Yeah - some fucked up shit in all of that.
Also - why is it in every single facebook/news article comment thing there is literally always some absolutely random mention of someone being a democrat or a republican.
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- Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:37 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Creepy shit from my state
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2664
- Fri Mar 17, 2017 3:28 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Salmons recently watched movies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2958
Re: Salmons recently watched movies
Hmm - yeah, I wasn't all that sure what to make of the opening title sequence. The thoughts it evoked, for me personally, was juxtaposing the razzmatazz glitz of flag waving patriotism against the naked reality of actual real life. Which, I guess you could pull out of that that he was making a point...
- Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:47 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Salmons recently watched movies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2958
Re: Salmons recently watched movies
Nocturnal Animals was really good, but I thought it did have a message: sort of a takedown of the materialistic lifestyle. Yeah - that's not what I got out of it at all. I mean, they clearly made a point that she chose the wrong "Right guy" .. and lived a life of financial success and sec...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 5:40 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Salmons recently watched movies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2958
Re: Salmons recently watched movies
Yeah - maybe convoluted was the wrong word. What I guess I meant they just dropped stuff into the plot without building an actual story with any real depth out of it .. Meteor strikes earth which releases this horde that only invades once in a while - employ the whole "This time they have evolv...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 5:21 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Salmons recently watched movies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2958
Salmons recently watched movies
Hacksaw ridge Mel's latest outing which I went into with mixed expectations. Got great reviews but then again, not particularly a fan of Mel's directing. Hacksaw came thru tho, surprisingly well balanced movie that has possibly the best cannon fodder scene that depicts the senseless brutality of wa...
Re: Privilege
You live with 74 out of 100 points of privilege. You're quite privileged. You've had a few struggles, but overall your life has been far easier than most. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. But you should be aware of your advantages and work to help others who don't have ...
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:02 pm
- Forum: Food
- Topic: To our British members: Are bangers supposed to be dry as fuck?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2955
Re: To our British members: Are bangers supposed to be dry as fuck?
Not in my experience, which is reasonably comprehensive. Bangers, usually pork sausages, should be absolutely full of porky fat and juicy. The texture is different from the breakfast sausages I normally get when I am in the states, hard to put a finger on the actual difference. To me, American break...
- Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:39 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Poll - on punching Nazis
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17127
Re: Poll - on punching Nazis
Just to let everyone know salmon posted a comment a few days ago after my latest one is which he basically admitted I was right and agreed with every major thing I said, but he deleted it for some reason. This sounds like something I would make up but I'm not. So basically, I won. Okay, continue. Y...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 4:42 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: EXISTENCE IS PAIN
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4512
Re: EXISTENCE IS PAIN
Holy fucking hell - imagine if that happened to you in an age where we didn't have the sort of tools to dig it out!
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:56 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Poll - on punching Nazis
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17127
Re: Poll - on punching Nazis
Not really, you'd just have to ignore it, like the United States has done for the past two hundred years whenever the government encountered speech it didn't like. Despite our fetishization of the concept the history of this country is infested with the government legally restricting freedom of spe...
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:33 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Poll - on punching Nazis
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17127
Re: Poll - on punching Nazis
Over here we've got the other extreme where saying racist things publicly on the internet can land you in jail, but nowadays I'm not so sure it's a bad idea after all. [none] The censorship here is a bit too much, but sites like Stormfront would have been instantly shut down before they had time to...
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:01 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2387
Re: A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
Probably makes all the difference if you haven't seen the movie (more than read the books) simply because they seem to be attempting to recreate the movie on an episodic basis rather than interpret the books fresh. And because I thought the movie was particularly good, the series comes off weakly de...
- Sat Feb 04, 2017 11:24 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Poll - on punching Nazis
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17127
Re: Poll - on punching Nazis
What if giving Nazis and other racists free speech rights makes it more likely that they'll gain a legitimate following and do some serious damage to the world? This is pretty much a slippery slope argument. Changing freedom of speech laws on a case by case basis is not a concern because "oh m...
