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Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan
You guys might want to post some pictures.

ekuNNN posted:

from the gif thread:


Holy poo poo, this guy is awesome! Is there a story?

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Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

Having the same brand of boots as cops makes you a cop??? Conspiracy theorists have never heard of surplus stores.



The boots were kind of the icing on the cake, I didn't see as much as someone like BattleMaster did, but there were definitely agent provocateurs there.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
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Keshik posted:

It's a French term, so to pluralize it you write 'agents provocateurs'

You're correct, I'm just the least Francophonic Canadian ever (not for lack of trying :().


Untitled (Empleado de Telefonos de Mexico electrocutado en el km. 13 de la carretera Mexico-Toluca), 1971


Volcano of Popocatepetl, Mexico, 1964

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Lamuella posted:

Time for some political finger puppets:
<snip>

These are great! I was scrolling down trying to guess them, got most except for Orwell, Guevara (what the hell?) and Mandela who I immediately assumed was Bill Cosby :downs:

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Svartvit posted:

A slightly NSFW masterpiece about the tendency of history to repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brjhpIumBdE

gotta love that static frame ^^^^^



Ironically amusing and politically provocative.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

The Sean posted:

(also don't mention that it was a batman movie THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE!)



How is it the issue?

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Hahaha they looked like Super-Deformed anime characters.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

My god, they got the hair right :catstare:





"MotherJones posted:

The Spam Factory's Dirty Secret

First, Hormel gutted the union. Then it sped up the line. And when the pig-brain machine made workers sick, they got canned.

...

In the meantime, Mayo doctors had prescribed Matthew Garcia a steroid to calm his nerve inflammation, and he'd improved enough to get around without a walker. He had lost pelvic floor function, robbing him of bowel control, and had to catheterize himself, but he managed to return to the brain machine in May. Within three weeks, though, Garcia couldn't stand again. Relatives rushed him back to the emergency room.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Chamale posted:



AIDS victim with his family in his last moments. Ronald Reagan's administration said that AIDS is "nature's revenge on gay men".

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

As a designer this is THE WORST loving INFOGRAPHIC EVER.

I hate that infographics have become this trendy thing. What part of this (except maybe the side-by-side comparisons) would not be better as an article? Look at the tower records part. Instead of saying "Tower records had over 200 stores in 2002 and by 2012 was completely bankrupt" you make the reader read, count and multiply and then give them no other information, loving sweet!

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Hey Lard is awesome :colbert:

Who Killed Lard?

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

This makes me want to watch They Live!

Moist von Lipwig fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Sep 14, 2012

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46PXaJxzuDE



Winnipeg General Strike.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

TD has offices on Wall Street? What the hell I thought they were strictly Canadian :mad:

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

ekuNNN posted:

Maybe most people agreeing with me just don't have pictures to post or something...

I was being a lazy poo poo but I'll man up and post. I agree with you, as annoying as that guy is, that kind of conduct is completely uncalled for.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

ekuNNN posted:

Found this thing on tumblr:


There's a term for this! CORIUM :science:



I've never heard that part about the mirror though, sounds suspicious.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan


I just realized, Governor Romney was probably more leftist than President Obama is.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan
Say what you will about Armyman's posting, he sure keeps this thread moving :allears:





Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

spacetimecontinuu posted:

a hauntingly unemployed american

Well they did start because they lost their grant money, didn't they?



Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan
Newest Radiolab has a segment about how Reagan is a dirty loving liar who used terrified peasants as an excuse to resume the manufacture of chemical weapons after two decades.


Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

FEMA summer camp posted:

The full episode also features DnD's favorite cartoonist Tim Kreider.

Oh yeah! I knew his name when I heard it and I could not place it. Also, better post a pic dude.



A Kreider, why not?

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

winterwerefox posted:

Loving all the political and historical pictures in this thread :3:



Who is this?

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Excuse me I think you'll find that the free market has eliminated class :smuggo:

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan
Can you really blame Ikea for that? I'm pretty anticorporate but what are they supposed to do? I guess not do business in Saudi Arabia. Basically, gently caress oppressive regimes.



Haha I just realized that even though Chavez isn't MaleGazin' the guy in the back totally is.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

JoelJoel posted:



Bob Rae and Justin Trudeau not standing awkwardly close at all. The formeris being interim leader of the Canadian Liberal party, the latter being the much prophesied saviour of said party.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Earth posted:

I dislike some modern/abstract art and thinks it's terrible. It's okay for me to not like something, I'm no fascist who says others can't enjoy it.

