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No, not being pedantic. I really think the age they begin taking hormones is a key factor, and the gals you used as examples sure look to me like they decided in their 30's to begin to transition. By then it's much too late. But if they'd started in their teens, who knows......

Agree with most of this, but for myself I'll continue to wear a mask and get updated vax's. My buddy got COVID and still has no sense of smell and is exhausted most of the time, months after "recovering". I don't worry I'll die if I contract it, I worry I'll get long COVID and be useless to myself or anyone else. Used to be that ignorant folks knew they were ignorant and just changed the subject to NASCAR. Now they want to lecture you on why Ivermectin and Hydroxychloraquine are the real miracle cures and are being suppressed and other such nonsense. I too long to return to the days when the uneducated didn't second guess the educated. They now vilify science, medicine, infectious disease experts, anyone that actually grad-jew-ated High Skool and went on to get an advanced degree.

I'm LOVING We Own The City. Decided after watching the first three that I'll wait until all 6 have shown so I can binge the last 3. LOVED Chernobyl! Such a fantastic "limited series". One of those things I think everybody NEEDS to watch.

I like your take on things and have always enjoyed your company Seven, so I'll have to give this guy the benefit of the doubt and check out more of his stuff then.

Great recommendations! GOT - watched it repeatedly, until the final season which I've not gotten around to rewatch. The rushed final season was such a pisser, it has really colored the entire series and left a bad taste in my mouth, but the earlier seasons.... the best. The standard that all others now have to meet. The teasers for the new prequel on HBO (staring this fall?) look awesome. The rush to wrap up the final season was so out of character, so rushed... journeys that previously took half a season were suddenly being accomplished in a matter of hours. Multi-season threads wrapped up with Deux Ex Machina nonsense endings. It really felt like the show runners just decided they were tired and wanted to be done with this thing, and scratched out instructions on post-it notes instead of thinking things through. I think I read that the author said he would have taken 2-3 full seasons to have wrapped it up properly if it were up to him. Loved The Office (UK and US). Loved Seinfeld. Lost interest in Battlestar Galactica after season one, I tried to watch it last year and I just don't think it's aged well. I LOVE the Wachowski's so I'll have to check out Sense8. Tokyo Vice is in my to-do list, I just read the novel at long last earlier this year. Narcos looks great but may not make the list as their are just too many other great contenders, we'll see. And cannot stomach Star Wars anymore, didn't even bother to see the final film of the triple trilogy. Watched 4-5 episodes of The Mandalorian and was surprisingly uninterested. I LOVE all the Marvel stuff so I thought I'd love it simply because it was Jon Favreau's baby, but it left me cold. I watched the first season of Twin Peaks when it was on originally and just never went back. Lynch is one of my favorite directors (I even liked his Dune!) and both Eraserhead and The Elephant Man are somewhere in my Top 100 films list, but TP just seemed to be non-sequiturs and obscurities for their own sake. Handmaids Tale was incredible in the first season, meh in the second. Lost me there. Walking Dead was a mixed bag. LOVED the first many seasons, but once Negan came in I lost interest. Started realizing that every Sunday night I went to bed disturbed and depressed. I'm disturbed and depressed enough on my own and didn't need TWD to add to it, LOL! I cancelled Netflix when they raised prices last year. Too many great choices on HBO Max, Disney+, and Apple at this point to give them more of my money. I'll probably go back someday but for now, I've got plenty to keep me busy with these. You know what? Looking at this response I can only conclude I'm now officially a grumpy old man.

Kim Jong Un was also reported to be the first human to isolate the Coronvirus "bug", wrestle it to the ground, and then make it cry Uncle and apologize to the Great Peoples of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It's being reported that he then proceeded to make it his "bitch", forcing it to caddy for him as he went on to hit 16 hole-in-one's, the second time he's ever picked up clubs and now extending his streak to 32 consecutive hole-in-ones. The virus apparently had no comment other than repeated apologies to the Supreme Leader.

It's not that farangs shouldn't (I've seen some gorgeous farangs tgirls) but why farangs shouldn't decide to transition if they didn't start with hormone treatment in their early teens.

So, after nearly 3 years away from television (it's a short but boring story) I'm back with a vengeance. Finally got around to watching The Wire, classic HBO series (5 seasons roughly 12 hours each) about drugs, crime & corruption in Baltimore. Next up: Breaking Bad Community (I LOVE Rick & Morty, and I guess this was by the same creator/writer) Yellowstone. What next? What else do you consider Binge Worthy TV?

I've been out of the scene so excuse stupid questions (won't be my first nor my last!) but why was Paeng visiting? I didn't think she got over to BKK much...

I had my first real brush with CV on Friday. As I'm 61 and a right fat fuck now, I continue to wear a mask when I go out in public, and I was wearing my mask at my best customer's offices. Met with their President for 30 minutes, wore my mask the whole time and didn't shake hands. He texted yesterday that he's tested positive. I took a test and it's solidly negative, but will have to test a couple more times until I'm "clear" on the 5th day after exposure. TBH I felt vindicated. I left their office and visited my 82 yo Dad who's probably in his last year on earth. Diabetic, overweight, can hardly walk now and has lost a lot of his acuity. I went in, washed my hands, talked to him for 10 minute wearing my mask, then left and went to my office where we had a meeting with 12 of my associates in a small enclosed space. Wore my mask again. I felt like a right fool wearing my mask at my customer's office and at my office, but now I feel totally vindicated. Doing the right thing for my health (and the health of others) will continue to get me some weird looks and the occasional comment, but I sorta like my health and would like to hold onto it for a few more years!

