In 2017 Idiocracy is a Documentary

#1261

CommanderTuvok wrote:BBC just announced Jodie Whittaker as the new Dr Who, so the SJW pressure to have either a woman or POC pays off. You just know the pressure will just ramp up even more to have a POC next. Lol.

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Don't know much about her, but she looks like hot English totty. :)

Allah Akbar Dr. Who. or Burkha Who?

#1262

MarcusAu wrote:The stories had been becoming increasingly silly in recent years anyway...

I am frequently disappointed too.
But a key thing to remember is that Dr. Who was originally created as a children's show. That is the target curve for how far they will go in story lines. You just have to accept it for what it is, and not expect it to be more. Yes it has plenty of untapped potential. But it will remain untapped until someone creates an adult version. So essentially canning the police box & name.

#1263

I want to see Danielle Muscato as Mary Poppins. :drool:

Guest_936d3dec · #1264

Many Americans of a certain age were confused over our cereal this morning....

RIP Buffy

#1265

GenerallyFading wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:
GenerallyFading wrote: Never mind, Capaldi brings it all to a nice close, and I'l pretend the program has finished.
What I would give my left bollock to see would be a Malcolm Tucker/Doctor Who mashup played by Capaldi.
I think there's one on YouTube?

Yeah, bloke called Pete Nottage has done one that's good

And I will always treasure the "Shut up, shut up, shuttity up up up" even though it was toned down a bit :lol:

#1266

Tigzy wrote:
Clarence wrote:Dr. Who?
Now as an American I don't pay (THANK GOODNESS) taxes for this shit. I used to really like it, but haven't for the last two Doctors. Here is my take: That show has been 'virtue signalling' for most of the past 2 decades. There were some decent episodes here and there esp in the mid 2000's but the show has long been more soap opera in space (often focusing on the women sidekicks) then science fiction. The fact that they feel the need to pander to SJW's through the last 2 Doctors is just icing on the cake. So there was a big 'thing' about how the next Doctor had to be a woman (even though there are already female Galifreyans who've had important story arcs even) and the fact they gave in doesn't surprise me. I will say one more thing: if they had wanted to do something different they either could have given him a robotic companion or no companion at all. OR*gasp* given him a cute Earthgirl where it was OBVIOUS they were having sex. That sexless Doctor stuff has been a meme for decades...but when you add all the queer and lesbian and shit stuff they have been doing over the past decade or so his sexlessness as a MAN is almost a slap in the face to normal male fans. Now if you don't like lesbian porn, there's nothing for you here. I'm glad that most comments I'm seeing on Soc Media about this are negative. Maybe the ratings will make that Ghostbusters flop look like a success. And before you all (I see several here that are going to 'give it a chance') complain at me for prejudging it, WHAT THE FUCK do you think the odds are that this woman Doctor isn't going to be PERFECT in practically every way and morally insufferable to boot. Hell, she'll probably diss 'her' previous regenerations. So long Doctor Who. Thanks for the good memories and some fun times.

Personally, I think we'll get some compelling drama out of a Doctor who'll be bad tempered and irrational every four episodes.

If I hear the new Dr. Sue is unintentionally hilarious like that I might give it a shot. But since I expect feminist and SJW whining unless she's the same boring moral scold we've all come to associate with modern feminism (esp when talking to a man, and even more esp if that bloke is a white British heterosexual man), I don't hold out high hopes. Any affect of this actresses 'womanly times' will probably go to the press as various unarticulable or unproveable oppression's of working in such a male dominated studio or something and aren't those other women either all empowered goddesses or (depending) horrid bitches? Bleh. I expect this stunt to end the show. And not with a bang. I suppose I can hope for LOLS along the way.

#1267

Shatterface wrote:SJWs are a vocal minority but they are also anhedonic. The whole notion of enjoyment repels them.

I wouldn't go that far. It's more that they're heavily incentivized to rain on one another's parade. You can find plenty of people who rue the fact that a show or a movie or something they used to really love has been labeled problematic so they can't enjoy it anymore. Some of them even have enough remnants of a backbone left to declare that they have problematic faves, things they readily admit are heretical but mea culpa they just can't help enjoying it still.

MarcusAu wrote:In fact it could be argued that the comics industry has become more conservative - in that they are not taking risks with genre - but just maintaining a holding pattern. So that the Alan Moore or Neil Gaiman or Grant Morrison or Steve Gerber of a new generation is not likely to emerge. On top of that there is not much incentive for writers to create new characters as the IP rights default to the company.

Big two publishing maybe, but while they still dominate the readership market other publishers like Image give creators much more leeway.

