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trickybiscuits
Jan 13, 2008

yospos
I love the stereotype (?) of dads as having superhero reflexes in an emergency but the only thing they ask in return is to make their terrible jokes and fall asleep on the sofa in peace.

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BovineFury
Oct 28, 2007
I moo for great justice!
Bullfighting can have negative effects on raising testosterone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NEpfBHMm8w

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11/20/bullfighter-gored-in-groin-carried-out-ring-bleeding-and-screaming-in-pain.html?ICID=ref_fark

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Phanatic posted:

Guy hires a hit man to murder his wife.

The hit man turns out to be an undercover cop. Guy is arrested.

While awaiting trial for hiring a hit man to murder his wife, guy hires another hit man to murder his wife and the undercover cop who posed as a hit man.

This new hit man is also an undercover cop.

http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/16-1896P-01A.pdf

I thought everyone knew that every single "hitman" you've ever known is actually a cop?

SpacePig
Apr 4, 2007

Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.

Mods please change my name to "Gored in the Groin"

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEjag-a7TyU

RyokoTK
Feb 12, 2012

I am cool.

Memento posted:

I thought everyone knew that every single "hitman" you've ever known is actually a cop?

Their job is only to find and arrest the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet, yeah.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

railroad graffiti

I'm the ICID=ref_fark

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord

Phanatic posted:

Guy hires a hit man to murder his wife.

The hit man turns out to be an undercover cop. Guy is arrested.

While awaiting trial for hiring a hit man to murder his wife, guy hires another hit man to murder his wife and the undercover cop who posed as a hit man.

This new hit man is also an undercover cop.

http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/16-1896P-01A.pdf

I predict...someone using the term 'entrapment' wrong in the very near future!

Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe

Memento posted:

I thought everyone knew that every single "hitman" you've ever known is actually a cop?

They always overlook the possibility of the person they ask going to the cops too. Like, I know precisely 0 people that I could ask about if they know a hitman where they wouldn't immediately be like "dude I know we're friends but that's hosed up and I'm calling the cops."

It also seems common that they ask some random acquaintance, like hey lemme ask that shady dude from my bowling league, I'm sure he's totally discreet and looking to be the middle-man in a murder for hire scheme.

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Phanatic posted:

Guy hires a hit man to murder his wife.

The hit man turns out to be an undercover cop. Guy is arrested.

While awaiting trial for hiring a hit man to murder his wife, guy hires another hit man to murder his wife and the undercover cop who posed as a hit man.

This new hit man is also an undercover cop.

http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/16-1896P-01A.pdf

I want to see him hire a hitman to kill his wife and the two previous assassins...

ExecuDork
Feb 25, 2007

We might be fucked, sir.
Fallen Rib

Memento posted:

I thought everyone knew that every single "hitman" you've ever known is actually a cop?

Oh, but a clever murderer-by-proxy can figure the people who CANNOT possibly be cops: judges! and lawyers! They're not allowed to be cops, so he should ask one of them.

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
I mean, at this point you may as well keep trying to find a hitman. Kinda seems like his only out anymore.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Phanatic posted:

Guy hires a hit man to murder his wife.

The hit man turns out to be an undercover cop. Guy is arrested.

While awaiting trial for hiring a hit man to murder his wife, guy hires another hit man to murder his wife and the undercover cop who posed as a hit man.

This new hit man is also an undercover cop.

http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/16-1896P-01A.pdf

quote:

Lightning sometimes does strike twice, and the defendant was betrayed a second time.

From the top rope, Judge Selya with a judicial bodyslam! Seriously though, some judges have a way with words that is utterly beyond belief. I remember there being some fairly solid ones this document written by a Canadian judge on sovcits/free men on the land.

https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abqb/doc/2012/2012abqb571/2012abqb571.html

quote:

It is very unfortunate that any person would be so gullible as to believe that free money can be obtained by these theatrics, but nevertheless some, like Mr. Meads, appear unable to resist the temptation of wealth without obligation. One can only hope that in the future OPCA gurus will find A4V less attractive, and their risk-loving customers instead invest in alternative forms of speculation, such as lottery tickets, which provide infinitely better prospects for return.

SpacePig
Apr 4, 2007

Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.
I wonder what was so important the he even tried to get her killed in the first place, much less a second time.

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

Wasabi the J posted:

Chiaki (Endo's ex wife) is the best loving thing that ever happened to that group because she repeatedly shows up to gently caress with Endo, and plays it so loving straight that it's scary.

Endo's audition for a Chiaki substitute, in which he hands out subtle humiliation on participants, is fantastic.
Come for the "you have friends?" slam on Endo, stay all the way for his supposed "mother" and translator laying some insults down on the winner of the audition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPksTLiDBxY

Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe
On your way to that meeting with the hitman? Here's a little tip that will be sure to prevent any embarrassing misunderstandings. Simply ask the hitman, "Are you a cop?" They can't lie, so if he's a cop, he can't say no!

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Memento posted:

I thought everyone knew that every single "hitman" you've ever known is actually a cop?

Either that, or all the hitmen who aren't cops are extremely competent and discreet.

Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe

The Lone Badger posted:

Either that, or all the hitmen who aren't cops are extremely competent and discreet.

Outside of organized crime/gangs where "hitmen" might murder someone to further the goals of the organization, I really don't think hitmen as they're usually presented in the movies exist by and large.

