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Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

The Saddest Rhino posted:

wow made me think

I enjoy the thought of some guy staring at his computer making those in Photoshop, really pleased with himself. I feel like I've seen a couple dozen art series doing that same drat thing for years, with absolutely nothing new being added to the commentary.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 05:35

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 18:05

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Retro Access posted:

Of course. And while we are at it, let's kick out all those loving Irish Catholics.

Is everyone in the UK conveniently forgetting the decades of being terrified of going into major towns and city centres, constantly thinking the IRA would blow us all to kingdom come?

That might have just been me and almost everyone in our town though, after it got bombed by the IRA.

Nobody even suggested for a moment that we get rid of every Irish immigrant, because that would have been ridiculous. At least, I don't THINK anybody did.

*is one generation removed from an Irish catholic immigrant, like probably a large bulk of the UK born within 15 miles of a major port*

Note that I'm aware that you couldn't get rid of IRA terrorism via this method, as actual British citizens were causing this. However, given the mentality of "kick em all out", types, I doubt they would have considered that. I think it's more likely that the IRA terrorism was blamed on the IRA and not Irish Catholics as a whole because they are white, all speak English and their religion is so similar to ours that it would have been harder to attribute stupid poo poo to it.

I think it mostly boils down to the them being white thing.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2015 04:26

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Grraarrgghh posted:

It's happening guys, all the run-arounds, double-speak, and dogwhistle is gone.

Muslim extremist Cory Lahey.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2015 17:20

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

To be fair, destroying the infrastructure of Iraq with no real rebuilding plan and firing the entire Iraqi army at once with no plan to re-employ them did help to create new insurgents that helped form the Islamic State of Iraq. Simplifying it to a macro is dumb, but the intention of showing every day Muslim people as not at fault is okay.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2015 20:39

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

trapped mouse posted:

MINIMUM wage, people. The wage increase isn't just for the burger flippers. Feel free to get offended anyway. Also, protip: most firefighters make more than $11 an hour.

It's like that story of that credit company where the CEO raised the minimum yearly salary to $70k. It wasn't for every employee and is taking like three years to fully implement, but there were still people making just a bit more than the minimum who quit immediately. Because they were insulted that those people below them were making almost what they were without earning it. People are petty pieces of poo poo who would rather punish others than raise everyone up if it makes them feel better about themselves.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2015 21:26

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

codo27 posted:

Doesn't allow "gun/killing/death game", calls husband "hubby". A loving turkey for the profile picture. Also probably allows them to watch wrestling despite this. Gee I cant quite conjure up a likely accurate image of that family, no not at all

Think you might be overreacting to that one. Wrestling probably isn't great for real tiny kids, but I can't really fault someone not wanting their kids below teen years to not play a game where you get extra points for headshots with a sniper rifle.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2015 00:38

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Henchman of Santa posted:

I think that's more of an anti-refugee thing but he's a douche either way

He doesn't even get his own metaphor. He says he doesn't want to deport all Muslims, then agrees his metaphor means throwing out all the M&Ms. I was kind of disappointed the other person actually agreed with his sentiment, because the setup was perfect.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2015 04:12

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

twistedmentat posted:

http://i.imgur.com/uMr8izR.jpg

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2015 04:57

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

casual poster posted:

Just think about it and I'm sure you'll understand what they're going for

I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and think it's about why no one ever just blocked their ears the many times they went after Kilgrave, as that's a thing the show almost never addressed. But I'm certain it's about her being a woman.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2015 05:32

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

The Saddest Rhino posted:

a man, high on LSD (financed by his girlfriend), dresses up as a goat and jumps about in the snowy mountains of Alaska, then throws himself into a volcano being hunted down by imaginary wolves

That's what Wild Animus is about. Wild Animu-s would be about a man in his mid-30s, high on pocky (financed by his disappointed parents), dressing up as a Kill La Kill character jumping around the manga section of a Barnes and Noble, before being thrown out by security.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 16:31

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Tiggum posted:

FTFY.

Really? All he ever posts are far right wing screeds/long schizophrenic rants that are barely even connected to anything else being talked about in the thread. I know it's him posting within the first few words, even without seeing his av.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 05:47

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

DicktheCat posted:

They're all old as gently caress, so what do you expect? Staying in shape is one of those things that get harder with age.

Telling actors to lose weight isn't new, but I'm sure Hamil hadn't heard it nearly as much as Fisher did during their acting careers. She has a right to speak up; pointing out that the other actors had to do the same thing doesn't deligitimize her statement.

Plus, when they tell Mark Hamill to get in shape, they mean because his character needs to look like he's capable of the physical action the part calls for. When they said it to Carrie Fisher when she was younger, it's because the producers wanted her to be sexually attractive. When they say it to her now, it's because they think out of shape older women are gross. Her character is a career politician, there's no reason she needs to be in shape other than aesthetics.