#1268

When you want to type 'please touch my penis' but remember the ally cookies:

http://i.imgur.com/qu3ca5K.png

Again social media is full of people fingerwagging about the MISOGYNISTS complaining about Dr. Who, but those complaints are outnumbered about 1000-1 by people grandstanding about it.

#1269

MarcusAu wrote:
Clarence wrote:Dr. Who?
...
WHAT THE FUCK do you think the odds are that this woman Doctor isn't going to be PERFECT in practically every way and morally insufferable to boot
...
Julie Andrews was not available, so we will just have to wait and see if this new candidate measures up.

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It's funny. And brings back good childhood memories.

But:

Mary Poppins was kind to children and loved them as well as other living creatures and even most of those silly male humans.
She's the exact opposite of the typical Feminist Avenger on TV.
Fail you do.

#1270

Guest_936d3dec wrote: RIP Buffy

I remember lieing in bed one morning listening to the news. They reported that the actress who had played Buffy was found dead. They listed off a string of drugs found in her body and the last drug they named they added 'a popular horse sedative'. I fell out of bed laughing.

Am I a bad person?

#1271

Clarence wrote: If I hear the new Dr. Sue is unintentionally hilarious like that I might give it a shot. But since I expect feminist and SJW whining unless she's the same boring moral scold we've all come to associate with modern feminism (esp when talking to a man, and even more esp if that bloke is a white British heterosexual man), I don't hold out high hopes. Any affect of this actresses 'womanly times' will probably go to the press as various unarticulable or unproveable oppression's of working in such a male dominated studio or something and aren't those other women either all empowered goddesses or (depending) horrid bitches? Bleh. I expect this stunt to end the show. And not with a bang. I suppose I can hope for LOLS along the way.

Sure there'll be plenty of lols to be had watching her try to park the Tardis, Clarry.

#1272

GenerallyFading wrote:
GenerallyFading wrote:
Lsuoma wrote: What I would give my left bollock to see would be a Malcolm Tucker/Doctor Who mashup played by Capaldi.
I think there's one on YouTube?
Yeah, bloke called Pete Nottage has done one that's good

And I will always treasure the "Shut up, shut up, shuttity up up up" even though it was toned down a bit :lol:

Nah, I meant Doctor Who scripted by Armando Iannucci.

For TToI they used some guy called Ian Martin as a swearing consultant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Martin_(writer)

#1273

Sunder wrote:
Shatterface wrote:SJWs are a vocal minority but they are also anhedonic. The whole notion of enjoyment repels them.
I wouldn't go that far. It's more that they're heavily incentivized to rain on one another's parade. You can find plenty of people who rue the fact that a show or a movie or something they used to really love has been labeled problematic so they can't enjoy it anymore. Some of them even have enough remnants of a backbone left to declare that they have problematic faves, things they readily admit are heretical but mea culpa they just can't help enjoying it still.

MarcusAu wrote:In fact it could be argued that the comics industry has become more conservative - in that they are not taking risks with genre - but just maintaining a holding pattern. So that the Alan Moore or Neil Gaiman or Grant Morrison or Steve Gerber of a new generation is not likely to emerge. On top of that there is not much incentive for writers to create new characters as the IP rights default to the company.
Big two publishing maybe, but while they still dominate the readership market other publishers like Image give creators much more leeway.

Marcus AU has almost certainly not been following Marvel the last 3 years.
They've virtue signalled themselves and their books to comedy and irrelevance.
They've signed SJW ideologues (most of whom have no writing let alone comics experience) to redo most of their popular (or once popular now) books. And mess around with the continuity of their Universe. It's mostly been a disaster with their sales tanking and DC (which hasn't been 'converged' for whatever reason) starting to really outpace them.
Some are even speculating the publisher of Marvel is deliberately ruining it by publishing the books by these people such as Mr. Coats.
And of course if you look at the books (or you can go to Youtube and watch people deconstruct them page by page and sometimes rip them up to boot) you find that almost all the SJW characters (or, much more common SJW RESTYLINGS of already long-established characters) are Mary Sues or Marty Stus or even blank pages with no discernable personality whatsoever. Always righteous and invincible of course.

Bleh. There should be a book about this someday no matter what happens.

#1274

Do you remember RageAfterStorm who did that race is real video?

I've found her lookalike:

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#1275

Somehow I thought this appropriate for the discussion of "Do SJWs enjoy things."

http://oglaf.com/annals/

#1276

I'll be watching this like a hawk. Popcorn munching intensifies...

