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Alkydere posted:Who would play John McClane? Kermit? Gonzo? Beaker? Ms. Piggy? I think it would be John McClain - Kermit Wife McClain - sweetums Hans Gruber - Gonzo Carl from family matters as Cop - Mrs Piggy Rich douchebag - fozzie Roided out henchmen - Sam eagle
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The cool part about castles is they're astoundingly cheap to buy, so if you're a shipping magnate or something you can just pay the opportunity cost to get the stones shipped here and reassembled. It's always neat seeing actual European derelict castles taken apart stone by stone and carefully reassembled in the new world. E: I mixed up two things. You can buy derelict castles dirt cheap (and people do, because it's cool) but nobody moves them. All the castles in the US were quarried here, I think. People do buy historic timbers/windows/cornerstones/etc and use them as part of new construction, but not the entire thing. Harik fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Dec 26, 2017 |
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:I think it would be The main antagonist in Muppet adaptations is always a human being (Treasure Island, Christmas Carol, etc), so Gruber should be played by a human and Gonzo would play Ellis Naturally Statler and Waldorf would be the FBI guys
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theflyingorc posted:Are we pretending that the left won't boycott a product because of a tenuous connection to something we don't like Bit of difference between "I won't support product because they think gay people are subhuman filth who aren't allowed to marry" and "I won't support product because I don't like the guy running for President with a tenuous connection to the founder"
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Alkydere posted:Who would play John McClane? Kermit? Gonzo? Beaker? Ms. Piggy? It's the role Bert was born to play. He might not be a Muppet, dammit...but search your feelings, you know it to be true.
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"Now I have a machine gun. Wakka wakka!"
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Happy Christmas from Grandpa Mason and his Muppet kittens! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcwaw92R1QY
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Which Muppet would be Argyle? And I still maintain Gremlins is the best Christmas movie.
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It's worth revisiting David Frum's excellent article from back in march, "How to Build an Autocracy". The top comments were very interesting:  Commenter RJay's suggestion of rebuilding our social institutions is probably our best chance of getting out of our current predicament.
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Are we still posting nostalgic christmas videos? Cause I've got this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnIFTtW1pko
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Push El Burrito posted:And I still maintain Gremlins is the best Christmas movie.
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Liquid Communism posted:I watch Scrooged and Die Hard instead. I used to like ACS until one of the local stations started doing a 24 hour marathon of it before the holidays. If you're going to to read the Trukk Thread, you're also going to need the companion thread, Requiem For A Jeep And the main course: I Bought a Truck: Bad Decisions ITT A story of frustration, failure, restoration, and recovery.
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enraged_camel posted:It's worth revisiting David Frum's excellent article from back in march, "How to Build an Autocracy". Just "rebuilding social institutions" sounds about as simple as just "curing cancer." What is the foundation that we should build upon? Investigative journalism in itself doesn't seem relevant, because people don't care about facts anymore.
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Vaishino posted:Are we still posting nostalgic christmas videos? Cause I've got this This whole special was amazing. Same with the Claymation Easter one. 
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Wark Say posted:Most Jazz classics are phenomenal low-key Christmas songs. Most of them make you chill in ways nothing else does (except maybe some good weed) I don’t care how many pages ago this was, but violas are awesome!!
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mp5 posted:The main antagonist in Muppet adaptations is always a human being (Treasure Island, Christmas Carol, etc), so Gruber should be played by a human and Gonzo would play Ellis I guess I'm fine with this. Animal is obviously the limo driver.
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How the gently caress is Rowlf the Dog not playing Al Powell.
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There Bias Two posted:Just "rebuilding social institutions" sounds about as simple as just "curing cancer." What is the foundation that we should build upon? Investigative journalism in itself doesn't seem relevant, because people don't care about facts anymore. The foundation can be anything: community service, religion, or even just hobbies. At the end of the day people who otherwise would not spend time together outside of work or school need a reason to do that. For example I'm involved in a worldwide community service organization that has chapters all over the US. Each chapter, including mine, has people from all walks of life. Because we all focus on rebuilding and serving the community, differences of opinion (even on politicized topics like what should be done to help the poor) are much more tolerated and even welcomed. We have liberals and conservatives and libertarians and there hasn't been a single instance of toxicity or even bickering that mirrors the current nation-wide political divide.
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http://www.newsweek.com/christmas-att-layoffs-midwest-bonuses-trump-758391quote:AT&T plans to lay off and fire more than a thousand workers starting early next year, according to local reports. Why for tax cuts to job creator cause jobs go down? 
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There Bias Two posted:Just "rebuilding social institutions" sounds about as simple as just "curing cancer." What is the foundation that we should build upon? Investigative journalism in itself doesn't seem relevant, because people don't care about facts anymore. Again, I am happy and honored to serve. punchline 2: Jeb! reference punchline 3: fishmech
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enraged_camel posted:The foundation can be anything: community service, religion, or even just hobbies. At the end of the day people who otherwise would not spend time together outside of work or school need a reason to do that. It's amazing what can happen when you get people away from the TV or the Internet and get them working together face-to-face, toward a common goal.
