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it's wild to me how because so many people are part of an organized religion, we're not allowed to call it for what it is (a cult). people will try and defend organized religion against cult allegations like the BITE model isn't readily available for anyone to google.
#it's actually INSANE to me that we just let billions of people walk around in cults under the guise of well the followers dont think so#like you literally have people giving money on a weekly basis kicking or beating their kids for being gay or slutty#people walk around 24/7 wondering whether an invisible sky daddy killed their parents as retribution for their sins#people wear the clothes and eat the things that their so called leaders tell them they should#people sit around debating whether or not its godly to wear fucking make up and have more than one romantic partner in their dating history#people disown family members for not subscribing to their own religion#people will literally lose their entire community once they become an atheist#how is that not a fucking cult pray tell#religion#personal
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notable moments from The Tap Out Job
leverage 2.02
Jack: Somebody drugged his water. It's an old boxing trick. He couldn't defend himself, and... He's still in the hospital.
that’s fucked
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Eliot: It's not a cockfight. All right? Let me show you something, Hardison. Come here. Can I borrow you? (puts a gentle hand on Parker’s hip, guiding her to the open space behind the couch) All right. Square up. Remember what I showed you?
(Hardison and Parker square up)
Hardison: Are you...
Eliot: There's three phases to an MMA--to an MMA fight, okay? One, striking. (Parker punches Hardison in the face) Nice. Next is grappling, the takedown. (Parker grabs Hardison and throws him on the floor) Exactly. All right. The third one is jujitsu. Okay, try to isolate a joint. (Parker gets Hardison in a hold) That's good. That's a textbook armbar, Parker. Put some pressure on there.
Parker: Like this?
Eliot: There you go. Or you can go for a choke hold.
Hardison: She got to be choking me. (tries to get away)
Eliot: Remember that thing that I showed you?
Parker: Oh, yeah. The choke.
Eliot: Lock that in. All right. You don't have to hold the arm. See, that's a triangle choke. That's nasty. Puts pressure on his carotid artery, and the guy will submit by tap out.
Hardison (tapping the ground): Eliot, I'm tapping! I'm tapping!
Eliot: These fights are won by inches, I'm telling you.
Hardison: I can't breathe!
Eliot: All about leverage.
Sophie: Yeah, it looks really painful.
Hardison: It is painful!
Nate: No TV deal, you said, huh? Hardison, what are this guy's other interests, this Rucker guy?
Hardison: Seriously, you ask me a question right now...
Sophie: I'll take that. Yeah, rotary club, golf membership.
Nate: Golf, huh?
Hardison: Help me!
Sophie: Yeah. I mean, this guy's like a 1950s sitcom character. He plays a weekly game with the local businessmen. In fact, last year, he won the club championship.
Nate: Did he? Hmm.
Hardison: Let me go!
Nate: I guess it's...
Hardison: She's killing me!
Nate: …it's time to hit the links.
Hardison: I'm cool. Just let me go real quick.
eliot canonically teaches parker how to fight in his spare time and I LOVE THAT
fucking CHAOTIC OT3 + parker is having a great time while hardison is dying
ALSO can we just for a minute appreciate how when she puts him in a chokehold she was wrapping her legs around his neck, which basically had his head in her crotch area and !!! it wasn’t sexualized at al !!! literally A N Y other show would have sexualized it even just a little bit but not leverage. never leverage.
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I love it when they fuck with peoples gear (like with the baseballs or hockey pucks or in this instance the golf balls)
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parker playing with the golf club covers
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literally EVERY con has nate being an asshole (this one was one of the more annoying ones tho)
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hi I am but a simple bi and eliot in that grey hoodie was VERY attractive
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Room Service: Room service. Can I help you?
Sophie: Yeah, no, I can't eat this. I'm sorry?
Everything on my plate is yellow.
Room Service: It's chicken-fried steak.
Sophie: It's what? Chicken-fried steak?
Room Service: Yes.
Sophie: No, let me just tell you, all right. Meat should never be used as an adjective.
~ a little while late ~
Sophie: I'm starving.
