Dandy Owl

Java Champ who never had the makings of a varsity athlete. Lives like Day Man, fights like Night Man.

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@TheSeriesFeed It amplified what NY really thought of NJ - that they were a glorified crew much beneath them.

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@pedalsingh I agree with your arguments but having a ban purely for football is inherently unfair. Clubs/stadia can still choose to keep it as it is or can work out a way of implement the changes in a constructive manner. But, FWIW I think this is just performative guff from Burnham

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@TheSeriesFeed I took the over-hammed laughing and pointing at him to be Chris’s perception of what is his happening rather than the reality.

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@TheSeriesFeed Phil’s perversion was violence.

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@chuckthomasuk Were these serious or comic relief sketches?

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@TheSopranosClub Both. She’s that corrupted from her (albeit passive) involvement in that thing of theirs that this is normalised behaviour to her

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@kendallrowanx Sopranos series 5

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@anon_opin Definitely not against this

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@MobstersDaily In the “some pulp” scene, she explicitly says “and the countless other widows you’ve got on the payroll” when talking about Ange Bonpensiero. She knows the dance

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@Madcyril2001 @DobbyClub06 This ..:. Could work.

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@HLTCO Was that stand empty for a reason?

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@HLTCO In the past, it would be elite teams but, once in a while, you’d get a bit of romance with a Dynamo Kiev, Anderlecht, Gakatassaray - even Leeds - over-achieving. Last season Newcastle played 4 games against Qarag and the Belgian equivalent of Bristol City. Peak Enshitification.

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@Ziggys_Duck @MobstersDaily Season 5 has the best version of “down in the hole”. That is undeniable.

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@devfrom_hyd Cybersecurity or Data. AI/ML is too niche - few career opportunities (in uk at least). The rest is useful knowledge but, in terms of career, the roles are being redefined thanks to agentic software so is a risk.

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@KERCENIM I wonder how much of it is the viewer projecting their own self-loathing regarding their teenage behaviour on to him. I’m definitely guilty of that

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@MobstersDaily Tony externalises and destroys everyone in his orbit. AJ internalises it and tries to destroy himself.

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@bookshelfbattle @MobstersDaily Yeah. He resents and envies the way Carmella protects AJ from all of that in a way his mother didn’t protect him.

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@MobstersDaily Amen

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The real litmus test for a Sopranos fan is how much they hate AJ versus how much they understand him. AJ is irritating, selfish, lazy, spoiled, and often painfully weak, which is exactly why so many people hate him: he has all of Tony’s privilege without Tony’s charisma, competence, or toughness. But underneath that is a kid who seems almost completely empty inside, raised in a house where love is tangled up with money, violence, guilt, denial, and emotional repression. He can sense that the world around him is rotten, but he has none of the language or strength to make sense of it, so that awareness turns into apathy, depression, resentment, and self-destruction. Tony survives his emptiness by filling it with violence, sex, food, power, and nostalgia; AJ doesn’t have those defenses, so he just collapses under it. People hate him because they expect him to rise above his circumstances, but the tragedy of AJ is that he is probably one of the most realistic products of them: a deeply unhappy kid who inherited all of his family’s damage without inheriting any of the qualities that made that damage look impressive.

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@M_Steeples Curry sauce is hit or miss but it’s a firm no on beans and mushy peas from me.