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The Saddest Rhino posted:Of the two obviously cynical cash grab intellectual properties , Cars is the superior series in comparison to Shrek. The worst Pixar movie is way better than the best Dreamworks. I'm glad that, at the moment anyway, Mike Myers' career is dead.
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Hanna-Barbera cartoons are terrible in almost every way. Yes, even Tom and Jerry.
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Prairie Home Companion is boring. Must be a Midwest thing. Or northern Midwest thing, since it's out of St. Paul, MN. I grew up in Las Vegas. My Iowa native parents love it. My Iowa native family loves it. I've tried to like it, even after living in the Midwest for twenties years now. I get it. It's just rather boring to me.
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gleebster posted:Personally, I don't know what Trump really thinks about the civil rights of queer folks, or if he has a considered opinion at all. In his 60 Minutes interview Trump was asked about gay marriage and he said that the Supreme Court has already decided about it, so it stays. But who knows. He constantly flip-flops.
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Field Mousepad posted:Tiggum you are the most clueless motherfucker on the planet. Go outside dude. Seriously.
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Dec 16, 2016 14:41
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Tarantula posted:News shouldn't give up time for sports, I tuned in to learn what's going on in the world not some uninteresting crap about some twat making their first century. Public funds shouldn't be spent on sports unless it's things like public grounds everybody can use. Sports fans are really sensitive to criticism for some weird reason, and lastly Russian dashcams are boring, I get why people watch them but there is something about Russian ones I just find unappealing. The only Russian dashcam I find interesting are the ones when that meteorite entered the atmosphere. There were far too many drivers totally uninterested.
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Dec 17, 2016 16:15
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Pick posted:Any time he's speaking off the cuff it's clear he's not that sharp, and to have him rip on Laurie's intelligence is ridiculous. On the other hand, Sandi Toksvig is legitimately very intelligent, so I'm glad I can watch QI now. I take it you mean Hugh Laurie? Is there anything Fry has said specifically? I'm just curious. But yeah, Fry can be pretty insufferable. It's not a question of him acting smart. He probably believes he's a genius, and everybody agreeing doesn't help. He also has a terrible habit of shooting off at the mouth and expressing surprise when people get irritated and call him out on it. After being surprised, he then has a Twitter tantrum. Not so much anymore...he swore off Twitter earlier this year. He's come back, as they always do, but is a lot more subdued. That said, I don't think he's a bad guy and, despite his bad habits, don't mind him. I like his documentaries. Especially the one where he visited every state in the US.
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Pick posted:He does in the QI pilot, even if it's ribbing it's ridiculous coming from someone who genuinely doesn't seem as bright. I will have to watch it again. I do remember Laurie barely getting a word in, as he wasn't the strongest personality. I love QI, but it's difficult to watch episodes, especially the current series, as the BBC is cracking down on American YouTube viewers.
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Dec 24, 2016 02:04
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Cracked is not that bad of a site. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion as a whole since it gets traffic but goons seem to hate it.
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Dec 29, 2016 21:09
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Henchman of Santa posted:The Kardashians are actually fine, and most people who hate them don't have a good reason. In fact, this almost makes them cool (and Kim at least seems to have become more than a bland reality star, using her platform to address important issues like the Armenian Genocide and Taylor Swift being a phony). There are a few images floating around that show the Kardashians and lamenting on why none of them have died this year. Anyway, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is just OK. Same with The Princess Bride.
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Dec 30, 2016 16:54
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Low Desert Punk posted:stability and emotional support Pervert.
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Dec 31, 2016 01:57
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Low Desert Punk posted:Finding a hair in your food at a restaurant isn't a big deal. It isn't like a severed finger or a band-aid. In theory, yes. But drat if stray hair doesn't gross me out.
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Jan 1, 2017 04:51
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Bimmi posted:Pixar movies, with a handful of exceptions, are only "good" compared to other animated movies, which are generally dire. Pixar is actually in decline, compared to Disney's standard animated movies (like Frozen). The new trailer for Cars 3 has just been released.
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Jan 7, 2017 15:11
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Solice Kirsk posted:Has anyone seen that Outdoors show? It may be the worst thing I've ever seen. And Stephen Fry is horrible in it. It's on CBS so I figure it's horrible. I'm a fan of Stephen Fry, despite how he can be insufferable at times, and was disappointed when I heard he was in it. I will be really disappointed if it turns out he left QI for it. Grandmother of Five posted:when i visit my mom, we often watch a late-night episode of Criminal Minds, and every single time Dr. Spencer Reid is first shown in a scene, my mom will say; "he reminds me of you. you should find a guy like that", and if there is a double-episode, she will say the exact same thing 45 minutes later. My mom is the same way. One of my friends is such a huge fan of Criminal Minds that she gave her son "Reid" as a middle name.