Parker: I found these in the minibar. (throws her a bag)
Sophie: "Pork Rinds"? How do you peel a pig? (throws it back)
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Hardison: Got it. See, Online video websites, they track viewer hits by IP Address, so the trick is to just spoof a bunch of IPs, then write a script that lets you browse the video page via the proxy list and...
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Sophie: Well, this guy, he just--he give me the creeps.
Eliot: We've gone up against rougher dudes than this before.
Sophie: I know. But it's this whole treating people as commodities. This whole barbaric sport.
Eliot: Hey, don't lump these guys in with Rucker. All right, he's not what the sport's about.
Sophie: Eliot, this "sport" is about two guys beating the crap out of each other.
Eliot: MMA fighters act with more respect than any other athlete I've seen.
Sophie: Yeah, they're "Braveheart," I get it.
Eliot: No, you don't. These guys don't fight because they like hurting other people, all right. They fight to gain some sort of control over their opponents, over their environment, over their lives. Have you seen this town? Huh? The farms are drying up. The only stores are bail bondsmen and pawn shops, and there's nothing they can do about it. So, yeah, they get in the ring and try not to let it all suffocate them. (a beat, he smiles) And it's about two guys beating the crap out of each other. (she smiles back)
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eliot is wearing a green flannel in this one and it looks very nice and comfy
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Rucker: Well, bottom line is, you need good product. What event are you here to produce?
[Interior Van]
Hardison: On it. There's a tractor pull in grand island, a livestock show in council bluffs, white people doing other white things…
pls keep calling out white people pls we deserve it lmfao
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Director (in car looking at his phone): Come on! Come on! Give me something! Come on! Is this gonna take long?
Nate (through window): No. Two shakes. Are you in a hurry?
Director: Even half a bar... what? Yes. Hurry. Does anyone in this backwater hellhole know what that means?
Nate: You're a director, right? What was your name again?
Director: What? It's Laurence. Todd Laurence.
Nate: Todd, well, listen, Mr. Laurence. See, I wrote a script...
Director: Huh?
Nate: Yeah. It's about a limo driver who solves mysteries till his wife leaves him for --
Director: For the love of god!
Nate: ...the best part: The feed store manager. Right? His wife…
Director: Yeah...?
Nate: Tramp...
Director: Hey, hee-haw, move the car! Okay
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parker in leather pants, a bright yellow ‘I heart Nebraska’ tshirt and weird hat, eating a corn dog? ,,,a look I guess
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Hardison (showing passes): So, I'm Todd Laurence? (girls flock to Hardison) Ladies, please, look. For the last time, I am not the tailback for the cornhuskers. Go! I don't even know what a cornhusker is.
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Rucker: And all you need is a product?
Sophie: Well, that's what they are: Products. You get the girls with Trianna, you get the boys with MMA. And there's always another fresh-faced princess ready to go through the singing/dancing mill in Florida. Occasionally, we let one be a lesbian, keeps the press on their toes
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Hardison: What? What? W-what was I supposed to do? It was cousin Jimmy.
Sophie: He's right. We couldn't have planned for that.
Hardison: Look, you know what I can do? I can re-task a satellite, I can get a level 3 NSA clearance, but I can't hack a hick
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Eliot: All right, it doesn't matter. What do we do now?
Parker: We can move the Howorth.
Eliot: We're not moving the Howorths. All right? This is their home. That means something to people here.
Sophie: Yeah, we can't babysit them forever.
Nate: We've taken out bigger players than this. You know, there's got to be some way, something we can...
Eliot: No, no! I take the dive.
Sophie: You sure?
Hardison: Give me some time, okay? I've found some funny business in Rucker's accounts. I can move some things.
Eliot: Forget the fact that we just got beat by Barney Fife, all right? This is the right move. Tactically it's the right move. You all know that. (walks away)
none of them want to see eliot hurt more than he needs to or see him go down like that and I cry
alec ‘give me five minutes I will do literally anything for eliot’ hardison
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Sophie: Hey. Listen, you-you don't have to do this, you know. Nate's gonna come up with something.
Eliot: I'm losing a fight, Sophie. I'm not diving on a grenade. I'll be all right.
Sophie: Yeah, I know. I'm not talking physically.
Eliot: I think my ego can handle it.
Sophie: Look, you told me that it's about control, about knowing that you're never gonna be the victim. And that's what keeps you going, right?
