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I'm a prime example of post counts virtually being irrelevant.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 25, 2017 -> 08:49 AM) https://www.yahoo.com/movies/get-out-review...-155834435.html Get Out is getting a slew of rave reviews...satire/horror mashup https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/get_out 132 fresh, 0 rotten 203 fresh to 1 rotten now. Naturally that comes from none other than... Armond White. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/get_out

Jim H is a piece of sh!t. Just saying.

I ask every year or so, so I figure now is as good of time as any. Do I still have the highest warn rating of any poster not banned? I know that "warn"rating" was a technical term at a point in time, I am just curious if that still applies, and where my ranking on said list would be. It would be greatly appreciated to find out considering the lack of time I have spent on here in many years now. Much obliged.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 8, 2015 -> 02:28 PM) Yes Blowhard.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 02:59 PM) I was at the game his rookie season when he hit 3 HR....I think against the Braves or Phillies. That is all. No, no you were not. That is all.

QUOTE (Hawkfan @ Jun 8, 2014 -> 07:52 AM) No thank you. This isn't little league. Fell asleep in the 6th...thank God. QUOTE (SCCWS @ Jun 8, 2014 -> 08:07 AM) Agree that is why he was not allowed on team bus after the game. He had to walk back to the hotel. You jest... Say Sale went down for the rest of this year, and out all of next season. Hell, Sale just misses the rest of this season if that sounds nicer. Now he comes back... and he simply is no longer the Chris Sale fans so fondly remember. So say Sale is now only capable of pitching like a damn fine number 2 starter from the injury on. Think even crazier and say he becomes a middle of the rotation starter, in comparison to a contender for the Cy Young, year in, year out. Want to know what happens? Biggest thread in all of this very websites history. The server would be destroyed on the day the news broke. The inevitable "Catch all anything Chris Sale injures himself" thread would get bumped for a decade at the very least whenever someone got bitter over Sale's name merely being mentioned. I know these posters far too well to expect anything different. In this case, they would sadly all be right.

Makes you wonder how Sale gets disciplined by the White Sox for his temper tantrum? I would figure out a way to fine him, and fine him hard. A message needs to be sent that no matter who the player is, liabilities cannot be had. What he did very well could have been career ending. Think about it.

QUOTE (Butter Parque @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 11:48 PM) There was absolutely no reason for that. Save his arm. The game was already over. So, they could have brought in the worst pitcher in the league and they would have still won? This was not a 15-0 scenario. Five runs can come just like that, off of any pitcher, any given outing, despite how dominate they very well may be. The game was not "over" regardless of who was pitching. Greater deficits have been overcome with two outs, no one on, in the bottom of the ninth. Plain and simple, as some have stated, the bullpen should have been up and ready, and once the first batter reached, pull him.

This thread will always suck. Damn shame. Kinda like Pale Hose in general. Stopped talking over there because sabermetrics were frowned upon many years ago. These days, some have gotten the drift that advanced statistics are not satanic, but still too many are naive about trying to get a better understanding of the sport. Ignorance is, and likely always will be, mankind's downfall. Deduction people, deduction. Work your way from both polar opposites inwards. That is the best chance we have of grasping anything, and everything we attempt to grasp within our lives. Some may know it by a more archaic belief system, yin and yang. Give it a try, that is all I ask, as it will potentially make the world a better place far beyond what any of us can ever imagine.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 13, 2014 -> 08:52 PM) Which movie did you see him in just now? Yeah, he's definitely in my Top 5. For India, surely #1. About twelve in the last five days. Too many too mention. Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak from 1988 was one of them... which is their take on Romeo and Juliet. As far as I am concerned it is the best take on Romeo and Juliet I have ever seen. His raw emotions for his "Juliet'' is beyond compare. To say he loved her would be a disgrace to the meaning of the word. The ending? Superbly shot... gut wrenching. Heh. Also, I am sure you being a teacher you love the film ''Like Stars On Earth''? If you did not know, it was a rather personal film to him, and it was his directorial debut. His new film, which he has co-written, Peekay (2014) sounds rather intriguing to me.

Caulfield... is Aamir Khan the best actor in the world? Damn man is a chameleon in my eyes.

QUOTE (Brian @ May 8, 2014 -> 04:24 PM) Am I the only one sticking with Orphan Black? I like some of the revelations so far. I live with a guy that watches 60+ shows a week... and he claims it is within his top 3. Just so many different ways to go with that series. You never know what to expect next from what he tells me, and from whatever I read about the series.

