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You Are A Elf posted:The Wedding Singer is pretty good. Imho it's his best overall, but if i'm in the right mood I prefer Waterboy. My opinion on this changes frequently, usually determined by whichever I have watched more recently. also wedding singer has the distinction of being the only movie I find Drew Barrymore super attractive in.
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When I casually confuse the actor Graham Greene with the writer Graham Greene, it's very funny and people should laugh. Or, if I do it online instead of IRL, people should say lol or emptyquote it, because, as I said, it's very funny.
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Nov 25, 2018 02:47
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fizzymercy posted:What home business goes through a stupid amount of paper towels? What do you do all day? If you say masturbation I'm just going to be very sad about your lack of creativity. I make stuff out of silicone! No one will pay me to masturbate. 
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Nov 25, 2018 03:47
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artsy fartsy posted:I make stuff out of silicone! That's what being self employed is all about
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Nov 25, 2018 05:34
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Happy Gilmore is great, fight me.
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Nov 26, 2018 15:37
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Clam Chowdown posted:Happy Gilmore is great, fight me. Its the most entertaining golf related thing certainly. Not that i hate golf or anything, I am Scottish after all and I played a fair amount in my youth. Both my folks will happily watch the big tournament and so on and its just boring. I despise anime but i would watch it over golf.
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Nov 26, 2018 16:24
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CrRoMa posted:I despise anime but i would watch it over golf. You don't have to choose! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oPI-5HjuSA
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Nov 26, 2018 17:50
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CrRoMa posted:Its the most entertaining golf related thing certainly. I have a soft spot for Tin Cup too, but yeah Happy Gilmore is at the top. I know some people would fight me and say Caddy Shack should be on my list, but I just didn't like it very much 
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Nov 26, 2018 17:56
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Happy Gilmore is perfect. Somebody recently posted a neat factoid about the ending and how it was originally going to be the ending for some other movie but I'm completely blanking on everything that made this fact interesting, does anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Nov 26, 2018 19:52
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I have a soft spot for Tin Cup too, but yeah Happy Gilmore is at the top. I know some people would fight me and say Caddy Shack should be on my list, but I just didn't like it very much Tin Cup's a pretty good movie, like you I just did not like Caddyshack although I didn't see it until a year or two ago, it had such a strange unfunny tone
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Nov 26, 2018 20:31
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artsy fartsy posted:Happy Gilmore is perfect. Smiling faces in the sky was going to be Predator's ending.
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Nov 26, 2018 20:33
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CrRoMa posted:it had such a strange unfunny tone ah yes the Chevy Chase effect
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Nov 26, 2018 20:38
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Aphrodite posted:Smiling faces in the sky was going to be Predator's ending. Definitely happy they went with the sitcom ending. https://youtu.be/GgYqmAdvc1s
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Nov 26, 2018 21:56
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Clam Chowdown posted:Happy Gilmore is great, fight me. I thought it was a really good movie, it was wacky, but not annoyingly so.
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Nov 27, 2018 02:58
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Iceland isn't the great. There's all these posts on /r/earthporn and the like that insist that stormy slate skies over mossy cold sharp rocks is the prettiest thing that ever happened. You can find the exact same landscape ringing the Arctic Sea for miles and miles and miles, but only one little wedge (the one that has a marketing department tasked with encouraging layovers) seems to be considered anything other than a hellscape. I've been there twice and I've liked it. The northern lights are cool (never seen em myself tho), and there can be a stark beauty about it, and the hiking and day trips are cool... but it's just really cold and depressing overall. If you tag a picture with iceland it will get a bunch of OMG STUNNING reactions but that same picture without the tag would be used as an example of harsh miserable conditions.
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Nov 27, 2018 03:19
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Best thing about Iceland is that you have to be careful to not gently caress somebody related to you and also how their government worships Eve Online.
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Nov 27, 2018 03:44
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Mu Zeta posted:Best thing about Iceland is that you have to be careful to not gently caress somebody related to you
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Nov 27, 2018 05:21
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life is a joke posted:But it's just really cold and depressing overall. Sounds perfect to me.
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Nov 27, 2018 05:54
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There is no such thing as 'brake checking'. If someone in front of you brakes, it's because there's debris, a squirrel, or an erratic driver in front of them. It's not because they want to crash into your car.
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Nov 27, 2018 06:21
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charms posted:There is no such thing as 'brake checking'. If someone in front of you brakes, it's because there's debris, a squirrel, or an erratic driver in front of them. It's not because they want to crash into your car. what
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Nov 27, 2018 06:26
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charms posted:There is no such thing as 'brake checking'. If someone in front of you brakes, it's because there's debris, a squirrel, or an erratic driver in front of them. It's not because they want to crash into your car. Counterpoint: They could just be reckless and/or inattentive. Reckless and wreckful mean the same... 
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Nov 27, 2018 06:27
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charms posted:There is no such thing as 'brake checking'. If someone in front of you brakes, it's because there's debris, a squirrel, or an erratic driver in front of them. It's not because they want to crash into your car. I have absolutely done brake checks on people, it's an extremely effective way to make tailgaters back off.
