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Red Dead Setup
by Ebon- 1 reply
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Yup, someone done did it.
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In Memoriam...
by Con- 1 follower
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Just a thread to express your admiration and respect for famous people that are no longer with us. The only rule of the thread is... RESPECT. Respect the posts of other DBX members. Remember that we all have different life experiences and forms of inspiration are different for each one of us. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today, August 26 Gene Wilder died Sunday. Most people know him as Willy Wonka but I remember him mostly for Stir Crazy, Silver Streak, and Hear No Evil...See No Evil. Rest In Peace Gene! Enjoy the re…
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New Year Resolutions (2019 Edition)
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Anyone got any resolutions they are making real or fake for laughs?? I don't make "real" resolutions, talk about it but never have, probably never will I tell @BustyRose my resolution is to make sure she wakes up everyday with a black eye, she tells me that'd be fine but it would be hard for me to do if I don't wake up.
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BBQ Smokers
by D-Rocks- 1 follower
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Who owns one and what brand do you recommend? I got my Christmas bonus from work.
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Thank you crew for helping me through!
by omarcomin71- 2 followers
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Crew love! Some of you may or may not know that last month I was laid off from my job here in San Diego. The company I worked for up and closed its doors without any warning. This was a huge blow to me as I wasn’t sure what to do next. Worry and depression quickly set in. Thankfully I have great family and friends who support me and always have my back. With the belief that everything happens for a reason I looked at this as a new opportunity and have decided to enter the culinary world. I love to cook and find the preparation that goes along with it calming and relaxing. I just want to thank this amazing crew for helping through as well.…
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What to do for money this week
by Kniv3s- 5 replies
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So I think this week's bonuses suck, CEO got cheaper boxes so with them not being double I won't be touching boxes this week. I don't have any MC businesses started and don't want to. I will run cars this week maybe throw in some heists to mix it up. Any other suggestions on money making tactics for this week?
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Our first wedding photo
by Burgermauger- 15 replies
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One of the reasons why I haven’t been around lately... I got married May 19th, to my beautiful wife.
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Cruise Honeymoon
by Burgermauger- 2 replies
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Carnival Magic cruise to Amber Cove, Dominican Republic— St Thomas USVI— San Juan Puerto Rico— Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Our home for the week Carnival Magic Dominican St Thomas USVI Drakes Seat, overlooking Magan’s Bay a must see in St Thomas San Juan PR Grand Turk
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Aqaurium
by Firebear926- 1 follower
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Does anybody in the crew have aqauriums?
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Cruise
by TECHFL227- 1 follower
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Has anyone taken a cruise before? I'm taking my first one in March with my best friend so was looking for tips.
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How to remove a pest 1 2
by Squirrel- 2 followers
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This evening I was just fetching myself another beer and it seems that I have a housemate that I didn't know about. Little mouse just sat in my kitchen stealing my crumbs. Personally they don't bother me but I can just imagine the reaction any date I bring home will have when seeing the little furball. Sorry little buddy you're not getting in the way of me and my ladies! Getting a cat isn't an option so I'm going to have to trap him and any of his little mates. What do you recommend as a crew of the most effective way of getting rid of an unwanted rodent? I don't need anyone to point out that a squirrel is also a rodent! Only room for one of us in this ho…
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New Years resolution 1 2 3
by ScottyB- 3 followers
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Ive never really been one to follow through or care much about doing a New Years resolution, but it would be interesting to see who does and what you want to achieve in the new year. It will be good to write it down (here or elsewhere) as that provides you with a sense of commitment because you have written it down and also told people thus making it real which should help you achieve the Goals more then just having them in your head or telling a few people So I'll start it off with not so much a resolution but more of goals that I would like to achieve in the coming year. 1. To balance my lifestyle. There are many things I enjoy doing but I neglect everything and o…
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What do you want Santa to bring you for Xmas?
by JustHatched- 3 followers
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I asked @BustyRose for the Hee Haw dvd collection If you not familiar with Hee Haw here is a video
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Gas Oven Stove
by D-Rocks- 4 replies
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Does anyone know if it is normal for the numbers on a carbon monoxide detector to go up when you open the door to your gas oven to check on the food that is cooking?
