Onto a secondary topic, it includes the "media frenzy" and the contract clauses that force players, coaches, and others to appear before the media... Plus the media in general, when it comes to the Superbowl (but, this has to do with our country; or at the least certain segments and populations of our country). But, really it's about the general stupidity and levels we have turned this ONE event into!

Only a few interviews are worth looking at typically and they tend to be AFTER a game, not before it (as that amounts to "what ifs", "probably might", "we sure can try", and "if I win, I'll go to 'insert Measleland or another place here' with my wife/kid/family/parrot"). I absolutely hate the fourteen hour pre-game show that the NFL and the channel hosting this *thing* that apparently people watch, that is quite like a: "super-fabulous-orgasmic-serotonin ovulating-dopamine excreting-heroine junkie nerve conduction transfer-fourteen people high at a rave experimenting in an orgy with all the holes and toys available"... OK, so maybe that is a bit too far, but still...! It really is the most "grandiose" setups for a game, that doesn't need such a grandiose setup.

The should just make it a damned national holiday already--everyone already stays home or is basically forced to, since one half of their family is probably glued to the TV for quite awhile.. Although I know we always "had" these interviews on the TV, but we never really listened to them, because they bring out 40 people who essentially ALL say the same thing (the only difference is if it is a different team and or if they are extremely religious--they will then tell you how their team will win, "...no matter what...", and then if they are religious proceed to randomly give you the, "God is on our side...", mantra...which always made me laugh--literally, out-loud).

Then they cut back to the ex-coach's and arm-chair quarterbacks who have been given a one day opportunity to tell the world what they think, and how he game will go (and it never does).

Needless to say, I HATE, with a passion, the "pre-game show" (which didn't exist in it's ridiculous form for a VERY longtime until the late 80's and early 90's). I'd rather them move all of their prime-time TV shows that will not be shown that night, due to the game, to that period of the day and let us watch that instead before the game (then they can give us a modest 45-30 minute pre-game; not this 5-hour marathon of ads and marketing, with a bunch of talking faces trying as hard as they can to make a name for themselves in that time-span).

Only people like "Beast Mode" can save that time allotment and make it worthwhile (if you think it is "entertaining", you REALLY need to stay away a bit from Football, and I'm saying that as a concerned friend...)--because right now, although a lot of people flip their TV over to the channel with it on...it is a massive waste of money and time--that somehow generates massive amounts of money (talk about "very careful" and "orchestrated" money setups and schemes; but luckily they have idiotic companies paying them gigantic sums of money for their commercials to air...even before the game comes on...). And, I wish people wouldn't just flip over to it, to have it on in the background (as most of the time I've noticed, whether it's a game at my house, someone else's OR an actual Superbowl party--no one watches that crap, it just sits on that channel...making them "think" they are getting ratings, but they actually aren't. It's kind of like saying that people go to Tailgate parties to park cars and see how neat the cement is...

I can't sift my own video but here is one of Ronan (Lee Pace) singing "Putting On the Ritz" from the early 90's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9EOnHIC5U

minorly *nsfw due to some nudity.

This didn't really work for me. The Moonlight Sonata just didn't mesh with Hotel California, and the imagery just felt like a random early 90s video by Marilyn Manson or Nirvana or . Not that those videos are bad, it's just been done before.

My friend starting peddling VHS rentals to remote grocery stores in upstate NY and Vermont in the mid-80s. His business was booming, he could barely fit enough videos in his van to meet the demand. By the early 90s it fell way off, it was barely worth driving the routes any more. Of course now it's a distant memory.

