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Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Dumb Lowtax posted:

....Say, does anyone know how to find the text files online for captions for major TV shows??

http://www.tvsubtitles.net/

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Zore
Sep 21, 2010
willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d’etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things
This one got me and I dunno even know why really.


He turned to the camera, "I am Iron Man" he shouted loudly as he started a countdown. A few hours later he did something equally unbelievable. He ran.

"I'm the Iron Man of the Marvel Universe. I am unstoppable! From outer space to the inner part of the Solar System." I was dumbfounded. No one had ever even called him that before. The world was already buzzing with excitement and excitement was something I had never thought we should be involved in before. We all laughed uproariously. Then when he took off and started his race he was just as amazed. He looked to me like I had suddenly lost my virginity.

"Now then guys, we are done and you can all put down your smartphones and your phones have to be placed in the same direction so that everyone can see how big a deal this is." He was really taking it all in stride.

The rest of the group was pretty quick to agree with him. The only question left was who should get first pick of all the cool stuff we have planned. I wasn't sure exactly what I was going to get.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Zore posted:

This one got me and I dunno even know why really.


He turned to the camera, "I am Iron Man" he shouted loudly as he started a countdown. A few hours later he did something equally unbelievable. He ran.

"I'm the Iron Man of the Marvel Universe. I am unstoppable! From outer space to the inner part of the Solar System." I was dumbfounded. No one had ever even called him that before. The world was already buzzing with excitement and excitement was something I had never thought we should be involved in before. We all laughed uproariously. Then when he took off and started his race he was just as amazed. He looked to me like I had suddenly lost my virginity.

"Now then guys, we are done and you can all put down your smartphones and your phones have to be placed in the same direction so that everyone can see how big a deal this is." He was really taking it all in stride.

The rest of the group was pretty quick to agree with him. The only question left was who should get first pick of all the cool stuff we have planned. I wasn't sure exactly what I was going to get.

Wow, this has a lot of good weird lines.

The_White_Crane
May 10, 2008
I fed it the first line of Ancillary Justice:

quote:

The body lay naked and facedown, a deathly gray, spatters of blood staining the snow around it.

“He is a demon. A demon of death, yet to awaken from the spirit dead, has yet to show any semblance of self-realization.” The man sighed, his shoulders slumped.

He took a sip of wine and sipped again. “We will not be coming back. We are not the heroes of old, this is not our return.” He lifted the candle and lit it in a white hand. “We have never taken such delight in our service. If one were to attempt to heal ourselves of any diseases we have contracted, we would be incapable of fulfilling a task at all, let alone dealing with this body. The only path leading back to the living would require us to turn ourselves into that body and fight it in battle. One must learn the art of self-preservation.”

I quite like “We will not be coming back. We are not the heroes of old, this is not our return.”

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Magick is as real as it is dangerous. It is something that I know to be true. I hope to be of some service in this life, or one day, after death, to share that knowledge with my dear friends. I feel that your letter has awakened a deep curiosity that I have done nothing with before. I had never thought of sending your letter, until I received your reply of yesterday afternoon, and am now thinking of doing so. This letter will not bring upon me the slightest annoyance. A few words: I have felt uneasy to read this letter. It seems that the secret of our work has been communicated to you through some writer or other, and I may possibly have heard it read to you. It must be done with all the secrecy of a man having access to secrets of that kind. If you should wish any part of it to be kept from me, I will let you alone. All that is meant by your asking me to send you some part of my manuscript I am prepared to sign under the condition, namely, that you promise not to print the whole of the manuscript.

evobatman
Jul 30, 2006

it means nothing, but says everything!
Pillbug
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. I will kill your entire family." As he did, he took an enormous gash in his head with his sword, forcing him to stare down the barrel of his gun. He was shot in the head with a .45 caliber handgun.

"And the only reason you did that is because of me. You're the only reason I can think of to forgive you. You killed a man that I love above all else," Corvo said.

"I was not an evil man. I was an innocent man, and a boy that did not know any better. The fact is we both know where my soul has been trapped. I killed him because he was a threat to me; someone that could not stand up to me," Corvo said.