Anyone here extremely handy at making infographics? Please let me know if you are, as I have an offer to someone that does. Thanks in advance.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 02:04 PM) That looked pretty awful. That pretty awful looking film with easily be one of the top 5 comedies of the year.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 8, 2014 -> 09:59 PM) Again, the Buster stuff is... not something I'm really paying much attention to anymore. I post in there on occasion, and if something is waaaaay out of line, I or someone else will respond in some fashion. But, believe it or not, I just got tired of it. So I only dive in once in a while now. So, as for the rules and what not, that was my years-ago attempt at keeping things civil. It helped for a little while, to an extent, but it was very difficult to manage, as you point out. I'm well aware the rules are flouted daily. As for this topic, all I am trying to say is... I was posting as me, not as Admin me. I threatened no penalties, nor would I. Just as Joe has the right to post things like that, I have the right to respond when I think it is silly. It is a friggin message board, this is what we do. I could ignore his posts, he could ignore mine, blah blah blah... this got blown up into something it didn't need to be. So, let's agree to return this thread to it's regularly scheduled programming? I feel I've made my points, I hope you have as well. Anytime I can take a dig at Kalapse it was a conversation worth having. Anyone play that Movie Pop app?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 8, 2014 -> 09:46 AM) um, OK. First, Jason already did chime in on this. In fact it was discussed with Jason and other Mods/Admins, and we agreed that as long as there are no direct links or files involved, it is fine. Which it is. Second, what makes you think my post was in any way, shape or form, me saying someone would be penalized? Did I say anything like that at all? You seem to have made an interperetation here not founded in fact. Third, what the hell does the Buster have to do with this? I rarely post in there myself anymore anyway, let alone moderate it. Fourth and finally, your hyperbole is pretty hilarious. Cease all discussion? WTF are you talking about? 1. So you have discussed the discussion at hand, came to a conclusion that what he has been doing is alright in the court of Soxtalk law, and yourself and others have continued on with making a comment every few posts when he makes an "update''? What is the sense in that. If you guys deemed it ok, leave it at that, and let him educate the few people that may have not known such without reading his posts here. You and whoever else is bothered by his updates are just fueling an unnecessary fire. Either tell the man he can do such, or cannot do such, and according to what you have said, he is in the clear. 2-3 rolled into one...VVV About being penalized. I said it because it seems as I could, or should have been suspended for not following those asinine rules (signing an agreement) to post in the filibuster. I have posted in it without being reprimanded in any fashion, whether it is a suspension, or limiting my ability to post in that albatross. Just find that funny. You said this. How I read that is the privilege to post in that forum would be taken away at the very least, even if a suspension would not be in order. But then... QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 11:39 AM) Unacknowledged as of 07/09/2010. Then this... QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 10, 2010 -> 08:53 AM) Since it's "unacknowledged", any slip up is an automatic suspension. So what does a slip up mean? Making a post in the filibuster since he no longer acknowledged it? Or not following one of these six golden rules? You can honestly tell me Y2HH has kept in line with those six rules over almost three years and five months? I have nothing against him, I am just trying to get an understanding of these flimsy rules. Just about anyone who has posted in that forum has broken at least one of those rules, especially when it comes to baiting. Once more, just trying to get an understanding. 4. My statement was clear as day. No need to reiterate it. QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 8, 2014 -> 09:48 AM) ALso for the record, I was posting at Joe because I found his posts irritating, which of course is why he is doing it. I just think he is derailing a good thread by making posts solely for the purpose of irritating other posters who brought it up (long before I ever said anything, so no, not talking about myself here). That, my friend, is what is "cutesy". Why does this irritate you so bad when the boss man himself said it's ok to post? Keep your irritation to yourself, that is why this thread has gotten even further derailed. It's not a problem of Chili, it's just a problem to those that it disgruntles. Btw, you have always been my favorite admin here, so it is not my intention to piss you off. If anything you are one of the only ones who has remotely had my back all of these years. Though I do have to get this off my chest, and it will undoubtedly get denied, but I have always found it ridiculous that knightni got an admin position simply by asking for it, and hardly being the most suited. Would have be nice to see someone have a better understanding of the game of baseball get that sort of power. The fact that wite of all people has never become an admin is a sham, plain and simple. Kalapse... well his name says it all, he would have folded under the pressure, he has too much power as is...