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Same Sex Marriage 1 2
by JustHatched- 3 followers
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Yours? This thread was split from another thread, this is for the discussion of same sex marriage and not hate or bashing of gay or lesbian people
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Going into a new business
by JustHatched- 5 followers
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As many of you know Rose and I own and operate a flower shop, she has had it for 19? years -1 due to the fire a year and half ago. Anyways, on top of that we are going in the ranching business, Alpaca's to be exact. We have 3 animals coming next weekend to be followed by 20 or so more by mid summer 2018. We are going to be doing the genetics side of the business and being specific in which DNA sequences get bred together to have "Elite" animals to sell. Should be interesting...
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Mid Century Furniture
by BryannosaurusRex- 4 replies
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So, after redecorating my living/dining room I'm in the process of filling it with furniture. As its a 1970s built house I've been looking at mid 20th century items - 1960s & 1970s stuff. It suits the size and shape of the room well. British made items from that period are very Scandinavian influenced, but much of it wasn't too well constructed and most has been binned over the years. The better quality stuff that remains therefore demands a high price, particularly as it's becoming quite fashionable again. So, my question is for the Scandi folk among us - What sort of prices does 1960/70's Scandi/Swedish/Danish furniture sell for in its native countries? Th…
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Christmas
by D-Rocks- 3 followers
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Alright- It is starting to get cold up here in Minnesota. I am just curious what people are thinking about putting on there wish list this year.
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Do you like your current residence?
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Ya know, your house, apartment, trailer, etc...? What would you change if you could? Do you get on well with the neighbors? I do fine with our neighbors, they are all family. I would like to tear the house down and build a new one, its tough to heat and air due to shitty design and cathedral ceilings, not enough closet space and to fix it to be right would cost as much as a new house.
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Introduction Welcome to my Moto Blog of Greatness. I hope to write at least one entry each week, hopefully more, on something motorcycle related. I've been riding almost all of my life on all types of bikes and in lots of different situations. I also plan to write about motorcycle racing, motorcycles in pop culture, new bikes, old bikes, travel, maintenance, safety gear and riding techniques. I am also reserving the right to blog about other gearhead stuff like cars, trucks, ships, tools and radio controlled things. For some reason I think my entries should serve some purpose. Maybe it's just to entertain and that's good enough but it would be cool if they also i…
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This post is the Blog entry that is getting removed. I'm posting it in the forum to keep it from being deleted... 2015 - The Year of Hell March 24, 2015 changed my life forever. That day, my wife gave birth to our still born boy at 24 weeks. I had never known what a loss like that could do to a family. I expected my wife to be sad. I expected to be sad. I expected my other kids to not really understand what happened, and have a lot of questions. I was not prepared for the months to come. I was not prepared for any of the repercussions of this Event. Come to think of it, the whole pregnancy was doomed. It was doomed from the beginning. Maybe that's what wa…
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Remember Manchester
by Brainstick- 4 followers
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Hi guys, I looked if there was a post like this one on the site but I couldn't find one, so sorry if I missed it somewhere. We all know about the attack on, mostly, young people at the Manchester Arena. And it made me very sick to see that another attack took place on innocent people. Mostly young people who should have the time of their lives at a concert of Ariana Grande. 22 died and 59 were badly injured. There has been said a lot about it but somehow I still can't find enough words to describe how I feel about this and what may be to come.(sorry if my English let's me down a bit). Because we also have a lot of members from the UK, I hope non of our memb…
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Drop a list of the Comedian's whom you consider as falling into the category of most influential in making you laugh, & or make honorable mention of those who came close but no cigar, giving insight if necessary.
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Aussieisms 1 2 3
by revbouncer- 3 followers
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We Aussies can seem like a strange lot to outsiders. It's because we generally are very blunt and call things as we see em, usually with some colourful adjectives to enhance the expression of the comment. We love our lingo and love it even more when migrants adopt our style of communication, showing us that they're really trying to be good Aussies. Here's a thread for ALL things Australian, feel free to add your own Aussieisms or just comment on the posts. I'll get it started with some of the new politically correct terminology they'd like us to start using in the workplace... ( fat fucking chance mate, I say )
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Is it worth it, being nice and all....
by JustHatched- 4 followers
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Do you think it is worth an effort to try to be nice to people? I've spent a few years making this attempt and I seem to just get the same result as being a prick or get taken advantage of. Now I am reached the frame of mind of fuck the world and everyone in it, or at least those whom are useless cocksuckers that deserve an ice pick in the brainstem. Thoughts?
