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Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

ReV VAdAUL posted:

Maybe he finally got the treatment he needed :unsmith:

True but maybe he's in Syria.

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Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Sarkozy is apparently being held for questioning regarding "influence-peddling" after an internal investigation. Lol. Something to keep an eye on.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

StandardVC10 posted:

Bill O'Reilly sex tapes, back from during the Bush Administration.

It's really sad that he seems like one of the better Fox News hosts just because he's sprinted towards Crazytown 0.5mph slower than the rest of them.

Shep Smith is objectively awesome.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

A GIANT PARSNIP posted:

Of course they'd actually be pissed because women can vote and we have a black man as president.

Holy poo poo, you guys let the loving slaves revolt? To arms, everyone.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
There's been a lot of dumb posters in this forum, but MIGF has to be the weirdest.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
I'd love to see him in a Republican primary, just to watch the not fringe candidates have to try and outwork him for the paranoid, conservative, end of days bloc. "That is an absolute lie. I have never implied that my administration would rule out the use of nuclear weapons against ISIL."

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

My Imaginary GF posted:

the pro-est move is to take an hour powernap and come back swinging

That's a bitchmade move. Splash some water on your face and drive on.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
hahahaha

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Exclamation Marx posted:

i'm not joking, and i think it is a good thing if police men and army men kill themselves out of guilt, rather than others


firefighters are ok

there are military firefighters

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Lycus posted:

I know one more.



I know this and Anderlecht. :smug:

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

is this an actual mass email

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Rorus Raz posted:

God yes. I was getting like 5+ of those things a day throughout the past two months on one of my accounts.

With straight up shoutouts to the 1% and "Karl Rove doesn't care about you?"

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Badger of Basra posted:

his boyfriend is a solid 8 or 9, i don't know how glenn does it

i would guess by being very manipulative

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Shear Modulus posted:

do you think theres glenn greenwald/anderson cooper fanfiction

this just in: a load. we now take you over to glenn for more on this developing story.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

R. Mute posted:

they're essentially two sides of the same coin, but i think batman leans closer to facism with its heavy focus on justice whereas ironman is more of a randian superman

they're technically french, but admittedly part of the franco-belgian comic tradition

what are the power rangers

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Aside from cis scum, :shrug:

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
The woman who owns the house I'm renting is this super hippy Colorado type chick, and she had dudes come to install solar panels on the house this week. She was all excited it would be the first house in the area to have them, and thought it was really neat that it would save her 30 cents a month or w/e on energy with a simple thousand some dollar installation. I come home, and now evidently we have no power. :sigh: Hopefully when these assholes wake me up at 8 in the morning again bashing the loving roof to pieces, they'll fix it.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Apparently Chandler Bings mom is into the middle east twitter circles. She retweeted me. The internet is so drat weird sometimes.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Nintendo Kid posted:

my grandfather was a rabbi, and every passover he took a collection from the congregation for the relief of the palestinians. he was a real cool guy.

sounds like an anti-semite hth

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Cheekio posted:

If it wasn't for the slave trade, would there be pretty much any African Americans?

Not anywhere near the amount there are now, but certainly some. It'd be more similar to Asian Americans, where the richer African families sent their kids to western schools and some stay. Of course a lot of Asian Americans are descendants of laborers from the 19th century, so their numbers are inflated by that. You'd also still have immigrants/refugees from Eritrea and the like coming in over the last half century or so.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
I bet MIGF is one of those guys who refuse to get married because a womans beauty is a depreciating asset, and therefore marriage in exchange for her beauty is a poor investment decision.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Badger of Basra posted:

i bet he's a virgin

ok ive tried being polite, but you've been super creepy all night, and now you're accusing me of being hummus or whatever. i'm just going to leave now because this is going nowhere. good night.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

it was MIGFgoesonadate.txt

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

My Imaginary GF posted:

This, and a quick search of cowoncrack's recent posts. Made me :staredog:

everything makes you :staredog:

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
frail goons with bitchmade immune systems itt

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
for real, i'm so glad i didn't get sick. everyone in my house did, and i just started my new job last week. would have been miserable going back to work after a hiatus sick as hell.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Jack in the box is definitely catering to the stoner demographic. 2 am on Sunday morning. Fuuuuuck egg rolls sound so good

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Nintendo Kid posted:

i guess stoners are the only people who'll forgive mass poisoning

Taco bell ain't going out of business any time soon.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
The Interview probably isn't thread-worthy, but I thought this was interesting. There was a big showing in Seoul where a bunch of North Korean defectors and human rights activists got together and watched it. Seems the reviews were very positive all in all. Anyone seen it yet?

http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2015/01/02/the-interview-gets-a-tepid-thumbs-up-at-seoul-screening/

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Zeitgueist posted:

Yeah it was kinda dumb in any real political sense but vaguely funny.

