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christmas boots posted:Same with Jimmy Hoffa and DB Cooper DB Cooper at least has some mild lingering allure because of the treasure hunt angle. Dude might be a skeleton by now, but that skeleton might sitting on top of all that ransom money!!!
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:I imagine the overlap between "online enough to be into qanon" and "old enough to care about Elvis" is pretty small. I was thinking about Elvis the other day, for some reason. He was definitely well before my time but still a major cultural icon when I was a kid. For instance I had the movie Rockadoodle on VHS which was about Elvis if he was a chicken (also some live action bits about a boy drowning or something idk). I can't imagine kids these days even know who he is.
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The Moon Monster posted:I was thinking about Elvis the other day, for some reason. He was definitely well before my time but still a major cultural icon when I was a kid. For instance I had the movie Rockadoodle on VHS which was about Elvis if he was a chicken (also some live action bits about a boy drowning or something idk). I can't imagine kids these days even know who he is. Long, long after the names of my family and friends have vanished from my brain, I will still remember the bird badly humming Ride of the Valkyries and laughing about sending the heroes down an “adequate” pipe. I haven’t seen that movie in at least 25 years.
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https://youtu.be/pswCT-TVmHw (Skip to 15:35) ...this had to be deliberate, right? I mean, was any of this stuff known already in the mid 2000s or is this the world’s most awkward coincidence? AceOfFlames has a new favorite as of 21:07 on Apr 27, 2021 |
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AceOfFlames posted:https://youtu.be/pswCT-TVmHw He was arrested and charged in 2005 and convicted in 2008 and I believe this particular puff piece came out in 2003. It's just hysterically awkward.
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AceOfFlames posted:https://youtu.be/pswCT-TVmHw There's a child in the background of the photo of him on the plane. EDIT: 
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AceOfFlames posted:https://youtu.be/pswCT-TVmHw A condensed version that blends the two offending segments: https://mobile.twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1386849380863414274
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Henchman of Santa posted:Av/post combo That's not a coincidence A year or so ago I posted about how greys still spooked me (y'know, some people are afraid of clowns, or snakes, or spiders, for me it's greys), and when I woke up the next morning, some adventurous soul had pasted the face from the cover of Communion over top of my av of Philippe from Achewood The five seconds of "WHAT THE gently caress" I experienced are still one of the better scares of my life
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RBA Starblade posted:No, they started lifting weights
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Detective No. 27 posted:They talked about X-Files on an episode of Chapo and the guest they had on said something close to those lines. X-Files came out right as The Cold War had ended and there was a brief moment in time where America had no major enemy, so we started looking inward. Then 9/11 happened and it was back to business as usual. Interesting episode, about how UFO abduction narratives changed through the decades. In a similar vein, Kumail Nanjiani has an entire podcast on rewatching the X-Files in modern times and it's amazing: https://www.stitcher.com/show/kumail-nanjianis-the-xfiles-files The most interesting thing for me was the rabbit hole of the old webgroups (on yahoo, I think) where people were talking about the show and how a bunch of early internet nerds accidentally were central to shape the show (apparently studio execs were still using "X interactions are equal to X*N people, based on physical mail feedback numbers in that period of time, so 50 or so people talking about X-Files on a message boards were perceived as representing hundred of thousands of viewers and treated accordingly. And were responsible, among other things, in making both the cigarette smoking man and the Lone Gunmen into recurring characters instead of 1 off ones). At the time of the recording, these message boards were still available (saved as Google groups) and Kumail digs deep into them; it's honestly one of the most interesting form of modern day archaeology I've witnessed. Edit: the podcast and his evident passion for the X-Files are also reasons for his cameo in the last Series of the show. That Italian Guy has a new favorite as of 23:37 on Apr 27, 2021 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:The dawn of a lot of that stuff was in the 90s. Rush Limbaugh walked so that they could run. Fox News as well. I feel like the first real right-wing media outrage cycle dates to Clinton getting
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Dr Christmas posted:A condensed version that blends the two offending segments: this is incredible  edit: wait, he was a TEACHER? 
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Mr Interweb posted:this is incredible Hired by William Barr’s father.
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Mr Interweb posted:this is incredible Antifa Turkeesian posted:Hired by William Barr’s father. To a fancy private school, despite having no college degree!
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Mr Interweb posted:this is incredible Yes, maths teacher at a super exclusive school. Turned his school contacts and maths ability into a fortune by finding ways to reduce tax burden for the super wealthy.
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That Italian Guy posted:Edit: the podcast and his evident passion for the X-Files are also reasons for his cameo in the last Series of the show. Which, it just so happens, was the only episode from that series worth a drat.
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Detective No. 27 posted:They talked about X-Files on an episode of Chapo and the guest they had on said something close to those lines. X-Files came out right as The Cold War had ended and there was a brief moment in time where America had no major enemy, so we started looking inward. Then 9/11 happened and it was back to business as usual. Interesting episode, about how UFO abduction narratives changed through the decades. I guess Saddam was still a boogeyman and showing up in other media. I.e. Animaniacs started the same time as X-files and there was the Baghdad Cafe episode.
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That Italian Guy posted:Edit: the podcast and his evident passion for the X-Files are also reasons for his cameo in the last Series of the show. He also says in one episode of his irrational fear that he'll be the reason X-FILES dies a second death. And the blame for the revival falling apart can be put squarely on Chris Carter among other factors, it can't feel good to be Kumail in the equation.
