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it soothes the 'tism
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# ? Jul 19, 2018 10:02 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:the train paragraph is extremely good you doofs yea that engineer is a good egg
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# ? Jul 19, 2018 10:13 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:The use of "11" as a maximum pre-dates This Is Spinal Tap by almost forty years. In 1947, the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway introduced the Chesapeake and Ohio class M-1 steam turbine locomotive. The locomotive's throttle included eleven settings, ranging from one (idling) to eleven (full speed). The locomotive's cruising speed was 70 miles per hour (110 km/h), at which point the throttle was on "seven". During a trial run with a reporter from Popular Mechanics aboard, a C&O engineer expressed his dissatisfaction with a local speed limit of 75 miles per hour (121 km/h), noting that he would "Sure like to be able to pull it back to eleven!"[4]:110; 252 It was probably designed to go from 0-10 and then somebody decided that it should start at 1 instead.
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# ? Jul 19, 2018 15:19 |
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wa27 posted:It was probably designed to go from 0-10 and then somebody decided that it should start at 1 instead. when it went from 0 to 10 the boss demanded that they make it even faster so they moved every number up by 1 and told him it was now faster
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# ? Jul 19, 2018 15:27 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(2011_video_game)quote:Motion controls are also utilized. In the Wii version, the player swings the Wii Remote during wagon travels to whip the oxen so that they pull the wagon ahead. There are also hunting sequences in which players use the Wii Remote's pointer to aim their rifle and shoot animals for food and resources. quote:Dying from dysentery never used to be this dull.
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# ? Jul 20, 2018 07:19 |
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courtesy of cspam Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by U.S. writer Robert A. Heinlein. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the U.S. suspending nuclear tests,[4]
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# ? Jul 20, 2018 23:57 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:courtesy of cspam Love the movie, heard the book was fashie trash and never read it. Right decision?
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# ? Jul 20, 2018 23:59 |
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probably. i mean its heinlein so
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 00:02 |
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let me put it this way: it's not an action book it's bookended by action scenes and the other 98% is just awful political screed his novella The Puppet Masters is much better and is basically responsible for invasion of the body snatchers
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 00:02 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:let me put it this way: it's not an action book I think they also made a movie of that with Donald Sutherland?
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 00:04 |
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it's been remade a few times yeah puppet masters is still distinctly heinlein-ian tho, so the main character has every skill and there's a redheaded love interest. still, not a bad read
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 00:05 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:it's been remade a few times yeah IIRC the aliens not staring at titties is one of their big “tells”?
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 00:08 |
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in the book they don't really understand human hygiene so when one gets you it does stuff like not ever taking your shoes off for months and months they will seamlessly infiltrate via goons first imo
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 00:10 |
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Sagebrush posted:The guy who responded to the airline springing extra baggage fees on him by shooting out the airplane's tires is a goddamn hero what's crazy about that one is it doesn't even mention him getting punished like everyone went "woah hey, OK we were just pulling your leg your luggage is here dude"
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 00:30 |
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Schadenboner posted:Love the movie, heard the book was fashie trash and never read it. its the origin of powered armor and he goes into great detail on how it works in the book. some of that is probably still relevant but i don't really remember the rest.
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 00:35 |
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lmao origin of power armor
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 00:56 |
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the book is the same basic ideas as the movie except presented as unironically good
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 02:02 |
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starship troopers the book is quite bad and boring
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 02:12 |
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can anyone here tell me if the starship troopers anime is worth a watch
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 02:18 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:can anyone here tell me if the starship troopers anime is worth a watch ask smoka lol
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 02:44 |
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haveblue posted:the book is the same basic ideas as the movie except presented as unironically good a lot of people say this but I didn't come away with that impression. i was a teenage nerdling when i read it so it was a while ago. but i thought it was as easy to read it as oo-rah war boosterism as it was to read it as a criticism of militarization and how war requires dehumanizing the enemy
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 03:00 |
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starship troopers goes out of its way to toss in reminders that no one needs to do the military service, and in fact most of the citizens got citizenship from doing standard civil servant jobs. it also implies that a lot of the people choosing military service are kinda dumb for doing so. (additionally a bunch of the plain old civil service stuff is nominally under the military but not really part of the military, because of how the founders of this current situation of earth took over power and created the federation in the first place) but it also says that the military tends to be good for those people and its Necessary (even though the humans are definitely going around provoking unnecessary wars). with basically a thesis on how inherently a bunch of people are going to need the military to thrive in. even if its ultimately doing pointless killing just to justify itself in essence it's a book about how discharged from the navy for disability author robert heinlein is pretty cool for having done service for 5 years during peace, so people should work for the government if they want to have a say and the military is the coolest. (even though rico is dumb as hell)
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# ? Jul 21, 2018 03:19 |
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# ? Jul 22, 2018 05:48 |
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that poo poo, jesus.
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# ? Jul 22, 2018 06:24 |
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its a sailboat!
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# ? Jul 22, 2018 06:25 |
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scooner!
