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On 5/7/2019 at 8:53 PM, Eskimohorn said:

Dude MTV has Lindsay Lohan’s beach club. What are you wasting time on this show?

 

I refuse to start a topic for The Hills: New Beginnings so I'll just quote this and say that trying to have Heidi & Spencer carry a show with zero Lauren Conrad participation is fucking disgraceful

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    Sort of a layman' explanation of the test.  Nuclear reactors boil water with their heat, which makes steam.  The steam is piped to turbines or turbogenerators to make electricity. The electricity

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    Looks like they filmed this in College Station.

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On 6/18/2019 at 8:39 AM, Lobo said:

People are paying $58 to see Yakov Smirnov in Branson, Missouri at 10 o'clock in the morning.  

That's happening.  Right now.  In this country.  On our watch.  

And Republicans don't think the Russians are meddling in our affairs?  

If I was drunk at 10 a.m. in Branson, why not?

Isn't Branson that place that brazenly advertises, "Vegas, but without the booze and gambling."  It is literally my understanding that there's no alcohol, but for a few places that even serve alcohol and even then, it's just with dinner and tepidly at that.  

On 5/7/2019 at 9:55 AM, Lobo said:

 What about the scuba divers  that died saving most of eastern Europe ?

I'm just now getting around to watching this -- watched the first two episodes back-to-back. I've just seen their flashlights go out in the muck as they're trying to get down into the water to let the water out of the canisters to avoid them exploding. According to Wikipedia, two of the three are still alive and I think the third only just recently died and it didn't sound like it was due to the radiation.

I now know that because of the show and the subsequent research.  I posted that before I started watching the show and the only thing I remembered from junior high social studies Class was that those guys saved a good chunk of Europe and then died.  It was a public school in Illinois, so not exactly top notch.  

This miniseries was so remarkable because it so superbly balanced between the dedication of a small number of dedicated people who knew their personal health was at risk to save millions juxtaposed against a massive government monolith of millions dedicAted to ignorance and lies.  Every few minutes, I’d catch myself thinking’ how can this government fuck it up even more’....wait here we go

I had always pictured that diver story as actually diving fully underwater through a maze (and in pitch black). The show made it kind of disappointing with them just wading around with flashlights. 

Great story and bravery, but just one of those things I had built up more in my head.

I had always pictured that diver story as actually diving fully underwater through a maze (and in pitch black). The show made it kind of disappointing with them just wading around with flashlights. 
Great story and bravery, but just one of those things I had built up more in my head.


The Rock and Jason Statham got it covered in the next F&F movie

But it was their epic swim under the earth from Ukraine to Armenia that caused the massive earthquake that finally proved that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics couldn't take care of its own shit.  They crumbled and now we're not allowed to call them out by name.  

I now know that because of the show and the subsequent research.  I posted that before I started watching the show and the only thing I remembered from junior high social studies Class was that those guys saved a good chunk of Europe and then died.  It was a public school in Illinois, so not exactly top notch.  
This miniseries was so remarkable because it so superbly balanced between the dedication of a small number of dedicated people who knew their personal health was at risk to save millions juxtaposed against a massive government monolith of millions dedicAted to ignorance and lies.  Every few minutes, I’d catch myself thinking’ how can this government fuck it up even more’....wait here we go


That’s the Thai soccer team story.

At any rate, just finished this. Wow. Powerful. Amazing. Can’t remember the last time I saw something as powerful as this. Mind-boggling what it took to not be the cataclysmic event it could’ve been.
8 hours ago, C-Man said:

At any rate, just finished this. Wow. Powerful. Amazing. Can’t remember the last time I saw something as powerful as this.

Yep. Agreed. I can typically binge watch shows 5+ episodes at a time. This was the first time I've had to stop watching after each episode and take a day to process what I watched.

So if they could keep the whole direction and production team together, what should they do for Season 2? Another disaster? Some war battle? Sports story? What?

These guys could kill it doing lotsa subjects.

They all move to Armenia in 1988 just to see what's what.  The point is just that the socio-political critic, Art Vandelay reminded us that nothing is above Architect, so to to these Soviet scientists and engineers blaze into our skulls that nothing is above the State.  The State, the State, the State.  

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

They all move to Armenia in 1988 just to see what's what.  The point is just that the socio-political critic, Art Vandelay reminded us that nothing is above Architect, so to to these Soviet scientists and engineers blaze into our skulls that nothing is above the State.  The State, the State, the State.  

