poster above, once you've been, you kinda want to go back. we saw so little of it. and I agree with him again in that it is almost overwhelming in that it is everything at the same time and constantly in your face bombarding you. nonstop color and noise and movement. the most squalid poverty and horror and the most beautiful things and history all in the same field of view. it's definitely unique
I had been thinking that it is a place best visited while you're young and moldable. seeing a culture so vastly different can shift your perspective some. that's harder to do once you've aged and calcified. but I rewatched the Darjeeling Limited the other day, and I agree with the poster above, once you've been, you kinda want to go back. we saw so little of it. and I agree with him again in that it is almost overwhelming in that it is everything at the same time and constantly in your face bombarding you. nonstop color and noise and movement. the most squalid poverty and horror and the most beautiful things and history all in the same field of view. it's definitely unique
re: Fantastic Four Review Thread 86% RT Score 111 Reviews
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 7/24/25 at 1:12 pm to Lawyered
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Would be badarse if she pulled the ozark quote and did it for this “ if you wanna stop me.. you’re have to KILL MEEEEEEE.”
or a calm, detached SS telling the 4 they "don't know shite about frick"
re: South Park teaser for tonight's premier
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 7/24/25 at 10:44 am to blueboy
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Yeah? Like what? Let's hear it, with links to them editing in a different answers to questions and completely frankensteining an interview because of a clear preference for one candidate.
one you will ignore bc cnn but you can look elsewhere yourself
another
particularly timely one
that's just some of the first page of a google search. that's all the time I will spend, especially since it will be explained away, anyway. but that's probably more a PT topic and I don't want to derail this thread
Matt and Trey seriously give no fricks
re: South Park teaser for tonight's premier
Posted by Celtic Tiger on 7/24/25 at 10:33 am to blueboy
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Because it was clear election interference.
man, if you think shortening a rambling answer to make it shorter for time or to form a coherent answer = election interference, do I have some bad news for you about fox news :lol:
that PSA was nuts, and will almost assuredly be a perfect example of the streisand effect in real time
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