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Flo Cytometer
Apr 20, 2015

by Ralp
Also Moog sucks at music. Stab him in the heart.

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burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp

Fonzarelli posted:

america is the king of racism, c'mon man don't start this again

always with the aboriginal stuff when i doubt you twats even know what you're talking about, you just kinda heard some stuff about aboriginals

Uh no America doesn't have kings AMERICA WON A WAR TO GET RID OF THE KINGS.

Read a history book, dingleberry.

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
-tries to cast winguardium leviosar on this thread, makes it explode instead-

Clochette
Aug 12, 2013

Mnoba posted:

is snogging a real word used over there

https://www.snog.fm/

My brother is a member which is weird because we live in New Jersey.

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

I heard some americans needed subs for the wire lmao. im english and i managed to follow along just fine. maybe their brains are just slow from all the hfc they huff or whatever they do in their cornfields.

General Tofu
Nov 20, 2014

by Lowtax

Fonzarelli posted:

america is the king of racism, c'mon man don't start this again

always with the aboriginal stuff when i doubt you twats even know what you're talking about, you just kinda heard some stuff about aboriginals

I dunno, a lot of UK guys have really got racism down pat. I'm still not sure what some of their slurs mean but from context it basically boils down to "foreigner"

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

Flo Cytometer posted:

You were also ejected from England, where we claim we left on free will. gently caress you big pizza car stealing chavs.

yeah and you guys came from a bunch of jokers with buckles on their hats

what, can't keep your hat on? gotta strap that bad boy on? lose your hats much?

Serotonin
Jul 14, 2001

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of *blank*

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

never met a brit who could understand a southerner without asking them to slow down even if they dont have a drawl to speak of

Nonsense. They don't speak fast in the South. In fact when I was there with some friends the locals couldn't understand our very mild English scents unless we spoke at half speed. In fact many locals couldn't even place our accents and I was asked if I was German, South African or Australian.

Mermaid Autopsy
Jun 9, 2001

Fonzarelli posted:

its funny how americans can barely understand any other english speaking accents that aren't north american, yet the rest of the english speaking world has no trouble navigating through any accents at all.

there's nothing more pathetic than an american asking for subs because a movie has a slight scottish brogue in it

they seemed to understand Ducktales well enough

Deki
May 12, 2008

It's Hammer Time!
American wizards exist in Harry potter land, they just use their magical powers to get loving rich as hell and live it up in the modern world, rather than squatting in dirt huts eating mixtures made up of weeds and rat organs.

burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp

Fonzarelli posted:

its funny how americans can barely understand any other english speaking accents that aren't north american, yet the rest of the english speaking world has no trouble navigating through any accents at all.

there's nothing more pathetic than an american asking for subs because a movie has a slight scottish brogue in it

A Canadian buddy had a roommate from England and a roommate from the southern states of America, and that British roommate couldn't understand that American roommate and had to ask Canada bud to translate.

But I'd imagine American television and films being spread out globally lends to people understanding American accents (or at least certain American accents) better.

burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp

Serotonin posted:

Nonsense. They don't speak fast in the South. In fact when I was there with some friends the locals couldn't understand our very mild English scents unless we spoke at half speed. In fact many locals couldn't even place our accents and I was asked if I was German, South African or Australian.

By "slow down" he probably means "stop slurring all your words together into a one word slushie."

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

:frogsiren:

Mnoba posted:

is snogging a real word used over there

Yeah.

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

General Tofu posted:

I dunno, a lot of UK guys have really got racism down pat. I'm still not sure what some of their slurs mean but from context it basically boils down to "foreigner"

they keep calling me n'wah

Arkanomen
May 6, 2007

All he wants is a hug
I bet American Wizards are dope as gently caress. Craft magical never ending blunts with wizard weed that makes you see through clothes to peep on chicks. magical boob jobs and everyone flys on a loving motorcycle or 4x4, blasting magical bullets out a talking Ar-15 assault wand. Butterbeer? gently caress that pansy limey poo poo, we have coors cans that change color when it's cold (they never aren't cold because magic) and porno mags where the ladies actually move around in HD. American wizards own. No wonder you never see American wizards in hogwarts because professor dumbledork would watch all his students flee that backwater castle to go to the USA :911::fsmug::sbahj:

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Arkanomen posted:

I bet American Wizards are dope as gently caress. Craft magical never ending blunts with wizard weed that makes you see through clothes to peep on chicks. magical boob jobs and everyone flys on a loving motorcycle or 4x4, blasting magical bullets out a talking Ar-15 assault wand. Butterbeer? gently caress that pansy limey poo poo, we have coors cans that change color when it's cold (they never aren't cold because magic) and porno mags where the ladies actually move around in HD. American wizards own. No wonder you never see American wizards in hogwarts because professor dumbledork would watch all his students flee that backwater castle to go to the USA :911::fsmug::sbahj:

:911:

Deki
May 12, 2008

It's Hammer Time!

