Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[chiwigi]

Is industry and the falling power (relevance?) of unions and continual loss of manual labour jobs not pretty universal?

Not in the US style, their unions are a very different beast to those from Europe.

 

[Dylan8]

Definitely agreed two is underrated, the Sobotkas were great. Season four to me is the crux of the show - no matter how hard you try to fix the system, the people with real power don't want it fixed.

Spoiler

When it comes to characters on a personal level, the kids, Carcetti, Bubbles - it all comes full circle and only the lucky ones get out (Namond). Dukie and Randy's arcs were heartbreaking.

Ziggy is ****ing awful though. Frank is tragic, one of the most tragic in the show, but I guess most characters in it are tragic.

I love this line Frank delivers to that piece of shit Valchek, couldn't find a video on the net.

Valchek: You don't want my finger in your eye, you better do what's right here.

Frank: What's right? What's right would be for you to come down here to my house like a decent human being and ask a common courtesy.
But that's not you, it's not your way.
My old man always said you were a half-ass punk over at Holy Redeemer as a kid.
My sister said you were a pain in the ass pest at all them CYO dances where none of the girls would even look at you.
Damn near everyone at the Point said when you got your badge it was too much for anybody named Valchek to have a patrolman's drag.
And sure enough, you've been an official arseh*le every day since.
**** you! And your window!

 

[Dylan8]

Not in the US style, their unions are a very different beast to those from Europe.

Still, I think it was a great way to tell of the growing problems amongst the working/lower class outside of the war on drugs and black communities. It just strengthed the show for me - its ability to tell the tale in different communities, with different people.

 

[chiwigi]

Still, I think it was a great way to tell of the growing problems amongst the working/lower class outside of the war on drugs and black communities. It just strengthed the show for me - its ability to tell the tale in different communities, with different people.

I enjoyed it (and I enjoy similar stuff in mafia films), I'm just reasoning out its lack of popularity.

 

[Grandaddy J]

Ziggy is ******* awful though. Frank is tragic, one of the most tragic in the show, but I guess most characters in it are tragic.

I didn't mind Ziggy too much because I know a few personalities like him and he's just a hardcore example of an attention-depraved kid who gets in way, way too deep. Frank would be up there as the most tragic for mine because he was just turning a blind eye to try and save the docks, he wasn't doing it for himself.

Spoiler

Also re: your "supermarkets are cathedrals" quote before, ironic how Omar goes out. Incredible foreshadowing/writing.

 

[Trewth]

I think I'm ready to watch it again.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Literally all I know from the wire is "YOU COME TO TALK TO ME ABOUT MONEY LAUNDERING? IN WEST BALTIMORE? SHIIIIIIIEEEET."

Haven't watched any at all. I'm just not a "watcher" of shows, my attention span is too short. Yet for some reason, I can binge watch my secret guilty pleasure of Star Trek.

 

[Portmanteau]

Season 5 actually holds up alright on a rewatch. I think it's a bit too fantastical, relatively, on the first go that it leaves a bad taste. But I celebrate the whole damn catalogue. It's so clearly the GOAT, that it has almost ruined every other show.

David Simon's mini-series starring Oscarn 'Show Me a Hero' from last year is a worth a look (but ooooooh social agenda being pushed...)

 

[edgie]

The Voyage Home is great

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Oh No!! Trekkies

How about that AC/DC huh

 

[Doctor Feel]

Was that Rick's parting gift or the new incumbent installing their brand on the organisation?

I'm at CBS now, which is under the AGD umbrella but not AGD itself so to speak. However I always found Rick to play massive favourites and give jobs for the boys (all executives were very long term friends of his), so I suspect he will gut some of AGD and take them with him to DECD. My partner works at DECD, and I've made her worried telling her the AGD stories, haha.

I'm hopeful that Mealor will get the job full-time. She's very good at her job.

 

[edgie]

Oh No!! Trekkies

How about that AC/DC huh

When I was looking up that clip, YOU WON'T BELIEVE what irrelevant video youtube "recommended" for me!









It was a Joe Rogan BJJ video.

Ok there was some other stuff as well.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Oh No!! Trekkies

How about that AC/DC huh

It's alright. I'm deleting all of my Star Trek when I get home because Edgie likes it.

 

[Jim Dixon]

Been watching assorted meltdowns on youtube with my wife tonight.

This one was the most bizzare.

 

[edgie]

It's alright. I'm deleting all of my Star Trek when I get home because Edgie likes it.

Only the movies. Don't have the time for the TV series.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Been watching assorted meltdowns on youtube with my wife tonight.

This one was the most bizzare.

"Looses" her shit.

Whoever posted that to youtube is a pooeating turd.

 

[Garibaldi Red]

I'm at CBS now, which is under the AGD umbrella but not AGD itself so to speak. However I always found Rick to play massive favourites and give jobs for the boys (all executives were very long term friends of his), so I suspect he will gut some of AGD and take them with him to DECD. My partner works at DECD, and I've made her worried telling her the AGD stories, haha.

I'm hopeful that Mealor will get the job full-time. She's very good at her job.

So then you may know Jake Bonnici

 

[Garibaldi Red]

And yes I know a few of the people who Rick recruited

 

[LukeSA]

Been watching assorted meltdowns on youtube with my wife tonight.

This one was the most bizzare.

Have you come across the bogan losing their shit because woolies locked their dumpsters?

 

[Jim Dixon]

"Looses" her shit.

Whoever posted that to youtube is a pooeating turd.

That's a tautology!

 

[edgie]

Speaking of TV, I'm halfway through Daredevil series 2. Quite happy with what they've done with the Punisher, my only complaint would be the slight southern twang to his accent. He's not from Texas. Otherwise, tis fine.

 

[Jim Dixon]

This guy was arrested in 1988 for repeated 'dine and dash' offences.

 

[Steve Dore]

Been watching assorted meltdowns on youtube with my wife tonight.

This one was the most bizzare.

"Looses" her shit.

Whoever posted that to youtube is a pooeating turd.

Should be a warning on rhubarb like on the Pringles that contained Olestra, "May cause loose stools"

 

[Eddie Dingle]

That's a tautology!

Shit, poo and turd in one post.

I am Charlie Sheen.

 

[Doctor Feel]

So then you may know Jake Bonnici

Jake Bonnici is on my level, he just did my contract.