Bert Macklin FBI

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I'm a sucker for documentaries about tiny subcultures I'd never heard of.

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I agree that this isn't really a doc about reptiles at all. It just happens to be what this band of lunatics was slangin around. Reptiles are a side story at best. Great doc so far.

Such sad news and to think the last LSU news he received was JD being a bitch.

Are you gonna throw away your size small Jayden jersey?

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Besides M Toney WR from the u - Watkins was the next best true freshman wr in all of college football last year - hope it ‘s not serious.

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The kid from Texas that was commited to us and then went to Oregon was very good last year I think.

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Finds his wife dead and is losing his shite. We saw his dragon, Vermithor also flying off with Silverwing (Ulf’s ride). Assuming Hugh was on her.

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idk if Hugh was on vermithor. I would tend to say the dragon wouldn't leave him but then again they have shown 2 dragons leave their riders in this show so who knows. The flip side is I don't see Hugh just getting on Vermithor and bailing on his wife.

Given that this is not how it went down in the books at all, I am curious to see if Hugh actually turns or if they just have him go out some other way. Maybe Rhaenyra considers him a traitor for not manning his post as was commanded and gets executed or someting. Would be extremely lame compared to the books but that seems like the theme of this show. Take a really cool event from the books and make it boring and dumb.

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Having cell phones is a small luxury. Having 3, or more in a family is a bigger luxury.
2 cars= luxury.
More clothes than you need?- luxury.
Multiple TVs in a single home? Luxury
Internet in your home -luxury
iPhones/tablets/laptop computers, streaming services, -luxury
Travel ball/sports/etc- luxury.

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The majority of these things you list as luxuries are necessary to be employed and get ahead in life. You can't work a GOOD job without Clothes, internet, a phone, or a car.

A 65 inch HDTV is like $300 so I don't think that is sinking anyone. The only thing you listed that is an actual luxury is travel sports which the majority of people don't participate in.

At the end of the day, its bills like Housing, Insurance, Utilities, and Groceries that sink people. Not TVs and luxury cars. If you are going into debt over BMWs and $1200 TVs then yes, you are an idiot. Most people aren't struggling because of those things.

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This just simply isn't true. People live entirely out of their means. 2 paychecks with 2 decent paying jobs is at minimum ~120k/year but the middle class also finances $350,000 homes, 90k denali yukons and sierras, travel ball, gymnastics, private school, lsu season tickets, a boat, and 4 vacations to destin a year.

That's why they are pay check to pay check.

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Other than owning my home (I paid less than $350k). None of those apply to me or most that say we are struggling to keep up.

Again, my point isn't that no one can make it or that some don't make poor decisions. Its that the middle class isn't really the middle class anymore. Middle Class people should be able to buy a house, a car, and have their kids play sports. Like you mentioned, that's out of the budget for what used to be the middle class. The middle class doesn't exist anymore.

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we are living until we are 80. No one needs to have kids until well after 24-25, don’t bring kids into the world until you have laid a foundation. And he is a she.

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Classic Boomer goal post moving. The America dream is graduate college get a job and start a family. Like I said, the American dream is dead. You can be a single 30 year old and live high on the hog if you'd like but thats not what the generations before us did or what we were sold our entire lives. I guarantee no one told you not start your life when you got a job. You started it and believed that earnings would increase greater than your expenses. Thats just not how the world is working now. Expenses increase all the time while wages remain stagnant. You have to make $130k to have the same buying power as someone who made $65k in 2000.

I know that some will never agree with me on this and I have laid out my argument. My main issue is that boomers and Gen Xers answer is always that Millennials shouldn't expect to get the same things out of life that they got. We are the first generation since the great depression that has a lower quality of life than the generation before us. If we still disagree, we will have to just agree to disagree and move on.

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Not an opinion.

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That is just an opinion. It’s not Starbucks keeping people down. The cost of everything is significantly higher than it was just a decade ago. Gas, utilities, insurance, rent/housing, cars, groceries, etc. The only way to be a middle class family that doesnt live paycheck to paycheck is to not participate in life which is not the American dream. And is a depraved life really what we call “middle class”?

The deal we were sold is go to college, get a good job, and it’ll all take care of itself to some extent. That’s how the 2 generations before us lived but that’s not what we are getting. Anyone who doesn’t get the issue doesnt have adult children less than 40. Or reaped the rewards of the American dream before it was squashed to the extent that you live in a bubble.

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Really feels like we should have gotten both battles of Tumbleton this season.

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We all thought they dragged out S2 because they didn't have the budget for Tumbleton and then they dragged out S3 just to get to Tumbleton. They have a ton of action to pack into S4 and its gonna be rushed and dumb.

At this point, I don't think this is a book adaptation as much as a "retelling" of the book. "History books say it happened that way but here is how it really went down." But how it "really went down" is 100 times less interesting and worse than the history books.