"What kind of threat?" said Fiona. "Is it your friend and neighbor Sympathy?" Corvo shook his head. He tried to focus his pain away and thought about how dangerous it may be to let a demon kill so many people that he thought were his friends and neighbors

:stare:

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Jul 13, 2004

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Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
Starts out sounding quite complimentary, but then... :stare:

quote:

Welcome Hello & 付近: Welcome here! Here we are! How are you so handsome? Can you believe your eyes...? 他��你��: I'm sorry, I'm in a great mood. Sorry to disturb you. ��即��那从无锐: Thank you for your time. ��即��那从无锐: I'm sorry, it's been a while since I last saw you. I was thinking about the past few hours. 他��分���从无��: When I'm in the bath, I want to sleep, just like you, you know. 他俱得需��去���的: Hey! Hey... Are you sure you're not dreaming? I've been having a hard time seeing through your mirror. You were staring at me and I thought you were doing the same... Now I'm going around your house in order to learn more about you guys. �

Evilreaver
Feb 26, 2007

GEORGE IS GETTIN' AUGMENTED!
Dinosaur Gum
Make sure you trick it into giving you good life advice! :eng101:

Question: Help computer, my bank account is empty! What's a good way to get some fast cash?
Answer: The best way is to
buy some junk bonds with money you don't have. I think they are called "junk bonds" now.

They're junk bonds. You could say they're a kind of junk mortgage that someone is in over their head to pay back with extra cash. And that means, your bank account is empty.
There are other ways of getting some fast cash, too. But don't look to junk bonds, they're really expensive and just don't work that well. Instead, your best bet will be to do some shopping.
There's nothing wrong with shopping, of course, but it's also always useful and I've mentioned shopping as an alternative when I started this website just about three years ago.
If you're like me you buy junk bonds in order to get a quick, cheap cash flow that you could use for your other expenses, like spending time with your kids.
You don't have time to go shopping or buy anything, anyway!

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Evilreaver posted:

Make sure you trick it into giving you good life advice! :eng101:

Question: Help computer, my bank account is empty! What's a good way to get some fast cash?
Answer: The best way is to
buy some junk bonds with money you don't have.

If you put in that as question and answer combo, it'll start making its own questions too...

Question: Where can we buy a car? What are some things that are available for a low price?

Answer: Good news! There are two cars that can be bought with money. You can buy an expensive one for a fair price and an old classic for the best deal. If you want to get into racing and make a little extra money, get a sportscar.


Question: I have a lot of debt, am I going to give your company my money?
Answer: No we don't want anyone to make any money out of your company. If anyone asks you for money, just say yes No because your credit is not good and you are just getting caught up in your greed.

Question: What do I do if my credit score is <100?
Answer: The only way to get your credit restored is to become a member of our membership program.

Question: Any word on how to buy money with money you don't have?
Answer: First, buy junk bonds with money you don't have. Next, get a note from someone in Canada or the USA and write it 'LOST AT HOME IN AN STOMACH'. When the US bank opens up the account, you go in and write your deposit information and the US bank sends you the money.

Question: Why I'm borrowing money from people I don't know? I should be saving money to have money to spend.
Answer: You need the money to buy something expensive at market price.

Question: My bank has recently closed, what are my options?
Answer: The best thing to do is borrow from friends and family. Use those savings to buy a few expensive cars or cars with many passengers.

ToxicFrog
Apr 26, 2008


This was posted in the Antifoodporn thread ages ago, but I don't think it ever made it back here to its true home.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

aw dang now it's trying to scam me


Question: I have no bank account. I just gave my wife the password, but I can't see the account information. Help me! [
Answer: Get me a password and see what it says.
Question: Are there any other ways to do this, please?
Answer: No. It's too difficult.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Tunicate posted:

aw dang now it's trying to scam me


Question: I have no bank account. I just gave my wife the password, but I can't see the account information. Help me! [
Answer: Get me a password and see what it says.
Question: Are there any other ways to do this, please?
Answer: No. It's too difficult.

I would trust them. They're an absolutely legitimate business operation. The entire company was in good hands.

A. It's not like that. And I don't think it is.

Q. You know, when we were talking about this guy's job here, I asked you about the fact that, as you said, he was a private investigator because of his background as a private citizen. What are some of the things that people might not know about him as a private investigator? The person who is listed as a former police officer, the one that has that title – the most famous is the one who has the title with the badge.  Did someone say anything about that person being in the police?

A. It's in my research. If it had been me doing that, I would say that was in the course of the course as an investigator.