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1 hour ago, Lobo said:

They all move to Armenia in 1988 just to see what's what.  The point is just that the socio-political critic, Art Vandelay reminded us that nothing is above Architect, so to to these Soviet scientists and engineers blaze into our skulls that nothing is above the State.  The State, the State, the State.  

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Fozz refuses to click any squares. Just hopes for a different scene each refresh. 

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The daughter and SIL went to Chernobyl last week, and all I got was a T shirt.  

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14 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

The daughter and SIL went to Chernobyl last week, and all I got was a T shirt.  

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How was the pizza?

35 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Look of the logo. Chernobyl Pizza sounds catchy. 

Yes, I'll have the double pepperoni, and extra radiation please....

3 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Look of the logo. Chernobyl Pizza sounds catchy. 

Almost as good as Mercury Pizza.  It's always a good idea to put poison in the name.

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It's on HBO Max.  Had seen bits and pieces caught from an episode here and there (hotel rooms, at a friends, etc.).

Finally started watching it properly.

Damn this was amazing.  

Had to stop from binge-watching it, else I would have been up half the night.

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The people who made this need to do another story. Dunno what story they should do, but they need to do something. 

The people who made this need to do another story. Dunno what story they should do, but they need to do something. 

Houston’s own Candy Man deserves a really good doc/film. Sick fuck.
10 minutes ago, Parliament said:

The people who made this need to do another story. Dunno what story they should do, but they need to do something. 

This would be pretty interesting as a mini-series , albeit on a much smaller time scale, but I feel like the people who made Chernobyl could capture the intensity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire

The problem is that Chernobyl had actual antagonists by way of the people trying to cover their own asses, and the whole pulling back the curtain on Soviet stuff is so riveting, given how little those in the West had seen.

 

I'm amazed at the range of effects the radiation caused.

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The firemen who went into ground zero. It's been a bit but I believe two of that group of 3 lived normal lives 

 

On 5/11/2019 at 8:53 PM, bschoolprof said:

I have a horrible fear of radiation poisoning. 

 

On 5/12/2019 at 9:32 PM, Nolacycling said:

and quicksand, scary stuff. 

 

On 5/12/2019 at 10:29 PM, Eskimohorn said:

Watch out for the killer bees!

You guys are not gonna enjoy 2020.

I'm amazed at the range of effects the radiation caused.
Spoiler

The firemen who went into ground zero. It's been a bit but I believe two of that group of 3 lived normal lives 

 


There was a Dateline (IIRC) episode about an orphanage of Chernobyl kids radiated in the womb and born with various defects. The one I remember was a kid whose knees bent backwards and was walking across the room on all fours. It was like the alien in that Charlie Sheen movie, The Arrival.
14 hours ago, Nolacycling said:

I'm amazed at the range of effects the radiation caused.

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The firemen who went into ground zero. It's been a bit but I believe two of that group of 3 lived normal lives 

 

Enough vodka can fight off anything. 

One of the Top 5 shows HBO has aired. There were no weak points and it cut to the bone.

Sidebar: Remind me never to fuck with a Russian miner.

15 hours ago, Parliament said:

The people who made this need to do another story. Dunno what story they should do, but they need to do something. 

Come on Russia. We are waiting. Fuck something up.

On 10/10/2019 at 8:17 PM, Onboard 2.0 said:

The daughter and SIL went to Chernobyl last week, and all I got was a T shirt.  

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this as a pizza combined with this

 

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=  epic

The guy who played the #2 KGB director…he was in three scenes in the whole series and was absolutely brilliant in every single second of frame.  He’s what I think of when I think of the KGB for the rest of my life. 

3 hours ago, RPM said:

One of the Top 5 shows HBO has aired. There were no weak points and it cut to the bone.

The editing reminds me of the Marvel Disney+ shows - unless you stop and check the timestamp, you don't realize how much time has passed.

Amazing editing.

A good comedic movie about how we believe politics in Russia works is "The Death of Stalin".

8 minutes ago, Nolacycling said:

A good comedic movie about how we believe politics in Russia works is "The Death of Stalin".

Incredible movie. Iannucci is a genius 

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8 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

Got to the hospital scene and that was a nope.

Yeah, this is fucking hard to watch, I had to stop.

The doctor pointing out the new maternity hospital they are building that looks like it was built 50 years ago and in danger of collapsing. 

So aggy. 

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