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
I choose to believe Grosse Pointe Blank is based on real events.

BovineFury
Oct 28, 2007
I moo for great justice!

`Nemesis posted:

I'm the ICID=ref_fark

Didn't you see the thread about Fark? Nobody goes to that dead news aggregate anymore. :cheeky:

Poops Mcgoots
Jul 12, 2010

BovineFury posted:

Didn't you see the thread about Fark? Nobody goes to that dead news aggregate anymore. :cheeky:

RIP the Digg button.

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

Basebf555 posted:

Outside of organized crime/gangs where "hitmen" might murder someone to further the goals of the organization, I really don't think hitmen as they're usually presented in the movies exist by and large.

In the longform stories thread (I think) someone posted a story of a guy who hired a hitman to kill his wife with a hammer. The wife was bigger and stronger than the hitman realized, she got the upper hand on him and ended up strangling him to death. Husband died in jail.
Here's an article: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-strangled-the-hammer-hitman-my-husband-sent-369807

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

BovineFury posted:

Didn't you see the thread about Fark? Nobody goes to that dead news aggregate anymore. :cheeky:

Link?

BovineFury
Oct 28, 2007
I moo for great justice!

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3841165

postcapt
Feb 27, 2011

SpacePig posted:

I wonder what was so important the he even tried to get her killed in the first place, much less a second time.

He wasn't trying to murder his wife the second time. The second plot was for the undercover officer and the informant who turned on him since they were the key witnesses to the first crime. It didn't go too bad for him since the appeals court judge ruled the district court erred in sentencing him. So instead of twenty years, he'll probably only get ten for the second crime.

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Basebf555 posted:

Outside of organized crime/gangs where "hitmen" might murder someone to further the goals of the organization, I really don't think hitmen as they're usually presented in the movies exist by and large.

They do exist. Woody Harrelson's father was one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harrelson

They're mostly small-time hoods, not John Wick, but "Guy who offers to accept jobs to kill people for money" is a thing.

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

https://twitter.com/Brett_A_Taylor/status/932701344082923520

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Phanatic posted:

They do exist. Woody Harrelson's father was one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harrelson

They're mostly small-time hoods, not John Wick, but "Guy who offers to accept jobs to kill people for money" is a thing.

The Iceman, as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kuklinski

RyokoTK
Feb 12, 2012

I am cool.

Basebf555 posted:

Outside of organized crime/gangs where "hitmen" might murder someone to further the goals of the organization, I really don't think hitmen as they're usually presented in the movies exist by and large.

You don’t think the John Wick presentation of NYC playing host to like 50,000 hitmen is entirely realistic? That’s disappointing.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Post more dumb criminals.



Sorryformybadjokes
Apr 21, 2004

I identify as a simian who pronounces the 'silent' letters in words.
Fallen Rib
doesn't that second dude get away because that person at the very end actually opens the door and lets them out??

Renegret
May 26, 2007

THANK YOU FOR CALLING HELP DOG, INC.

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Cat Army Sworn Enemy

A new take on an old classic

I like it

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

BloodRed posted:

doesn't that second dude get away because that person at the very end actually opens the door and lets them out??

Yeah. Guy Ritchie loved it so much he put the scene into Snatch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpXj4cj5MUw

Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe

Phanatic posted:

They do exist. Woody Harrelson's father was one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harrelson

They're mostly small-time hoods, not John Wick, but "Guy who offers to accept jobs to kill people for money" is a thing.

That's what I mean though, they're just guys who work for organized crime and the ones who show a talent for it end up getting a lot of those same type of "assignments" but it's not like the lone freelancer you see in a lot of movies. Like, I don't think Woody's father ever took random contracts from husbands looking to bump off their wives, he just killed guys that the mob wanted dead for whatever reason.

Edit:a quick look at the wiki pages shows that he totally did take random jobs so there you go, obviously they do exist at least sometimes.

eating only apples
Dec 12, 2009

Shall we dance?

boner confessor posted:

i wish i could find the clip of tanaka's son reading the sappy letter and then ordering his father to be thai kicked because the blend of emotions that crosses his face in that moment is :discourse:

like he simultaneously is overcome with:
-love for his son
-fear for the thai kickboxer
-laughing at realizing how completely owned he was

This (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4316yy) is maybe the funniest thing in the world, but you sort of have to know them first. Pie Hell is a really good start. After that, 24 Hour Tag on Team Gaki or Police, or Hotel, are good first games. It's thoroughly schadenfreude.

spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

Saint Freak posted:

I mean, at this point you may as well keep trying to find a hitman. Kinda seems like his only out anymore.

Is this the Martingale system for finding hit men?

I.e. It will work as long as you eventually find a genuine hitman who is willing and able to kill 2,048 victims.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

BloodRed posted:

doesn't that second dude get away because that person at the very end actually opens the door and lets them out??

All he needed to do was pull the door instead of pushing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-exyprNbJQ

Say Nothing has a new favorite as of 00:57 on Nov 21, 2017

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you
Hey man, toss me that log that makes you fall asleep


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3PylR_S3S4

Flash Gordon Ramsay
Sep 28, 2004

Grimey Drawer
The Russian Weekend At Bernie’s is so much better than the original.

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Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

That remains one of the most beautiful, funniest and cruellest things I have ever seen in my life.

I will never get tired of it.

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