Q. Yes.

A. My wife and I do not discuss private matters very much. My wife and I would rather remain silent about them. We haven't talked to any media since May, but I know what happened

limaCAT
Dec 22, 2007

il pistone e male
Slippery Tilde
All hail our robotic overlords!

:catstare:

e: for context it's Talk to Transformers and I believed I was in the gbs thread.

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Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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https://twitter.com/BelinhaClacher/status/1128306980597190656?s=19

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

https://twitter.com/BelinhaClacher/status/1128094324451835904

:stare:

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Even weirder than the fact that Robert and his family apparently live in a McDonald's, there's also the cropped detail that Robert's wife was expecting. It is not made explicitly clear whether it was the unborn baby or another, already-born baby which the police took.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

For more than three minutes, the world was still. The world was still as the rain pounded its walls. The world was still as I watched my father run that knife into his palm. The world was still as I went to look for the knife. It's raining again, and I have an idea. I'll go to the window, pull back my hood, and watch the rain hit the windowsills. The rain will stop. I'll run inside my home and lock the door. And then this rain will cease.

My father's knife wasn't the only one in my house. There was also the knife I am holding in my hand, and there is the gun that was hidden in my closet. A gun that was once used at my mother's funeral. A gun that can still kill. A gun that doesn't fire bullets, but leaves a hole. I need to get to the other side of that hole, and it's the same hole the rain has left. The other side is the ocean, with my mother's ghost looking down at me.

I don't know what to do. I need more water. I need to reach the shoreline.

I'll go inside my house, lock the door, and I'll try to swim. I'll crawl out the window, grab the knife and the gun, and I'll go after the ocean.

I heard the door click open, and then I see the figure of my mother. Her clothes were wet, and her face was covered in dirt and dust. I don't see much. I feel nothing.

"Mama…"

I don't respond. I am frozen. There is no blood. She is sitting on a park bench with her face buried in the dirt. There is nothing for me to identify her as.

But I know why she is here. I do, even if I can't identify it.

I don't need to answer her, though. I don't need to see tears or show pain. I just needed to hear her words once again.

"There are still people like you, Michael. There were always people like you in the beginning."

It is the first time that I remember hearing her voice.

I don't know what to say.

The rain has started up again, and I am back in the moment I saw my father stab his mother and hear her last words and her final words.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



quote:

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs—Victory in spite of all terror—Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory some day we shall all perish. The victory of the Party is the victory of the proletariat of all countries." This was written down and handed to Lenin in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution which started in China. The pamphlet is reproduced many times in this book.

The first slogan of the Red Army was

Victory, the Great Socialist Revolution!

The Red Army has been victorious over all the enemies of the proletariat, and this victory can never be reversed. The victory of the proletariat is indissolubly bound up with that of the whole of humanity. For the entire historical history of humanity, the victory of the proletariat never falls into the hands of petty-bourgeois revolutionaries!

Lenin was greatly impressed by the enormous scale of this development.

It is also very significant that Lenin had a close personal interest in the development of the Chinese proletariat. He visited the Red...

Didn't quite expect Churchill to go in that direction.

Edit: poo poo, this is even better:

quote:

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never, not a day, give up that land or our lives, that land shall be ours."

And, in that hour we shall be the masters of all that is made; the masters of the seas.

I am asking a crowd of people to join with me in calling upon God to take away the American flag from all of us, and to bring it down and let it stay where it was on May 4th.

For it is now for us to lead this people where we will lead. No more America; no more freedom, no more independence, no more freedom, no more freedom, and our lives are our own country.

No more of slavery. No more of Jim Crow.

No more oppression of women; no more segregation between blacks and whites.

No more of the violence, the hatred and the oppression we witnessed during the campaign.

The only thing wrong with these people is not how they want to have...

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Zore
Sep 21, 2010
willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d’etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things
Everything goes to Star Wars

I am become death, destroyer of worlds, I have become death. My name is Death."


The Death Star, one of the largest military vehicles in the galaxy.