Dismissing entire bodies of work based on genre is silly.



DRIVE RED WEDGES INTO WHITE TROOPS!

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

midnightclimax posted:



It's what he wanted.

Capitalism Ruins Everything.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

prefect posted:

Let's check in on our greatest geopolitical foe. What's happening in the USSR?



I'm not sure why but I have a super morbid interest in nuclear contamination and fallout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiXnqt69euo

PBS Nova special about Chernobyl with some really neat shots of the glowing reactor core exposed to the air.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Suleman posted:

AFAIK: Interestingly enough, the mosaic tradition in the Middle East was inherited from the Byzantine Empire. Muslims, however, brought it to perfection. Much like they carried on and further developed the sciences from Rome and Greece. Basically what I'm saying is that the Muslim world was cool as poo poo back in the day.


Here's a byzantine mosaic.

The Rome thread would be so mad at you for using the term Byzantine Empire.

prefect posted:

I could swear my Near Eastern History professor in college said that they got so geometry-crazy because Islam didn't like them drawing pictures of people. Been a while since I was in college, though. :)



This is also a common conjecture, given that Islam is very against iconography.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
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Rent-A-Cop posted:

Where can I buy an Essence of Reagan Crystal Necklace?



You have to raid his tomb and slay the lich.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

SimianNinja posted:

Who says the American Dream is dead? :911:


Something about this picture is filling me with a profound sadness :(

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
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marktheando posted:

He sounds terrible but "doesn't know about far-away city" is a weird thing to call a mayor out for.



No it's pretty weird. That'd be like not knowing where San Francisco or Detroit is.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
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Knockknees posted:

Windsor isn't even a big enough deal to be on that map.



It's because Detroit has 6 million to Windsors 750,000 so it gets overrun. Not sure why google labelled them so close together.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

a false posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOi2wIUCTnA

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen

ARE MAIR :byodood:

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

front wing flexing posted:

Why is the chairman (not sure if that's his official title) yelling at some old lady instead of the fat dude from captain planet?



Because he literally does this is all the time and the council usually just ignores him until he runs out of steam and goes back to sleep, which is what the chairman wants, but the other councillor starts yelling too and oh god Toronto politics...

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

NewtGoongrich posted:

If you had a beach house you'd probably care if it was going to be destroyed. You might even tweet about it. I don't see anything wrong with that.



And I see no problem with laughing at these privileged assholes.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Ain't nothin' gonna keep Christie from them sweet, sweet chocolate bars.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

JoelJoel posted:

Canada's CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) has a pretty cool building. The pictures don't do it much justice, it's much bluer in real life and looks tucked away in the middle of a forest. Cool stuff:







Apparently the majority of it is underground. I actually went there a few years back to see how close we could get (yes, I'm dumb). Me and two friends got past two unmanned checkpoints and played some haceysack on the lawn. Sure enough, within about 2 mins of being there a black van pulled up and told us to gently caress off. Plus we could see the 3rd checkpoint with the armed guards. I was personally amazed at how close we got. I have pictures of us around it, but I'm going to keep those to myself.

Don't mess with CSIS man, they're almost as scary as Mossad.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

I always hear about TobleroneTriangular but what did he actually do?

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Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
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I didn't know Mohawk rap was a thing, cool.

Here's the really messed up story of the soldier in that famous photo.

quote:

Patrick Cloutier was granted an "accelerated promotion" to the rank of master corporal. In May 1992, after admitting to occasional cocaine use, Cloutier was demoted to the rank of private and received a sentence of 45 days in a military prison. Subsequently on December 9, 1993, Cloutier was discharged from the Canadian Forces, after being found guilty of leaving the scene of an accident and causing bodily harm while driving under the influence of alcohol. Cloutier was convicted of ramming a double-parked car, injuring its two occupants and a 16-year-old passenger in Cloutier's own vehicle.

In 1995, Cloutier appeared in a pornographic film entitled Quebec Sexy Girls II, which spoofed his confrontation. As of 2000 it was believed that Cloutier had left Canada. However in a recent interview, the family of Patrick Cloutier mentioned that he left for Florida to work for a house contractor, but came back to Canada a few years later. He now lives in a cabin in his native village of Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis in Gaspésie, working in the merchant marine, leaving regularly for trips of several months aboard boats.

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