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Pocket Billiards posted:I guess Saddam was still a boogeyman and showing up in other media. I.e. Animaniacs started the same time as X-files and there was the Baghdad Cafe episode. Saddam was an omnipresent boogeyman up until his death. For those who weren't in touch with the situation 25-ish years ago, Clinton was still in the business of bombing Baghdad even up through Christmas 1998, months after Animaniacs went off the air. Saddam was a late night punchline, regular fixture in Mad/Cracked Magazine, and the worlds easiest punching bag throughout the 90s.
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They shoulda called him So-drat Insane!!!
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Blowback Season 1 covers this really well.
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Pocket Billiards posted:I guess Saddam was still a boogeyman and showing up in other media. I.e. Animaniacs started the same time as X-files and there was the Baghdad Cafe episode. Toshimo posted:Saddam was an omnipresent boogeyman up until his death. For those who weren't in touch with the situation 25-ish years ago, Clinton was still in the business of bombing Baghdad even up through Christmas 1998, months after Animaniacs went off the air. Saddam was a late night punchline, regular fixture in Mad/Cracked Magazine, and the worlds easiest punching bag throughout the 90s. Basically anyone who America bombed without seemingly any repercussions became the de facto "enemy" for a few weeks, and it'd show up in whatever TV shows were airing live or written during that time. Serbia for a couple of months, Libya and Gaddafi at various points. The times it didn't work out cleanly on TV, not so much (See Somalia).
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fartknocker posted:Basically anyone who America bombed without seemingly any repercussions became the de facto "enemy" for a few weeks, and it'd show up in whatever TV shows were airing live or written during that time. Serbia for a couple of months, Libya and Gaddafi at various points. The times it didn't work out cleanly on TV, not so much (See Somalia). There were unironically multiple different product lines of Desert Shield/Storm Trading Cards. And, they weren't just for weird conservative bastions. Like, they were in every sports card store and big box retail chain. I think even in the grocery stores.  poo poo was a whole 'nother level.
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Toshimo posted:There were unironically multiple different product lines of Desert Shield/Storm Trading Cards. And, they weren't just for weird conservative bastions. Like, they were in every sports card store and big box retail chain. I think even in the grocery stores. There was a box of those in a local thrift store last time I was there. Almost picked them up, but they're not funny enough to be worth having.
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Someone bought a box of a similar set and posted a thread about them a couple of years back.
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I'm reminded of the approximately 800,000 lovely DOS games that are all some variation of "shoot/bomb/stab The Bad Guys in the desert".
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At least we will always have 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.
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AceOfFlames posted:At least we will always have 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. ooh thanks for reminding me that i gotta re-watch spartacus
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John Murdoch posted:I'm reminded of the approximately 800,000 lovely DOS games that are all some variation of "shoot/bomb/stab The Bad Guys in the desert". Around 2002 on TechTV(before it got merged into G4TV) one of those shows with Leo Laporte had some guy come in for a segment on modding games. All he did was show off a mod he made for loving Duke Nukem 3D called Quest for Al-Qaeda which had the player go through all kinds of brown environments and shoot guys in turbans. A couple years later they had him on again to show off his new mod, which was literally the same thing but called Quest for Hussein.
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The creator of Entourage is upset about the show's legacy and that he wasn't given another. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/entourage-doug-ellin-culture-wars-controversy-metoo-hbo-reboot-170050416.html To be fair, I've never seen it. HBO stuff just shows up in my google news feed.
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deoju posted:The creator of Entourage is upset about the show's legacy and that he wasn't given another. I've never seen it but it has a reputation as kind of a "bro" type show. IIRC a lot of it is based on real experiences working in the movie industry which is probably the same way
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deoju posted:The creator of Entourage is upset about the show's legacy and that he wasn't given another. I used to just think it was "Sex and the City: For Boys" before this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeMpRMXMTGY
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I used to watch Entourage because we had HBO I’m my college’s cable package. They had the rapper Saigon on it once. Seeing him live and the Great Recession put a nail in any kind of will to watch that show for me.
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It's literally a show about Mark Wahlberg's twenties. No poo poo it's not gonna age well.
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mind the walrus posted:I used to just think it was "Sex and the City: For Boys" before this: To be fair, that documentary on the Islanders was pretty good.
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Detective No. 27 posted:It's literally a show about Mark Wahlberg's twenties. No poo poo it's not gonna age well. So there's an episode about them beating a Vietnamese man nearly to death? That DEFINITELY wouldn't age well.  (Yes, I know Wahlberg was 17 at the time)
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deoju posted:The creator of Entourage is upset about the show's legacy and that he wasn't given another. My brother described Entourage as "Sex and the City, but for blokes." For me it was a celebration of bro-ey toxic masculinity, with the wish fullfillment character of the main guy, who got to be handsome and a rich movie star etc. and all his mates who got to get blowjobs from starlets just by being his mate/hanger on. And with Jeremy Piven as the comedy releif character who gets to do/say racist and misogynist things and is adored by the audience that never realizes what a monster/loser he actually is. (Much like Barney from How I met your mother.) It's an OK show to have on in the background whilst you are cleaning the house, but if you sit and watch it, you will feel yourself getting progressively dumber.
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Mr Interweb posted:this is incredible Check out the Epstein thread. We have such sights to show you...
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Phy posted:It's nowhere near the peak it was at in the 90s but you still get the occasional bit of abduction narrative in pop culture, and by now the greys are inextricably linked to that Greys get mentioned in Resident Alien as a species that exists. The main character, himself an alien, makes repeated reference to them and the whole abduction thing as them being creepy little fuckers with some unpleasant fetishes IIRC.
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