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VendaGoat posted:I have my own opinion on why, but I wish to ask you and the others. Someone who does a great good and then parades it around for selfish self-adornment is still doing a great good, that doesn't make it suddenly bad. But when someone does a great good and makes zero effort for anyone to notice, you know that he did it because it's right and for no other reason.
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Choco1980 posted:Someone who does a great good and then parades it around for selfish self-adornment is still doing a great good, that doesn't make it suddenly bad. But when someone does a great good and makes zero effort for anyone to notice, you know that he did it because it's right and for no other reason. It's also generational. So many people did extraordinary things or were witness to them. A lot of painful memories too. They didn't talk about it or dwell on it. There was no social media to exhibit themselves on. They just got on with their lives.
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This being the badass thread, it's worth remembering that not being an egotistical self-publicist is also pretty loving badass. Kind of the opposite of Brian Blessed who plays a character and lives it up to the fullest. There's room in the world for both, and it would be a far poorer world without either. Me, I'd be casually mentioning that one time I saved all those kids from the Nazis, because c'mon the temptation to ride that glory train would be hard to resist. I respect him being able to maintain a dignified and humble silence about it. We used to look upon humility as a virtue. These days it's a lost art. For more of my thoughts on the importance of humility please follow my Twitter and Snapchat, and remember to like and subscribe to this post.
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It might also be guilt. Sure he saved all those kids, but what about that one trainload that disappeared? What about all the others he couldn't save? Probably a whole lot of complex feelings surrounding the whole thing that he wasn't keen to revisit.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:It might also be guilt. Sure he saved all those kids, but what about that one trainload that disappeared? What about all the others he couldn't save? Probably a whole lot of complex feelings surrounding the whole thing that he wasn't keen to revisit. Yes, absolutely. "One more name on the list, one more rescued, selling my car could have saved ... several others." Human mind is a kind of a dick and especially if you had to choose who you rescue, one probably blames himself for being so unable to do anything. At least with the veterans of war, many of them are kinda blaming themselves for the deaths of those who walked into an ambush or took the guard duty when the sniper got better of them, because they had reassignment and weren't there to take the bullet that killed someone else.
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Der Kyhe posted:Yes, absolutely. "One more name on the list, one more rescued, selling my car could have saved ... several others." Human mind is a kind of a dick and especially if you had to choose who you rescue, one probably blames himself for being so unable to do anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt
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Exactly. It is remarkable how little attention some people pay to this problem. Here in Finland there was a saying "no complete man returned from the war, ever" and yet, jingoism and thrive to glorify war as a factory for heroes still persists. I know that my grandfather had psychotic episodes and nightmares where my grandmom had to literally beat him with a broom to get him "out of the war" during the middle of the night. And he was one of the ones who were better of, and made a relatively successful life and career out of his latter life. EDIT: The man was a complete teetotaler for the rest of his life after the war, because he knew that taking a couple of drinks would make his mind go immediately back to the front against Soviet in his sleep. And yet, sometimes it did. The last case was something like 30 years after the war. Der Kyhe has a new favorite as of 18:22 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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drat. Well done.
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Reminds me of this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MroW3Ew3SYU
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I'm in love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWpo3v73v3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JHigEpDpyI e: someone post some more badass buskers up in here starkebn has a new favorite as of 06:04 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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starkebn posted:I'm in love https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle_King No videos of her busking but that's how she got discovered. She is also rob schneiders daughter and she doesn't ride his fame.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq-54gox6-k
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snergle posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle_King uh yeah there's probably a reason for that last part
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Holy poo poo.
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Travis Pastrana already did it with bonus giving less of a poo poo attitude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRLzvPioKG0
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Aesop Poprock posted:Travis Pastrana already did it with bonus giving less of a poo poo attitude Also very insane, also very cool. Not quite as terrifying (to me at least) though as the other dude had to pass through a cloud. I can't get over the fact they might have lost sight of him in there just long enough for things to go really bad.
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snergle posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle_King She looks just like him, poor girl.
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 My mum took this photo at her school in the 70's, and found it earlier today. That's Darth Vader. Apparently he was a really nice guy, and absolutely no kids misbehaved when he was there.
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Roblo posted:
They saw what happened to Admiral Ozzel.
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Roblo posted:
That's awesome! Back in the day an old friend worked at Disney's Star Wars Weekends and got to meet Prouse backstage. He indulged her in performing the whole first scene of Leia and Vader, he still knew all the lines. 
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:That's awesome! Back in the day an old friend worked at Disney's Star Wars Weekends and got to meet Prouse backstage. He indulged her in performing the whole first scene of Leia and Vader, he still knew all the lines. Despite never getting to speak them. I still want to see west country farmer version of Darth though.
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They wanted someone physically intimidating to play Vader, so they got a 6'7" bodybuilder. He's also the guy who trained Christopher Reeves for his Superman role. 
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Josef bugman posted:Despite never getting to speak them. I still want to see west country farmer version of Darth though. He actually performed all of Vader's lines on set while filming, and was both surprised and pissed off when he saw the movie and heard James Earl Jones' voice.
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Dr. Clockwork posted:He actually performed all of Vader's lines on set while filming, and was both surprised and pissed off when he saw the movie and heard James Earl Jones' voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQFho0_G1VI Oooohh....sooooo scary. 
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I wish the Star Wars Trilogy BR set I bought came with all those extra features. I guess I'll have to steal the DVD set from my parents' house.
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Big.
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Say Nothing posted:They wanted someone physically intimidating to play Vader, so they got a 6'7" bodybuilder. He was also Mr. Alexander's bodyguard in A Clockwork Orange 
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Bumblefuck! posted:
It's a lucky thing the Darth Vader role came along or he might not ever have gotten to wear clothes.
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Beastie posted:I wish the Star Wars Trilogy BR set I bought came with all those extra features. I guess I'll have to steal the DVD set from my parents' house. They put the extras on the DVD set but not the BR? That seems kind of backwards to how it usually goes but then again, Lucas
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Roblo posted:
I can concur with that, because I met him when he was the Green Cross Code Man. On the other hand, Prowse is now a UKIP supporter. :/
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:
Ironically, when he was cast for Star Wars he was given the choice of Darth Vader or Chewie, and he chose Vader because he didn't want to have to wear a mask. Jedit posted:On the other hand, Prowse is now a UKIP supporter. :/ Well that's bullshit, but actually kind of in character for Darth Vader.
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He's also banned from all official Star Wars conventions for pissing off George Lucas.
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Say Nothing posted:He's also banned from all official Star Wars conventions for pissing off George Lucas. Yet another reason to love the man.
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Say Nothing posted:He's also banned from all official Star Wars conventions for pissing off George Lucas. Sooooo what's the story here? What'd he do to piss old no-chin off?
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Arrath posted:Sooooo what's the story here? What'd he do to piss old no-chin off? Gonna guess he bitched that Lucas went with James Earl Jones as the voice of Darth Vader.
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David Prowse doesn't care for your spoiler alerts.
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Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prowse quote:Prowse claims his contract for Return of the Jedi included a share of profits on the film, and although it grossed $475 million on a $32 million budget, Prowse explained in an interview in 2009 that he has never received residuals for his performance. Due to "Hollywood accounting", the actual profits are sent as "distribution fees" to the studio, leaving nothing to distribute to others.
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Arrath posted:Sooooo what's the story here? What'd he do to piss old no-chin off? Quick and dirty is Lucas claims Prowse was paid money Prowse says he never got.
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