No two ways about it, the guy is an Asshat of the first order. Chasing clout, and but he nearly got "clouted" himself, which would have been within reason. There's a guy (I'm assuming) on Tik-Tok who posts videos from Patts, he just walks around with a hidden camera, no editorial comments or even any specific content. Just sort of a "fly on the wall" approach to Pattaya. I check his stuff occasionally but TBH it's pretty boring, and the shaky camerawork (I think he just sticks his phone in a shirt pocket with the camera facing out) is pretty tough to take.

PDoggg, I’m afraid people don’t understand the concept of writing songs that tell stories rather than sharing personal experience. Can you imagine the shit storm if Randy Newman‘s “sail away“ were to get a lot of AirPlay nowadays? If you don’t know what I’m talking about just look up the lyrics. Classic song but people would be up in arms because they’re too lazy to do any actual research. Don’t even get me started on the furor that would result from his song “short people”, lol! I can’t comment on The Stones as I’ve always found them to be one of the most boring bands in history. I’ve long had a theory that you’re either deeply in the Beatles camp, or you’re deeply in the Stones camp, and people that claim to be in the middle are usually the ones that, when asked what bands/type of music they like, will say “whatever’s on the radio.“

Very sad to hear this. Another cornerstone of the LB movement in Patts now gone.

That's sad to hear Dave. Is Lita still operating a bar? Is ANYONE surviving in LOS through the downturn/pandemic/"troubles"?

Congratulations Emmy! Wish I could join you (or anyone for that matter, lol!) but no plans to be in LOS anytime soon... Best to yoU!

I got an email this morning from Pacman. Out of the blue. Have not had any communications in 6 years until this AM. Anyway, that got me thinking about the rest of you guys, and wondering what the hell the scene must be like in LOS right now. Cannot imagine how the bars and the girls can survive with no tourists. Must be like a fucking ghost town (a "haunted town" as my wife says, LOL!)

The story: after a night of heavy drinking, the next morning someone found they’d recorded a song the previous evening but the handwritten title was nearly impossible to read, thus “In The Garden Of Eden” is now forever known as “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”. The other version is that the singer was so blitzed that another band member misunderstood what he was singing and wrote the title down phonetically. Same basic idea.

Close Sustra. Want to take another shot at it? And for bonus points, give us the story behind it?

Here’s an easy one: What does the title of Iron Butterfly’s 1968 album “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” actually mean? Or more precisely - what was it originally meant to mean?

A damned furrener?

Although the Painter/Piper/Prisoner was known to the world as Syd Barrett, he was known to his mother as ROGER. Next?

CAPTAIN MARVEL review I have to admit that I've become a huge Marvel fanboy. It was a long journey here, as I was (and remain) never a comic book fan. I hated all the WB Batman movies from Tim Burton. I just never really connected with any of that stuff, until I was in an Imax screening of "The Last Man On Earth" a few years ago, and they announced that they were going to play a 7 minute scene from the upcoming "new Batman movie" which had been filmed (partially) using Imax cameras. They then showed the opening scene from "The Dark Knight" from the beginning until the busses are seen driving past the bank. I was amazed! Became a huge fan of the Christopher Nolan series. When it came to Marvel, I just couldn't get interested. I remember seeing Iron Man and thinking it had been fun, but I'd hated the Spiderman movies and the XMen stuff never did anything for me, so I never got interested. Until I saw "The Avengers" on a flight to Japan, and was very impressed. Worked backwards and saw all the rest of the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" movies and, well... that brings us up to date. I had high expectation for Captain Marvel, some of which were met. But the first 80-90 minutes seemed somewhat forced. The "Girl Empowerment" stuff seemed a bit heavy-handed, and the humor was not connecting the way it normally does in a Marvel film. Of course, it could have been the audience I saw it with. Although nearly sold out, the crowd was oddly quiet through the first portion of the film. It DID really come alive in the last 40-50 minutes, once she figures out who she really is and learns about her powers. Ultimately, I think the problem was with the direction. SPOILER ALERT: there's a post-credits scene where we see her stepping in with the rest of the Avengers directly after the ending of Avengers: Infinity War that really brought this home. The entire feel & gravitas of the scene was COMPLETELY different than what I'd just experienced in Captain Marvel. What I think this tells me is that with a better Director in her next adventure, this might be able to return to the same level of magic that most of the MCU has up until now, which was slightly let down during the protracted "origin story" that dominated the first 2/3 of the film. Very excited to go see Avengers: End Game next Friday. And very excited to see what the NEW MCU holds for Captain Marvel!

Ok, you got the easy part the - name of the former band member who inspired the lyrics. Syd Barrett originally named the band after his two favorite blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, wrote & sang lead on the bulk of the tracks on the first album, which he named "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" after a chapter title in one of his favorite books "The Wind In The Willows." But the hard part of the question remains unanswered: what was his real first name?

Many folks know the legendary story of how Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album was inspired by the former bandleader who devolved into mental illness and was replaced by David Gilmore. This former member turned up - uninvited and unexpected - during the recording sessions after a 10 year absence, and told the guys "I'm here to play my bit". Roger Waters was so moved/distraught/disturbed by the site of his former friend that he went home that night and wrote the lyrics for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" in homage. Most folks know the legend, and know the name of the former band member. So: Who inspired the lyrics, and what was his real first name?

Stab in the dark: both are descendants of Louis XIV? P.S. - Steely Dan was a band I abhorred in High School. Too jazzy, too “pop”. Now I’m obsessed with them. One of my favorites.