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Josef bugman posted:You guys have people who honestly spend $6000 on just Christmas? Someone post that wsg infographic that has the people suffering from a tax increase when they are making over 200k a year
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oh wait its not abour rape anymore gonna have to withdraw my nomination there soz
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ianmacdo posted:Someone post that wsg infographic that has the people suffering from a tax increase when they are making over 200k a year 
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Dec 5, 2015 01:52
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Josef bugman posted:You guys have people who honestly spend $6000 on just Christmas? http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/25/luxury/christmas-lights-holiday-displays/
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Dec 5, 2015 01:55
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Gods wounds no wonder everyone hates the rich over there. At least ours have the good graces to have some level of style on occasion.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:10
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Eat the rich, the poo will be worth its weight as fertilizer.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:16
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Every time I see this I laugh at the 'Income: Kibble' part and I don't really know why anymore. At the risk of sounding stupid, what's a Henry Offense in this context? Google tells me nothing.
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Dec 5, 2015 03:09
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darkwasthenight posted:Every time I see this I laugh at the 'Income: Kibble' part and I don't really know why anymore. HENRY is an acronym for High Earning, Not Rich Yet. I.e. they make 250k a year but they're not a billionaire so don't call us rich we're middle class.
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darkwasthenight posted:Every time I see this I laugh at the 'Income: Kibble' part and I don't really know why anymore. Wealthy people who don't think they are wealthy call themselves "HENRYs" which stands for "High Earner Not Rich Yet."
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Dec 5, 2015 03:11
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Krinkle posted:HENRY is an acronym for High Earning, Not Rich Yet. I seriously thought it had something to do with the french revolutution and was confused why they were using british kings
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Dec 5, 2015 03:28
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My IIMM is when people lay a blanket claim that the book was always better. It's annoying for no reason and makes me want to start an argument. Psycho was a much better movie than book, so was godfather 1&2. You can make arguments both ways for movies like The Shining, Gone with the Wind, Shawshank Redemption, or the True Grit's(either). The book is not always better than the movie.
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Dec 5, 2015 04:59
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Phillip K Dick is a guy who wrote a poo poo load of short stories someone else adapts into a fantastic movie. Like, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale was 20 pages long. He finds out they wiped his spy memory past and his wife makes some dumb comment that makes him want to go get his memory back and there's a mexican stand off and they calm down and agree to wipe his brain again to see if it takes. He never gets his rear end to mars he never puts on a fat lady suit he never sees the three tittied lady. I mean they're good short stories but they've been made into some fantastic movies.
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funmanguy posted:My IIMM is when people lay a blanket claim that the book was always better. It's annoying for no reason and makes me want to start an argument. Psycho was a much better movie than book, so was godfather 1&2. You can make arguments both ways for movies like The Shining, Gone with the Wind, Shawshank Redemption, or the True Grit's(either). The book is not always better than the movie. The novel version of The Prestige has a really weird modern day framing device where the main character discovers that Angier is a spooky ghost because someone broke the machine partway through the teleportation process.
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Krinkle posted:Phillip K Dick is a guy who wrote a poo poo load of short stories someone else adapts into a fantastic movie. Also, Bladerunner and Running Man.
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Krinkle posted:Phillip K Dick is a guy who wrote a poo poo load of short stories someone else adapts into a fantastic movie. Minority Report is my favorite example of this because iirc the short story takes the firm position that precrime is a great idea and it's a total one in a million fluke that things went wrong this time.
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Dec 5, 2015 12:50
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Aleph Null posted:Also, Bladerunner and Running Man. Running Man was Stephen King. The movie has a character played by Arnie called 'Ben Richards'. Yes, I believe that is that man's name.
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Dec 5, 2015 13:43
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Who is this "Steven King" fellow? Running man was written by Richard Bachman, idiot.
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Dec 5, 2015 13:58
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The Running Man book is amazing because the hero literally 9/11s the bad guys and it was written decades before that was even a thing.
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Dec 5, 2015 14:05
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Also in the book the only way poor people can make money is by going on dangerous and humiliating TV shows.
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muscles like this? posted:Also in the book the only way poor people can make money is by going on dangerous and humiliating TV shows. And the contestants for the lethal game shows are specifically selected by their likelihood to cause trouble against the system - so, union men, the intelligent, and basically anyone who aspires to be more than they are.
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I always confuse running man with marathon man. The second one is stephen king right? The "is it safe?" movie?
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Krinkle posted:I always confuse running man with marathon man. The second one is stephen king right? The "is it safe?" movie? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bachman 
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Gorilla Salad posted:Remember, Hogwarts is completely safe from intrusion. You can't apparate there, after all, we're told about a million times over the series. I dig this as its like real life where the state tells you all is well and safe but it's not.
