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One thing that annoys me intermittently is when I know I need to be up early in the morning but I can't get to sleep. It's always on Sunday nights, regular as clockwork. I wouldn't need to get up early because work for me officially starts at 9.30 am, but I'm usually in for between 8.00 and 8.30 am so because the train is too crowded for me if I leave later (not too busy, mind you - I still get a space - just too crowded for me). Honestly, while it has some benefits I don't enjoy living in London at all (largely because it's too crowded and too noisy for me) and I will be glad to be back home, where things are more sensible.
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Inspector 34 posted:Most of the people in The League have had pretty successful careers in comedy/improv. Guys like Zouks or Sheer have carved out a nice little niche in the podcast world and are finally starting to reemerge in acting roles. I thought Mantzoukas was great in the latest season of No Activity (which overall is just awesome), Sheer pops up here and there but not as much since NT:SD:SUV ended, and Kroll has been all over the place for a long while now so no idea how you could have missed him. I don't listen to How Did This Get Made for thoughtful analysis of bad movies. I listen to it because it's funny as hell. Who cares if they don't get all the details correct about Holiday in Handcuffs? Is Jason a bit over the top sometimes? Sure, but he consistently makes me crack up. Sometimes them not remembering parts of a movie leads to some great comedy, such as them not knowing the kids name in Blues Brothers 2000, and just referring to him as Scribbles for the entire episode. Paul is a lot better on Unspooled when it comes to movie analysis, but that's mostly because he has Amy Nicholson being a real expert alongside him.
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Jan 8, 2019 01:15
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Olaf doesn’t know anything and is a dumb jackass.
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Jan 8, 2019 01:25
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Master Twig posted:I don't listen to How Did This Get Made for thoughtful analysis of bad movies. I listen to it because it's funny as hell. Who cares if they don't get all the details correct about Holiday in Handcuffs? Is Jason a bit over the top sometimes? Sure, but he consistently makes me crack up. Sometimes them not remembering parts of a movie leads to some great comedy, such as them not knowing the kids name in Blues Brothers 2000, and just referring to him as Scribbles for the entire episode. I get all that and don't begrudge anybody liking things I don't, but HDTGM is just not for me. I haven't seen all the movies they talk about so I cherry picked episodes about bad movies I have seen and didn't like them that much. I love all of those people on Comedy Bang Bang though so it's not like I have a problem with those on mic. I'll have to check out Unspooled, hadn't even heard of that one until today.
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CelticPredator posted:Olaf doesn’t know anything and is a dumb jackass. Yeah, so better than the alt-right!  ... 
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Jan 8, 2019 01:50
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I was just saying I don't think he's very well read. Just the kind of person who picks up on stuff he hears and throws it into his vocabulary without knowing the real context or even how to say it. Ya know....
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Jan 8, 2019 02:15
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when you're trying to vent about something and everyone comes out of the loving woodwork rio tell you "well you don't have it as bad as other people!!!" I'm still allowed to complain, poo poo heads!
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Jan 8, 2019 19:46
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Coffee shops and other locations where the laptop seats with a power plug are all positioned so that your screen is facing the room rather than a wall. I'm not looking at porn or goatse but all the same I don't feel comfortable watching youtube retrospectives about Sailor Moon SNES games or whatever like that. Really any place where there are very few seats where you can't sit with your back to a wall suck. I don't like having my back to a crowded room. Showers where you can't mount the showerhead and it instead can only rest on top of the bathroom tap so you have to hold it in your hand the whole time if you want to stay under the water. I know what my perfect shower is like and it has a mountable head and a cabin with a door, not a gross sticky curtain. Shibawanko has a new favorite as of 20:13 on Jan 8, 2019 |
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Jan 8, 2019 20:09
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FluxFaun posted:when you're trying to vent about something and everyone comes out of the loving woodwork rio tell you "well you don't have it as bad as other people!!!" I'm still allowed to complain, poo poo heads! SOME people AREN'T allowed to complain, you know.
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There are starving children in Africa who don't have the luxury of paying $10 to post on a comedy forum, you monster!!
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Jan 8, 2019 22:38
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People complaining about ER triage like it’s some service and not, you know, triage. It’s going to suck for everyone. You don’t go to the ER when you feel good. You also don’t get to write about how this place sucks because you had acute throat pains but someone came in after you with acute stab wounds to the chest AND GOT SEEN FIRST
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Jan 9, 2019 00:20
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ERs should be able to be more discriminatory in who they will treat. A poor with no insurance but has a legitimate medical problem? Yes, they should still be seen. But addict number 50000 of the day that stabbed themselves with a fork to get some pain meds? Send them back out to the street, no treatment offered.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:People complaining about ER triage like it’s some service and not, you know, triage. The ER here has a sign like that (not in those exact words) but basically saying that people who are more seriously ill or injured will be seen before you even though you checked in first.
