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https://twitter.com/TroothBomb/status/1382826379843145729?s=20 it's real lol 
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quote:Switch Bitch (1974) is a book of adult short stories by British writer Roald Dahl. Four stories, originally published in Playboy between 1965 and 1974,[1] are collected. They are linked by themes of sexual deception: in each one some major act of cunning, cruelty, or hedonism underpins the sexuality. 
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Jul 23, 2021 15:11
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LifeSunDeath posted:it's real lol Don't forget about the 1967 James Bond film "You Only Live Twice" 
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Jul 23, 2021 15:15
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You think dahl wanted to write chocolate factory sequels for the rest of his life? Same with jk Rowling, she was successful with children's lit, but she really wanted to write transphobic screeds.
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Jul 23, 2021 15:18
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ikanreed posted:You think dahl wanted to write chocolate factory sequels for the rest of his life? yeah reading up on Dahl and there's a whole section on his anti-semitism...oof.
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Jul 23, 2021 15:21
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She wrote some detective novels under a pseudonym which in retrospect are transphobic, they didn't sell that well. and the true identity of the author was mysteriously leaked to the press and they sold like hotcakes.
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Jul 23, 2021 15:24
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Roald Dahl was my hero when I was a kid, I read the second part of his autobiography (where he flew in the RAF and shot Nazis) again and again
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Jul 23, 2021 15:26
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By popular demand posted:She wrote some detective novels under a pseudonym which in retrospect are transphobic, they didn't sell that well. Are they the ones with an attempt at a working class dialect that sounds like Bart Simpson reading from his play?
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Jul 23, 2021 15:28
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:There's only one flag a true patriot of any country should be flying in TYOOL 2021. 
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Jul 23, 2021 15:29
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Data Graham posted:Get you a flagpole for your used car dealership that's so tall that even when it's permanently raised at half-mast it's still high enough to blot out the sun Or a flagpole that's no taller than the width of the flag, that way the flag can never be at half mast.
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Also his classic story "Lamb to the Slaughter" https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html
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mrpwase posted:Roald Dahl was my hero when I was a kid, I read the second part of his autobiography (where he flew in the RAF and shot Nazis) again and again There was a podcast series called The Dead Authors Podcast a while back where comedians would play authors giving funny improvised interviews with Paul F Tompkins playing HG Wells. They'd also answer audience and twitter questions at the end. Ben Schwartz was on as Roald Dahl because he was his favorite author since he was a kid. A twitter question at the end was basically "what's up with the antisemitism", which confused Schwartz for a second because he was genuinely unaware of it. Then Tompkins confirmed it, read a quote Dahl had given in an interview or something that amounted to "I don't like Jews and honestly stereotypes come from somewhere don't they?" and you could basically hear Schwartz's heart break on stage. It can basically be summed up by the promo they shot for it after the show. https://youtu.be/trMUEadAm_I SpacePig has a new favorite as of 16:24 on Jul 23, 2021 |
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Jul 23, 2021 16:17
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SpacePig posted:There was a podcast series called The Dead Authors Podcast a while back where comedians would play authors giving funny improvised interviews with Paul F Tompkins playing HG Wells. They'd also answer audience and twitter questions at the end. This entire podcast is really really great and funny, Paul F. Tompkins is hilarious and has funny friends.
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Jul 23, 2021 16:25
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I wish I wasn't poor because I have never wanted a specific t-shirt more in my entire life 
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If you haven't read The Irregulars, I highly recommend it. Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, and Leslie Howard had basically the most incredible spy job in history. Churchill sent them to America to seduce the wives of dumb country cracker politicians so they'd convince their husbands to support the war efforts. The chocolate factory guy and the james bond guy pretty much hosed every American senator's wife to defeat Hitler. It owns.
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Jul 23, 2021 16:35
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Also someone really needs to make a movie about Christopher Lee. That man was really, shockingly good at killing nazis.