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 7, 2014 -> 09:02 PM) I know most everyone in this thread bailed on SHIELD, but I just caught the episode where they show (and somewhat explain) Agent Coulsons resurrection/Tahiti memory and it was pretty wild. I can't quite explain what they did to him though I do not watch it, but you will likely be happy to know that Stan Lee will have a "big role" in an upcoming episode. Gotta love that guy. Did you see that three part documentary that detailed the golden age of superhero comic books... all the way of to the modern day? I would say it was pretty solid, rather cool to hear from some of the old timers that brought so much of that magic alive. Thanks to my parents, I still have boxes of ten and twelve cent comics, ranging from every genre you can imagine.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 7, 2014 -> 09:07 AM) Really with these posts? Let it go. People are perfectly capable of Googling movies to see if they can be found. We all know one can download stuff illegally. What purpose do these posts serve? All of the films he has mentioned can currently be streamed from a slew of different streaming sources. So as far as I am concerned, and naturally I am a nobody in the eyes of the people running this place, he has not done a thing wrong. Everyone else has mentioned ""torrent", "torrenting", and "illegal" while he has not uttered those specific words in regards to how he gets his films. Now if he were the one uploading these films to the streaming sites, well he would be in rather big trouble, so as long there is no substantial evidence that he is doing so, where exactly does the problem lie? To my knowledge there are only pending acts against people viewing films via streaming. I would love to hear Jason chime in, and see if he has a problem with people being informed about something that to my knowledge is completely legal. Just because something is frowned upon, should discussion cease to exist because it ruffles some feathers? Look no further than the filibuster. Feather ruffling to the extreme, and just look how active it is? The filibuster should be shut down if anything, talk about lousy, uneducated (on average) discussion, that seemingly never gets anyone, anywhere. Oh, and guess what, I have posted in that garbage portion of this forum and I never "signed" that ridiculous agreement. Looks like I deserve punishment for such an insidious crime. Please, go lightly on me, I beg of you, as I am so looking forward to posting in abundance again, and going back to my old ways of pissing off those that deserve such. Far too many dross like posters get away with being nasty towards others on here without having the backbone to come right out and say what they mean. They go the cutesy route, play it safe, even though everyone can read between the lines and know damn well what they are insinuating. Pathetic.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Dec 13, 2013 -> 01:44 PM) Sorry. I read your entire post. That is just one, sad story. I will say a prayer for you all now. It just truly goes to show health is the most important thing we truly have. We can't ever take it for granted. You dad has had so many things wrong with him physically it's impossible to fathom. I can't even imagine insurance paying for all that, either, though that is a different topic. My prayers go to your dad and you guys. Hines pays for everything. Say a surgery cost $700,000... we do not even pay a dime. All of his medicine is covered, including 30 chemo pills he was taking that cost would normally cost $5,000 for a months script. They pay us/him a monthly check. There is a scale system depending on how ill they deem you, starting at as low as 20%, upwards to 100%, which he passed for with flying colors. My father applied for nearly three years before they finally decided on what percentage he was gonna be awarded, even though everyone in the place knew there was no doubt he would have 100% coverage. Once that finally happened, they gave us one big lump sum, and from that point on a check monthly has followed. If people are smart there are many perks to be had from VA, even though the process can be incredibly slow depending on what it is you are attempting for. You see, after the lump sum, we bought a van that was desperately needed, as nothing else would suffice for someone in his condition. Well, once you go through this book of perks you see that VA offers, they offer a grant of $18,900 towards a vehicle. We bought the new car within a week of the initial check as what we had prior was a deathtrap waiting to happen. A door did not work, no heat, nor air conditioning, half of a window worked, oil leaked from all over. The timing was beyond perfect, because I felt that bastard car was about to implode on us any moment. I mean it was 21 years old with nearly 400,000 miles on it. This is to be expected. So to be perfectly honest, it was a deathtrap. Generally, the car grant takes six months, upwards of nine months to get approved. Essentially everyone gets approved, it's just that they are so backlogged that most purchase