Arkanomen posted:

I bet American Wizards are dope as gently caress. Craft magical never ending blunts with wizard weed that makes you see through clothes to peep on chicks. magical boob jobs and everyone flys on a loving motorcycle or 4x4, blasting magical bullets out a talking Ar-15 assault wand. Butterbeer? gently caress that pansy limey poo poo, we have coors cans that change color when it's cold (they never aren't cold because magic) and porno mags where the ladies actually move around in HD. American wizards own. No wonder you never see American wizards in hogwarts because professor dumbledork would watch all his students flee that backwater castle to go to the USA :911::fsmug::sbahj:

All the smart, cool, or otherwise worthwhile wizards moved to America long ago. That's why a loving albino no-nosed motherfucker was able to run rampant over the idiot remainder.

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

Rand alPaul posted:



This is what I think about this thread, OP.

noice

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
it was funny how the one guy trying to bring wizards in to the modern world by magicking cars and messing with technology kept getting poo poo on like he's the one guy trying to give you electricity and making it so you dont have to poo poo in an outhouse and you're being dicks to him no wonder there's not many wizards (they're all idiots)

Deki
May 12, 2008

It's Hammer Time!

Robo Reagan posted:

it was funny how the one guy trying to bring wizards in to the modern world by magicking cars and messing with technology kept getting poo poo on like he's the one guy trying to give you electricity and making it so you dont have to poo poo in an outhouse and you're being dicks to him no wonder there's not many wizards (they're all idiots)

Yeah, he was cool for acknowledging that wizard life sucked, but then again his life's dream was to figure out how an airplane works, and I could explain that to an 8 year old.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
The wizards in Harry Potter were all kind of hilariously incompetent. Even the evil ones.

Voldemort's biggest atrocity was he made a bridge collapse lol like what fool is you serious? He wants to kill the muggles meanwhile the local PD could probably handle it.

Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jul 10, 2015

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Moridin920 posted:

The wizards in Harry Potter were all kind of hilariously incompetent. Even the evil ones.

their killing spell requires yelling something that sounds like abrakadabra then a big green light wooshes out of your wand and you probably have to be like five feet away to do it because how are you going to aim a wand. if voldemort had a high powered rifle and hung out in the woods around hogwarts for a week he'd probably have accomplished more

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

Robo Reagan posted:

it was funny how the one guy trying to bring wizards in to the modern world by magicking cars and messing with technology kept getting poo poo on like he's the one guy trying to give you electricity and making it so you dont have to poo poo in an outhouse and you're being dicks to him no wonder there's not many wizards (they're all idiots)

Also his twin sons had a magic map that showed the names and locations of everyone in Hogwarts and could see that their little brother shared a bed with someone named Peter Pettigrew for three years and did nothing about it

Moridin920 posted:

The wizards in Harry Potter were all kind of hilariously incompetent. Even the evil ones.

Voldemort's biggest atrocity was he made a bridge collapse lol like what fool is you serious? He wants to kill the muggles meanwhile the local PD could probably handle it.

Even Rowling herself admitted that a competent wand duelist would most likely lose a fight with a competent shotgun user

Hobohemian
Sep 30, 2005

by XyloJW
What was voldemort's end game in the movie? Did he want to be king of england or something? It wasn't really clear.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Pththya-lyi posted:

Also his twin sons had a magic map that showed the names and locations of everyone in Hogwarts and could see that their little brother shared a bed with someone named Peter Pettigrew for three years and did nothing about it

that's probably the biggest plot hole of all and it never occurred to me

especially since they specifically use that map to ID him in the 3rd book

:psyduck:

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

Hobohemian posted:

What was voldemort's end game in the movie? Did he want to be king of england or something? It wasn't really clear.

