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MarksMan posted:I read a long time ago that K9 dogs can smell something like 1/1000th of a gram of cocaine, or 1mg. I used to weigh out RC's in 5-10mg doses and 1mg is an incredibly small amount. A recent study found that K9 dogs respond extremely strongly to their handlers' cues. The researchers found that if you make a test designed to fool the dog into detecting drugs where there aren't any, the dog will give a false positive about 50% of the time...but if you make a test that fools the handler into thinking there are drugs when there aren't, the dog will alert 90% of the time. Whoops.  Pocket Billiards posted:The cocaine in the shoe setup was getting up there with Breaking Bad for suspension of disbelief. To me it's just a little too clever and outlandish. why is it surprising that a show which is set in the same fictional setting as Breaking Bad, which is also a direct prequel to Breaking Bad, and which is produced by the same people who made Breaking Bad has the same occasional excursions into comic-book exaggeration like Breaking Bad? Presumably you watched and enjoyed the show where a man with half a face steps out of a room that has just exploded and adjusts his tie before collapsing, where a DEA informant's head is discovered attached to a tortoise-timebomb in the desert, where a high school chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin murders a family of nazis with a remote-controlled machine gun he built out of a garage door opener, but now "a methodical mercenary who was probably a sniper in Vietnam manages to hit a small target with a sniper rifle from a long range" is stretching the limit for you? yeesh
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Help Im Alive posted:If I was Gus and Mike told me his strange plan I would probably go into box cutter mode I really want a deleted scene of Mike explaining his plan to an incredibly skeptical Gus.
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quote:Jimmy decides to represent a new client, much to Kim's dismay.
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Sagebrush posted:A recent study found that K9 dogs respond extremely strongly to their handlers' cues. The researchers found that if you make a test designed to fool the dog into detecting drugs where there aren't any, the dog will give a false positive about 50% of the time...but if you make a test that fools the handler into thinking there are drugs when there aren't, the dog will alert 90% of the time. Whoops. This is what I had the most difficulty with. If the handler had been suspicious of the truck beforehand then yeah, you only needed 1mg to stick somewhere on the truck the dog could detect to give a signal, but the handlers had no reason to suspect this truck over others, so it was down entirely to the dog. I believe a sniper can nail a shoe sized target, I just find it hard to suspend disbelief that in the second the truck drove under the shoe enough drugs were spilled on it to remain the 20 kilometers to the border (thank you handy roadside sign!) without the wind from the speed blowing all the fine drug dust away. They did show it falling thickly on the metal grid/step of the truck, I guess if they hadn't specified how far away from the border this was situated I wouldn't be whining as much. Sure hope Mike waited to make sure no one else came along until all the cocaine had drained from the shoe, too. Don't want it sprinkling any innocent cars on the way to the border.
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These threads really do attract the most miserable type of viewer.
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Is it possible to be disbarred for having some kind of medical condition that prevents you from practicing law?
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Jimmy is going to get cornered by Mike in a vacant construction site. He desperately grasps for anything to fend him off with. Attempting to strike with the piece of rebar he found, Mike catches it midair and throws it away. Mike: James McGill, you have been....disbarred
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I wonder if we find out how old man Salamanca ends up mute in a wheel chair. Like, it'd be pretty badass if trout puts him in that thing for good.
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I'm sure we're going to find out eventually. It's a huge obvious mystery in the show and Hector is Mike's most obvious nemesis.
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Apr 26, 2017 06:49
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I love the contrast of how Jimmy utterly fucks up at being sneaky and putting sugar into his coffee at the restaurant but Mike is an expert at sneaking sugar onto the back of the truck
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King Vidiot posted:Split the coke into two baggies, and put each into each shoe. But we don't see him do that, so alternately just be a really good shot and hit center mass through both sneakers. Have you ever crossed the border on foot from the US into Mexico? You can smuggle an elephant in.
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Ein cooler Typ posted:is it illegal to bring an elephant into Mexico? Yes if it's a gringo elephant http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2001/02/02/internacionales/795662-elefante-gringo-atrapado-trabajando-como-ilegalen-mxico
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If its so easy to bring illegal poo poo across the border why didn't they just send the truck that way?
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TOOT BOOT posted:If its so easy to bring illegal poo poo across the border why didn't they just send the truck that way? Whaaaaaat?!?!? Explain
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Pretty neat seeing Tyrus behind Gus there. Man, those little touches.
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bring back old gbs posted:These threads really do attract the most miserable type of viewer. Agreed, although it's entertaining in its own special way.
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Deadspin and such have deconstructed the plot and author of "The Adventures of Mabel", but they missed an obvious connection in the text itself:quote:"What 's this?" said the policeman, as he pulled out a long knife and an iron tool called a "jimmy," such as robbers use to break into houses. Both the men turned very pale.
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Jimmy is 100 percent going to use VCRs and tape players in the courtroom to trigger Chuck and it's going to own.
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I noticed they had Tyrus in the background of the Gus showdown scene and thought it was odd because he came after Victor was box cuttered.