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Jan 7, 2017 16:24
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Tiggum posted:Fry leaving was great for QI, it's a better show for it. Yes, Stephen Fry was a terrible host. That's why QI was cancelled after only one season.
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Sucrose posted:Every wanna-be-intellectual teenager in an "edgy" phase likes to advocate for Fixed that for you.
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Jan 10, 2017 22:51
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Aesop Poprock posted:"Why would somebody watch Friends. People pretending to be friends with eachother?? I don't understand the appeal" I know you're making another point but I would just like to say that Seinfeld is better. At least the people on Seinfeld knew they were assholes.
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Jan 16, 2017 14:50
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People who take their guitar everywhere and play them with barely any prompting at any gathering. Also people who use way too many pedals.
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hard counter posted:statists are pretty near to totalitarians in intensity and the dictionary definition doesn't convey that very well - statists with an authoritarian lean go for fascism while socialists statists desire USSR levels of economic & social subordination to the one party such that stalinism is a valid end Ayn Rand, the woman who would go on to use that same welfare system when she was dying of lung cancer.
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Jan 26, 2017 01:58
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doverhog posted:He can't be impeached without his own party turning against him. The idea of what he would have to do the get the GOP to impeach him is loving terrifying. I figure it will have to do with something about national security. He'll blab some state secret or something. There are quite a few GOP members that don't like him, unlike nearly every single one that was a fan of Dubya. Trump is too unpredictable and once Republicans are done with him they will throw him out under some pretext and bring Pence in, someone who is more in line with them. What will be interesting is how they remove him because he will not resign like Nixon. How do you fire a President? Arrest him? Call National Guard on him? Trick him into going to the ice cream store and when he gets back lock the doors of the White House so he can't get back in? I think that was a serious concern when they were wanting to kick Nixon out, except Nixon resigned. Fashionable Jorts posted:Of my ten years since high school, I've been unemployed for over three of them, and it's always the best. Find meaning in things other than busywork. Keep your mind occupied through self-discovery and learning (and I don't just mean go to school). I'm on disability and am perfectly happy just doing my own thing. I volunteer, run errands, work on various projects (like trying to get into the Daughters of the American Revolution), read, go to the noon AA meetings, etc. But then, I always hated to work but did it anyway.
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Jan 29, 2017 14:20
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Blue Star posted:LOL at people saying that having a job is important for personal growth or motivation or whatever bullshit. No it loving isn't, you bourgeoisie fuckheads. Most people dont have fulfulling careers. Most people work lovely jobs to pay the bills, and often those jobs dont pay well enough to even do that. Working fast food and making 7.25 an hour isnt rewarding or fulfilling, and it isnt even important. We cant all be rockstars and astronauts. Many of us can't even be scientists, doctors, dentists, lawyers, social workers, teachers, and so on. Most people do crap that robots should be doing. My cousin is a full-time photographer with his own studio, which he was able to do because of inheritance money and money from selling farmland his father left him. He constantly bitches about his half-sister having a job at the local bar, which she genuinely likes to do and it's not like it's a dive-bar or anything. It's a nice little pub type place downtown in an average central Iowa town. But it's not a CAREER and she should go back to school and do something fulfilling like he did when he got a bunch of money dumped in his lap. If she's happy with her job I don't see the big problem but it drives my cousin crazy. It's not a big surprise that he voted for Gary Johnson.
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Jan 30, 2017 16:40
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Ytlaya posted:I understand the appeal of wanting to think that people making a lot of money are all depressed and overworked, but in reality most of them seem to have lives that are objectively vastly superior to regular people. It's like the saying "money can't buy happiness". I'm convinced it's something rich people tell the poors to keep them down.
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Jan 30, 2017 22:45
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Aschlafly posted:My unpopular opinion: The Fall is a better show than Sherlock. Better writing, more compelling characters, a plot that actually makes sense, showcases good, solid police and detective work instead of magic powers designed to bewilder the audience. Elementary is better than Sherlock. Hell, House is better than Sherlock. I've always been a Jeremy Brett fan anyway. Robert Downey Jr. is a better Sherlock than Benedict.