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I agree @djw180 The Fall of the House of Usher is worth a watch for Mark Hamill’s performance alone. Plus, I’ve been on the fence about watching Kaos. I will definitely give it a go now. Thanks!- 2
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I just finished watching The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. Highly recommended! It's a horror-drama in 8 episodes, very loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe short stories or poems with each episode named after a different work of his. I have never read any of them and some had not even heard of, but I now at least know the brief synopsis of them from Wikipedia. What the creators have done is woven together a plot primarily based on the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" that greatly expands on that. The first episode has the same name as the whole series. Roderick Usher, corrupt billionaire head of a major pharmaceutical company, invites an old adversary, lawyer August Dupin, to his family's derelict house, to confess to a host of crimes. Dupin has been trying to prosecute the Ushers for decades but they always got away with it. Now, following the recent deaths of all six of his children, supposedly in freak, horrific, unrelated accidents, Roderick wants to come clean. Most of the story is now told in flash back, both to the early years of Roderick and his sister Maddie (the brains behind their rise to power) and the children's recent deaths. The next 6 episode each focus on the violent deaths of a different son or daughter, each related in some way to the Edgar Allen Poe story that episode is named after. The final episode, The Raven, then brings everything to it's conclusion, revealing the true cause of all that has happened. It's very, very good. It is a bit bloody and gory at times, but never over-the-top, always done for a reason and usually to fit in with the story that death is named after. It features Mark Hamil in the most un-Luke-Skywalker-like role you can imagine. I never really rated him as an actor in Star Wars, but here, as the Usher's ruthless lawyer he is excellent. Another Netflix series I think is worth a mention is Kaos It's a modern day story of Greek Gods and Heroes, in a world where they most definitely exist and are still worshipped by mortals. Jeff Goldblum is Zeus and there's other recognisable faces amongst the rest of the cast, including David Thewlis as one of Zeus' brothers and fellow god Hades and Suzie Izzard as one of the Fates. It loosely follows the story of Orpheus in the Underworld, but this is part of a bigger plot with both gods and mortals having to accept what fate has in store for them, whether they like it or not.- 1
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178Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #148 (Oct 28-Nov 3) Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person dir. Ariane Louis-Seize/2023/1h30m Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a teenage vampire who, much to the exasperation of her parents, refuses to kill as she has too much empathy, a decision that is slowly killing her. She meets suicidal Paul (Felix-Antoine Benard) and he offers his life for hers, but over the course of the night the two form a bond and find a reason to live. Deadpan humour and charmingly awkward teenage romance add a lightness to what is a very deep emotional drama that is more complex than it at first seems. This put me in mind of a strange mix between A Girl Walked Home Alone at Night and Napoleon Dynamite. There's a beautifully staged scene where the two listen to an old record and, without a word, nervously steal looks at each other for an unbroken three minutes and it has more depth and meaning than most films manage in an hour and a half. You really get the feeling that you're caught up in that dramatic first flush of love where you feel like Romeo and Juliet. The two lead performances are extraordinary, especially Montpetit, and the direction has a real warmth to it despite being set mostly during the night. I loved this. 10/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Jigsaw dir. Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig/2017/1h31m Most of the time while I was watching this I was thinking “have I seen this one before..? No. No, I haven't. Wait, have I? I have! No? Oh, yeah I have”. I think this is the eighth film in the Saw franchise, and by this point they all just kind of blur into one homogenous mess. It's a shame because I think the original is a really good, tense thriller with a great, if ridiculous, twist. 2/10 Terrifier 3 dir. Damien Leone/2024/2h5m It's Christmastime and, five years after the events of the last film, Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) is back playing Santa and everyone is on the naughty list, especially Sienna (Lauren LaVera) who bested him the last time they met. Not as long as Terrifier 2, this is still bloated and full of ridiculous bits of lore that makes the whole thing feel like a parody at times, I actually found myself invested in the character of Sienna here. I think LaVera does a decent job in portraying the trauma and PTSD she's suffering after the last film. Again, the gore here is very well done but so gross that it becomes banal. The best thing about this film, as is the case with the others, is Thornton's performance as Art who manages to be both creepy and funny. 