Tiggum posted:

Once you know that's what he's doing it's fairly obvious, but it's still less clear than using quote tags, still completely unnecessary, and to someone who doesn't know the gimmick it just looks like he's an arsehole nutcase.

People over-reacting and asking if the non-sequitur rants are serious is part of the joke, though.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 08:19

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Must have been one hell of a Taylor Swift gif to explain how cutting taxes could lead to better, cheaper education.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2015 19:23

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Laurenz posted:

So he's more of an Sjw....rejects any western ideals because he believes anything to do with the west is oppressive.

I think you might be projecting a bit. Usually atheists like that are rebelling against their own upbringing, so the only religion they see as bad is their family's.

# ¿ Dec 25, 2015 21:42

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

goose fleet posted:

Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs have been divorced for over a year now, so that's one down, I guess.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2015 01:37

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

mng posted:

They're so crafty!

Literally just hobo symbols from the Great Depression.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2015 01:20

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

DavidAlltheTime posted:

Know your grower! Eat local & organic!

Nah.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2015 21:50

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

ToxicSlurpee posted:

I think what the strawchildren are saying is "I should be able to run around with a total disregard to my own safety." There's an onus of care on both sides. People driving should watch carefully for pedestrians but pedestrians should also not be darting into traffic randomly. The argument is that people saying things like "you know maybe we should hold cops that literally murder black people accountable" are arguing that drivers should be responsible even if the pedestrian is charging at them trying to get hit.

I think it's entirely about rape, rather than a Black Lives Matter thing. I'm surprised there isn't a #NotAllDrivers sign.

# ¿ Jan 1, 2016 04:39

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Hijo Del Helmsley posted:

Is "Tell strangers not to danger us" a controversial statement? Because, ideally, yes, strangers wouldn't endanger kids.

It's controversial in the same way that saying "tell men not to rape women" somehow implies all men are rapists in the mind of whoever made that. Yet they have no problem telling all women to take precautions to avoid getting raped.

# ¿ Jan 1, 2016 16:44

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

The flour was my favorite part, as well. It's like they got their supply checklist from playing Oregon Trail.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2016 03:34

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

God dammit, I almost contributed to a gun derail. Shut it down early. No one cares about your hobby.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 00:49

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

paradoxGentleman posted:

I never know how to react to articles like this. On the one hand, I am a young white guy who loves "ethnic" restaurants,, meaning that I am exactly the sort of person who would do something like this without noticing.

On the other hand, I am unclear of why exactly it is a bad thing. Sorry for enjoying a piece, however minor, of your culture, I guess? It sucks that someone was made fun of for the food they ate, and I can see how having that be the hip new thing could be frustrating, but don't take it out on people just wanting to try something unusual from their point of view, jeez.

Might I add that, if we Italians can suffer the indignity of pineapple pizza being a thing, you can deal as well.

No one as a single individual enjoying another culture's food matters, as far as what the article is talking about goes. It's when American culture suddenly decides a minority's culture, specifically food, is worth noticing and begins to commercialize it, usually with white people being the ones to majorly profit off of it and ignoring minority business owners who have struggled for years to keep their places open.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 17:37

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

KILLALLNERDS.EXE posted:

You have brain problems.

In...what way? Thinking it's not great when people swoop down on a certain ethnicity's food becoming a trend, creating new restaurants run and owned by white people, and not actually investing in restaurants owned by that minority? Because that's a thing that happens a lot.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 18:04

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Sorry, I didn't realize not liking people cutting minorities out of profiting from their own culture was a controversial opinion.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 18:20

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Avenging_Mikon posted:

They're not owed a profit. If they can't cater to the market, someone will.

Guess they should have pulled harder on those bootstraps.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 18:41

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Avenging_Mikon posted:

Ahahaha, no, jackass. If you aren't pulling in the people you want, cater to them. It's a service industry. Not a culture faire. Bootstraps has nothing to do with it. They already have a restaurant. Changing décor isn't bootstraps.

I was joking. I didn't say anything about people being owed a profit as you said. I just said it's a dick move. And as CommonShore said, just changing decor to cater to white people isn't going to help restaurants located in places deemed "bad" parts of town. And struggling restaurants don't necessarily have the funds to revamp their interiors. It's just a lovely situation, and people capitalizing on it to cut others out is just lovely behavior, no matter how good a market strategy it is.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 19:00

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Lori Mattix claimed she slept with David Bowie before she got involved with Jimmy Page, which would have made her about 13. I don't know that anything about it is substantiated.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2016 21:02

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Krispy Kareem posted:

Trying to apply current standards to sexual practices in the 1970's is probably like comparing industrial age labor laws with employment rules now.

