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Sunswipe posted:"This play has survived hundreds of years and is regarded as a classic of English literature, but we should totally update it to the modern day and give everyone submachineguns*" ~ an idiot. Romeo + Juliet is great. 
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Baz Luhrmann is fuckin terrible
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Jul 19, 2019 13:24
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hawowanlawow posted:Baz Luhrmann is fuckin terrible Oh, definitely. But one time he somehow managed to make an actually good movie instead of the unwatchable garbage he usually churns out.
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Jul 19, 2019 13:27
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Sunswipe posted:"This play has survived hundreds of years and is regarded as a classic of English literature, but we should totally update it to the modern day and give everyone submachineguns*" ~ an idiot. Yeah if the play is really universal, it should work regardless of what the actors wear. You shouldn't have to try to go all "get it??? Caesar is just like trump" like in the west end production that's going on now, aside from the point that that's a really stupid message. It's banal.
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Tiggum posted:Romeo + Juliet is great. I've only seen the first 45 minutes of this - that was our english teacher's "a substitute is coming in" or "i'm hung over" go-to movie to put on - until someone's parents called and said it was too risque. Then it switched to Mrs Doubtfire. I'd rather see half of romeo + juliet because the first 45 minutes of mrs doubtfire (also the rest of it, but mostly the beginning) is considerably more dull.
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Jul 19, 2019 13:41
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Richard II is a lazily plotted piece of poo poo that just exists to crap on about the divine right of kings.
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Jul 19, 2019 13:43
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Give weird Shakespeare adaptations a break. They've been doing the drat plays for 1000 years now, nobody wants to admit that, while they're good, they aren't that good, so of course people are gonna try new stuff
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Jul 19, 2019 13:44
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The worst part about shakespeare is when people smugly call him "the bard". It's off-putting.
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Jul 19, 2019 13:46
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yeah I eat rear end posted:The worst part about shakespeare is when people smugly call him "the bard". It's off-putting. These people have a 75% chance to love Doctor Who and be a regular community theatre extra
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Jul 19, 2019 13:47
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Philomena Cunk had a pretty good take on modern Shakespeare adaptations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YeCpHoy9EQ
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Jul 19, 2019 13:52
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The Amazon Marketplace sucks and should be done away with
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Jul 19, 2019 17:36
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Gripweed posted:Amazon... sucks and should be done away with
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Jul 19, 2019 17:40
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I mean we could just hold a proverbial gun to Amazon's head and tell them not to be such fuckers We could do that
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Jul 19, 2019 17:42
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Nationalize all things and people and annex all territory.
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Jul 19, 2019 18:40
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Aramek posted:Nationalize all things and people and annex all territory. But then how will I be able to blame everything on capitalism?
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Jul 19, 2019 18:44
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Social media is bad People may laugh at me saying this, but SA is probably the closest thing to good social media. Don’t get me wrong, it can be a mess and lean towards being in too much of a bubble and is frequently full of stupid arguments. At least it’s moderated and full of skeptics that will call people out on their bullshit. Everyone else hosed up by conflating free speech with with letting any idiot say whatever they want without consequence on their platform, and now the world is basically hosed because of this and it’s too late to fix anything.
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Jul 19, 2019 18:58
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Of course SA is bad, but it's the best there is. Which means, since everything is relative, it's pretty okay.
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Solice Kirsk posted:But then how will I be able to blame everything on capitalism? There won't be anything left to complain about because every problem will be solved, hth
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Jul 19, 2019 19:59
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veni veni veni posted:People may laugh at me saying this, but SA is probably the closest thing to good social media. Don’t get me wrong, it can be a mess and lean towards being in too much of a bubble and is frequently full of stupid arguments. At least it’s moderated and full of skeptics that will call people out on their bullshit. At least there is truth in advertising here. The internet makes you stupid. Checks out
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MizPiz posted:There won't be anything left to complain about because every problem will be solved, hth  That's right. Ugh, I'm an idiot.
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Jul 19, 2019 23:24
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Gripweed posted:Philomena Cunk had a pretty good take on modern Shakespeare adaptations Was this supposed to link to a specific bit or did you want us to watch the full half hour?