Contents show]

Details

History

This is an extremely advanced type of starfighter which was used to explore planets. This was the same design the Imperial Star Destroyer used to visit Tatooine under the tutelage of the legendary Imperial Admiral Motti. It was originally constructed by a group called the Death Star Industries, but was eventually taken over by the Empire when the Empire was attacked by the Rebel Alliance at its inception. The Death Star was the centerpiece of the Rebel Alliance's plans when a rebel named Luke Skywalker was recruited into the rebel faction and discovered that the Death Star was a vast underground facility of immense capacity. The plans were not abandoned as the Death Star, which was being kept under construction for many centuries, would become a powerful enemy during the Empire's attack on Eriadu. The Imperials intended to use the Death Stars as a force of mass destruction and a war machine in their defense of their home world. The Death Star was destroyed

Esplanade
Jan 6, 2005

TalktoTransformer is an MRA.

Question: What is a man?

The definition of a man is any one who has the capacity for being sexually attracted to females:

A man is a person who has an average IQ (IQ of 40+) who regularly engages in sexual activity with another person (i.e., he has sexual urges). To be sexually attracted to females, the person must have sexual appetites: a strong sexual attraction for females; or have an overwhelming desire for females. [5]

I know what it means to enjoy sexual attraction to females. I enjoy being in a certain kind of intimate encounter with females. I enjoy having sexual thoughts that involve females. It would actually seem to me that this is just like the heterosexual male having a desire to have an extensive sex life with females he can enjoy on a regular basis. But the reality is that not only does a man not need to know everything about women to have an intense sexual attraction to them, but it is not necessary or desirable at all. I cannot wait to meet a man like you, who doesn't mind knowing as little information as possible without needing to go out into the world and be



e: That question really gets the bot aroused.

Question: What is a man?

A man is someone who has sex, either with another man at his place of work or on his own property. The male equivalent of a woman is a nappy, to cover her vulva and make her feel sexier. That's a good one!

Here are the most widely read and cited sources used to define what constitutes a man:

Dictionary :

'A person who has sex with or approaches another person in an obscene, degrading, lustful or dangerous manner, or who approaches someone on the street in such a manner that is to attract any attention or to engage in sexual activity with that person.'

Wikipedia :

'A person who has sex with one person and in that act masturbates, undresses or fucks one person on their person.'

The Guardian :

'When a woman masturbates in public, she is said, it is an act of voyeurism.'

Bild :

'A man's penis has no penis. It's his vagina.'

The Times of London :

'A man

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Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Hello, what is your name?

A: Peter-Lang

Welcome, Peter-Lang; we understand you have a special talent?

PETER-LANG: I love music too, so it's my job to help them. At the start of my music career, I just used to do what everybody else did: I played bass and trumpet on the radio during the day, played classical flamenco during the night. I used to listen to classical music every night; then I heard a song and when I heard the song, I would take it to the next step. I would play it more slowly, play it with less melody, I played it with a little bit more style, and then I started to learn it myself, and in time I discovered something really good. At the last moment I decided if I can continue to listen to the music of my ancestors, maybe I can learn something good about myself and how I might improve myself.

Inspiring stuff! What song are you planning to play for us today?

I don't know, but my favorite song was "Stomp 'Em and Ride," which I really dig; it's great stuff. I think it was one of those classic songs that was always being played on the radio, so people didn't know which version it was from, but there's no doubt in my mind that this version was a classic.

Alrighty! Here's Peter-Lang performing "Stomp 'Em and Ride" on his new solo album titled A Song for You


Stomp 'Em and Ride posted:


[Verse 1: Naughty]

My daddy was a bitch!

They used guns in the street now

My daddy was the big gun

Yeah he said that we all must learn the lesson

My daddy was a bitch!

My daddy could get you in the face

We're going down now;

I'm a booty and a booty

I'm a man of justice

I'm a thug and a thug

I'm out of jail now

You can have a better life

By not getting hurt

[Verse 2: Dirty]

My daddy loved to punch

The way my parents used to beat

And they were always on drugs

My daddy loved to smoke, smoke, smoke

My daddy loved to get his mouth and his tongue

Just from him he was like the Big Daddy

I want my brother to feel that I'm the biggest man in the world

Wow, that song was truly dire. I will be watching your brief career with interest, Peter-Lang.

