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Cardboard Box A posted:Avalon High has everyone get reincarnated as high school students and also King Arthur is a girl. Wasn't the whole King Arthur a girl shtick something the Japanese came up with?
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Oct 29, 2013 15:07
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RadicalR posted:Wasn't the whole King Arthur a girl shtick something the Japanese came up with? Fate Stay Night was released back in 2004, so I suppose six years is enough time to bring it over to the United States. In retaliation, the Japanese took Nyarlathotep and turned it into a schoolgirl/alien crimefighter.
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Oct 29, 2013 16:29
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"Did Japan take historical/legendary figures and make a 'if they were girls' story?" The answer is yes. Doesn't matter who. If it's not yes, give it a few years, it will be.
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Oct 29, 2013 16:37
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Barent posted:I keep seeing this story brought up. Wasn't it shown to be fake? (From Duffel Blog iirc) The best part is, knowing Marines, I cannot imagine that this would affect their combat effectiveness one iota. You could give them pink and purple camo emblazoned with "I HEART COCK" and they'd still be just as capable of killing people in droves.
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Oct 29, 2013 16:48
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Rush's book launches today. I thought I'd take a peek at the reviews on Amazon and found this lovely trollish review
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Oct 29, 2013 17:23
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Why would a marine loving cock (ie being a homosexual) affect his combat prowess in the first place?
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Oct 29, 2013 17:23
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Gozinbulx posted:Why would a marine loving cock (ie being a homosexual) affect his combat prowess in the first place?
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Oct 29, 2013 17:26
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 NBC News? More like, last-BC News. 
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Oct 29, 2013 18:50
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RadicalR posted:Wasn't the whole King Arthur a girl shtick something the Japanese came up with? I think there was a DC comic in the 80s called Camelot 3000 where all the characters are reincarnated and I think Sir Tristan comes back a woman.
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Oct 29, 2013 19:14
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There are an essentially infinite number of lovely fantasy novels that have "[plot] + King Arthur Characters!", unfortunately.
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Oct 29, 2013 19:31
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kik2dagroin posted:Rush's book launches today. I thought I'd take a peek at the reviews on Amazon and found this lovely trollish review edit: n/m. I'm a retard.
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Oct 29, 2013 20:25
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Ocean Book posted:I just read A Once and Future King and liked it a lot, though that may have been the author more than the subject matter. I never read anyone who told a story in the manner T.H. White did. I was looking for some not terrible material on King Arthur to follow it up with, what's good that you recommend? I currently have The Mists of Avalon which seems cool cause it is from the perspective of the women in the stories and I know the author is at least somewhat competent. Check out Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles series which starts with The Skystone. I thought they were an amazing take on the Camelot/King Arthur myth.
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Oct 29, 2013 20:57
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It would appear that Phyllis Schlafly is still alive and is looking to troll some pro-immigration people. You only really need one quote from her post. http://wonkette.com/532893 (original content) http://blog.eagleforum.org/2013/10/meaning-of-statue-of-liberty_28.html quote:Remember, it's the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Immigration. All I can think of is the old "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" line when I read that. (unfortunately, Falwell popularized that one)
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Oct 30, 2013 02:06
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AAAAH! IT loving SAYS GIVE US YOUR TIRED AND HUDDLED MASSES ON THE GOD drat STATUE KRASDKGHAISWEHIGHIAHSDKH! Oh my God, that lady is terrible.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:13
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Remember when the Heritage Foundation had to fire Jason Richwine after it learned that his dissertation was on the subject of how Mexicans weren't as successful as whites because they have lower IQs? Well, it looks like Robert Costa Who Is Actually Doing Good Reporting has a new colleague at National Review Online.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:23
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Joementum posted:Remember when the Heritage Foundation had to fire Jason Richwine after it learned that his dissertation was on the subject of how Mexicans weren't as successful as whites because they have lower IQs? Well, it looks like Robert Costa Who Is Actually Doing Good Reporting has a new colleague at National Review Online. Oh lord, the first thing I see "Federal Employees Receive Full Pay for Shutdown Period — Even If They Didn’t Work 10/28/13".
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Oct 30, 2013 02:29
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greatn posted:AAAAH! IT loving SAYS GIVE US YOUR TIRED AND HUDDLED MASSES ON THE GOD drat STATUE KRASDKGHAISWEHIGHIAHSDKH! Well, you see, that was added twenty years later. Just like how "Under God" was added to the Pledge sixty years later and we added "In God We Trust" to money forty years after the Fed introduced the reserve notes. I'm sure Ms. Schlafly also feels that it is wrong to honor God in these fashions, as they were not there from the beginning.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:46
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greatn posted:AAAAH! IT loving SAYS GIVE US YOUR TIRED AND HUDDLED MASSES ON THE GOD drat STATUE KRASDKGHAISWEHIGHIAHSDKH! Yes, but: Phyllis Schlafly posted:It's most unfortunate that people who had nothing to do with this great gift from the French were allowed to paste a plaque on the base of the Statue with a quotation that has misrepresented the Statue as an invitation to open immigration. (She is horrible.)
