01 Ian McCulloch - Proud to fall 02 U2 - Pride (in The Name of Love) 03 Dave Matthews Band - Proudest Monkey 04 King - Love and Pride 05 Spandau Ballet - with The Pride 06 Heather Small - Proud 07 Majka - Buditi Ponosan 08 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary 09 Pantera - Proud to be Loud 10 Madball - Pride
Honestly, it’s always some specific place or person that kicks everything off—whether it's the origin of a sex symbol or the moment someone grabs global attention and stays more iconic than anything that follows. It’s nothing new. That’s exactly why Deep throat maintains such a cult following, even though you see echoes of it in just about every film of that genre since. 🙂 Plus, there's all this stuff in the biography that most people just don't have... they can't just throw it all away like that.
Gregory Brown94 said:Just finished watching, and I wanted to jot down a few thoughts without dropping any major spoilers:
- It’s actually better than Ragnarok. - I had a feeling that Korg—voiced by Taika—was going to mess things up. That character feels like the court jester who nobody actually finds funny. - The exact same formula that dragged down Ragnarok was applied here, too. Just too much humor where it doesn't belong. - An older female character made an appearance; she could have been used more effectively, but I get why they played it safe. - Gorr was fantastic. His backstory and dialogue were honestly better handled than Hela's, which is wild to say. - The whole dynamic involving the kids felt fresh. Up until now, we've only seen the MCU touch on themes like this briefly, like in Iron Man 3 or even during Captain America in Civil War when Tony recruiting Peter happened. - Maybe I'm exaggerating, but this might be the first MCU entry where you can actually feel the torch being passed from the old guard to the new heroes. Still, Thor is still there, and he’s one of the only ones left from the original Avengers besides Hulk. - Personally, I thought the jokes about Stronger and Mjolnir went a bit overboard. Then again, we haven't really seen sentient weapons interacting like this before—kind of like if the other Dr. Strange's cape tried to switch over to our Stephen. Imagine a cloak fight XD. - All in all, it would have been perfect if Taika hadn't forced Korg into every single scene. You don't put raisins in a chocolate cake just for the sake of it...
And what's the point of all this? First, you claim the movie is a mess, only to conclude by saying it was nearly flawless. 🤔
driftingfox66 said:Those numbers for the Russian diplomats are actually kind of hilarious. If they kicked out 70, there's probably only 100 or 150 left in total. And that’s just in a small, relatively insignificant place like Bulgaria.
Just imagine how many they've got scattered across other countries. No wonder they can't fill their military ranks when most of their capable young guys are busy being spies or scammers, like those two English gothic enthusiasts.
And Rosgvardiya members too, obviously.
It's nothing unusual... if you look at how an American state with a population of about four million might have that many people in Germany, and that's without even counting the support staff. This list only includes individuals holding official positions.
In my view, Crimea wasn't even the biggest blunder. The real failure was what happened in Georgia, where everyone just sat there twiddling their thumbs, acting like it had absolutely nothing to do with them. That’s just how this world works, isn't it? We just flip them the bird, shrug our shoulders, and go back to scrolling through news photos while pretending nothing actually happened. It feels too far away, like it doesn't touch our lives. Besides, we don't have much skin in the game over there—it's not like we're fighting over food supplies, oil, or natural gas. Honestly, who gives a damn? If the Russians want to tear it down, let them.
Good morning. I can't help but wonder what kind of narrative they were feeding us during those first few months of the war—and frankly, some people are still swallowing it. And who was it that actually slapped that weapons embargo on everyone, including us? It was the EEZ and the UN.
Jeremy Peterson4 said:More of them came back home than were even sent over there in the first place. 🤣 They basically just cloned themselves on the way.
We’ve certainly seen plenty of experience with that kind of thing here; we basically tripled our count.
The latest mission from the global leaders of the anti-vax crowd and the skeptics: a working title like "How to manufacture doubt and then act shocked when people actually start doubting us."
The highly mutated Omicron coronavirus variant is poised to go global, carrying a massive risk of infection spikes that could lead to "severe consequences" in certain regions, according to the World Health Organization on Monday.
"Omicron features an unprecedented number of spike mutations, some of which are worrying due to their potential influence on where the pandemic goes next," the World Health Organization stated.
"The total global risk... is evaluated as very high."
A quick summary: we're looking at a disaster.
Then comes Tuesday, the day after, and they pivot back to their usual nonsense:
The head of the World Health Organization claims he's worried about certain countries overreacting to Omicron.
After spending several days sowing pure panic by feeding news agencies exactly the kind of headlines they crave, they're suddenly begging nations to stick to "rational and proportionate" measures.
The most prolific anti-vaxxers out there—those who have built an entire movement centered on undermining scientific consensus and successfully fueling it every single day through mainstream media, certain segments of the scientific community, and various government task forces globally—are busy recruiting more skeptics and sowing seeds of doubt regarding professional expertise and science itself.
Consider this snapshot of how the media operates in the States; two headlines from the exact same day, published at the exact same time:
A prominent scientist issues a dire warning: ‘Omicron is an eight times more lethal strain. Here is why.'
Omicron is highly contagious, but not deadly: ‘Don't panic, symptoms are very mild.'
So, you decide. You can pick from window number one or window number two; choose whichever one resonates more with your current state of mind.