
Old Man Detroit River
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Old Man Detroit River
@JosephSlowvak
Aging disgracefully | @kdoesnottweeter's partner | Coraline's dad | @ngsdetroit Gray Skull | Same handle on 🦋
L-town Katılım Mart 2009
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@Bubbles_NGS My super power is making it feel like time is standing still while I tell you a really boring story about my kid that only I think is cute.
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So Wednesday, get up to Grand Blank and sing like it’s 2015. Sing like it matters. Sing louder than ever. Lift the boys. Convert the unconvinced. Make it impossible to ignore. Rouge et or, forevermore #DCTID
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Believe it or not, there was a time when @DetroitCityFC was the #OpenCup underdog against the @FlintCityBucks When we started, we lived in their shadow. They had the history, the results, the reputation for slaying giants.
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@johnmoz I can't believe you felt safe driving around without any throwing stars!
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@NGSFamFriendly @Shuttlecock Totally agree. I am a big Star Wars fan and I hated this movie from the jump. I saw it opening night, and I haven't watched it since. This is, and was at the time, pretty much the universal consensus thinking my Star Wars nerd friends.
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@Shuttlecock No, it was dogshit. Still is. Jar Jar is fucking dumb, the writing is atrocious, the directing worse, and it was pretty universally loathed by anyone to old enough to drive.
Maybe in Retardistan it wasn't hated, but here in reality, yeah, dogshit.
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The thing is, a whole generation didn’t hate the Star Wars prequels.
I was 18 when Phantom Menace came out, saw it opening night with a few friends from student res, and then rewatched it at least three or four times in the theatre over the next month or so.
Pretty much everyone saw this movie (and EpII & III). Guys and girls. Nerds and casuals. Many went multiple times (the box office numbers prove this).
The merch sold through the roof, every magazine featured cover stories with the cast, most casual fans thought Jar Jar was funny while the Star Wars nerds were obsessed with the tech behind the character. Girls loved Padme’s fashion while straight guys loved Portman.
The online fandom was hyperactive with fan theories, fan art, etc with a very clear even split between the male/female demos.
Fan and general public reaction was insanely positive.
This particular scene became ICONIC.
98% of the negativity came from the professional film critics. TPM wasn’t perfect by any means but the media definitely tried to push the message that it was a disaster, Jake Lloyd sucked, and that Jar Jar was offensive and racist.
This weird gaslighting that it was the fans who were negative and toxic is just current media trying to do damage control for just how negative they were at the time.
Best of Star Wars@bestofstarwar
“I genuinely can't understand how the previous generation saw this in 1999 and said "this sucks".”
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Calling all @DetroitCityFC supporters! We've got 19 days until kickoff and 1,200 square feet of tifo to paint! We need your help to make the last year at Keyworth an amazing one! #DCTID
Get more information at noonelikes.us/tifo

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The single reason I picked man u when I got into EPL.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
EuroTrip was released 22 years ago. “Scotty Doesn’t Know” was written as a throwaway joke, but it became a real hit. Matt Damon agreed to cameo because he was friends with the writers and filming nearby in Prague, and he showed up with a shaved head.
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