It's best to just acknowledge that most people you admire or like from that era never got the consent speech at college orientation.

13 years old in the 70s is still 13, dude. But there's no way to know if it actually happened, so people bringing it up on Facebook to try to deflate people sad about his death is still dumb.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2016 21:09

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

EL BROMANCE posted:

Ireland does pretty well off the stereotype - go to Dublin and it's all tourist stuff based around Guinness, whisky, and music. I wouldn't worry too much.

My dad is fully Irish, born over there then moved here, and I can't say I've ever really cared about people celebrating it the way they do and I doubt he does either.

Some friends convinced me to go to Ireland for a few days while we were studying in London. They wanted to go to Dublin first, which I thought was odd, but I figured we could see the Book of Kells and things like that. Nope. Their big ideas were the Guiness factory, the Jameson factory, and river dancers at a hole in the wall "dinner and a show" place. I wanted to slap the poo poo out of all of them.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2016 17:22

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Question Mark Mound posted:

Not saying at your friends aren't touristy dipshits for everything else, but going to the capital city of a country first isn't really that odd.

There just seemed like a lot more cities with a lot going on. Dublin came off as tourist central for the country. There were countless numbers of hostels filled with drunk college students from around the world stumbling back from yet another pub crawl.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2016 17:52

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Maker Of Shoes posted:

god damnit

That's been happening for weeks, since the rumors of his casting started. Every article has comment sections filled with people starting with "I'm not racist but..." and "This isn't PC but.." and no one arguing with them. They all understand exactly why what they're saying is lovely without anyone telling them, but they just have to share it.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2016 17:57

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

RFC2324 posted:

I really want to say that doc was loving with you, but i have known some with REALLY bad ideas about medicine outside their field.

oldpainless is a gimmick poster.

EDIT: Well, not a gimmick so much as always sarcastic.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2016 22:56

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Blind Pineapple posted:

Necessary.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2016 05:45

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Guys who are really attracted to Harley Quinn worry me. Especially the guys who actually work in comics that make her more and more sexualized as they make her more and more violently psychotic.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2016 21:08

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Arcsquad12 posted:

DC is run by shitheads who run everything into the ground. Harley Quinn is just one of the more notable characters to undergo slutification. I remember reading about a girl who liked reading Teen Titans comics getting upset when the New 52 comics turned Starfire into a literal whore.

Comics are bad, but DC is the worst.

Yeah, what they did to Starfire was pretty awful, as were most things involving women in the New 52 relaunch. But it's been happening forever. The lesbian fantasy stuff with Harley Quinn and Ivy started during the loving cartoon specifically aimed at kids because Paul Dini is gross.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2016 00:07

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

RareAcumen posted:

Could you give me a few links or name the threads? I'm kinda really interested in seeing how they messed up all the female characters over the years. Also, apparently Reed Richards is scumbag prime.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3749767&pagenumber=26&perpage=40

This is a good place to start. Other weird stuff comes up in most of the discussion threads. DC discussion around the launch of the New 52 is probably archived by now, but I'm certain would be a hotbed.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2016 02:02

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Subjunctive posted:

Sure don't want kids knowing about them homos, no siree bob.

Yeah, that was my point. Not that Paul Dini really likes to draw sexy pinups of all the female Batman villains, and took the opportunity of turning his show into a weird, sanitized 60s pulp lesbian fantasy for a few episodes.

EDIT: And to be clear, neither character is ever stated to be specifically gay or even bisexual in the comics. Harley and Ivy are both written to hit on men constantly with terrible "bad girl" dialogue, and every time they're shown together, it comes off like the first few minutes of a lesbian porn scene.

Poor Miserable Gurgi has a new favorite as of 05:08 on Jan 25, 2016

# ¿ Jan 25, 2016 05:04

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Subjunctive posted:

Glad we're on the same page. (Why does it matter that it was a lesbian fantasy, and not a heterosexual one?)

Because it was a heterosexual man sexualizing two female characters in a personal fantasy, then shoehorning into the show. It really shouldn't be that hard to believe a comic writer might be kind of creepy about women.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2016 05:12

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

The free market is a holy, blameless creature.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2016 16:01

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 18:05

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Otisburg posted:

Shared by My Dad.

I was actually kind of disappointed. Based on the lurid headline I was expecting some wild conspiracy theory, but it turns out they're just spinning the heck out of the fact that that rules of engagement are a thing that exists, and we're only bombing people sometimes, like when there's not babies around and poo poo. The article gets all "abloohoohoo why can't we bomb indiscriminately like the Russians?"

Which ignores the fact that drone strikes kill civilians regularly. But it's not a guy actually in the jet pressing a button and watching people die, so Obama must love ISIS.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2016 07:14

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