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@TheCinesthetic This is one of those movies that lives rent free in my head. Every scene hits, so much random stuff that lands so well
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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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@Steve_Sailer @JamesSurowiecki @DiscusTerrier @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 Leopold Tyrmand pretended to be French, got caught and sent to a camp, survived, went back to Warsaw and wrote after the war.
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@JamesSurowiecki @DiscusTerrier @Apolitical3678 @DonnieLH14 Right.
A million+ Jews disappeared from Warsaw between July and December 1942. Where did they go, and most notably, why didn't they ever write?
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@well_lit_movies @cevangelista413 Are those St. Paulies? that’s $17m on his wrist
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“I drink ten or more beers every day.” — Paul Newman, 1968
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@Parisianaes1 Walk past this, turn left, you will see cafe Bonaparte, go there instead, youre welcome
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@Empty_America Geographic diversity is actually a thing.
20 years ago you could get into Ivies with a 1400 if you were from Oklahoma or NM
Things might have changed
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@Empty_America Everyone I know who has gone to these colleges has been wealthy
It’s a Westchester/Conn socially acceptable prestige substitute if you don’t get into an Ivy
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Colgate and Hamilton are mysterious colleges.
Both located in middle of nowhere towns in deepest Upstate NY, minimal national profiles.
But the SATs of the kids are just a hair below Ivy tier.
Why do kids who could go places with real name recognition select these colleges?
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@ststyty @TheLaurenChen "own choices"
"single dad"
Doesn't make the connection
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@TheLaurenChen I have no idea who that guy is, but I worked two jobs for 5 years, finally decided to go back to school full time while working full time, got a degree and got a good job working at an engineering firm. Single dad, and barely getting by paycheck to paycheck.
It’s not all excuses
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Leftists hate Caleb Hammer because he exposes the fact that a lot of people are poor not because of the system, but their own choices
vo@vanillaopinions
i unironically think caleb hammer is one of the most socially corrosive figures in america right now
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@LasVegasLocally Been to the one in London
They served baby deer curry
Wasn’t that good, definitely not the worlds best Indian restaurant
The inside is cool though
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The world's best Indian restaurant, Gymkhana, opens at ARIA this week. For the first time ever, the Vegas Strip will have Michelin-starred Indian dining. It's arguably the biggest culinary event of the year.
Here's what the restaurant looks like inside...
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@rubrunning @brady_h How do you sign up for these? I try looking into these but Japanese Internet makes it difficult. Are you local?
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Agreed… the only thing i enjoy more from big races is the merchandising at the Expo, everything else it feels overwhelming to me, lines, lines , lines… a logistics nightmare. I enjoy traveling to small races in Japan for my serious attempts, i enjoy the traveling and here small races have an incredibly efficient organization nothing else can compare imo, i can just concentrate on my racing routine and my running and everything is much more manageable. Going for it this Sunday in Okayama!
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Unpopular opinion.
Small(ish) marathons are better if you’re thinking about performance.
Logistics easier. Start isn’t crowded. Low-stress.
Big city energy is great but standing on a start line for 45–60 minutes pre-race is NOT.
Joe Hale@kuperhale
@brady_h Majors are out small marathons are in
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@TheLawSharks @ccmembersonly Two beers and some heaters in a strip mall parking lot before work
wjla.com/features/i-tea…
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Let’s have a God Damn day.
Boomer MF Sooner.
Roll Out the God Damn Barrel.
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@shagbark_hick This is like the third time in recent days you've mentioned driving. Drove to check out border property, drove by other house, drive to Quebec. Have you gone back to the automobile lifestyle?
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This is, for the record, also visible in a long list of other dimensions, too.
In Quebec, people seem more educated, more well-spoken, healthier, less 'defeated'. They smile more. The women are prettier, the towns are not as haggard as their American analogues mere miles away.
Yet it comes at a cost. Too 'orderly' to really go "balls to the wall" -- permits for everything, overtaxed, abysmally-low fertility rate, insane political problems, crisis-level housing costs.
Eloi and the Morlocks -- pick your poison. Or don't choose, and live directly on the border on the USA side, picking and choosing the best of both sides. Drive 20 minutes to get pate; come home to your mortgage-free house full of guns. Can't beat border living.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
Of all the contrasts between NY and Quebec one sees living along the border, the gastronomic difference is the most stark. On the USA side: gas station chili dogs, thick greasy diner gravies (and people with physique to match). On Quebec side, it's fresh greens, local farm goat cheeses, excellent wines, leek soups, all fresh and light and gourmet (and again, the people have physiques to match). Go out for dinner in Fort Covington NY, and then go out for dinner in Saint-Anicet QC and see what I mean... Two EXTREMELY different food cultures, side by side, that basically do not mix (except for things like Labatt Blue and poutine). And an obesity rate that corresponds -- 40% in Franklin County NY and 24% in Montérégie, Quebec. The "line" is very real.
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@PiratePareto @Empty_America Go to the Philippines bro, you’ll be alright
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@boneGPT @DKToTheFuture88 @johnnymaga If you ever have a layover at SLC, and you go out for a cigarette, you see lots of these groups at the arrival gate. It’s like an ohhhh it’s real moment
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I’ve obtained an additional photo of Lance Twiggs, the transitioning roommate and lover of Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson.
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@depinwhale @Empty_America She could have saved a ton of money here buying the store brands. They got name brand everything, sodas, pizzas, cereals, Mac and cheese.
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@Empty_America That’s actually not a bad price for all that food. Maybe too cheap of calories though
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In America, if you cook from cheap staple ingredients, you are probably either a recent immigrant or you have a graduate degree.
For everyone else, it's 32 frozen pizzas, two bite brownies, etc.
This too is a form of mass affluence.
Katie Miller@KatieMiller
This is how the US spent over $5 trillion on healthcare last year. Healthcare is the largest category of federal spending outpacing both Social Security and Defense.
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@Empty_America confused what the sugar is for?? they’re just reheating
nvm I don’t want to know
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@Luciu_satrninus @archi_tradition You can walk the whole thing in like 30 minutes, I was underwhelmed. It’s like two streets and a lake. It’s nice though.
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@archi_tradition Besides the obvious I like Annecy
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Most enjoyable city in Europe to walk around?
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@BussySmeller2 @Empty_America The Kennedys were consider gauche by the Boston Brahmins
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From 1951 to 1955, this modest 1,400 sq ft. home in Midland TX contained two different future Presidents of the United States, and a future Governor of Florida.
Society was incredibly "level" in those days, and that is what we actually miss.
Almost no one was really rich.
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@BowTiedRunning It was already fall at the Montevideo half marathon today
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@realEstateTrent That could have been an e-mail, but the entitled oldboy wanted my undivided attention at the exact moment he wanted to talk, get out of here, if we absolutely must talk on the phone, schedule a time, but usually it’s completely unnecessary. I don’t want to shoot the shit w you
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I call, you text. I call, you text again.
You guys under 30 crack me up 😅
What is it? Is it embarrassing to be on the phone
Genuinely curious what the deal is.
You’re going to do fewer deals this way.
Promise.
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