a vehicle before the grant is... well granted. So once you can prove that you indeed used the money VA has given you, they give you that $18,9000 back in a lump sum. Other perks would be a free scooter, free hospital bed if needed, housing grants despite how poor your credit is/was at the time, etc. It's pretty much limitless what they do for you once you are in the system. My mother and myself also receive monthly checks because of the fact he has needed around the clock caretaking. They do this because they realize many cannot juggle working a full work week, while helping your loved one maintain a life that resembles some form of normalcy that they were once used to. We used to own a fast food trailer that you see at fairs, carnivals, bizarres, flea markets, etc. Years ago it got broken into and they stripped it all, nearly $13,000 dollars worth of equipment. Once that happened my parents were demoralized and sold it as is, for dirt cheap, for not even 1/6th of it's worth. Which pissed me off, but I had no say as I was not a partner. I mean these trailers make six figures a year, if you do it right that is. So over the past six months I have gathered the money to buy a nice snazzy one, better than the one we previously had. Alongside that, I have purchased a dunk tank. Now if anyone has stopped for even just a minute or two and watched the lines that amass for those suckers, at the going rate of 3 balls for $5 dollars, that is another six figure business venture, especially when the two are side by side. I know this because I know a man who has run the two for decades, and could have retired several times over if he so decided. Generally, the ''prize'' of hitting the target at a dunk tank is just to see a fatty or hot chick get soaked. I have two of each ready to go to alternate at any given time. I have contacted every junior high school and up to see if they were looking to do a form of fundraising for whatever their school may need, and have gotten many deals sewn up already. This includes high schools and colleges. Who doesn't want to dunk their most hated teacher, or hell the principal? Imagine being able to go back to your old high school and drenching that teacher you oh so despised? The ''prize'' I will be giving away is a ''free'' large popcorn, hoping that once the customer receives their popcorn they will say ''let me get a drink while I am at it". My prices/our old prices have always, and will always snipe anyone that we potentially are selling against, by a substantial margin. I have always been a firm believer in that. I know that a large coke costs only several pennies, so I see no need to sell a drink for $2.50 or $3.00, when I can get away selling it for $1.50, max $2.00, and steal a large amount of customers. On cold nights at haunted houses we have made a thousand bucks selling hot chocolate and coffee for a buck a piece, and that is not accounting for any other items we sold. Also, we used to do giveaways for a certain amount of hours, generally four, and the items were almost always sno-cones and cotton candy, we charged $800 many years ago, while the going rate others charged was an easy $1,000 at the time. So with inflation I figure to charge at least very least $1,000 for the four hours, as I have heard others range anywhere from $1,200-$1,500. From there I plan on taking on a massive vending route that an old family friend is trying to get rid of by the end of 2014, and having my brother along with a couple friends doing some of the stocking and collecting. I will not be able to maintain it by myself, as the route is simply too large, and it is gonna be essentially a seven day ordeal. Within just two to three years I plan I getting into the movie producing game, as anyone here who knows me most, knows the film industry is what I have always most desired to be apart of. Though I actually plan on directing the pancreatic cancer documentary as I mentioned prior, and that I plan on starting up within the next year. My advice to someone who has some money stocked away, and is looking for a way to make a huge bang for their buck, get into the two things I have spoke of in the prior paragraphs. If you have a remotely good head on your shoulders there is no reason for you to fumble them. This is not like the restaurant business in which 90 percent fail within their first year of opening. Far f***ing from it. Btw, if anyone here is amazing with photoshop/infographic templates, send me a pm. I promise you I have something up my sleeve, something that has not been touched on, and in the way I imagine it, it will easily be worth seven figures within no more than 18 months, and I feel 12 is not out of the realm of possibility. You may think I am crazy, and talking out of my ass, but sending me a pm and letting me run it by you can't hurt, now can it? Lastly, thanks greg, you were just about the last person I expected to respond given the fact that I have given you such a hard time all these years, so it's appreciated. You keep up the good work, that being, you rile everyone up, and at least give me a desperately needed laugh from time to time. Take care.

