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| treydog |
 May 21 2014, 12:22 PM
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#1761
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Kidnap and Ransom- one episode in, but impressed so far.
MI5 (which went by "Spooks" in the UK)- also one episode in and considerably LESS impressed. Will soon be getting the first disc of season 2 of Person of Interest- looking forward to that very much. And let's see.... Season 5? of The Closer. I am sometimes not sure who annoys me more- the tunnel-vision Brenda Lee Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) or the no-affect Captain Raydor (Mary McDonnell). Still- it does keep us watching. -------------------- The dreams down here aren't broken, nah, they're walkin' with a limp...
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| McBadgere |
May 21 2014, 01:41 PM
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#1762
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Councilor  Joined: 21-October 11 |
Did not know that Spooks had a name change as it travelled over!...Never watched it personally...Too many characters getting offed through the series...
Person of Interest is just awesome though...  ... |
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| ImperialSnob |
May 21 2014, 05:01 PM
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Master Joined: 4-May 13 |
From the little I watched I really liked Spooks.
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| Callidus Thorn |
May 22 2014, 11:00 PM
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 Councilor Joined: 29-September 13 From: Midgard, Cyrodiil, one or two others. |
Tried to watch Return of the Jedi this afternoon, but the video's starting to go, so I had to abort
 Watched Kelly's Heroes this evening, damn funny film that. -------------------- A mind without purpose will walk in dark places
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| Darkness Eternal |
May 23 2014, 12:27 AM
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 Master Joined: 10-June 11 From: Coldharbour |
Twelve Years a Slave. Very good movie, tragic but good. And based on a true story.
-------------------- And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below—above the vaulted sky.” |
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| SubRosa |
May 23 2014, 03:23 AM
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 Ancient  Joined: 14-March 10 From: Between The Worlds |
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ May 22 2014, 06:00 PM)  Tried to watch Return of the Jedi this afternoon, but the video's starting to go, so I had to abort Watched Kelly's Heroes this evening, damn funny film that. That was such a fun movie! I loved how when they couldn't get past that last Tiger tank at the end, they just told them what was inside the bank! QUOTE(Darkness Eternal @ May 22 2014, 07:27 PM) Twelve Years a Slave. Very good movie, tragic but good. And based on a true story. I saw that a few weeks ago. It was painful to watch, because of the casual cruelty. But an outstanding movie. -------------------- |
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| SubRosa |
May 24 2014, 12:45 AM
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#1767
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Ancient Joined: 14-March 10 From: Between The Worlds |
Watching Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded. It is pretty much the same as Cocaine Cowboys - which I watched yesterday, but goes into more depth. It is about how Miami became the cocaine capital of the US in the early 80s, told by an actual smuggler, distributor, and cartel assassin.
It is just mind-blowing how rich these guys got. They literally did not have room to store all the cash. They had to buy houses to keep it, give it to their neighbors to store it, bury it in the yards, and so on. Eventually it all got into the banks, and they didn't have enough space for the money either. They were not making millions, they were making billions of dollars. So they shipped it to the Federal Reserve. The Florida Federal Reserve Bank had more money in it than all the other Federal Reserves in the country combined. The smuggler Mickey was a pilot, he bought a plane for nearly a million dollars to run the drugs, in cash. He lost it the first trip, and just wrote it off as an expense of doing business. No big deal. The same guy had already bought land near Lakeland and built two airstrips there. After it came in, he would load the cocaine onto an old car. Then he would have a tow truck come in (he owned the entire towing company) to tow it away. This way the driver would not know what was in the car, and if he was pulled over he could honestly say he had no clue he was a drug mule. But to keep that from even happening, the smuggler mixed in a little cocaine with water and some other stuff, put it in an atomizer, and sprayed things like the tow truck crane with it. The idea was the drug sniffing dogs would alert to things that obviously could not have drugs in it. So that would make the dogs useless. Later he moved to flying the drugs up off of the Bahamas, where it was tossed into the water. They had radio transmitters attached to each bag, which