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Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

cumshitter posted:

cum.... pisser????

I do not believe that is biologically possible

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radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Kempo Yellow Belt posted:

Unsportsmanlike imo

I heard there is a boar problem down south, and a friend has been telling me for years to come down there. gotta use our night vision scopes to get them at night. that is apparently the best time to catch them. and apparently the meat taste really good. i really ought to check it out.

Yeah it is bad in places and basically open season year round. They are a loving menace throughout the entire South.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
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Kempo Yellow Belt posted:

Unsportsmanlike imo

I heard there is a boar problem down south, and a friend has been telling me for years to come down there. gotta use our night vision scopes to get them at night. that is apparently the best time to catch them. and apparently the meat taste really good. i really ought to check it out.

sometimes the louisiana state government hasta hire sharpshooters to go around in helicopters and kill the wild swamp boars it's a huge problem

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006


good gently caress coal

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

sometimes the louisiana state government hasta hire sharpshooters to go around in helicopters and kill the wild swamp boars it's a huge problem

I watched a show once about them shooting nutrias because apparently farming nutrias for fur was a thing in the 70s and it didn't work out so everyone just let their mini-beavers go and now they're loving everything up

suburban virgin
Jul 26, 2007
Highly qualified lurker.
More coal to fuel America's mighty fleet of dreadnaughts!

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

zegermans posted:

good gently caress coal

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


euphronius posted:

I remeber when homer has a sand which for weeks that he kept eating

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

euphronius posted:

I remeber when homer has a sand which for weeks that he kept eating

this post is much better if u pretend theres no errors in it

Kempo Yellow Belt
Jan 5, 2012
Fun Shoe

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

sometimes the louisiana state government hasta hire sharpshooters to go around in helicopters and kill the wild swamp boars it's a huge problem

I personally abhor violence. But sign me up. Does it pay well?

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Marge

I'd like to be alone with the sand which for a moment

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
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zegermans posted:

I watched a show once about them shooting nutrias because apparently farming nutrias for fur was a thing in the 70s and it didn't work out so everyone just let their mini-beavers go and now they're loving everything up

yep they dig up the canals and gently caress up plants like crazy in the swamp they're invasive as all hell

good jerky tho

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Agrajag posted:

so what youre saying is that this smells like what i think it smells like



can't wait for another hurricane to kill every human in that photo

new kind of cat
May 8, 2007



thats a lot of cum

new kind of cat fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Mar 17, 2017

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

lol but her speeeches!!!!!

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


keevo posted:

Wait what was this?

So what happens when they realize they're affected?

http://www.snopes.com/2016/07/26/father-of-usa-freedom-kids-considering-suit-against-trump/

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

GOP-holding-onto-Trump.jpeg

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007


this is me with the trump thread

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004
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snopes is fake news

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


H.P. Hovercraft posted:

snopes is fake news

ur the fake news

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/842510803982999552

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Solarin posted:

this is me with the trump thread

are you the sandwich

Grizzled Patriarch
Mar 27, 2014

These dentures won't stop me from tearing out jugulars in Thunderdome.



Epic High Five posted:

They don't think they rely on them because they view their consumption of government services as grim necessity, while all others' consumption of it is thievery by lazy thugs

They assume they will be exempted from the effects because they "deserve" their benefits

Plus a lot don't even realize that their programs are government funded



How do almost 30% of people on welfare think they aren't benefiting from government programs? :psyduck:

Like ok I kinda see how someone who is kinda dumb might not connect the dots with tax credits or something, but what the hell do those people think government programs *are* if stuff like welfare and food stamps don't ring a bell? Those are literally the go-to examples even on the insane-person talk shows.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
Slippery Tilde

gettin comfy and MAGAing irl

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Trudeau like legit is dating ivanka trump and it's not a story

I don't understand

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
It's over money though, and not over being somehow tricked into becoming part of fascism?

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Office Pig posted:

are you the sandwich

im the sandwich after its put in the trash

That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

KARL: I was just hoping you could elaborate a bit more on the wiretapping claims, what specific evidence has President Trump provided to support such explosive allegations?

SPICER: Right, okay. I answered this already, but I'll say it again.The second shot of World War Z, if I recall, is Brad Pitt and wife lying in bed til their kids burst into the room. Anyone watching the film again (although, god, why would you?) should ---

KARL: I don't see how this addresses my question, I'm asking about --

SPICER: JONATHAN, JONATHAN CALM DOWN. I'm ANSWERING your question, if you'll listen. Anyone watching the film again (although god, why would you?) should pay attention to the painting over their bed; it seems to depict a trail of blood leading to a black table. The wife then calls the kids 'little creatures', in an unsubtle metaphor.

