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Red Bones posted:Statham got into acting because he spent a lot of time growing up working as a street vendor selling counterfeit goods while he was trying to start a modelling career, and then Guy Richie met him and cast him because he needed someone to play a dodgy street vendor. His entire image is "buff normal guy". Oh I know, I actually really like Jason Statham. It's great that he's managed to make a career out of being a totally average English guy who punches stuff. Just unexpected.
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Werong Bustope posted:Oh I know, I actually really like Jason Statham. It's great that he's managed to make a career out of being a totally average English guy who punches stuff. Just unexpected. He was also an internationally competing diver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWrINMm1aCI
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# ? Aug 26, 2016 23:26 |
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Yeah Statham rocks but I don't know what world y'all live in where he's anywhere close to average.
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# ? Aug 26, 2016 23:27 |
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Jim Sterling in particular confuses me because while he actually makes some pretty strong points that I often agree with, his whole look is completely at odds with his usual message. Yes, you have a good argument about microtransactions but why are you telling me this from a fuckin Nazi podium Edit: Actually, speaking of Nazis, some movie (Iron Sky, I think?) hired dudes to go around a convention I was at, dressed in Nazi uniforms to promote the movie, heiling and everything. I guess it was a good marketing move in that it immediately told me the movie was not for me? Kojiro has a new favorite as of 23:31 on Aug 26, 2016 |
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Kojiro posted:Edit: Actually, speaking of Nazis, some movie (Iron Sky, I think?) hired dudes to go around a convention I was at, dressed in Nazi uniforms to promote the movie, heiling and everything. I guess it was a good marketing move in that it immediately told me the movie was not for me? Did they get beat up? Please tell me they got beat up.
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# ? Aug 26, 2016 23:33 |
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dpbjinc posted:Did they get beat up? Please tell me they got beat up. Nope, there were a lot of dumb teens posing and heiling along with them though! I was tabling next to a German friend of mine and man, she was livid.
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# ? Aug 26, 2016 23:35 |
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Kojiro posted:Nope, there were a lot of dumb teens posing and heiling along with them though! I was tabling next to a German friend of mine and man, she was livid. Why, she forgot her uniform?
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# ? Aug 26, 2016 23:40 |
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ravenkult posted:Why, she forgot her uniform?
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# ? Aug 26, 2016 23:50 |
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Werong Bustope posted:Oh I know, I actually really like Jason Statham. It's great that he's managed to make a career out of being a totally average English guy who punches stuff. Just unexpected. I always thought that he got some roles because he could be made to look a bit like Bruce Willis, but not as old. Or as expensive Or as difficult to work with.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 00:06 |
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I guess maybe not marketing, exactly, but a study set up to make teens less likely to get pregnant by saddling them with digital babies mimicking the demands of a six-week old infant didn't work out quite right: [url]http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9FPHnmyYlggJ:https://www.theaustralian.com.au/ne...n&ct=clnk&gl=us[/url] quote:Digital baby dolls that wake up crying in the middle of the night and need feeding, rocking and nappy changes are supposed to deter teenagers from falling pregnant. Whoops!
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 00:32 |
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The term "falling pregnant" sets my teeth on edge. Is that the standard phrasing in the rest of the English-speaking world?
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 01:40 |
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Normally one would want to avoid falling while pregnant.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 01:43 |
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What the hell do you need an $80,000 baby robot to do that, my elementary school was doing the same thing with a sack of flour, a shock sticker, and an alarm circuit that "cried" at random intervals and needed to be acknowledged or else it'd count a foul. Anecdotally and rumor based but by the time my class was supposed to do it they'd discontinued the assignment for similar reasons to the study conclusions, which is the kids sticking their baby in the closet for a weekend and taking the C for not acknowledging the alarm enough were freaking everybody out and more than a few girls went baby crazy for a few months afterwords.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 01:47 |
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How the hell does duct taping a tamagochi to a cabbage patch kid cost eighty thousand dollars.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 02:16 |
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Humboldt Squid posted:How the hell does duct taping a tamagochi to a cabbage patch kid cost eighty thousand dollars. I'm hoping they mean that all 1250 babies cost 80,000, or 64 dollars each.