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Jesus I thought the movie about a future tv show murder race was Phillip K Dick, and the movie about the weird nazi tooth torture was stephen king. All the styles checked out. I was pretty drat sure.
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Dec 5, 2015 20:03
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Marathon Man is William goldman I think.
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Dec 5, 2015 20:37
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Yeah I looked it up I'm saying I was wrong on both counts and I just can't believe it. It fit my worldview of the two authors so cleanly.
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Holy poo poo. I read William Goldman as William Golding (or confused the two) and thought that Marathon Man and Lord of the Flies were written by the same dude. Marathon Man is awesome but I have an irrational irritation with it. How did the villain have time to set up Dustin Hoffman's character with the femme fatale who leads him to the old farm house? He barely had time to meet her at the college. How did the villain(s) know she could get him to trust her and fall for her so quickly? Both Lord of the Flies movies are pretty great and I have no irrational irritation with them.
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BiggerBoat posted:Holy poo poo. I read William Goldman as William Golding (or confused the two) and thought that Marathon Man and Lord of the Flies were written by the same dude. It's one of those plot holes that are forgivable imo because the whole movie itself is so good. Themes, motivations, acting, everything basically works and entertains and thrills. The Is it safe? scene is so intense and I literally have the opposite of dentophobia or whatever it's called. To be fair I broke a tooth 20 years ago so I get a lot of dental care.
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I suspect the Marathon Man mixup was your brain trying to protect you from recalling that Apt Pupil was made into a motion picture. Yep, the King story where a kid blackmails an aged Nazi-in-hiding into telling him horrible Nazi stories, and then starts fantasizing about being a Nazi concentration camp officer all the time and starts killing homeless people, and finally goes on a shooting spree. Also the old Nazi kills cats in his oven. How can we lose?? The Shawshank Redemption made so much money! Stephen King is box office gold!! . . . oh.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:I suspect the Marathon Man mixup was your brain trying to protect you from recalling that Apt Pupil was made into a motion picture. Yep, the King story where a kid blackmails an aged Nazi-in-hiding into telling him horrible Nazi stories, and then starts fantasizing about being a Nazi concentration camp officer all the time and starts killing homeless people, and finally goes on a shooting spree. Also the old Nazi kills cats in his oven. How can we lose?? The Shawshank Redemption made so much money! Stephen King is box office gold!! Ian McKellan was pretty good in that, as in all things. Guess it didn't save the fail-pile but he did his best.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:I suspect the Marathon Man mixup was your brain trying to protect you from recalling that Apt Pupil was made into a motion picture. Yep, the King story where a kid blackmails an aged Nazi-in-hiding into telling him horrible Nazi stories, and then starts fantasizing about being a Nazi concentration camp officer all the time and starts killing homeless people, and finally goes on a shooting spree. Also the old Nazi kills cats in his oven. How can we lose?? The Shawshank Redemption made so much money! Stephen King is box office gold!! Shawshank was a sleeper hit though I think. If you wanna talk about hit King movies I think only Carrie made a decent return from the cinemas. Like, Misery is pretty good, Dolores Claiborn, etc, but they didn't make that hollywood money. Bunch of TV specials and series that don't count.
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My mistake, I looked it up and Shawshank definitely was not a big moneymaker. I still have no idea why anyone ever thought to adapt Apt Pupil though.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:My mistake, I looked it up and Shawshank definitely was not a big moneymaker. I still have no idea why anyone ever thought to adapt Apt Pupil though. Bryan Singer needs to legitimize his access to boy rear end.
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Dec 6, 2015 04:07
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Snapchat A Titty posted:Shawshank was a sleeper hit though I think. If you wanna talk about hit King movies I think only Carrie made a decent return from the cinemas. Like, Misery is pretty good, Dolores Claiborn, etc, but they didn't make that hollywood money. Bunch of TV specials and series that don't count. Stand By Me made a good amount of money
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The Shining did ok, even though it was a slow burner.
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KozmoNaut posted:The Shining did ok, even though it was a slow burner. To be fair, it was also a Kubrick film so it pretty much had a guaranteed audience. Also it is extremely different from the book (though as already noted, so is Running Man!)
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Jerusalem posted:To be fair, it was also a Kubrick film so it pretty much had a guaranteed audience. Also it is extremely different from the book (though as already noted, so is Running Man!) That was when king started getting involved in his own movies because he didn't like the changes being made in the Shining. And the only moment I remember from the Lord of the Flies movie is the hilarious black and white American one where piggy gets hit by an obviously styrofoam boulder. "Piggy noooooo" -boink-
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