What does this mean, though? Professor Clumsy's reading is that the film is kind of a dream of Brad Pitt throwing off the shackles of domesticity to feel like a big zombie-killer. Though he says he doesn't want to, his unconscious desire is to leave his family behind.

I'd argue the opposite: The opening scenes equate zombie combat with doing the dishes. The whole world war barely seems apocalyptic because it represents status quo. This, more than anything else, explains the frequent returns to the family on the boat. Brad Pitt going off to fight is an everyday occurrence that puts bread on the table. There was already blood over their bed from the beginning.

This is where the film gets questionable, because although we're told in expository dialogue that the zombies are all about the deterritorializing effects of capitalism and abstract stuff like that, the more concrete imagery is of infested slum tenements, their implicit truce with a homeless man, and their upsetting a lame multiculturalism parade in Israel.

Yep, these zombies are the downtrodden poor, the social abject. The inhuman excluded. What does it mean when the Latino family becomes bitten, absorbed by their tenement, and only their son escapes by following Brad Pitt? There's something very wrong with the film, and it reaches a head with an entire segment of Israel and Palestine joining forces against... Palestine. The liberal, multiculturalism imagery is extremely on-point. Everyone is everyone is equal - so long as they fit in, act nice and sing happy songs. That's the message.

This logic spills over into the airplane sequence. Brad Pitt escapes with the few remaining Israelis in the first class seats of a jet liner, beating the zombie Palestinians in coach to death with the carry-on luggage. The first class vs coach imagery was not unintentional - see the stupid purse-dog thrown in for easy satire.

KARL: I'm still not seeing h---

SPICER: Jonathan, PLEASE. This is the point where Lindelof jumped in to rewrite the film, which should be fairly overt from the sudden appearance of his trademark [spoiler]Christ imagery. The whole system hosed, Brad Pitt blows a hole in the plane (intertextuality with Man Of Steel) and emerges with a spear through his side, having given up his phone and left his family without their meal ticket. Lindelof also wrote the opening scenes of domestic bliss sustained with blood, so Clumsy is right that the film is 'anti-family' in that sense. But this only occurs after the plane explodes, and is totally divorced from the globetrotting zombie-shooting antics.

And even then, it's not quite enough. Despite Lindelof's best efforts, this is a liberal Brad Pitt Jesus, sitting in a first-class seat. By the end of the film, he'll be helping the UN distribute little humanitarian care packages while massacring the inhumans and piling them into mass graves. It's the Israel sequence all over again. Instead of being an authentic Jesus figure, Brad comes across as a poverty tourist, 'slumming it' so that he can blend in with 'the other half' - before immediately heading back to scrub his hands. Compare with, say, Land of the Dead and its zombie-proletarian revolution.

The film doesn't follow through on its own logic of joining the zombies through infirmity - crippling alcoholism, loss of limbs. Not this quick-fix stuff. Things return to normal extremely quickly, with the images of mass graves intercut with Brad hugging his wife again. Blood hanging over the bed. It's extremely cynical.

But even overlooking that, this film is incredibly, distractingly poorly-made. Things stick out, like the random, pointless flashback to the Korean doctor getting bit. I really enjoyed the stump-bandaging sequence because, during the entire dramatic actors' showcase, the extra in the seat beside them is just sitting there not interacting with them in any way. There's the dumb shot where the camera zooms down into the zombie's eyeball for some reason. A suicide is presented so elliptically that the dude may as well have walked offscreen to take a poo poo, were it not for the badly-looped dialogue.

As anyone who's seen The Dark Knight knows, having characters narrate what's going on is a sign of their mediocrity. It's a surefire way to make them seem comically dumb compared to the real heroes, who are on top of things. The problem, in this film, is that every character is the 'is that a bazooka?' guy. The monologue about North Korea and the 'tenth man' thing have little to do with anything, are a supreme example of 'tell don't show', and aren't even well-written.

As pointed out before, there's not one great shot in the entire movie. The zombies aren't threatening at all, and PG-13 has nothing to do with it. It's okay that they never figure out what the zombies are. The problem is we have no idea what they do. The opening sequence shows ants swarming over a corpse, slowly eroding it. Why can't you have the imagery of people being engulfed by the swarm and vanishing? It's easy to convey thst sort of threat without gore. See the cow being fed to the velociraptors in Jurassic park, for example!