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Harik posted:It's always neat seeing actual European derelict castles taken apart stone by stone and carefully reassembled in the new world. They did that at The Cloisters museum in manhattan, they disassembled some castles and chapels or something and crammed them all together, it’s pretty great.
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Leofish posted:It's amazing what can happen when you get people away from the TV or the Internet and get them working together face-to-face, toward a common goal. expand US labor law to allow workers to take x-number of hours each month of paid leave to volunteer? terrible idea?
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:jesus christ I only just saw this in my local newspaper today. This is the thing that is handed out to grieving widows and purple heart recipients, yes?
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Harik posted:The cool part about castles is they're astoundingly cheap to buy, so if you're a shipping magnate or something you can just pay the opportunity cost to get the stones shipped here and reassembled. You think those stupid rich people know that medieval defenses aren't actually that good at defense in the modern era?
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Solkanar512 posted:I don’t care how many pages ago this was, but violas are awesome!! 
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xarph posted:I only just saw this in my local newspaper today. You know silly bands? These are like silly bands except it's the military and not middle schoolers. They collect and trade them. They've been around since Vietnam I think, but Presidential one's only date back to the 90's. Maybe war widows get them too. I don't know. It's seriously not a big deal.
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Krispy Wafer posted:You know silly bands? These are like silly bands except it's the military and not middle schoolers. They collect and trade them. They've been around since Vietnam I think, but Presidential one's only date back to the 90's. They're not traded, but given out and collected. Their is a 'challenge' system but it's pretty niche these days
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It's the role Bert was born to play. He might not be a Muppet, dammit...but search your feelings, you know it to be true. Don't worry man the Sesame Street crew still count as muppets. They're not the main cast on any version of The Muppet Show but they count and have cameoed at least once. At least Big Bird did.
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Krispy Wafer posted:You know silly bands? These are like silly bands except it's the military and not middle schoolers. They collect and trade them. They've been around since Vietnam I think, but Presidential one's only date back to the 90's. It's still super tacky.
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There Bias Two posted:Just "rebuilding social institutions" sounds about as simple as just "curing cancer." What is the foundation that we should build upon? Investigative journalism in itself doesn't seem relevant, because people don't care about facts anymore. Bring back the draft. Seriously, Boomers protesting and getting conscription curtailed is probably one of those things that ruined the country in the long run. Conscription has a number of social benefits, such as crossing racial, ethnic, religious, regional and even class divide; instilling discipline on a wide-scale; fosters team building and personal growth; and providing practical experience to those who might not get it. The problem now is that the military doesn't want essentially temporary employees, they want committed volunteers. We would have to expand it pass the military, like conscripted Park Service or WWA, but I'm pretty sure companies and, to a lesser extent, labor unions wouldn't like the competition. And of course, employing that many people would require money, which would need taxes. There's so many obstacles about reinstating the draft. Mr Interweb posted:http://www.newsweek.com/christmas-att-layoffs-midwest-bonuses-trump-758391 I'm hoping those laid-off employees would get that bonus but you know they won't. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Dec 26, 2017 |
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FilthyImp posted:True. But that's usually like "hey the bus line here is racist" or "this skunkbag who lives in a literal castle raised the price of his trash pizza because Obamacare" Wait, wait, wait. The Papa lives in that castle in Kentucky outside of Lexington?
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BirdOfPlay posted:Wait, wait, wait. The Papa lives in that castle in Kentucky outside of Lexington? yep
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Electric Phantasm posted:It's still super tacky. In addition to this, it's just another example of how the man is pathologically incapable of respecting tradition, decorum, or displaying anything resembling humility. Simply having a POTUS coin that has one's name on it should be an incredibly humbling, sobering experience. That he has to tack on gold flair and his loving campaign slogan isn't some meaningless nitpick- it's a degradation. Military folks take this sort of thing seriously, as they should. The Presidency is the most serious political office in human history, not some loving homecoming royalty gig.
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Young Freud posted:Bring back the draft. Fine, leave the military as a professional volunteer service. Build up organizations for other forms of civil service instead, like a force that supplements the professionals in FEMA (which admittedly feels like a loving hilarious thing to say) & the Army Corp of Engineers with bulk manpower for disaster recovery and whatnot. Plenty of areas I'm sure a lot of good could be done in without really stepping on too many toes.
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You almost ruined Christmas, but, luckily, you're wrong. Castles have walls and turrets and poo poo. Harik posted:E: I mixed up two things. You can buy derelict castles dirt cheap (and people do, because it's cool) but nobody moves them. All the castles in the US were quarried here, I think. People do buy historic timbers/windows/cornerstones/etc and use them as part of new construction, but not the entire thing. Xanatos did and put it on top of his skyscraper.
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Bronze posted:expand US labor law to allow workers to take x-number of hours each month of paid leave to volunteer? terrible idea? No, not a bad idea, but not really a solution to the stated problem. This would definitely help in some ways because people would do things they are passionate about for the social good, but it doesn't do much to get people connecting with each other that existing social institutions (such as regular work itself) do.
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