people in small pleasure boats would home in on to pick up the drugs. Then they would just drive it into Miami. He paid a girl to live in an apartment that had a panoramic view of the harbor entrance, and she acted as a spotter for him. He had other people on boats spread out along the harbor to also watch for police. Finally, he even had a guy out on a boat called the burner. The idea was that if there was a problem this guy would set his boat on fire, and call for help saying that there were children on board. This way the cops would have to go rescue him, instead of busting the boats bringing in the drugs. As cool as some of this sounds, the flip side is just horrific. Not just murders, but mass murders skyrocketed. The murder rate quintupled. The Cubans and Colombians were at it with one another to start with, because the Colombians decided to cut the Cubans out of it and try to run it all. Then of course it was Columbians vs. other Colombians. The Cubans of course were the boat people that Castro sent to the US, everyone from Cuba's prisons, mental institutes, and so on. These guys would get into an argument and kill each other. If they needed to kill a guy sitting at a table and there were six other people sitting there, they would just kill all seven of them with automatic weapons. The assassin said that he made a trip to New York once as part of a gang war and killed 11 people in one night. This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 24 2014, 03:58 AM -------------------- |
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| McBadgere |
May 24 2014, 03:42 AM
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Councilor Joined: 21-October 11 |
   ...I'm just gonna...Not do that then...  ...Person 'o' Interest, two part finale for season 2...Well, that was seven shades of awesome...Proper loved it!... |
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| ImperialSnob |
May 24 2014, 10:42 PM
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Master Joined: 4-May 13 |
If they were Mexican a lot more chainsaws would be involved.
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| SubRosa |
May 25 2014, 12:05 AM
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Ancient Joined: 14-March 10 From: Between The Worlds |
Actually, chainsaws and machetes were involved. The Godmother - Griselda Blanco - who ran things in Miami for the Medellin Cartel liked to chop people up and put the parts into boxes. The assassin recounted that when he first joined up. His first big job was to find a guy that the Godmother wanted dead. He kidnapped him and turned him over. The next day she came to see him at his house, and sat down to eat dinner with him, his wife, and kids. While they ate, she told him how they had chopped the guy up, put him in a box with bow tie around it, and dropped it off by the side of the expressway a few miles away.
Thankfully she is dead now. She ticked off the Cartel, and they put a price on her head. She was assassinated just a few years ago in fact. This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 25 2014, 12:06 AM -------------------- |
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| ImperialSnob |
May 25 2014, 07:51 PM
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Master Joined: 4-May 13 |
Sounds like the cartels alright.
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| McBadgere |
May 26 2014, 06:36 AM
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Councilor Joined: 21-October 11 |
Ermmm...We saw a pair of Magnum P.I. last night...One with T.C.'s daughter getting kidnapped...Co-written by Roger E. Mosely...Which was nice...Actually, an excellent episode...Then another one, this one more Rick orientated with his friend Ice-Pick being set up for a murder...And some other stuff involving a crooked judge and Magnum's friend Carol...
Er...Oh yeah!!...Saw Empire the other night!!...No, not Star Wars, Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, but Empire!!...See?...Star Wars, Empire, Jedi...That's how it works...Then The Farty Man-arse, Attack of The Clowns and Revenge of The Sith...No, it doesn't even get changed...I dunno why...I just can't think of anything funny for it...*Le Shrug*... Aaaamywho...Saw Empire, and even the kids were mightily impressed with it...They both agreed that it was a much better film than Star Wars...Thoroughly enjoyed that... We also saw this new X-Men film...It was good, awesome even...But I came away feeling less than I should have... Everyone involved was brilliant...The writing was brilliant...The story made sense...Every hero in it had their moment to shine, definitely...No wasted talents at all... McAvoy and Fassbender were thoroughly awesome...Hugh Jackman's effort was probably his best yet...Stewart and McKellern were on top form, as usual...But...I still came away thinking..."Yeah...But..."... Dunno...An excellent film...So definitely worth watching...Can't say that enough...But... |
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| Darkness Eternal |
May 27 2014, 12:03 AM
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Master Joined: 10-June 11 From: Coldharbour |
National Geographic. I needed some inspiration from wildlife to write certain parts of my fanfic.