Couldn't agree more. But (there's always a 'but')... if a person convinces themself that they feel better without gluten, then the most passionate and data filled argument presented to tell them that what they feel is not justifiable scientifically, they're still going to be silly and tell the informed individual to screw off. The point is, some people have a reason that is good enough for them, and nobody is going to convince them otherwise. Are we really that dialed in to what's healthy and what nutrients we need for a healthy lifestyle? (whatever that means...). By example, consider the history of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - in the early 90's, people were feeling shitty and weak, in pain and suffering. They were labeled as fakers or diagnosed as having a psychological disorder, but certainly not a verifiable medical condition related to any consistent physiological disorder. Thousands then and now millions of people have been diagnosed with the disease that is finally recognized as a true medical ailment. The point: we know a lot but we don't know it all when it comes to physiology, nutrition and "sensitivities", and there is no one size fits all solution to guarantee we will be healthy. It's understandable that some are dismissive of this gluten thing as completely irrational based on current science, but parallel that with the irrational and mocked CFS sufferers from 30 years ago who now carry a disease that is has a clear diagnostic methodology and is to varying degrees treatable. Sometimes we don't even know what we don't even know, and for some if it makes them feel better, they're going to do it. Harmful? To each their own.

She looks familiar... I think we attended the same Uni in the early 90s (although different classes, and I never spoke to her).

I've wondered about that for years, and this video did nothing to answer the question.

I do know that in some cases, it's a straight-up (no pun intended) affectation. I've known a couple of guys that only developed a lisp after coming out (to themselves as much as anything--it was the early 90s).

Not hipster doucheism at all -- it's pretty much impossible to deny. I mean, the first Rush Hour was fun, as was Shanghai Noon, but the rest of Chan's Hollywood filmography has been pretty weak (I mean, I don't think anyone is going to come out of the woodwork to defend the Tuxedo). And even those two pretty good films pale in comparison to pretty much anything Chan made in Hong Kong in the '80s and early '90s.

Yes! And thanks for the link

It brings back some memories, I used to have an Amiga in the late 80s, or was it the early 90s?, anyway mods were very much the in-thing... mods and demos.

No, he's just an inflammatory 'little fucking thing' that loves to use big words to talk massive shit ad nauseam about everything and everyone because it makes him feel like a man, and nothing more. The only positive thing he's ever posted was about ice cream.
"fast burning flame out" he calls her, but how long has she been in the same position? If that's a fast burning flame out, then we should expect all politicians to die of old age in office....or he doesn't know what he's talking about and is simply spouting angry BS (guess which I think is true).
I WISH she was a fast burning flame out, then she would have left office in the early 90's and we wouldn't be talking about her.
Oh, and also...*dead

It came in pretty useful when Magneto ripped all the adamantium out of his skeleton back in the early 90s.

*comics

As far as Facebook being a spying tool, in the couple years I've been on they have gathered quite the cornucopia of intelligence:

* the financial manager for where I worked in the early 90s believes it should be OK to have multiple sexual partners

* my niece likes to drink, dance and listen to live music every weekend

* a coworker of mine owns several german shepards

* my other niece is a repeat spongebob fanatic

If this is the intelligence they gather from facebook, good... swamp em with this useless crap.

Wow, I had no idea that they did this originally. I remember Bootsauce doing this in the early 90s and I loved the song. Awesome.

I dated a woman who's uncle was retired from the CIA. Around 2001 or so, in a candid, personal conversation, well after he'd retired, he told us that every piece of data, without exception, sent over "computer networks", was backed up by the government/CIA (I lump them together despite history showing their disparity).
I believe he retired in the early 90's, and I recall being surprised that the government was on to, or rather suspicious of, the technology that early (so many things they're incompetent in, and so many they're not).
Regardless, I've never wanted to live in, or support, (passively or knowingly), a country that would partake in such things. That definitely wasn't the beginning of my mistrust and suspicion, but the memory comes back to me today hearing the recent court-orders.

Is this a new kind of TV-Show called "We might destroy your family, but you get money, so it's ok."? I always thought "Reality" TV was the greatest Bullshit I've ever seen.
Way to go Television, next stop would be something like the "Running Man". I'd rather watch a marathon of 80's and early 90's action movies... in fact I'm going to do that right now. Fuck You Television!