- Sat Feb 04, 2017 10:22 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy birthday Boomer!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2714
Re: Happy birthday Boomer!
Must be difficult having a fictitious birthday so close to date of the Bowling green massacre -
Happy non-birthday from me and our esteemed prime minister - Mr Trumbol
Happy non-birthday from me and our esteemed prime minister - Mr Trumbol
- Sat Feb 04, 2017 12:45 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Just thought I'd remind you all that I hate you
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4171
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 11:43 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Poll - on punching Nazis
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17127
Re: Poll - on punching Nazis
this isn't all that different from rabid Christians attempting to justify abortion centre bombings. Their sincerely held belief being that abortion clinics murder babies so, an appropriate response to this is to damage abortion clinics .. Well - no its not. I actually consider that to be both justi...
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 11:06 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: IMDB is closing it's message boards on Feb. 20.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4157
Re: IMDB is closing it's message boards on Feb. 20.
I mean, I use IMDB all the time for stuff outside the boards; just to look up what actor is in what and such. But the boards were also a helpful place to ask questions about a move when you wanted to know something. My place for that type of thing now though is http://movies.stackexchange.com . I n...
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 4:19 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Poll - on punching Nazis
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17127
Re: Poll - on punching Nazis
For most things I would agree, but the idea that punching Nazis makes non-Nazis look bad doesn't really work. Well, that wasn't my primary point but, I do actually think that attempting to justify it as being right, is a bad look because it goes against the ideals I think liberals should be fightin...
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 3:20 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2387
Re: A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
Started watching this about a week ago and really did not like it. Not 100% sure exactly why. It looked brilliant, I mean, visually. They did a pretty amazing job of recreating the look and feel of the movie and I really enjoyed the movie. The issue I had was that it just didn't feel authentic .. li...
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 2:37 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Poll - on punching Nazis
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17127
Re: Poll - on punching Nazis
Yeah - I voted no, its not ok to punch Nazi's But Aels, Punching Nazis Is Hypocritical: I have seen this argument a lot, usually in Daily Mail comments. LIBRULS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE PACIFIST ONES BUT NOW THEY ARE SHOWING THEIR TRUE COLOURS AND LIBRULS ARE THE REAL TYRANTS SO MUCH FOR POLITICAL COR...
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:23 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Not you too, 2017!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1880
Re: Not you too, 2017!
Can't say as I had any real knowledge of who this fella is - looked him up and thought "Oh, he was the asshole boyfriend of Will on Will and grace"..
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:55 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Gendo's 2017 list of movies
- Replies: 119
- Views: 23374
Re: Gendo's 2017 list of movies
I was pretty disappointed with it. Not nearly as good as Abrams' Star Trek, which is the only Star Trek I've ever liked. Sort of this - I wasn't disappointed with it but, it wasn't as good as Abrams Star Trek - but was much better than Into Darkness. At this point tho, and much like Spider-Man/supe...
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Fuck you 2016
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6204
Re: Fuck you 2016
Question for the board: have any of the celebrity deaths this year emotionally affected you in a significant way? I honestly can't think of the last time I was emotionally affected by the death of a celebrity since George Carlin died in 2008. The only ones that came close this year to affecting me ...
- Wed Jan 04, 2017 3:30 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Passengers
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7784
Re: Passengers
"I'm not sure about describing their relationship as good before the discovery, though, because it wasn't a natural scenario. He'd been researching her for months and finding out about her life: what she liked, what kind of person she was, her dreams and beliefs, and even if he had never consc...
- Tue Jan 03, 2017 11:46 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Passengers
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7784
Re: Passengers
"I felt that that was more powerful, because it managed to sympathise with both Aurora and Jim, as well as more clearly invited her to realise that if she'd been in that situation, her own moral principles (which at that point she was certain about) might have failed her as well" Yup, rea...
