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SEX BURRITO posted:Matt Lucas has admitted that he wouldn't do the black characters if he did the show over again: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/oct/03/matt-lucas-little-britain-remake-would-not-play-black-character Yes, I heard about that. I suppose blackface was acceptable back when he last did it. In 2010-2011. 
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Sunswipe posted:Not quite sure what the problem is here, but I've not seen Meatballs. It’s an adult character referring to underage campers as jailbait. I’m not sure that term is never used in a non creep way, actually.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Maybe we should call this 'media that hasn't aged well.' Find a copy of King reading The Drawing of the Three. Let me know when you get to him reading Detta's dialogue.
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DrBouvenstein posted:It's a silly thing to call it. Nobody on planet Earth considers themselves too drunk to drive when they make that decision to slide behind the wheel and head home. Hence, don't drink and drive: put some money aside for a taxi. Have a designated driver. Make sure your bus card is topped off. Sleep it off at your mates house. Makes perfect sense to me 
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Pastry of the Year posted:most Australian slang was concocted while drunk, if that explains anything
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Mister Kingdom posted:Find a copy of King reading The Drawing of the Three. Let me know when you get to him reading Detta's dialogue. King doesn't actually read the audiobook. 14 hours of a Maine nasal twang would be a real horror story. Drawing of the Three was narrated by the late great Frank Muller who could've read Trump tweets and made them sound dramatic and riveting.
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SEX BURRITO posted:Matt Lucas has admitted that he wouldn't do the black characters if he did the show over again: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/oct/03/matt-lucas-little-britain-remake-would-not-play-black-character Lmao the minority he feels bad about mocking is the one he himself is part of, what a great guy.
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aardwolf posted:Nobody on planet Earth considers themselves too drunk to drive when they make that decision to slide behind the wheel and head home. The official charges here are "driving under the influence" and "driving while intoxicated" Saying either of those achieves the same goal without sounding like a toddler
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Krispy Wafer posted:King doesn't actually read the audiobook. He did originally.  In fact, he read the first three books on cassette.
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Tiggum posted:It's not slang, that's the proper term. If the place you're from is literally the only place on earth that phrases it that way, congratulations, it's slang. "Drink driving" is wrong because "drink" is a verb and "drunk" is an adjective. If someone is distracted by their phone you don't say they're "distract driving". And the "no one ever thinks they're too drunk to drive, so 'drunk driving' is wrong" argument falls apart the first time you hear someone say "no, I haven't been drinking, I just had a couple of beers with my friends."
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hawowanlawow posted:The official charges here are "driving under the influence" and "driving while intoxicated" Both of which are obviously not as convenient to say. Tell me: have you tried not being a gigantic fusspot about different dialects?
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Besesoth posted:And the "no one ever thinks they're too drunk to drive, so 'drunk driving' is wrong" argument falls apart the first time you hear someone say "no, I haven't been drinking, I just had a couple of beers with my friends." ...honestly, I'm pretty confused here. I think you just confirmed my argument.
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It's weird watching shows from the mid/late 90s where smoking was still kinda okay, especially when those shows run long enough to later use it to signify that a character is unlikeable.
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aardwolf posted:...honestly, I'm pretty confused here. I think you just confirmed my argument. If "drunk driving" doesn't capture people who don't think of themselves as drunk, then "drink driving" doesn't capture people who don't think of themselves as having been drinking.
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Do the maths: drink driving can land you in hospital . . . or gaol
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aardwolf posted:Both of which are obviously not as convenient to say. Tell me: have you tried not being a gigantic fusspot about different dialects? Settle down Beavis
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Besesoth posted:If "drunk driving" doesn't capture people who don't think of themselves as drunk, then "drink driving" doesn't capture people who don't think of themselves as having been drinking. So you are saying it's not perfect? No poo poo. It is still surely an improvement.
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54 40 or gently caress posted:Lol no joke episode of wife swap with him, he actively discourages his son from engaging in physical activities like riding his bike.
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hawowanlawow posted:Settle down Beavis Easy on, mate. Don't get off your bike about it.
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Besesoth posted:"Drink driving" is wrong because "drink" is a verb and "drunk" is an adjective. If someone is distracted by their phone you don't say they're "distract driving". And the "no one ever thinks they're too drunk to drive, so 'drunk driving' is wrong" argument falls apart the first time you hear someone say "no, I haven't been drinking, I just had a couple of beers with my friends." We wouldn't say 'distract driving' but would say 'distracted driving'.
