#57 - I Need a Drink - Gin and TANic (Page 73)

The volleyball one is a hoot!

ToPpAgE!

Leatherheads was kinda funny.  Not as good as O' Brother Where Art Thou, but still funny.

Charlie Wilson's War and Bank Job were both pretty good.

the top two on my list to still rent are Run, Fat boy, Run, and the Hulk...

Not sure if you saw them or not.

PLUS, I need to catch up on the Godfather movies.. (never saw them)

Now that I have a bigger audience.

I had $641 of coins (now in bills).  What should I spend it on?

PLUS, it took about 6-9 hours to sort, count, and wrap them.  Not worth it.

both are really good.. have seen them both and lof them...  Run Fat boy isn't "typical" Simon Pegg but its still really good

I like the suggestion that someone made about treating yourself to some nice finisher's gear at Silverman. 

As I stated in your previous thread, I'll take 'em.  Give 'em to me!!

Some nice finisher's gear for you and a nice dinner for you and your wife.

First one - very good, a little slow at times, but very good.  One shooting scene disturbed me a little, though.

Me too.  Get tons of Silverman FULL gear.  I didn't get it last year cuz I was not worthy.  Now I am...

RYAN:

I ended up getting a coin sorter like you suggested - sort of cool.  But that, plus the batteries, plus the wrappers, ended up costing me about 35 bucks.  Plus the time.  Coinstar, if they took 10%, would have been $64.  I wasted my time - but it was kind of fun.

Now I throw it in the machine every day and have it sort it.  Avoid this in the future.

Doesn't your bank have a coin counting machine? Hell, even the one at the grocery that charges 2% would have been a better option. What were you thinking man?

I'm A Man of Constant Sorrow.  I LOF that movie.

Yeah, I ruled that option out...

Nope...  Been over that.  but nope.

Hindsight it 20/20 and I screwed up.

You caught Ironman yet?  It was alright - Robert Downey Jr. did a pretty good job in it.

My wife bought it for me.  I want to watch it, but things keep coming up (like election coverage).  It's still wrapped up.  Maybe tonight.

Yeah if you haven't seen Ironman watch it before you see Hulk.... and wait til the end of the credits for Ironman....

I don't want FOP.  I'm a Dapper Dan Man!!!

Do NOT seek the treasure!!!

We saw a guy doing this in a strip club one night.  It was high comedy.

Ok - the wife and I got into a little argument last night - tell me if I am over reacting (most likely, I am). 

We were watching some show and these folks were trying to adopt a baby.  A lady agreed to select them and they went to meet her.  She turned out to be black.  They were a little concerned.  Immediaately, I said, "they must not want a baby too badly if they are going to turn one down because of the race of the child".  At this point, Steph said, "I domn't know, I'd have to think about that.  It would bring another dynamic into the situation".  What dynamic - I asked.  She said, well, you know, people tend to look at you differently in a family that has mixed race.  My answeer was  - and those people can go and F*&% themselves. 

Let's stop right there and examine this.  There is absolutely no room in my life for racism.  I detest it enough to get into a fistfight about it.  One of my best friends ever was named Anthony and he watched my back and I watched his for a couple of years, until one day, I was unable to watch his well enough and he did not make it out of Panama.  It happens that Anthony was of African-American descent man, but it didn't matter to me if he was black, red, blue green yellow or purple.  He was my brother.  This was a big change for me, as my Father was a bit of a closet bigot and we had to deal with that on a deeper level when I got out of the Corps.  OK, back to the happening.

She then said, well, it wouldn;t matter to me either, but I would want to consider how it would affect my family?  How would it affect them?  Would they not want us around if we adopted a vietnamese baby?   If that is the case, they can f*$& themselves.  She kept trying to say that she would want to consider their feelings, but it would ultimately not change her decision.  So finally, I said - exactly which member of your family do you think would have aa problem with this, because I am thinking about your family, and I can;t really think of anyone (to be fair, this was a set-up, because I could think of one, and it is the same person that she was thinking of).  She said, my brother Don.  OK, I said, and then he could go f*%& himself, never be around my child at all and not be welcomed in my home.  That oughta handle that problem, huh? 

So now, I am pizzed.  There are several of my cousins that are in mixed race relationships.  Does this mean that if her brother (it is her half-brother, from a family that barely treats her with any respect at all, which I have another huge issue with) came to a function where my family andd her family got together and he saw that there were members of my family that were not caucasion, then he would have an issue with me or them.  Well, she said, he wouldn't have an issue with you, but he might with them.    This is where the argument ended.  I said, let me tell you something.  If he has an issue with anyone in my family, then he has an issue with me.  You know my history (to my wife) I have cut off people from my own family for things that I do not find acceptable, and since I have assumed that your brother is racist but have not heard him say anything like that to this point, I have not reacted to it, but that would change in a hurry if he were to say something in front of me.  You choose if you would like to warn him of that or not.

Thoughts?  I am still kind of fuming about it as I sit here.

Disclaimers - we are not considering adopting.  This is all hypothetical.  We have, however, had a few friends that adopted children and a couple of them are from other countries (China and Viet Nam).