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# ? Jul 22, 2018 06:53 |
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# ? Jul 22, 2018 15:33 |
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After this, Jimmy's sidekick, Guillermo, appeared in a spoof of The Bourne Ultimatum, which starred Damon. He was then chased down by Damon, who was cursing about Kimmel being behind all this. Guillermo also stopped Damon on the red carpet one time and before he could finish the interview he said, "Sorry, we are out of time." The most recent encounter was titled "The Handsome Men's Club" which featured Kimmel, along with the "Handsome Men", who were: Matthew McConaughey, Rob Lowe, Lenny Kravitz, Patrick Dempsey, Sting, Keith Urban, John Krasinski, Ethan Hawke, Josh Hartnett, Tony Romo, Ted Danson, Taye Diggs, Gilles Marini, and Ben Affleck, speaking about being handsome and all the jobs that come with it. At the end of the skit Kimmel has a door slammed in his face by none other than Matt Damon, stating that they had run out of time and then Damon continues with a sinister laugh. Jennifer Garner also makes a surprise appearance. As a tradition, celebrities voted off Dancing with the Stars appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, causing Kimmel to describe himself as "the three-headed dog the stars must pass on their way to No-Dancing Hell".
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# ? Jul 22, 2018 19:27 |
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Happy slapping was a fad originating in the United Kingdom around 2005, in which one or more people out of boredom attack a victim for the purpose of recording the assault (commonly with a camera phone or a smartphone). Though the term usually refers to relatively minor acts of violence such as hitting or slapping the victim, more serious crimes such as the manslaughter of a pensioner[1] and sexual assault have been classified as "happy slapping" by the BBC.[2]
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 06:21 |
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In Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn (1999), a character refers to the canal as "the only body of water in the world that is 90 percent guns".[146]
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RZApublican posted:Happy slapping was a fad originating in the United Kingdom around 2005, in which one or more people out of boredom attack a victim for the purpose of recording the assault (commonly with a camera phone or a smartphone). Though the term usually refers to relatively minor acts of violence such as hitting or slapping the victim, more serious crimes such as the manslaughter of a pensioner[1] and sexual assault have been classified as "happy slapping" by the BBC.[2] this was literally invented by a tabloid newspaper and reported as being an supposed epidemic, and then became a real one because the kinds of people who read tabloid newspapers are morons
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 13:38 |
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Sweevo posted:this was literally invented by a tabloid newspaper and reported as being an supposed epidemic, and then became a real one because the kinds of people who read tabloid newspapers are morons but enough about the donald trump presidential campaign
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 13:56 |
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Buffalo engaged in a contest of dominance. This sentence supposes they have a history of such bullying with other buffalo, and they are from Buffalo, New York.
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 15:22 |
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Sweevo posted:this was literally invented by a tabloid newspaper and reported as being an supposed epidemic, and then became a real one because the kinds of people who read tabloid newspapers are morons here in america we call it "the knockout game" and it was invented by the type of ppl who hate it when nfl players kneel for the national anthem
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 15:59 |
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RZApublican posted:Happy slapping was a fad originating in the United Kingdom around 2005, in which one or more people out of boredom attack a victim for the purpose of recording the assault (commonly with a camera phone or a smartphone). Though the term usually refers to relatively minor acts of violence such as hitting or slapping the victim, more serious crimes such as the manslaughter of a pensioner[1] and sexual assault have been classified as "happy slapping" by the BBC.[2] That pensioner was probably a boomer though so: ?
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 16:04 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Steven_Behr#/media/File:Ira_Steven_Behr.jpg
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:here in america we call it "the knockout game" and it was invented by the type of ppl who hate it when nfl players kneel for the national anthem [Allyson] had heard some kids were going to have a "rainbow party," but had no idea what that meant. Still, she thought it might be fun, and arranged to attend with a friend. After she arrived, several girls (all in the eighth grade) were given different shades of lipstick and told to perform oral sex on different boys to give them "rainbows." Once she realized what was happening, Allyson was too stunned and frightened to do anything. When a girl gave her some lipstick, she refused at first but, with repeated pressure, finally gave in. "It was one of the grossest things I've ever done."[3]
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 20:05 |
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tbf at least that article calls it fake as poo poo over and over
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# ? Jul 23, 2018 20:06 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Steven_Behr#/media/File:Ira_Steven_Behr.jpg the wiki page is missing the best part about him quote:It was during the writing of The 4400 miniseries that saw Behr first dye his beard blue. He commented: "There is a story. When we did the first season, it was a miniseries. And they were, let's say, trying to save money, and they would not put us in a studio. They would not get us offices anywhere, as it turned out. So, well, where the hell are we gonna go? You know, we gotta write six episodes... So they put us in Viacom Productions on Wilshire and Westwood, and so suddenly you have this writing staff with all the corporate suits. And it pissed me off, it really did. And we'd be sitting in the offices, and there was a window on my office, and it was frosted, but there was a little bar of clear glass, and every day I'd look up and there'd be eyes staring at me, looking in, I swear to God, and people would come in and go, 'How's it going? How's the scripts going?' I'm going, 'It was going great, until you just interrupted me!' So, I got more and more unhappy with the conditions that we were working under, and I came home one day and I talked to my wife and kids and said, 'You know, I gotta remember, I'm not them and they're not me. How do I keep remembering that?' And my wife said, 'Blue your beard.' And my daughter said, 'Yes yes yes yes yes!'
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:[Allyson] had heard some kids were going to have a "rainbow party," but had no idea what that meant. Still, she thought it might be fun, and arranged to attend with a friend. After she arrived, several girls (all in the eighth grade) were given different shades of lipstick and told to perform oral sex on different boys to give them "rainbows." Once she realized what was happening, Allyson was too stunned and frightened to do anything. When a girl gave her some lipstick, she refused at first but, with repeated pressure, finally gave in. "It was one of the grossest things I've ever done."[3] For the first time I have read about this stupid thing and realized that the physics involved don't make sense do these people think oral is a single aggressive kiss or something
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