Russell Crowe, a genuine mood lifter for middle aged men everywhere π
zatapatique
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Like, seriously, this is Walter Sobchak
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Just walked past a huge poster for the apparently upcoming Nuremberg movie and I thought to myself, wow, John Goodman as Goering, that's some piece of casting. Until I read the fine print and and realised it was, in fact, Russell Crowe
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it's also notable that this is an angle that green advocates love to push, air travel is sooooo unnecessary and I am here to tell them that like with trade, when/if they eventually win, it will not be for the reasons they think
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brings me back to COVID travel ban discourse, one of the moments of that era where I was the most ready to completely lose the plot
Also I mean I hate rehashing this stuff because OF COURSE I WOULD BE HAPPY TO TAKE A BULLET TRAIN INSTEAD IF ONE EXISTED, SHUT THE FUCK UP, but the idea that people with invariably Anglo names have that the main convenience of flying is for foreign holidays remains very darkly funny.
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yeah I think the actual live event being properly bonkers (and having preserved, maybe even improved on, its historical bonkers through the decades) goes a long way into explaining why the popularity sticks
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yes, and once you know this incentive fact, and have watched enough of it, you realise how much broadcasters voluntarily lean into it (seamless three minutes voiceovers about the history of Carcassonne peppered here and there while the helicopter zooms out)
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dramatic horror movie violins THE GETTING SOMETHING FOR NOTHING CALLS ARE COMING FROM WITHIN THE HOUSE!
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maybe a bit πΆοΈπΆοΈπΆοΈ and certainly an underpowered theory but there is something in how they double and triple down on "those foreigners cannot come over here and get something for nothing" that really looks like projection if you squint
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also, the simultaneous domination of Spaniards in all sports in the 2010s, with all their sports doctors eventually going to prison