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CelticPredator posted:Olaf doesn’t know anything and is a dumb jackass. Words which here mean 'an excellent candidate for the next election'
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yeah I eat rear end posted:ERs should be able to be more discriminatory in who they will treat. A poor with no insurance but has a legitimate medical problem? Yes, they should still be seen. But addict number 50000 of the day that stabbed themselves with a fork to get some pain meds? Send them back out to the street, no treatment offered. Agreed. Let them buy regulated opioids and live a half-decent life while taking pills instead of crashing between using and withdrawing, and free from the fear that this particular batch is 10x stronger and will kill them.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:ERs should be able to be more discriminatory in who they will treat. A poor with no insurance but has a legitimate medical problem? Yes, they should still be seen. But addict number 50000 of the day that stabbed themselves with a fork to get some pain meds? Send them back out to the street, no treatment offered. 1) In the US, ERs are required at least do a screening to determine if a medical emergency exists. (And to treat the medical emergency if it's determined one exists) In practice, they'll generally do more than that, because caregivers are very interested in not being sued for missing something. 2) Where's the cutoff for when we decide you're a waste of time? Who decides what the cutoff is? What, if any, consequences should there be if the person had a legitimate medical problem and they were turned away because it was assumed they're just trying to get pain meds? People don't stop having real health problems just because they're junkies. Or if they're falsely assumed to be junkies, which is a real problem thanks to people overcorrecting in the face of the opiate epidemic. Also, if someone's a pain med frequent flier, the ER staff's already taking that into account when treating them. Edgar Allen Ho posted:Agreed. Let them buy regulated opioids and live a half-decent life while taking pills instead of crashing between using and withdrawing.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Agreed. Let them buy regulated opioids and live a half-decent life while taking pills instead of crashing between using and withdrawing, and free from the fear that this particular batch is 10x stronger and will kill them. ah yes we should definitely encourage/enable addiction. That will really help them (die faster).
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Jan 9, 2019 00:50
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yeah I eat rear end posted:ah yes we should definitely encourage/enable addiction. That will really help them (die faster). Precisely! Also for 3rd parties that aren’t PYF’s beloved kapo, opiate drugs will pretty much only kill you via OD. They aren’t long-term killers like say, booze or tobacco.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Precisely! they kill family relationships/friendships and drive them to the streets though (because nobody likes to be stolen from in order for them to get their fix), which vastly increases the chances of them dying from other causes. "Give them more heroin" is one of the dumbest solutions to opiate addictions I've ever heard.
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Jan 9, 2019 01:19
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yeah I eat rear end posted:they kill family relationships/friendships and drive them to the streets though (because nobody likes to be stolen from in order for them to get their fix), which vastly increases the chances of them dying from other causes. "Give them more heroin" is one of the dumbest solutions to opiate addictions I've ever heard. No one wants to be a hopeless addict. They fall into that spiral because they have, at least to them, no other choice. Addicts who get a reasonable prescribed dose can and do actually function and improve their lot, and end up having a decent life. And a happy or at least not-hopeless person who needs their pills is waaaay better for all of us than a corpse under an overpass
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Yeah but part of being an addict is always "needing" more. Prescribe me a liter of gin a day and I'll be fine for a week, then I'll get bored with that level and want more.
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Jan 9, 2019 01:57
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yeah I eat rear end posted:ERs should be able to be more discriminatory in who they will treat. A poor with no insurance but has a legitimate medical problem? Yes, they should still be seen. But addict number 50000 of the day that stabbed themselves with a fork to get some pain meds? Send them back out to the street, no treatment offered. Boy this post made me angry. Addiction is a legitimate medical problem, one that disproportionately affects the poor and uninsured. They need MORE help, not less.
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Here's a pet peeve of mine: when something you read or see or smell reminds you of something you ate once and didn't like and you're stuck with this phantom aftertaste for the rest of the idea, and even anything else you eat or drink tastes like that original thing. And another thing: it's annoying to me when an adaptation of a book comes out and gets really popular and after that you can only find copies of the book with boring photographs of the actors from the adaptation on the cover. Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 14:16 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:And another thing: it's annoying to me when an adaptation of a book comes out and gets really popular and after that you can only find copies of the book with boring photographs of the actors from the adaptation on the cover. Very agreed. I'm a huge fan of fantasy works with trippy 60s and 70s art on the cover. I have a copy of The Hobbit with a beautiful watercolor rendering of Bag End. Rolling green hills, myriad colored round doors, coils of chimney smoke. Or you can have a shiny embossed Martin Freeman face.
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It's mentally taxing to help people who cannot help themselves. Easy to think of them as a lost cause.