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NorgLyle posted:I really like Penn and Teller's magic. I think Penn can be an outrageously funny guy. I enjoy listening to Penn talk even when I disagree with him. All that said, I cannot imagine a worse possible fate than being one of his children. If he had any compassion or humanity left in his heart, he should have taken them out to the forest and left them to be raised by wolves (and I'm not just saying that because of that time he wore a Klan costume to his daughter's kindergarten read along). His daughter is the one he named "Moxie Crimefighter" right?
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dissss posted:We wouldn't say 'distract driving' but would say 'distracted driving'. yes, because - stick with me here - "distracted" is an adjective, just like "drunk".
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clearly the correct term is "drinked driving"
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dissss posted:We wouldn't say 'distract driving' but would say 'distracted driving'. distracted. an adjective. like drunk. e: this is like whatever fuckin' US dialect says something 'needs fixed' Olive! has a new favorite as of 00:54 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Besesoth posted:If the place you're from is literally the only place on earth that phrases it that way, congratulations, it's slang. That is not what "slang" means.
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Wheat Loaf posted:His daughter is the one he named "Moxie Crimefighter" right?
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Tiggum posted:That is not what "slang" means. It's just slanged writing.
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Let's get back to talking about TV that has aged terribly instead of continuing to veer off wildly, it's been fun but this has gone on quite a while now. it's up to the OP if they want but I don't mind changing this thread to media rather than TV shows.
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EmmyOk posted:it's up to the OP if they want but I don't mind changing this thread to media rather than TV shows. Actually, that would be a good idea. I can think of a song or two that would be rendered obsolete by modern technology.
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Mister Kingdom posted:He did originally. Me: Oh hey, those are in the very short list of King books I actually read as a teen, that'll be interesting when I get to them going through in ord- Mister Kingdom posted:Find a copy of King reading The Drawing of the Three. Let me know when you get to him reading Detta's dialogue. Oh...Oh no...
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IT is a great book but its nearly impossible to go a page without King putting some aside in parentheses. He really loves to use those.
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oldpainless posted:IT is a great book but its nearly impossible to go a page without King putting some aside in parentheses (he really loves to use those.)
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oldpainless posted:IT is a great book but its nearly impossible to go a page without King putting some aside in parentheses. He really loves to use those. I think this is what Trump does in every single speech
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Mister Kingdom posted:He did originally. Oh my. oldpainless posted:IT is a great book but its nearly impossible to go a page without King putting some aside in parentheses. He really loves to use those. The reviews of the IT audiobook complain about the narrator's odd cadence and chapters abruptly starting and stopping in mid sentence. I'm pretty sure that's the way the book was written towards the later chapters.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's weird watching shows from the mid/late 90s where smoking was still kinda okay, especially when those shows run long enough to later use it to signify that a character is unlikeable. Yeah, in the 80s smoking became a punchline to show a character was stressed but not shown as something bad.
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I’ve been watching a lot of Homestar Runner stuff lately. There’s not really much in the way of content that has aged poorly, which is impressive considering that it’s been going on for almost 20 years now. (Unless you don’t count the seven year break.) It helps a lot that most of the technology depicted was already obsolete at the time of depiction. The only thing I can think of is that one time Strong Bad used the word “midget,” which sucks. However, the site does feature a more meta form of bad aging. The entire site was built from the ground up to run on Flash. This allowed them to implement the interactive easter eggs and special features which became so iconic of the site. (You can mess with the contrast of Strong Bad’s computer while he’s checking his email! How cool is that?) Now that Flash is Dead, you can’t really see any of it unless you manually activate Flash, which is dying for a reason. Nowadays they’re working on porting all the toons over to youtube, and the new ones are on youtube exclusively with the player embedded into the website. End of an era.
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Speaking of King and weird racism /out of touchness was it Mr Mercedes where the black kid would put on a fake slave voice? Like 'yessir master hodges' or whatever, what the hell was that about.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Actually, that would be a good idea. I can think of a song or two that would be rendered obsolete by modern technology. The mobile machine is kept so clean as it tweets to a waiting world wait poo poo I figured out Stephen Paddock's motive
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Annabel Pee posted:Speaking of King and weird racism /out of touchness was it Mr Mercedes where the black kid would put on a fake slave voice? Like 'yessir master hodges' or whatever, what the hell was that about. Yea, but that kind of worked for me, because he was making fun of the main character for being an old out of touch white guy.
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