LawTalkers - Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

(1) I've never seen the show.

(2) People get the government they ask for. Whether it's also the government they deserve is too philosophical a question even for me. But at this point I hear anyone who says their government sucks in the same clinical way that an economist hears a consumer saying the price they just paid for something was "too high."

(1) Then it's hard to know why you are weighing in on a particular action that occurred on the show.

(2) "People get the government they ask for" is not the same as "any time an elected official screws over his constituency to advance his own personal interest, it is okay because people get the governmen they ask for." Except, to you, it appears that it is. As screwed up as my locale is, I think I'm glad I don't live in the one that employs you.

Atticus Grinch

08-02-2013 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 481639)

If you find yourself far from God, guess who moved.

If it's God's plan that voters not get what they voted for, then I regret to say that God and I are sworn enemies.

Atticus Grinch

08-02-2013 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 481642)

Was this intended to be funny or are you actually being an asshole?

Hank Chinaski

08-02-2013 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 481641)

You have to admit it was a faithful recreation of a European outdoor dining experience.

I'll say again Ty picked the place. I voted Slanted Door but apparently that's now bourgeois.

Possibly Ty feared he'd find being near me personally repugnant, and thought the odor might make me seem less objectionable in comparison?

(and for the record Slanted Door was full up)

Adder

08-02-2013 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 481645)

Possibly Ty feared he'd find being near me personally repugnant, and thought the odor might make me seem less objectionable in comparison?

(and for the record Slanted Door was full up)

Perhaps he wanted to give you something new to complain about for years in perpetuity?

Hank Chinaski

08-02-2013 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 481644)

Was this intended to be funny or are you actually being an asshole?

Can't it be both?

Hank Chinaski

08-02-2013 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 481646)

Perhaps he wanted to give you something new to complain about for years in perpetuity?

Not to be a timmy, but if you use "perpetuity," the "years" serves no purpose in your sentence.

Hank Chinaski

08-02-2013 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 481632)

Was Carcetti ever affirmatively crooked? I don't think Tony Gray was shown to be crooked either, just horribly naive.

Tony G was too minor to count.

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Carver was at least supposed to be looked down upon in the early days of the unit, and was part of the bad scene in the projects at night with Herc and Prez. I think there might also have been some hints of him being on the take in his early precinct days too, but I don't recall for sure.

Now that you mention it, didn't Carver and Herc keep some money at some point?

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Sydnor

And the fat black lady was good too, but again not involved enough.

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But that's one of the things that makes the show compelling. Pretty much all of the characters live in a world of grays, and some that would look to the outside as particularly bad were also among the most compelling (Omar, of course, and Bubbles).

The drug people are actually harder to Judge, unless you feel drugs are prima facia bad. Omar is close to a Christ figure actually, and how the fuck can you call Bubs bad?

Sidd Finch

08-02-2013 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 481644)

Was this intended to be funny or are you actually being an asshole?

Did you think it was funny or are you actually a whiny-ass bitch?

Sidd Finch

08-02-2013 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 481649)

Tony G was too minor to count.

Agreed. That's like saying the stripper in Season 1 was All Good.

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Now that you mention it, didn't Carver and Herc keep some money at some point?

No, no, no. Herc suggested it, Carver told him he was an idiot since what they seized had been on the wire, and then they dropped a bundle in the car by accident. Yeesh.

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And the fat black lady was good too, but again not involved enough.

Who?

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The drug people are actually harder to Judge, unless you feel drugs are prima facia bad. Omar is close to a Christ figure actually, and how the fuck can you call Bubs bad?

Bubs is the tragic hero of the show. He's not "bad", but he sure doesn't start off "good" (in the sense of "I'd like my kid to grow up to be like that").

The redhead McNulty ended up with (Beadie?) might be "good," but she's probably DQ'd on the "too small a part" rule. Plus, she's a redhead, so probably psycho in ways we didn't even realize.

I think Fuzzy Dunlop may be the only pure one left.

Pretty Little Flower

08-02-2013 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 481650)

Did you think it was funny or are you actually a whiny-ass bitch?

Not really following, but I love polls, so I vote "asshole." Or, as Hank notes, maybe both.

Hank Chinaski

08-02-2013 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 481651)

Who?

Season 2, maybe 3. She listened to the taps, seemed a solid cop.

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Bubs is the tragic hero of the show. He's not "bad", but he sure doesn't start off "good" (in the sense of "I'd like my kid to grow up to be like that").

Other than Rt's old BF no one here lives in Balmore. In that sense it's clear that no one on the show is anyone we'd like our kids grow up into.

Atticus Grinch

08-02-2013 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 481650)

Did you think it was funny or are you actually a whiny-ass bitch?

I didn't think it was funny but was willing to chalk it up to an impaired sense of humor on my part if you professed that you didn't mean to impugn my abilities or good faith by implying my clients had erred by hiring me — a "joke" I'll note that I've never considered in-bounds except when it comes from an obvious clown like Hank, who, unlike you, never asks to be taken seriously.

You don't buy my clients' product because you think there's something better on offer, fine, we're good. But I don't think I'm being a whiny-ass bitch by asking whether you really meant that you think I do a daily disservice to my clients or the public in the way I practice law. (Please understand that a certain disproportionality of anger in your posts has never been an effective way of telegraphing that you're joking.)

I say all of the above in the interest of repairing our relationship, not damaging it further.

Hank Chinaski

08-02-2013 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 481651)

I think Fuzzy Dunlop may be the only pure one left.

And even Nicky Sobotka becomes a bad cop on Orange is the New Black,

LessinSF

08-02-2013 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 481633)