[pause] Oh I will be watching you for a while. As your first day of work takes you from your mother, to the police station, the waiting room, back to the hospital the doctor doesn't tell you he has a broken nose, and you're out to lunch all over again, so I will probably get your phone number, you'll never know what that was all about. Maybe I'll ask your mother to come over to dinner this summer and talk to you about how to avoid that future in a less embarrassing position, and maybe you, too, won't be the first boy to go back after your sister found out what your brother did to some kids in elementary school. I don't think the kid he killed was just a normal, innocent kid, or even that lucky to be alive anymore, he had been playing with metal that just so happened to be metal.

What the gently caress, Peter-Lang?

That's it! Peter, hold onto her rear end. gently caress her, Peter! [slurp! a long slurp, as if to say "what the gently caress, what the gently caress"]

See? Don't worry, this doesn't bother you at all. It's nothing we did wrong.

While security escorts Peter-Lang from the studio, we apologize to our listeners for the outburst.


We apologize for anyone who feels violated by our show. A big thank you to our guests whose names you probably don't know.

This show starts at 11AM ET, 9AEST and ends at 2ZST (this is the correct time to listen), so be sure to hit up those buttons.

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Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
Voice generation is getting better and better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfhFuqF0tEs

Evilreaver
Feb 26, 2007

GEORGE IS GETTIN' AUGMENTED!
Dinosaur Gum

Brawnfire posted:

The Saga of Peter-Lang

Marvelous. More of these, folks!

Farecoal
Oct 15, 2011

There he go
Hello. What is your name?

I'm Adam Wiens. I'm a science fiction writer and artist currently working on my next book called Starseed: The Beginning of a Future.

Welcome, Adam Wiens! Could you tell us more about your upcoming book?

Adam Wiens: My upcoming book is about some of the things that are fascinating about the world of the Internet in 2013. I'm also a writer, so while I'm writing a book, I'm really writing about some very interesting subjects — including the new data infrastructure that's emerged from Google's Project Tango. A lot of these things were inspired by this book; there's still a lot we know and can learn from Facebook's Project Butter, but also from LinkedIn's Project Snowflake, and from Google's Project Glass.

So it's a non-fiction book? What made you want to write this, Mr. Wiens?

Adam Wiens:
 I don't know. I was reading this book and all I can think about is being a kid. I think when they first wrote about me when I was eight, I was really scared of death and about how big the world really was -- it was so large and that made me really, really frightened, so it's such a hard book to write and even harder on me, because I'm still growing. So I'm not really a big fan of books about my own life -- not really, actually. It's a really long book and it really touches a lot of different places, but this one's kind of the last one and that's sort of where I was when I was a kid.

Um, well, alright then. Let's look at an excerpt from Starseed: The Beginning of a Future.

quote:

The Doctor, as he returns from an emergency surgery involving the first child in a group of alien children, has been brought to rest. But he must deal with an unexpected guest with a very special past – the human woman who had given birth to the first alien child. The Doctor, like so many others before him, remembers nothing of the journey with the child.

The Doctor has a sudden dream. It's not about the unborn boy, or what it looks like, or whether it was even a boy at all. It's about something else entirely, something darker. It turns out, at long last, that this woman does indeed exist, and has lived her entire life as an alien, never once having known of the people who had raised her. It's about time.

It's about time.

It's about time.

It's about time.

The Doctor and his companion, Janie-Jo Bell, are brought to the planet Rann.

Some might stay this sounds like copyright infringement, and that you are going to get your rear end sued by the BBC. What is your response, Mr. Wiens?

Adam Wiens:
 You know, these arguments are ridiculous, and I've got nothing to argue with.

The reason your comment has generated so much buzz is that it illustrates exactly what copyright law is all about. A little over a decade ago the UK Supreme Court ruled that the BBC had a copyright in the term "the Daily Mail".

When the Supreme Court decided that, of course, nothing was copyrighted, because all that mattered was whether the government was allowed to ban things. They didn't.

Well I don't think that would hold up in court. Also, this sounds like a fiction book.

Adam Wiens:
 It really is. I read it. I think the concept is so fun that you start to believe everything you read, that we're actually there. I think it really shows how much we're capable of in this world. We're like a little thing waiting to happen.

In a scene which opens in the summer of 2011, you're sitting at the bar of a coffee shop eating a hot latte while several people in your table talk. One of the tables has a black cat sitting in a chair to his right. After they begin exchanging words, the cat walks away. A second and third person then approaches who is holding a sign which has the word "cat" written all across it. The cat, now sitting in a nearby chair, starts moving away from the speaker and away from the book. Finally, the book is taken into custody by a police officer.