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Data Graham posted:Get you a flagpole for your used car dealership that's so tall that even when it's permanently raised at half-mast it's still high enough to blot out the sun 
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:Also someone really needs to make a movie about Christopher Lee. That man was really, shockingly good at killing nazis. There's that bit in the special features on the LOTR DVDs where Peter Jackson talks about Christopher Lee having to correct him on the sound somebody makes when you stab them in the lungs from the back
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Jul 23, 2021 18:03
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Phy posted:There's that bit in the special features on the LOTR DVDs where Peter Jackson talks about Christopher Lee having to correct him on the sound somebody makes when you stab them in the lungs from the back 
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Jul 23, 2021 18:13
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CannonFodder posted:There's an RV dealership in Alabama I drive past and they have a flag so big it would drag the ground at half mast so at best they go 3/4. And it's a pretty tall pole to start much like people who yell about the constitution, americans obsessed with the flag and flag code know the absolute least about it
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Jul 23, 2021 18:17
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https://twitter.com/Chinchillazllla/status/1418406631034036226?s=19
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:If you haven't read The Irregulars, I highly recommend it. The best quote ever (from a gross antisemite) Roald Dahl posted:'I am all f****d out!' Dahl shouted down the phone in a call to his superiors, begging to be reassigned. 'That g****** woman has absolutely screwed me from one end of the room to the other for three goddam nights!'
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Jul 23, 2021 18:30
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Yeah according to some of his relatives and friends he wasn't so much a bigot as much as he just constantly aggravated people just because. That if true is of course is not an improvement.
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I remember watching this when the director's cut extended special edition super awesome dvd came out in like, 2004 or 2005, whatever. I binged all three movies and watched every behind the scenes footage and documentary from them and this had such an impression on me that: 1.) Christopher Lee is (at least, was) extremely underrated 2.) Sometimes you just...don't know how much of a badass a person is until they tell you about the time they secretly killed Nazis. I am happy this gets passed around every so often even 15 years after the RotK came out because it's just... 
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dialhforhero posted:I remember watching this when the director's cut extended special edition super awesome dvd came out in like, 2004 or 2005, whatever. I binged all three movies and watched every behind the scenes footage and documentary from them and this had such an impression on me that: Don't forget that the chef, Julia Child, and the Smithsonian Institution ornithologist, S. Dillon Ripley, both worked for the OSS during WW2. 
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Jul 23, 2021 19:04
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Ronald Dahl was an enormous fuckboi.
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Christopher Lee did a narration of Poe's The Raven and it fuckin rocks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BefliMlEzZ8
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bike tory posted:I've got some bad news for you about how fractions, specifically halves, work. loll Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hear me out now ...... fixed flags with raisable flagpoles lol
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Baron von Eevl posted:Yeah, even aside from being sexually assaulted and then blacklisted over it he also nearly died filming the hanging stunt in The Mummy and I think still suffers chronic pain from it. And even with all that, every interview I've seen with him in regards to Doom Patrol he gives props to the actor in the costume. Class act all around.
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dialhforhero posted:1.) Christopher Lee is (at least, was) extremely underrated When?
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For a long time he was mostly consigned to the goofy horror movie genre and voiceover work. LotR really gave him a second round of renown
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:Also someone really needs to make a movie about Christopher Lee. That man was really, shockingly good at killing nazis. The problem with that is, who the gently caress could play Christopher Lee? Also, Lee was into Metal and put out his own metal album late in life. He also worked with a bunch of bands on producing their own albums.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Also, Lee was into Metal and put out his own metal album late in life. He was also super into Looney Tunes cartoons and would go to the theatre with Peter Cushing to watch them and every time they'd meet up they'd continually quote them at each other, like proto-Simpsons fans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a23dqErYnw Peter Cushing was also SUPER into historical wargaming, using the rules created by HG Wells. I haven't been able to find out if he ever roped Chistopher Lee into playing it but given how close they were I wouldn't be surprised. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGag8Qllgnw
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Christopher Lee was so metal he released two symphonic metal concept albums about Charlemange. Also, Wikipedia posted:His fourth EP and third annual Christmas release came in December 2014, as he put out "Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing," a playful take on "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." He explained: "It's light-hearted, joyful and fun... At my age, the most important thing for me is to keep active by doing things that I truly enjoy. I do not know how long I am going to be around, so every day is a celebration, and I want to share it with my fans." Dude was a truly amazing guy.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Don't forget that the chef, Julia Child, and the Smithsonian Institution ornithologist, S. Dillon Ripley, both worked for the OSS during WW2. Specifically she was working on a chemical attractant to force sharks to destroy German mines.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Specifically she was working on a chemical attractant to force sharks to destroy German mines. 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hear me out now ...... fixed flags with raisable flagpoles When your country does big business in performative patriotism it's only natural for just such a thing to be available. Telescoping flagpoles.
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CannonFodder posted:There's an RV dealership in Alabama I drive past and they have a flag so big it would drag the ground at half mast so at best they go 3/4. And it's a pretty tall pole to start I believe you'll find the flag to flagpole ratio is the only true way to determine someone's love for America and how often they vote Republican. One has to "USA" real hard nowadays to stand out.
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