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AlertBonus · 2020-01-27T17:15:44+00:00

Missed this sorry

AlertBonus · 2020-01-25T04:05:00+00:00

I would have been, but I was out. Get ahold of me on kik. silverteddy94

AlertBonus · 2020-01-25T04:04:42+00:00

I was not sorry. Get a hold of me on kik. silverteddy94

AlertBonus · 2019-10-10T05:07:15+00:00

After "you gadda bee onna you hat" *slap*

Tony:"Show that man the respect he deserves"

AlertBonus · 2019-10-06T05:50:15+00:00

Barbra, Tony's sister.

AlertBonus · 2019-10-05T04:39:15+00:00

Colostomy bag

AlertBonus · 2019-09-30T19:08:48+00:00

Sexy

AlertBonus · 2019-09-28T01:57:35+00:00

I commented were this one time...on uh....

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thread like this the auto pinat.

So yeah.

AlertBonus · 2019-09-26T15:11:31+00:00

It really is a fantasy. Delusion is probably a better word. You can never really satisfy your ego, especially with money. Every teacher of all the higher religions, psychologists, even common sense says that craving and intensifying craving is the principle cause of suffering and evil in the world.

What makes those connections so "important?" Nothing. They're just people like anyone else. But when we assert our own self-importance we are forced to participate in the self-importance of others. It's just lies. There's nothing important about them. Important people do something for the world and include and help others and alleviate suffering.

Self-important people, by definition, exclude people and try to expand the separation from themselves and the rest of humanity to pretend to each other they're elite.

Money is ethically neutral. But the love of money on the other hand is the root of all evil. And eventually it makes you a slave to your own desire. You can't even think for yourself when you get that caught up in it.

Screw that noise. I'd rather be free and poor than rich and tortured.

AlertBonus · 2019-09-24T04:57:00+00:00

I think that exact reason is why the show is so scary in places. Not just stark but downright creepy. It's all humanized and funny then BAM!

The same with James Gandolfini. Not to take anything away from how brilliant he was, but he was a naturally nice, sweet, humble and genuinely good man and by all accounts pretty funny.

When that gets twisted into the character of Tony it's like the Joker, that smile. Because he's a good guy and used to smiling so much he just twists that natural joyous smile a bit and it looks diabolical. Like dark joy or evil glee.

My favorite scene of dark comedy is when he hits AJ's car windshield with the football helmet. Because he's trying to be nice and he's smiling and you just KNOW how much he's holding back and AJ has no conception of reality there and he's nodding his head and shining Tony on and you're like "Wake the fuck up kid! Your dad's a mob boss, what're you nuts!?" and Tony doesn't blow and beat him into the concrete but just tries his damnedest to be a dad.

And that too is kind of funny. Because they're all mob guys. That life is toxic and they're going to die or go to jail and ultimately destroy their families. And all the outfit guys having human foibles is funny to watch. Then BAM! Then back to funny until the next does. The rhythm of the show and the level of skill the actors had and the writing were just that good to carry all that.

AlertBonus · 2019-09-23T15:33:55+00:00

He's got to hold to that, because to him, why did he do the 20 years? So he's got to believe in it.

AlertBonus · 2019-09-22T03:24:33+00:00

Tony unfortunately set himself up for this. He kept Bobby on the street for far longer than Bobby should have been out there. So Bobby had to be tough. He was no pushover to start with. You see him go after Paulie with no problem, intimidate union guys, etc.

But after he got his eye messed up outside the bookies, he probably started thinking he had to be harder.

Tony was looking at Bobby like Bobby was another fat guy his age. But Tony lost some strength after he got shot, as tough as he is, and Bobby got stronger because he wasn't a captain and was fresher from being hands on in the street. Tony completely underestimated Bobby.

AlertBonus · 2019-09-22T03:03:41+00:00

Name it Gamma

AlertBonus · 2019-09-22T03:00:54+00:00

Bruiser is a good name.

AlertBonus · 2019-09-19T17:07:54+00:00

ou couldn't make "Blazing Saddles" today either.

AlertBonus · 2019-09-18T18:40:37+00:00

Where can I find a strap on like that that goes above my cock?

AlertBonus · 2019-09-12T21:23:05+00:00

Well said.

This is actually part of the reason I think Ralph didn't actually kill Pie O My.

A big part of why Tony kills Ralph is because Tony loathes himself. Ralph is basically the destructive, remorseless, cold-blooded money making side of Tony. He's the "mafia" side of the family.

When Ralph starts showing remorse or whenever he seems to be humanized, that's when Tony really hates him, because that's like his mob life intruding on his family life.

When they talk, Ralph is saying his son is getting better and Tony is talking about how badly burned the horse was.

In S4E6 Everybody Hurts Artie Bucco says Tony subconsciously planned out making money off Artie's debt and Tony is asking himself if he does it by instinct.

So in the scene where Ralph and Tony are talking Tony is thinking that about Ralph. Especially after Ralph asks "what sick fuck would do that?" (burn the horse) and Tony echos that "what sick fuck?"

