Pirate Radar posted:

I like the part where they start talking about Measure B and he sings it to the tune of Let It Be

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

why is this chat thread pinned, can't we let dadchat fade away in a dignified manner

R. Mute posted:

did anyone see the it's always sunny finale?

avshalemon posted:

 Disturb any rear end material;

R. Mute posted:

it's one of those eps that makes me visit tviv just to confirm that they're still utterly incapable of understanding or enjoying anything

Pirate Radar posted:

A friend’s take was “with all this hero worship following Stan Lee’s death, Jack Kirby would be rolling in his grave if Lee hadn’t stolen that too.”

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

also anyone who cries about the uspol/trump/thunderdome threads being ruined because of the merger should be banned

paranoid randroid posted:

its all good, the president is flying in to drive the big trucks and make everything okay

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

exmarx posted:

https://twitter.com/indiatoday/status/1065136494476582914?s=21

owned

quote:

Taipei - A lion attacked a man who jumped into the animal's enclosure and shouted "Jesus will save you!" at the big cat on Wednesday at the zoo in Taiwan's capital.

Cable TV stations showed the lion ripping a jacket off the man as he stood in a grassy enclosure that held two of the animals.

Without panicking, the man fell back on a stone ridge, and the lion then jumped at him, biting him in the arm. The lion then clawed at his trousers before retreating.

The man then calmly stood with his arms outstretched in front of the two animals.

An eyewitness, Hsu Li-jen, told cable station CTI that the man shouted "Jesus will save you" at the animals.

Guards drove the lions away with water hoses, and police shot the animals with tranquilliser darts. The man, identified only by his surname, Chen, then picked up his jacket and climbed out of the pen himself. He was taken to the hospital for tests.

"He had bite marks both at the front and back of his leg," Doctor Wang Yao-ching told CTI.

Another doctor said Chen, 46, also had psychological problems. "He took this dangerous action today because he imagined he heard voices," psychiatrist Teng Hui-wen told reporters, saying his case was still being investigated.

exmarx posted:

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1065609376894001153?s=21
get fuuuucked

paranoid randroid posted:

double dumbass on me, i guess

The Muppets On PCP posted:

if this thread's a rockin punch richard dawkins

R. Mute posted:

i wanted to google some heroic belgian propaganda but it was all fascism and CONGO'S OURS so have this instead:

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

happy new years chat thread

calling it, 2019: the year the forums die

Volkerball posted:

loving drunk driving dipshits at work forcing me to stay at the bar until 3am. I'm gonna be stuck at this 711 eating hot dogs for god knows how long. I have to work tomorrow!

exmarx posted:

lin manuel miranda is playing lee scoresby in the upcoming his dark materials series...

The Muppets On PCP posted:

it's become cliche but people really do need to read another book

Furnaceface posted:

Something not unique to UK Conservatives.

Volkerball posted:

vs

R. Mute posted:

finally got round to watching black panther last night

exmarx posted:

R. Mute posted:

why thank you for asking

it was easily one of the best marvel movies. along with guardians of the galaxy and thor: ragnarok it's one of the few marvel movies where the usual marvel problems (boring expanded universe, horrible pacing, threadbare plot, nothing makes sense, CGI and nothing else) can't fully drag the movie down. in no small part because wish fulfillment for black americans (what if european colonialism wasn't quite as thorough and what if there was someone out there that actually gave a poo poo about me and that person was willing to save me from systemic oppression) is a lot more interesting than wish fulfillment for white americans (what if i was super strong and was allowed to beat up poor people?).

the politics of the movie are obviously bad. killmonger was right, the ending of wakanda doing development aid was p laughable. ah yes, a lot of shiny tech, we are finally saved.

biggest gripe was the screenplay itself tho. the first half of the movie was just a huge waste of time. most notably the james bond homage and the car chase. and as much as i love watching andy serkis chew every bit of scenery, klaue didn't add much to the film. and then the second half of the film felt rushed. they should've given more time to killmonger's story, given t'challa more depth, maybe do something more with the danai gurira-daniel kaluuya plotline that felt interesting. oh and cut martin freeman. i love the dweeb, but just cut him. and let lupita nyong'o act, christ sake. give her something.

but i guess less set pieces, more plot is my complaint about every marvel movie

overall very entertaining.

R. Mute posted:

the thing people responded to with killmonger was that he was the only one to come close to a realistic political standpoint in the movie. he's the one that recognises that politics are about power and that sending your spacetrain-tech to america isn't going to stop black people from being oppressed. he's the one that realises the western world isn't just going to sit back and let a tiny african nation take center stage.

the problem is that when hollywood screenwriters portray black people, their politics are limited to two options: mlk and malcolm x, where mlk is obviously the Right Answer. problem is that they see malcolm x through the lens of fox news parody. and because they don't understand malcolm x and because they feel the need to emphasise that he's definitely the bad choice (pls dont like him even tho he makes sense), they tack on a bunch of stuff that doesn't really make all that much sense (i want to help the oppresys.sed people of the world and i trained to do it by killing the oppressed people for the us army) or is just over the top evil (shooting his girlfriend, choking the flower lady, etc).

it feels wrong and people look past it because the only way for that to work is if he's a massive hypocrite - which the rest of the film doesn't really support and which kinda undercuts the whole struggle of ideals thing which is at the core of the movie.

exmarx posted:

this is the same poo poo that every second comic book movie does. the villain has spot-on analysis of the problem, but also wants to kill everybody for ??? reason

The Muppets On PCP posted:

exmarx posted:

i regret to inform you/me that the guy from superorganism is a rapist https://pitchfork.com/news/superorganisms-mark-turner-sought-restraining-orders-against-two-women-who-spoke-out-against-him

V. Illych L. posted:

i hope you don't take it personally but i do think that entering the army to escape your ruinous debts was really funny in a "the more things change" kind of way

Volkerball posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/peta/status/1085573461315997696

exmarx posted:

reading the, animorphs forum

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

i've never actually looked into cspam

what's it like?

paranoid randroid posted:

well folks its only january and i have to say, America should probably not have been picked up for another season

exmarx posted:

can't believe we're already a quarter of the way through trump's presidency

cinci zoo sniper posted:

trinidad and tobago no longer are latvian colonies

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

as a california resident i can say with some authority that all big name california democrats are bad

The Muppets On PCP posted:

gohan of arc

cinci zoo sniper posted:

im the implication made by the author that russia is the most modern country

Furnaceface posted:

Ohio still exists.

The Muppets On PCP posted:

virginians are significantly dumber than even the most vacant-eyed midwestern dullard i assure you

vb would be placed in accelerated learning courses in virginia's schools