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Miss Wallace posted:New Baywatching! Eddie is accused of statutory rape. Hilarious! Are the creepy episodes revolving around Eddie the show's way of trying to make him quit? Cause that 2 parter looked like it was really awkward.
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Thanks! Technically they talked about rape in The One That Got Away, and there's a Nights episode where they handle a rape case. The worst offenders though are later eps where evil women folk accuse main characters of rape to get revenge. If false rape accusations happened as often in real life as they do on 90s TV then MRAs might have something to complain about. PassTheRemote posted:Are the creepy episodes revolving around Eddie the show's way of trying to make him quit? Cause that 2 parter looked like it was really awkward. Maybe? The show's big draw around the time was the Eddie/Shauni relationship, which is why after they leave they just continually bring in Eddie and Shauni clones to do the same thing.
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Eww, that episode. Got to love their perv-cam on those alleged 15 year olds (I'm sure they were played by over 18s so that they could *legally* do the perv-cam) in their absurdly high cut and very uncomfortable looking swimming costumes.
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Miss Wallace posted:New Baywatching! Eddie is accused of statutory rape. Hilarious! The suicidal teen did a nice little acting job there. What a waste.
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I don't really got the whole archetype of incompetent, douchebag Australian rival lifeguard in Baywatch. I can understand the douchebag thing but Australia does actually take lifeguards pretty drat seriously considering we get really bad rips, an incompetent one would be gone so quickly.
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HopperUK posted:The suicidal teen did a nice little acting job there. What a waste. Testekill posted:I don't really got the whole archetype of incompetent, douchebag Australian rival lifeguard in Baywatch. I can understand the douchebag thing but Australia does actually take lifeguards pretty drat seriously considering we get really bad rips, an incompetent one would be gone so quickly.
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Miss Wallace posted:The Hawaii seasons were originally going to be in Australia, but last minute they weren't allowed to shoot there because locals thought they'd damage the ecosystem. Eh, its a good excuse as any.
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Miss Wallace posted:New Baywatching! Eddie is accused of statutory rape. Hilarious! The punchline is, "Baywatch!" No, but seriously, good god. 
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Miss Wallace posted:And especially considering lifeguards in Australia are volunteers too. The Hawaii seasons were originally going to be in Australia, but last minute they weren't allowed to shoot there because locals thought they'd damage the ecosystem. Eh, don't they know, no one in Australia takes anything seriously! We're just lying about being drunk all of the time?!? Even though if you put that stereotype of Australia together with the stereotype that everything in the country is going to give you a severe case of instant death, surely that would mean that all the non-indigenous Australians would be dead by now? National stereotyping makes no sense.
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I never heard the drunk stereotype, usually the stereotype I hear is like all Australians are rugged adventurers with boomerangs. Kangaroos, mate.
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Them ockers are too busy turning over their shrimps on the barbie and swilling their Four-Exes to save some yobbo from drowning. Just call the flying doctors, she'll be right.
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Tracula posted:Every culture is stereotyped as being drunks basically. The only variance is the drink of choice. Hmm, I don't think English people are stereotyped as being drunk. Or most Asian cultures or the middle east. Or even Italians or French. They drink, but they don't drink to get drunk. Drunk stereotypes = Irish, Scottish, Russian, maybe Polish and sometimes Australian. Sometimes indigenous cultures are thrown in as well. Miss Wallace posted:I never heard the drunk stereotype, usually the stereotype I hear is like all Australians are rugged adventurers with boomerangs. Kangaroos, mate. Maybe us being drunk is an internal stereotype? Like...there's an actual culture of drinking here, binge drinking especially. The six o'clock swill was held up as an example of Australia's drunkenness and love of beer. We also didn't really have prohibition here (not that having prohibition makes you not-drunk, the opposite really) except for a short stint in my home territory, the ACT, organised by this guy called King O'Malley. Now there's a pub named after him.
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Testekill posted:I don't really got the whole archetype of incompetent, douchebag Australian rival lifeguard in Baywatch. I can understand the douchebag thing but Australia does actually take lifeguards pretty drat seriously considering we get really bad rips, an incompetent one would be gone so quickly. Seriously enough that lifeguards are in the National Sports Hall of Fame.
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Marge Simpson: "I'd like some coffee." Australian Bartender: "Beer?"
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English don't have a drunk stereotype? Football hooligans. Or Chavs.
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I think it is actually directly related to Australia's out doorsy perception, that people think of them as heavy drinkers. In America and a few other places it's assumed if you live in a rural environment you're a drunk. Hence why so many white minority groups in America are assumed to be drunks. Appalachians are getting drunk off tree-bark moonshine made in their backyard stills, Midwest farmers are constantly drinking between murder suicides, trailer park dwellers are spending all their unemployment on booze, and southern yokels only survive their drunk driving by virtue of being the only ones on the road. Also as for the Italians and French I've heard plenty of Americans characterize them as perpetual drunks.
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Terrible Opinions posted:I think it is actually directly related to Australia's out doorsy perception, that people think of them as heavy drinkers. In America and a few other places it's assumed if you live in a rural environment you're a drunk. Hence why so many white minority groups in America are assumed to be drunks. Appalachians are getting drunk off tree-bark moonshine made in their backyard stills, Midwest farmers are constantly drinking between murder suicides, trailer park dwellers are spending all their unemployment on booze, and southern yokels only survive their drunk driving by virtue of being the only ones on the road. That's just really, really off-base about heavily-drunk Aussies. They only live as far out as the outer suburbs .