Ever been in a bar that they sell packs of cigarettes or simply loosies out of the washroom? I have been in two, and they make a killing.

I used to post here and there at some point. I mean to the tune of 25-30 posts per day. Then my father got ill, he has had 14 stent '' procedures'' to his right leg. In my book, if they cut you open, it is a surgery, though now it it's just a new cute term these days to keep people at ease. He still ended up getting his right leg amputated because of cellulitis. My father has been diabetic going on twenty years now, he has been taking insulin for over half of those years, as he hits upwards of 500 at times on his sugar count. He has also had 8 stent surgeries (oh yes, procedures) to the heart. Three eye surgeries. My dad has always had a problem with his right eye, as in basic training during his Vietnam war games he got shot point blank with a BLANK. Ergo, shrapnel was lodged within, and they had to remove it on the spot. Advance 40 plus years, just to find out it was not all removed. He also fell from a 40 foot pole, which was part of the daily routine in basic. This happened during the winter with a sheet of ice several inches thick. How did he land? Feet first. Naturally it is hard to believe, but I have had several confirm it via his scrapbooks from his time in Vietnam. My father also broke his back while working on the dock. He was lifting something he lifted daily for years, weight wise that is, roughly 70 pounds, and it just shattered. So to this day he has a metal plate, screws, and bolts to keep himself upright. He was confined to a bed for nine months. This was almost 23 years ago, as he is currently 68 now. Back to those stents on the heart, well he has had four heart attacks in the past nine months, and he had a quint bypass after the first two. After the first two they found out that he has pancreatic cancer, which very well is the most deadly of all cancers. This specific cancer eventually shuts down all of your internal organs one by one, it is simply nasty. My father was having anxiety, which he would never admit to after the first two heart attacks, so they put him on Zoloft. He had been on it for several months, and he had a reaction to it that put him in a state of delirium. Ever see or hear of the film ''Harvey'' with James Stewart? He was living it. So they took him off it, and by they, I mean Hines VA. Months go by with him being off of it and they started sending it again (either comes through the mail or you can pick it up there when present) so he started taking it again without really taking much notice. For the past several years he has been on upwards of 18 medications, some as many as four times a day. So... when he sees a medication he takes it as noted, without thinking twice, because he never has known what half of them even are for. I suppose I can understand how a person would be like that, but there is no damn chance I personally am taking something without knowing what it is... and what it is for. Not to mention the side effects. Though I suppose when you take that much medication, just about everything under the sun could possibly be a side-effect. My mother and I end up finding out he had been taking it for almost a week, and a couple days prior to Halloween he started acting forgetful, loopy if you will. By the day of Halloween, he did not know where he was, who I was, or my mom. What he did know is that we were playing a big elaborate hoax on him, and we were the reason he got sent to Desert Storm along with a whole troop of other wheelchair bound soldiers. The day of Halloween we take him to Hines, they see what we see, run tests galore, and they believed that it was a morphine overload (was not breaking down properly) along with the Zoloft that brought this upon. The day after Halloween he has another heart attack while in Hines, and he essentially stopped breathing on his own. He could have breathed on his own, but he would have died due to exerting so much energy just to catch a grasp of air. So they stuck a tracheal intubation tube down his throat, to get the fluid off his lungs, and of course allow him to breath, without it, he was a goner. He was in a coma during this period of time. My father also has had fluid removed from his lungs 10 times in the past five years, and during that span he has had pneumonia several times. Roughly 90% of people that die due to this cancer do so undiagnosed. Those of which that get diagnosed die within nine months on average. To reach five years? The odds are between 1%-3%. Anyway, pancreatic cancer is the toughest of all cancers to detect based on where the pancreas is located within us. A special test has to be done, hence why so few ever get diagnosed. What I am currently in the process of doing in trying to contact every cancer society that will listen, so that I can get in touch with a child prodigy named Jack Andraka. Andraka has created a test strip that can detect said cancer in just five minutes, but it will potentially take upwards of 15 years before it goes through all the loops to get it marketed. Once I have Andraka on board, my intentions are to get a Kickstarter or any other sort of fundraising sort of thing going to create the first full feature length documentary based around this nasty cancer. I plan on speaking to all of the leading experts outside of Andraka, those that currently have the cancer, the loved ones of those that do, and the loved ones that have died because of it. Even celebrities that are living with it would be a much added bonus. It's so draining on the caretakers, that is why I feel it is a much needed aspect of the documentary. This ride, not just the cancer, has been a complete and utter toll on my mother and myself during this period. I simply need, not want, the world to know more, so much more, about this atrocity. Sorry for the jabbering, it was just for those that may have wondered where I have been all these years, as my activity has been almost none. Also, it felt good to get it off my chest, even if it is to people I have never met, nor ever will. I know I have been a pain in the ass in the past, I mean to my knowledge I have the highest warn rating in the sites history, but thanks for listening, for those of you that have made it this far. There likely are some grammatical errors that I have made within this post, but I have been up going 32 hours, with only and hour and fifteen minutes sleep prior, so I do not really give much of a s***. On my good days I get four hours of sleep, and even when that occurs, it is in the form of intervals. I have always done such, and most do not understand how I function. Hell it's the reason why I left school my freshman year of high school and became an autodidact. Technically, I suppose I have always been, but I was not labeled one until that point. Everything just moved too slow for me, and it does this this very day. You see, this is why I do not post, as I can go on, and on, and on even more.. My damn brain never takes a rest, it's so very exhausting. I will shut the f*** up now. Good day, talk to you in another seven months.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 02:15 AM) Oh I forgot, I do know SoxFan1 in real life. Hard to fault you for forgetting that.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 26, 2013 -> 07:57 PM) The Patriot, Brokeback Mountain, and Monsters Ball were all notches in his belt, Joker was about to propel him into another stratosphere. Candy was damn good also. Due to that movie I read the saddest story in my life on the IMDb message boards about a heroin user that was commenting on how accurate the depiction is of that seedy world. I believe it has since been deleted as I have searched for it in the past. It was just so horrible, via reading him, I almost felt as if I was one with the poster. Was just that damn powerful.

A truly legitimate ultimate grand slam has only happened once in baseball history. Kinda bizarre considering the sheer amount of them that we have all hit in our youths via our imagination. Would truly be something to witness in game seven of a World Series.