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Xtanstic posted:I'm sorry if this is a touchy subject and I really don't want to bog the thread down so if someone can point me to an explanation of the correct pronunciation of Ra's Al Ghul I'd be thankful. I always imagined it in my head as Ra's so when I finally heard it as a mix of Ra's/Resh/Raysh I've been confused. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO7_cTXSps8 On the flip side, Raysh is a hebrew pronounciation so the argument goes, while the arabic one is Raas. The creator had it in his head to be pronounced Raysh irrespective of the linguistic or dialectic details. Best argument is that Ra's was born into a nomad camp somewhere in Arabia and they just had heavy accents. Drifter fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Dec 6, 2014 |
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Batman said "Raysh" on the old Animated Series, so that's how I'll always know it. Also, David Warner's voice was awesome.
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Dec 6, 2014 07:37
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Lycus posted:Batman said "Raysh" on the old Animated Series, so that's how I'll always know it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUJxaewOISA drat straight.
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Dec 6, 2014 07:43
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Ra's Al Ghul is a title, not his name. His creators intended it to be pronounced Raysh (which, next to that being the way they heard it in the cartoon, is the most common reason people insist on saying it that way), but they used real Arabic words so it doesn't really work that way. Roz isn't right either but it's closer.
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Dec 6, 2014 08:06
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I like to imagine his parents just new, and named him 'The Demon Head'.
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Dec 6, 2014 08:16
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I say Raysh. I'll grit my teeth when somebody says Razz, but I won't try to correct them or anything. Honestly, I'm just glad that we have reached the point in society where anybody saying "Mag-NETT-O" is soundly mocked.
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Dec 6, 2014 08:19
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I can't even get people to stop pronouncing my state ore-gone, so Ra's isn't a fight I'm willing to pick.
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Dec 6, 2014 08:55
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how do you pronounce your state?
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Dec 6, 2014 09:26
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Rocksicles posted:how do you pronounce your state? Or-uh-gun.
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Dec 6, 2014 09:49
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Not buying it. Yanks pronounce stuff weird.
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Dec 6, 2014 09:52
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Bruceski posted:I can't even get people to stop pronouncing my state ore-gone, Fuckin' easterners.
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Dec 6, 2014 10:19
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I don't necessarily know if we'll get to lazarus pits, but I've long suspected that the arrow writers are blowing smoke about the whole "Arrow won't have superpowers" song and dance they keep doing in interviews. You don't go and introduce Mirakuru and then immediately put it and that fantastical world back in the box. Also, a friend linked to a hideous io9 piece about how awful the Arrow crossover was, with the usual "Waller's actions don't make sense!" malarkey. Seriously guys, she planted or at least fully knew how to disarm the bomb the whole time. That's kinda her schtick. It's also "shadowy espionage training manual bullshit 101", if you've ever watched even the slightest of spy shows.
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Dec 6, 2014 10:29
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Bruceski posted:I can't even get people to stop pronouncing my state ore-gone, so Ra's isn't a fight I'm willing to pick. People that say it like this are the same crazies that pronounce Nevada as ne-vah-dah.
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Dec 6, 2014 10:34
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Narcissus1916 posted:I don't necessarily know if we'll get to lazarus pits, but I've long suspected that the arrow writers are blowing smoke about the whole "Arrow won't have superpowers" song and dance they keep doing in interviews. The Waller complaint was defensible up until that episode, but yeah, I'm pretty sure she literally said something along the lines of "I, Amanda Waller, see that you, Oliver Queen, have great talent to become an operative, so get back to training." They can't possibly make it more clearer than that. I figured that was what she was doing with him, and now it's official. But hey, sometimes people miss a line 'cause they're in the bathroom.
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Dec 6, 2014 10:45
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I kinda hope they do kill Ollie and focus more on Roy taking up the mantle for a bit.
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Dec 6, 2014 10:51
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A "how does Team Arrow operate without Oliver" arc would be sort of interesting. And it'd fit in with the fact that Laurel is getting her big arc right after midseason break. And they could still conceivably have Amell doing flashback scenes.
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boom boom boom posted:Of course the DJ is working for the League of Assassins, if he isn't then the scenes he was in are the most aggressively pointless scenes in the history of television. Thea needed a love triangle or the core CW audience would flip their poo poo now that Olicity is not happening.
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Dec 6, 2014 14:31
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Drifter posted:I feel like this had been resolved already before your post. SOrry, I had that typed and walked away from the computer. I his "post" and closed the window when I came back and didn't even think about it.
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Dec 6, 2014 16:11
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Narcissus1916 posted:Also, a friend linked to a hideous io9 piece about how awful the Arrow crossover was, with the usual "Waller's actions don't make sense!" malarkey. That entire io9 article was terrible.
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Dec 6, 2014 16:48
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Oh, I remembered something else that made me laugh. That big important ARGUS building is guarded by a man at a desk. And seemingly nobody else. I'm surprised Captain Boomerang was the first guy to just waltz in and start icing dudes. I mean sure, it's full of people with guns too, but maybe have a bit more security downstairs? Especially when you know there's a mercenary out for revenge in town?