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Zefiel posted:This is what I had the most difficulty with. If the handler had been suspicious of the truck beforehand then yeah, you only needed 1mg to stick somewhere on the truck the dog could detect to give a signal, but the handlers had no reason to suspect this truck over others, so it was down entirely to the dog. I believe a sniper can nail a shoe sized target, I just find it hard to suspend disbelief that in the second the truck drove under the shoe enough drugs were spilled on it to remain the 20 kilometers to the border (thank you handy roadside sign!) without the wind from the speed blowing all the fine drug dust away. They did show it falling thickly on the metal grid/step of the truck, I guess if they hadn't specified how far away from the border this was situated I wouldn't be whining as much. Did you think wind actually sanitizes a vehicle? As was pointed out the dog can detect even a minuscule amount of drugs.
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RJWaters2 posted:The tape is not the crime anymore. He's off to the hoosgow for breaking and entering and destruction of property. Not quite. Chuck said to the DA that he did not want the crime to be reduced to misdemeanor, he wants it under the status of Felony. A misdemeanor would not likely get Jimmy disbarred which is what Chuck wants. Jimmy faces the prospect of taking the deal; admitting he sabotaged Chuck's case and being immediately disbarred, or he faces trial for felony where if he loses he would get jail time and probably still be disbarred.
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Blind Rasputin posted:I wonder if we find out how old man Salamanca ends up mute in a wheel chair. Like, it'd be pretty badass if trout puts him in that thing for good. I'm pretty sure in Breaking Bad they mention in passing that he had a stroke. Also I dunno how badass it is to cripple an old man but you do you I guess.
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Karmine posted:I'm pretty sure in Breaking Bad they mention in passing that he had a stroke. 
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Karmine posted:I'm pretty sure in Breaking Bad they mention in passing that he had a stroke. You're a dork
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drunken officeparty posted:I noticed they had Tyrus in the background of the Gus showdown scene and thought it was odd because he came after Victor was box cuttered. Tyrus must be his #2, behind Victor. I just saw it as a way to explain how Gus was able to find a replacement for Victor so quickly; he already had one.
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TBeats posted:You're a dork I don't care. Where the hell is the podcast? 
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Tyrus must be his #2, behind Victor. I just saw it as a way to explain how Gus was able to find a replacement for Victor so quickly; he already had one. Wait, are you trying to tell me Gus had multiple employees in his region-spanning drug empire???
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Cnut the Great posted:Wait, are you trying to tell me Gus had multiple employees in his region-spanning drug empire??? Shocking, I know. It's like he ran it as a business and not some egotistical dick-measuring 'empire' like his opponent did.
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Karmine posted:I'm pretty sure in Breaking Bad they mention in passing that he had a stroke. It's a fictional drug lord who is portrayed as a lovely person who targets people's families if he has a vendetta. He even went to the length of suicide just to kill one of his enemies.
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ive never been to New Mexico, let alone ABQ I imagine black people like Tyrus gotta be careful not to congregate too long
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Manic X posted:It's a fictional drug lord who is portrayed as a lovely person who targets people's families if he has a vendetta. He even went to the length of suicide just to kill one of his enemies. To clarify, I'm not wringing my hands over poor helpless Senor Salamanca, just that on the scale of badass things we've seen Mike do, making an old man have a stroke doesn't strike me as particularly impressive. Jesus Christ people. e: and when I think about it yes, the thought of Mike wanting to kill Hector but instead being satisfied with leaving him inert, speechless, and helpless for the rest of his life carries some satisfaction, but it's not as cool as, let's say, shooting the crooked lovely cops who murdered his son over like $300. Karmine fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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Blind Rasputin posted:I wonder if we find out how old man Salamanca ends up mute in a wheel chair. Like, it'd be pretty badass if trout puts him in that thing for good. Did anybody else notice that shot when Mike is going into the medical clinic, where they linger on a shot of a wheelchair and then you hear the bell from the door opening?
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I'm sure it's been brought up but why was Chuck able to be outside when talking to Jimmy? Also, Mike's shoe shooting plan was great TV but logically ridiculous. What if he missed the shot? Wouldn't it have been easier to lie in waiting for when the guys get out of the truck and then plant something on it?
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Bigass Moth posted:I'm sure it's been brought up but why was Chuck able to be outside when talking to Jimmy? Did you notice that Chuck could go to the office when he was winning Mesa Verde back, beating Jimmy? And how he was relatively okay at the hearing until he realized he was losing Mesa Verde, also losing to Jimmy?
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King Vidiot posted:Did anybody else notice that shot when Mike is going into the medical clinic, where they linger on a shot of a wheelchair and then you hear the bell from the door opening? No I can't say I noticed any lingering shots.
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As it's been mentioned - Chucks' strength lies in how much he feel's he's winning over Jimmy. The moment he starts losing his brain can't handle it and suddenly the mere presence of batteries are killing him.
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Bates posted:No I can't say I noticed any lingering shots. Yeah, was surprised not to see Hector directly in that scene TBH.
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