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I don't think there's anything wrong with weird Shakespeare adaptations as a concept. Obviously some of them are going to miss (the trump as caesar one) or others will be questionable (the production of romeo and juliet I saw at the globe fairly recently which was sorta modernised with romeo as an emo kid and the ball being a fancy dress party with a dance number) but at least the latter was well produced and performed and was entertaining so who cares?
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Jul 20, 2019 15:08
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If Romeo was emo isn’t that less modern and more a 2008 period piece? E: whoever invented daylight savings time is a monster. I am so sick of having 3 hours of darkness when I get up and getting in bed when it’s still bright out. E2: summer-likers are my enemies. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 15:33 on Jul 20, 2019 |
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Jul 20, 2019 15:13
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MizPiz posted:There won't be anything left to complain about because every problem will be solved, hth
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Tiggum posted:Was this supposed to link to a specific bit or did you want us to watch the full half hour? Watch the full thing, Philomena Cunk is fantastic.
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Jul 20, 2019 17:28
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Tiggum posted:Was this supposed to link to a specific bit or did you want us to watch the full half hour? You're supposed to watch it all
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Jul 20, 2019 17:58
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Stop complaining about the AC at work. We are allowed to wear sweaters, we are not allowed to go shirtless.
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Jul 20, 2019 18:35
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Stop complaining about the AC at work. We are allowed to wear sweaters, we are not allowed to go shirtless. Keeping the temperature up during the summer is better for the environment and your health. If you're keeping it so cold that people have to put on a sweater, you're doing it wrong.
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Jul 20, 2019 18:40
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Also chicks get colder way easier so you got to meet them halfway.
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Jul 20, 2019 19:20
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The best Shakespeare adaption is 10 things i hate about you
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JollyBoyJohn posted:The best Shakespeare adaption is 10 things i hate about you Westside Story. Street gangs that dance and sing are the best street gangs. Wish the damned Latin Kings would put on their annual "Rhythm in the Park" show, but ever since the Vice Lords ran them off Kedzie it just hasn't been the same....
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Jul 20, 2019 19:45
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Aramek posted:Also chicks get colder way easier so you got to meet them halfway. The best solution, far as I can tell, is to hook up a fake thermostat that doesn't actually do anything.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The best solution, far as I can tell, is to hook up a fake thermostat that doesn't actually do anything. Which is what everyone does already 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Stop complaining about the AC at work. We are allowed to wear sweaters, we are not allowed to go shirtless. Even more: turn down the heater in winter. 22 degrees celsius is not a comfortable indoor temperature, are you mad? Put it on 20 at most and let the weaklings bundle the gently caress up.
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Public transportation should never be heated except maybe give the driver a space heater or something. The worst part about using it was going from being comfortable in the winter because I was wearing appropriate clothing to stepping on to the tram and feeling like I need to strip everything off to prevent heat stroke, but there's rarely room to do so comfortably, and even if you do, you just have to put it all back on again before your stop.
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Just ban heaters. AC is sometimes necessary, but don't ever heat anything that's not within the arctic circle.
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Shibawanko posted:Just ban heaters. AC is sometimes necessary, but don't ever heat anything that's not within the arctic circle.
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I think there's a reasonable balance that can be struck, where emissions are kept to a minimum, people acclimatize to the outside temperature which is beneficial for your health and comfort, but we still use AC and heating to make people more comfortable and stop people from dying of too hot or too cold. I would suggest that the minimum the AC can be set too should be 80 degrees Fahrenheit, and the maximum the heater can be set to is 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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What are you, my grandparents with that 80 degrees? There is nothing worse than going to their place in the florida summer where they keep it at 80. 77-78, ok, fine if you're short on money that month, but 80 is when it approaches unbearable. I keep my place at 68. Yeah I pay a lot for my utilities bill but after living somewhere with no AC for the past few years, I need it otherwise I have flashbacks of needing to put rotating bags of frozen peas on my head just to feel a modicum of comfort when it starts getting over 90-100 degrees out.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I keep my place at 68. yeah you shouldn't do that
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