4/10 Immaculate dir. Michael Mohan/2024/1h29m Sydney Sweeney plays Sister Cecilia, an American nun recently arrived at a remote Italian convent. Things take a sinister turn when she becomes pregnant despite being a v*rgin and she starts to think that all is not so holy at the convent. This religious horror doesn't do anything new and owes a huge debt to the likes of Rosemary's Baby but it does do a very good job of ramping up the tension and supernatural elements at a deliberate pace until it's ready to go for broke in the final act. There are a couple of unexpectedly gruesome moments that shocked me more then anything in the Terrifier films precisely because they are so unexpected. Sweeney gives a good performance as a true believer who must become a fighter in order to survive, and there are a couple of memorable supporting performances from Dora Romano as the Mother Superiour and Alvaro Morte as the charismatic Father Tedeschi. A well made, if uninspiring, thriller with a memorable smash cut to black ending, emphasis on the smash. 7/10 Joker: Folie a Deux dir. Todd Phillips/2024/2h18m This sequel to 2019's Joker picks up from the end of that film with Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in prison awaiting his trial for multiple murders. While inside he meets and forms a relationship with Lee Quinzel (Lady Gaga), the two seeming to make the perfect couple. The first film was a well made rip off of Scorsese's The King of Comedy elevated by an incredible performance from Phoenix that didn't need a sequel. Thankfully this isn't taking the predictable route of charting Fleck as he wreaks havoc as the crown prince of crime but instead does something interesting and sees him try to face his many mental health problems while struggling to break free of his anarchic alter ego. This hasn't gone down well with comic book fans as it strays far from the source material, but not being a big comic book guy myself that isn't an issue for me. Phoenix is once again excellent, really giving his all in his performance. Gaga is also good and I liked how her character became a kind of antagonist in always pushing Arthur to be Joker. Brendon Gleeson has a supporting role as the lead prison guard and as much as I like him, and he does give a good performance with what he's given here, his character is too much of a caricature, one scene even implying that he and some other guards r*pe Arthur. Steve Coogan also pops up in one scene as a television reporter interviewing Arthur and it just came across as Alan Partridge doing a bad American accent to me. I haven't mentioned it yet but this film is also a musical - another sticking point for a lot of people – and I think it works well at portraying Arthur's mental state. I loved the moments where we go full fantasy and Arthur and Lee are singing and dancing on an old school style soundstage like a musical from the 40s and 50s. But I am a musical fan so I'm probably biased. Don't believe the anti-hype, not everything here works but it's going for something different and for that alone it should be commended, and I honestly think it's better than the original. 8.5/10 Piece by Piece dir. Morgan Neville/2024/1h34m Piece by Piece is a hybrid biopic/documentary about the life and career of musician and producer Pharrell Williams starring the man himself and featuring appearances by the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake. The gimmick here is that the whole film is animated with Lego. This makes for a playful, vibrant and imaginative film that matches Williams' method for creating music, putting it together piece by piece until you have something new. This is also a very funny film, making full use of the medium and the absurdity of everything being Lego to make some hilarious visual gags. Being a family friendly film this does smooth off some of the rough edges of his story but I still found Williams to be an open and honest subject not afraid to discuss his shortcomings. I love it when the style and form of a film like this matches its subject – Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and the David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream come to mind – and Piece by Piece does just that with its eclectic and imaginative presentation. 9/10 Strange World dir. Don Hall, Qui Nguyen/2022/1h42m Farmer Searcher Clade (Jake Gyllenhaal), son of legendary explorer Jaeger (Dennis Quaid), must go on his own adventure deep beneath the surface of the planet when his crops, which also acts as the planet's energy source, start to die. The plot here is quite simple but it has an excellent third act twist that I though worked really well and fits in with the environmental themes and message of the film. What works best here is the look of the world beneath the surface, populated by really well designed creatures that feel truly alien, as do the environments. Not quite as good is the family drama between Jaeger and Searcher and between Searcher and his son Ethan (Jaboukie Young-White). It's the classic case of simply sitting down and talking to each other would solve all their problems, but then there'd be no film. The performances are all good, with Quaid's bombastic 50s b-movie style bravado standing out to me. This won't go down as a Disney classic but there are some really good ideas here alongside some gorgeous animation. 7/10 @djw180 The Bad Sleep Well is the least faithful of his Shakespeare films, the other two are much more recognisable.- 3
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