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Chantilly Say posted:This was the bad guy's plan in a Clive Cussler novel. Well, sort of, it was this rogue billionaire guy whose plan was to kill all Muslims by unleashing a radioactive space plague he found in a meteorite in Iceland, because :Cussler: and as I remember you get a whole chapter on the background of the particular antique plane he's going to use to drop the meteorite bomb on Mecca. I remember really enjoying Cussler novels when I was in junior high, but lord they have not stood the test of time. I have a hard time deciding which of his premises is the most ridiculous, and given that he's still writing and I've not touched any of his stuff since the late 90s, I'd suspect he's managed to top even the US annexing Canada due to a treaty found in the Titanic (upon it being raised), the contents of the library of Alexandria being found in Mexico due to a late-Roman evacuation, or a mothballed battleship shelling the Capitol building while the President is under Russian mind control due to an implanted microchip. I may have gotten some of that wrong due to memory failing me, but I swear I wasn't trying to make any of it up.
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As a university tech support dude, the concept of digital natives is some horseshit. I talk to a LOT of 18-22 year olds who can barely launch Word.
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Jul 25, 2014 23:11
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Captain_Maclaine posted:I'd suspect he's managed to top even the US annexing Canada due to a treaty found in the Titanic (upon it being raised) I think Raise the Titanic suffered a lot from the discovery of the Titanic it two separate pieces. But the best book was the one where they discovered the skeleton of Abe Lincoln (still wearing his tophat!) in an ironclad in the middle of the desert in Mali. Plus, that one got made into a movie with McConaughey.
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Joementum posted:I think Raise the Titanic suffered a lot from the discovery of the Titanic it two separate pieces. I considered the finding of dead Lincoln in a derelict ironclad, in North Africa, fairly tame by Custler's standards. I swear there was also one where a group of Civil War reenactors on a period-paddlesteamer manage to defeat a terrorist group, despite that group having previously taken out an elite special forces/SWAT team of some sort.
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Jul 25, 2014 23:21
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There was one where Dirk Pitt (our intrepid hero) thought he had defeated the villain's plans to... take over Iceland, I think, but the villain had really faked his own death and gotten a sex change and then came back with a bunch of henchmen who dressed up as pirates so they could sneak into Disneyland and surprise Dirk on vacation by attacking him on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. This is played straight. I also have a soft spot for the one where it turns out sea serpents are real.
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Jul 25, 2014 23:28
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Cussler books are like the ultimate Dad Books. My dad loving loves those shits, I read a ton of them when I was home on break from college back in the day.
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zoux posted:Cussler books are like the ultimate Dad Books. My dad loving loves those shits, I read a ton of them when I was home on break from college back in the day. Never thought of it that way but that makes sense; the first one I ever read, well heard, was a book-on-tape my dad got from the library for the long drive up to Maine one summer.
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Jul 25, 2014 23:34
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Aurubin posted:There was also the episode with invisible predators in a Florida forest who were the descendents of Ponce De Leon's expedition to find the fountain of youth. And the one where the guy got a brain tumor that let him control other people's minds. Their stupid ideas were more fun to watch when the aliens metaplot wasn't prominent. I was also 7. I have a habit of saying The X-Files worked better as a comedy than a drama. At the least the mytharc poo poo got to be intolerable somewhere around season 4 or 5. It was better when it wasn't taking itself so seriously. More literally-on-mushrooms, less throw-out-everything-the-conspiracy-is-now-about-X. (Then there's stuff like The Lone Gunmen that were a bridge between the two sides.) 
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Jul 25, 2014 23:58
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I'm finally getting around to watching The Unknown Known, the Errol Morris documentary with Rumsfeld and I'm one minute in and it's already totally captivating.
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At the 22 minute mark he unambiguously admits that he, the President, and every top official in the administration conspired to assassinate Saddam prior to the outbreak of war in Iraq, dropped a bomb on a place where they thought he was, killed someone who later (regrettably to Rumsfeld) turned out to not be Saddam.
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Jul 26, 2014 01:55
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Joementum posted:I'm finally getting around to watching The Unknown Known, the Errol Morris documentary with Rumsfeld and I'm one minute in and it's already totally captivating. It's so much more depressing than The Fog of War because McNamara seems genuinely torn and regretful at times, but Rumsfeld just sits there with that serpentine grin going "Heh, yeah we bombed the poo poo out of people for no reason."