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If I was dying of a drug overdose, I'd be extremely upset if someone "saved" me, as they'd only be condemning me to take an additional decade or two to die. I don't do anything harder than borderline-responsible quantities of alcohol, but being alive on this planet is the loving worst and I cannot recommend it. I am definitely addicted to cats, though. Everything about them (except their waste, and the ecological destruction if let outside unattended) makes me briefly not quite as sad to be alive.
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MizPiz posted:I have absolutely done brake checks on people, it's an extremely effective way to make tailgaters back off. Or to just hurt both parties.
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Tubgoat posted:If I was dying of a drug overdose, I'd be extremely upset if someone "saved" me, as they'd only be condemning me to take an additional decade or two to die. I don't do anything harder than borderline-responsible quantities of alcohol, but being alive on this planet is the loving worst and I cannot recommend it. seek therapy. Tubgoat posted:No. lets take another call spit on my clit has a new favorite as of 02:05 on Nov 28, 2018 |
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I don’t know how controversial this is since it’s a cult classic and all, but Jackie Chan’s Drunken Master 2 is a better Kung fu movie than any of Bruce Lee’s.
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I mean sure, it helps that being alive to improve upon your art is beneficial for the artist and fans in the long run. I still enjoy all Bruce lee films. Ended too short man!
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HP Lovecraft's best work as far as actually being scary is not his cosmic horror, but his Gothic horror. I was way more spooked by The Lurking Fear and The Rats in the Walls then The Call of Cthulhu or At the Mountains of Madness.
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Nov 30, 2018 14:54
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I always thought Stephen King's todash stuff in The Dark Tower and the other stuff it leaks in to is more interesting/"scary" than the lovecraft cthulu stuff. I never actually read it though, I've only been exposed to it through movies and some board game about cthulu my roommate kept dragging me to, so I'm kind of negatively biased against it. Baseless unpopular opinion I'm pulling out of my rear end: Stephen King will eventually be remembered as a greater horror writer than Lovecraft.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I always thought Stephen King's todash stuff in The Dark Tower and the other stuff it leaks in to is more interesting/"scary" than the lovecraft cthulu stuff. I never actually read it though, I've only been exposed to it through movies and some board game about cthulu my roommate kept dragging me to, so I'm kind of negatively biased against it. I dunno that that’s unpopular. Imo the biggest thing holding King back is his rep as an airport trash fiction writer, but thqt’s unearned. He’s ridiculously prolific but even his weird poo poo is still noticeably better than say, Dean Koontz. I love HP “russians aren’t white” Lovecraft but there’s very little of his I’d suggest to someone who doesn’t already like him. Some of it is borderline unreadable.
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Nov 30, 2018 15:11
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Stephen King is a fantastic writer and he may be right up there with Ray Bradbury in being able to craft interesting and memorable short stories.
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Lovecraft will always lead the important category of “most metal bands influenced” among horror writers, though he’s a distant second to Tolkien among all authors.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Baseless unpopular opinion I'm pulling out of my rear end: Stephen King will eventually be remembered as a greater horror writer than Lovecraft. That's a given. He'll be considered the greatest American horror writer, even above Poe.
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Gripweed posted:That's a given. He'll be considered the greatest American horror writer, even above Poe. 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I love HP “russians aren’t white” Lovecraft but there’s very little of his I’d suggest to someone who doesn’t already like him. Some of it is borderline unreadable. I agree. Lovecraft ranges from "interesting ideas smothered in purple prose" to "absurdly racist schlock". His own contemporaries were better than him at writing cosmic horror. IMO, the best cosmic horror story is The Willows by Algernon Blackwood.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I dunno that that’s unpopular. Imo the biggest thing holding King back is his rep as an airport trash fiction writer, but thqt’s unearned. He’s ridiculously prolific but even his weird poo poo is still noticeably better than say, Dean Koontz. I guess it's more of an unpopular opinion among people who have never really read King and just know that reputation, which seems to be a lot of people I know off the internet. He does churn out a lot and most appeal to a wide audience, but I don't see why so many literature snobs see that as a bad thing - not everything has to be a impenetrable tome that requires a book telling you how to read it like James Joyce or something. He's still a very good writer and it's really a shame that his biggest/in my opinion greatest work got such a lovely movie despite Elba's best efforts. It would have been better if it had just stayed as a book.
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Lovecraft is interesting because his best stories really knock it out of the park and are insanely influential. The rest of it often ranges from "OK, so you're a racist that put some words together" and "barely comprehensible." The way I recommend him to anybody that hasn't heard of him is to read the best things first then the other stuff until you lose interest. Some of his stuff is just some failed experiments, really. Worth reading for its historical importance but not something to call home about.
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Poe did some good stuff, but a lot of it is very of it's time. Stories about noble blood lines being degraded over time until you're down to one last scion who's a weirdo in a lovely marriage don't have quite the impact now that they did back then
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Poe should be remembered for writing the first detective story. Too bad he wrote the dumbest possible ending to it.
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