keep uk out of the eurozone

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Hobohemian posted:

What was voldemort's end game in the movie? Did he want to be king of england or something? It wasn't really clear.

take over hogwarts and make a hitler youth. by that point he'd already controlled the government so

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

Moridin920 posted:

that's probably the biggest plot hole of all and it never occurred to me

especially since they specifically use that map to ID him in the 3rd book

:psyduck:

Probably the best explanation is that Fred and George were waaaay too tolerant of Ron's lifestyle choices. I guess wizards don't have an age of consent

e: Which provides an in-universe justification for all those teacher-student relationships in fanfic :barf:

Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Jul 10, 2015

Clochette
Aug 12, 2013

Harry Potter had a lot of implied rape in the later books, it was loving weird

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Pththya-lyi posted:

Probably the best explanation is that Fred and George were waaaay too tolerant of Ron's lifestyle choices. I guess wizards don't have an age of consent

e: Which provides an in-universe justification for all those teacher-student relationships in fanfic :barf:

but wouldn't they know there wasn't any loving peter pettigrew in the school or at least not in gryffindor? or didn't they ever see ron standing/sleeping alone but the map says peter is right there too? maybe they just figured it was glitched or something.

a dog from hell
Oct 18, 2009

by zen death robot
Bad opinion.

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

Clochette posted:

Harry Potter had a lot of implied rape in the later books, it was loving weird

I count two instances:

1) Dolores Umbridge is dragged into the forest by centaurs (who are known in Greek mythology for dragging women off and raping them) and later appears in the school infirmary rocking a thousand-yard stare and jumping whenever someone makes clip-clop noises. Our heroes find this funny because Umbridge is perhaps the most hateful person in the Harry Potter universe.
2) Voldemort's mom magicked his dad into loving her for a year, and he left her and their unborn son when she stopped.

Any others?

Clochette
Aug 12, 2013

Pththya-lyi posted:

I count two instances:

1) Dolores Umbridge is dragged into the forest by centaurs (who are known in Greek mythology for dragging women off and raping them) and later appears in the school infirmary rocking a thousand-yard stare and jumping whenever someone makes clip-clop noises. Our heroes find this funny because Umbridge is perhaps the most hateful person in the Harry Potter universe.
2) Voldemort's mom magicked his dad into loving her for a year, and he left her and their unborn son when she stopped.

Any others?

3) Ariana Dumbledore was possibly raped by a group of Muggle boys when she was 6.
4) Fenrir Greyback, a werewolf who "specializes in children" seems like a metaphor for pedophilia. He was also pretty rapey towards Hermione.

Arkanomen
May 6, 2007

All he wants is a hug
leaked footage of the American Harry Potter.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Moridin920 posted:

The wizards in Harry Potter were all kind of hilariously incompetent. Even the evil ones.

Voldemort's biggest atrocity was he made a bridge collapse lol like what fool is you serious? He wants to kill the muggles meanwhile the local PD could probably handle it.

well of course they are incompetent, none of the wizards even have a highschool education. all they learn in school is magic, and half of them don't even pay very good attention to that

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
i got over handy porter 1/3 of the way into the final book because of the pain from an yeast infection or something made it impossible to mentally process narrative and i lost interest. please tell me what happen in book 7 of porker larry

Hobohemian
Sep 30, 2005

by XyloJW
I read them all and I honestly can't remember anything from the books except some sort of elf slave emancipation subplot that never went anywhere. Also, they never really explain how Ron's family can be poor when they can just magic up poo poo whenever the gently caress they feel like it.

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

Hobohemian posted:

I read them all and I honestly can't remember anything from the books except some sort of elf slave emancipation subplot that never went anywhere. Also, they never really explain how Ron's family can be poor when they can just magic up poo poo whenever the gently caress they feel like it.

You can't make gold or food because Reasons. (The latter is especially silly because they routinely turn inanimate objects into live animals and back again as part of their classwork. So why couldn't you just turn, say, a teapot into a live chicken, then kill and eat the chicken?) Also student activists are terrible, even if they have a point

Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jul 10, 2015

My Q-Face
Jul 8, 2002

A dumb racist who need to kill themselves
I'm a wizard, Harry! Lavase Los Manos!

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Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

when i was around ten i read the first book and thought it took place in america and was mildly confused about the concept of a boarding school and how weirdly polite everyone was

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