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In Germany, if you hodl for a year crypto gains are tax free! I know right!? Who'd have thought!? Germany!

Wow, that's amazing.....thank you so much, I'm thrilled.

I understand this completely! Linea D No. 01 was significantly better when I have smoked it 6 months after. But my friend is coming from the US in March, so you need to release them ASAP so he can bring them to me, ok?!?! HAHAHA 😁 These are your third and fourth kids, you should be used to it by now! 😂😂

Pretty simple really. You are an FOH superstar . Always contribute and post widely..you give as a laugh and more laughs with friendly banter . Enjoy brother you deserve it. !

Scorsese, no contest. I love Spielberg though and I think he's a technical cinematographic genius, maybe the greatest, but not so much when it comes to storytelling imo. There's this clip of Terry Gilliam who explains the difference between Spielberg and Kubrick and to me it's perfectly spot on and relevant here, even if Scorsese is no Kubrick either. In the end it comes to personal preferences but to me it's a no contest.

I was violently for Scorsese and then i remembered Empire of the Sun and that alone weighs against all of Scorsese's masterpieces for me. Summer Blockbuster, INDY IS NOT ESSENTIAL TO THE PLOT, Oscar Bait, Oscar Bait, the Real Cinema GOAT Spielberg is a safer director for sure for the box office. Yes, it’s tragic that American cinema has devoled into superhero movies. It’s probably a reflection of the zeitgeist. Scorsese doesn't want to be safe either, so that doesn’t help. I really want this now. And a cigar.

Punch 48. LGR JUN 17. Fabulous cigar and a little sad the run of these has come to end for me...my last. Sensational box code.

To be honest, I haven't had them for a little while, but this one was quite nice.

This little thing for me.

You never know how your team will fare, but the Mets have done plenty of transactions this offseason in a bid to actually make the postseason. If not, I suspect that 'there will be blood'...

PLPC and they'll age nicely too.

On an out-there point, it’s a shame that Scorsese has such a beef with comic book films. I really feel that he would be the best director for a Wolverine film, although James Mangold’s “Logan” was a delicious and gritty masterpiece. I’ve been a Wolverine fan since I was a boy, and I remember first thinking around 1995 that Scorsese could best bring him to the big screen. Imagine him directing Karl Urban as Wolvie, or even the weird fringe candidate that so many have proffered. Daniel Radcliffe as Wolvie. Scorsese could make that sh*t work a hundred times a hundred.

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Toughest one yet !.Bloody tough. Over their journeys so far I will go with Steve. And because Steve is such a great name. If you combine there first names together you get Steve Martin, he is a funny actor. So so many fabulous movies between the two of them. Martin's films I can watch multiple times and the dialogue is amazing. I think Steve has more diversity across his panoply of films. Why ? Because his name is Steve and not Martin. Therefore only he can be the better of the two. Just.

Not sure as I’m as burly as I look. @carsncigarsuk probably has me beat in that regard.

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“Oh come on.” That’s what I said when looking at these two choices, because this is just too hard at first. I chose Spielberg because he is so multi-faceted. Mostly, I chose him because my favorite novel is Jurassic Park and while I will always contend that the novel FAR outshines the film, that film is one of the greatest things ever put out there. E.T. is another that captures my imagination, and Hook. Nobody does whimsy like Spielberg, but he also captures gripping war and terror in films like Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List. Scorsese has committed to film some proper bangers, and I’ve enjoyed many of them countless times, but I don’t think he has the diverse scope that Spielberg does. Scorsese has very few “whimsical” films, and no “war films,” unless you count Gangs of New York. It’s probably my favorite of his movies, and does have warlike skirmishes, but his movies deal with the aftermath of war more than the actual battlefield, whereas Spielberg has brought that plane of reality to our screens so well. What Scorsese does, better than Spielberg, is bring the internal conflict of a mind like Travis Bickle to the forefront, exploding on the screen in a magnified vision of chaos. Again, this was a hard choice, but Spielberg edges out. Jaws, for instance, is a film tour de force a la Hitchcock. That alone almost seals it for me. Also, think about how each director directed Leonardo. Scorese has guided Leo through some stellar pictures, but I personally feel that Spielberg’s “Catch Me if You Can” tops them all. Leo’s character went through so many levels of confidence to abysmal despair, and played beautiful counterpart to Tom Hanks… and Christopher Walken! As far as numbers go, Spielberg has it five-fold. Over 10 billion dollars at the box office, to Scorsese’s 2 billion or so. I know that art is not just about money, but that’s an undeniable factor. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It’s a masterpiece. I don’t know where to fit it into this conversation other than to simply throw it out there, if you haven’t watched it in twenty or so years, go remind yourself of how long Spielberg has been contributing greatness to the screen. I mentioned Jaws and how I feel it’s very Hitchcock. For Scorsese, I think Shutter Island is his best in that vein but it doesn’t come close. I like it, and it’s one I’ve watched a handful of times over again, but it holds nothing to Jaws. Scorsese has phenomenal stuff. I for one loved The Irishman, when many of my friends said it was too indulgent. I found it captivating. Casino is as timeless as a Rolex! Taxi Driver is so deliciously disturbing but I could watch it back to back to back. Raging Bull is brilliant! Even The Departed is such a fun romp. However, he doesn’t have a Jurassic Park. He doesn’t have a Raiders. He doesn’t have Saving Private Ryan, and he doesn’t have Schindler’s List. More importantly, though, he doesn’t have John Williams.

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