A Wild Dog's tale is a documentary about a female Painted(Wild) Dog that was running around solo before forming her own pack . . . composed of jackals and hyenas. Yeah, the predators who are typically enemies somehow banded together to hunt prey in the wild. Very interesting. -------------------- And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below—above the vaulted sky.” |
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| McBadgere |
May 31 2014, 04:27 AM
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Councilor Joined: 21-October 11 |
It's finale season so we just had the one for Agents of SHIELD...That wasn't bad actually...It was nice to see Sam Jackson again!...
...And on proper heroic form too...Bill Paxton had another fun turn in his usual acting turn - dying... ...Ermmmm...I'm sure there was other stuff...Probably NCIS:LA, Hawaii...Oh!...Finale of Warehouse 13...*Sniffs*...Oh yeah, there was that...I got a tad...Sad...I'll miss that show... Erm...Penny Dreadful...That as well...Fun...Odd, but fun... Castle is always good... |
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| Callidus Thorn |
May 31 2014, 09:40 AM
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Councilor Joined: 29-September 13 From: Midgard, Cyrodiil, one or two others. |
Yeah, the finale of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. wasn't bad, though they could've given Samuel L. Jackson something a little more significant to do...
And I'm working my way through Cowboy bebop again -------------------- A mind without purpose will walk in dark places
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| McBadgere |
Jun 1 2014, 03:44 AM
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Councilor Joined: 21-October 11 |
JEDI!!!!!!...
No, not Star Wars Episode VI: Return of The Jedi... But, JEDI!!!!...Aw yeah!!...And, something strange happened...I'm quite happy to say that Jedi may be my fave of the originals... No, put the rocks down a sec!!!!... ...I cannot stand the Ewoks and will never like them...I just can't...Plus, all the traps they built to take out the AT-STs...How quickly did they build them?...And if they'd already built them, why hadn't...Oh nevermind... Anways, it really is a fun movie...The whole Jabba's Palace thing was a blast and funny too...Then the whole alliance fleet thing is proper awesome... That battle at the end is brilliant...Yes, the whole Luke vs Vader thing is light years away from Obi Wan vs Maul...But still... ...I really did come away thinking that I'd enjoyed watching it far more than I ever have before...I must be getting old... ... |
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| ImperialSnob |
Jun 1 2014, 01:27 PM
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Master Joined: 4-May 13 |
Louis Theroux: Thai Brides
this old man is making me uncomfortable |
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| Grits |
Jun 2 2014, 01:55 AM
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 Councilor Joined: 6-November 10 From: The Gold Coast |
Game of Thrones in five minutes!
I went to see Maleficent today. I really enjoyed it. -------------------- Jerric's Story * Darnandex * Screenshot: Cyrodiil Meadow |
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| Darkness Eternal |
Jun 2 2014, 03:07 AM
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Master Joined: 10-June 11 From: Coldharbour |
QUOTE(Grits @ Jun 2 2014, 01:55 AM) Game of Thrones in five minutes! Prince Oberyn(Red Viper) Vs Gregor(The Mountain) Clegane! Yuss please! Edit: I knew it was going to happen but seeing on screen . . . yikes. Sansa Stark just added herself as a new player in the Game. Being taught by the master manipulator that started it all, I can't wait to see where this takes her. This post has been edited by Darkness Eternal: Jun 4 2014, 03:21 AM -------------------- And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below—above the vaulted sky.” |
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| ImperialSnob |
Jun 4 2014, 08:59 PM
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Master Joined: 4-May 13 |
My least favorite part of Game Of Thrones is the whole thing because I can't watch it
I mean I could just watch it online in incognito but I don't wanna, maybe I just feel I should be truthful to my parents. |
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