- Tue Jan 03, 2017 1:36 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Passengers
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7784
Re: Passengers
think that they didn't sell Jim's loneliness enough in the movie, which was partly a result of them condensing a lot of that (they wanted to rush through it to maximise JLaw's screentime). I kinda feel like what they showed on screen was enuff to set the scene. there was more than simply Pratt grow...
- Mon Jan 02, 2017 2:00 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Passengers
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7784
Re: Passengers
Just watched it! It wasn't as bad as I feared - the first half in particular was great, and overall it was sufficiently entertaining - but they totally hollywood-ised the script to make it much more formulaic than it should have been, and the minor changes made the eventual romance much more morall...
- Sun Jan 01, 2017 6:43 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Movies I've seen in 2016
- Replies: 221
- Views: 36224
Re: Movies I've seen in 2016
Predestination - Amazing. One of the top movies of the year for me, at least for the story. The film probably could have been better in the hands of different or more experienced directors. But it's one of those awesome plots that just hurts your head to think about it because of the various tempor...
- Sun Jan 01, 2017 6:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: happy new years felllw pitters !
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2739
Re: happy new years felllw pitters !
No - just trying to maintain a positive attitude - There's still plenty of "down" to drill into, Trumps gonna be your president after all, but I don't live in the States so .. there's that, altho I do live in a world where Trump will be a major player ... there is that as well ..
- Sun Jan 01, 2017 3:56 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: happy new years felllw pitters !
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2739
happy new years felllw pitters !
Let's see how this one turns out - I remain cautiously optimistic !
- Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:50 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Fuck you 2016
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6204
Re: Fuck you 2016
Unvoiced_Apollo wrote:And now Debbie Reynolds. The fuck 2016?
Did not see that one coming
- Wed Dec 28, 2016 5:16 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Passengers
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7784
Re: Passengers
I've read how a lot of serious dramatic actors try to pull off a funny role and comment on how it's one of the most difficult things they've ever done Point in case would be Meryl Streep - arguably a massive talent but almost universally hopeless at being funny - almost every movie that I have seen...
- Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:54 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Best movies of 2016
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5304
Re: Best movies of 2016
Awww... I looked at your list and was gonna congratulate you for having good taste, and then realized you just copied and pasted my list. [none] Lol - yeah, given I disagreed with the one movie on your list that I have actually seen - I doubt that we'd be in sync on our tastes anytime soon. there a...
- Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:47 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Passengers
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7784
Re: Passengers
Yep - I read the reasons why you dislike him, and I'm hardly interested in going back and forward defending him. I can see why you could claim he is generic - I just find him immensely likeable, both interview wise/ outtake wise and acting wise. I couldn't comment on his acting abilities past saying...
- Wed Dec 28, 2016 12:11 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Best movies of 2016
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5304
Re: Best movies of 2016
Swiss Army Man The Conjuring 2 Kubo and the Two Strings Manchester by the Sea The Witch Green Room The Edge of Seventeen The Lobster 10 Hacksaw Ridge 9 10 Cloverfield Lane 8 Lights Out 7 Moana 6 Hell or High Water 5 Arrival 4 Kubo & the two strings 3 Zootopia 2 Edge of 17 1 La La Land Out of all...
- Wed Dec 28, 2016 12:03 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Black Mirror
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3663
Re: Black Mirror
Stumbled across "Black mirror" while rambling thru Netflix looking for something to keep me entertained for a couple of seasons and, liked it a great deal. One of the favourite things I've ever watched on Netflix was the episode of Black mirror where the women wakes up in a room with pills...
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:58 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Passengers
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7784
Re: Passengers
Was absolutely looking forward to this but kinda expecting to be disappointed. Having said that - I have never heard of the story before and won't be disappointed by any actual departure from its original premise. I just saw the ad's and decided it looked like something that could be really good - l...