#1277

Tigzy wrote:
Clarence wrote: If I hear the new Dr. Sue is unintentionally hilarious like that I might give it a shot. But since I expect feminist and SJW whining unless she's the same boring moral scold we've all come to associate with modern feminism (esp when talking to a man, and even more esp if that bloke is a white British heterosexual man), I don't hold out high hopes. Any affect of this actresses 'womanly times' will probably go to the press as various unarticulable or unproveable oppression's of working in such a male dominated studio or something and aren't those other women either all empowered goddesses or (depending) horrid bitches? Bleh. I expect this stunt to end the show. And not with a bang. I suppose I can hope for LOLS along the way.
Sure there'll be plenty of lols to be had watching her try to park the Tardis, Clarry.

Ok, that made me laugh. :lol:

#1278

Shatterface wrote:. Same would go for Basil Rathbone or Cummerbund Bandersnatch as Sherlock Holmes.

Jeremy Brett was the best Sherlock Holmes ever. FACT! :snooty:

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#1279

Clarence wrote:
Tigzy wrote: Sure there'll be plenty of lols to be had watching her try to park the Tardis, Clarry.
Ok, that made me laugh. :lol:

And what's the betting that once she finally parks it in, say, the 14th Century, half of it will have ended up in the 15th?

Quite apt that a show about a time traveller has led me into a detour of 1970s humour...

#1280

GenerallyFading wrote:I was trying to reply to Dokkit, and I've mucked up the quoting. With reference to the role model for men....

Well, for me, he was a great father figure. Although I did have a thing for the Twelfth Doctor - big brains plus charisma. Even though I was screaming "NOOO!!!!" at the "Just be kind" speech - that was Moffatt's therapy for years of bullying. You can tell he wants all his bullies to be sorry they weren't kind to him, so his slap in the face to them is to get a major character to try to make them feel guilty. As a philosophy on life, it doesn't work. Jordan Peterson speaks about nurturing your inner psychopath and standing up for yourself because otherwise you get walked all over, so for the Doctor to deploy this all the time? No. And it is a bit of a departure from a Doctor who started the role with the possibility he shoved a sentient being to their death unwillingly, and broke the fourth wall in challenging you to decide what he did.

Pretty much I went along for the ride, enjoyed Capaldi as an actor and remembered this is aimed at children. Sort of.

Makes sense. I liked Dr Who when I was a kid, but never got on board after McCoy.

FWIW I don't think this casting is 'the bbc giving in to pressure' because I think the people working on the show are paid-up diversity ideologues. They have made it less and less about sci-fi ideas and increasingly about personal relationships and queerness over the last decade.

Fair enough if that's what people like, but not for me. I doubt it would get funded were it not for the licence.

#1281

Clarence wrote:
It's funny. And brings back good childhood memories.

But:

Mary Poppins was kind to children and loved them as well as other living creatures and even most of those silly male humans.
She's the exact opposite of the typical Feminist Avenger on TV.
Fail you do.

Fair enough - I think I might be conflating the personality of Mary Poppins with Amelia Bedelia or some other half-remembered Roald Dahl-ish slightly sinister character anyway.

#1282

GenerallyFading wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:
GenerallyFading wrote: Never mind, Capaldi brings it all to a nice close, and I'l pretend the program has finished.
What I would give my left bollock to see would be a Malcolm Tucker/Doctor Who mashup played by Capaldi.
I think there's one on YouTube?

You mean one of his bollocks?

#1283

Tigzy wrote:
Clarence wrote:
Tigzy wrote: Sure there'll be plenty of lols to be had watching her try to park the Tardis, Clarry.
Ok, that made me laugh. :lol:
And what's the betting that once she finally parks it in, say, the 14th Century, half of it will have ended up in the 15th?

Quite apt that a show about a time traveller has led me into a detour of 1970s humour...

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#1284

I'm watching The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Stop distracting me.

#1285

Lsuoma wrote:
Shatterface wrote:The next question will be are future companions to be male? An all female Tardis crew is going to alienate a lot of fans but there hasn't been a really great male companion since Jamie McCrimmon in the Sixties - and even he wore a skirt.

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Maybe we'll see some carpet munching.

BTW, the next step might be to see a Doctor with girlcock.

Cast Zinnia and make zir boypussy a tardis into which everything is crammed.

#1286

Clarence wrote: ...
Marcus AU has almost certainly not been following Marvel the last 3 years.
...

I've been reading them (Marvel) a bit - Thor and Squirrel Girl and Deadpool, Dr Strange and anything (Marvel or DC) by Warren Ellis. Though have purposely avoided the soap opera of most titles and cross overs. Adding to that I'm not on Twitter so avoid that noise.

I've seen some of the Youtube vids you mention (search for Diversity and Comics - if ripping reviews is what you require) - but if Youtube had existed in the 80s (or 70s or 60s) then I'm sure there would be just as many people complaining. (Which was why I was trying to offer a bit of historical context). It's hard to say with such reviews if I'm getting a bias/bubble though. (It has become very fashionable to bash SJWs).

