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Aphrodite posted:What the hell is a flid? Is that another British thing? Its cockney rhyming slang. Don't worry, I got this. Flid rhymes with "quid," which is a slang term for the British pound. To share one's opinion on a matter is, colloquially, to give one's two cents. However, due to the advantageous exchange rate between the American dollar and the British pound, in Britain, "two cents" comes out to a pound. Thus, when he says flid, he means to give one's opinion on a matter. With this established, we can now rewrite his sentence as such "And yet you're the only one who appears to be [sharing your opinion] about her. How strange."
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Irish Joe posted:Its cockney rhyming slang. Don't worry, I got this. Does this poo poo really amuse you that much Joe? I mean it's not even consistent with real cockney slang, which, aside from you posting it, gave it away. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=flid e: it is still obnoxiously british, which is to say, stupid.
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Aphrodite posted:What the hell is a flid? Is that another British thing? Put your rooty-tooty-point-and-shooty away, old chap.
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Sep 27, 2014 02:21
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Sober posted:Maybe it's time to gas this thread and put it out of its misery. Only way it could get worse is if we started debating Adventure Time again.
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Sep 27, 2014 02:54
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toanoradian posted:These past few days I've been binging on game shows that are on YouTube: Jeopardy, The Price is Right, Scrabble, The Chase, etc etc. What other game shows would you guys recommend? Please don't say Deal or No Deal. If you're looking for old, speedy, and 'murican, there's a handful of the 1970s run of "Split Second" worth checking out. Also, "Whew!" is pretty awesome, if a little short and complicated. If you're looking for more recent and international, I'll add to the love for Only Connect, (the app version just hit the US and Canadian App Store. If you have an ipad, it's worth the $1.99). Episodes of "Million Dollar Minute" from Australia have started showing up on YouTube, and it's a pretty decent cash-only version of "Sale of the Century."
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Sep 27, 2014 04:38
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I was just reading about the real life Seth Bullock and he had a pretty crazy life. Like how he eventually became good friends with Teddy Roosevelt and fought in the Rough Riders. If Deadwood had kept going it would have gotten weird.
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Sep 27, 2014 04:50
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Z Nation is actually good. It's like the writers know they're just making a zombie show riding the coattails of TWD and decided to just have fun with the whole thing
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Sep 27, 2014 06:55
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Z Nation got to the fresh meat cannibal subplot in 3 episodes, whereas it took TWD 4 seasons. Z Nation continues to be superior. Also they wiped out a dozen zombies with the Liberty Bell.
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Sep 27, 2014 07:19
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Yeah, narrative, plot, and character-wise, Z Nation is several orders of magnitude better than Walking Dead. The Rick Grimes analogue is a secondary character.
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Sep 27, 2014 08:44
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Also it's a ton of fun. They know what they are and excel at it.
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Sep 27, 2014 14:20
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toanoradian posted:These past few days I've been binging on game shows that are on YouTube: Jeopardy, The Price is Right, Scrabble, The Chase, etc etc. What other game shows would you guys recommend? Please don't say Deal or No Deal. There was only the one season, and they picked Dennis Miller to do interstitial hosting for some reason, but Grand Slam is great fun. It's like lightning chess the game show. Each player gets a minute on their clock, and answering a question correctly stops their clock and starts their opponent's. There's multiple round styles and the winner's time carries over into the final round, meaning it behooves you not just to win but win well. They got a bunch of game show winners to do it, too, so it's not stupid people. I wish they'd do it again.
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Sep 27, 2014 14:44
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GreenNight posted:Also it's a ton of fun. They know what they are and excel at it. Hey GreenNight, why don't you create a Z-nation thread so you don't have to talk about it here. Sharknado was a piece of poo poo, just like Z-nation is. It's like watching a B-movie every single week, and if you're into that, great. But don't go telling people it's actually good, it's not. And if it's entertaining, it's only so because everyone knows it's a piece of poo poo.