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Feb 3, 2017 15:33
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A White Guy posted:The entire apple is edible,even the core. Eat the whole thing. Even the sticker? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96CaWH5St7I
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Feb 4, 2017 19:56
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Blue Star posted:Tropical rainforests (also called jungles) are the coolest and best environment. Oceans are second. Deserts and wetlands are tied for third. Temperate forests and tundras are tied for fourth. Grasslands can go suck it. Plains of America are boring as gently caress. Their one redeeming quality, besides providing food for the country, were buffalos but now they're mostly gone.
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Feb 7, 2017 12:09
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Henchman of Santa posted:I would be like Ted Danson in Curb Your Enthusiasm and donate anonymously but tell everybody it was me You're either anonymous or you're not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De90ozOOquY
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Feb 8, 2017 00:11
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sassassin posted:Tom Bombadil was missing from The Lord of the Rings films, and so were the ideas about nature, power, love, isolation and inevitable decay that his presence introduced to rest of the narrative. LoTR is terrible, the books anyhow. Just when you think something will happen, they decide to stop their adventure in order to eat their seventh breakfast or whatever. They take out their silverware and then it's described who's father's, father's, father's, father's made it, whole timelines for foods and objects, and then they break out in twenty different songs before packing up and continuing. I'm hyperbolizing, of course, but not by much. My friend told me the second half of the second book and the first half of the third is terrible. So why do people put up with it? Obviously I don't "get it". I'm fine with that. Das Boo posted:Speaking of adaptations, I thought The Exorcist was a really neat example of translation. Blatty wrote both the book and the screenplay with entire segments of dialogue are stripped straight from the book and placed on the screen. They're nearly identical and both work beautifully, but somehow in completely different ways. While the adaptation is a straight up horror movie, the book is almost entirely about Karras' inner struggle with his faith and uses the event to explore its rationalization through contemporary (at the time) psychology. Karras is never fully convinced of her possession and scrutinizes how Regan's actions can be explained using logic rather than faith. I love both takes. I will say The Godfather the movie is vastly superior to the book, even though I like the book but that's not an unpopular opinion. There's a whole plot-line where Lucy fucks Sony because her vagina is too big and his dick is the only one to fit neatly. So she goes to one of the Corleone's casinos in Vegas and meets a plastic surgeon who fixes her up. I'm glad they left that out of the movie.
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Grandmother of Five posted:I didn't like it either. If you're not really into "world building", then you simply wont like it, I think. Great works of literature transcends genre, I think, and LORT really doesn't. It exemplifies fantasy, for better or worse, which means for worse if you're not specifically into fantasy. I like Harry Potter. Although the camping scenes in Deathly Hallows were pretty boring.
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hard counter posted:either way, i dare you to imagine something like 1984 dialing back its depiction of a fantastically dismal totalitarian world while still retaining the same impact You could even say it's doubleplusgood dismal. sassassin posted:Like, this literally doesn't happen anywhere in the books. There are some spoons that one character has been trying to steal from another for years. She is a bad person. I was just hyperbolizing to explain how he goes off on tangents on the little things when there should be action. Sorry if I don't like it, but those are reasons why I dislike it. I can see why people like the series, I just can't get through it. I wish I could like it because I do like the plot and ideas but it's just too unnecessarily padded. Can you deny that Tolkien loves to hear himself talk?
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sassassin posted:No more than anyone who writes a novel. That's fair. I just haven't read it in fifteen years. Or tried to read it.
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Das Boo posted:Ha, really? Man, am I out of the loop. Back in 1998 I had an old lady scold me when I mentioned I took the tags off of my Beanie Babies.
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Aesop Poprock posted:My one roommate is 22 and ate cereal with orange juice a week ago Is your roommate a young Coach McGuirk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C19MdWxcEfI I like how some are presuming that people who eat cereal with milk are the weird ones. Eating cereal and eating it with milk. Who does that? yeah I eat rear end posted:I'm with him, you definitely strike me as the kind of the guy who would order whole milk at a bar. I'm not sure what that says about what I think of you, but that's the picture I had. 
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Pastry of the Year posted:Perhaps hammering developing brains with constant and unnuanced variations on that theme has not been a universal good: I knew a guy in AA who would spend thirty minutes bragging about humble he was. Literally a half hour. FrameRelay posted:The reason why many jobs are moving overseas from America is because the average person in America is not motivated to be a productive person because they have never needed in their life and the high cost of their labor is not worth it. You should work in the White House.
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Aesop Poprock posted:The lady who does Clinton isn't bad but she's changed it over time to be basically a caricature of a caricature. Which is usually how people doing longterm impressions of people work so I can't fault her for that, you kind of make your own character out of it. Phil Hartman and Farrel Hammond did it with Bill Clinton, Will Ferrell did it with George W. and Fans Carvey did it with H. W. Didn't Darryl Hammond come back and play Trump before Baldwin? His Trump was better than Baldwin's. But from what I understand, Trump didn't complain about Hammond like he does Baldwin so that's why they keep bringing Baldwin back.