After all 'notorious' writer Chuck Dixon (who describes himself as 'to the right of Attila the Hun') was chucked off Batman in the 90s and made to feel very unwelcome at both Marvel & DC (as well as some of the smaller publishers). Even back then there was a preponderance of liberals in the industry (conservatives obviously having a bias to spend their time in more financially beneficial ways).

I just question if there was ever really a 'golden age' of comic book writing standards. And as for the writers maybe they were always arseholes but it tends to come out more on Twitter vs a reply in a letter column.

#1287

DrokkIt wrote: Makes sense. I liked Dr Who when I was a kid, but never got on board after McCoy.

FWIW I don't think this casting is 'the bbc giving in to pressure' because I think the people working on the show are paid-up diversity ideologues. They have made it less and less about sci-fi ideas and increasingly about personal relationships and queerness over the last decade.

Fair enough if that's what people like, but not for me. I doubt it would get funded were it not for the licence.

Thing is, they may have inadvertently embolded the whinge brigade by at least appearing to have acquiesced to their pressure. I have a suspicion that though it's all joy and bells from that lot at the moment, it won't be long before we start getting tiresome and incessant whines as to why the Doctor isn't black, visibly trans, non-presenting trans, overweight, disabled, openly gay, proudly neuroatypical etc etc etc

FWIW I'm not bothered that the Doctor is now a woman, given that I enjoy the show for what it is: nonsensical fluff with high nostalgia value based on occasional scary bits, which was what I liked the most about it when watching as a kid - I was quite impressed with the last series in this regard, as it upped the horror aspect quite considerably. Course, old Who could never quite match the chill factor of Sapphire & Steel, which absolutely ruled in scaring the shit out of ya: whistling ghosts of WW1 soldiers on an abandoned railway platform; the B&W kids which escaped old photos and who were led by a man who had no face; pillows and legs of lamb which would cause you to hallucinate screaming animals if you touched them. Damn, I wish that show was brought back - along with producers unwilling to pander to modern sensibilities and quite happy to scare the shit out of people. Too much to hope for, I suppose.

#1288

Of old school Who - I think the Axons were quite scary and the Autons and possibly something else beginning with 'A'. Giant maggots were freaky too.

nb it looks like full episodes of S&S are available on Youtube

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#1289

As to mod vs classic Who - did anyone enjoy Neil Gaiman's writting efforts on Nu Who?

#1290

Shatterface wrote:Comics sell, at best, a few hundred thousand issues. They're not movies. There's a reason Marvel films aren't recasting a teenage girl as Iron Man, a woman as Thora, or a Korean as the Hulk and that's money.

Having watched the recent Spider-Man movie today, may I remind you of the "how to boil a frog" trope? Or at least the "how to TRY to boil a frog" trope?

So his first, non-canon girlfriend is a drop-dead gorgeous PoC, MJ is a now a hot SJW/nerd PoC, his best friend is a fat Asian geek stereotype, and his arch-nemesis at school is no longer a strapping Aryan jock stereotype, but a weedy, slope-shouldered Indian/Pakistani (?) blowhard stereotype, for whom the name "Flash" is ludicrously inappropriate (one wonders, for several reasons, if they really thought that last one through).

Apparently, it smells of Belsen for a white kid to have a sweet, homely relationship with another white kid these days. And of course, the possibility that Aunt May might be a kind, traditionalist white working class old lady who's Petey's only living moral exemplar, is so horrific that she has to be transmogrified into a hot latina MILF for no explained reason - resulting in a couple of slightly creepy, ephebophilia-normalizing moments between her and Peter.

The movie as a whole isn't a complete waste of money or time, it's entertaining enough and eases the bum pain with a few cool action set pieces, amusing moments, and some stellar acting from Michael Keaton as the deplorable white working class guy who over-reacts to officialdom and big superhero stuff taking his livelihood away, by creating super-weapons out of stolen alien tech and selling them to gangsters. Heavy-handed symbolism aside, Keaton does actually gives the role some real, scary gravitas.

Spidey's character arc almost works, the writers at least had the grace to let him be a true hero; but at the end of the day it's too breathless, unfocused, and too dependent on an absent-substitute-father "mishtu Shtark" to call the shots. There's too much time and interest spent on his gee whizz suit. Pete makes his own miracle web fluid, yet he's incapable of being heroic off his own bat with a functional _non-goofy_ suit he's made himself. Enough with the fucking suit already.

The ethnic replacement of some of the central characters in Spidey's mythos by a parade of politically correct purse puppies is just - it's just enervating, tiresome. (What makes it even slightly sadder is that they're good kid actors - their talent is thrown away on mind-virus-induced corporate PC tics.)

#1291

Tigzy wrote:
DrokkIt wrote: Makes sense. I liked Dr Who when I was a kid, but never got on board after McCoy.

