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    There are other cities in the path of a hurricane like NYC and DC but they are above sea level and don't need levees or flood walls.

    If I want to live near the sea, I'd live in California instead of Gulf Coast or East Coast. But there's a con about California. Earthquakes.

    Tornadoes, floods, blizzards, volcanic eruptions. People do live near volcanoes. No place is 100% safe.

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    James Bond has a lot of nonsense in it.
    I probably end up skipping most of the movie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kuro no Shinigami View Post
    When New Orleans was flooded after Katrina, the government had to drain the floodwaters.

    You have to constantly maintain the artificial levees and floodwalls every time New Orleans was struck by a hurricane. The hurricanes could weaken the structural integrity of the man-made levees. If they are not properly maintained, they could collapse.

    Are you fine with taxpayer dollars maintaining levees, draining the floodwaters and rebuilding a city in an unsafe location (i.e. below sea level and in the path of a hurricane)?

    Home is where the heart is. They could move their whole city and community to a new location.
    I didn't say it made any sense. Certainly no more than those building their houses in Wildfire Alley. Nonetheless. People ain't bright.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRay View Post
    James Bond has a lot of nonsense in it.
    I probably end up skipping most of the movie.
    Roger Moore considered them to be comedy films - a spy where everybody knows his name, and who draws as much attention to himself as possible?

    And Dusko Popov (the primary model for Bond) was offended by the books, stating that Bond would have been discovered and killed within hours.
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    To be fair, by the Moore era they were almost comedies.

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    'Don't Leave Me Daisy Chan' isn't that bad an anime.

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    Mountain Dew is absolutely disgusting
    Last edited by 9th.; 09-20-2020 at 02:37 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRay View Post
    James Bond has a lot of nonsense in it.
    I probably end up skipping most of the movie.
    Isn't it why people enjoy it though?

    The ridiculously good agent, who bangs all the hotties, has fun gadgets and can kill four baddies with one bullet? I mean, this isn't exactly a documentary about british secret services now is it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 9th. View Post
    Mountain Dew is absolutely disgusting
    Is this a controversial opinion? I thought this was pretty universally understood to be true.

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    Apparently it's now "Mtn DeW"--when did that happen? I haven't drank the Dew in a long time--and the Canadian version might be different from the American--but I think they have changed the formula over the years. It was pretty good when I drank it as a kid, back in the 1960s. Maybe not as good as Kickapoo Joy Juice, but comparable. Pop all around tasted better back then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joker View Post
    Is this a controversial opinion? I thought this was pretty universally understood to be true.
    Most people I know like it especially Code Red and whatever the blue one is called, I think they're all terrible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joker View Post
    Is this a controversial opinion? I thought this was pretty universally understood to be true.
    Quote Originally Posted by 9th. View Post
    Most people I know like it especially Code Red and whatever the blue one is called, I think they're all terrible.
    What Joker said. No need to feel lonely or controversial 9th. MD is vile.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joker View Post
    Is this a controversial opinion? I thought this was pretty universally understood to be true.
    Took the words right out of my mouth.

    It's kind of like White Castles. Very little fence sitting. Only the folks who love them and the folks who can't understand why anyone could love that disgusting stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by numberthirty View Post
    Took the words right out of my mouth.

    It's kind of like White Castles. Very little fence sitting. Only the folks who love them and the folks who can't understand why anyone could love that disgusting stuff.
    I actually took my son to a White Castle to see what the fuss was about, so I could avoid a record of "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" being on my Blockbuster list. Note, this was years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptCleghorn View Post
    I actually took my son to a White Castle to see what the fuss was about, so I could avoid a record of "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" being on my Blockbuster list. Note, this was years ago.
    I've never been to one myself, the only one near me is in a casino food court in Vegas, and that comes with a price jump for the location. I have so many other places I can go to for the same price, with smaller crowds, cleaner tables, and probably better food.

    I do wonder what the big deal is about In n Out, I have actually been to one of those and thought it was decent but not all that special. The fries were mediocre - as they are in most places that advertise fresh cut french fries. The secret to cooking good fries is you have to do them twice - once at a lower temperature to actually cook them, then the second time at a higher temperature to get the crispy outside (best to blanche them in between the steps as well). That is very friendly to places that either take time to prepare your meal, or ones that use frozen potatoes to speed up the process (having done the first cook before shipping to the store) but is really bad for any place that tries to cook them fresh at a fast food pace - the words "fresh cut fries" may get attention from people who want better food, but to me it broadcasting "Our fries suck!" to the world at large.
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