molsusports

re: Pictures from days gone by....

Posted by molsusports on 2/28/26 at 3:51 pm to Muahahaha

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Imagine trying to sell these in today's society

They sell a lot more now but the framing is different. Anxiety has to be the keyword not hysterical wife.

re: EPIC:Elvis Presley in Concert

Posted by molsusports on 2/28/26 at 2:51 pm to JackDempsey

I saw it and was surprised by how much I liked it especially because I was never really an Elvis fan. After seeing this you understand that he was just one of those people who had incredible on stage charisma.

He was a real musician. He had real vocal power and could also play a solid guitar. That didn't come across to just hearing some of his songs or seeing snippets from his movies. Watching him you can see the strong influence of gospel and rock smashed together in a way I don't think I have or would enjoy from any other artist.

Watching it also made me respect the labor involved. Practice and experimentation was central to his process. The end result is a reflection of the talent and the labor.

Watching the movie I was struck that the performance style also likely inspired artists ranging from David Byrne's Talking Heads to Michael Jackson or Prince's big band featuring a dandy Prince in a sweaty jumpsuit.

Also, women loved them some Elvis. The women from the audience just shoving tongues into his mouth (in front of all the world to see) took me a little aback for 1970.

Highly recommend just for understanding the artist and the influences he absorbed and radiated.

re: Viral phenomenon in Argentina has teens identifying themselves as animals

Posted by molsusports on 2/27/26 at 2:35 pm to Shexter

I bet the inside of those masks smells like this one's genitalia

re: We need to clean out our universities of woke professors. I will even use the word PURGE

Posted by molsusports on 2/27/26 at 9:24 am to BamaCoaster

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Mao and Stalin would agree with your purge.

Arguably they would have approved more of the purge of centrist and right leaning professors and administrators. The percentage of employees of universities who identify as independent or conservative has plunged over the last three decades.

The requirements for diversity statements during the application process are such that you wouldn't hire Obama or either Clinton if their presidential campaign rhetoric was used in the application.

There has already been a purge and a radicalization. Whatever you think about Charlie Kirk the shocking thing about seeing him debate college students was they frequently had never heard the arguments he presented. That, combined with the data on university party affiliation, shows how much of a purge of other ideas has been enforced.

re: We need to clean out our universities of woke professors. I will even use the word PURGE

Posted by molsusports on 2/27/26 at 9:09 am to Harry Caray

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That was the exact opposite of an ad hominem argument

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fascist propaganda organization

Words like fascist, Nazi, radical and others get used as an ad hominem attacks way too frequently.

If your initial response to someone is to say (paraphrasing). "I understand you are part of a fascist propaganda organization" you aren't engaging in an open minded and good faith debate.

News media of all political biases and others fall into this trap much more frequently. Objective journalism used to be the goal. The use of subjective slurs instead of presenting and debating their opinions honestly is unfortunately the norm on campuses and in media discourse.

re: Who had war between Pakistan and Afghanistan on their 2026 bingo card?

Posted by molsusports on 2/26/26 at 10:34 pm to Proximo

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Hibatullah Akhundzada

Was he on anyone's 2026 celebrity death list?

re: Apparently, there are lewd photos of the former DeRidder Mayor

Posted by molsusports on 2/26/26 at 10:29 pm to LaBR4

Just how tall is the guy who's head doesn't fit in the picture?

Michael Clark Duncan was smaller

re: Stephen Hawking Seen with 2 Women in Bikinis in New Epstein Files Photo

Posted by molsusports on 2/26/26 at 6:24 pm to DoUrden

1, 3, 2

re: Shia LeBouef is on an all-time crash out

Posted by molsusports on 2/26/26 at 2:45 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze

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Some of the crew I know who worked with him on Megalopolis said he was an absolute tool.

He seemed like it in the megadoc documentary about Megalopolis. Even knowing that he had developed a reputation for being difficult couldn't keep him from being obnoxious

re: Crispin Glover, aka George McFly, has some legal issues . . .

Posted by molsusports on 2/26/26 at 2:22 pm to Bham4Tide

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Pretty weird dude

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interesting he has Nazi memorabilia

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Filed on behalf of a "model originally from the United Kingdom who lives with autism spectrum disorder and related mood disorders,"

Water usually finds its own level

At best I suspect both are strange and possibly dangerous in the wrong circumstances.

re: 49 Years Ago Today, The Greatest Sports Film of All Time Premiered.

Posted by molsusports on 2/26/26 at 1:37 pm to Fewer Kilometers

I always like the best sports movies threads. Some great movies get mentioned

Caddyshack
Field of Dreams
Vision Quest
Brewster's Millions
Happy Gilmore
Pride of the Yankees
Ford vs Ferrari
Slap Shot
Varsity Blues
Win Win
Tin Cup
Warrior
Moneyball
Goon
The Wrestler

re: Vandy has a player named Chandler Bing

Posted by molsusports on 2/26/26 at 1:19 pm to Jim Rockford

This guy preferred fat Monica

More Sports

re: Study: Young people want more "vulnerable men" in movies/TV, less "masculine stereotypes"

Posted by molsusports on 2/26/26 at 10:50 am to tide06

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What they came up with was that they needed to divide people into not bourgeoisie and proletariat, but along intersectional race and gender lines.