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walrusman posted:The term "falling pregnant" sets my teeth on edge. Is that the standard phrasing in the rest of the English-speaking world? No, I've never heard it termed like that before.
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Johnny Aztec posted:No, I've never heard it termed like that before. Uh, it is really common usage. So and so fell pregnant, they've fallen pregnant, someone falls pregnant.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 04:02 |
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It's like falling unconscious, or falling ill.
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How is babby formed? How girl fall to the pragnant?
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Geokinesis posted:Uh, it is really common usage. I really never heard it that way. I'm an American and always heard it as "she got pregnant".
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Geokinesis posted:Uh, it is really common usage. I've never heard that before. Is it some regional thing? Like how Minnesota is the one place in the country where it's called "Duck, Duck, Grey Duck" instead of "Duck, Duck, Goose?"
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 04:37 |
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I guess a UK thing then. There is an article written by an utter prick that does go into the origins slightly, but ughh the guy is such a tool: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3626615/How-words-fall-pregnant-with-the-possibility-of-being-twisted.html
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 04:39 |
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walrusman posted:The term "falling pregnant" sets my teeth on edge. Is that the standard phrasing in the rest of the English-speaking world? It's pretty old-fashioned, but not uncommon.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 05:01 |
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English is heavily influenced by French. The French word for fall is tomber and the French word for pregnant is enceinte. So tomber enceinte (how the French describe falling/getting pregnant) in English is fall pregnant....Geokinesis posted:I guess a UK thing then. ....oh no, sorry, wait a minute, it's clearly the fault of the loving welfare state. thank god we had the Telegraph* around to clear that one up. * and a so-called journalist who was blaming Hillsborough on drunk Liverpudlians as recently as 2012.
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Hardcordion posted:I'm hoping they mean that all 1250 babies cost 80,000, or 64 dollars each. 1250 total students, but not all at the same time. I think the 'babies' cost about $500 a piece.
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Humboldt Squid posted:How the hell does duct taping a tamagochi to a cabbage patch kid cost eighty thousand dollars. I know right? they could have used those digimon ones, too. "my baby evolved into a t-rex" "my baby got into a fight with another baby and got set on fire" "my baby is a literal poo poo monster"
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Werong Bustope posted:Oh I know, I actually really like Jason Statham. It's great that he's managed to make a career out of being a totally average English guy who punches stuff. Just unexpected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFB3q0mMBK8&t=104s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvhgG9ee9Aw&t=26s Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 09:41 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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mind the walrus posted:Yeah Statham rocks but I don't know what world y'all live in where he's anywhere close to average. Statham is "average" in the sense that he's a lot closer to the majority of the UK population than a lot of successful British actors, especially ones that become internationally successful. A huge portion of successful British actors (people like Hiddleston and Cumberbatch, for example) are from wealthy backgrounds and are privately educated, and Statham isn't. He didn't go to acting school, he has an accent that isn't received pronunciation/standard English, and he didn't come from a rich family and attend a private school. The UK has a class system that's deeply entrenched in all kinds of ways, including the disproportionate amount of upper class people holding well-paid acting roles, and Statham bucks that trend by being much more of an average guy and representing a group of British people that often don't get represented very much in acting, especially outside of the UK.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 09:57 |
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Ah that makes much much much more sense. My mistake.
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Red Bones posted:Statham is "average" in the sense that he's a lot closer to the majority of the UK population than a lot of successful British actors, especially ones that become internationally successful. A huge portion of successful British actors (people like Hiddleston and Cumberbatch, for example) are from wealthy backgrounds and are privately educated, and Statham isn't. He didn't go to acting school, he has an accent that isn't received pronunciation/standard English, and he didn't come from a rich family and attend a private school. The UK has a class system that's deeply entrenched in all kinds of ways, including the disproportionate amount of upper class people holding well-paid acting roles, and Statham bucks that trend by being much more of an average guy and representing a group of British people that often don't get represented very much in acting, especially outside of the UK. Yeah, that's what I was getting at. It's really unusual to see a guy who you could have gone to school with or met down the pub making bank on the international stage as a Hollywood actor, and I love him for it.