Sounds great! Can't wait to get my.hands on it! Thank you for your time, Mr. Wiens.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Hello, we're speaking with author and playwright Sam Gaffin about how he's been using the art community and literary critics to engage with the most important issues of our time.

Sam Gaffin: I think the whole world needs a reminder that these are not your daddy's ideas.

Could you go into that more?

I mean, we have this huge debate in this country about the kind of world we want to have, where we're in this great transition in the middle of the century to the 21st century. And it's been the last five or six decades. We've lost 50 percent of our manufacturing jobs since the 1960s. We've had the greatest manufacturing exodus in history since World War I.

Labor and economy are major themes in your works.

It's true that there are various themes of each of my various series. At the very beginning, when I started working in animation, they were only themes in various stories. But once this sort of thing has come to a head, when a story gets its full, complete and proper story, people start to look at it and it becomes quite fashionable, or at least I think that is the way a lot of people perceive it. That sort of thing, that was really fun for me, and I think I might release an anime just for that as well.

Oh, you're working on an anime? 

「 I've never done animation before, so there's a lot of things that I haven't heard about, like how the animation works or what the character's reactions are...」

Sorry, but you slipped into Japanese there.

Yeah, so yeah, I think you were. Anyway, I guess they got us in Japan, we ended up doing a little bit of video editing and stuff. They ended up giving us a little bit more money and letting us go to Japan.

Would you mind extinguishing that blunt?

I'd rather not, you know.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Okay, I think we've all had enough Sam Gaffin. Get the gently caress out, Sam.

Don't sit here and talk poo poo to me again. Because when this happens, it's only the worst.

Shut up, Sam. I said go.

Farecoal
Oct 15, 2011

There he go
lmfao I love these

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade
I don't have to say a lot more about the way I feel about Ric Flair. No respect! No honor! There is no honor among thieves in the first place. He put hard times on Dusty Rhodes and his family. If Dusty was a thief, I think no one would have gone to Florida, but Ric Flair threw himself in the fight. You are right and he was the only one who had to suffer for it. You are right; in a world of thieves, he was the best. You are right. There is another way — a legitimate way — to view the matter: Ric Flair is a hero."

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I don't hate you, John. I don't even dislike you. I do like you, I like you a hell of a lot more than I like most people in the back. I hate this idea that you're the best - because you're not. You're the most disgusting creature a human being could ever come up with. You're not even the nicest. You're the most violent thing I've ever met. And you're not even the smartest one. And don't even get me started on the other characters in your story. Just stop it, man. There's so much more. If you're reading this, you're probably going to kill yourself. There. That's enough of that.

But you need to get to work on these issues. You need to make your body stronger, and your mind more mature. You need to grow up and stop judging and hating. You need to understand that the real purpose of killing someone is to provide them with an outlet. I mean, in your case I guess it's to prove that everyone else who can't see themselves as victims is stupid and ugly as

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You know they say all men are created equal. But you look at me and you look at Samoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another wrestler, you got a 50-50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal. I'm a genetic wreck and I'll give you a thousand reasons why; but I still won't give them away. What I'm about is pure energy and power, it's a game. I'm not doing drugs or taking any drugs and I'm not looking to make money off my brother or my friends to make enough money to live. I'm a different animal. When you've got this kind of passion, you gotta have it put into you. The more power I have, the better I'm going to be. And I'm not coming out of that looking like a loser. Not at all. Even though I look like a loser, even though I look like a loser, I ain't gonna be. No I'm not.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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This film has been creating a lot of buzz, and who better to talk about it than the director, Ms. Jennifer Saunders . Ms. Saunders was recently nominated for the Tony Award for Favorite Actress, and you can see more of her behind-the-scenes work over at her website .

In response to the critics' love of the film, Ms. Saunders has released two updates on her Facebook page , one of which is in response to the critics. She says she doesn't need it but "hopes it might help you remember I love this film so much..."


So how did you end up writing "A Night in India?"

I had been thinking about it long before I even wrote the synopsis of the movie, for reasons that are very clear. I was looking for the next great Indian love story and I liked all the reasons of this film—as well as the lack of an Indian actor. I know how frustrating it can be to watch a movie like this where there wasn't a single Indian actor in it, and how disappointing it can be to be in a movie with an Asian leading actor.

