PETA supporters: peta-philes.

It is a grounded, resoundingly human look at integrity and persevering, and serves as an authentic, affecting American dream fable that showcases one's deep drive to make something of themselves — despite their impoverished background — and to prove to the world they have greatness with them. As you can imagine, Rocky is a deeply personal movie for Sly Stallone, and it's impossible to imagine any other actor playing this role with the same astounding resonance. ...it's ultimately Rocky's relationship with Adrian that really makes Rocky such a great and everlasting movie. Through their hard-luck relationship, there is a beautifully human relationship between them, one that is emotionally felt and sincere in its presentation. This. I was going to be upset if the original Rocky wasn't listed first. I watched it a few years ago after a long time having not seen it... I forgot how authentic, raw, and sincere it felt. For example, the philadelphia morning exercise routine. Felt very relatable to anyone who's gotten up at 5am for a pre-dawn workout. Add in the struggles Sly went through to get the movie made, for it to go on and win so many awards. Great cinema.

@jon-nyc said in “Strikingly, 100% of ICU patients less than 75 years old had vitamin D deficiency”: I get you're trying to diss the vaccine, but I don’t really understand the point you’re trying to make. In my experience 'prophylactic' and 'therapeutic' are distinct and non-overlapping. A prophylactic is a medication or a treatment designed and used to prevent a disease from occurring. Therefore, if the drug is administered before disease onset, it is considered prophylactic, otherwise it is considered therapeutic. Therapeutic group are the subjects on treatment of existing disease, while prophylatic group are subjects receiving preventive measures. Unfortunately, there’s not really an established category that encapsulates what this treatment does. It’s primary benefit is not preventing infection, but preventing severe symptom of the infection (like a therapeutic) but it’s only effective if you take it prior to infection (like a prophylactic treatment). As the defining characteristic of a vaccine is the aggregate prevention of transmission and this doesn’t do so, calling it a vaccine isn’t really appropriate… So what do you suggest?

Had a friend who went to the big house for robbery they only got caught because they threw the gun out the window.

@xenon said in To brine or not to brine?: Dry brine. Put it in a plastic bag for the first night (salt will leach out moisture at first) - then flip and open up the bag the 2nd night (let it dry out) No washing before slathering on butter and popping it in the oven. EDIT: something like this - https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012869-dry-brined-turkey Nice… Thanks!

@LuFins-Dad said in Have fun watching the Bengals kick Pittsburgh’s @sses, Mik!: This is your opportunity to post jokes and memes… Have at it! Yeah . . . while it lasts. Dec 18: Bucs vs Bengals

@Doctor-Phibes said in Gee, what could go wrong?: Which is worse, a 16 year old idiot getting the vote, or an 80 year old duffer running the shop? Probably the same. But there's only one 80-year-old at a time, so there's that.

@Horace said in No wonder the delivery cost $250: @taiwan_girl said in No wonder the delivery cost $250: @Horace Did your furniture truck ever show up? Yes, we got our West Elm furniture exactly on time. The tracking app was remarkable, it updated continuously (several times a second) and I could zoom in on the truck icon and watch it attempt to navigate my neighborhood. They missed my house the first time and had to throw it in reverse. But they eventually got everything installed. I asked them not to use the anti-tip hardware because I like to live dangerously. If I ever stop posting for a few days in a row, I'm probably trapped under a nightstand that tipped over on me while I was climbing on it. Well, Asian gals are hawt...

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Serial Novel: In some ways, we still have serial novels, it's just that each episode is the length of what used to be a novel. Kinda, except for some of the fantasy stuff.

@Horace said in Possible Dem contenders in 2024: It's not easy to be elected president in america. You can't be a minority, you can't be a woman, you can't be gay or transgendered. You can't be developmentally disabled. That leaves like four people, and I'm definitely not running. So that leaves three. LOL! Barack Hussein Obama (again, how did he ever win with that name...considering we just killed Hussein, and were about to kill Osama) was also pretty unknown, at least until the 2004 DNC speech, but still... his momentum in 2007/2008 kind of came out of nowhere.

I’ve been going braless for years in case anyone needs any coaching.

@Jolly said in More Republicans than Democrats die from COVID-19: Do registered Dems vote Republican? They do down here. Rumour has it that around here registered Republicans vote Democrat. Maybe so they can spoil the primaries....

To be honest, food prices do need to go up. At least at the producer level. We have probably the cheapest food on the planet, but it's not the best or the healthiest. I'm also concerned that big corporations like ADM use their economic clout to monopolize segments of the Ag market, making us less food secure.

That tune had such an effect on me when I was little. It's what made me want to play the saxophone, so is largely responsible for my wasted life. I still love it, and the bass thing is cool and all, but the original is a lot better.

A problem not only in Africa! "Some time after 1978, four African hippos were brought to Colombia by Pablo Escobar. Mr. Escobar was a Colombian criminal who became rich by selling illegal drugs." https://newsforkids.net/articles/2020/02/20/invasive-hippos-cause-problems-in-colombia/

I won the World Cup, and all I got for it was this shitty beer.