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:53 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Fuck you 2016
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6204
Re: Fuck you 2016
Well - Rate and calibre and age of the deaths of those involved. I've lived thru a few years of celebrities dying but I can't remember ever living thru this many surprise deaths - like Robin Williams, Prince, George Michael, Even Carrie was surprising in that she had a fatal heart attack at 60. I'm ...
- Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:36 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: So - is no one watching "Westworld"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4741
Re: So - is no one watching "Westworld"
Guess if you liked ep9 - you musta loved 10 - Nice ending, leaves a few questions remaining but, holeee-fuck
- Mon Nov 28, 2016 10:17 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: So - is no one watching "Westworld"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4741
Re: So - is no one watching "Westworld"
Hey - Haven't seen this weeks episode on account that I am travelling and in Sydney and my hotel doesn't have showcase .. which blows. So - Guessing they have confirmed that Bernard is Arnold officially now. There were quite a few clues I guess - the biggest one being when Ford was showing Bernard t...
- Wed Nov 23, 2016 2:00 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Some useless twit grabbed Taylor Swift on the ass and she's the bad guy.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2777
Re: Some useless twit grabbed Taylor Swift on the ass and she's the bad guy.
I'm already half way there **fart jk**Maybe we can evolve into one of those gas cloud alien things from Star Trek.
- Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:37 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: So - is no one watching "Westworld"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4741
Re: So - is no one watching "Westworld"
I've been avoiding online theories because I don't want this show spoiled. I'm enjoying the mystery. Yeah - probably the best way to go really but, I've found myself obsessed with this show and so gave into temptation. I have wondered about the timeline though, because at times it seems hosts are r...
- Sat Nov 19, 2016 11:40 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: So - is no one watching "Westworld"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4741
Re: So - is no one watching "Westworld"
I've seen every episode. I loved the premier, then they lost me a little for a bit, but last week's episode was on point. Last episode was awesome - but then again I thought all the other episodes were pretty awesome as well What are your thoughts as to the multiple time line theory thing that's go...
- Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:18 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: So - is no one watching "Westworld"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4741
Re: So - is no one watching "Westworld"
It's on my cable here - on "Showcase" .. which I have no idea Translates over in the States or whether its considered premium .. I think its part of the basic Cable service here at least . My hot tip - when the seasons finished and downloads are posted .. or it comes out on BluRay - I high...
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 1:23 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: So - is no one watching "Westworld"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4741
So - is no one watching "Westworld"
I am - and I'm enjoying it all way more than I thought I would. Very "Nolaneque" in a way, Loving Evan Rachel Wood and Anthony Hopkins.. Scripts is tight, story is about as original a story as you could possibly tell when working with base material that's nearly as old as me .. and there's...
- Thu Nov 03, 2016 1:54 am
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Off to Paris this Saturday
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2984
Re: Off to Paris this Saturday
Anyway, Malta looked beautiful as ever from your FB feed, you really are lucky to have roots there, mine are in the West Midlands, not so pretty. Malta was awesome, as always. Loads of new work being done to restore all the old buildings and capitalise on its tourism potential. Also helps that load...
- Mon Oct 24, 2016 2:30 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Hold on to your intestines ....
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5405
Re: Hold on to your intestines ....
About to watch s7ep1 now - Guess all will be revealed soon enuff.. Also guessing you USA types already know who's bought it!
Re: Cat died
Sorry to hear it Gendo!
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 3:38 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Anyword from IslandMur?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1901
Re: Anyword from IslandMur?
;) - good to hear Mur
- Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:11 pm
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Off to Paris this Saturday
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2984
Re: Off to Paris this Saturday
:) - Just landed here in Paris today, literally just checked into the hotel and set up WIFI .. I like Paris fine enuff but - I'm here for work which means I get tonight off, but I'm not right in the heart of Paris and I'm too buggered to do anything at any rate - so will kill time - eat something th...