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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Cut the chord in CO, Vern. Netflix + Prime + HBO gives you a well-rounded plan for about $30/mo. If there's a decent library near by, even better.
Well rounded for a non-sports fan.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:I wish this were on Amazon Prime or something.
It is, for $$$.
That doesn't count
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tragabigzanda wrote:Cut the chord in CO, Vern. Netflix + Prime + HBO gives you a well-rounded plan for about $30/mo. If there's a decent library near by, even better.
Yeah I don't know if I'll ever do that.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Cut the chord in CO, Vern. Netflix + Prime + HBO gives you a well-rounded plan for about $30/mo. If there's a decent library near by, even better.
Well rounded for a non-sports fan.
Yea, the league passes are pricey, and sports mostly sucks on the platform I'm selling. I do get the 30 For 30 series on Netflix, and I guess HBO has good boxing. I am really excited for the HBO/Bill Simmons relationship to develop.
League passes are a good alternative but blackout rules suck and they don't cover the playoffs.
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"Russ was right. This guy fucks" was probably my favorite line of the season so far because of the depressed level of matter of fact resignation that Dinesh says it with.
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@SkitchP wrote:"Russ was right. This guy fucks" was probably my favorite line of the season so far because of the depressed level of matter of fact resignation that Dinesh says it with.
I agree. Great line and delivery.
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Jian Yang stole this weeks episode.
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The beat over the closing credits in Sunday's episode was killer.
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man, this is probably the best comedy going right now.

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Was watching the cinematic masterpiece Face/Off today, and saw a young Gavin Belson get shot in the head by John Travolta.
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Feel bad for Ehrlich
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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"Richard...did...someone do that to you?"
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Mecca wrote:Feel bad for Ehrlich
he was taking advantage of bighead!
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spike wrote:
Mecca wrote:Feel bad for Ehrlich
he was taking advantage of bighead!
for sure, but Bighead squandered $20million pretty foolishly
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Mecca wrote:
spike wrote:
Mecca wrote:Feel bad for Ehrlich
he was taking advantage of bighead!
for sure, but Bighead squandered $20million pretty foolishly

To be fair, like 14 million of that was stolen by his financial advisor.


and oh my god was I so happy to see Russ Hanneman. Such a great character.
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I did think this episode was way too short on Gilfoyle and Jared. Loved seeing Russ though.
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