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Sep 27, 2014 14:59
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Slamhound posted:Yeah, narrative, plot, and character-wise, Z Nation is several orders of magnitude better than Walking Dead. The Rick Grimes analogue is a secondary character. I kinda feel like arguing over which is "the best zombie TV show" is like arguing over who is the tallest dwarf. raditts fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Sep 27, 2014 |
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Ravane posted:Hey GreenNight, why don't you create a Z-nation thread so you don't have to talk about it here. Sharknado was a piece of poo poo, just like Z-nation is. It's like watching a B-movie every single week, and if you're into that, great. But don't go telling people it's actually good, it's not. And if it's entertaining, it's only so because everyone knows it's a piece of poo poo. You're an incredibly bothersome poster
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Sep 27, 2014 16:42
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Ravane posted:Hey GreenNight, why don't you create a Z-nation thread so you don't have to talk about it here. Sharknado was a piece of poo poo, just like Z-nation is. It's like watching a B-movie every single week, and if you're into that, great. But don't go telling people it's actually good, it's not. And if it's entertaining, it's only so because everyone knows it's a piece of poo poo. He was replying to a comment that someone else made (Who also said it was good - strange you ignored them). However bothersome you think his posts are, yours are coming across way worse.
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Sep 27, 2014 16:54
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DrVenkman posted:He was replying to a comment that someone else made (Who also said it was good - strange you ignored them). However bothersome you think his posts are, yours are coming across way worse. Z-nation's not that bad. I'm just dealing out an appropriate and proportional level of assholery to GreenNight, for all the times he spent being an rear end in a top hat to me. That was actually my last post on the matter. Z-nation is certainly entertaining, though I wouldn't consider it a "good" show by any means. It's the type of show you watch simply because you know that Asylum will go to lengths that no other production company will and the plot will cover elements that are rarely covered by regular media. It's good by Syfy's standards, though those standards are very, very low. Though the acting isn't bad, the plot is mediocre but this is the type of show you don't watch for the plot anyway.
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Sep 27, 2014 19:09
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Personally I'm annoyed by Z-Nation's comparisons to The Walking Dead because it seems less about praising Z-Nation and more about getting in one more slam on The Walking Dead. Which I guess I understand, given that The Walking Dead murdered your parents and all.
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Sep 27, 2014 19:30
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And it's really bad too. Sorry about your parents.
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Sep 27, 2014 20:16
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Mediocre TV Shows are a superstitious and cowardly lot. To strike fear into them, Ravane shall become Passive Aggressive Internet Man.
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Sep 27, 2014 20:59
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hcreight posted:Mediocre TV Shows are a superstitious and cowardly lot. To strike fear into them, Ravane shall become Passive Aggressive Internet Man. Catchphrase: Hey, don't get me angry, I have plenty of time!
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Sep 27, 2014 21:49
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I don't think anyone posted this here yet, but the whole first season of Transparent went up on Amazon yesterday. Every TV critic on the internet seems to be in a fight over who can praise it the hardest, but it really is very good. Lots to like, but Jeffrey Tambor's performance in particular is totally brilliant.
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GraPar posted:I don't think anyone posted this here yet, but the whole first season of Transparent went up on Amazon yesterday. Every TV critic on the internet seems to be in a fight over who can praise it the hardest, but it really is very good. Lots to like, but Jeffrey Tambor's performance in particular is totally brilliant. what is it b*ch
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DivisionPost posted:Personally I'm annoyed by Z-Nation's comparisons to The Walking Dead because it seems less about praising Z-Nation and more about getting in one more slam on The Walking Dead. Yeah I mean, why would you compare 2 TV shows involving zombies, doesn't make much sense. The Walking Dead is clearly above comparisons to other zombie shows and certainly should be left out of the conversation about better zombie shows.
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Wandle Cax posted:Yeah I mean, why would you compare 2 TV shows involving zombies, doesn't make much sense. The Walking Dead is clearly above comparisons to other zombie shows and certainly should be left out of the conversation about better zombie shows. I understand his sentiment cuz they are about as far different as you can get from eachother and it's like comparing Lost In Space and BSG just cuz they're both about people lost in outerspace.
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Sep 28, 2014 00:37
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DP, don't get me wrong, I enjoy Walking Dead quite a bit. More so since I quit reading that shows thread. Z-Nation is a different beast. I enjoy both.