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Oct 30, 2013 02:48
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greatn posted:AAAAH! IT loving SAYS GIVE US YOUR TIRED AND HUDDLED MASSES ON THE GOD drat STATUE KRASDKGHAISWEHIGHIAHSDKH! But it's called the Statue of LIBERTY, and liberty means freedom, and freedom, to any true patriot, means gently caress anyone who wasn't here first.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:51
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beatlegs posted:But it's called the Statue of LIBERTY, and liberty means freedom, and freedom, to any true patriot, means gently caress anyone who wasn't here first, except for the people that were actually here first, because gently caress them too. Bascially gently caress everyone who didn't get here within a certain window of time that we can shift to suit our narrative, or at the very least who looks like they might have been likely to get here within that period. Also if your ancestors came within that time but didn't do so willingly, gently caress you too, our freedom isn't for you.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:57
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Sir Tonk posted:All I can think of is the old "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" line when I read that. (unfortunately, Falwell popularized that one) Yeah, but the Adam and Steve line is a decently clever pun. 'The Statue of Immigration' isn't anything. It's not even a joke if you squint at it.
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Oct 30, 2013 02:59
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beatlegs posted:But it's called the Statue of LIBERTY, and liberty means freedom, and freedom, to any true patriot, means gently caress anyone who wasn't here first.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:09
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It reminds me of one time Dr. Laura was going on a rant about requiring all immigrants to learn English and she ended it withquote:America is the only country in the world with the statue of Liberty. Think about that. To this day I still have no idea what she meant.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:12
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I havent followed laura in years. But I dont remember her being very political I remember her being more like Dr Phil taking phone calls from people that had personal problems like a lady in a lovely relationship kinda thing. In fact I remember she took a strong line about being jewish and she didnt like her children's friends parents teaching her kids about jesus. She even argued back when they lady said knowing jesus makes you a better person with "And I m a good person by being jewish" or something to the effect. So did she realize the audience was leaving her and is trying to go full retard.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:28
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Joementum posted:Remember when the Heritage Foundation had to fire Jason Richwine after it learned that his dissertation was on the subject of how Mexicans weren't as successful as whites because they have lower IQs? Well, it looks like Robert Costa Who Is Actually Doing Good Reporting has a new colleague at National Review Online. That's nice. It's a good way to remind me that Costa's excellent reporting on Congressional Republicans is an aberration and that the National Review is a shitrag rivaled only by the Daily loving Mail.
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Oct 30, 2013 03:39
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max4me posted:I havent followed laura in years. But I dont remember her being very political I remember her being more like Dr Phil taking phone calls from people that had personal problems like a lady in a lovely relationship kinda thing. Is she even around anymore? I thought she mostly disappeared after dropping like a dozen n-bombs on a black caller http://youtu.be/F_MGntFSAuo
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Oct 30, 2013 03:48
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Sir Tonk posted:It would appear that Phyllis Schlafly is still alive and is looking to troll some pro-immigration people. You only really need one quote from her post. AARG. I'm gonna have to go really, really old school on that one:  Points to anyone who can spot the source & context on that one. If you can't read the last two blurbs, they're "No! Not an ol' man what can't see" "But he's talkin' 'bout the woman I love." Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Oct 30, 2013 |
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Oct 30, 2013 03:51
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:AARG. I'm gonna have to go really, really old school on that one: Well the source is Pogo the classic strip by Walt Kelly. The mole is named Mole, the owl is named Owl and the turtle is named Churchy, I suppose in defiance of naming conventions. As to the context, I can't remember this from any particular point, but Mole at one point paired up with a character that was a direct stand-in for Joseph McCarthy, so that should shed some light on the characters personal politics.
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Oct 30, 2013 04:26
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Love me some Pogo.
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cafel posted:Well the source is Pogo the classic strip by Walt Kelly. The mole is named Mole, the owl is named Owl and the turtle is named Churchy, I suppose in defiance of naming conventions. As to the context, I can't remember this from any particular point, but Mole at one point paired up with a character that was a direct stand-in for Joseph McCarthy, so that should shed some light on the characters personal politics.  Howland Owl and Churchy LaFemme.The mole is in fact just Mole, but he's a bit player. The arc where he teamed up with the McCarthy proxy was especially dark and iirc ended with Mole being chased through the swamp with a shotgun.