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Peeves the Poltergeist is one of the most irritating characters in Harry Potter. I mean, I get that he's supposed to be irritating and it's part of his charm but I just imagine what it would be like to have to deal with that prick in real life and it ruins it for me. Although I must say it is a shame Rik Mayall's scenes as Peeves in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone were cut completely. So on one hand, I don't like the book Peeves but on the other it would have been awesome to see him in the movie.
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Jastiger posted:Edit: While it can be nauseating at times to hear the "Hollywood Elite" get political during Oscars/Emmy's/Academy's, so loving what. They have a large platform and loud voice and they have an opportunity to perhaps effect some change. Its no different than a plumber or carpenter ranting about politics at the local coffee shop so chill the gently caress out. I guaran-drat-tee if these celebrities were gushing about Trump they'd have it front and center on Fox News every day instead of a collective eye roll since they happen to be progressive. We have a reality star as President and once had a middling B-movie actor as President. Conservatives just hate that most of Hollywood is liberal; they like celebrities like most people but they're stuck with the likes of Scott Baio, Tom Arnold, and Rob Schneider instead of Meryl Streep or Tom Hanks. My Unpopular Opinion, especially since yesterday: Twister is a total turd of a movie that has the benefit of being seen through Nostalgia Themed Glasses, especially since Paxton died. I do admit Bill Paxton wasn't terrible but he has tons of other better roles and movies to gush over. Just because something came out during your childhood and you happened to like it as a child doesn't automatically make a good movie.
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WampaLord posted:People are interested in Leah Remini because she's got an extremely rare thing, honest information about the inner workings of Scientology. That's something that very few people are willing to discuss to the public. I'm interested in Megan Phelps-Roper because she was pretty high level in the Westboro Baptist Church, just like her mother. What I find interesting is how she changed her mind, because she was one of the most die-hard members, often holding the most creepy deplorable signs and smiling. All she did was have civil conversations with a Jewish guy and that was it. She started questioning everything. If someone could change her mind, all of these racist could probably be changed. Some are harder to get to than others of course. Megan was always willing to talk to everybody on Twitter. *** I don't believe AA is for everyone. It doesn't work for everyone, and in some ways can be terrible. And if someone doesn't want to do it, it doesn't mean they won't automatically fail and go back out. They just need a different option, except AA is the go-to solution that even the judicial system pushes. I think if you get a good Sponsor it's OK but it's so easy to be a bad one. A Sponsor who thinks they know everything and act like a therapist, even though they have no training. I don't begrudge those who need one and who are successful with one. I'm just saying be careful at those who rush to try and Sponsor you, like they're desperate to be someone's Sponsor. I'm eight months today. I don't have a Sponsor, sort-of got rid of her because she was way too controlling. Wanting me to email her everyday telling me everything I did that day, plus wanting me to go to five meetings a week. It didn't take long to see what would happen if I kept her. She went on vacation for a month and I didn't send her an email or anything and she hasn't contacted me so I'm hoping we've drifted apart and she's given up on me. If not, I have an email ready to send.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:If memory serves AA and NA are a bit better than trying to quit entirely by yourself but yeah...they're ultimately a front for Christianity recruitment in the end. You don't see it at first as all they tell you is to "believe in a higher power greater than yourself" but a bit longer in and it's "oh by the way it's Jesus." Their last few steps are even "gotta pray to God!" You literally can't be considered to have completed the program until you believe in God and go through a "spiritual awakening." I had trouble getting and keeping sponsors because they couldn't deal with the fact that I was atheist. One just quit contacting me. Another took a really long time to figure out how to proceed. If you ask them, they deny they're religious. I mean, God is in nearly every Step and Tradition but, you're right, you're not religious. It's hilarious! And I'm happy for those that AA has worked for. Whatever works is what's important. My thing is that AA is not the end-all be-all they claim to be. In fact they have a huge fail rate. If asked about it, they shrug and say the person didn't do the steps correctly or use the benefits of their sponsor. Nothing they do is their fault. Personally I don't do any of the steps. I read a little of the book but not much. I do attend AA but I just go for social interaction and to meet with friends that go.
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Odd question, but what are people's opinions of Louis Theroux? I happen to like his documentaries but I'm sure some British goon will come around with, "We hate him here!" QI was torn down, which, while I like QI, I found...quite interesting.
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