It's not that people are squeamish about the visceral image of slaughtering meat. It's the unprecedented levels of industrialized, cost-cutting processing and the specific steps involved.

Yeah. I just had to google around for it for the guy upthread. There are also linked youtube videos showing some of the actual industrial processing. It comes out of a giant meat grinder as an endless pink tube of raw "McNuggett".

I cleaned it up a lot for brevity. It's a lot more disgusting than it reads: 
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

One of the most depressing things I've seen on TV in recent memory was the chef who came to an elementary school cafeteria, showed a room full of kids how chicken McNuggets are made (basically chickens pureed whole, with some pink food coloring added, and deep fried). Then he asked if they still wanted to eat them.…

Yet none of this explains why Anjelica Huston signed on to this train wreck. Incriminating photos?

@avclub-4b287f908bc71183ecd837b69d417c1a:disqus What's wrong with the poker? Aside from the likely-criminal chip dumping at the final WSOP table, the poker was pretty spot on. There are even whole scenes revolving around sound poker logic and reasoning. And they never show a hand bigger than a full house. No crazy…

Interesting that this article appears just a few weeks after Fuse got pulled from my cable channel line up. I'm guessing its days are numbered.

Someone clearly hasn't seen Ford's brilliant performance in K-19: The Widowmaker.

"It's still a bad movie, though. The romance and lack of chemistry between the two leads just kill it."
Don't know how that reads as "touting" it.

@avclub-5b7e0a1ad5d9ac9ef3063b05f55b6d31:disqus No, applied game theory is taught in many different fields. It has a lot of applications. But actual game theory is a math class. Same thing with differential equations: applicable everywhere, but the theory is taught in math class.

Yes! The Grand is probably my favorite poker movie. It's by the writer of the X-Men movies and Incident at Loch Ness (another great mockumentary). But it's probably only hilarious to poker afficienados and a big sloppy mess to the non-poker literate.

@avclub-41e23e24ee2670c4128cd7e5e5ee42ab:disqus NL is the second simplest.

Limit Hold'em is the mathematically simplest poker variant currently being played. It's the one that's come closest to being "solved". Also, game theory is math, not psychology. That's why it's taught by math professors and not psychology professors.

I  had enough money online to put a down payment on a house in L.A.  In a bitter piece of irony, I chose the site that I played on because it seemed the most trustworthy (the owners had the most to lose if they were caught being shady). Needless to say, it's the one that's most likely to stiff the players. Nearing a…

It's mathematically the simplest poker game that's commonly played today (and game theory is math, not psychology). It's the one poker variant that's very close to being "solved".

@avclub-3ca9c467df2542b0657483bb28cbe281:disqus There are also people out there who train to roll dice so that they can advantage play craps.

Except Teddy is a mobbed up scumbag and would have no problem welshing and/or killing Mike outright, in lieu of paying him. "Pay da maan hees moahney" is the most unrealistic line in the movie.

I thought he was talking about the circumference of a circle: two damn pi.

Harrison Ford.

I showed that scene to my roommate one time and it totally sold her on watching all of Brisco County. I think it was the dog that pushed it over the edge for her.