That seems like an awfully racially-charged statement, don't you think?

I'd rather not say. The issue is not how people use words, how they use gestures. But how they do it. That's why in the '70s that word, "blackface" had such a huge cultural impact because it was a cultural reaction to the racial discrimination you couldn't say blackface in public spaces, like restaurants and hotels. So, for that reason, that's not the word. But what I am saying, and I really mean this.

Some have accused you of deflecting when accused of racist casting. What do you think of that?

You know what, I think all those arguments were over-generalizations. There is no black person playing Jesus in the Bible. The Bible is a work of literature, not of fact. The only difference that I'd see is that, if the stories were based on black people, he has something I haven't seen in any of the books. They've had enough black actors for us to have the same reaction to one other. I mean, all of the characters are black except for Jesus because we just don't think that. Like we have to prove that Jesus is black and therefore he has something to offer.

That- I'm sorry, I have to say, um, that I don't think that's pertinent. In fact, it seems to be even more racial animus. Are you a racist, Ms. Saunders?

Well, that question is very important to ask if we are talking about the race or not, but I think I need to say something about that too. As I said earlier, I'm trying to make this point that maybe I'm not a racist. But at a certain level of being racist, I'm not a white person. There aren't nearly as many white people as black people. Therefore, I feel like we as white people would do pretty well by white people in terms of what we're doing as a group, which is we can not only have a more stable and prosperous and just society, but a more prosperous and just society in which some people live happily and some people struggle at every turn. Therefore I say to myself, if we really want to ensure that we have a more equal-minded society, we shouldn't have white people taking it upon themselves to be on top.

Personally, I understand where you're coming from. But I would be prepared to be dragged on Twitter.

Let's start in the middle, so to speak. Is it right for someone with a strong opinion to make fun of someone who doesn't? A Twitter troll for instance may not feel he or she is doing what they want or are trying hard to get to the point; but the troll in that case is clearly expressing opinions from an objective place.

That's fair, but your comments can be read into rather strongly. Are you prepared to defend your position in the court of public opinion?

I am not a philosopher and I do know plenty of people who do not know philosophy. But I feel I am an American, so I understand how philosophy and religion have moved as their cultural influence has grown. So I can respond effectively to arguments about whether there are fundamental differences between them that are not in itself evidence supporting God's existence or not.

I can't help but feel this interview has gone far afield. Shall we get back to the movie "A Night in India"?

There is an old Indian proverb which has to do with a certain scene in a comedy when a certain guy walks across the field, walks into the forest and talks to some birds. The birds laugh at him and he says, "It doesn't matter, I can walk into the forest anytime, I'll take care of it. And then the ducks appear, he goes and gets them." I was just looking through some old film about this, but the bird in the shot is actually a bird from a certain country where you're just invited to go on camping trips. So that joke was just to remind us that we don't live long enough to have to worry about this kind of stuff.

So I think one of the big changes in filmmaking is now we don't have to worry about stuff.

Honestly, I don't even feel like talking to you anymore. Any comments before I cut your mic?

I'm actually pretty loving embarrassed right now, I mean it feels so bad that you're going to do something like that.

Some self-evaluation on your part may be in order, Ms. Saunders.

(LAUGHTER)

SCheeseman
Apr 23, 2003

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The Simpsons has been poo poo since season 1. We were already at that point because it's a lovely show. There's still poo poo in there, but I'm not getting so much as the "I know this sounds terrible to say, but… and I'm so, so sorry."

If you've read my book, you've read that this is really, really bad. For as awesome as "Pigpen" and "Bart vs. the Computer" is, I didn't like how they were played into the opening credits of a TV show, just as I could never like how many sitcoms have failed over the years. I don't know how I should feel about this, because, honestly, my opinion of the whole series is quite simple: It's garbage. Even for just some time.

I got the feeling that it's gonna be pretty popular among other Simpsons viewers over the course of time. Maybe even if the show ends up getting canceled. Because we'll all miss "The Gang Explains X2," but we'll also miss that goddamn awful "Homer Goes Greedy."