Eliot: You think I'm upset 'cause I got to let this guy kick my ass? I learned a long time ago, you can't control the violence. I can take the punishment. That's what I do. What I need to control is not out there. (touches his chest) It's here. Always.
(Sophie smiles and walks away)
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hardison holds eliots face before he fights I never noticed that before
+ eliot’s hair is curly when it’s wet/when he’s sweaty. this means he blowdries his hair on a regular basis. eliot, as a part of taking control of himself and his life after moreau took interest in self care and taking care of his hair in this essay I will-
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one thing I love about this is that eliot doesn’t have a six pack (see this commentary I made with a few lovely additions by my mutuals)
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Jack: Where's Rucker?
Hardison: Oh, the Iowa State Police just got a tip that a fugitive is headed into their jurisdiction. And I'm pretty sure crossing state lines with a bag full of cash won't look too good.
Parker: Especially when they find the little surprise in his trunk.
[Flashback, Pawn Shop]
Parker: I need guns. (dumping money on counter) $6,000 worth. And one of those.
LMFAO THERE WAS A TUBA TOO
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Doctor (examining Eliot): You took a hell of a pounding. We should get you a CT scan. You could have internal bleeding.
Jack: You let yourself get hammered like that on purpose? That's a hell of a lot of punishment to take.
Sophie: That's what he does.
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eliot held the rope up for parker to step under when they were getting out of the ring
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Sophie (to Parker): Pork rind? They're actually pretty good. (parker shakes her head and rubs her stomach) You sure?
sophie nO
#leverage#leverage 2.02#leverage 2x02#the tap out job#the tap-out job#leverage season 2#season 2#notable moments#mine
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Get Back Up by Ben Thompson and Erik Slader
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Get Back Up by Ben Thompson and Erik Slader
Posted by CBethM on September 6, 2018 in Author Posts | 1 Comment
It was a hot summer day in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Orville and Wilbur Wright were about to show off a project that was over two years in the making. They’d tested designs, built blueprints, double-checked calculations, and built a machine with their bare hands in the burning heat of Kill Devil Hills that they hoped would do something that no person had ever done before – achieve human-powered flight. Excited by their discoveries and eager to show the world what they’d accomplished, the Wright Brothers called together the entire town, and invited all of their aviation heroes and pioneers to come see the event.
On that day, in front of all of Orville and Wilbur’s mentors, friends, family, and neighbors, Wilbur Wright climbed onto the wing of his flying machine. From the ground, Orville pulled the rope and lurched the craft forward off of the sand dune.
The plane fluttered up into the air, shook, and then immediately went into a nose dive, crashed, broke apart, and left Wilbur Wright sprawled out in a heap with the smashed remains of his failed airplane strewn around him.
As the assembled crowd laughed and jeered, the Wright Brothers hurriedly pieced their plane back together and tried to take off again.
The plane caught the wind wrong and actually sailed backwards about five feet before ungracefully crashing again.
Now for many of us, this would be the end of the story – you spend years pouring every ounce of your time, money, and energy into your life’s work, only for it to literally blow up in your face and leave you embarrassed, bloodied and humiliated in front of everyone you know. It’s soul-crushing, spectacular failure on the scale of those dreams where you somehow find yourself naked in Chemistry class. But that’s not what happened for the Wright Brothers. Instead of giving up, falling apart, and going home to eat ice cream in front of the saddest movie they could find on Netflix, these guys instead doubled-down, went back to their bike shop, and started designing something bigger and better. They weren’t going to dwell on their failures, beat themselves up for being incompetent, or let a bunch of talentless haters crush their spirit – they were going get back up, keep trying, push themselves even harder, and prove to the world that nothing could stop them. And you know what? They were right. Two years later, these same brothers built a vehicle so famous that it has its own room in the Smithsonian.
Rejection, failure, and fear stare every single one of us in the face nearly every single day – a constant reminder that we are never as good, as talented, as smart, or as attractive as we want to be. Whether its outright bullying, anxiety, depression, jealousy of other peoples’ successes, or even good-old imposter syndrome, there are so many factors in the world that all seem to be conspiring together to crush our souls on a daily basis. To remind us that we aren’t good enough, or that we’ll never achieve our goals or our dreams. It makes it so easy to want to just give up, shrug your shoulders, and belly-flop into bed while maintaining perfect synchronization with that one Adele album that’s just like twelve songs about being dumped.
