I talked to one of the valets, and man, she was so over it. Just chillin’ making minimum wage. They could have been ratty old 3-Serieses or $300,000 jewels for all she cared.

So much cocaine is being done that the guests are actually blurry.......

That’s known as the cocaine filter. Really gives you the full Lambo party experience.

So Lambo parties look like long exposures?

Dunno, looks clean to me (not my car)

Tow hooks for racecars. Emphasis on “for racecars”.

He’s probably uphill of 85 when he hits the drainage. Source: professionally trained in speed estimation. Yep that’s a thing.

re-reading, i see it was a partial reading comprehension failure. i read it as he hit the spikes and immediately headed into the ditch, all at 115mph, which just doesn’t seem accurate. now i see the article says he hit the spikes at 115, but it’s not clear how close the spikes were to the ditch

I went back and watched again and his brake lights are totally on in the air hahaha

“Well, it’s in Hazzard, it’s in a hurry and it ain’t a Duke. So whoever that fella is, he’s probably up to no good. “

They threatened children with a shotgun for being black.

There’s pretty clearly some message-sending deterrence at work here, which does happen. They did this right after the Charleston shooting, and I think you want to send a clear message that it’s not okay to do shit like this.

Not really. One reason behavior like this is illegal is because it can rapidly turn violent. This is the South, after all—lots of people have guns on them or nearby. Under different circumstances, this could have turned into a gun battle with multiple people getting killed. That no one was injured here is, IMO, a…

“I would never ...” = “I didn’t realize there would be consequences for my actions.” Which is why we are seeing an uptick in racist and anti-Semitic acts; people are getting the message that they can get away with it.

One of the (many) issues I had with Alien3 was that so much of the previous film was just...wasted. Not just the obvious bits like Newt and Hicks and Bishop (if Ripley had just bugged out without Newt, she might have even made it home), but nobody gets to go back to the Colonial Marines and tell them about Hudson’s…

Aliens is one of a handful of movies I can watch anytime, anywhere, and love every second. I could watch it weekly and never get tired of it. It’s as close as any film can come to being a perfect movie.

Hudson went out like a badass, too.

Hudson was the Greek chorus to Hicks’s quiet narcolepsy, Vasquez’s intimidating everything in earshot and Gorman’s mealy-mouthed un-leadership. The viewer wasn’t going to find out just how dire the situation was via any of the well-adjusted characters; it needed someone to come completely unglued and give into his…