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Neddy Seagoon posted:That's just really, really off-base about heavily-drunk Aussies. They only live as far out as the outer suburbs . Okay my bad. I don't know enough about Aussie stereotypes then. I naturally for an American assumed there was nothing but vast outback and urban Sydney.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Okay my bad. I don't know enough about Aussie stereotypes then. I naturally for an American assumed there was nothing but vast outback and urban Sydney. It goes City, Nice Suburbs (all the old historic/expensive houses), Suburbs, Outer Suburbs, Outback.
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The only Australian I met was from Tasmania and he drank like a motherfucker.
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And the next Baywatching: If Looks Could Kill, wherein Mitch falls in love with a murderer. http://phelous.com/2015/05/15/obscurus-lupa/baywatching/baywatching-if-looks-could-kill/
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Miss Wallace posted:And the next Baywatching: If Looks Could Kill, wherein Mitch falls in love with a murderer. Baywatching has really given me a new found appreciation of a show I did my best to ignore when it was on the telly when I was a kid. I thought it was just a silly feel good show but now I know it was crammed with gang violence, death and rape as a plotpoint. So it paradoxically manages to be so much less/more. Thank you Lupa for enlightening me.
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This actually posted a few days ago, but I did a countdown of the Top Ten Legend of Zelda Songs, which was a mighty challenge, let me tell you. Viewer poll is also open on that so you can vote for your favorites!  On a more anime note, we finally did a Fate/Zero podcast on ANN. It's 2.5 whole hours of me, Zac, and our Type-Moonie guest discussing the
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Miss Wallace posted:And the next Baywatching: If Looks Could Kill, wherein Mitch falls in love with a murderer. This show is amazing. I feel that the Hoff's role in Sharknado 3 will not live up to the Baywatch craziness. My only hope is that he is still playing Mitch Von Malibu, making Ian Zering either Hobie 1 or 2.
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Jay O posted:This actually posted a few days ago, but I did a countdown of the Top Ten Legend of Zelda Songs, which was a mighty challenge, let me tell you. Viewer poll is also open on that so you can vote for your favorites! That was a lot of fun, thanks! I squealed when I saw number 1 as that is also my favorite!!!
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Terrible Opinions posted:I think it is actually directly related to Australia's out doorsy perception, that people think of them as heavy drinkers. In America and a few other places it's assumed if you live in a rural environment you're a drunk. Hence why so many white minority groups in America are assumed to be drunks. Appalachians are getting drunk off tree-bark moonshine made in their backyard stills, Midwest farmers are constantly drinking between murder suicides, trailer park dwellers are spending all their unemployment on booze, and southern yokels only survive their drunk driving by virtue of being the only ones on the road. That's a reasonable starting point, but like Neddy Seagoon says, the stereotype of the drunk bogan is probably more something of the outer suburbs. Outer suburbs are where people stereotyped as "deros" (derelicts) would live - Damo and Darren at the Station is a pretty good example of the stereotype.
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Jay O you mentioned awhile back in the thread how economic issues led to anime companies making stuff targeted at a female audience/marketed in news ways. Have you written any columns on that? I mentioned it to a friend and they were interested in how that played out.
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Jay O posted:This actually posted a few days ago, but I did a countdown of the Top Ten Legend of Zelda Songs, which was a mighty challenge, let me tell you. Viewer poll is also open on that so you can vote for your favorites! Dark World in LttP, Dragon Roost and Great Sea in Wind Waker, Midna's Desperate Hour in TP, and Forest Temple in OoT are all songs I would have put on the list over some of the other choices. Also, not even having the Forest Temple theme as a checkbox choice makes me sad.
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Arcsquad12 posted:English don't have a drunk stereotype?  The French have us down pretty well. (it's "Who wants/needs the English in Europe?" or thereabouts, for anyone wondering.)
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Arcsquad12 posted:The only Australian I met was from Tasmania and he drank like a motherfucker. Because there's nothing to do in Tasmania. It's almost as bad as when I went to Canberra.
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Great Baywatching episode...but what was the sketch/piece of paper that flew over Eddie's face? Did I miss something? Testekill posted:Because there's nothing to do in Tasmania. It's almost as bad as when I went to Canberra. Hey! Canberra is where it's at! Oh who am I kidding, Canberra is not where it's at. But it has its advantages. Very pretty city, and while it's cold as a bastard in winter it's beautifully sunny and clear. Infamous Sphere fucked around with this message at 02:34 on May 16, 2015 |
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I guess Mike Jeavons got tired of reviewing lovely tabletop/board games and decided to kickstart his own. Unfortunately it just doesn't look very good imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTGw2YoQPLg Looks like a blander, less funny, more complicated cards against humanity
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Infamous Sphere posted:Great Baywatching episode...but what was the sketch/piece of paper that flew over Eddie's face? Did I miss something? It was supposed to be a newspaper. Terrible drawing on my part, sorry!
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FirstAidKite posted:I guess Mike Jeavons got tired of reviewing lovely tabletop/board games and decided to kickstart his own. Unfortunately it just doesn't look very good imo Eh, it seems cute to me. I don't think it'd kickstart it but I think the idea could be fun enough given the right friends.
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Baywatching: Reunion (Again). Mitch goes to his high school reunion and gets bullied! http://phelous.com/2015/05/16/obscurus-lupa/baywatching/baywatching-reunion-again/
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Infamous Sphere posted:Great Baywatching episode...but what was the sketch/piece of paper that flew over Eddie's face? Did I miss something? Canberra is a hellish pit full of bloodsucking vermin. It's also built on a swamp and riddled with mosquitoes.
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Miss Wallace posted:Baywatching: Reunion (Again). Mitch goes to his high school reunion and gets bullied! Hooray! Do you ever spot something during an episode that's so amazing it needs to go in the title sequence? Or have you seen it all already?
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