FWIW I don't think this casting is 'the bbc giving in to pressure' because I think the people working on the show are paid-up diversity ideologues. They have made it less and less about sci-fi ideas and increasingly about personal relationships and queerness over the last decade.

Fair enough if that's what people like, but not for me. I doubt it would get funded were it not for the licence.
Thing is, they may have inadvertently embolded the whinge brigade by at least appearing to have acquiesced to their pressure. I have a suspicion that though it's all joy and bells from that lot at the moment, it won't be long before we start getting tiresome and incessant whines as to why the Doctor isn't black, visibly trans, non-presenting trans, overweight, disabled, openly gay, proudly neuroatypical etc etc etc

FWIW I'm not bothered that the Doctor is now a woman, given that I enjoy the show for what it is: nonsensical fluff with high nostalgia value based on occasional scary bits, which was what I liked the most about it when watching as a kid - I was quite impressed with the last series in this regard, as it upped the horror aspect quite considerably. Course, old Who could never quite match the chill factor of Sapphire & Steel, which absolutely ruled in scaring the shit out of ya: whistling ghosts of WW1 soldiers on an abandoned railway platform; the B&W kids which escaped old photos and who were led by a man who had no face; pillows and legs of lamb which would cause you to hallucinate screaming animals if you touched them. Damn, I wish that show was brought back - along with producers unwilling to pander to modern sensibilities and quite happy to scare the shit out of people. Too much to hope for, I suppose.

Quite possible- people seem pretty het up over it one way or another.

What I don't get is how you can one the one hand argue "time for a female doctor, we need representation" and on the other "lol male tears at all these bros who like their male role model". Unless of course it's literally just a desire for your own way and not about fairness.

Why don't they just make their own bloody show? And while they are at it get ready to argue "people didn't like female who because sexism" when the show has been in trouble for a while because the writing is pants.

#1292

DrokkIt wrote:
katamari Damassi wrote:
DrokkIt wrote:What's annoying me today you don't ask?

Why, my friend-0-sphere full of people banging on about What The Health a netflix vegan propaganda movie that a cursory inspection reveals to be full of 'all diseases are caused by meat' woo bullshit.

Make whatever ethical lifestyle choices you like, but don't let's pretend it's anything but.
There's a small industry of vegan propaganda movies. Almost yearly, a vegan friend of mine tells me that "You have to see this movie!" She follows this doctor named James McDougal. She lent me his book years ago. It's full of testimonials, including a guy who claims veganism cured his baldness.

Loads of my friends are vegan- it's trendy in music circles- and tbh I have no problem with it as a lifestyle choice, and I can concede that eating too much red/processed meat may be a bad idea for various reasons.

However I am tired of being told health issues I have due to a disease are down to my diet, when they are not.

Vegans have a hard time explaining why Iceland is such a healthy country when the food there is so heavy on seafood, meat and dairy. I'm quite the carnivore, but even I found the food too meat-heavy. Must be the alcohol keeping them going.

#1293

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: Vegans have a hard time explaining why Iceland is such a healthy country when the food there is so heavy on seafood, meat and dairy. I'm quite the carnivore, but even I found the food too meat-heavy. Must be the alcohol keeping them going.

Funnily enough they also haven't liked it when I've asked what the standards of health in largely veggie places like India are, compared to the west.

But of course, that's thanks to western imperialism that happened 150 years ago though.

#1294

Have you ever been so feminist that your desire to fight the patriarchy and to dismantle gender roles leads you to conform to stereotypes?

#1295

gurugeorge wrote:There's too much time and interest spent on his gee whizz suit. Pete makes his own miracle web fluid, yet he's incapable of being heroic off his own bat with a functional _non-goofy_ suit he's made himself. Enough with the fucking suit already.

The whole point of the suit arc though is exactly that Spider-Man doesn't need all this shit to be a hero and saves the day without any of it. It's a piece of autistically overdesigned Stark tech that does nothing but make an ass of Peter every time he tries to use it.

#1296

MarcusAu wrote:As to mod vs classic Who - did anyone enjoy Neil Gaiman's writting efforts on Nu Who?

The first one, yes; the second one, no. Even Gaiman doesn't seem to be happy about the second one.

#1297

DrokkIt wrote:
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: Vegans have a hard time explaining why Iceland is such a healthy country when the food there is so heavy on seafood, meat and dairy. I'm quite the carnivore, but even I found the food too meat-heavy. Must be the alcohol keeping them going.
Funnily enough they also haven't liked it when I've asked what the standards of health in largely veggie places like India are, compared to the west.

But of course, that's thanks to western imperialism that happened 150 years ago though.

Like any religion, they look for just enough science to validate their confirmation bias and ignore or handwave away the rest.