That part was adopted as the financial devastation and loss of human life became more and more obvious under the Soviets and Chinese in the 20th century.

Groups of wealthy and educated people in America never fessed up to those failures but rebranded the same ideology into a western style discussion about race and sex since their arguments about efficacy of class based socialism in improving human welfare had been abject failures.

re: Study: Young people want more "vulnerable men" in movies/TV, less "masculine stereotypes"

Posted by molsusports on 2/26/26 at 10:41 am to Kinderman

It is impressive how broken some parts of academia have become. Complete nonsense and completely unreproducible studies are rampant.

Huge parts of the university systems are the intellectual and moral equivalent of the research on smoking that cigarette companies famously funded. You are allowed funding and appointment to the faculty when you sign away the right to discover and publish uncomfortable truths.

It used to be the nonsense was restricted to gender studies programs but the rot is much wider now. Survey data of political affiliation demonstrate a near absence of conservative or Republican viewpoints on most college and university departments.

Even the ability to hear a different viewpoint has been nearly eliminated in their public spaces. And the whole point of an education is to hear and debate different points of reference.

I hope the whole thing gets reformed or destroyed. The present system saddles the students with ridiculous debt and no ability to understand the world or deal with the failures of the far left including collapsing American cities, rampant addiction among the homeless, terrible public schools and a failed welfare and public housing system that literally creates dependency and ghettos.

re: So Pedro Pascal is gay. . .

Posted by molsusports on 2/25/26 at 10:46 am to Philzilla2k

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Statistically unlikely, unless it's all a choice.

Indoctrination

The gay part I think is probably an inmate characteristic. ETA typo inmate for innate but I thought the error was funny

The trans part can be influenced apparently. Judging by the number of people detransitioning and evidence of social contagion pattern of distribution (especially teenagers)

re: Better 1..2 punch: Alien/Aliens vs Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back vs Terminator/T2

Posted by molsusports on 2/20/26 at 11:01 pm to boomjosh

I love, or at least loved, all of those movies (Star Wars is a bit damaged but Empire is a great movie).

T2 is probably the best movie of its type so I will say Terminator and T2. Agree with the comments about Alien and Aliens being outstanding and admirably different types of movies.

I'd also give honorable mentions to the first two Lethal Weapon movies, Paddington, Evil Dead, and the Godfather

re: Nashville Waffle House customer orders hash browns maced, tazed, and zip tied

Posted by molsusports on 2/20/26 at 1:24 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger

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Had one waitress absolutely going off on a customer - in her defense the customer was rude. I just kept quiet and about 5 minutes later the waitress came over to take my order. I was as sweet as pie because she already had her last nerve stepped on.

Frankly some of those waitresses scare me a little

I was at a waffle house where a waitress was pretty beligerant with another rude customer as I was arriving. Said customer departed.

When I was getting my check she intimated interest but I played dumb because I could imagine waking up in bed with my genitals severed from the rest of my body.

re: Bill Hader to turn real-life divorce into new horror movie

Posted by molsusports on 2/20/26 at 1:18 pm to bad93ex

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Named his kids Hannah Hader, Harper Hader, and Hayley Hader.

There's your horror movie right there.

Need to know middle names because he might be a HUGE FAN of:

Possibilities including huh, heh, hah, hhh, hoh

I know someone who was one initial from kkk (or kok).

re: Explain the Epstein Files to Me

Posted by molsusports on 2/20/26 at 8:39 am to Missouri Waltz

The sex part is getting most of the attention but what gets less attention than it should is the role he likely played in hiding, making, or moving money.

I consider it at least plausible that people involved with him were doing inappropriate or criminal sexual things but it seems to me the big reason billionaires might want him would be about the money.

The inside baseball scandal taking down people associated with the current British leadership centered around Brexit and the monetary effects of getting ahead of that currency trade. The current prime minister Keir Starmer nominated Peter Mandelson in spite of his known association with Epstein. Mandelson leaked information to Epstein. Epstein and/or his chosen associates then had an enormous financial advantage for currency trading.

Why does that matter so much? That type of information (provided to financial operatives linked to political officials) is sometimes how people become billionaires. Years ago Soros made his fortune with a similar type of British currency trade (a leveraged bet against market or central bank wisdom).

It also just makes more sense to me that the likes of the wealthiest and most politically powerful people in the world would be interested in hiding or obtaining more money. And, assuming the baby eating stuff is nonsense, that seems like a more clear motive if you are one of the female billionaires or middle eastern types linked to Epstein.