I get making a big mockery of the regime, but you'd think a movie that was intended to get into North Korea and have an influence there wouldn't be as much based in dick jokes, and would be well-researched and pointed. It doesn't sound like the kind of movie that makes you think and leads into a positive perspective, that North Koreans could really get behind.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

SedanChair posted:

It's just another Seth Rogan movie, any high-flown idea is bullshit. It was greenlit because Sony knows people will laff at funny Asian accents.

Did you read the article I posted? Defectors love it, and it's going to be balloon dropped on North Korea by defectors, alongside being smuggled in through Chinese routes. People were personally thanking Sony for making it.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

SedanChair posted:

You're tripping



please keep your CIA drug-addled revolution porn out of the chat thread, thanks

I was arguing with the second part of your post. You'd think if it was stupid and racist more Koreans would be calling it stupid and racist and not largely applauding it.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Just because defectors might use it doesn't mean that Seth Rogan et al. had any higher purpose they were taking seriously when making it. East Germans found Pink Floyd's playing The Wall by the Berlin Wall inspiring, that doesn't mean that was the goal in writing it.

That's likely, but at the same time, it was pretty clear that any high budget Western film like this was going to make it into the Koreas, regardless. Just look at "You Don't Mess With the Zohan." I guess they should have done a better job taking that into context as they were making the film, as it shouldn't have come as any surprise that it was going to be widespread in the region.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

SedanChair posted:

You're arguing with my assertion that Sony greenlit the picture because cheap laughs get money? What the gently caress do you think they made it for, a reason other than money?

Sure they made it for money, but your implication was that they made it by being racist and stereotypical towards North Koreans. It's clearly not the case.

quote:

Where is this motherfucking applause? It sure as gently caress wasn't in the article you just posted.

Did you try reading it without an agenda? I find that helps.

quote:

Many were watching the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy for at least the second time, and the laugh lines generally hit the mark with the audience. But most people in the room were watching it with an eye to how it might be received in North Korea.

In spite of Pyongyang’s protests, it may not be too much longer until some ordinary people inside North Korea see the movie. While the flick has only been available online for about a week, plans are already afoot to float the movie into the North via balloon launch. The movie is also likely to find its way into the country through China, a popular channel for smuggled South Korean soap operas.


At the screening in Seoul, Sokeel Park, director of research and strategy at Liberty in North Korea, a U.S.-based non-government organization that helps North Koreans escape the country, said that while he liked the movie more than he expected, he was also frustrated at the missed opportunities — particularly when so much global attention is focused on North Korea.


Some of the more Rogen-esque sight gags — gay jokes and ample public displays of affection, for instance — were likely to rankle and confuse North Korean viewers, said Lee Han-byeol, a North Korean defector who attended the screening and shared some of her thoughts with the crowd afterwards.

But Ms. Lee was confident that the general message of the movie would get through just fine. “We’re all humans,” she said.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I don't quite understand the comparison with "You Don't Mess with the Zohan". And I really don't understand why you were expecting optimized propaganda towards North Koreans from people writing low-brow humor who expect to mostly make their money off of an American audience.

Because it was pretty popular among Palestinians and Israeli's. And I wasn't expecting "optimized propaganda." Just accuracy and a good overall message. Sounds like the latter was achieved, but not the former.


R. Mute posted:

hey volkerball aren't there some other threads in dire need of your bad posts right now? maybe go find them

you're not my real dad

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

R. Mute posted:

as if you'd know

:smith:

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Absurd Alhazred posted:

That's news to me. Is that the one where Adam Sandler is a Mossad Agent?

Yeah. It was all over in Palestinian shops, and I've heard people loved it the cheesy humor in it. Israeli's got a kick out of him using hummus for everything.

quote:

Why? The target audience was mostly Americans. Why bother with accuracy when dick jokes are easier and likelier to be received well by the target demographic for a Franco-Rogan joint?

"Expecting" was a bad way to phrase it, but it would've been nice if they did.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Chinese movies are better. Jia Zhangke or gtfo

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Nintendo Kid posted:

you wouldn't expect the admiral of the fleets to know much about infantry maneuvers or the tank commanders to tell the bombers what the best place to fly to is.

This still happens a lot in a lot of different ways. It's a joke.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

SedanChair posted:

I've never been further east than Rock Island, IL

I hope you left quickly. I grew up a half hour from there. loving miserable.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
I didn't watch a whole lot of the Daily Show, but I have to give Stewart credit for bringing on Hadi al-Bahra when CNN and crew were too busy running 24 hour coverage of ISIS WATCH.

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Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
In what loving world is Hopkins not the best hannibal

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