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Brawnfire posted:Very agreed. I'm a huge fan of fantasy works with trippy 60s and 70s art on the cover. I have a copy of The Hobbit with a beautiful watercolor rendering of Bag End. Rolling green hills, myriad colored round doors, coils of chimney smoke. See also: the "adult" covers of Harry Potter and Discworld books.
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Wheat Loaf posted:See also: the "adult" covers of Harry Potter and Discworld books. The black cover Discworld books are the superior version. The Josh Kirby covers are and always were loving awful.
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Tiggum posted:The black cover Discworld books are the superior version. The Josh Kirby covers are and always were loving awful. I think they were the right thing for comic novels like Discworld.
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Jan 9, 2019 17:00
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Wheat Loaf posted:Here's a pet peeve of mine: when something you read or see or smell reminds you of something you ate once and didn't like and you're stuck with this phantom aftertaste for the rest of the idea, and even anything else you eat or drink tastes like that original thing. I have the version of Solaris with George Clooney on it. I kind of like how it's just the tackiest possible version of a great book.
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Similarly: it's annoying when classic movies get released on home video with the most generic Photoshopped "modern-looking" cover art that makes them look like direct-to-video Liam Neeson features. Example:  
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Wheat Loaf posted:Similarly: it's annoying when classic movies get released on home video with the most generic Photoshopped "modern-looking" cover art that makes them look like direct-to-video Liam Neeson features. Oh I hate this, my best guess is that most of the time it's just attempting to appeal to a new audience. Some studio exec thinks that the original poster art isn't going to appeal to anyone buying movies these days unless it looks like a modern movie poster. I'm not opposed to new cover art either, as long as there's some sort of effort to make it look like it didn't take 20 minutes to whip up in photoshop.
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An especially bad one: Clearly movies Roger Moore was in between Bond films aren't exactly going to be high art but other stuff he was in at least got more interesting-looking home release covers:   I don't know. I like old painted movie posters. I'm told that the reason they don't really get made any more in favour of comparatively drab-looking Photoshops is that people do think they look "old". I guess that reaction in other people might be a peeve of mine. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:An especially bad one: This doesn't even inspire me to listen to Motley Crue, and usually I'd have the song of the same name stuck in my head by now.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't know. I like old painted movie posters. I'm told that the reason they don't really get made any more in favour of comparatively drab-looking Photoshops is that people do think they look "old". I guess that reaction in other people might be a peeve of mine. I am absolutely terrified that hand-painted illustration and animation are going to disappear and be entirely supplanted by digital. I like digital stuff for what it is, but there's so much of it now it's seemingly ubiquitous and I don't see a lot of people going back to the old techniques and classic styles. End of an era, I guess.
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The best dick mercenaries in the business!
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Something like the poster for The Force Awakens is clearly evocative of the old Drew Struzan posters (particularly the prequel ones, I think, rather than anything he did for the original movies): But the strange thing here is that they did get Struzan to come out of retirement to paint a promotional poster. In fairness, it's probably not his best work.  But that top poster painted by Drew Struzan probably would have been fine. 
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The american election cycle lasting so drat long that we’re practically always in campaign season. We just had an election, now let’s get ready for 2020! This one is going to suuuuuck too. 2016 at least gave us fun characters like RoboRubio, the Zodiac Killer, and JEB! With the democrats primarying it’s going to be two goddam years of 24/7 “BREAKING NEWS DONALD TRUMP SAYS MEAN DUMB THING” and then 20 of the most boring motherfuckers imaginable tripping over themselves to lay down the lamest burns possible on him. Things to look forward too: The Onion’s Joe Biden, the dumb nicknames Donnie will invent for all the candidates
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Things to look forward too: The Onion’s Joe Biden, the dumb nicknames Donnie will invent for all the candidates I'm not American but it sort of bothers me how old all of the candidates are going to be. Trump will be 74 and the main Democrats who seem likely (to me as a non-American) to run (Sanders, Biden and Warren) will be 80, 78 and 74 respectively.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I'm not American but it sort of bothers me how old all of the candidates are going to be. Trump will be 74 and the main Democrats who seem likely (to me as a non-American) to run (Sanders, Biden and Warren) will be 80, 78 and 74 respectively. Sanders hasn't thrown his hat in yet but Kamala Harris is a likely candidate in her mid-50s. Cory Booker is a few years younger and his name is thrown around a lot. But yeah it's one of the biggest of many problems with the Democratic party. There's no bench. Bernie is by far the most progressive option but who could he pick as VP who is even close to him policy wise?
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When someone brings up some nuance when it is uncalled for. Look at 3:13 that is what you sound like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PskzHl6plWk&t=605s Midig has a new favorite as of 00:57 on Jan 10, 2019 |
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