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There's something inherently silly about most horrifying authoritarian dictatorships when you're looking at things other than the horrible oppression and mass deaths. Maybe it's just the stark contrast that really highlights it all, or the fact that absolutely nobody will countermand their glorious leader when he decides to goof off. I wonder how the North Koreans will feel about all the accompanying instruments with the accordion.
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M_Gargantua posted:Same, except I have faith in Who the hell else could it be other than Al? Can anyone even name another remotely famous person who plays the accordion?
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Aug 14, 2017 17:57
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SlothfulCobra posted:There's something inherently silly about most horrifying authoritarian dictatorships when you're looking at things other than the horrible oppression and mass deaths. Maybe it's just the stark contrast that really highlights it all, or the fact that absolutely nobody will countermand their glorious leader when he decides to goof off. Mr. Trigger-Warning made that thankfully-quick quip about The Interview, but I think Kim just didn't want it getting out that he actually does love driving tanks around empty fields while he blasts inspirational Katy Perry tunes.
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Aug 14, 2017 19:03
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Dumb Lowtax posted:^^^Same They're just nervousness "detectors", basically.
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Aug 14, 2017 19:12
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Not even that, "nervousness" tells the investigators and the courts nothing. They're to trick people into stupidly confessing all of the sudden because they think the machine knows anyway. Right?
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Aug 14, 2017 19:27
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Yep they intimidate you into thinking the machine will expose you anyway so to forego humiliation you confess. It's a total bullshit machine.
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Now that I think of it, that fits right in with the other classic interrogation techniques of acting like your connection to the crime has already been found / your accomplice has already been flipped just to fool you into confessing to what you think they already know about. It's just another tedious variation of that plus a metal box. In that light it's not nearly as controversial as it seemed at first when it was presented as "courts and police are using totally fraudulent expensive e-meters as real evidence to convict people."
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Aug 14, 2017 22:36
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Polygraphs haven't been admissible in court for years. But they are still legal to use for job interviews and stuff like that which is still hosed up because false positives can cost people's careers.
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Aug 14, 2017 23:22
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You would have to be an idiot to be on the receiving end of a polygraph in a criminal investigation as you are volunteering to forgo your lawyer. Even if you are completely innocent and have nothing to hide the police are looking to collar someone especially in high profile cases and one slip of the tongue can get you in a world of hurt. Getting taken for a ride through prison based on police shittiness is universal and the US excels at it with methods that intended to get people in prisons.
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Aug 15, 2017 03:38
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Aug 15, 2017 05:06
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swickles posted:As soon as Jon was hinting at another person, I kept saying "Weird Al" over and over and did a full on fist pump when he was announced.
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Aug 15, 2017 05:58
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Sivart13 posted:The show has a weird tick of always off-handedly mentioning their celebrity guest in a joke midway through the episode. Though they're usually buried in a lot of other off-handed mentions. 
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Aug 15, 2017 09:03
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Josh Lyman posted:It's called foreshadowing "Oliver's Accordion"
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Propaganda Machine posted:Mr. Trigger-Warning made that thankfully-quick quip about The Interview, but I think Kim just didn't want it getting out that he actually does love driving tanks around empty fields while he blasts inspirational Katy Perry tunes. In Kim's defense, that sounds like a pretty rad way to spend an afternoon.
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Aug 15, 2017 17:57
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Madurai posted:In Kim's defense, that sounds like a pretty rad way to spend an afternoon. http://www.driveatank.com/
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Aug 15, 2017 18:01
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I wonder how much creative control Weird Al had over the song, because the lyrics really fit John Oliver's LWT style.
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Aug 15, 2017 19:25
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SlothfulCobra posted:I wonder how much creative control Weird Al had over the song, because the lyrics really fit John Oliver's LWT style. Al's twitter said "I wrote" https://twitter.com/alyankovic/status/897247752563773444
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Aug 15, 2017 19:28
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The Tom Hanks gag is ENTIRELY something Weird Al would do
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Aug 15, 2017 19:34
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Burkion posted:The Tom Hanks gag is ENTIRELY something Weird Al would do It's also something John Oliver would do. Really its just a universal truth that everyone loves Tom Hanks
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Aug 15, 2017 20:16
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Afro posted:It's also something John Oliver would do. Really its just a universal truth that everyone loves Tom Hanks
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Aug 15, 2017 20:39
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coyo7e posted:Except for the people who watched Cloud Atlas
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Yeah I like it too but gooncensus is that it's trash
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coyo7e posted:Yeah I like it too but gooncensus is that it's trash Is there a gooncensus? I don't think that's a real thing
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Raxivace posted:Cloud Atlas owns. 