In the entire first attack scene, the zombies just kinda pounce at people and hit their heads on windows. There's no sense of the geometry of the swarm, when the opening credits show imagery of animals flocking and herding (intertextuality with After Earth). There's no clear pattern to their movement, except in the handful of CGI wave shots that are so badly-integrated as to seem like non sequiturs. This is the most obvious gulf in style between a film's all-CG and live-action shots since The Avengers.

Earlier, I predicted that the film would resemble Inception, with the flood of zombies representing the breakdown of symbolic reality and the capitalist dreamstate. I was close, except the dream doesn't break down. The zombies are banal, and so is fighting them. Everything goes as planned, and there's surprisingly little surrealism. In fact we only see the monsters clearly when they're failing to attack anyone - which makes Pitt's revelatory flashbacks even more ridiculous. The zombies are such non-entities that it's like reading those 'Garfield Without Garfield' comic-strip edits. This movie is such a shameful trainwreck-style debacle that would've been a great camp joke it were fun to watch at all.

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011



I have two cats that I rescued/adopted. Am I a MAGA-dude now or a cuck or a libertarian? I don't even know anymore

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


euphronius posted:

Trudeau like legit is dating ivanka trump and it's not a story

I don't understand

donny is gonna be jealous!

... of ivanka, he wants that Canadian Easy D

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



euphronius posted:

Trudeau like legit is dating ivanka trump and it's not a story

I don't understand

she gets to have sex with two different north american heads of government and there's nothing her wimpy 12-year-old-looking husband can do

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

That DICK! posted:

KARL: I was just hoping you could elaborate a bit more on the wiretapping claims, what specific evidence has President Trump provided to support such explosive allegations?

SPICER: Right, okay. I answered this already, but I'll say it again.The second shot of World War Z, if I recall, is Brad Pitt and wife lying in bed til their kids burst into the room. Anyone watching the film again (although, god, why would you?) should ---

KARL: I don't see how this addresses my question, I'm asking about --

SPICER: JONATHAN, JONATHAN CALM DOWN. I'm ANSWERING your question, if you'll listen. Anyone watching the film again (although god, why would you?) should pay attention to the painting over their bed; it seems to depict a trail of blood leading to a black table. The wife then calls the kids 'little creatures', in an unsubtle metaphor.

What does this mean, though? Professor Clumsy's reading is that the film is kind of a dream of Brad Pitt throwing off the shackles of domesticity to feel like a big zombie-killer. Though he says he doesn't want to, his unconscious desire is to leave his family behind.

I'd argue the opposite: The opening scenes equate zombie combat with doing the dishes. The whole world war barely seems apocalyptic because it represents status quo. This, more than anything else, explains the frequent returns to the family on the boat. Brad Pitt going off to fight is an everyday occurrence that puts bread on the table. There was already blood over their bed from the beginning.

This is where the film gets questionable, because although we're told in expository dialogue that the zombies are all about the deterritorializing effects of capitalism and abstract stuff like that, the more concrete imagery is of infested slum tenements, their implicit truce with a homeless man, and their upsetting a lame multiculturalism parade in Israel.

Yep, these zombies are the downtrodden poor, the social abject. The inhuman excluded. What does it mean when the Latino family becomes bitten, absorbed by their tenement, and only their son escapes by following Brad Pitt? There's something very wrong with the film, and it reaches a head with an entire segment of Israel and Palestine joining forces against... Palestine. The liberal, multiculturalism imagery is extremely on-point. Everyone is everyone is equal - so long as they fit in, act nice and sing happy songs. That's the message.

This logic spills over into the airplane sequence. Brad Pitt escapes with the few remaining Israelis in the first class seats of a jet liner, beating the zombie Palestinians in coach to death with the carry-on luggage. The first class vs coach imagery was not unintentional - see the stupid purse-dog thrown in for easy satire.

KARL: I'm still not seeing h---

SPICER: Jonathan, PLEASE. This is the point where Lindelof jumped in to rewrite the film, which should be fairly overt from the sudden appearance of his trademark [spoiler]Christ imagery. The whole system hosed, Brad Pitt blows a hole in the plane (intertextuality with Man Of Steel) and emerges with a spear through his side, having given up his phone and left his family without their meal ticket. Lindelof also wrote the opening scenes of domestic bliss sustained with blood, so Clumsy is right that the film is 'anti-family' in that sense. But this only occurs after the plane explodes, and is totally divorced from the globetrotting zombie-shooting antics.