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Hahah, yeah, just saying "Pogo" was enough for all the points, you get them :P I'd actually have to double check on the exact storyline it's from, but I think it's not from the McCarthy storyline but from a different one where Mole and the other members of the "boy bird watchers society" are going around the swamp re-identifying everyone as different birds, largely based on who Mole likes and doesn't like, and fumigating everyone with spray disinfectant; the Cowbirds, for example, get to be doves, while I think Owl is told he's a migratory bird and therefore has to leave because he's out of season. I forget how it's resolved -- maybe Sis Boombah scares them off by being a loud, proud Rhode Island Red? There was a Pogo comic book issued called the "Jack Acid Society Black Book," parodying the John Birch society, in which Mole and Deacon team up in a nativist fury and decide they're going to be Indians (the most native native americans) and kick everyone else out of the swamp. It doesn't end well for Mole in that one either. EDIT: Got my copy of the Jack Acid Society Black Book off the shelf, and while it's too brittle to scan without risking damage to the spine, it's too good not to quote: quote:All of the right-wing societies that might be confused with the Jack Acid Society are understandably as nervous as a troop of elephants trying to walk on water. They claim to be apprehensive of the far left, the left and even the middle, but they also keep a sharp eye on each other. And if all that sounds familiar, the book is copyright 1962. Hahah, reading further, Mole's official name is Molester Mole! I'd completely forgotten that. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Oct 30, 2013 |
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Oct 30, 2013 04:42
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My favorite Pogo arc was the International Geophysical Year run (the G.O. in G-O Fizzical stands for "grand ol'", y'see), where Howland meets the toddler possum that speaks in gibberish like "gxybyxxwfs", and declares by god thisahere boy talks pure math!
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Oct 30, 2013 04:47
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Kids love time travel. Some really disappointed kids are going to be unwrapping Rush's book this Christmas. 
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greatn posted:AAAAH! IT loving SAYS GIVE US YOUR TIRED AND HUDDLED MASSES ON THE GOD drat STATUE KRASDKGHAISWEHIGHIAHSDKH! That quote was written by a Jew from New York, at a time when when Eastern and Southern European and Jewish immigrants were joining socialist parties en masse. Also not long after it was written conservative elements passed immigration laws that made it borderline impossible to immigrate legally if you weren't a white wasp protestant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Lazarus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Quota_Act I guess you could say Mrs. Schlafly is more American than that drat commie statue, hmmmmm? 
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Oct 30, 2013 05:38
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max4me posted:I havent followed laura in years. But I dont remember her being very political I remember her being more like Dr Phil taking phone calls from people that had personal problems like a lady in a lovely relationship kinda thing. In high school, my then-boyfriend's mom brought me a Dr. Laura book the second time we met 
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Oct 30, 2013 05:53
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nyquil hangover posted:In high school, my then-boyfriend's mom brought me a Dr. Laura book the second time we met Ahahahahhhah! Sorry, that's sad but funny as hell. Totally irrelevant but Dr. Laura made a great voice pack for Unreal Tournament 2000. That game was sooo much better when the dev'ers were a bit less serious and a bit more shameless. Polygon count be damned. SnakePlissken fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Oct 30, 2013 |
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Oct 30, 2013 08:03
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh lord, the first thing I see "Federal Employees Receive Full Pay for Shutdown Period — Even If They Didn’t Work 10/28/13". There is a real misunderstanding in terms of what "The Government" is, and who works for it. I heard family members saying during the shutdown that it was only fair, The Government Workers did things so poorly and now they're paying the price for it. They don't realize that Government Workers aren't some faceless mass of gremlins who toil in the bowels of DC running on hamster wheels to power useless bureaucracy. They are normal people. They are mechanics and office workers and programmers and scientists. They just happen to be paid by the federal government instead of Autozone or IBM or whatever. They think the guy who fixes up government vehicles or the lady who answers the phones and makes copies at NASA deserve to lose a substantial chunk of their annual salary because some guys in Congress couldn't get their poo poo together. It's just mindboggling to me that the GOP base doesn't realize that the people put out by the shutdown weren't those lazy assholes in Congress, it's normal people just like them. You'd think that with all the fuss over poo poo like parks and museums being closed down, they'd stop and think "Why are those places closed down? Who works there? Meh, must be Obama being an rear end in a top hat." Tender Bender fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Oct 30, 2013 |
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Oct 30, 2013 08:09
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Tender Bender posted:It's just mindboggling to me that the GOP base doesn't realize that the people put out by the shutdown weren't those lazy assholes in Congress, it's normal people just like them.
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Tender Bender posted:There is a real misunderstanding in terms of what "The Government" is, and who works for it. I heard family members saying during the shutdown that it was only fair, The Government Workers did things so poorly and now they're paying the price for it. They don't realize that Government Workers aren't some faceless mass of gremlins who toil in the bowels of DC running on hamster wheels to power useless bureaucracy. They are normal people. They are mechanics and office workers and programmers and scientists. They just happen to be paid by the federal government instead of Autozone or IBM or whatever. They think the guy who fixes up government vehicles or the lady who answers the phones and makes copies at NASA deserve to lose a substantial chunk of their annual salary because some guys in Congress couldn't get their poo poo together. Well they should have gotten jobs in the private sector if they wanted to keep getting paid! Government can't create income or jobs, it only takes from the bootstrap population! Checkmate, LIEberal.  I've brought this up to members of the National Guard that I work with, and this is the response I got, more or less. It's both hilariously dissonant and maddening at the same time.
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