And Austin is the antithesis. Everyone loves it. Wifey went to Nashville, a city I really want to visit. She says it fun but fat as shit. As in fat bachelorette parties getting towed around Broadway on flatbeds while they fatly party on it. I need to see this shit. Plus, it has that ridiculous to-scale Parthenon replica, Printer’s Alley and the Jack Daniel’s store— all things on my list.
I've never seen the show, but I watched that clip. I didn't really care about the background, so I skipped ahead to 7:00 for the when the doctor walked in. Based on that YouTube clip, that assessment is completely wrong. He's not an asshole at all. He doesn't want that person to know they're horrifying, he wants them to know they've been given a gift and are wasting it. He's being a doctor. Good on him.
San Antonio is a good time. And yes, it’s very fat. Austin is fine. It’s getting way too pretentious, expensive, and obnoxious though. It’s so crowded now that you need a reservation for Barton Springs. Houston is a better food city over all of them. What annoys Dr. Now is that his dipshit patients lie to his face and they expect him to believe it. I mean, he does put them on a 1200 calorie/day diet down from the 10k they were on before. So yea, compliance is an issue. But these aren’t serious people. They are wildly abusive to their loved ones the second they don’t run out and get them Popeyes. They need a 2x4 with a towel on the end just to wipe themselves. I say let him embarrass them.
Nashville is a great place to visit. But it’s growing faster than it can handle so we didn’t want to raise a family there. But 15 years of my young adult life, gigging, meeting my wife? Worth it. Also, Baja Burrito. A daily craving I can’t wait to satisfy.
What a fucking morning. Was driving Zoe to camp this morning and some guy in a shitty minivan is riding my ass, bad. As in 70 in a 50 and he's so close to me that I can't see the grill or hood of the minivan in the rear view, on a stretch of road that is super hilly and sketchy as fuck with potholes, blindspots, and deer. I see something on the side of the road that looks like an animal (turns out it was just a bit of a dead tree top that was in the side of the ditch), so I start to slow down. Dude behind me takes it personally, lays on the horn, finger out the window, yelling at me and calling me a fucking asshole. I get going again, so he aggressively starts riding my ass again... passes me in a place where you can't see oncoming traffic coming over the hill at us, and pulls in front of me, slams on the brakes, gets out, and starts coming at me. What the fuck dude?!? He starts yelling at me and threatening me, and then Zoe steps in. lol Fucking hilarious. Windows are down, she's in the back seat and has gone into full on "don't fuck with him" mode... barking, super aggressive, trying to get out the window. I call him a moron and tell him to fuck off, and he tells me he's going to send the dashcam video to the cops... I laugh, tell him go ahead, Zoe tries to climb out the window again, and he fucks off. Turns out the guy behind him initially is also taking his dog to the same daycare, and we chat while in line dropping off our dogs... he basically starts off with "fucking people, eh?" So yeah... great start to the morning, but it was interesting to see Zoe in "protect mode" for the first time... it felt good.
Asshole, in the best sense. You have to grasp what’s in the surface here: this wildly popular show where these behemoths have to donate a year of their life (and are paid less than $2500, seriously), and the hero they fund is the most charisma-free emotionally flat dead-eyed bullfrog on the planet. They can’t use a scale because literally only livestock auction scales can weigh them, so they blindly spend a year trying to lose weight, show up at his clinic at he says “According to these charts you are still 87% fat fuck. Come back one year.” That’s it. He does not want an excuse or alibi, those words aren’t in his vocabulary. I actually think he’s a good person. I just LOVE the lack of empathy and how he puts them in their place like a clinical psychopath. It’s super-necessary. These people often have feeders/enablers aggravating their addiction, and he treats them like murderers to their face. Which they kind of are.
This is an old pic of the exact spot he stopped and got out. Crazy sketchy area during the early morning commute.
I wouldn't say he has a lack of empathy... he's just not coddling them or letting them get away with their delusions, and is calling them out on their failure to do their part. I would almost say that he actually cares very much for them, and that's a prime motivator for what he does.
He’s already rich and 80 years old. He does lap band surgery for free which is life-changing. He certainly does care. There’s a scene where he catches a feeder snaking in fast food to the clinic that’s fabulous.
Anyone see Gojira’s performance at the opening ceremony of the Olympics? It was badass. People are calling it satanic. We are so back.
I thought it was pretty badass. Anytime you're performing where they have to strap you in for safety kicks ass.
Steven Avery is the one where it completely broke him. That guy is a manipulative sociopath that pushed Dr. Now to his limit of compassion. Glad my brother bought me a Cameo of him for Christmas. Also the Olympics are boring so far.
Just saw "Twisters" last night. As a weather geek, it's was impressively accurate (and righted some of the sins from the original, like explicitly saying don't hide under an overpass). Obviously one of the central themes to the movie -- and I'm not really spoiling anything when I say they're trying to "kill" a tornado with a chemical that removes the water -- is not possible, but it is what it is. Wildly entertaining. And they do a REALLY good job of showing that the damage from a tornado can still occur extremely far outside of it. The previous movie I saw in theaters was Top Gun Maverick, so I rarely go see this shit. I'm fucking stoked. Soundtrack is the tits as well.
Be aware, I'm transferring DNS and registration for this site to Cloudflare. (@Binary) It should be a bit seamless and pretty quick, but my existing registrar and DNS provider has been having issues and it has sucked enough that it motivated me to move. (Long story long, I used Dotser for decades for domain registration and DNS, and they just got bought by Web.com, and things have gone to shit and dnsservers are flaky and not resolving, blowing up my personal web/emails as well as causing issues with this site's performance... so today I did the complete transfer of all my domains).
You didn’t like the bearded trans Last Dinner Chateau rock out with Gojira? Also what does snoop dog have to do with anything French? It seems like these event planners have bad AI making suggestions. Like when the Biden campaign had Robert DeNiro show up to make a speech at Trump’s trial. Who thought having that geezer, who hasn’t had a relevant role in decades, would connect with anybody? This simulation is really showing its cracks. I also don’t enjoy the time zone difference.
NO, not everyone loves it. Most people in Texas hate that city. You are a shining example of bad publicity. You say that Austin is so cool, but you have admitted that you can't get into the USA.* When was the last time you were in Austin? That city is getting gentrified to shit, and people like you, who have no skin in the game, keep building it up like it's the next urban utopia. THEY DON'T HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE in Austin. Just go back to planning your next Halloween House. *Don't worry, I can't get into Canada, either.
DNS is like a phonebook. He's changing where/how our number shows up in the phone book. No I loved it. If there's any place that needs representation of morbidly obese trannies, it's the most exclusive and restrictive sporting event on the planet.