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Jul 26, 2014 02:08
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At the 37 minute mark he says that Shakespeare isn't timeless because he could never have understood the politics of the Gerald Ford administration.
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Aurubin posted:It's so much more depressing than The Fog of War because McNamara seems genuinely torn and regretful at times, but Rumsfeld just sits there with that serpentine grin going "Heh, yeah we bombed the poo poo out of people for no reason." I forget who I was talking with about the Unknown Known, but whomever it was suggested rather than just being a lovely rear end in a top hat (my hypothesis), Rumsfeld rather was displaying borderline-clinical levels of denial as to admit any culpability would in short order force him to face up to just what a bloody nightmare he'd helped unleash, for virtually no reason at all. Even if that's the case, I still think he's a lovely rear end in a top hat.
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At the 1 hour 10 minute mark he starts dictating memos asking for his staff to type up Oxford dictionary definitions of words.
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Jul 26, 2014 02:43
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R. Mute posted:this is like porn to you, isn't it? Short of an Oval Office taping system, it's the best I've got, yeah.
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Jul 26, 2014 03:05
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Joementum posted:Short of an Oval Office taping system, it's the best I've got, yeah. NIXON: Jesus Christ.
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Are you watching on netflix, or is it not on any streaming thing?Dreylad posted:NIXON: Jesus Christ.
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Joementum posted:Short of an Oval Office taping system, it's the best I've got, yeah. Well don't stop giving us time-stamped highlights man, your breathless commentary is almost as good as watching the drat thing.
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Unknown Knowns seemed to me like Fog of War: Total Lack of Remorse Edition Edit: Morris is awesome though. He had a short-lived TV series called First Person which is up on youtube in its entirety and totally worth checking out. moller fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Jul 26, 2014 |
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Jul 26, 2014 07:47
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I am a millennial and I don't even know what a job is but I promise you I'll change the world
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Jagchosis posted:I am a millennial and I don't even know what a job is but I promise you I'll change the world A job is that thing your parents hate so much that they voted for Reagan to make sure you'll be spared the pain of ever having one.
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Jul 26, 2014 12:30
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Apropos of nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ0JgqoF2W4
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Jul 26, 2014 12:51
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president millennial announces 50 state couch-surfing campaign
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I'm sad the Gender Equality thread posted a few hours ago was locked by the OP. some jerk posted:Stay classy, feminism. Feminism and the MRM/MRA are like Fascism and Communism: technically on the far opposites of each other, but are more similar than they think. So much blood in the water.  It could have been amazing.
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Jul 26, 2014 15:43
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Went to the farmer's market, got some beef and carrots for dinner and some Thai food and maple mint tea for lunch.
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moller posted:I'm sad the Gender Equality thread posted a few hours ago was locked by the OP. Why do the good die young?
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thanks now i have billy joel stuck in my head
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moller posted:I'm sad the Gender Equality thread posted a few hours ago was locked by the OP.
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Forgall posted:"some jerk" is the OP though. Yeah, that was what was so great about it. Edit: And, presumably, why the OP closed it so quickly. moller fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jul 26, 2014 |
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Jul 26, 2014 18:02
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Is it considered helldumping to mention that the op of that thread was IronKnuckle?
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My problem with helldumping is that in my Advanced Forum Years I don't know who most prolific posters are anymore.
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just assume all posters are bad and you'll never be disappointed.
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People keep assuming I'm an MRA, which I'm not. Sorry for any trouble I caused.
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Jul 26, 2014 22:17
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He was the guy who called on us to "Reject Homosexualism and the Forces of Darkness"
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Thanatosian posted:Shabazz Palace just came out with a new album. Deltron 3030 came out with their second album, Event 2.
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Jul 26, 2014 22:43
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rscott posted:thanks now i have billy joel stuck in my head Then you should steer clear from any corny press releases from Boehner's office: quote:The American people have been asking ‘where are the jobs’ “For the Longest Time,” as we find ourselves in the middle of the worst ‘recovery’ for jobs ever. 
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Jul 26, 2014 22:57
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Now if you'll excuse Boehner, he's off to enjoy a bottle of red... a bottle of white... another bottle of red...
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Jul 26, 2014 23:05
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I wonder if GOP asshats like him and Ryan have booze chats like we do.
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I think Boehner buys it by the gallon.
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