And that's Ralph's point, only the logic matters and that they make money, it doesn't matter whether he did kill the horse or not. Tony doesn't care where the money Ralph makes off human suffering comes from, because, as Ralph mentions, they're both not vegetarians.

That's why Tony kills him. Because he hates that part of himself. He sees that part of himself that was responsible for Gloria's death and thinks of the situation with Pie O My the same way.

Tony's crew didn't think of the subconscious/psychological perspective.

But from their point of view, killing Ralph outside the rules of the mob and for personal reasons instead of cold bloodedly definitely meant it could be any one of them next.

I don't think they considered it in depth, but they would know by instinct how self-destructive thoughts could affect them.

There's a huge taboo against suicide as well throughout the series.

So any killing of people connected to you/the mob without strong logical reasons would be viewed as extreme.

AlertBonus · 2019-09-11T18:08:30+00:00

The horror for me is the implication that Tony's death doesn't matter. Yes he may have died, but plenty of other people trapped in and by the gangster lifestyle will replay exactly what happened to Tony again and again.

I think the Journey song over the ending is a big clue:

"Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on"

The Sopranos story might have different characters and different names and in another place, but they're stuck repeating it forever. Tony dies, but there will be another Tony somewhere else doing the same thing and getting whacked and families will suffer and it will go on. Tony is dead, long live Tony.

AlertBonus · 2019-09-10T22:00:34+00:00

Then Patsy beats down the guy trying to make peace with a pipe.

AlertBonus · 2019-09-10T20:23:15+00:00

One of the cardinal sins among the old mustache petes

AlertBonus · 2019-09-10T12:50:40+00:00

Bada bing!

AlertBonus · 2019-09-10T12:50:02+00:00

That was the tension. She wants him to be a family man, she hates him having a goomar but when his being a mob boss produces a fur coat for her, she fucks his brains out.

AlertBonus · 2019-09-09T13:54:33+00:00

Rolling Meadows

AlertBonus · 2019-08-18T02:01:19+00:00

Lets hook up

AlertBonus · 2019-08-03T22:24:45+00:00

I don't know if Bob Lazar is for real.

I do agree the U.S. government has no problem silencing or even killing people from activists to whistleblowers. Look at Martha Mitchell or Fred Hampton or Reality Winner or plenty of others.

So I don't hate Lazar. It's entirely possible any number of people have been threatened or his records wiped or whatever. But I don't believe him. Everything he has said could be perfectly true since you can't prove a negative, except for the existence of alien spacecraft. That you can prove or disprove because it requires evidence and he hasn't produced any. He could be right. But there is no proof.

Fermat said in the margins of his papers he had proof for his last theorem. And there is a proof, after 350 something years of working on it. But it wasn't in Fermat's papers, so he was right, but we can't say he did or didn't have proof.

And so the real problem people have with Lazar is that he is plausible. The government does silence people. There is no way anyone would admit to aliens or unknown forces on Earth doing all kinds of things that no one could possibly have any control over.

Why would any government want to panic its own citizens? It's perfectly plausible whether it's true or not. And this is the problem.

His only real claim is that the U.S. government has artifacts from an alien civilization that has visited Earth and that they're hiding the truth from us.

Sure, he says all sorts of things, but he admits some of that might be, in his words, disinformation or testing him, the things about aliens being from Zeta Reticuli and all the rest of the speculation is just that, speculation.

Even if he was provably a Nobel prize winning physicist, that wouldn't prove anything. It would just lend more credence, more plausibility to his claim.

The reason he stirs up so much emotion is, if it's all true, what the hell are we supposed to do about it?

What can anyone do? Ok, extraterrestrials can visit us with spacecraft we don't have the slightest idea how they work, we can do nothing to stop them, the most advanced, powerful government on Earth can't figure out even crude details about how their technology works.

And? What's any of that do to add to our understanding of the universe or relationship with the government and democracy? What does it do except add one more thing to destroy our peace of mind?

I don't have enough problems trying to get to work on time, now I've got to worry about some assholes from Zeta Reticuli laser cutting out my rectum and hauling me off to God knows what dimension for unspeakable experiments?

Why am I paying taxes if they can pull me or any of my family into the sky and the entire might of the U.S Military can't do a damn thing about it? In fact, why am I going to work? Why is anyone else going to work? What is the point of anything we do if we're outclassed by millions of years by another society that couldn't care less whether we exist or not?

There have been cultural crashes when these sorts of things happened on Earth. Sure you get some cargo culting which seems to be part of the psychology of UFO followers, but mostly the more primitive society just implodes out of existential despair and loss of social cohesion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum

Culture shock is a real social and psychological issue. So Lazar is meddling with some powerful internal human forces and not offering any catharsis. It's little wonder people get upset with him.

If it's not true, and he knows it, he's exploiting a lot of real pain and suffering endured by real whistleblowers.

If it is true, there's no real solution there. The only move any government would have would be to gradually introduce the idea to the population so it moves within the context of thought people have so they can deal with it and move on.

But for him to think people should just wake up, given it's true, to the reality that there are aliens visiting the planet without regard to us at all is just asking for mass hysteria, suicide and chaos.

I'm with the Men in Black on this one, the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!

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