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That episode of Garfield and Friends where Garfield murders Odie was really cute and had some funny moments. But the episode where Garfield breaks the "fancy" dress is just as good. It's the closest it gets to a story that you can find in the series where Garfield actually does murder someone. That kind of storytelling is very interesting. It shows you what Garfield actually does when he thinks he is killing someone: He has this weird sense of justice in his mind and that he's right. Garfield is always being punished by a "moral" system that has been set up to "protect" him and punish him for doing crazy things that he doesn't like. At some point, he kills someone with that moral system that's set up to protect him and punish him for doing the crazy stuff that he has always done against the "harmlessness" of people. It shows the horror of this system. I think Garfield's killing of the man who was stealing his lunch at the mall by himself is extremely sad. Just watching Garfield break the "fancy dress" is funny on its own, but then watching where Garfield breaks that "fancy"

Lord Hydronium
Sep 25, 2007

Non, je ne regrette rien


Both of these are :perfect:

Grei Skuring
Sep 12, 2011

:norway::thumbsup:
That Indian proverb would've been the most detached, deepest cut you could ever do. Jesus.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Oops, Belinha stepped in a bunch of Twitter astrologists by referring to herself as a "cusp", and I guess Belinha didn't take kindly to being called out. Her output has been pretty aggressive.

https://twitter.com/espinosilly/status/1128749617913454594?s=19

Edit: got my first thirsty Nigerian man sliding into DMs.

Brawnfire has a new favorite as of 22:05 on May 15, 2019

Lord Hydronium
Sep 25, 2007

Non, je ne regrette rien


Don't fight a cat. Use your brain. Use drugs.  Don't fight a cat.  Be positive.  Don't fight a cat.  And remember - you are a cat.

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.

Lord Hydronium posted:

Don't fight a cat. Use your brain. Use drugs.  Don't fight a cat.  Be positive.  Don't fight a cat.  And remember - you are a cat.

*frantically uses more drugs* gently caress

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

:catdrugs:

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Hi! Thanks for coming. I'm Bob, and I'm in charge of new hires. What did you say your name was again?

"Bob" Sorry, , Sorry, .

Your name is Bob, too?

BOB: Yeah.

Ha, that's a funny coincidence. So, Bob, how did you hear about our company?

I heard what had sounded like a very cool program. And so I talked to one of the guys, and we got on well.

Do you remember who it was you talked to?

I didn't remember exactly. That's why we're not talking about it anymore. This has just kind of made me mad that I didn't really remember. But when you're sitting around, and everyone else, like, was out there talking, it's kind of all over the map. And they were talking.

That's an unusual answer. Do you know what our company does?

Well, we're a private military company which is not supposed to be public and it was one of our major successes and also one of our biggest failures so, we do a lot of business with the government.
The company, if you wish to be more technical, it's called Private Military Enterprises.

No. We sell bulk plastic sheeting to plastics fabrication plants. Do you have any skills that you think might be effective here?

The key is to take any available information from the industry and apply to the new business or organization. The industry can't make or say that you need to have certain skills in place to do all of those things that need to be done before building a product or producing a product, it's a set of standards established by the industry.

Bob, this interview isn't looking good for you so far.

his is a good interview. If you want to know a bit more about me. I've written a book about me. My biography is out now in English. I've written a book about my life. I've been doing some reading in England, and I've really got to relax.

Alright, I think I've heard enough. Thanks for coming in, Bob.

dreamin of semen
Feb 22, 2013

MULTIPLICATION
My god, talktotransformer is really something... my brother attempted to get the most rambling qanon-esque crazy racist poo poo out of it he could, mashed in "redpill me on fascism" with a bunch of nazi-adjacent nouns, and it pooped out "nazi nazi hollywood" followed by spamming the n-word until it hit its limit.

Amazing.

Meanwhile I fed it ridiculous trump tweets to see if it could effectively extend them:

:chaostrump: posted:

I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th.

As a matter of fact, I would like to thank everyone for the opportunity we had to live and work by our beliefs. On this year's birthday we have one last big date — the 25th anniversary of TWA Flight 800, another American tragedy that was lost when a man's greed and insatiable desire of riches led him to kill over 50 people.

I am happy to announce that I will be at the White House next Sunday in my wheelchair with my wife
checks out

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Who would have thought that people who really, really believe in astrology wouldn't be able to tell a real person from a fake one. Quite shocking.

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frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

dreamin of semen posted:

Meanwhile I fed it ridiculous trump tweets to see if it could effectively extend them:
Holy poo poo!

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