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In a stroke of luck, the arsonists chose to burn ambulances which were at the end of service & due to be replaced.

This weather is so nasty omg

One guy one that company and he was this young? Crazy.

She seems not to understand that we don’t care. We didn’t even care then. It was just funny.

Lmfaoooooooo

It’s even funnier bc it shows how old folks just talk to everybody the same way, famous or not!

Half the planet was gone. It would have been an apocalypse happening globally. That’s a lot of story and explaining to do honestly.

Subtitles enhance my viewing pleasure immensely. Subtitles just make everything better.

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys. It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal. Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise. Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million. And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion. Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia. The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.

Can’t lie, that Arsenal loss was annoying but that shit isn’t even bothering me currently. As long as they don’t bottle the actual EPL title, I’m chillin. Now if they bottle that shit, I’m sending death threats to everyone from the ownership on down.

I have friends that live in Manhattan and whenever they tell me how much they pay for rent I don’t know why it always makes me clutch my pearls. I genuinely don’t understand how apartments can be so much money but it also tells you how much a lot of people in New York make a year

@StaycMaria Lmao why don’t you ever relax

You want 90k people inside you?

What are you dummies talking about?

Arsenal deserved this beating playing like this today. Sit with this for 3 weeks now. They should be embarrassed. They better come back ready to finish the season strong because this was pathetic.

Kepa won’t ever see another minute again for Arsenal. Get Eze and Odegaard healthy. We have a lot more work to do.

City got this one. Hats off to them. Simply outplayed Arsenal this second half. Backup goalie was terrible. Still 3 more trophies to play for.

Peak loser behavior for both parties involved.

That was on Saka. Pathetic.

You gotta play Kepa, but unfortunately he’s the reason we will have lost this final. Just terrible.