I am actually curious as to how far the regressive left/SJWs are willing to go to blame everything on white men. My eldest is being taught in both high school and college that most cultures were peace-loving vegetarian matriarchal societies before they were destroyed by white culture. That's not really much of an exaggeration either. The demonization of white men in her history classes has been so grotesque and distorted that they may as well have been called propaganda, especially since her often dissenting opinion was silenced.

I wonder at what point there will Western Civilization be examined without demonizing or rhetoric opposite "Deus Vult"/Iron Pill extremism? The good, bad and ugly without making it the complete scapegoat for other culture's failures?

#1298

Suet Cardigan wrote:Do you remember RageAfterStorm who did that race is real video?

I've found her lookalike:

Rage.jpg

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She looks like a female Stuart Little.

#1299

Sulman wrote:When you want to type 'please touch my penis' but remember the ally cookies:

http://i.imgur.com/qu3ca5K.png

Again social media is full of people fingerwagging about the MISOGYNISTS complaining about Dr. Who, but those complaints are outnumbered about 1000-1 by people grandstanding about it.

Just checked his twitter. Christ, what a cunt.

Englishman. Feminist. Baron of The Badlands 'til I fell out with my Father. It's a birthmark not eye herpes. Cries at sports montages.

Might as well add

Career in limbo. Protective of my hair mousse like a mama bear of her cubs. Poncy is as poncy does.

Seriously, it must be exhausting being politically correct 24/7.

#1300

Scott Adams having a chuckle at the Democrats' panic re. Kid Rock at 13:19 here:- https://www.pscp.tv/w/1eaKbmdYdeaxX

#1301

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
Like any religion, they look for just enough science to validate their confirmation bias and ignore or handwave away the rest.

I am actually curious as to how far the regressive left/SJWs are willing to go to blame everything on white men. My eldest is being taught in both high school and college that most cultures were peace-loving vegetarian matriarchal societies before they were destroyed by white culture. That's not really much of an exaggeration either. The demonization of white men in her history classes has been so grotesque and distorted that they may as well have been called propaganda, especially since her often dissenting opinion was silenced.

I wonder at what point there will Western Civilization be examined without demonizing or rhetoric opposite "Deus Vult"/Iron Pill extremism? The good, bad and ugly without making it the complete scapegoat for other culture's failures?

CFB - did you read to your kids when they were growing up? Or did they read on their own?

I recall my mum reading 'Swallows & Amazons' to me. And my sisters read things like 'The Bobsey Twins' or 'The Chalet School' (a US equivalent would perhaps be 'Sweet Valley High').

I then went on to read things like Sherlock Holmes, Stig of the Dump, H G Lewis, Tolkien etc etc.

All of which were full of people that I did not necessarily identify with - but who were ostensibly white, and who were getting on with things in a not particularly angsty manner.

Hopefully if you got the innocculation in early enough they will be resistant to the poison forced on them in latter life.

nb I later read things that would be considered 'problematic' in anyone's book - ie Lovecraft and Flashman (by George MacDonald Fraser) - but fuck it, sometimes you just have to enjoy yourself.

nnb I bet you probably scared the shit out of them with stories from Snori Snorison.

#1302

Sunder wrote:
gurugeorge wrote:There's too much time and interest spent on his gee whizz suit. Pete makes his own miracle web fluid, yet he's incapable of being heroic off his own bat with a functional _non-goofy_ suit he's made himself. Enough with the fucking suit already.
The whole point of the suit arc though is exactly that Spider-Man doesn't need all this shit to be a hero and saves the day without any of it. It's a piece of autistically overdesigned Stark tech that does nothing but make an ass of Peter every time he tries to use it.

Sure, as I said, the film does give him his human heroism, which saves the movie from being shit; but there's simply too much raw time spent on the suit that could have been spent actually developing Pete's character through interaction with human beings.

There's too much weight put on it as a mcguffin for his character development.

The autism is really in the film-makers' "We have the CGI to do this so we're jolly well going to stuff the film with gee-whizz bits and bobs to entertain the kids. Hmm, how can we justify it? Ok, it's this moral lesson re. ... "

#1303

Shatterface wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:As to mod vs classic Who - did anyone enjoy Neil Gaiman's writting efforts on Nu Who?
The first one, yes; the second one, no. Even Gaiman doesn't seem to be happy about the second one.

Yes, the first one was a lot of fun, the second one suffered from being about the Cybermen, and the Cybermen are crap.

#1304

MarcusAu wrote: I then went on to read things like Sherlock Holmes, Stig of the Dump, H G Lewis, Tolkien etc etc.

Though if you think about it, SotD was a kind of early indoctrination into accepting islam, given that it was about a boy who befriended a prehistoric savage.