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Red Bones posted:Statham is "average" in the sense that he's a lot closer to the majority of the UK population than a lot of successful British actors, especially ones that become internationally successful. A huge portion of successful British actors (people like Hiddleston and Cumberbatch, for example) are from wealthy backgrounds and are privately educated, and Statham isn't. He didn't go to acting school, he has an accent that isn't received pronunciation/standard English, and he didn't come from a rich family and attend a private school. The UK has a class system that's deeply entrenched in all kinds of ways, including the disproportionate amount of upper class people holding well-paid acting roles, and Statham bucks that trend by being much more of an average guy and representing a group of British people that often don't get represented very much in acting, especially outside of the UK. Semi-related, it's been interesting to see that some recent Doctors from the Doctor Who revival have specifically angled for this. The first revival Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, specifically stuck with a Northern accent because the Doctor always struck him as a very brash, working-class figure (especially his) and he thought that needed to be reflected in his speech. Peter Capaldi's the third Scottish actor to play the Doctor, but the first one to play him as Scottish, in part because the Scottish relationship with England lines up with the Doctor's relationship with authority, especially in recent years. There's been a few really neat little marketing and image choices that have been made and worked in Doctor Who beyond that (David Tennant had his Doctor wear glasses so that kids with glasses could have a role model that wasn't just a nerd), as well as some REALLY bad ones. Their costume designer in the 80s leaned WAY too far into considering Doctor Who a 'children's show', and regardless of whether you think that's true or not I think you can agree that any viewpoint that results in this is a bad one:
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 10:36 |
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Fun trivia about the poor guy wearing that coat: * He was cast after some Producer saw him casually entertaining people at a party * He was actually a good actor despite being given some of the worst material Doctor Who has produced (which if you know anything about the show carries a lot of weight) * While he was on the show itself was dicked around with mercilessly by a BBC head who hated science fiction, this show, and this guy in particular; schedule changes, low promotion, benching the show for a year at a time, and so on * That BBC head was also loving this guy's ex-wife. Want to talk about a stiff upper lip and a proper stage face? Goddamn.
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mind the walrus posted:Want to talk about a stiff upper lip and a proper stage face? Goddamn. Not as impressive as Sylvester McCoy getting set on fire by an explosion and just finishing the scene because he knew they wouldn't be able to redo it.
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mind the walrus posted:Fun trivia about the poor guy wearing that coat: I hated that guy for his portrayal of the Doctor. Years later, when I realised that his was just an actor, I felt quite guilty. Not least because the Whovian historians seem to ignore him. https://vimeo.com/81726249
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mind the walrus posted:Fun trivia about the poor guy wearing that coat: On the upside for him, he's generally considered the best at the audio drama Who stories they put out. He's got a fantastic handle on what his Doctor should have been like, so he's been able to go through a pretty solid redemption of quality. Similar goes for Paul McGann, who played the Doctor in a mediocre 1996 TV movie that was meant to be a pilot for a revival. Given what we know about the plans for that revival, some of it would totally count for this thread if it actually got the green light.Their redesign for the Daleks was indistinguishable from a Quake monster.
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Tiggum posted:Not as impressive as Sylvester McCoy getting set on fire by an explosion and just finishing the scene because he knew they wouldn't be able to redo it. Not even a flinch.
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 00:50 |
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mind the walrus posted:Yeah Statham rocks but I don't know what world y'all live in where he's anywhere close to average. Comedy option: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOpsnNf9Wj0
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Sereri posted:Comedy option: Anyone else recognize the leekspin song?
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Sereri posted:Comedy option:
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Wilford Cutlery posted:Anyone else recognize the leekspin song? Sounds like a Hatsune Miku version too, the voice is distinctive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15PE7iGT0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V23VvF8SQyI
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