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I wish they still had a big hook to pull people off stage. Actually, was that ever a thing or was it just in cartoons?
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Where would you even buy hemlock these days? It grows wild down by my creek, kinda looks like parsley.Want some? It blooms in spring.
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Jan 12, 2018 03:38
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Solice Kirsk posted:I wish they still had a big hook to pull people off stage. it was an old vaudeville thing I think.
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Jan 12, 2018 03:40
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What's the schadenfreude here?
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Jan 12, 2018 03:45
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Puseklepp posted:What's the schadenfreude here? Walmart is one of the companies that is benefiting greatly from the Trump tax plan. So to celebrate, they're giving some of their workers a very modest pay rise, and also firing thousands of others. Roobanguy posted:in case anyone sees this and is confused, walmart owns sams club.
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Jan 12, 2018 03:50
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Puseklepp posted:What's the schadenfreude here? A lot of people are gonna get fired while the people that are staying are getting minimal benefits that they should've had for 15 years now.
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Jan 12, 2018 03:50
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It really is the most minimal non effort benefits so millionaires could say the tax cut is helping the middle class.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I wish they still had a big hook to pull people off stage. Amateur Night at the Apollo in Harlem do it based on audience reaction. They have the stage lights go nuts and clowns come on stage and start sweeping the stage and nudging the performer toward the wings with the broom if they don't move fast enough. And the audience is absolutely brutal, so it happens a lot. But the flip side of that is cool too. If the audience likes you, they really like you which is a neat reaction to see. You can visibly see the performer get filled up by a good reception and they probably give the best performance of their life at that moment. Anyone going to NY needs to experience the Apollo Theater. It's an incredible experience. Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 03:59 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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Jan 12, 2018 03:56
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Phanatic posted:Bits from the actual lawsuit: chitoryu12 posted:Please don't make me root for the "I'm autistic therefore women can't be programmers" guy. Why are y’all cheering the guy abusing the legal system to humiliate his former coworkers?
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Platystemon posted:Why are y’all cheering the guy abusing the legal system to humiliate his former coworkers? Because owning the libs spans the whole political spectrum.
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Platystemon posted:Why are y’all cheering the guy abusing the legal system to humiliate his former coworkers? Because some folks think that hating the right set of bad things, and doing so louder than the people around you, is the way to be part of the in-group. That their vocal outrage at the fact that certain kinds of people exist translates directly into social status. Oh wait that's implying a parallel that I genuinely didn't mean to imply.
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So Trump's new ambassador to the Netherlands is a Republican ex-congressman who made a stir a few years ago when he claimed that politicians and cars were being burned by Muslims there, who had effectively turned parts of the country into "no-go zones". Apparently he never considered that the Dutch media might call him out on it once he showed up for his new job. https://twitter.com/RGjournalist/status/951102206325002240 quote:Reporters seeking clarification on Wednesday asked him about a half dozen follow up questions. This is the Netherlands, you have to answer questions
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Jan 12, 2018 04:31
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Known Lecher posted:So Trump's new ambassador to the Netherlands is a Republican ex-congressman who made a stir a few years ago when he claimed that politicians and cars were being burned by Muslims there, who had effectively turned parts of the country into "no-go zones". That's not even first time either he's been made to look like a little bitch in front of people that don't lob him soft rear end question
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Jan 12, 2018 04:34
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We have to make sure we spread the incompetence internationally as well. It's not right for us to hog it all.
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Known Lecher posted:So Trump's new ambassador to the Netherlands is a Republican ex-congressman who made a stir a few years ago when he claimed that politicians and cars were being burned by Muslims there, who had effectively turned parts of the country into "no-go zones". So this is how a media that actually gives a gently caress about journalism behaves.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I've been going down the Russian dashcam rabbit hole lately: Blast Corps the Motion Picture looking good
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AlmightyBob posted:Circuit City is coming back so we're due for some future schadenfreude when that fails again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJDAZZ7kF14 Also have an appropriately snarky Ars article. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/the-corpse-of-circuit-city-will-rise-again-on-february-15/
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Knormal posted:Oh it's already started, enjoy this state-of-the-art vision of their future showrooms, that certainly doesn't look like a custom Quake 3 map. I'm the YALE door.
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"But I didn't get wet." https://i.imgur.com/gjwCA5B.mp4
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Jan 12, 2018 05:33
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Baronjutter posted:I used to wonder if all those eastern european dash cam vids were just because of how many people have dash cams over there, or if poo poo like that was going on all the time. A couple trips to Ukraine made me strongly believe it's a bit of both, leaning towards the later. Some amazingly unsafe and gently caress up driving and road conditions there. I feel like if you put dashcams on the same percentage of cars in North America you'd catch a ton of crazy poo poo too. But the Russian ones are bizarre in that like a dump truck will come flying out of nowhere into a parking lot, screeching to a halt on its side just inches from a little old lady. And then she'll glance at it and keep walking, like she didn't almost just get turned into paste. A lot of times the prevailing attitude of bystanders is "Whoops, poo poo happens."
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Jan 12, 2018 05:35
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Grem posted:The goon guy is Raley's Confectionary. No idea if Lofty Pursuits used to be goon run or whatever, I think that guy was confused cause they make the same stuff. Wes Raley used to work for Lofty Pursuits and was the guy in a lot of the aforementioned videos. Then he went out on his own with Raley's Confectionary.