#1305

The lion the witch and the time machine?

#1306

Anybody know anything about guitar amplifiers and how to fix them?

The band has a gig on Saturday. The had a run-through this afternoon without our drummer, and we'll have a last-minute full-band run through on Wednesday evening. And this evening my amp decided to fall over and cough up blood. As I was playing, there was a really loud crackling sound. I unplugged the guitar and the sound continued. I turned the amp off, left it for a while, and when I turned it on again I got a constant loud hum, not affected by the volume control, nothing from the guitar got through, and there was a faint burning smell.

I unplugged the speaker, took the back off, and turned it on again. There was smoke coming from the top connection of the first ribbon cable (where the arrow is pointing).

[url]https://preview.ibb.co/hLMBUa/amp.jpg[/img]

Is this a simple matter of replacing the ribbon cable, or is there likely to something else underlying the problem?

(Mike, our drummer, also plays guitar and has several amps. If I can't get it repaired in time I can always borrow one of his.)

#1307

https://preview.ibb.co/hLMBUa/amp.jpg

Photo posted properly this time. Damn you edit button, damn you to hell,

#1308

MarcusAu wrote:
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
Like any religion, they look for just enough science to validate their confirmation bias and ignore or handwave away the rest.

I am actually curious as to how far the regressive left/SJWs are willing to go to blame everything on white men. My eldest is being taught in both high school and college that most cultures were peace-loving vegetarian matriarchal societies before they were destroyed by white culture. That's not really much of an exaggeration either. The demonization of white men in her history classes has been so grotesque and distorted that they may as well have been called propaganda, especially since her often dissenting opinion was silenced.

I wonder at what point there will Western Civilization be examined without demonizing or rhetoric opposite "Deus Vult"/Iron Pill extremism? The good, bad and ugly without making it the complete scapegoat for other culture's failures?

CFB - did you read to your kids when they were growing up? Or did they read on their own?

I recall my mum reading 'Swallows & Amazons' to me. And my sisters read things like 'The Bobsey Twins' or 'The Chalet School' (a US equivalent would perhaps be 'Sweet Valley High').

I then went on to read things like Sherlock Holmes, Stig of the Dump, H G Lewis, Tolkien etc etc.

All of which were full of people that I did not necessarily identify with - but who were ostensibly white, and who were getting on with things in a not particularly angsty manner.

Hopefully if you got the innocculation in early enough they will be resistant to the poison forced on them in latter life.

nb I later read things that would be considered 'problematic' in anyone's book - ie Lovecraft and Flashman (by George MacDonald Fraser) - but fuck it, sometimes you just have to enjoy yourself.

nnb I bet you probably scared the shit out of them with stories from Snori Snorison.

When I was 10 my dad said, 'sure, son, go ahead and read Breakfast of Champions!' At 11, my mom said, 'well, you really like science fiction, so I'll buy I Have No Mouth And Must Scream for you!'

#1309

DrokkIt wrote:Quite possible- people seem pretty het up over it one way or another.

What I don't get is how you can one the one hand argue "time for a female doctor, we need representation" and on the other "lol male tears at all these bros who like their male role model". Unless of course it's literally just a desire for your own way and not about fairness.

Because for the online SocJus everything is about sending the message that it's their way or the highway (of bigotry).

Why don't they just make their own bloody show?

It's far easier to build upon the success of a popular show than create a successful new one.

Note that all of this applies to all SocJus complaints or celebrations about popular culture. The recent Dr Who example is just the last of a long series.

#1310

paddybrown wrote:https://preview.ibb.co/hLMBUa/amp.jpg

Cool clock, Ahmed!

#1311

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:[
When I was 10 my dad said, 'sure, son, go ahead and read Breakfast of Champions!' At 11, my mom said, 'well, you really like science fiction, so I'll buy I Have No Mouth And Must Scream for you!'

Did you see Equus at a young age too?

#1312

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:I am actually curious as to how far the regressive left/SJWs are willing to go to blame everything on white men. My eldest is being taught in both high school and college that most cultures were peace-loving vegetarian matriarchal societies before they were destroyed by white culture. That's not really much of an exaggeration either. The demonization of white men in her history classes has been so grotesque and distorted that they may as well have been called propaganda, especially since her often dissenting opinion was silenced.

I always find it hilarious that Whitey McWhitersons like James Blaut or the modern SocJus believe that they were the only ones who created empires, had slaves, or rape, pillaged and burned everything in sight while all non-white people were peaceful hippies who worshiped Mother Earth and were in perfect holistic balance with it. This view of history clashes with mountains of evidence so much that you might as well believe in creationism.

I wonder at what point there will Western Civilization be examined without demonizing or rhetoric opposite "Deus Vult"/Iron Pill extremism? The good, bad and ugly without making it the complete scapegoat for other culture's failures?