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DivisionPost posted:Personally I'm annoyed by Z-Nation's comparisons to The Walking Dead because it seems less about praising Z-Nation and more about getting in one more slam on The Walking Dead. I think the comparisons have merit, because almost everyone will be mentally comparing them, and flat out saying that Z Nation is basically "TWD minus drama plus slapstick gross out comedy fun times" should hopefully encourage people to give it a try. It's not trying to be TWD, and everything that makes TWD good TV is absent, but its been replaced by a lot of really entertaining stuff.
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So I'm currently watching  , I've made it to season 6 and just finished episode 4.Here's what I know: The numbers correspond to each of Jacob's candidates. Someone probably isn't leaving the island. And the two stones, dark and light; the scale is unbalanced when the Smoke Monster throws away the Stone of Jacob, meaning someone is going to have to take his place (as the protector of the island). 100% sure that this is going to be Jack Shephard, given Hawking's destiny speech. Also, it appears that an alternate reality has been created because of the hydrogen bomb, though the only character (of importance) yet to appear is Juliet. I wonder why that is. I think she might be the key to unraveling what's going on in this alternate world.
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Sep 28, 2014 01:25
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I must say that the mystery of the flash-sideways universe has what is perhaps the most satisfying resolution of any mystery on the show.
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Sep 28, 2014 01:30
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Defiance just got a third season and Dominion got a season two.
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Sep 28, 2014 02:58
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Gonz posted:Defiance just got a third season and Dominion got a season two. Dominion was pretty good when it wasn't bogged down between the human vs. human political squabbles in a show that marketed itself as a "post apocalyptic humans vs angels" show. Everything involving the angel characters was fun to watch, especially Gabriel, but the various human subplots struggled to matter when it was all "conversations over seizing political power" and "pace around talking about political power"
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Irish Joe posted:I must say that the mystery of the flash-sideways universe has what is perhaps the most satisfying resolution of any mystery on the show. Here's one of those strange moments where I'm not sure if Irish Joe is actually trolling or not but I actually agree 100% with what he's saying.
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Sep 28, 2014 03:12
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Someone spoil what it was, I don't remember.
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Sep 28, 2014 03:34
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Aphrodite posted:Someone spoil what it was, I don't remember. Purgatory.
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Sep 28, 2014 03:37
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That spoiler is still the dumbest, most reductive misunderstanding of the resolution. A stick for lazy people to beat the programme with. A stick being held by the lovely end.
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Deadpool posted:Here's one of those strange moments where I'm not sure if Irish Joe is actually trolling or not but I actually agree 100% with what he's saying. Yeah, I kinda agree with that. It seems like a troll post, but if you think about it, it could technically be correct, if only because it was one of the very few mysteries that actually got any kind of resolution at all. (I still hated that resolution. It was dumb and lame and dumb and just unsatisfying.) Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:That spoiler is still the dumbest, most reductive misunderstanding of the resolution. LOST as a show is hard to describe to people now that is complete without spoiling anything, but the closest I've come to it is "Well, the characters are all fun as hell to watch, but all the shadowy mysterious stuff going on in the background occasionally teased during a season finale? Maybe 1/2 of it will ever be explained or resolved, just let it go and enjoy the show"
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Yeah, I kinda agree with that. It seems like a troll post, but if you think about it, it could technically be correct, if only because it was one of the very few mysteries that actually got any kind of resolution at all. (I still hated that resolution. It was dumb and lame and dumb.) And I feel the opposite as the resolution of that particular thing is part of what made me love the finale so much.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:That spoiler is still the dumbest, most reductive misunderstanding of the resolution. A stick for lazy people to beat the programme with. A stick being held by the lovely end. A place outside of time that people use to resolve their issues from life until they're ready to move on to afterlife/heaven. Nope not purgatory at all.
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pentyne posted:let it go That's the one quote I took away from the show after these years, aside from "Waaaaalt!"
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Manos del Sino posted:That's the one quote I took away from the show after these years, aside from "Waaaaalt!" The build up to the finale was insane, and people's reactions immediately post-finale into trying to re-examine the season/episode/series and suddenly claim they discovered something deeper was hilarious. The writers wrote themselves into a corner and just ended it. That wasn't even the first time they wrote themselves into a corner, that's why things kept getting crazier and crazier.
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