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  1. We've been watching DTF the last few weeks... it wasn't what I expected going in but it's decent.  

    It's got Richard Jenkins in it who looks the same as he did 25 years ago when I first noticed him in Six Feet Under.

     

  2. Had a fun time last night at the Hamtramck Blow Out. $20 gets you access to all kinds of fun music laid out at the many places there. At times I felt out of place as it was a lot of young “freaky” people but then you would see some “dads”. And most places had $2 beer.  Music ranged from acoustic folk in a quiet coffee shop to raging punk from a band called “Morbid C**t”. 

  3. 1 hour ago, chasfh said:

    That’s one of the things I like about being a dinosaur with DirecTV satellite: it has never logged me out for god knows what reason and forced me to painfully input one character of my very long password at a time through a TV remote to get back in.

    I’m the same way. I feel claustrophobic when I use an app to watch sports. Like I am trapped. Movies and such don’t bother me because I’m watching the movie. Sports is more casual. Especially baseball.  I’ve had mlb.tv for years and rarely used it because going in and out was just enough hassle to not be worth it. around playoff time I would watch some games.  I hope they come up with a resolution for the providers. 

  4. I came back from a walk and put the game in.  Find the icon. Scroll to it. Hit enter. Wait for the spinning thing to finish.  Get to the menu. Click on the Comerica park picture.  Go to the bathroom.  Come back and it’s the “pregame”. It started from the beginning. Maybe I missed a question. Go back. Try again. Same thing. Try a third time and find an icon finally to “go live”. 
     

  5. It had to do with the economy and the stimulus checks... I made the comment that a lot of people who were fortunate enough to keep working during the early days of the pandemic found themselves saving money and then then getting an infusion of cash from those checks were spending money on projects and other things they normally might not have done... thus causing some of the inflation we saw... "you guys sit there in your finished basements while working people suffer" or something to that effect.

    I read that while working in my non cubicle in my unfinished basement.

     

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  6. For me apps are fine in limited circumstances but in general I don't like it when the games I want to watch are on them.  I like to flip around.  Unless it's a "must see" game like a playoff or an opener where it will have my full attention...  Otherwise having to exit out and then go back is annoying.  Then they forget who you are and you have to log in again.  I'm a dinosaur.  I still have cable.   I will be ticked if I have to pay for this more than I am now.  I'm already on an elevated tier that includes sports, like MLB Network, Big Ten,  NHL Network, etc. and that includes FanDuel.  Before their fight a a few years ago the old Bally's wasn't on that tier, they moved it to that.  Fine, whatever.   But if I now have to go above that, yeah it will bother me.  I'll pay it because I'm a slappy... but it stinks.

    If it were just me in the house, I'd go bare bones and get rid of all of it, like my son has done since he moved out.  But my wife needs Friends on during the day on TBS and at night on Nick.  Yeah, I know it's on HBO Max.  That's not the same. 

     

     

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  7. MAGA loves it when they go after lib stuff but when they  go after MAGA it's all "Why do they have to be so political?".  That's the MAGA way.  It's based on stupidity.  They're just too dumb to recognize their own hypocrisy.  Thinking is woke.  Faggot ****.

     

  8. I have a casual friend, younger lady in her early 30s.... she was with friends on the ice and her phone fell into the hole.  She got a new phone, old phone wasn't paid off yet, so there's that.  She didn't know her apple ID password, everything was face ID and passcodes.  The email address she had linked to her account was an old college email she no longer has access to.  It was a real mess getting it all straightened out.

     

     

  9. 9 minutes ago, chasfh said:

    Someday the story will come out about what leverage Mamdani wielded over him to completely bring Trump to heel, and I hope I live long enough to hear it.

    Trump is a NY guy and he likes winners.  That's it.  There's no principals to it. 

  10. He'll just go with whoever he thinks will win. He's best buds with the NYC mayor now.  Politics don't matter. Optics do.  And if Cornyn wins again, he'll be in office 4 years after Trump is gone.  Presidents come and go, senators live on.  I thought of that when John McCain, 8+ years after losing to Obama, and after his presidency, cast the deciding vote to save Obamacare.

     

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