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Aug 15, 2017 22:26
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NPR today tells me that North Korea is suddenly stepping back with a declaration that it wont be nuking anybody. Thanks Al!
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Solvent posted:NPR today tells me that North Korea is suddenly stepping back with a declaration that it wont be nuking anybody. They don't want to interrupt the second civil war, drat decent of them really
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coyo7e posted:Yeah I like it too but gooncensus is that it's trash I don't know about gooncensus but I loved the book and neither liked nor disliked the movie. If I hadn't read it first I would have had no idea what was going on.
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Solvent posted:NPR today tells me that North Korea is suddenly stepping back with a declaration that it wont be nuking anybody. And with that brush fire out, President Trump felt that it was time for a nuclear meltdown at Trump Tower. Watching one of his cronies visibly cringing was oddly satisfying.
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Afro posted:It's also something John Oliver would do. Really its just a universal truth that everyone loves Tom Hanks I don't know if it is true but a couple of years ago I read something about how Colin Hanks doesn't have the best relationship with his dad because when he was growing up Tom was constantly running around making movies instead of spending any time with him.
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Burkion posted:Is there a gooncensus? coyo7e fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Aug 16, 2017 |
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Aug 16, 2017 04:46
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Azhais posted:They don't want to interrupt the second civil war, drat decent of them really That's good, it's a really nice movie. Funfact, it's financed by HBO, and directed by Joe Dante: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGKBfew6hSU
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PassTheRemote posted:That's good, it's a really nice movie. Funfact, it's financed by HBO, and directed by Joe Dante: I remember watching a straight-to-cable movie, maybe twenty years ago, involving Kelsey Grammar, I believe. The plot was that one of the states was going to secede. Mobilized their NG, the whole nine yards. Finally, cooler heads prevailed, and the governer called up his chief of staff or some such to tell him to schedule a press conference, and the governor was going to give his succession speech. The feds wiretapping him, though, misheard 'secession' for 'succession' and kicked off an invasion.
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TheCenturion posted:I remember watching a straight-to-cable movie, maybe twenty years ago, involving Kelsey Grammar, I believe. The plot was that one of the states was going to secede. Mobilized their NG, the whole nine yards. Finally, cooler heads prevailed, and the governer called up his chief of staff or some such to tell him to schedule a press conference, and the governor was going to give his succession speech. The feds wiretapping him, though, misheard 'secession' for 'succession' and kicked off an invasion. Pretty sure that's the same one, though with Beau Bridges.
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TheCenturion posted:I remember watching a straight-to-cable movie, maybe twenty years ago, involving Kelsey Grammar, I believe. The plot was that one of the states was going to secede. Mobilized their NG, the whole nine yards. Finally, cooler heads prevailed, and the governer called up his chief of staff or some such to tell him to schedule a press conference, and the governor was going to give his succession speech. The feds wiretapping him, though, misheard 'secession' for 'succession' and kicked off an invasion. You're basically describing the plot of the Second Civil War but without Grammar. You're probably conflating it with The Pentagon Wars, which was another HBO political satire from the time that starred Grammar and was about the corruption and waste of military spending.
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It was also based on a book of the same name about the Bradley.
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It also had a genie named Kaazam played by Sinbad.
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PassTheRemote posted:That's good, it's a really nice movie. Funfact, it's financed by HBO, and directed by Joe Dante: So was the direction just a contest about who can overact the most?
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Phone posting, but there a clip on YouTube from The Pentagon Wars summing up how a fast, lightly armored personnel carrier became a slower general purpose "try to do it all" vehicle with the same amount of armor. Going from room for 14 passengers to room for 6 doesn't really work well. It essentially forces the army to keep using pre-Vietnam-era APCs to this day. The ones the Bradley was supposed to replace.
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Asiina posted:So was the direction just a contest about who can overact the most? In a satire/comedy? Probably.
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John Oliver posted:We rushed to develop nuclear weapons to defeat the Nazis, which, fun fact, almost all Americans agreed were bad at the time John Oliver has really been hitting home runs with the humor this season compared to the previous ones. I actually laugh quite frequently now.
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