And, honestly, there’s nothing wrong with that. Literally every human being on earth has suffered failure and rejection at some point. If you want to go rolling in the deep with your own one-man pity party, there’s nothing wrong with that. But here’s the thing: Human beings are resilient, tough creatures. When we trip over a broken sidewalk and face-plant the curb, we don’t just roll over and lay there until we bleed out or die of exposure.
We get back up.
Every. Single. Time.
Failure and defeat is what shapes us into the people we can become. How we deal with adversity, our perseverance, will, and determination, makes us stronger as human beings. It can inspire us to try harder. By not focusing on the failures, or the roadblocks set against us at every corner, and instead saying, “ok, that didn’t work, but maybe this might”, we can overcome our opposition and accomplish great things. Examples of this are everywhere you look. J.K. Rowling received twelve rejection letters before she got Harry Potter published. It took Frank Herbert twenty tries to publish Dune, and that’s the best-selling science fiction novel of all time. Marie Curie was denied the first teaching position she applied for simply on the grounds that she was a woman, then went on to become the first person to ever receive Nobel Prizes in two different fields of science. Edmund Hilary didn’t summit Everest until his third attempt. Shaq missed 5,317 free throws over the course of his career. During the first U.S. attempt at putting a rocket into space, the Vanguard TV3 literally exploded into a rampaging fireball while it was still parked on the launch pad.
What I’m saying here is that if Tony Hawk quit the first time he fell off his skateboard, he wouldn’t have sold 30 million copies of a video game with his name on it.�� If you want to see true perseverance, there’s a great video I’ll link here of Tony Hawk at age 49 trying to replicate his historic 900-degree spin. He finally gets it (uh, spoiler alert?), but roughly half of this video is him slamming into the deck in ways that look increasingly painful. The expressions on his face as the struggle goes on tells you everything you need to know, and it serves as a very visual reminder that nobody is perfect, and that every single person who has ever tried anything has failed at it at some point. And they’ve probably failed at it a lot.
But they get back up. Every. Single. Time.
Success in the face of failure can also create some very interesting and unexpected results. For instance, Coca-Cola was invented by a Civil War veteran who was trying to find something to help him deal with the chronic pain associated with having a cavalry saber slashed across his midsection. Penicillin was discovered by a scientist who got lazy and didn’t clean his petri dishes. The Big Bang was uncovered by two guys who built an antenna and couldn’t figure out why it was buzzing so much. Viagra was formulated to be a heart medication. Christopher Columbus died still thinking he was hanging out on some islands off the coast of India. These discoveries were all a failure to accomplish the initial goal, but it’s another example of why it helps us to continue on in the face of adversity – you never really know where your path leads until you grit your teeth and decide to start walking it.
So, at the risk of sounding even more like some cheesy self-help book or an over-hyped personal trainer yelling at you at the gym, all of these stories and examples combine to tell us one thing – when failure stares you in the face, the world kicks your butt, and an army of trolls and other assorted worthless naysayers are crushing your soul, you have two options before you: You can give up, lie down, and let yourself drown in a sea of self-pity, or you can claw your way out of that hole, drag yourself back to your feet, and show the world that you are ready to utterly destroy everything in your path.
Success is there for the taking. But you won’t get there without a few failures along the way.
So be prepared to get back up.
Ben Thompson is the award-winning author of twelve books on various awesome historical subjects, including the Badass, Guts & Glory, and Epic Fails series. He has appeared on television programs for The History Channel, Discovery, and The American Heroes Channel, written dozens of print articles, and has run the successful website badassoftheweek.com since 2004. Ben’s work has received awards from the National Parenting Publications, the International Literary Organization, and the Parent’s Choice Group, though what he’s probably most proud of is the time the local newspaper called him “Seattle’s Sexiest Dungeon Master” while writing about his weekly Dungeons & Dragons game.
Erik Slader is the creator of ���Epik Fails of History” a blog (and podcast) about the most epic fails… of history.
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