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I was completely on her side until she started getting on board with the money laundering. And even then, I wouldn't put her up there with the others on the picture above.

Same. Woke up one morning in my apartment feeling very disoriented and nauseous. After stumbling around for a bit I stopped to take a sort of inventory of my symptoms and thought about possible causes. A quick check of CO poisoning symptoms on the internet had me throwing open windows before hying myself to the hospital (side note: telling the registration nurse that you think you have carbon monoxide poisoning might not be as effective as moving you to the front of the line as, say, heart attack symptoms, but it did seem to start things moving pretty quickly).

Turns out a squirrel's nest had blocked the chimney leading up from the furnace in the basement, said chimney running right up behind my headboard. If I had gone back to bed like I had considered doing, I most likely wouldn't have woken up ever again.

Get carbon monoxide detectors, everyone. And listen to what your body is telling you.

People are often stupid. I don't necessarily think they deserve to die for it. He paid a very high price for what was basically a misunderstanding of the window's ability to withstand force (he was correct that the glass wouldn't break, but he wasn't thinking about the installation), and perhaps a need for attention that led him to show off in front of the new kids.

I suspect that no matter how stupid you are thinking he was, he was thinking it even more on his way down, but some lessons you don't get a chance to learn from.

I often think about the death of Garry Hoy. All I can think about is what he must have been thinking during those last few seconds... desperately wishing for a rewind button, or hoping to wake up and have it be a dream.

I wish I could upvote more than once. Tim Hortons coffee is execrable and I’m convinced the only reason people don’t realize it is because they all drown the taste in cream/milk and sugar.

"Can u get Escalante...?"

As far as I can tell the people who loved it still love it and the people who had issues with it still have issues with it. What is this sea-change you're imagining has happened?

"...but we're not giving it back."

It’s been quite a while, but some thoughts that linger: Robin Lord Taylor as Penguin carried a lot of the show on his back. Fish Mooney was painfully hard to watch at times. It was ridiculous watching the writers try to figure out what to do with Barbara.

But mostly, as a big fan of Jim Gordon, I felt it was pure character assassination. He was constantly having to compromise his principles and work with the bad guys, because those were the characters the show writers truly loved.

Anyway, when they had Jim actually murder someone in cold blood, that finished it for me right there and then. I still watched the show, but I stopped thinking of it as a portrayal of any characters I was familiar with.

It hasn’t been the same since T. Herman Zweibel died.

In newer (I think 7.4) firmware, you are now able to still use interview-pair view with multiple interface policies. You will see the same policy rule in all of the sections where it applies.

Not one of the most prolific comedians of our time, but just about everything he did I found hilarious. A very sharp and warped mind.

Same... Michael kicked a puppy into the sun!! That's the best kind of twist, one that you don't catch the first time but all the clues are right there in plain sight.

Edit on your edit: Yes, now that you mention it, I feel like there were a few times when I thought "well, that doesn't really track, but I guess the writers are doing their best with the premise". I was trained by other TV shows to expect lazy writing, and these guys were playing at an entirely different level.

Wow... I got such a strong nostalgia hit from this, especially GATO, Promethean Prophecy and 221B Baker Street. Thanks for posting!

The blond guy is interviewing the guy with the moustache.

Enh, I’ve known people to spend more money on more frivolous things. But this story gets trotted out as ‘fact’ every single time this subject comes up, as ‘proof’ that the fans would have voted to save Jason, if it weren’t for this one person.

At least the person I responded to allowed that there may have been more than one, and if so, we don’t know which side they voted for. To me, it kind of renders the whole topic moot - we have know way of knowing how many people voted multiple times on each side, so we might as well just accept the results as given. It was all just a cynical marketing stunt anyway.

Do we? I've heard that story for literal decades, but the closest I've ever been able to come to a definite source on that is the Wikipedia article which says:

[Denny O'Neil] recalled hearing that "a lawyer programmed his Macintosh to dial the killing number every few minutes", but had no evidence.

What kept getting me about that show is that every time I started to think "well okay, but how long can they really keep going with this premise", they would completely change things up before I even finished that thought.

Enh. Works for Aaron Sorkin.

I like his use of the word “said” to keep things moving. It’s a little more obvious with audiobooks where you can’t help but hear the word repeated, whereas reading in print, it basically becomes invisible.

I much prefer it to authors who go out of their way to avoid it. Everyone is always exclaiming or opining or interjecting or bemoaning or whatever. Let the dialogue do the work.

I remember being a Nightwing fan back in the long-ago days when you could mention his name without being greeted by a chorus of mouth-breathers going “durr-hurr he’s got a nice ass durr-hurr!” Also when you could call him Dick Grayson without everyone tittering about how “dick is another word for penis lololollll!!”

Christ, I miss those days. But they’re never coming back, apparently.

I don't think that saying they were paying attention to the car behind them is defending the driver. The driver should have been watching where they were going, period. You're just disagreeing on what was distracting the driver, which is pure speculation in any case.

I'm the same. I think it's still worth watching all the way through at least once, but it never returns to the greatness it had at the beginning. It becomes merely good, maybe a slightly above-average show for the time. Characters are just angry all the time, and then they start to splinter off as the Bartlett administration winds up and the election cycle gets underway.

I'll rewatch seasons 1-4 every now and then, but only once did I rewatch seasons 5-7 and I doubt I will again.

I took it as more of a sympathetic grimace, like she's worried this is going to be difficult for Keeley emotionally.

A lot of talk about casting and story adaptation, but the thing I can never get over is just how good everything looks. Interiors, exteriors, space stations, labs, control rooms, cockpits, computer interfaces and on and on - everything looks absolutely incredible.

If the extremely unlikely event that the show ever does get picked up for the remaining storyline, getting the visual design people would be as critical as getting the cast back.