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This list agrees with you on CT:
https://www.mashed.com/478517/the-best-regional-fast-food-chains-in-every-state/
Surprised to hear a restaurant does dozens of different items well. Usually, they get bogged down with the variety & it all ends up kind of blah.
So many burger places on the list. I prefer the weird ones like runzas & skyline chili. Culver's is good & all but last time I drove across WI, I picked up a racine kringle & that lasted me the whole ride.
TIL the coney island hot dog is a Detroit thing. From its name, I always figured NY.
I think you're confusing him with Randy.
I'm old, but Pirate Bay is 20 years old. Not the badge of youth you seem to think it is.
This is all beside the point: Euphoria's drawing millions of viewers on HBO Max & via normal cable. They're paying to watch, which skews the audience older.
PS: are you really pulling one over on Hollyweird by watching their content for free? They're more interested in capturing an audience than taking our money.
Honestly wish them luck because even with a strong cast, That 80's Show bombed.
Original was cut some slack because networks were shifting to reality TV and unwilling to try out new sitcoms. The Simpsons should have been put down decades ago, but networks held on to it because of this dynamic. Also explains Chuck Lorre's string of success. Or the ongoing mockumentary trend.
I'll give it shot for a couple episodes.
Michael's kid? Didn't know she made music.
My list was pretty similar.
Didn't recognize Remi Wolf.
Sylvan Esso & Hippo Campus got a lot of play on the local radio station about a decade ago.
Three Six Mafia did that stupid "syzurp" song. Was that like 20 years ago?
I know Jenny Lewis more as the pretty redhead from The Wizard, that Nintendo movie. 30+ years ago. Man, I'm old.
Another layer is that the Houseman family was upscale & Jewish. Wealthy people can buy their way out of a lot of problems. And being part of the "other", they're more tone-deaf to the racial dog whistles. They felt like they were above this stuff.
The viewers did not. Not even in the 1980s. The dancing was understood to be "dirty", especially for a movie aimed at teens. And they were not entirely wrong, seeing what happened between Robby & Penny. The heroine is kept "clean" to make it easy to swallow.
Keep in mind that a major plot point is the disconnect between what people assume is happening & what actually happens behind closed doors. I dislike the movie, but it was a huge success because of how well it threaded this needle.
Have always had an interest in Scandi history but content focused on vikings gets mawkish. Same problem with Japanese history & samurai.
Steel wool & bleach.
We'll eventually figure out a way to charge them instantly.
Other than that, not much will change. You're still going to need to produce their power from fossil fuels or nuclear. Solar/wind won't scale. Even if they did, you'd still have to figure out a way to dispose of the battery waste.
Battery powered cars are just a dumb idea. We've wasted so much on them when we probably could have made compressed air work.
FWIW, it sometimes shows up on free streaming platforms. I can't remember which sites but I found it by way of Yidio.
It's a fair point in favor of FPTP. The word "fascist" gets thrown around too often. But one of their beefs with democracy was that it wouldn't allow for bold, new ideas.
That South Park episode "Fat Butt and Pancake Head" roasted her on her Hispandering.
Proponents of affirmative action (which I am not) would argue that those candidates are competent. And they're doing you a favor by forcing you to move past your "hate" & hire them, anyway.
This is my problem with meritocracy. It gets you bogged down in debates about what merit even means. Imperial China believed that a lack of family would make public servants impartial. Modern America believes that "diversity is our greatest strength". This fixation on certification leads to some really stupid places.
The genius of Renaissance Man was that he didn't care about that. He just wanted to live a life of virtue.
Meritocracy & family are competing values.
Imperial China was technically meritocratic. The exam system snatched up all the brightest minds, regardless of their station in life. Literally took them away from the family & made them eunuchs. They then used their positions to dream up clever new schemes to increase the state's wealth.
Meanwhile, the Medici family built a patronage network in Florence. Rich weirdos used their position to dole out jobs based on personal taste & face-to-face relationships. It gave us the Renaissance; a flourishing in science & some of the most beautiful art ever produced.
Not a hard choice.
Yeah, he was probably more known from Brian's Song.
Really only had 20 years where TV followed the Hays Code. They've been fleeing that stance ever since.
70s TV was kind of edgy. Soap operas, Mary Tyler Moore, Norman Lear, SNL, MASH. Nobody came out and explicitly said Charles Nelson Reilly was gay, but it was pretty easy to read between the lines. Three's Company was about stuffy landlords refusing to rent out to unmarried coeds & only folded under the false belief that Jack was gay.
Fairer to say gays were objects of pity/ridicule.
That's true. Grossout & romantic movies definitely still exist. Mixing the 2 into 1 movie was a way of trying to appeal to as wide a demographic as possible. Which was a better idea when media was less fractured.
The other part of this was producers trying to repeat the success of There's Something About Mary. But turns out it wasn't just the formula that made it popular. It was actually a good movie. This happens a lot with all movies. Pixar, Jackie Chan & John Hughes spawned a ton of imitators. That eventually runs its course.
NY. I like the seasons.
I also strongly prefer urban life. Something to keep in mind with CA, the state is basically a desert. Large cities grew around ports in LA /SF. But they're 400 miles apart. In contrast, NYC is only 200 miles from DC & Boston with significant population centers in between.
"PC hasn't killed comedy, we still have John Oliver, Abbott Elementary & Marvel movies!"
Good grief, that is bleak.