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McDragon posted:Oh, I remembered something else that made me laugh. That big important ARGUS building is guarded by a man at a desk. And seemingly nobody else. I'm surprised Captain Boomerang was the first guy to just waltz in and start icing dudes. I mean sure, it's full of people with guns too, but maybe have a bit more security downstairs? Especially when you know there's a mercenary out for revenge in town? I feel like we're not allowed to nitpick when a dude with boomerangs is killing large groups of people with actual guns. Like, you mentally have to sign a suspension of disbelief waiver regarding the action antics, whether they're trash or not. This whole show is stupid goofy like that.
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Dec 6, 2014 17:52
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I live in Australia and can confirm you can't hit a barn door with a gun when someone is throwing boomerangs.
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Dec 6, 2014 17:54
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Rocksicles posted:I live in Australia and can confirm you can't hit a barn door with a gun when someone is throwing boomerangs. The only reason you can't hit a barn door in australia is because it's chasing you down trying to kill you as well.
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I'm pretty sure that's exactly what i meant, so thanks for keeping up  It's actually funny, when i lived in Queensland i watched a tour guide explaining to a group of tourists how to throw a boomerang, a good 5 min walkthrough, and then said "due to insurance reasons, we can't actually throw it." But two kids in the park were throwing boomerangs. Rocksicles fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Dec 6, 2014 |
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Dec 6, 2014 18:03
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I am not a boomerang expert. I know they return after being thrown (or at least curve back towards you?). I don't care about the physics, whatever. Are they intended to be caught after being thrown? I was under the impression that the idea was to hit something with it and hopefully hard enough it drops. it wouldn't magically keep flying around and come back to you after you hit someone with it. Even if you are throwing it into thin air, are boomerangs actually intended to be caught? Or just avoided till it hits the ground then go pick it up and throw again. You'd think if it could take down animals that catching it would slice your loving hand off.
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Dec 6, 2014 18:09
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He's wearing special gloves. Also they vibrate and stuff?
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Dec 6, 2014 18:11
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the modern boomerangs are designed that way. A proper hunting boomerang will turn to a point, but its a point a shoot weapon designed the crush somethings head in. A hardwood boomerang for hunting is a heavy loving thing. Aboriginal Australians had many different types of boomerangs for different things. Rocksicles fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Dec 6, 2014 |
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Dec 6, 2014 18:12
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Rocksicles posted:the modern boomerangs are designed that way. A proper hunting boomerang will turn to a point, but its a point a shoot weapon design the crush somethings head in. Oh neat. I didn't even think of there being different types of boomerangs for different kinds of purposes.
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Windows 98 posted:Oh neat. I didn't even think of there being different types of boomerangs for different kinds of purposes. Boomerangs are rad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygK0FHyt_5M&t=37s
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Windows 98 posted:Oh neat. I didn't even think of there being different types of boomerangs for different kinds of purposes. e: and let's not forget the short-lived boomerang arrow experiment.
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Dec 6, 2014 18:24
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Honestly Captain Boomerang really seems like a much better foil for the Arrow than the Flash.
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Dec 6, 2014 18:25
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Deadpool posted:Boomerangs are rad. That is cool as hell.
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Habibi posted:Boxing glove boomerang. Short-lived? Boomerang Arrow is a winner. 
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This is a good video showing a hunting returning boomerang. Hunting bats. the Boomerang is huge too, maybe 500 grams or so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DDHxOqFkAs Different type, a kylie i think they call them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOZBr7S8iqg
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Dec 6, 2014 19:22
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Rocksicles posted:This is a good video showing a hunting returning boomerang. Hunting bats. Sure, but call me when you can successfully hunt and take down a buffalo with one. 
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Dec 6, 2014 19:30
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They used woomeras for that.
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Dec 6, 2014 19:38
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Rocksicles posted:They used woomeras for that. Arm powered spear guns. They' pretty cool, yeah.
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Dec 6, 2014 19:45
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What else is cool about them, the oldest known woomera or spear thrower, was found in Australia dating back 40,000 years. But they must have brought them with them when they arrived, because other cultures use an almost identical thing in other parts of the world. Some think they were here going back up to 60,000 years with those weapons. Thats before Neanderthals were wiped out. We don't have much history here, but what we have is old as gently caress.
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Rocksicles posted:What else is cool about them, the oldest known woomera or spear thrower, was found in Australia dating back 40,000 years. But they must have brought them with them when they arrived, because other cultures use an almost identical thing in other parts of the world. Some think they were here going back up to 60,000 years with those weapons. Thats before Neanderthals were wiped out. A woomera is an evolutionary grandaddy of a bow and arrow. Ollie should make the switch in order to beat Digger.
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Drifter posted:Sure, but call me when you can successfully hunt and take down a buffalo with one. You need the mad max boomerang for that
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