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SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

Ghost Leviathan posted:

There's an annual thread in GBS where they try to make deliberately bad Christmas music. It might make it sound better in comparison.

https://saxmas.bandcamp.com/track/baby-its-cold-outside

https://saxmas.bandcamp.com/track/baby-its-cold

You can't just write that without providing some examples.

Edit: They made one this year too! https://soundcloud.com/user-592589921/baby-its-cold-outside

SimonChris fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Dec 19, 2018

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 08:57

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 00:17

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

STAC Goat posted:

I imagine that Jackson's behavior with the kids was so objectively inappropriate that even if it was entirely innocent his lawyers recognized he'd still be guilty of stuff like "corrupting a minor" or something and would never be able to get a fair trial. And that's like, assuming absolutely nothing sexual happened and that the lawyers felt confident in that. Assuming they were as unsure of what Jacko's deal was as we are they'd probably default to not wanting to see it go to court.

And even though I have nothing to base it on, I kind of imagine that's why the two cases that went to court were so flimsy. They were presumably the ones really outright lying in a way Jackson's team could combat. While there might have been other kids who were harder cases to defend against.

https://twitter.com/MJJLegion/status/874813468137967616

It was Jackson's insurance company who settled the case, against his wishes, because it was cheaper than going to court. Jackson wanted to fight the charges.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 09:30

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

OrthoTrot posted:

This is a terrible argument. Just because he didn't do anything with them doesn't mean he didn't abuse others. The only logic to it is that someone who abuses a child will attempt to abuse all children, which we know to be false.

Obviously a lot of the facts are unclear with Jackson but even a cursory glance at this very thread shows how people seem keen to reach a hell of a long way to cast reasonable doubt in his case. Fortunately this behaviour is not replicated widely for most people accused or the whole recent movement to stop predatory behaviour would never have gone anywhere.

Michael Jackson was the target of massive investigations and several high-profile trials. If every accused was treated the same way, the movement would have gone much further.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2019 13:48

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

I like to think that all the super-assassins cancelled each out, but managed to distract the guards so efficiently that Epstein could kill himself in the confusion.

That would be a cool concept for a Hitman level, actually. Instead of killing the target yourself, you have to distract all the people preventing him from killing himself.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2019 16:56

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

Boywhiz88 posted:

Yeah, I don�t think he�s a Spacey or Weinstein but it comes off that he uses his status to extract what he wants from the relationship.

https://twitter.com/libbycwatson/status/1173994533689933824?s=21

My favorite detail is how he is making her co-write a comedy series about it.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2019 13:10

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

Rhyno posted:

The other Crash is better anyways.

For the longest time, I thought that people were upset that a weird sex fetish movie had won best picture.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2020 08:47

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3928980

# ¿ Jun 24, 2020 08:25

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

pentyne posted:

Pay rates for shows get weird and exploitative. Some actor on Daredevil said he was basically homeless and couch surfing while filming for S2 and the whole process basically cost him money in the end.

https://screenrant.com/daredevil-season-2-nobu-recast-peter-shinkoda-lost-money/

That was the guy who played Nobu.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2021 10:30

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

Charlz Guybon posted:

I thought this was an interesting article that touches on the tooic of the trade as portrayed in some classic films.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1395189162605748225

Reminds me of this:

https://twitter.com/CBThorburn/status/1377696492295761923

# ¿ May 20, 2021 14:56

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

https://twitter.com/KaraLashbaugh/status/1407149605310042118

https://twitter.com/KaraLashbaugh/status/1407540617849286658

Eddie Deezen is a character actor who played nerdy characters in a bunch of Hollywood movies and voiced Mandark from Dexter's Laboratory.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2021 15:57

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

davidspackage posted:

In a rare bit of good news, Jamie Spears has agreed to step down as Britney Spears's curator!

https://www.uktimenews.com/jamie-spears-steps-down-as-curator-relinquishes-control-of-britney-spears-60-million-estate/

https://twitter.com/DohaMadani/status/1425935148273618951

# ¿ Aug 13, 2021 07:08

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

https://www.tmz.com/2021/08/12/britney-spears-jamie-spears-conservator-step-down/

It's being reported other places as well. I am not sure who to believe.

Edit: It seems like he expressed intent to step down at some point but haven't actually taken any steps to do so.

SimonChris fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Aug 13, 2021

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 00:17

SimonChris: Apr 24, 2008; The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.; Grimey Drawer

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1435392167095197696

# ¿ Sep 8, 2021 11:57

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