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Knormal posted:Oh it's already started, enjoy this state-of-the-art vision of their future showrooms, that certainly doesn't look like a custom Quake 3 map. Enjoy the lovely floor layout of THE FUTURE! Where everything is designed to not utilize the floor space and short enough so nobody is out of the sight of the underpaid staff or discount security cameras! The whole thing looks like a really cheap Radio Shack.
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wheatpuppy posted:Wes Raley used to work for Lofty Pursuits and was the guy in a lot of the aforementioned videos. Then he went out on his own with Raley's Confectionary. Gotcha, goes back further than my goon knowledge.
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EKDS5k posted:I feel like if you put dashcams on the same percentage of cars in North America you'd catch a ton of crazy poo poo too. But the Russian ones are bizarre in that like a dump truck will come flying out of nowhere into a parking lot, screeching to a halt on its side just inches from a little old lady. And then she'll glance at it and keep walking, like she didn't almost just get turned into paste. A lot of times the prevailing attitude of bystanders is "Whoops, poo poo happens." Yeah, I'm a bit addicted to dash cam videos and I notice every country/region has its own flavour. -Canadian dash cams are really boring and what makes the big compilation videos are like "look at this guy trying to turn left from the middle lane and someone honks to correct him and he goes straight instead!" or "look at this sort of close call" -US dash cams are dominated by pig-headed aggressive driving. Tons of extremely avoidable accidents caused by people just refusing to slow down when someone in front of them is doing something unsafe because they have right of way and it's better to smash full speed into a car than ever back down and yield right of way to someone else when you're in the right. Also gently caress pedestrians and bikes. -Australian dash cams are a nice middle ground of entertaining little accidents and close calls and a lot of hilarious Australian reactions and swearing. -European dash cams are pretty diverse and are often dominated by assholes in BMW's or Audi's speeding and driving extremely recklessly and self-owning them selves. -Chinese dash cams are either mindbogglingly inexcusable mostly harmless low-speed accidents by people with no driving skills or spacial awareness or extremely brutal death on the road. Chinese drivers also seem to like to hit the gas when ever something happens or they get startled and enter some panic state where they only stop once their car is incapable of driving like some GTA civilian AI fleeing from gunfire. -Russian dash cams are just full on insanity. A tank out of nowhere nearly misses a tanker truck and is then cut off by a lada speeding down the oncoming lane towing a 1-wheeled trailer full of potatos. Doing 150 down an ice covered rural road then spinning out of control to avoid the stray towed artillery gun that got loose and was rolling down a hill. It's absolute non stop madness and zero fucks given by anyone.
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Baronjutter posted:Yeah, I'm a bit addicted to dash cam videos and I notice every country/region has its own flavour. This is a very accurate post
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The Russian ones are great because if there is any reaction at all it's just an exasperated 'blyat' It's a huge contrast to the US ones where the driver with the camera will never shut up (and as the other poster stated the camera car could usually avoid the whole situation with aome more defensive driving)
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Yeah the Russian ones are the most  type of situations- Car cruising along some country road in some torrential snow with Eurobeat rocking in the background, suddenly a T-92 tank pastes some bear trying to cross the highway and spins out in the puddle of gore, causing the turret to whip around and crack the windshield of the car. "Blyat!" screams the driver, who is seen hopping out of his Lada, cigarette in hand, and proceeds to impotently kick the treads of the tank in anger.
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Murder dog attacks reporter on air. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYReh06SpgA
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Jan 12, 2018 09:11
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How hard is it to get a driver's license in Russia? Most of the crazy poo poo is probably just because it's Russia, but I can't decide if licenses being extremely easy to get or extremely difficult to get would contribute more to the carnage.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:How hard is it to get a driver's license in Russia? How many of the people in those videos do you think have ever held a license?
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Can someone explain to me why Russian drivers sometimes seem to just swerve randomly? Nothing in front of them and the road doesn't seem messed up but they're just going along then bam hard turn either into oncoming traffic or into a ditch.
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Jan 12, 2018 10:29
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Guyver posted:Can someone explain to me why Russian drivers sometimes seem to just swerve randomly? Nothing in front of them and the road doesn't seem messed up but they're just going along then bam hard turn either into oncoming traffic or into a ditch. DTs?
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Panfilo posted:Yeah the Russian ones are the most Stop teasing us, just post some videos
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Jan 12, 2018 11:13
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https://twitter.com/RGjournalist/status/951102206325002240 unf I mean schadenfreude on this dude squirming in the presence of people who aren't buying his bullshit, but also "this is The Netherlands, you have to answer questions" is a massive  on the American media.
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Trig Discipline posted:https://twitter.com/RGjournalist/status/951102206325002240 really? I thought it was kinda sad. If he had to answer questions they wouldn't have had to say it
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Jan 12, 2018 11:59
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Can we outsource all our media to the netherlands? Lmao.
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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:really? I thought it was kinda sad. If he had to answer questions they wouldn't have had to say it Let's just revisit how this man needs telling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-MwYo22vZ8
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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:really? I thought it was kinda sad. If he had to answer questions they wouldn't have had to say it Well ultimately I think he didn't really answer, but at least they tried.
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My GF is working for a Russian immigrant that picks her up at home everyday. She absolutely fears for her life every single second. It's crazy, she stops in the middle of the road at a 3 lane highway to "set up the GPS". There isn't a minute that goes by without someone honking at her. And her response is always "Stupid people. Bah." The plural of anecdote is obiously not statistic. Just wanted to share this example.
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