It’s my understanding that most recycling schemes are overall - a fraud. Unless you actually reuse the receptacle ITSELF, the reused plastic is hugely inferior.
And in a few cases, NEVER recycled.
The Fruits of Leftist Logic
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And in a few cases, NEVER recycled.
It becomes those Walmart grocery bags that break in the middle of the parking lot.
Clem72
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I was joking. Of course I knew you meant we should give the addicts the drugs directly to avoid all this waste.
Kinda gets me on movies and tv shows where someone is desperate for cash and turns to selling drugs. And sometimes it’s written so we will sympathize with them.When they could sell the whole thing for $1 a bottle.
****ing idiots.
I know this woman who is in her early 50s now, but 20 years ago she did some time for drug dealing. Supposedly she's straightened up, learned the error of her ways, and is a good citizen now. BUT! She still doesn't consider, or even see, the damage she caused. Not only the addicts she may have killed, but their families who had to stand by helplessly and watch that chit. AND her son's girlfriend just freaking ODed and died a couple months ago.
I liked her okay until I learned that. Now she's on the no-fly list and I keep my distance. People make mistakes, and I get that. The bigger problem is that she doesn't seem to understand the actual mistake she made or the real consequences of it. Even though it just effing happened in her family.
And it does tick me off a bit. Like, really, you couldn’t make money shooting teenagers in the head - you feel justified shoving poison in their veins?
I dislike movies where the criminal is a sympathetic character and you're supposed to be rooting for them. I mean, if the character is genuinely trying to get their chit together, yeah, I'll root. But movies like - and I'm gonna blaspheme here - "Shawshank Redemption" where everyone is either wrongfully convicted or a lovable rogue, it just pisses me off.
It irks me that I love the original "Longest Yard" because all of those inmates should get the chair and if the guards beat them up, well good.
I also do not root for the Beth Duttons of entertainment. I cheered when Ruth Langmore got executed. I was all about Gemma Morrow getting killed, and I didn't root for her shitbag son either and was glad he got creamed.
Evil people are not attractive to me.
I have no idea what this means.
It's code for "No Date For Valentines Day"
CPUSA
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See, I consider them in Hell now. I actually feel bad for addicts & having to battle those demons.
I like to think ODing is actually their escape from their Hell
CPUSA
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Even HH knows that wouldn't be a very smart idea...
CPUSA
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If anyone would know how to free one's self from obvious shame & degradation, it would be you...Just pretend the family are Democrats. That should relieve you of any responsibility to feign caring at all.
Any more sound, fascistic advice from you that we will all greatly ignore?
Plus, if they choose to OD, No Narcan.
See, I put Shawshank in a completely different category. Andy was framed and completely innocent - the warden actually killed someone who could clear him; Red murdered someone when he was a kid and after forty years in prison, he'd changed. The biggest crooks in prison - besides the Sisters, who were basically a rape gang - were the guards and the warden. In fact, Andy, after forging names and pulling fraud for the warden, joked at one point that he had to go to prison to become a crook.
The ones that REALLY get me are the mafia type movies, drug gang movies, biker tv shows, and worst of all - shows like Dexter and You, which are gruesome and are about psychotic killers. You is the worst because there really is nothing redeeming about him; with Dexter, at least he only does his horrible things to people who are guilty and have managed to escape justice.
I don't mind SOME of it - after all, some of our most revered heroes had their moments. But there's a number of shows where stepping back, you realize that your protagonist really is just a cold-blooded killer. Doesn't matter that the bad guys killed his dog and stole his car.
I typically realize it right away. Sons of Anarchy, The Sopranos, Yellowstone...all I did was mark time waiting for all those terrible people to be killed. I need good guys to root for, not some lowlife shitbag like Tony Soprano or Beth Dutton or Jax Teller.
That's why I love The Wire so much. And Boardwalk Empire. Great shows, tells a realistic story, and plenty of people to root for even though they may be flawed products of their environment. Good guys who do some bad things, not just completely morally reprehensible scumbags that the writers of the show are trying to make me view as a hero.
And the ones you listed at the top - same thing. Although I kinda like John Wick, even though he's on a revenge spree that BEGAN by some Russian mafia twerp killing his dog and jacking his car. Mainly because he had chosen to stop and got sucked back in - and I guess because on some level, he actually does fight in a way I'd expect someone who's a good killer to behave. Loads up on ammo. Takes the guns of his fallen foes, make sure the fallen are dead. NEVER misses. Can take a bullet or two so long as it misses vital organs. Not saying it's realistic, just not never ending ammo and guys staying knocked out for days.
Our problem with the Wire was it was just colossally dull. We both fell asleep during the first few and realized - this is never going to keep our interest. Even as much as I like sci-fi and some apocalypse type shows - I've turned some off because either the story was just too slow paced and dull or it required my little brain to hold too many details or remember too many characters.
And another one I have a hard time with? A large ensemble cast with characters who look a bit alike. I'm just not invested enough in a show to be able to remember all of their names, their foibles and to tell them apart, especially when there's just 10-12 episodes a YEAR. And I have an awful time remembering character's names, especially when no one uses their name in the show.
I think they forgot this in John Wick III. At least for the first half of the movie.
See and I could watch 20 more seasons of it as long as they kept the writing up. I've watched straight through at least 3 times now. It was the most interesting series I've ever watched.
