People are so fucked. I worked with a guy in the late 90’s who has been in prison since 2002 for three counts of 1st degree rape of a child. He was sentenced to 16 years, but I see the state has deemed him likely to re-offend and kept him locked up. He was recently moved to a minimum security facility, so I’m guessing his release will happen in the relatively near future. He was a fucking idiot with 4 kids and at least as many maxed out credit cards. I once told him it was a travesty that he had 4 kids while perfectly capable people were struggling to have 1 and suggested he put them up for adoption. I thought the suggestion was spot on before he went to prison for raping 3 of them. Need to stop writing before something resembling a threat gets jotted down.
Question for lawbros:
If Trump loses next year and we get someone else, can Saccolas be extradited? If so, odds of it happening?
Guillotined and sold as steak.
Have no fear, Raab is on the case.
Pretty sure he is purposefully holding his hand above his waist.
So it’s been 30 years since the Simpson’s came on air. I wasn’t allowed to watched them as a kid. I think the first episode I remember being allowed to watch live was Who Killed Mr. Burns pt2.
Yes, I still have cable and they’ve been playing every episode starting on Thursday. Seasons 3-9 are insanely good.
I try to incorporate at least one line from them in daily speak.
Just turned it on and it’s a top episode - “You know what Apu, I am really really going to miss you”
We used to all gather to watch the Simpsons in the dorms on Sunday night in college. And it became a tradition not to miss through a lot of my early 20s.
It’s hard to overstate the impact the Simpsons had in galvanizing the general Gen-X snarky, jaundiced, irony-laden attitude. The attitude was there before the Simpsons. But it was unfocused and incoherent.
The Simpsons was like a huge generational sigh of relief - that yeah - the Rusty Barnacle was something to poke fun at. It’s not just me and my slacker friends. The world around us really is kinda ridiculous!
Are people our age supposed to be big Simpsons fans? I remember reading a bunch of Life in Hell comics in high school and vaguely remember the Tracy Ulman shorts, but the tv show always seemed like it was aimed at people a lot younger than I was.
I’m going to assume I’m the weirdo here. That’s how these things usually go.
Yes, you’re a weirdo. There would be a big gathering 'round the TV in the coop when the Simpsons came on when I was in my last year of college.
It’s weird how I watched it every Sunday for years and watched the re-runs for years and saw them all over and over and then stopped and now there are probably more episodes that I haven’t seen than ones that I have.
Gathering around the television wasn’t something my social circle really did. Most of us were too broke to own one.
But still, thinking back I remember “don’t have a cow” and “cowabunga dude”. Y’all were into that when you were college aged?
Think I was like 10ish when it came out. It took like a year or two for them to hit their stride, but Simpsons had some fierce comedy writing. Plus back then there an entertainment monoculture and a kind of generational camaraderie built around Simpsons references.
I think I stopped watching after I went away to college. I don’t regret the time I spent watching The Simpsons.
But still, thinking back I remember “don’t have a cow” and “cowabunga dude”. Y’all were into that when you were college aged?
Those were the very early Simpsons memes that were extremely forced and never really caught on. No one ever said “cowabunga, dude!” amongst friends. Better references are stuff like “perfectly cromulent” or “No, it’s the children who are wrong.”
Yea, college kids were into it. And I lived in a coop with like 140 people and a shared TV. The Simpsons was the only show on TV that got a substantial gathering together.
Like, if you were a Gen-X kid this was the absolute apex of of jaded, disaffected humor that you were weaned on. It gets no better. I chortled twice rewatching this clip:
The film strips are all great.
I guess you really are 60.
This might have been the hardest I laughed at a Simpsons episode.
It’s not that long between times I think of the Dr. Zaius song.