This requires a rational, evidence-based, non-ideological approach to history, sociology, psychology, biology, etc. So it won't happen unless there's more intellectual diversity in universities and other places of learning.

#1313

MarcusAu wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:[
When I was 10 my dad said, 'sure, son, go ahead and read Breakfast of Champions!' At 11, my mom said, 'well, you really like science fiction, so I'll buy I Have No Mouth And Must Scream for you!'
Did you see Equus at a young age too?

As an adult. But LOGAN'S RUN had already turned me into a pubescent Jenny Agutterophile.

#1314

paddybrown wrote:https://preview.ibb.co/hLMBUa/amp.jpg

Photo posted properly this time. Damn you edit button, damn you to hell,

My guess is the Blottieux bridge shorted out when you sheared the Knipfer pin. It's a common failing for this model of amp.

#1315

CommanderTuvok wrote:BBC just announced Jodie Whittaker as the new Dr Who, so the SJW pressure to have either a woman or POC pays off. You just know the pressure will just ramp up even more to have a POC next. Lol.

I read somewhere that the first episode is called "I'd Never Leave the TARDIS..." and it most consists of a newly genderswapped Doctor sitting in front of a mirror and playing with her boobs.

#1316

MarcusAu wrote:
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
Like any religion, they look for just enough science to validate their confirmation bias and ignore or handwave away the rest.

I am actually curious as to how far the regressive left/SJWs are willing to go to blame everything on white men. My eldest is being taught in both high school and college that most cultures were peace-loving vegetarian matriarchal societies before they were destroyed by white culture. That's not really much of an exaggeration either. The demonization of white men in her history classes has been so grotesque and distorted that they may as well have been called propaganda, especially since her often dissenting opinion was silenced.

I wonder at what point there will Western Civilization be examined without demonizing or rhetoric opposite "Deus Vult"/Iron Pill extremism? The good, bad and ugly without making it the complete scapegoat for other culture's failures?

CFB - did you read to your kids when they were growing up? Or did they read on their own?

I recall my mum reading 'Swallows & Amazons' to me. And my sisters read things like 'The Bobsey Twins' or 'The Chalet School' (a US equivalent would perhaps be 'Sweet Valley High').

I then went on to read things like Sherlock Holmes, Stig of the Dump, H G Lewis, Tolkien etc etc.

All of which were full of people that I did not necessarily identify with - but who were ostensibly white, and who were getting on with things in a not particularly angsty manner.

Hopefully if you got the innocculation in early enough they will be resistant to the poison forced on them in latter life.

nb I later read things that would be considered 'problematic' in anyone's book - ie Lovecraft and Flashman (by George MacDonald Fraser) - but fuck it, sometimes you just have to enjoy yourself.

nnb I bet you probably scared the shit out of them with stories from Snori Snorison.

I still read to them sometimes. We discuss the news, books and sometimes movies, right now we're debating theatrical cut vs cinema release of Blade Runner. The Eddas tend to put them to sleep tho.

I'm not at all worried about them becoming SJWs, if anything they tend to be more conservative than I am. They also go to a school system with a lot of diversity, which tends to quickly destroy the notion that POCs are a magical people who only act out upon oppression by evil white folk.

#1317

Cnutella wrote:
CommanderTuvok wrote:BBC just announced Jodie Whittaker as the new Dr Who, so the SJW pressure to have either a woman or POC pays off. You just know the pressure will just ramp up even more to have a POC next. Lol.
I read somewhere that the first episode is called "I'd Never Leave the TARDIS..." and it most consists of a newly genderswapped Doctor sitting in front of a mirror and playing with her boobs.

I went from not caring to sudden interest.

#1318

MacGruberKnows wrote:
Guest_936d3dec wrote: RIP Buffy
I remember lieing in bed one morning listening to the news. They reported that the actress who had played Buffy was found dead. They listed off a string of drugs found in her body and the last drug they named they added 'a popular horse sedative'. I fell out of bed laughing.

Am I a bad person?

By now, I assume, you've heard it was a hoax, yes?

#1319

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:As an adult. But LOGAN'S RUN had already turned me into a pubescent Jenny Agutterophile.

Which did you see first: Logan's Run or Walkabout?

(People who saw American Werewolf before either of the above don't count.)

#1320

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: BTW, the next step might be to see a Doctor with girlcock.

Cast Zinnia and make zir boypussy a tardis into which everything is crammed.[/quote]

"Ah. Doctor Blanchard, I should have guessed you were involved. Only a rogue translord with an actual PhD could have guessed where I was hiding my Sonic Screwdriver. It's actually more of a Sonic Socket-Wrench Set really."