And even then, it's not quite enough. Despite Lindelof's best efforts, this is a liberal Brad Pitt Jesus, sitting in a first-class seat. By the end of the film, he'll be helping the UN distribute little humanitarian care packages while massacring the inhumans and piling them into mass graves. It's the Israel sequence all over again. Instead of being an authentic Jesus figure, Brad comes across as a poverty tourist, 'slumming it' so that he can blend in with 'the other half' - before immediately heading back to scrub his hands. Compare with, say, Land of the Dead and its zombie-proletarian revolution.

The film doesn't follow through on its own logic of joining the zombies through infirmity - crippling alcoholism, loss of limbs. Not this quick-fix stuff. Things return to normal extremely quickly, with the images of mass graves intercut with Brad hugging his wife again. Blood hanging over the bed. It's extremely cynical.

But even overlooking that, this film is incredibly, distractingly poorly-made. Things stick out, like the random, pointless flashback to the Korean doctor getting bit. I really enjoyed the stump-bandaging sequence because, during the entire dramatic actors' showcase, the extra in the seat beside them is just sitting there not interacting with them in any way. There's the dumb shot where the camera zooms down into the zombie's eyeball for some reason. A suicide is presented so elliptically that the dude may as well have walked offscreen to take a poo poo, were it not for the badly-looped dialogue.

As anyone who's seen The Dark Knight knows, having characters narrate what's going on is a sign of their mediocrity. It's a surefire way to make them seem comically dumb compared to the real heroes, who are on top of things. The problem, in this film, is that every character is the 'is that a bazooka?' guy. The monologue about North Korea and the 'tenth man' thing have little to do with anything, are a supreme example of 'tell don't show', and aren't even well-written.

As pointed out before, there's not one great shot in the entire movie. The zombies aren't threatening at all, and PG-13 has nothing to do with it. It's okay that they never figure out what the zombies are. The problem is we have no idea what they do. The opening sequence shows ants swarming over a corpse, slowly eroding it. Why can't you have the imagery of people being engulfed by the swarm and vanishing? It's easy to convey thst sort of threat without gore. See the cow being fed to the velociraptors in Jurassic park, for example!

In the entire first attack scene, the zombies just kinda pounce at people and hit their heads on windows. There's no sense of the geometry of the swarm, when the opening credits show imagery of animals flocking and herding (intertextuality with After Earth). There's no clear pattern to their movement, except in the handful of CGI wave shots that are so badly-integrated as to seem like non sequiturs. This is the most obvious gulf in style between a film's all-CG and live-action shots since The Avengers.

Earlier, I predicted that the film would resemble Inception, with the flood of zombies representing the breakdown of symbolic reality and the capitalist dreamstate. I was close, except the dream doesn't break down. The zombies are banal, and so is fighting them. Everything goes as planned, and there's surprisingly little surrealism. In fact we only see the monsters clearly when they're failing to attack anyone - which makes Pitt's revelatory flashbacks even more ridiculous. The zombies are such non-entities that it's like reading those 'Garfield Without Garfield' comic-strip edits. This movie is such a shameful trainwreck-style debacle that would've been a great camp joke it were fun to watch at all.

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Office Pig posted:

are you the sandwich

i'm the sandwich fungi

suburban virgin
Jul 26, 2007
Highly qualified lurker.

euphronius posted:

Trudeau like legit is dating ivanka trump and it's not a story

I don't understand

That poo poo happens to me in Crusader Kings all the time. I think everything's going great as the King of Fuckville and it turns out some no-name nothing vassal is banging my wife-daughter behind my back.

radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

euphronius posted:

Trudeau like legit is dating ivanka trump and it's not a story

I don't understand

I hope they release a sex tape and Trump declares war on Canada.

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



does it create some kind of royal union between canada and the united states if donald trump and justin trudeau are eskimo brothers?

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

How do almost 30% of people on welfare think they aren't benefiting from government programs? :psyduck:

Like ok I kinda see how someone who is kinda dumb might not connect the dots with tax credits or something, but what the hell do those people think government programs *are* if stuff like welfare and food stamps don't ring a bell? Those are literally the go-to examples even on the insane-person talk shows.

they're white

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


lol cnn is doing some hard hitting analysis of all of donny's campaign lies at the moment


that's some real good reportin' cnn, please send it in the time machine to july 2015 now, thanks!!!

Kempo Yellow Belt
Jan 5, 2012
Fun Shoe

That place is still going strong? Last I checked it, I want to say Poe's law, but it was like son of Poe's law or bastardization thereof. What I mean to say is, I literally had an existential crisis and almost drank myself to death. But these are the risks I'm willing to take to feed my political addiction to Donald J. Trump.

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Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

euphronius posted:

Trudeau like legit is dating ivanka trump and it's not a story

I don't understand

Literally the first thing he's done after a year with a majority

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